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mitZinecontents

mitZinefeaturesmitZinestaf

4Tim Blackmore

14Rupert Murdoch

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The End o Potter

editor-in-chieJonathan Forani

managing editorTaylor Pearce

graphics editorJordan Coop

world editorJulian Uzielli

arts & entertainment editorErika Fabian

western lie editorElizabeth Sarjeant

web editorJordan Pearson

promotions coordinatorMarisa Dametto

4A Fistul o Splinters

Tim Blackmore

6Rethink the MapElizabeth Sarjeant

7Conceptual MIT Frosh Kit

Elizabeth Sarjeant

16Do you want to contribute?

Taylor Pearce

10The End o Harry Potter

Erika Fabian

11Amy Winehouse Dies

Jonathan Forani

Bridesmaids

Erika Fabian

Will and Kate

Taylor Pearce

Spy Kids in 4D

Taylor Pearce

14News o the World Phone

Hacking Scandal

Julian Uzielli

15Norway Attacks

Julian Uzielli

Government

Cracks Down in Syria

Paul Craig

The Canadian Election

Julian Uzielli

The Royals Come to Town

Sarah Koopmans

guestarticle world

westernlife

arts&entertainment

rosh issue 2011summer in review


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Editors Notewritten by Jonathan Forani

The Zine Teamthe editorial team o volume 11

G

et involved! Those people canhelp you. These are your newbest friends. Welcome to the

best years of your life.

OK, now that thats over, Ill say thathis issue wont be much of a resource.Theyd probably like it to be, but wewont dwell on the boring niceties ofour introduction to Western.

Youll get that.

Youve gotten it.

The mitZinemight even have it for youater. Just not in your Frosh Issue.

n a way, what weve given you here isperhaps the best resource you can have.Because, like how you have literallyntered a new phase of your life, you

have also entered a new worldview MIT.

Fair warning: people wont get you.Theyll ask you, Whats MIT? andou might not even know what to say,xcept to clarify that its the Canadian

one. Sometimes you might prefer tojust let the strangers think you studyin Massachusetts. Either way, deningFIMS is half the fun.

This new worldview is often hard tograsp. So this issue might help with

breaking you in a little. Tearful goodbyes, drive-in movies,cottaging in the sun, part-time bitch work forget all that happened inthe Summer of 2011. Outside ofthose boozy goodbyes and your oor-scraping for cash in the early morninghumidity, a lot of other stuff happenedtoo. Sometimes we just ignore it. MIT iswhere we learn to notice it.

What happened in Norway? Whatsgoing on in Syria? Who is Rupert

Murdoch? Why do we care about theCanadian Federal election? And how didWill and Kate make it onto both of ourlists? Consider the summer for the Westmight be better named The Summer ofthe Riot, or depending how you look atthe Vancouver and London riots, TheSummer of Facebook Policing.

Sometimes things are a little easier tonotice, like Harrys swansong and Amys

fade-to-black. MIT is where we learrethink those things. As fun as OxygThe Glee Projectwas (or wasnt; canI tuned in), maybe theres more toinnocent faade (or reign of terror)is Foxs Glee.

In this issue youll nd your sumIt might look a bit different than remember but thats MIT.

western lie editorElizabeth Sarjeant

graphics editorJordan Coop

editor-in-chieJonathan Forani

managing editorTaylor Pearce

world editorJulian Uzielli

a&e editorErika Fabian

web editorJordan Pearson

promotionsMarisa Dametto

In this issue youll nd your summer.It might look a bit dierent than you remember - but thats MIT.



A Fistul o Splinterswritten by Tim Blackmore


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Youve had this happen to you,I know. Youre at work orpainting the house or doingsome chore and suddenly

ou look at your hands and there areplinters in it. Your hands have gotten

grubby, that kind of dirt thats sohard to wash off. It feels like the dirthas worked right into your skin. Andunder all that dirtsplinters. Theyredug into the skin, causing little burningrritations, getting redly infected.

The other morning I woke up andealized my hand was full of splinters. I

dont mean just the annoying or painfulone or two that bug you, that make youwince every time your hand brushesgainst something, I mean dozens of

he things. Sticking out every which way.Bleeding, causing me grief. I realizedfter a minute that when Id woken

up, things were ne. Then I pickedup my phone. You know. Email thegroup, check the three or four differentmessenger programs that peoplekeep lling up overnight even thoughhey shouldnt because theyre pocket

messaging or drunk or both. And theweets come stabbing in, with peoplerying hard to be pithy and smart, orworse, not trying. Then there are the

news updates. Three or four news siteshat push news out of the browser andnto email. And in each mail (like goingo St. Ives), there are forty links, andvery link has forty sites, and every site

has forty downloads....Any one of thesehings would be enough on its own to

keep me occupied, if I thought about itong enough, for hours.

But Im not about hours anymore.Im about splinters. Some are in myeyesYouTube is busy jabbing me with someones clever remix of AmyWinehouses posthumous reworking ofLady (apparently still alive) Gaga. Andall I did to get a st full of splinters waspick up my phone. I havent even goneto the main source yetthe iPad orthe netbook or, good lord, the laptopor actual tower that stands in one place,and is connected to an Ethernet cable.If the smartphone lls my eyes, handsand brain with data shards, the biggermachines are like going to the sawmillof information: huge planks of datare at me as I duck and weave, tryingto focus on at least one thing, get one

thing considered, one thing done. What Im talking about is the wayweve chipped data, or information, ormaybe news, or just updates aboutour friends, down to such a ne degreethat we expect everything to be short,important, and forgettable. We didntused to call it updating when wemet friends when we walked together, we just called it, well...meeting(how lame-o is that?). But now socialnetworks that all appear to be free (as

long as you dont mind the herpes ofrepetitive pop-up ads, ads synchronizedto your buying patternsmoredistracters), have branded humaninteraction. Thank heavens for like orfriend or thumbs up because thatsaves me from having to respond toyou personally. And why does it have tobe forgettable? Because there isnt timeto remember it. Have you ever lookedback over the day to see just how manytweets, e-mails, texts, messages, calls orsplinters youve red out there? Count.

Take one day and count them all.Theres a jittery quality to all this. Oneof the things you have to learn moredeeply at university than youve everhad to learn it before is how to handleyour time. Im still learning this, andIve been teaching at universities for20 years. I log on to get that one piece

of email that must be answered, thours later log off and realize thatonly did I not answer the email, I canlonger remember who it was from, wit was about, or how it was importaalso didnt get anything done exceptI pulled email splinters that pokedand irritated my sense of calm enothat I took the data tweezers to them

But here at the university, just like I need to read books and articleneed to mark papers and commenthem enough that people readingcomments can gure out how to mthe next assignments better, I neehandle mail that solves problemsat least doesnt make them wo And theres more: I want to

books for pleasure, see whole mouninterrupted, talk to my friendsjust throw little bits of data their wwant to know how they are, and I wthem to ask me, too.

In order to care about things, we hto engage with them, stay focused. splinter in your hand, eye, or bdraws bright, burning attention to ialone. Theres no time for considerapause, reection or, for want obetter word, thought, if all of

we are is consumed with little shof information being forced underskin. Im not sure if we can rememhow to do one thing at a time: its hathan it looks. So heres to the poweone: lets give it a try.



What is it about maps.that make us think we know where were goinTheyre really only lines on a piece o paper. T

dierence between a map and a Disney colourbooks connect-the-dots page is when you conn

the dots on a map, they dont orm a pictureAladdin. And yet, scarcely during O-Week will y

come across Aladdin or his magic lantern, aeverywhere you will nd maps. We hope this o

encourages you to think a little more critically than

one on the back o the Viewbo

Rethink the Mapwritten by Elizabeth Sarjeant

Talbot BowlI youre ever unsure o where youre

supposed to be during O-Week, its right

here. People are easier to control when

packed into a small area on an incline.

North Campus BuildingFIMS: we thinksits ours because o

aculty oces are in there. Scienc

they think its theirs because they

think everything is theirs. For thos

o you whove read 1984, have un

your Room 101 lectures.

The SpokeThe Spoke ca (attached to the UCC)

has good coee and delightul-sounding

bagels like Asiago Cheese and SixVegetable. As delicious as a Mushroom

bagel with Spinach and Feta cream

cheese may seem, any favour is sure

to get old once youre sneaking it into

the library daily during exam time in

#thatawkwardmomentwhen you realize

you dont have time to eat.

Social Science BuildingAccording to Warren Steele in MIT2500

(The Meaning o Technology), large, hideous

buildings such as SSB were designed in the

60s with the practical purpose o diusing

those anti-establishment hippie student

protests. Now our protesting space is none

other than a concrete beach.

Western 1, Hippies 0.

University Community CentreNot to be conused with UC (University College

building), where many o you taking Arts andHumanities electives will have classes and/or

tutorials. This one houses two Tim Hortons, a

Booster Juice (aectionately BJ), and enough ast

ood to make up or the slow service upstairs at

the Wave. Lets get everyone swiping those meal

plan dollars away.


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A Conceptual MITFrosh K

written by Elizabeth Sarjea

The only thing better than a real Frosh Kit O-Week is a Conceptual Frosh Kit. We know yo

O-Week is going to be materially great. Just look

all those T-shirts you got! Our goal with this issueto make your week conceptually great, as w

Lensless 3D GlassesAside rom being an Inappropriate Oce Party costume staple,

3D glasses with the lenses popped out are our protest against

societys obsession with digital reproductions o real lie. We say,

why not live in real lie instead? These glasses wont shade you

rom the blinding O-Week sun, and they wont make you eel like

you could reach out and grab the tail o one o Mr. Camerons

avatars. Instead, they might give you a clearer picture o the world

around you.

A Personal BubbDid you know that the wor

population, i stand

shoulder to shoulder, co

t in a space the size

LA? For comorts sake,

usually take up the wh

world. So imagine h

much living space all o y

shoulder-grinding ros

Talbot Bowl would ide

occupy? Wed like to begin

compensate or the O-W

space discrepancy with

conceptual bit o privacy

those uncomortable mome

o aggressive yet unintend

physical assault at the Bea

Ball dan

A Pair o PantsBecause there are only so many

original T-shirt designs, and days

a week you can be comortable

in a crew-neck. Realistically,

FIMS wont give out aculty

pants instead o aculty T-shirts

because not only would they bemore expensive, but theyd be

way too warm and restricting

or most O-Week activities the

charity carnival bouncy castle, or

one. Luckily, this is a conceptual

rosh kit and thereore superior.

Whats so great about your

physical rosh kit, anyway? Think

o all the cotton plants wed be

able to conserve without them.

EarplugsCould the riots in Vancouver have happened

i everyone on the streets had been wearing

earplugs? Probably. But you know where were

going with this. All that cheering (a) gets annoying

ater a ew days, and (b) is a huge contributor to

the crowd mentality that has brought so many

level-headed people to their knees throughout

history. Speaking o unique perspectives (and in

MIT we always are), imagine being able to pressthe mute button on O-Week.

...and a BandwagonSo you can reuse to jump on it.


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The Endo Harry Pottewritten by Erika Fabi

In the months before the release of Harry Potter andDeathly Hallows: Part II, the eighth and nal installmenthe series, Warner Bros. advertised the lm with the tag

It All Ends. This slogan plays upon the nostalgic nothat the end of the saga signies the end of childhoodPotter fans who grew up with the series. On July 15, Pabecame the largest debut in Hollywood history thanks to

20-somethings worldwide who ocked to the premiere totheir respects.

Warner Bros. rightfully anticipated that obsessive fans wbe feeling post-Potterpain, and advertised the lms releasan opportunity to mourn. While the lm had audiences teeyed, it is Warner Bros. who is truly suffering the biggest The studio is anxious to say goodbye to its lucrative francand they have been working to convince us that we are rgoing to miss it too.

After all, their precious brand will die if you dont menough.

When it began, Warner Bros. never could have preda bespectacled boy wizard would become a multi-bidollar franchise, spawning obsessive fandom reminisof Beatlemania. When the series hit phenom status, WaBros. meticulously managed and nurtured the brand in hoit would become a lasting multi-generational classic laJBond and Star Wars. The Potterverse has grown beybooks and lms and spawned into a horizontally integrentertainment brand that includes toys, games, and evenamusement park and museum exhibition.

Despite the end of the lms, the brand will continue to gas long as there are revenue streams Harry has yet to domin

The upcoming release of Harry PottereBooks on J.K. Rowl website Pottermore proves that a single concept carepackaged many ways to exploit its synergistic potential. Twill always be something new for Harry fans to devour.

It All Ends for Warner Bros. now that their $7.5 billion climbing) lm franchise is ofcially wrapped. Fans have bconvinced that they will miss Harry, but truly, his lms books can always be revisited. During her speech at the lms London premiere, Rowling assured the anxious audithat the stories we love best do live in us forever ... Hogwwill always be there to welcome you home.

Businesses cashing in on Potterwill make sure of it.

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6. The Voice crats the perect marketing or Christina Aguilera

7. The MMVAs show us why CanCon isimportant

8. Ryan Dunn drives drunk on Twitter9. Michael Bay is unleashed on the world

again; this time with recycled ootage?10. The Glee Project expands Glees reign

terror11. Religion is unny on Broadway with Th

Book of Mormon12. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a lovech13. Justin Timberlakes lie imitates art14. Soap operas get killed o TV

Memorable Quotes

Michael Bay, Hollywoods answer tothe Antichrist. (Lou Lumenick reviewingTransformers: Dark of the Moon in New YPost)

Who the hell is Kim Kardashian? Who arthese people and why are they amous...I just dont understand what these peopledid to be in a position o having everyoneask their opinions about stu... I dontunderstand whats happening. Its actuallyrightening. (Edie Falco on reality TV starsNew York Magazine)

Matthew McConaughey has playedthe same useless uck or 15 years.

#ailuretolaunch (A tweet rom MIT Instruo the Year Warren Steele@hydrotheory)

There is this sort o unholy alliance that hexisted orever between art and commercshow and biz. And today its out o balancand its too much on the biz, and its toomuch on the commerce and its too muchon the marketability. (Jerey Katzenberg,Dreamworks Animation CEO)

Check outmitzine.ca or exclusivecommentary on additional summerevents.

Dwell on the irony of her No, no, nohe wont Go, go, go or mourn theoss of a talent snuffed short. Either way,

one of the most disconcerting aspectsof Amy Winehouses death in July washe coverage of it.

Politics and entertainment in journalismre as blurred as the genres of Taylorwift, but the Rehab singers passing

was suitably fair game in entertainmentoverage this summer. When the story

ts, dont expect any holding back.

27 Club headlines. Coroner details.peculation. Funeral coverage.

Timelines. Tributes. Tell-All books. It

was all there and still is daily.Now consider the response to herdeath. Some reacted with their walletsnd album sales of Back to Black surged

on the charts to the snarl of soul-hipsters everywhere. Curiously though,s legions of people began claiming to

be fans of the singer, genuine surpriseeemed absent when the news brokehat weekend.

Maybe its because the digital ageprepared us for it.

Winehouses struggles with addictionwere a tabloid staple over the last

ve years culminating in June withYouTube clips of her nal show in

Belgrade that played like scenes fromhe nal act of her inevitable biopic.

With this, the rst major musician deathof our own generation, we have seen theise and fall of celebrity more intimatelyhan before.

ad but not surprising, that tiny penny

ell from the pipe as we knew it inevitablywould.

Amy Winehouse Dieswritten by Jonathan Forani

Bridesmaidswritten by Erika Fabian

Will and Katewritten by Taylor Pearce

Spy Kids in 4written by Taylor Pea

Despite its chick ick packaging,producer Judd Apatow surprisedaudiences by maintaining his raunchy,offensive style of comedy in Bridesmaids. The lm was an unexpected hit,surpassing Knocked Up as Apatowshighest grossing production.

While typical chick ick plot lines revolvearound romance, Bridesmaids plot isabout friendship, making the women who star in the lm anti-heroines ofthe standard rom-com. At the endof the day, its really terrible that wereconsidered so groundbreaking, saysBridesmaidsdirector Paul Feig in responseto praise.

Does Bridesmaids success meanvindication for women in comedy, or alow point for our culture if supposedliberating humour is grotesque humour?Whether the lms success is progressiveor depressing, expect a new trend inupcoming comedies.

If you avoided all of Will and Kates Royal Wedding coverage, congratulations,youve just won a limited edition Williamand Catherine commemorative mug.

For everyone else who wasnt adept at

keeping our TVs off, we experienced anonslaught of shows dedicated to Prince Will-he-get-hair-plugs and WaityKaties union. On this side of thepond, TLC dedicated an entire week ofprogramming leading up to the nuptials,whereas every other entertainment showscooped up a British or British-soundingcorrespondent to offer commentary.

Whether you tuned in or not, dont forget,theres a lovely William and CatherineRoyal Tour of Canada Commemorative

Plate to go along with that mug.

You probably didnt have your calencircled for the release of Spy Kids: ATime in the World in 4D this summerany time a movie capitalizes on anosense, its worth making note of.

So whats the deal with 4D? Emoviegoer receives an Aromasco

card with 8 scents for 8 scenes (side nmust be able to count to 8 to participEvery time a number ashes onscreen, viewers swipe the corresponspot on the card to release a mysterscent.

While 4D is a step up in seexperience, I prefer the smell popcorn.

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Easily the most signicant mediaevent of the summer was theseries of events spurred by

he collapse of the 168-year-old NewsOf The World. Staff at the best-sellingBritish tabloid owned by mediaycoon Rupert Murdochs News Corp.

were accused in the early days of Julyof illegally hacking into the voicemailsof celebrities, politicians, and most

notably, 13-year-old murder victim MillyDowler.

The paper was also accused of illegallyccessing bank account informationnd medical records of British Prime

Minister David Cameron and his family.n the aftermath, the tabloid was shut

down and several high-ranking Britishpoliticians and police ofcers eitheresigned or were arrested in connection

with the crimes.

The asco couldnt have occurred at

a worse time for Murdoch, as NewsCorp. was on the cusp of taking overthe successful British satellite newsnetwork British Sky Broadcasting. Thetakeover would have put unprecedentedamount of British media inuence intoMurdochs hands, raising questionsabout monopolization of the news.So contentious was the scandal thatin a bold display of deance to News

Corp.s hegemony, Britains Parliamenttabled a motion supported by all theparties urging Murdoch to scrap thedeal, which he reluctantly did. Thegovernment inquiry is ongoing.

The story took a sinister turn on July 18,when Sean Hoare, the scandals original whistleblower, was found dead in hishome. Police ruled that his death wasnot thought to be suspicious, thoughone cannot help but wonder at theextraordinary timing of this apparentcoincidence.

At an emergency session of Parliamheld the following day, Murdoch questioned in connection to the scan Though he began by calling it most humble day of my career, apologized to the victims, he deniedpersonal responsibility for or knowlof the crimes, and refused to resign

The fact that Murdoch even showeto the summons from Parliament sp

to the extent to which his ego inuence were deated by the sca until now, the Prime Minister wbe granted an audience with Murdnot vice-versa. Though Murdochs grip on news outlets around the wremains largely unshaken, Parliameactions are promising; the whole ahas dealt a much-needed blowMurdochs ego. For now, at least, voracious march of News Corpbeen curbed.

News o the WorldPhone Hacking Scandalwritten by Julian Uzielli

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6. London riots embarrass the UK7. Vancouver riots embarrass Canada8. Canada blocks asbestos rom UN

Hazardous Substances List9. Anthony Weiner is made a ool o. Why

we care?10. Casey Anthony verdict shocks the wo11. Jack Layton dies12. Obama kills Osama13. Obama hosts a town hall via Twitter.

Take that, real lie.

Memorable Quotes

I nd it a little bafing when Americansget so gaga-eyed over a princess. Andparticularly Lady Di, who was just thisanorexic, bulimic narcissist. (Ann CoulterRoyal lust on The Insider)

Does asbestos mean something dierenFrench than in English? Because in Englisit means slow, hacking death. (The DailyShows Aasi Mandvi when visiting the towo Asbestos, Quebec, re: UN hazardous

materials list)

I do not understand why nothing hashappened. (Harold Camping the day atethere wasnt a rapture)

Now lets say you get a fat tire. Howabout a Hooters tow truck that serveswings? (Toronto City Councillor Doug Foexpanding on his idea or a ully privatizedhighway/tunnel underneath the GardinerExpressway; he was being serious)

Check outmitzine.ca or exclusivecommentary on additional summerevents.

On July 22, Norway was devastatedby a car bombing in Oslo and a masshooting at a youth camp on the island

of Utya, killing a total of 77 andnjuring nearly 100 more. The loneperpetrator was captured and identieds Anders Breivik, a right-wing extremistnd Norwegian citizen.

t was soon revealed that Breiviksmotives were political and racist innature. On the day of the massacre,he posted a 1,500-page ultranationalistmanifesto online, large parts of whichwere plagiarized from the writing ofTed Kaczynski (better known as the

Unabomber). It calls for a holy wargainst Islam, cultural Marxism, and

multiculturalism in Europe. The presshad to walk a ne line when dealing withBreivik: while it is obviously importanto report the news in detail and withoutensorship, this unfortunately serves to

draw attention to his dubious cause.

Though he may be insane, Breivik is nottupid: in his manifesto, he mentionsand promptly demonizes) severaluthors whose names frequently gracehe pages of MIT syllabi, includingAntonio Gramsci, Karl Marx, and theFrankfurt School (not to mention theun-cited Kaczynski). However, hiswork betrays his disturbingly narrowworldview, which is organized into

series of binary oppositions, anddeliberately seeks to make an Otherof anyone who disagrees with his hate-uelled proclamations.

Tragically, it appears the colossal irony oftarting a holy war to prevent, as he calledt, the ongoing Islamic colonization of

Europe, was lost on him.

Norway Attackswritten by Julian Uzielli

The CanadianElection

written by Julian Uzielli

GovernmentCracks Down

in Syriawritten by Paul Craig

The RoyaCome to Tow

written by Sarah Koopm

On May 2, Prime Minister StephenHarper was re-elected with a majorityConservative government. MichaelIgnatieff s Liberals suffered their worstloss in the history of the party, while Jack Laytons NDP had their best-everelection, nishing with 103 seats andforming the Ofcial Opposition for therst time. Tragically, Layton succumbedto cancer on August 22

The NDP wasted no time in showing

their desire to oppose Harper, mountingan ambitious yet ultimately fruitless 58-hour libuster to block the Conservativesfrom legislating postal workers back to work, following their strike and thenlockout from Canada Post in June.

Meanwhile, the new government isexpected to table Internet-relatedlegislation, which is sure to draw theire of many MIT students, includingmeasures to legalize warrantlesssurveillance of Canadians onlineactivities by authorities.

Since March, an estimated 2000 peoplehave been killed in anti-governmentprotests in Syria, as tanks and snipersof President Bashar al-Assads nationalsecurity forces regularly re into large

civilian crowds. During a crackdown inAugust, more than 300 were killed in asingle week.

Outside of Syria, the protests are referredto as pro-democratic and peaceful (byStephen Harper, for example), and thebrutality of the Syrian regime is beingroundly admonished.

However, the Syrian state media (i.e.propaganda) prefers a rather differentreading. Under the subheading TheReality of Events, one article damns

the collective efforts of the protesters,setting them up as criminals who deserveno leniency.

Whatever the spin, a governmentunrepentantly ring on its owncitizens makes for a revolting situation;unfortunately, there does not appear tobe an end in sight.

Polls show that Canadians are divabout the role of the monarchCanada. Public opinion seems to be between adoration and indiffere with a healthy amount of critthrown in for good measure (rperhaps royal tours arent the bestof our tax dollars).

Though the ofcial popularity numfor Prince William and DucCatherines recent whirlwind tour hnot yet been released, polls conduprior to their June 30 arrival shothat 54% of Canadians aged 18-34 windifferent.

Will and Kate arguably have the chance for reviving faith in the monartheir joke-making and jeans-wearing

them apart from their tradition-steepredecessors. But will it be enougconvince Canadians that being parthe Commonwealth is a good thing?

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