Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
RI city seeks to cut ties with MMSD contender
Just as Milwaukee’s regional sewerage district inches closer to a 10-year, $700 million contract with Jacobs Solutions, a city in Rhode Island is trying to get out of its deal with the company. After years of operational problems, regulatory scrutiny...
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Teen’s pro soccer debut comes with mixed feelings
MADISON – Months ago, 19-year-old Martin Sanchez wasn’t sure he’d ever make it to this point: pulling on Forward Madison FC’s pink jersey, warming up with the pros. He’d worked his entire life to realize his dream of becoming a professional soccer...
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Residents oppose We Energies rate hike
We Energies is facing growing opposition to its planned 14% rate hike for residential customers by 2028. The utility is looking to raise residential electric rates 9.25% in 2027 and 5.5% the following year. That would add about $22 to a typical...
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After fire, a first day somewhere else
When a summer fire destroyed their elementary school overnight, the students and staff of Lincoln Avenue lost countless possessions and treasured mementos in the ash. Much of what was lost was irreplaceable. But where it could count, Milwaukeeans...
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Residents alarmed by plan for high-voltage line
BARABOO – Wisconsin residents are fighting another proposal to bring a high-voltage power line to the state’s environmentally sensitive Driftless region. It’s become high-profile enough that hundreds of people have been showing up for public meetings,...
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Sword
The legend of King Arthur says he was enthroned after pulling the sword Excalibur from a stone. Now, an Excalibur replica is returning to an Arthurian monument in downtown Milwaukee’s Juneau Park – around 80 years after its sword vanished. Known as...
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THE COACH EFFECT
If you’re not looking for the right things, it’s easy to miss all that Lone Rock offers. The Richland County village in southwestern Wisconsin covers a little more than one square mile. It is home to about 900 people. Stop signs control the traffic...
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Projected budget surplus grows to $3B after bipartisan deal failed
MADISON – Wisconsin is now projected to end the current state budget cycle with a surplus of nearly $3 billion – a pot of money that continues to outpace original projections from when it was enacted last year. The latest revenue update comes three...
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Glacier collapse may have triggered flood
Survivors sit on debris Aug. 27 as they wait for roads to clear to their homes after devastating floods in Trishuli, Nepal. The volume and speed of the wall of mud, boulders and debris that rushed more than 60 miles down a river through Nepal on Aug....
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New Berlin mayor offers apology, won’t resign
In front of a standing-room-only crowd of people overwhelmingly advocating for the New Berlin mayor to resign, Dave Ament did not resign and instead said he was sorry for harm caused by his anti-Muslim Facebook posts. The New Berlin Common Council...
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Rep’s scenery workshop bounces back after floods
Ayear after unprecedented flooding destroyed Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s scenic design studio and storage facility in Wauwatosa, the rebuilt joint is jumping with activity. • During an Aug. 20 visit, carpenters, artists and a welder were seen...
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Homeschooling jumps 52% in 6 years in Wisconsin
With school starting up soon, not everyone will be heading back to a traditional classroom. ● There were 21,644 homeschooled students in Wisconsin during the 2019-20 school year, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. ●...
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Wisconsin teachers adapt to education in time of AI
AI is writing papers. AI is doing homework. AI is a study companion. Can teachers trust students? But AI is also grading, writing weekly newsletters and lesson planning. Can students trust teachers? AI can be a valuable tool but can also be misused,...
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Ex-wife: Officials warned about suspect
This story contains material about domestic abuse. If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence or an abusive relationship, call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at 800799-SAFE (7233) or visit thehotline.org. Callers can remain...
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97 games sat forgotten — now 3 are up for auction
WAUKESHA − Rare Nintendo games that sat forgotten in a cardboard box in a storage area behind a Waukesha video game shop for more than two years are now up for auction. Kevin Braun, owner of OneStopWonders at 245 W. Main St., thought the box contained...
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GETTING HARDER TO BE A BADGER
Homestead High School in Mequon hosts a college admissions presentation every year, offering families general advice about the application process. This year’s presentation, however, was much more specific: How to get into the University of...
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Tiffany, Crowley oppose state data center ban
MADISON - The two major candidates running to be Wisconsin’s next governor are battling to gain the upper hand on an emerging issue that neither political party owns yet: data centers. The next governor will undoubtedly reckon with the construction...
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Ways to process tough emotions or trauma
When Jonisha Neita leaves the house, she’s never without the basics: phone, wallet, canvas, paint and brushes. For Neita, a longtime client of Creative Counseling of Milwaukee, painting is more than a hobby − it is a tool for emotional regulation....
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State Fair Park chairman sees Indy car races surging
WEST ALLIS – Through 16 years as chairman of the State Fair Park board of directors, John Yingling helped guide the fair back to profitability and navigate the uncharted waters of a global pandemic. One accomplishment stands out from a personal...
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St. Camillus gives students more than just cheap rent
Stuck inside during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stacy Barnes, a director at the Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center and Marquette University professor, had an epiphany. If she was lonely, isolated from the outside world, others stewing in solitude had to...
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FILLING THE GAPS
One week shy of the first anniversary of the closure of Metcalfe Park’s Pick ’n Save, nearly 75 community members gathered in front of the vacant store and shouted out their commitments to each other and to improving food access throughout Milwaukee. •...
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RISEN FROM THE ASHES
Ten years ago, Tana Jeter looked out the window of her parents’ home and saw the neighborhood in flames. The fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith occurred two houses down – sparking unrest in the Sherman Park area. Over two days, buildings and cars...
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Report: I-94 work may take until 2035 to finish
Interstate 94’s expansion on Milwaukee’s west side could take another two years to complete beyond its current eight-year construction schedule. That’s according to a new Wisconsin Department of Transportation report obtained by the Milwaukee Journal...
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Crowley edges out Hong in stunning comeback
David Crowley pulled off a victory in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Aug. 11 that was both a stunning upset and an unheard of comeback, defeating the field’s front-runner with a Hail Mary effort in the final weeks of a race that was...
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Romance at the fair with sweets, skyglider sunsets
The State Fair isn’t exactly known for its butterfly-inducing romance. In fact, most of the couples I saw on opening morning, Aug. 6, seemed to be reluctantly trailing behind a packed stroller and an overstimulated child or two. But something about...
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Wisconsin primaries now in the hands of the voters
W h hisconsin heads to the polls Tuesday, Aug. 11 to decide which candidates will advance in races for governor, state Legislature, Congress and more. The Democratic primary for governor, which has had massive upheaval with candidates dropping out and...
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Is Wisconsin now part of America’s tornado alley?
Tornadoes are becoming a defining part of Wisconsin’s weather profile. Some of its busiest tornado years on record happened in the last two decades, and 2026 has already blown past the state average for a whole year. Wisconsin now sits on the fringes...
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ODDITIES AND TRADITION
Ablack-and-white poster promoting the Roy Rogers Show for “Kids 8 to 80.” An asphalt chunk of the Milwaukee Mile racetrack, put down after 62 years of harness racing on dirt. A Blatz beer ad suggesting if nursing mothers drink “the STAR Milwaukee...
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Oracle site includes land sold by past exec
Mequon resident George Roberts was among dozens of people who sold properties that now comprise the site of a hyperscale data center complex under construction in rural Port Washington. But Roberts alone has a unique connection to Oracle Corp., the...
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Air Wisconsin top ICE flyer
In recent months, Air Wisconsin has become one of the most widely used carriers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, responsible for nearly half of all domestic ICE flights in June, according to a plane-tracking group called ICE Flight...
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Is South Shore Beach any cleaner?
On a late July afternoon, with temperatures pushing 90 degrees, about 100 beachgoers spread across the sand and water at Bay View’s South Shore Beach, undeterred by Lake Michigan’s brisk, mid-60s water. ● Parents lingered at the waterline, kids darted...
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Milwaukee businesses rely on local data center
Massive, windowless rectangular buildings that hold rows of computer servers and demand huge cooling systems. That image is what typically comes to mind for data centers, easily the most talked-about developments in the country these days. Often...
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ONE AFTER ANOTHER
Many Wisconsinites barely had time to catch their breath after last summer’s record-shattering 1,000year flood before 2026 hit with a new kind of whiplash – a year when nearly every month has brought a different unprecedented extreme. From...
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Detention
Elvira Benitez-Suarez was napping in her passenger seat when she heard a noise and woke up. What she saw on the GPS alarmed her. “What are we doing in Canada?” she asked her husband, Ricardo, who was driving. They were way off course. Instead of...
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BUILDING RESILIENCE
0 .1% chance of a historic storm. 14.55 inches of rainfall. $208.8 million in damages. These numbers have become shorthand for people still displaced and families still rebuilding as we hit the one-year mark since we realized the scale of our flood...
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Sources: Years of concerns on Barnes’ behavior
Democratic Party of Wisconsin officials in 2025 hired an outside law firm to review allegations of inappropriate behavior involving young adult women against one of the party’s stars, Mandela Barnes. The party launched the probe after an anonymous...
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‘Horrific’ 911 calls from attack released
Troubling audio of 911 calls reveals Milwaukee emergency service dispatchers apparently failed to act on clear signs of an attack on a 99-yearold woman. On one call, the 911 dispatcher is patched into a live feed from inside the woman’s house and can...
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Selig
It’s hard to believe, but it has been 12 seasons since Allan H. “Bud” Selig stepped down as Major League Baseball’s commissioner. A lot has happened – and changed – in that time and the game is seemingly in a great place with its popularity and TV...
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Menasha still reeling from tornado damage
There was a clear view into the neighbor’s house across the alley as Albert Vaneyck started up his chainsaw on the morning of Tuesday, July 28. A fridge with magnets still visible on the front, a bedspring in the heart of the upstairs bedroom, bright...
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At Milwaukee Milkmen games, families have fun
Let’s say, with the cost of living now so high, your idea of a night out means sitting in your backyard. One Saturday not long ago, you’re at a repair shop with a flat tire, and another customer is also in the waiting room. And he happens to be wearing...
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Mahjong is having its moment in Milwaukee
Gina Kotz-Drove is hooked on mahjong – so much that she has twice made the 90-minute trip from her home in Cary, Illinois, to Milwaukee to play with the MKE Mahjong Social Group. Kotz-Drove is far from alone. Local players say the game is exploding in...
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76 DAYS THAT CHANGED GREEN BAY FOREVER
All you need to know, including key offseason dates.
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Tension grows as officials identify man in shooting
Madison officials named Corey Ruiz as the man a police officer shot and killed July 22. That identification came during a tense press conference that was disrupted by protesters July 23. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway was the first official to publicly...
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Madison police fatally shoot man with knife
A Madison police officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife July 22, with video showing one officer shooting him as multiple officers attempted to arrest him on a city street. The shooting occurred after authorities converged on and attempted to...
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Lincoln Ave. teachers lost years of supplies in fire
In the days following a fire that destroyed Lincoln Avenue School, bilingual teacher Angelie-Marie Soto began wondering how she might replace the years of books, supplies and decorations she had bought for her classroom. But Soto said the hardest...
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METAL bootcamp tackles trade worker shortage
MADISON - The road to reshoring Wisconsin’s casting and forging workforce started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this month in a workshop where temperatures rose higher than the nearly hundred-degree heat wave outside. ● Two Ph.D. students in...
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Pharmacy helping people to manage mental illness
Sitting at a table at her cousin’s house, Shaniah Stewart picked out two stickers for her son and herself. “He’ll probably want a boy one,” she said of her 4-year-old son. For herself, she picked one that read, “You are capable of amazing...
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Blast from the not-so-distant past
In the lone room on the top floor of Holton Hall — really more a tucked-away attic than a floor — time has reversed several decades. Clunky computers whir. Boxes of floppy discs sit on shelves. Images on curved screens flicker and a rainforest...
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A search for COMMON GROUND
A 250-acre vacant industrial site has divided the Wisconsin city, where residents pushed back on a proposed data center and are still searching for a path forward.
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World Cup is boon to bars, food trucks
Lines of hundreds of people extended up Sixth Street on July 5, wrapping around the roundabout that connects Walker’s Point to downtown Milwaukee. Donning green, red and white, these fans were there for one of the most thrilling matches of the World...
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HAZY SKIES
A gray haze settled over much of Wisconsin on July 16 as Canadian wildfire smoke worsened air quality across the state. • The statewide air quality alert that went into effect July 14 was extended until noon July 17. Wisconsin Department of Natural...
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Oscar Mayer site to become fusion hub
MADISON - A massive nuclear fusion research center is coming to Madison’s former Oscar Mayer plant, a key step in Wisconsin’s efforts to become a high tech energy hub. With financial backing from state and local governments, Madison-based Realta...
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Oconomowoc man finds peace on Pacific
On his 53rd day in the Pacific Ocean, Johnny Martinez woke up and cried. For the first time in almost two months, as the morning clouds broke to reveal Maui’s jagged coast, he saw land. For days, Martinez and the rest of his four-man crew — Greg...
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Federal judge voids $1.7B Trump settlement with IRS
A federal judge voided a settlement reached by President Donald Trump and his two oldest sons with the IRS that gave the family and its company sweeping tax protections and could have benefited people who attacked Capitol police on Jan. 6, 2021. In a...
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Death doulas give support, peace, meaning at the end
Gil-Marie Janssen knows people think that talking about death brings it closer to you. “So if I talk about death, I’m going to die?” she asked. “If I talk about sex, I’m going to get pregnant? Is that the way it works?” Working through these beliefs...
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REBOOTING RIVER TOWN
On an idyllic evening at the Trempealeau Hotel, the Mississippi River is as much a draw as the musical act that graces its outdoor stage. • If concert-goers gathered on the hotel lawn are lucky – and they often are – they'll get to see a sorbet sky...
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Doctor gets surprise $57K medical bill
When Dr. Lindsay Schmidt went in for her heart surgery at Froedtert Medical College this spring, she believed her insurance would cover the cost. • Then, she received a text notification for a $57,000 bill. • She later learned that her insurance...
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Videos show shift in Milwaukee ICE tactics
On a quiet residential street on Milwaukee’s near south side on June 27, immigration agents surrounded 31year-old Estenderly Marte Polanco while she was sitting in her car. They smashed the driver and passenger windows, pointed a Taser briefly at the...
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Teacher’s aide returns after ICE forced her out
After hours on a plane and more time at immigration checkpoints, Yessenia Ruano emerged from the secure zone of Chicago O’Hare airport and broke into a smile. After a year in El Salvador, Ruano, a former Milwaukee teacher’s aide who captured the...
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Trash, harassment, blood in MATC student housing
Milwaukee Area Technical College student Raaven Nash thought Westown Green would be a good place to live. MATC declared the apartment building its “preferred student housing” on posters outside the building and promoted it on the school’s website. But...
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UWM creates dorm village for interns
While college dorms across the country sit empty over the summer, with vacant rooms and quiet hallways, Cambridge Commons still teems. ● Scooters line up outside the building. ● Young people shuffle through the front doors, and scanners beep as...
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Developer recreates 1990s east side in video game
Rich Altenbach will never forget the first time he visited Milwaukee’s east side. Oh, how different it was. How captivating. A whole new world, equipped with a bustling nightlife, a cool cast of characters and a fresh perspective on life. It was 1990,...
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Soaring NATIONAL SYMBOL
Big, powerful and beautiful, they would have drawn the attention of the first humans to set foot in the area we now call the United States. ● They attained spiritual significance as Native American cultures developed over the following millennia. ● As...
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SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
The 56 steps, cut from pink granite, ascend to a neoclassical temple that seems plucked from ancient Greece and deposited on a Kentucky hilltop. One for each year of President Abraham Lincoln’s life. If the first eight steps, rising amid the site’s...
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Milwaukee builds pollution ‘bathtub’
As Summerfest crowds surge toward the lakefront, a far less flashy but highly consequential lakeshore project is quietly wrapping up: construction of a $122 million storage facility for toxic waste. Underneath the Hoan Bridge, just south of the...
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Wisconsin to Thailand
BANGKOK – Behind a bartop framed by Green Bay Packers signs, Matthew Fischer pushes back on the idea his dive in the middle of Thailand’s capital city is a “Wisconsin bar.” A Wisconsin flag hangs just inside the entrance to Fatty’s Bar & Diner, and...
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ICE arrests 39 people as outcry expands
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Mariah Antetokounmpo showed up for Milwaukee
S hometime between starting an apparel brand all about spreading positivity and becoming a mom times four, Mariah Antetokounmpo turned into a matriarch of Milwaukee. Giving back has always just been a part of who Mariah is, she told the Journal...
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A forever feeling
On Oct. 19, 2018, I stood on the footbridge that feeds fans into the plaza area behind then-Miller Park’s centerfield wall, looking back at the stadium that had gone weirdly quiet in the moments after the Milwaukee Brewers had won Game 6 of the...
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New report finds school segregation persists
Tennessee schools are the most racially segregated in the South and the sixth-most segregated in the nation, a new report reveals. The national report released June 22 by Brown’s Promise and the Segregation Tracking Project shows the varying degrees...
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Rep. Steil proposes strict bill on voter ID
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Bryan Steil introduced a federal voter identification legislation that, if passed, would limit the forms of ID that can be used in federal elections and be stricter than Wisconsin’s voter ID law that was recently...
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More than 160 killed in Venezuelan earthquakes
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodrı́guez said an initial fund of $200 million would be created using resources from the International Monetary Fund dedicated to rebuilding infrastructure, after back-to-back major earthquakes struck the country’s...
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Leader
The story of Milwaukee’s Leader Paper Products, which marks its 125th anniversary this year, is its continuity across five generations of family ownership – while making big changes to help it thrive. Amid decades of technological breakthroughs such as...
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