Rockin’ the Fourth

Eclectic music slate precedes Nashua fireworks

This Fourth of July will mark 250 years of U.S. independence, but Eleanor Luna’s American roots run deeper than that.

Her ancestors came to Maine from Scotland in 1648, eventually making their way south to Nashua. A few centuries later, give or take, she followed them there. Upon arrival, Luna embraced her new community as a resident, and she became a force behind reshaping the city’s alternative arts scene.

New Hampshire Underground, founded by Luna a few years ago, regularly hosts shows at Terminus Underground on Haines Ave., along with downtown Nashua events. The next one happens ahead of the Independence Day fireworks at Holman Stadium. Eight acts will appear, ranging from rock to country, hip-hop and experimental art rock.

Headlining is Dead Harrison, the doom metal band led by Andre Dumont, who’s Luna’s partner and, more recently, her husband. It’s the third year for the event honoring veterans, part of NH Underground’s ongoing support efforts, which include a “Buy Dinner For a Vet” program and collaborations with groups like Nashua Veterans Promise.

The veterans focus isn’t incidental; along with Luna’s DAR lineage, Dumont comes from a military family. His father was a Marine, his sister serves in the Army, and Andre himself is a Navy veteran.

“We just really have very strong core values for the people that fought for the country,” Luna said by phone recently. “That’s why we do what we do.”

The event has evolved since it began at Nashua’s Liquid Therapy in 2024. This year it happens closer to Holman Stadium, on a community stage near Centennial Pool. Last year Dumont equipped it with sound to make it attractive for rentals, but only the city has used it thus far.

“We decided to set an example,” Luna said, “and take advantage of the stage.”

Timing alleviates any potential issues with the show’s beneficiaries, she continued. “Before … this was done in a different area because a lot of the veterans that we were serving had PTSD and didn’t want to be around the fireworks, and they can still do that, because we stop right before the fireworks … they can leave right after the show.”

The lineup reflects a curatorial philosophy — book acts broad enough to pull in people who wouldn’t normally go to a rock show, but still please regulars. Nashua rapper Six Minds Combined opens, followed by Aaron Bolido, who Luna worked with in the studio when she fronted Eternal Embrace. “People think he’s metal, but he’s really alt art rock,” she said.

From Boston, psychedelic rock band Superchild and alt hard rockers Born Fools perform. Sunset Electric are a regular at Terminus, while country rockers Shotgun Alice were booked for their accessibility. They’re friends with NHU mainstay Lone Wolf James.

“We try to get bands that won’t hit those pinch points of being too dark or too heavy,” Luna said.

Headlining is Dead Harrison, Luna’s favorite band for obvious reasons. She describes them as “spooky doom metal” in the same breath she calls them “enjoyable to everybody, if they can understand that it’s not going to be scary.” It’s a pitch that sounds like early Black Sabbath landing at a community Fourth and somehow making it work.

Between sets, flow artist Nicolette Reed Gracey will perform AirFlow Projection Art around the stage, combining dance, movement and light as she twirls and spins flags with designs projected onto them. During daylight hours she will work in color. As it gets darker, her projections will shift to images of America and veterans, timed to the music.

Hiring the unique Nashua-based visual artist Gracey is the kind of touch that fits Luna’s instinct for spectacle without provocation. The national semiquincentennial celebration may be fraught with partisanship, but she’s not here for that.

“We’re not political in any way,” she said. “We just want people to get together and have fun.”

Beyond the Fourth, Luna is eyeing a larger downstairs space for NH Underground that would add disability access and room to grow. She’s also working on a Porch Fest, a Misfits Farmer’s Market featuring alternative acts, a night market for artisans, and a winter market; all are events the city hasn’t provided space for, so she’s building them herself.

“I personally don’t like roadblocks,” she said with certainty in her voice. “I want to be able to do things that I know are good for this community without having to jump through hoops or red tape.” Her Scottish ancestors, one suspects, would recognize and approve of the attitude.

Independence Day Rock Concert
When: Saturday, July 4, 2 p.m.
Where: Centennial Park, Sargents Ave., Nashua
More: newhampshireunderground.org

Lineup:
Daytime Stage, 2-5 p.m.
6 Minds Combined (alt hip-hop)
Aaron Bilodeau (experimental art rock)
Superchild (psychedelic rock)
Sunset Electric (alt rock)

Evening Stage, 6-9 p.m.
Shotgun Alice (country rock)
Born Fools (alt hard rock)
Lone Wolf James (hard rock)
Dead Harrison (doom metal)

Featured photo: Dead Harrison performs last year. Courtesy Photo

The Music Roundup 26/0702

Swamp thing: Get a head start to the weekend with Louisiana Delta blues guitarist Tab Benoit performing in the Lakes Region. With ferocious fretwork and gritty, soulful singing, the four-time Grammy nominee’s latest studio album, his first in 13 years, hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Blues-rock power trio The Cold Stares, known for fuzzed-out guitars and classic riffs, open the show. Thursday, July 2, at 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, 609 Main St., Laconia, $46 and up, etix.com.

Pre-Fourth: Building on a rep for playing ’90s indie rock faves, Dotted Lines recently released “Hollow,” an original about being on the wrong end of a breakup with a dreamy sonic fury that should appeal to fans of Foo Fighters. Among the covers in the quartet’s set are “Dreams” by the Cranberries — a bold choice — Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So,” and “Open House” by Bombay Bicycle Club. Friday, July 3, at 8 p.m., Fody’s Tavern, 9 Clinton St., Nashua, linktr.ee/dottedlinesband.

Beyond Sublime: The annual Independence Day show from Badfish returns. A bunch of URI pals formed the tribute act a few years after Sublime lead singer Scott Norwell died from a heroin overdose, with no thoughts of lasting past college, and 25 years later it’s still going strong. They’ve even added a few excellent original songs “in the spirit” of the Long Beach reggae rockers. Friday, July 3, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, $29, casinoballroom.com. 18+.

Dinner songs: Along with teaching math to East Boston high schoolers, Patrick Synan is a talented singer-songwriter whose music explores themes of emotional growth and complicated relationships in a style that echoes Noah Kahan and John Mayer. His ode to a gone-too-soon cousin, “Tommy’s Song,” is achingly beautiful, and the lively “Family Tree” is also a gem. Saturday, July 4, at 6 p.m., Murphy’s Taproom & Carriage House, 93 Route 101, Bedford, patricksynan.com.

Crunky night: An eight-act hip-hop bill is topped by Brokencyde, a New Mexico duo who originated crunkcore, a fusion of hip-hop beats and screamo vocals. They’re joined by West Coast experimental rap-punk duo WhoKilledXIX and Las Vegas trap metal act Oni Inc., along with regionally based openers Set Fire to the Hive, CMPUTERGRL, Muda, Adderall XR and Trading Tombstones. Monday, July 6, at 6 p.m., Bungalow Bar & Grill, 333 Valley St., Manchester, $24, dice.fm.

Robins Hood

A look at some of the tales of Sherwood Forest

The newest Robin Hood is a vibe.

In The Death of Robin Hood (rated R, in theaters now), Hugh Jackman takes the broken-down old Wolverine of Logan and goes like a hundred times more grizzled and dark with the outlaw Robin. Now an old old man with hair and beard that are completely out of control (his kingdom for a headband and some conditioner), Robin is, as he explains in the movie’s opening moments, not the heroic rob-from-the-rich economic equalizer of legend. There was no great love Maid Marian, there was no giving to the poor, and if he fought a sheriff or a bad guy here and there it was incidental because he fought, and killed, a lot of people — to include the person he soliloquies all this to, one of the many relatives of someone he once murdered who has come for vengeance.

But he does have one buddy, the equally bad Little John (Bill Skarsgård), who seeks him out to help with his own vengeance situation. Seems that years earlier, John killed a man and b asically stole his identity and his farm. Since then, Little John has been Edward, married to a good woman named Margaret and father to little Margaret (Faith Delaney). Except now the real Edward’s family has kidnapped his family and wants to take back his/their land. He asks Robin to help him get it back, which he does, with exactly the bloody results predicted.

Because he is super old, Robin is severely injured during the battle and John takes him to recover at an island priory, run by Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer). In his weakened state, Robin is quiet and still enough to find himself comforted by Brigid’s care and the safe haven she has created on the island.

But like, kind of a bleak safe haven because everything about this movie is pretty bleak. (Also bleak but pretty. Props to the cinematographer, Pat Scola, according to IMDb.) And bleak is the vibe this Robin Hood is all about — bleak like the unforgiving winter wilderness, bleak like the idea that people will always prefer a legend to the truth, bleak like a church farm run by a prioress with a superbleak past, bleak like a very grizzled old man vacillating between feeling the awful weight of his crimes and having no problem committing more of them. That that guy is Robin Hood is fine, whatever, but I don’t know that it necessarily adds anything to the story it’s telling. And it’s telling that story kinda slowly — the runtime is listed as two hours and three minutes but it feels longer than that.

The performances here are great — Hugh Jackman as a man who can’t really deal with the things he’s done in his life, Jodie Comer as someone determined to create a peaceful life from a horror-filled past. And the movie looks amazing. Just don’t go in expecting a lot of merry swashbuckling.

The lack of classic Robin Hood-ing in this latest Robin Hood movie had me seeking out other Robin Hood content.

MGM+’s Robin Hood series premiered its first season of 10 episodes in November 2025 and it’s been renewed for a second season, according to Wikipedia. I’ve seen the first four episodes and I do like that this one orients itself not around the Crusades but around the tensions between the Norman invaders who have taken positions and land from the Saxon colonized. I don’t know how historically accurate all this is, timewise, but whatever, I appreciate the new take.

We meet Rob Locksley (Jack Patten as an adult) when he is a boy and his dad, Hugh (Tom Mison), is still angry at having his family’s lands and mansion taken away by Normans. Hugh is strongarmed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Sean Bean) into taking the job as the, like, hall monitor for the forests, keeping poachers from taking the “King’s deer.” As the years go by, Hugh puts effort into being kinda bad at his job so he doesn’t have to go around arresting his Saxon neighbors. But, by the time Robin is all grown up, Hugh’s permissive approach to poachers and the grudge he still holds toward the Norman Lord Huntington (Steven Waddington) who took Hugh’s house leads the Sheriff to go along with plans to arrest Hugh for treason. Robin’s grief quickly leads to some outlaw behavior that has him hiding in the woods with Little John (Marcus Fraser), Friar Tuck (Angus Castle-Doughty) and other only mildly merry men.

Meanwhile, in London, Huntington’s daughter Marian (Lauren McQueen) is in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine (Connie Nielsen) and is pining for Rob, who she spent some time with before troubles flared up. The core cast also includes Priscilla (Lydia Peckham), the daughter of Nottingham, who is the frequent star of the episodes’ comically unsexy sex scenes. They feel very “check out our sex scene, we’re prestige!” without feeling particularly necessary or fun.

This whole show feels expensive-cheap. Like, this isn’t made on a dime — the actors’ costumes fit and the sets are good enough. But there is an inch-thick feel to the world and to the characters. It reminds me a bit of the 1990s and early aughts syndicated shows of the Xena Warrior Princess ilk, but grayer lighting and none of those shows’ lack of self-seriousness.

The June 15 episode of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast reminded me of the existence of the 2010 Ridley Scott-directed Robin Hood(on HBO Max, and available for rent or purchase). Rereading my review from the time, I liked it fine then and — like hosts Joe Reid and Chris Feil on the podcast — I might like it even more now. Russell Crowe plays Robin Longstride, the character who eventually becomes Robin Hood, and Cate Blanchett is Marian. They have nice chemistry and have some genuinely funny scenes together. There are some very Ridley Scott battle scenes, some nice business with Robin and all the guys who become his Merry Men and excellent villains in Mark Strong and Oscar Isaac, who at moments almost seemed to be mixing in a little Sir Hiss from the 1973 animated Robin Hood (Disney+, as well as rent or purchase). Fun is being had while a story is being told and I can totally forgive whatever bits of Gladiator it seems to be mixing in.

Over on Prime Video, you can find 2018’s Robin Hood starring Taron Egerton in the title role, Jamie Fox as a sort of Little John-esque character and Eve Hewson (who showed up in the recent Disclosure Day) as Marian. While 2010’s movie, like 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, goes for some sense of historical realism, 2018’s movie is set in a kind of alternate medieval era where armor looks more like bulletproof vest and there are touches of steampunk and, I don’t know, Megalopolis? This movie more than others really goes for the “Robin Hood equals Batman” comparison with some very Bruce Wayne and Batman universe story beats. Ben Mendelsohn plays the villain Sheriff of Nottingham/personification of the U.S. War on Terror — this also feels like an Iraq war movie, weirdly. It is sometimes surprisingly dark and sometimes a “good entertainment while you fold your laundry” level of fun.

While you’re over at Prime Video, check out 2022’s British production The Adventures of Maid Marian, which has real scrappy student film energy, with some Party City-looking costumes and “the glue is not quite dry on that” sets and a few “we cast this guy because he owned one of the cameras” casting choices. That said, I kind of had fun watching it? Marian (Sophie Craig) has spent the last three years hiding out at a nunnery, pretending to be a novitiate, while waiting for Robin (Dominic Anderson) to return from the crusades. When he does come back, they quickly learn that the former Sheriff of Nottingham (Bob Cryer) has returned, with a plan to kill Robin Hood and take back his office. Craig doesn’t have much to work with but she does a watchable job with what she’s got. This is a light B movie for when you are in a light B movie mood.

Speaking of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (rent or purchase), that movie kind of rides the line between B movie touches and big blockbuster production. Kevin Costner’s performance is exactly as remembered — he remains a weird choice for the style of playfulness and charm the role seems to need. The appearance of Christian Slater certainly takes you back to the early 1990s but Alan Rickman’s performance remains a mustache-twirling bit of goofy fun.

Featured photo: The Death of Robin Hood.

Album Reviews 26/07/02

Ow! Live at The Penthouse, Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (Reel To Real Records)

It’s summer in New England, when we hardscrabble Yankees regroup and take a look at things we may have missed over the past year. My problem is that so many albums get dumped into my virtual and non-virtual mailboxes that I tend to run years behind, which means a lot of releases never get the attention they deserve, case in point this one, which originally streeted on Record Store Day in 2019 as an exclusive, and then in standard form a couple of weeks later. Put simply, it’s a master class in hard bop jazz, spotlighting two amazingly gifted tenor saxophone players; it really show-stopped my music-listening life the first time I heard it and it’s become a staple in my car over the past couple of months. Recorded live over two nights at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle in 1962, it features both guys (who were dubbed the “Tough Tenors” for their fast-motion interplay) in peak form, blazing (in an uncharacteristically gentlemanly way, as opposed to the one-upmanship observable in their other Prestige Records outings) through such improv-begging tunes as Count Basie’s “Tickle Toe,” at mind-boggling speeds. Advanced post-bop is everywhere here; if you buy one vintage jazz record this year, this should be it. A+

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, A Very Unusual Head (Storm Kings Records)

Like I always say sometimes, if you can’t make the Who’s Who, try for the What The Hell Was That, where these guys are situated comfortably with a bullet. At first glance I was expecting steampunk: stovepipe hats, facial hair courtesy of 1971, suits louder than Godzilla after stubbing his toe on a school bus, etc., but this 30-plus-year veteran crew of upstate New Yorkers is usually found at folkie festivals, which makes sense, given their sound, but only a little. More accurately, their trip is usually described as “hillbilly Pink Floyd,” and when I found that out I was filled with dread (you all know what a jerk I am about Floyd, and obviously everything about these guys screams joke band). But whattaya know, opening tune “Beez (I Know Where The Beez Have Gone)” is very listenable and really very epic; if there was anything you liked about Dark Side Of The Moon, it’s distilled here. No, I’m being serious, the sound is very big, even when it gets a little weird thanks to the presence of hayloft/jackass instruments like ukuleles, melodicas, flutes and theremins. This is simply a great band of songwriters who happen to dress like Randy “Macho Man” Savage. A+

PLAYLIST

A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases

• OK, the summer’s already moving along too fast; the next new-CD Friday is this one, July 3, the day before this country’s 250th birthday, which means that everyone you know will be spending their time gathering together dangerous quantities of liquor and fireworks, not thinking about buying albums, but new albums will come nonetheless, and you can listen to them, while you shoot off fireworks, safely drunk, unless you hate George Washington! According to Metacritic, which has been proving itself increasingly worthless of late with regard to telling me about new albums, there are only two, but Google’s AI (the one everybody’s already using for free, which means it’s totally destined to win the AI wars, which will bankrupt companies like Microsoft and Oracle and bring on the Apocalypse, but not to worry, because something-something) found several more! The most “important” album comes from 58-year-old British hard-rock band Deep Purple, and it is titled SPLAT! Now, I don’t know how these fellas are even still alive, but I’m certain I’ll be impressed by their ability to keep up with the times and street a record that sounds fresh and innovative, let’s go find out! Yes, yes, the new single “Guilt Trippin’” is basically the same thing as their 54-year-old song “Space Truckin,’” except that 80-year-old singer Ian Gillan is trying to sound funny, like Butthead from Beavis and Butthead, so if you enjoy hearing five 80-year-old men pretending to be a joke band, I highly recommend that you consider purchasing this album!

• Two weeks ago, Happy Mag reported that Madonna wanted an “extortionist’s sum” to fund her biopic Who’s That Girl, and not even Netflix would pay for it. Says here that the script, which she wrote herself, would demand a blockbuster budget, so it’s on hold until further notice, meaning it will probably never happen, which is a bit unfair I suppose; as Happy observed, “[A Bob Dylan movie] gets [a gigantic budget]. Bruce gets one. Michael gets one. But Madonna? Apparently the industry forgot who invented half of pop culture.” Well, as far as I’m concerned — and not to minimize the fact that women are treated horribly by the music industry — I’d remind the Happy writer that we already had a Madonna documentary in 1991, titled Truth Or Dare, whose most non-boring moment was when she pretended to barf when Kevin Costner appeared backstage, but either way, Madge has a new album out this week, called Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II, which harkens back to her space-disco days, with hypnotic progressive-house elements, random sexy whispering, etc. It’s fine.

• Next is Anton Pearson, guitarist for U.K. band Squid, which is, according to the band’s subreddit, “focused on post-punk, jazz-rock, ambient and krautrock,” meaning they’re, you know, totally unfocused, not that that’s always a bad thing. Pearson’s debut solo LP, Driving Through Belgium, is ambient stuff; I listened to two tracks, one that was cheesy Daedalus-type stuff, and another that sounded like an electric shaver getting pressed against a stainless steel pot; I’d cite the song titles but I already forgot them, mercifully.

• And finally we have Atlanta rapper/producer Ken Carson with his newest album, Xperiment, a 22-track affair that lays melodically competent AutoTuned rhymes over rage-y, distorted, experimental beats. I would give you the deets on one tune in particular, but given that all he’s made available for preview is a collection of snippets, I assume he couldn’t care less about my desire for exhibiting any journalistic professionalism whatsoever, bravo.

Featured Photo: Sublime, Until The Sun Explodes and Tori Kelly, God Must Really Love Me

Raspberry cake with raspberry ganache

Chocolate and raspberries are a classic combination. What makes this particular cake so very raspberry-y is that it is flavored with actual freeze-dried raspberries, not raspberry flavoring. There is lemon zest to brighten the flavor, and actual chocolate for chocolateyness. The rainbow unicorns will appear independently.

Cake

  • 1⅓ cups (300 g, 2 cubes + 5 Tablespoons) butter
  • 1⅓ cups (266 g) granulated sugar
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ⅓ cup (80 g) milk
  • 1 envelope (1.2 ounces or 34 g) freeze-dried raspberries

Ganache

  • ⅓ cup (80 g) heavy cream
  • 8.8 ounces (250 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • Another 1.2 ounces (34 g) envelope of freeze-dried raspberries

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and sugar a Bundt pan.

Grind each envelope of freeze-dried raspberries. Sift with a fine-mesh sifter to remove seeds. Set each aside.

In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and raspberry powder together. Set Team Pink aside.

Cream the butter, lemon zest and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla. Spoon the dry ingredients into the mix, then the milk.

Transfer the pink batter to the Bundt pan, one large spoonful at a time, then smooth the blobs out. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes or until the cake reaches an internal temperature of 200°F. Let the cake cool for 15 minutes or so, then flip it out onto a serving plate, and cool for another hour or so.

After you’ve dusted your mahjong trophies or written a Portuguese love poem, return to the kitchen.

Heat the chocolate and cream in a microwave-safe bowl for a few seconds at a time — 30 seconds, then 20, then 10, etc. — stirring each time, until combined and silky. Stir in the remaining raspberry powder, then spoon the ganache over the cake. Don’t worry if it’s drippy; it’s supposed to be.

Give the ganache a few minutes to set up, then cut slices, and serve with ice cream, or very cold milk.

Featured photo: Raspberry + chocolate. Photo by John Fladd.

Ice cream sandwiches for all

Sweet Bel’s Ice Cream has Happy Cake too

Jennifer Belmore was making a Happy Cake Bowl.

“I make cake pretty much every day here,” Belmore said, as she cut a slab of chocolate sheet cake from a baking pan and cut it into cubes. “Right now I have chocolate cake and funfetti to put at the bottom of a bowl. and then you get to pick your ice cream. You get to pick a hot topping and then it’s covered in whipped cream and sprinkles and a cherry. It’s a hybrid sundae per se — kind of like a throwback to your younger days when you were a birthday boy or girl and you had your cake and ice cream. We got away from it for some reason. And who doesn’t love cake and ice cream?”

Belmore opened Sweet Bel’s Ice Cream & Dessert Creations in Merrimack in April,

“I opened April 18. And business has been good so far,” she said. Her vision is to serve ice cream with a different spin on things. “My background is in baking,” she said. “I was trained as a French pastry chef, and I’ve always wanted to have a bakery. And so, fast-forward all these years later, and I have the attitude of, ‘What goes better with baked goods than ice cream?”

Belmore bought an existing ice cream shop on Daniel Webster Highway in Merrimack. “It already had the right footprint,” she said, “and I just had to add an oven, and voila! Here I am.”

At this point, Belmore put cubes of chocolate cake in the bottom of a bowl, setting several off to the side, and scooped ice cream on top of the bowl-cake. At any given time Sweet Bel’s offers more than 30 choices of ice cream.

“Our ice cream comes from Shain’s of Maine, up in Sanford, Maine,” she said, “a small little place.” This time Belmore chose banana ice cream to go over the cake cubes. Given the choice of chocolate, marshmallow, caramel, peanut butter or strawberry sauces, she chose peanut butter to go over the two scoops of ice cream.

“This is probably one of the best combinations,” Belmore said with a nod. “This and our peanut butter cup sundae; everyone loves peanut butter and chocolate.” She said she really likes making Happy Cake Bowls. “There’s something very satisfying about them,” she said. “My favorite ice cream probably changes by the week, but right now, it’s Turtles — vanilla [ice cream] with chocolate chips, cashews, and swirled with caramel. It’s so good; I like the texture. And then chocolate peanut butter is probably my second favorite.”

Scooped ice cream and sundae’s make up a large part of Belmore’s sales, she said, but her particular specialty is custom ice cream sandwiches.

“We do custom ice cream sandwiches,” she said. “I bake cookies every day and then you can pick your cookie, your ice cream.” Baking two types of cookies per day means that a customer might have more than 60 different ice cream sandwich combinations to choose from.

Belmore covered the sundae in the Happy Cake Bowl with whipped cream, then crumbled the remaining cake over the top. She examined the bowl carefully, then added a cherry, and sprinkles, then nodded again.

Sweet Bel’s Ice Cream & Dessert Creations
Where: 608 DW Highway, Merrimack, 670-2161, sweetbels.com
When: open seven days a week during the summer, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Featured photo: Happy Cake Bowl from Sweet Bel’s Ice Cream. Photo by John Fladd.

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