2019 mercedes college calendar · class of 2018 first reunion (st joseph’s courtyard, 5.00 –...

2019 Mercedes College Calendar


As at 14 December 2018

Week Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

JAN 1

New Year’s Day

2

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5

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8

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10

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12

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15

16

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18

19

20

21 Executive Leadership

Team


Team and New Staff

23 CESA Event – All Staff

(Adelaide Entertainment Centre)

24 Curriculum and Learning

Leadership Team, Year Level Coordinators and

New Staff

Late Student Induction (2.30pm)

25 All Staff PD and

Preparation Day

26 Australia Day

27

January | Term 1



1

28 Australia Day Holiday

29 All Staff PD and Preparation Day

30 All Staff PD and Preparation Day

Student Leadership

Workshop (JS Hall, 1.00 – 2.30pm)

Inaugural Staff Mass

(2.30pm)

31 START TERM 1

Parent Welcome Morning Tea (Sunken Garden, 8.45

– 10.00am)

MLP and ISP Orientation

FEB 1 No Excursions, Tests or Activities

Student and Staff ID

Photos (JS Hall)

Year 12 Photos (Cohort, Individual and Class)

Year 7 Camp Briefing

(12.40 – 1.20pm)


2

3

2

4 MLP and ISP Orientation

IB Diploma Awards

Ceremony (Adelaide Town Hall, 6.30-7.30pm)

5 House Meetings for

Swimming Carnival (8.40 – 9.00am)

SACE Merit Ceremony

(Government House, 10.00am – 12.00pm)




8 6-12 Swimming Carnival

(Marion Swimming Centre)

9

10

January/February | Term 1 January/February | Term 1

January / February | Term

1



3

11 Class of 2018 First Reunion (St Joseph’s

Courtyard, 5.00 – 6.30pm)

MS Parent Information Evening (6.00 – 8.00pm)

12 SS Parent information Evening (6.00 - 7.00pm)

13 SMP Mentor Information Session (Strathspey

Parlour, 9.00am)

MS/SS Inaugural School Mass (Gleeson Hall, 9.35

– 11.00am)

JS Parent Information Evening (6.00 – 8.00pm)

14

15 Year 9 Elevate Education (12.20 – 1.20pm)


(Mercy Lecture Theatre, 12.40 – 1.20pm)

Laureate Assembly

Morning Tea (JS Hall, 11.30am – 12.00pm)

Laureate Assembly (Years

10-12, Gleeson Hall, 12.05 – 1.20pm)

Mercureans Cocktail Party

(St Joseph’s Courtyard, 7.00 – 10.00pm)

16 Girls’ Summer Sport Commences

17

4

18 Year 2-5 Swimming Lessons (Unley Swimming

Centre)


Centre)

IB Diploma Information Evening (Mercy Lecture

Theatre, 6.00 – 7.00pm)


Centre)

Sevenhill Staff Retreat


Centre)


22 JS Inaugural Mass (JS Hall, 10.00 – 11.00am)



Year 10 Career Guidance

(BDO Assessment)


Mercedes Uncorked (Rose Garden, 7.00 – 10.00pm)

23

24

February | Term 1



5

25

26 Catholic Co-Educational Swimming Carnival (Nth

Adelaide Aquatic Centre, 6.30 – 9.30pm)

Year 12 SACE

Mathematics Workshops (Mercy Lecture Theatre,

4.30 – 8.30pm)

27 Orientation Walk

Year 8 Immunisations

Year 10 Elevate Education Session – Time

Management (12.30 – 1.20pm)

28 Year 7 Bike Ed Sessions (9.35am – 3.15pm)

Year 12 SACE

Mathematics Workshops (Mercy Lecture Theatre,

4.30 – 8.30pm)

MAR 1 Autumn Ember Day

Year 7 Bike Ed Sessions (9.35am – 3.15pm)

City South Swimming

Carnival (Marion Outdoor Centre, 6.00 – 9.00pm)

2

3

6

4 Year 6 Retreat

5 Year 7-12 Catholic School

Girls Swimming Carnival (1.00 – 4.00pm)

SSSSA Boys Swimming

Carnival (Marion Swimming Centre, 6.30 –

9.30pm)

6 Ash Wednesday

JS Ash Wednesday Class

Liturgies (Lessons 1-7)

MS Ash Wednesday Liturgy (Gleeson Hall,

9.35-10.20am)

SS Ash Wednesday Liturgy (Gleeson Hall,

11.20am-12.00pm)

Year 10 Humanities Performance - Monty

Pryor (2.00 – 3.20pm)

Year 5 Camp (Victor Harbor)

7 Year 5 Camp (Victor

Harbor)

8 Year 5 Camp (Victor

Harbor)

Year 8-12 Athletics Carnival (SA Athletics

Stadium)

Middle School Welcome BBQ (Junior School Hall,

6.00 – 8.00pm)

9

10 1st Sunday of Lent

7

11 Adelaide Cup Day

12 Year 9 TAFE Camp

Leader Briefing (10.00am – 12.00pm, McAuley

Boardroom)

Year 12 Seminar Day (Sam Clear, 11.30am –

3.20pm)

13 No Excursions, Tests or

Activities

Summer Sports, Leadership and Co-

curricular Photos

14 Evacuation Practice (12.45

– 1.00pm)

15 Year 8 Retreat

Year 9 Camp Menu

Lecture (Mercy Lecture Theatre, 12.40 – 1.20pm)

16

17

2nd Sunday of Lent

February / March | Term 1



8

18 St Patrick’s Day

Year 7 Camp 1 (Woodhouse)

SACPSSA Swimming

Carnival (Burnside Pool)

19 St Joseph’s Feast Day

Year 7 Camp 1 (Woodhouse)

20

Year 7 Camps 1 and 2 (Woodhouse)

MASA Schools

Mathematics Competition (8.50 – 10.20am)

21 Year 7 Camp 2 (Woodhouse)

22 R-5 Swimming Carnival (Unley Swimming Centre)

Year 7 Camp 2

(Woodhouse)

Year 9 Camp Menu Planning Session 1 (12.40

– 1.20pm)

Year 12 Combined Mass (12.40 – 1.20pm)

23 Year 10-12 Mix and Mingle (7.30 – 10.30pm)

24 3rd Sunday of Lent

9

25 Feast of the Annunciation

Catholic Co-Educational Athletics Carnival

(Athletics SA Stadium, 9.30am – 2.15pm)

26 R-5 Learning Reviews (2.00 – 7.30pm)


(9.35 – 11.10am)

27 Orientation Walk

R-5 Learning Reviews (4.00 – 6.00pm)

28 SAPSASA Swimming Metro Day (Marion

Aquatics Centre)

29 Year 9 Camp Menu Planning Session 2 (12.40

– 1.20pm)

Year 11 Combined Mass (Mercy Chapel, 12.40 –

1.20pm)

30

31 4th Sunday of Lent

10

APR 1

2 No Excursions, Tests or Activities

R-5 Class, Staff, Sibling,

R-5 Leadership and Non Sporting Co-curricular

Photos

3

4 Year 11 and 12 SACE Forum and Art Show

5 Year 6-12 Summer Sports Assembly (Gleeson Hall,

12.40 – 1.20pm)

6 Girls’ Summer Sport Play-offs

7 5th Sunday of Lent

March / April | Term 1



11


Year 6 – 11 Class and

Staff Photos

9 Year 4-7 Athletics Carnival (Mercedes

College)

Year 12 Learning Reviews (4.00 – 9.00pm)

10 Year 10 and 11 Meningococcal

Immunisations

Caritas Day

11 SSSSA Athletics Carnival (SA Athletics Stadium)

12 JS Class Liturgies (Lessons 1-6)

Year 9 Camp Menu

Planning Session 3 (12.40 – 1.20pm)

MS/SS Liturgy (Gleeson

Hall, 2.00 – 3.00pm)

END TERM 1 (3.20pm

[JS / SS], 3.25pm [MS] dismissal)

13

14 Palm Sunday

15 Holy Week

16 Holy Week

17 Holy Week

18 Holy Week

19 Good Friday

20 Holy Saturday

21 Easter Sunday

22 Easter Monday

23

24

25 Anzac Day

26

27

28 Devine Mercy Sunday

1

29

30 START TERM 2

Easter PA Prayer (8.45am)

Year 10 Camp Gear Collection

MLP and ISP New

Student Orientation

MAY 1 Year 10 Camps

Year 12 Retreats

MLP and ISP New Student Orientation

2 City South Athletics Carnival (SA Athletics

Stadium)

Year 10 Camps

Year 12 Retreats


3 Year 9 Camp Menu Planning Session 4 (12.40

– 1.20pm)

Year 10 Camps

Year 12 Retreats


Generations In Jazz

Festival (Mount Gambier)

4 Generations In Jazz Festival (Mount Gambier)

5 Generations In Jazz Festival (Mount Gambier)

April / May | Term 1 and 2



2

6 Year 10 Camp Gear Return

7 Early Dismissal for students (1.00pm)

Year 7 Humanities

Performance ‘Ask Hatshepsut’ (9.30am)

Year 6-11 Learning

Reviews (Gleeson Hall, 2.00-7.00pm)

8 Orientation Walk

9

10 Year 6 and 7 Brainstorm Productions (Gleeson

Hall, 12.20 – 1.20pm)

City South X-Country (Belair National Park,

11.25am – 2.45pm)

Year 9 Camp Equipment Distribution

Year 11 Combined Mass

(12.40pm)

11 Girls’ Winter Sport Commences

12

3

13 Year 9 Camp Student

Preparation Day (11.30am – 3.15pm)

6-11 Learning Reviews

(Gleeson Hall, 4.00 – 7.00pm)

14 NAPLAN Testing

15 NAPLAN Testing


16 NAPLAN Testing


17 Mother’s Day Coffee

Morning (Mercedes Café, 7.45 – 9.00am)

NAPLAN Catch Up

Year 8 and 9 Brainstorm

Productions (Gleeson Hall, 12.20 – 1.20pm)

Year 11 Elevate

Education Session – Ace Your Exams (12.30 –

1.20pm)


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19

4

20 Year 9 Camp AA Walks Depart (Grampians)

21 SAPSASA Athletics Metro Day (Athletics SA

Stadium)

Year 9 Camps A-D Walks Depart (Grampians)

22

Year 9 Camps (Grampians)

23 Year 9 Camps (Grampians)

24 Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians (Patroness of

Australia)

Year 9 Camps (Grampians)

Mercedes College Gala

Ball (Adelaide Oval)

25 65th Anniversary Gala Ball (Adelaide Oval, 7.00 –

11.30pm)

26

May | Term 2



5

27 Year 9 Camp Equipment Return

28

29 Year 11 and 12 Art/Design/Media Trip

30 Year 11 and 12 Art/Design/Media Trip

31 Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Year 11 and 12

Art/Design/Media Trip

Year 12 Combined Mass (12.40 – 1.20pm)

JUN 1

2 Ascension of the Lord

6

3 Catholic Education Week

Year 11 SACE/IB Drama Production Week





Year 12 Seminar Day -

MITIOG


SAPSASA X-Country Metro Day (Oakbank)

Year 11 SACE/IB Drama

Production Week


Student Free Day

Senior School Social (Burnside Town Hall,

7.00-10.30pm)


9 Pentecost Sunday

Catholic Education Week

7

10 Queen’s Birthday Holiday

11 Year 10 and 11 Meningococcal

Immunisations

12 Orientation Walk

SACPSSA Athletics Carnival (Athletics SA

Stadium)

13 Lockdown Practice (10.55 – 11.10am)

14

15

16 Trinity Sunday

8

17 Year 11 Exams

18 Year 11 Exams

19 Year 11 Exams

20 Year 11 Exams

21 2019 Term 3 Receptions

Transition Visit (9.00 – 11.00am)



Year 11 Exams

22

23 Most Holy Body and

Blood of Christ

May / June | Term 2



9

24 Year 11 ISP Workshop

Year 11 Work Experience

Year 11 CAS Week

ISP Academic/ESOS Intervention

25 Year 6 Humanities Performance ‘ The Lucky

Country’ (1.45pm)

Year 11 ISP Workshop


Year 11 CAS Week


26 Being Boys and Break Free Camps



Year 11 CAS Week

ISP Academic/ESOS

Intervention




Year 11 CAS Week

ISP Academic/ESOS

Intervention

28 Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

2019 Term 3 Receptions

Transition Visit (9.00 – 11.00am)

Being Boys and Break

Free Camps



Year 11 CAS Week


29 Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Feast of St Peter & St

Paul

30

10

JUL 1 Year 9 Science Activity – A Case of Identity

Year 11 SACE Research

Project Introduction and IB TOK Presentations

2 Year 10 Humanities WW2 Performance ‘Fighting

For It ’ (9.30am)

Year 9 Humanities WW2 Performance ‘Fightin the

Kaiser ’ (11.30am)

Year 11 SACE Research Project Introduction and

IB TOK Presentations

3 Year 11 SACE Research Project Introduction and

IB TOK Presentations

JS Assembly (JS Hall, 9.00 – 9.35am)

END TERM 2 (3.20pm

[JS / SS], 3.25pm [MS] dismissal)

4 Staff PD Day

5 Staff PD Day

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13 Year 11 Ski Trip

14 Year 11 Ski Trip

15 Year 11 Ski Trip

16 Year 11 Ski Trip

17 Year 11 Ski Trip

18 Year 11 Ski Trip

19 Year 11 Ski Trip

20

21

June / July | Term 2



1

22 START TERM 3

Year 12 Mid-Year Trial Examinations

MLP Orientation

23 Year 12 Mid-Year Trial Examinations

MLP Orientation

24 Orientation Walk


MLP Orientation

25


MLP Orientation

26 Year 12 Mid-Year Trial Examinations

MLP Orientation

27

28

2

29 Media Festival Week (Carmel Burke Library)

Artist in Residence

Commences


Year 9 Retreat

31 JS Special Friends Day (Carmel Burke Library,

9.30 – 11.30am)

Media Festival Week (Carmel Burke Library)

SS Paul Dillon Sessions

AUG 1 Year 3–12 Australian Mathematics Competition

Media Festival Week

(Carmel Burke Library)

Year 11 Retreats


Year 11 Retreats

Year 12 Elevate

Education Session – Finishing Line (12.30 –

1.20pm)

3

4

3

5

6 Transfiguration of the Lord

Early Dismissal for Junior

School students (1.00pm)

JS Learning Conferences (JS Classrooms, 2.00 –

7.00pm)

Year 10 SACE/IB Parent Information Evening

(Lecture Theatre, 6.00 – 7.30pm)

7 Year 7 English Performance – Just

Romeo and Juliet! (9.00am)

Year 9 English

Performance – Words, Words, Words (11.00am)

8 Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

SACPSSA X-Country

(PAC Ovals)

9 Year 12 Combined Mass (Mercy Chapel, 12.40 –

1.20pm)

10 MP&FA Quiz Night (Gleeson Hall, 6.30 –

11.30pm)

11

July / August | Term 3



4

12 6-12 Learning Reviews (Gleeson Hall, 4.00 –

7.00pm)

13

14 Orientation Walk

Year 12 SACE 2020 Parent Information

Evening (Year 11 Parents, Lecture Theatre, 6.00 –

7.00pm)

15 Feast of the Assumption BVM (Holy day of

Obligation)


Winter Sports, Leadership

and Co-curricular Photos

Year 12 University Presentation (12.40 –

1.20pm)

17

18

5

19 Year 12 IB Language

Acquisition Oral Exams





22 Year 7 Retreat

23 JS Book Week Assembly

(JS Hall, 9.00 – 9.35am)

2020 College Captain Speeches (Lesson 6,

Gleeson Hall)

24 Girls’ Winter Sport Play-

offs

25

6

26 Year 12 SACE Drama Production Week

27 Year 8 Immunisations

Year 12 SACE Drama Production Week

28 Year 6 Canberra Trip Parent Information Night


Year 12 SACE Drama

Production Week

29 Father’s Day Coffee Morning (Mercedes Café,

7.45 – 9.00am)

Artist in Residence Concludes

Year 12 SACE Drama

Production Week

30 Student Free Day

Staff Reflection Day

31 Intercollegiate Games vs St. Ignatius College

SEP 1

7

2 Year 8 Camp 1 (Murray Bridge)


4 Year 8 Camp 1 and 2 (Murray Bridge)

Student Mentor

Programme Mass (8.50-10.20am)


Converge Set Up

6

Ember Day

Year 8 Camp 2 (Murray Bridge)


(Mercy Chapel, 12.40 – 1.20pm)

Converge Music Concert

(Arkaba Hotel, 7.00 – 9.00pm)

7 Nativity of Mary

2019 STEP Trek

8 2019 STEP Trek

August / September | Term 3



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14 Exultation of the Cross

2019 STEP Trek

15 2019 STEP Trek

9

16 IB Art Exhibition Set Up (Mercy Lecture Theatre)

17 IB Art Exhibition Set Up (Mercy Lecture Theatre)


IB Art Exhibition

Opening (4.30pm)

Catholic Schools Music Festival


Catholic Schools Music

Festival

20 IB Art Exhibition Bump Out

Being Boys and Break

Free Camps

Year 4 and 5 Taiko Drumming Workshop

(12.50 – 2.40pm)

6-12 Winter Sports Assembly (12.30 –

1.20pm, Gleeson Hall)

21

22

10

23 Mercy Week

Mercedes Fun Run

24 Mercy Week

25 Mercy Week

Orientation Walk

26 Mercy Week

Mercy Day Mass Rehearsal (12.40 –

3.20pm)

27 Mercy Day

Our Lady of Mercy Mass (9.40am start)

END OF TERM 3

(12.30pm dismissal)

28

29

30 Labour Day

OCT 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

September / October | Term 3/4



1

14 START TERM 4

15

16

17

18 Ekiden Relay (Bonython Park)

Year 12 IB Diploma

Classes Conclude

Year 12 Graduation Mass (Holy Cross Church, 7.00

– 8.30pm)

19

20

2

21 Year 12 IB SWOT Vac


23 Orientation Walk

Year 12 IB SWOT Vac


Year 12 SACE Classes

Conclude

Year 12 Graduation Assembly Practice


25 Year 12 Graduation

Assembly (Gleeson Hall, 8.30am – 1.30pm)

26

27

3

28 JS Life Ed Van

Year 6 Canberra Trip

Year 12 IB Exams

Commence

Year 12 SACE SWOT Vac

29 JS Life Ed Van


Year 12 SACE SWOT

Vac

30 JS Life Ed Van

Year 5 PYP Exhibition (JS

Hall, 6.30 – 8.00pm)


2020 Middle School Leader Interviews

Year 12 SACE SWOT

Vac

31 JS Life Ed Van


Year 12 SACE SWOT

Vac

NOV 1 All Saints Day

R-12 Art Exhibition Set

Up

JS Life Ed Van


Year 12 SACE SWOT Vac

2 All Souls Day

3

October / November| Term 4



4

4 JS Life Ed Van

JS Mini Musos (JS Hall, 1.40 – 3.20pm)

Year 12 SACE Exams

Commence

R-12 Art Exhibition Set Up

5 Melbourne Cup Day

R-12 Art Exhibition Set Up

6 Year 8 Mathematics Exam

R-12 Art Exhibition (Library Plaza and Dalton,

3.30 – 7.30pm)

7 2020 Reception Parent and Children Orientation

Visit (4.30 – 5.30pm)

R-2 Mini Musos Concert (JS Hall, 9.00 – 11.00am)

Year 10 Retreat

8 R-12 Art Exhibition Bump Out

2020 Reception

Orientation Visit (9.00 – 11.00)

JS Disco (JS Hall, R-2:

3.30-4.30pm, Year 3-5: 4.45-5.45pm)

9

10

5

11 Remembrance Day

Ceremony (10.45am)

12

13 Orientation Walk

Year 10 Mock Interviews

(Carmel Burke Library, 5.00 – 8.30pm)

14 Year 9 Mathematics Exam

15 2020 Reception

Orientation Visit (9.00 – 12.00)


(12.40 – 1.20pm)

Year 12 IB Diploma Exams Conclude

Year 12 Parent Drinks

(Sunken Garden, 7.00 – 9.00pm)

16

17

November | Term 4



6

18 Year 6-10 ISP Subject Selection

Year 8 Musical Week

Year 10 STEP Camp

Year 11 Exams

19 JS Sports Fun Day (Mercedes College Ovals)

Year 6-10 ISP Subject

Selection

Year 8 Musical Week

Year 10 STEP Camp

Year 11 Exams

MS New Parent Information Evening


20 Year 6-10 ISP Subject Selection

Year 8 Musical Week

Year 10 STEP Camp

Year 11 Exams

Staff Sevenhill Retreat

Year 12 SACE Exams

Conclude

21 Year 8 Musical Week

Year 11 Exams


Past Staff Reunion (Staff Room, 5.00 – 7.00pm)

22 JS Assembly (JS Hall, 9.00 – 9.35am)

2020 Reception

Orientation Visit (9.00am – 1.00pm)

Year 8 Musical Bump Out

MS Assembly (Gleeson

Hall, 12.40 – 1.20pm)

Year 11 Exams


Year 12 Graduation Ball (Convention Centre, 6.30

– 11.30pm)

23

24 Feast of Christ the King

7

25 Year 10 SWOT Vac

Year 11 ISP Subject

Selection

Year 11 into 12 Transition Week

26 Year 10 Exams

Year 11 ISP Subject

Selection


JS New Parent

Information Evening (JS Hall, 7.00 – 9.00pm)

27 Orientation Walk

Year 10 Exams

Year 11 ISP Subject

Selection


Year 5 Graduation


28 Year 10 Exams

Year 11 into 12 Transition

Week

Year 6 Canberra Exhibition Night


29 Induction Day Morning

Tea (Sunken Garden, 8.30 – 10.30am)

R-9 2020 Induction Day

Year 10 2020 Transition

Day

Year 11 2020 Transition Day

30

DEC 1 1st Sunday of Advent

November / December | Term 4



8

2 Year 6 End of Year Activity

Year 10 Student Free Day

Year 11 Special

Programmes and IB Group 4 Projects

3 JS End of Year Mass (JS Hall, 10.00am)

Year 6 Breakfast (Admin)

Year 6 IB Group 4 Project

Judging (9.35am – 12.15pm)

Year 8 End of Year

Activity

Year 10 First Aid Session A

Year 11 Special

Programmes and IB Group 4 Projects

Year 7 Social (JS Hall,

6.00pm)

4 JS Picnic Day

Year 7 End of Year Activity

Year 9 End of Year

Activity

Year 10 First Aid Session B

5 R-5 Music Is Fun Band (JS Hall, 9.00 – 10.00am)

SS Academic Assembly

and MYP Graduation (Gleeson Hall, 9.30 –

11.00am)

6 JS Assembly (JS Hall, 9.00 – 9.35am)

MS End of Year

Presentation Assembly (Gleeson Hall, 8.45 –

10.30am)

MS/SS End of Year Mass (Gleeson Hall, 11.00am –

12.00pm)

END TERM 4 (12.30pm dismissal)

7

8 2nd Sunday of Advent

Cambodia Trip Departs

9 Feast of the Immaculate

Conception

Whole Staff PD Day

Cambodia Trip

10 Whole Staff PD Day

Cambodia Trip

11 Whole Staff PD Day

Staff End of Year Mass

(Mercy Chapel, 1.00 – 2.00pm)

Cambodia Trip


Team Meeting

Cambodia Trip

13

Cambodia Trip

14 Cambodia Trip

15 3rd Sunday of Advent

Cambodia Trip

16 Cambodia Trip

17 Cambodia Trip

18 Cambodia Trip Returns

19

20

21

22 4th Sunday of Advent

23

24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas Day

26 Boxing Day

27

28

29

December | Term 4



30

31

New Year’s Eve

JAN 1 2019 New Year’s Day

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