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Jasper Segerink

@jsegerink.bsky.social
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Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Wrote about the Dutch higher education crisis and why a strike without suspending exams or classes is just cosplay. @jacobinnl.bsky.social jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...
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Een hoger onderwijsstaking die het beleid geen pijn doet is cosplay – Jacobin
Vorige week was er een staking in het hoger onderwijs. 7000 academici en studenten trokken naar Amsterdam, maar niemand leek echt acht te slaan op de staking. Want hoewel de universiteiten de staking ...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
So happy that our special issue 'Controlling mobile guests where they rest' is online at @imm-min-journal.bsky.social! It shows how hotel registration offers us a powerful lens on the entangled histories of migration & tourism, touching on important politics, people and performances often neglected👇
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Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s
At the intersection of tourism and migration history, this special issue focuses on the roles of registration documents and practices in European hotels during the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Effectief!
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 Nieuwe publicatie! Jasper Segerink onderzoekt in “Een nacht in de stad” hoe trans-Atlantische migranten (1850–1914) tijdelijk verbleven in Antwerpen en welke sporen ze nalieten. Meer informatie op de website van HistoriANT: gvag.be/historiant/2...
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Stef Espeel @stefespeel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New book publication ❗ 📖 Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique. It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿 #medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges For the contents, see below 👇
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Prices and Crises
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yesterday, the news broke that the Flemish government will end funding for @iobua.bsky.social in just 3 months! This risks students’ futures, 32 staff careers, & undermines a cornerstone of Belgium’s hard-won international scientific reputation. A short-sighted decision with lasting consequences...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.
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Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom - The Econometric Society
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️
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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Earlier this year, Vicky Holmes published 'Living with Lodgers. Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England'. It is a great book that not only rescues the lodger from the mists of history, but also invites us to question Victorian household ideals. Highly recommended!👇
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Bringing Dead Victorians Back to Life: What Coroner’s Inquests Can Teach Us about Victorian Working-Class Homes
In June 1894, in her kitchen at 17 Lomas Street in the town of Burnley, Lancashire, Mary Ann Allen was murdered with an axe by William Crossley, one of her
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Loved the Pfälzer Wandermusikanten workshop @ Kusel! The Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde brilliantly connected 'academic' with 'local' historians. The castle setting and hearing the music performed live by the Kusel Music Academy were unforgettable experiences. A 🧵 following soon..
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Vincent Scheltiens Ortigosa @vschelti.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal! Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...
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Archief Stadsgeschiedenis | Leuven University Press
Nummers van het tijdschrift ‘Stadsgeschiedenis’ van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Klik op het nummer voor de downloadlink. 2006 – 1 > 2006 – 2 > 2007 – 1 > 2007 – 2 > 2008 – 1 > ...
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last? Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden. 🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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“Van de kwade der vreemde bezoekers, verlos ons heer!” | Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Voor diegenen die denken dat de systematische afbouw van onderzoek en hoger onderwijs enkel een zorg is voor de humane wetenschappen 👇
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Susan Monarez, de wetenschapper in het oog van de storm: ‘Dit zou elke Amerikaan bang moeten maken’
Een nieuwe dag, een nieuw ontslag in het ‘Land of the Free’. Het Witte Huis zegt het hoofd van de gezondheidsdienst CDC de wacht aan. Maar de kersverse topvrouw wijkt niet. ‘Minister Kennedy brengt mi...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now. Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What is the difference between a historian and a sociologist? A long time scale and bad data. Perhaps a bit reductive but on point what the data concerns 🤣 Sam Bass Warner being interviewed by Bruce Stave in the first issue of Journal of Urban History in 1974
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Journal of Austrian-American History @jaustamerhist.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
From the editor's desk... ... if anyone is thinking about writing an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger, we would love to see it.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🖋️ For the Social History Blog, I wrote a piece on the often banal reasons that research (and especially PhD)-projects pivot, and the implications this has for our craft. Hopefully this can also offer some reassurance for new PhD-students.. A lodging house guy's reflection 👇
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How we shape research projects, and how they shape us - A lodging house guy’s reflection by Jasper Segerink - Social History Blog
Urban and social history projects on infrastructures, migrants, lodging houses in 19th-century Belgium.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Uhu Ok 👍
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New Microsoft study estimates that historians are the *2nd* occupation whose tasks AI can mostly cover, based on a large database of its Copilot users & their reported satisfaction. That AI makes a poor historian is imo not a debate, but the fact that so many turn to LLMs for history is concerning.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
One like, one history of poverty opinion
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Reading that even Mozart found it difficult to find time to write gives me hope in difficult times 🥲 Seen at the Mozart Geburtshaus in Salzburg.
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🗣️ Public lecture On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢Vacature: PhD-student gezocht Geïnteresseerd in geschiedenis, migratie, pendel en/of transport? Het @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social zoekt een voltijdse (100% - 4 jaar) doctoraatsstudent voor het BOF-Impuls-project "verstedelijking voorbij gravitatiemodellen". Solliciteren kan nog tot 30 juni!
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New Open Access Article written by Sigrid Wadauer on 'Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century' Check it out via the link below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Habsburg Austria, regulations permitted residents free movement, while at the same time the government strived for ubiquitous monitoring and surveill...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lodging housekeepers occupy a dual role in history: they are well established in key debates on housing, work, and migration, yet they are rarely the main subject of historical analysis. A small 🧵 on what studying this group teaches about this subject based on my new article in #SocialHistory
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Talrijke problemen die de hoofdstad vandaag geselen (vluchtelingenopvang, bendegeweld, verpaupering, de zwaar verloederde stationsbuurten) worden maar al te graag als exclusief Brussels voorgesteld. Dat zijn ze allerminst". Historicus Anton Jäger scherp in De Morgen. www.demorgen.be/meningen/een...
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Een herfederalisering is zeker een democratisch schandaal voor een stad die haar eigen vertegenwoordigers kiest
Anton Jäger is historicus van het politieke denken en doceert aan de universiteit van Oxford. Zijn column verschijnt tweewekelijks.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Laat nog maar eens zien hoe belangrijk de strijd om concepten is in het publieke debat rond migratie. Deze strijd wordt voorlopig nogal eenzijdig gevoerd.
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Thomas Willekens @thomaswillekens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Doen alsof België geconfronteerd wordt met een ontzettend hoog aantal asielaanvragen uit Moldavië en dat 'asieltoerisme' bestempelen is toch wel écht van een mug een olifant maken. Toch straf dat bijna niemand zich daar kritische vragen bij lijkt te stellen.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So last week in a conference paper I (rather arrogantly) came up with a definition for "historical bullshit", building on Frankfurt and good work on LLMs so far. I explained why I think that's all an AI piece of "history content" can ever be {bullshit}. Here you can find the full text of my talk:
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This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week.
I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I…
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔍Did you know that in 1559 people in Antwerp placed bets on the next pope? CSG-member Jeroen Puttevils wrote a blogpost on it. Go check it out! www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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| Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp
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Thomas Willekens @thomaswillekens.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Vandaag publiceert @amnesty.org hun rapport 'Unhoused and unheard – How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights'. Het is vrij ongezien dat Amnesty een rapport uitbrengt over een EU-lidstaat. www.amnesty.org/en/documents... 1/2
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Belgium: Unhoused and unheard - How Belgium's persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers' rights - Amnesty International
Since October 2021, Belgian authorities have failed to provide adequate reception and protect the human rights of thousands of asylum seekers, including access to healthcare and hygiene facilities to ...
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🌐 From March 26-29, the 15th European Social Science History Conference took place in Leiden, with over 1,500 speakers—including many CSG members! Special shoutout to Jasper Segerink, whose paper earned an honorary mention for the Leslie Page Moch prize! Congrats to Jasper and all CSG speakers! 👏
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Very honoured to have received an honourable mention for the Leslie Page Moch-prize. Her work has inspired me since the start of my PhD so this is is really cool 😁 And congrats to Çiğdem for receiving the award with an excellent paper! 👏
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
👏👏 Waarom zouden we migranten laten werken, als we dit ook gewoon door kinderen kunnen laten doen, en daarmee hun hele schoolcarrière op de helling zetten?
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Als de wereld versnelt, moet het denken vertragen". David Van Reybrouck over klimaat, defensie, en de nood aan planetaire en vérdenkende discussies om onze wereld draagbaar te houden voor onze aarde. Rol van historici is hier noodzakelijk...👇
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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Creating a financial crisis in universities gives leverage to those who want to ensure that universities serve power, rather than critique it"
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢Publication horn: happy to see my new article '"The police in every hotel"? Hospitality governance in Antwerp during the long nineteenth century', is now published online in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social. 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0261... A short🧵 on its findings (1/5) Thoughts welcome!
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In de weekendbijlage van @gazetvanantwerpen.bsky.social verscheen een stuk over mijn doctoraatsonderzoek. De stad is vandaag enkel wat ze is omdat zoveel Antwerpenaren in de 19de eeuw hun deur openstelden voor arbeidsmigranten. Met drie in één bed, of met 10 op één kamer, was geen uitzondering.
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Met drie in één bed, met tien op één kamer: hoe reizigers en arbeidsmigranten logeerden in het 19de-eeuwse Antwerpen
Ruim twee jaar nadat cast en crew van de misdaadserie ‘Juliet’ aan onze Belgische kust filmden, zijn de opnames van nieuwe afleveringen aangevat in De Haan.
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Epidemics hit harder for those already struggling. New article by colleague @stefespeel.bsky.social maps the impact of medieval plagues on household budgets. Very interesting🧵 below 👇
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Urban historians don't just work in the past. At a fundamental level, they are inspired by contemporary developments, regardless of whether parallels between past and present are fitting or not. Excellent blog by @historywill.bsky.social 👇
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wanneer de staat zijn geheugen verliest. Een belangrijke noodkreet van de Belgische departementen geschiedenis en de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis over de desastreuze gevolgen voor de onderfinanciering van het Rijksarchief.
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Archives : quand l’Etat perd la mémoire
Les départements belges d’histoire et la Commission royale d’Histoire expriment leur profonde inquiétude quant à l’avenir des Archives de l’Etat. Cette institution scientifique fédérale, pilier essent...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I DID A THING/K! #PhDone
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Von Duitschland nach Amerika und zurück". @lordoftheringsfp.bsky.social-fans, the original "There and back back again" was not written by Tolkien, but by Reinhold Libau. His diary describes his journey from a village near Leipzig to America in 1887. A🧵 on transit-migration and cities in history 👇
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨Publication alert! In the latest issue of Urban History, CSG-members @jsegerink.bsky.social and Kristof Loockx explore lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in Antwerp’s harbour district in the late 19th century. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Binnenkort de verdediging van mijn doctoraat: "Het Logementshuis en de Stad", over migratie en verstedelijking in 19de-eeuws Antwerpen. Van harte welkom! 👇
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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📢CSG member @jsegerink.bsky.social gladly invites you to the public defence of his doctoral dissertation, "The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914." 🗓️ 14/02, 15:00 📍 Auditorium FelixArchief (Oude Leeuwenrui 29)
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