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• DU-area burglar sentenced • Student violinist • BrewGrass festival • Law commencement speaker • A cappella group • Handbag makers

A passion for change
Regan Linton was one of 18 speakers and performers at “TEDxDU: a Celebration of DUing” May 13 at DU’s Newman Center. The DU master’s candidate in social work, who has used a wheelchair since a 2002 car injured her spinal cord, is a member of Denver’s Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League. “In my life I sometimes feel disappointed that I don’t have enough time, energy or womanpower to dedicate to all of the amazing causes, passions and initiatives that exist out in the world,” Linton says. “But [this] event gave me a sense of peace, knowing that each of us can continue to focus our energies on what we do best because there are so many extraordinary people our there covering the other bases.” More than 900 people attended TEDxDU, an independently organized event licensed by TED, an organization that arranges for leading thinkers to share “ideas worth spreading.”

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DU-area burglar draws maximum 60-year sentence
Tarius Laquan Simes, dubbed the DU burglar for a series of brazen early-morning burglaries that targeted students and young people living near campus, was sentenced to 60 years in state prison May 6 in Denver District Court. “I have no doubt in my mind that if Mr. Simes hadn’t been caught, he’d still be out committing burglaries,” Judge Robert McGahey Jr. (JD ’74) said in passing sentence. “If I gave you any less time than I’m giving you, Mr. Simes, I would depreciate the seriousness and significance of what you did to the community and to these people.” The sentence was the maximum under a plea agreement with prosecutors in which Simes admitted to counts of first-degree burglary, aggravated burglary and second-degree burglary, foregoing trial for the dozen or so burglaries that investigators believed he committed over more than a year. Simes, 13 days short of his 34th birthday, could have received 40 years in exchange for his admissions, which was the amount his attorney, A. Kate Bouchee, requested. Bouchee maintained that Simes was driven to commit his crimes by the “impulsive pulls and tugs” of a bipolar disorder that went untreated. “Mr. Simes has been extremely remorseful of his actions,” Bouchee said, adding that he cooperated with police, admitted sole responsibility and never used a weapon. But Judge McGahey was having none of that, agreeing with prosecutor Rebekah Melnick (JD ’04) that Simes had stalked his victims, planned his crimes, and terrorized the DU community and the city as a whole because he felt “thrilled by it.” “You didn’t just steal laptops and jewelry and telephones and iPods,” McGahey said. “You stole safety, you stole comfort, you stole joy. Home means something to people in this country. It is a place of refuge, a place of safety. You ripped that away from these people. And you terrified them while you did it.” Simes, shackled and handcuffed throughout the proceedings, listened without apparent emotion to a litany of written statements that spoke of the ongoing trauma suffered by the victims of his burglaries, some of whom he had confronted in their beds.
—Richard Chapman

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Just peachy
Kaiser Permanente and DU are teaming up to offer a new Farm Fresh 2 Go program, where employees can sign up to have fresh, organic, regionally grown fruits and vegetables delivered to you on campus. It’s $15 for a small box, $25 for a large box, or $20 for a fruit-only box. You can place orders online on a week-by-week basis or sign up for an ongoing subscription. Contact Yong Sin Kim for more information at [email protected].

Communication students are getting Wiki
Wikipedia now has 24 new entries thanks to students taking courses in the University of Denver’s Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies. It was an assignment as part of Assistant Professor Christof Demont-Heinrich’s News Writing and Reporting class and Associate Professor Lynn Schofield Clark’s Innovation in Media and Communication class. “We want our students to be content creators rather than just content consumers,” Clark says. Clark realized when teaching a media history course that her students often cited Wikipedia as a reference. She wanted the students to understand that they also could be an information source. Chelsea Clement, a junior communications major from Michigan, chose to write about a ski area near her small town of Gobles. Clement says she was excited to complete the project, but nervous to have something so public go live. According to Alexa.com, which ranks Web sites in terms of usage, Wikipedia is the sixth most used site in the world. “I was surprised I could do it, and it was much simpler than I expected,” says Clement, who is in Demont-Heinrich’s class. Demont-Heinrich says this is just one more example of how the field of journalism is changing. “We have to revamp our classes to reflect the changing media environment,” Demont-Heinrich says. “It is increasingly and radically shifting to online journalism.”
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Pearl Street BrewGrass festival kicks off summertime twin bill
If 10 hours of guitar picking isn’t enough to leave you grinning, you’ve been out on the back porch way too long. Come noontime June 12, tie up Ol’ Blue, slap on that tattered Red Man cap and wander down to the 1200 block of South Pearl Street at Buchtel Boulevard. For five bucks, you can toetap, knee-slap and finger-pop to some of the best bluegrass tunes this side of West Virginia. Maybe even buy yourself a beer or two. It’s BrewGrass time, the annual transformation of South Pearl’s concrete and curbs into an eight-band gathering of down-home musical talent that will do their best to knock your socks off until well after the cows come home. Headlining the street festival is Great American Taxi, an offshoot of celebrated Boulder band Leftover Salmon that the group’s website calls “a swinging concoction of swampy blues, progressive bluegrass, funky New Orleans strut, Southern boogie, honky-tonk country, gospel and good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll.” Other bands on the bill include Fort Collinsbased Head for the Hills, the Jim Lauderdale Bluegrass Trio, Nation Beat, Hoots and Hellmouth, the Grant Gordy Quartet, Oakhurst and Loose Cannon. BrewGrass is sponsored by the Old South Pearl Association, which uses proceeds for various improvement projects. The festival site is about a block west of the Louisiana-Pearl RTD station. Show your validated light-rail ticket or RTD pass and get $1 off the $5 admission (kids under 12 are free). Since there’s no RTD garage at the site and parking in the neighborhood is limited, public transportation may be the best way of getting to the festival, says organizer Nicole Jarman. Also, since the street can get hot, patrons are asked to keep their pets at home, she says. Some shade tents will be available, but since 8,000 or more people are expected over the course of the day, it’s best to wear a hat and sunscreen. Chairs and blankets are welcome and plenty of food and retail booths will be available in addition to 11 craft brewers and wine and lemonade stands. About a month after BrewGrass, its summer twin will take center stage. Blues & Brews, an eight-band blues bash featuring headliner Janiva Magness, is scheduled for July 10 at the South Pearl Street location. >>www.oldsouthpearlstreet.com
—Richard Chapman

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Student given violin for use during school at Lamont
Royce Lassley calls it a gift from God. Lassley, a freshman violin performance major, had been playing an instrument given to him by a previous teacher. Then his teacher at Lamont, Yumi Hwang-Williams, told him the instrument was holding him back. A quality violin, Hwang-Williams explains, “has the right overtone, so students can learn to play in tune and produce and project a beautiful sound.” There was one problem. Lassley didn’t have the money to buy a quality violin. So, he started writing to violin makers in fall 2009. “I come from a not wealthy background,” Lassley explains. “We never had enough money to afford an instrument.” And then Charles Rufino, of Rufino Violins, stepped in. A violin maker since 1974, Rufino says he gets many requests for help from deserving people, but cannot help everyone. Yet, something about Lassley touched him. He called Hwang-Williams to hear her thoughts and was impressed that a prominent musician had such a connection with her student. He decided Lassley deserved a break and has loaned Lassley a violin indefinitely. Hwang-Williams says she can identify with Lassley. He was introduced to the violin in 6th grade but wasn’t able to play regularly until 8th grade. Hwang-Williams got a later start playing the violin as well, using an instrument provided by a public school in Philadelphia. She met Lassley in September 2008 as a resident instructor at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kan. When Lassley showed up a year later to audition for Lamont, she was impressed by the improvements he had made. The violin loan even includes servicing; Lassley will send the violin back to Rufino each year to make sure the instrument is in good condition. Lassley got his fingers on the instrument during an April 23 presentation at DU’s Hamilton Recital Hall. Joe Docksey, director of DU’s Lamont School of Music, also took the opportunity to trumpet Rufino’s kindness. “[Rufino] is a wonderful person and [violin] maker,” Docksey said.
—Kristal Griffith

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Overcoming obstacles
Law grad shares lessons from personal tragedy

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t’s been less than four years since Frank Bingham experienced the tragedy of a lifetime, losing his entire family in one senseless moment when a drunk driver sped through the streets of Denver, running down Bingham’s wife and two children. In those years, Bingham could have given up, succumbed to the shock and grief, but he didn’t. He persevered, leaned on friends when he needed to, took comfort from the words of strangers and found a way to get out of bed each morning. Bingham, 44, who already held a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wyoming, a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado and a PhD in education from the University of Denver, began pursuing a law degree at DU part time in August 2006. In November of that year, he was in downtown Denver with his wife, Becca, and their two children, Macie, 4, and Garrison, 2. A drunk driver, Lawrence Trujillo, ran a red light at 15th and Arapahoe streets and struck the family. Bingham was injured, but his wife and children were killed. His classmates at the college of law rallied around him, sporting red string bracelets to show solidarity when Bingham returned to school the next semester. “It was terribly hard going back, less than two months after it happened. I know I was still somewhat in shock and in a daze,” says Bingham, who shared the lessons he learned along his grueling journey when he spoke to his fellow graduates at the Sturm College of Law Commencement ceremony on May 22. “In some ways, [law school was] what kind of kept me going and gave me something to do when I got up in the morning. There were times studying when focusing in on the professor was definitely a challenge. My attention span was pretty limited for a while. But I was inspired by other people who sought me out to share their thoughts or who had experienced similar types of tragedies and were able to pull their lives together and aspire to surprising heights.” Bingham says he isn’t sure what’s next for him, what kind of law he’ll practice, or if he’ll even practice law at all. He may return to his career in education, which he left to earn his degree. Prior to law school, Bingham had been a professor at the University of Colorado-Denver and an elementary school principal. In recent months, he has traveled extensively, tackling a variety of new endeavors from learning Spanish to learning how to kite surf. Bingham also has been working with the city of Denver to erect a large kinetic sculpture by Bob Pietruszewski in Skyline Park, near the crash site. He established the Frank Bingham Family Memorial Annual Scholarship Fund to help DU law students interested in practicing law with an eye toward protecting children and animals. But while he’s not sure of his future, he does know what he wants to share with his fellow students, many of whom were rocked by his family’s tragedy. He wrote down some thoughts as an introduction to those who didn’t know him when he was nominated to speak at Commencement. “Survival and recovery are now defining features of my personal story. In the 40 months since the accident, I have fought to regain my physical health, my emotional well-being, and to rebuild a life that will never be the same, but which I believe might encourage others,” he wrote. “I would like my story to inspire everyone who attends to reflect on the Graduate ceremony— interconnectedness of life and the vital importance of relationships with Friday, June 4, family, friends and community. I hope that the hideous crime that took my 4:30 p.m., Magness Arena beloved family will help others to recognize the frailty of life, the uncertainty of tomorrow, and the danger of misplaced priorities. Yet above all, I want to focus Undergraduate ceremony— on the resilient nature of the human spirit and confirm the fact that hope and Saturday, June 5, love can survive.”

Chase Squires

Commencement 2010

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Seeds of terror

Student exposes link between terrorism and drug trade
As Gretchen Peters gazed at a vast purple poppy field in Afghanistan, she realized she had uncovered a little-known facet of the United States’ understanding of terrorism. The poppies were processed into heroin and opium, and that heroin and opium was the major source of income for the Taliban and al Qaeda. The ties between drugs and terrorism fascinated Peters, a journalist and first year master’s student in DU’s Korbel School of International Studies. After researching the inner workings of terrorist groups, Peters published a book about her discoveries. Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda (Thomas Dunn, 2009) exposes the drug trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the financial backbone of those countries’ corrupt leadership. Peters shared her insights on the startling connection between drugs and organized crime with University of Denver reporter Elizabeth Fritzler.
How did you first learn of the connection between the drug trade and the Taliban? I guess you could say I started working on this during my first trip to Afghanistan in 1996, when I wrote an article for the Associated Press about how the Taliban cracked down against hashish smokers but encouraged and taxed the opium trade, since opium, they said, was sold to “infidels” in the West. After December 2001, when the Taliban was toppled from power, the huge narcotics industry, and the way in which it supported the Taliban, was virtually ignored by the U.S. government and the media. For me it was the bright shining lie of the Afghan war — the 13-ton gorilla in the room that no one wanted to discuss. How did the heroin trade become such an integral part of the Taliban’s funding? The Taliban is not a monolithic organization. There are many different factions of the insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and some appear to get most of their criminal earnings from extortion and protection rackets and abduction for ransom. They all portray themselves as holy warriors and depend on the alms of the local people for support, but I do not think donations play as big a role as our intelligence community insists. What are we doing to help reduce the impact of the drug trade in other countries? In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the U.S. is contributing billions of dollars to train and better equip police forces, to train judges and prosecutors and to help shift Afghan farmers off of poppy onto licit crops. I am not sure the extent to which the U.S. government funds public education programs about opium, but they are certainly prevalent. One sees billboards and advertisements warning about the dangers of addiction all around both countries. I think there needs to be more public education. That seems to be the most effective way in terms of cost to reduce the number of people using narcotics. Studies have shown that Afghans and Pakistanis respond to public messages that remind them that using narcotics is banned by the Koran, and that there is no cure for addiction. But education campaigns should be realistic and not resort to fear mongering and moralizing. In my opinion, that is going to backfire. Your book outlines a nine-point strategy for cutting drug money from terrorist groups. What’s the most vital part of that strategy? What’s most vital is to recognize that a blend of conditions and issues led Afghanistan down the path it is on today, and it will take a blend of interventions to get it on the right track. You can’t just do one or two points. There will have to be a broadbased and holistic effort. It will take time, probably about a decade of sustained effort, not at the current U.S. troop levels, but certainly a sustained level of intervention. I am concerned the American public thinks this is all going to be over in 18 months, and that just isn’t the case. Is there a link between the Taliban gaining power and the increasing presence of heroin around the globe? There is certainly a link between the Taliban’s gaining strength and the growing size of the opium industry in Afghanistan. But the drug trade globally is controlled by smuggling networks, and the Taliban, so far, just taxes and protects the trade inside Afghanistan and to a small extent Pakistan. There do seem to be exploding addiction rates in countries around Afghanistan: Pakistan, Iran, Russia and central Asian nations. Knowing that the drug trade and the Taliban are closely connected, what do you see for the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan? I try to have hope for both countries, which are both close to my heart. One thing I have learned from working there over more than 10 years is that it is very hard to predict what is coming down the pipeline. But I, for one, hope it is something better. The people of both nations deserve it.
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Campus Safety officer gets commendation from Denver police
Denver police presented commendations to DU Campus Safety Sgt. Steve Banet and three other citizens April 26 for extraordinary service in support of police. “To honor citizens who have supported what we do is a great honor,” said Chief Gerald Whitman at the award ceremony at police headquarters in downtown Denver. “The Denver police department would not be so successful without the support of the community, and this is a good example of that.” Banet’s commendation was for his “keen attention to duty” in preventing a convicted sex offender from attempting to enter the women’s locker room in the Ritchie Center. Banet’s recognition skills on the University’s surveillance system helped Denver police “get a very dangerous party off the street,” said Kris Kroncke, District 3 police commander. The individual, whom police identified as Ronald R. McClain, has a record “for sexual assault, robbery and theft from motor vehicles.” On March 25 he pleaded guilty to being a habitual criminal and assault on an at-risk adult and was sentenced to six years in prison. Banet is an eight-year Campus Safety officer with nearly four decades of investigative experience. Although he got thanks from the Denver Police, Banet says he was just doing his job.
—Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman

Former basketball player trades high tops for ballet slippers
The last time you may have seen Brooke Meyer (BSBA ’08), she was probably swishing baskets for the University of Denver’s women’s basketball team. The next time you see her, she’ll be on stage singing and dancing. The former Pioneer standout has traded in her high tops for ballet slippers. But before she hits the stage, she’s looking to raise $14,250 by June 15 to join Up with People, an organization in Denver that trains young people in the performing arts to do shows and community service around the globe. “This is really outside my comfort zone,” says Meyer, who ranks third in DU women’s basketball history with 160 three-pointers and 25th in all-time scoring with 803 points. As part of Up with People, Meyer will travel to cities in the United States, Mexico, Thailand and Japan with 100-plus other performers from around the world for six months and put in more than 200 hours of community service. So why’s she doing this? “I don’t want to be known just as an athlete. I’m hungry for more, and singing and dancing seemed like the next great challenge.” On the singing front, “I’m tone deaf and my co-workers [she’s working in University of California-Berkeley’s athletics department] just laugh at the thought of me singing.” But Meyer’s up to the challenge. In fact, she’s been overcoming challenges since birth. She was a premature baby weighing in at 2 pounds, 13 ounces and was just 16 inches long. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball. So she could drink, nurses put a water-dipped cotton swab in her mouth. And she has experience raising money. While a student, she raised hundreds for the March of Dimes to help other kids overcome tough starts. She says her background in basketball will help make the transition easier because performing for an audience is nothing new. However, other challenges are still there. “In dancing you need to be very fluid, on beat and in rhythm — three things that I played basketball without,” Meyer says. “Sure, I was often in a shooter’s rhythm, but I was also picking myself up off the floor after tripping over my own feet a lot. Dancing poses enough challenges with staying on my feet.” >>www.TravelingBrooke.com
—Doug McPherson
Rich Clarkson & Associates

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No instruments required
DU a cappella group lives in harmony
s a vocal performance major in DU’s Lamont School of Music, junior Paul Lannon is surrounded by music all day, every day. But his favorite people to sing with are his fellow members in the Idiosingcrasies, a campus a cappella group that includes music majors and non-music majors. “We do a lot of great things at Lamont, but out of all the things I do at this school, Idiosingcrasies is my favorite thing to be involved in,” he says, noting that the group is not affiliated with the music school. “This is what I look forward to every day.” Founded in 2005 by a group of singers who have since graduated, the Idiosingcrasies are DU’s longest-lasting — in recent memory, anyway — entry into the growing field of college a cappella. Making music with nothing but their voices, the group’s 15 members arrange their own versions of songs by hitmakers such as Guns N’ Roses, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson and more — the more familiar to audiences the better. “Why people get so excited and into it is that they recognize the songs,” Lannon says. “They see our take or our spin on the song. It’s the difference between a choir concert and an a cappella concert. Choir concert, everybody sits there, they hear you sing, they clap at the end. At an a cappella concert, you start singing and everybody starts screaming and clapping and jumping out of their seats.” The Idiosingcrasies have had audiences jumping out of their seats at shows on campus, at Denver-area bars and schools and at private parties. On May 8, the group held its spring concert in Davis Auditorium. In addition to previewing songs from its first album — due next fall — the group also will bid farewell to its two senior members, who graduate this month. “We will definitely be losing a big part of our history, but they’ll still be around and I know they’re going to come to our shows and support us,” says Lannon, the group’s vocal percussionist. “It’s cool seeing how we’re building an alumni base now.” The group also is helping to build an a cappella scene in Denver, working with all-vocal college groups from Boulder, Colorado Springs and elsewhere in Colorado to raise the art form’s visibility. “Yale has groups that have been on campus for 90 years,” says Idiosingcrasies member Nate Pearson, a junior accounting major. “The thing about the Rocky Mountain region and Colorado is that we don’t have that kind of history with a cappella. These groups are really brand new. Boulder has a huge number of a cappella groups, but they’re all seven or eight years old, similar to us. With the help of a lot of really devoted, motivated people, we’re really trying to create an a cappella culture in Colorado.” To that end, Idiosingcrasies members already have served as mentors to Exit 205, another DU a cappella group that started singing last year. “I would like to think that it was really our group that showed them and showed the other singers on campus that there is room at DU for a cappella groups and that this is a culture that can thrive,” Pearson says. Funded by the Undergraduate Student Government and entirely run by members, the Idiosingcrasies features singers from all over campus: majors in communications, business, HRTM and more. Unlike many of its a cappella contemporaries, the group is co-ed, which allows it greater flexibility, Lannon says. “It doesn’t limit us in any way,” he says. “We can do things that just a guys’ group can’t do because we have female voices — and the same thing about a female group with guys’ voices. It opens up our horizons as to what we can do musically, vocally, and even what songs and repertoire we can do. We have songs where guys and girls sing to each other and it sets up a whole story on stage. It definitely plays with the dynamics and it brings a lot to the group.” >>www.idiosingcrasies.com
—Greg Glasgow

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Magness Arena.

Chase Squires

4 Graduate Commencement. 4:30 p.m. 5 Undergraduate Commencement.
9:30 a.m. Magness Arena.

Arts
4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented
by the International Youth Ballet. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. Additional performances June 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. $21. summer camp. Byron Theatre. For ages six to 17. Sessions available from June 7–26 or June 28–July 17. www.RMCTonline.com Heart and Soul Concert. 7 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $30. Pre-College Academy. Through July 3. Constance Cook Glen, director. Contact [email protected].

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17 Colorado Vincentian Volunteers present 19 Third Annual Lamont Summer

Exhibits
1 2010 BFA Exhibition. Through June 5.
Myhren Gallery. Open noon – 4 p.m. daily. Free.

Alumna turns discarded handbags into haute couture
It started with a name, but it’s become a business. About 18 months ago University of Denver alumna Traci Tisserat (BA ’05) and friend and roommate Shawna Sambrano came up with the idea to start a business and call it “TraSh Bagz.” That was the easy part. The hard part was coming up with a business to match. Being artistic helped. So did being socially conscious and active. The germ of an idea grew into a business taking old, discarded handbags and using a variety of techniques and media to turn faded bags into works of art. It’s haute couture with a green twist, trash to treasures, handbags to handiwork. The creations are Cinderella stories in themselves — old, discarded bags collected from vintage clothing shops and closets across the region turned into glamorous pieces decked in sparkles and feathers and hot pinks and zebra stripes. The artists dabble in a multitude of media and mix their own dyes to create custom colors. “All of them are one of a kind,” says Tisserat, displaying a host of bags piled up in the swank Chrysalis Boutique in the New Streets of SouthGlenn in Centennial, south of Denver. “You’re never going to see someone with the same bag. You get one of our bags, you know it’s something special, and you’ve done something good for the environment by recycling a bag.” The work is certainly a labor of love at this point, as they both keep day jobs and serve on a variety of charity boards. Tisserat, 26, and Sambrano, 32, both toil as much as 20 hours a week, sometimes more, on the complexities of designing, creating and marketing their creations, which sell for about $40 to $200 each in boutiques, mobile “trunk shows,” private “purse parties” and online. The pair says they can do bridesmaids bags to complement weddings and even custom design pieces. >>www.trashbagz.com
—Chase Squires

For ticketing and other information, including a full listing of campus events, visit www.du.edu/calendar.

DID YOU KNOW?
Sixty-four DU graduate students participated in the Peace Corps’ Masters International and Fellows/USA programs this year, making DU the top participating school in the U.S. The programs drew 750 currently serving and returned Peace Corps volunteers to serve overseas and get graduate school credit for doing so. Masters International students spend one to two academic years on campus before receiving their overseas assignments and traveling to their host countries. Other schools with high numbers of participants included the University of Arizona (57), Johns Hopkins University (48) and Columbia University, Teacher’s College (36).
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