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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Try approaching the intersection of
Highway 8 and I-95 at 5:00 PM on Friday. Talk about gridlock. Sheesh!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>tbertruss@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 04, 2005 3:49
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
auntiestablishment@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, growth, and MHS
(was School Levy)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Joan et. <span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Joan wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> >></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Traffic congestion? That's
when you're the fourth car in line at the <span class=correction><span id="">stoplight</span></span>
on Third and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:City>.
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Joan, sometimes with your style of humor it is hard to tell
if you are joking or not. But perhaps you have not been driving in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> at rush hour
lately. <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> has developed traffic jams
far more than just being the fourth car in line at Third and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:City>. You are joking, it must
be. Because at various tight flow points for traffic in Moscow you can be
backed up ten to twenty cars and sit through sever<span class=correction><span
id="">al</span></span> cycles of red green red green light changes. Of
course this is small time compared to a complete stop on a 6 lane freeway in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span class=correction><span id="">Los</span></span>
<span class=correction><span id="">Angeles</span></st1:City></st1:place><span
class=correction>. B</span></span>ut I would rather stop the development
of traffic jams getting any worse here than just going along with such
developments because it is not as bad as LA. I don't even want to use
major urban areas as a reference point. The way major urban areas of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> h! ave
developed should never have happened in the first place.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ted <span class=correction><span id="">Moffett</span></span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <br>
-----Origin<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> Message-----<br>
From: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Joan <span class=correction><span id="">Opyr</span></span></st1:PersonName>
<auntiestablishment@hotmail.com><br>
To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
Sent: Sun, 3 <span class=correction><span id="">Apr</span></span> 2005 01:04:13
-0800<br>
Subject: [Vision2020] <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>,
growth, and <span class=correction><span id="">MHS</span></span> (was School Levy)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My friend Ted writes:</span></font><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"The <span class=correction><span
id="">Palouse</span></span> is beautiful and peaceful. Crime is limited,
the air is clean (well, now in Moscow there is more and more of a
"choke" factor with all the vehicle exhaust), there are numerous appe<span
class=correction><span id="">al</span></span>ing outdoor recreation opportun<span
class=correction><span id="">it</span></span>ies within <span class=correction><span
id="">a </span></span>days drive<span class=correction><span id="">, </span></span>and
property can be bought in <span class=correction><span id="">Latah</span></span>
County for prices that are attractive. There are two major universities
adding a cultural and entertainment mix to a rural agricultural/forest
resources economy that is a draw to people who want the country life and still
have some big city culture. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spokane</st1:place></st1:City>
is close enough, and the roads good enough, to make a one day shopping trip
complete with dinner and a film. I'm n! ot saying we are about to become
another Denver, but it seems apparent that there are enough positive variables
to attract enough people to the Moscow area that growth could seriously
negatively impact the small town rural life that Moscow represents, or did
represent"</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Now, Ted, you know that I haven't
been body-snatched. What self-respecting alien would pick me when it
could have Jennifer Lopez? I'll bet she's been body-snatched at
least half a dozen times. That would explain her string of
3-month marriages. No human being could possibly be that fickle.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>About <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>
becoming a bedroom community of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spokane</st1:place></st1:City>
-- could I just say politely and respectfully that I very much doubt it?
I drive the road to Spokane often enough to know that it's 1) no great
shakes in the winter time, and 2) that I average at least three near-death
experiences per trip. Highway drivers between <st1:City w:st="on">Pullman</st1:City>
and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spokane</st1:place></st1:City> love
to pass on blind curves, up hills, and across the double yellow lines.
Between the 18-wheelers, the suicid<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> maniacs, the
Shameless Speed Trap that masquerades as the City of <st1:City w:st="on"><span
class=correction><span id="">Colfax</span></span></st1:City>, and farmers
transporting heavy equipment, I don't see how anyone could consider
the 160 miles from <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> to <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spokane</st1:place></st1:City> and back
a reasonable daily commute. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>[And don't tell me that drivers can
go the back way through <span class=correction><span id="">Palouse</span></span>;
the state of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> dismantled
that road sometime last spring and it seems to have no intention
whatsoever of rebuilding it. Highway 12 is nothing but rocks and
mud from the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>
border to the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span
class=correction><span id="">Ringo</span></span> Road</st1:address></st1:Street>.
Perhaps Palouse has been taken over by your Jennifer Lopez body-snatching
aliens, and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
is conducting an experiment to see how long they can live on only creek
water and wheat tailings?] </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As for reasonably priced property in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span class=correction><span id="">Latah</span></span></st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, where are you
finding this magic<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> acreage,
Ted? Because I want some. I happen to have on my desk both the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><span class=correction><span id="">Latah</span></span></st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> "Parade of Homes" and
a Re<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> Estate guide for <st1:City
w:st="on">Wilmington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NC</st1:State>, a popular
seaside city with a strong economy and a population sever<span
class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> times larger than <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class=correction><span id="">Moscow</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
class=correction>'s</span></span>. Care to guess where it's cheaper to
live? Or who has better weather? And really great
seafood? </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I am not dismissing the
attractions of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
class=correction><span id="">Latah</span></span></st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>; far from it. There's a
reason I live here and not in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilmington</st1:place></st1:City>, but our
booming economy is not one of them. And I'm still waiting for
that massive influx of <span class=correction><span id="">billionaire</span></span> Californians
that native <span class=correction><span id="">Muscovites</span></span> have
been warning me about since I moved here in 1993. Where the
devil are they? And why aren't they spending their money here in
town? Do they get all of their clothes from a catalog and have
their food shipped in from <span class=correction><span id="">Fortnum</span></span>
and Mason? The inconsiderate (and invisible) bastards. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Unless glob<span class=correction><span
id="">al</span></span> warming continues to give us winters like the one we
just had, I don't see <span class=correction><span id="">Latah</span></span>
County suffering the kind of population growth that has plagued little
backwater towns in Georgia, Florida, Texas, and
Arkansas. Eric <span class=correction><span id="">Estrada</span></span>
is not on his way here to film one of those commercials touting the joys of our
sunny golf courses and cheap tract housing. And a good thing, too,
because we none of us want that -- that sort of growth would
be horrible. But unless our winters become
perpetually mild and our community's economic engine starts running on
more than two cylinders, Eric <span class=correction><span id="">Estrada</span></span>
will confine his tan and his teeth to those small Southern he!
ll-holes that are so popular with retiring <span class=correction><span
id="">snowbirds</span></span>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
has the university, and it has agriculture. That's not
enough to make us the next <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Denver</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State></st1:place>. That's not enough
make us the next Lizard Lick, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Traffic congestion? That's
when you're the fourth car in line at the <span class=correction><span id="">stoplight</span></span>
on Third and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:City>.
Urban sprawl? How about rur<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span>
sprawl? We haven't yet gotten to urban. I hate to see us conjuring
up difficulties for ourselves. We have re<span class=correction><span
id="">al</span></span> problems with water. We have re<span
class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> problems with a state
legislature that chronically under-funds our university. We
need a more diverse and a more resilient economy. You mentioned <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> prospering just
fine in 1965 with a population of only 13,000, Ted. In 1965, <st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> was the hub of higher education for the
entire state of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>. Forty
years ago, who went to <span class=correction><span id="">BSU</span></span> or <S! PAN class=correction id="">ISU if
they could get into the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, the state's
flagship institution? </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Once upon a time, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">High School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
produced the best graduates in the state. <span class=correction><span
id="">Melynda</span></span> tells me that in 1981, a quarte<span
class=correction><span id="">r </span></span>of her graduating class went
on to universities like Yale, <st1:place w:st="on">Princeton</st1:place>, Stanford
and several of the larger land grant universities. Many more went on
to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, which
justifiably prided itself on the number of Rhodes scholars it produced. The
primary reason I intend to support the faciliti<span class=correction><span
id="">es</span></span> levy is because I think one of the strongest values
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> holds
as a community is the near-universal belief in the efficacy of a good
public education. I underst! and that you can be both
pro-public education and still oppose the upcoming levy, but we've gotten
seventy good years out of the current high school building, and, in a changing
world, what was <span class=correction><span id="">go</span></span>od
enough in 1965 isn't cutting the mustard today. I want my kids to
have decent science labs, a real music room, and a safe and adequate
gymnasium. I want them to have the same or better opportunities as
students at <span class=correction><span id="">MHS</span></span> that <span
class=correction><span id="">Melynda</span></span> had, or that you had,
or that their grandmother, the former Rosemary Amos, Class of 1963,
had. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If I thought they could get that in
the current <span class=correction><span id="">MHS</span></span> building, I'd
say damn the levy. I'd say new high school my Aunt Fanny.
But <span class=correction><span id="">MHS</span></span> is not the
facility in 2005 that it was in 1965. Forty years have passed, and
you can't expect an IBM <span class=correction><span id="">Selectric</span></span>
to do the work of an IBM <span class=correction><span id="">Thinkpad</span></span>.
Change is upon us, whether we like it or not, and we can either stand up and
greet it, or we can turn our backs and let it beat us about the head and
shoulders. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The facilities question is
open for discussion until April 26th. After that, we'll either
be screwed or renewed. I'm not ashamed to hope for the latter.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Joan
<span class=correction><span id="">Opyr</span></span></span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>/Auntie
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=correction><font size=2 face=Arial
FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span id=""><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>PS</span></span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: Donovan mentioned in an
earlier post that the high school was perfectly adequate when he attended
13 years ago. One of my favorite pictures of <span class=correction><span
id="">Melynda</span></span> is of her marching downtown to protest the
inadequate facilities at <span class=correction><span id="">MHS</span></span> .
. . in 1981. One of the things we need to acknowledge in our
discussion (argument?) over the future of <span class=correction><span
id="">MHS</span></span> is the role played by the emotion<span
class=correction><span id="">al</span></span> attachment of its
graduates to the physic<span class=correction><span id="">al</span></span>
space that the high school now occupies. Melynda was marching
to protest the facilities in 1981, but it makes her sick to think of the school
moving out of downtown and "way out" onto the Trail property.&n!
bsp; </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF PTSIZE=10><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Who says liberals march in
lock-step? We can't achieve agreement in this house much less in
this town about what needs to be done regarding <span class=correction><span
id="">MHS</span></span>. The only thing that we agree upon is that current
facility cannot offer our kids what they need, but it may well be the case that
when we go to the polls on April 26th, <span class=correction><span id="">Melynda</span></span>
and I will cancel out one another's vote. In our 13 years together, that
will be a first. </span></font><font
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