Mercer A. Redcross III (bottom row 2nd from left) co-founder of October Gallery
featured inside cover of 2012 Cheyney Magazine.
175 Years of Cheyney University – Mercer A. Redecross III Alumnus
Memorable African American Olympic Moments
Muhammad Ali Lights The Torch (1996)
Legendary Muhammad Ali’s boxing career took off at the 1960 Games which made him the perfect choice to help us celebrate the 1996 Games by lighting the Olympic flame in Atlanta. Ali’s regal presence despite his battle with Parkinson’s disease shows he will always be a prized fighter.
Memorable African American Olympic Moments
Tommie Smith And John Carlos Show Off Their Black Pride (1968)
During the 1968 Games Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race and fellow U.S. runner John Carlos took third place. On the winner’s podium the two held up a fist to represent their black pride. This image became one of the most well known political statements in Olympic history.
Artful Nudes by Howard Schatz
The Amazing Art of Howard Schatz – The Body Nude
Howard Schatz is an American ophthalmologist and photographer. After an academic career as a retina specialist, primarily in the San Francisco area, he turned his photography hobby into a successful second career.
Artful Film, African American Art – October Gallery
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“Looking Is Harder Than It Looks”
The South in Black and White: Photographs by Baldwin Lee
Picture this: An Asian-American man from New York city is walking through African-American communities in the deep South. He’s carrying an antique-looking wooden camera and a tripod and asking people if he can take their pictures. Most times they feel comfortable enough to say yes, because as Baldwin Lee notes in his memoir, he’s a minority within a minority.
“I routinely seek out the local police station when I arrive in a new place. I announce that I am a tourist interested in taking photographs and have very expensive camera equipment. The officers will usually produce a map and redline areas to be avoided, almost always neighborhoods where there is a concentration of blacks. The redlined areas are where I go to make photographs.”
Contemplate this: Lee considers Walker Evans the greatest American documentary photographer in history, and is fortunate to have studied under him while in college. In large part, Lee is literally traveling in Evans’ footsteps. Evans took landmark portraits of people struggling through the Great Depression, and those pictures remain riveting and vibrant to this day.
“Looking is harder than it looks because looking is not innocent. Eye contact may cause a feeling of awkwardness, staring can be offensive, and the taking of a picture is potentially abusive. Eye contact is fleeting, staring is short-lived, but a photograph’s unblinking gaze lasts forever. A photograph preserves a moment. But this is not always the same as what the memory preserves. The record made by the camera is as unprejudiced as it is precise.”
Appreciate this: Chrysler Museum Director William Hennessey is personally curating this exhibition and is a big admirer of Lee’s work.
“Lee creates works of great formal beauty and subtlety that reveal a deep feeling for his subjects and their life stories. Lee has a remarkable ability to discover in unlikely places people of great presence and spirit.”
This exhibition opens Feb. 8, 2012, in the Frank Photography Galleries and runs through Aug. 26, 2012. Mr. Lee will be visiting the Chrysler Museum for a full days worth of events on Saturday, May. 5.
Diocese has rare African-American artifacts
By EMILY MORROW
emily.morrow@staugustine.com
Click here to see a slideshow of the visit
The owners of one of the most extensive collections of African-American culture in the United States got to view Monday a piece of history few have ever seen.
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, owners of the Kinsey Collection, and their son, Khalil, toured the archives of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine at the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent where they were shown the oldest Catholic documents in the continental U.S.
Among the documents they looked at were a marriage registration from 1594 and an African-American baptism record from 1606.
The Kinsey Collection is coming to St. Augustine from Jan. 20, 2014, through July 15, 2014, for the city’s 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. It will be housed in the new exhibition space at the Visitor’s Information Center as part of the city’s three-year celebration for St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary, that will begin in 2013.
The collection includes sculptures, paintings, documents, manuscripts and photographs related to African-American history from the 1600s to present. It is one of the largest private collections tracing African-American history.
Dana Ste. Claire, director of the 450th commemoration, said he is hopeful the historic documents from the convent will be included in the civil rights exhibit. The Catholic Diocese is looking into the possibility of working with the city and the Kinseys on this exhibit.
“This was really special because even though I’ve referenced these documents at least 200 times or so, I’ve never actually seen them,” Ste. Claire said.
Sister Catherine Bitzer, the diocesan archivist, led the tour, pulling off boxes and books with labels like “Baptisms White 1784” and “Baptisms Colored 1784.”
“Africans have been a part of our history from the day Menendez landed,” Ste. Claire said. “We’re trying to bring in some local context [to the exhibit] with these documents as well as artifacts from Fort Mose.”
The Kinseys live in Los Angeles, but both are native Floridians. Bernard Kinsey is from West Palm Beach and Shirley Pooler Kinsey is from St. Augustine. They both attended Florida A&M University and met during a civil rights demonstration.
Bernard Kinsey worked as an executive for Xerox for about 20 years. After his retirement, he was selected to be the chief operating officer of Rebuild Los Angeles — a movement to rebuild the city after the L.A. riots. He has worked as an international business consultant with countries including the Central African Republic, China, South Africa, Germany, England and France.
But it is Shirley Kinsey’s ties to the city — the place she grew up, went to school and witnessed civil rights events — that helped the city land the exhibit.
“We’re trying to tell the story,” said Bernard Kinsey, “the full story.”
Like the Kinseys, Ste. Claire is hopeful that this exhibit will help set the record straight on the history of St. Augustine, as well as the involvement of African-Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics in the building of America.
“This is where America began. It didn’t begin at Jamestown or at Plymouth,” he said. “This was the genesis of the American melting pot.”
Katherine Jackson Safe With Family Member In Arizona
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY 07/23/12 12:05 AM ET 
LOS ANGELES — Katherine Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson and guardian of his three children, is safe and with a family member in Arizona, authorities said late Sunday, one day after another relative reported her missing.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Pope said investigators made contact with Jackson, but he did not have specifics on her whereabouts. The agency previously said they believed she was with a relative and safe, but wanted to speak with her.
Katherine Jackson is with her daughter Rebbie in Arizona, following a doctor’s orders to “de-stress” and stay away from the phone and computers, her son Jermaine Jackson said in a statement late Sunday. He said access to his mother is not being blocked.
A member of the Jackson family had reported the family matriarch missing on Saturday, prompting a frantic plea from the late pop star’s only daughter to help locate her grandmother.
“I haven’t spoken with her in a week I want her home now,” 14-year-old Paris Jackson tweeted, later providing a number for people to contact in case they see her grandmother. Katherine Jackson has been caring for Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket Jackson since their father’s death in June 2009.
It was unclear who is taking care of the children in her absence.
The incident demonstrated divisions in the Jackson family just days after five of the singer’s siblings once again claimed that the King of Pop’s will was a fake and that the executors of his lucrative estate should step down.
The undated letter, signed by Janet, Randy, Tito, Rebbie and Jermaine Jackson, claimed Katherine Jackson was being manipulated by the executors, John Branca and John McClain, her health had been affected, and she suffered a mini-stroke.
The estate has denied the accusations, which have swirled since Michael Jackson died from an overdose of a powerful anesthetic. Katherine Jackson obtained permission from a judge to investigate the will’s validity, but never pursued the matter in court.
“It dismays me that such an alarmist `missing person’ report has caused unnecessary anxiety among Michael’s children who will understandably react to what they misunderstand, hear or are told,” Jermaine Jackson wrote.
The mystery of Katherine Jackson’s whereabouts was compounded by a visit from her son’s former physician, Dr. Allan Metzger, who examined her July 14 after being brought to her Calabasas home by someone close to the family, said her attorney, Sandy Ribera.
She had been scheduled to depart on an RV trip to the Southwest to watch her sons perform. The elder Jackson never made any of the shows and Metzger apparently told her not to take the trip, Ribera said.
Metzger is not Katherine Jackson’s primary physician and her regular doctor wasn’t aware the his house call until concerns about Katherine Jackson’s whereabouts were raised, Ribera said.
A phone message left for Metzger at his Beverly Hills practice was not immediately returned Sunday.
Metzger treated Michael Jackson earlier in his career and met with the singer once in the months before he died. Defense attorneys for the physician convicted of killing the pop superstar called him as a witness to try to show the singer was attempting to obtain a powerful anesthetic for home use.
Despite being a defense witness, Metzger aided prosecutors by telling jurors that he refused Jackson’s request and warned him of the risks.
Paris Jackson referenced Metzger’s visit in a tweet early Sunday, writing, “the same doctor that testified on behalf of dr murray saying my father was a drug addict (a lie) is caring for my grandmother… just saying.”
Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for causing Jackson’s death at age 50.
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AP Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York contributed to this report.
Roberto Parada’s Magazine Illustrations: Homer Simpson, Kobe Bryant, And More, Manipulated To Make A Point (PHOTOS)
Mallika Rao
mallika.rao@huffingtonpost.com
Roberto Parada is a contradiction in terms. A freelance magazine illustrator with clients of various political stripes and subscription numbers (from GQ to The National Review to Associations Now, “the premiere magazine for association executives”), and graduate of Pratt Institute, Parada is that rare thing: a well-known unknown artist. It’s likely you’ve thumbed through Paradas in the doctor’s office, or pulled them out of your mailbox, though you may not have known that’s what they were. One of the distinguishing characteristics is that they’re tricks: Parada and his kind are hired if a point is to be made. Want to illustrate the liberation of modern Christians from the church? Have Parada paint Jesus stepping off the cross.
Parada’s career, which began in the nineties, has seen the advent of the Internet and the end of the time when you dropped an actual painting off at a magazine’s office. These days, he photographs his work and emails it in, all of it painted in non-toxic oil (yellows and reds aren’t as rich without the heavy metal cadmium base, but after surviving a serious illness that seems linked to paint thinner, Parada changed his materials).
The one work he reckons will define him among circles in the know — his Campbell Soup of sorts — is a portrait he made to accompany a 1999 Esquire article, “The Gospel According To Homer Simpson,” arguing that cartoons on TV were confronting real family dynamics better than live action shows.
Esquire requested a “realistic version of Homer,” a concept meant to illustrate the televisual crossover. First Parada tried to paint a human face that looked like Homer’s. But he quickly realized he was missing the sense of a cartoon come to life. “It was basically just a face,” he told The Huffington Post. He turned to the late American painter Andrew Wyeth for inspiration, a naturalist whose feel for light and texture is evident in his famous painting “Christina’s World,” of an away-facing girl in a field that appears, from the look of the girl’s hair, to be beset by wind. As Parada explained it, Wyeth’s “very thin strokes” were the ticket to morphing cartoon Homer into real Homer.
“I tried to make it three dimensional, with razor stubble and a little more shadowing, and a kind of intimidating pose. The influence of Wyeth — those thin tempra layers — create textures like beard stubble and give that angle of light and shadow. ”
Like all good works of art, Parada’s Homer has a kooky true story attached to it. Homer gets more emails than any other of his works, from people inquiring about buying it to fans requesting a spinoff series, but in 2005, Parada got one that threw him: written by the notoriously shy and gifted director Charlie Kauffman. Kauffman, who Parada calls “a very nice man,” wrote saying how much he loved real Homer. Then, presumably, he emailed others. Many others. “I don’t know if it was just him. Maybe he emailed it to some friends,” Parada told us. “The next thing I know there were so many hits on the painting that it shut my website down.”
We’ve compiled a look at Parada’s prolific, hidden from sight career, from the Homer that slayed Kauffman to the famous shot of John F. Kennedy and John Jr. in the Oval Office, remixed to star George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The images reflect the reason Parada, and the many illustrators like him, get hired for the job instead of a photographer — in each, a concept is conveyed, whether it’s Homer’s realness, or Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce as modern-day Larry Bird/Magic Johnson rivals (concepts that would cost much more for the magazine if a photographer were to take a crack). Take a look below, and let us know which of the paintings you think convey their meaning best.
‘Jeffersons’ star Sherman Hemsley dies at 74
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:27 PM EDT, Tue July 24, 2012(CNN) — Sherman Hemsley, who played the brash George Jefferson on “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” died Tuesday at age 74, his booking agent said.
Hemsley played Jefferson, a wisecracking owner of a dry cleaning business, on “All In the Family” from 1973 until 1975, when the spinoff “The Jeffersons” began an 11-season run on CBS.
CNN affiliate KVIA reported he died in El Paso, Texas, where he had lived for several years.
For the first few years on “All in the Family,” George Jefferson was not seen, only referred to by his wife, Louise, played by the late Isabel Sanford.
He told Archive of American Television in 2003 that he was told by the show’s producers that Jefferson should be “pompous and feisty.”
Jefferson was every bit as big as bigot as his neighbor, Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O’Connor. Jefferson often referred to white people as “honkies.”
He was also mean and condescending to his neighbors, his son Lionel and, when he moved to a ritzy apartment on the east side of Manhattan, to his maid. But his character was still wildly popular with TV audiences.
So long, Sherman; thanks for the laughs
“By me loving Louise and Archie loving (his wife) Edith, you got away with being goofy and stupid,” he said in 2003. “Because people said at least he loved something.”
It made Jefferson human, he said.
One of his former co-stars said she was shocked to hear he had died.
“I thought Sherman was doing very well,” said Marla Gibb, who played the feisty maid Florence Johnston on the “The Jeffersons.” “I am saddened to hear that Sherman has made his transition. We were trying to come up with a new show that we could participate in, but of course, that cannot happen now.
“Sherman was one of the most generous co-stars I have ever worked with. He happily set me up so that I could slam him, and I did the same for him. I shall miss him deeply.”
Hemsley said he drew on his experiences as a young man to develop Jefferson’s celebrated strut, which he did during filming as a joke.
“The way we walked in South Philly, you think you bad,” he said. “You gotta be important.
“We had done about seven or eight takes (on the ‘Jeffersons’ set) … and then we started clowning around,” he said of the walk. “That’s the one they kept.”
Hemsley also played Deacon Ernest Frye in the sitcom “Amen.”
“With the passing of Sherman Hemsley, the world loses one of its most unique comedic talents, and a lovely man,” Norman Lear, the creator of “All in the Family,” — said in a statement.
In 2001, Lear told Larry King that he discovered Hemsley doing the Broadway play “Purlie.”
EW: A tribute to George Jefferson
He remembered him “singing and dancing, and (Hemsley) was one of the most unique actors on the stage.”
In 1990, he released an album, “Ain’t That A Kick in the Head,” and two years later another, entitled “Dance.”
“I had the pleasure of working with him on ‘House of Payne,'” said producer and director Tyler Perry. “He brought laughter and joy to millions. My childhood would have been a lot sadder without him. Thanks for the joy, thanks for your talent and thanks for your life. I celebrate it in all of its beauty. God bless you, Mr. Hemsley.”
Hemsley was nominated for an Emmy in 1985, but lost to Bill Cosby.
Mariah Carey Joins ‘American Idol’ As New Judge
By LYNN ELBER 07/23/12 10:36 PM ET
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Mariah Carey will join “American Idol” as a judge next season, Fox announced Monday, bringing her star power to the show that remains a ratings leader but has seen its viewership and pop culture status diminish.
“I am so excited to be joining `Idol,'” said Carey, addressing the Television Critics Association via Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly’s cellphone, which he put on speakerphone for the hotel ballroom meeting.
She couldn’t be on hand with the group because “this kind of all just happened really quickly,” Carey said in her brief remarks. “I can’t wait to get started in the fall … and I will see you in January.”
The show, which saw judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez exit at the end of last season, will be back on the air for season 12 in January.
Reilly called Carey “the biggest recording artist that any of these (talent) shows has ever had,” adding that she was the “artist that many of these contestants have tried to emulate, have tried some of the songs, have tried to hit the notes.”
Playing the drama up, Reilly placed a call to Carey and put her on speaker.
“Hi, Mariah. How are you? It’s Kevin,” he said. “We do have a deal, don’t we? Yes!”
Reilly said he was “thrilled” to confirm reports that Carey was being courted by Fox and said the deal was freshly signed within the last few hours. The Grammy-winning pop star is receiving just shy of $18 million a year for a one-year contract with a renewal option, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The person, lacking authority to discuss the matter publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.
The exit of Tyler and Lopez left original judge Randy Jackson and started a guessing game about potential replacements, with Carey at the top of the list.
As one of music’s best-selling singers, she could provide the clout “American Idol” needs to compete in an increasingly crowded talent show field. Besides Fox sibling “The X Factor,” which recently added Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as judges, there’s NBC’s “The Voice,” which boasts Christina Aguilera among its big names.
“Not being the only game in town now, we need to keep things fresh,” Reilly said. The search is on for a third judge, and he promised another impressive pick. It could a star or someone like music executive and “Idol” mentor Jimmy Iovine, who wasn’t a household name when he joined, Reilly said. But, he added, after 12 seasons “we need to have something to talk about.”
“We have the biggest names in the business, like Mariah Carey, interested in doing this … so for the next couple of weeks it will be a matter of picking the right one, with the right chemistry, making the deal, and finalizing this,” he said.
Jackson’s value to the show was enhanced by Carey’s signing, although Fox has yet to say whether he’ll judge next season. Ryan Seacrest will be back as host.
“I can’t confirm and don’t want to talk about anyone” else on the show, Reilly said. But he added that Jackson “has been working with Mariah and is in fact her co-manager, and Randy was very instrumental in doing this deal.”
Simon Cowell, the former “American Idol” judge who adapted his U.K. hit “X Factor” for Fox, was asked about Carey’s new gig at a critics’ session later Monday.
“I’m happy for her, actually. I like Mariah. I think she’s going to find it difficult to say no. You’ve got to say no to people and she’s sweet,” he said, then quickly backtracked, adding, “No, I think she’ll be great.”
Cowell had reason to be diplomatic: Carey’s husband, Nick Cannon, is host of Cowell’s “America’s Got Talent” on NBC.
“American Idol” ended the 2011-12 season as the leading entertainment show and No. 2 overall, just behind NBC’s top-rated “Sunday Night Football.”
But the show aired its least-watched finale ever this season and the advertiser-favored young adult audience has been steadily shrinking. The show’s cachet hasn’t been helped by a run of champions who have failed to achieve the career sizzle of past competitors Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson.
Earlier Monday, veteran “Idol” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said there’s a slender possibility that Lopez might return. His reasoning: Since she told Seacrest she was 99 percent sure she was leaving, that means there’s a 1 percent chance she won’t, Lythgoe said.
He said he hoped that was the case, although Lythgoe also told the critics’ annual summer meeting that he thought the show should be freshened each season with new judges.
But Lopez’s representative confirmed again Monday that she’s leaving “American Idol.” She originally made the announcement July 13, a day after Tyler said he was leaving.
Reilly also disputed Lythgoe’s comment, saying, “it’s 100 percent that Jennifer won’t be back to the show.”
“We came to a mutual decision with Jennifer and Steven,” he said, calling it a “great experience with both of them. Creatively, we were all happy.”
But it was decided “it was the time for a change,” Reilly said.
Lythgoe said his own contract is under negotiation, declining to comment further. Reilly later called Lythgoe “the best producer in the business.”
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AP Television Writer Frazier Moore and AP Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor Nekesa Moody in New York contributed to this report.
Francia Raisa’s Wardrobe Malfunction At The Teen Choice Awards (PHOTOS)
Gusts of wind happen to the best of us.
23-year-old Francia Raisa, who stars on “The Secret Life Of The American Teenager,” was the latest starlet to face the peril of a gentle breeze at Sunday night’s Teen Choice Awards.
Raisa took to the red carpet in a trendy top knot and a short sleeveless pink dress to celebrate her show, which was up for Choice Summer TV Show, among other awards, when suddenly, a summer wind lifted her hemline to new heights.
To which we say: gurrrrrl, we’ve all been there. (Have you ever walked down a New York City street on a windy day in a wrap dress? We have.) Luckily, Raisa had some cute boy shorts on underneath, which helped her avoid a visible thong situation (ahem, Miranda Kerr) or a totally exposed rear view gaffe (Arta Dobroshi, anyone?). And, all we can say on behalf of Worst Wardrobe Malfunction of All Time-r Adrienne Bailon is: at least she was wearing something under her dress.
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Tamara Brady with James E. Holmes in Court
James E. Holmes, left, appears in Arapahoe County District Court, with defense attorney Tamara Brady, right, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Centennial, Colo. Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations stemming from a mass shooting on Friday, July 20, in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured dozens of others. (AP Photo/Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool)
Denver massacre suspect appears in court
By P. Solomon Banda, The Associated Press July 24, 2012 5:42 AM
AURORA, Colorado — Looking dazed and with bright orange hair, the man accused of killing 12 and wounding 58 in a shooting rampage in a Colorado theatre appeared Monday in court for the first time.
James Holmes, wide-eyed and unshaven, his head bobbing slightly, appeared not to speak during the brief hearing. He will be formally charged next Monday.
Authorities say the 24-year-old former graduate student is refusing to co-operate, and it could take months to learn what prompted one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
A prosecutor said her office is considering pursuing the death penalty. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers said a decision will be made in consultation with victims’ families.
Holmes has been held in solitary confinement since the shooting. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and he could face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations
Holmes began buying guns nearly two months before the shooting and recently bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.
During the attack, Holmes allegedly set off gas canisters and used a semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol to open fire, Oates said.
The semi-automatic assault rifle jammed during the attack, forcing the gunman to switch to another gun with less firepower, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch might have saved some lives.
Holmes’ apartment was filled with trip wires, explosive devices and unknown liquids, requiring police, FBI officials and bomb squad technicians to evacuate surrounding buildings while spending most of Saturday disabling the booby traps.
Investigators have said they found a Batman mask inside the apartment.
As authorities rushed to piece together Holmes’ background, the owner of a gun range told The Associated Press that Holmes applied to join the club last month but never became a member because of his behaviour and a “bizarre” message on his voice mail.
When Lead Valley Range owner Glenn Rotkovich called to invite Holmes to a mandatory orientation, he said he heard a message on Holmes’ voice mail that was “guttural, freakish at best.”
He told his staff to watch out for Holmes at the orientation and not to accept him into the club, Rotkovich said.
Officials at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus were looking into whether Holmes, a former doctoral student in neuroscience, used his position in a graduate program to collect hazardous materials.
Holmes’ reasons for quitting the doctoral program in June remained a mystery. He recently took an intense, three-part oral exam that marks the end of the first year. University officials would not say if he passed, citing privacy concerns.
Ritchie Duong, a friend who has known Holmes for more than a decade, told the Los Angeles Times that he last saw Holmes in December and he seemed fine.
Academics came easily to Holmes, Duong said. “I had one college class with him, and he didn’t even have to take notes or anything.”
The family’s pastor recalled a shy boy who was driven to succeed academically.
“He wasn’t an extrovert at all. If there was any conversation, it would be because I initiated it, not because he did,” said Jerald Borgie, who last spoke with Holmes about six years ago.
Sunday was a day for healing and remembrance in Aurora. Several thousand people attended a prayer vigil, and President Barack Obama visited with families of the victims.
Obama said he told the families that “all of America and much of the world is thinking about them.”
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