The newsletter of the Australian–American Fulbright Commission VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | OCT 2011 promoting educational and cultural exchange between Australia and the United States. the fulbrighter AUSTRALIA

photo: the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard MP with Dr Tangerine Holt, Executive Director, Fulbright Commission, Ms Lyndell Wilson, Manager Scholarships and Strategic Engagement, Natalie Collins, Program Officer and the Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Photo: Auspic, David Foote

Fulbright U.S. Scholars meet in Canberra

Meeting the Prime Minister of Australia, The Enrichment Program covered many the Hon. Julia Gillard; taking morning tea important aspects of living in Australia, with the U.S. Ambassador and Mrs Bleich; including visa information, Embassy and the Enrichment Dinner; and a tour of the Commission support and the Alumni inside Canberra Glassworks were highlights Association. of this year’s Enrichment Program for The proceedings commenced with Executive Director’s update 02 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. an introduction at the hotel followed Fulbright Alumni Scholars 02 Sixteen 2010 and 2011 Fulbright U.S. by morning tea at the Ambassador’s Fulbright Alumnus Ambassador to Scholars came together and met with residence at the U.S. Embassy, where Australia 03 Fulbright Commission staff, Alumni the Scholars met U.S. Ambassador and other contacts at the Enrichment Jeffrey and Mrs Bleich. Postcard from Baltimore 04 Program, which ran at the Brassey Hotel Managing water use in the in Canberra from 24-26 August. Continued page 3 energy sector 04 My name is Ross… 05 Philippa and the King 05 Story to come Scholar arrivals and departures since August 2011 06 2011 Senior Specialists 06 Fulbright remembers 06 2011 Fulbright Symposium 07 Public Lectures 07 2012 Fulbright Symposium 07 Membership Form 08 the fulbrighter | VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | OCT 2011

ED’s update Still to come

This year’s Alumni Scholarship winners Mr Matthew Hoffman, a recent graduate Fulbright Alumni are Australian Mr Gar-Wing Truong, who in Mechanical Engineering from the Scholars also won the Fulbright Postgraduate Georgia Institute of Technology in the Scholarship in Technology and United States, arrived in Australia at the Communications sponsored by Telstra, end of October. The Fulbright Postgraduate Alumni (WG and American Mr Matthew Hoffman. Through his Fulbright Matthew is working Walker) Scholarship and the U.S. Alumni Mr Truong is a PhD candidate at the with thesSchool of Mechanical and Postgraduate Scholarship are supported University of Western Australia (UWA). He Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW on a through donations from Fulbright Alumni, will depart in January 2012 for his Fulbright project that aims to improve the efficiency and are awarded to the highest-ranked at the National Institute of Standards and of a new concept for roof-mounted solar postgraduate applicants out of the Technology (NIST) in Maryland. energy production. Australian and U.S. groups respectively. Gar-Wing will use his scholarship to Working with D. Gary Rosengarten in the further his PhD research in measuring the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing physical properties of gases using a new Engineering, Matthew will focus on optical analysis technique based on laser optimzsing an experimental system’s spectroscopy with Dr Joseph Hodges at thermal performance. NIST. He intends to extend the technique so “Although simple to install, the high cost that it can also measure the temperature of of photovoltaic (PV) cells is exacerbated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with by low solar-to-electric conversion high precision. efficiencies,” Matthew said. “Accurate gas pressure and abundance can “Concentrating solar thermal power is a already be determined using apparatus more efficient means of converting solar available at NIST, whilst high precision radiation to useful energy but has thus temperature measurement techniques have far been limited to utility-scale power been developed at UWA,” Gar-Wing said. generation.” “My FulbrightpPostgraduatesScholarship “My Fulbright project will address these presents an opportunity to enhance both issues by developing a technology that experiments and provide me with an combines the benefits of photovoltaic and invaluable learning experience. This work concentrating solar thermal components is of global significance as it might prove in a form that could be adopted building useful in validating or refining climate by building.” change models.”

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A visit to Question Time followed later that day and the Scholars had a behind-the- scenes tour of Parliament House, during which they met the Prime Minister who congratulated them and welcomed them to Australia. On the evening of August 25 the Enrichment Dinner was held at a Canberra restaurant, the Boat House by the Lake. The Scholars were introduced to representatives from the Australian and U.S. Governments and the Australian Opposition, Sponsors, the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association, the Fulbright Commission Board, and universities. Dinner attendees included: Senator the Hon. Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Australian Labor Party and his wife Mrs Nimfa Farrell; Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, United States of America and his wife Mrs Rebecca Bleich; and Senator Cory Bernardi, Senator for South Australia, Australian Liberal Party representing the Opposition. Six members of the Fulbright Commission Board attended, including Professor Steven Schwartz, the Board Chair, who was the MC for the event. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Ms Krysten Keches delighted the dinner guests with a harp performance, playing Claude Debussy’s First Arabesque. Mr Lee Pearson gave a very witty and entertaining speech, responding on behalf of the Fulbright U.S. Scholars. On the final morning of the program the group went to the Canberra Glassworks for a tour with Ms Ann Jakle, Executive Ambassador Andisha currently is the Director, Canberra Glassworks. They also Fulbright Alumnus youngest Ambassador in the Afghan took part in a glass tile making activity Foreign Service. He is married and organised by U.S. Fulbright Scholar Ambassador to has one child. Matthew Perez, who is studying glass casting at the ANU School of Art. Australia Canberra based Fulbright Scholar, Matthew Perez said of the program: The new Ambassador for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Australia, “I cannot express how much this opportunity His Excellency Mr Nasir Ahmad Andisha, has meant to me. The Enrichment Program took up his appointment in Australia demonstrated to me the full scope of what in August. Fulbright is about; somehow, for some reason, the stars aligned and brought Ambassador Andisha, who is a career together some of the most interesting, diplomat, was most recently Director dynamic, learned individuals, from diverse General of America and Australia Affairs backgrounds, and plopped them into my in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, lap…I could probably not find more common Afghanistan. He undertook a Fulbright ground from such an unlike bunch of Scholarship from 2007-2009 at the individuals if I tried…I really feel a part of George H.W. Bush School of Government something special, and the Enrichment and Public Services, Texas, USA. He is Program brought me that!” also a graduate of Texas A&M University.

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Current Scholar stories

Postcard from Baltimore Benjamin Cheah, 2011 Fulbright NSW Scholar In July I began my fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I am working with Ciprian Crainiceanu, a biostatistician specialising in ‘high- dimensional datasets’ such as the many ‘photographs’ captured during an MRI scan. My time spent in Baltimore has mainly involved learning and applying these techniques to high-dimensional data I I love these benches (pictured) scattered throughout Baltimore. It’s not because of their bold and perceptibly ironic message, collected from people suffering from motor but because this sentiment really resonates with my impression of this city. Criminal activity and poverty are endemic in neuron disease (MND; Lou Gehrig’s disease Baltimore. However, this city is also filled with thousands of talented individuals dedicated to improving the wellbeing of or ALS in the United States). Baltimoreans, as well as humanity. Indeed, my host school’s tagline is ‘Saving lives, millions at a time’. It is this optimism and enthusiasm that I choose to embrace during my stay in this East Coast city. I enjoy working in an environment that fosters a style of thinking different to that which typically occurs in the MND research I have also met many Australian and non- playing against other hospital teams. Lastly, community. There have also been many Australian Fulbright Scholars, including one I am also training intensely for the Baltimore opportunities to network with experts in my department! I am also enjoying the half-marathon coming up in mid-October. within and outside my field of work. I have daily intercultural exchange that is integral attended the International Congress for to my studies and social life. Neuroinformatics in Boston, which was Newsflash: Ben Cheah has just essentially a crash course in research I am currently volunteering at the Charm been awarded a Gregory Schwartz strategies not familiar to most MND City Clinic, a student-run service that Enrichment Grant, sponsored by scientists. Before the end of the year I will assists Baltimoreans to access free health Professor Steven and Claire Schwartz. also be attending a meeting for the American insurance. A Gregory Schwartz Enrichment Grant ALS clinical trials consortium in Florida, and Although completely naive to soccer, I have has also been awarded to Mr Daniel the largest neuroscience conference in the joined the ‘Statistical Ninjas’ soccer team, Duke, ANSTO Scholar. world in Washington, DC. consisting of other biostatisticians - we are

Managing water use in the energy sector and state investment in water reforms resulted in Australia being able to consistently and equitably meet and manage the water demands Dr Nicole Carter, 2011 Fulbright U.S. of a changing energy sector? Senior Scholar This research may be particularly relevant for For my Fulbright research I am looking understanding how climate change abatement at water use by the energy sector in and carbon offset efforts may affect Australia’s Australia. This is a fascinating time to surface water and groundwater supplies. be in Canberra working on this topic ANU’s Fenner School of Environment and because of Australia’s recent drought Society provides an ideal venue for accessing and the deliberations over climate academics and government experts. Trips to change policy. South Australia and Victoria in September also The drought illustrated the dependence of are providing opportunities for obtaining state the energy sector and electricity prices on and industry perspectives. availability and access to water. Shifts in The Fulbright experience is letting me the energy sector resulting from market share this U.S. experience with Australians conditions, technological advancements, as the country’s energy sector begins its and government policies can alter how transformation. It also is allowing me to bring much, where, and how Australia’s energy back to the United States an understanding and sector uses water in the extraction of comparison of how water governance shapes fuels and generation of electricity. In the the ability to meet and manage water demands United States, federal and state energy for economically significant industries. Since policies and energy markets currently 2005, the energy sector represents the fastest are a significant driver of change in water growing new water demand in the United resource use at the local and state level. States; its water use now exceeds municipal My research question is: Have national water consumption. 4 Through my Fulbright I completed a course- University in Brisbane where I am now an Alumni stories work MA in Political Science and Political Emeritus Professor of History & Politics. Theory at Case Western Reserve University, My published books range from three which well prepared me to write my PhD histories of Queensland to three major thesis on ‘Human Needs and Politics’. I

My Na M political biographies to four comic novels rossRoss fitzgeraldfitzgeRald gained my PhD in Political Theory from the ‘I turn 65 on Christmas Day 2009. If I survive, I’ll be 40 years sober. This means that I have had 40 more years on (most recently the co-authored Fools’ this planet than I otherwise would have had if I hadn’t stopped drinking alcohol.’ University of New South Wales.

e is Ross Paradise:Life In An Altered State (PressOn/ ‘This is a compelling and courageous exposure of an alcoholic’s journey to personal destruction and beyond. ross Fitzgerald has survived to tell an exceptional tale of love and power.’ It was in Cleveland, Ohio that I realised I had Arcadia: Melbourne). I also recently Quentin Dempster, journalist and broadcaster, aBC TV

‘ross Fitzgerald’s remarkable life journey with and without alcohol and substance abuse is both candid and confronting. a severe problem with alcoholism and other published a memoir - My Name Is Ross: and never more relevant to the times in which we live.’ anne and gerard henderson, The Sydney Institute fitzge R ‘after a lifetime writing about other drug addiction. This led me to make contact An Alcoholic’s Journey (New South Books: people, Fitzgerald turns the spotlight on himself in this his latest, and most R important, book. a revelation – and an oss inspiration.’ Nigel Marsh, author of ald with Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been Sydney). Fat, Forty and Fired My NaMe ‚is Ross aN alcoholic s jouRNey NON-FICTION/MEMOIRË|xHSLHOCy231020znonfiction ‘A revelation - and an inspiration’ the single most important factor in my life. Nigel Marsh, Fat, Forty and Fired I have also published a book of poems The Indeed, had I not stopped drinking and using Eyes Of Angels, and recently co-authored a Professor other drugs at 24, I most probably would not Ross Fitzgerald, biography of Austen Tayshus: Merchant Of book covers have made 25! Menace (Hale & Iremonger: Sydney) On Australia Day this year I was 41 years Apart from Alcoholics Anonymous whose sober, and since I stopped drinking I have meetings each week I still regularly attend published 35 books. in Sydney where we now live, the greatest Barcodes to generate.indd 1 My30/09/09 9:40 AM name is Ross… Also my life experiences help me in my influences on my life are my wife of 35 years, current, long-term positions as a member Lyndal Moor, and our 29 year old daughter Emeritus Professor Ross Andrew of the NSW State Parole Authority, of the Emily Fitzgerald, who lives and works in New Fitzgerald (Fulbright Australia Postgraduate Administrative Decisions Tribunal, and of the York. As well as being extremely beautiful, Scholar, 1968) NSW Government’s Expert Advisory Group Lyndal is a person with a wicked sense of When I received the Fulbright, I was tutoring on Alcohol and Other Drugs. As well as humour, yet who always tells the truth and in History for Professor Geoffrey Bolton at appearing on radio and TV as a political and does not take me too seriously! the University of Western Australia. I was social commentator, I am also a columnist If I could pass on a phrase of knowledge to extremely pleased that I could engage in for The Weekend Australian and a regular future Fulbright Scholars, it might be that postgraduate studies at Case Western Reserve reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and often one’s greatest weakness can, with love University in Cleveland, Ohio under Professor The Weekend Australian. and help, be converted into one’s greatest Antony de Crespigny who had previously taught After returning to Australia and gaining strength and that, with persistence, in life me Politics at Monash University. my PhD, I worked for 25 years at Griffith much can be achieved.

the closer I got to leaving, the more I felt that I moved to Berkeley and UNSW invited me to my work with both metadrama (Calderwood’s stay on as a visiting research fellow (which specialty) and reader response theory (Iser’s I still am). Now I do many different things. field) had come to its own natural conclusion. I work as resident dramaturg for the California I was increasingly inspired by the work Shakespeare Theater; I teach for UC Berkeley’s of Stephen Greenblatt, who was bringing OLLI program; I work with the Saudi Arabian together anthropology, psychological theory Ministry with the goal of advancing the role of and literary criticism in groundbreaking ways. women in the higher education sector; I work So I wrote to Stephen Greenblatt with a work each year for the Endeavour Foundation run sample, and asked him whether he would be by DEEWR, selecting merit-based scholarship prepared to have me at UC Berkeley. He wrote applicants to come in and out of Australia; back ‘yes, of course’, and Fulbright allowed and I publish books and papers. me to make the change My latest book is a monograph called The Philippa and I went to the USA with my expectations King and I, in Continuum’s Shakespeare wide-open. Berkeley was a natural fit for me, Now! series. It is a meditation on Australian the King with its intellectual excitement and its free, culture through the prism of King Lear, with open spirit. my own life as a path that guides the reader

through the book. So, as you can see, Stephen Dr Philippa Kelly, Fulbright Alumnus 1989 Almost 20 years after I’d finished my Fulbright Scholarship, I ended up back in Berkeley for Greenblatt remains, to this day, the most I was twenty-six when I won my Fulbright good. I’d won a Rockefeller Fellowship to go to important influence on my intellectual life. Postdoctoral Fellowship. I had had to submit Bellagio, Italy, and had some sabbatical which And my emotional life – as a wife and mother – my PhD thesis without formal supervision, was tacked onto the end of it by stopping can also indirectly be attributed to my Fulbright as my supervisor had retired and moved in Berkeley. I met the composer, Paul award, as I’d never have known to go back to the Gold Coast two years into my PhD Dresher (who, it turned out, had also been a to Berkeley in 2000 if I hadn’t been a process, so I felt equal measures of thrill Fulbrighter). His wife had died of cancer the Fulbrighter in 1989! and incredulity at the exciting news from the year before, leaving Paul and a child named I cannot finish this self-summary without Fulbright Commission. Cole. The three of us literally fell in love reference to my beloved brother, John Kelly, Two of the important influences in my with each other – the bond to a child seems who died last December in a mountain-climbing PhD thesis were critics named James somehow so urgent – I felt so keenly Cole’s accident. No one in my life has ever been Calderwood and Wolfgang Iser, and it vulnerability and the hope. From the moment prouder of me than my brother John – seemed natural to apply to take my award I met my son, indeed, I never doubted that I not because of who I am, but because of at The University of California Irvine. But, would marry his father! who he was. 5 the fulbrighter | VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | OCT 2011

Scholar arrivals and departures since August 2011

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Arrivals in Australia Fulbright Australian Scholar Departures to the U.S. Mr Curtis Tofteland, Mr Steven Lombardo, Ms Kristen Lear, Ms Angelina Hurley, Ms Tarah Barzanji, Dr Clare Sullivan, Dr Nicole Carter, Mr Stephen Aro, Mr Jonathan Gelber, Mr Stephen McAnearney, Mr Fergus Hanson, Mr Daniel Wodak, Mr Nicholas Apollo, Mr Matthew Hoffman Ms Elizabeth Maynard, Dr Timothy McEvoy, Professor Ross Buckley, Mr Kelly Tsang, Dr Sharon Davis and Mr Lashi Bandara

Primary Host Specialist Additional Program description Study Field 2011 Senior Specialists Institution Hosts, if any

Monash Professor William USyd, UWS Race and ethnicity in General U.S. The Fulbright U.S. Senior Specialist Chafe, Duke University America Studies Program supports Australian educational UniMelb TBA Policy and Practice in Early Education institutions to bring U.S. Senior Childhood and Higher Specialists to Australia for periods Education of two to six weeks in the table. UniMelb Professor George USyd, RMIT, Uni Pre-service Primary Music: Education DeGraffenreid, Adelaide, ANU, towards effective models The award provides an international airfare California State UWS and a U.S. $200 per day honorarium. It University encourages collaboration with United Monash Professor Barry Feld, La Trobe Assessment of Australia’s Law States faculties and professionals on University of Minnesota Childrens Courts curriculum and faculty development, Law School institutional planning Charles Sturt Professor Jeffery CSIRO Plant rhizosphere Agriculture and a variety of other activities. Weindenhamer, interactions and the Ashland University development of improved Applications from Australian universities analytical systems for for 2013 Senior Specialists will open in evaluation of bioactive July 2012 and close mid-October 2012. compounds in the soil rhizosphere.

Fulbright remembers Immediately on leaving school he Katherine Cudlipp, Fulbright U.S. joined the A.I.F. during World War II, Postgraduate Scholar, 1964 in mathematics serving in New Guinea for three years. to the University of Sydney, died July 28. When he returned in 1945 he commenced Professor David Noel Ferguson Dunbar, an Arts Degree at Melbourne University. originally from New Zealand. Fulbright School teaching became his lifelong Australian Senior Scholar, 1952, in Physics career, initially at Trinity Grammar from the University of Melbourne to California School and later at Yarra Valley Grammar Institute of Technology, died 9 May 2011 School. After being acting head of the latter school he was appointed Emeritus Professor Trevor Langford-Smith, headmaster of Scotch College, Australia, Senior Scholar, 1976 in Geology/ Launceston, Tasmania where he stayed Geography, from the University of Sydney for six years. to the University of Arizona, died 28 August. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship Dr Peter Loveday AM, Fulbright Australia, and went to the U.S. in 1977 for three Senior Scholar, 1964 in Political Science, from months to study school evaluation. He the University of Sydney to Yale, died 20 August. had become interested in this topic when Professor Robert B. Rhode, Fulbright U.S. a group of American educators came to Scholar 1961, in Languages and Literature, Australia in 1976. from University of Colorado to the University After returning to Australia he became of New South Wales, died 11 October. Executive Officer of the National School Jock Pirie Herbert (Fulbright Scholar Richard H Tedford, Fulbright United States - Educational Development,1977) Evaluation Committee and travelled all over Australia in this capacity. Postgraduate Scholar, 1953, in Palaeontology, from University of California – Berkeley to Jock was the son of a naval officer. After ten years he retired from working the University of Adelaide, died mid-July. This meant that every two years his life, enjoying his retirement with family, family moved. He grew up in many friends, travel and his church activities. In Professor Ian Frederick Harvey Wilson, locations around Australia and the recent years his health declined and Australia, Postgraduate, 1959, Political world but eventually Melbourne became he died on 8 May 2011 aged 86 years. Science, from the University of Melbourne home. The dominant part of his He is survived by his wife, six children to Columbia University. Ian died in May. education took place at Melbourne and thirteen grandchildren. It was a long Walter A. Yuhl Jr, (United States, Teacher Grammar School. life, well lived. Exchange, 1963) died 18 June.

6 Public Lectures The Symposium featured two public lectures, the first by Professor Hugh White from ANU and the second by Professor Gilbert Rozman of Princeton University.

The first public lecture took place Wednesday evening, 10 August. Professor Hugh White gave a presentation at Asialink titled “Choosing Sides: Shaping Our Relationship in the Asian Century”. About 280 people attended this talk. Attendees ranged from academics from Australia, China, and the U.S., students from high school to postgraduate level (including international students), interested members of the Asialink 2011 Fulbright Symposium community and the general public. Professor White made the case that our Australia, U.S. and China relations under the spotlight region is transforming in a way that will lead to greater strategic competition between China and the United States, About 150 people attended the 2011 The second day focussed on American and in this environment it is essential Fulbright Symposium, ‘Australia-U.S. perspectives; military, security, and space that Australian policymakers take Relations and the Rise of China: From aspects of the trilateral relationship; and active steps to consider a future in Bilateralism to Trilateralism? which was also perspectives from Japan, South- which U.S. hegemony may no longer hosted by Deakin University at the Sofitel East Asia, and Taiwan. Professor Lowell prevail in Asia. in Melbourne on 11-12 August 2011. Dittmer, Editor of Asian Survey, University of On the evening of Thursday August 11, California, Berkeley, discussed the trilateral Professor Gilbert Rozman addressed The Symposium began with welcoming relationship in terms of a love affair between the Australian Institute of International addresses from Deakin University’s Vice- the three countries, with current relations Affairs with the second lecture, “China’s Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, resembling a happy ménage à trois that Grand Strategy – Past, Present and and the Acting Executive Director of the could potentially become a fraught love Future”. About 80 people attended this Fulbright Commission, Ms Lyndell Wilson. triangle, with Australia being courted by both event. The 20 Symposium speakers came from the U.S. and China. In outlining the prospects for peace and Australia, the United States and China. Professor Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave security in the region and for resolving Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic tensions between the U.S. and China, warned of an “identity gap” between China Studies and Head of the Strategic & Professor Rozman brought to bear his and the U.S., which could lead to serious Defence Studies Centre, Australian National formidable understanding of China’s tensions. Chad Ohlandt, from the RAND University, gave the keynote speech on internal debates as well as his astute Corporation USA, examined cooperation Australia-U.S. relations and the Future of analytical abilities honed over decades and competition in space, and pointed out American Primacy. of research into social and political that military control of all aspects of China’s issues in the North-East Asia region. Presentations focussed on trilateral relations, space programme makes cooperation Australian views of the relationship, and also difficult because national security concerns presented Chinese perspectives. are always an issue for China, even in Highlights included: former Australian seemingly commercial or civil areas of space Foreign Minister Gareth Evans recounting development. 2012 Fulbright his experiences in negotiating with former Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qian School of International Studies, Flinders Symposium Qichen, and views on promoting universal University, argued that from the Japanese values when engaging with China; perspective Australia’s position in relation Professor Geoffrey Garrett, director of The 2012 Fulbright Symposium will to the U.S. and China looks extremely be hosted by the University of South the United States Studies Centre at the comfortable and free from many of the University of Sydney, discussing the highly Australia with the topic ‘Securing worries that are currently facing the Our Cyber Future’. The Symposium complementary but often-overlooked Japanese. trilateral relationship between U.S. will be held mid year in Adelaide. investment, the Australian resource industry, In closing the Symposium, specialist on It will stimulate enhanced research, and the Chinese market; and Tsinghua China Professor Colin Mackerras of Griffith policy and operational collaboration University’s Professor Zhao Kejin outlining University, declared it had been a success. in cyber security between Australia the different Chinese schools of thought and the USA. that are currently debating China’s strategic options in the Asia-Pacific region.

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