I remember walking in a remote area in because I heard this voice inside me that step at a time. But I do know this part of Florida, and I looked up and saw a tornado said,“Get up and walk. ”And then off in the the world is in need of peace. coming straight at me. Things were being distance I saw a French Red Cross vehicle tossed up in the air. I had to run for my life. coming to be my escort. Those are the mo- I don’t know what’s next. Actually, I do Another time, I saw a pack of wild dogs ments that I know this is a calling for me. have one idea. I haven’t told anyone else, but coming at me. I didn’t have time to get to I’d really love to go to the Vatican, and I’d my escort vehicle, and you can’t assume I’m 72 years old now, and I thought like to ask the pope to walk with me. Just a position of fear anyway. So I took my my walking days were pretty much over. I a short walk, even, where we can talk and walking stick and I faced them down. was living in Florida, trying to downsize pray together. Does that sound crazy? May- and retire and enjoy the sun. But when be so. But I’ve seen a lot of miracles out here. I’ve walked in all kinds of weather. I I asked what I was supposed to do with once walked in snow up to my knees. I was my life now, I knew the answer: I had to As told to Steve Almond wearing my pack and I fell on my face, and start walking again. I’m in Jerusalem now. the pack was weighing me down. And I’ll I don’t know where exactly I’ll go from Are you inspired to work for peace? tell you, I wanted to quit. But I didn’t quit, here. The way I travel is that I take one Join the Rotarian Action Group for Peace at rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org. J A N U A RY 2 0 1 8 | THE ROTARIAN 49
grow up with a I WAS BORN IN PUCALLPA IN 1982. It was a small town then, but like all the regional capitals of Peru, it underwent a very ac- celerated growth in the past 20 years. When I was growing up, it was a beautiful place. The Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon, was just two blocks from my house, and it was filled with birds and with nature and with magic. That’s the link with my grandfather. The world knows my grandfather as the renowned shaman Don Agustín Rivas Vásquez, but I call him Papito Agustín. He was born in Tamshiyacu, in northeastern Peru on the Amazon River, in 1933. When he was 30, while working as a carpenter, he also started to paint. This was the tipping point. Everything started with the art. Looking for inspiration, he began studying with a shaman, and he began to take ayahuasca, a drug made with jungle plants that produces hallucinations and visions. During one of these experi- ences, he saw fantastic wooden images and heard the voice of his dead grand- mother telling him to give up painting and to sculpt. With that he started a 5 0 T H E R O T A R I A N | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 68
shaman ELOHIM MONARD Rotary Peace Fellow, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014-16 journey into the magic of the Amazon I continued taking ayahuasca with my My grandfather still lives near his that never stopped. grandfather over the years. He would birthplace on the Amazon. Walk a mile dance and sing in Spanish and in the dif- and a half into the jungle and you will My grandfather began collecting big ferent languages and dialects of the in- find his place: Yushintaita, which means roots of trees in the river basin. He took digenous Amazon people, languages he “father of soul. ” It’s a gathering of cabins these roots and started sculpting. That is cannot speak when not in a trance. He and lodges that he built himself, and my earliest memory of Papito Agustín. even invented a stringed instrument, el people travel from all over the world to He had built a big house in downtown arco del duende – the fairy’s bow – whose study with him. They come for the sha- Pucallpa where we all lived, and I remem- music enters your brain and makes you man’s healing and for the visions associ- ber him in his taller – his workshop – fly. You fly on those waves of sound. The ated with ayahuasca. while he was crafting his sculptures. vibrations carry you to the different His sources of inspiration were the peo- worlds around you: to the past, to the As for me, I consider the times with ple and places from Amazon traditions future, to people not next to you. my grandfather as a gift, magical and and the magical things he had seen in transcendental. The most important his hallucinations. Everything is energy. This is physics. legacy of this experience is that it has left Ayahuasca is the medium that introduces me open to all kinds of experiences and When I was still very young, my fam- you to the energy that’s floating around shown me different approaches to life. It ily moved to Lima, but I visited Papito your body and your soul. It lifts the filters has reduced any prejudices I might oth- Agustín in Pucallpa on every vacation. – your senses, the way you organize erwise have, and I am more easily able to With my grandfather as my guide, I took things in your brain – that protect you connect with other cultures. Nowadays ayahuasca for the first time when I was from chaos. When you connect with this it helps me with my peace journey; I’m a six years old. Let me bring the experience chaos, you connect with every piece of technical adviser for Barrio Seguro (Safe to my mind. What I have is a clear image the world. You connect with the universe. Neighborhood), a program of the Inte- of music and colors. I saw the colors. I When you are able to manage all that rior Ministry of Peru. saw the music. I remember the moment energy without filters, that’s the ultimate very vividly, but I’m afraid I don’t re- magic. But I had a very bad experience I feel I still owe a debt to the Amazon member the feeling. Eventually my fa- the last time I took ayahuasca, 10 years and its people. I need to do something I ther took me from the chair where I was ago. It left me with very bad feelings. I haven’t explored yet. Like my grandfather, sitting and carried me to my bed and I don’t know if I will ever try it again. I need to recall and connect with my roots. fell asleep. As told to Geoff Johnson J A N U A RY 2 0 1 8 | THE ROTARIAN 51
BILL BOOKER your club serenadeRotary Club of Little Rock, Ark. THERE’S A FRANK SINATRA SONG THAT GOES, live theater, especially musicals. It’s my you how many costume changes there are. favorite way to escape from reality and I know how many Tony Awards nearly “Without a song the day would never end/ forget about whatever else is going on for every musical has been nominated for and Without a song the road would never a few hours. how many it has won. I learned even more bend/ When things go wrong, a man ain’t obscure facts about musicals during my got a friend without a song. ” Every week, I would pick a song and year as president of the Little Rock club so play it over and over and over to memo- I could tell our members a little bit about I quoted that line on my first day as rize the words and tune. I would play each production before I sang a song from president of the Rotary Club of Little the song so much, I was almost sick of it. the show to open our meeting. Rock. I explained that throughout my Then I would get up there, close my eyes, year, we were going to honor music be- pretend I was in the shower, and start I did deviate from the Broadway theme cause music adds so much to life. I opened singing. I admire people who really do on my wedding anniversary. That Tues- with that quote, then told them that no- sing for a living. There were times when day, my wife attended our meeting with where on earth will you find better music I was off-key, but I thought, “What’s the me. I surprised her by having the whole than on Broadway. I was wearing my tux, worst that could happen? I’ll embarrass and I reached down and stuck a phantom myself in front of my friends. ” I had no mask on before singing“The Music of the organ, no piano. But a lot of members Night. ” I don’t want to brag, but I got a would sing along. Some people really standing ovation. got into it. One told me,“Don’t do Annie when I’m out of town! ” I’m not sure anyone in my club saw this coming. I’m a CPA and a funeral di- One of my biggest regrets is that I rector. It’s pretty serious work. But I love didn’t see anything on Broadway until I was 40 years old. I’ve since seen 31 shows in New York and more than 100 shows in total. But musicals are my passion. I can tell you how many beads are in the chandelier that shatters onstage during The Phantom of the Opera. I can also tell 52 T H E R O T A R I A N | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8
every week for a year club serenade her with Neil Diamond’s In my profession, you see that life is SHARE “Sweet Caroline. ” Her name is Carolyn, full of surprises, and not always good YOUR and she loves Neil Diamond. She always ones. My wife was diagnosed with cancer STORY says he wrote that song for her. right after we saw The Lion King for the first time, and that show means more to This is the third annual appearance of Even though my year as president is me now because it was the last musical What It’s Like, a proven favorite with over, people now consider me to be some we saw together before the word cancer readers inside and outside Rotary. type of Broadway expert. Whenever they came into our lives. The last two funerals If you’re a Rotarian with a great story – see a show anywhere, they’ll ask me what I did were for 51-year-old guys. It’s im- or you know someone connected I thought about it. I judge whether I really portant to try to live life to the fullest and with Rotary who’s got a fantastic tale – like a show if I want to see it again the enjoy what you love, because every day we want to hear it. Look for the best next day. I like to buy back-to-back tickets you have is truly a blessing. n stories in our fourth installment and see a show twice in a row. You really of What It’s Like in January 2019. need to see a show four or five times to As told to Vanessa Glavinskas catch every little thing. Share your own story with us at Like to sing? Tune in to the International [email protected]. One of my favorite moments is when Fellowship of Rotarian Musicians at ifrm.org. Jean Valjean is dying at the end of Les Miz Include “What it’s like” in the and Fantine comes out of the shadows. subject line of your email. She sings, “Take my hand, I’ll lead you to salvation/ Take my love, for love is everlasting/ And remember the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God. ” T H E R O T A R I A N 53
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insider Cellphones power polio fight KHAULA JAMIL Mobile phones and simple text mes- saging may be the keys to victory in the world’s largest public health initiative: the eradication of polio. As the disease retreats, thriving only in a few remote areas in three countries, it’s up to health workers to deliver vaccines and share informa- tion with speed and accuracy. Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are strengthen- ing the lines of communication by giving cellphones to health workers in Pakistan and Nigeria. In Pakistan, Rotary has been working to replace traditional paper- based reporting of maternal and child health information, including polio immunization data, with mobile phone and e-monitoring technology. Community health workers across that country have received more than 800 phones through a partnership with Telenor, the country’s second-largest telecom- munications provider; Eycon, a data monitoring and evaluation special- ist; Rotary; and the Pakistani gov- ernment. Organizers plan to distribute 5,000 cellphones by the end of 2018. Health workers use the phones to send data via text message to a central server. If they see a sus- pected case of polio, they can im- mediately alert officials at Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Center. They also can keep track of any children who didn’t receive the vaccine, note parental refusals, and record successful immunizations. In Pakistan, the polio eradication ef- J A N U A RY 2 0 1 8 | THE ROTARIAN 55
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE ROTARIAN Previous page: Health workers in Pakistan use cellphones to report vaccination data. Above: January 1937 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote an The polio eradication effort in that country aims to reach 35 million children. article for this issue supporting universal fingerprinting to aid in iden- tifying amnesia patients, disaster and murder victims, and other fort aims to reach the nation’s 35 million missing persons. “Fingerprint impressions constitute a signature that children under age five. cannot be forged,” he wrote. “It is my personal opinion that the time will come when every honest man and woman will be glad to have his The result is a collection of information or her fingerprints on file.” Sir Basil Thomson, an English criminolo- that officials can monitor and assess in real gist who had headed Scotland Yard, wrote a counterpoint, arguing that time, says Michel Thieren, regional emer- having everybody’s prints on file would be so expensive and unwieldy gency director of the World Health Orga- that it would hinder searches rather than help them. Also in the issue, nization’s Health Emergency Program. The Rotarian named Gone with the Wind the No. 2 book of 1936. “Cellphone technology signals tremen- ROTARY ROTARY ROTARACT INTERACT RCCS dous progress in the polio eradication pro- KHAULA JAMIL AT A gram,” says Thieren, who has directed Members: Members: Members: Members: polio-related initiatives for WHO in Pak- GLANCE istan. “The data we collect needs to have 1,220,185 242,949 511,796 210,500 such a granular level of detail. With real- As of 31 August Clubs: Clubs: Clubs: Corps: time information that can be recorded and transcribed immediately, you can increase 35,727 10,563 22,252 9,900 accuracy and validity.” Health workers also are using mobile phones to monitor a multitude of other fac- tors that affect maternal and child health. Pakistan’s child mortality rate ranks among the highest in the world, according to UNICEF, with 81 deaths under age five per 1,000 live births. Mobile technol- ogy can help save lives, says Asher Ali, project manager for Rotary’s Pakistan PolioPlus Committee. “Our health workers, including com- munity midwives, are tracking pregnant mothers,” Ali says.“When a child is born, they can input and maintain complete health records, not just for polio, but for other vaccines and basic health care and hygiene needs.” They also can monitor infectious dis- eases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and influenza-like illnesses, as well as child 56 T H E R O T A R I A N | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8
malnutrition and maternal health concerns. MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDATION CHAIR If there are problems with babies or moth- ers, they can alert government health de- Happy New Year! partments immediately. We are at the halfway point of this Rotary year. There is plenty to look forward to in 2018 as we Cellphones also facilitate follow-up complete the first year of The Rotary Foundation’s visits with families, because health work- second century of service. By working in partner- ers can send appointment reminders by ship with our Foundation, Rotarians are making text message. a difference in ways we could never have imagined when we began. Worldwide, there are about 7 billion mo- First, our signature polio eradication initiative continues to bring us closer bile phone subscriptions, 89 percent of to the historic day of a polio-free world. Following our tremendous World them in developing countries, says WHO. Polio Day event in Seattle, and the thousands of local events hosted by Rotary Even people living on less than $1 a day members around the world, we are keeping up the momentum to reach this often have access to phones and text mes- year’s polio fundraising goal of $50 million (including District Designated saging, according to WHO. Cellphones are Fund contributions). We are already closing in on that target thanks, in part, used more than any other technology in to the efforts of Rotarians and friends who participated in the recent Miles to the developing world. End Polio bike ride to raise funds for the cause. Second, our Foundation’s comprehensive fundraising target of $360 million In 2016, after Nigeria had its first polio this year will empower you and other Rotarians to continue helping people cases in almost two years, Rotary and all over the world. WHO officials rushed to replace tradi- In addition, the Building TRF Endowment: 2025 by 2025 initiative is pro- tional reporting with a cellphone-based gressing well. Our goal is to build an endowment of $2.025 billion by 2025 to system in the northern state of Borno, ensure the long-term financial stability of the Foundation and provide essential where the new cases were identified. The resources well into the future. mobile phone initiative has since expanded Another emphasis relates to our work in peacebuilding and the Rotary to at least 11 states. Peace Centers program. Applications for Rotary Peace Fellowships become available this month. Be on the lookout for great candidates and support our “Traditional paper reporting was mis- Peace Fellow alumni in the field by inviting them to work with you as advisers leading our program,” says Boniface Igomu, on your projects. program coordinator of Rotary’s Nigeria Between February and June, RI President Ian H.S. Riseley is convening six PolioPlus Committee.“The information we Presidential Peacebuilding Conferences, which will showcase the connections were getting was not entirely accurate. This between our work in each area of focus and sustainable peace. You are invited gave us the sense that we were doing better to attend! than we actually were. With cellphones, Of course, the biggest event of the Rotary year will be the 2018 Rotary we’re identifying problem areas quickly and International Convention in Toronto from 23 to 27 June. We will celebrate not acting accordingly.” only the highlights of this Rotary year, but also the 50th anniversary of Rotaract. In the new year, let us continue to show that we are People of Action! And The country has yet to see a polio case let the world take notice: We Rotarians are Making a Difference. this year. Paul A. Netzel Send me your thoughts on Nigeria is also using cellphone-based the Foundation: mapping technology to identify areas that FOUNDATION TRUSTEE CHAIR polio immunization teams have missed. [email protected]. Health workers test stool samples from We are listening! children arriving from remote areas and log reports of acute flaccid paralysis. This effort started in Borno and has expanded to three additional states, Igomu says. After more than 1,000 people died in early 2017 in Nigeria from meningitis, the country used the same digital tools in emer- gency vaccination campaigns, he adds. “Mobile technologies are the type of in- novations that can fill in the gaps of our program and finally help us end polio for good,” Igomu says. “Their uses have never been more important than now.” – RYAN HYLAND
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Rotarian Action Groups Help wildfire victims Rotarian Action Groups help Rotary clubs and districts plan and carry out community development and humanitarian service projects in their areas The Rotary Foundation has set up a of expertise. The groups are organized by Rotarians and Rotaractors with special fund to help communities skills and a passion to serve in a particular field. Membership is open to affected by deadly wildfires in Rotarians, their family members, and participants and alumni of all Rotary California. and Foundation programs. Members have the opportunity to engage in meaningful service activities outside their own clubs, districts, or coun- More than 220,000 acres have been tries. Draw on these groups to enhance your projects, engage members, and scorched, and more than 40 people have attract new ones. Find out more by emailing or visiting the website of the been confirmed dead. group you’re interested in or by writing to [email protected]. “The devastation in the North Bay Addiction Prevention Hearing and wine country is vast and far-reaching. The recovery and rebuilding is going to rag-ap.org ifrahl.org be a long process, but we are confident that we can lead the way in bringing Alzheimer’s and Dementia Hepatitis these communities back,” says Bob Rog- ers, governor of District 5130. adrag.org ragforhepatitiseradication.org You can contribute by check, by wire Blindness Prevention Literacy transfer, or online with a credit card. You’ll need to provide the account name rag4bp.org litrag.org (The Northern California Fire Recovery Fund) and number (615). When con- Blood Donation Malaria tributing via credit card, please check the address box to share your address ourblooddrive.org remarag.org with Rotary. Make your donation at bit.ly/2xXRyuI. Clubfoot Maternal and Child Health If you have questions about how you rag4clubfoot.org rifpd.org can help, contact [email protected]. Diabetes Mental Health GEORGE ROSE / GETTY IMAGES ragdiabetes.org ragonmentalhealth.org Disaster Assistance Microfinance and Community Development dna-rag.com ragm.org Domestic Violence Prevention Multiple Sclerosis ragfamsafe.org rotary-ragmsa.org Endangered Species Peace endangeredrag.org rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org Environmental Sustainability Polio Survivors and Associates esrag.org rotarypoliosurvivors.com Family Health and AIDS Prevention Preconception Care rfha.org raghphc.org Food Plant Solutions Slavery Prevention foodplantsolutions.org ragas.online Health Education and Wellness Water and Sanitation hewrag.org wasrag.org 60 T H E R O T A R I A N | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8
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Rotary International The 2016-17 recipients of the Service Above Self Award, Rotary International’s highest honor for individual Rotarians, have been announced. SERVICE ABOVE SELF This award recognizes Rotarians who have demonstrated District | Name 1630 Lucien Emringer 3131850 Friedrich exemplary humanitarian service, especially those who Award winners have helped others through personal volunteer work and active involvement in Rotary. District | Name District | Name District | Name 3142 Hemant Jagtap 4060 Freddy Santana 6270 Tamie Koop 3150 Vasu Dev Malladi Cespedes 6330 Jean Aitcheson Neddermeier 3170 Mahesh Raikar 4250 Angel Agusto Mendoza 6360 Martin Graber 6380 Kamal Shouhayib 6400 Donna Schmidt 6440 Pamela Kerr 1990 Peter Eichenberger 2232 Anatolli Parubets pages of history2420 TurgutGökyigit 3190 Nagendra Kurugoilu 4320 Armando Raul Setty Ehrenfeld Weihe 3211 Thomas Vavanikunnel 4480 Gilberto Scandiuzzi 2440 Ahmet Gürmeric 3220 Gowri Rajan 5010 Will Files 6450 Linda Yates 2452 George Mirti Azar and inspiration2470 MariaDelivoria 3262 Dilip Patnaik 5100 Dennis William 6490 Kenneth Buel 3271 Syed Tahzeeb UI Has 5160 Pate Thomson 6600 Timothy Kearney 2490 Yoram Cohen Kazmi 5220 Dorothy Bizzini 6840 Ace Necaise III 2520 Shigeru Kuwahara 3272 Saeeda Rehman 5280 Douglas Baker 6890 Thomas Wade 2660 Hiromichi Kuriyama 3291 Hira Lal Yadav 5300 Miles Petroff 6900 William Woulfin 2680 Shigeyasu Mizutani 3310 Ghim Bok Chew 5440 Krishna Murthy 6910 Peter Gleichman 2710 Yokichi Matsuoka 3340 Martin Brands 5490 Charles Fitzgerald 6920 Bill Kemp 2981 Narayanasamy 3450 David Harilela 5500 Michael Drake 6940 Kim Outnik Govindaraj 3460 Po-Jung Lin 5510 Abe Feder 6950 Roger Proffer Sr. 3000 Smuel Christdoss 3480 Chao-Ying Kuo 5580 Roland Turner 6970 Norberto Benitez Savariraj 3490 Ming Shan Huang 5710 William Richter 7255 Arnold Quaranta 3011 Ramesh Chander 3500 Wen-Yen Chang 5730 James Cole 7280 Ruzhail Bakalli 3030 Juhal Chiraniya 3520 I-Tson Soo Own57a50pMiearctien PoosftichJir.story7a39n0dJbohencJuodsmone 3040 Tarun Mishra 3600 Jun Taik Kim insp5i8r10edDatrorenleCoallvines your m747a0rkRoobenrt Pityo 3052 Ramesh Agrawal 3662 Young-Sun Han 5830 Danny Carpenter 7510 Joe Horner 3053 Radhe Shyam Rathi 3690 Eun Sook Cho hum58a4n0 iMtyikewCaintahlesThe Ro7t5a70ryKFenoneuthnTudcak tion 3060 Prafall Bhatt 3700 Joon Ki Song as it5e89n0 tMericsheilltesBosreeercond c7e71n0 tRuicrkyCaornfagua 3070 Gurjeet Singh Sekhon 7980 Mukund Nori 3080 Ashok Chhokra 9110 Matthias Shoga Doing Good in the World.3722 Yeong-Ho Yun 3730 Seok-Hwan Seong 5950 Sandra Schley 5970 Jill Olsen 3090 Vijay Arora 3740 Hyeong-Su Lee 6000 Herbert Wilson 9211 Sharmila Bhatt 3110 Shailendra Raju 3770 Vincente Enriquez 6040 Carl Chinnery 9212 Geeta Manek 3131 Marutrao Jadhav 3810 Ernesto Choa 6080 Everette Wood 9600 Gary Lillicrap 3132 Ismail Patel Order today at3830 Isidro Garcia 9675 Patrick Roberts 3141 Balkrishna Inamdar 6190 Carroll Gates 9910 Ernest Meyer shop.rotary.org3860 WilliamMoraca 6200 Clarence Prudhomme 60 T H E R O T A R I A N | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7
Your Legacy, Rotary’s Promise Your annual gifts to The Rotary Foundation are helping people around the globe live better lives today. Planning a gift to Rotary’s Endowment supports these same life-changing programs forever. Learn how the next century of service begins with your Rotary legacy at rotary.org/legacy.
last look DISCOVER On page 32, you read Jiro Kawatsuma’s gripping recollection of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Kawatsuma is now 90 and has dedicated the rest of his life to peace, including planting seeds and saplings from trees that survived the bomb around the world. Find out more about the Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative at unitar.org/greenlegacyhiroshima. ATTEND Kawatsuma is speaking in Vancouver, B.C., next month at the first of six Presidential Peacebuilding Conferences. The events, hosted by RI President Ian H.S. Riseley, will explore the connection between peace and Rotary’s five other areas of focus plus environmental sustainability. Learn about each of the conferences, which will be held in Lebanon, England, Australia, Italy, and the U.S. until June, at rotary.org/presidential-conferences. PLANT Riseley has challenged every Rotary club to plant a tree for each of its members by Earth Day, 22 April. Watch for more about trees in our April issue, and find inspiration for projects from the Environ- mental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group at esrag.org/tree-planting-challenge. The Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative is planting seeds and saplings from trees that survived the atomic bombing. COURTESY OF: GREEN LEGACY HIROSHIMA INITIATIVE facebook.com/rotary @rotary [email protected] 64 T H E R O T A R I A N | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8
Inspiration AROUND EVERY CORNER The spark of insight that changed everything Brenda from the U.S. joined Rotary to do something for her community and connect with others, but it wasn’t until her first Rotary Convention, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that she felt like a true Rotarian. While exploring the House of Friendship, she noticed something that everyone had in common: the smile of a joyful person. That was the moment a light flashed in Brenda’s mind and made her realize the true spirit of Rotary, which motivated her to go back to her club and get more involved — locally and internationally. Find your inspiration at the Rotary Convention in Toronto. Register today at riconvention.org. ROTARY CONVENTION 23-27 JUNE 2018 TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
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