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The City's Voice for People with Hearing Loss
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Information, Education, Support and
Advocacy for People with Hearing Loss
Chapter Meetings
2nd Saturday of the Month
1 - 3 pm, (
September- Ma
y)
Community Room, Gold Hill Police Station
955 W Moreno Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
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Registration is Open, and
Deadlines are Approaching!
For Complete Information, Forms, and
Online Registration, click here
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HLAA National Offers
Convention Scholarships
for First-time Attendees
Rocky and Ahme Stone
Endowment Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 11, 2019
If you are an
HLAA member and have never attended an HLAA Convention before, then you may apply for this scholarship!
The Rocky and Ahme Stone Endowment Scholarship is available for a deserving
member of HLAA who has never attended an HLAA Convention. If you are not selected for the Rocky and Ahme Stone Endowment Scholarship, don't despair!
Every scholarship application/nomination will be considered for other scholarships as they become available. We strive to send all applicants to the Convention!
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General Registration Early-Bird Rate
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Convention Package
PLEASE NOTE: If you are applying for a Scholarship,
DO NOT use this register form
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By 3.1.19
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By 5.15.19
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On-site
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Member Individual
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5
$269
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5
$329
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5
$389
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Member Couple
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5
$419
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5
$479
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5
$539
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Member First-Timer
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5
$255
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5
$315
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5
$375
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Member First-Timer Couple
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$399
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5
$459
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$519
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Member Student
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5
$140
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$200
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$260
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Non-Member Student
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$175
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$235
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$295
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Non-Member
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$315
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$375
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$435
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Package Includes
- State and Chapter Awards Reception & Ceremony, Wednesday, June 19
- Exhibit Hall Grand Opening, Thursday, June 20
- Opening Session featuring Keynote Speaker, Rebecca Alexander, Thursday, June 20
- Get Acquainted Party (GAP), Thursday, June 20
- Research Symposium, Genetics and Hearing Loss, Friday, June 21
- HLAA2019 Convention Walk4Hearing, Saturday, June 22
- Unlimited entry to Exhibit Hall and Socials
All workshops, demo presentations and featured speakers
Daily Packages Available Also |
Veterans and Caregivers
Registrants
HLAA offers complimentary registration for veterans and their caregivers who are attending their first HLAA Convention.
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Convention Highlights
- Research Symposium, "The Latest on Genetics and Hearing Loss" - read more
- Convention Schedule - click here
- Keynote Speaker, Rebecca Alexander - a most incredible individual! Click here
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Communication Access
at the Convention
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HLAA hosts
the most communication accessible event in the country for people with hearing loss
. The Convention is a place
where it's okay not to hear well, to ask for someone to repeat
. But when it comes to presentations,
you will hear more than you've ever heard before!
Hearing Loops -
All sessions and breakout rooms
will be looped - just flip your telecoil on and you'll be "in the loop."
CART/Captioning Captions will be
displayed on the same screen as the speaker's presentation slides
using technology called 1Fuzion, developed by 1CapApp.
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Convention Hotel and
Travel Information
Hyatt Regency Rochester -
Click
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HLAA Colorado Springs Chapter Member,
Stacy Gibson,
was honored with the "Service to Mankind" Club Award by Woodman Valley Sertoma President, Hal Moffatt, for her work connecting people with hearing loss with the help they need, through the Sertoma HEARS program. The HEARS program helps people with hearing loss, who are in need of financial assistance, to purchase hearing aids.
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Article submitted by
Pat Going
Uncorrected hearing loss may raise the risk of mental and physical health problems and leads to higher hospitalization rates and health care costs.
The data showed that over 10 years, untreated hearing loss was associated with a
52 percent greater risk of dementia, a
41 percent higher risk of depression and an almost
30 percent greater risk for falls when compared with those who had no hearing loss.
There are an estimated 38 million Americans with hearing loss, including two-thirds of adults older than 70, but less than 20 percent use hearing aids
. And people tend to wait an average of seven years from the time they start noticing hearing loss to the time they seek help, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America.
To read more, click
here.
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A Tool to Discover Quieter Restaurants and
Voice Concern for Loud Noise by Gregory Scott
Restaurants and bars are simply
too loud. In New York City, restaurants, on average, have decibel levels (77 dBA) that make conversation very difficult. And bars are even worse with sound levels (81 dBA) that put people in danger of
noise-induced hearing loss.
Do you wish venues were quieter to carry on a conversation? Looking for a polite way to ask managers to reduce their noise levels? Do you seek a way to find out where the quieter spots are in your city?
Feeling completely lost in the conversation while others conversed and connected with each other? Do you nod in unison with the conversation, pretending to hear, and then
idly pass the time by entertaining yourself?
To
overcome these issues, a
free
app for iPhone called
SoundPrint
has been
created primarily for the hearing-impaired community,
SoundPrint allows you to
discover the quieter venues
in your city. Using the app's internal decibel meter, you can
measure the actual noise level of any venue, which is then
submitted to a SoundPrint database that anyone can access to find out if a certain venue is quiet or loud.
A database for your city is created and, with each submission, is enriched and becomes more valuable. In addition, submitting SoundPrint measurements is an
effective way to tell venue managers that you and others care about noise levels and that they should mitigate the increasing din.
An initial trial in New York City has begun and to date, 3,000+ venues have been measured, many of which have been measured three times or more. This has resulted in
an invaluable curated list of 30 local quiet spots wh
ere one can actually hear others!
Join the SoundPrint community by measuring a venue when you are out. By doing so, you are helping each other discover which venues are quiet and noisy.
Gregory Scott is the founder of the SoundPrint app and is involved in the New York City hearing-impaired community. For more information, and to join the newsletter, visit
SoundPrint's website and download the app.
SoundPrint is only available for the iPhone
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but venues are searchable on the app's website
. SIgn up as
SoundPrint ambassadors
for
your city!
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Celebrating HLAA's 40th Birthday!
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In the Beginning..... From SHHH to HLAA
When founded by Rocky Stone in 1979, HLAA was known as SHHH. In 1983 the official SHHH logo was designed and adopted using fading SHHH letters to represent fading hearing. To read more, click
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HLAA Offers
FREE Educational and Product/Service Webinars
All Webinars are Captioned and Recorded
Next Webinar is
Wednesday February 20th
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm MST
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Saturday, February 9th
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Community Room, Gold Hill Police Station
955 West Moreno Ave., Colorado Springs
Meetings are free, and all are welcome.
Membership is not required to attend.
Free parking, refreshments, hearing loop, assistive listening devices (ALDs), and CART (live captioning) are provided.
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We have a seat at the table for you - literally! We are incorporating some side table seats for those who have requested it, while still arranging other seating to be able to see the faces (OK, Lips!!) of others when they are speaking.
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Inclement Weather Policy
In the event of bad weather
on the day of a chapter meeting or
event, an email
notice of cancellation will be
sent out
two (2) hours prior tot he scheduled event.
Be Sure to Check Your Email Before You Head Out
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Maggie Sims is the
Project Manager for the
Rocky Mountain ADA Center (RMADAC), located right here in Colorado Springs! She is the longest-tenured employee of the center, and specializes in providing
information, technical guidance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act for the center's six-state region.
Maggie joined the RMADAC in 1992 (one year after the ADA was signed into law by President George HW Bush) as an ADA Information Specialist, with a deep interest in reducing communication barriers for those with hearing, speech, and visual losses. An expert on the ADA and effective communication processes and fluent in sign language, Maggie also provides guidance on technical assistance calls focused on helping the RMADAC's region. Maggie travels extensively throughout the region, representing RMADAC at many community events and conferences. In addition, she acts as one of the media spokespeople for the center. Sims received an Associate's Degree from Colorado Christian University and graduated from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs with a Bachelor's Degree in political science.
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REMEMBER - CART transcripts of our meetings are available! They are posted within a week after each months' meeting. Click
here.
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March Speaker
will be
HLAA Member and co-founder of the HLAA Colorado Springs Chapter, Sharon Campbell, p
resenting her Convention Workshop Topic,
"Living Safely with Hearing Loss."
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More Looping News
in Colorado Springs!
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Penrose Public Library downtown has installed a hearing loop
in the downstairs newly remodeled meeting room!
THANK YOU, PPLD!
UCCS has installed another hearing loop in University Hall.
This historic building is home to the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Installations by Erin Nichols, Owner of Assist2Hear -
located in Denver,. They are
a leading installer of hearing loops throughout the Midwest since 2010.
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You ask,
"WHY is it S
O IMPORTANT
to use a MICROPHONE at ALL MEETINGS?"
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Bluetooth - A Mouthful of Opportunities
by
Kevin Franck and Margaret Gregowicz
Understand the various types of devices you can connect using Bluetooth, some of the challenges that come with it, and focus on how Bluetooth is relevant to hearing better. Click
here
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What If Your Reading Glasses Also Provided Captions?
A graduate student team at
Cornell Tech
is working on something just like this. Read more here
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HLAA Position Papers... Do You Know What Our Position Is? - by Lise Hamlin, HLAA Director of Public Policy
These papers provide a
perspective into HLAA
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and can be used by you, too! Individuals, HLAA
Chapters and State Organizations can use them
when
talking to legislators, the media, businesses, or anyone
who wants to
know more
about
HLAA's views
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HLAA currently has position papers available
on the following topics:
Insurance Coverage for Hearing Aids - HLAA
recommends that
health insurance cover the full cost of acquiring hearing aids.
Aural Rehabilitation - HLAA supports the use of an aural
rehabilitation model for hearing health care to reduce or
eliminate participation restrictions and activity limitations
imposed by hearing loss.
Medicare Coverage of Hearing Aids and Aural
Rehabilitation - HLAA supports amending Title 18 of
the Social Security Act to include
coverage of hearing examinations for the purposes of prescribing, fitting
or changing hearing aids, coverage of the hearing
instruments themselves and aural rehabilitation.
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids - HLAA supports a
regulated market for over-the-counter hearing aids that
are intended for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing
loss and which meet strict performance and labeling
criteria to ensure safety and effectiveness.
Screening for Hearing Loss in Primary Health Care
Settings -
HLAA supports the inclusion of a standardized
approach to screening for hearing loss in primary health
care settings that includes both a subjective and objective
component in all adults during routine physicals; the
"Welcome to Medicare" assessment; and Medicare
annual risk assessments, that are accomplished in primary
care settings.
Telecoils and Hearing Loops - HLAA supports the
inclusion of
telecoil technology in all hearing aids and
cochlear implants as well as the installation of high
quality, well-maintained hearing loop assistive listening
systems in public spaces such as ticket counters,
auditoriums, houses of worship, classrooms, theaters,
concert halls, airports, train stations, and public
transportation.
Wider Access to the Full Spectrum of Hearing
Technology Benefiting People with Hearing Loss -
HLAA supports a hearing health care system that
provides consumers access to the full spectrum of
safe and effective hearing technology to meet their
individual needs.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering,
and Medicine (NAS) Report - On June 2, 2016, the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine released its historic report on Hearing Health
Care for Adults: Priorities for Access and Affordability.
The report emphasizes that hearing loss is a major public
health concern and provides 12 recommendations to
improve hearing health care. HLAA strongly supports
those recommendations and is working to achieve their
implementation.
Job Qualification Testing - It is HLAA's position that
employees and applicants who use hearing aids must
be tested with their hearing aids when determining
their qualifications for jobs where a level of hearing
proficiency is a legitimate criterion.
download from our website. Click
here
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HLAA's new Virtual Chapter for Veterans!
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earn more about it and how to join by clicking
here
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"Is it OK if I Leave Now?"
by Katherine Bouton
This is an interesting dilemma -
what would you have done?
Whether or not you are open about your hearing loss,
there often comes a point at which you just can't try to listen anymore. Read article
here
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Mark Your Calendars -
t's Time for the 2019 Colorado Walk4Hearing!!
Colorado Springs' Chapter Goal is to Raise $3,000
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Help Make HLAA-CS the
Top Fundraising Team for the
Fourth Straight Year!
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Join the HLAA-CS Chapter Team,
Springs Sweet Soles
Support Our Team with a Donation, or
Sign Up to Join Us - click
here
, then click on
"Register by Joining an Existing Team"
Start Your Fundrasiing Now by asking Friends,
Family, and Co-Workers to Support You!
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Read "Why We Walk"
Be An Alliance
Become a Sponsor
Volunteer!
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Walk Day
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Location
Clement Park
7306 W Bowles Ave
Littleton, CO
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Opportunity is Available for a Colorado Walk Coordinator
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Need Help Paying
for Hearing Aids?
If you are a U.S. citizen living in El Paso County and need help paying for hearing aids, find out more about the
Rocky Mountain
Sertoma
H.E.A.R.S.
Program here
For more hearing aid resources, click
here
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Chapter Volunteers Needed!
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Spread the Word about our Chapter and Invite others to come
Volunteer for a Committee or an Outreach Project
Help with Refreshments, or as a Greeter
Like to Drive? We need carpool drivers for out-of-town Social Activities (cost of gas is split among the riders)
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Did you know that all HLAA
Chapter Officers and Committee Chairpersons are volunteers, too?
Please let any of us know if you are interested in being more involved with HLAA-CS. It can be a
one-time, ongoing, or as-needed basis.
You can also email us at
HLAAColoradoSprings@outlook.com
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 Vickie
President,
Website and Newsletter Editor |
Duane
Vice President
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Pauline, Secretary |
Michelle, Treasurer
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Joy
Welcome Committee Chair |
Stacy
Social Committee Chair
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Pat
Technical Assistant |
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Lots of Chapter Pictures are posted on our Facebook page! Click
here
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Pictures courtesy of
Pauline
, our Official Chapter Photographer!
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Keep Up to Date with HLAA-CS!
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"The City's Voice for People
with Hearing Loss"
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Assistive Technology Available Here
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Is Your Venue Accessible to People with Hearing Loss?
If not, HLAA-CS can
demonstrate assistive listening technology, and/or set up a portable loop. Hear for yourself the difference it can make!
For a list
of Public Venues, Churches, En
tertainment Venues, and Retirement Living Communities with Assistive Listening Systems in the Colorado Springs area, visit the HLAA-CS Website and click on the "Communication Accessibility" heading.
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HLAA, a 501(c)3, is the nation's leading membership and advocacy organization for people with hearing loss, and has local Chapters all across the country.
As
the nation's voice for people with hearing loss
, our Mission is "
to open the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support, and advocacy.
As a Member, you share in this mission. Through our advocacy work at the federal level, we represent 4
8 million people with hearing loss
. Membership is $35 per year.
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For Membership Benefits, click here
Membership for our Military Veterans is complimentary!
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Keep up-to-date with HLAA! Sign up
for chapter and state news and updates.
Also
Both are free and are delivered directly into your inbox!
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HLAA
Walk4Hearing is the largest walk for hearing-loss awareness in the country.
Every spring and fall, teams walk in their communities to increase public awareness about hearing loss, help eradicate the stigma associated with it and raise funds for programs and services.
For more information on National and Local Programs and Services supported by this annual fundraising event, click here.
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Become a member of HLAA
to receive the bi-monthly magazine,. Click,
here
to find out all the benefits
of membership!
In Every Issue - readers look to "Hearing Life" magazine to provide them with:
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the
latest information on products, services, research, and technology
in the hearing health care field
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personal stories of people with hearing loss
to find encouragement, and give them the feeling that they are not alone in living with a hearing loss
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practical and useful information.
"Hearing Life" magazine readers view this publication as
a "lifeline" to help them help themselves and live well with hearing loss.
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