"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-28"@en . "2008-04-04"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0127650/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " the3u\nimCS OFFTCTAT STITnFNT PTTRT TC.ATTON\nBYSSEY\nmagazine\nCheating the System\nPsychopathy and the modem world theubysseymagazine\nThSIj\nBYSSEY\nApril 4th, 2008\nPerspectives\nCOVeTI m3g 6!stephanie Findlay and Oker Chen\nth\u00C2\u00A3Ij\nBYSSEY\nWho Ya Gonna Call? Anyone\nbut the RCMP...\nby Brady Gordon\nSome of us are glad to be\nfree of our bullies of yesteryear. I haven't had that feeling\nof helpless frustration since\nBig Barry Sotham smashed my\ndiorama in second grade. Until\nnow.\nOf late, the RCMP have\nbeen the buzz of every student\norganization on campus. They\nare discussed at the meeting\ntables of all student government and student faculty associations, across the folding\nchairs of AMS clubs, and of\ncourse, under the vaulted ceilings of fraternity houses. Even\nthe postgraduate Law students,\nfar beyond the rest of us under-\ngrads with their suits and ties\nand stacks of leather books,\nhave been grumbling amongst\nthemselves. Even entirely dead\nclubs have re-emerged: take the\nRadical Beer Faction, which has\nexploded onto the AMS club\nscene with what may be the\nfastest growth rate of any club\nin history.\nAnd yet, while students\nfrom all walks of life and social\nscenes have finally found common ground in the one issue\nthat's important to all of them,\nI hear nothing about it beyond\nwhat I hear across those meeting tables, over those folding\nchairs, and of course, under\nthose vaulted ceilings. What\nis the AMS doing, exactly? Nobody knows. Why isn't this in\nthe Ubyssey every day, exactly?\nNobody knows. Who is going to\nhelp us? Nobody knows.\nIn the past few months, I\nhave seen reports slide under\nmy nose of completely innocent and sober students being\nslammed against walls, threatened for taking photographs,\nbeing harassed for a variety of\ngroundless accusations, and\ngenerally shoved and grabbed\nand pulled in a variety of ways\nand directions. I've seen reports of unbelievable things.\nI saw one report, a whopper,\nthat indicated that a certain\nmember of the RCMP has a\nveritable \"hit list\" of students\nwho they expressed a desire to\narrest, and for no more than\ntheir personal dislike for the\nindividuals in question. I was\nscared, because I know at least\none of the people on that list.\nFortunately, he's going through\nRCMP training right now, and\nwon't be around to be arrested\nfor no reason. Whew.\nI suppose that's the difficulty in getting help. None of\nus have the time or the courage to file a complaint, follow\nit through, and expose our\nnames for potential addition to\nthe RCMP \"hit list\". So we need\nhelp. I suppose what I'm asking, is that I need you, yes you,\nto do something.\nIf you are on the AMS, you\nneed to do something huge,\nand immediately. I don't know\nwhat you're doing yet, and if I\ndon't know, nobody else does\neither. I should probably point\nout that at this stage a massive\ncampaign to address the one\nissue that is so evidently important to your students (except\nalso the SUB renewal, congrats)\nmight help you recover from\nyour last dismal election.\nIf you are on the Ubyssey,\nwhich you are, assuming this\nletter is in the paper, we want to\nknow what you are doing, too.\nWe have high hopes for you.\nYou broke the thing with the\nhandcuffed Irish girls\u00E2\u0080\u0094remember? Do it again, please? Talk\nto the students, talk to event\nplanners, talk to the RCMP, and\nfind out what's going on, and\nwho's causing it (like you don't\nknow already). I know I'd want\nto read about that.\nAnd finally, if you are someone who has been attacked or\nbullied or intimidated by certain\nmembers of the RCMP (I think\nwe all know who we're talking\nabout here), file a complaint.\nBut more than that, forward\nyour complaint to the relevant\nAMS, RBF, IFC, or other club\nreps, and let's get these into\nthe hands of our not-so-friendly\nneighbourhood RCMP.\nPeople often don't complain\nbecause they watch the news,\nand they know that complaints\nrarely get solved, and it takes a\nlot of time. I know\u00E2\u0080\u0094even that\nguy who got shot in the head\nhad a difficult time. But really,\nyou guys, please do it before I\nget slammed against a wall. It\nhurts.\nWho am I? Pretty much\neverybody.\n-Brady Gordon is a fourth-year English student and the PR person for UBC's\nInterFraternity Council (IFC).\nPrudish censorship is stupid\nby Michael Bround\nOne day while flipping\nchannels I stumbled across\nfour television shows where a\nmostly naked, attractive young\nwoman was killed during the\nfirst ten minutes. In that same\nhalf hour block a romantic\ntelevision show cut a sex scene\ndown to ten seconds of humping complete with moans and\nnaked backs.\nIt immediately struck me\nas odd that the grizzly murder\nof nude women was allowed to\nbe on television while good-old-\nfashion-lovin' was censored.\nHow can sex be viewed as so\nsubversive in comparison to\nthe violent pornography of CST?\nWhat is the point of protecting\nthe populace from something\nas harmless as sex? Wouldn't\nmedia that shows a reasonable\namount of nudity and foreplay\nbe more realistic and compelling? Who decided sex was\nevil?\nSex is an integral part of human life. The fact that the species hasn't gone extinct is proof\nof that. Most people are having\nsex, have had sex, or want to\nhave sex. Virtually everyone has\nseen naked people on the Internet, in textbooks, or in artwork.\nEveryone has seen themselves\nnaked while bathing. Sex and\nnudity are natural, human, and\nnothing to be ashamed of.\nCensoring sex leads to the\nimpression that sex should\nbe censored. Things that are\ncensored are \"bad\" or \"unfit\"\nfor general consumption. It follows then that sex is bad. This is\nstupid. Sex is not bad. Sex is absolutely necessary to propagate\nthe species. It is enjoyable, and\nwith proper use of safe sex practices, virtually consequence-\nfree. Furthermore, portraying\nsex complete with nudity as a\npositive thing between people\nenjoying each other is good.\nIt breaks down the ridiculous\npedestal and mystery that sex\nis associated with these days\nand humanizes it.\nThe argument that sex and\nnudity should be kept out of\nthe media for the sake of children is further bunk. Young\nchildren often are brought into\nthe changing room of the opposite gender at pools. Kids in\nelementary schools these days\nknow more about sex than ever\nbefore. They live in a world of\nthe Internet where finding naked pictures is just a click away.\nThey are already exposed to the\nnatural world of sex and nudity. Besides, they are exposed\nto all kinds of brutal violence in\nthe media that is more likely to\nbreed sociopaths than anything\nsexual.\n'Course, kids wouldn't see\ntelevision or movie sex if parents actually took responsibility for their children's viewing\nhabits.\nAnother sticking point with\nmodern media sexual portrayals is how unrealistic they are.\nBashful back angles, mostly\nclothed participants, and sex\ndevoid of foreplay are about as\nrealistic and erotic as a purple,\nbaby elephant. A scene of wild\npassion that is subject to this\nediting finds its mood and suspension of disbelief ruined. A\nreasonable amount of nudity,\nand sex that actually follows the\npath of real sex would be more\nengrossing and fun to watch. It\nwould probably attract a larger\npopulation of male viewers to\nromantic movies as well.\nCensoring sex is ass-back-\nwards. Since virtually everyone\nis already exposed to sex, censorship is redundant. There\nis nothing inherently wrong\nor naughty about sex that the\npublic needs be protected\nfrom. Unnecessary censorship\nof sexual scenes ruins suspension of disbelief and cheapens\nthem. Violence is more likely to\ncreate violent, poorly adjusted\nindividuals than anything\nsexual.\nI guess what I'm trying to\nget at is that everyone should\njust stop watching television and movies and enjoy\ngood-old-fashion-lovin'.\n-Michael Bround is a biochemisty\nstudent and frequently draws cartoons for\nthe Ubyssey editorial page.\nSubmit a letter to the Ubyssey\nand see your writing in print.\nLetters to the editor must be\nunder 300 words. 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You\nget to see the Oker Chen Centre get nuked by a Cylon (think murderous\nsentient robots) known to humans as Jordan Chittley, and a Cylon raider\n(think murderous Al plane) land in front ofthe Boris Korby Library. Following the Cylon nuclear attack led by Cylon Kellan Higgins, the remnants of humanity lead by Admiral Brandon Adams and President Grace\nTse lead a ragtag fleet of survivors towards a mystical planet named\nEarth, as prophesized by Celestian Rince. Many plotlines revolve around\nthe lives ofthe young, attractive Viper (think fighter plane) pilots such\nas Capt. Matthew Jewkes (callsign: \"Vegetarian Curry\") and hotshot\nLt. Champagne Choquer (callsign: \"Star Spring Roll\") who also Live on\nthe Battlestar (think space-bound aircraft carrier). Another important\ncharacter is Paul Bucci, survivor and acclaimed genius, who does what he\ncan to survive, hiding the secret that he was an unwitting accomplice in\nthe near-destruction of humanity. He shouldn't have listened to Allison\nBailey. Michael Kubanski is a Cylon sleeper agent, unaware of his true\nidentity, and should not be confused with Michael Bround, who totally\nisn't a killer robot, and is surprisingly quite a friendly person once you get\nto know him. The loveable Executive Officer XO is Justin McElroy, who\nhas the penchant of stumbling across the bridge screaming \"I want to\nfrakyou like -\" [[Hey, that's not technically a swearword. Don't go all\nSamantha Jung-ian on me.]] Of course, none of these characters are really important, because the fate of humanity rests on Gerald Deo! He has\na destiny! And it has nothing to do with Shun Endo!\n[Mil ri te^Mjrl r\u00C2\u00AE^l\nCanadian Canada post Sales Agreement\nUniversity Number 0o40878022\nKress March 28th,2008\nThe Ubyssey\ntheubysseymagazine\nUBCPROFILES\nHanging with\nthe Sens\nAllen Sens, political science senior instructor.\nolitical Science Senior Instructor Allen Sens\nis very busy. Not only does he teach three\ncourses this term, he is chair of the international relations program, co-founder of the interdisciplinary Terry Project, and co-professor of the\nnew Arts and Science Interdisciplinary Course\n(ASIC).\nJust a kid from Kitsilano, Sens earned his BA\nand MA at UBC. He went to Queens University for\nhis PhD in Political Science before returning to\nUBC in 1993 to teach, where he is now a tenured\nsenior instructor.\nThe Ubyssey talked with Professor Sens about global\npolitics, lectures, and food.\nUbyssey: Have you always been interested in\npolitics?\nSens: No, not really.To be truthful, I was more\ninterested in science but I had no ability at math\nwhatsoever...but I was always very interested\nin the problem of war...I think even my mom\nand dad recall me as a very young boy asking\nquestions, you know, \"Why are these people\nfighting?\"\nU: So this interest in war was the reason\nwhy you decided to specialize in International\nSecurity?\nSens: It was sort of a logical fit for me; this is\na part of the field where the core problem is the\nquestion of war...You know, my graduate student colleagues used to joke with me when the\nBerlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended,\nthey said \"Gee, Allen, you have to change your\nspecialty\"...Well, it turned out unfortunately not\nto be the case.\nU: Your lectures have been described by students as \"charismatic\". What do you have to say\nabout that?\nSens: I remember sitting in class as an undergraduate student listening to some of the most\nboring lecturing you can possibly imagine...And\nI just remember thinking to myself,\"You know, If I\never do this, I'm not going to be boring.\"So what I\ntry to do is to make the lecture an experience.\nU: What are your future plans for the ASIC 200\ncourse?\nSens: [T]o try to make it better. I mean, this\nis the first year we've done it so obviously there\nare a lot of lessons learned...in thefuture, at least\nnext year we simply want the course to be better\nthan it is now.\nU: What are some of your hobbies?\nSens: I play ice hockey [recreationally] and go\nto the gym on a regular basis to try to keep myself in shape...Hobbywise, I mentioned food and\nwine. [My wife and I] enjoy cooking and going\nout for dinner as well. I like reading very much; I\ndoliketheoutdoors...goingouton my mountain\nbike.\nU: How long have you been married for?\nSens: 12 years. And it's been absolutely wonderful...That's a great source of strength for me.\nU: One more question: Peanut butter, jam, or\nboth?\nSens: Peanut butter and honey, actually...on\nTerra, caraway rye, toasted twice, vi\nBY SAMANTHA JUNG\nPHOTO BY DAVE) ZHANG\n6ooV> aJ\u00C2\u00A3Wjs tost\nA CooiPcB /^o\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\n5AP-TH UOOV.S\nAA^P w\u00E2\u0082\u00AC WILL\n\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3^oop TH\u00C2\u00A3\nEtie. 12.67 V covrs\nOP HVET \u00C2\u00A3Ae.TK,/\nMICHAEL BROUND GRAPHIC / THE UBYSSEY\nMr. RCMP, tear down this fun-stopping wall\nTonight, the Radical Beer Faction\nis hosting a beer garden, and\nfor once the group may actually\nhave a point. The War on Fun exists at\nUBC and it's only getting worse.\nOne former fraternity president\nrecently spoke about a party his\ngroup held in late 2006 that was\nshut down in its first hour. The\nparty, an annual event, had been\nheld at the same on-campus location for several years. The venue,\nhowever, only had a limited capacity set by the fire marshal, and the\nfraternity routinely let more people\nin. \"It wouldn't have been a good\nparty if we had to follow the rules,\"\nas he explained.\nAnd they were able to fit more\npeople in once again. But when the\nRCMP checked their alcohol supply,\nit saw that there was more than\nthe amount allotted by their liquor\nlicence, and the event was over.\n\"The cops are just following the\nrules,\" he said. \"It's the rules that\nneed to change.\"\nHe also spoke of a UBC club-\nacademically focused and among\nthe least likely on campus to cause\ntrouble\u00E2\u0080\u0094which was forced to hide\nits alcohol, bringing it in as the\nnight went on in order for the cops\nto only see small amounts of booze\nin the venue at a time. Why would\nthis have to happen?\n\"They're not giving us that\nmuch alcohol,\" said the president\nof another campus club, known for\nthrowing large parties. According\nto the club president, clubs can\nrequest licences for events that allow up to 4.5-5 drinks per person.\nIt's up to the RCMP to allow the\nrequest, reduce the number of\nallowed drinks, or disallow the\nrequest entirely. The club president\nsaid that his club's events in the\npast year have been allowed around\ntwo and a half drinks per person,\non average.\n\"Whatever they tell you, that's\nwhat you get,\" he said. \"There's no\nappeal for it.\"\nAnother student, the outgoing\nsocial coordinator for a faculty undergraduate association, said \"the\nattitude has changed,\" referring to\nthe RCMP. \"They're looking for any\nexcuse to shut down a party.\" He\nsaid that now licences only cover\n2000 attendees for all events on\ncampus for any date, outside the\nlicenced bars. It's a number supposedly determined by the police\nmanpower available, but one that\nallows fewer than five per cent of\nAMS members to go to licenced\nevents on campus any night.\nAccording to the social coordinator, in the past cops would show\nup, check an event's liquor licence,\nand be on their way. Echoing other\nsources though, he said that this\nyear police have cracked down,\nsearching for hidden booze, and\nsetting up camp outside parties.\nSpecial Operations Licences are\nrequired to hold parties with alcohol at UBC. SOLs, they're called,\nand they may represent what fun-\nloving students at UBC are these\ndays: shit outta luck.\nSo what does this mean for\nyou? This means that only 2000, or\nfewer of than 1/22 of you, can be\nat a party at any time. Has anyone\nnoticed the declining amount of\nparties on campus? The Ski and\nBoard club party, traditionally\nheld on St. Patrick's Day, was not\ngranted a licence. Coconut, an\nannual Forestry party held on the\nsouth part of campus, has not been\ngranted a liquor licence this year,\nand has been forced to push its\nparty off campus.\nWhere have all the beer gardens\ngone? A few years ago, every weekend had a club or a frat putting\non a party. Our campus was alive\nat night, with the screams and\nshouts of drunken students living\nas students. Now, walking around\nat night you see a very different atmosphere. People scurry from late\nnight classes, going straight home.\nWhen did campus become simply a\nplace to study?\nEven if there are few things on\ncampus that you feel you must take\na stand for, this, as an attack on\nour culture as university students,\nshould be one. We at the Ubyssey\nhope to see more grandiose interventions such as the Flash (Beer)\nGarden, which not only prove that\nwe are ready to stand up for simple\nissues, but that we can mobilize for\nthe greater good of our campus, vl\n*^hr-\nStreeters is a twice-weekly column\nin which students are asked a\nquestion pertinent to UBC.\nSee their full comments online at www.ubyssey.ca\nWhich AMS Block Party game are you most excited for\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe dunk tank, joust, bungee run or the mechanical bull?\n\"I'd say the\nmechanical bull\nfor sure, because\nI've never been\n'I want to do the\n'Jousting.\ncause I don't know\nwhat it is.\"\n\"I like the dunk\ntank.\"\n-Coordinated by Jordan Chittley, Gerald Deo and Champagne Choquer theubysseymagazine\nThi&J\nBYSSEY\nApril 4th, 2008\nEfeparfrff ^bW*.\nCUcluelet) \u00C2\u00A3*.\nBook online at aww.tofinobus.com\nor call 1-866-986-3466 on day of travel\nSTOP\nIN AT H&R BLOCK\nFAST\nTAX PREP\nSTART\nSPENDING\nStudents, come in for\nyour tax preparation\nand get instant cash\nback in just one visit.\ncome in today or call\n1-800-HRBLOCK (472-5625)\nwww.hrblock.ca\nH&R BLOCK\nTo qualify for student pricing, student must present either (i) a T2202a documenting 4 or more months of full-time attendance at a\ncollege or university during 2007 or (ii) a valid high school identification card. 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Cannot be used towards the purchase\nof gift cards or certificates.\nBrave new talent,\n22 years strong\nIf life gets you down, look up the\nUbyssey online at www.ubyssey.ca\nOKER CHEN PHOTO / THE UYSSEY\nActor Nicole Anne Shery realizes her fear of clowns,actor Daksh Dhad-\nwal, might not be so silly after all.\nby Levi Barnett\nCulture Staff\n\"Unadulterated asphalt turns\nyou on?\"\nThus reads one of the many\nclever lines found in this year's\nedition of Brave New Rites, a\nfestival of short plays by UBC\nstudents now in its 22nd year. 19\nplays were written for this year's\nedition ofthe festival, 12 of which\nwill be staged and seven of which\nwill have dramatic readings. It's\nthe first year where there will\nbe dramatic readings, which is\na testament to the popularity of\nthe series and the number of\nparticipants from UBC's creative\nwriting program.\nFor over half of the playwrights represented in Brave\nNew Play Rites, the festival is the\nfirst time they've written a play.\nAfter writing in the fall term, the\nnew playwrights met with directors and other theatre students\nto make any last rewrites, and\nworked together at several workshops on the different aspects of\nthe dramaturgical process.\n\"You don't usually get this\nkind of crossover and support\nfor each,\" said Bryan Wade, the\nwriting professor overseeing the\nplaywrights, describing how both\nwriters and directors, all students,\nare able to work closely together to\nproduce the works, each of which\nruns around 15 minutes.\n\"This never gets finished\nuntil the production,\" said John\nCooper, the Brave New Play\nRites' directing instructor, allud\ning to the excitement of finally\nseeing the plays produced.\nSix of the plays were presented on Wednesday. Among\nthem, Jenny Kent's \"Trekking\nManhattan Beach\" showed what\ncould be done when strong\nwriting is joined with the lighting, direction, and stage design\nskills of UBC's theatre program.\nIn the piece, a fading romance\nis brought to life with the way\nthe actors delicately dance\naround the edges of a sand-covered beach, represented by a\npeach-coloured sheet covering\nthe stage.\nOther works included John\nMavin's \"Daguerrotype\" a case\nstudy in historical pathos; and\n\"Babydom: Season 3\", a laugh-\nfilled vignette on absurdity,\nwritten by Tom Hill. One of the\nmost poignant lines of the plays\nshown on Wednesday came from\nCarmen Pintea's \"November\", a\npolitical drama set near the end\nof Communism in Romania. A\nchild, listening to Radio Free\nEurope, asks \"Where's 'free\nEurope?' Is it far from here?\"\nThe phrase, so innocent in the\nmouth of the character, brings\nhome the reality of Romania's\nisolation. Audience members\ncould be heard intently asking\nthemselves about European history at the play's end\u00E2\u0080\u0094showing\nthat a well-written work can still\nprovoke in ways that the classroom is often unable to do. vl\nBrave New Play Rites runs\nthrough Sunday, April 6th. For show\ntimes, see www.bravenew.ca April 5th, 2008\nTHfitJBYSSEY\ntheubysseymagazine\nCommerce parties it up\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u0094JL\n>*. '\nJi\ni2 i\n-'.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\n\"Y-^Tl His\n/\ni&m\nKELLAN HIGGINS PHOTO / THE UBYSSEY\nWashing your laundry\nand biking a mile\nBroken washing machines, PVC piping,two-by-fours and other junk from Plant Ops\nlined the SUB plaza last Wednesday,as Engineers Without Borders (EWB) held a\ncontest to see who could invent the best machine out of debris.The challenge was\nto create some useful device from recycled materials that would be widely available\nin developing countries. Among the creations were a spare tire peanut desheller,a\nbicycle water pump,and a man powered washing machine (seen above).\nby Shun Endo\nCulture Staff\nLast Thursday, Business Communications\nClub students took the night off from studying to acquire knowledge on business\u00E2\u0080\u0094 the\nbusiness of etiquette and fashion, that\nis. Partying at the Four Seasons Hotel on\nGeorgia, the faculty's event, entitled Style\nand City, covered everything from dining\nmanners to how to dress in top brands.\nCharlene Tan, Commerce marketing\ncoordinator, explained the faculty's expectations and the objective in hosting the\nevent.\n\"Basically, we are trying to educate\nstudents in terms of etiquette and business style. These include wearing different\nmake-up styles on a certain event or put\ntogether a suit on a daily basis.\"\nThe party began with a full course\ndinner with a presentation by a business\netiquette consultant who generously explained dinner politesse. Questions flew\nacross the grand dining hall concerning\nappropriate manners for each setting.\nFollowing dinner was a seminar by\nDKNY and Hugo Boss representatives that\nconcentrated on business fashion and\ntrends. The men modelled various types of\nsuit and tie styles and received advice on\nhow to dress to impress. Women gathered\nin a separate room to study daytime and\nnighttime make-up styles as well as dressing with accessories. The general outline\nfor this seminar was to \"dress for success,\"\nand to allow students to emulate fashion in\nthe real world.\nA fashion show featuring Hugo Boss\nand DKNY was the night's finale. Student\nrepresentatives dressed in several styles\nand walked the catwalk, boasting their\nexcellent business-savy styles, complimented by the laughter and cheering of\nthe audience.\nThe runway show was divided into\ntraditional sections of business, after\nwork, and contemporary business styles.\nEach style was orderly explained by\nfashion professionals, who hoped that\nthe next generation could dress with the\nsame style.\nNoting the advantages of being a\nCommerce student and attending these\nglamorous events, Tan said, \"We have\nthese special events that are only for commerce students and they are driven to this\ndirection where they learn to become a\nwell-rounded individual, not only in the\nacademic aspects.\"\nAs the event came to a close, students\nseemed to be content with the late night\n\"lecture\" and headed home with optimism\nfor their fashionable future. \a\nPHOTOGRAPHERS:\nThe Ubyssey asks you to\nsend in your photos to\nshow the gushy, lustful,\nsensuous, unquestioning\nand ultimately\nuncontrolable feeling of\nBLIND LOVE.\nLens & Shutter gift\ncertificates will be\nawarded for the top\nthree submissions.\nSO SEND YOUR BEST SHOT\nTO:\nPHOTOS\n(\u00C2\u00A9UBYSSEY.BC.CA\nby APRIL 8th\ninclude your name,\nyear faculty and a short\nmessage.\nSEATS SELLING OUT!\nCanada's lowest prices\nfor Student Flights just\ngot better.\n<\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0096\u00BA transat\ni^ HOLIDAYS\nUK & Europe flights* $100 lower than\neveryone else. 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