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Jared Aldern
Humanities (Associate Faculty)
M.A., Prescott College, History and Environmental Studies, 2002; A.B., Cornell University, Physics (Concentration in Biophysics), 1981.
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Jared studies environmental history--the changes and continuities in human interactions with the environment. As a doctoral student in Prescott's Sustainability Education program, his research focuses on how various communities construct historical knowledge and sustain interactions with particular places. He has developed indigenous language and ecological field research programs in collaboration with Native American nations and natural resource agencies, and he has helped to develop community-based curriculum for several K-12 school districts. He also served as a Start-up Committee member and the public school liaison for the Southern California Tribal Digital Village. He has taught in elementary schools, high schools, and at several California colleges and universities.
In addition to his work at Prescott, Jared is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of American Indian Studies and American Studies at Palomar College and in the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He also writes K-12 history curriculum and monitors federal "Improving Teacher Quality" professional development programs for the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
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Paul Burkhardt
Dean, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, 1999; M.A., University of Arizona, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 1993; B.A., University of Arizona, English & American Literature, 1991.
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Paul grew up in the border town of Yuma, Arizona, and remains deeply committed to the people and places of the Arizona/Sonora border region. Paul believes that student learning and faculty scholarship can be most effective and transformative when integrated through participatory, field- and community-based projects. Paul’s academic background in interdisciplinary cultural studies focuses on the role of cultural discourses around the built and natural environment in movements for socio-economic and environmental justice in western communities. Paul has developed these interests into a range of interdisciplinary, community/field-based learning environments on topics such as Fire, Water, Desert Lands, Community-based Management, and Social Movements. Paul has held faculty and administrative positions at various institutions including the University of Arizona, The College of The Bahamas, and Arizona International College.
Paul is the dean for the Adult Degree and Graduate Programs, which also include the Adult Degree Program and the Ph.D. Program. |
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Noël
Cox Caniglia
Education, Chair (Sabbatical 08-09)
M.S., Mankato State University, Experiential Education, 1979; B.A.,
Prescott College, ESL Education 1974.
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When Noël joined the faculty in ADGP in 1991 she brought experience in formal education teaching in the United States and New Zealand, and nonformal education, working as a consultant to corporate groups and government agencies to teach communication and team-building skills and leadership dynamics. For the last twenty-six years she has lived on, worked on, and helped to manage environmentally sound cattle ranches in Arizona. As a native Arizonan and rancher, she brings her strong commitment to the nonhuman natural environment to her passion for supporting graduate students who wish to teach in nonformal and formal settings. Since joining the full-time faculty at Prescott College she has worked as an activist to defend open space issues in Arizona, has been actively involved with the Arizona Department of Education Professional Preparation Review Team, and has remained involved with professional organizations related to both nonformal and formal education. She is a certified teacher: Secondary English 7-12, Elementary Education K-8, and English as a Second Language K-12.
Her Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialization in Sustainability Education combines her interests in nonformal education with her understanding of ecologically sound agrarian practices. She is researching the role of holistic, transformational learning and culturally relevant approaches to teaching and learning that are multi-generational, self-renewing, and based on a model of healthy interrelationships between human and nonhuman environments.
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Richard
Cellarius
Environmental Studies (Associate Faculty)
Ph.D. The Rockefeller University, Biological Science, 1965; B.A., Reed College, Physics, 1958.
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Richard is an Emeritus Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College, where he taught for 27 years and was Director of the graduate program in Environmental Studies before retiring to Prescott. He previously was on the botany faculty of The University of Michigan. Richard has been an active volunteer with the Sierra Club for over 30 years, including two years as its national president. He is also active with IUCN-The World Conservation Union. His current interests focus on global environmental sustainability. Richard has a broad range of teaching interests, including all aspects of environmental studies-particularly ecological principles and environmental history, philosophy, and policy-plant physiology, technical writing, biological energetics and statistics.
Richard is also an affiliate faculty for the College’s Ph.D. Program.
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Joan Clingan
Humanities, Chair; Master of Arts Program Director
Ph.D., Union Institute & University, 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture, 2008; M.A., University of Santa Monica, Applied Psychology, 1992.
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Joan teaches research design in Prescott College's Ph.D. and M.A. Programs covering a breadth of methods and methodologies and with a particular focus on social justice, action, and community based research. Her personal research uses twentieth century U.S. literature to examine issues of supremacism, marginalization, and oppression, as well as consideration of and action toward change, justice, and sustainability. Her work focuses on writers she identifies as being part of the marginalized majority and who represent a breadth of life circumstances and perspectives in the United States. Joan’s dissertation, “Who is We?: Toward a Theory of Solidarity; Toward a Future of Sustainability,” develops a critical theory based on the philosophies and practices of solidarity and sustainability. In it she considers existing critical social theory and proposes a model that uses solidarity as the framework through which to address supremacist ideology that threatens the sustainability of healthy and diverse human cultures. Joan’s master’s work concentrated on spiritual psychology and her undergraduate work on literature, creative writing, and social change.
Joan's areas of academic interest also include class and culture, specifically as it relates to sustaining diversity in the United States. She is interested in the ways class works in life, scholarship, and activism. Her teaching and research interests focus on the politics of social constructs such as class, race, nation, sexuality, and gender; issues of oppression and resistance; and the potential created by coalitions and solidarity.
Joan started working in higher education in 1987 when she served as the registrar and co-steering director for Peace Theological Seminary. In 1993 she began serving the Master of Arts Program in academic and administrative roles, including turns as the director of academic affairs and director of MAP. In 1999, following MAP's restructuring to a model with a lead faculty member for each program, Joan was hired as faculty for the humanities program, and continues to serve as chair of humanities. In 2007 she began teaching in the Ph.D. program. In addition to her faculty position Joan is also the program director for MAP.
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Kim Langmaid
Environmental Studies (Associate Faculty)
M.A., Prescott College, Environmental Studies, 1997; B.S., Colorado State University, Biological Sciences, 1989.
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Kim's involvement with the Master of Arts Program at Prescott College began in 1996 while she was a student in Teton Science School's Professional Residency in Environmental Education. After writing her thesis on place-based environmental education, Kim founded the Gore Range Natural Science School in her home community-the Eagle River Watershed of Colorado. Now that the Science School is firmly established Kim's energies currently focus on training and professional development opportunities for environmental educators. As the Science School's Graduate Programs Director, Kim oversees the development and instruction of graduate courses. Prior to becoming a faculty in MAP, Kim served as a Graduate Advisor for five years.
Kim is currently earning her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. Her dissertation explores the human dimensions of climate change from a phenomenological perspective. The outcome of her dissertation will serve to promote a critical place-based pedagogy for global environmental change. Kim's teaching and research interests include: environmental education and sustainability education, environmental philosophy, human dimensions of climate change, mountain studies, cultural geography, and qualitative research methods. She has over 15 years experience working in nonprofit environmental education organizations and she enjoys working with students who envision establishing environmental programs and serving their communities. Kim's passion for environmental studies is continually sparked through outdoor experiences and ecological observations. She has studied with the National Outdoor Leadership School, University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station, and University of Colorado's Mountain Research Station. She is a passionate naturalist, hiker, and backcountry skier.
Kim is also is also the program coordinator for the College’s Ph.D. Program. |
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Pete Lavigne
Environmental Studies, Chair
J.D. Vermont Law School 1985, M.S.E.L. Vermont Law School 1983; B.A., Oberlin College Government and Geology 1980.
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Pete serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the new Center for Generative Solutions in Gunnison Colorado, and was a co-founder of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas, a public foundation devoted to Clean Water, Biodiversity and Human Health in North, Central and South America. A regular commentator and analyst on environmental issues for CNN Radio, Pete is also Senior Fellow in the Executive Leadership Institute’s Watershed Management Professional Program, and an adjunct associate professor of Public Administration in the Mark O. Hatfield Graduate School of Government at Portland State University. He is an environmental lawyer and author or co-author of dozens of articles and presentations on environmental and other issues in publications as diverse as the New York Times, the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Journal and River Voices.
As Director of River Network’s national River Leaders Program from 1992-1996 he formed the River Alliance of Wisconsin and helped to start or strengthen over twenty other state and regional river watershed protection groups throughout the United States and Canada. He is co-author of a book on land use and aesthetic preservation, Vermont Townscape, and has chapters in the books Voices for the Watershed: Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage Basin and Forest Communities, Community Forests. He has served as executive director of the Merrimack River Watershed Council, as Northeast Coordinator for American Rivers, executive director of the Westport River Watershed Alliance, as Deputy Director of For the Sake of the Salmon, and as legislative lobbyist for the Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Pete has extensive experience in political campaigns including several presidential primary campaigns in New Hampshire, including Mo Udall’s 1976 Presidential campaign where Pete co-organized a group of 30 Oberlin students working on the campaign and was a field coordinator and alternate delegate candidate. He most recently was professor of environmental studies and director of the Colorado Water Workshop at Western State College of Colorado and was awarded a Fulbright to study in Brazil in summer 2007. Past jobs include work in construction, various factories, mills, foundries, farms and livestock operations, and stints in editing and publishing, high school teaching, and house painting and repair. He is also an avid reader, sea kayaker and mountain climber. Pete’s research interests include global and regional water policy; environmental governance; river, watershed and ecosystem management; civic capacity; and globalization.
Pete is also an affiliate faculty for the College’s Ph.D. Program.
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Shari Leach
Adventure Education, Interim Chair (Associate Faculty)
Ph.D., Union Institute & University, Cultural Self-Awareness, 2006; M.A., Prescott College, Humanities: Facilitating Community Development, 2001; B.A., University of Colorado, Environmental Conservation, 1995.
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Shari began her work in adventure education in the 1980s, working month-long wilderness backpacking courses for a small summer camp in the mountains of Colorado. Since that time, she has worked for numerous small and large wilderness corporations, including Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). She still leads courses regularly for NOLS and teaches for the Wilderness Medicine Institute. Shari served in the Peace Corps in Honduras, specializing in environmental education and natural resource management. She is fluent in Spanish as well as English.
Shari completed her master’s degree through Prescott College, developing an alternate theory of stages of group development, and creating a workbook/curriculum for groups learning to work together. Her thesis has since been revised and published. Her doctoral dissertation explored the influence of cross cultural living on the individual’s awareness of her/his culture of origin.
In addition to her work in the field of adventure education, Shari has hands on experience with teaching facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills with neighborhood groups, non-profits, and corporations. She spent four years volunteering with sexual assault crisis and prevention programs. Shari’s passions include teaching rock climbing, facilitating leadership and self-awareness, serving her local community and the earth, and teaching wilderness medicine.
Shari is also an affiliate faculty for the College’s Ph.D. Program. |
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Rich Lewis
Library Faculty, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
M.L.I.S., University of Arizona, Library and Information Science, 2003; B.A., University of Washington, English, 1988.
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Rich originally comes from the Pacific Northwest, but has lived in Prescott for over 12 years. His varied background has given him experience installing alternative energy systems, teaching computer networking, studying abroad in both Nepal and France, welding in Alaska, and being a rock climber (that career was ended after an abrupt run-in with terra firma.) Currently, besides being immersed in all things library, he is actively involved with the Prescott College Ultimate Frisbee team.
Rich is the library faculty for the Adult Degree and Graduate Programs, which also include the Adult Degree Program and the Ph.D. Program.
“We are living in a tremendous time. Information is hovering all around us, waiting for us to turn it into knowledge. I truly want to enable students to be able to find the information they seek.” |
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Rick Medrick
Adventure Education
Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado, Humanistic Psychology and
Experiential Education, 1985;
University of Colorado, graduate studies in Philosophy,
Psychology, and Organizational Development, 1963-73. B.A., Dartmouth
College, Philosophy and Literature, 1963.
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Rick founded and has been
director of Colorado-based Outdoor Leadership Training Seminars
(OLTS) since 1973, providing outdoor leaders
with extensive training in technical skills, leadership, and
group process. Rick has worked for Outward Bound, and been a
mountain
guide, ski instructor, river outfitter, and corporate trainer.
His special interests include deep ecology, ecopsychology, telemark
skiing, and the practice of tai chi chuan.
Rick is also the program director and a faculty member for the College’s Ph.D. Program. |
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James Pittman
Environmental Studies (Associate Faculty)
M.Sc. with distinction, University of Edinburgh, Ecological Economics, 2004;
M.A., Antioch University Seattle, Whole Systems Design, 2001;
B.A., Prescott College, Ecopsychology, Education and Sustainability, 1997.
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James Pittman is an Associate Faculty member in the MAP Environmental
Studies department with focus on the Concentration in Sustainability
Science and Practice and a resource consultant for the college's
Ph.D. program in Sustainability Education. He is also the Managing
Director of a leading ecological economics think-tank and
consultancy, the non-profit Earth Economics in Seattle, where he has
spent several years as a Senior Consultant serving public and private
sector clients with a focus on ecosystem service modeling,
sustainability indicator assessment and stakeholder engagement
facilitation.
James has been a sustainability consultant for over a decade, serving
as a consultant to the President's Council on Sustainable
Development, the USDA Forest Service, the US Department of Energy the
City of Washington D.C., the Washington State Department of Ecology,
the EcoSage Corporation, a Fortune 50 software corporation as well as
various other agencies, corporations, non-profits and public
utilities.
With strong entrepreneurial inclinations he worked with
others to found and/or manage a number of non-profit organizations
and businesses. He teaches systems thinking and dynamic modeling at
the prestigious Bainbridge Graduate Institute in their Sustainable
Business MBA program. He is also a published author and accomplished
speaker in collaboration with an extensive international network of
colleagues in ecological economics, organizational development and
education for sustainability.
James also serves as a resource consultant for the College’s Ph.D. Program. |
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Dereka Rushbrook
Humanities (Associate Faculty)
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Geography, 2005; M.S., University of Texas at Austin, Economics, 1997; B.S., University of Pittsburgh, Economics and Political Science, Certificate in Latin American Studies, 1985.
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Dereka's doctoral work centered on the global political economy and human-environment interactions of resource-intensive artisanal production in the highlands of central Mexico. Her graduate studies in economics were also focused on issues of development and social justice in Latin America, specifically agricultural export diversification in Central America. Her areas of academic interest also include sexuality and space, border studies and immigration, and social justice movements, especially along the Arizona-Sonora border. In addition to her work at Prescott, Dereka teaches classes at the University of Arizona such as Gender and Geography, Arizona and the Southwest, and Urban Growth and Development.
Dereka is also an affiliate faculty for the College’s Ph.D. Program. |
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Lloyd Sharp
Education, Interim Chair (Associate Faculty)
M.A., University of Arizona, Teaching and Teacher Education, 1995; B.A., University of Arizona, Education, 1973.
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A native of Arizona, Lloyd Sharp holds a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in English and a Master of Arts in Teaching and Teacher Education. For twenty-five years, she lived on the border of Mexico in a rural ranching area and, for several years, taught all four levels of high school English in Patagonia, Arizona. She works as a freelance writer and has taught composition for Pima Community College in Tucson since 1994. In addition, Lloyd has taught multicultural adolescent literature for Northern Arizona University in the NAU-Nogales School-Based Teacher Education Partnership. At Prescott College, she has served as a mentor for ADP education courses, as a graduate advisor in MAP, and as faculty for the MAP Education program at the Tucson Center. She is passionate about gardening, teaching, teacher education, and the written word. Lloyd is currently working on the publication of a collection of essays of place.
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Camille Smith
Counseling and Psychology (Associate Faculty)
M.A., Lesley University, Expressive Art Therapies, 1990; B.A., Bridgewater State College, Art, 1988.
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Camille is a graduate of Lesley University. She has focused her professional practice on using creative expression to assist others in achieving their personal potential. Camille has concentrated her efforts in the area of psychiatric disability, speaking internationally about the power of creative expression in recovery. She is a former associate faculty for Arizona State University, teaching Art Therapy courses, and former Clinical Director of Art Awakenings.
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Paul
Smith
Counseling and Psychology (Associate Faculty)
M.A., The Naropa Institute, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology,
1995; B.A., Earlham College, Environmental Studies and Educational
Perspectives, 1982.
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Paul brings together a background in education, counseling,
and ecology, with 15 years leading, training staff for, and
managing wilderness-based adventure programs. Paul has worked
for several outdoor programs, including 10 years with Outward
Bound. While Paul has worked with a wide range of populations,
from chemically dependent or adjudicated youth, to perpetrators
of domestic violence, he most enjoys working with young adults
committed to making a difference in their own lives and in
the world around them.
Paul is also a faculty member for the College’s Resident Degree Program.
"I am committed to exploring practical ways in which
we can become more fully human, and by so doing, co-create
increasingly sustainable and healthy patterns for living."
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Jordana DeZeeuw Spencer
Education (Associate Faculty)
M.S., University of New Hampshire, Experiential Education, 2001; B.A., Yale University, Theatre Studies and Literature, 1995.
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Jordana DeZeeuw Spencer received her M.S. in Experiential Education from the University of New Hampshire and her B.A. from Yale University. She has taught in both public and private schools, nationally and internationally, ranging from Massachusetts to California and South Africa to Greece. In addition to her classroom experience, Jordana has facilitated eight seasons of programs through Interlocken: Center for Experiential Learning (for which she traveled with students across Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Hawaiian Islands) and toured her one-woman, Shakespeare show, Muse of Fire, to demonstrate the universal themes represented in the Bard’s canon. Jordana was the creator and first coordinator for the residential, post-secondary Bridge Year Program, an academically rigorous, semester or year-long experience, which engages students in vocational internships, cross-cultural exchanges, service learning, and scholarship. Jordana’s graduate research examined the efficacy of experiential education in cross-cultural programs to enhance students’ moral development, and her passion is education for social change. Jordana complements her MAP faculty responsibilities with full-time teaching in Prescott’s undergraduate program (RDP) and serving as a graduate advisor to MAP students.
Jordana is also an educator with the College’s Resident Degree Program.
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Priscilla Stuckey
Humanities (Associate Faculty)
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Religion and Gender, 1997; M.A., Pacific School of Religion, Historical Studies, 1985; B.A., Goshen College, Interdisciplinary: Music, Bible, Religion, 1979; B.S. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Psychology, 1973.
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In her doctoral work Priscilla studied feminist theory and world religions, investigating the constructions of gender and nature in religious groups using theory from history, anthropology, and philosophy. Gender justice was at the heart of her master's program as well, with its emphasis on American women's religious history. The arts have been an important influence throughout her life, beginning in her childhood with a capella singing in church and continuing in college as a music major studying and teaching oboe and voice; more recently she has become a ceramic artist, with a special interest in pit fire methods. Since 1983 she has worked as a professional book editor and has coached many authors toward completion of their manuscripts. In her spare time she advocates on behalf of urban creeks and was the founder and first president of a small land trust preserving creek headwaters in Oakland, California. Her academic work now spans the humanities, drawn together by issues of spirituality, culture, and the environment.
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Arlene Ustin
Adventure Education (Associate Faculty)
M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley, Public Health Education and Planning, 1984; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Education and Curriculum Development, 1983; B.A., Hunter College, University of the City of New York, Fine Arts and Art History, 1965.
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In 1966, during the Civil Rights Movement, Arlene began her career in education as a teacher of Fine Arts in a junior high school in The South Bronx, New York City. Six years later she joined the North Carolina Outward Bound School as the first woman to hold a permanent program position in the U.S. Outward Bound Movement. As Program Specialist and Course Director she spearheaded the transition from serving male adolescents emphasizing physical skills and group cohesion to offering coeducational courses emphasizing self-actualization, active compassion, and wilderness-living competencies. She also compiled the first book of inspirational readings, the first instructor’s manual that addressed social dynamics as well as technical skills, and revised the trail foods program based on the nutritional information of the day. Six years later she joined the Kurt Hahn-inspired Athenian School as Director of the Athenian Wilderness Experience (AWE), a graduation requirement. During her twenty-eight year tenure, Arlene also developed the community service program into a graduation requirement, designed individualized student internships and non-competitive physical educational courses, and facilitated student and faculty national and international exchanges. She is currently active with Florida educators and political figures committed to implementing quality Service-Learning in all of its public schools. Whether in an inner city, the wilderness, or a suburban landscape, recognizing and honoring diversity in its myriad complexities, seeking the development of the unique potential in each of her students, encouraging the pursuit of excellence in worthy endeavors, and responding to issues of social justice are the touchstones in her work.
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Last updated July 23, 2008
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