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2020
CLAS OFFICERS PRESIDENT, AD HOC Mark Sand 860-389-6778 (C) [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT, AD HOC Garry Guertin 860-919-4175 (C) 860-621-9945(H) [email protected] SECRETARY, AD HOC Penny Christy 860-638-3803 (H) [email protected] TREASURER, AD HOC Robert Zirpolo 860-620-3754 (H) [email protected]
CT LIGHTER THAN
AIR SOCIETY
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2020 CALENDAR of
EVENTS
2019 CLAS BI-MONTHLY MEETINGS:
(held on even numbered months on the 3rd Thursday). Due to the
pandemic all meetings will be held by ZOOM until further notice.
April 16—cancelled August 20 October 15
December 17
CLAS ANNUAL SUMMER PICNIC Postponed until further notice Panthorn Park, Plantsville, CT
NEXT CLAS BI-MONTHLY MEETING Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm
by ZOOM. Link provided by email.
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
2020 CLAS OFFICERS 2
2020 CALENDAR of
EVENTS 2
CLAS COMMITTEES 3
2020 SCHEDULE OF
FESTIVALS 3
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 4
MESSAGE FROM THE
EDITOR 4
DOCUMENTARY “BALLOON MAN”
FEATURING BILL COSTEN
8
A PICTURE IS WORTH
A THOUSAND WORDS 14
NEW TREASURER
NEEDED 15
FROM THE CREW
CHIEF’S CORNER 16
COPING BY DOING 20
CLAS MEMBERSHIP FORM
24
T H E S C O O P
P A G E 3
COMMITTEES
“THE SCOOP” EDITOR:
Jamie Whitman
WEBMASTER:
Judith Russell
AUDIT:
Mark Sand
Rick Silva
COMPETITION:
Mark Sand
Erwin Dressel
EDUCATION:
Garry Guertin
Penny Christy
FAA:
Santo Galatioto
SAFETY SEMINAR:
Penny Christy
Mark Sand
Rob Macfarlane
Pam Bogart-Macfarlane
SUNSHINE:
Tony Roswell
WINTER DINNER:
Ellen Dressel
Rob Macfarlane
Pam Bogart-Macfarlane
MEMBERSHIP:
Ellen Dressel
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2020 SCHEDULE of HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVALS
Note: Due to the pandemic be sure to verify dates of festivals before
attending. I’ve verified all dates below but this is a fluid situation that may
yet cause dates below to change.
Letchworth Red, White & Blue Balloon Rally
Castile, NY
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Plainville Hot Air Balloon Festival
Norton Park, Plainville, CT
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Stoweflake Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival
Stowe, VT
July 10-12, 2020
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival
Dutchess County Fairgrounds
July 10-12, 2020
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL. DATES TBA
New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning
Solberg Airport, Readington, NJ
RESCHEDULED to October 16-18, 2020 due to the pandemic
Saratoga Balloon & BBQ Festival
Ballston Spa, NY
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Hot Air Affair Rising Above Cancer
Williamston S.C.
RESCHEDULED to September 4-7, 2020 due to the pandemic
Quechee Hot Air Balloon Festival
Quechee, VT
RESCHEDULED to September 11-13, 2020 due to the pandemic
Adirondack Balloon Festival
Floyd Bennett Field Queensbury, NY
September 17-20, 2020
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta ‘19
Albuquerque, NM
October 5-13, 2019
CANCELLED for 2020 due to the pandemic
Greenville’s Hot Air Balloon Festival & Victory Cup Polo Match
Simpsonville, S.C.
November 2, 2019
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Fellow CLAS Members,
CLAS held its first virtual/ZOOM meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Thanks much to Jude Russell for offering the use
of her ZOOM account. Upwards of 12 members participated. CLAS business was discussed followed by catching up on
who was flying and how all were managing through this pandemic. Although I’m sure we all missed our usual in-person
gathering it was good to see each other, even if it was through a computer screen. Our August meeting will also be via
ZOOM. Details will be sent out by email. Hopefully we will be able to meet the “old fashioned” way in the not too dis-
tant future. Be safe and healthy. Ϙ
Mark Sand, President
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A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
Dear Fellow CLAS Members,
So far this pandemic has cancelled all of our club activities. I’d like to know what you’re up to instead of flying. How are
you doing through this pandemic? If you’re out of work, are you volunteering? Tell us about it. Include a photo or two.
Are you walking or bike riding to get a break from the cabin fever? Maybe you’ve done a great job of losing weight, like
Gary and Santo. Maybe your tomato seedlings are now giving wonderful tomatoes and being eaten by a baby ground hog
and rabbits...like Mark and I. Are you tackling that project you’ve procrastinated for so long? In the last issue of The
Scoop Charmaine Rohde shared what she’s been making fabric face masks to help protect others during this pandemic. I
know this idea is not balloon related but in this crazy time, let’s not lose touch with each other. Let’s stay connected.
Send me your photos and stories of how you’re coping. It would be great to hear from you. And know, if you need any-
thing, let us know. We’ll find a way to get you what you need. Let’s stay
CLAS COMMUNITY STRONG. Ϙ
Jamie Whitman, Editor
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Adirondack Balloon Festival Glens Falls, NY
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Adirondack Balloon Festival, Glens Falls, NY 2017
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Chantal Potter's film, "Balloon Man" has just won an Award of Merit Special Mention in the category of Documentary Fea-
ture from Impact DOCS!!
Impact DOCS recognizes film, television, videography and new media professionals who demonstrate exceptional achieve-
ment in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment or contribute to profound social change. Doc-
umentaries were received from 30 countries, including veteran award winning filmmakers and fresh new talent. Entries
were judged by highly qualified and award winning professionals in the film and television industry.
In winning an Impact DOCS award, Made For T.V. Productions joins the ranks of other high-profile winners of this interna-
tionally respected award including the Oscar winning director Louie Psihoyos for his 2016 Best of Show – Racing Extinc-
tion, Oscar winner Yael Melamede for (Dis) Honesty – The Truth About Lies, and Emmy Award winner Gerald Rafshoon
for Endless Corridors narrated by Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, and many more.
Rick Prickett, who chairs Impact DOCS, had this to say about the latest winners, “The judges and I were simply blown
away by the variety and immensely important documentaries we screened. Impact DOCS is not an easy award to win. En-
tries are received from around the world from powerhouse companies to remarkable new talent. Impact DOCS helps set
the standard for craft and creativity as well as power catalysts for global change. The goal of Impact DOCS is to help win-
ners achieve the recognition they deserve for their dedication and work.”
MORE GOOD NEWS FOR CHANTAL POTTER’S “BALLOON MAN”
“BALLOON MAN” WINS IMPACT DOCS AWARD
by Bill Costen
The documentary, BALLOON MAN is the story of Hartford’s Bill Costen, CLAS member, former NFL player, photogra-
pher, and the first African American hot air balloon Master pilot in the world. With his Costen Cultural Exhibition he has
inspired and educated the masses.
BALLOON MAN is being directed and produced by his talented daughter Chantal Potter, a former director/ producer at
Black Entertainment Television (BET).
Ever since she started her own TV production company while majoring in Communications at Howard University, she
wanted to feature her dad in a documentary film. She has been flying with her Dad in balloons since she was a baby and
has literally spent thousands of dollars out of pocket, and years of her time making this film.
The film was accepted into the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France as well the Rhode Island Black Film Festival in
Providence, Rhode Island and the Maryland International Film Festival.
The film recently won a Gold Remi Award in the Features Documentary Category of The 53rd Annual WorldFest-
Houston International Film Festival. Previous winners of the award include Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Ϙ
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Above: Adirondack Balloon Festival, Glens Falls, NY 2017
Below: Aloft Balloon Festival, Simpsonville, SC 2014
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Adirondack Balloon Festival
Glens Falls, NY 2017
Above: Keith Sproul”s “Scorch”
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WE HAVE LOTS OF GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS AND STORY TELLERS IN
OUR MEMBERSHIP. WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. PLEASE SHARE
YOUR BALLOONING PHOTOS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND STORIES WITH
US. YOU CAN FORWARD YOUR PHOTOS AND STORIES TO ME TO BE
INCLUDED IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF “THE SCOOP”:
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Adirondack Balloon Festival Glens Falls, NY 2017
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS - Confucius
“PARADE” by Tom Smith
For most of the last decade our ballooning family has spent
the 4th of July holiday in the little hamlet of Old Lyme, Con-
necticut. It also happens that on that same weekend, there
is an annual patriotic parade to celebrate the independence
of our country. It is a small non-commercial event that en-
courages its kids to decorate their bikes. Awards are pre-
sented by kid’s age groups for patriotic costumes.
Also in the parade, the Fire Dept. includes one of its
pumper trucks, with the siren randomly announcing its pres-
ence and the police presence is represented by a Probie rid-
ing in the department’s 4 wheeler. The cadence is kept by
the senior’s community marching band and VFW members
present the Flag Line. Yes, it is a small town event.
After my Grandkids had tried costumes of the Statue of
Liberty, Uncle Sam and a Sailor in previous years, it was
time for another Project with Grandpa. This time Stefan and I
designed and built his costume, a kid sized Gas Balloon.
The gondola is a cube built out of ½” PVC pipes and con-
nectors covered with blue masking tape. From the two side
handrails we built a super-structure to support the Gas Bag.
The bottom was left open. The simulated wicker is a large
piece of cardboard. With a Magic Marker, a matrix of 3” sq.
boxes were drawn on the cardboard and then it was Stef-
an’s job to fill the adjacent squares with alternating horizon-
tal and vertical lines to simulate a weave. The upper and
lower basket edges were covered with sections of foam-
rubber pipe insulation. Adjustable shoulder straps were
secured to the fore and aft rails. Simulated sand bags were
filled with crumbled news paper and hung over board. A
30” party balloon was inflated with air, sealed and secured
to the super structure. The addition of American flags, along
with the previously used Uncle Sam hat, won Stefan the,
Most Patriotic Costume. Ϙ
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NEW TREASURER NEEDED
After many years of faithful service as our treasurer, Robert Zirpolo is stepping down. He
will stay on until he prepares and files our tax forms for 2019. We need someone to as-sume the position. Robert will train his successor and will provide CLAS with a copy of
QuickBooks, the software he uses to host our records. If anyone would like to step up and
be our treasurer let me know at [email protected] or 860-389-6778. Robert indicated the
position does not have a steep learning curve and does not require a lot of time to main-
tain the records. Ϙ
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Little friends help to pack up “Mystical Flyer: at Aloft Balloon Festival, Simpsonville, SC 2014
FROM THE CREW CHIEF’S CORNER
Part 10 of 52
by Gordon Schwontkowski
FAQs: FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
Get ready, get used to it, and get into it – talking about ballooning is a vital part of keeping our sport healthy and alive. Anyone
around a balloon – including first-time crew – is fair game as a target of the roughly 50 standard questions balloonists most often
get asked. Inquiring minds want to know, and YOU have all the answers (or so they think). For their satisfaction and your sanity,
it’s wise to have prepared answers ready.
First things first. Your first priority is safeguarding your pilot, passengers, crew, equipment, and everyone/everything nearby – pe-
riod. Answering questions come after your most pressing tasks. There’s never a time JUST for questions, so learn to talk as you
work. Often you can ask one yourself (Would you like to help out?) and lighten your work as you answer theirs.
Below are ballooning’s top 50 FAQs and replies that will satisfy most inquiring minds. Brief answers (10-20 words) often suffice.
Tailor them to your particulars, but have your entire crew memorize them so they can answer without hesitation – master the
basics. Quiz your crew too:
GETTING INVOLVED
How you started: always wanted to, curious, invited out, balloon landed nearby – keep it brief
Licenses (certificates): FAA issues to pilots after required written, oral, and flight exams for both private and com-
mercial certificates
Pilot training: check with our pilot or refer to local instructor
Crew needed: 2-4 can set up and take down in 15-30 minutes. More isn’t always faster
Joining a crew: simple – just ask! Check with our pilot or crew chief or refer to local pilot
What crew get: experiences, friends, and memories. Many pilots try to fly crew after a few flights. Commercial pilots
may pay crew, but very few can earn a living doing this
Buying a ride: check with our pilot, local listings, or internet (referrals drive business!)
Events: check with local chamber of commerce or internet websites for places/dates
Can you give me a ride: I’d love to, but it’s not my decision. You could crew for awhile or talk with a commercial
pilot (yours or others) about purchasing a ride
EQUIPMENT
Cost: varies with size and options. New sport package runs $25-30K, used ones are less
Balloon fabric: ripstop nylon or polyester with coatings, roughly 1200 square yards of it
Lifespan: about 4-600 flight hrs before replacing upper fabric, care/operation determine
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Size: average 3-person model is 65-80’ tall, 50-60’ across, and holds 70-100K cubic feet of air (or the same number of
basketballs). Sizes range to carry 1-20 people
Basket material: wicker (traditional, absorbs landing shock, nonconductive)
Weight: fabric weight 200# or more, basket with fuel adds another 4-600# and up
Burner output: 10-20 million BTUs at 1000+°F. Home furnace output = 50-200,000 BTUs
Burner fuel: liquid propane, the same fuel your backyard grill uses
Instruments: altimeter (altitude), variometer (climb/descent rate), pyrometer (balloon temperature), fuel remaining/
pressure gauges. Many pilot carry aircraft radios and GPS’s
THE FLIGHT
How balloons fly: hot air rises in cooler less dense air (at all temperatures)
What it’s like: varies. Floating on a cloud, standing on a 10th story balcony without the building, world just gliding
beneath you, perfectly quiet, no sensation of movement, etc.
Capacity: a pilot and 2-3 passengers, but larger balloons carry up to 20 people
When: the 2 hours after sunrise and before sunset when winds are calmest, any
season in good weather
Duration: most flights last about an hour
Distance: usually 5-10 miles, but varies with wind, fuel onboard, and landing site
choices
Height: mostly ranges from treetop to 1-2000’, oxygen required above 12,500’
How fast: same as wind speed; most pilots prefer under 10mph for launch/landing safety
Weather: stable conditions, good visibility, no rain, light winds in good direction is ideal
Temperature: often same as ground, no wind chill, 2-3°F drop for every 1000’ of altitude
Steering: officially, none; climb or descend to find varying speeds and directions
Climb/descend: add heat; let the balloon cool or vent off hot air
Landing sites: accessible areas like backyards, school grounds, cut crop fields, sides of roads. Airports are not re-
quired but you can arrange landing at many in-flight if needed
Land where launch: rarely and in certain locations; most flights travel in one direction
Landing experience: usually touch the ground and slide a few feet to a stop. In wind, basket might bounce, tip at an
angle, or lay over and drag to a stop
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First things first. Your
first priority is safeguard-
ing your pilot, passengers,
crew, equipment, and
everyone/everything
nearby – period.
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Getting back: crew driving beneath you during the flight in truck take equipment and passengers back to meeting/
launch site afterwards
Champagne: French tradition to pacify angry farmers and frightened villagers who’d never seen a balloon. Today, the
tradition continues for passengers to celebrate their flight
Competition: accuracy, not speed. Top pilots fly several miles to one or more targets and drop markers within inches!
Round the world flights: helium/hot air hybrid balloon 5-10X the average hot air balloon’s size and very expensive!
SAFETY
How safe: statistically, one of the safest forms of aviation, but only as safe as you make it
Equipment inspections: once a year or every 100 flight hours
Combustibility: fabric won’t sustain a flame but can melt. Lower Nomex is fireproof
Accidents: rare and preventable, but they occasionally occur
Mid-air contact: usually planned; fabric-to-fabric generally safe, basket-to-fabric less so
Planes: balloon has the right-of-way, safe separation distances prevent turbulence issues
Power lines: pose a serious hazard but harmless when proper precautions are taken. Most pilots never strike a power
line in their entire flying career
Burner failure: built-in back-up system standard. If that fails, the balloon acts as parachute
Fabric damage: rip/hole up to 4’ long in lower fabric or much smaller tears in upper fabric won’t greatly affect volume
or lift. Immediate repair is required of any damage and eliminates the threat of weakened fabric strength
Bird collisions: bounce off tensed balloon fabric when both in flight
One sentence or two will satisfy most people. If you can’t answer a question, refer it to your pilot or crew chief. If you can’t an-
swer it right now, tell them to stop back a little later or hang around for a few minutes. Keep things conversational. Be patient
and polite – even when you’re sweating, panting, and swatting mosquitoes. Remember, you once asked these same questions, and
this isn’t about you – it’s about the person asking the questions and this sport.
You’ll answer these questions thousands of times in a year or flying career, but it’s crucial you don’t get testy or edgy. Here’s
why: YOU PERSONIFY BALLOONING! And you don’t know who the questioner is. Most people never see a balloon up close,
and you’re their big chance to talk with someone doing what they’ve only dreamed about. They don’t know this is your second
time crewing or first time as a crew chief. THEY are the landowner, your next paying passenger, the media, a potential student
pilot or festival sponsor, or one of the countless people it takes to keep ballooning alive. For commercial operators, this isn’t
about being polite – this is money in the bank.
You represent your pilot, crew, sponsor, festival, and sport every time you crew – whether you’re aware of that and like it or
not. Sure, you maybe had a bad day at work, are running late, or can’t find your gloves – the little time you can spare will almost
certainly bring a smile to someone’s face. There’s always a few seconds for that in life, and isn’t that what ballooning is about? You
never know what lies behind any question, so treat them all as doors to a better future for our entire sport! Ϙ
Based on the book “Hot Air Balloon Crewing Essentials” available through the author
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Aloft Balloon Festival, Simpsonville, SC 2014
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BACK TO WORK
by Jamie Whitman, Editor
After a year of working, non-stop, truly, over 100 hours/
week, as a hospice nurse, which I loved, I decided I need-
ed to resign. My break extended longer than I originally
intended but when Mark says things like “hey, you
wanna go to Iceland”, there’s no way I’m saying no!
Then Coronavirus came along and I really wanted to do
my part. So I went back to work full time as a visiting
nurse, which I loved but again, charting for home care has
a way of taking over your life. So I resigned. Now, final-
ly, I’m doing the nursing I’ve always pictured myself doing,
working in a hospital setting. I’ve been working full time
on a medical/surgical/telemetry unit at Windham Hospital
in Willimantic and am loving it. So far, no COVID-19 pa-
tients since I started, however, I have administered a num-
ber of nasal-pharyngeal swabs. I strongly suspect the situ-
ation will change this fall/winter.
During this pandemic I also volunteered to go grocery
shopping for cancer shut-ins which unfortunately, I’ve had
to stop doing since I’m back to full time work. Loving
gardening as I do and being so good for my soul, I was
also volunteering at the Coogan Farm Giving Garden.
However, I have had to put that on hold also since I went
back to work and need to save my back for my job. The
one volunteer activity I’ve kept up with is being a member
of the non-partisan organization, the League of Women
Voters of Southeastern CT. Recently I became a Board
member, working hard with a great team of people to
make sure EVERYONE has every opportunity to exercise
their precious right to vote. And since many older poll
workers are reluctant to work the polls during this pan-
demic, and rightfully so, I worked the polls on Primary
Day and will again for the presidential election.
Hopefully this “Mystical Flyer” crew chief and all of us will
be safely back in the skies before too long.
I hope all of you are safe and well. Frontline health care
professionals like myself are 3 times more likely to die
from Coronavirus. PPE is still not available as it should be
for frontline healthcare workers so, because I care about
your welfare and mine, please wear your masks, stay 6
feet apart and wash your hands often. I hope we all may
feel easy winds and soft landings again soon. Ϙ
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Ready to visit my next patient photo by Mark Sand
Packing harvested herbs at the Denison
Pequotsepos Coogan Farm Giving Garden
Mystic, CT
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A day of volunteering in the
Giving Garden is always fol-
lowed by a much-needed long,
hot bath, a heating pad and one
of these...for medicinal purpos-
es, of course...
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Crew member Janet Storrs helps pack up “Mystical Flyer” at the
Adirondack Balloon Festival
Glens Falls, NY 2017
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Aloft Balloon Festival Simpsonville, SC 2014
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CLAS Lighter Than Air Society
PO Box 633
Plainville, CT 06062
The Connecticut Lighter Than Air Society is a
club founded in 1988 for anyone interested in
learning about, participating in, and improving the
sport of ballooning. Pilots, crew, and enthusiasts
alike are welcome and ALL can contribute to the
safety, enjoyment and education of the sport.
Meetings are scheduled monthly on the 3rd
Thursday of even numbered months at 7:30 pm
by ZOOM until further notice. The ZOOM link
will be emailed to the membership prior to each
meeting. For more information, contact any of
the officers listed in this newsletter.
Publishing Information
The Scoop is published electronically by the second
Thursday of every third month. Submissions for The
Scoop are preferred by email to Editor Jamie Whit-
man at [email protected]. Photos, articles,
and ideas are always welcome. Information may be
mailed to: 142 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT
06355 or can be brought to any CLAS meeting and
given to the President, Mark Sand. All materials
should be received by the Editor at least two weeks
prior to the first Thursday of every third month for
inclusion.
The Connecticut Lighter Than Air Society publishes
this newsletter for its members and interested par-
ties. Portions of this newsletter may be reprinted if
credit is given to the writer and/or photographer,
and to CLAS. The opinions expressed are not nec-
essarily those of the organization or members of
this organization. For more information contact:
Editor, Jamie Whitman, 142 Greenmanville Avenue,
Mystic, CT 06355 Email [email protected];
Phone: 860-917-7634
CLAS
PLAINVILLE HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL, PLAINVILLE, CT 2014
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