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In honor of Amanda

Amanda Moore was just 23 when she unexpectedly died from an aneurysm.

Now her family is telling her story and spreading awareness in hopes that others won’t become an ‘unnecessary’ statistic. Page 6. » INSIDE: HEART HEALTH & HEREDITY • NURSING JOB PROSPECTS GRIM • MARCH HEALTH EVENTS

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Ask the Expert:

Hip Replacement

I need a total hip replacement but I’m concerned about the long healing time. Are there alternatives?

There is a relatively new approach to total hip surgery called Anterior Total Hip Arthroplasty, available at North Colorado Medical Center.

Potential Patient benefits include: Surgery is performed through the front of the hip instead of the side, which requires shorter, less-invasive incisions that don’t cut the muscle.

That typically makes it easier for your body to heal.

Patients may benefit from a quicker recovery time and shorter hospital stay so you can get back to doing what you love even sooner.

A smaller incision means patients will have less scarring.

Now is a great time to learn more about your options.

If you have any questions, contact Dr. Hale today.

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Ask the expert: Heart failure and heredity

By Missy Jensen For The Tribune

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failure is not typically a hereditary condition, though certain health conditions that do run in families may contribute to heart failure, such as high blood pressure.

Heart failure can be a confusing term because it doesn’t mean the heart has actually failed. Rather, the heart becomes incapable of meeting the body’s needs because it can no longer pump efficiently.

As a result, blood backs up into the veins, causing the kidneys to retain fluid

and tissues throughout the body to swell. This swelling, called edema, can affect the legs, the lungs and other organs.

Heart failure typically occurs as a result of other heart disease progressing.

In addition to high blood pressure, other conditions that ultimately cause heart failure include coronary artery disease, heart valve disorders, irregular heartbeat, diseases of the heart muscle, congenital heart disorders and illicit drugs.

People with heart failure often experience significant fatigue, difficulty breathing due to the swelling in their lungs, swollen legs and ankles, and an enlarged abdominal area from fluid retention. An individual experiencing any of these symptoms should see a doctor for a full evaluation.

Fortunately, even people with family history can often dramatically reduce their risk of developing heart failure and many other forms of heart disease by making positive lifestyle decisions. Eating a diet low in fat, cholesterol and sodium, getting regular exercise, maintaining a normal body weight, managing high blood pressure, and avoiding tobacco are all ways to prevent or at least slow the progression of heart disease.

Missy Jensen is a nurse practitioner who specializes in heart failure management at the Heart Failure Clinic at the CardioVascular Institute of North Colorado. For more information on this topic, talk with your doctor or call (970) 203-2411.

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Hearing Loss – What’s a Baby Boomer to do?

B

aby boomers are the largest generation of people ever born in this country. After World War II the United States went from having less than 2 Million births per year to 3.5 -4.2 Million births peryear. The world revolved around these children of the late 40s and 50s as schools, shopping center, cars, clothes, music, TV show, movies, universities, and many other things were built to accommodate them. Baby boomers all remember the 60s, rock and roll, Vietnam War, Woodstock, Haight/Ashberry, demonstrations, and the issues that have surrounded them all of their life.

This generation changed the world and now the first of this generation qualified for early Social Security in 2008 and full retirement in 2011 at a rate of about 10,000 per day. In this new century they are now beginning to have hearing problems from military noise, recreational noise, disease, and hereditary deafness. The Deafness Research Foundation indicates that, although the general rate of hearing loss is about 17% of the population, between ages 65- and 74 the incidence of hearing loss goes up to 30%. As the baby boomers age further, 47% of them will have hearing loss by age 75.

Denial of a Hearing Loss

General Types of Hearing Loss

Hearing Loss Cannot Be Hidden

The most common type of hearing loss a sensori-neural loss is one that either involves the sensory part of the system (Cochlea, the part that looks like a snail shell) or the neurological connections (Auditory Nerve, that connect to the snail shell) from the inner ear to the brain. This can be the result of noise exposure, disease, or hereditary deafness. Of course, the first option for any hearing loss is to

consider medical or surgical treatment of the impairment. In the hands of a skilled and experienced surgeon, procedures for the restoration of hearing have about an 85%+ success rate. Audiologists are well qualified to evaluate hearing and make appropriate referral to either a family physician or an ear specialist for medical treatment of ear disease and/or restorative surgery. Sometimes it is simply cerumen (wax) blocking the system, other times its disease that can be treated and other times it is a sensori neural hearing impairment that has no treatment protocol except hearing instruments.

Patients with sensori-neural hearing loss do not lose their hearing overnight, is usually a very gradual onset and one that is usually noticed by those are the closest to the patient. For example, a classic statement from a patient is, “I think I am fine, my wife (or husband) thinks I have a hearing loss”. The people that know the person the best are those that tend to notice it first.

Once it appears that there is a hearing impairment to patient, the literature indicates that it takes 5-7 years before they will consider the assistance of hearing instruments. In that time there are lots of excuses. Here are but a few of the classics I have collected over 40 years of clinical practice: • I hear fine, other people mumble.

• I only have trouble in noisy places.

• I hear what I need to hear.

• It’s not bad enough to get hearing aids.

• I probably just have some wax in my ears.

Due to their denial patients often give up their favorite activities, avoid difficult listening situations, lose their sharpness, shift the burden of communication to others, and in the process often cause their loved ones to give up trying to communicate.

It is difficult to hide the fact that there is a hearing impairment. Here are some useful methods to determine if someone you know has a hearing loss: • People with a hearing loss will answer questions with the wrong answer.

• People with hearing loss will confuse similar words, such as may, bay, pay or seven, heaven or eleven.

• People with hearing loss do turn the television up too loud.

• People with a hearing loss ask for repetition, often say “what?” or Huh?” Patients must admit to themselves that they have a permanent hearing impairment that will not be cured by medication, and generally not by surgical intervention. They must admit it to themselves because the rest of the world (friends, relatives, coworkers, and others) know that impairment is present.

Patient readiness for the rehabilitative process is key that the patient. While the products of the 21st century are fabulous, experience is that when people are not ready to experience amplified sound, hearing instruments are often unsuccessful. Sometimes people are pushed by relatives, an overzealous hearing aid sales person, rules of the job some other situation and rebel against the devices and their use. Sometimes it is type of hearing loss where the patient hears better for low pitched sounds than high pitched sounds and this creates a situation where they will hear OK sometimes, but have difficulty with high frequency speakers and when background noise will cover up their capability to predict what others are saying. These patients often feel as though they hear fine

and are difficult to convince that there is a hearing problem. If they do not realize there is a problem and purchase hearing instruments before they are ready, the devices are often destined for the dresser drawer.

Types of Hearing Instruments

Twenty first century hearing devices are exceptionally beneficial to the hearing impaired. A testament to that fact is that over the past 10 years the return rate for amplification products to manufacturers has gone from about 30% down to about 3-5%. This is due to new fitting techniques, new research in hearing, and both cosmetic and performance development of products offering more benefit from hearing instruments than ever before. When deciding on hearing instruments, patients must upon the general configuration of the instrument; should it be surgically implanted, extended wear, or daily wear.

Medical Treatment and Surgically Implanted Instruments

Surgical implantation of hearing instruments has been in development for quite some time and may be an option for some patients, especially those with profound hearing losses.

There are basically two types of implantable hearing devices, those that implant in the middle ear (behind the eardrum), stimulating or taking the place of the three middle ear bones; the hammer, anvil and stirrup. The other type is the cochlear implant that began as a crude electronic non beneficial device in the late 1940s and has evolved into an extremely beneficial instrument allowing many profoundly deaf individuals to hear. The cochlear implant uses a wire implanted into the inner ear and stimulates the cochlea electronically. Basically, these instruments capitalize on the various research designs that have been used on monkeys, guinea pigs, chinchillas, and other animals. They have also been built upon the products and protocols built over decades with brave human subjects under close supervision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since the surgical options change routinely, it is best to discuss these possible options with your audiologist or a physician/surgeon that is specialized in ear disease and surgery, such as an Otologist. These special devices may be implanted in the middle ear (behind the eardrum) for moderate hearing losses or in the inner ear as with cochlear implants for profound hearing losses. While the middle ear implants are used for patients with a moderate loss, cochlear implants are traditionally used for patients with a profound hearing loss that do not obtain benefit from a traditional hearing device. When applied correctly, both of these general surgical options have been found to very beneficial. By the time that a patient pays for the surgeon, the hospital, the devices and the rehabilitative intervention the costs for some of these instruments can be

expensive (~$30-40,000), but for some patients with a profound hearing loss these devices are their only option.

Extended Wear Instruments

These products are new to the market over the past four years, cleared by the FDA in 2008. Under development for 10 years, these instruments are like “contacts for your ears”. The devices are programmed according to the patients hearing loss and inserted into the ear canal about 4 mm from the eardrum. The instrument resides in that position amplifying the sound to the patient until the battery no longer has power which is usually 2-4 months.

These instruments do not compromise the patient’s lifestyle as they are totally invisible, no cleaning necessary, and, after a few days the patients do not even realize that the device is in their ear. The device can be worn in the shower, and generally works automatically. Though convenient, and beneficial it is, next to surgical implantation, the most expensive type of device as it is a renewable cost ($3,500-4,000) each year.

Traditional Hearing Instruments Most patients will choose traditional daily wear hearing instruments.

Traditional devices have come a long way in the past few years in both the fitting and device technology. In the

old days of hearing instruments the audiologist had to tune the patient to the instruments, now the device is simply tuned to the patient’s needs.

The instruments are now virtually all digital products in all sizes, from behind the ear to the newest invisible traditional device, the IIC. These days the instruments are fully automatic there with 6-48 amplifiers that will adjust the volume instantaneously, filter out the background noise, adjust to the wind noise, and change 2-6 special programs automatically for various situations. Additionally, most of these products can connect to the television, cell phones and other accessories via Bluetooth technology. They are truly “not your father’s hearing aids”.

A set of traditional digital hearing instruments can cost from low of about $2,000 to $8,500 where the highest cost devices have the best performance capability, while the lower cost instruments provide benefit but use older technology.

Epilogue

So, what’s a baby boomer to do? If you have questions about your hearing or that of a loved one, call an audiologist and begin the process to keep doing the things that you have always enjoyed……. have a hearing evaluation today by your local audiologist, they can keep you in the game!

Author’s Bio:

Robert M. Traynor, Ed.D., MBA, FAAA Robert M. Traynor is the CEO and practicing audiologist at Audiology Associates, Inc., Greeley, Colorado with particular emphasis in amplification and operative monitoring. Dr. Traynor holds degrees from the University of Northern Colorado (BA, 1972, MA 1973, Ed.D., 1975), the University of Phoenix (MBA, 2006) as well as Post-Doctoral Study at Northwestern University (1984). He taught Audiology at the University of Northern Colorado (1973-1982), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (197677) and Colorado State University (1982-1993). Dr. Traynor is a retired Lt. Colonel from the US Army Reserve, Medical Service Corps and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Audiology at the University of Florida, the University of Colorado, and the University of Northern Colorado. For 17 years he was an Audiology Consultant to major hearing instrument and equipment manufacturers providing academic and product orientation for their domestic and international distributors. A clinician and practice manager for over 35 years, Dr. Traynor has lectured on most aspects of Audiology in over forty countries.

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MARCH HEALTH EVENTS « Walk with a doc, 8 a.m.

March 16 at the south entrance of the Greeley Mall.

There will be an informal five-minute health talk, and a 30-minute walk (at your own pace). Families are encouraged to attend. There will be healthy snacks at the completion of the walk. Free blood pressure checks are available for those interested. Details: WalkwithaDoc. org.

« Day of dance, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

March 2, Greeley Family FunPlex, 1501 65th Ave. in Greeley. Featuring dancing and lessons, hands-on exhibits, healthy food demos, health screenings, time to “Ask-theDocs” with pediatrics, family practice, internal medicine, sports medicine and orthopedics. Free. Details: (970) 392-2222, or www.BannerHealth.com/NCMCspirit.

« Blood Tests, 7-8:45 a.m.

March 13 and 27, North Colorado Medical Center, Union Colony Room, Area C on the ground floor, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. Wellness Services offers low-cost blood screenings open to community members. Some immunizations also are available upon request and availability. Participants need to fast for 12 hours before the blood draw.

To make an appointment, call (970) 350-6633.

« Body Check Head To Toe,

March 5 and 19 at the Summit View Medical Commons, 2001 70th Ave. in Greeley.

Head-to-toe health screenings include blood work, sleep questionnaire, lung function test, body composi-

tion, hip and waist measurements, health education, EKG with results, bone density, peripheral arterial disease screenings, ultrasound of carotid vessels and ultrasound of aorta, $175. To schedule an appointment, call (970) 350-6070.

« CPR for health care provid-

ers initial, 5-8:30 p.m.

March 4 at North Colorado Medical Center, Longs Room, second floor, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. This class is designed for licensed and nonlicensed health care providers. Topics covered include cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway obstruction and rescue breathing for adult, children and infants. The certification is valid for two years. Cost: $55. To register, call (970) 350-6633.

« Cooking Class: Secrets To

Healthy Cooking, 6-7:30 p.m. March 19 at North Colorado Medical Center, Cardiac Rehab Kitchen, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. Easy ways to make your everyday meals healthier and tastier. Recipes and samples are included.

Taught by Mary Branom, R.D. Cost: $10. To register, call (970) 350-6633.

« Heartsaver CPR with AED,

7-9 p.m. March 20 at the Greeley Family FunPlex, 1501 65th Ave. in Greeley. The class is taught by American Heart Association certified health care professionals and covers adult and infant/ child CPR, obstructed airway, the Heimlich maneuver, the use of a barrier device, and AED hands-on training.

Participants will receive a

Heartsaver course completion card valid for two years.

Cost: CPR, $48; First Aid: $45, Combo: $88. To register, call (970) 350-9401.

« Heartsaver CPR with AED

— Windsor, 6-8 p.m. March 7 at Windsor Recreation Center, 250 11th St. Taught by the American Heart Association certified health care professionals, this class covers adult and infant/ child CPR, obstructed airway, Heimlich maneuver, and the use of a barrier device. Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a Heartsaver course completion card good for two years.

To register, call (970) 6743500. Cost: $48.

« CT Heart Score Screening, 1

and 2 p.m. Mondays-Fridays at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. This is a noninvasive test that measures the amount of calcified plaque in the arteries. The Heart Score program includes a 10-minute consultation with a wellness specialist, focusing on cardiac risk factor education, identification of nonmodifiable and modifiable risks, and lifestyle behavior change options. To make an appointment, call (970) 350-6070.

Cost: $199.

« Safe sitter, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

March 28 at the Windsor Recreation Center, 250 11th St. Safe Sitter is a one-day, six-hour curriculum designed for 11- to 13-year-olds.

Participants learn care of the choking infant and child, babysitting as a business, success on the job, child care

essentials, safety for the sitter, preventing injuries, injury and behavior management and preventing problem behavior. To register, call (970) 674-3500.

« Yoga basics, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays March 6-April 17 at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. An introduction to the foundational poses in a beginning yoga practice. This class will focus on careful physical alignment for the creation of a safe practice that students can take into their homes or other yoga classes. Yoga basics will also emphasize yoga as a tool for strength, flexibility and balance. This class is for students of most physical abilities. To register, call (970) 350-6633. Cost: $48.

« Yoga flow, 5:30-6:30,

Mondays March 4-April 8 at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. Explore the strength, cardiovascular stamina and freedom of flexibility offered through the practice of yoga flow. This class offers traditional yoga poses linked together through movements called Vinyasa, which means to move with purpose.

The flow style of moving practice puts the body into a fat-burning zone through anaerobic activity. Yoga Flow is for students of all levels. To register, call (970) 350-6633.

« Living Well with Diabe-

tes Program, individual appointments and group classes in Greeley, Loveland, Windsor and Johnstown by calling (970) 392-2344.

Education offered for patients with diabetes, and their caregivers or families, to provide knowledge, skills and tools to successfully manage their diabetes. Topics include nutrition, activity, monitoring, medications, problem solving, healthy coping, reducing risks, weight loss, insulin, or considering insulin pump therapy.

392-2344 to schedule an appointment.

« Diabetes Information

Group, 7-8 p.m. March 12 at North Colorado Medical Center, Colonial Room, 1801 16th St. in Greeley. For people with diabetes, their family, friends, caregivers or anyone with an interest in diabetes. To register, call (970) 392-2344.

« Diabetes and Pregnancy

« Cancer Support Group,

education, offered weekly at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley.

For women with type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes to teach skills needed to care for themselves during pregnancy. Topics include: healthy eating, being active, blood glucose monitoring, medications, problem solving, healthy coping and reducing risks. The goal is to help you and your baby stay healthy. Cost: $10. Call (970)

5:30-7 p.m. Tuesdays at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley.

« Breast Cancer Support

Group, 5:30-7 p.m. March 7 at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley.

« Man-to-Man Prostate

Cancer Support Group, 5:30-7 p.m. March 21 at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St. in Greeley.

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IN HONOR OF AMAN Family speaks out after young woman dies unexpectedly from

By Alison Noon gtreporters@greeleytribune.com

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manda Moore was oblivious to the deadly bubble growing inside her own head.

The pregnant mother of two visited her doctor multiple times during her third pregnancy to address her intense headaches, nausea and blurry vision, her aunt said. But headaches and nausea are common in pregnancy, and she was told to take Tylenol and rest.

The 23-year-old certified nursing assistant’s health problem climaxed on the morning of Feb. 1, when the aneurysm in Moore’s head ruptured while she was driving to work at Windsor Health Care Center. She died three days later, leaving her family in shock.

Up to 6 percent of the American population is living with aneurysms at any given time, according to the American Association for Neurological Surgeons, and Moore was one of many whose diagnosis came too late.

Moore’s mother, Tracy Friebus of Ault, also works at the health center and watched her daughter’s car wreck unfold in her own car. The crash was the least of their problems — Moore’s newly ruptured aneurysm put her life, as well as her 8-month-old’s life, at risk.

The crash was deemed medically caused, according to Colorado State Patrol spokesman Trooper John Lewis, and Moore was rushed from the location of the wreck at Weld County roads 33 and 72 to North Colorado Medical Center just after 7 a.m.

Greeley doctors determined that her brain was bleeding and Moore was flown to Swedish Medical Center in Denver for surgery. Her baby girl, Baylar Tiger, was safely delivered just after 11 a.m.

Christy Lynn Young, a neurologist at NCMC, said 10 percent of people with

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com

CRISTI RYAN’S REFLECTION IS caught in a photo of her niece Amanda Moore. Moore died from an aneurysm.

One thing we’ve all learned from this is to not ignore what your body is telling you. If someone had paid more attention to this or if Amanda had been firmer and said, ‘This isn’t right,’ then we wouldn’t be in this situation and Baylar would have had her mother.”

— CRISTI RYAN, Amanda Moore’s aunt

ruptured brain aneurysms die before they reach the hospital and only one-third of

those who pull through surgery have good results.

Moore’s family watched that statistic become reality as their beloved “Manda” went through two brain surgeries. She showed no brain activity on Feb. 4, and Moore’s family made the difficult decision to take her off life support.

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CRISTI RYAN HOLDS A picture of her niece, Amanda Moore, Feb. 15, while sitting in her home in Greeley. Moore died from an aneurysm she suffered while driving to work.

» For more » The Brain Aneurysm Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing awareness, education, support and research funding to reduce the incidence of brain aneurysms. Go to www.bafound.org. » The American Stroke Association is a division of the American Heart Association. It offers information about a wide variety of programs, products and services, from patient education materials to cutting-edge information for health care professionals. For more information, go to

www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/ » National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke works to reduce the burden of neurological disease through research, grants to institutions and people in the field, and collecting and disseminating information related to neurological disorders. For more, go to www.ninds. nih.gov/index.htm Source: National Institutes of Health

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By Katharina Buchholz gtreporters@greeleytribune.com

Rebecca Northup chose her nursing major at the University of Northern Colorado for the job security. But this security is no longer a reality for some graduates of nursing programs in Colorado.

While just a few years ago, experts said nursing was the fastest-growing field and foretold a severe shortage of RNs to care for an aging population, nursing college faculty are now painfully aware that new graduates are hurting for jobs.

“I had a friend who took 1 1/2 years to find a job as a nurse in Colorado,” Northup said.

Inexperienced nurses are hit especially hard.

An analysis by Colorado Public News found 752 openings advertised statewide among six employers. But only four of those jobs were open to new graduates.

Recruiter Dee Cook of S.O.S. Healthcare Staffing said she hates having to turn away the new graduates. But, she said, “hospitals want experience. It’s a huge liability kind of industry, and you have to know what you’re doing.”

Karren Kowalski, CEO of the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence, said another reason is the $60,000 to $90,000 it costs to teach new nurses a particular hospital or clinic system.

Some hospital groups offer paid nursing residencies. But the competition is fierce. Children’s Hospital, for example, gets 500 applications a year for 44 slots.

The federal NURSE Corps helps pay student loans for nurses who will work in shortage-plagued rural areas and low-income clinics — but the program also has a glut of applicants.

Nationally, nursing bachelor’s degrees doubled in 10 years, from 73,000 to 161,000.

However, in a down economy, many older nurses postponed their own retirement.

Sara Thompson, dean of the University of Colorado College of Nursing, said some of her 240 graduates a year expect to walk straight into an exciting top job, like the ones they saw on the television shows “ER”

and “Grey’s Anatomy.”

“They have to be willing to work in other settings, which are not as glamorous,” the dean said. She tells students to start out in a rural area, or to try working in long-term care.

However, recruiter Cook said hospitals do not consider long-term care as the type of experience they need.

Cook said she believes some nursing schools are not being honest with their students when they sign up. “I always ask them, ‘What did your school tell you? How did they help you when you hit graduation? Will they help you get placed?’ ” Nursing and pre-nursing students at UNC hoped that their school’s good reputation would help their chances on the job market.

They said that it was especially hard to land a job at a hospital, but that many specializations within nursing were not available in long-term care. Some, like freshman Vanessa Degraffenried, considered working as a missionary nurse, despite low pay. Nursing senior Northup hoped a clinical internship at a local hospital could be her foot in the door.

Despite the troubles, Thompson predicts the nursing shortage will return soon, when the older generation of nurses finally retires and because the Affordable Care Act will result in new patients beginning January of next year.

In fact, 37 percent of nurses in Colorado are 55 or older, with 9 percent older than 65, according to the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence.

The group’s CEO, Kowalski, said that after 30 years in the field, she’s seen this cycle happen over and over. “I would tell new nurses to hang in there, but find any kind of job in health care.” Kowalski predicts once the cliff occurs, Colorado will need 1,500 new nurses a year.

UNC pre-nursing freshman Makenzie Lewis said she was confident the situation wasn’t permanent.

“You’re gambling on the economy every day, and it’s horrible, but I have 4 1/2 years left,” she said. “Finger’s crossed, I’ll get a job.”

Carol McKinley from Colorado Public News contributed to this report.

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