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Horizons

FALL 2008

News Magazine | USD school of leadership and education sciences

Gearing up for internationalization: SOLES receives Longview Foundation grant.

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Joseph Rost awarded posthumous leadership award | 8

Horizons News Magazine | USD school of leadership and education sciences

Paula A. Cordeiro, Ed.D., Dean Steven Gelb, Ph.D., Associate Dean Linda Dews, Assistant Dean Gary A. Neiger, Director of

Development and Alumni Relations Paula S. Krist, Ph.D., Director of Assessment Tedi Kostka, Credential Analyst Rondi Stein, M.B.A., Budget and Operations Manager

F e at u r e s t o r y 2 | Gearing up for internationalization: SOLES receives Longview Foundation grant

d e pa r t m e n t s 6 | Around Hill Hall • July 4th Celebration

• ELDA Summer Institute

6 | Alumni News 7 | Faculty News New faculty and administrative appointments 7 | Advisory Board Members 8 | Joseph Rost receives posthumous honors 8 | SOLES Information Session Schedule 9 | Upcoming Events

5998 Alcalá Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Phone: (619) 260-4538 soles@sandiego.edu www.sandiego.edu/soles

F ro m t h e D e A N November 2008 Greetings from the University of San Diego, Change is on the horizon, and we in SOLES want to ensure our students are prepared for those changes. The fabulous picture on the cover of our news magazine, Horizons, was taken on a school visit last June to South Africa. Drs. Cheryl Getz and Lea Hubbard led a course exploring issues of equity and diversity in education. They visited faculty and students in three universities and numerous schools throughout the country. Whenever I see a photo of children I see the future of our planet—your and my future and that of our children. No matter where children are in the world, they belong to us all.

I have been asked numerous times: Why does SOLES require all students to have an international experience before graduating? The answer is simple. We live in a global society. The beautiful children on the cover of this news magazine may live in South Africa, but they could be in San Diego. America has always been and continues to be a land of immigrants. More than 60 languages are spoken in San Diego Schools alone. Clearly, our students in SOLES, no matter what program they are in, need to understand how other countries and cultures approach the issues they are studying.

Paula A. Cordeiro, Ed. D.

When our students visit other cultures and hear languages they don’t speak, they become more aware and understanding of the issues faced by immigrants or nonnative English speakers. I believe, and there is considerable research to support my belief, that our students will be better teachers, counselors, administrators, therapists and organizational leaders if they have experienced an internationalized curriculum, studied with faculty who speak other languages and conduct research in other cultures, and, when they themselves experience the challenges of being ‘different’.

Rapid jumps in learning can occur when there is ‘cognitive dissonance’: we in SOLES believe that an international experience has the potential to be a transformative learning experience. We believe the international initiatives of SOLES will prepare our students for the changes taking place in this world.

This issue of Horizons highlights some of our global activities. If you have an interest in the topics our students study when they study abroad, we would welcome you in joining us on a study tour.

Happy Spring to all!

Paula A. Cordeiro Dean and Professor 1

department of learning and teaching

Gearing up for

internationalization: SOLES receives Longview Foundation grant Department of Learning and Teaching has assumed a leadership role through the ITTE project. The project also

SOLES student Jenny Kressel with Costa Rican students.

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he Department of Learning and Teaching at SOLES has received a $30,000 grant from the Longview Foundation in 2008 to help the school in meeting the growing need for K-12 teachers who think globally, have international experience, show competence in a foreign language, and are able to incorporate these aspects into their teaching.

“The goal is for faculty to train globally competent, intercultural teachers,” says Reyes Quezada, Ed.D., professor and program director for the Interculturally Teaching in Teacher Education (ITTE) project. “The grant will assist us in our efforts to place a

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greater international emphasis as we develop curriculum in the Single and Multiple Subject Credential programs.”

According to Quezada, the ITTE project will support SOLES teacher education credential faculty in developing, implementing and disseminating intercultural global teacher preparation programs and best practices that include global knowledge and perspectives. “Nations that have high international rankings in education have made teacher training a priority,” he adds.

SOLES is currently in the first year of an internationalization initiative of curricular reform, as part of a five-year strategic plan launched in 2006. The

supports the University of San Diego’s strategic initiative to “become a more culturally diverse and culturally competent community through recruitment at all levels, deepening transborder and international educational partnerships, and involving students and faculty in international learning experiences.”

In addition to curriculum development and other goals, the grant will allow the department to sponsor a bimonthly speaker series on international teacher education.

Speakers will be invited to address issues of global education to faculty, partner school personnel, and teacher candidates.

“Our world is becoming smaller each day as people and nations become more interconnected through advances in technology,” notes Quezada. “We must find new ways to broaden our students’ perspectives and opportunities as they prepare themselves for their roles as teachers and leaders in the new global society.”

(Read more at http://www.sandiego. edu/insideusd)

About the Longview Foundation Founded by William L. Breese, the Longview Foundation for World Affairs and International Understanding has been helping young people in the United States learn about world regions and global issues since 1966. The organization supports the belief that knowledge of other cultures, languages and economies is essential to strengthening our increasingly diverse society. Through grants to selected institutions, the Longview Foundation aims to give students an opportunity to gain broad and deep global knowledge and the language and intercultural skills needed to engage effectively with

The significance of the internationalization initiative and the Longview Grant

people around the world.

An interview with Dean Paula Cordeiro, Ed.D.

Reyes Quezada, Ed.D., professor and program director for the Interculturally Teaching in Teacher Education (ITTE) project.

“Our world is becoming smaller each day as people and nations become more interconnected through advances in technology. We must find new ways to broaden our students’ perspectives and opportunities as they prepare themselves for their role as teachers and leaders in the new global society.”

Q: Why is the internationalization initiative important at this particular point in time?

PC: In recent years, there have been many national reports that have talked about how our test scores for children in P-12 lag behind other nations, particularly in math and science. Major US corporations say they would prefer not to have to go overseas to find qualified scientists, mathematicians and technology professionals. The bottom line is we should be growing our own workforce rather than importing it from overseas.

Q: So the issue is about how we teach our teachers to prepare THEIR students to be better suited for the US workforce.

PC: Yes. There have been several national reports about how the P-12 educational system needs to respond to workplace needs.

And of course, what’s happening in schools depends on who those teachers are and what they’re teaching as far as curriculum.

Q: Are there socioeconomic or ethnic issues that come into play here, as far as test scores and performance? continued on page 4

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continued from page 3 PC: Not really. If you compare students in the US as a group with their foreign counterparts in industrialized nations, we lag behind regardless of economic status or ethnicity. In other words, our top 10% score lower than the top 10% in Japan, Singapore or South Korea.

Q: How is the SOLES internationalization initiative going to solve that?

PC: Creating a more globally competitive workforce with 21st century skills is just one piece of the puzzle. The fact is, every company of any size in the US either has international offices or is somehow doing business beyond our borders. The children in our schools who will be taking those overseas jobs in the future will need to develop foreign language and cultural sensitivity skills.

It’s a different kind of education than you and I received.

Q: But isn’t it the school districts who decide what the curriculum will be?

PC: At the state level, the curriculum is developed by some administrators but mostly teachers. Then you have the professional associations, like the Math Teachers of America, who are helping to set the standards.

Q: Are most school systems across the US moving in this direction?

PC: Some more than others. For example, North Carolina has come up with a plan for the entire state. So far, California has not.

Q: Can we talk a little about the significance of the Longview Foundation grant?

PC: The Longview Foundation believes, as we do, that the biggest factor in student achievement is the teacher.

They provide grants to institutions that

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are already doing some important work in the area of teacher education. That’s why they chose us. It wasn’t a blind submission of a proposal.

Q: That sounds rather significant.

PC: They saw that we were having a nationwide impact in the area of internationalization. So they came right out and asked us to submit a grant proposal.

Q: I believe study abroad has always been an option. How is the SOLES international experience different?

PC: To clarify, the international experience is only one piece of the internationalization initiative. For example, in the teacher education program in the Department of Learning and Teaching, they are specifically looking at student teaching abroad.

Q: Can you give me some examples from other areas?

PC: Take a course on any topic in leadership – nonprofit leadership, school leadership, organizational leadership.

In developing the curriculum, we need to know what are the required readings for that class? And are they all written

from an American perspective? The topic of school vouchers is an excellent example. The concept of school vouchers has been around for 30-40 years. Chile has had a voucher system for decades. So if I were teaching a course on school policy or finance, as it relates to vouchers, I would want to include writings, research and case studies from a country like Chile.

Q: Can you give me another example?

PC: In summer of 2008 our students took a study abroad course in South Africa where they visited schools and universities to study post-Apartheid diversity and equity issues.

Q: Does that mean a foreign trip is always involved?

PC: Not always. They could have conducted their research from here, using our on-campus technology to conduct video interviews. That’s one of the great things about the new state-ofthe-art technology here at Hill Hall. We now have the essential tools we need to support our commitment to developing quality teaching and professional education practices that promote diversity, equity and a global perspective.

Around the world with

SOLES Global

South Africa – Cheryl Getz, Ed.D. (Chair, Department of Leadership Studies) and Lea Hubbard, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Learning and Teaching) spent eleven days in the summer of 2008 accompanying a group of eight SOLES graduate students on a visit to three South African universities. The purpose of the trip was to identify similarities and differences between our system of higher education and theirs, specifically as they relate to issues of race and ethnicity. Students who participated were Sara Henry, Paige Haber, Emily Marx, Timmer Willing, Aimee Heytvelt, Sara Headden, and Christine Stellrecht.

Costa Rica – In August, 2008, Steve Gelb, Ph.D. (Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Leadership Studies and Department of Learning and Teaching) and Joi Spencer, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Learning and Teaching), brought students to the University of Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica to learn about cutting-edge concepts in peace education and sustainability.

UPEACE is the first and only university in the world devoted entirely to teaching, learning and research about how human beings can live in harmony with each other and with their environment.

Students who participated were Angela Chiarenza, Laura Dtoia, Justine Dujardin, Erika Fagerlund, Breyn Hibbs, Jenny Kressel, Heather Massey (Hagen), Cristina Pacheco, Pressley Rankin, Brian St. Clair, Kim Stubbe, Don Trinh, Katie Zanoni and staff member Peggy Hetherington.

Visiting scholar from Japan – Atsushi Takei, Ph.D, who specializes in educational leadership at Hyogo University of Teacher Education in Japan, will spend the fall 2008 semester working with Noriyuki Inoue, Ph.D. in the

Department of Learning and Teaching and sharing his work and findings in Japan as a visiting speaker at SOLES. After receiving a full grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education to study universityschool models as a visiting scholar

Hong Kong – In January 2008 Todd Edwards, Ph.D. (Associate Professor and Director, Marital and Family Therapy Program) offered a course on “Family Therapy in Asia” at the University of Hong Kong. “The things they learn in Hong Kong by being in Hong Kong, I can’t replicate here. The process of learning about other cultures and themselves is something they take away with them that will make a difference for them when they’re in the therapy room.”

Mondragón, Spain – The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation is the largest industrial cooperative of its kind in the world, with over 100,000 workers and 225 companies whose combined sales top $20 billion a year. Every year since 1996, SOLES has invited students, professors and members of the community to travel to Spain in order to study the Mondragón model of participation and democracy, where the goal is to create jobs and improve human life. To date more than 70 students have participated in this program. overseas, Dr. Takei selected USD as the optimal place to further his research in the area of alternative practices in education, specifically those dealing with social diversity.

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Around

HILL HALL George Reed, Steve Williams, Paula Cordeiro, and Kevin and Dylan Freiberg enjoy July 4th Alumni celebration

Margaret Gelb, Cheryl Getz, Bob and June Donnmoyer enjoy the 4th of July celebration.

Dennis Sparks, Ph.D., gives keynote address to ELDA Summer Institute participants.

ELDA Summer Institute students participate in discussion.

Alumni News Lori O’Connor, ELDA ‘07, has been appointed Independent Studies Coordinator for the Berkeley Unified School District.

Kevin Petti, Ph.D. ’06, was a guest lecturer this past February at York College and Pennsylvania State University.

Jim Ellis, Ed.D. ’04, and his wife Julie have begun a two-year assignment with the Church of Latter Day Saints in Hanoi, where Jim will act as Director of Humanitarian Projects in Vietnam.

Julie will be teaching English at one of the Universities in Hanoi.

Rendy Opdycke, B.A. ’06, swam the Catalina Channel, from Catalina to the California mainland, in 8 hours 28 minutes. Out of 145 people who have swum the channel solo since 1927, this was the third fastest directional time for a woman and the sixth fastest time overall.

Elizabeth Jones, Ed.D. ’90, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Alberta. Dr. Jones was cited for her work training thousands of medical professionals from 48 countries as part of Kangaroo Care, a program that saves preterm infants by stabilizing their heartbeats, temperature and breathing.

Rich Newman, Ed.D. ‘05, was recently appointed principal at Monterey Ridge Elementary School in the Poway Unified School District.

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Sharifa Abukar, ELDA ’08, has been appointed principal at the Islamic School of San Diego.

Ernest Remillard, ELDA ’08, has been appointed vice principal at Pacific Beach Middle School in San Diego.

Joe Lara, ELDA ’08, has been appointed principal at Memorial Preparatory School for Scholars and Athletes in San Diego.

Abram Jimenez, ELDA ’08, has been appointed vice principal at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego.

Melissa Johnson, ELDA ’08, has been appointed vice principal at San Juan High School in Sacramento County.

Patricia Ottow-Keen, Ed.D. ’08, has accepted a position as a social worker working with Native American families and Indian Child Welfare Laws in San Diego.

Kathleen Czech, Ed.D. ‘07, Associate Professor of Communications and Theatre at Point Loma Nazarene University, has recently published a book entitled A Communications Perspective on Leadership, based on her dissertation.

Catherine Condliffe, M.A. ‘08, recently accepted a position as PreCollege Coordinator for the Hughes Scholars Program at UC San Diego, where she will be working with lowincome and first-generation students in the health sciences.

FACULTY

NEWS

New SOLES Faculty and Administrative Appointments

Mary McDonald, Ph.D. • Assistant Professor, Leadership studies: Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program Mary McDonald earned her Ph.D. in Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University.

Previously, she had served as director of the Muskegon Family Coordinating Council, as executive director of Every Woman’s Place in Muskegon, and as development manager at Muskegon’s Hackley Hospital. She also served as director of the Community Research Institute at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This past summer Dr. McDonald presented her most recent research “International Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies Education — Creating Sustainable Social Change,” at the International Society for Third-Sector Research Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Paula S. Krist, Ph.D. • Director of Assessment Paula Krist earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As Director of Assessment at SOLES, she works with all departments to support program assessment efforts including survey and statistical analysis. Prior to joining us at SOLES, Dr. Krist was the Director of Operational Excellence and Assessment Support at the University of Central Florida and the Director of Institutional Research and Assessment at Florida Institute of Technology. She regularly presents workshops on assessment topics, such as program level student learning outcomes, at regional and national conferences.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS 2008-2009 Frank Arrington

President and Owner

San Diego Funding

Todd Gutschow

Founder, Todd and Mari Gutschow Family Foundation Rebecca Haddock Smith ’93

Project Manager, Qualcomm Career Explorations, Qualcomm Brian E. Kinsman

President, Kinsman Capital

Dorothy Smith

Former Member and President, Board of Education, San Diego City Schools; Professor, San Diego City College (retired) Darryl Solberg

Managing Partner of Hecht, Solberg, Robinson, Goldberg, & Bagley Richard Sulpizio

President and Chief Operating Officer, Qualcomm (retired)

Victoria Baron ’94

Licensed Family Therapist

Stevan Laaperi ’76

Director of Schools, Diocese of San Diego

Jeff A. Carlstead ’04

Owner, Hampton Inn

William D. Lynch

Founder, William D. Lynch Foundation

Christopher Carstens, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Jean H. Miller

Community Volunteer

Rodney F. Dammeyer

President, CAC LLC

Jim F. Mulvaney, Jr.

Vice President, Driver Alliant Insurance

Adam Ward

Global Campus Recruiting Manager, Qualcomm

Laura Stanley DeMarco

Nicholas Investment Partner

Drew Schlosberg

Community and Public Relations Manager, San Diego Union-Tribune

John Yochelson

President, Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST)

Peter Sibley

CEO of EDmin.com, Inc.

John Zygowicz

Managing Director, Private Client Group, US Bank

Susan Ebner

Worldwide Partner, Mercer Wendy Gillespie

Principal, Frontier Trading, Inc.

Richard Thome

Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources and Technology, San Diego County Office of Education (retired)

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Former professor

Joseph Rost receives posthumous

honors

Joseph C. Rost, Ph.D. 1931 - 2008

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n November 2008, former SOLES professor Joseph C. Rost, Ph.D., was posthumously honored with a lifetime achievement award from the International Leadership Association, in recognition of his pioneering efforts in the area leadership.

During his twenty-year tenure at USD, Dr. Rost helped to inaugurate the Master of Education in Educational Administration, the California Administrative Services Credential Program, the Doctor of Education in Leadership, the undergraduate minor in leadership, the California Professional Administrative Credential Program, and, in his final year at USD, the Master of Arts in Leadership Studies. He was the author of the highly acclaimed Leadership for the 21st Century, which remains a staple of leadership studies courses today. While at USD he was selected to participate in a five-year nationwide study of leadership funded by the Kellogg Foundation and was also the recipient of a $190,000 grant from the US Department of Education to construct leadership curricula for undergraduate college professors and high school teachers.

Former student Rita King, Ed.D., who later became a full professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, remembers Joseph Rost as a very inspirational but demanding teacher. “It was his capacity to bring people out of themselves that was so extraordinary. He was an amazing teacher who took an interest in each and every student. For myself, I know that I never could have achieved what I did without his mentorship and scholarship.”

In honor of their former professor and colleague, SOLES alumni have contributed more than $50,000 to permanently endow a scholarship in Dr. Rost’s name.

SOLES Information Session Schedule

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Here’s your chance to learn about graduate degree programs at SOLES, meet with our faculty, alumni, and students, and take a tour of the campus and our new stateof-the art, building. But don’t be late – the first 25 attendees at each event will receive a special gift!

Department of Learning and Teaching • Tuesday, February 10, 2009 – 4:00-5:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Conference Room E

Department of Leadership Studies • Wednesday, January 21, 2009 – 8-9:30 a.m. Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program Open House, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

• Saturday, March 21, 2009 – San Diego County Office of Education Job Fair for secondary and special education, Jenny Craig Pavilion – Pre-registration information will be available in January 2009 at www.teachsocal.org.

• Thursday, January 22, 2009 – 4-7 p.m.

Mother Hill Hall, Room 211

Online registration: www.sandiego.edu/soles/informationsession

Counseling Program • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 – 7:30-9:30 a.m.

Mother Hill Hall, Room 127

Contact: Office of Outreach and Recruitment (619) 260-2680 solesgrad@sandiego.edu

• Tuesday, March 17, 2009 – 4:00-5:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Conference Room E

UPCOMING

EVENTS

SOLES international study The SOLES Global Center offers one- to two-week international study courses with SOLES faculty. Courses have been offered by faculty in all of our degree programs and specializations.

This summer we will offer a special education-focused course in Lithuania in mid-July. Other summer courses and dates will soon be announced. To learn more about summer 2009 courses, visit www.sandiego.edu/soles/globalcenter or phone the Global Center at (619) 260-7443. Alumni can participate in most programs by paying a participation fee and or may take courses for credit.

What you need to know about the Redesigned IRS Form 990: A Training Workshop for Nonprofit Leaders Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research Hill Hall, Room 102 Contact: Laura B. Stein (619) 260-7442 lbstein@sandiego.edu

SOLES Winter Festival Wednesday, December 3, 2008 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by SOLES Global Center Bishop Buddy Sala, Hill Hall Contact: Whitney McIntyre Miller (619) 260-7443 wmcintyremiller@sandiego.edu

10th Annual Forum on the State of Counseling & Guidance in Schools Friday, December 12, 2008 8:00 a.m.– 3:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Center for Student Support Systems (CS3) Hill Hall Contact: Lonnie Rowell (619) 260-4212 lrowell@sandiego.edu

Thailand, Cambodia, and Hong Kong Global Study Course Sunday, December 28, 2008– Saturday, January 10, 2009 Sponsored by SOLES Global Center Contact: Whitney McIntyre Miller (619) 260-7443 wmcintyremiller@sandiego.edu

5th Annual Governance Symposium Friday, January 9–10, 2009 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on both days Sponsored by the Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Contact: Laura B. Stein (619) 260-7442 lbstein@sandiego.edu

Guatemala Global Study Course Saturday, January 10, 2009 – Sunday, January 19, 2009 Sponsored by SOLES Global Center Contact: Whitney McIntyre Miller (619) 260-7443 wmcintyremiller@sandiego.edu

Winter Autism Institute Monday, January 12, 2009 – Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Autism Institute Warren Auditorium, Hill Hall, Room 116 Contact: Anne Donnellan (619) 260-7705 donnellan@sandiego.edu

ELDA Spotlight on Education: Karin Chenoweth Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by ELDA Warren Auditorium, Hill Hall, Room 116 Contact: Freda Callahan (619) 260-4839 fcallahan@sandiego.edu

Leadership For Change — Awakening the Soul: Evoking Collective Wisdom to Energize Groups and Organizations January 16-18, 2009 Sponsored by the Leadership Institute.

Contact: Beth Yemma (619) 260-7790 byemma@sandiego.edu

ELDA Spotlight on Education: Willard Dagget Tuesday, February 18, 2009 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by ELDA Warren Auditorium, Hill Hall, Room 116 Contact: Freda Callahan (619) 260-4839 fcallahan@sandiego.edu

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University of San Diego’s Fifth Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium For updated information and to register online:

www.sandiego.edu/nonprofit/events

Please direct questions to Laura B. Stein, Assistant Director, Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research, at lbstein@sandiego.edu or call (619) 260-7442.

Governance Rocks: When you know the score* FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 - 10, 2009 JOAN B. KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE & JUSTICE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

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