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• Tribune Editorial: Make DACA the law of the land

  20-06-2020 23:00
  
  It isn’t only the 700,000 American Dreamers who have been given a reprieve by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is the soul of our nation.Our system, most specifically members of Congress, have been handed an opportunity to finally get this right. All of us should insist that they do just that, and with all deliberate speed.Dreamers, by the policy definition of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, are people who were brought illegally to the Unit
  
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• Barr: Trump has removed top federal prosecutor in Manhattan

  20-06-2020 22:42
  
  Washington • Attorney General William Barr on Saturday told the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan that President Donald Trump had removed him from the job, deepening tensions between the country’s chief law enforcement officer and a high-profile U.S. attorney who had been overseeing investigations of Trump’s allies.U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman intends to continue to fight his removal.The whirlwind chain of events began Friday night, when Barr announced that Berman, the U.S
  
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• The Utah Jazz are trying to add new season ticket-holders right now, but are fans willing to spend for games they might not get to attend?

  20-06-2020 22:15
  
  We’re still about six weeks away from the NBA’s target date of returning to complete the 2019-20 season that was shelved back on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Which doesn’t mean that the Utah Jazz aren’t already preparing for the 2020-21 campaign.While the renewal program for existing season ticket-holders got going all the way back in January, the organization has just started reaching out to potential new customers over the past few days about the possibility
  
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• Utah hits new record increase in coronavirus cases — 643 — for the second day in a row

  20-06-2020 22:08
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the second day in a row, Utah set a new record for daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases — a “real and dramatic rise in the spread” that now threatens to overwhelm hospitals, the state health officials war
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell’s Juneteenth post elicits vitriolic backlash from some fans, social media followers

  20-06-2020 22:00
  
  In March 2019, Utah Jazz fans were put under a national microscope when then-Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook got into a heated exchange with a fan who made racially-charged comments toward him. Westbrook subsequently noted that was the second year in a row that a trip to Salt Lake City had yielded racist comments hurled at him by fans — a charge that prompted myriad other NBA players, past and present, to recall their own negative interactions with fans in Utah.More than a ye
  
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• Utah hits new record increase in coronavirus cases — 643 — for the second day in a row, but no new deaths

  20-06-2020 21:57
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the second day in a row, Utah set a new record for daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases — a “real and dramatic rise in the spread” that now threatens to overwhelm hospitals, the state health officials war
  
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• Utah hits new record increase in coronavirus cases for the second day in a row

  20-06-2020 21:25
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the second day in a row, Utah set a new record for daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases — a “real and dramatic rise in the spread” that now threatens to overwhelm hospitals, the state health officials war
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s Juneteenth post elicits vitriolic backlash from some who say he’s got no reason to complain

  20-06-2020 21:18
  
  In March 2019, Utah Jazz fans were put under a national microscope when then-Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook got into a heated exchange with a fan who made racially-charged comments toward him. Westbrook subsequently noted that was the second year in a row that a trip to Salt Lake City had yielded racist comments hurled at him by fans — a charge that prompted myriad other NBA players, past and present, to recall their own negative interactions with fans in Utah.More than a ye
  
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• Tooele residents warned not to drink city water due to tank break

  20-06-2020 21:12
  
  Tooele City was warning residents in its southeast neighborhoods not to drink city water on Saturday due to a break in the city’s water storage tank.“The City is working hard to collect samples, flush the system, and clean the tank. Contamination risk is currently unknown,” city officials posted on Facebook.The break was discovered on Saturday during a daily inspection, city officials wrote.The do-not-drink order was for city water supplied south of Vine Street and east of Main
  
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• 6 staffers setting up for Trump rally positive for COVID-19

  20-06-2020 20:50
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus.The campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement that “quarantine procedures” were immediately initiated and no staff member who tested positive would attend the event. He said no one who had immediate contact with those staffers would attend, either.Murtaugh said campaign s
  
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• George Pyle: Yes, let’s change the name of a lot of things

  20-06-2020 20:00
  
  “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”— Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30th, 1787Faced with the ongoing boredom of the social retreat from the coronavirus on the one hand and the invigorating uprising against racism on the other, there has been much discussion lately about what we should call things and who we should honor.Among the more interesting proposals, carri
  
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• Gordon Monson: Sports are playing an important role in calling for and making significant change

  20-06-2020 19:54
  
  As sports begin to pick up again, they pick up alongside a newfound emphasis and responsibility to move toward the goal of erasing social injustice and embracing racial equality.It’s a great goal, one that blows past touchdowns and 3-pointers and home runs, requiring a whole lot of embracing and erasing.Sports can’t change the world on their own, but the high-profile nature of and the heavy interest in some of them make their sphere of influence notable, running the gamut in possible
  
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• 11 great alternatives to the top national parks

  20-06-2020 19:29
  
  The glories of the national park system draw hundreds of millions of visitors each year, even in normal times.But in this upside-down year, with the pandemic still limiting much travel in and outside the United States, it’s likely that the National Park Service’s 419 sites, 62 with a “national park” designation, will attract even more people looking to get away.For potential park-goers who wish to avoid these crowds (and this season, who doesn’t?), one strategy is t
  
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• Judge: Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it

  20-06-2020 18:47
  
  Washington • A federal judge ruled Saturday that former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed.The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a victory for Bolton in a court case that involved core First Amendment and national security concerns. But the judge also made clear hi
  
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• DOJ tries to oust U.S. attorney investigating Trump allies

  20-06-2020 17:37
  
  Washington • The Justice Department moved abruptly Friday night to oust Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan overseeing key prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s allies and an investigation of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. But Berman said he was refusing to leave his post and his ongoing investigations would continue.“I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position,” Berman said. His statement came hours after Attorney General Wil
  
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• Utah’s oldest active voter celebrates her 107th birthday

  20-06-2020 17:34
  
  Provo, Utah • Provo resident MacCene Grimmett has cast a ballot every single election since she’s been old enough to vote — and that’s quite a few elections.MacCene, who has lived in the same dark red-bricked house in northern Provo since 1953, recently celebrated her 107th birthday.She was the oldest active voter in the state in November, when county elections officials came to her house and helped her cast her vote on an iPad.“And I voted right there,” MacCen
  
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• Robert Weissman: Trump’s dirty energy ties a win for Big Oil

  20-06-2020 17:00
  
  The Trump administration’s rush to prop up the ailing oil and gas sector is having unintended consequences: Utah and other western states are being starved of desperately needed money.That’s because the Trump administration is giving energy corporations an unnecessary break on royalty payments and suspending rent payments on leases to drill on public lands and in public waters.In other words, the Trump administration is giving away our oil resources for free, or nearly free. It&rsquo
  
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• Louis Williams’ plan to open Utah’s only Navajo-owned raft company morphed into a relief effort

  20-06-2020 16:55
  
  Every spring for the last eight years, raft guide Louis Williams has spent most of his time underground.It can feel that way, at least. The deep limestone canyons of the San Juan River may not be a cave or mine, but for river runners they can form their own isolated world, connected to the outside only through the jet trails crossing the thin strip of blue above and the muddy river rolling down from its source in the Rocky Mountains.While many raft guides try to heighten that sense of wilderness
  
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• Locals worry about massive ‘glamping’ resort proposed near Zion National Park

  20-06-2020 16:55
  
  A sprawling network of camping resorts soon could begin unfolding in the Kolob highlands on Zion National Park’s northern boundary, potentially resulting in an influx of overnight use in a remote and scenic part of southern Utah.Late last year, Ian Crowe, a St. George real estate broker, filed applications with Washington County officials to develop up to nearly 3,000 camping sites, including yurts, tents, vintage trailers, shipping containers, even treehouses, near Kolob Reservoir and the
  
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• Coronavirus treatments are improving. Here’s a guide to what works and why.

  20-06-2020 15:54
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It is better to be a coronavirus patient in June than it was in March.Back then, there was just so little we knew about the virus: after all, it was a brand new thing. But as scientists and doctors battle this disease that has infected
  
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• Talia Boyd: The world’s radioactive waste is not welcome here

  20-06-2020 15:00
  
  As Utahns protest police brutality and racism against black people, the wheels of environmental racism are turning in southeastern Utah. The company that owns the White Mesa uranium mill has applied to import radioactive waste from a metals-processing facility in the European nation of Estonia.If Utah regulators sign off, hundreds of tons of radioactive waste would travel across the Atlantic Ocean, and across the country, to the White Mesa uranium mill, in the backyard of our Ute Mountain Ute re
  
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• Utah GOP registrations soar amid push for Dems, unaffiliated voters to switch parties

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  David Carlson has spent about 30 years as a proud Democrat. But this year’s GOP primary in the governor’s race has him so concerned, he was willing to shed that longtime party affiliation and register as a Republican.Living in a deep-red state that hasn’t elected a Democratic governor in four decades, he felt that joining the Republican Party was the only way for him to cast a meaningful vote against former House Speaker Greg Hughes, the gubernatorial candidate who scares him m
  
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• Letter: We see the Republican Party for what it is

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  I second J.L. Scott’s motion to dismantle the Republican Party. Recent history has shown how the current Republican Party has embraced Trumpism, rejecting science and reality. They’ve embraced racism and misogyny, while ignoring global warming and environmental laws. In essence, the GOP needs to go, not because it’s changed but because it’s being seen for what it is.Its party platform is:• Lower taxes — increases separation between haves and have-nots.• De
  
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• Letter: Urge senators to support climate change solutions bill

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  I was pleased to see our Republican gubernatorial candidates recognize the importance of our rural communities. Now the U.S. Senate has provided more good news to our rural citizens: the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act.Introduced by two Republicans and two Democrats on June 4, this bill facilitates farmers and foresters’ participation in carbon markets, so they can be rewarded for climate-smart practices. It is supported by more than 40 farm groups as well as businesses from McDon
  
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• Letter: Those masks are heavy

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  I have recently come to recognize why wearing masks is a sign of “weakness.”I recently had to put one on and did not recognize how heavy they were and difficult to place the straps over my ears.Richard Jaffe, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: There is no looters’ union

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  Most police are not bad cops. Most protesters are not looters. However, protesters do not use unions to protect the looters.Gus Wheeler, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Police lives also matter

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  Unfortunately with all these protests, one major aspect is being overlooked: Police lives also matter. No responsibility is being placed at the feet of the public. With choice comes consequences, and while we are free to make our choices, we are not free to dictate the consequence.There are several things that we, the public, should do to help effect the changes that we want to see.1. We need to stress in our homes very emphatically that we do not break the law.2. If a police officer says "Stop,
  
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• Letter: Bridging the political chasm

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  Hey Greg Hughes, did it ever occur to you that the reason people are willing to abandon their political principals and change parties is so their voice is heard and their vote is counted?Maybe it’s simply because they don’t want someone like you in office, and isn’t that their right as voters? Maybe we should close the divide and stop holding party-specific primaries and caucuses around the country.I actually registered as Republican for the first time about a year ago for the
  
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• Lehi artist plans to continue momentum from community art project focused on racial equality

  20-06-2020 14:00
  
  The overwhelming response that Michelle Volz received from Utahns who wanted to add their handprints in paint to a collaborative art project she started has inspired her to keep the idea going.Earlier this month, Volz, a 38-year-old Lehi artist, created “The Handprint Pledge” in response to the ongoing protests in Utah and across the country against racial inequity and police brutality. She painted two canvases black and brought them to a protest at Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City, to
  
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• Administration drops secrecy posture on small business aid

  20-06-2020 06:56
  
  Washington • The Trump administration has abruptly dropped its insistence on secrecy for a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses.The administration announced Friday it will publicly disclose the names of recipients of the taxpayer-funded loans, the amounts they received in ranges, as well as demographic data on the businesses.The unexpected move came after Democratic lawmakers, government watchdogs, ethics advocates and news organizations called for the administrati
  
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• ‘We’re bringing about change today’: Utahns gather to celebrate Juneteenth, protest racism in policing

  20-06-2020 06:49
  
  When enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, got the news on June 19, 1865, that they were free, it was a day of celebration, a day for jubilee to mark the end of a life spent in servitude.Molly Farrell was there, and she and her mom left as soon as they heard. “Most everybody else go with us. We all walk down the road singing and shouting to the beat of the band,” she said in the book “A Black Women’s History of the United States.”On Friday in Salt Lake City — 1
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell’s Juneteenth Instagram post met with anger and hostility

  20-06-2020 05:26
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell plays against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — On Friday afternoon, thousands gathered in Salt Lake City to celebrate Juneteenth, the date commemorating the emancipation of slaves, while continuing to protest racial injustice. It was a scene that played out in cities across the United States and the globe on June 19.
  In solidarity of ce
  
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• David Brooks: How moderates have failed black America

  20-06-2020 05:00
  
  We Americans believe in education. We tend to assume that if you help a young person get a good education and the right skills, then she’ll be able to make her way in American society. Opportunity will be bountiful. Social harmony will reign.This formula has not worked for many African Americans.Over generations, great gains have been made in improving black students’ education. In 1968, just 54% of young black adults had a high school diploma. Today, 92% do. In 1968, about 9% of you
  
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• Timothy Egan: A soft-handed predator masquerading in manliness

  20-06-2020 04:02
  
  One of the most famous men to kill a wolf was Aldo Leopold, who, as a 22-year-old forest ranger more than a century ago, slaughtered a mother and her cubs in Arizona’s Apache National Forest. Thereafter, he was forever haunted by the “fierce green fire dying” in the eyes of the elder wolf.Slaying a wolf with its family, for Leopold, was an epiphany of conscience that helped fortify the convictions of a budding conservationist. But to the Trump administration, it’s now jus
  
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• Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford University

  20-06-2020 03:17
  
  Malala Yousufzai, the 22-year-old Pakistani activist and youngest recipient ever of a Nobel Peace Prize, graduated from Oxford University, she said Friday.And if one wonders what comes next for one of the world’s most famous girls’ education advocates, Yousufzai, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, says she doesn’t know. But sleep, books and Netflix are on the list.“Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics d
  
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• MLB tells players at most 60 games; 50 or fewer possible

  20-06-2020 03:09
  
  New York • The players’ association was told by Major League Baseball on Friday that teams will not agree to more than 60 games in the pandemic-delayed season, leaving open the possibility of an even shorter schedule of perhaps 50 games or fewer.While the NBA and NHL have found ways to restart their sports, baseball has been unable to cope with the economic dislocation because of the new coronavirus and the prospect of playing in empty ballparks, reverting to the fractious labor strif
  
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• Darcy Schleifstein: The unstoppable class of 2020

  20-06-2020 02:29
  
  My mom drove me to my high school for the last time this morning. I walked through the halls, while I was on the phone with my A.P. government classmates for the last time. I was still saying goodbye to my classmates over the phone when I returned my textbook in the gym. Then I walked to my locker and tucked binders, a letter my English teacher encouraged us to write to ourselves at the beginning of the year and the pocket constitution I had left behind into my periwinkle backpack.This was not h
  
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• Navajo Nation police force loses first officer to COVID-19

  20-06-2020 02:22
  
  Chinle, Ariz. •A Navajo Nation police officer has died at a Phoenix hospital, becoming the first officer on the tribal police force to die from COVID-19 in the line of duty, according to tribal officials.Officer Michael Lee, 50, died Friday at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, the Navajo Police Department said in a statement.Police Chief Phillip Francisco said the department was “devastated and heartbroken” by the death of Lee, whom Francisco called “a husband
  
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• Holly Richardson: Old children’s rhyme has a horrible history

  20-06-2020 02:00
  
  “Five little monkeys, swinging in a tree, teasing Mr. Alligator, ‘‘Can’t catch me, you can’t catch me!‘”To my chagrin, I learned this week that what I thought was a simple children’s rhyme was steeped in gut-wrenching racism, reflecting a time in the United States when Black babies were used as alligator bait. I am absolutely horrified at the stories I found.In the book Happy Days: Mencken’s Autobiography: 1880-1892 Volume 1, H.L. Mencken wri
  
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• Jana Riess: Renaming BYU buildings after nonracists, and other ways to dismantle white supremacy in Mormonism

  20-06-2020 01:47
  
  This Juneteenth, some Brigham Young University students are petitioning the school to rename one of its buildings after someone other than a 19th-century slaveholder, and hundreds of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have signed a petition offering "a heartfelt apology for the role that we have played in promoting racist ideologies and behaviors which have injured and burdened our brothers and sisters of African descent."Adding historical context to these two initiatives
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Transparently Crooked

  20-06-2020 00:18
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, June 21, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:The Sinking FeelingMonumentalSpreading the MAGA MessageTake the TestUtah TestConfederate PrideThis LandWitness to Fascism’s RiseAntifaAmerica the BeautifulDressed for UnrestWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland home from hospital, will resume ‘normal activities'

  20-06-2020 00:14
  
  Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland has been released from the hospital after undergoing diagnostic tests for an unknown illness, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday.After a brief hospitalization “for observation,” the 79-year-old leader “is returning to normal activities,” church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a news release. “He and his family appreciate the prayers and concern on his behalf.”Hawkins previously said Holland did not have C
  
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• Anna Thomas and Dulce Horn: Salt Lake County should stop collaborating with ICE

  20-06-2020 00:00
  
  As the parallel pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism threaten the health and well-being of so many community members, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. There are many unknowns, and few concrete answers.We worry about the disintegrating trust between community members and the law enforcement representatives meant to protect them. We fear for the health and safety of people who are held behind bars — and the workers responsible for monitoring them.At this time, our leaders should be seeki
  
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