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COLOR IS HERE TO STAY! Reader reaction to our first-ever color edition in October was so enthusiastic, we are pleased to announce that we’ll be publishing in color from now on. — The Editors

Group plants 40 trees, Page 3 When movies reigned, Page 8

VOLUME TWENTY FOUR, NUMBER NINE

NOVEMBER 2010

High-def sports, concerts debut at Ballam

Not quite the Great Pumpkin, but a prize-worthy gourd

Photo by Louise Hughes

It wasn’t easy, but the Grounds Department’s Patrick Nardizzi defied man, beast and scorching sun to nurse this pumpkin to a triumphant 40 lbs, 1 oz. The vine he grew from one seed in the Nalle Gardens produced three pumpkins, two of which died in the summer heat. This one got a late start, and so never really had a chance at the possible 400 pounds advertised on the package, but after pampering it with a semi-transparent cover to shade it by day, removing it each night, Pat was pleased and proud. “At least I got one to grow,” he said, recalling the pumpkin he lost at 5 pounds last year when someone picked it up and dropped it. Eleanor Smartt prevailed over 25 others in a weight-guessing contest last month (she guessed 39 pounds) and won a bottle of Arbor Crest Riesling. Pat’s nephews got the pumpkin to carve for Halloween. — Mary Graff

By Kim Norrett Director of Resident Services Beaumont’s Ballam Theater and TV Channel 99 have met 21st-century technology!

Resident Services is pleased to announce that we are now able to broadcast special events in high definition on the big screen in the theater. During October we had quite a few residents watching the Phillies playoff series. In addition we have contracted with Specticast to broadcast simulcasts of some of Philadelphia’s best arts and culture events. These include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Speaker Collection.

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Amateur radio comes to Beaumont New operators welcome; Morse code not required

By Charlie Wood, KC3DS As an amateur radio operator (with the call sign KC3DS), I missed my ham radio station after my wife, Nan, and I moved into Beaumont. I discussed this with Joe Fortenbaugh, and, as a result, was encouraged to

assemble a station in what formerly was known as the Train Room, on the third floor of Liseter Hall. My transmitters, amplifiers, receivers, keyers and other devices were retrieved from storage, and the station began operating in May of this year in space shared with the Brain Fitness program behind the Beaumont News continued on page 2

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office. So far, radio contact has been made with several European and South American countries. An antenna, a vital component of such a station, now begins at a chimney over the station and extends over the roof of the kitchen. It is almost invisible to Beaumont residents.

All Beaumont residents are invited to participate in this hobby. Transmitting requires a Federal license, listening does not. FCC licenses require the passing of an easy exam, and Morse code proficiency is no longer required. Already Russ Hodges, KB3UXG, has qualified, and Dr. Jay MacMoran is studying our training material. Mark Hritz, KB3TKR, our Grounds Department Director, passed the test several months ago. (“I always wanted to do it, since I was a child,” Mark told the Beaumont News, “and 42 years later I finally did.”) Dr. James A. Morris, Beaumont’s Medical Director, has been licensed for many years. The entry level classification is known as the Technician Class, and enables the holder to participate in VHF (very high frequency) transmissions over relatively short distances, although in a much more sophisticated manner than CB. Ham radio operators never use the language of some truck drivers. A General Class operator can communicate using high frequencies which allow overseas contacts. The top category is Amateur Extra Class. Once any exam is passed, you are qualified for life in that category, although the license must be renewed with the FCC every 10 years.

The initial cost of exam and license is about $15; there is no additional cost for renewal.

Contrary to general opinion, relatively few radio contacts are made using Morse code any more. I learned the code during Air Force pilot training and

Photo by Louise Hughes Russell Hodges (in blue) and Charlie Wood at Charlie’s ham radio station in the Liseter Hall aerie behind the Beaumont News office.

can demonstrate it, but I am not very proficient. Many contacts are made by voice single sideband (SSB) but more often by a mode called PSK-31, which is a digital mode similar to teletype. This mode makes it very easy to communicate throughout the world.

Another mode that is available to new operators is satellite communication. Occasionally you may see me in the putting green courtyard with a “walkie talkie” radio and a hand-held yagi antenna, generally late in the afternoon. It is possible to access repeaters aboard satellites, and have the call forwarded to another ham operator located within direct sight of the satellite even though it may be hundreds of miles up in the sky.

Anyone interested in taking a look at the station is invited to call me at (610) 525-3741. We will be happy to show you the station, generally late in the afternoon after the Brain Fitness program hours. Weekend times are available.

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Tree planting party attracts guests

Putting their backs into planting one of 40 new saplings along the Wheeler Woods pond trail are Dr. Jay MacMoran (with compost bucket) and Ann Louise Strong, part of a trail work group that meets every other Wednesday. The young trees included sycamores, persimmons and a redbud, all nurtured from infancy by Dr. Dean Snyder. A small snake and a salamander, held in the respective palms of Bambi Gay and Grounds Director Mark Hritz, were surprise guests.

Photos by Louise Hughes

Websites can help patients help their doctors

By Alan R. Tripp

Other sites include: ■ WebMD.com One of the oldest and most popular sites; a good place to begin.

■ Healthfinder.gov Official website of the National Institutes of Health. Requires patience to find answers, but reliable and worth it.

■ Familydoctor.org Everything from getting a flu shot to talking to grandchildren about sex. Includes a medical dictionary.

■ MSNhealth.com Also a broad sweep of articles on health-related subjects.

■ Drugs.com Lists drugs with what’s in each, what it’s approved to do and what adverse effects to watch for. Easy-to-use drug interaction finder.

■ Medicinenet.com More scientific information than most sites and takes a bit of plowing through, but worth the time when intensive research is needed.

■ Intellihealth.com A compendium from many sources, created by Aetna Insurance in partnership with the Harvard Medical School and the Columbia School of Dental Medicine.

And a final warning: Avoid any site that offers you a product for direct sale.

Among the wonders of the Internet are websites designed to help you know more about your body, what ails it and what can be done to prevent or cure a specific ailment, in language you don’t need a medical degree to understand.

Here is a guide to some of the better sites, with this caveat: Use the information these sites offer only to help you frame the questions you need to ask your doctor and to better understand the answers. Neither the author nor the Beaumont News will accept responsibility for the consequences if you try to doctor yourself!

If you have a computer, good. If you don’t, there are two computers in the library, each Internet-ready. If you don’t know how to use a computer, share this article with family members or Beaumont staff who do.

There are many university- and hospital-based health information sites including PennStateHershey.org/healthinfo (Penn State University), Netwellness.com (University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve, Ohio State University), JohnsHopkins.org, MayoClinic.com, and ClevelandClinic.org.

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Of chickens, geese, and a ruffled veterinarian

By Dr. Dean Snyder

Part I: Normally after breakfast I feel refreshed Depending on the mood you are in, the thought of and ready to attack all the tasks at hand. But on this cooking a goose may stir up pleasant memories of particular morning I found myself embedded in self pity family gatherings, or dreams of all those fall hunting and my response to the South Philly greeting “How you trips with a favorite dog. I am in the mood to cook a doin’,” I jumped the track. My usual reply is “GREAT,” Canada goose. but I blurted out “Not good, I’m mad as a wet hen!”

Recently near a parking lot in Valley Forge I My greeter responded with a quizzical look, wished observed seven pairs of geese grazing with 35 me a good day and went on. goslings of various ages, all of which were fouling the I hate being in a funk, but there is this one piece of pavements. furniture that I have stripped three times and am still Most of my life I have lived close to the soil, but now unable to report it “ finished.” I’m mad as a wet hen and I live on concrete and asphalt which, to say the least, borderline depressed to the point of asking myself: is unsettling to a hunter and gatherer. A trip to the mar“Self, is now the time to take the pipe and call it quits?” kets today is downright frightening to a body used to Obviously I have not yet given up hope that I will growing, storing and preserving meat, vegetables and finish this one piece of furniture to my satisfaction, but fruit for himself and family. Consider the labels: proI am still mad as a wet hen. duce and fruit from Chile, citrus from Israel, melons How mad is a wet hen? Mad as hell, really angry! from Mexico, lamb from New Zealand, beef from Finally I just sat down and said, “Self, relax.

Argentina–anywhere but within walking distance.

“Let’s take a journey together to the lighter side: Scary!

Who but me cares whether a hen gets mad after getOne horrible incident could halt all food deliveries to ting wet? Besides! Who can tell whether a hen is mad? millions of people in any major city. Thus, on my moody Where on earth did the exclamation ‘mad as a wet hen’ days, the subject of food and where it comes from originate?” gives me cause to think and plan. With the geese, the (I don’t know but this exercise in using punctuation deer and the carp all either happily fouling our sideto excess is one octogenarian’s way of protesting the walks, destroying all plant life within their reach or grammar of texting. Just the thought of texting makes overpopulating our streams, there is no need for a me “maddr thn a wet hn.”) divining rod to find food.

Just for the hell of it: Chickens do bathe. They bathe There are laws, but starvation is a powerful incentive in dust, then shake vigorously. In this way all the for breaking a law. Should disaster strike, I plan to sloughed skin and any lice will be loosed from the break the law. Hopefully, the supply of game and fish body. This is then followed by a good preening as the would at least buy enough time for one to take a crop bird coaxes the preen gland located on the lower back of wheat and oats from the nearest golf course. near the rump to excrete oil which is distributed to the feathers rendering them shiny clean and waterproof.

I believe the expression originated somewhere in Appalachia when a certain chicken thief brought home to his own flock a wet hen who, when introduced to I once knew a man who would not eat chicken because what she viewed as a motley crew, made chicken was not “brain food.” Somewhere along the line he history by swiftly deciding to bully them obviously fell for the old wives’ tale that among domestic fowl into subordination by attacking every only the turkey was higher in tryptophan content and member of the flock. tryptophan being an essential amino acid was therefore “brain food.” He was wrong of course, as there is no difference in Part II: There are conflicting theories tryptophan content between the two. But when it comes to about the origin of the expression “cook comparing the intelligence of chicken with that of turkey there one’s goose” and its variations. The most is a world of difference. horrific derives from the fate of one Jan We all know that in the rain a hen will get wet and become Hus, 15th-century priest and reformer angry, but in the rain a stupid turkey will raise his outstretched whose surname translates as “goose” in neck and open his mouth. Water-boarding can be fatal when English. He lived in what is now the Czech carried to extremes, and the dumb turkey cannot figure it out.

Republic, where his writings caused him to I’ll have a drumstick. — Dr. Dean Snyder be burned at the stake.

A Thanksgiving message from the author:

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Welcoming the snow goose, “a most beautiful sight”

By Hank Hallowell

in the ground placed on dry hillsides and protected slopes. After a few eggs have been laid, seaweed, eelgrass, leaves and down are often added to the nest. Three to five eggs is the usual clutch, which is incubated by the female for more than three weeks while the male stands guard. A preferred nesting area seems to be near a snowy owl nest. The geese are too large to be bothered by the owls and the owls drive away the arctic foxes and jaegers (a gulllike bird), the main predators of both eggs and young.

The young snow geese are born with their eyes open and their bodies covered with down. After about one day they are able to follow their parents and feed on their own. After six weeks they can fly. The young will stay with their parents throughout the spring and summer and during the fall migration which will begin in late August.

Snow geese breed farther north than other North American geese and undertake longer migrations.

“. . .they fly very high in a long extended curved line, not nearly so angular as the V-shaped ranks of the Canada and other geese. With their snowy forms moving steadily along in the calm air, the outstretched wings tipped with black, glowing in the sun’s rays with the faint blush of the rose, they present a most beautiful sight. . .”

— D.G. Elliot, 1898 “They” are the snow geese, one of the fall migrant species that winter in our general area. They are sizeable birds that tend to flock together in very large numbers and thus are easy to see and enjoy. Your first view of them will leave you breathless.

They are an unbelievable sight, whether it is thousands of their bright white bodies crowded against the yellow-brown of the marsh cordgrass or thousands of them in the air in long skeins. You will hear them before you see them. Their high yelping calls have been likened to the baying of hounds.

In the air they are difficult to see against a bright blue sky. Skein after skein seem to be coming from all directions and at varying altitudes. All seem headed to the same destination, whether a field or an open body of water, then gracefully let down until there are literally uncountable numbers of them bunched together. Somehow they seem to find room to land among the tight tangle of geese that arrived before them. They never seem to be quiet and are constantly communicating with each other whether resting or feeding.

Snow geese are a medium-sized goose measuring up to 33 inches long with a wingspan of about 65 inches. As their name implies, they are predominantly white with pinkish bill and legs. The bill shows a black “grin” mark or smile. Their wing tips are black. Young birds are grayish in color. Often birds are seen with orange-stained necks and heads, a result of grubbing for food in mud or sediment containing iron oxides.

Males and females are alike with the males being slightly larger.

They are vegetarians, feeding in shallow water and in wet earth.Year-round they graze on grasses, leaves, sedges and other plant material and dig for roots and tubers. They are voracious eaters, and their habit of rooting for underground food can actually decimate marshland over a period of time, disrupting their fragile ecosystem. They also feed in harvested farm fields.

The birds bond for life and, like the Canadas, find a new partner after losing their original mates. In early June they arrive in the tundras of the North after many stops along the route to feed and rest.

As the snow melts they form very large breeding colonies. The nest is a scrape or slight depression

Three to five eggs is the usual clutch, which is incubated by the female for more than three weeks while the male stands guard.

The snow geese that winter in our area breed in the high arctic from western Greenland to Baffin, Devon and Bylot islands. It is a long trip covering 2000 miles or more. In mid-autumn they begin to show up on the Atlantic Coast, having found their way down through Quebec and the Maritimes. They begin to arrive at their wintering grounds in middle to late September. Most will have made the flight by the middle of October. In February, after wintering in our area, whole families will begin the northbound migration.

My preferred viewing spot locally is the Bombay Hook National Wild Refuge near Smyrna, Delaware.

There it is not uncommon to see 50,000 birds in the air or crowded together on the ground.

From time to time The News reprints articles from past issues; this was first published (in slightly longer form) in November 2003.

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From newcomers to neighbors New resident roundup

of the Arts, and the Philadelphia Country Club.

Dolf is an avid golfer and enjoys skeet and trap shooting and skiing.

By Jean Kirk Gerri earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Michelle Osborn grew up in New York and doctorate in nursing from the University of Philadelphia and attended the Shipley School. After Pennsylvania. She was Nurse Practitioner at graduating from Smith College in 1948 she left home Foulkeways at Gwynedd, one of the earliest Continuing to see Europe. When her Care Retirement Communities, for eight years. money ran out she settled in The Paiers have a home in Tucson, where they Paris and found a job working spend the winter, and Gerri has been an assistant profor the Marshall Plan. It was fessor in the school of nursing at the University of there that she met her husArizona. She has served on hospice and ethics comband to be, Neill Osborn, a mittees at the university and as a volunteer and board native of California, who died member at St. Mary’s Hospice in Tucson. She is cura year ago. rently on the board of overseers of the Museum of the After postings in Denmark University of Pennsylvania. The couple have another and Spain the couple returned home in Avalon, New Jersey, where they occasionally to the U.S. While her husband spend weekends. worked for Smith Kline, where Michelle Osborn Gerri enjoys sewing, embroidery, and making quilts he spent his entire career, for grandchildren. They have three children, four grandMichelle turned to journalism. She was at different children, and two Australian terriers, Jack and Boomer. times an editorial editor for the Philadelphia Evening * * * Bulletin, director of public information for Bryn Mawr College, and a founding staff member of USA Today.

Kingsley and Hoffman (Kingie and Hoff) Dolan, She has four children and four grandchildren. She who moved in last May, always knew they would be moved to Beaumont in early summer. coming to Beaumont. Hoff Dolan and Beaumont *

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resident Tony Starr and her late husband, Ted, were among early supporters of Art Wheeler’s vision for our community.

Hoff attended the University of Virginia and the Wharton School. His business for 35 years was North American Brass and Aluminum, which he founded, owned and operated.

One of his hobbies is handcrafted furniture, and for a time he sponsored a business making handsome coffeetable-size backgammon tables Hoff Dolan that were sold around the country. Another hobby is collecting early 17th-century lighting. Hoff also enjoys playing country music on his guitar.

Kingie is a devoted bridge player. They are both golfers and former tennis players, having traveled the world with the “People to People” tennis program. They have a home in Vero Beach, Florida, where they spend the winters, and for Kingie Dolan

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Adolf and Geraldine (Gerri and Dolf) Paier would like to sell their house in Villanova so they can move all their furniture to Beaumont, but they have been settling in anyway since their move in June, and already Dolf has been asked to serve (and is doing so) on Beaumont’s important Finance Committee.

Dolf graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held high executive Dolf Paier positions in several companies, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of Safeguard Scientifics, a technology company in Wayne where he had served 25 years when he retired. He has served on many boards of public and private companies and non-profits, including the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the University Gerri Paier

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Photos by Louise Hughes

Meet Emma, Jack and Boomer

Photos by Louise Hughes

Displaying her best Halloween glare, Emma the cat lounges on a dining room chair at her apartment on Pasture Lane last month. This is her favorite nesting place, say owners Robert and Sally Herd. Across the neighborhood, new residents Boomer and Jack enjoy the sunshine on the deck at the villa they share with Dolf and Gerri Paier. They are just a few of the dogs and cats who call Beaumont home.

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she married, she covered the 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy. After spending many years cultivating an interest in antique “sailors’ valentines” (decorative mosaics using seashells) as they grew to become a new art form, she collaborated with Beaumont resident Mary Page and others on a book, Sailors’ Valentines, Their Journey Through Time, Schiffer Publishing, 2006, now available in the Beaumont library.

“New Residents” will be continued in December.

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a few weeks in August they retreat to a cottage in Essex, New York, on Lake Champlain, that has been in Kingie’s family for years. They have six children, seven grandchildren, and a terrier named Hoochie.

Editor’s Note: Last month’s New Resident column inadvertently omitted this information about Grace Madeira: As a staff member for Women’s Wear Daily before

Ballam . . . .

captures the unique and intimate atmosphere of The Curtis Institute of Music and will include chamber music, opera excerpts, and orchestral selections. The Speaker Collection features live and encore lectures and presentations from some of the most celebrated voices in the humanities, arts, and sciences offered through The Free Library of Philadelphia in Center City.

Dates and times for these broadcasts will be announced well in advance.

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Beaumont’s Channel 99, in the comfort of their own homes.

Six performances a season feature live simulcasts and encore performances from the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra from Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The “Live From Curtis” Series allows us to broadcast four concerts featuring a wide range of virtuoso performances by some of the finest young talent in the world. This series

Movies . . . .

the latest vampire epic, will have anything like my nourishing memories of spending time with Nick and Nora.

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anticipated the dialogue and sang along with Bing and Jeanette and Nelson. We all sniffed audibly as Bette Davis realized she was going blind, and chimed in with Claude Rains when he said, “Round up the usual suspects.” And when the trumpet sounded in It Happened One Night, WE knew what was happening in the motel; we didn’t need to peer through the window!

I know, I know, just another old dodo longing for the past! But I wonder if today’s teen-agers, emerging from

IN MEMORIAM James P. McGowan – September 28 Constance Stevens – October 6 Members of the Beaumont Community extend deepest sympathy to their families and friends.

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When movies reigned in palaces on streets of dreams . . .

By Barbara O’Brien

I admit without shame that I am an ardent fan of guess it isn’t cool today!

And what about such delights as Jean Harlow in a TV’s Turner Classic Movies. The movies were the great entertainment medium of my early life and still are, revealing gown edged in maribou, with satin pumps to when I can find one that doesn’t assault my senses in match; Katherine Hepburn being pushed back into her one way or another. Even without the popcorn, I can house after breaking Cary Grant’s golf club, Myrna Loy settle down and be carried back to some of the most as a Chinese seductress, or Linda Darnell in a bathing suit? delightful moments of my past.

I know that some of the sets in these movies were How wonderful to spend an evening with Nick and Nora, martinis and cigarettes in hand, he in tuxedo, not exactly believable, and today the plots seem a bit she in clinging, backless satin, waiting for their dinner creaky, but these things are minor when you are watching one of the enormous nightclubs with steps guests. One of these guests is a murderer.

Or, to suit other tastes, watch as Clark Gable, which are about to support Rogers and Astaire, or Irene Dunne standing there singing “I’ll be loving accompanied by you always”? Remember the basic plot lines: the priest Spencer Tracy, meeting, the first kiss, the misunderstanding, the walks gallantly to the clinch, and then THE FADEOUT!!! We were electric chair? How allowed to indulge our feverish imaginations about the young Gary about what came next and not be turned into Cooper, before he got inadvertent Peeping Toms as we are today. so righteous, as an As I grew older my girl friends and I ventured absent-minded prodowntown to such major palaces as Radio City fessor hopelessly Music Hall, an Art Deco masterpiece. However, bamboozled by a even Radio City was eclipsed by the splendour of snaky Barbara the Paramount and the Majestic, with their irreStanwyck? sistible decorative mix of the best of Versailles I was lucky enough and Ming China. But even in these settings the to grow up in New great movie stars held their own, with their glamYork City, in the era of our and charm, and later at the Paramount there movie palaces, each was the young Frank Sinatra in the intermission! more gorgeous and Although I feel sad that most of these great fantastic than the “palaces” have been mutilated or torn down and next. These theaters Barbara O’Brien were the embodiment Photo by Louise Hughes have given way to the neon multiplex, I sometimes think they would be embarrassed by of the recognition that the movies, with the protagonists actually talking, were most contemporary movies. Many seem to feature seen as the great new mass attraction. Luckily for me, clueless guys sitting on mangy sofas, or perhaps a my father was also a movie fan, and we lived only 10 smart girl dragged down by her attraction to one of blocks from 86th Street, a street of six movie theaters. these slackers. Can you imagine Garbo even glancing For a really spectacular evening we could go a little at any of them?

Other movie selections feature the sorts of murders, farther to a masterpiece palace on 72d Street with a decorative scheme which was a blend of Ancient explosions, and torture which make the gory shower in the Bates motel seem rather ho-hum. Most of today’s Egypt and Baroque Vienna.

From the time I was about 10 until I went to college, movies seem rigged to scare you if not disgust you, or usually on Fridays, my father and I would steal away to take you into an alien world which might make even our street of dreams, leaving my mother holding a Boris Karloff nervous!

Is this progress? For all the fact that the “talkie” is book and looking superior. The main feature usually involved several of our favorite stars, and after the considered one of the greatest inventions of the 20th intermission we would always have our “B”movie, usu- century, today’s level of shrieking, grunting, hissing, ally featuring surprisingly suave gangsters in fedoras, sobbing and screaming leaves little room for what I still who did a lot of threatening but not much shooting call “the spoken word.”

My husband was intrigued and I think a little proud compared with the fusillades in today’s movies.

Does anyone remember how many of our leading that he had married a veteran bobby-soxer, and when men had mustaches: Gable, Powell, Rathbone, we lived in New York in the ’80s he often joined me at Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Melvyn Douglas, Ronald my favorite revival theater, where most people over 50 Colman, and even Walter Pidgeon as Mr. Miniver? I

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