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Vanishing Circles. I think you can learn something every time you go to an art gallery. This exhibit is particularly sobering, as each of the animals, plants and habitats pictured in the collection are endangered, threatened or otherwise compromised. The series of paintings and drawings was acquired for the ArizonaSonora Desert Museum by the Michael C. and Priscilla V. Baldwin Foundation. It’s strange how sometimes, though we’re surrounded by the beauty of the desert every day, it takes viewing it in an art exhibit to gain a renewed grasp on its beauty and importance.

On display May 15 through August 15. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Ironwood Gallery at the Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road. Entrance included with museum admission, and tickets must be reserved in advance.

All the Single Ladies: Women Pioneers of the American West. Many depictions of the Wild West include two types of women.

There’s the doting farmer’s wife, hair in curls, baby in arms and needlework in hand. And there’s the seductress, who strolls into saloons in sexy black boots and a low-cut dress to “keep the fellas company.” Of course, the experiences of the early pioneer women were far broader than this.

Many were married, but some chose to come out West single! This exhibit at the Tucson Desert

Art museum tells their stories: the boarding house owners, the teachers, the madams, the entertainers, the Harvey girls. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Closed Sundays through Tuesdays. Tucson Desert Art Museum, 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. $10 GA. Ready to Launch: Arizona’s Place in Space.

The Arizona History Museum is launching a really neat new exhibit this week, all about the role that Arizona and Arizonans have played in space exploration.

Arizona has several claims to fame, but things like sending multiple missions to Mars and helping capture the first image of a black hole have got to be among the coolest. The exhibit includes objects from NASA, Lowell Observatory, the UA and— in the spirit of galactic neighborliness—even ASU. Come be inspired, whether you’re 2 years old or 102.

Opens Thursday, May 20, and ongoing through Nov. 30, 2021. Open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Arizona History Museum, E. Second St. $10 GA, with discounts for students, seniors and youth (free for kids 6 and under).

Ask about free admission for veterans.

Hacienda Del Sol Pop Up Drive Through Sculpture Show.

It’s exciting to be re-entering a time in our lives when we can attend events where

we actually leave our cars, because it’s safe to be near other people. But it’s unfortunate that we are also re-entering a time in our lives (summer) where we’d really rather not leave our air-conditioned cars. That makes this art display at Hacienda Del Sol a perfect fit for our lives right now.

Just drive through the front entrance of the resort and follow the signage to see a gorgeous array of featured art displays—all against a background of lovely desert scenery. On display through Sunday, June 13. Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol Road. Free.

I’ll Follow The Sun. Shelley Lawrence Kirkwood, who earned her MFA in photography at the University of Arizona, has spent most of her life in either the Sonoran Desert or the forests and meadows of western Massachusetts.

This exhibit takes a close—like, really close— look at bits of debris and foraged plants from both of these areas. She blows up photos of these little objects to huge sizes, to be proportionate to both their significance in her personal history and their echoes through a larger system. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the country, and you don’t want to miss this opportunity to see it at the Tucson Botanical Gardens.

On display through Sept.

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Local venues are once again scheduling shows and opening their doors Margaret Regan Tucson Local Media

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amilton is on its way.

That’s proof that the arts are coming back.

Or so we hope.

The highly prized musical, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is scheduled to play in Tucson Nov. 17 to Dec. 5, this year, at Centennial Hall.

The hip-hop/jazz/R&B musical about the early years of the American Republic has been a smash hit on Broadway from the day of its debut in January 2015.

Last year, though, the pandemic shut down the New York and Chicago shows, as well as all the traveling versions, including the one that was scheduled to come to Tucson in 2020. Stages went dark everywhere, and actors and musicals all over the country packed up and went home.

Broadway in Tucson has more than once postponed “Hamilton” and other musi-

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cals since the terrible spring 2020. But in a joyful—and confident—press release last week, the company announced that “Hamilton”

will arrive in Tucson, just six months from now.

Plus, the group put together a lineup of other coveted musicals that will keep the theatre busy from October clear into summer 2022.

Among the 10 other shows, “My Fair Lady” and “Wicked” will hit town next January, “Hadestown” goes on the boards in April next year, and “Come From Away” alights in May 2022.

For a complete list, see broadwayintucson.com.

Bursting with enthusiasm at putting plays on the stage once again, Broadway in Tucson told patrons that “we have exciting news to share!” They are not the only ones rejoicing. Call it spring fever or vaccination magic, various arts groups around town are cheerfully announcing their reopenings.

Last week, for example, The Loft blasted an exuberant all-caps message in bold letters: “MOVIES RETURN TO THE LOFT CINEMA!” The theatre opened up its giant indoor movie screen after months of showing only vintage films outdoors.

And the indoor movies are brand-new and newly released. loftcinema.org.

Arizona Theatre Company likewise declared last week “We’re SO excited to announce our 2021/2022 Season!” The troupe had to decamp from the Temple of Music and Art in March 2020, and the theater has been dark ever since. A plan to reopen in January this year fell through.

Despite those troubles, the company, which also performs in Phoenix, has bravely scheduled a

stretched-out season beginning in September 2021 and ending June 2022. Three plays and three musicals are on the menu.

First up is the musical “My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend,” starting Sept. 25.

In April, the play “Justice” examines the friendship between two female justices of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Arizona’s Sandra Day. The season ends with “How to Make an American Son,” opening June 4. For the full season, see arizonatheatre.org.

The Rialto, dark for more than a year, perked up this spring with a clever switch to visual arts. Instead of leaving the 101-year-old theater empty while waiting for the musicians to come back, the Rialto mounted a photo exhibition of portraits of rock-and-rollers shot by house photographers, C. Elliott and Mark A. Martinez, along with concert posters

by Ryan Trayte. The show will end when the music begins again.

And that should be soon, inshallah. Gritty Dirt Band is scheduled on Aug. 25 and Old Blind Dogs, a Scottish traditional band, is lined up for Sept. 3. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are at the satellite venue on 191 Toole on Aug. 20. Rialtotheatre.com.

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he rollout of the vaccine is the biggest factor.

Those doses in people’s arms are up to 95% effective, meaning that 95% of the people vaccinated will not get the virus if they are exposed to it. And the 5% of vaccinated people who catch the disease mostly get mild cases.

With the comfort of those statistics, plenty of the vaccinated are already out and about, seeing friends, eating on restaurant patios and even braving the indoor dining rooms. Last week, the CDC announced that fully vaccinated people can generally go without masks and the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to rescind its mask mandate, while still encouraging those who are not yet vaccinated to wear masks until they get their shot.

The art organizations are calculating that art lovers will soon come flocking inside to plays, concerts, museums and art galleries.

Ironically, arts groups usually worry that too many of their patrons are old and too few are young. But now that age issue is a plus: Tucson boomers went out in droves to get the vaccine.

Of course, the downside is that not everyone wants to get vaccinated. As of Friday, May 14, roughly 357,000 of Pima County’s 1 million residents were fully vaccinated, although almost 420,000 had received at least one shot. Pima County Health Director Theresa Cullen estimated last week that 49% of those 18 and over are fully vaccinated.

But after 14 months, most people know the protocols that reduce the chance of infection from the virus. And the arts groups are taking no chances. By planning for maximum safety, they can more readily coax fans back inside.

The Loft has already posted its COVID rules.

Indoors, only the large theatre is open; the two smaller rooms are not in service.

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in, just 21% of the usual numbers. Reserved seating will keep moviegoers apart.

Everyone must wear masks, just 21% of the usual numbers. And reserved seating will keep moviegoers apart.

Everyone must wear masks, taking them off only when seated and eating or drinking. Only six people at a time can be in the usually bustling lobby. When the film is over, people will leave through the emergency exit doors, to keep people from crowding the lobby.

Fox Tucson Theatre hosted outdoor music singers throughout April. Dos Sueños played the last event scheduled on May 21, but Fox’s gorgeous southwest art deco interior may soon shine with music and comedy.

“Hope is on the horizon for the return of live performances,” the Fox says. So far

there are six groups on that horizon this fall, and a few gigs are already scheduled for 2022.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, a swinging jazz band, is set to play Sept. 11. Comedian Paula Poundstone is on for Oct. 28. Altan, the Irish trad band that fled back to Ireland to escape the virus just before their planned show at the Fox last March, is rebooked for Nov. 21. Foxtucson.com.

Like The Loft, the Fox has COVID rules already in place. Fans must wear masks, and a pod system in the seats will ensure social distancing; the staff will get their temperatures taken regularly and keep the place sanitized.

Fingers crossed that all this effort will keep the arts going.

As the Fox marquee has it, “The Show Will Go On!”

Across the Boards Here’s what you can expect to see from local theater troupes: The Rogue Theatre stayed open in the 2020-2021 season with elaborate COVID protocols, including making videos of each play for fans who weren’t ready to get back in a theatre. Rogue’s new 2021-2022 season opens Sept. 9 with The Awakening, an adaptation of Kate Chopin’s early feminist novel. Four more plays follow, ending with an adaptation of the Virginia Wolfe novel Mrs. Dalloway, April 18 to May 15. theroguetheatre.org.

Invisible Theatre also stayed afloat all season by following strict pandemic protocols. The company has not yet announced its fall plays, but two works will be on the stage this summer. Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted from Cheryl Strayed’s advice column, runs June 9 to 20. A reprise of this spring’s hit, Gloria: A Life, about famed feminist Gloria Steinem, runs Aug. 18 to 29.

A celebration of the troupe’s 50th anniversary will take place Oct. 29 to 31. invisibletheatre.com.

Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s plays turned virtual in the wake of the coronavirus, and the final performance of the 2020-2021 season is no exception. Some 300 aspiring playwrights from around the country entered 10-minute plays to the company’s annual writing contest. Eight 10s in Tucson brings the plays of the eight winners to the digital stage. Tucsonan Madison Peden is the only local winner. Fans can live stream on opening night May 28, or watch a video on demand until June 30.

Windingroadtheater.org Live Theatre Workshop has been using its parking lot this past year to accommodate drive-in outdoor plays. But the three summer shows will move indoors, with a limited number of seats. A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet is on the stage June 10 to July 10; The

Standby Lear, a comical work by John W. Lowell, runs Aug. 5 to 28; and Bloomsday, a Irish time-travel romance by Steven Dietz, runs Sept. 2 to Oct. 9. livetheatreworkshop.org An LTW kids’ drive-in play The Tortoise and the Hare ends this Sunday, May 23. Once Upon This Time, a “princess meets the present” story, runs in the children’s theatre July 16 to Aug. 1. The Conundrum at Camp Catalina, on Sundays from Aug. 22 to Sept. 6, gets children participating woodland games.

Gaslight Theatre has been staging concerts outdoors for months, but now the music has gone inside the theatre, with a long roster of shows. The current play, “Buccaneers of the Caribbean,” has gone outside. Buccaneers is sold out, but Space Wars opens up in June and runs through the summer. thegaslighttheatre.com See main story for info on Arizona Theatre Company.

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As long as you’re vaccinated, experts say you can resume most of your old activities

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lmost as fast as the nation entered quarantine more than a year ago, businesses and governments are now lifting mask mandates and COVID restrictions. Earlier this month, the CDC announced those who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by state or local rules. This new guidance includes activities like shopping and eating, and allows for domestic flights without testing.

Although a full vaccination removes most mask requirements, the CDC acknowledges vaccinations don’t prevent all cases, and says indoor events pose a “minimal risk,” but not no risk at all.

“I think it’s completely appropriate,” said Kelly Reynolds, a professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Public Health.

“We have a lot of evidence now that vaccinated people are not really transmitting the virus to others, and they’re protected themselves. It seems like an appropriate guideline to loosen those restrictions. Obviously there’s challenges with knowing who is vaccinated and who is not, so the key point here is vaccination.”

Reynolds, PhD, is department chair for UA’s Department of Community, Environment and Policy. She also serves as director of UA’s Environment, Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center, and has researched water quality, food safety and disease transmission for decades.

Reynolds still urges caution because of unknowns regarding the vaccine, and the large portion of people unvaccinated.

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, more than 40% of Arizonans are now vaccinated, equaling 3 million people who have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. Reynolds lists the incidence of vaccine “breakthrough” cases, the uncertain longevity of the vaccine, and how compromised people build immunity as some of the most important remaining questions.

“One of the ways the CDC makes decisions about their recommendations is by looking at the probabilities in the population, not necessarily these smaller groups that have rarer cases that don’t follow the general norm,” Reynolds said. “We still have a ways to go, and I think that’s where the difficulty comes in. If you’re not vaccinated, then you still really need to adhere to a lot of protections.

And now even more so, because other people are not going to be masked.

If you’re not vaccinated and not wearing a mask, perhaps going with the peer group, you’re putting yourself at higher risk.”

The CDC has stated that those fully vaccinated can resume the activities they did prior to the pandemic, but still wear a mask when required and still watch out for symptoms of COVID-19.

“Vaccines are good, but not perfect,” says Joe Gerald, PhD, an associate professor in the UA College of Public Health who has operated a weekly COVID report throughout the pandemic. “Through the course of the pandemic, we should have viewed outdoor events as safer than we did. Of course, the greatest risk is in places like gyms, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and churches.

These places have drawn a large number of transmissions. But if you’re vaccinated, the outdoors are safe, and people need to get outdoors.”

Throughout the pandemic, there has been an emphasis on sanitizing surfaces to avoid the hand-to-surface-to-face route of infection. However, Reynolds says the virus really doesn’t survive well on surfaces, and so the efforts to disinfecting surfaces should not be

people’s primary focus.

“There’s so much we know now that we didn’t know a year ago. It was summertime a year ago when Arizona was leading the nation in the number of cases and hospitalizations, and that was largely because we all went inside when things started heating up. Something we learned that is validated by real life is how the virus circulates very well in indoor environments.

There’s new evidence now that when you’re indoors and there’s good air circulation, it might not matter if you’re six feet apart or 60 feet apart: the virus is being spread in indoor environments,” Reynolds said. “Circulating air can dilute the virus, but you need to get it out of the building. There needs to be air exchange, not just circulation.”

Though sanitizing surfaces isn’t the primary method of reducing COVID, it has proved effective against other contagions like influenza and norovirus. In fact, the CDC estimates that 22,000 Americans died from the flu in the 2019-2020 season, more than 10,000 fewer than each of the previous three flu seasons.

“There has been a cultural shift in terms of recognizing the importance of hygiene and social distancing. Even though we know in indoor environments social distancing is

Read more about vaccination options on page 9. not that effective because of the air-circulation issue, avoiding large crowds in general does reduce the risk of person-to-person transmission,” Reynolds said. “But some of those habits have adverse effects, like social isolation, anxiety and depression.

The loss of human contact can really affect quality of life. So I think we’re really going to be doing a lot of reflecting back on this pandemic and finding that right balance between reducing risk of infection and the relative risk of social isolation.”

While removing masking requirements for fully vaccinated individuals is a welcome sight, the CDC still has directives for those unvaccinated, and plans to

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keep those even after states fully roll back their most basic COVID protocols.

“The greatest barrier now is the hesitancy for getting the vaccine,” Reynolds said. “Early on, people were standing in lines and doing whatever they could to get the vaccine, and we’ve gotten the vaccine to those people.

Now we have the vaccine waiting to be delivered, and there’s not a big line of people waiting to get them. So the message really is that the vaccine has been the big difference in reducing the restrictions and being able to get people back together. So we want to get more people to trust the vaccine. The data is high efficacy and low side-effects.”

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by Tucson natives and longtime chefs Mat Cable and Devon Sanner.

The name of the eatery at 6502 E. Tanque Verde Road was inspired by Cable’s Uncle Joe (Zio Peppe in Italian), Joe Sottosanti, who opened Tucson’s first Sicilian pizzeria four decades ago.

“Uncle Joe is a trailblazer,” said Cable. “He never talks before he thinks and there’s a certain seriousness in him, even when he smiles.”

When Sanner officially met Uncle Joe, his impression was consistent with the image portrayed through the series of vintage Sottosanti photos that adorn the restaurant walls.

“He still carries that

1970s De Niro swagger,” said Sanner.

So how do you get a trailblazing spirit, a serious kind of smile and a certain swagger on a menu that marries Sonoran and Italian customs? I’m glad you asked.

Zio Peppe’s Elote Arancini is a Sonoran take on the classic Sicilian street food. Charred corn, queso fresco and lime crema are the chefs’ hometown touches to these fried risotto balls that have defined Sicily’s culinary story for generations.

“We knew we were going to do both arancini and street corn on different parts of the menu, but when we put them together in experimenting with this dish, we looked at each other and said, ‘Well, that settles that,’” said Cable.

The Lasagna Sonorense is another dish that Sanner said “works through analogues.” In place of the traditional veal and pork Bolognese and marinara, they use house-made chorizo and red chile sauce, along with poblano chile con queso, spinach, and ricotta.

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tle earthiness from the guajillo chiles and richness from the poblano chile con queso that give it a slight piquancy along with some depth,” said Sanner.

The centerpiece of the Zio Peppe space is a unique gas and wood-fired oven with a rotating stone hearth, which tells me that pizza is a central part of their story. And several of the Neapolitan-style pizzas symbolize the Sonoran-Italian connection.

The Prickly Pickle pizza is one example, topped with prickly pear cactus pads, or nopales, cholla cactus buds, red onion escabeche and guajillo chile crema.

“I’ve done pickled cholla buds in other guises for some years now, and Mat and I decided to do something fun with them,” said Sanner. “We ended up using pepperoncini brine in the pickle, and it was like magic when we tried it.

The natural artichoke and asparagus flavor profile of the cholla buds played well with the sharpness of the brine.”

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The Prickly Pickle pizza at Zio Peppe, a new restaurant co-owned by Tucson natives and longtime chefs Mat Cable and Devon Sanner. batch of cholla buds in that brine, we probably ate about $30 worth of them, one after the other,” he said.

“They were that good.”

Cable and Sanner are as much about praxis as they are about playfulness, and several dishes on the menu are intended to suit more traditional palates, such as their classic Margherita pizza, Fettuccini

Alfredo, and Caesar Salad.

Zio Peppe is open for take-out and delivery, with plans to open the dining room this summer as staffing allows. You can access the menu at www.ziopeppeaz.com.

As noted, Uncle Joe never talks before he thinks. After sitting down with Mat Cable and Devon Sanner, I’d suggest the

same is true for Zio Peppe.

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Vaccination sites open at Foothills Mall and Tucson Mall

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ima County is expanding vaccine opportunities, offering daily walk-in vaccinations at Foothills Mall.

The county is also offering shots Monday through Friday at the Tucson Mall.

At the Foothills Mall, the vaccination clinic, located in the former Old Navy store, is offering vaccinations for all ages from noon to 8 p.m. every day.

The Tucson mall location, in the former Justice store on the second floor between Dillards and Sears, offers the Johnson & Johnson shot for those 18 and older weekdays between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

As these and other clinics open, the county has closed down its outdoor vaccina-

tion sites and other larger clinics. The CareMore Health location at 4750 S. Landing Way, near Irvington and I-19, closed on May 21; the Tucson Convention Center site will close May 28.

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few months, we have also been tremendously successful in building up and perfecting our mobile and smaller-scale operations as well. It is easier than ever to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Pima County.”

Since the state began vaccinating children ages 12 to 15 after a green light from the FDA on May 13, the county has expanded its locations offering Pfizer.

The county continues to offer vaccinations at several mobile sites every week, along Jeff Gardner with the FEMA pop-up sites.

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luegrass music hails from the rolling hills of Kentucky, but fans of Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin know the musical style fits quite well between saguaros and canyon walls. The duo’s latest collaboration, “Desert Heart, Mountain Soul,” combines a variety of rustic and lonesome songs into a musical map of the American Southwest: creosote, pastures, borderlands and all.

The pair have performed together since the early ’90s, blending a variety of ballads that fit beneath the Americana label. McLaughlin is a guitarist and singer who moved to Tucson in the ‘80s, performing in several folk festivals and fronting The Sonoran Dogs. Brashear, who records on the guitar, fiddle, mandolin and more, met McLaughlin when he moved to Tucson in 1992.

In 2016, through a Museum of Northern Arizona artist residency, Brashear and McLaughlin recorded an album celebrating the Colorado plateau. A follow-up of sorts, “Desert Heart, Mountain Soul,” expands its view both thematically and compositionally, and was co-written with songwriter and performer Mark “Brink” Brinkman.

“That particular project, there was a specific motivation to write songs about the Colorado plateau. There was a much more direct focus to that recording,” Brashear said. “‘Desert Heart, Mountain Soul’ didn’t have that kind of primary focus and I’d say was much more loose.

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Peter McLaughlin (left) and Chris Brashear released their third collaborative album ‘Desert Heart, Mountain Soul’ on the Hotel Congress plaza last week.

We weren’t trying to fit anything into one small box.”

Beyond its varied lyrical themes, “Desert Heart, Mountain Soul” also includes covers of American folk icons like Woody Guthrie and Kate Wolf. Songs like “Take Me Back Where I Was Born” and “Another Trip Around the Sun” are more somber reflections of time’s passing, but much of the album is warm, pastoral songs celebrating the history and landscape of Arizona.

“We really haven’t done a lot of co-writing. Usually Peter comes up with ideas and I come up with ideas and we try to fulfill each other’s vision as much as we can,”

Brashear said. “In our very nature and upbringing we probably bring some of that high, lonesome quality. We like that in music anyway. So I don’t know if the pandemic specifically has changed our sensibilities about what we bring to lyrics and songs, but we’ve also had this very specific Southwest bent. So there’s other things like geography and culture coming into our songs, as opposed to what is just thought of as Appalachian mountain music.”

McLaughlin says they are both heavily influenced by the outdoors in their songwriting, and often explore the Southwestern nature together. Adoration of the wilder-

ness is clear in the title track, which decries city living and expresses a willingness to escape into a desert landscape: “The cactus blooms, the coyotes cry, the Colorado rolls / A full moon over the mesa is a wonder to behold.”

“I think Chris and I have similar styles, even though our playing and singing is different. We both write about what we’ve seen and done, and the places we’ve been,” McLaughlin said. “Whenever I go out on one of my off-weekends to go hiking or camping or backpacking, I take it all in and that’s where I get a lot of my songs from.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Tomorrow never comes because it’s always today. Similarly, a problem can only be solved by the one having it. To anyone who doesn’t see it as a problem, it isn’t. If you see something as a problem, then it’s automatically partly yours to solve. This week the lines of responsibility will blur, shift and change.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). A warm embrace is not always the most loving thing to do. To present a cool detachment can be a kind of offering. It sets up a challenge for others -- a space to cross and an invitation to employ inner resources to bridge the gap in their own unique way. Your mindful inconsistencies of behavior will surprise and excite.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Too much busy movement will be counterproductive, as the work that most needs to be done (healing, ideating, energizing) will be accomplished in moments that appear, to the outside observer, idle. Everyone wins when you make sacred your blocks of designated nothing time, even if you must schedule them to do so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Contentment and ambition both live inside you, but it is not possible to embody both these things at once.

You’ll alternate between the modes this week as you decide exactly what you want and at what time you can fall unapologetically and fully into a fiery ambition that will fuel your rapid progress.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). While a sense of belonging brings comfort, comfort is low on your list of priorities and way below things like principles and goal-getting. If you had to choose, you’d rather forward the interests you are passionate about than do all it takes to fit in with a group that doesn’t share your values.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When the group is hopeful, you’ll think about what could go wrong and ask the questions that will help everyone prepare to be confident in a variety of scenarios. This isn’t pessimism; rather, it’s for the sake of balance. When the group is pessimistic, you’ll balance by being hopeful and buoying all.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The somewhat cynical formula of Roman emperors for keeping keep the masses content, “Panem et circenses,” translates to, “Bread and circuses.”While you can dole out treats and fun like a pro, you want to give others something much more substantial; consider opportunities to participate in purposeful projects.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The quest for beauty is always worthwhile no matter what you find. Even if you come up empty-handed, the journey attunes you to witness wonders when they happen to come along. The more attuned you get, the more wonders you witness until you start to realize that it’s the ability to see beauty that is the real quest.

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It makes me happy I can get away from city life. I think a lot of the songs talk about that because this past year, especially with not having a lot of gigs, I was able to explore some wilderness areas I had no idea were so spectacular. That was one of the bright sides from the COVID year. I had all this time to get out into the backwoods and canyons and mountains.” Although the album was recorded during the pandemic, its songs feature a vast and warm atmosphere.

Brashear and McLaughlin managed to maintain this even during isolated recording sessions at A Writer’s Room in Tucson. Guest musicians like Alvin Blaine, Duncan Stitt and Chris Haynes further defined the landscape via added layers of dobro, pedal steel guitar, piano and accordion.

“This recording couldn’t be made with everybody in the room at the same time, so there was a question of how to keep things organic,” Brashear said. “Peter and I went in at the same time, we were in the same bubble anyway. So we could get the basic tracks done, then had other people come in. And I think the folks we had as guests were able to keep an organic feel, even when we were separated.”

“Desert Heart, Mountain Soul” also includes a cover of Alice Gerrard’s “You Gave Me A Song,” and features her singing harmony. McLaughlin says singing with Gerrard on her own song was the honor of the album.

“We wanted to do those songs because they cover the natural elements and wildlife. It’s very reflective of what our thoughts were for the whole project, a lot of outdoor imagery and wild places,” McLaughlin said. “When

I think of writers like Kate Wolf and Woody Guthrie, they really captured the social issues and environmental issues in their songs, and that’s kind of what we seek for our recordings.”

Though there is an emphasis on natural imagery and genre standbys, certain tracks tackle personal and political subjects, such as “21 On the Border,” where Brashear sings about border crossings. The calm, pained song examines identity and isolation in lyrics like: “As empty as the Gila south of Phoenix, on a dusty road where no one ever goes / I will work anywhere I will do anything, I don’t have a name and I ain’t got no papers / I’m all alone, yes all alone, in a wasteland that a free man never knows.”

“It’s not like the instrumentation on the record is complicated or too layered on top of each other, but we definitely are trying to capture a feeling with every song. So we pick instruments that lend themselves better to produce certain feelings or settings,” Brashear said.“It’s the same for ‘21 On the Border,’ I wanted it to have that feeling of norteño in there, so we have accordion and nylon-string guitars to help instrumentally produce a sonic picture in people’s minds.”

Brashear’s “The Day I Was Set Free” is a classic blues song filled with imagery of drunks, train cars and absent families. But the dusty guitar and drums are turned on their head with a tight performance and the ironic central theme of wanting to go back to prison after being released.

“I always listen back to my own recordings and overall am my own worst critic, but I think we really captured what we wanted here,” McLaughlin said.

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ith a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments.

Design Day. Senior students in the University of Arizona’s College of Engineering recently presented their longtime projects for the college’s annual Craig M. Berge Design Day. Unlike previous years, for 2021 the 99 student teams presented their projects over video.

But similar to previous years, multiple student teams took home large awards for this work. This year, more than $46,000 was awarded to various student teams working with industry and university sponsors. The winners of the $7,500 Craig M. Berge Dean’s Award for Most Outstanding Project created a “solar-powered, autonomous rover” to monitor Oso Grande, which is Tucson Electric Power’s wind turbine facility in New Mexico. The rover prototype is based on an electric all-terrain vehicle and has devices to autonomously record wind turbine efficiency, wind speed and direction. Other winning projects included a sensor system enabling Reid Park Zoo animals to switch on fans and misters for themselves; a device to capture grasshoppers and remove the pests from agricultural fields; short-wave infrared beacons that can be deployed by a drone to

mark targets in the field; and a system to maintain positive pressure in a closed habitat, potentially for crew quarters on the Moon and Mars. For more information, visit icap. engineering.arizona.edu.

Solar-Powered GoKarts. On Saturday, April 24, 56 Arizona high school students gathered at the Musselman Honda Circuit south of Tucson to race the solar-powered go-karts they designed and built as teams, with the help of coaches and community mentors. The solar-powered race is hosted by the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation, who took the project’s helm in 2019. According to SARSEF, nine teams from six schools competed at Race Day 2021.

Teams were evaluated on the presentation of their design and build process, participation throughout the school year, and the performance of their kart during the race. Students raced both standard and maker go-karts. Standard karts use a pre-fabricated steel frame chassis, while maker karts are for teams who build the kart from the ground up. Ultimately, Salpointe High School’s standard kart ranked as the grand champion, while Pinetop-based Blue Ridge High School’s maker kart won the innovation award. In the Standard Kart Division, the Efficiency Award went to Tanque Verde Solar Flares, and the Endurance and Speed Awards went to the Center for Academic Success. In the Maker Kart Division, the Efficiency Award went to Salpointe High School, and the Endurance and Speed Awards went to Surprise-based Shadow Ridge High School.

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e ask our dogs a lot of questions, and oftentimes “Who’s a good boy?” is second only to “Oh no, what did you eat?” Oro Valley’s bioscience industry has gained a new member with uPetsia, a University of Arizona startup that has developed a bacteria strain to quell bad breath in dogs. uPetsia’s technology was developed by two associate professors out of the UA’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The idea dates back to a Thanksgiving with friends. Co-founder Eric Lyons recalls friends and family sitting around a campfire with their dogs, and everyone started talking about how dogs had horrible breath. Eventually this turned into guessing whose had the worst breath, and if breed or body size affected their breath. “And I thought to myself, I bet we can come up with some technology to solve bad breath in dogs,” associate professor Lyons said.

“I kept thinking about it when I got back to the office. That was the genesis of this technology, which is to screen and cultivate, and look at the naturally occurring bacteria in the mouths of dogs. Looking for ones that are safe and effective that we can work with in the lab that don’t carry antibiotic resistance genes, and see if we can genetically engineer some synthetic pathways to produce nice aromas like mint smell.”

Lyons submitted his idea to UA, and caught the attention of the university’s commercialization office, Tech Launch Arizona. TLA then gave uPetsia a business devel-

opment grant to move from concept to research. uPetsia’s argument is that traditional breath fresheners are only effective in the minutes after use, but introducing bacteria that produce mint smell can last far longer.

“With toothpaste and mouthwash, you have fresh breath for about 20 minutes. It’s the same thing for dogs,” Lyons said. “When they chew on something, it scrapes the plaque and tartar off the teeth. Some products have mint to help give them fresh breath. But as soon as that clears the oral cavity, that freshness diminishes very quickly. The difference here is that our bacteria establish small colonies in the mouth, and during their lifetime that lasts about two hours, they are producing that mint aroma.”

Lyons realized that to be successful, he’d need to work with a business professional who can translate scientific advancements into a market-ready product, and called in longtime collaborator Scott Zentack.

“As soon as he told me the idea, I thought it was phenomenal and was on-board,” Zentack said. “That was almost three years ago, and it’s been a really fun ride… It comes down to the fact that it persists, and persists longer than other products. Ideally, we’d like to get to a point where you feed a treat to your dog in the morning, and it still has fresh breath when you come home from work.”

The mint smell in question is methyl salicylate, an organic compound commonly used for fragrance and flavor. uPetsia co-inventor and fel-

low associate professor David Baltrus scanned through “hundreds if not thousands” of bacteria to find a type with the correct properties to engineer the production of the minty methyl salicylate. The engineering is done in the bacteria’s plasmids, small DNA molecules similar to chromosomes. While methyl salicylate has been linked to cases of toxicity in humans, this is often due to overuse of topical pain-relief products.

“We basically synthetically engineered this pathway, and then we optimized it for use within these bacteria, and ordered stretches of DNA that contain the genes that we want to, and stitch them to a plasmid and put that plasmid in the bacteria,” Lyons said.

“It’s very similar to thinking about it in terms of a computer code: there’s the bacterial program running on the bacterial chromosome, and then we have this little tiny program made up of a couple of genes that is there to make methyl salicylate.”

To test the aroma-producing capabilities of the new bacteria, Lyons and Baltrus measured out a set amount of bacteria, put it on treats and fed them to dogs, then swabbed the dogs’ mouths immediately and every few hours after to find out how long the bacteria stuck around.

“The University has a very stringent program for how to work with animals.

But when it came to the first batch of dogs, these were our dogs,” Lyons said.

“While the University was incredibly stringent in terms of their safety and control, the real person I had to con-

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Lyons says they used four testing methods to detect the bacteria’s presence in their dogs’ mouths: using scientific instruments to detect the bacteria themselves, recovering the bacteria out of the dogs’ mouths, and using molecular markers as an additional confirmation of bacteria. But in addition to these more advanced processes, the classic sniff test also played a role.

They were able to detect the specialized bacteria and methyl salicylate production for 90 minutes to two hours after feeding the dogs. Of course, this time range can be reduced by dogs quickly scarfing down their treats.

“Our main concern with this bacteria is, because we’re going in there and re-engineering to divert their internal metabolic energy to produce mint smell, it’s going to make them a little weaker,” Lyons said. “Bacteria are constantly battling it out on animals, so if you bring in one that’s a little weaker, how fast are they going to get

outcompeted?”

Looking ahead, uPetsia (which comes from the word eupepsia, meaning “good digestion”) aims to increase the longevity of their bacteria, potentially by three or four hours.

“Our ultimate goal is to make a product that’s made for pets and the people who love them,” Zentack said.

“Dogs are part of their families and our families, so we want the consumers to understand that we’re being very safe.” uPetsia recently gained a major business boost in winning the University of Arizona Center for Innovation’s Sponsored Launch Fueled by the Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce competition, which grants uPetsia business support and one year of admission to the new Center for Innovation in Oro Valley.

“It was perfect. We were looking at lab space at the time this came up, so we did a pitch for the competition and were selected,” Zentack said.

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“We’re working on the bacteria. We don’t want to be a treat producer or a food producer. So we’re working with people that can help us understand how to incorporate this into pet foods,” Zentack said. “Our plan is to grow this bacteria in bulk and supply it to a treat maker, then they would incorporate it into their manufacturing process.”

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or the last year or so, we haven’t really had a good answer to the question “What have you been up to lately?” But with about half of all adults in Pima County vaccinated and more getting their shot every day, it seems like the pandemic is slowly starting to fade away.

Not that you shouldn’t continue to take precautions such as wearing masks in crowded situations with strangers and frequently washing your hands. And with more variant strains spreading, it’s important to consider the risk when unvaccinated children are involved. The virus hasn’t vanished yet but we’re (*crosses fingers*) past the worst of it.

There’s a reason that Tucson ended up on Travel + Leisure’s list of the Top 50 Places to Travel in 2021 and Condé Nast Traveler’s list 2021 Hot List: It’s fun place to be! It’s certainly been too long since we’ve sought out many of our favorite adventures in this town, so here’s a calendar that can guide you through what’s going on this summer. Get out, have fun, stay well!

CAMPS & KIDS STUFF Camp Groundworks.

Hopefully the youth in your life get to spend a lot of time at Groundworks—the youth-driven, nonprofit community arts space in town— this summer. They’ve got lots of great stuff coming up, but

Puppet Camp they’re kicking the summer off with Camp Groundworks, a summer camp-themed celebration that includes a virtual live stream with local musicians, a mural scavenger hunt, an art showcase and an auction. They’ve faced a lot of challenges in their first two years, but the “little nonprofit that could” is still forging ahead, and this is a great way to celebrate it. Participating is free, but donations are greatly participated to fund other events throughout the year.

10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 29.

Groundworkstucson.com Desert Museum Summer Camps. Whether your kids are itching to leave the house to do some exploring, or they’d rather learn about the desert from the air-conditioned comfort of home, the Desert Museum has some exciting offerings this summer, including a virtual camp, a camp onsite

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at the museum, a camp up on Mount Lemmon and a camp that combines both art and science. Camps run in June and July – just check the kids camp page at desertmuseumtucson.org for more info on which programs are geared toward your child’s age. There’s really nothing like summer camp, and summer camp after over a year of pandemic weirdness is going to feel extra special. desertmuseum.org Puppet Camp. Puppet camp is for ages 8 to 13, which is not fair, because I am 26 and I want to go to Puppet Camp. The program is hosted by Red Herring Puppets, whose founder, Lisa Sturz, has 40 years of puppetry experience and has worked with Disney, Jim Henson Productions and Lucasfilm. So she definitely, definitely knows what she’s doing.

In the five-day camps, campers will create their own hand

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Desert Museum Summer Camps puppets with papier mache heads and cloth bodies, create their own vignettes, record their characters voices, and create a soundtrack to their very own puppet show with music and effects. They will also make a shadow puppet and scarf marionette. What a fantastically unique experience for the creative kiddos in your life. 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Final performance is 4 p.m. on Friday. Sessions are June 7 to 11, June 21 to 25 & July 12 to 16. Red Herring Puppets in the Tucson Mall (upper level, between Macy’s and Forever 21). $150. redherringpuppets.com Summer Safari Nights at the Reid Park Zoo. There’s something a little bit magical about getting to spend a summer evening at the zoo with your kids. Watching

the wonder on their faces while they learn all about our fellow members of the animal kingdom and play educational games is special.

And doing it to the sounds of live, local music in the gorgeous setting at the Reid Park Zoo, even more so.

And, hey, if you partake, it might not hurt to know that these nights also feature craft beer, prickly pear margaritas, wine and White Claws. Each week of this program has a different theme, so you can come back as many times as you want and keep learning more. (And FYI: it’s super fun even if you don’t have kids to bring). 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturdays May 15 through Aug. 14. Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court. $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 kids 2 to 14. reidparkzoo.org

Summer at the Children’s Museum. Summer is for the kids, and that’s why we’re so glad that both the Tucson and Oro Valley Children’s Museums will be back in full swing just in time. The Children’s Museum Tucson (200 S. Sixth Ave.) will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, starting on Memorial Day. The Oro Valley location (11015 N. Oracle Road) will resume a six-day schedule, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Capacity is limited, but fun isn’t! The Tucson location offers half-price admission during extended evening hours with bilingual programming. Both locations have also relaunched MyTime, an inclusion program for families and chilSee Summer Survival, P4

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Summer Survival Continued from P2 dren who need a more supportive environment. And don’t miss Discovery Nights, from 5 to 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

ART Hacienda Del Sol Pop Up Drive Through Sculpture Show. Maybe you’ve gotten used to being able to quasi-interact with the world and view new parts of it without leaving your car. And, while you might not be able to make every part of your life work with that preference (for example, you usually still have to leave the car for things like surgery, or getting on a flight), with this event, you can have it the way you want it. This exhibit

started last summer at Hacienda Del Sol, and now they’re making it annual! Just drive through the front entrance and follow the signage to view a lovely array of art pieces on display in the desert. On display through Sunday, June 13. Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol Road. Free.

Artists Studio Tour and Sale. Do you ever miss DVDs? They had those amazing special features section with things like deleted scenes, bloopers and behind-the-scenes content.

There’s just something cool about going behind the scenes and seeing how art is made. That’s one reason why this double show, which features both art for sale and

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studio tours, makes for an excellent summer outing.

Don Baker, who works with rusted steel on canvas, is doing a retrospective. And Risa Waldt is showing her spring collection paintings. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13. Don Baker is at 16530 N. Ridge Rock Road. Risa Waldt is at 65650 E. Edwin Road.

MISCELLANEOUS FUN Sunset Yoga at Armory Park. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought about taking up yoga many, many times. It’s supposed to be good for you joints, right?

And your mind? And it looks like it feels so good?

People who do yoga always just seem to have it together.

Maybe this is the summer where you take up yoga in a free Wednesday evening class at the park. They’ll even

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Yoga at Amory Park have occasional special guest DJs to help you really get in the groove. Namaste! Please arrive at 6 p.m. to be ready for the yoga session from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evenings throughout the summer. Armory Park, 222 S. Fifth Ave. Free.

Tucson Cars & Coffee. If you’re a car person, you won’t want to miss this meetup hosted by Obsessions Car Club on second Saturdays. Get together with a group of fellow enthusiasts and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of beautiful cars.

Each month of this meetup has a theme. June’s is European cars, July’s is modern muscle, August is Mopars and September is GM (it goes on through the fall and winter months too, but this is the Summer Survival Guide!) Grab a coffee, grab

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practitioners include gemstone diviners, palm readers, reiki masters, empaths and a variety of intuitive psychic counselors. Maybe you’re not getting the guidance you need from the realm we normally exist in, or maybe you just think it would be interesting to talk to some of these people. Of course it would! Why not meander down on a Sunday morning this summer? 9 a.m. on third Sundays. (June 20, July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19) Best Western, 6201 N. Oracle Road. Free.

Summer Safari Nights your car, and do try to arrive early. Lord knows the later you are, the hotter it will be 7 to 10 a.m. on second Saturdays. Lowe’s Home Improvement parking lot, 4075 W. Ina Road. Free.

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Third Sunday Metaphysics Fair. Looking to explore some new worlds this summer? You’ll have fun visiting the “Oracles on Oracle,” as they like to call themselves.

This group of metaphysical

Oro Valley Movies on the Lawn. On fourth Saturdays throughout the summer, Oro Valley is screening films on a giant, inflatable outdoor screen. Drive up, lay out a blanket, pull up a chair and enjoy. The kids will love watching a movie outside, and you’ll love that there’s no hassle: it’s free, and no

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registration is required. June 26 is Frozen II (so make sure you watch the first Frozen for the 4,000th time before you go), July 24 is Sonic the Hedgehog, and Aug. 28 is The Call of the Wild. Shows start around 7:30 p.m. at the Oro Valley Community & Rec Center, 10555 N. La Canada Drive. Free.

El Jefe Cat Lounge. Yes, technically this is a summer survival guide, but you should keep this one in your back pocket for survival at any time of year. Because what better way to cheer up than visiting with a bunch of adorable, adoptable kitties?

El Jefe’s resident felines come from Finally My Forever Home Rescue, and are all in tip top health and ready to adopt. Plus, the facility is so cute that it basically feels like a spa… except better, really. Because there are cats.

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Book a slot today at eljefe- a movie night or Cat Bingo, catlounge.com! Or check in pique your interest. throughout the summer to See Summer Survival, P6 see if any of their events, like

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If you’ve read this Cheryl Strayed book, you’re in for a real treat with this stage adaptation by Nia Vardalos.

Starring Susan Baker, Tim Tully, Emily Gates and Richard Michael Thompson, it’s based on Strayed’s experience as the advice columnist behind “Dear Sugar.” (Who among us doesn’t think we could probably run an advice column, despite a total lack of qualifications?) It’s a touching, surprising show about coming unstuck and finding the courage to ask questions. Showing from Wednesday, June 9, to Sunday, June 20 at Invisible The-

atre, 1400 N. First Ave. $40 GA, $20 students. Showtimes are at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Be sure to also check out a reprise of this spring’s hit, “Gloria: A Life”, about famed feminist Gloria Steinem. It runs Aug. 18-29.

written or created by female artists, this season certainly looks promising. First up is “My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend,” a musical based on the true story of Broadway performer Charissa Bertels.

The show is going on tour after playing in Arizona, so don’t miss your chance to see it. Sept. 25 to Oct. 16. Arizona Theatre Company, 330 S. Scott Ave. arizonatheatre.org

Arizona Theatre Company’s 54th Season. At the tail end of the summer, ATC will be kicking off its 2021/2022 season. Because we’ve pretty much all been having a bad time the past year or so, the team has curated productions that tell stories about learning to heal and to love others. With three plays and three musicals (including one musical about RBG and Sandra Day O’Connor), five of which are

The Rogue Theatre Season Begins. The Rogue Theatre stayed open in the 20202021 season with elaborate COVID protocols, including making videos of each play for fans who weren’t ready to get back in a theatre. Rogue’s new 2021-2022 season opens, or should we say… it AWAKENS, on Sept.

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Live Theatre Workshop has been using its parking lot this past year to accommodate drive-in outdoor plays. But the three summer shows will move indoors, with a limited number of seats. “A Life in the Theatre,”

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