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Chris Bauman

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Theatre; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Mixed Media, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor; Performance Art Instructor Improv

I am a Visual Artist as well as a Performance Artist. Visual media include Abstract on canvas, glass, wood, and others. I specialize in Paint Pouring Technique. I am an Instructor in the Pouring Technique. I have evolved into epoxy resin art, and rehabbing old table and counter tops. In Performance Arts, I am a professional actor, working in commercial and film, as well as live comedy, via Improv. I have performed Improv over 22 years in Indy, and am an available instructor.

Ryan L Bennett

Literary Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography

Artist, Activist, and Visionary, this New Generation Renaissance Man is an alumnus and long time supporter of Asante Children’s Theatre. Recently named one of four Indianapolis Arts Council Art & Soul 2018 Featured Artist. Ryan is an Onyx Festival veteran and Playwrite. He is the Creative Executive Officer of Kai Entertainment, established in March of 2011, whose motto is “Media that Matters”. Mr. Bennett is also the Business Manager of Act A Foo Improv Crew, “Un-Scripted, Un-Rehearsed, and Un-Believably Funny”. At the age of 16, Ryan produced the 10-year news Magazine style show 360 Degrees through Indiana Black Expo’s flagship youth program Youth Video Institute. A graduate from Full Sail University with a degree in recording engendering; Ryan is an internationally published photographer, producer, director, and Academy Award-winning crew-member. He has worked with television and film companies in Los Angeles, California, the Senior Producer of Globalvison, a documentary company in New York City, New York, producing Barack Obama: The People’s President and The Battle of Durban II: Israel, Palestine & the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In his soul he believes that LOVE CONQUERS ALL; and it is his mission to spread love and knowledge to the world.

Tony Brewer

Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Works on paper

I’m a poet, spoken word performer, live sound effects/foley artist, and event producer. I am treasurer of the Writers Guild at Bloomington and executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival. I have been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and I have been a regular reader for the programs Books Unbound on WFHB community radio and Anthology on WFIU public radio. I’ve published several books of poetry — The Great American Scapegoat (2006), Little Glove in a Big Hand (2010), Hot Type Cold Read (2013), Homunculus (2019), The History of Projectiles (2021), Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay (with Tim Heerdink, 2021), Pity For Sale (Gasconade Press, 2022), and psithurism (Last Lights Press) — and I have work in the anthologies Haiku for Hikers (2021), Leave Them Something (2021), The Notes Will Carry Me Home: Writings On Music from Evansville and the Tri-State (2021), Death By Punk (2021), Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017), And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana (2011), A Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets (2002), and others. By day, I’m a graphic designer and composition coordinator at Indiana University Press. As a sound effects/foley artist, I have taught, directed, and performed sound effects for the National Audio Theatre Festivals in Missouri since 2001, and I’ve performed and written for WFHB’s Firehouse Follies live variety show in Bloomington since 2008. In 1994, I made Hayward Sanitarium, a horror thriller audio series I directed and produced for NPR Playhouse. Since then I’ve taught at Indiana University, Michigan University, and Kansas City Art Institute, and have performed with the Knoxville Opera, Otherworld Media, Mind’s Ear Audio Productions, and many others, from studio work to costumed live theatre. Over the years, I have produced or co-produced and collaborated on dozens of live performances and events in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and around the country, including Va-Va-Va Vaudeville!, WFHB Firehouse Follies live variety show, Krampus Night Bloomington, and The Encyclopedia Show-Indianapolis. I also collaborate and play live sound effects with various musicians in the Urban Deer Record Co. collective in Bloomington.

Tim Brickley

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television

Justin Brown

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Radio/Television, Spoken Word; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Earthworks, Film, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Justin Brown is a multidiscipline contemporary artist and curator. He is a native Hoosier and Cathedral graduate. Justin was an original founder and curator of Future Friends Holographic Magic Club in Fountain Square, IN. He is the founder and executive director of Hoy Polloy Art Gallery at 3125 E. 10th St, Indianapolis, IN. Justin was also the curator and director of Re:Public; a partnership between Indianapolis Contemporary and Hoy Polloy, which closed in April 2020 with the closing of Indianapolis. His visual work focuses primarily on federal and private surveillance data analytics, public and private scientific institutional research, federal and municipal law enforcement investigations, congressional investigation committees, historical documentarian texts, forced perspective, cognitive dissonance, and color theory.

Landon Caldwell

Literary Arts; Installation

Landon Caldwell is a composer and multi-disciplinary artist in Indianapolis whose work examines environment, family, & class through the language of intuition and other hidden layers of reality. Through sound, words, color and other materials, his work creates environments that redirect attention to the present and open new realities through the minutiae of the everyday. Since 2016 he has co-operated Medium Sound, producing a number of the label’s releases. From 2017 to 2020 he was a co-owner/operator of A-Space, a community-focused audio workspace. He has toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe and is regularly engaged with artists and musicians across the Midwest and beyond. His collaborative work expands into multi-disciplinary fields, working with film, visual arts, sculpture, poetry, dance, and more.

Circle My City

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Radio/Television, Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Photography

Circle My City is a collective of visual & performance artists. We aim to capture life around our Circle City and bring issues that people ignore to light through art, music, fashion, and philanthropy. We’re circling this city with one eye open.

Whitney Coleman

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television, Vocal

M. Travis DiNicola

Performing Arts: Radio/Television

Richard Dole

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television

Richard Dole is an active tenor/bass trombonist and educator in Indianapolis and the surrounding region. He has toured or performed with Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Steve Lawrence/Edie Gormé, Barry Manilow, the Hollywood Concert Orchestra China tour, and in 2008 traveled with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra to Egypt for a US State Department Tour. He performs with several regional orchestras including Carmel Symphony, Sinfonia da Camera Orchestra in Champaign/Urbana Illinois, The Illinois Symphony, Danville Symphony, and the Anderson Symphony Orchestra. He has earned a Bachelor and Masters degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he studied with M. Dee Stewart, Ed Anderson, and Dr. David N. Baker. He is currently the jazz trombone instructor at Butler University and teaches a small dedicated number of students out of his home. He can be heard each Wednesday at 9pm on WICR 88.7 as co-host of the radio show ‘Have You Heard’. The podcast of the radio show is online at: haveyouheardjazz.com. Mr. Dole resides in Indianapolis with his wife Stacy and their two beautiful children, Griffin and Ellington.

Vandi Enzor

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Music, Radio/Television, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Crafts, Film, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography

Vandi Enzor recently moved to the Indianapolis area after graduating with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Akron. Prior to pursuing a graduate degree with a focus on opera, Vandi attended Shorter College and graduated with a BFA in Musical Theater and minored in theater and piano. Vandi has performed professionally as a classically trained opera singer, in church and sacred music, as a jazz musician, in musical theater and straight theater, and as a stage combatant. She has done some film, and hopes to continue exploring film more in the future. Vandi has narrated over 40 audiobooks and currently teaches private voice and piano lessons at Meridian Music School in Carmel, Indiana. Vandi enjoys working with sound, lighting, hair and makeup design, in PR, stage managing, and many other technical aspects of live theater. She has been Artistic Director for M3 Theater Camp for the past two years and has written 3 plays. Some of Vandi’s favorite roles have been Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, Bastienne in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Gaby in Romberg and Eysler’s The Blue Paradise, Jill in Bradshaw’s The Worst One Ever, and Penelope in the short film Penelope’s Revenge. Vandi also greatly enjoyed performing at the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg in 2016, at the Crittenden Opera Workshop in Washington DC in 2017, and singing in the world premier of the ballet Snow White and the Magic Mirror. Vandi hopes to continue growing as an artist and performer in the future; her greatest passion is a collaboration of all aspects of the arts and sharing something with the world that connects with people and creates a lasting impact.

LeighAnn Featheringill

Performing Arts: Radio/Television, Theatre; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Textiles, Works on paper

LeighAnn Featheringill (317) 745-4743 leighannfeatheringill@gmail.com featheringillceramics.com Artist Resume/CV Education 2016 – BA in Arts and Humanities, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2003-2007 – Johnson University, Knoxville, TN, Media Communications coursework Professional Experience 2016 – Present Featheringill Ceramic Design, Sole proprietor, Indianapolis, IN (porcelain design and production company) 2005-2007 – Rush Hour Renegades, WJBC the NET, Radio Show Host, Knoxville, TN Exhibitions 2009 – Bunny, 48 Hour Film Festival, Indianapolis, IN (11 minute short film) 2007 – Dorm of the Dead, Johnson University Film Festival, Knoxville, TN (30 minute short film) 2017 – This to That, Herron School of Art and Design senior thesis exhibition 2017 – A Heroine’s Journey (Indy Women’s Clay Collective), Installation Nation, Primary Colors annual exhibition Professional Service 2012-2016 – Ceramic Department Volunteer Demonstrator, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN Technical Abilities Ceramic studio operations (electric, raku, and pit firings, wheel throwing, slip casting, slip, clay, and glaze mixing, hand building) Fiber Arts (crochet pattern design, execution) Dry Media (graphite, charcoal, chalk and oil pastel) Videography (script writing, footage capture, staging, sound effect capture, Avid editing software) Sound Design (recording studio production, Avid Pro Tools software) Metal-Smithing (small metal sculpture with bronze, copper, silver) Performance (trained singer, actor, stage manager, director, makeup and costume designer, lighting and sound production)

Cary Allen Fields

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television

Fields produces/hosts “The Fields Of Bluegrass Radio Hour” and the Saturday night edition of “The Free Zone” on WICR 88.7FM, broadcast from The University Of Indianapolis. The focus is placed on the community and providing an outlet for local music by including area artists in the playlist. “The Free Zone” format is wide open and includes any genre.

Devon Ginn

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Photography

Devon Ginn, a published poet dabbling predominately in performance/ theatrical recitations, travels from state to state implementing his performance poetry lesson-plan for high school students & his collegiate peers. Classically trained in Shakespearian theatre with informal contemporary experience, a grand performance is always expected from this poet. Whether he is performing for an intimate group or a sold out affair, his stage presence will forever be dynamic & larger than life. For booking inquiries & rates, email booking@devonginn.com.

Glory-June Greiff

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Vocal

Greiff presents poetry performances, historical characterizations (chief among these is novelist Gene Statton-Porter), narrations, voice-overs, and talks and tours on sculpture. She presents a program of song and story using music and letters of World War II. Greiff is a photographer and writer of nonfiction. Blog: http://gloryjune.com/wordpress/

Randy Hediema

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television

If you want Solo Piano, Pianist/Singer, or all out Entertainer I will meet whatever your needs require. I am an extremely versatile pianist and singer whether it’s Pop. Jazz, Country, Classical, etc. I have over 25 years experience and have performed all over the world as a live entertainer, songwriter, arranger, and educator. I now call Indianapolis my home. I am true professional and easy to work with. I will assure you great live music for your venue.

Rachel Illingworth

Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Theatre; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

One of my first memories is of sitting at my grandma’s coffee table with paper and crayons and learning about perspective from Bob Ross on the television. I specifically remember him painting railroad tracks disappearing into the horizon line.Of course, being a youthful five-year-old at the time, I didn’t quite understand what“horizon” or “perspective” meant. But after that afternoon drawing lesson, I knew I wanted to be an artist when I grew up.My parents supported my dreams by allowing me to take art lessons through elementary and high school. I won blue and red ribbons through the CYO talent fairs. Eventually, I felt confident enough to participate in the art contest at the State Fair, where I received an honorable mention for my work.But soon after starting college, I decided that I wanted to pursue a different form of art—acting. I studied acting both at Ball State, London, and Oxford. I moved out to Los Angeles where I was lucky enough to be a part of many different well-known and loved television and film productions. And after living the Cali life for eight years, I found myself still wanting more.In 2011, I made the decision to move back to Indianapolis to be closer to my family. That's when I started painting again. I painted to heal and feel whole again. And at the prodding of friends and family, I’ve begun a professional art career. My passion is to create art that speaks to people.Though I enjoy working with every medium—from watercolors to oils—my current favorite medium is acrylics. My inspiration includes Gustav Klimt, Johannes Vermeer, Vincent Van Gogh, and Claude Monet.

Kayla Lee

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Theatre; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Performance Art, Photography

Actor, photographer, and graphic designer based in Hancock County. Works include shirt designs for Greenfield-Central High School based clubs and Senior Portraits for many high school seniors across central Indiana.

Constance Macy

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling

I an actor, director, producer and teacher. In 1998 I co-founded the ShadowApe Theatre Company, a collaborative ensemble of Indianapolis-based theatre professionals with whom I produce about one show per year. I also perform frequently with the Indiana Repertory Theatre among others, and teach acting classes at the I.R.T., the Indianapolis Civic Theatre and Butler University. I do some modeling, and voice-over and on-camera commercial work. I’m a native Hoosier and an IU grad. I am married to set designer Rob Koharchik, and have a son that we call The Bear.

Benjamin Madrid

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Storytelling; Filmmaker

Benjamin Madrid (born August 22, 1976) is an Hispanic-American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including ‘Best Comedic Performance’ for the Telly Awards in 2022. As a public figure, Madrid has been cited as one of the up and coming actors and comedians in the American entertainment industry. In 2020 Director Peter Matsoukas and Actor Benjamin Madrid sold ‘No Place’ a feature film to Lionsgate. The film debuted in the UK on Jan 21, 2022.

Gabrielle Patterson

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling; Visual Arts

“My words will change the world. The people that I touch with the power of my words makes me know that I have a great responsibility.”

Mara Phelps

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Music, Radio/Television, Theatre, Vocal

Currently a Student at Jacobs School of Music pursuing a Vocal Performance and Musical Theater Degree

Reckless Rhymacide

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Music, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal

Reckless Rhymacide (Kelvin Coe) is a rap/hip hop artist and songwriter form Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the biological brother of hip hop artist Loc Rhymacide (Anthony Coe). He began rapping in elementary school. His biggest musical influence was his cousin, producer Carlton Hart ($ir Hart). He recorded his first EP Young Black Males in the early 2000’s. His follow up LP Greatest Stories Ever Sold wasn’t released until several years later. Both projects earned him regional success in the Midwest, and opportunities to open up for artists such as Twista, Coo Coo Cal, and Lil’ Flip. Chances are you’ve seen people wearing Rhymacide t-shirts around Indy and the midwest.

June Rochelle

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Music, Radio/Television, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, New Media/Technology, Performance Art, Performers and Writers

June Rochelle is a music and media enthusiast. Her powerful vocal range is soprano and alto. June is a songwriter, and PR and media professional. Her music has been on the ballot for a Grammy and charted on Billboard’s radio hot gospel charts. Currently, her music can be heard and purchased on multiple digital outlets. She is the first minority female to headline both the pre-show and live show for ABC/RTV6 Circle of Lights in Indiana. She has stood on stage and sang with Diana Ross, Celine Dione and opened for Yolanda Adams once. She has graced stages all across America. She has been recognized by several national media and print publications, including educational institutions such as IVY Tech College, and Bethune-Cookman College. She has toured in musical stage plays and produced and appeared in the independent film. In addition to music, her passion is creating diverse entertainment media content. In her media discipline, she is an On-Air host for WCLJ TV 42. She was the first journalist to interview 2nd Lady KarenPence, where she has hosted since 2006. If you ever hear her sing, you will never forget. She bridges three ranges, (soprano, alto, and tenor) with passion and sincerity, creating an atmosphere of music lovers paradise. More information about me can be found on Google or at www.junerochellemedia.com. One of her dreams is to sing along with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She loves vintage singers such as Aretha Franklin, Dione Warwick, Barbara Streisand, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Nancy Wilson, George Benson and George

Ronny Ronjay

Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television, Theatre, Vocal

Using nothing but imagination and heart, Ronny Ronjay loves to create what he hears in his head so that others can not only enjoy it, but relate. Raised in East Indy, he grew up playing music at school, and would take what he learned and apply it to his creations at his home studio. Ronny started producing music at the age of 13. As the years went by, now being 27 years old he decided he wanted to be songwriter. He now produces, mixes, and masters his own music while simultaneously gigging out with his band.

kimann schultz

Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Radio/Television; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Performers and Writers

Author Illustrator, Arts & Free Speech advocate, Kimann Schultz “writes with pictures & draws with words.” Kimann’s novel Jacob, Jacob Marley’s rest of the story, beautifully illustrated by Adam Oehlers, is available now at Amazon & IBJ Publishing. just click on these links to purchase! A first generation American, German/English bi-lingual, Kimann reaches instinctively beyond horizons of the ordinary in her quest to serve as creative contributor. Kimann blogged at Huffington Post from May 2013 – January 2018. Her articles include Arts & Free Speech advocacy & appreciation, film & TV review, history & sociological commentary on a wide range of topics including politics, parenting, fine arts & architecture, fashion & style. An IU Bloomington honors graduate with dual majors in Art History & German + a year abroad at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Kimann also attended the Fashion Institute of Technology & Parsons School of Design, both in NYC, where she received training in fashion design & illustration. Kimann worked 12 years for a local architectural firm as architectural writer, renderer & draftsperson, specializing in entourage. She was the Indianapolis Meridian-Kessler Home Tour artist for 5 years & produced many commissioned works, featuring residential and commercial architecture, bridal & pet portraiture. Kimann’s essay “Do What You Have to Do” was published in the 2012 THIS I BELIEVE: ON MOTHERHOOD. Her article, In Support of Art as Alternate Means of Expression was featured at Americans for the Arts. A mother of 2 sons & a daughter, Kimann is also song-writing partner with her husband. Their three-song EP, “Earthbound Ethereal,” is on iTunes and Amazon. Music videos for “Beautiful Rage,” and “Spirit of Christmas – Promise of Peace,” can be found on YouTube.

Crystal Shipp

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre; Visual Arts: Earthworks, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles

The Tree Lady is who I am. I am a woman who loves life, family,traveling, sunsets, sunrises, hiking, walking in the rain, the beach, many other things & . . . TREES !!! TREES !!! TREES !!! In 2011 I began painting, drawing, sketching trees on tshirts and then moved on to creating TreeLady blank greeting cards. There’s nothing like receiving a card someone took the time to find, purchase, write a line or two and mail. It tends to bring a huge smile I climbed trees often as a child and found peace there. Trees are like arms reaching for the sky; or branches, embracing us, protecting us. Trees don’t judge us. Trees give us peace. I love sitting under a tree or sitting on a branch up in a tree, just being ! I still climb trees when the opportunity presents itself. Hug a tree, it’s pretty cool. A tree will never betray your trust and always keep your secrets. If you listen closely a tree will speak to you. My Moms dementia brought me back here to Indy, where I was raised. During 2020, trees gave me a new journey, filled with gratitude and grace. Nothing was moving, however everything was blooming, growing and beautiful, even though death was all around, up close, personal and downright terrifying. I found grace, I found gratitude, I found beauty in that leaf I saw transform, change color and start again. I construct, draw and paint trees. I pour tons of love into my canvasses and you feel the love, spirit and roots of life. My goal : your eyes see the beauty, your heart fills with love and your spirit is full of gratitude for the beauty of the moment.

SIAM

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Vocal

SIAM is like unto IAM – the continuous eternal verb to be; it is the ever new me of being and becoming endlessly evolving

Tony Styxx

Performing Arts: Music, Radio/Television, Spoken Word

“…they only consume what we put out……” –Tony Styxx The radio bores me. Can’t remember the last time I saw performance from a mainstream artist live or televised that moved me. Cd’s don’t get bought anymore. And YouTube has made everyone a star. The value of one’s progress and hard work equals leaks. The standard for “classics” has been set to the qualifications of tweet topics and ringtones. And the term legend applies to anyone in the game for more than 2 mix tapes and onstage performances. Whose fault is this? It’s the Artist fault. I can point the finger at the consumer all day but it won’t change the fact that, the reason they buy into lack lust performances, mediocre production, and less than par capability to keep the idea that “classics” aren’t born, they are created out of dedication and integrity no matter how much “shine” is thrown at you, is because artist like myself who have the ability to keep true art alive aren’t doing our job. WE MUST DO BETTER. ART is an expression of self. True. But once tainted by carbon copy habits, those of us truly pouring our lives through pen and pad are considered “trendy”, or “bitters.” Hi. I’m Tony Styxx. I do Hip-Hop, Spoken Word Poetry, and Human Beat boxing. I practice 3 hrs a day, 7 days a week. I refuse to let a day go by where I don’t write at least 2 pieces, good or not. I perform with the idea that I could die before I hit the stage, on stage, off stage. I perform with the intent on being remembered not for my clothes, catchy hooks, fame or twitter followers. I perform so that the very next time my name is brought up a young boy will go nuts like I did back in high schools when cats asked “whose better Nas or Jay-Z?” I perform so that the very next time you feel like quitting, my voice echoes through out you heart, soul, mind….and you don’t hear the words…you hear the intangible and overwhelming motivation to be more and push forward. THAT’S what art is supposed to do. Music is equivalent to water. There’s life and death in water. WE as ARTIST are responsible for what we allow our supporters to consume. T. Styxx

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