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10th Annual VENTURE SUMMIT

PROGRAM AGENDA

7:00 am Registration and “Cool Companies” showcase

8:10 am Please be seated for Breakfast

Enjoy open seating with our “Cool Companies”

8:20 am Welcome Remarks

8:40 am Introductions

8:50 am Keynote address by David Ewing Duncan

9:40 am President’s Report

9:50 am Panel Discussion: “The Future of the small VC fund”

10:30 am Break – “Cool Companies” Showcase continues

10:45 am Keynote address by Roger McNamee

11:50 am Program ends

Welcome! We are excited to have you join us today at our Tenth Annual “San Diego Venture Summit”. We are delighted to be hosting 100 venture capitalists from throughout California and beyond, as well as several hundred local business leaders.

Our thanks go out to the corporate sponsors this year’s Summit: Comerica Bank, Cooley LLP, Ernst & Young, DLA Piper, and Jones Lang LaSalle. Without their time, efforts and financial support, this program would not be possible.

We hope you enjoy meeting 30 of San Diego’s “Coolest Companies.” They represent just a small portion of the vibrant start up activity here in San Diego in the life sciences, cleantech, technology, and consumer goods industries. We hope you will have a chance to hear their stories and celebrate their progress.

San Diego is one of the leading entrepreneurial and innovation centers in the country. Known nationwide for its concentration of technology, life science, telecommunications, cleantech and defense-oriented research that helps create exciting new companies; our region is bolstered by the resources and graduates from three nationally ranked universities. We exist in the greater Southern California eco-system which is the third largest market for venture capital investment in the country.

San Diego Venture Group is helping San Diego maintain its status as a significant entrepreneurial and venture community. We work to support and promote our venture capital eco-system y providing an informal and dynamic environment for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, community leaders, and business advisors to develop greater insights into the process of forming, funding, and building new companies.

We thank you all for coming today and for making the San Diego Venture Summit a continuing reality. We hope you will join us a member as we work to bring together entrepreneurs, capital providers and advisors. We wish you success in all your ventures!

Sincerely,

M. David Titus Leo Spiegel President 2012 Board Chairman

San Diego Venture Group 2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tom Arno, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear Peter Arrowsmith, JMI Equity Carin Canale-Theakston, Canale Communications Tom Clancy, Tao Ventures Tom Coll, Cooley LLP Raquel Cunningham, Wells Fargo Bank David Diamond, Mayer Hoffman McCann Peter Drees, Square 1 Bank Bill Eigner, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch Brian Ffrench, Tenant Consulting Services Scot Ginsburg, Jones Lang LaSalle Jeremy Glaser, Mintz Levin Bob Holmen, Miramar Venture Partners Mike Howard, Ernst & Young LLP Craig Knox, Irving Hughes Mike Krenn, DLA Piper Mason Matthies, RR Donnelley Financial

David Michaels, SagePoint Advisors Bill Molloie, PricewaterhouseCoopers David Oates, Stalwart Communication Doug Obenshain, Lockton Greg Park, Comerica Bank Andy Pelletier, Silicon Valley Bank Trindl Reeves, Barney & Barney Christian Salaman, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Peter Shaw, Shaw Management Advisors Leo Spiegel (2012 Board Chairman), Mission Ventures Bruce Steel, BioMed Ventures Steve Stuckey, US Bank Court Turner, Avalon Ventures Don Williams, Grant Thornton LLP

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Scot Ginsburg, Jones Lang LaSalle Jack Florio, Brinson Patrick Securities Michael Howard, Ernst & Young LLP

Craig Knox, Irving Hughes Mike Krenn, DLA Piper LLP

David Michaels, SagePoint Advisors LLC Greg Park, Comerica Bank

David Oates, Stalwart Communication Carin Canale-Theakston, Canale Communications

Eric Otterson, Cooley LLP

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Speaker Biographies

David Ewing Duncan Award winning and bestselling author

David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books published in 19 languages; he is a journalist and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. His most recent book is the bestseller Experimental Man: What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world. He is a Correspondent for Atlantic.com, and the

Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation, heard on NPR Talk. David writes for The New York Times, Fortune, Wired, National Geographic, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. He is the Founding Director of the Center of Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He has been a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and a contributing editor for Wired, Discover and Conde Nast Portfolio. He is a former special correspondent and producer for ABC Nightline and a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNOW! David has won numerous awards including the Magazine Story of the Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His articles have twice been cited in nominations for National Magazine Awards, and his work has appeared twice in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is at work on a TED book on extreme aging. David lives in San Francisco.

Roger McNamee Managing Director, Elevation Partners

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners. He began his career in 1982 at T. Rowe Price Associates, where he managed the top-ranked Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the New Horizons Fund. In 1991, he launched Integral Capital Partners, the first crossover fund (combining later stage venture capital with public market investments), in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In

1999, Roger co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology businesses. In 2004, Roger and his partners launched Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology.

Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live Moonbeam (video) concerts, and the Couch Tour. The band’s website enables fans to listen to any song or show and to watch every concert on a smartphone without an app. Moonalice is renowned for the quality of poster art associated with the band. Moonalice’s single, “It’s 4:20 Somewhere” has been downloaded more than 960,000 times.

Roger is the author of The New Normal, published in 2004 by the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Books, and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Volumes 1 & 2, published in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Roger serves on board of directors of Wordnik and Move. In philanthropy, he serves on the boards of National Geographic Ventures, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame Museum, and the Rex Foundation. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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Speaker Biographies

Shane Goudey Partner, Cooley

Shane Goudey is a partner in the venture capital practice group and a member of the Business department at Cooley. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is resident in the Palo Alto office. Mr. Goudey specializes in all aspects of the formation and operation of domestic and international investment funds, including, venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds, secondary market, debt and a variety of other types of funds. He has represented sponsor

organizations in the formation of over 75 fund programs, ranging from some of the most well known multi-billion dollar venture capital and leveraged buy-out funds to much smaller firms forming early-stage venture capital, angel, pledge and similar micro-funds with just several million dollars in committed capital. In addition to his fund formation practice, Mr. Goudey represents many fund clients, other institutional investors and portfolio companies in their private and public investment transactions and he has represented a number of emerging growth companies as outside general counsel, advising on legal, strategic, tax and structural matters arising throughout their life cycles. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Goudey was with the San Jose office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he practiced in the firm's International Tax Services group. Mr. Goudey received an LL.M. in Taxation in December 1997 from New York University School of Law. He received a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law in May 1997 and a B.S. in Political Science in 1992 from the University of Wyoming, graduating summa cum laude.

Bob Holmen Managing Director, Miramar Venture Partners

Bob Holmen is a Managing Director and co-founder of Miramar Venture Partners. Formed in 2001, Miramar invests in early- and mid-stage technology companies, with an emphasis on Southern California opportunities. Currently Miramar focuses on core technology sectors of Cloud Computing, Storage, Digital Media and Medical IT. Bob has spent his career building technology companies in the healthcare and information technology markets. He has served in diverse roles, from software engineer at Hughes Aircraft to senior executive roles at

technology and life sciences companies to venture investor. Currently, Bob serves on the Boards of the following Miramar portfolio companies: FastSoft, Matrix Sensors and Predixion Software. He also served on the board of SiliconSystems until it was acquired by Western Digital Corporation. Bob received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1985, serving as an officer of the national engineering honor society at Stanford. He received his J.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989. Bob is an Adjunct Professor at USC’s Marshall School of Business, teaching Investing in New Ventures, and serves on the Board of the San Diego Venture Group.

Dr. Paul Kedrosky Investor, speaker, writer, entrepreneur

Dr. Kedrosky is an investor, speaker, writer, media guy, and entrepreneur. In his spare time he is a dangerous Twitterer, contributing editor for Bloomberg, and the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the most popular financial blogs available over the Interweb. In the dusty distance of long-ago, Dr K. founded what he is reasonably sure was the first hosted blogging site, GrokSoup. After having grown it to be one the largest such services on the Interweb (admittedly before there were other such services), he demonstrated his unerring ability to enter fast-growing markets before they take off, and exit before they have grown large enough to deliver an island-purchasing exit. The rest is history, or least an index entry in one book on blogging. Even further

back in time, Dr. Kedrosky was one of the first technology equity analysts at a major brokerage firm. Back before there were such things as credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and subprime mortgages, we vandalism-loving greed-heads on Wall Street were forced to take down capitalism the hard way — by selling over-valued technology companies to an unsuspecting public via initial public offerings. While it eventually worked out (c.f., the tech crash of 2000), the next generation of Wall Street-ers learned from our inefficiency and took down the global money grid in half the time it took us to mess up Nasdaq. Lesson learned. He is an active investor in public and private equities, despite having watched both sorts of sausages being made. That almost certainly represents, as Samuel Johnson once said about a man’s second marriage, the triumph of hope over experience. Nevertheless, Dr. Kedrosky has more than fifty early-stage investments to his credit, and rather than brag in an unseemly way about his many successes he will continue to point to that “fifty” number. Fifty, fifty, etc. Dr. Kedrosky has a Ph.D. in the economics of technology (which he mostly uses when bluffing outside of poker), a master’s degree in finance (which he mostly uses when bluffing in poker), and an undergraduate degree in engineering (which a professor once said he would take away, if he had the means).

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Venture Capital Funds in Attendance Alsop Louie Partners alsop-louie.com

AMD Ventures amd.com

Amgen Ventues amgen.com

Ampersand Capital Partners amerpersandcapital.com

Anthem Venture Partners anthemvp.com

Applied Minds appliedminds.com

Artiman Ventures artiman.com

ATEL Ventures atel.com

Austin Ventures austinventures.com

Avalon Ventures avalon-ventures.com

BASF

Biomed Ventures biomedrealty.com

Blackbird Ventures blackbirdv.com

California Capital Partners resconnect.com

California Technology Ventures ctventures.com

Cedar Ridge Ventures

Charter Life Sciences clsvc.com

Claremont Creek Ventures claremontvc.com

CMEA Capital cmea.com

Correlation Ventures correlationvc.com

Crosslink Capital crosslinkcapital.com

DFJ Frontier dfjfrontier.com

Domain Associates domainvc.com

ECA Ventures

Elevation Partners elevation.com

EMC Ventures emc.com

Enterprise Partners Venture Capital epvc.com

Finistere Ventures finistere.com

Foundation Capital foundationcap.com

Grayhawk Capital gvp.us

Greenhouse Capital Partners greenhousecapital.net

GRP Partners grppartners.com

Hartford Ventures thehartford.com

Huntington Capital huntingtoncapital.com

Huntington Ventures huntingtonventures.com

Industry Ventures industryventures.com

Intel Capital intel.com

JK&B Capital jkbcapital.com

JMI Equity jmiequity.com

Lateral Venture Partners lvpcapital.com

Leader Ventures leaderventures.com

Meritage Funds

Miramar Venture Partners miramarvp.com

Mission Ventures missionventures.com

Mohr, Davidow Ventures mdv.com

Moore Venture Partners moorevp.com

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital motorolasolutions.com

Nike, Inc. nike.com

Okapi Venture Capital okapivc.com

Pappas Ventures pappasventures.com

Pelion Ventures pelionvp.com

Qualcomm Ventures qualcomm.com/ventures

Ridgewood Capital rwcap.com

RiverVest Venture Partners rivervest.com

Rustic Canyon Partners rusticcanyon.com

Shepherd Ventures shepherdventures.com

Sigma Partners sigmapartners.com

Silver Creek Ventures silvercreekfund.com

Soaring Ventures soaringvc.com

Sofinnova Ventures sofinnova.com

Split Rock Partners splitrock.com

SR One gsk.com

Steamboat Ventures steamboatvc.com

T2 Venture Capital t2vc.com

Tallwood Venture Capital tallwoodvc.com

Tao Venture Capital Partners taovp.com

Thomas, McNerney & Partners tm-partners.com

TPG Biotech tpg.com

Translink Capital translinkcapital.com

Trident Capital tridentcap.com

TVC Capital tvccapital.com

U.S. Venture Partners usvp.com

Verizon Ventures Verizon.com

Versant Ventures versantventures.com

Weathers Asset Management

WestRIver Capital westrivercap.com

Windward Ventures windwardventures.com

Ventana Capital ventanavc.com

Patrick Giblin [email protected] http://www.451degrees.com/graffiti

We focus on the new web, Web 3.0. Using our patented technology, Graffiti uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and latent semantic analysis, to analyze and reposition comments around articles, images, music and video into content that becomes relevant, meaningful, engaging and more organic for internal search engine optimization.

David Johnson [email protected] http://www.achatespower.com

Achates Power is hoping to change the world by developing a clean, more fuel-efficient and lower-cost internal combustion engine to support economically and environmentally sustainable commercial and passenger vehicle transportation.

Jonathan Ohana [email protected] www.alcocheckpoint.com

My company is Super Cool because we save lives and prevent drinkers from getting DUI’s and into car wrecks! How many companies can say that? Drunk driving is an international epidemic and Alco-Checkpoint offers a solution by distributing and placing bill operated alcohol breathalyzer machines on site at different SD bars and restaurants.

Peter Klemm [email protected] www.appliedproteomics.com

API takes a snapshot of the entire proteome, accurately, reproducibly, and efficiently, which provides a physiological picture to describe a patient’s health status. Because API looks at the whole field of view and not just one marker, we can provide new solutions in biomarker discovery to create next generation diagnostics.

John Mendlein [email protected] www.atyrpharma.com

aTyr is orchestrating human biology in entirely novel ways to create a new class of medicines named Physiocrines. The lead program will treat, if not cure, a deadly autoimmune disease. Paul

Schimmel, founded aTyr based on his discovery of the “Second Genetic Code”, and John Mendlein, a scientist-lawyer-entrepreneur-surfer, leads aTyr.

San Diego Venture Group 2012

30 “Cool Companies”

Mark Schmid [email protected]

We design & market niche specific carabiner forms. Imagine every hobby, sport, or profession that requires tools to adjust their gear? CL!CKcarabinerCO provides an instant solution in the form of a clever & stylish carabiner keychain. Already popular in the Skateboard space, the next CL!CKcarabiner forms to be introduced will be for snowboarding, skiing, wakeboarding, golf, & fishing. CL!CKcarabinerCO: Connected for LIFE.

Steve Iverson [email protected] http://www.injekt.com

Injekt enables web apps to run on OTHER web sites – including Google, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, etc. For example, one popular CloudCanvas app, FriendsChecker, adds “unfriend” notifications to Facebook. We launched our first app in August, have 250,000+ installations, are delivering 150M+ advertising impressions per month, and are at break-even.

Bill Nydam [email protected]

CryoMedix is the coolest start-up in town, literally. CryoMedix freezes cells, at about -290 degrees

Fahrenheit, using a minimally invasive disposable catheter/balloon/needle to treat hypertension, breast tumors, atrial fibrillation, and other medical conditions. CryoMedix is seeking funding, after our successful animal study, to move to commercialize select applications.

Michael Robertson [email protected] http://dar.fm/

We're not "cool"cause if you say you're cool then you ain't cool, but hopefully we're working of your event Because w're an innovative DVR for radio service. Radio fans can record any show on AM/FM/Net radio and listen whenever they like complete with fast forward, pause and rewind. Shows can be played back on PCs, smartphones or other home electronics. DAR.fm is moderinizing the radio industry by making it available on consumer's schedule.

Al Bsharah [email protected] http://embarke.com

We allow instantaneous conversations without common barriers of a single social network. Facebook people can talk to Twitter people can talk to Email and SMS people. Instantly. Developers get one API to manage, freeing them of the countless moving API targets. Launch fast, connect easier, increase social engagement.

Chris Dale [email protected] www.eset.com

“Pardon the cool view” is the line we like to use when a guest or new employee enters our office space where you will always find fresh bowls of fruit on each sparkling floor throughout the building. Our outrageous view in trendy and hip Little Italy is from a building overlooking the San Diego Bay on the corner of Kettner and Ash. At night, the ESET sign illuminates the San Diego flight path, as well as the Gas lamp skyline We offer free education for San Diego residents to protect themselves against malware. Our catchy ads and androids are all over the airport greeting guests from all over the world. From monthly lunches with the CEO, an equipped gym, to weekly massages, ESET believes that the creativity & innovation each employee brings to work is what makes the company

Lori Steele [email protected] www.everyonecounts.com

Vote for President of U.S. or Best Picture for an Oscar on your iPad . Everyone Counts’ state-of-the-art Software-

as-a-Service platform is transforming the $31 billion antiquated-hardware- and error-prone paper-based government/private elections industries, making election administration easy, voting accurate and cutting customers’- including swing states like Florida and Michigan’s – costs in half.

Asa Nordgren [email protected] www.greatconnection.se

A Swedish start-up moving to San Diego to get close to the wireless health community. Winning two GSMA 2012 Global Awards of which one was Best Mobile Health Innovation and also listed on FierceWireless’ 2011 Fierce 15. We’re changing the future of communicating medical images. That’s cool!

Michael Brower [email protected] http://www.gunnars.com/

Gunnar Optiks is a market leader in the $24 billion Digital Performance Eyewear Category. Over 120 million Americans are affected by computer vision syndrome. Gunnar’s patent pending i-AMP lens technology provides performance attributes including: provides contrast for greater accuracy and efficiency, enhances detail for sharper, clearer vision, increases visual endurance, decreases eye fatigue, and cuts down glare and visual noise. We target consumers with heavy computer use, gaming, 3 D media, and outdoor digital uses.

Jonathan Simkin [email protected] http://www.hubedu.com/

Because we are changing the textbook industry similar to the way that KAYAK changed the travel market. We help students and their families save up to 75% on college textbooks while simultaneously raising money for educational institutions.

Dr. Lawrence A. Rheins [email protected]

www.makucell.com

Makucell develops, manufactures and sells products formulated with its patented, proprietary technology, AsymmtateTM , a molecule which optimizes Wnt signaling targeted toward energizing skin stem cells to asymmetrically differentiate. Stimulating youthful cell behavior results in strengthened, supported, rejuvenated skin which looks younger — way cool technology transferred to commercial products!

David Saltman [email protected] http://www.malamacomposites.com

We manufacture rigid polyurethane foam made from bio-based renewable resources that result in strong, light weight, cost competitive products without the toxic chemicals used in traditional petroleum-based PUR foams. Our products are used in everything from surfboards to Hollywood movie sets, wind turbines to the walls of green homes and buildings.

Dr. Samir Damani [email protected] http://mdrevolution.com

MD Revolution is pioneering Precision Healthcare. We have created a cutting-edge medical center where doctors apply the latest technology from genomics, wireless health, and nutrition to create treatment programs so intimately tailored to patients that dramatic, measureable increases in longevity and decreases in chronic disease are being seen.

Jon Carder [email protected] www.MOGL.com

Led by local entrepreneur Jon Carder, who has founded several successful Internet startups, MOGL is a game that hooks you up with cash when you dine out, while doing good for the community. It is the FIRST web-based platform of it’s kind to leverage psychology, mobile technology and clever game mechanics to offer a fun and engaging way to reward diners for their loyalty. MOGL’s cool new office space includes a bar, nap room, game room and every employee even gets their own pet fish! MOGL was named one of the Best Mobile Startups of 2012 by LAPTOP Magazine and is the proud recipient of CONNECT’s 2011 Most Innovative Product Award.

Jonathan Lim [email protected] www.nexdx.com

Ride the next wave of diagnostics and drug discovery and save serious healthcare green. NexDx, utilizing San Diego-based technologies, is revolutionizing the early diagnoses and treatments of autoimmune diseases that affect over five million people. Keeping you at the beach and off the bench.

Chris Isaacson [email protected] www.nuLEDs.com

NuLEDs has developed the first open-protocol PoE (Power-over-Ethernet) LED lighting system. Each LED fixture has an IP address, and gets both power and control over an Ethernet cable. They even dim and change color! Cisco will be introducing our lighting systems at Cisco Live! in San Diego June 10-14, 2012.

Keith Murphy [email protected] www.organovo.com

Organovo has quickly advanced 3D bioprinting from innovation to application and has multiple partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and research institutions. Organovo’s bioprinting platform works across cell types to create 3D tissues that can recapitulate in vivo biology for human disease research, drug discovery and development, toxicology testing and, eventually, therapies.

Jim Plante [email protected] www.pathway.com

Nothing is cooler than applying cutting edge scientific research to one's personal genetic makeup to understand how to personalize one's diet, exercise and overall health and wellness based on their own genome. Genetic research has exploded since the completion of the Human Genome Project, and Pathway is leading the way in turning that research into actionable personal advice.

William Logue [email protected] Prbar.com

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event known. As the Official Performance Nutrition Bar of the U.S. Olympic Team, PR*Bar's unprecendented six year deal allows us to develop cutting edge, great-tasting nutritional products. PR*Bar fuels the dreams of Olympians, everyday athletes, moms-on-the-go and their kids. How cool is that?

Brian Brokowski [email protected] www.sgbiofuels.com

Using breeding and advanced genomics, SGB is bringing a new energy crop to the market and providing a new, lost cost and sustainable alternative for diesel and bio jet fuel. By advancing Jatropha projects around the world, SGB is creating economic development, energy security and revolutionizing how energy is produced and consumed.

Chris Clark [email protected] www.shaperstudios.com

We're the first place in the US to provite private shaping lession, teaching people how to shape their own surfboard. We collaborate with artists and musicians from around the world. We often host charitable events, art shows and concerts. You never know who you

might find hanging out here!

Fernanda Gandara [email protected] http://www.syntheticgenomics.com/

Founded by genomic pioneer J. Craig Venter, SGI is a world leading company driving the genomics revolution. SGI is

designing and programing biological operating systems to address some of the most critical challenges facing humanity including: the sustainable supply of energy, food, water and medicine to a growing population.

Steve Cox [email protected] Takelessons.com

2010 SDVG PitchFest Winner! Our People: Creative, motivated, passionate Rock Stars who are growing TakeLessons at 400%/yr. Our Values: Respect. Perseverance, Ownership, mentality, constant & never-ending improvement, and building stuff we're proud of. Our Culture: A Mecca of fun, including nerf guns, jam sessions, and the occasional dance party.

Ali Behnam [email protected] http://www.tealium.com

Founded by former WebSideStory employees, Tealium is cool because it has pioneered a fast-growing digital marketing technology that solves a real problem for marketers – deploying and managing all the page tags (pixels) that most digital marketing vendors require. Tag management is one of the hottest new innovations in the digital marketing industry.

Doug Schneider [email protected] www.transactionwireless.com

We provide major retailers with a patented cloud-based platform that gives them new ways and new channels (mobile, social, and online) to directly engage, influence, and transact with gift card consumers. We are a leader in our market with clients like AMC, Buffalo Wild Wings, Domino's, Red Robin, and Groupon.

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