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+This folder referenced in: lms/templates/courseware/courseware.html
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+Notes from that file:
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+## It'd be better to have this in a place like lms/css/vendor/candy,
+## but the candy_res/ folder contains images and other junk, and it
+## all needs to stay together for the Candy.js plugin to work.
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