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48: So What's the Big Deal with the Primaries, Anyway? Feb 26, 2020

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We're less than one week away from Super Tuesday!

In today's episode, Sara and Misasha talk about why the primaries are so important and why your vote matters, especially this election year! They will also cover what the deal is with Super Tuesday, what happened in Iowa and why that matters, and take a look at what the primaries really mean for our Presidential election.

Listen and learn during this informative Q&A session laced with Sara and Misasha's punchy commentary!

Show Highlights:

Q: When does primary season begin and how long is it?
A: Voting began February 3rd with the Iowa caucuses. The last states vote in early June. Primary season lasts approximately 4 months.

Q: Who will I be voting for in the primaries?
A: The primaries are the main event. Candidates for the Democratic and Republican 2020 Presidential nominations, but voters will find all manner of down-ballot elections to consider on primary day. Down ballot means everything that is not the Presidential nomination, including house and senate races, and seats on the state legislature.

Q: What's the difference between primaries and caucuses?
A: Primaries are relatively straight-forward. Voters vote and their vote goes to candidates who hope they get more votes than the other candidates. Caucuses, like Iowa, are similar. Generally, supporters for various candidates sit or stand together in groups. A headcount is conducted, and if a candidate doesn't reach a certain threshold of support, the group is deemed non-viable and its members re-align with other clusters before a final count is made.

Q: Can states actually cancel their primaries?
A: Yes, they can and some states did this year. Alaska, Nevada, Kansas, Virginia, Arizona, South Carolina, and Hawaii canceled the Republican primaries only.

Q: Is there a Republican Presidential primary and opponents running against President Trump?
A: Yes. In most states, President Trump's opponents include Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and William F. Weld, a former Massachusetts Governor.

Q: Can you vote in both the Democratic and Republican primary?
A: It's just one vote, per person. In some states with "Closed primaries", you'll need to be registered with a given party to participate.

Q: Can Trump be re-elected President even after getting impeached by the House?
A: That is his plan. President Trump is the first impeached President ever to seek re-election.

Q: Why do we keep hearing that Iowa is so important?
A: Iowa goes first and has since the 1970s. There's really no great reason why Iowa goes first, although some of the Vietnam war protests and racial tensions of the 1968 Democratic convention helped set the stage.

Q: What is Super Tuesday?
A: Super Tuesday is March 3rd, and is the single most important day on the primary calendar because of how many major states will be holding their elections, including two very large states, California and Texas. About 40% of all pledged Democratic delegates will be awarded in these states. Misasha goes into greater detail here about how the delegate fight gets more serious!

Q: When did Super Tuesday become a thing?
A: Voting on that day of the week is an old tradition in the United States, but it wasn't until the 1976 election that was credited with leading to the first recorded usage of that particular phrase. Sara shares the backstory of the when and the why!

Q: How does someone win the Democratic nomination?
A: A candidate hoping to win on the first ballot at the convention must secure a majority of pledged delegates, as dictated by the outcomes in state primaries and caucuses. In total, there are just under 4,000 pledged delegates up for grabs, as well as hundreds of super delegates, though the party prefers to call them "automatic" delegates. The official nomination will take place at the party's convention in Milwaukee this summer.

Q: What are delegates?
A: There are two different types. Delegates, "the people", are like political figures: activists and local leaders chosen to represent their states at the party's convention. Delegates, "the numbers", are the all-purpose metric of primary success. They are allocated proportionately according to the state voting results and their population.

Q: What are super delegates? Didn't they get rid of those?
A: Democratic super delegates are political insiders. They can be sitting lawmakers to former senior party officials whose primary choices can be divorced entirely from the preference of the average voter. Super delegates can vote as they choose and their very existence in 2016 became a source of major tension in the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. While Mrs. Clinton bested Mr. Sanders among pledged delegates in 2016, Mr. Sanders and his supporters saw the super delegates system as an affront to the democratic process. In response, the Democratic National Committee has sharply reduced the influence of super delegates, effectively preventing them from participating in a substantial way in the first ballot of a Presidential nominee process.

Q: Are there any history makers in the Presidential election?
A: Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Klobuchar, or Representative Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii would be the first woman elected President. Mr. Buttigieg would be the first openly-gay President to hold the office, and Mr. Sanders or Mr. Bloomberg would be the first Jewish President elected. A few of them would also be the oldest President ever inaugurated for a first term.

Q: Which party has done better at fund-raising so far?
A: Trump entered 2020 with more than 100 million dollars in cash on hand, and he outpaced every Democrat with 46 million in the 4th quarter of 2019. But, contenders for the Democratic nomination have accusatively surpassed Trump's totals, suggesting pretty good enthusiasm.

Q: Does my vote in the primaries matter?
A: YES!! Although the piecemeal nature of the state-by-state calendar might make the process seem less exciting, the primaries really do resolve the nontrivial matter of choosing major party nominees and also all of the down-ballot stuff.

Q: Is it ok for me to skip voting in the primaries and just vote in the general election?
A: It's allowed, of course. But the down-ballot primaries will be of significant consequence locally in many states and those are the feeder systems for our future. So it's incredibly important to vote, especially all the way down the ballot and not just in the main event.

Q: Do I need to be registered to vote in the primaries?
A: Yes! 49 states require voter registration. North Dakota is the only state that does not require it. Deadlines for registering in your state can be found at the U.S. Vote Foundation.

Q: Do I need a government-issued ID?
A: These requirements can vary by state and can be found at NCSL.

Q: What if I was removed in a voter purge?
A: You can check your status at Vote.org.

Listen to the podcast for more Q&A regarding voting over the internet, those interfering Russians, Trump's chances of re-election, how trustworthy the polls are, if we are going to be ok, and when this will be all over.
Sara and Misasha's discourse on Iowa and what we can learn from it.
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Recent Episode on Primaries:

35: Election 101: Why Your Vote Does Matter

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Super Tuesday: Regional Politics & Presidential Primaries by Barbara Norrander

47: The Changing Face of Insurance: Why You Should Care Feb 19, 2020

Show notes

From the recent women's rights / reproductive issues arc, Sara and Misasha segue today into yet another big issue to consider in the upcoming election, and that's the subject of health insurance.

Good insurance coverage is not the reality for the majority of Americans. And for those who DO have it, what would you do if you lost your coverage?

With this episode, Sara and Misasha will bridge the gap between reproductive rights and health care into the next arc of income inequality.

Recently, Trump's administration lashed out at the state of California that touched on all three of these points.

Be sure to listen in to find out more and to stay on top of these timely issues!

Show Highlights:

Misasha gives an overview of Trump's administration telling California that they were violating federal law by requiring private insurers in the state of California to cover abortion and threatened to withhold federal funding.
This plan was announced on the day that thousands of anti-abortion activists gathered on the National Mall for the annual March for Life rally.
Part of insurance is federally regulated, like The Affordable Care Act.
There are also mandated benefits, which are known as mandated health insurance benefits, or "mandates", that can be issued at a federal level or a state level.
Mandates are requirements that states cover the treatments of specific health conditions, certain types of health care providers, and some categories of dependence.
Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, there were around 2,000 health insurance mandates between the states and federal government.
A key question that we need to look at is who controls who is eligible for insurance and for what?
The President has a lot of control in this area.
The President needs Congress in order to act in the realm of criminal justice. The President needs the Supreme Court in order to act as regards reproductive justice. Where health care is concerned, however, the President can act nearly immediately.
Sara provides some relevant statistics regarding private and public health insurance.
Sara and Misasha discuss 5 of the biggest changes to the federal health law under President Trump, according to NPR.
The Affordable Care Act still exists and is still working, but pre-existing conditions is a barrier.

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Recent Episodes On Women's Rights / Reproductive Issues:

46: Dr. Jenn: An Abortion Provider Answers the Hard Questions

45: Molly Ryan - Kills Enemy: Tireless Indigenous Rights Activist

44: Recorded Live: The 2020 Womxn's March Denver

43: Let's Talk About Rights

42: Presidential Powers and Women's Rights

46: Dr. Jenn: An Abortion Provider Answers the Hard Questions Feb 12, 2020

Show notes

In a continuation of the dialogue on women's rights, Sara and Misasha sit down to have a special conversation with Dr. Jennifer Conti ("Dr. Jenn"), who is not only an obstetrician-gynecologist but also an abortion provider.

Although an uncomfortable and often contentious subject to discuss, it is an important one in the arc of women's rights.

Listen to this informative narrative for an understanding of different perspectives as Dr. Jenn addresses misperceptions and answers questions we all have but may have been too uneasy to ask.

Show Highlights:

Dr. Jenn not only practices as an ob/gyn and as an abortion provider, but she also does a lot of media work and policy advocacy around abortion, as well.
Only a very small percentage of ob/gyns in the US actually perform abortions.
Many more are trained to do abortions than actually do them.
Administrative or policy issues may prevent them from offering this service.
Dr. Jenn grew up in a conservative family and was anti-choice until she was 18, and shares the story behind her change of heart.
Dr. Jenn describes the first abortion she ever witnessed as a medical student as a jarring experience.
Over 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester.
"If I don't do it, who will?" An attending physician's heartfelt plea.
What medical training and Fellowship in Family Planning looks like.
Fellowship now is morphing into science goals but heavily focused on policy as well.
"Harmful legislation" (having the women listen to the heartbeat, making her wait a certain number of hours before the procedure, etc.) doesn't increase the safety of the procedure.
Dr. Jenn reconciles her previous anti-choice feelings she used to share with her family and friends.
What feelings a doctor may experience while performing an abortion.
A technical overview of abortion procedures.
The after-effects (physical, mental, emotional) a woman may experience post-abortion.
80% of women who have abortions are already mothers.
Dr. Jenn shares some stories of women that she has assisted.
The difference between the terms "Pro-Life" and "Anti-Choice".
There are huge racial disparities with abortion access.

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Dr. Jenn's Podcast The V Word Podcast with Dr. Jenn & Dr. Erica

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Referenced Websites:

Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health ANSIRH

Non-Judgmental Support in Pregnancy: All-Options Talklilne

45: Molly Ryan - Kills Enemy: Tireless Indigenous Rights Activist Feb 05, 2020

Show notes

TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse and addiction references.

Often times, women of color aren't represented properly or advocated for when dealing with the justice system. They're typically dismissed, wrongly accused, and ignored altogether. Molly Ryan - Kills Enemy not only endured severe physical, sexual, and emotional trauma but has endured years of ignorance from the justice system.

As an indigenous woman raised in a white family, Molly has a unique perspective of how culture and parenthood impact the lives of children. As a mother of children who are also trauma survivors, she's seen how abuse drastically alters the path children take in life. Molly shares how she's battled ending negative cycles from her own parenting experience, dealing with an abusive father and the justice system, the impacts that abuse has had in her personal life, and how adopting truth and neglecting judgment leads to healing.

Join Sara and Misasha in this insightful continuation of the 2020 Womxn's March Denver to experience a unique narrative and impactful story that reflects true strength and tenacity through adversity.

Show Highlights:

Being raised in a white family gave Molly an empathetic understanding of both narratives – being white and indigenous.
Parenthood is reflective of how parents were parented and impacts how children evolve
Molly shares how she and her children survived an abusive home situation and the battle she experienced with the justice system
The process behind Molly's lawsuit and how her attorney advocated for her
The torment Molly's family endured from their abuser even after court
How abuse impacts children and trauma can put children in prison
Preconceived notions and judgments that native people face and how embracing truth can lead to healing

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44: Recorded Live: The 2020 Womxn's March Denver Jan 29, 2020

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Women are often dismissed or silenced when coming forward in the public eye with their pain, particularly women of color. We've adopted this matriarchal mindset that women's trauma, experiences, and emotions are invalid, but we need to come together as women to break that perception, now more than ever.

Sara and Misasha dissect how the justice system has wrongfully unacknowledged women of color, along with special guest, domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivor, Mary Ryan. Mary reveals her personal experiences as a trauma survivor, and how the justice system has consistently dismissed her case.

Tune into this conversation for unique insight on how we can shift the division between women to not only embrace one another's pain, no matter how personal it may be, and how we can start to break down the barriers that isolated women from the beginning.

This recorded-live episode from the 2020's Womxn's March Denver is full of insightful and enlightening thoughts that you can reflect on and apply to your own life!

Show Highlights:

We need to align as women before anything else in order to create a safer society for women and children.
Sara and Misasha address the issues with idealizing whiteness and dismissing women of color as victims
What inhibits women of color from coming forward as victims of rape and why white women should care
There are various factors that mediate sexism and race should be acknowledged when talking about gender equality
Women's rights are under attack and women need to create an alliance by listening to each-others pain openly
Mary Ryan shares her experiences as a domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivor
Mary discusses how the justice system has blatantly ignored her and her families' trauma
Mary endured multiple break-in encounters and restraining order violations from her abuser, who is a white male and has still been unacknowledged in her case
Indigenous people have been consistently dismissed in assault cases and there are barriers we need to break down and dissect in order to improve how we address these issues
In order for healing to happen as a society, we have to open ourselves up to listen to others experiences, no matter how painful it may be
Challenging public binaries and embracing women's defiance

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Book Mentioned

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

43: Let's Talk About Rights Jan 22, 2020

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The progress of obtaining and maintaining women's rights is not linear. Reproductive rights in the United States are focused on efforts to get and defend the legal right to abortion, and these efforts are led by predominantly white women.

What little information is provided about women of color with regard to reproductive rights tends to center on the abuses they have suffered and represents only a partial history. Most of the reproductive health organizing done by women of color in the United States has been undocumented, unanalyzed, and unacknowledged.

They will be unpacking the book, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, which highlights the role of women of color in advocating for their own interests, largely because they face very different and specific issues regarding reproductive rights that are not faced by white women.

In this second part about women's rights, Sara and Misasha are here today to challenge the narratives!

Show Highlights:

As regards reproductive rights, white women tend to focus on abortion, whereas women of color tend to look at it more broadly.
Sterilization in exchange for benefits and forced abortion are very real experiences in the lives of women of color.
Choice plays a big role in rights. Choice includes "the choice to determine whether or not to have children, the choice to terminate a pregnancy, and the ability to making informed choices about contraceptive and reproductive technologies", according to book co-author, Jael Silliman.
Choice implies options and that a woman's right to determine what happens to her body is legally protected. For women of color, this ignores the fact that economic and institutional constraints often restrict their choices.
It's important for health providers to have a cultural competency, which is an understanding and respect for the cultures, traditions, and practices of a community.
Opposition to welfare and commitment to reduce welfare roles by supplying free birth control services to poor women were joined in a race and class direct social policy.
The link between coercive birth control and racism was overtly expressed by Louisiana judge, Leander Perez, in 1965 when he stated that the best way to hate a black man is to hate him before he is born.
Sara and Misasha provide some horrendous statistics regarding forced sterilizations against women of color in the 20th century.
Sara offers an exercise for white women to help them understand the differences in experience.
Stereotypes and myths: harmful and still working against women of color.
Cisgender white people have not recognized themselves as an identity group because they assume their identity to be the universal norm.
Many white women organizing for reproductive rights assume that their agenda includes all women because of their own white women experience.
In 2000 the Institute for Women & Ethnic Studies in New Orleans put forth a "Reproductive Health Bill of Rights" which, in part, reads: "All people are born free and equal with dignity and rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Historically, women of color across nations, cultures, and different religious and ethnic groups have been subject to racist exploitation, discrimination, and abuse. Manipulative, coercive, and punitive health policies and practices deprive women of color of their fundamental human rights and dignity."

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Books Mentioned:

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutierrez

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington

42: Presidential Powers and Women's Rights Jan 15, 2020

Show notes

Particularly relevant now that we're in the 2020 election year is the subject of rights, namely reproductive ones and others that directly affect women.

That's what Sara and Misasha will be diving into on this episode, along with a brief coda to their recent 3-part series on the Criminal Justice System, and that is what the President has the power to change with regard to criminal justice versus what he or she needs Congress to help with.

You'll definitely want to listen in to this food-for-thought as you reflect on the upcoming election.

Finally, this coming weekend, Sara and Misasha will be in Denver recording a live episode at the 2020 Womxn's March! Join them, if you can!

Show Highlights:

Misasha presents a brief primer on what the President "can" do, and includes topics such as solitary confinement, police use-of-force, reinstating voting rights to felons, and immigration law.
What's the problem with private prisons, anyway?
Sara discusses the current cash bail system, the No Money Bail Act of 2018, and the long-standing correlation between skin color and incarceration.
Whoever becomes President in this upcoming election has a direct impact on a woman's right to control her own body.
The United States Supreme Court has been asked to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that found that criminalizing abortion violates Constitutionally-protected privacy rights.
Recently, over 200 members of Congress filed an amicus brief in support of Louisiana's so-called "Unsafe Abortion Protection Act", which will be going before the Supreme Court in March.
If the Court rules in support of the Louisiana law restricting abortion access, it could effectively overturn abortion protection nationwide.
Misasha outlines the impact it could have on those in Louisiana and surrounding states who might need an abortion.
Misasha notes an amicus brief from major medical and legal groups in support of abortions.
In order to understand the impact and the arc of reproductive rights in this country, as well as the difference in rights when it comes to white women versus women of color, Sara provides some key milestones and highlights from 1916 and moving forward.
Misasha quotes from the book The Doctors' Case Against The Pill by Barbara Seaman and the issue of safety.
The TRAP law and why it matters.
In the next two episodes, Sara and Misasha will explore certain ways in which white women and women of color are not similarly situated when it comes to reproductive rights and control over their own bodies. The next episode will look at the history of this divide and the impact of sterilization and abortion on both groups. We hope you join us!

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THE 2020 WOMXN'S MARCH

Saturday, January 18

Denver, CO

Sara & Misasha will be recording LIVE!

Did You Miss the 3-Part Series on The Criminal Justice System?

Listen to Part 1 Here - Criminal Justice: Jaw-Dropping Stats You Should Know About

Listen to Part 2 Here - Criminal Justice: 15 Going on 28

Listen to Part 3 Here - Understanding and Navigating the Juvenile Legal System with Ji Seon Song

To Keep Up With News Regarding the Criminal Justice System

The Marshall Project

Book Mentioned

The Doctors' Case Against The Pill by Barbara Seaman

41: Ji Seon Song: Understanding and Navigating the Juvenile Legal System Jan 08, 2020

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Sara and Misasha's guest today is Ji Seon Song, a former juvenile public defender.

Join them in this fascinating - and often heartbreaking - journey inside the juvenile legal system.

Ji Seon Song went to Columbia as an undergrad and also to Columbia Law School. Her scholarship currently focuses on criminal and juvenile justice. Ji Seon's research explores the intersection of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and different institutions and areas of law. Her current project examines policing and hospitals.

In addition, Ji Seon has been active in local, regional, and national justice reform. She trains practicing juvenile defenders throughout the country. She is currently at Stamford where she teaches federal litigation in a global context and legal research and writing.

Prior to joining Stamford, Ji Seon was a public defender in California where she represented youth and adults in delinquency and criminal proceedings. During her time at the public defender's office, she expanded the juvenile unit to include education and post-disposition representation and worked with local stakeholders on improving conditions of confinement and re-entry for youth.

Before then, Ji Seon worked in a different capacity as a senior policy advocate at the National Juvenile Defender Clinic and as a Fellow at Georgetown University's Law Center Juvenile Justice Clinic and as a federal judicial clerk in New York.

She is a founding member of the Asian-American Criminal Trial Lawyers Association and the Bay Area Public Defenders for Racial Justice. She currently serves on the executive board of the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center.

Show Highlights:

Ji Seon provides an overview of her educational and career background.
Ji Seon addresses the difference between jails and prisons, and the role of stakeholders.
Juvenile practice takes a lot of knowledge in different areas: criminal law, education law, mental illness, and collateral consequences, for example.
Ji Seon discusses the problems juveniles face with re-entry into school and the opportunities that are lost in the interim.
Racial discrimination exists at all stages in the juvenile legal system.
Ji Seon puts a vulnerable face to some of the clients that she represented and ponders boundaries within juvenile representation.
If we have the idea that the juvenile system should be rehabilitative, what we have in place right now is not.
What could we do with an alternative, re-imagined world of justice than what we have right now?

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Books Mentioned:

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates

40: 2020 Vision: A Glimpse of Things to Come Jan 01, 2020

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Sara and Misasha take a break from the election issues to bring you a little 2020 vision to welcome in the new year and the new decade!

Listen in as they chat about how they envision the coming year and decade will be!

In appreciation for your support of the podcast, Sara and Misasha have a gift for you!

It's a Spotify Playlist, "DWW Podcast Best of 2019" Please enjoy it!

Show Highlights:

Sara and Misasha share their personal visions for the next decade.
Misasha's word for 2020 is "power" and describes what that means to her.
Sara's words for 2020 are "being present" and explains how that is relevant to her.
Sara and Misasha discuss three things they want to learn or do, or create in 2020.
Have you considered YOUR personal visions for the next decade? Have you pondered your word for the coming year? Have you envisioned what new things you might want to accomplish in 2020?
Happy New Year!!!

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Spotify Playlist: DWW Podcast Best of 2019

39: Race & Politics: How to Talk with Your Family Over the Holidays Dec 25, 2019

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Sara and Misasha bring you a special holiday episode involving how to talk about race and politics over the holidays.

When we gather as families, we tend to avoid spending our time talking about hot-button issues, especially around the holidays.

Nobody wants a heated argument, but we may be missing out on opportunities to share opinions and get people talking about topics that are not ordinarily shared by those with the same viewpoints.

Show Highlights:

Addressing different beliefs begins with us talking to our families, educating them and showing them kindness and compassion in the process.
Having uncomfortable conversations with respect can lead to better communication and understanding.
Misasha shares some tips from an article written by Jordan Uhl to help your family members better understand your co-workers, classmates, neighbors and friends of color.
Misasha and Sara share statistics on race as it regards neighborhoods and friendships.
Sara shares suggestions on how to make people feel like they matter.
Starting conversations regarding these hard issues can seem daunting but gives us the opportunity for a host of other meaningful interactions about prejudices and inequality.
Remember to support queer and transgender folks this holiday season, especially those who may not have the support of their families.
Misasha shares the one question that can address the elephant in the room without expressly doing so.
Misasha provides journalist Ellen McGirt's ideas on how to counter bigotry.

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