DEAF WORKERS OF ORANGE COUNTY PROJECT -- DEAF WORKERS WEEKLY BULLETIN -- July 10, 1999 Greetings, The California Department of Rehabilitation requires their clients with hearing disabilities to have hearing aids to stay in the program. With the Supreme Court excluding people who can mitigate their disabilities from protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act, I am extremely concerned that the California Department of Rehabilitation could actually be hurting their clients with hearing disabilities by removing them from the protected class by simply helping and forcing their clients with hearing disabilities to mitigate their hearing disability with hearing aids. The best thing we can and should do now is to lobby the California Department of Rehabilitation to remove the hearing aid requirement to keep their clients with hearing disabilities in the protected class. I am now getting stories of employers asking their employees with hearing disabilities if they have hearing aids. With California Department of Rehabilitation providing hearing aids to their clients with hearing disabilities, this could pose a grave threat to the employability of their clients with hearing disabilities because they are no longer protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. I show my respect to Californians with hearing disabilities by staying in California while members of the California Association of the Deaf party, and gamble with our rights outside the state. There is now less than 21 months until we elect a new President, one third of the Senate, and the entire House of Representatives. The stakes of the first election of the new millennium are extremely high because the after effects include three new Supreme Court judges, one hundred eighty new federal judges. Richard Roehm ---- THE "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM" OF GEORGE W. BUSH CLARIFIED Compassionate Conservatism is kicking the less fortunate in the head while speaking nicely about them. Compassionate Conservatism is reducing the tax burden on the wealthy. Compassionate Conservatism is reducing government services, programs and benefits with a smile. Compassionate Conservatism is keeping one’s intolerance and bigotry out of the public eye. Compassionate Conservatism is fighting against any minimum wage increase for the poor with every fiber of ones’ being, while letting them buy all the guns and ammo they can carry. Compassionate Conservatism is using Mexicans as maids, baby sitters, roofers and dishwashers before they are deported. Compassionate Conservatism is eliminating Affirmative to give white men a better deal. Compassionate Conservatism is trying to force women into a system of illegal back room abortions but sending them a copy of the Ten Commandments. Compassionate Conservatism is fighting against smaller class size in public schools while forcing them to all pray together. Compassionate Conservatism is reducing benefits to veterans while throwing anyone who burns a flag in jail. Compassionate Conservatism is executing more people for less reason in a shorter time while giving the rest of us the violent vengeance we all thirst for. Compassionate Conservatism is pulling the teeth away from the Americans with Disabilities Act so they can keep people with disabilities locked and warehoused away. ---- UNEMPLOYMENT OF THE BLIND IS 70 PERCENT ATLANTA (AP) -- Even as the nation's unemployment rate nears a 29-year low, the jobless rate of blind Americans has been stagnant for about a decade, according to Department of Labor statistics. Advocates blame discrimination by employers, lower Braille literacy rates and new technology for the problem, saying all three factors prevent 70 percent of the blind who want to work from landing jobs. This is pity-based discrimination, said Barbara Pierce, spokeswoman for the National Federation of the Blind, which is holding its annual convention in Atlanta through Tuesday. The Americans with Disabilities Act seems to have had no impact on this, Ms. Pierce said this week. The ADA, which was passed in 1990, bans discrimination based on disability and orders employers to make reasonable accommodation to qualified disabled people. Over the years, technology has made things much easier for blind people. Converting text to Braille, once a painstaking process, can now be handled by computers, and some office equipment is available with Braille-embossed buttons. But other technology has hurt the employment chances of the 750,000 blind Americans. Many blind people once worked as traditional receptionists, taking dictation and answering the phone for managers and executives. But voice mail and e-mail have changed the job description of receptionists, requiring more computer skills. Graphic-based software that requires the user to move around the screen with a mouse and click on icons is nearly impossible for the blind. I could work in Powerpoint and things that handle graphics, but getting someone to put it in a format that I can understand is tough, said Peg Halverson, who has been out of a job for two years. I want to be employed, I want to contribute to society, said Ms. Halverson, 44. I'm thinking, I have a business degree, I have basically 20 years of administrative experience and I can't even get a customer service job. Of the blind people who are working, 30 percent are significantly underemployed. One of the problems has been a decline in the number of blind children learning Braille. During the past 30 years, the percentage of blind children learning Braille in the United States has fallen from about 50 percent to less than 10 percent. In the past two decades, there has been a push to get blind children out of special schools and mainstream them with the regular population. That all too often means they are plunked down in the regular classroom and they have very little support services, Ms. Pierce said. And some teachers pamper blind children, refusing to challenge them. Teachers just kind of let you slip through the cracks. They didn't put any expectations on you, said Dr. V. Inez Brasher, 42, who lost her vision at age 9 but earned a chiropractic degree and owns her own practice in Denver. Many school systems saw mainstreaming as a chance to cut costs by hiring fewer teachers for disabled students. In some schools, students receive Braille instruction only once or twice a week. At the convention, blind people attended workshops helping with resumes, interviewing skills and dealing with discrimination issues. Blind educators, lawyers, computer scientists, mountain climbers and journalists are there to share their experiences and give outlines for success. Lynn Mattioli, a hospital dietitian in Baltimore, said she doesn't try to talk around her blindness during job interviews. Instead, she tells employers how her condition will affect her approach to the job. As a blind person, you kind of have to be that much better,=B2 she said. Copyright 1999 Associated Press Information Services, all rights reserved. ---- SBA BOOSTS EFFORTS TO HELP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES START AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES The U.S. Small Business Administration, joined Vice President Al Gore in announcing SBA's intent to develop a new outreach campaign to help Americans with disabilities start their own businesses. The announcement came during a meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults With Disabilities. "Small businesses are the primary engine of job growth in America today," Vice President Gore said. "People with disabilities have higher rates of self-employment and small business experience than the rest of America, yet they often are not aware of the assistance available to them. This campaign would open the doors of opportunity wider to help Americans with disabilities get the assistance they need to create businesses that create jobs." The new outreach campaign would provide greater access to SBA's entrepreneurial development programs, financial assistance incentives, and government contracting opportunities, America’s 23 million small businesses employ more than 50 percent of the private workforce, generate more than half of the nation's gross domestic product, and are the principal source of new jobs in the U.S. economy. For more information check out www.sba.gov/news/ ---- SAN DIEGO WELCOMES DEAF EXPO '99' NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA-- (6 July 1999) -- Deaf Expo '99, the world's largest consumer trade show targeted at the Deaf and hard of hearing market, will take place at the San Diego Concourse in downtown San Diego, CA on November 19-21, 1999. "We are proud to host the Deaf Expo '99" says San Diego Mayor Susan Golding, "Thank you for choosing San Diego!" Kaleidoscope TV, MCI WorldCom and Ultratec, Inc. are sponsors for the 7th consecutive year of this event which features the largest array of exhibits covering nine categories: Education, Finance, Giftware, Health, Human Resources, Publications, Recreation, Religion and Technology. Also being unveiled for the first time is the new 'Deaf Village' program with opportunities for home and craft business owners and Deaf cultural awareness products. Starring at 'Deaf Spot', the kickoff IceBreaker on Friday evening, November 19th is Deaf comedian Mike Lamitola who will perform in the San Diego Concourse Lobby. The prime-time entertainment function on Saturday evening is 'Deaf Nostalgia' which covers a montage display of past Deaf Expo shows along with a video projection of past & present TV and film clips featuring Deaf performers. This event will be held in the California Ballroom of the Westin Horton Plaza, down the street from the San Diego Concourse. Also part of Deaf Expo '99 are: workshops & seminars, Communication Challenges: Past & Future, Deaf World History Display and Performing Stage, Deaf Art Contest for adults & children, a ChildCare program and ASL Ranch display. Show organizers cite the following reasons why patrons should visit Deaf Expo '99: the tremendous networking opportunities; the amazing variety of information on new services and products of interest to consumers who are Deaf or hard of hearing; and the opportunity to keep up to date with technology, meet old and make new contacts and learn about Deaf Culture. Who Should Attend Deaf Expo '99? Parents, sign language students, instructors, family members, professionals and associates as well as Deaf and hard of hearing consumers. Thousands of dollars worth of door prizes will also be given away during both days. Rich Worldwide Travel has been designated as the official travel agency of Deaf Expo '99 and will coordinate all hotel and airline bookings, car rentals, Amtrak tickets and Post-Deaf Expo reservations. For information, call toll-free TTY: 1-888-801-3323 or Voice: 1-888-882-7400. Westin Horton Plaza, just a brief walk down the street from the San Diego Concourse, has been designated as the official hotel of Deaf Expo '99 and will provide services beyond the minimum requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All discounted Deaf Expo '99 hotel rates are available only through Rich Worldwide Travel. Show organizers hope at least 8,000 patrons will attend Deaf Expo '99 which is organized by a nonprofit corporation run by persons who are Deaf or hard of hearing. All show activities are open to the public. Full show information, exhibitor and ticket ordering options are now available through their official website at www.DEAFEXPO.ORG and tickets are also sold through TicketMaster and certain social service agencies in Southern California. For show information, write to Deaf Expo '99, 7712 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91605-2815 or call the toll-free Deaf Expo '99 Information Request TTY line at 1-877-332-3397 (Voice Relay 1-888-877-5379) or e-mail to DEAFEXPO@aol.com. ---- SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF SUED BY PARENT OVER SIGN LANGUAGE Sandy Farrow of Hatteras Island has filed civil rights complaints with the U.S. Department of Education against the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and all three residential schools for the deaf, including Eastern N.C. School for the Deaf in Wilson. The action rises out of frustration at trying to find a school setting where her son, Justin, would be able to communicate with his teachers and classmates. "I have been fighting with the state and the ENCSD to have my child receive American Sign Language, his native language he used as a preschooler when we lived outside the Boston area, where deaf people are appreciated and treated as human beings," she told an interviewer. She and her husband decided to enroll Justin at ENCSD for the 1998-1999 academic year because Cape Hatteras Elementary School, which he attended for four years, had not provided a qualified sign language interpreter for him. "This was very hard for my family," she said. "We are very close and to not have your 9-year-old sitting at the table with you for dinner was just like feeling that he was dead. "But my husband and I did it so he could be exposed to other deaf children and to American Sign Language." When she realized that many school for the deaf staff members lacked fluency in ASL, she thought her family's sacrifice had been in vain. "One half of the staff took the SCPI test (which assesses proficiency in ASL) and only one third of them passed on the beginning level," she said. "And these are student contact staff." Steve Witchey, superintendent of ENCSD, referred questions on the allegations to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which is coordinating the responses of the residential schools for the deaf to the complaint. DHHS oversees the residential schools for the deaf. Mrs. Farrow has filed complaints against all three schools for the deaf and DPI because her class-action complaint is on behalf of all deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the state. She named DPI in her complaint because it oversees instruction of deaf students in the local public schools. Her specific allegations against DPI are that it requires a "one size fits all" approach to teaching the deaf and hard of hearing, that it does not permit local school districts to teach academic classes in ASL, Cued Speech (used by deaf students who are being taught to speak) or Signed Exact English, that it does not have administrators who are qualified to judge whether teachers are able to communicate with deaf students and that it has no guidelines for the training of staff in teaching and providing other services to the deaf. According to the allegations, DPI also fails to provide guidance to local districts in how to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing students. Lowell Harris of DPI said that the agency has little control over decisions made by local school districts. "We provide assistance to all school systems," he said. "You're always going to have disagreements when parents feel that their children are not getting the services they need." His department is always concerned that children get the services they need. He encourages parents to work with their local schools and their Individualized Education Plan committees to see to it that their children's needs are met. Mrs. Farrow also alleges that DPI does not allow more than one disability to be addressed on deaf students' Individualized Education Plans, so that students who need services for other disabilities do not always get the help they need. Federal law dictates that IEPs be as complex as they need to be to meet each student's needs. Harris said DPI complies with federal law and allows for more than one disability on an IEP. The schools for the deaf are also charged with not having faculty who are trained in communicating with the deaf and hard of hearing and not allowing more than one disability to be identified on student IEPs. Mrs. Farrow alleges that the state discriminates against students with hearing impairments based on their disability, which is against federal law. The U. S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has decided that Mrs. Farrow's charges merit investigation. It is seeking parents of other deaf students in the state who wish to join in the class action. The lead investigator, Deborah Smith, is particularly interested in knowing how other deaf students have fared in public schools, either local or residential, in the state. When a civil rights complaint is filed, the Office of Civil Rights has a number of options as to what steps to take. At any point in the investigation process, the complaint can be closed if the recipient of the charges agrees to a Commitment to Resolve that is acceptable to the Office of Civil Rights. If the issues are not settled through voluntary compliance or mediation, the Office of Civil Rights can bring suit. If it decides not to sue, Mrs. Farrow will then have the right to bring a civil suit against the schools. Terry Hodges, Americans with Disabilities Act program director for DHHS, said his job is to make that the department complies with Title 2 of the ADA. He is coordinating the department's response to the investigation. DHHS has been working for several years on establishing a policy on how proficient staff members at the school need to be in sign language, but it is just in the process of being implemented. It calls for a higher level of proficiency for teachers. However, any staff members who may have contact with students, including janitors, must be able to communicate with students on at least a minimal level. This is so students can communicate with staff members in emergency situations. "It's not a hard directive," said Hodges. "It's a helpful directive. Those are necessary standards." He sees the availability of money as one of the problems in hiring staff members who are fluent enough in ASL to satisfy the deaf community. Some deaf people identify themselves as a distinct culture, like an ethnic group, with ASL as their native language. "It's hard to mandate culture," said Hodges. "We are a state school." He said that in a democracy, one segment can't dictate how scarce public resources are used to benefit a larger group. This makes his job a sticky one. "When you're talking about something that affects culture, it's a very emotional issue," he said. You may reach Margaret J. Stair at mjstair@wilsondaily.com. ---- NBC'S DISABLED REPORTER JOHN HOCKENBERRY COMMENTS ON SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Disability Games John Hockenberry for The New York Times June 29, 1999 Last week's decision by the Supreme Court to narrow the definition of disability and limit the Americans With Disabilities Act is unlikely to clarify how we handle the disabled. In fact, the Court's tortured argument about excluding disabilities that can be "remedied in some way" shows, once again, how reluctant the most powerful Government in the civilized world is to actually change things. Instead we are locked in another disheartening argument over rights and discrimination, which may be of interest to lawyers, but which barely addresses the difficulties of being disabled. ---- LIGHT A CANDLE FOR RICK DOUGLAS Disability Community Mourns the Passing of Rick Douglas. The disability community mourns the passing of a great American disability rights leader. On June 28, Rick Douglas, former executive director of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, died of cancer. He had an enormous impact on the lives of everyone he met. He was a true leader and visionary. We will all miss him. ---- WORK INCENTIVES UPDATE On June 16, the Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (S. 331) was passed by the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 99-0. The bill would allow states to opt to permit people with disabilities to return to work without losing their Medicare or Medicaid health insurance benefits. The leading House version of this bill (H.R. 1180) awaits action from the Committee on Ways and Means, where members must decide how to pay for the bill’s provisions. President Clinton endorses this bill because it will support the creation of critical work opportunities for people with disabilities. ---- NATIONAL TELEPHONE-A-THON TO GET THE WIIA PASSED IN THE HOUSE NEXT TUESDAY American Disability Community: We know that groups are gearing up already in New York, the west and the midwest for the WIIA National Phone-In July 13. Get to an air-conditioned room, call your friends and family, and alert the media -- Join us! Imagine July 13, 1999 54,000,000 Americans with disabilities call the US House of Representatives. "Pass the Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 in July" The WIIA Phone-In set for Tuesday, July 13. Make it Happen! Call five friends and family. Ask each to call five friends to call the US House July 13. Do the math, we can get all of us to call! Tuesday, July 13th, 1999, Congress is back at work. PLANNED ACTION: Every member of the US Disability Community MAKES A BRIEF CALL to their District member of the US House of Representatives. Message: "Our state's US Senators finally got to vote for WIIA in June. Pass WIIA - H.R. 1180 in the House in July and please pass it INTACT ! We thank, recognize and will remember the 203 bipartisan House Sponsor/Cosponsors who want to pass WIIA this month !" CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD PHONE 202-224-3121 Find Your Representative's Phone Number at: US House of Representatives www.house.gov ---- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS USING THE WORD "CRIPPLED" SENATOR? Let ClariNews and the AP know what you think of the use of the word "Crippled" to describe Senator Cleland. From: ClariNews Date: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: Crippled Senator Allows Photographs WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a stark display of his Vietnam War wounds, Sen. Max Cleland allowed a magazine photographer into his home to chronicle the three-hour routine he has endured each morning since losing both legs and an arm to a grenade explosion. ``It was done to inspire other people, in very stark and very real terms,'' the Georgia Democrat said in an interview Monday. ``There was nothing glossed over there, that's for sure.'' Cleland's daily routine begins with meditation and prayer, followed by an exercise regimen that includes stretches, sit-ups, push-ups and 32 laps around his living-room, walking on his stumps across cushions spread over the floor. In one photograph accompanying the article in the August issue of Esquire magazine, an unclothed Cleland is pictured using his good left arm to stretch his right stump across his body. Another picture shows him in shorts and tee-shirt walking on his stumps. David Granger, Esquire's editor-in-chief, said there was no debate inside the magazine about using the unclothed picture of the senator. ``We wanted to use the strongest picture we had that showed the reality of a man's life who happens to be a U.S. senator and also happens to have one arm and no legs,'' he said. ``This man is a miracle.'' Cleland said he doesn't anticipate any political fallout in Georgia as a result of the article. ``It wasn't done for politics,'' he said. ``It was done to inspire other people'' If you want to send a comment to the editors of ClariNews (about group names, classification, or editorial issues) or a general note or comment on another topic, use the following addresses -editor@clari.net -comments@clari.net If you would like to send a comment to the AP, you can write: Associated Press 50 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N.Y. 10020 Tel: (212) 621-1500 Email: info@ap.org Website: http://www.ap.org/ Thanks to Robin Shaikun for this Alert. ---------------------- TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY: The simple fact is that no one can be CURRENTLY well-educated in this country (or in Britain) without knowledge of, and fluency in, the English language. That is a fact. Certainly, ASL is a nice thing to know, and in the past, it was necessary for communication with functionally illiterate deaf people. Now, in the modern world, and with sufficient access to education, there should not be any functionally illiterate deaf people. However, Brice Alden (hearing) has stated in the NAD Broadcaster that a person can be "fluent" in knowledge of Deaf Culture, the ASL language, the customs, traditions, history, etc., and that English is "unnecessary" for this purpose. Mr. Alden, himself, has learned about Deaf Culture, ASL Linguistics, Deaf History, etc. by reading about those things in the ENGLISH WRITTEN LANGUAGE. Many deaf people have observed him in the NCOD Library, reading about deafness, Deaf Culture, Deaf History, ASL Linguistics, etc., IN the English language. If a deaf person is functionally illiterate, this means that a deaf person does not have access to, or understanding of, those things that Mr. Alden has evidently studied in depth, in English. The only way to make a functionally illiterate deaf individual equal to Mr. Alden, in such a situation, is for the ENTIRE Libraries at Gallaudet and NTID and all of the residential schools available in ASL, through either the provision of on-site "ASL reader-interpreters" or ASL videotaped text translations, or both. Plus, of course, such ASL translations of ALL of the past and current publications concerning deaf people (150 years of American Annals of the Deaf, all the issues of Silent News, all the issues of Deaf Life Magazine, etc., etc.). PLUS ALL of the research studies done on any aspects of deafness, PLUS all of the legislation concerning the deaf population at local, state and national levels. PLUS all of the fiction and nonfiction books and materials that have a deaf character, or issues of deafness included. And, of course, PLUS all information concerning disabilities or disabled persons, since much of that includes information important to deaf people. PLUS an ASL "reader-interpreter" available at all times to anyone who needs to use the Internet, or other computerized information, or software, or anything. PLUS, a 24-hour ASL "reader-interpreter" to read signs if the person goes out into the community, so they know where the restrooms are located (hey, they're not supposed to "need to know English," so they can't write notes to get information). In essence, Mr. Brice is advocating turning all physically deaf people into DEAFBLIND people, in terms of access to printed, written information. I am certain that the Helen Keller National Center would enjoy receiving a great deal more funding to serve such individuals. I am not sure, however, that such funding is available, or that the personnel and service providers are available. Since Mr. Alden is an advocate for this position, it is now his responsibility to ensure funding and personnel for those persons who wish to follow his "functional English illiteracy method" of gaining full and complete knowledge of, and continuing information about, ASL and Deaf Culture. Mr. Alden is also now personally responsible to arrange adequate funding and staffing for EVERYONE, and EVERY COMPANY, currently publishing anything about deafness, so they can stop publishing in English, and start publishing only on ASL videotapes for distribution, including those who are doing research reports, dissertations, theses, or Journals, and to help locate adequate funding for them to get enough videotapes, video equipment, video editing equipment, postage costs, mailing containers, labels, etc. for the distribution of such materials to deaf individuals. Of course, for materials produced outside of the United States, Mr. Alden is now personally responsible for ensuring sign language translations of deafness-related information in all other countries on videotape, and disability-related information, too, in every other nation of the world. And, Mr. Alden is personally responsible for arranging ASL translations of those foreign sign language videotapes, as well as video format conversions, so the people using ASL can understand them, since they are being told by Mr. Alden that written language literacy is "unnecessary," in English, or in any other world language. Certainly, an educated person such as Mr. Alden has considered these issues, and is fully prepared to implement the necessary procedures to get FULL AND COMPLETE information about everything deafness-related, anywhere in the world, converted immediately to a format that an ASL user can access. Certainly, Mr. Alden, having a great care for the deaf community, ASL and Deaf Culture, would NEVER make any recommendations that would leave a deaf person deficient in any kind of information about deafness, if they decide, upon Mr. Alden's expert information that English is, indeed, unnecessary. Mr. Alden would NEVER put a deaf person into a worse life situation, so I am certain that he has already made full arrangements for the conversions listed above, and more, prior to making his statement that "English is unnecessary" for full and complete knowledge of anything related to deafness. You are all free to ask Mr. Alden when such procedures will be implemented, as I am certain that this educated and caring person already has plans, and that they are being implemented, even now. Otherwise, he would never have made that comment in the NAD Broadcaster, and NAD would certainly NOT have published it, unless they were certain that deaf people would still have exact, complete, full and equal information if they follow Mr. Alden's position. NAD is a wonderful organization that has the goal of equality for all deaf persons. The Editor of the NAD Broadcaster must have been absolutely certain that Mr. Alden's statements are true, and that they are the best thing for the deaf community, without any loss of information or knowledge, or else she would not have published Mr. Alden's Letter to the Editor that stated "English is unnecessary." So, you all can relax. If you all do give up English, because Mr. Alden says it is "unnecessary," and because the NAD agreed with him (this is shown clearly because they printed his comments in full), then you can be SURE that the NAD, along with Mr. Alden, will ensure that you do not miss any important information or knowledge -- they will make sure that EVERYTHING you wish to know and learn will be available to you in ASL, and that you will NEVER need the English language at all, any time in your life. For those of you who wish to give up English as being "unnecessary," you can simply contact the NAD now, and ask for their Broadcaster, and all other publications, as well as the information on their website, to be sent to you on videotape, in ASL. You can now do the same for all other publications. It is good to know that Mr. Alden has taken it upon himself to make English truly "unnecessary" for the deaf community, and that the NAD is in full support of his activities, and that deaf people will not lose any information or knowledge, or access to information or knowledge, at any time. This is, indeed, something to applaud! Paulette Caswell ============================================================== DEAF WORKERS OF ORANGE COUNTY Orange County, California Richard Roehm President Internet : Deaf@activist.com Deaf_Workers_OC@usa.net Website Nesmuth@worldnet.att.net Http://www.i-sphere.com/eyedeaf/dwoc.htm =============================================================== Feel free to redistribute this newsletter in it's entirety and if you are planning to add a mailing list as a subscriber then let me know for my records. 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