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Today's Stories January 3, 2011 Eric Toussaint December 31, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Alexander Cockburn Goodbye to 2010, Year of the Tiger, Hello to 2011, Year of the Rabbit Jeffrey St. Clair Behzad Yaghmaian Thomas Naylor Christopher Brauchli Robert Bryce Joanne Mariner Will Parrish / Mike Whitney Ramzy Baroud Rannie Amiri Alan Farago Linh Dinh Martha Rosenberg Drug Industry: Interests in Conflict Franklin Lamb Ron Jacobs Brian Tierney Israel Shamir Jess Guh David Ker Thomson Missy Beattie Dan Bacher David Macaray Shepherd Bliss Charles R. Larson Dan White Joshua Sperber Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend December 30, 2010 Michael Teitelman Jennifer Van Bergen Douglas Valentine Jorge Mariscal Denis G. Rancourt Paul Craig Roberts Dave Lindorff Mary Lynn Cramer Anthony Papa Website of the Day
December 29, 2010 Bill Quigley James Bovard Stewart J. Lawrence Yvonne Ridley David Swanson John V. Walsh Fidel Castro Julie Hilden Website of the Day December 28, 2010 P. Sainath Jonathan Cook Paul Craig Roberts Jennifer Van Bergen Ralph Nader David Macaray Bill Manson David Krieger Stephanie Van Hook / Michael Nagler Mitchel Cohen Website of the Day December 27, 2010 Bill Hatch Uri Avnery Lawrence Davidson Allen Mendenhall Fred Gardner Mark Weisbrot Sherwood Ross David Michael Green Eric Patton Mark Scaramella Website of the Day December 24-26, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Chellis Glendinning Eugene Coyle Will Parrish Joanne Mariner William Loren Katz Brian M. Downing Michael Leonardi Ramzy Baroud Saul Landau Linn Washington Jr. Christopher Brauchli Rannie Amiri Ronnie Cummins Missy Beattie Linh Dinh Rev. William E. Alberts Harvey Wasserman Chris Genovali / David Ker Thomson Robert Roth Ron Jacobs Myles Hoenig Charles R. Larson David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend December 23, 2010 Bill Quigley / Peter Lee Gareth Porter Dean Baker Hayden Janssen Yves Engler Laura Flanders David Macaray Farzana Versey Website of the Day December 22, 2010 Joe Mangano Uri Avnery Jennifer Van Bergen Lawrence Wittner John V. Whitbeck Stewart J. Lawrence Linh Dinh Rebecca Solnit Franklin Lamb Sherwood Ross Website of the Day
December 21, 2010 Ralph Nader Larry Portis Sasan Fayazmanesh Sam Smith Sheldon Richman Alice Slater Julie Hilden Willie L. Pelote, Sr. Binoy Kampmark Laura Flanders Website of the Day
December 20, 2010 Pam Martens Patrick Cockburn Bill Quigley Bruce Jackson Max Blumenthal Mike Whitney Carl Finamore Greg Moses Fidel Castro Paul Craig Roberts John Severino Sama Adnan Website of the Day December 17 - 19, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Franklin Spinney Gareth Porter Clarence Lusane Eric Stoner John Carroll, MD Nick Dearden / Robert Alvarez Saul Landau Rannie Amiri Ramzy Baroud Chuck Collins Ron Jacobs Charlotte Dennett John Blair David Ker Thomson Sherry Wolf David Macaray Jennifer Van Bergen Martha Rosenberg Sam Smith Missy Beattie Harvey Wasserman Laura Flanders Randall Amster Ron Ridenour Dr. Suzy Block Charles R. Larson David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Day December 16, 2010 Alan Farago Dean Baker Peter Lee Jospeh Nevins Norman Girvan Michael Winship Robert Jensen Binoy Kampmark Website of the Day December 15, 2010 Diana Johnstone James Bovard Conn Hallinan Vijay Prashad Robert Weissman Stephan Salisbury Fred Gardner Joshua Frank Anthony Papa Steven Higgs Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers / Afghans for Peace Website of the Day
December 14, 2010 Norm Kent Mike Whitney Maximilian Forte Franklin C. Spinney Ralph Nader David Macaray Ali Khan / Lawrence Davidson Stewart J. Lawrence Cecil Brown
December 13, 2010 Patrick Cockburn Tariq Ali Jonathan Cook Israel's War on Children Uri Avnery Russell Mokhiber Patrick Bond David Smith-Ferri The December Review: Rubbish on Afghanistan Bob Sirois Danny Muller Randall Amster Website of the Day
December 10 - 12, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Peter Linebaugh Mike Whitney Thomas Volscho Joe Bageant John Barth, Jr. Jeffrey Sommers Jonathan Cook Robert Alvarez Rannie Amiri Franklin Lamb Dean Baker Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Aurel / Pierre Daum Ramzy Baroud Michael Winship David Ker Thomson Ron Jacobs Christopher Brauchli Missy Beattie Dennis Loo Harvey Wasserman Ingmar Lee Thomas H. Naylor Farzana Versey Ronnie Cummins Sherwood Ross Don Monkerud Stephen Martin Charles R. Larson David Yearsley CP Newswire Poets' Basement Randall and Hahn Website of the Weekend December 9, 2010 Pam Martens Wajahat Ali Sasha Kramer Fatima Bhutto Jimmy Johnson Laura Carlsen Binoy Kampmark Anthony Papa Website of the Day December 8, 2010 Michael Hudson Patrick Cockburn Eric Walberg Mike Roselle Greg Moses Diane Christian Fidel Castro Linn Washington James McEnteer Website of the Day December 7, 2010 Chris Floyd Gareth Porter / Dean Baker Gregory Elich Ralph Nader M. Shahid Alam Dave Lindorff Information Terrorists? David Macaray Linda Ueki Absher Manuel Garcia, Jr. Website of the Day December 6, 2010 Michael Hudson Paul Craig Roberts The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom Mike Whitney Sasan Fayazmanesh Steve Breyman Davey D Neve Gordon Greg Moses Mark Weisbrot Ben Terrall Website of the Day December 3 -5, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Darwin Bond-Graham Andy Kroll William Blum Rannie Amiri Ray McGovern Saul Landau / Ramzy Baroud P. Sainath John Carroll, M.D. David Rosen Steven Colatrella Thomas I. Palley Francis Shor Russell Mokhiber Bank Power Mark Weisbrot John V. Whitbeck Sherry Wolf Ronnie Cummins Michael Winship Ron Jacobs Nilofar Suhrawardy Missy Beattie Bill Manson Linh Dinh Bruce E. Levine John Grant David Macaray Yves Engler / Charles R. Larson Scott Borchert Harry Clark David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend December 2, 2010 Michael W. Hudson Paul Craig Roberts Franklin C. Spinney Benjamin Dangl Uri Avnery Mike Whitney Russell Mokhiber David Macaray Ed Moloney Brian McKenna Website of the Day
December 1, 2010 Gareth Porter Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press Paul Craig Roberts Russ Wellen Nikolas Kozloff Conn Hallinan Sheldon Richman Rich Broderick David Solnit Farzana Versey Charles M. Young Charles R. Larson Website of the Day November 30, 2010 Ralph Nader Paul Craig Roberts Bill Quigley Jonathan Cook Dean Baker James McEnteer Tom Engelhardt Sherwood Ross Gina Ulysse Bill Manson Website of the Day
November 29, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts Israel Shamir Mike Whitney Lawrence Davidson Winslow Wheeler / John Carroll, MD P. Sainath Carl Finamore David Macaray Dave Lindorff Website of the Day
November 26 - 28, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Winslow T. Wheeler Ramzy Baroud Harry Browne Bill Quigley / Saul Landau Brian Cloughley Fidel Castro Francis Shor Steve Heilig Terrence Paupp Brenda Norrell Missy Beattie Linh Dinh Christopher Brauchli Eric Walberg Ellen Taylor Ron Jacobs Bill Manson Harvey Wasserman Walter Brasch Michael Dickinson Ingmar Lee Gwyneth Leech David Ker Thomson Charles R. Larson Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend November 25, 2010 Michael Hudson Mike Whitney Gareth Porter Sarah Anderson Karl Grossman David Ker Thomson Rajesh Makwana / Adam Parsons Charles R. Larson Website of the Day
November 24, 2010 Jeffrey St. Clair Paul Craig Roberts James Ridgeway Invasion of the Body Scanners: Is TSA Spreading Cancer? Michael Scott Nick Dearden Russell Mokhiber Daniel Moss Farzana Versey Yasin Gaber Dan Beaton Website of the Day November 23, 2010 Pam Martens Patrick Cockburn Ben Rosenfeld / Franklin C. Spinney Dean Baker Ralph Nader Ray McGovern George Wuerthner Don Monkerud Clare Bayard Website of the Day
November 22, 2010 Michael Hudson James Abourezk Paul Craig Roberts Sasan Fayazmanesh Richard Forno Gary Leupp Martha Rosenberg Lawrence Davidson Patrick Bond Michael Dickinson Website of the Day November 19 - 21, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Mike Whitney Joanne Mariner Gareth Porter Karen Greenberg Thomas Christie, Pierre Sprey, Franklin Spinney et al. Rannie Amiri Dr. Jim Morgan Haiti's New Normal: Dispatch from Cite Soleil Lawrence Swaim Ramzy Baroud Ron Jacobs Robert Alvarez Russell Mokhiber P. Sainath David Macaray Carl Finamore Brian Tierney Franklin Lamb Gerald E. Scorse Joshua Brollier Missy Beattie Stewart J. Lawrence Brenda Norrell Christopher Brauchli Carol Polsgrove David Ker Thomson Dave Lindorff Jeff Deasy Bill Manson Clifton Ross Charles R. Larson Twain: the Last Word, One Hundred Years Later Richard Estes David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend November 18, 2010 Diana Johnstone Mike Whitney Behzad Yaghmaian Kenneth E. Hartman Norman Solomon Michael Winship Patrick Bond Joel S. Hirschhorn Website of the Day November 17, 2010 Vicente Navarro James Bovard Jonathan Cook Dean Baker Ralph Nader Nick Turse Sherry Wolf Alienation 101: the Online Learning Rip Off Judith Scherr Peter Certo Website of the Day
November 16, 2010 Pam Martens Richard Forno Gareth Porter Harry Browne Peter Lee Alan Farago Franklin Lamb Frank Green Sheldon Richman Thomas H. Naylor Website of the Day November 15, 2010 Michael Hudson Steve Hendricks Paul Craig Roberts Harvey Wasserman Lawrence Davidson Clancy Sigal David Macaray Tom Engelhardt Steven Fake Website of the Day November 12 - 14, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Patrick Cockburn Mike Whitney Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Dean Baker Gareth Porter William E. Alberts Bill Hatch Jonathan Cook Patrick Madden Mystifying the Crisis: Deadlock at the G20 Ramzy Baroud Rannie Amiri James Zogby Ron Jacobs Mark Weisbrot Tanya Golash-Boza Paul Wright Steve Early Martha Rosenberg Celia McAteer Larry Portis Michael Winship Brian McKenna Gerald E. Scorse Christopher Brauchli Roberto Rodriguez Dr. Susan Block J. T. Cassidy Linh Dinh Farzana Versey David Ker Thomson Phil Rockstroh Charles R. Larson David Swanson Saul Landau Kim Nicolini David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Day
November 11, 2010 Peter Linebaugh Paul Craig Roberts Licensed to Kill Bill Quigley David Macaray Dissing the Boss: the NLRB Files a Landmark Complaint on Free Expression in the Workplace Liaquat Ali Khan / Jasmine Abou-Kassem Dedrick Muhammad Robert Bryce Alan Farago Website of the Day November 10, 2010 Allan Nairn Dean Baker Nicola Nasser Missy Beattie Sergio Ferrari Patrick Cockburn Dave Lindorff Mumia: New Lawyer, New Round Sherwood Ross Joshua Frank Website of the Day November 9, 2010 Uri Avnery Mike Whitney Jordan Flaherty Afshin Rattansi Annie Gell Dean Baker Dave Lindorff Stewart J. Lawrence Walter Brasch Website of the Day November 8, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts Thomas Healy David Swanson David Smith-Ferri Ralph Nader Ray McGovern Torture Sans Regrets: Bush's Confessions John Feffer Christopher Ketcham Website of the Day November 5 - 7, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Vijay Prashad Patrick Cockburn Darwin Bond-Graham
Mike Whitney Linn Washington, Jr. Rannie Amiri Ramzy Baroud Larry Portis Gary Leupp William Loren Katz Brian Cloughley Mark Weisbrot Rubén M. Lo Vuolo, Daniel Raventós / Pablo Yanes Joseph Nevins Neve Gordon Alan Farago Stewart J. Lawrence James R. King Ron Jacobs Franklin Lamb James McEnteer Richard Phelps Saul Landau David Ker Thomson The Long Argument Evelyn Pringle Joseph G. Ramsey Until Pigs Fly: the Morning After With Michael Moore Stanley Heller Missy Beattie Harvey Wasserman Billy Wharton Shamus Cooke Linh Dinh Windy Cooler Charles R. Larson Phyllis Pollack David Yearsley Website of the Weekend November 4, 2010 Doug Peacock Andrew Cockburn Iain Boal Paul Craig Roberts Chase Madar Dave Lindorff Russell Mokhiber Laura Flanders Website of the Day November 3, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Franklin C. Spinney Chris Floyd Dissatisfied Mind: Flickers of Hope in a Deadly Political Cycle William Blum Sheldon Richman Stephen Soldz Mark Weisbrot Stewart J. Lawrence Manuel Garcia, Jr. Election Night in Oakland Norman Solomon Website of the Day November 2, 2010 Vincent Navarro Ishmael Reed Uri Avnery Mark Driscoll Mike Whitney Linh Dinh David Macaray Randall Amster Wikilessons: War is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Betsy Ross Yves Engler Website of the Day
November 1, 2010 Ted Honderich Steven Higgs John Ross Dean Baker Ralph Nader Justin E. H. Smith Marjorie Cohn Scott Boehm Brian Tierney Trish Kahle Martha Rosenberg Bathrobe Erectus: Feting Hugh Hefner Website of the Day
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January 3, 2011 Med Board v. Dr. FrankelBeverly Hills ShrinkBy FRED GARDNER Imagine having to attend a public hearing at which a psychiatrist to whom you told the unguarded truth discourses on your "anti-social personality disorder." That was Allan Frankel's plight as his fitness to practice medicine was debated before an administrative law judge in Los Angeles Dec. 27-30. (CounterPunch recounted the background of the medical board's case against Frankel as the proceedings began.) Lucky for Frankel he was surrounded by anti-social friends, including Tyler Strause, who kept Frankel's whole anti-social community up-to-date by Twitter. The board's expert witness, a Beverly Hills shrink named Daniel Fast, was supposed to reiterate and explain the diagnoses he had conferred on Frankel after a 63-minute "psych eval" last spring. Here are some informative gems from Fast's written report: • Dr. Frankel was born in New York City and moved to Redwood City, CA at age 7. He was captain of the football team and valedictorian in high school but never had sex. His father, who had lost a son in the concentrations camps, was never happy… • Of these relationships, Dr. Frankel said "I'm attracted to borderline women" and that it was "sloppy and wrong" [to prescribe for her and her daughter] but he was "in love" and "will never do it again." • He has a good relationship with his sister, several old friends, his three adult children and a 16-month old grandson. • He loves his work as CEO of Green Bridge Medical Services. 25% of his referrals are from doctors in the community. He loves to help patients, especially those with MS, HIV and cancer. He is active and excited about his new ventures -testing, developing tinctures [solutions of active cannabis] and medical education about cannabis. He currently acts as a "greeter" in his business and has hired another physician to see patients. • He reports that "life is good, even now." The worst is the "humiliation" by the Medical Board which he believes is "political." He has no issue with the Medical Board restrictions, i.e. to prescribe no scheduled medication or to give marijuana recommendations... He accepts being unable to enjoy wine and won't go back to doing what he was doing. • Affective status: Mood is cheerful, optimistic and confident, inappropriate in this context. [Emphasis added.] • There is no evidence of alterations of reality testing -no hallucinations, illusions or delusions. There is flight of ideas... There is preoccupation with the medical uses of marijuana. Fast's bottom line: "I believe that Dr. Frankel suffers from a variety of psychiatric conditions which significantly interfere with his ability to process information, form judgments or relate a coherent history."
On direct examination by Deputy Attorney General Edward Kim, Fast testified that he had done eight previous psych evals for the med board. He always asks doctors to come 15 minutes early to fill out some paperwork, and most arrive 15 minutes earlier than requested. Allan Frankel, however, arrived at Dr. Fast's office seven minutes late. And he was not wearing a coat and tie, he was wearing slacks and a sports shirt. [Rosie asks, "Who wears a coat and tie in LA?" And, "Those doctors who came a half hour early —how guilty were their consciences?"] Frankel, according to Fast, was dismissive of the medical board's charges against him. He believed the prosecution to be "a witch hunt" that was "politically motivated." Yes, Frankel was contrite about the self-prescribing episode and some bad choices he'd made involving women, but not sufficiently contrite. In other words, Frankel, even facing loss of his license, remained his brash and breezy self. The expert Fast testified that he himself had never approved marijuana use for depression, anxiety, or insomnia, preferring to prescribe pharmaceutical-industry synthetics. The psychoactive effects of marijuana, he mentioned, last for 14 days. An anti-social friend of Frankel's whispered, "Where can we get some of that stuff?" On cross-examination Fast would retract all the cannabis-related diagnoses. Fleer began by calling Fast's attention to the fact that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual itself requires the doctor to select two of the three conditions that he had pinned on Frankel. Fast said, "Oh, you're right. Well, I'll choose Dependence and Abuse." Fleer then had Fast read aloud from the DSM —the so-called "Bible of the American Psychiatric Association"— all the symptoms and traits that characterize Cannabis Dependence and Abuse, and got him to admit that Frankel did not manifest them! According to Tyler Strause, "Fast was kind of puny to begin with and he seemed to be withering away on the stand. He wound up saying, 'I was incorrect. I'm sorry.'" Fleer matter-of-factly termed Fast's inaccurate diagnoses "irresponsible" and moved on to the "Not Otherwise Specified" personality disorder. Fast testified that he had based his assessment on traits he observed in Frankel such as "impaired judgment," "flight of ideas," "poor impulse control," and "lack of concentration." Fast had been consulting some notes while testifying. Fleer asked about them. Fast said they were notes he had made during his 63 minutes with Frankel. Fleer asked for and got copies. (No notes had been provided to the defense on "discovery," the legally required pre-trial sharing of potential evidence). He then led Fast through a review of the notes, which revealed that Frankel had proceeded from topic to topic in a logical order. How often, Fleer asked, did people in the general population exhibit aspects of an unspeficied personality disorder? This brought the stunning concession that Allan Frankel did not exhibit more signs of a disorder than most people Daniel Fast has met! "I couldn't believe what I was hearing," says Fleer, who has handled med board cases for more than 20 years. And there went the last of the prosecution case, if Med Board v. Frankel was being tried in the Court of Common Sense. But an administrative law hearing is more like the Court of Alice in Wonderland, and the hearing went on. In Defense of Frankel The doctor who approved Allan Frankel's cannabis use, Christine Paoletti, MD, is a Santa Monica obstetrician whose practice has expanded to include cannabis consultations. Her testimony was "considered and deliberate," according to our source in the gallery. She had recommended that Frankel seek out and use CBD-rich cannabis, which is reported to be more effective against anxiety than high-THC strains. The judge picked up on this and Dr. Paoletti got to explain how Cannabidiol had been bred out of Cannabis grown for maximum psychoactivity, but that CBD-rich strains were now becoming available for medical users. According to Paoletti, the judge took over her cross-examination from Deputy AG Kim because "he wasn't cutting to the chase and she got frustrated. She knew very little but asked good questions. She asked why I hadn't asked for a note from his psychiatrist [confirming his diagnosis]. I had asked, but he hadn't brought it. But he did have his primary care records documenting Insomnia and Anxiety. And that was substantial enough to justify the recommendation." Paoletti also noted that she had attended meetings of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians at which Frankel took an active part "and was always very cogent." Paoletti was asked by ALJ Formaker whether she had questioned Frankel about his past drug dependence. She said, "'No, he volunteered his history. I asked him to elaborate on certain aspects of it. When he was recovering from his cardiomyopathy he became concerned about addiction to Vicodan and went through a program." Paoletti considers Frankel's use of cannabis as an alternative to Vicodan "a classic example of harm reduction. I have several patients who have been able to get off their pain medications thanks to cannabis." Formaker asked Paoletti if she had drug-tested Frankel. She said no, but she knew that he was being drug-tested as a condition of his probation. "My job," she informed the judge, "was to determine 'Did he have a medical condition that merits the use of cannabis?' And 'Is he stable?' Yes and yes." Two other MDs testified that Frankel is fit to practice: Robert Gerner, a psychiatrist who is seeing Frankel on a weekly basis (in according with the terms of his probation), and Glenn Gorletski, an internal medicine specialist who praised Frankel's character and skills as a physician. Gerner said that Frankel was coping very well while on probation. "His treatment regimen is working," he said. "My advice is: 'don't change anything.'" Frankel himself took the stand to state that he was aware of his prior transgressions and appropriately remorseful. His goal was simply to show the judge that he could think and speak coherently. By design, he did not expound on medical cannabis. Fleer was concerned that his expertise could be mistaken for a preoccupation. Kim's cross-examination was "lame," according to Tyler Strause. "I was amazed how much of his time Kim devoted to flipping through his notes and papers trying to find some point with which he could contradict Dr. Frankel. He would flip through his papers for 30 seconds, then ask a three-second question. Over and over." Kim's closing argument, says Fleer, revealed an assumption that Frankel had been "high" when he went for his appointment with Fast and will be "high" when treating patients, if allowed to practice again. Kim repeatedly reprised Fast's complaint that Frankel had been seven minutes late and casually dressed. "Kim got very worked up," says Fleer, "trying to say that if you don't wear a coat and tie, it means you're high." (Move over, Johnnie Cochran.) "He really couldn't accept the idea that Dr. Frankel could use marijuana and see patients. He had to be 'high' and therefore dysfunctional." At the very end of the hearing, the judge told the lawyers there was an issue on which she needed clarification, either via briefs or right then and there. Fleer said best to deal with it now if we can, what is it? The judge asked whether Depression and Anxiety were conditions to which Prop 215 applied. The relevant sentence was read to her —the first sentence of the initiative— and she acknowledged that the conditions were covered. Frankel's friends were shocked by her level of... let's call it naivete at that stage of the proceedings. In both his written report to the medical board and his direct testimony before ALJ Formaker, Daniel Fast lingered on the transgressions involving women and prescription drugs that got Allan Frankel in trouble initially. But Frankel hasn't skirted any med board guidelines since he started Green Bridge Medical Clinic in 2006, and he isn't accused of having done so. The present accusation boils down to an insufficient show of remorse over things that happened before Frankel became a medical cannabis user and proponent. The judge has 30 days to write a "proposed decision," and the med board has another 30 days to decide whether to accept, reject, or modify it. The whole board then has to vote on the decision at a quarterly meeting. If the decision isn't favorable, Frankel will seek a writ in Superior Court to overturn it. Fleer doubts that Attorney General Jerry Brown was aware that his office was prosecuting the med board's case against Frankel. In fact, says Fleer, the doctors who make up a majority of voting board members may not be aware that Frankel's license was —and is— at risk. Board members come and go, while the staff, which is dominated by investigators from the Enforcement Division, stay unto retirement (and beyond, thanks to double-dipping). Fleer says he is "almost certain it was the head of the Enforcement Division who chose to go after Dr. Frankel" for taking the same medicine he recommends to patients.Fred Gardner edits O'Shaughnessy's, the journal of cannabis in clinical practice. He can be reached at fred@plebesite.com.
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