"Broadcast News" Fall 2014

BROADCAST News The Newsletter for SAG-AFTRA Broadcasters // VOL. 3 // ISSUE 3 // FALL 2014

NEWS IN BRIEF

PHILLY HOSTS ORIENTATION // The Philadelphia Local recently hosted a broadcast contracts orientation for 30 freelance members at CBS3 and KYW-AM. The program focused on helping freelance members understand and appreciate the differences with broadcast contracts, specifically how they are bargained and enforced on the local level.

CPM ENGINEERS VOTE FOR UNION // Engineers and technicians at Chicago Public Media have voted for SAG-AFTRA representation. They join the newly-organized on-air unit at CPM.

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KPCC APPROVES CONTRACT // More than 70 reporters, newscasters, correspondents, producers, videographers/photographers, data journalists, show hosts, news anchors and apprentice news clerks who work on the air and online have approved a first-ever threeyear contract with KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) in Pasadena. The new unit voted in January 2013 to recognize SAG-AFTRA as their union.

Members of the press, some wearing protective gear, cover civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri in late August.

SAFETY4MEDIA CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES

CONTRACTS CONCLUDE IN NY // Staff at WOR-AM (Clear Channel) and WHLI-WKJY (Connoisseur Media) in New York recently concluded negotiations on their respective contracts.

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WESTWOOD ONE CONTRACT UPDATE // Washington-Mid Atlantic staff have negotiated an extension to two existing Westwood One (Cumulus) contracts, covering newscasters and editors. The extension comes after recent news that Westwood One will be moving from an NBC news feed to a CNN news feed.

Eli Rosenberg, a reporter for KMBC-TV/ KCWE-TV in Kansas City, Missouri, has firsthand experience juggling the safety concerns that came with reporting from Ferguson.

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED WITH KING-FM // A tentative agreement has been reached with KING-FM in Seattle on a successor CBA for the publicly-funded station. The CBA has a three-year term and includes annual increases.

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ast August, journalists covering the events in Ferguson, Missouri found themselves in the middle of protests and the focus of arrests, reminding us that domestic reporting can be just as fraught as working in global “hotspots.” To get the story, reporters often find themselves in dangerous and high-risk situations. From conflict zones to natural disasters, safety is an ever-present issue.

“Covering the unrest in Ferguson was unlike any story I’ve covered before,” he recalled. “We were witnessing the story, living the story, and documenting the story. There were dicey situations, and times where we pulled back, always balancing the desire to tell this story with ensuring our safety so we could continue providing compelling images and videos to our audience back home.”

Working in an ever-evolving situation required planning, he said.

“Every day we had a plan when it came to our safety — from positioning our news vehicle in a way so we could jet if we needed to, to ensuring we were always on the sidelines, and not in between the protestors and police,” Rosenberg said. “We also stayed together as a team. You really could feel the strength in numbers when it came to having each other’s backs.”

For the union, working with members and their station management during the Ferguson events was the number one priority. SAG-AFTRA Missouri Valley Local Executive Director J.D. Miller began fielding calls from members during the first night of protests.

“We had reports that a live truck was damaged and had its windows broken. Other reports came in that our members felt that they were CONTINUES ON PAGE 6 >>>

CONNECTING WITH CATHERINE BROWN:

HERE TO HELP

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upport. That’s a key word we stress among the benefits for SAG-AFTRA members, as we meet both aspiring and accomplished media professionals at the journalism conventions and other gatherings our members and staff attend each year. I was honored to be part of the team representing SAG-AFTRA at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Boston.

In the field and inside the work place, we count on our union to help monitor and navigate the details of our salary and benefits, working conditions and safety concerns. It’s true that broadcast journalists are often among those who run toward dangerous and compromising situations, just as first responders do. Your union not only has your back, but also works proactively with our employers to evaluate safety measures and responses.

We also have many other concerns about our well-being and our union staff and shop stewards can offer excellent advice. Have a question about your paycheck? Health care coverage?

Retirement benefits? Medical or disability leave? Work environment? Unfair management?

You can turn to your union reps for answers and support. They are here to help.

Catherine Brown is the national vice president, broadcasters.

A MOMENT WITH JOE KREBS:

SAFETY IS A PRIORITY

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laaang!

It should have been a warning but it wasn’t – as a full beer can hit the stop sign beside us.

We were too amazed at what we were seeing and recording: Looters trudging through 16 inches of snow, breaking into liquor stores and drug stores, running out with booze and pills, laughing and celebrating. My photographer and I stood on a corner, capturing all this on tape.

Then, WHOOOMPH! It hit me. Another full beer can, right into my back, cushioned only by my thick down jacket, but hitting just inches from my head.

It was the middle of the day – sometime in the middle of the 1970s – in the middle of Baltimore. Burglar alarms were ringing and blaring, but the cops couldn’t respond because the big snow had pretty much trapped everyone in place, except for the few news crews with four-wheel drive vehicles.

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We were alone and in jeopardy. The looters weren’t happy that we were getting pictures of their crimes and their faces. We made it back to our truck and left, moving faster with four-wheel drive than they could on foot.

That’s just one example of how suddenly a news story can turn, how danger can erupt within seconds.

These days, though, dangers much more serious have threatened journalists here in the U. S. and around the world. Sometimes they are, in fact, killing the messenger.

Our union, SAG-AFTRA, is responding.

We’ve launched a web page and social media campaign to bring attention to safety for journalists. Check out www.safety4media.org to learn more, and read this issue’s cover story on the campaign.

Safety can be a life or death issue for journalists. It is an issue for all of us no matter where we work or what we cover. We need to make it a priority always.

Joe Krebs is chair, National Broadcast Steering Committee.

MESSAGE FROM CHIEF BROADCAST OFFICER MARY CAVALLARO

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s 2014 comes to a close, it’s important to reflect on the year this has been for the SAG-AFTRA broadcast members.

Our broadcast journalist members are working long days and six- and sevenday work weeks as a multi-platform approach to television and radio news operations increases.

In music radio, SAG-AFTRA announcers are being asked to be the voice of several stations as employers acquire more properties but program them with fewer on-air staff. And, all members are being asked to use social media to expand their public profiles and distribute content, calling the definition of a workday into question and raising questions of journalistic integrity, as well as our members’ individual ownership and control of their public personas.

But you – the SAG-AFTRA membership – are fighting to address these issues at the bargaining table and through grievances and arbitration. While it is a difficult and uncharted territory, you are driving the conversation, engaging management and policing your union contracts.

Unfortunately, 2014 was also a year where we witnessed unspeakable crimes against journalists and where safety and freedoms for those reporting domestically and abroad were threatened on several fronts. SAG-AFTRA remains committed to protecting the freedoms that ensure journalists can tell the stories of the world, and we mourn the losses of those who have given their lives over the years in pursuit of their vocation.

On Nov. 23, we will join with our partners in the International Federation of Journalists to remind governments around the world that impunity for those who commit crimes against journalists must end. Be sure to follow our Safety4Media campaign and SAG-AFTRA social media to be part of the global voice to #EndImpunity.

UNION FOCUSES ON SUMMER JOURNALISM CONFERENCES

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AG-AFTRA’s News & Broadcast and EEO & Diversity departments hit the road this summer for the annual journalism conferences. From Boston to Chicago, D.C. to Nashville, SAG-AFTRA had a presence at each of the conferences. Attending these events is a huge part of the union’s outreach to its broadcast members, as well as future members, and highlight how dedicated we are to diversity in the workplace. Most conferences have a large contingency of students, who are very interested in learning about the union and its work in negotiating fair contracts for broadcasters. The conferences are also a time to meet with members, as well as employers and educators and provide information on the union to conference attendees on many issues. It’s a great way to heighten SAG-AFTRA’s profile as the union for news media professionals. Thanks to all the members and staff who participated in the planning and staffing at these events, and to Chief Broadcast Officer Mary Cavallaro and National Director, EEO & Diversity Adam Moore for attending the conferences.

July 30-Aug. 3 // National Association of Black Journalists (Boston) At NABJ, SAG-AFTRA presented a panel discussion, Terms, Conditions, Career Strategy and Planning: Salary Negotiation for Dummies, featuring leading industry professionals sharing best practices on how to proactively plan a career, negotiate the best pay and make informed decisions. The panel included Byron Barnett, WHDH-TV (Boston); Pam Cross, WCVB-TV (Boston); Todd Kazakiewich, WCVB-TV (Boston); agent Rob Jordan of Ken Lindner & Associates (Los Angeles); Vickie Thomas, WWJ-AM (Detroit); Rhondella Richardson, WCVB-TV (Boston); Beverly White, KNBC-TV (Los Angeles); and Chief Broadcast Officer Mary Cavallaro. Our SAG-AFTRA team of members and staff, including National Vice President, Broadcasters Catherine Brown also attended the President’s Reception hosted by NABJ President Bob Butler, who is also a SAG-AFTRA National Board and Broadcast Steering Committee member.

Aug. 7-9 // National Association of Hispanic Journalists (San Antonio, Texas) SAG-AFTRA staffers Peter Fuster (News & Broadcast) and Lauren Perez-Rangel (Organizing) represented the union at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference, held Aug. 7-9 in San Antonio, Texas. The two met many SAG-AFTRA members – and future members – as well as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

Aug. 13-16 // Asian American Journalists Association (Washington, D.C.) SAG-AFTRA’s presence at AAJA included a booth at the expo as well as a plenary session, South Asian Women on Entertainment and News, featuring several prominent union members, including Sakina Jaffrey (House of Cards) and Lakshmi Singh (National Public Radio), and was moderated by Niala Boodhoo (WBEZ, Chicago Public Media).

Aug. 21-24 // National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (Chicago) Along with the broadcast materials at the booth, the union also provided printed copies to attendees of its study of LGBT in entertainment. The study, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Diversity in Entertainment: Experiences & Perspectives of SAG-AFTRA Members, was conducted with UCLA’s The Williams Institute and published last year.

Sept. 4-6 // Excellence in Journalism (Nashville) This “super conference” brings together the Radio Television Digital News Association and Society of Professional Journalists and was the last journalism conference of the summer. SAG-AFTRA took advantage of the large community of singer/songwriter members and presented a very special evening reception, SAG-AFTRA Presents: Stories & Songs, featuring four recording artist members performing some of their most famous songs they’ve penned and telling the stories behind them.

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MEMBER NEWS JOHN SLATTERY, a WCBS-TV New York broadcaster and a union steward at the station for 15 years, died Sept. 25 at the age of 63. To read tributes to Slattery and learn more about his career, go to sagaftra.org/NY. SAG-AFTRA member CARL KASSELL has retired after a three-decade career at NPR. Kasell is now Scorekeeper Emeritus of Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! and continues to record custom voice mail greetings for the show’s lucky winners.

The northeast corner of 10th Avenue and West 43rd Street in New York City has been renamed Stan Brooks Way in honor of the late 1010 WINS reporter STAN BROOKS, who died last December at age 86.

NPR newscaster LAKSHMI SINGH was honored, along with seven others, by Women of Color in Communications at the ColorComm Circle award handed out in Miami on Aug. 7.

Ohio-Pittsburgh Local members were awarded several local broadcast Emmy awards on Sept. 20. Among the winners: Feature News Report: ANDY SHEEHAN, KDKA-TV for The Demon of Brownsville; Weather – News Single Story or Series: SCOTT HARBAUGH (meteorologist), AMY MARCINKIEWICZ (news reporter), TIMYKA ARTIST (news reporter), WPXI-TV for Wild Weather: Flash Flooding and Tornado Hit Western Pennsylvania; On-Camera Talent-Anchor-Weather: STEPHEN CROPPER, WPXI-TV; and On-Camera Talent-Host/Moderator: KIMBERLEY GILL, KDKA-TV. Longtime KCBS/KCAL news anchor KENT SHOCKNEK, retired after more than 36 years as a broadcaster. Shocknek, 57, spent the majority of his career in Los Angeles. He reportedly anchored more hours of local TV news than any other in the Los Angeles market’s history.

Shocknek was honored by the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Local Board at the Sept. 29 meeting.

Washington D.C.’s ABC7 news anchor MAUREEN BUNYAN was knighted and inducted into the Order of OrangeNassau, a Dutch civic order on June 13.

The order is a chivalric honor given in recognition for exemplary contributions to society. Bunyan, a 44-year veteran who anchors the 6 p.m. weeknight newscasts for WJLA-TV, was born in Aruba, which is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Excellence in Journalism // Nashville

From left, SAG-AFTRA singer/songwriters Pat Alger, Leslie Satcher, Dickey Lee and Stephanie Bentley tell the stories behind their hit songs at the Excellence in Journalism Conference in Nashville.

ON THE ROAD WITH NEWS & BROADCAST National Association of Hispanic Journalists // San Antonio, Texas

From left, SAG-AFTRA Assistant Executive Director of News & Broadcast Peter Fuster, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and SAG-AFTRA Senior Organizer Lauren Perez-Rangel.

National Association of Black Journalists // Boston From left, SAG-AFTRA New England Local Executive Director Susan Gorvine Nelson with WCVB’s Rhondella Richardson and Todd Kazakiewich.

National Association of Black Journalists // Boston

SAG-AFTRA broadcaster and National Association of Black Journalists President Bob Butler throws out the first pitch of a Boston Red Sox game during the NABJ’s national convention in July/August.

Asian American Journalists Association // Washington, D.C.

From left, SAG-AFTRA National Director of EEO & Diversity Adam Moore with members Sakina Jaffrey, Lakshmi Singh and Niala Boodhoo at the Asian American Journalists Association Convention.

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MARGOT ADLER: AN NPR VOICE REMEMBERED

By Howard Berkes/NPR

them, finding just the right clip of tape, or sound, to make her reporting real RADIO.”

others, will really miss her.”

Margot had emailed NPR coleteran National Public Radio leagues a few weeks before she Correspondent Margot Adler died, reporting that cancer passed away on Monday, July 28, Margot spent many years as an symptoms had returned. “She leaving behind a broadcast and AFTRA activist and shop steward never sounded defeated or even SAG-AFTRA legacy that spans at NPR, working behind the rattled,” says NPR investigations four decades. Adler succumbed to scenes on behalf of more correspondent Daniel Zwerdling. cancer at age 68. vulnerable staffers. She often “She was matter of fact, in an alposed the toughest questions, most upbeat way, the way she did The granddaughter of legendary quietly in phone conversations all her reporting: this is what I’m psychotherapist Alfred Adler, with fellow stewards and publicly facing, these are the possibilities Margot quickly established her in all-staff meetings with manhere are some reasons for hope.” own legendary career at NPR, agement at NPR. Margot Adler beginning in 1979 in New York.

Stamberg found Margot’s struggle She was one of the network’s first “She was always 10 steps ahead of inspiring. “Her resilience was reporters based outside WashIn a 2013 interview on NPR’s Talk everyone,” recalled Matt Allinson, staggering,” she said. “That great ington and reported stories about of the Nation, Margot described a SAG-AFTRA Labor Counsel/ spirit was never broken. It’s only the Ku Klux Klan, the earliest herself as an “anthropological Senior Broadcast Representative gone missing now.” stages of the AIDS epidemic, the journalist.” She described in that in the Washington-Mid Atlantic Harry Potter phenomenon (getinterview the transformations she Local. “[She] instinctually had Margaret Low Smith, NPR’s ting the first American radio insometimes observes in her stories a feel for where things were Senior Vice President for News, terview with author J.K. Rowling) and the leading characters in them. heading.” said Margot “… exemplified what and the Sept. 11 attacks. Eclectic draws people to NPR. Her reporton-the-air and off, Margot also “It’s like the hero’s journey,” Margot worked closely with Ken ing was singular and her voice wrote extensively about Wiccan Margot told host Neal Conan. “A Greene, who was the AFTRA distinct … and she always found and Pagan culture. Her last book, character becomes a larger perrepresentative for the NPR humanity in every story she told.”

Out for Blood, looked at the son … and I try to do that a lot. bargaining unit for many years. fascination with vampires and the I don’t always succeed, but that’s Greene recalled Margot’s coorMargot is survived by her son, concept of eternal life. one of my goals.” dination of AFTRA meetings Alex Dylan Glideman-Adler, and activities at NPR’s New York who reported her death on his Margot spent a decade hosting NPR colleague Susan Stamberg, bureau. “She naturally invoked a mother’s Facebook page. That NPR’s Justice Talking, a program remembered Margot as “a talsense of warmth, closeness and posting and others on social focused on constitutional issues. ented reporter – so intelligent in camaraderie,” Greene rememmedia drew thousands of reShe often reported on aspects of her writing, in explaining compli- bered. “She sure got me caught sponses from grieving listeners, American culture others ignored. cated matters so we could absorb up in her spell. I, like millions of readers, colleagues and friends.

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SUDS REMINDER SAG-AFTRA has two dues structures: Standard Dues and Single Unit Dues (SUDS)/Broadcast.* Members who are employed exclusively in the union’s broadcast jurisdiction pay dues under the Single Unit Dues Structure (SUDS).

The structure applies a lesser percentage on all earnings above $100,000, and SUDS dues are capped at the $250,000 earnings level.

Broadcasters who work at any time under SAG-AFTRA’s other contracts, including commercials, entertainment television, theatrical/film, corporate-

educational/non-broadcast, sound recordings or new media do not qualify to pay dues under SUDS. Broadcast members who work under SAG-AFTRA contracts other than broadcast contract(s) will be billed dues under the SAG-AFTRA Standard Dues structure for all of their earnings, including broadcast earnings, and the change in billing status is irreversible. It is important to note that a move to Standard Dues billing status may result in a significant increase to dues.

actor/performer fee in a given market. If a broadcast member takes work as an actor/performer, he/she will be required to tender the difference in initiation fees, in addition to the increased Standard Dues.

Members who are considering taking work outside the SUDS/Broadcast jurisdiction should contact their local office and speak with their broadcast representative before accepting the job, so they are aware of any additional financial obligations in initiation and dues structure.

NEWS IN BRIEF KSDK CONTRACT TALKS CONCLUDE // Anchors, reporters, announcers, hosts and MMJs at KSDK in St. Louis, Missouri have concluded negotiations on their existing collective bargaining agreement.

SAFETY HIGHLIGHTS WFSB DEAL // Negotiations have concluded for on-air staff at WFSB-TV (Meredith) in Hartford, Connecticut. Parking lot safety was a major issue for the unit, with the station agreeing to a number of changes, including adding a security fence around the perimeter.

* The SUDS/Broadcast Dues Structure is

Broadcasters joining SAG-AFTRA pay an initiation fee that may be lower than the

subject to future review and change pursuant to the SAG-AFTRA Constitution .

BSC MEETS IN L.A. // The National SAG-AFTRA Broadcast Steering Committee met in Los Angeles on Sept. 13.

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(In alphabetical order): • KBIG-FM (Los Angeles) • KBLX-FM (San Francisco-Northern California) • KCBS-AM (San Francisco-Northern California) • KDKA-TV (Ohio-Pittsburgh) • KFWB-AM (Los Angeles) • KING-FM (Seattle) • KISQ-FM (San Francisco-Northern California) • KOIT-FM (San Francisco-Northern California) • KPCC-FM (Los Angeles) • KPIX-TV (San Francisco-Northern California) • KPLU-FM (Seattle) • KQED-TV (San Francisco-Northern California) • KSDK-TV (Missouri Valley) • KSEE (San Francisco-Northern California) • KTVU-TV Off-Air (San Francisco-Northern California) • KTVU-TV On-Air (San Francisco-Northern California) • L.A. Theater Works (Los Angeles) • San Francisco Giants (San Francisco-Northern California) • WBZ-AM Off-Air (New England) • WBZ-AM & TV On-Air (New England) • WBZ-TV Off-Air (New England) • WCCO-AM (Twin Cities) • WCCO-TV (Twin Cities) • Westwood One Editors and Producers (Washington-Mid Atlantic) • Westwood One Newscasters (Washington-Mid Atlantic) • WFSB-TV (New England) • WHEC-TV (Ohio-Pittsburgh) • WHLI-AM/WKJY-FM (New York) • WKRC-TV (Ohio-Pittsburgh) • WOR-AM (New York) • WPFW-FM (Washington-Mid Atlantic) • WQHT-FM (New York) • WRTV-TV (Chicago) • WSPZ-AM (Washington-Mid Atlantic) • WTEM-AM (Washington-Mid Atlantic) • WWJ-AM (Chicago)

THE WEINGARTEN CARD. DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT! Don’t let a meeting with management get out of hand. If you’re called in to explain why something went wrong, stop and think about your Weingarten Rights. By presenting this card to management, YOU have a right to stop a meeting until your steward, assistant steward or a local rep arrives to accompany you.

“If this discussion could in any way lead to my being disciplined, terminated, or affect my personal working conditions, I request that my shop steward or union officer be present at this meeting. Until they arrive, as is my right under a U.S. Supreme Court decision called Weingarten, I choose not to answer any questions regarding this matter.”

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SAFETY4MEDIA FROM PAGE 1

in danger,” he said. “We asked for and received the stations plans for protecting members who were assigned to cover the story, working with management on the protocols and offering suggestions.

“We continued to work with the stations to provide gas masks and bullet proof vests for members,” he added. “Finally, we encouraged a policy that would allow a member to decline an assignment, if he or she felt the situation was too dangerous. Our members are tough professionals. They wanted to cover this story. At the same time, they should not be forced into situations where either their lives or their livelihoods are in jeopardy.”

SAG-AFTRA has long worked to ensure journalists’ SAG-AFTRA member Eli Rosenberg wears safety in the field by includprotective gear while covering the civil unrest in Missouri. ing important protections in contracts and tirelessly advocating for broadcasters. To broaden its reach, the union has launched a campaign, Safety4Media, to bring safety to the forefront and increase its efforts to monitor and intervene in situations that put journalists at risk in the face of growing dangers.

ELI ROSENBERG/KMBC-TV

LIST OF CONTRACTS APPROVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SINCE JULY 2014

Safety4Media also serves as a clearinghouse for reports on safety and security concerns from U.S.-based journalists in the field. Any safety concern or event that is not being addressed by management – whether in a union or non-union shop – can be reported confidentially to the union. Collecting these reports allows the union to identify if there are trends that need to be addressed, whether in formal negotiations or in informal discussions with management. As first-person reports come in, SAG-AFTRA can take steps to protect broadcasters.

“SAG-AFTRA has always considered journalists’ safety – and our members’ safety – a critical area of focus,” says Chief Broadcast Officer Mary Cavallaro. “By launching Safety4Media, we can get a better idea of how broadcasters are at risk on the job and ensure steps are in place to protect them.”

Safety4Media includes a Twitter feed, @safety4media (twitter.com/ safety4media), which follows several journalist safety organizations and outlets and monitors what is happening across the globe. As demonstrated with Ferguson, social media can play a large role in reporting what is happening, and for SAG-AFTRA, watching Twitter, Facebook and other platforms provides insight into what members and others are experiencing that the union never had before. In turn, the union can be proactive in connecting with management to ensure our members’ safety is their top concern.

For more information, including downloadable safety tips, visit www.safety4media.org.

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