San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 46.41

2012·52.2 MB·English

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JULY 11, 2012 ‘IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE ETHICS COMMISSION TO ... LOOK INTO THIS’ — DA GASCON ON LEE PERJURY CHARGE
IF I RAN THE SHOW OAKTOWN LAURELS
The city of Oakland will be crown-
WHAT IF FRONT-LINE ACTIVISTS
ing its young poets at the grand
WERE RUNNING SAN FRANCISCO? slam finals of the Brave New
Voices Festival, July 21 at the Fox
GUARDIAN ASKED TO NATIONAL UNION OF Theatre. An official youth poet lau-
HEALTHCARE WORKERS PRESIDENT SAL
reate will be selected from seven
ROSELLI
high school finalists, determined
INTELLIGENCE If I were the mayor of San Francisco and negotiat- by celebrity judges and bound for
ing with CPMC, I’d would demand that the hospital
a year of mentorship and working
chain rebuild St. Luke’s and deliver its share of
on a 2013 anthology of his or her
What you quality care; that CPMC charge San Franciscans work.
reasonable rates for quality medical services;
and that the current unionized workforce and San
need to know
Francisco residents get reasonable employment,
wages and benefits.
And if CPMC’s leaders won’t agree, then I’d
tell them they’re not going to build a new hospital
THE RECUSE in San Francisco.
EXCUSE
When a scrum of reporters fol- POLITICAL ALERTS:
lowed her to her office in the wake START MIDDAY CLUBBING
of revelations that the mayor may LABORFEST
CRACKING
have asked her advice on the Ross Taking a cue from those hard-par-
EDITION!
Mirkarimi misconduct case, Sup. THOSE tying Swedes, Monarch nightclub
Christina Olague was hesitant to is launching “Recess,” a lunch-
We’re smack dab in the middle of
comment. “We’re not allowed to KNUCKLES break dance party, on Wed/11,
Laborfest, a month-long celebra-
discuss this matter with anyone,” noon-2pm. No cover, free veggie
tion of labor history and struggles.
she said. “I may have to recuse The US Air Guitar sammies, strong drinks, and music
The schedule is full of almost daily
myself on this.” Championships are shred- by the Sunset Promotions crew
We’re not sure why any sort of ding through town for a (www.monarchsf.com). events, including labor-history city
tours of Mission Bay, the Golden
recusal would be necessary, but regional competition this
MICHELLE CAVIGLIANO/ Gate Bridge, and downtown hotels,
if it was, Mirkarimi would be only weekend. This master- MYZOETROPE.COM as well as an ongoing Film Workers
two votes away from getting his job ful, instrument-less
United film series. All information
back. Under the City Charter, the showcase of ultimate air can be found at www.laborfest.
mayor needs nine supervisors to guitar talent is celebrat- net. Some highlights this week:
vote in favor of removal — and that ing a decade of “hard
number doesn’t change if there rocking, face melting, WEDNESDAY 11
are recusals, absences, or supes and ass kicking.” The
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? HARRY
too far from the scene to vote. This national finals go down HAY AND LABOR ORGANIZING
came up after the Moscone-Milk July 21 in Denver, and Main Library Koret Auditorium, 100
assassinations, when then-Sup. the world championship Larkin, SF. 6pm, free. Harry Hay, co-
founder of the early gay rights organiza-
Dianne Feinstein needed six votes takes place Aug. 24 in tion the Mattachine Society in 1948
to be the next mayor — but by law Oulu, Finland. Sat/14, and, later, the cultural and spiritual
she couldn’t vote for herself, and 9pm, $20. Independent, group the Radical Faeries, was also a
one supervisor (Harvey Milk) was 628 Divisadero, SF. www. lmabuonri satd avgoictaattoer a. nAd p daendeil cwaitlel ddi cscoums-s this
dead and another (Dan White) was theindependentsf.com. California legend.
in jail. So she needed six of the
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eight remaining votes.
Same standard for removal. THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871
In fact, three recusals would end DUCK AND COVER — THE ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT OF
DOLLA DOLLA BILL, Y’ALL THE 99 PERCENT
the case.
Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050
SF NEWSPAPER CO. Mayor Ed Lee suddenly fled the Ethics Committee hearing room June 29 to Center, Berk. 7pm, free. Ann Hansen,
FILE PHOTO avoid what was later described as a bomb threat. But it left us wondering: Local artist James Charles impishly and intricately alters US cur- French postal worker and union
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Paris Commune, and how participants
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SF NEWSPAPER CO. opens at White Walls Gallery on Fri/14, 7-11pm, and continues working together) built a grassroots gov-
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whether Sheriff Ross Mirkarmi
this week at injured his wife, Eliana Lopez, or
whether his actions were atrocious
and unacceptable. Those facts
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Mirkarimi pled guilty to a less-
serious misdemeanor, he has not
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— for example, the allegation
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(so far, without any proof) that
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what happens next? nesses from coming forward .
Parents protest Oakland school Police SAvING CItY COlleGe And formally, the question
Department and its cop who was Lee is raising is a larger one: Did
involved with the death of a 20-year-old Mirkarimi’s action rise to the level
of official misconduct — or, in the
BY ChRIS JACkSON Overall, if you read the this year, we’ve worked to close
words of Lee’s testimony, did his
noise Accrediting Commission for an additional $14 million budget
Although a recent accreditation conduct “fall below the standard
Community and Junior College’s deficit. Last year, more than 10,000
hot tropical mixes by surya Dub’s report levels a long list of criticisms report, the commission is asking students were unable to attend City of decency, good faith, and right
kush arora and Maneesh the twister of City College, some of them action that is impliedly required
City College to shrink its mission of College due to lack classes.
legitimate issues that need to be of all public officials?”
Do you agree with taylor kaplan’s list addressed, the real problem is the providing a high quality, affordable While students are scrambling Now Lee is facing that same
of the 10 best albums of 2012 thus far? state’s defunding of public educa- education to all who come to its doors. for classroom seats, the commission question. It’s something the com-
The ACCJC wants City College to step is arguing that City College has too
heads Up: this week’s tion and its disinvestment in our mission needs to address — not
away from its San Francisco value of few administrators. But we’re proud
must-see shows include white Ring, community-college system. only because it goes to the heart
“chopping from the top” — cutting of the fact that every available dol-
the Babies, Codeine, aesop Rock, There’s no question that everyone of this particular case but because
administration instead of teachers. lar continues to go to saving City
Marina and the Diamonds, and more is going to work to keep City College the public has a right to know if
Let’s be clear, the buck stops College classes and student access.
open and serving our communities. the mayor of San Francisco lied
with the elected Board of Trustees. City College has spent the last
City College of San Francisco under oath on the witness stand.
pixel Vision We as a board are going to work year planning to place a parcel tax
serves more than 90,000 students In fact, now that two credible
together with the entire City on this November’s ballot — to
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and its accreditation and look at many of the problems cited in the
Buddhism,” Chogyam trungpa immigrant populations, fosters life- made public statements that indicate
and resolve all of the issues brought report. If the City College parcel
long learning, and provides afford- Lee was dishonest in his testimony,
we say oui to the best ways to spend up in the accreditation report. tax and Governor Brown’s tax
able, accessible pathways into all of the District Attorney’s Office should
Bastille Day (that’d be saturday) With that said, it’s important both pass, City College will have
higher education’s opportunities. open an investigation. Perjury is a
to understand that California’s the money to restore many of the
But five years of drastic cuts in state felony crime — and while it’s hard
institutions of higher education classes, services and liabilities that
sex sf funding has resulted in shrinking to prove, there are critical facts that
have taken huge cuts during our we’ve been unable to address.
programs and overflowing classes; are missing. The only witnesses who
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more and more people have come are to serve all that come to the doors
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help in their quest to find jobs. to our communities: We will never
who are unable to get the classes subpoenas and ask them the key
they need; and an increasing sense Over the past four years, the shrink away from that mission. 2 questions under oath.
state has cut more than $1 billion
that community college education from the community college sys- Chris Jackson is a member of the San Lee testified that he hadn’t
and its mission are wholly threat- tem. That includes a $17 million Francisco Community College Board discussed the case or his delib-
ened for our city’s diverse students. cut to City College last year — and of Trustees erations over filing charges
with any member of the Board
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of Supervisors. But Building
Inspection Commission member
Debra Walker told reporters that
her friend and ally, Sup. Christina
Olague, had recounted having a
conversation with the mayor on
that topic right before the charges
were filed. Olague denies that, but
has declined further comment.
Then Lee testified that he
never offered, or authorized any-
one in his office to offer, a job
to Mirkarimi in exchange for his
resignation. Former Sup. Aaron
Peskin says Lee ally Walter Wong
approached him and asked him
to convey exactly such an offer to
the sheriff on behalf of the mayor.
Peskin recalls the exact date, time
and place of his meeting with
Wong, and he mentioned the
offer to Guardian reporters long
it’s time to
look at the City
Charter seCtion
on offiCial
misConduCt.
before this trial began. Wong has
declined to speak to reporters.
So at the very least, there are
grounds for the commission mem-
bers to allow Mirkarimi’s lawyers to
question Olague and Wong — and if
either of them contradicts the may-
or’s sworn statement, it would raise
serious doubts about Lee’s credibility.
And that’s central to the official
misconduct case: Mirkarimi’s law-
yers argue that the sheriff was never
given due process and that the mayor
never tried to learn Mirkarimi’s
side of the story. The mayor says
Mirkarimi refused to tell that story.
The commission vote could hinge on
that dispute — and if Lee lied about
other parts of his testimony, it would
be fair to question everything he
said. And if Lee can’t hold himself to
the standards of decency and good
faith, the voters need to know that.
And whatever the outcome, it’s
clearly time for the supervisors to
look at the City Charter section on
official misconduct. Because the
current law allows the mayor to sus-
pend and charge any elected official
in the city, entirely on his or her
own discretion — but there’s no way
(short of a recall election) to charge,
impeach, suspend or remove the
mayor. It’s an imbalance that gives
the chief executive extraordinary
powers with little accountability.
That’s not good government. 2
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By Steven t. JoneS on the Status of Formula Retail
[email protected] Controls” — found that of the 31
formula retails applications the city
Shopping malls filled with national received since 2007, just three were
chain stores and restaurants are in rejected by the commission, six were
many respects the antithesis of San withdrawn, and 22 were approved.
Francisco. They’re the bane of any It’s gotten even worse since
metropolis that strives to be unique then, as the two Targets and other
and authentic. And those just hap- chains have been courted and
pen to be qualities that make tour- embraced by Mayor’s Lee’s admin-
ism this city’s number one industry. istration, whose key representatives
The logic of modern capitalism, didn’t respond to Guardian inter-
and its relentless growth into new view requests by press time.
markets, has already placed a Target or Mitchell said it’s not nearly as bad
a Walmart, and a Nordstrom, Macy’s, in San Francisco as it is in Chicago,
Ross, or a JCPenney — along with a New York City, New Orleans, and
bevy of Starbucks, Applebee’s, Jamba other iconic US cities whose commer-
Juice, and McDonald’s and myriad cial spaces have been flooded with
other formulaic corporate eateries — in chains since the recession began.
just about every town in the country. “It’s nothing compared to the
Do people really need them no-holds-barred stuff going on in
here, too? And in a city renowned New York City right now,” Mitchell
worldwide for its scenic beauty and said. “Walking down Broadway now
temperate (albeit sometimes foggy) the MallinG oF San FranciSco is like a repeating loop of the stores
climate, do people want to shop in you just saw further up the street.”
the enclosed, climate-controlled It isn’t that these cities are
malls popularized in the small or actively courting the national
suburban towns that many residents National chain stores are flooding into a city that once led the nation in protecting chains in most cases. It’s just that in
came here to escape? neighborhood businesses and setting limits on its commercial spaces the absence of strong local controls,
For me, the answer is no. developers and large commercial
Frankly, malls have an aura of arti- new owners and set to open next ness — is reported to be actively look- It isn’t that all shopping malls or landlords just prefer to deal with
ficiality that gives me the creeps spring with “value-based” national ing to open “a couple” of stores in San enclosed commercial areas are neces- chains, for a variety of reasons.
— but I freely acknowledge that chain stores like JCPenney. Francisco, (“Walmart sets sights on sarily bad, Radulovich said, citing “If you’re just going with the
not everyone feels that way. Some Projects funded with public San Francisco,” June 24, San Francisco the influential work by writer Walter flow of what developers are doing,”
San Franciscans may like malls and money aren’t immune either. The Chronicle). Benjamin on the roles the enclosed she said, “you always end up with
chain stores while others don’t. new Transbay Terminal transit center To Livable Cities Executive “arcades” of Paris played in public life. national chains.”
But it doesn’t really matter what now under construction will have its Director Tom Radulovich and oth- “They work when they are an exten- And that’s what San Francisco
any of us think. Left unchecked, it’s own mini-mall, with 225,000 square ers who have long encouraged San sion of public spaces,” Radulovich said. has started to do.
the market that matters — and the feet of retail, much of it expected to Francisco to embrace the kind of Yet that isn’t what he sees being
MallS like chainS
logic of the market gives chain stores house national chains. Even more urbanism advocated by famed author built in San Francisco, where what
Stephen Cornell, the owner of
a huge competitive advantage over retail will be built on the ground and activist Jane Jacobs — which gets approved and who occupies those
Brownie’s Hardware and a board
the mom-and-pops. Their labor and floor of the dozen other nearby emphasizes unique, neighborhood- spaces is largely being dictated by pri-
member of the nonprofit advocacy
supply costs are lower, their financial residential and office buildings con- based development that enhances vate developers who are more interest-
group Small Business California,
resources are more extensive and nected to the project. public spaces and street life — ed in their bottom lines than with the
said chains have a huge competitive
appealing to commercial landlords, And it isn’t just these new malls accepting the malls feels like giving creation of a vibrant urban environ-
advantage over local businesses even
and their business models are based going in a stone’s throw from the up on more dynamic urban models. ment where people are valued as more
before either one opens their doors.
on constantly opening new stores. Westerfield Mall, Crocker Galleria, “It’s sort of an admission of fail- than mere consumers or workers.
“In general, landlords tend to
All cities have to do is just say San Francisco Center, and other cen- ure,” Radulovich said. “It’s the fail- San Francisco isn’t alone in
like chains more,” said Cornell,
yes. And San Francisco has been tral city malls. All over town, nation- ure of urbanism in San Francisco.” alone in allowing national chains
whose business has struggled against
increasingly saying yes to malls and al chains like the Whole Foods and to increasingly dominate commer-
Mid-Market SyMBoliSM Lowe’s and other corporate competi-
chain stores. Fresh & Easy grocery stores are replac- cial spaces. In fact, Stacy Mitchell,
Mid-Market Street is a bellwether for tors. “The landlord always worries:
The economic desperation that ing Cala Foods and other homegrown a researcher with the Institute for
the type of city San Francisco may is this guy going to make it and do
set in since the financial crash of markets, or going into other commer- Local Self-Reliance, said that until
become. Every mayor since at least they have the funds to back it up?”
2008 has overcome the trend of cial shells like the S&C Ford building recently San Francisco was one of
Dianne Feinstein in the late 1970s Big corporate chains have law-
resistance to so-called “formula on Market near the Castro. the best big US cities in controlling
has called for the redevelopment of yers and accountants on staff, and
retail establishments” that had been Just a few years ago, the approval the proliferation of chain stores.
Mid-Market into a more active and professional systems established for
building in San Francisco during the of Home Depot on Bayshore But the city has lost ground
inviting commercial and social cor- everything from buying goods to
years before the recession. Boulevard (since then sold and since its anti-chain high water mark
ridor, and few have done so more opening new stores, whereas most
So now, rather than dying from opened as Lowe’s, another national in 2007, when voters approved
fervently than Mayor Ed Lee. local entrepreneurs are essentially
neglect, the Metreon mall has been chain) was a hugely controversial Proposition G, which expanded the
Several city studies have explored figuring things out as they go along.
brought back to life by a huge Target project approved by the Board of controls on formula retail outlets —
a wide variety of ways to accomplish “They’re very good at selling them-
store set to open this fall, the second Supervisors on a closely watched generally requiring them to get a con-
that goal, from eliminating automo- selves,” Cornell said. “They’re going
Target (the other one at Masonic and 6-5 vote. Now, Lennar is building ditional use permit and go through
biles and transforming Market Street to manipulate the system perfectly,
Geary) going into a city that had once an entire suburban-style complex of public hearings — that the Board of
into a lively pedestrian promenade whether it’s the city and its codes or
eschewed such national mega-retailers. big box stores on Candlestick Point, Supervisors had approved in 2004.
to using redevelopment money, tax dealing with neighborhood merchants.”
Just down the street, in the heart hundreds of thousands of square feet Those controls are only as good
breaks, and/or flashy lighted signs to And for large malls, Cornell said
of the city’s transit-rich commercial — without much controversy at all. as the political will to reject a permit
encourage distinctive development the problem is even worse. Brokers
center, the CityPlace mall that had Even Walmart — the dreaded application, and that doesn’t happen
projects unique to San Francisco. that fill malls have standing rela-
been abandoned by its previous poster child for huge corporations that very often. A memo prepared last
“But the city failed, so the mar- tionships with the national chains
owners after winning city approval use their market power to drive down July for the Planning Commission —
ket filled the void,” Radulovich said.
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CONT>> that city voters approved in 2008 neighborhoods are so distressed
• 4 Bite Wing X-Rays after mega-developer Lennar and they may want a big box grocery
• Teeth Cleaning — most of which are publicly traded most San Francisco political officials story coming in, but we need to try
corporations seeking to constantly pushed the project with a well-fund- to mitigate its negative impacts.”
• Complete Exam expand and gain market share — ed political campaign. One of his partners in that effort is
• Free Toothbrush and no incentive to seek out or take “If you’re selling the land to his brother, Gordon Mar of Jobs with
a chance on local entrepreneurs. Lennar for a dollar, and then build- Justice, who argues the city needs to
$79* *With this coupon. “Chains have a lot of advan- ing all the automobile infrastruc- have a clearer picture of how national
new Patients Only. tages,” Cornell said. ture for people to get there, then chains impact local communities.
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Claude sidi, DmD Reg. $225. Mitchell said there are two main that’s a massive public subsidy,” “We’ve definitely seen an
ways in which malls favor national Radulovich said of the big-box mall increase in corporate chain stores
450 sutter, suite 1819 chains over local businesses. In addi- being built on what was city-owned coming into San Francisco in the
982-4242 tion to the relationship between mall land on Candlestick Point. last year, and nobody has really
brokers and national chains, malls That public subsidy creates a been tracking it,” he said.
are often built with financing from cycle that makes San Francisco less
financial institutions that require intimate and livable. Creating com-
GRADUATE PROGRAMS certain repayment guarantees. mercial spaces on the city’s edge
“What they want to see are encourages more people to drive on “It’s the faIlure
credit-worthy clients signed onto congested regional roadways. These
those places, and that means spaces are filled with national chain of urbanIsm In
national chains with a credit rating stores that have a direct negative
san francIsco.”
from Standard & Poors,” Mitchell impact on small, locally owned
Pursue said, noting how that “automatically stores in neighborhood commercial
locks out” most local businesses. districts all over the city, causing tom radulovIch,
Cornell also noted that national some of these businesses to fail, lIvable cItIes
chains have already figured out how meaning local residents will need
to maximize their efficiency, which to travel further for the goods they
Your keeps their costs down even though once bought down the street.
that often comes in the form of “Those neighborhoods are While the Planning
fewer employees with lower pay — going to be less walkable as a result,” Department’s quarterly pipeline
and less reliance on local suppliers, Radulovich said, noting how the trend report shows that applications for
accountants, attorneys, and other contradicts the lip service that just retail outlets has held steady at about
Passion
professionals — which ends up hurt- about every local politician gives to 3 million square feet on the way in
ing the local economy. In fact, big supporting local businesses in neigh- recent years, it doesn’t break out how
chains suck money out of the city borhood corridors. “There’s a certain much of that is national chains — let
and back to corporate headquarters. schizophrenia to San Francisco’s eco- alone how that impacts the city’s
“All those people are making nomic development strategy.” economy and small business sector.
Earn a Graduate Degree
money and spending money here, Sup. Eric Mar has been working The city’s Legislative Analyst
in Education or Public Health so you have to look at the full cir- with Jobs with Justice San Francisco is now studying the matter and
cle,” Cornell said. and other groups to tweak city poli- scheduled to release a report later
Mitchell said there are often cies that have allowed the chains this summer, which Gordon Mar
simple solutions to the problem. For to proliferate. Last year, Mar held said will be helpful in countering
example, she said that city officials high-profile hearings in City Hall the narrow “jobs” rhetoric that now
Touro University’s master’s degree and in Austin, Texas recently required the on how national chains impact local dominates City Hall.
credential programs are looking for motivated developer of a large shopping mall to businesses, which pointed to the “They are exploiting the eco-
set aside a certain percentage of the need for additional protections (see nomic recession by saying they’re
students with a desire to serve, to lead and to
units for locally owned businesses. “Battling big box,” Jan. 3). bringing much needed jobs into
teach. Now is the time to contact us. So rather than hiring a national This year, he’s working on roll- the city and serving low-income
broker to find tenants, the developer ing out a series of legislative initia- residents,” he said. “But when you
hired a local broker to contact suc- tives designed to level the playing bring out the facts about the impact
Graduate School of Education programs: cessful independent businesses in field between local interests and of these low-road retail stores on
23 MA degree and credential programs in the area who might be interested in those of Wall Street and the national neighborhoods and small busi-
education, including teaching, special expanding, and the project ended chains it champions. nesses, there is a net loss of jobs and
up greatly exceeding the city’s mini- Last month, the Board of a lowering of labor standards.”
education and administration.
mum requirements. Supervisors approved Mar’s legis-
Valuing malls
Public Health Program: Mechanisms like that, or like the lation to add banks to the city’s
Yet the fate of those controls is
formula retail controls pioneered in formula retail controls, a reaction
Earn a Master of Public Health (MPH) with uncertain at best, particularly in
San Francisco, give her some hope. to Chase Bank and other national
specializations in Community Health and But she said, “Whether the counter- banks snapping up vacant stores in a tough economic environment
in which the city needs revenue,
Global Health. trends will be enough to counter the neighborhood commercial corridors
people are desperate for jobs, and
dominant trend, I don’t know.” such as Divisadero Street.
many residents have seen their
Now he’s working on legislation
Public subsidies buying power stagnate, making the
that would mandate minimum labor
1310 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592 |[phone] The increased malling of San cheap goods offered by Target and
and community benefit standards
tu.edu Francisco isn’t simply the result of Walmart more attractive.
for chain stores — including gro-
official neglect. Often, the city’s “It’s complicated stuff,” Michael
cery outlets such as Fresh & Easy
policies and resources are actively O’Connor, a local entrepreneur and
— and study how chains affect San
encouraging the influx of chain former member of the Small Business
Francisco’s overall economy.
stores. A prime example is the Commission who favors formula retail
“There should be good neigh-
massive redevelopment project on controls, told us. “Stores like Target do
bor policies when they come into
Hunters Point and Candlestick Point appeal to lower income families...The
a neighborhood,” Mar said. “Some
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