The World and Everything in It: March 1, 2023

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

The U-S Senate makes time for a very special tradition. Something it’s done since 1862.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also our weekly roundup of international news on World Tour.

Plus…making music out of plastic. We’ll meet a violinist who crafts instruments on a 3D printer.

And WORLD commentator Ryan Bomberger on media malpractice when it comes to abortion reporting.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, March 1st. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Up next, Kent Covington with the news.

SCOTUS loans » The Supreme Court is weighing whether the Biden administration has the authority to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt.

The Biden administration argued that it can modify a previous bill to forgive the loans.

Chief Justice John Roberts was skeptical.

ROBERTS: We’re talking about half a trillion dollars and 42 million Americans. How does that fit under the normal understanding of modifying?

The plan could cancel up to $20,000 of debt for student borrowers.

The chief justice questioned the fairness of the proposal.

ROBERTS: You have two situations both kids come out of highschool, they can’t afford college. One takes out a loan. The other says, well I’m going to try my hand at setting up a lawn care business and he takes out a bank loan for that.

Roberts said the court prefers to let Congress decide how to spend taxpayers’ money, not the executive branch.

China hearings » NATS: The Committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order.

On Capitol Hill, House lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday about the quote—“generational threat” posed by China.

Chairman Michael McCaul …..

MCCAUL: From using a spy balloon to surveil some of America’s most sensitive military sites, to their theft of upwards of $600 billion dollars of American IP every year, much of which goes into their military.

McCaul also cited China’s continued military aggression in the Indo-Pacific region … and intelligence warnings that Beijing is considering selling weapons to Russia.

Among the leaders to testify on the threat … Alan Estevez, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security.

ESTEVEZ: I have directed and am currently overseeing a top-to-bottom review of our export control policies related to the PRC.

He said the US is working to curb China’s ability to obtain high-tech chips and components that Beijing needs to modernize its military.

That hearing happened on the same day that the House formed a new special committee whose only focus will be the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

House TikTok bill » Meanwhile, Federal agencies must remove the Chinese-owned TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices this month. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: That’s Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Mao Ning taunting the U-S saying … it’s a real reach to call an app for young people a national security risk.

But officials in Washington say the TikTok app is like having a Chinese spy balloon on your phone. And federal agencies have less than 30 days to enact a ban on the app.

Congress, the White House, armed forces, and most states have banned TikTok from government devices.

The European Union’s executive branch has done the same.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Putin wants tighter border » Vladimir Putin saying that he wants tighter security at the border with Ukraine… After drones targeted locations inside Russian territory.

Officials say the drones did not cause any damage or injuries. But one struck within 60 miles of Moscow.

Russia blamed Ukraine for the drone attacks … as it has for limited attacks on military facilities in the past.

FDA-FOIA suit » The Food and Drug Administration is being sued for concealing records of transgender interventions for children. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has more.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN: America First Legal says the FDA is withholding information about the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors.

The group filed a Freedom of Information Act request in September to obtain records about the drugs’ usage by minors.

So far, the FDA has not responded to the request, leading America First to file a lawsuit on Monday.

The FDA approved the drugs in question only to treat conditions like cancer and endometriosis.

For WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Mississippi trans procedure child protections » Meantime, in Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves has signed a bill that will protect minors from transgender surgeries.

REEVES - There is a dangerous movement spreading across America today. It's advancing under the guise of a false ideology. And pseudo science is being pushed on to our children through radical activist, social media, and online influencers. And it's trying to convince our children that they are in the wrong body. This dangerous movement attempts to convince these children that they're just a surgery away from happiness. It threatens our children's innocence, and it threatens their health.

The bill also blocks public funds and tax deductions from paying for minors to receive treatments such as cross-sex hormones.

Reeves signed a law in 2021 banning male transgender athletes from competing in girls’ or womens’ sports.

Straight ahead: A roundup of the latest happenings in Washington, and a time-honored tradition on Capitol Hill.

Plus, printing musical instruments.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s March 1st, 2023 and we’re glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

First up: Washington Wednesday. We’ll hear about a special tradition in the US Senate, but first, a news roundup with our reporters in Washington.

REICHARD: Right and let’s jump to the Supreme Court that heard arguments in two cases with enormous public interest…. Of course, we’re talking about President Biden’s plan to forgive student loans. We’ll cover those oral arguments in Monday’s Legal Docket, but today we turn to Carolina Lumetta and Leo Briceno from WORLD’s Washington Bureau.

Carolina, let’s start with you. Could you give us a summary of what’s at stake?

CAROLINA LUMETTA, REPORTER: Well, $430 billion. So the Solicitor General, representing the Biden administration argued in front of the justices that President Biden does have the authority to forgive billions of dollars of student loans. And the challenge is brought by a coalition of six states led by Nebraska. And they're saying, No, this should be congressional action, this needs to be voted on. And it's an overstep of authority for Biden to try to do this. A big question that the Justice has also brought up was this separation of powers and trying to narrow down whose responsibility is it if we need to forgive this amount of debt? Critics say that nobody should be forgiving this debt; that if this happens, all that money is going to suddenly become the responsibility of the taxpayers, and it's already a pretty rough economic time. So it's really iffy on like, which way that they're going to vote. I will say for a bit of ground coverage, there are a lot of student organizations who had a band out in front of the Supreme Court last night, they were playing a bunch of music, a bunch of people camped on the sidewalk to wait for this morning to get one of those coveted first come first serve public tickets to watch the arguments. There have been a lot of Democratic lawmakers that have also come out and given speeches, saying this is legal, we need to forgive all this debt. So it's a pretty exciting time here.

EICHER: Yeah, and it’s about to get even more exciting. Today (Wednesday) is the first day of CPAC…the Conservative Political Action Conference. It is one of the largest gatherings of conservatives in the world, and the speaking lineup features a who’s who of Republican governors, members of Congress, and presidential hopefuls, including the three Republicans who have jumped into the race so far… the former president, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador, and an interesting political novice venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy. Now Leo, we are really early here, but do you see any impact on the Republican field for 2024?

LEO BRICENO, REPORTER: You know, for an event that really isn't passing any laws, isn't really setting any political agendas, and isn't really doing anything concrete, CPAC gets a lot of media coverage. And that's for a good reason. It gives a litmus test for the direction of the Republican Party as a whole. So there's several questions coming into this week, but probably the biggest one is, will the Republican Party coalesce around former President Donald Trump, who is the last leader of the party? Or will they look for someone new? And that's a question that's been, you know, played out in the individual states? Some time ago, the Berkeley Institute for governmental studies, did a poll for registered Republicans in the state asking them, who do you want to see lead the ticket and 2024? Well, it turns out the DeSantis won that poll with 37% Answering that they'd like to see him in the driver's seat, whereas a minority 29% said they'd rather see Trump there. That's one view, right, but now, Emerson College just yesterday came out with a poll that said, look, 55% of voters want to see Trump win the nomination compared to 25% that would pick DeSantis over any other candidate—I think they presented respondents with 10 different candidates there—So there's a little bit of a seesaw, there's a little bit of a question of, okay, does the Republican Party choose Donald Trump or someone else? And CPAC 2023 will be kind of the starting point to figure that question out.

REICHARD: Indeed. And switching gears here…yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing revisiting the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, the ERA if enacted would amend the Constitution to prohibit any legal discrimination based on sex. Carolina, what do lawmakers hope to accomplish with this hearing?

LUMETTA: The hearing was designed to figure out whether Congress is going to move forward, a Senate bill and a companion House Bill, to declare it ratified. For quick background, Congress did approve the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. And it gave it seven years to get three fourths of the states to ratify. It needed 38 states to sign on…it only got 35. And then some States took back their ratification. And at the start of the #MeToo movement back in 2016, and 2017, Nevada hopped on board, Illinois did the year later, and then Virginia ratified in 2020, making that the final third state, but it was already past the deadline. In 2021, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to get rid of that deadline for this particular amendment. And the thing is that some particularly conservative women's groups are saying that this is actually going to hurt women. So there was a news conference in one of the Senate buildings today immediately following the hearing. It was led by the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, who were saying, basically women don't need a new law to be equal—the Constitution already gives women full equality. And their concern is that this amendment would erase any sex based distinctions in a harmful way. So for example, any limits on abortion, any rules for keeping bathrooms distinct between men and women could be seen as sex discrimination and removed and that could actually backfire on women's safety. So it is all debates that happened in the 70s, and now they're happening again.

REICHARD: Now to wrap up today, we’d like to share a special tradition from the US Senate. Back in 1862, Congress publicly read George Washington’s Farewell Address to both chambers to commemorate the first president’s birthday. At the time, they wanted to boost morale during the Civil War. Thirty-four years later, the Senate started an annual tradition of reading that address.

EICHER: Republicans and Democrats take turns choosing the person who reads it, and this year it was a Republican named James Lankford…Senator from Oklahoma.

On Monday afternoon, Lankford opened by reminding senators about George Washington’s leadership … and humility in giving up that leadership after two terms as president.

LANKFORD: We don't think about a military leader taking over the United States, that's unthinkable for us. Because of the path that George Washington laid down behind us, he did a lot of firsts in a lot of his leadership. He was our first president. He was a civilian leader. After one term, he wanted to be able to step down. In fact, he and Madison actually wrote together a letter to be able to go out to the American people after his first presidency. But so many people came to him and encouraged him to be able to run again, that he relented and ran again. But at the end of his second term, he would not relent and had determined he was not a king. He was not the only person that could lead these new United States. But it was time after 45 years for him to step aside. … [1:29] This was to be the end of his presidency and of his public service.

Washington’s address covers a lot of ground in 45 minutes, explaining why he wouldn’t seek a third term and warning fellow citizens to guard against factionalism, but let’s listen to the way it concludes. Back to Lankford:

LANKFORD: Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration I'm unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that after 45 years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest, relying on its kindness, in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love toward it, which is so natural to a man who views it in the native soil of himself, and his progenitors for several generations. I anticipate with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in which I promised myself to realize without alloy the sweet enjoyment of partaking in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward as I trust of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. United States, 19 September 1796. George Washington.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: We begin today’s roundup here in Nigeria, where voters anxiously await the final results from weekend elections.

Tens of millions of people turned out nationwide to cast their vote on who will replace Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and members of parliament.

The top presidential contenders include Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Buhari’s ruling party … and one-time vice president Atiku Abubakar from the opposing Peoples Democratic Party. In a historic first, Peter Obi from the Labor Party has mounted a third-party challenge.

With official results declared in 15 out of 36 states… Tinubu had a steady lead, with Abubakar and Obi trailing behind

During the weekend poll, voters complained that electoral officials arrived late. Some of the biometric voter identification machines used to prevent fraud did not work. A delay in uploading results online also sparked fears of election rigging.

At one polling unit in Lagos state, voters scattered when gunmen opened fire and snatched the ballot box.

Cynthia Mbamalu is the program director for Yiaga Africa, an election monitoring body.

MBAMALU: We also have the responsibility to hold the electoral commission to account for these irregularities that we have observed.

Some opposition parties are now calling for the vote to be scrapped… describing the process as a sham. If one candidate can’t secure at least a quarter of the votes in two-thirds of the states…the top candidates will go to run-off elections.

Next, to Italy

At least 63 migrants have died after their wooden boat crashed off Italy’s southern coast early on Sunday. At least eight of the dead were children.

More than 170 people were on board when the boat collided with the reefs in the rough waters. Rescue workers said about 80 people survived…as they continued to search for more survivors by sea and air.

Matteo Piantedosi is Italy’s interior Minister.

He says here that the sea conditions made it impossible for rescue workers to get close to the ship.

The boat departed from Turkey carrying migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Iran. Italian authorities arrested one of the survivors for suspected migrant trafficking.

Italy says nearly 14,000 migrants have arrived in the country by sea so far this year, an increase of more than 5,000 from last February.

Next, to Mexico.

Tens of thousands of protesters dressed in pink and white crowded Mexico City’s main plaza on Sunday.

They are protesting changes to the electoral law.

The revisions would reduce the size and budget of the independent National Electoral Institute, and also reduce sanctions for candidates who fail to report campaign spending.

Opponents say the changes threaten democracy.

This protester says she came out to ask for respect for the rule of law and for the electoral institute.

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he expects legal challenges but will still sign the changes into law.

Papua New Guinea — We wrap up today in Papua New Guinea.

Authorities there are tracking down about 20 gunmen who kidnapped four hostages in a remote part of the South Pacific Island nation.

An archeologist from an Australian university was conducting fieldwork at Mount Bosavi with three locals when they were taken about a week ago.

The gunmen released one of the Papua New Guinea nationals earlier.

Authorities said they secured the others’ freedom without paying the requested ransom of $993,000.

David Manning is the Papua New Guinea Police Commissioner. He confirmed that officials negotiated with the abductors.

MANNING: This does not negate, the results of today does not negate the criminality that was involved that has taken place throughout this ordeal and we're very much committed to ensuring that those who are responsible are held to account.

Kidnap for ransom is uncommon on the island nation of about 9 million people.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: A homeschool group in Southaven, Mississippi, recently gave a Gulf Coast box turtle a new lease on life. The 20-year old turtle was hit by a car and lost its two back legs...earning him the nickname: Lt. Dan...

Now this is where the kids come in...they all belong to a Lego League Challenge team. Last week the group of 9 to 14 year olds designed and built a prosthetic platform that they hoped would allow the turtle to once again move freely. Audio here from TV station WREG.

It took a few adjustments, as you can hear—two hours later, Lt. Dan was motoring around the room…moving much faster than his four-legged counterparts.

River DeHaven was one of the Lego builders:

DEHAVEN:It is really cool to see a turtle in its own tiny car...making the turtle be able to go outside and enjoy itself was definitely a good feeling.

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 1st.

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NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Printing musical instruments.

For hundreds of years, luthiers have crafted violins from scratch. A lot of time and expertise goes into those iconic instruments…which means they can be pricey. But what if you didn’t hand-craft each violin out of wood? What if you printed it…with plastic?

Here’s WORLD Associate Correspondent Koryn Koch.

KORYN KOCH, REPORTER: Barrett Kaufman just bought some bright green PLA filament. It’s on big spools feeding into the 3D printer in his basement.

KAUFMAN: A 3d printer kind of works in the same way except the printer. The printhead can go side to side forward and backwards and up and down. And basically at the bottom of the the printhead is a little nozzle that kind of looks like a mini hot glue gun. And it kind of looks like a hot glue. Where there's a big spool of plastic filament that gets fed into it. And the metal tip, the nozzle, gets super, super hot like 200 degrees Celsius hot- so very hot. And as the plastic passes through, it melts the plastic into a very fine line…And then very small layer by layer. It builds the model from the bottom up.

3D printers have come a long way in the past few years. They can create tools, toys, utensils…even musical instruments. This is Kaufman’s biggest project yet: He’s working with a friend to 3D print a functional violin.

KAUFMAN: He thought it'd be fun to print a very small violin for the purpose of you know, giving it to like, you know, grandkids because if it's a 3d printed violin, it's gonna cost you know, 50 bucks, so you're not really worried about it breaking.

For Kaufman, 3D printing an instrument is a fun side project. But for Mary-Elizabeth Brown, it’s a multi-year scientific endeavor.

BROWN: This project started five years ago, when we asked the question, if you can create a portal vein, why can't you print the violin…

Brown is a professional concert violinist and music educator. She’s been working on a design for a 3D printed violin for five years. Her team is from all kinds of different fields.

BROWN: People who work in physics and acoustics, musicians, parents, children who try out instruments, so a number of different people.

Brown’s team started the design by looking at old, iconic violins. They took the measurements of an 18th-century violin made by Antonio Stradivari. They studied the instrument’s acoustics and figured out what shape gives a violin the richest sound.

Then they had to figure out how to get plastic to sound like wood.

BROWN: Plastic and wood just from a pure physics and acoustic standpoint are two completely different materials, even down to down to a molecular level. So when we look at plastic and wood, wood, it's porous and plastic is not and we needed to account for that in the kind of printing that we did.

The solution? Don’t print solid pieces of plastic.

BROWN: We have the capability to put little tiny patterns so for example, a checkerboard or a grid pattern into the thing that we're printing and then have a nice smooth layer on the top. That's what we've done in this instance. So a violin is about three millimeters thick, at the thickest part of its wood, but within that three millimeters, there are tiny little air pockets that are printed in to help to simulate what wood is like.

The team also experimented with different shapes of violins. They fiddled with the curves and slopes, to see how that changed the resonance. But those experiments didn’t always work out.

BROWN: There have been some wonderful flops, things that sounds like tin cans, things that fall over in the printer and end up looking like mounds of pink spaghetti things that so during the early phases, poly lactic acid melts sort of in 120 130 degree range, but deforms at about 60 degrees. So in the early days, we managed to set one on fire as we were trying to try to figure out what dimensions would work best as we were modifying it. And we've just had a wonderful time.

After years of tweaking and experimentation, the design itself is pretty much finished. The printed violin has a few differences from a traditional wood instrument. The biggest one is its sturdiness. Wooden violins are quite delicate, and small pieces can fall over or even break.

BROWN: The sound post which is a tiny little stick that goes on to the inside of the violin and is held up by the tension of the face and the back of the instrument...We've printed in the bridge and the sound post. So that means that any child or any family that has one of these is not going to have to worry about either one of those falling over in a regular traditional wooden violin.

Brown wanted to make a violin that needed fewer repairs.

BROWN: In my early teaching days, I did a lot of teaching in developing countries. You know sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you don't have access to a luthier to make repairs. Or maybe you just don't have the funds to do it. So to be able to print in bridges and sound posts in this mid last chapter. This last iteration really is a step towards making this not only accessible in terms of being able to buy one, but manageable in terms of allowing people to use it in the longer term.

Most beginner violins cost anywhere from $100 to $300 dollars. So how much is one of Brown’s 3D printed instruments?

BROWN: So we've managed to get this down to about seven US dollars.

But the real question is how one of these seven-dollar violins sound.

Most people can’t tell the difference between Brown’s plastic violin and a traditional wooden one. But Brown can. As a professional concert violinist, she plays a violin from the Galliano family.

BROWN: So I play on violin by the Galliano family. It was a violin-making family that was working also in the 18th century, but down the road from Cremona in Naples. So it's a very fine instrument. It's a very valuable instrument and it sounds wonderful. It's a joy to play on. So comparing that to a plastic instrument is probably not a fair comparison for the poor plastic instrument. But compared to most normal entry level instruments, it's on par.

And that’s the goal of the whole project.

BROWN: ​​The goal of this project has never ever been to replace the Strad’s and Galliano’s and Dehl (sic) of the world, it has been very much to provide a price friendly, accessible point to music education, for people all over.

Barrett Kaufman hopes to try printing Mary-Elizabeth Brown’s design when it comes out later this year.

But first, he still has a few weeks of printing left on his green plastic violin…one tiny layer at a time.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Koryn Koch.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 1st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next … WORLD commentator Ryan Bomberger takes on “fake feminists.” By that, he means those who claim to support women, but end up attacking women and the laws that protect them.

RYAN BOMBERGER, COMMENTATOR: Fake feminism is in desperation mode. Apparently, every woman who has suffered a tragic miscarriage actually aborted her child. Who knew?

Social media commentators and haters have become apoplectic over Jessa Duggar Seewald’s recent video where she shares heartbreaking news of a recent miscarriage. As is common, a Dilation and Curettage (or D&C) procedure had to be performed to remove the baby who had died in utero. It’s the D&C that has pro-abortion folks wanting to cancel Ben and Jessa once and for all. According to the Mayo Clinic: “Health care providers perform dilation and curettage (D&C) to diagnose and treat certain uterine conditions — such as heavy bleeding — or to clear the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion.”

But fake feminism’s strong suit isn’t science or basic facts. On Jessa Seewald’s social media pages, there are thousands of heartwarming comments. Many people expressed their sorrow for her loss, shared her grief, and thanked her for her vulnerability. There are also hundreds of cruel replies accusing the famously pro-life mother of hypocrisy and denial. One person wrote: “So it’s OK for Jessa to get her abortion but the rest of us sinners get to suffer? Very Christlike.”

This comment—which pretends that tragic miscarriages are the same as elective abortions—is typical of pro-abortion rhetoric in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. In a post-Roe America, Planned Parenthood activists and their pro-abortion media allies are intensifying their propaganda, pretending that treating ectopic pregnancies and miscarriage management are now illegal. It’s all a part of a massive healthscare campaign to misinform the public in hopes more will embrace the abortion extremism of the left.

It’s a lie, of course. Every state ban on abortion specifically details that ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages are not included in any restrictions. In Arkansas, where Seewald lives, the state’s Unborn Child Protection Act clearly states that “an act is not an abortion if the act is performed with the purpose to remove a dead unborn child caused by a spontaneous abortion or remove an ectopic pregnancy.”

That hasn’t stopped Parade Magazine from publishing a slanderous article entitled: “Jessa Duggar Reveals She Had a Life-Saving Abortion in Emotional New Video.” They chose to exploit her tragic loss for their political gain. The Arkansas Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Yahoo! News, and other misinformation news outlets made similar claims.

Seewald clapped back in a pinned comment beneath her original video, saying: “Women have D&C’s for many reasons, not all of which involve killing a living human being. The ultrasound revealed that I had a miscarriage. My baby’s heart had stopped beating 3 weeks before I had a D&C. There’s a world of difference between someone dying and someone being killed.”

Fake feminism refuses to see that difference. Spiritual blindness can do that.

I’m Ryan Bomberger.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: A first-hand report from East Palestine Ohio … site of the train derailment.

Plus, the latest on state efforts to ban child transgender treatments.

And we’ll visit with a Gospel choir using their voices to spread the good news.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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