Ever had a strange experience you couldn't explain? You're not alone. From the paranormal and supernatural, to conspiracies and folklore, let us be your guides on this expedition into the farthest reaches of the unknown! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-farthest-reaches/support
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“Under the Tree” is a new podcast that focuses on freedom—a complex, layered, dynamic, and often contradictory idea—and takes you on a journey each week to fundamentally reimagine how we can bring freedom and liberation to life in relation to schools and schooling, equality and justice, and learning to live together in peace. Our podcast opens a crawl-space, a fugitive field and firmament where we can both explore our wildest freedom dreams, and organize for a liberating insurgency. "Under t ...
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Wouldn't it be amazing if you had access to subject matter experts anytime you wanted? You do! The Carl Gould Collective Podcast offers you top subject matter experts who share their expertise on relevant subjects to help you reach your business goals. Hosted by Carl Gould, the author of 7 books on business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. A sought-after international keynote speaker, Gould created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, his methodolog ...
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Citizen Printer with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
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Amos Kennedy, self-described “humble negro printer” and author of Citizen Printer, is a visionary treasure, an imaginative freedom-fighter, and the creator of type-driven messages of justice, freedom, and Black Power. He understands that freedom comes to life in action, and that we are most truly (and paradoxically) free when we name the obstacles …
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“A” is for Abortion with Alicia Hurtado
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At a time when women’s bodily integrity is under sustained assault, and simultaneously huge numbers of women across a wide political spectrum have rallied, mobilized, ands refused to accept a medieval definition of their rights, we sit down with Alicia Hurtado, a Chicago-based grass-roots organizer, activist, and advocate to discuss the state of th…
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When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation
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with Guest Hosts Lisa Lee and Adam Bush interviewing Bill Ayers, and with surprise interventions from Light Ayli, Barbara Ransby, and Tom Morello. What is freedom? What are the "freedom dreams" that encourage us and move us forward? How do we get free? Join our brilliant guest hosts as they chop these questions up in dialogue with Bill Ayers.…
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The Whole World is Watching with Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, and Eleanor Stein
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The activists from the militant peace organization Code Pink—in conjunction with the Dissenters, Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, and a host of others—are calling for mass mobilizations in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, which will be held from August 19-22, 2024. Their goal is to issue a thundering response…
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Years of coordinated effort by the reactionary Heritage Foundation has culminated in a frighteningly dystopian document describing the future society they hope to build: Project 2025. At 900-plus pages, it’s been described as a blueprint for a second Trump presidential term, but it's so much more than that. It is in fact a sweeping manifesto, and a…
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Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power with Say Burgin
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The centuries-old struggle for Black Freedom is filled with victories and defeats, tragedy and triumph, forward motion and backlash. Today we sit down with historian and engaged scholar Say Burgin to uncover some of the myths that pass as history, focusing particularly on the historic turn toward Black Power and the resulting strategy of “racially …
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Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement with Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn
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The dynamic and engaging Socialism 2024 conference will meet in Chicago from August 30 through September 2, shortly after the sure-to-be chaotic Democratic National Convention, bringing together thousands of socialists, activists, abolitionists, and organizers from across the country and around the world to name this political moment, build communi…
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Road Trip! This is My Life I’m Talking About with Danny Lyon
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Join me for a classic American road trip with the legendary photographer, photo-journalist, writer, and film-maker Danny Lyon. Danny left the University of Chicago in the 1960s and headed South to join the great Civil Rights Movement, where he became the official photographer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We will visit the Black…
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Tea and Reparations with Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg
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Patriotism can never express a common human aspiration nor a universal moral code—if everyone on earth claimed to be a fierce and focused patriot today, 20 % of the world’s people would be Chinese patriots, and only 4.4 % patriotic Americans. Patriotism promises a steady anchor, but it is, in reality, entirely unstable. We note that every human bei…
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The Real Dragon with Stanley Howard
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This centennial episode of Under the Tree features an enlightening conversation with Stanley Howard, the legendary jailhouse lawyer and founder of the Death Row 10, a group of African American men on Illinois' death row who organized a powerful campaign from their prison cells to save their lives and to spark a new abolitionist movement decades ago…
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Every aspect of life in our society is lived on the hard-edge of racial hierarchy and class division—and the American way of birth is no exception. Black maternal mortality is 69.9 per 100,000 live births, nearly 3 times the rate of white women—and that’s only part of the story. We’re delighted to be meeting up at Pilsen Community Books with my mag…
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American Precariat with Zeke Caligiuri
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Precarious times, phenomenal times. As protests for peace and freedom explode across the country and around the world, we’re searching for and finding democracy in the streets and in the campus encampments, in prison study groups and collectives of artists and writers. We’re honored tonight to be meeting up at our beloved Pilsen Community Books wit…
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You may already know that 15 US governors recently rejected federal funds available for families who qualify for free school lunches that would provide $120 per child per month through the summer. If you forgot, I get it—your cruelty/stupidity quotient may have reached capacity, and your brain simply couldn’t accommodate one more item. We’re joined…
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Rattling the Cages with Eric King and Josh Davidson
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Prison and police abolitionists, rebels and radicals, peace activists and environmental warriors, freedom fighters and dissidents, political prisoners of every type—the voices of dissent and defiance—are gathered together in a dazzling collection from AK Press called Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. Join us …
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Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy with Nathan Thrall
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As the savagery in Gaza continues unabated, we’re deeply honored to be joined from Jerusalem by the brilliant writer Nathan Thrall for a conversation about his latest book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. Here in one family facing one heartbreaking moment, we experience Israeli apartheid up-close and personal—its e…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Primary Election Voting with Girl, I Guess & InJustice Watch
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For voters in Chicago it’s been a strenuous non-stop election cycle for the last couple of years. We're all tired and burned out – but as always, we must carry on! So as we head into the last weekend before the election, we offer up this incentive to get those among us motivated and informed about why this election, while not changing the world - d…
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Community as Resistance with Rashid Khalidi
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Chicagoland area is home to more Palestinians than anywhere else in the U.S., with over 18,000 living in Cook County alone. The Palestinian community has led powerful protests that have led to Chicago becoming the largest city in the country to endorse a ceasefire resolution. It is in the midst of this atmosphere that we gathered for an urgent exch…
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TFR News - Follow In Something's Footsteps
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Hello! Matthew and Josh have some breaking news coming from the world of "sasquatchery" and even more strange humanoid discussions to follow up with! Visit our website for more information on this episode and our back catalog: https://www.thefarthestreachespodcast.com/ Monster Fest (Small Town Monsters): https://www.smalltownmonsters.com/stm-monste…
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Join Matthew and Josh as they talk about paranormal events that have happened with some of the presidents of the United States of America! Happy Presidents' Day! For more information on this episode and others, check out our website! https://www.thefarthestreachespodcast.com/ Frogman Festival 2024!https://frogmanfestival.org/ --- Support this podca…
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Julian Assange who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 went on to win multiple awards for his investigative journalism covering, among other stories, political killings in Kenya and social unrest in Tibet. Assange came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, includi…
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The brutality of capitalism is apparent in every direction: war, invasion, and occupation throughout the world; militarized police forces at home; super-exploitation at the point of production; the looming catastrophic climate collapse; the banality of evil in the increasingly pervasive carceral state. Capitalism willfully and skillfully nurtures o…
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Heol Fanog (Part 2 ) - L❤️VE Conquers All
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We're back in the isolating lands of the Welsh countryside. So far, the Rich family have only been given a taste of whatever sinister and evil force resides on the property of Heol Fanog. This is it's domain and it has no plans of leaving. Throughout the next handful of years, Bill and Liz call upon experts from all walks of life to aid them in van…
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Investigating Apartheid with Omar Shaktir
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As Israel’s crimes against humanity multiply and mass death and indiscriminate destruction escalates, as the world unites around a near-universal call to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people and militant resistance to US complicity deepens here at home, we are fortunate to be joined by Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human…
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Heol Fanog (Part 1) - God Quit His Job
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Listening to the wind carry the sounds of the surrounding lands, you begin to smile as nature serenades you with bird's singing, tree's rustling, windchimes dancing, and the beautiful music of tranquility. Mountains rise at your command from one direction, while the soft atmosphere from a small market town presents itself from another. You couldn't…
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As Israel continues to execute its pre-announced genocide of the Palestinian people, ethnically cleanses Gaza, and attempts to liquidate an enclosure that they themselves created, everyone of goodwill around the world is calling for a ceasefire. As of now 22,000 Palestinians have been murdered, close to 2,000,000 displaced in Gaza, countless hospit…
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Survival and Resistance with Janie Paul
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In this episode we’ll be heading over to the dazzling Pilsen Community Books, a regular stop on our freedom tour, for a conversation with Janie Paul, Professor Emerita at the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, and curator and co-founder with her late husband, Buzz Alexander, of the Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons, a …
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Christopher Knudsen is a published author, university instructor, inventor, and renowned consultant. He currently works as an independent fractional CMO and is a CEO at StoicYeti, an advertising agency focused on helping direct-to-consumer companies. He was formerly the CMO at Purple Mattress and has started and sold several companies, including 3D…
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Images from Gaza crowd into the available space, disrupting sleep, shattering the calm, demanding to be taken into account. Dead children and babies piled upon one another, body parts littering a hell-scape of demolished homes and apartment buildings, collapsed bridges and towers, refugee centers burned to the ground, hospitals in utter ruin. This …
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Coming Together as Things Fall Apart with Astra Taylor
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Charles Dickens would recognize our predicament at once: the winter of despair and the spring of hope; an age of foolishness and an age of wisdom; Darkness in combat with Light. Life is never one thing isolated from every other thing; a lot of things can be—and are—happening at once. Contradiction—the dynamic, noisy, frenetic magnificence of life a…
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Jim Barker leads revenue growth for Live Earth out of Dallas, Texas, helping the world's largest organizations make faster and better decisions with data. Live Earth's operational analytics and data enrichment platform leverages real-world data with customer data to provide actionable insights allowing them to win in their marketplace over the comp…
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Stop the Genocide of the Palestinian People! Stop Cop City!
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A group of Chicago writers brought together by the worker/owners of Pilsen Community Books gathered to support and raise resources for our comrades in Atlanta fighting to Stop Cop City. But events ran ahead of us, as they often do, and by the time we gathered, the preannounced genocide against the Palestinian people was in full swing. The connectio…
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Riggs Eckelberry is a nationally renowned entrepreneur dedicated to revolutionizing the water industry, which has reached a critical breaking point in recent years despite being essential to the planet's survival. As the founding CEO of OriginClear, Riggs has developed innovative solutions to help businesses face rising water bills by tapping into …
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Indigenous Language Politics and Resistance with Mneesha Gellman
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A favorite political poster hangs on a wall in my office: “Homeland Security” it proclaims in bold letters above a photo of a group of Indigenous elders holding rifles; below it reads, “Fighting Terrorism Since 1492.” It’s a reminder of the centuries of settler colonial policy and genocidal terror carried out by the US government against Indigenous…
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HERE IT IS. The third installment in our "Listener Tales" series where YOU, the listeners, submit your paranormal experiences for us here at The Farthest Reaches to tell on air to the rest of the world! Want even more TFR content? Check out our website! https://www.thefarthestreachespodcast.com/ Want to submit your own stories?! https://www.thefart…
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On this episode of TFR News we are joined by a very special guest! We discuss the one and only Nostradamus, a "witchy" bee attack, and much much more! SEND US YOUR SPOOKY STORIES BEFORE 10/28/2023 https://www.thefarthestreachespodcast.com/contact Or straight to our email: thefarthestreachespodcast@gmail.com Check out this episode and more on our we…
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Byron's gift for translating the complexities of business financial principles with a focus on small businesses into easily understood communication has made him one of the most highly sought financial and business consultants. He is the Founder of CFO•AF, a financial services and business consulting firm specializing in industries ranging from con…
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Gef, the Talking Mongoose (Part 3) - There Is No Part 4
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WE FINALLY DID IT. We have finished are series on the enigmatic eidolon that is Gef. In part 3 we will discuss the investigation brought forth by Nandor Fodor, as well as the book deal and court case briefly mentioned in the prior episodes. Then, as all good things must come to an end, we will talk about the slow fade to black for Gef and what the …
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Mass Supervision with Vincent Schiraldi and special guest Renaldo Hudson
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Listeners of Under the Tree are well aware of the fact that the US is a Prison Nation, with over 2,000,000 people locked inside cages every day, aware, as well, that we are abolitionists involved in the movement-making and world-building work that will one day make prisons obsolete. But the carceral state is a many-legged monster with dangerous ten…
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Voices of the Movement with Anthony Arnove & Haley Pessin
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These are terrible times—escalating wars, racialized police violence, environmental collapse on full display, democratic institutions on life support, bodily integrity under assault. On the other hand—26 million people poured into the streets in response to the police murder of George Floyd, women across a wide political spectrum have refused to ac…
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These are terrible times—an escalating cold war with China, a proxy war in Europe, racialized police violence unchecked, environmental collapse on full display, fragile and often anemic democratic institutions on life support, religious authoritarianism on the rise, women’s bodily integrity under sustained assault. On the other hand—26 million peop…
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In this episode, Joshua and Matthew discuss a new demon-befriending program, the untimely deaths of two of the greatest people to be dragged into the paranormal field, an incredible discovery to one of the most famous bigfoot tales ever told, and a hell of a lot more! SEND US YOUR PARANORMAL STORIES TO BE FEATURED ON OUR SHOW: https://www.thefarthe…
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Gef, the Talking Mongoose (Part 2) - Seem Familiar?
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In part 2 of our series on Gef, the talking mongoose, Matthew and Josh offer more examples of the entity's continuing antics, and show insight on some of the possible explanations of whatever Gef could be by discussing some of the findings from multiple paranormal investigators that looked into the "Dalby Spook" during the years-long escapade. We h…
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From the River to the Sea- Journeys in Solidarity
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We’re bombarded with relentless and punishing propaganda that places the US at the epicenter of the whole wide world. We are the exceptional nation, it says, the indispensable nation, the most remarkable people who ever lived, a shining beacon on a hill to the lesser nations. The propaganda is so unremitting that it can take on the color of common …
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The Real Jason Duncan is the founder of one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America and one of the top entrepreneurial companies in the country. He is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and founder of 12 companies who got his start in entrepreneurship as an unemployed schoolteacher in 2010. Educator-turned-entrepreneur, Jason now…
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TFR News - If You're Happy And You Know It
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For this installment of TFR News, the boyzzz bring you news about Peruvian extraterrestrials, a strange green orb, a rare medicinal plant that's been lost for thousands of years, and MUCH MUCH MORE! Have yourself a listen! Stay safe, healthy, sexy, and spooky. We love you all and you'll hear from us again soon! **OUR 3RD ANNUAL "LISTENER TALES" IS …
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Help This Garden Grow with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of AirGo
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We were at the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library this month for the launch of “Help This Garden Grow,” a new docuseries that tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. “Help This Garden Grow” is a project of Respai…
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Gef, the Talking Mongoose (Part 1) - I Did It For Devilment!
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The time has come for the boys at TFR to discuss the being that needs no introduction... the one and only, Gef, the talking mongoose! During the early to mid-1930's, an event would take place on the Isle of Man that could only be described as a child's, crazy imagination come to life. Gef, or the "Dalby Spook", as it is otherwise known as, was a gh…
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Fire and Freedom with Will Harling and Leif Carlson
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For millennia and all over the world fire was a powerful tool in the hands of Indigenous peoples. As they stewarded the land generation after generation, fire was understood to be a natural and necessary element for an abundant world—fire was regeneration and revitalization. But fire was taken away from Native people and handed over to agencies and…
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The forest is disappearing—it’s becoming a ghost—and along with its entire ecosystems. This is not something distant from us; it is us—the power of a tree is the air we breathe. Two and a half billion years ago enough oxygen had built up on earth to support multicellular life, and the first trees evolved about 400,000,000 years ago. The first prima…
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