Posts published in August 2019

DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 30, 2019

— deaf “able”, and deaf “not-able”

A newspaper story said that able refers to an
all-deaf staff in a restaurant, dealing
with hearing patrons. What about not-able
which woul mean just one deaf staffer in
a restaurant that has all-hearing staff
and patrons all hearing. Just a play
on these able and not-able phrases?

— a wild sign language rumor

Rumors can go wild. At a video games conference
a video person gave a speech, saying that
these games should have sign language. At
the time of the speech, another video person
was working with interpreters. Putting one and
one together a new rumor came out that
a new video game would have a deaf character
in the “Half-Life 3” video. Even
disability rights advocates pushed the
rumor to new heights. The problem?
The game – Half-Life 3 has not existed
in the first place!

— discrimination outside of workplace by workplace employees

A deaf employee is not invited to a retirement party. Also
not invited to a “TGIF” beer party at a nearby bar.
Also never given non-work memos that have been distributed
to all hearing employees. Never invited to participate
in Super Bowl pool or the NCAA pool. Discrimination
or not – even when these are not part of the job
description? ADA violation or just a social snub?

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 29, 2019

— advocate pushes for captions on top of TV screen

An advocate has pushed for captions on top of TV
screen, saying it would make the screen better for
audience viewing. Good idea? Well, if one is a
sports fan, then top captions would block showing
of scores, game clock and team color identification.
Bottom line – no such a thing as perfect placement
of captions!

— puzzling “too busy” comment

DeafDigest mentioned that a Burger King server was
fired for telling a deaf drive-in customer that he
was too busy to serve her and for her to come
inside to place the order. What is puzzling
is that the server is too busy to serve her
at drive-in but “not too busy” to serve her
inside. Is there a difference between order at
drive-in and order inside? No difference.
A cheeseburger order is a cheeseburger order.
Would that server say the same thing to a hearing
driver at the drive-in if he placed exactly the
same order the deaf woman wanted?

— common complaint by users of captioning equipment

A common complaint by deaf users of captioning equipment
is this – when movie starts, they have to wait for
the captions to show up. After waiting endlessly
they realize the equipment is broken!

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 28, 2019

— CI best but with risks

Jeff Simmons, clinical coordinator, Cochlear Implant Program,
Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha) said
cochlear implants can be the best option to improve hearing but
with risks. These risks are imbalance, vertigo, infection, facial
nerve damage, Bacterial meningitis, ear infection, loss of
residual hearing and Tinnitus. All operations carry risks, and
CI is no exception. But best advice is to see your physician
first before going through with the operation. No two
CI patients are the same!

— ADA attorney and deaf plaintiff punished by judge

Attorney Scott Dinin, ADA lawsuit specialist,
was punished by U.S. District Judge Paul Huck
for filing too many ADA lawsuits and sharing
the attorney fees with a deaf plaintiff.
They filed dozens of lawsuits in Florida.
The attorney paid the deaf plaintiff nearly
$85,000 for three years of filing these
lawsuits. Punishment is that the deaf plaintiff
had to perform 400 hours of community service
and the attorney cannot file any more ADA
lawsuits.

— Governor not telling the deaf about the Tropical Storm

Governor Albert Bryan, U.S. Virgin Islands, did not use an
interpreter or have his talk captioned while warning his
people of the possible Tropical Storm Dorian hitting
his nation. Several American senators were upset
about it.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 27, 2019

— expansion goal

Mozzeria, based in San Francisco, has expanded to
Washington, DC. The goal is to open 8 to 12 more sites
in USA. Which cities? DeafDigest’s guess is this:

San Leandro
Rochester
Austin
New York
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
Chicago
Frederick

That is eight. Four more? Well, how about this:
Fremont
Indianapolis
Riverside
Georgetown in Washington, DC

Of course, this is just a guess.

— biggest fear of first responders

during an emergency, the first responders have
this fear – medical allergies, different
medications, excited dogs, medical history,
victim unable to walk, non-English speaking
– and one more thing – deaf and knowing only
ASL!

— cooking class for the deaf

A first? A restaurant in Englewood, NJ hosted a cooking
class for the deaf. A Coda chef conducted the class
in sign language. The deaf participants learned all
they needed to know about cooking, tips, and which
food is healthy and which isn’t.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 26, 2019

— comment by an interpreter

An interpreter asked:

If a hearing person, knowing no ASL tell her that
the signs on the stage were beautiful.

In that case, the interpreter would ask:

What new signs did you pick up?

— Walmart continues as a mystery

Walmart lost a lawsuit; EEOC said deaf employees
still face discrimination. Yet, Walmart said
it makes it a point to hire deaf and disabled
applicants. It is the same Walmart store that
lost the case that DeafDigest shops for
food and stuff. And when DeafDigest editor
cannot find an item he is looking for,
he would write it on a notebook and show
it to a Walmart employee. In all cases,
even the top management, they have
helped him find the item. Discrimination
or no discrimination? Or being a Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde?

— these deafness information web sites

there are many, many web sites that carry
information about the deaf and of deafness.
The big question is – are deaf people
aware of these such web sites, whose advice
could greatly help them down the road?

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 23, 2019

— Burger King refuses to serve a deaf woman

The Burger King drive-in in Oklahoma City refused to
serve a deaf woman. The server told her that they
were too busy to serve her! In the past the
deaf woman had no problems with them when ordering
at the drive-in. Anyway, the deaf woman was stubborn
and refused to drive away, forcing the restaurant
to call police to get her to get out. The Burger
King management immediately fired the employee
and issued the deaf woman an apology, and ordered
all Burger King employees in all units in Oklahoma
City to be retrained.

— refusing to discuss business on voice phone

A deaf businessman, that uses hearing aid,
says he refuses to use voice phone to discuss
business, said there is too much misunderstanding
of numbers, dollars, dates and other details.
If the phone call is just social chat, then
it is OK, but if business, no! To discuss
business he uses email and text. For some
reason he won’t use voice relay services.

— law students mocking a deaf student

A group of law students was part of a skit
at a social event. They mocked a fellow deaf
student because of his deafness. After
an uproar, the law students apologized.
It was the law students at University of
Canterbury in Great Britain, not in USA!
They said the mocking was part of an
annual student tradition.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 22, 2019

— deaf chef in communications with kitchen staff

Deaf chef Bruce Price (yesterday’s DeafDigest)
said his staff needs to learn how to communicate
with him – be it whiteboard, understanding
his voice, gestures, etc. He said in due time,
the staff gets used to him.

— biggest insult thrown at the deaf

A deaf brother and a deaf sister wanted to become
motorbike racers. They had to take special lessons
on how to race motorbikes to get qualified for
these races. One racing school turned them down, saying:

a blind can be on racing tracks, but never a deaf

Fortunately for these two deaf racing candidates
another racing school accepted them without
question. This took place in Kerala, one of these
bigger cities in India.

— Burning Man avoids the deaf

The Burning Man is a big event at Black Rocket
City in a remote part of Nevada. Theme of
that event is to emphasize principles of life
through community and art stories. Anyway,
deaf people attend this event. It was
interpreted for them in the past – but
no more. As a result, Buring Man has
been slapped with a lawsuit for that reason.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 21, 2019

— Guy’s Grocery Games ignores the deaf chefs

Here is a challenge for Guy Fieri, and his
Guy’s Grocery Games TV program that many
deaf people love to watch. Why not invite
top deaf chefs to compete against each other?
We have Kurt Ramborger, Darren Weiss and
Jonathan Weiss (both Weiss chefs are not
related to each other) and other top notch
deaf culinary arts instructors at some
deaf schools as well as at hearing-run
restaurants?

THIS JUST IN – Bruce Price, who is deaf,
has been hired as the new Executive
Chef with the Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club
in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked
with restaurants across the world –
Australia, Switzerland, China, Taiwan
and New Zealand. He is a perfect fit
for the all-deaf program.

— bad attitude about “not in my backyard”

People in one Albuquerque location are upset
over a proposed charter school for the deaf
being built in their neighborhood. They said
they wanted to preserve the area as is.
Bad attitude? Unfortunately, yes!

— High speed contest; fast interpreter vs fast rapper

Twista, a rapper, raps very fast, while challenging
Houston interpreter Amber Galloway Gallego to
keep up with him. Who won? Very easy – the deaf
in the audience that watched this event.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 20, 2019

— deaf detainee files lawsuit against ICE

ICE is a dirty word among these immigrants
(both legal and illegal), and especially so
for Raul Alcocer Chavez, who is deaf.
While being detained, he needed medical
attention, and asked for a device to
help him communicate with the medical
people. ICE told him – no, sorry!
As a result he has filed a lawsuit,
with assistance of Southern Poverty
Law Center.

— deaf wins over big and mighty Walmart

DeafDigest editor shops frequently at a
local Washington, DC Walmart and had
bumped into a shift supervisor, who
is deaf and formerly played football
at Gallaudet. He was always complaining,
but would not elaborate, on the reasons
he was unhappy at Walmart – even though
he supervised a group of hearing
employees. He quit Walmart – and ultimately
filed a lawsuit on grounds of job
discrimination (no interpreters during
staff meetings). He won, and Walmart is
out $100,000. DeafDigest does not
know where he is right now but hopes
he is doing OK.

— Delta tips for deaf travelers

Delta has developed a travel guide for deaf
and disabled travelers. Especially for
the deaf only, one such tip is to
download their Fly Delta app that would
allow ease of commmunications with the
Delta personnel.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 19, 2019

— to be the only deaf person

You are deaf and enjoy yourself at a cruise or at a
vacation resort. Everyone immediately knows you are
deaf. It is different from being a hearing person at
an all-hearing cruise or all-hearing resort!

— one reason for opposing cochlear implants

Many deaf people oppose the cochlear implant – not
because they think it is a built-in hearing aid,
but because they want to preserve their own
deafness lifestyle. This was a comment a blogger
made on one of his blogs.

— a big Greenland irony

The USA president wants to purchase Greenland.
This has been a big story in recent days – but there
is a deaf irony. A deaf travel agent has been
advertising a deaf cruise to Greenland (and Iceland).
Of course there is no way the deaf travel agent would
know in advance of the President’s intentions.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 16, 2019

— angry deaf driver

A deaf driver from Texas made this angry comment:

I’m a deaf person who uses my voice, but that doesn’t mean I can hear.
So when I get pulled over, they’re assuming I’m not respecting them,
that I’m not paying attention.

That angry deaf driver is correct – and besides not every
deaf person with great speech also knows ASL

— rewriting a movie or a play script

Many script writers do not like to make changes with their
movie plots or play plots. If the plot specifcally asks
for a hearing actor, the script stays the same. But from
time to time, to accommodate a deaf actor, the script
gets changed. Two examples come to mind – the late
Victor Galloway played a few scenes in “The River
Wild.” And Bob Hiltermann, another deaf actor, had
a script changed for him in one TV program.

— ADA in a big war with Domino’s

Many deaf people order pizza from Domono’s
but it does not mean that this pizza chain
is making the web friendly for them.
Domino’s, suppported by the Chamber of
Commerce, wants the Supreme Court to weaken
the ADA laws! They said web standards are
vague and confusing.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 15, 2019

— to be deaf in a resort town in Maine; #1 example

DeafDigest editor and his wife were vacationing in
York, Maine, a resort and tourist town of some
12,500 people. At a restaurant, a woman sitting
at the next table, forgot her purse and left
the restaurant. The hostess laughed and said
it was the 8th time this summer that it happened.
DeafDigest editor would not know about that comment
if it wasn’t interpreted for him!

— to be deaf in a resort town in Maine; #2 example

DeafDigest editor and his wife toured the museum
buildings at the Old York Historical Society.
Interpreters? None. Apps to help deaf visitors
follow the exhibits? None. Printed material to
help follow the exhibits? None. ADA regulations?

It says:
most museums have legal obligations to provide and
maintain accessibility for visitors with disabilities

Is the word – most – a big ADA loophole?

— to be deaf in a resort town in Maine; #3 example

More on the Old York Historical Society! Just as when
DeafDigest editor and his wife were finished touring
the museum buildings, the front desk clerk at the
museum headquarters knew sign language. Her cousin
was deaf and she learned signs for that reason.
The clerk was not a tour guide but she did explain
in ASL some of the museum stuff at the last minute
for a few minutes before musuem closed for the day!

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 14, 2019

— Interesting sign language question

Question:
What is the least spoken language in the world?

Answer:
Sign language!

DeafDigest editor was surfing the net for today’s
news and found this trivia question.

— helping the hearing employer hire the deaf

There are some employers that want to hire the
deaf but do not know how to deal with problems,
issues and accomodations. They need to turn to
the Job Accommodation Network, which is operated
by the U.S. Department of Labor, yet many of
then have never heard of that service!

— two deaf STEM winners

Deaf students Esther Amino and Salome Njeri worked together
to create an Essameter, which measures distances and
angles. They put together this device from inexpensive
parts and supplies. They won two prizes – one from the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal and another
from the International Science and Engineering Fair.
They are classmates in a deaf school in Kenya.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 13, 2019

— deaf in karate school

DeafDigest editor was vacationing in New Hampshire and
went to a karate school to watch his grandson practice
his karate moves. The editor asked the school general
manager if he had deaf students taking karate lessons.
He said he had a few but said that teaching the deaf
is different from teaching the hearing. The hearing
depend on verbal instructions while deaf just follow
the instructor’s hands and moves. This is not to
say deaf cannot succeed in martial arts. We have had
Dawn Birley, who won national Canadian TaeKwonDo
(hearing) championships. We have Garrett Scott, a
ranking Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter. And also
a number of deaf MMA fighters, including
Matt Hamill.

— newspaper wrong about deaf-owned brewery

A newspaper in New Zealand said that Richard Emerson
may be the world’s only deaf brewer; he owns a giant
brewery in New Zealand. DeafDigest ran a story on
him a while ago. But he is not the world’s only
deaf brewer. Mark Burke, who is a Gallaudet
graduate, operates his Streetcar 82 Brewing Co.
in Hyatttsville, MD. The big difference is that
the New Zealand brewery is huge while Burke’s
brewery is small – but the beers they both brew
are great.

— newer deaf device better or duplication?

DeafDigest editor is tired of newspaper stories
about a new deaf invention (alerting signalers,
captioning glasses, sign language computers,
etc) all saying that it would change the
way the deaf people live in this world.
Are these new inventions really better
or is just duplicating each other?

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 12, 2019

— 911 misunderstanding, thinking caller was deaf

Cincinnati is facing a lawsuit over a 911 mistake.
The dispatcher could not understand the 911 voice
call and thought the caller was deaf. The
dispatcher then switched to a TTY machine, but
got no response. By the time the dispatcher and
the police figured out the call, the caller
died as a result of an accident. The upset family
is filing the lawsuit for that “deafness” reason.

— deaf people to see 500 different noises

Brandon Marin, Greyson Watkins and Spencer Montan,
all of them deaf, are starting a new company
with a special invention that would help the
deaf see which noise is which. It all started
when Montan’s house was flooded because of
broken water pipes. He couldn’t hear the
burst pipes – hence the idea of an invention
helping the deaf identify the noise. They
said the special device can have 500
different noises programmed into it.

— pressure on business people to hire the deaf

Business people want to hire more employees, but
are afraid to hire the deaf. For that reason,
big money people (billionaires) are pushing
these business people to hire the deaf. Hope
it works. This was the big story today.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 9, 2019

— complying with ADA is not always enough

When a hospital or a police station purchase communications
equipment just to comply with ADA regulations, it often
is not enough. Many hearing employees have not been
trained to operate the equipment! This was the accusation
an advocate pointed out in a newspaper interview! This is
the same as in past years when hearing operators did
not understand what GA and SK meant in a TTY conversation.

— the Fox Theatre (St Louis) captions

The 8th U.S. Court of Appeals said that Fox Theatre
(plays, concerts, etc) must provide captions – if a
deaf person requests it, but with at least two weeks
in advance. Two things to point out – last minute captioning
requests will be denied. A hearing person can attend a
theatrical performance at the last minute; the deaf can’t!
And the theatre has one more option – the Supreme Court.
The appeals vote was 2-1, and not unanimous, by the way.

— not all captions are the same

A veteran captioner made this comment:

there is no industry standard for captions

True or not true? Don’t know!

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 8, 2019

— annual cost of video captioning software

St. Augustine Beach (Florida) city council
purchased video captioning software. The
cost is $6,000 per year. Nearby city St. Augustine
purchased software for $11,000 per year, same
as with St. Johns County. It is five thousand
dollars cheaper. Does it mean that quality is
better with higher priced software? Better
quality means no errors and no lag time.

— another movie with a deaf story

There is a new movie – The Parts You Lose
and it is about a young deaf boy becoming
friends with a violent hearing criminal.
A deaf actor playing a deaf role or a
fake-deaf actor playing a deaf role?
Don’t know.

— deaf theater discriminating against hearing

Hot Coals Theatre is a deaf theatrical group in
Edinburgh, Scotland. It does not provide
captions or sign language interpreters.
For that reason, this theatrical group
is in trouble with the city for not
making it accessible to the hearing!

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 7, 2019

— anti-bias training not 100 percent attended

A newspaper story said that only 94 of 508 Lincoln
Police Department (Georgia) received anti-bias
training. We are talking about less than 20
percent being trained. Why? Bad attitude or
bad apathy or laziness?

— misleading headline

A headline said:
App that helps deaf communicate without sign language

Huh!

There are many deaf people that do not sign and
also have no speaking skills!

— watching a movie; three options

A Frederick, MD activist said that for a deaf
family to watch a movie, there are three
options, not all of them pleasant!

First option is – wearing glasses (that can
get quite uncomfortable and what if glasses
break down)

Second option is – watching captions on a
screen (can easily miss the action while watching
the captions and what if screen does not
operate well)

Third option is – go to an open captioned
movie (yes, best option only if the showing
is shown at a convenient hour and at a theater
near the family’s home). No one wants to
drive 30-40 miles away to an open captioned
theater; and no one would skip work to watch
an early hour movie! And what if the
projector operator forgets to turn on the
captions.

DeafDigest adds a fourth option – wait, wait
and wait for the movie to be shown on cable
TV. It may, or may never! And, yes, the
cable operator may forget to turn on the
captions.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 6, 2019

— deaf, not dead

An angry advocate said:

being deaf is not a death sentence

That advocate is correct.

— ADA lawsuits target these five industries

According to an ADA article, the five industries
have been targeted for discrimination lawsuits –
food services, hotels, stores, entertainment
and financial services.

— special sound effects help top deaf gamer

Soleil Wheeler, AKA Ewok, just 13 years old
and deaf, is considered one of the world’s
best gamers. She plays with Faze Clan, again
one of the world’s toughest gaming organizations.
Gamers depend on sound while gaming. Ewok is
deaf, but she depends on special sound effects
that alert her to “enemies” invading her turf.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 5, 2019

— a big fictional story of a deaf man

Nick Andros, a fictional deaf character, is
in a position of power, in control over
hearing people – in the upcoming TV story,
The Stand. This deaf character is played by
Henry Zaga, who is not deaf. CBS not
wanting to cast a deaf actor in a deaf role
in a big TV movie? Very disappointing.

— hiring the deaf

Kyle Duarte, not deaf, is the CEO of Everyone at Work,
an agency in Iowa that pushes for employment of
the deaf and the disabled. He said:

Iowa has achieved the lowest unemployment rate in the
nation, which is amazing, but this also means many
employers are in desperate need of new workers to fill
current vacancies and to continue to expand and grow

This comment is true, but would these employers
still hire the deaf even when they are that
desperate to fill vacancies. Just hope so.

— deaf in the security field

DeafDigest has mentioned that the police force of
Oaxaca City, in Mexico, has hired the deaf to
watch the videos to catch criminal acts.
How good are these deaf security people?
Security experts and international
governments from other nations have visited
the Mexican video facility to see for themselves
how good these deaf people are!

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 2, 2019

— Amazon’s hero deaf employee

Marnie Wilson, who is deaf, is Amazon’s hero
employee. Her job title is Amazon associate,
and she works at the Shakopee, Minnesota
warehouse. There are always issues at huge
warehouses – boxes get misplaced, boxes can
get crushed in the conveyor belt, computer
cannot read the box labels, etc. You name
it and the warehouse has experienced it.
Marnie’s job is to catch these errors
and to make quick fixes. She was featured
in a newspaper story.

— #1 advice for deaf that don’t enroll at Gallaudet or NTID

There is an important advice for deaf students
at colleges which is not either Gallaudet or NTID
– go to the Office of Disabled Services and inform
them of needs (interpreters, CART, etc). For some
reason there are deaf students that don’t
follow that advice.

— our deaf helicopter pilots

We have a good number of deaf airplane pilots
but what about deaf helicopter pilots? Just
two – according to a member of the
Deaf Pilots Association. Operating a
helicopter more difficult than operating
an airplane? Don’t know.

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DeafDigest Mid-Week edition – August 1, 2019

— Nyle’s experiment with hearing

Years ago a deaf man did an experiment. He hung out at an
apartment swimming pool where many 20’s, 30’s something
hearing people would hang out and make friends with
each other. He wanted to know how many of them would
approach him for a social chat. None did. Fast
forward – Nyle DiMarco is premiering on a TV
program – What Would You do? He entered a restaurant
hoping to strike up a sign language conversation
with a waiter. Yes, these waiters freaked out.
Not really a surprise.

— Alexa in ASL

Could Alexa communicate in ASL with a deaf user?
Abhishek Singh, himself not deaf, has developed
a sign language Alexa. It is not just yet ready
for the marketplace. Will it work? Sign language
has so many dialects and “accents” that a computer
inside Alexa may have problems recognizing!

— death is a big loss

Café Coffee Day is to India what Starbucks is
to USA, a mecca for coffee-lovers. The
founder – V G Siddharth – passed away.
While growing his chain nationwide, he made it
a point to hire the deaf whereas no one would
hire them. Will his successor continue to hire
the deaf? Hope so!

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