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Daily Fantasy Sports Is It Gambling?

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6 Planned Parenthood Unmasked Undercover journalists spent nearly three years investigating harvesting and selling of unborn babies’ body parts at Planned Parenthood facilities. Brittany Farrell and Traci Griggs separate fact from fiction while summarizing the investigation and current legal battles related to it.

10 Dangerous Exposure feature In the wake of startling research, which shows that most children will be exposed to pornography at a young age, Alysse ElHage details the devastating effect this exposure can have on a child's wellbeing. departments 14 Daily Fantasy Sports As more Americans—especially young people—buy into the gambling scam known as Daily Fantasy at issue 4 Sports, expert Les Bernal lays out the risks and harms About this magazine associated with the seemingly innocent activity. etcetera 5 18 Interviews Quotes, quips and NC Family President John L. Rustin talks with: other items of interest pro-life advocate Gianna Jessen about surviving her mother's abortion attempt; Valerie Huber about the numbers 9 importance of parents’ roles in promoting sexual abstinence; and Dr. Matthew Harrison on his Facts of interest little-known Abortion Pill Reversal Method. front lines 12 20 Constitutional Resistance Faith in action Sixty legal scholars are challenging Americans to constitutionally resist the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling 2016 Election 22 that redefined marriage. Alysse ElHage explores what Timelines and retirements this might mean in our own lives and communities.

con t en t s perspective 6 23 Observations from our president

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Balancing Act Spring 2016 Vol. 11, No.1 After a nearly eight-year hiatus, I am returning to once again take ISSN 1935-7761 on the role of Communications Director here at NC Family. Besides ISBN 0-9785025-1-5 returning to the job with some further education (academic and from Editor the school of hard knocks), I also bring a bit more understanding of Traci DeVette Griggs how to balance my desire to be a winsome disciple of Christ and an energetic citizen of this great country—both God-given responsibilities. Associate Editors This issue of Family North Carolina is designed to help equip our Alysse ElHage Brittany Farrell readers to accomplish this ‘balancing act’ in their own lives. Each story in this magazine delivers insightful information on a topic that’s relevant Design and timely. However, beyond simply providing knowledge, there are Courtney Volker some suggested talking points (in an accented color) and a perspective Circulation that helps you discuss these issues within your own community. Catherine Strickland Our main feature article, “Daily Fantasy Sports: Is It Gambling?” is a great help to those of us who see countless advertisements for Contributors Les Bernal, Eileen Brown, Alysse ElHage, fantasy sports but don’t understand why it’s so dangerous. The fact Brittany Farrell, Thomas Graham, that it’s a coordinated effort by powerful gambling enterprises to Traci Griggs, Jere Royall, John Rustin, initiate teens and young adults into gambling is where we start. Jake Sipe, Catherine Strickland The story, “Dangerous Exposure,” contains some startling information President on how likely it is for children to be exposed to online pornography. John L. Rustin Pornography can have a surprisingly devastating effect on a child’s spirit and even his or her relationship with mom and dad. The article offers Family North Carolina some practical tips on keeping the lines of communication open with is a publication of the North Carolina Family your children and setting up some technological safeguards on line. Policy Council. Our article, "Constitutional Resistance," grapples with the question: The North Carolina Family Policy Council As Christians, should we consider last year’s Supreme Court ruling is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit on same sex marriage to be settled law? A large group of legal research and education organization orga- scholars has issued a challenge to consider how we might resist this nized in 1991 and recognized for tax-de- redefinition of marriage in our own lives and communities. ductible giving by the federal government. Finally, we would be remiss if we did not weigh in on the Family North Carolina is a registered trade- mark of the North Carolina Family Policy spectacular chain of events ignited by a series of undercover videos, Council. Copyright © North Carolina Family exposing the inner workings of Planned Parenthood. Our article Policy Council. All rights reserved. starts with a quick overview, but also lays out some common Internet misconceptions about the abortion giant and sets the record straight. Visit us on the Internet at ncfamily.org, There are some great talking points for you in this section! where you can read selected stories from Don’t miss all of the other fresh facts and perspectives this issue, including endnotes. Publication sprinkled all throughout the magazine, including: of website addresses of other organizations featured in our stories does not con- • Excerpts from three of our favorite radio shows; stitute endorsement by the North Carolina • Some compelling quotes and stats; Family Policy Council of those groups or • A profile on retiring state representative Paul "Skip" Stam; the contents of those sites. • Tools to help you encourage fellow Christians to register and vote; Subscriptions • A 2016 election calendar; If you do not already receive Family North • And an insightful piece on the potential impact of evangelical Carolina magazine, you can request a voters from NC Family President John L. Rustin. free one-year subscription by: visiting our website at ncfamily.org; calling our offices In this day and age when so much information is conveyed to you at 919.807.0800; or sending a written through electronic means, we are pleased to provide this lovely publication request to NC Family at: PO. Box 20607, for you! We hope you findFamily North Carolina magazine to be an Raleigh, NC, 27619. invaluable resource, one that you can hold in your hands, tuck in your brief case, lay out on your coffee table, or pass along to a friend.

Traci DeVette Griggs is Director of Communications for the North Carolina Family Policy Council and is editor of Family North Carolina.

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“I had not treated one case of sexual “I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And violence that didn’t involve porn....” some very good people have some very bad ideas.” —Mary Ann Laydon, Ph.D., on the link between porn and sexual violence that she has seen in her psychotherapy —Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in an practice, as quoted in an article by Jonathon Van Maren that was published Jan. 14, 2015, on LifeSiteNews.com. interview with CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl that aired on “60 Minutes” in April 2008.

“The problem is there are not that many ‘jacks’ in the ‘pot.”

—Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam We are to be fools for Christ’s (R–Wake) in a Jan. 12, 2016 statement to the media on the chances of sake.... Pray for the courage winning the $1.5 billion Powerball “jackpot,” which he said is greatly exaggerated by lottery officials. to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia “The real test of liberty is what happens when you disagree.”

—Kellie Fiedorek, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, in a speech about the threat to religious liberty faced by pro-marriage Americans, which she gave at the NC Family Policy Council’s Major Speakers Dinner in Winston- Salem in November 2015.

“If abortion is about women’s rights, then what were mine?”

—Saline abortion survivor Gianna Jessen during the September 2015 Congressional hearing, “Planned Parenthood Unmasked: Examining the Horrific Practices of the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider,” held by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Gary Varvel Editorial Cartoon used with permission of Gary Varvel and Creators Syndicate. All rights reserved.

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“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

— Planned Parenthood Federation of America Senior Director of Medical Services, July 14, 2015. CMP Video #1 Planned “Let me just figure out what “If we alter our process, and Parenthood others are getting, and if we are able to obtain intact Unmasked this is in the ballpark, then fetal cadavers, we can make it it’s fine. If it’s still low, then we can bump it up. part of the budget…. It’s all I want a Lamborghini.” just a matter of line items.” — Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, — Planned Parenthood Federation of August 4, 2015. CMP video #5 America’s Medical Directors’ Council President, July 21, 2015. CMP video #2

written by: “I think a per-item thing works a little better, because Brittany Farrell & we can see how much we can get out of it.”

Traci DeVette Griggs — Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, July 30, 2015. CMP video #3

6 ncfamily.org These four gut-wrenching statements provide a the pro-life journalists from the glimpse into hundreds of hours of undercover video Center for Medical Progress. footage gathered by pro-life investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra during a 30-month-long investigation into Planned Merritt have been accused of Parenthood that was made public last summer. tampering with government The Center for Medical Progress dropped a records (falsifying drivers licenses) media bombshell on July 14, 2015, when it released and attempting to purchase human the first of at least 11 subsequent videos recording organs from Planned Parenthood. conversations that undercover journalists had with With several lawsuits pending, Planned Parenthood executives and staff. The two and more than $500 million in parties casually discussed the price and the difficulty government funding to Planned of harvesting livers, spleens, intact skulls, and other Parenthood at stake, this story is organs and tissue from aborted babies for use in far from over. What is certain, labs. The footage revealed the dark underworld though, is that abortion is big of the abortion industry, which appears to put business, and the ugly inner women at medical risk and prioritizes profits workings of that business are over law and ethics to capitalize on the deaths now on display for the world to of more than 300,000 children each year. see. Regardless of the outcome The abortion industry has spent the last several of the various legal battles over months scrambling in the courts to shut off the the investigation and videos flood of insider peeks into their work. Even after themselves, Center for Medical Alliance Defending Freedom released the results Progress Director David Daleiden of a third-party forensics report authenticating the is right that, “Planned Parenthood content of the videos, Planned Parenthood and the still cannot deny the admissions National Abortion Federation filed lawsuits seeking from their leadership about fetal to stop the release of further videos and to penalize organ sales captured on video the Center for Medical Progress and its journalists for all the world to see.” As for daring to investigate and expose potentially the great British abolitionist illegal activity within the abortion industry. William Wilberforce said, “You Congress launched several investigations into may choose to look the other Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the harvest way, but you can never again and sale of unborn baby body parts. More than say you did not know.” a dozen states launched similar investigations Brittany Farrell is Assistant within their borders. At least 17 states, including Director of Policy for the North North Carolina, cut off or significantly reduced Carolina Family Policy Council. funding to Planned Parenthood, and Congress Traci DeVette Griggs is Director sent a bill to President Obama’s desk that would of Communications for the North have stopped most federal taxpayer funding for Carolina Family Policy Council and is Planned Parenthood had he not vetoed it. editor of Family North Carolina. For In the latest bizarre turn of events, a Harris County, a footnoted version of this article, Texas grand jury that was considering the question of please visit www.ncfamily.org. whether to indict Planned Parenthood on allegations of illegal abortion practices, instead indicted two of

[A]bortion is big business, and the ugly inner workings of that business are now on display for the world to see.

spring 2016 7 Planned Parenthood: Truth or Lie

In regard to charges that Planned Parenthood is profiting Is it true that if Planned Parenthood lost from selling the tissue and organs of aborted babies: Is it federal funding, poor women would lose true that Planned Parenthood only receives reimbursements their opportunity for affordable health care? for the cost of obtaining the fetal body parts and doesn’t profit from this (which is against federal law)? THIS IS FALSE THIS APPEARS TO BE FALSE There are only 661 Planned Parenthood clinics in the entire country. Compare that to the 13,540 federally qualified comprehensive health clinics nestled in Recently released documents strongly indicate that some Planned communities all across the nation, most of which Parenthood clinics and staff have been profiting. Here are a few examples: provide far more services and would likely be the • A promotional document from StemExpress, an organization that recipients of any funding diverted from Planned serves as the middleman between Planned Parenthood clinics and Parenthood. Low-income women don’t need Planned researchers, clearly promotes the fact that they “fiscally reward Parenthood to get good health care. By the way, none clinics” that provide tissue and organs from aborted babies and that of the Planned Parenthood clinics do mammograms. this action is “financially profitable.” StemExpress pays “procurement technicians” $10 per hour plus bonuses (see below), which increase based on the value and sheer number of specimens provided. Is it true that the video producer, David • Copies of invoices from Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, released Daleiden, who recorded the undercover in late January, reveal two line items: one for “Reimbursement” videos of Planned Parenthood, used and one for “Consent Payment.” (Note that women who donate deceptive methods to produce them? their aborted babies for research receive no compensation, and the researcher receiving the parts generally pays postage.) THIS APPE ARS • A series of undercover videos released last year from the TO BE FALSE Center for Medical Progress reveals the apparent intent by some Planned Parenthood executives to get rich by providing these services, including one who gleefully exclaimed in Despite many allegations along those lines from the second video that she “wanted a Lamborghini.” Planned Parenthood and its supporters, no one Although Planned Parenthood has not been officially found guilty of has produced any evidence that the videos by any wrongdoing, there are currently 5 ongoing congressional investigations Center for Medical Progress were deceptively and 13 state investigations looking into these serious allegations. edited. In fact, unedited versions of the videos are available at centerformedicalprogress.org.

Procurement Technician Compensation Policy for Procurement Technician Compensation Policy for Tissue and Blood Procurement Tissue and Blood Procurement Effective 01/0 1/2013 Effective 01/0 1/2013

Procurement Fees Procurement Fees -‐ Procurement Technicians are compensated at a rate of $10.00 per hour plus a per tissue or blood Procurement Technician -‐ Procurement Compensation Technicians are Policy for compensated at a rate of $10.00 per hour plus a per tissue or blood bonus as outlined bonus in as outlined the table below: in the table below: Tissue and Blood Procurement Tissue Bonus Tissue Structure Bonus Structure Effective # Specimens01/0 1 /201# Specimens3 Category A* Category Category A* B* Category B* Category C Category C 1-‐10 Specimens 1-‐10 Specimens$35/Tissue $35/Tissue $15/Tissue $15/Tissue $10/Blood $10/Blood Procurement Fees 11-‐20 Specimens 11-‐20 Specimens$45/Tissue $45/Tissue $20/Tissue $20/Tissue $15/Blood $15/Blood -‐ Procurement Technicians are compensated 21 at -‐30 a Specimens rate of 21-‐30 $10.00 per hour Specimens$55/Tissue plus a per tissue $55/Tissue or blood $25/Tissue $25/Tissue $20/Blood $20/Blood bonus as outlined in the table below: 31-‐40 Specimens 31-‐40 Specimens$65/Tissue $65/Tissue $30/Tissue $30/Tissue $25/Blood $25/Blood 41-‐50 Specimens 41-‐50 Specimens$75/Tissue $75/Tissue $35/Tissue $35/Tissue $30/Blood $30/Blood Tissue Bonus *Blood Structure Samples may be obtained with these specimens in which case Category C bonus does not apply. *Blood Samples may be obtained with these specimens in which case Category C bonus does not apply.

# Specimens Category 8 n A* cfamily.orgCategory B* Category C Please refer to the Procurable Specimens by Category dated 01/01/2013 for a detailed listing of Tissues. 1-‐10 Specimens $35/TissuePlease refer to the $15/Tissue Procurable Specimens $10/Blood by Category dated 01/01/2013 for a detailed listing of Tissues.

11-‐20 Specimens $45/Tissue $20/Tissue $15/Blood Two or More Procurement Technicians working in Unison 21-‐30 Specimens $55/Tissue $25/Tissue $20/Blood Two or More -‐ Procurement Procurement Technicians Technicians often work working in unison so in Unison procurements are split equality between the 31-‐40 Specimens $65/Tissue-‐ Procurement Technicians technicians. $30/Tissue often work $25/ in unison so Blood procurements are split equality between the 41-‐50 Specimens $75/Tissuetechnicians. $35/Tissue $30/Blood *Blood Samples may be obtained with these For example specimens , if two in technicians which case are Category C bonus does not apply. working together at the same clinic, and two maternal bloods are For example, if procured, two technicians each technician are working would receive $5 together for the at Blood the Procurement. same clinic, and two maternal bloods are Please refer to the Procurable Specimens procured, each by Category technician dated would 01/01/2013 receive $5 for for the a Blood detailed listing of Tissues. Procurement.

Two or More Procurement Technicians working in Unison -‐ Procurement Technicians often work in unison so procurements are split equality between the technicians.

For example, if two technicians are working together at the same clinic, and two maternal bloods are procured, each technician would receive $5 for the Blood Procurement.

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Of the 77% Religious Composition of Adults in North Carolina of NC adults who identify as "Christian," here's the breakdown.

35% 19% 12% 9% 2% Evangelical Mainline Black Catholic Other Protestant Protestant Protestant

Above taken from: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/north-carolina/ God's People Want to Know Considering the many culturally significant issues that stand in the balance at this time in our nation’s history, mobilizing potential Evangelical voters could have a seismic effect. And it ends up—church members want more political information and involvement from their church—not less!

Conservatives want more political Conservatives want their information from their church church to be more involved want more 31% Moderates 23% more 67% Conservatives 61% involvement information 65% All 58% want same 28% 31% 24% 28% same amount 24% 28% involvement 3% 5% want less information 1% 1% less involvement 1% 1% 22% 27% stay out of stay out of 4% 7% politics 6% 9% politics 16% 14% other views 4% 3% other views 5% 4%

http://www.culturefaith.com/gods-people-want-to-know/#more-666

58-63% of "Born Again Christians" voted in 2012 Here are some resources to encourage more Christians to vote:

Acts 20:28 Pastors Champion the Vote Culture Impact NC Family A free tool that allows pastors A one-stop shop that connects A resource from the Voter Guide to upload information about you with voting resources, such Family Research Council Shows where NC their church members and as: online voter registration; with downloadable candidates stand receive information that an absentee ballot; and church training materials, on family policy shows the percentage of information and downloadable promotional slides, issues. (Available their congregation that resources on how to conduct and information about prior to the 2016 is registered to vote, and a voter registration drive. local training events. General Election.) statistics (without congregants championthevote.com cultureimpact.org NCFamily.org names) of how many voted in previous elections. 2028Pastors.com spring 2016 9 “It felt like my stomach was • Distorts young people’s rotting from the inside out.” view of sexuality. For boys, That is how Joseph, a 12 year-old boy from Canada, this negatively impacts how described his reaction to viewing pornography on the they view women, who are Internet. During an interview with W5, a Canadian seen mainly as sex objects, TV program, he shared how he was first exposed to rather than multifaceted porn at the age of nine. He said it began accidently, human beings. But it can with pop-up ads on gaming websites, and then be equally harmful for girls, negatively impacting their progressed to intentional searches on Google, and self-esteem, causing them eventually became an addiction he could not hide. to see themselves as sexual As the mom of a tween daughter and pre-school objects, and leading them aged son, stories like Joseph’s scare me. One of my to accept abusive behaviors, greatest concerns for my children is how to protect including rape, as “normal.” them from being exposed to sexually explicit material, • Leads to earlier sexual especially online. It is why our daughter does not activity and more lifetime have a tablet or cell phone like some of her friends, sexual partners for both and why we are exploring filtering software for all boys and girls, which can our media devices. I am, admittedly, overly cautious increase the risk of teen with my kids when it comes to the Internet, but with pregnancy, abortion, and the deluge of porn that is available at the click of a sexually transmitted diseases. mouse or swipe of a screen, I would rather be safe than • Destroys relationships. A sorry when it comes to preserving their innocence. 2014 study of 20,000 adults spot lightAccording to the American College of Pediatricians who had ever been married (ACPeds), my concerns about the threat of online found that those who had pornography are well founded. In a recent position watched X-rated films were statement, ACPeds notes that “pornography has more likely to: report being become pervasive throughout American culture,” unhappy in their marriages, and warns that young people report being exposed to have had extramarital porn as young as age 10. Additionally, a new Barna affairs, and be divorced. • Increases the risk of porn report found that 71 percent of young adults and 50 addiction. Similar to drugs percent of teens report being exposed to porn at least and alcohol, the younger a once a week, the majority through online videos. person starts viewing porn, Just as Joseph described in his TV interview, the the more likely he or she is Dangerous ACPeds statement explains that, “pornography to become addicted. In fact, exposure at these young ages often results in one study by Cambridge Exposure anxiety for the child,” with children reporting, University scientists showed The Startling Effects “feelings of disgust, shock, embarrassment, anger, that brain scans of avid fear, and sadness after viewing pornography.” The of Porn on Children statement highlights the following detrimental effects of viewing porn, including that it:

written by: Alysse ElHage

10 ncfamily.org pornography viewers were of porn with our kids early on, similar to those of drug and let them know they can and addicts. As one young man should come to us first, if and who is seeking treatment for when they encounter porn. porn addiction explained on “I encourage parents to just the blog, I Believe in Love, his assume the worst,” warns ACPeds need to view porn progressed president and pediatrician, Resources for Parents from “once in a blue moon” Michelle Cretella, M.D., who in elementary school, to three recently discussed the harms of There are a number of excellent resources times a week in college. “If pornography on NC Family's radio available to help parents navigate the I didn’t use porn in a certain show “Family Policy Matters.” Internet and discuss the harms of porn with period of time,” he wrote, “I She added, "The chances of their children, including the following: suffered from… withdrawal accidentally coming across porn symptoms,” including “highly at some point is probably close • Internet Safety 101, sponsored by Enough elevated heart rate, anxiety to 100 percent for most kids.” is Enough, at www.InternetSafety101.org Dr. Cretella said parents and irritability, and mild to • NetSmartz Workshop, sponsored should be up front with their kids severe tremors in my hands.” by the National Center for Missing about the dangers online, and and Exploited Children, has an keep the lines of communication What Can We Do to interactive Internet safety website open. “I encourage parents to let for kids at www.netsmartz.org/ Protect Our Kids? their children know, ‘sometimes NetsmartzKids/BeSaferOnline In light of the pervasive pictures might come up that effects of pornography, ACPeds surprise you or make you feel • The Internet Keep Safe Coalition’s recommends that parents take a yucky or confused or guilty,’” she parent resources page: www. number of steps to protect children said. “[Tell them] ‘If you ever see iKeepSafe.org/parents from being exposed to sexually something that bothers you, or • The National Center on Sexual explicit material online, such as: that makes you feel yucky, please Exploitation parent resource page: • Placing home computers tell me, and I will help you.’” http://endsexualexploitation. in public spaces in the Joseph, the 12-year-old org/resources-parents/ home, never in a child’s Canadian boy who developed • Good Pictures, Bad Pictures is a new a pornography addiction, room (including cell phones, picture book for kids about a mom and echoed this important advice iPads, gaming devices, etc.); dad who explain “what pornography for kids and parents: • Equipping all media devices is, and why it’s dangerous, and how “Tell your parents … say with Internet filtering and to reject it.” The authors of the ‘that pop-up happened, please monitoring software; book also have a website, www. help me,’” he said. “Deal with • In the case of pornography pornproofkids.org, with tips on how it as soon as you can, because it addiction, seeking out to address the topic with kids. services that “offer will eat you like an acid.” the ability to create Alysse ElHage is Associate accountability partnerships Director of Research for the North [between parents and Carolina Family Policy Council. For children] that increase the a footnoted version of this article, success of breaking free from please visit www.ncfamily.org. pornography addiction.” In addition to doing what we can to protect our media devices from pornography, perhaps the most important step we can take is to prepare our children for how to handle sexually explicit The chances of accidentally coming material when they are exposed. Even though it is a difficult across porn at some point is probably discussion to have, experts advise close to 100 percent for most kids. that we talk about the dangers

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A Profile in Courage Representative Paul “Skip” Stam, defender of the unborn, traditional marriage, parental rights, choice in education, religious liberty, and responsible government

After more than 16 years in the General Assembly, Representative Paul "Skip" Stam announced that he will not seek reelection in 2016. A champion of pro-family, conservative, and constitutional causes and a consistent leader in the General Assembly, Rep. Stam played a significant role in the crafting and passage of much of the positive pro-family legislation that has become law in North Carolina over the last decade. “We have to … accomplish what we can when we can Legislative accomplishments at every opportunity.” – Rep. Paul Stam • Served 8 terms as N.C. House District 37 Representative • Born in • House Minority Leader, House Majority “The stars don’t have Princeton, NJ Leader, House Speaker Pro Tempore, • 65 years old multiple House committee chairmanships to line up for you to • Abstinence Until Marriage education run. If you don’t run, • Private practice • Parental consent for minor abortions you can’t win. If you attorney don’t win, you can’t • Woman’s Right to Know Act • Resident of serve…. Just do it.” • Ending taxpayer funding for abortion Apex, NC for – Rep. Paul Stam • Prohibiting abortion coverage in nearly 40 years N.C.’s federal healthcare exchange • Married to • Charter school funding Dottie Stam for • Special-needs education scholarships Participated in 42 years • Opportunity Scholarship Program litigation or filed • 2 children • Marriage Protection Amendment Friend of the Court briefs in cases to: • 8 grandchildren

• Protect the free • Member, Apex “A true gentleman and a great speech rights of pro- Baptist Church example of a humble public servant.” life organizations; • Eliminate North – John L. Rustin Carolina’s state NC Family President abortion fund; “I have lost six elections, and I say • Require parental consent for minor that to encourage Service abortions; other people who • Codify legal may have lost an • Legal counsel for North Carolina Right to Life homeschooling in election or two, North Carolina. • Chair of Wake County Right to Life to realize that • Trustee for Southern Baptist it’s not the end Theological Seminary of the world.” – Rep. Paul Stam 12 ncfamily.org spring 2016 13 daily fantasy sports

is it gambling?written by: Les Bernal

If you are a listener to talk radio or a viewer of major sports channels, you have undoubtedly been bombarded by ads for DraftKings, FanDuel, and other online sports gambling sites that promise the opportunity to win millions. If not, then you may have become aware of the controversy surrounding these Internet gambling operations due to the lawsuits that have been filed against them in venues across the country. Regardless, the rise of “Daily Fantasy Sports,” as it is called, is causing some to scratch their heads and question whether or not this seemingly innocuous form of sports betting is truly gambling. After all, it is modeled after non-gambling fantasy sports leagues that friends and families have enjoyed together for years. In reality, the sudden growth of FanDuel and DraftKings is not, as it seems, spontaneous and the result of an online game gone viral. Rather, it is the carefully crafted strategy of powerful gambling interests working to evade federal and state laws under the cloak of Daily Fantasy Sports. Like most other forms of high-stakes gambling, the practices of these operations are predatory, deceptive, and illegal, and they occur at the expense of everyday citizens. These games, in particular, are also heavily targeted at luring a whole new generation of young people into gambling and getting them hooked.

What’s Daily Fantasy Sports? Season-long fantasy sports started as a hobby and a form of community. It is a social activity, where the trophy matters more than the money. In contrast, “Daily Fantasy Sports” is a fleecing operation, plainly incorporating the real players. Players’ “prices” that daily fantasy games are not three elements of gambling: correspond with their perceived gambling are “absolutely, utterly consideration, chance, and prize. ability. For example, it might cost wrong.” Murren added, “I don’t In season-long games, $10,000 in “salary cap” money for know how to run a football participants may exercise star quarterback Tom Brady and team, but I do know how to run considerable skill in operating a $6,000 for a lesser quarterback a casino, and this is gambling.” team. They have to figure out who like Matt Ryan. Winning wagers Even the people who run to draft, select who plays, make or (“entries” in gambling parlance) online Daily Fantasy Sports sites reject trades, and analyze player are the ones with the best player privately admit they are running a and team statistics—all in hopes statistical performances in that gambling operation like “a casino.” of having a successful season. day’s games. Players’ stats are DraftKings CEO Jason Robins Participants typically accumulate translated into fantasy points. acknowledged his website was points based on the statistical Rather than simply hosting “almost identical to a casino” in an accomplishments of the athletes leagues for users, Daily Fantasy online discussion three years ago. they have selected to their teams Sports gambling operators Daily Fantasy Sports games through a draft. As originally serve as an exchange—just have a fundamentally different conceived, these games were like bookmakers. They profit relationship to chance than played between friends over the by keeping a cut of the money season-long fantasy games. course of a sport’s regular season. wagered, called in gambling On a given day, an injury, a Internet gambling operators parlance, “the juice,” “the snowstorm, or a ball bouncing like FanDuel and DraftKings vigorish,” “the vig” or “the rake.” strangely could affect a result. altered both the traditional In this regard, placing a wager structure and the business model. It IS Gambling with a Daily Fantasy Sports Daily Fantasy Sports contests Many of America’s casino operator is very similar to placing restart constantly and typically operators and gambling regulators a bet with a bookmaker. are played against strangers. openly describe Daily Fantasy Sports gambling operators Contests don’t begin with a draft. Sports as “gambling.” MGM deceptively claim that Daily Instead, contestants are given a Casinos Chairman Jim Murren Fantasy Sports is “a game of “salary cap” with which to choose recently said those who argue skill,” but the presence of skill

spring 2016 15 is irrelevant. Even if you were to can manage hundreds of minors to play free fantasy sports. argue that a “skilled” player is entries at once and identify The obvious business model is for not gambling, then it would also the weakest opponents. Yahoo to convert these “for-free” be true that a lesser or unskilled Both Internet gambling players into “real-money” gamblers. player must be gambling. The very and commercial sports Such youth are at risk of being existence of skilled players–who gambling are illegal in almost lured into real money gambling are playing with an edge and for every state in America, whether at Yahoo, or other Daily Fantasy Sports gambling sites. a profit–depends on the presence including North Carolina. of lesser skilled players willing to gamble at a disadvantage against Targeting American Youth The Failure of them. You can’t have a skilled Government- No demographic is a bigger Daily Fantasy Sports player target for Internet sports gambling Regulated Gambling without a compensating gambler. operators than America’s youth. Some have called for government A recent analysis of Daily This is especially concerning regulation as a “solution” to Fantasy Sports winners and losers because it is well-established the problems created by the affirms this fact. It concluded that the younger children start proliferation of Daily Fantasy that the majority of customers gambling, the more likely it is they Sports, but there is no need to lack the skill to ever have will become habitual gamblers speculate about what “regulated” success and thus are relying and also problem gamblers, online gambling really means. largely on chance to recoup regardless of whether they are Simply look at the evidence listed below to see how government’s some of their wager. It stated: from an urban or a suburban community. According to data experiment with state lotteries While any player might get from the Fantasy Sports Trade and regional casinos has failed. lucky on the back of a handful Association, almost 10 million of There is no location in America of entries, over time nearly the estimated 51.6 million fantasy where government-sponsored all of the prize money flows sports players are under 18. One gambling has collectively to a tiny elite equipped with of the companies to launch its improved the lives of citizens, elaborate statistical modeling own sports gambling operation, long-term. Government’s and automated tools that Yahoo, has recruited thousands of “regulation” of gambling has failed on almost every measure.

1. Rising Inequality. A mountain of independent evidence confirms that government’s experiment of sponsoring lotteries and regional casinos is contributing to rising unfairness and inequality in our nation. It has concentrated commercial gambling in economically-distressed communities, targeting citizens from the lower rungs of the income ladder. Low-income workers, retirees and minorities, comprise a disproportionately large share of lottery and regional casino users. The real reason for this is that those who are financially desperate look to government- sponsored gambling as a way to improve their lives and help them escape their financial condition.

16 ncfamily.org By targeting the least 3. “You Pay Even if advantaged, government-sponsored You Don’t Play” gambling adds to the increasingly For the two-thirds of citizens separate and unequal life patterns who never or rarely gamble, in education, marriage, work, state-sponsored gambling is and play that now are dividing a disastrous budget gimmick. America into haves and have-nots. The facts show that where states authorize commercial gambling, 2. Public Health Costs. all taxpayers—including the non- At least 1 out of every 20 gamblers—end up paying higher citizens has had their lives taxes for fewer services, and their turned upside down because of states end up with worse budget Take Action! commercial gambling, most of problems over the long term. North Carolina should take the following which is sponsored by government. This is because casinos and Some gambling addicts turn to actions against the predatory, deceptive, and lotteries have proven to be a failed illegal practices of Daily Fantasy Sports: crime in an effort to feed their source of government revenue addiction, leading them to steal and have not delivered on their • Shut down Daily Fantasy or embezzle money, landing promises to fund education, lower Sports operators many in prison. Others are taxes, or pay for needed public • Prosecute offenders ruined financially, left in a state services. Gambling revenues do of inescapable poverty. This figure not tend to grow as rapidly over • Refer to the IRS any findings that federal does not account for the reality that time as general tax revenue or wagering excise taxes have been evaded each gambling addict has at least expenditures on education and • Confiscate illegally-generated proceeds five people close to them whose other programs. New gambling lives are also upended because of operations that are intended to gambling. These citizens, both pay for normal increases in general young and old, suffer in many state spending add to, rather than ways, including countless incidents ease, long-term budget imbalances. of neglected children left locked Allowing states to sponsor in cars in casino parking lots, online gambling such as online or abandoned at home while a fantasy sports gambling will parent gambles away the family’s only deepen this downward money. Imagine how many spiral, forcing the taxpayers who kids will suffer if we permit don’t gamble to foot the bill. state government to essentially allow a casino to open in every Taking Action to living room in North Carolina by legalizing Internet gambling Protect Citizens like Daily Fantasy Sports? For all of these reasons, Public officials have taken citizens and government leaders virtually no action to address in North Carolina should this public health crisis possibly press their law enforcement because these addicted gamblers communities and prosecutors to are the prime source of profits follow the lead of states such as for state-run gambling. It is New York and Illinois, where unfounded to suggest that if state Attorneys General have online gambling such as Daily essentially shut down Daily Fantasy Sports is authorized, Fantasy Sports operations. the government will regulate it differently. Government’s Les Bernal is National Director of the Stop Predatory Gambling record on lotteries and regional Foundation. For a footnoted casinos shows its primary version of this article, please purpose is to maximize profits, visit www.ncfamily.org. not protect the public health.

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On Air With ... Since 1999, the NC Family has been producing the 15-minute weekly radio program “Family Policy Matters,” which features interviews with national, state, and local experts on a wide range of family policy issues. “Family Policy Matters” airs each week on over 20 radio stations across North Carolina and can also be streamed on the NC Family website. Following are select excerpts from a few recent programs, which can be heard in full online at www.ncfamily.org. ... Gianna Jessen ... Valerie Huber

John Rustin: Gianna, your birth John Rustin: What advice do you have for is nothing short of miraculous. parents and teenagers to really encourage Your biological mother was 17 them in their efforts to make healthy and pregnant when she went to a and correct decisions about sex? local abortion clinic. The saline abortion they attempted failed, Valerie Huber: The first thing that we need to be and you were born alive, praise very conscious of is the fact that there is so much the Lord. Tell us what’s involved “cultural chatter” that is sending the message both in a saline abortion, and how to teens and parents that sex is an expectation, in the world did you survive? and the norm. I think both parents and teens need to realize that the majority of their peers [for Gianna Jessen: She was seven teens] haven’t had sex, and that can be a game- and a half months pregnant. She changer because the cultural chatter is saying went to a Planned Parenthood, Gianna Jessen, a pro- just the opposite. Secondly, parents really need where they told her she needed to life advocate, speaker to step up—even though it’s an uncomfortable have a late-term saline abortion, and author, shared conversation, even though they may have made [which is] a saline salt solution the miraculous story some personal choices themselves when they were that's injected into the mother’s of her birth, and how teens that they’re not womb. It's to burn the baby inside God has used her especially happy about now. and out, blind and suffocate the story to promote the Their children can learn child, and then she is to deliver a sanctity of human life. through their mistakes, dead baby within 24 hours. But I Aired February 2016. rather than having to repeat was delivered alive after 18 hours them themselves. And of all of that in a Los Angeles after all, this is a critical County abortion clinic. It's even stunning for me to look down at my time for parents to parent. medical records and have them say: “Born during saline abortion, 6am, 2 Think of how [more teen] 1/2 pounds, 1977, Los Angeles, California." I should have burns on my decisions might change body, and those who oppose me love to accuse me of lying because they even more positively, if say, "Your skin is not burned, you have flawless skin," and then of course there could be a chorus my vanity as a woman takes over, and I say, "Yes, I do have flawless skin, and an amplification of tell me more!" But really, it doesn't occur to godless people that God healthy messaging and could shield you in the womb, just like He did Shadrach, Meshach, and encouraging? [We need Valerie Huber, Abednego. Now, I do have the gift of cerebral palsy, which was caused to say to young people]: “I president of Ascend by a lack of oxygen to my brain while I was surviving that very abortion. believe that you can [wait (formerly the National I would not be disabled otherwise, which I think is curious because you for sex]. It’s the healthiest Abstinence Education always hear the awful argument that if the baby is disabled we need choice, and if you’ve Association), discussed to terminate the pregnancy. Which, by the way, who does that sound made unhealthy choices the key role parents like? Adolph Hitler! Who are you, healthy person, to try to put on me in the past, I’m here to can play in helping what my value of life is according to you? I think we have forgotten help you make healthier teens make wise how beautiful adversity can be—how it is so often from the weakest ones in the future.” decisions about sex. among us that we learn something. I have a phenomenal life! Is it Aired January 2016. easy? No. I did not sign up for easy. I signed up for extraordinary.

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Dr. Matthew Harrison, a Charlotte-area family physician, discussed the life- saving Abortion Pill Reversal Method, John L. Rustin, NC Family President and host of “Family Policy Matters” which he helped to pioneer. Aired Radio Stations Airing “Family Policy Matters” December 2015. Belmont/Gastonia WCGC 1270 am sunday, 11:30 PM

Charlotte WHVN 1240 am sunday, 11:30 am WOGR 88.3 Fm saturday, 3:45 PM John Rustin: In 2006, you used the Abortion Pill Reversal Method for the first time on a Charlotte/Harrisburg WGAS 1420 am saturday, 3:45 PM pregnant woman who had started the RU-486 pill regimen and changed her mind. Share with Fayetteville WCLN 107.3 Fm saturday, 7:00 AM us that story, and what happened to that baby? Forest City WWOL 780 AM Wednesday, 8:45 AM Matthew Harrison, MD: I was working in my office… and one of the pregnancy centers called me, Greensboro/ WKEW 1400 am sunday, 9:30 AM and said they had a young lady [who] had just taken Winston–Salem WTRU 830 am saturday, 6:00 AM the RU-486 [abortion pill], and she regretted it, and wanted to do whatever she could to save the baby. I New Bern WSTK 104.5 Fm saturday, 3:15 PM really had no idea what to do, but I asked them to send her right over…. There’s really … nothing we’ve Newland WECR 1130 am saturday, 9:06 AM been trained to do in this situation, so I told her I just needed to walk out of the exam room and pray about Pisgah Forest WGCR 720 am saturday, 9:00 AM it, which is exactly what I did. I went into my office, and I looked through The Physician’s Desk Reference… And I started thinking about how RU-486 worked… Raleigh WTRU 1030 am saturday, 6:30 AM if RU-486 is like a key that fits into the lock, but doesn’t turn it, then progesterone is a key that fits into Rocky Mount WLQC 103.1 Fm sunday, 11:00 PM the lock but does turn it, so why don’t we just throw a bunch of extra good keys into the mix, so that we can Salisbury WOGR 93.3 Fm saturday, 12:15 PM out-compete the bad keys, in other words RU-486? And hopefully the progesterone will kind of overpower Sanford WLHC 103.1 Fm sunday, 11:00 PM the RU-486, and be able to do its job. So pretty much, [we just tried] replacing progesterone that was being Shallotte WVCB 1410 AM Wednesday, 10:05 AM blocked by the RU-486. I explained this to the young S saturday, 4:30 PM lady and said, “Look, this hasn’t been done, and this could cause prolonged bleeding, and abortion, and the Troy WJRM 1390 am sunday, 7:30 AM baby might still die.” But she said that she was willing to accept those chances, and do what she could to Wilmington WZDG 88.5 Fm sunday, 5:30 AM save her baby. So we gave her an injection, and started S sunday, 6:00 PM praying for the best… and we continued progesterone injections twice a week up until she was about 28 Winston–Salem WBFJ 1550 AM sunday, 4:10 PM weeks. And then she delivered a perfectly healthy WPOL 1340 am sunday, 9:30 AM little girl right at 40 weeks, full term, and that little WPIP 880 am sunday, 5:00 PM girl is now eight years old and doing wonderfully! You may also stream “Family Policy Matters” online at www.ncfamily.org spring 2016 19 spot light

This January, Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an administrative order that, “Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment” until the Alabama Supreme Court rules on the issue of same-sex “marriage” later this year. Constitutional Last fall, Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk of Court Kim Davis spent Resistance five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses bearing her signature to same-sex couples because of her religious Do We Have a Duty beliefs. In December 2015, newly elected Gov. Mark Bevin to Resist Marriage issued an executive order that removes the names of all county clerks from Kentucky marriage licenses “to ensure that the Redefinition? sincerely held religious beliefs of all Kentuckians are honored.” Closer to home, over 30 North Carolina magistrates with deeply held religious beliefs about marriage have used a new state law to recuse themselves from participating in the solemnization of same-sex unions.

These courageous Americans are the faces of peaceful resistance to written by: the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that Alysse ElHage forced the legal recognition of same-sex unions on every state in the nation. While some may consider the SCOTUS ruling the law of the land, a group of the nation’s most respected legal scholars disagrees, calling it “illegitimate,” “anti-constitutional,” and worthy of opposition. In October 2015, over 60 legal scholars from universities such as Princeton, Notre Dame, and Oxford, released a pivotal statement describing Obergefell as an “unbinding precedent that has not settled the

20 ncfamily.org law in the United States,” and • A jurist (judge) recusing authority shall, in any case urged American officeholders to herself or himself from whatever, control or interfere actively resist the ruling. Led by applying the ruling, or with the rights of conscience.” Princeton professor Robert George, crafting a dissent from founder of the American Principles a majority ruling that “By the People” Project, the statement asks all does apply the ruling; Although the legal scholars’ • Citizens petitioning various state and federal office holders to: statement is mainly addressed to governmental units to • Refuse to accept Obergefell state and federal officeholders, Dr. resist the decision, and to as binding precedent Ventrella said it applies to every positively erect protections for all but the specific American, “because in the United for conscientious objection plaintiffs in that case; States, all power and authority of by individuals as well as • Recognize the authority of the State derives from ‘the People.’” associations [who believe that states to define marriage, He encouraged pro-family and the right of federal marriage is only the union of citizens “not [to] grow weary one man and one woman.]” and state officeholders to in educating others about the “Because the SCOTUS ruling act in accordance with judicial usurpation of [these is sweeping,” Dr. Ventrella those definitions; kinds of rulings].” He said explained, “the applications of • Pledge full and mutual legal we all have a responsibility to resistance will also be sweeping.” and political assistance to “engage the deliberative process Sometimes, resistance means anyone who refuses to follow to craft constitutional means to taking steps to prevent the silencing Obergefell for constitutionally erode, undermine, and limit the of those who hold traditional SCOTUS marriage ruling.” protected reasons; views of marriage by fighting for Dr. Ventrella added, “We must • Open … a broad and religious liberty protections for be prepared, where necessary, honest conversation on the public servants and private citizens. to resist the application of means by which Americans The threat to religious liberty from the [Obergefell] ruling when may constitutionally marriage redefinition is why North it infringes conscience, and/ resist and overturn the Carolina lawmakers enacted Senate or undermines legitimate judicial usurpations Bill 2—Magistrates Recusal for otherwise protected interests, evident in Obergefell. Civil Ceremonies in 2015. SB2 such as religious freedom allows certain public servants and associational rights.” On the Ground who issue marriage licenses or While resistance may come in perform marriages to recuse many forms, we are all called to Alliance Defending Freedom themselves from participating in do our part. Pro-family citizens Senior Legal Counsel Jeffery civil marriages “based upon any need to work together to defend Ventrella, J.D., Ph.D., is one of sincerely held religious objection.” the religious liberty and free speech the legal scholars who signed Unfortunately, the law is being rights of public servants, and to the statement in his personal challenged in a federal lawsuit elect leaders who will uphold the capacity. When NC Family filed by six North Carolinians, historic definition of marriage. We asked Dr. Ventrella what including same-sex couples, who can also resist efforts to redefine constitutional resistance to argue—ironically—that the marriage by continuing to speak Obergefell looks like in practical magistrates who recuse themselves the Truth in love about marriage terms, he said the scholars’ are violating their oath to uphold in our homes, our churches, statement, “wisely does not the State Constitution—the and our communities. dictate specific actions because same Constitution that protects Alysse ElHage is Associate they can vary by circumstance, these public servants’ religious Director of Research for the North actor, and situation.” freedom. See Article 1, Section 13 Carolina Family Policy Council. For But he did say it could apply to of the N.C. Constitution states: a footnoted version of this article, a number of situations, including: “All persons have a natural and please visit www.ncfamily.org. • “A public official exercising inalienable right to worship a well-formed conscience Almighty God according refusing to comply with to the dictates of their own applications of the ruling; consciences, and no human

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Thank you to all NC General Assembly members who are retiring or running for another office in 2016!

NC Senate 33 NC Senate 16 Stan Bingham (R) Josh Stein (D) NC House 81 NC House 32 NC House 37 NC Senate 45 Nathan Baskerville (D) Paul Stam (R) Dan Soucek (R) Rayne Brown (R)

NC House 6 Paul Tine (U) NC House 120 Roger West (R)

NC Senate 39 NC Senate 11 NC House 113 Bob Rucho (R) E.S. (Buck) Newton (R) Chris Whitmire (R) NC House 100 NC House 26 Tricia Ann Cotham (D) Leo Daughtry (R) NC House 20 NC Senate 48 Rick Catlin (R) Tom Apodaca (R) NC House 104 NC House 28 Dan Bishop (R) James H. Langdon (R) NC House 105 NC Senate 36 NC House 46 Jacqueline Schaffer (R) Fletcher L Hartsell (R) Ken Waddell (D) 22 ncfamily.org perspective

Courting Evangelical Voters

You can hardly turn on major broadcast news So can evangelical voters really make a difference? these days without being bombarded by the latest The candidates certainly seem to think so, and prognostications about the presidential primary recent electoral history in North Carolina confirms elections. In my mind, that’s a good thing. Far it. In 2008, Barack Obama won North Carolina too often, we, as Americans, face a deficiency of by only 14,177 votes, the second closest percentage information about candidates running for office and margin in the nation. In 2012, Mitt Romney won where they stand on critical issues. This election has North Carolina by 92,004 votes, the third closest proven to be quite different, however, as matters percentage margin in the nation. And in 2014, of faith, the sanctity of human life, and religious former GOP Speaker of the N.C. House Thom liberty have taken center stage—literally! Tillis defeated Democrat Kay Hagan for U.S. In fact, candidates across the board (particularly Senate by only 45,608 votes, a margin of just 1.5 in the Republican Primaries) are bending over percent of all votes cast. These top-of-the-ballot backwards to court “evangelical voters.” These statewide races are indicative of how truly competitive “faith-based” citizens have become a major target North Carolina’s political landscape really is. in this election, but if you had the opportunity to So, I ask again, can evangelical voters really ask the candidates who these evangelical voters make a difference? The answer is a resounding are, you would probably get very different answers “YES,” but in order to do so, (1) we must be from each one. Regardless, American voters informed, and (2) we must get out and vote. who value faith, life, and religious freedom have That is why NC Family provides valuable tools, like become a “hot” political commodity in 2016. our non-partisan General Election Voter Guide, to According to a report by the Pew Research help voters understand where the candidates stand on Center on Religion & Public Life, 77 percent of the issues that really matter the most. And it is why we adults in North Carolina are of the Christian faith work so hard to encourage citizens to take their civic (20 percent are “unaffiliated,” and the remaining responsibility seriously and to “Vote Their Values.” 3 percent are of non-Christian faiths including If you are an “evangelical voter” in North Carolina Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other). Over this election cycle, you can rest assured that one-third of North Carolina adults, or 35 percent, your vote is not only a highly prized commodity, identify as “Evangelical Protestants.” This means but that it absolutely can make a difference! that of the 6.4 million registered voters in the So, be sure to get out and vote! state—well over 2 million—consider themselves to be “evangelical" (see graphic on page 9). John L. Rustin is President of the North As with the candidates, it may be difficult to Carolina Family Policy Council. pin down exactly what this designation means when it comes to the ballot box, but it is an undeniable fact that a HUGE portion of voters in the Old North State find themselves within this now coveted political demographic.

NC Senate 11 E.S. (Buck) Newton (R)

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Our speakers are always a treat! You get some great inside information on what’s going on nationwide from the folks who are setting the pace for all of us. And NC Family President John L. Rustin always has an update and unique perspective on the most pressing issues facing our state in the coming year.

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