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THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE NEW ENGLAND LAW | BOSTON LAW LIBRARY

MAY 2014

Notes from the Director By Anne M. Acton

Crowdsourcing Legal

Information

You have probably heard of the term ―crowdsourcing‖. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary notes that the word was first used in 2006 and defines it as:

the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.

Contributions can sometimes be monetary for fundraising purposes, but I am going to present about some new crowdsourcing projects that have sprung up to give access to legal information. Though most of these projects make information freely available to the public similar to Wikipedia, these particular ones have some editorial vetting and are affiliated with law schools so they are worthwhile to check out.

This search engine developed by Pablo Arredondo as a fellowship project at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, gets at judge-generated case summaries and descriptions of legal principles

contained in case opinions. If you put search terms or phrases in quotes in the Google-like box, such as wiretap or ―felony murder‖, in return you see results from a number of cases and a brief blurb from the opinion. These cases are not available in fulltext, but they are accompanied by citation. Searchers can then go and find the fulltext of the cases on Westlaw or Lexis or via free sources such as Casetext, Courtlistener, and Google Scholar.

Though there are several free sources for fulltext opinions, case citators have long resided only on fee based sources like Shepard’s on LexisNexis and Keycite on Westlaw. From this same Center at Stanford and in sync with their Casetext database, comes:

The WeCite Project

…designed to allow users to seamlessly input analysis as to how opinions impact each other. In keeping with the community spirit behind the company, Casetext's citator is called WeCite.

How do you benefit from WeCite?

Let's say you are reading Brown v. Board of Education. To research how subsequent decisions have treated Brown, simply click the WeCite button on the lefthand toolbar.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Summer Extension 2

Staff News 2 Book Review 3 Totally Unofficial Faculty Law 4 Library Committee: A Student’s Perspective

Boston Public Library 5 Online Resources

Marathon Scarf Project 5

Book Review 6 The System

Hold that Pose! 7

Legal Research 8 in the Law Reviews

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Summer Extension By Barry Stearns

Lexis

Lexis is offering unlimited access to Lexis Advance this summer.

1Ls & 2Ls: Students may continue to use their current Lexis Advance ID for any purpose this summer– including work they perform at a law firm, corporation or government agency.

Graduating students, can register for a Graduate Program IDs that will extend their access beyond graduation. To learn more, visit www.lexisnexis.com/grad-access.

Westlaw

Non Graduating Student Westlaw passwords automatically remain active over the summer for a limited number of hours of research each month during June and July. Students can request full summer access at Westlaw's Password Extension page if they meet one of the following provisions:

-Summer law school classes and study abroad programs -Law review and journal - including write-on competitions -Research assistant -Moot court -Unpaid internship/externship

Graduating students can extend access while studying for the bar by registering for Westlaw's Grad Program. Registered graduates will retain access to Westlaw through November if graduating in May.

Bloomberg Law Bloomberg Law accounts remain fully active over the summer for registered law students, including access for research conducted during summer employment. Graduates automatically keep full access to Bloomberg Law through their individual account for six months following graduation. □

Staff News By Kristin McCarthy

Reference librarian, Brian Flaherty, lectured on statutory research at Harvard Law School as part of the LLNE (Law Librarians of New England) Legal Research Instruction Program. He also received a LLNE scholarship to attend a conference on American Tribal Law & Culture at the University of Connecticut Law School.

In April, Tim Devin, our Electronic Resources, Serials and Collection Management Librarian, gave a presentation on his book and poster projects at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as part of their visiting artist program.

Acquisitions and Serials Specialist, James Gage, has co-authored a book (just published) entitled Milestones & Guideposts of Massachusetts and

Southeastern New Hampshire. Milestones gave travelers in the 1700s and 1800s information about distances to cities and 129 of these have been preserved in Massachusetts.

Reference librarian, Sidra Vitale, wrote an article for New England Law Review’s online publication, On Remand, entitled ―Immigration Equality: How DOMA’s Repeal Affected Immigration.‖ □

One of Tim Devin’s projects is posting public service announcement type posters throughout Boston neighborhoods. This one (above left) is about income inequality in the Boston area. Jim Gage’s new book (above right).

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Book Review – Totally Unofficial By Helen Litwack

Totally unofficial: the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, ed. Donna-Lee Frieze, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013).

He was a Jew born in 1900, in a part of Poland, now Belarus, who enjoyed short-lived prosperity as a private-sector attorney after a routine stint as a public prosecutor. His house was bombed when the Nazis invaded Poland, but he escaped the cauldron, first to teach at Duke University Law School and later at

Yale. Somewhere along the way he learned twelve languages and published numerous scholarly works on international law.

He invented the term ―genocide‖ and devoted himself to passage of the 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. He gave up teaching to do so. Doggedly, but diplomatically, he pursued the requisite number of state ratifications to bring the Convention into force (1951), under personal circumstances of poor health, poverty, and

Christians in which the victims were force-fed water, had all orifices sealed with cement, then covered by wooden planks and run over by horses. He was about 15 when an Armenian man assassinated the person who had been Ottoman Empire’s point man in the Turkish murder of 1.2 million Armenians. Then, in law school, a Jewish man similarly killed the man who had been Ukraine’s architect of deadly pogroms against fellow Jews. By a kind of jury nullification, both of these assassins were found not guilty by reason of insanity; nevertheless Lemkin’s existential discomfort grew and grew. ―Why is a man punished when he kills another man, yet the killing of a million is a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?‖, he asked.

He decided to devote his life to developing international moral standards that would be enshrined in law criminalizing the destruction of national, racial and religious groups. Might it be worth your time to follow how one man created the meaning of his life, and to think about your own trajectory - not to imitate or emulate, but just to take a break from the frantic law-school pace and be inspired by the possibility of growing into your own deepest self?

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sometimes acute loneliness. In the end, he collapsed and died on a New York sidewalk. That was 1959: the autobiography which is the subject of this book review was left an unfinished, fragmentary manuscript.

Dramatic and admirable; yet having read the capsule version above, why take an additional couple of hours to hear Lemkin’s story in his own voice?

First: because contrary to what it might be reasonable to assume, the inner imperative that directed Lemkin’s life’s work was not forged in the flames of the Holocaust (though there is evidence his parents were gassed at Treblinka). The seeds of his lifework germinated years before - in his studious, sensitive youth. That’s the kind of biography this reviewer finds most compelling – the inner-directed life.

Pinpoint the start of Lemkin’s journey to around the time his parents stopped paying the bribes necessary to allow Jews to illegally own farmland and the family moved to the city so that their children could get a proper education. Young Raphael was fascinated and disturbed to read about Christians being thrown to the lions under Nero. He was horrified by an incident of Imperial Japan’s torture-murder of 50,000

Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide”. In his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, he defined the term as “the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group.”

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Faculty Law Library Committee:

A Student’s Perspective By Tiesha Fields, ‘14

In the summer before my first year of law school, my newly assigned mentor sent me an email message welcoming me to the New England Law community and providing tips and tricks for making it through my first few days. During our initial conversations she mentioned she was the Student Bar Association liaison to the Faculty Law Library Committee, working on students’ behalf with professors and the library staff to help guide the decisions and direction the library

Director of the Library and the Associate Dean on matters that directly affect the library’s budget and operations. While the committee does not contain the power to require change, we help evaluate the library’s short term and long term goals, provide a sounding board for changes in policies, and give our diverse opinions on future decisions the library staff is considering.

As I now near graduation, my three years spent as a respected member of the library committee are among the highlights of my time at New England Law. I had a voice among the committee members, each of which was always ready and willing to hear my questions, concerns and comments. As a contributing member I was able to see improvements implemented that were spearheaded by student concerns. For example, after numerous complaints about students talking in the library, Anne Action, Director of the Law Library, and myself worked together to remind students about the need for quiet in the library. Furthermore, we took the noise concerns to the orientation committee who helped ensure that a required library tour was part of the orientation program along with a discussion with new students about the need for quiet in all library study spaces. My time with the committee also yielded smaller changes, such as the inclusion of a standing height table in the basement for those students that

benefitted from having an alternative to sitting in a chair at a table or cubicle.

In addition to the work done in the committee meetings, I was also blessed with the opportunity to get to know some of the professors and library staff that serve on the committee. Each of them has offered me guidance and encouragement when needed, and are always ready and willing to hear my concerns or questions about new ideas and library policies. The faculty and staff that serve on the Faculty Law Library Committee are some of the best educators and student supporters at New England Law.

The Faculty Law Library Committee is instrumental in acquiring and maintaining unique research resources for the students of New England Law, ensuring that the materials available are useful and effective, expanding resources in highly sought after areas, and balancing the print and online acquisitions. They are continually evaluating how students research and look for new ways to provide the research quickly and accurately. It was a privilege to serve as part of the Faculty Law Library Committee for the past three years and I hope to pass the torch on to another student who is excited to work with the faculty and staff in ensuring our library is the first stop a student makes on their way to accurate and effective research. □

Tiesha Fields, class of 2014.

was taking. I was instantly intrigued and knew I wanted the opportunity to take over her role when she graduated. I joined their meetings during the fall of my first year

and the library committee was welcoming and encouraging of my participation.

The Faculty Law Library Committee is made up of members of the library staff, several faculty members, the Associate Dean, and a student representative from the Student Bar Association. We function as an advisory board to both the

New Laptops! The Library added 7 new 13” MacBooks

to the collection. These are available to check out for use throughout

the Stuart Street building.

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Boston Public Library Online Sources By Tim Devin

Did you know that Boston Public Library offers online access to hundreds of databases to all of its cardholders? It’s true! They offer everything from full-text access to hundreds of scholarly journals in ―JSTOR,‖ to full text and images on early American life in ―Early American Imprints,‖ to help for job-seekers in ―Vocations and Careers Collection‖. Just go to bpl.org, and click on ―electronic resources.‖ You’ll be prompted for your BPL library card number and log in.

Don’t have a BPL library card? No problem! All Massachusetts residents are eligible to get one. You can apply for an eCard online

at: http://www.bpl.org/general/circulation/ecards.htm. As noted on the website, ―BPL eCards are virtual library cards that allow users to instantly use all of Boston Public Library's remotely-accessible

electronic resources.‖ If you want to check out print materials as well, you can upgrade your eCard at any of the Boston Public Library branches, including the Main Branch near Copley Station on the Green Line. □

Search electronic resources on the Boston Public Library website by

subject or title.

Marathon Scarf Project By Sharon Wade

Old South Church in Boston started this Marathon Scarf Project few months ago to remember the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombings. My mom heard about it through her friends. We got involved with this project. I am not a great

knitter but I gave it a try. I was proud to be able to finish and give to the Church. I also did it in memory of Sandy Lamar, our staff member. Her memorial service was held at South Church a few years ago. The purpose of this project is to give a scarf to each

Sharon in her marathon scarf.

runner at the finish line after being blessed by the church. But it turned out that over 6,500 scarves were pouring in from all over the U.S. and the world, too. Because so many scarves were received, Old South Church gave away scarves to others beside the runners. □

The ducklings had their own scarves.

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Book Review: The System By Karen Green

The System, a book written by New England Law | Boston Alumni Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, explores the side of college football that is often overlooked by football fans. Behind the college bowl games watched by millions each year on television and in person in stadiums that rival NFL ones, is a dark underside that calls into question how student –athletes are treated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the individual athletic programs at colleges and universities. An April 2014 decision handed down by the National Labor Relations Board classifying football players at Northwestern University as employees of the institution and having the right to form a union brings the behind the scene practices of the NCAA and institutions of higher learning into the national spotlight.

This book discusses many different issues surrounding NCAA football. All of the stories related originated from first-hand observations by the authors between September, 2011 and April, 2013. Several chapters follow Mike Leach’s coaching career from Texas Tech to Washington State University. The events described by Benedict and Keteyian also brought to light how universities aggressively recruit coaches and how athletic programs value wins and the influx of alumni dollars over the health and safety of student-athletes. Mike Leach was subject to an investigation while at Texas Tech on how Adam James, son of former New England Patriots player Craig James, was treated by Leach’s staff after revealing he had a concussion. Since James could not practice with his injury, the staff on two occasions isolated him in a dark room (a shed and later a media room) without being

able to sit down. After an investigation, it was found that Leach was a fault. He was subsequently fired after refusing to apologize to James and agreeing to new guidelines to prevent similar incidents from happening again. In 2012, he was hired by Washington State University to turn their program around. Soon similar allegations were raised against Leach by his football players. They claimed he and his staff punished his players after a loss by having them perform drills in a sandpit and hold 45 pound weights over their heads while they were blasted in the face by water from a fire hose. After a conference ordered investigation, Leach and his staff were cleared of any wrongdoing. He continues to coach at Washington State University to this day.

and purchasing food during these visits. After the student returns home, the hostesses would continue to contact the recruit through social media. This was used as a way to get around NCAA restrictions on communicating with recruits. When the activities of a group of hostesses from Tennessee called the Orange Pride drew the attention of NCAA for recruitment violations, the only punishment the football program received was a reduction in the number of phone calls permitted to potential recruits and a ban from recruiting from a specific high school for a few months. Once a player commits to a program, the benefits do not end. Tutors are assigned to the players to help with class work but often end up completing the work for them. Boosters give players money, access to cars and other gifts under the table. Local businesses offer them jobs and pay them salaries based on hours they did not work. One such arrangement between Eddie Rife, a tattoo business owner and alleged drug dealer, and several Ohio State Football players cost Jim Tressel, beloved head coach of the Buckeyes, his job. An NCAA investigation discovered that between 2008 and 2010 several Ohio State football players had received almost $14,000 in cash, car loans and free tattoos from Rife in exchange for signed memorabilia including bowl rings and game used equipment. It was discovered that nine players had received payment for work they did not perform. As a result, Tressel lost his job for failure to report violations to the proper authorities. The OSU football program was placed on three year probation, lost several football scholarships, and had to forfeit wins and bowl game revenue as punishment. Continued on page 9

Another issue brought to light in this book is the college recruitment process. High school students are invited to campuses for tours, stay in expensive hotels, and have female college hostesses give them personal tours of the institution. During the visit, the hostesses were given petty cash by members of the athletic department to use while taking the recruit out to the movies

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Hold That Pose! By Joyce Kinoshita

Imagine that treasured photo: you, in your New England Law cap and gown, holding your hard-won diploma. Now imagine that treasured photo in 100 years. What will your great-grandchildren see? Will they be able to see it at all? What are some issues we should all consider when planning to save the documents of our family histories?

First, make a plan: decide what is worth the trouble of preservation. You may choose to preserve only a small selection of all of your photos. Consider digitizing documents such as special letters, news clippings, programs, and awards. Consider light, temperature, and moisture when deciding where to store your originals. Then, use the 3-2-1 rule: Keep 3 copies (a primary and two backups), use at least 2 different storage media (such as DVD and hard drive), and keep 1 copy offsite (i.e., not in the same place as your other copies).

Digitization alone is not a panacea, however. Just as paper can disintegrate, digital files can also degrade. Editing or saving a JPEG will degrade it. Store a ―master‖ of your digital photos and edit only copies! Storage devices can degrade too. Light and time will eventually degrade files stored on DVDs. Information on flash drives and even hard drives will eventually degrade. The integrity of files stored in the Cloud is only as good as the economics and security of the company storing them. Plan to re-copy precious files onto fresh or technologically-current storage devices every 3 to 5 years. Don’t let your favorite photos, videos, music, or documents die on the Rubbish Heap of Dead Technology (think floppy discs, VHS tapes, audio

cassettes, files on old versions of Word).

The Archives at New England Law | Boston has been digitizing the school’s earliest documents in an effort to preserve our precious history. Karen Green, our Acquisitions, Preservation and Special Collections Librarian, has had to confront not only the economics of preserving our collections, but also the physics of their various materials and the technologies required to view

them. For more information about our Archives or about preservation, feel free to contact her at kgreen@nesl.edu. Open-source photo editing programs such as GIMP are available free on the web. More information about preservation is also available on the Library of Congress’s website http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/. □

Digitizing saved what remains of

the graduation portraits of Anna T.

McCarty, Portia Law School Class

of 1928 (above) and Bernice

Grandison, class of 1926 (left), as

well as a newspaper clipping from

the June 14, 1924 edition of the

Boston Traveler, featuring Alice

LaBree, class of 1924.

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Legal Research in the Law Reviews By Barry Stearns

―While primary sources of law are readily available for the recent past and very early years, legislative researchers have struggled to find older congressional or state legislative materials on the web; thankfully, this information is now more likely to be online. The HathiTrust Digital Library, a cooperative library initiative, contains millions of documents from member organizations covering all disciplines including law--illustrating the fascinating variety of legal information available in digital form.‖

Jan Bissett & Margi Heinen, Prospecting for Digital Nuggets Research Gems on the Web, 93 Mich. B.J. 46 (March 2014). ―[A] factual precedent is a lower court's reliance on the Supreme Court's assertion of legislative fact--a general factual claim--as authority to prove that the observation is indeed true. For example, rather than just using the work of an historian or a psychologist to establish a factual dimension of a case (that the founding generation all owned guns for self-defense or that severely mentally impaired people can still control impulses), a lower court quotes relevant language from a Supreme Court decision to make the point. A lower court relies on, in other words, the Supreme Court (or just a single member of the Court) as an authority to settle the truth of the fact in question.‖ Allison Orr Larsen, Factual Precedents, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 59, 73-74 (2013). ―This article . . . offers quantitative evidence from ten European supreme courts in order to assess the desirability of such cross-citations. . . . [it] … ― highlights the often superficial nature of cross-citations in some courts.‖ The ―analysis supports the use of

cross-citations: it does not . . . undercu[t] national sovereignty or the legitimacy of the legal system.‖ At best, cross-citations provide a source of inspiration to interpret national law. At worst, they are largely ornamental and of marginal help to make a particular policy argument more persuasive.‖

Martin Gelter & Mathias M. Siems, Citations to Foreign Courts-Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe, 62 Am. J. Comp. L. 35 (2014). ―When a legislature enacts a statute, it leaves behind a history: the revisions that lawmakers made to the bill, the things they said about it during committee deliberations and floor debates, and the public input they officially received on it from experts and other witnesses. Should a court, when interpreting the act, consider that history?‖ ―For a generation, the field of American statutory interpretation has burned with controversy over this question. The controversy is a novelty of the last twenty-five years. In the 1980s, legislative history was uncontroversial and very common. It appeared in more than half the U.S. Supreme Court's opinions on federal statutes.‖. . . ― Using this material meant that judges were accustomed to engaging actively and openly with legislators' discourse and policy reasoning. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, a movement of judges and lawyers--led by Antonin Scalia--began to argue that this familiar interpretive resource was pernicious and should be banished from the judicial system.‖ Nicholas R. Parrillo, Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judiciary, and the Rise of Legislative History, 1890-1950, 123 Yale L.J. 266, 269 (2013). When researching ―there are

some circumstances that warrant cracking open a book . . .‖ • An area of law that sees few major changes . . . • Legislative history … • A procedural issue research in the index or table of contents of a set such as Moore's Federal Practice or Wright & Miller can be a much simpler task than . . . trying to concoct the appropriate Boolean search. • If you're looking into an evidentiary question, books will have indexes and a specific breakdown, often by rule number; • Statutes, court rules or administrative regulations are easy to view and compare in the books (especially when contrasting different versions of a statute); and • A subject area of which you know very little is best reviewed in a nutshell, hornbook or treatise.‖ Kurt Mattson, Esq., Why Do I Need Books? Isn't Everything Online?, 21 Nev. Law. 20, 21 (October 2013). ―This Article details a study showing that, on the summary judgment motions that dispose of employment cases with ―almost Pavlovian . . . frequency,‖ the vast majority of plaintiffs' briefs omit available caselaw rebutting key defense arguments and lose at more than double the rate of competent briefs.

These bad briefs cause broad harms: to the plaintiffs suffering poor representation, to the caselaw resulting from poorly opposed motions, and to the lawyers themselves--at least those unaware that their cases were doomed from the start. This finding raises a series of questions as to how clients persistently choose bad lawyers, lawyers persistently perform poorly, and judicial and ethics authorities tolerate this state of affairs.‖

Scott A. Moss, Bad Briefs, Bad Law, Bad Markets: Documenting the Poor Quality of Plaintiffs' Briefs, Its Impact on the Law, and the Market Failure It Reflects, 63 Emory L.J. 59, 62-63 (2013). □

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The System cont.

You will see a list of judicial opinions that cite to your Brown followed by substantive analysis.

Casetext, founded by lawyers Jake Heller and Joanna Huey, is a source for case law research and lets users add their own descriptions, tags, annotations, documents and links to secondary sources. The new WeCite project is looking for law students to create citator entries and law professors who are willing to review their entries.

Mootus

Mootus, developed by a Boston attorney Adam Ziegler, allows law students and lawyers to sign up for free to search for issues of law.

Mootus is a platform for open online legal argument designed to help lawyers and law students build knowledge and reputation through collaboration and competition. After creating an account and profile, a member can post legal issues that can be argued by the rest of the members. Other members can respond by adding cases they feel are relevant with their own

comments. Any member can vote on whether another member’s argument is ―on point‖ or ―off base‖—hence the competition part of the collaboration.

The potential of technology and ―the crowd‖ to improve the quality and efficiency of lawyers’ work is enormous. □

Notes cont.

Benedict and Keteyian spent hundreds of hours following and interviewing student-athletes, coaches, athletic directors, college boosters, and NCAA investigators. In the notes section of the book, they list chapter by chapter all of the sources and means they used to gather information for each story. For example, sources of information used for Mike Leach’s story originated from personal

interviews with the coach and his wife, parts of Leach’s autobiography, and articles from the New York Times and the Seattle Times. I would highly recommend this book to not only law students but to anyone curious about the business of NCAA football. Law students will not only find the issues addressed in the book

fascinating but will enjoy the effort the authors took to make the lawyers involved in the cases human by including their backgrounds and motivations. The stories are very compelling making this book hard to put down once you have begun to read it. □

Second: Lemkin’s voice is both sweet and unsentimental. You can’t help but like the guy. My favorite line was: ―There were three things I wanted to avoid in my life: to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.‖ I also appreciated his first-hand report of being hosted, while on the run, to a candle-lit Sabbath dinner with a Jewish baker who could not believe that the Nazis would commit genocide ―because it went against nature,

against logic, against life itself, and against the warm smell of bread in his house, against his poor but comfortable bed…‖ Reading this I felt saddened, but enriched. Maybe you, too, will find memorable anecdotes to take away from this book.

Lastly, the book is recommended for students of international law as a concise record of how this Convention became law, and may interest those struggling with how

idealism and realism intersect in the practice of law. Lemkin was convinced genocide was ―not the result of the mood of an occasional rogue ruler but a recurring pattern in history‖, but he never gave up.

The library also has: Lemkin, Raphael, Axis rule in occupied Europe: laws of occupation, analysis of government, proposals for redress (1944); Lemkin, Raphael, Lemkin on genocide Lexington Books, (2012). □

Totally Unofficial cont.

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