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Lipomas are benign (noncancerous) fat-filled tumors. They are soft, relatively slow-growing, freely movable (i.e., easily manipulated), and located just under your cat's skin (subcutaneous). While they can develop anywhere, they are most commonly found on your cat's undercarriage, in the chest or abdomen. These tumors, while sometimes ugly, generally do not pose a health threat to your furry friend. Furthermore, they are relatively rare in cats, as compared to their incidence in dogs and people.
The exact cause of these nonthreatening but ugly lumps is unknown; they are part of the natural aging process.
Lumps and bumps are the most common signs of a lipoma. They are usually round or oval in shape, form under the skin, and are well-defined.
Your veterinarian will perform a thorough physical exam on your cat and may recommend diagnostic tests to confirm the lump is a lipoma.
These tests may include:
- Needle aspiration
- Microscopic evaluation of cells
- Biopsy of the tissue
While lipomas don't usually pose any serious health threat, removal is sometimes recommended if they limit your cat's mobility appreciably, or they grow too large, making your cat scratch or bite at them. If your veterinarian recommends surgery, they will most likely perform presurgical blood tests to ensure your pet is healthy and can handle the anesthesia and surgical procedure.
These tests may include;
- Chemistry tests to evaluate kidney, liver, and pancreatic function, as well as sugar levels
- Antibody tests to identify if your pet has been exposed to tick-related or other infectious disease
- A complete blood count to rule out blood-related conditions
- Electrolyte tests to ensure your pet isn't dehydrated or suffering from an electrolyte imbalance
- Urine tests to screen for urinary tract infection and other disease, and to evaluate the ability of the kidneys to concentrate urine
- A thyroid test to determine if the thyroid gland is producing too much thyroid hormone
- An ECG to screen for an abnormal heart rhythm that may indicate underlying heart disease
If your veterinarian recommends leaving the lipoma alone, it will be important to monitor it for any changes. In some cases, a lipoma can grow too large and become uncomfortable. If you spot any abnormal lump or bump on your cat, you should contact your veterinarian. While lipomas are not life-threatening, other causes of bumps can have more serious side effects.
There is nothing you can do to prevent your pet from getting lipomas.
If you have any questions or concerns, you should always visit or call your veterinarian – they are your best resource to ensure the health and well-being of your pets.


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2018 Municipal Election
Two City Commission seats are up for election in the November 6, 2018 Municipal Election: Commissioner Marco A. Salvino, Sr. and Commissioner Bobbie H. Grace (who has fulfilled her two 4-year term limits and is not eligible to run in this election).
The city commission candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall become mayor for a term of two years. The candidate receiving the second highest number of votes shall become the vice-mayor for a term of two years.
To be eligible to hold the office of city commissioner of the City of Dania Beach, or to qualify for nomination or election as such, the candidate shall be a bona fide resident and citizen of the City of Dania Beach, a resident of the State of Florida, and a citizen of the United States of America; shall be duly qualified to vote at city, state and national elections; shall be over the age of twenty-one (21) years; shall have resided in the city for at least one (1) year immediately preceding the date of election, as evidenced by City voter's registration documentation and shall be otherwise qualified as provided in the charter.
To become a candidate, you need to:
1. File Form DS-DE 9, Appointment of Campaign Treasurer and Designation of Campaign Depository with the City Clerk prior to collecting contributions or making expenditures on behalf of your campaign, and prior to opening a campaign account.
2. Designate a primary campaign depository with any bank, savings and loan association, or credit union authorized to do business in the State of Florida. The campaign account must be separate from any personal or other account and used only for depositing campaign contributions and making expenditures. All contributions must be deposited into such account and all expenditures must be drawn by a check on such account. All deposits must be accompanied by a bank deposit slip containing the name of each contributor and the amount contributed by each. (Sections 106.021(1) & 106.05 F.S.)
3. File Form DS-DE 84, Statement of Candidate (stating that the candidate has read and understands the requirements of Chapter 106, F.S.) within ten days of filing Form DS-DE 9.
For additional information, or to pick up an information packet, contact City Clerk Thomas Schneider at 954-924-6800, ext. 3623, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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OIP 23. Medinet Habu, Volume III. The Calendar, the "Slaughterhouse," and Minor Records of Ramses III By the Epigraphic Survey
The reliefs and inscriptions that appear in this volume are primarily concerned with the Calendar inscribed on the outer wall of the temple of Ramses III.
- Oriental Institute Publications 23
- Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934
- Pp. xvi; 5 figures, 61 plates
- Out of Print


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Fracking free-for-all must slow down: report
by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
Virtually nothing is known about the long-term impacts of extracting gas by fracturing rock beds with high-pressure fluids; regulators need facts to understand how to develop the resource safely and cleanly
OTTAWA—A report from a panel of top Canadian scientists is urging a go-slow approach to the booming industry of hydraulic natural gas fracking.
So little is known about the long-term impacts of extracting gas by fracturing rock beds with high-pressure fluids that scientists and regulators need to start now to understand how to develop the resource safely and cleanly, said co-author Rick Chalaturnyk, an engineering professor at the University of Alberta.
"Perhaps cautionary is the right philosophy," he said. "We really do stand a chance to put in place the regulatory framework to answer the questions around environmental impact."
Chalaturnyk was part of a panel formed by the Council of Canadian Academies, an independent organization that brings together university researchers from across Canada to look at public policy issues. It was asked by Environment Canada in 2012 to examine fracking and drew its conclusions from publicly available, peer-reviewed research.
Its 292-page report says that the economic benefits could be significant across Canada. There are substantial or potential deposits of shale gas in all provinces and territories except Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut.
"Canada's shale gas resources dwarf the 60.4 trillion cubic feet of marketable gas reserves that the National Energy Board estimated
remained in Canada at the end of 2010," says the report.
However, it found significant uncertainty on the risks to the environment and human health, which include possible contamination of ground water as well as exposure to poorly understood mixtures of chemicals.
"The scale and pace at which shale gas resources are being developed are challenging the ability to assess and manage their environmental impacts."
The effects on ground water from fracking water pumped underneath the surface are one concern.
"There is reason to believe that shale gas development poses a risk to water resources, but the extent of that risk, and whether substantial damage has already occurred, cannot be assessed because of a lack of scientific data and understanding," the report says.
Exposure to chemicals is another. A long list of substances must be added to fracking water and their possible effects on human and environmental health are unknown. Some jurisdictions don't even require industry to list what chemicals are being used.
"There is only minimal reference literature and no peer-reviewed literature that assess the potential for the various chemicals in hydraulic fracturing fluids to persist, migrate and impact the various types of subsurface systems or to discharge to surface waters."
Many suggest that increased fracking could help mitigate climate change through the increased use of natural gas, which emits less carbon than fuels such as coal. The council's report notes that natural gas is itself a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide, and emissions from leaking wells could outweigh the benefit from replacing other fuels.
The report also notes that fracking has only been around for 10 years or so in Canada _ not enough time to assess its long-term effects, which could play out over decades.
It warned against being blinded by the lure of big bucks.
"The lessons provided by the history of science and technology concerning all major energy sources and many other industrial initiatives show that substantial environmental impacts were typically not anticipated," the report says.
"What is perhaps more alarming is that where substantial adverse impacts were anticipated, these concerns were dismissed or ignored by those who embraced the expected positive benefits of the economic activities that produced those impacts."
Chalaturnyk said the report should form the basis of a much-needed political, regulatory and public debate about understanding and managing the industry.
"The public needs to be firmly engaged in this conversation."


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A plastic green army man, in crawling position, bears Cinderella's head. Shrek's body kneels on the ground, with the face of a kewpie doll who needs a haircut. Tigger of Winnie the Pooh waves, using arms from a Barbie doll while balancing on ice skates.
The mutants are here. And there are many of them.
For 11-year-old girls Elsa Rudolph Swanson and Annabel Dudash, both students at Oakland schools and friends since preschool, modifying toys into Mutants has become a passion.
Asked to describe what a Mutant toy is, Annabel says, frankly, that "it's a toy that was made out of other toys, so it's not the same toy."
For two years now, the girls have sold their Mutants at the monthly Oakland Art Murmurs; they've been featured in magazines; and the Oakland Museum has even lent their support to the girls in creating their toys.
In a short interview, Annabel said that she originally wanted to make party favors for her 9th birthday party and found some old toys that she could re-fashion and give out. "[My friends] loved them, and we didn't have a hot glue gun, so we used wire," she said.
Since then, the idea took off. These days, Annabel and Elsa use a hot glue gun to hack the toys, and at their recent Art Murmur table, they had twelve glue guns going at once as countless people made their own Mutants.
"We've made so much," Annabel says. Russell, her dad, estimates that they've created hundreds of them. "We started pillaging toys from every thrift store we could think of," he said. "And then when we started going to Art Murmur, people would say, 'oh great, you're here!' and they would just give us heaps of old toys." Family members would send them, too.
Eventually, Russell struck a sweet deal with Goodwill's processing plant, and he and the girls have been able to dig through the barrels of discarded toys and take home dozens of pounds of toy parts. They then spend as many hours as they can, barring homework and bedtime constraints, cranking out toys as fast as possible.
Annabel and Elsa have a website, a Flickr page, and have completely sold out their wares — priced from $1-$5 — at various Art Murmurs over the last two years (they used the profits to buy an iPad and an iPod).
What does Annabel want to be when she grows up? "An engineer." What kind? She shrugs. "That's as far as I got."
At the Mini Maker Faire, Annabel and Elsa (with help from their proud parents) will set up tables with Mutants, and everyone will be welcome to make their own Mutant. Check them out!


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Greece clears last batch of reforms needed to exit bailout
Greek lawmakers approved Thursday the last batch of economic reforms required by creditors, as the country approaches the end of its international bailout.
The lawmakers voted 154 in favor in the 300-member parliament to approve the bill, which includes a raft of reforms on issues, from pension cuts to health care and tax reforms. During the parliamentary debate ahead of the vote, around 3,000 demonstrators marched through central Athens in protest.
The bill was the last step Greece's government was required to make ahead of a meeting next week of finance ministers of the 19-nation eurozone, where Greece and its creditors are to reach a final deal on its bailout exit.
Greece is to emerge from its third and final bailout on August 20, after eight years of relying on emergency loans from international creditors. In return for the funds it received, mostly from other eurozone countries but also from the International Monetary Fund, it had to make repeated rounds of deep spending cuts, structural reforms and privatizations through the years. Its economy has been under strict supervision, with creditors carrying out regular reviews.
"Today's parliamentary session is of a historic nature. After eight years we are voting on the last measures of the last review," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in parliament.
"We honored our commitments, the credibility of the country has been restored and Greece finishes with [its bailouts] this coming August."
The repeated rounds of austerity measures have been met with frequent protests in Greece, whose economy has contracted by about a quarter since its financial crisis began in late 2009.
European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, who met with Tsipras in Athens Thursday, said creditors were working on reaching a final deal on the bailout exit at the finance minister's meeting on June 21.
"Two months from now, Greece will complete its program," Dombrovskis said. "It will be a delicate, yet perfectly doable exercise, provided that all parties show commitment and act responsibly."
Once the bailout is over, Greece will have to finance itself by borrowing on international bond markets. The country has long sought some relief on the rescue loans it has to repay to its creditors, which are mainly fellow eurozone states.
"There needs to be an agreement on the debt measures," Dombrovskis said. "Upfront debt measures would be important for ensuring Greeces gradual return to the markets." He also stressed the country must "stay the course of reforms" to ensure economic growth.
The Greek government has committed to continuing reforms after the end of the bailout, but has resisted the idea preferred by some, including the country's central bank, of taking a so-called precautionary credit line – a backup loan it could use as it eases back into international bond markets.
A credit line would likely involve further stringent government austerity measures and heavier international oversight, which would make it politically unpopular. Instead, the government has insisted on a "clean exit" from the bailout. [AP]


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Green Eggs and Salmonella?
Beware the hidden hazards lurking within popular children's books
These stories are suffused with the same purity that makes children appear so marvelous and blessed," wrote Wilhelm Grimm in the preface to his volume of fairy tales. If true, then life in the 19th century was worse than I'd ever imagined. Reading these stories today is like sitting through a Quentin Tarantino movie. Have you ever added up the body count? One poor girl is transformed into a block of wood and thrown into a fire. A father risks his daughter's life by boasting she can weave straw into gold. An evil queen tries to off her stepdaughter with a poisoned apple.
I used to think we lived in more enlightened times. But as the mother of two young boys—and a nightly reader of bedtime stories—I've come to realize that many popular children's books are rife with malice and mayhem. Do you have any idea of the dangers that may lurk on your little ones' bookshelves?
Let's start with Goodnight Moon. Margaret Wise Brown's beloved bedtime tale is a veritable hotbed of child safety hazards. First of all, the child's—excuse me, bunny's—great green bedroom contains an open fireplace filled with dangerous tools like tongs and pokers. The bed has no side rails. And what about the grandmother—a careless caretaker if I ever saw one. Why, she leaves knitting needles unattended in a child's bedroom!
It's bad enough that in Robert McCloskey's award-winning Blueberries for Sal, the child eats unwashed produce. I shudder to think of her pesticide intake. But far more alarming is the mother's negligence in leaving the girl unattended on a hillside populated by bears. Little Sal and Little Bear get distracted and inadvertently follow each other's mothers. The mix-up is discovered, no harm is done and each party goes on its merry way. But the tale easily could have had a much different ending.
In McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, it's the father who neglects his family. Mr. Mallard leaves his poor wife to fend for herself with eight baby ducklings—in traffic-ridden downtown Boston, no less—while he takes off to explore the Charles River. Who knew that ducks could be deadbeat dads?
Speaking of inattentive parents, the Good Dog, Carl series by Alexandra Day depicts a Rott-weiler caring for a baby while his mother runs errands. On Carl's watch, the baby rides on his back, swims in a fish tank and slides down a laundry chute. A Rott-weiler as baby sitter? I won't even hire a human sitter unless she knows CPR and passes a background check!
Canines also romp through P. D. Eastman's Go, Dog. Go! At first glance, the book is a whimsical tale featuring dogs on roller skates and bicycles and skis. But when the dogs get into cars, there's not a seat belt in sight. Then the dogs all drive in separate vehicles to a big dog party in a tree. Have they never heard of carpooling? Even dogs need to consider their carbon pawprint.
In Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham, health concerns abound. Sam-I-am pushes discolored pork products on the protagonist, encouraging him to eat them with a mouse and a goat. There's no hand sanitizer in sight; I guess salmonella and swine flu are on the menu as well.
Even a picture book about cute bugs reveals insidious undertones. Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar binges on junk food, then starves himself to turn into a beautiful butterfly. As if our kids don't already have enough problems with body image.
Safety hazards, parental negligence, eating disorders...It almost makes me nostalgic for the attempted cannibalism in Hansel and Gretel.
Abigail Green is a freelance writer and blogger who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.


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This past week, Mark's mom Dee Dee was in town for a little visit. It was her first time seeing the house and she just adored it. She and Mark spent the next several days catching up with old friends and neighbors from when they lived in Mandeville Canyon in the 60's, and then I'd join them after I got off work. The first several nights were spent out on the town, first up dinner at BLD. Then the next night to satisfy a prime rib craving, we all went to Lawry's (perhaps you know their famous seasoning salt) where we indulged in the famous Lawry's spinning salad prepared tableside, thick slabs of beef accompanied by a heaping mound of mashed potatoes, rich, creamed spinach, and Yorkshire pudding. Friday night, although I'd planned to cook for us, after work I was a little frazzled and didn't feel like dealing with food, so we ended up going out for Indian, something Dee Dee never gets up in Santa Maria. Saturday, the plan was for a small dinner party - Mark, myself, Dee Dee and Annie and Pierson. Usually I like to spend several days conceiving the menu, but work has been crazy and I didn't have the time. So upon my return from the gym that morning, I pulled out ol reliable, Sunday Suppers at Lucques.
The thing about Ms. Goin's cookbook, as I've mentioned before, is that the recipes are time consuming, often need to be started the night before and require trips to multiple supermarkets to track down all the ingredients. However, this recipe was sort of unlike many of the others. It require nothing terribly exotic that one can only find at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market, it was a bit time consuming (braising for 3 hours) but not terribly so. It was totally something that I could put together that afternoon for dinner that evening. Plus I liked the idea of doing one more slow-cooked, cozy meal before the weather gets too warm.


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Jepson Interchange (more information) |
©Copyright 1993 by the Regents of the University of California
For up-to-date information about California vascular plants, visit the Jepson eFlora. |
Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves generally odd-1-pinnate, sometimes subpalmately compound; stipules somewhat fused with petiole, entire or deeply cut; leaflets 3, generally toothed near tip
Inflorescence: raceme, axillary or terminal, fewmany-flowered
Flower: calyx lobes ± equal or not; corolla yellow or purple; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit indehiscent, generally coiled 1.55 turns, generally prickly
Seeds 1several
Species in genus: ± 55 species: Eurasia (especially Medit); several cultivated and naturalized worldwide
Etymology: (Medea, source of alfalfa, which then bore Greek name Medice)
Reference: [Small & Jomphe 1989 Can J Bot 67:32603294]
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Annual, hairy, sometimes finely strigose
Stem decumbent to ascending, generally 14 dm
Leaf: stipules entire or toothed; leaflets generally 11.5 cm, obovate
Inflorescence ovoid, 1020-flowered, dense
Flower: calyx 11.5 mm; corolla 23 mm, yellow
Fruit 22.5 mm, reniform, black; veins strong, concentric; prickles 0
Seed 1
Chromosomes: 2n=16,32
Ecology: Disturbed areas, sometimes in forests, mtns
Elevation: < 2500 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province, Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: most of US, widespread elsewhere; native to Europe
Flowering time: AprJul
Synonyms: var. cupaniana (Guss.) Boiss


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kindercrasher from Inigo Quilez on Vimeo.
This is my contribution to the realtime 4 kilobytes visuals (usually known as "4k intro") competition for Inspire 2008 (held in Spain). It is a set of spheres with radious controlled by the Fourier Transform (without the "fast") of the music. it contains some realtime ambient occlusion and depth of field. It's done in C, using shaders (GLSL). Once again, it all fits in a 4 kilobytes executable (music, animation, rendering engine and effects).
Wicked awesome! Via Create Digital Motion.


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New Analysis Shows Effect of Rising Unemployment on Health Coverage, Medicaid and SCHIP Spending and Enrollment
As the country faces another economic downturn, many states are scrambling to deal with the impact of poor economic conditions on programs, like Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), that are reliant on state funding. To be better able to cope, states are looking for fiscal relief from the federal government as well as obtaining a moratorium on federal regulations that would reduce Medicaid funding for states from the Congress.
New analyses project the implications of a downturn for health coverage and state programs. One report projects the impact of one percentage point rise in the national unemployment rate on Medicaid and SCHIP and the number of uninsured individuals. Another brief examines results from KCMU's annual 50-state budget surveys of Medicaid directors from 2003 to 2007 to describe how states adopted a wide array of Medicaid cost containment strategies during the last economic downturn and were assisted by the federal government to avoid deeper Medicaid cuts.
Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses
View Chart, Impact of Unemployment Growth on Medicaid and SCHIP and the Number of Uninsured
Medicaid in a Declining Economy: Limited Approaches for States to Control Spending
Interview with Barbara Edwards, Interim Director of National Association of State Medicaid Directors
You can read about the Medicaid regulations being debated in Congress in the piece, Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations


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Their story gripped the world: determined divers racing against time and water to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded cave deep inside a northern Thai mountain.
The ordeal in late June and early July 2018 had barely ended when filmmakers began their own race to get the nail-biting drama onto cinema screens. The first of those projects will premiere this weekend, when director Tom Waller's "The Cave" shows at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea.
The film was shot over three months earlier this year and has been in post-production since then. The 45-year-old Thai-born, British-raised filmmaker said the epic tale of the Wild Boars football team was a story he simply had to tell.
The boys and their coach entered the Tham Luang cave complex after soccer practice and were quickly trapped inside by rising floodwater. Despite a massive search, the boys spent nine nights lost in the cave before they were spotted by an expert diver. It would take another eight days before they were all safe.
PHOTOS: Event marks one year since soccer team rescued from Thai cave
Waller was visiting his father in Ireland when he saw television news accounts of the drama.
"I thought this would be an amazing story to tell on screen," he said.
But putting the parts together after their dramatic rescue proved to be a challenge. Thailand's government, at the time led by a military junta, became very protective of the story, barring unauthorized access to the Wild Boars or their parents. Waller often feared his production might be shut down.
His good fortune was that the events at the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province had multiple angles and interesting characters. Especially compelling were the stories of the rescuers, particularly the expert divers who rallied from around the world. He decided to make a film "about the volunteer spirit of the rescue."
Other people proposed telling the story from the point of view of the boys, and Netflix nailed down those rights in a deal brokered by the Thai government.
"I took the view that this was going to be a story about the people we didn't know about, about the cave divers who came all the way from across the planet," Waller said. "They literally dropped everything to go and help, and I just felt that that was more of an exciting story to tell, to find out how these boys were brought out and what they did to get them out."
Waller even had more than a dozen key rescue personnel play themselves.
Waller said they were natural actors, blending in almost seamlessly with the professionals around them, and helped by the accuracy of the settings and the production's close attention to detail.
"What you are really doing is asking them to remember what they did and to show us what they were doing and what they were feeling like at the time," he said. "That was really very emotional for some of them because it was absolutely real."
READ MORE: B.C. hometown lauds cave diver for role in Thai rescue
"The Cave" goes on general release in Thailand on Nov. 28.
Tassanee Vejpongsa And Jerry Harmer, The Associated Press


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