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• 'Republicans will never stop': Obama slams GOP after ruling against Affordable Care Act

  16-12-2018 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  "If they can't get it done in Congress, they'll keep trying in the courts, even when it puts people's pre-existing conditions coverage at risk," he said.
  
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• Car blast kills nine in Syrian city near Turkey border

  16-12-2018 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  At least nine people were killed on Sunday when a car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, in the latest such attack in towns under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, witnesses and rebel sources said.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said last Wednesday his army would launch in coming days an operation against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, whom his country views as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) - a group classified by the West
  
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• Kassandra Or Alexios? Game Director Reveals Which Character Is Chosen Most

  16-12-2018 23:48 via gamespot.com
  
  For the first time in the history of the Assassin's Creed franchise, this year's game, Odyssey, lets you choose to play as a man, Alexios, or a woman, Kassandra. But which was the more popular choice?Game director Scott Phillips told Game Informer (via Destructoid) that Alexios is currently the more popular choice. Around two-thirds of players chose him. This ratio surprised Phillips because early playtests were closer to 50/50."Right now it's two-thirds Alexios and one-third Kassandra," he said
  
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• Judge gives mom 40 years after 2 kids die in car. People 'take better care of their pets'

  16-12-2018 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas judge told a mom that people "take better care of their pets" after her daughters died painful deaths from being left overnight in a vehicle.
  
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• WWE TLC 2018 PPV: Match Card, Live Results, Kickoff Show, And Recap

  16-12-2018 23:32 via gamespot.com
  
  The Kickoff Show has come to a close, and the results for the two matches that took place during the one hour long preshow are listed below. There will be a review of all the matches later tonight, after WWE TLC is over.It's time for another WWE PPV, and things are about to get a bit crazy, as the whole show will contain many matches with tables, ladders, and chairs. While these aren't typically items associated with a regular wrestling bout, many of TLC's bouts will contain stipulations allowin
  
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• WWE TLC 2018 PPV: Match Card, Live Results, And Recap

  16-12-2018 23:32 via gamespot.com
  
  It's time for another WWE PPV, and things are about to get a bit crazy, as the whole show will contain many matches with tables, ladders, and chairs. While these aren't typically items associated with a regular wrestling bout, many of TLC's bouts will contain stipulations allowing them to be used during the evening.Both Raw and Smackdown have plenty of matches planned for the evening. In fact, there are 12 matches on the card, and chances are that many of these won't go longer than 10 minutes, s
  
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• WWE TLC 2018 PPV Final Results: Asuka, Becky Lynch, And Charlotte Have A Barn Burner

  16-12-2018 23:32 via gamespot.com
  
  If you missed WWE's TLC PPV, then you missed out on one of the best matches of the year, when Asuka and Charlotte Flair challenged Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women's Championship in a TLC match. It was brutal, unforgiving, and full of some crazy surprises. Complete results for the entire PPV that aired on the WWE Network are listed below, including the times for each match.On the Raw side of things, there is only one match that really makes sense. If you've been keeping up with the Monday nig
  
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• DICE Responds To Controversial Battlefield 5 Changes

  16-12-2018 23:25 via gamespot.com
  
  A recent Battlefield V patch made changes to the values of the multiplayer game's time to kill, or TTK. The changes were aimed at helping new players have a better experience, but as you would expect, some people in the "core" Battlefield community understandably took issue with the changes.DICE created a "core" playlist for the Conquest mode in an attempt to appease veteran fans who didn't enjoy the TTK changes. But DICE now acknowledges in a new Reddit post that this one playlist was "clearly"
  
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• Macron govt hopes 'yellow vest' protests running out of steam

  16-12-2018 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The French government was on Sunday hoping the sharp drop in "yellow vest" demonstrators signalled an end to the biggest crisis of Emmanuel Macron's presidency, but conceded "mistakes" had been made.Around 66,000 people turned out again on Saturday across France for a fifth round of protests which sprung up over fuel tax hikes last month before snowballing into broader opposition to Macron -- half the number of the previous weekend.In an interview with Les Echos newspaper published online Sunday
  
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• Sudan president lands in Syria in 1st visit by Arab leader

  16-12-2018 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sudan's president on Sunday became the first Arab League leader to visit Syria since civil war erupted there nearly eight years ago.
  
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• Father of 7-Year-Old Who Died in Border Patrol Custody Calls for 'Thorough Investigation' of Her Death

  16-12-2018 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  “He’s been very clear, very consistent that his daughter was healthy"
  
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• Famed Brazilian medium accused of sex abuse surrenders

  16-12-2018 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Famed Brazilian "spiritual healer" Joao de Deus, accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women under the pretext of treating them, surrendered to authorities on Sunday, Brazilian media reported.For years, he had received thousands of believers each week -- including numerous celebrities -- at his temple in the town of Abadiania, in Goias state, near the capital Brasilia.
  
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• Donald Trump tweets NBC, ‘SNL’ should be tested by courts

  16-12-2018 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump tweets NBC, ‘SNL; should be tested by courts. This comes after the shows Christmas parody sketch, which depicts a world were Hilary Clinton was elected president.
  
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• Jake Tapper Shuts Down Susan Collins' Attempt To Spin Trump Hush Money Payments

  16-12-2018 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) thinks more information is needed before she can
  
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• Israeli premier's son blocked on Facebook for anti-Muslim posts

  16-12-2018 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest, Yair, tweeted on Sunday that Facebook blocked his page for 24 hours over apparent anti-Muslim posts and called the leading social network a "dictatorship".In a message posted Thursday on his Facebook page after deadly Palestinian attacks, Yair Netanyahu had called for "all Muslims (to) leave" Israel.Facebook deleted Yair Netanyahu's posts, prompting him to take to Twitter to criticise the social networking giant, calling it a "dictatorship of thought".
  
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• Qatar Buys Mexican Oil Stakes From Eni

  16-12-2018 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Eni and the government-owned energy company in Qatar, the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, will produce about 90,000 barrels of oil a day from the Amoca, Mizton and Tecoalli fields in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of 2021, Saad Sherida Al Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, said in Doha.The fields hold 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent, he said at a press conference with Eni Chief Executive Officer Claudio Descalzi.
  
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• Ottawa's envoy in China meets with second detained Canadian: ministry

  16-12-2018 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ottawa's ambassador to Beijing has met with the second Canadian detained in China on suspicion of threatening national security, Canada's foreign ministry said Sunday.The ministry said Ambassador John McCallum had met with Michael Spavor, a business consultant, two days after meeting with another detained Canadian, Michael Kovrig, a think tank employee."Canadian consular officials continue to provide consular services to him and his family and will continue to seek further access to Mr Spavor,"
  
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• This $815k Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing doesn't even run

  16-12-2018 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  This 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing hasn't turned a wheel since 1984 and requires a total rebuild. Dry stored for 34 years, would you pay $800k for it?
  
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• Sudan's president is first Arab leader to visit Syria since crisis

  16-12-2018 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, the first such visit by an Arab leader since the start of the Syrian conflict, Syrian state media said.President Bashar al Assad welcomed him at the airport, official photos showed.Many Arab countries have shunned Assad since the conflict that began early in 2011 after protests calling for his downfall swept Syria.
  
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• Top Democrat Schiff Adds Call for Probe of Trump, Deutsche Bank Links

  16-12-2018 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Adam Schiff of California said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that any type of compromise needs to be investigated.Schiff’s comments came three days after Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and fellow Senate Democrat Chris Van Hollen called for a Banking Committee investigation of Deutsche Bank’s compliance with U.S. money-laundering regulations.
  
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• Pauley Perrette, Sasha Alexander back ex-'NCIS' star Michael Weatherly amid harassment claims

  16-12-2018 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Pauley Perrette and Sasha Alexander are supporting their ex-'NCIS' co-star Michael Weatherly after Eliza Dushku accused him of sexual harassment.
  
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• Trump will ‘absolutely’ shut down government to build border wall, says top White House aide

  16-12-2018 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is “absolutely” willing to shut down the government in order to get funding for a wall on the US border with Mexico, a top White House aide has said.“We will do whatever is necessary to build the border wall to stop this ongoing crisis of immigration,” said White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.The comments of Mr Miller, a hardliner on immigration issues, come days after Mr Trump met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leaders in the House
  
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• Yard Find Porsche 928 S3 V8 could be project of the decade

  16-12-2018 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Left outside for nearly a decade, surely this 1985 Porsche 928 S3 5.0-litre V8 is beyond saving? Think again. The Californian climate has been kind to this example, making it an attractive prospect at only $5k
  
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• Government shutdown? You'll still get mail and packages, be able to travel

  16-12-2018 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Even if Congress can't stop another federal shutdown, mail carriers, air-traffic controllers, Amtrak workers, border agents still will be on the job.
  
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• Canada gets access to detainee in China 6 days after arrest

  16-12-2018 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  TORONTO (AP) — Canada's ambassador to China was given access Sunday to detained Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor six days after he was arrested, the country's Global Affairs department said.
  
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• Russia retains heightened military border presence: Ukraine leader

  16-12-2018 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia retains a heightened military presence on Ukraine's border, having pulled back "less than 10 percent" of its forces since tensions between the countries peaked in November, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday."The biggest part (of troops) is still there, less than 10 percent have been withdrawn," Poroshenko told a press conference.
  
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• Camp Fire cleanup worker facing possible charges after offensive social media posts

  16-12-2018 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  SO CRUEL: A worker hired to clean up the devastation left by the Camp Fire could face criminal charges after posting photos of himself posing at destroyed properties.
  
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• Iran Guards general dies of self-inflicted accidental gunshot: report

  16-12-2018 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI (Reuters) - A Revolutionary Guards general, who headed a military base in a sensitive security area in northeastern Iran, died on Sunday after he accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning his gun, the official news agency IRNA reported. The report identified the commander as General Qodratollah Mansouri, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Eastern Iran, which borders Afghanistan -- the world's top opium producer -- and Pakistan, has long been plagued by clashes with dru
  
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• 'The man is pathetic': Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani goes on offensive against Michael Cohen, prosecutors

  16-12-2018 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  In May, before Cohen turned on Trump, Giuliani called him "an honest, honorable lawyer."
  
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• Car bomb kills 9 people in Syria's Afrin: monitor

  16-12-2018 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A car bomb killed at least nine people including five civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, a British-based war monitor said.The explosion comes after the Turkish president on Wednesday threatened to launch a new offensive against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria.The Observatory said the blast wounded dozens, and the toll was likely to rise.
  
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• Student Charged After Video Shows Fight That Left Another Student Injured

  16-12-2018 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A student was charged with aggravated battery after an attack that left another student seriously injured was caught on video at the Lockport Township High School East Campus.
  
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• 'Saturday Night Live' imagines a 'Wonderful Life' where Trump wasn't president

  16-12-2018 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The opening sketch for the final "Saturday Night Live" of 2018 spoofs the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life," with a Donald Trump loss in 2016.
  
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• Joe Biden tops key 2020 poll as he mulls whether he is too old to run for president

  16-12-2018 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice-president, has emerged as an early frontrunner among Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination with a dominant lead among voters in Iowa, who will be the first to state their preference next year. A new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll finds 32 per cent of likely caucusgoers saying they back Mr Biden as their first choice, ahead of 19 per cent for Bernie Sanders and 11 per cent for Beto O'Rourke, the telegenic campaigner who cam
  
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• Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia creator, found dead at his New York apartment

  16-12-2018 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who co-founded the quiz app HQ Trivia has died aged 34 from a suspected drug overdose. Colin Kroll's girlfriend is reported to have raised the alarm when she was unable to reach him early on Sunday. After receiving a request for a wellness check, police found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive at his apartment in Soho, Manhattan at 8am local time. He was pronounced dead on the scene, said a spokesperson for the New York Police Department.  The medical e
  
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• Mueller's rush to sentence Trump associates - an unusual way to treat cooperating witnesses - suggests Russia investigation is ending

  16-12-2018 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid the whirlwind of hearings, guilty pleas and sentencing memos that has been Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe in the last few weeks, an unusual pattern has emerged.One of Mueller’s biggest successes as his team investigate 2016 election meddling and possible collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump’s campaign team, has been his ability to get former associates of the president to “flip” and cooperate with him.Among the more high-profile are Trump&rs
  
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• Bomb kills 8 in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed forces

  16-12-2018 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb blast in a northwestern Syrian town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces killed at least eight people and wounded two dozen Sunday, activists and local security said, the latest in a series of attacks along the border where Turkey has troops.
  
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• Kosovo president: Decision to form army 'irreversible'

  16-12-2018 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The decision to transform Kosovo's security force into an army is "irreversible," the country's president said Sunday while offering assurance that a new national military does not threaten ethnic Serbs living in the former Serbian province.
  
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• Michael Cohen would refuse a pardon from Trump, his former lawyer says

  16-12-2018 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Lanny Davis said that his advisee Michael Cohen would refuse any pardon offered by President Trump.
  
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• Trump will sit down with Mueller ‘over my dead body’, says Giuliani, as president calls Cohen ‘a rat’

  16-12-2018 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will sit and talk to special counsel Robert Mueller “over my dead body”, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said, in the latest pushback against the investigation into possible collusion between the president’s election campaign and Moscow.As Mr Trump called his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen “a rat” for cooperating with the FBI, Mr Giuliani made clear Mr Mueller would not be offered an interview with the president.
  
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• Change the Game VR Charity Challenge - Day 4

  16-12-2018 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  (Presented by Oculus) In the final episode of the Change the Game VR Charity Challenge, Magnus Beasticus and Lemming go toe to toe in Creed: Rise to Glory to win $100K for charity. Visit vrcharitychallenge.com for more info!Learn more about our two awesome charities:Stack Up Website: https://stackup.org/Take This Website: http://www.takethis.org/
  
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• Giuliani Says ‘Over My Dead Body’ Will Trump Meet With Mueller

  16-12-2018 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Giuliani, who’d at times floated the possibility of a meeting in interviews over several months, didn’t answer directly when asked about a CNN report on Dec. 14 that Mueller wants to interview Trump in his investigation of Russia influence in the 2016 campaign.In a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Giuliani was less definitive when asked whether it’s possible Trump will talk to Mueller.
  
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• Judge Lobs Political Bomb at Trump by Nullifying Obamacare

  16-12-2018 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The case may not be resolved in the courts before 2020, legal experts said, which could make it a defining issue in the race for the White House and Congress.Democrats immediately jumped on the Friday night ruling to warn that health care coverage for millions of Americans was at stake due to the Republican-led lawsuit that sought to void popular parts of Obamacare, including protections for pre-existing conditions and a ban on annual lifetime limits.Also at risk are provisions that affect the w
  
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• Fierce clashes in Hodeidah cast doubt over ceasefire

  16-12-2018 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Fierce clashes broke out in Yemen’s crucial port city of Hodeidah on Sunday, leading UN and Yemeni officials to delay the "official" start of the hard-fought ceasefire agreed last week. Residents reported skirmishes on the outskirts of town with missiles and automatic gunfire heard near the city's eastern 7th July suburb.  Unconfirmed television reports said that the Saudi-led coalition had launched two airstrikes on Ras Isa, a port north of Hodeidah. On Thursday, the Iran-aligne
  
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• Lawyer says Mueller can interview Trump only 'over my dead body'

  16-12-2018 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani said special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors could not be trusted to deal fairly with the president, suggesting they had trapped another witness into committing perjury.Asked on "Fox News Sunday" about reports Mueller now wants a face-to-face interview to follow up on Trump's submission of written answers, Giuliani shot back: "Good luck.Mueller's 19-month-long probe into possible Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign has led to dozens of indictments
  
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• Enquirer admits hush money

  16-12-2018 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Plea spares company, implicates Trump.
  
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• Santa rappels down a skyscraper to deliver gifts to Berlin children

  16-12-2018 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Santa Claus surprises children in Berlin by climbing down a 25-storey tower to deliver presents. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Colin Kroll, Co-Founder Of HQ Trivia And Vine, Found Dead In New York Apartment

  16-12-2018 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the widely popular game HQ Trivia, has been
  
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• Snow, rain and wind in late-week storm to impact holiday travel in eastern US

  16-12-2018 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  As students embark on winter break, last-minute shoppers head to the stores and holiday travel ramps up across the country later this week, a major storm could lead to widespread travel headaches in the eastern U.S.
  
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• Snow, rain and wind in late-week storm to impact holiday travel

  16-12-2018 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  As students embark on winter break, last-minute shoppers head to the stores and holiday travel ramps up across the country later this week, a major storm could lead to widespread travel headaches in the eastern U.S.
  
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• For sale: Restored home of Salem witch trials refugee

  16-12-2018 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — A once-run-down historic home that stands where a woman accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials settled after she was spared the noose is on the market after an extensive renovation project.
  
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