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• US stocks end 2015 mostly flat, capping volatile year

  31-12-2015 23:33 via krqe.com
  
  The U.S. stock market took investors for a wild ride in 2015, but in the end it was a trip to nowhere.
  Despite veering between record highs and the steepest dive in four years, the stock market ended the year essentially flat, delivering the weakest performance since 2008. That means if you invested in a fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, you have little to show for the past 12 months.
  “It’s been mildly disappointing,” said Michael Baele, managing direc
  
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• Police say 1 of 2 victims in Houston house fire was shot

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  HOUSTON — Houston police say one of two people who died in a house fire had been shot. Authorities say 27-year-old Gavonte Antwon Atkins, whose body was found in the house, had suffered apparent gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene early Thursday. A 75-year-old woman, Dorothy Lee Carter, was woman found alive […]
  
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• Influx of teen migrants leads US to open 3 more shelters

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  DENVER — The U.S. government plans to open three new shelters in three states to house unaccompanied migrant children as officials brace for another influx of young Central American immigrants crossing the border. The temporary shelters in Colorado, Florida and New Mexico, all located on federal property, are in addition to shelters that opened outside […]
  
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• Houston-area woman sentenced for daughters’ drowning deaths

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  PEARLAND, Texas — A suburban Houston woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for the drowning deaths earlier this year of her 14-month-old twin daughters. Barbara Russo pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of criminal negligent homicide for the deaths of her children, Sabrina and Savannah, at their home in Pearland. Court documents […]
  
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• Hard-fought legal battles expected in the Cosby case

  31-12-2015 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers went on the attack Thursday after the comedian’s arrest, calling the sexual assault charges a flawed, politically motivated case that will not hold up in court.
  They are expected to try to gut the prosecution’s case or get it thrown out altogether by a variety of means, including preventing some of Cosby’s numerous other accusers from taking the stand; blocking the use of testimony he gave in a decade-old lawsuit; and making
  
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• Spotty service at popular messaging app WhatsApp on NYE

  31-12-2015 23:02
  
  NEW YORK — They’re not ignoring you, it’s just WhatsApp. The popular messaging service owned by Facebook was intermittently unavailable for several hours Thursday, delaying New Year’s Eve messages for some users. Facebook says WhatsApp has about 900 million global users. Facebook Inc. did not immediately answer questions about the cause of the outage or […]
  
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• Bank of Albuquerque sets up in new digs

  31-12-2015 22:03
  
  About 40 employees in the Bank of Albuquerque’s administrative and business offices moved to the fifth floor of the six-story One Sun Plaza Thursday after 17 years Downtown. The bank has a lease for 18,000 square feet at the north end of the building. It had been on  the 14th floor of Albuquerque Plaza at […]
  
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• Sinsabaugh named MEP center director

  31-12-2015 21:33
  
  The board of directors of the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership has named Jennifer Sinsabaugh MEP Center director. Sinsabaugh has served as interim director for the past five months, and has been with the organization in various capacities since 2003. Sinsabaugh has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the University of New […]
  
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• About half of state’s inmates have hepatitis C, DOC finds

  31-12-2015 21:21 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – The state Department of Corrections is asking for millions of dollars to treat the large number of inmates in New Mexico prisons who have hepatitis C.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that the Department of Corrections has found that about half of the state’s prison inmates have the blood-borne viral disease. The department is asking for $10 million to supplement the current year’s budget and an additional $2.4 million for the budget that begins in July.
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• Billboards used to spotlight accused thieves

  31-12-2015 20:49
  
  An Albuquerque auto dealership is getting a lot of attention for its electronic billboard.
  
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• Updated: Texas, New Mexico producers lose more than 30K dairy cows

  31-12-2015 20:40
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — Dairy producers in West Texas and eastern New Mexico are continuing to assess how many animals died in the winter storm last weekend, but the number will probably climb to more than 30,000, an official with a dairy group said Thursday. Texas Association of Dairymen executive director Darren Turley said an estimated […]
  
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• New: Texas, New Mexico producers lose more than 30K dairy cows

  31-12-2015 20:40
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — A dairy association official says that West Texas and eastern New Mexico producers continue to assess how many animals died in the winter storm last weekend, but the number will probably climb to more than 30,000 animals. Texas Association of Dairymen executive director Darren Turley said Thursday that about 15,000 mature dairy […]
  
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• Damaged buildings, dairy worries follow New Mexico storm

  31-12-2015 20:39
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Businesses assessed damaged buildings and southeastern New Mexico cities worked Thursday to clear still snow-covered roads following a record storm as more icy weather is expected in the coming days. From Roswell to Hobbs, some employees returned to work only to find that a record weekend snow storm had caused roofs to […]
  
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• Updated: Police: Man accused of road-rage shooting stayed on scene

  31-12-2015 20:38
  
  PHOENIX — A man who was driving with his 4-year-old daughter and is accused of wounding another driver during a road-rage shooting in Arizona called 911 and stayed at the scene to await police, as did the victim, police said Thursday. The victim in the shooting Wednesday evening suffered arm wounds that aren’t life-threatening, said […]
  
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• Police: Man accused of road-rage shooting stayed on scene

  31-12-2015 20:38
  
  PHOENIX — A man who was driving with his 4-year-old daughter and is accused of wounding another driver during a road-rage shooting in Arizona called 911 and stayed at the scene to await police, as did the victim, police said Thursday. The victim in the shooting Wednesday evening suffered arm wounds that aren’t life-threatening, said […]
  
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• Chris’ New Year’s Eve Forecast

  31-12-2015 20:30 via krqe.com
  
  Another cold afternoon is ahead for New Mexico!  New Year’s Eve will be quiet for central and western New Mexico but after midnight a cold front could spark some light snow in eastern New Mexico early New Year’s Day.   Snow accumulations will be light with most areas only picking up 1″-3″ of snow.   It is just enough to make the roads slick again, so give yourself extra time if you run into the snow later tonight and on New Year’s Day!   Temperat
  
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• Free, discounted cab rides offered for New Year’s Eve

  31-12-2015 20:21 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – If you plan to drink as part of the New Year festivities, cab companies are offering rides in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Tavern taxi is offering free rides between 10 Thursday night and 2 Friday morning.
  The Santa Fe County DWI program is offering cab rides for $5 for one to two riders and $10 for three or more. Services will be available between 5 Thursday night and 2:30 Friday morning.
  Tavern Taxi: (505) 999-1400
  Santa Fe Cab rides: (505) 438-0000
   
  
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• Police crack down on drunk drivers ahead of New Year’s Eve

  31-12-2015 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – With just hours to go until New Year’s festivities in New Mexico get underway, police say they’re already catching people celebrating illegally by drinking and driving.
  State Police were out in full force at I-25 and Mountain overnight netting suspected drunken drivers at a checkpoint. They say a man who’d been on the road from Dallas for nine hours admitted he was drinking, the entire way.
  Officers on scene say they don’t know where the man was
  
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• Ring in 2016: What you need to know about New Year’s Eve in New Mexico

  31-12-2015 19:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A look at public New Year’s Eve events in New Mexico.
  Albuquerque:
  New Year’s Eve on Civic Plaza. Enjoy food, ice skating and entertainment. There will be a countdown to 2016 and it will end with a hot air balloon rise. New Year’s Eve on Civic Plaza begins at 8 p.m. and will end at midnight.
  Chile Drop at Nob Hill. A 15-foot chile will be dropped at this celebration. The Nob Hill event starts a 7 p.m. It’s all to celebra
  
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• Consumer loan balances up in Southern NM

  31-12-2015 19:40
  
  The outstanding balance of all consumer loans in southern New Mexico was $14.9 billion as of June 2015, a nearly 10 percent increase from June 2012. Over the same period of time nationwide, the outstanding balance of all consumer loans increased 3.6 percent.
  
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• Authorities: Man killed by police pointed gun at officer

  31-12-2015 19:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Authorities say a man shot by police this month had pointed his weapon at an officer before he was killed.
  Officer Simon Drobik said Thursday that two officers who shot at 19-year-old Jose Rodriguez on Dec. 22 as they responded to reports of an attempted carjacking have been interviewed by investigators.
  Patrol officers Shawana Romero and Andrew Quillman have been with Albuquerque police since 2001.
  Romero and Quillman reportedly told investigators that Rodriguez refused
  
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• APD releases lapel video in deadly officer involved shooting

  31-12-2015 19:37 via krqe.com
  
  Warning the video is graphic and disturbing.
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) –APD has released the video of the deadly police shooting that left a teen carjacking suspect dead last week. It shows why the two officers felt the need to open fire within seconds of approaching the young man.
  APD says 19-year-old Jose Rodriguez tried to carjack a driver but gave up because he didn’t know how to drive a stick. Police caught up with him just a few blocks away before the teen made a deadly decision.
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• Albuquerque police releases lapel video in deadly officer-involved shooting

  31-12-2015 19:37 via krqe.com
  
  Warning the video is graphic and disturbing.
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) –APD has released the video of the deadly police shooting that left a teen carjacking suspect dead last week. It shows why the two officers felt the need to open fire within seconds of approaching the young man.
  APD says 19-year-old Jose Rodriguez tried to carjack a driver but gave up because he didn’t know how to drive a stick. Police caught up with him just a few blocks away before the teen made a deadly decision.
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• Updated: Fire breaks out near Dubai's New Year's fireworks display

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fire engulfed a luxury building near the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday,…
  
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• Updated: Dubai's New Year's fireworks kick off amid tower blaze

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A massive fireworks display kicked off for New Year's at the world's tallest tower…
  
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• Updated: Dubai New Year fireworks kick off while nearby tower blazes

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A 63-story luxury hotel was engulfed in flames even as a massive New Year's…
  
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• Fire breaks out near Dubai’s New Year’s fireworks display

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fire broke out Thursday in a residential building near Dubai’s massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper at 828 meters (905 yards). Burning debris […]
  
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• ABQ startup partners with Calif. software firm

  31-12-2015 18:51
  
  APPCityLife hopes to rapidly accelerate sales of its mobile app platform for cities through a newly formed partnership with California-based Accela Inc. Albuquerque-based APPCityLife has built an online platform that allows cities to easily create and deploy customized mobile apps to help citizens more easily access public information and interact with local agencies and programs. […]
  
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• Updated: Videos of APD police shooting of carjacking suspect released

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Recordings indicate man had a weapon, pointed it at officers
  
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• Police identify officers in last week’s fatal shooting

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Last week’s fatal police shooting happened about five seconds after the officer stepped out of his car and was confronted with a suspect with a weapon, according to videos of the shooting police released Thursday. Events unfolded quickly near the intersection of Central and Utah that Tuesday morning, and a clear recording of the shooting […]
  
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• Police identify officer in last week’s fatal shooting

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Albuquerque police today identified the two officers who shot and killed a 19-year-old carjacking suspect last week and said the suspect had pointed a gun at one of the officers when they opened fire. The officers involved are Andrew Quillman and Shawana Romero. Both have been with the department since 2001 and work in the […]
  
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• Hawaii raises smoking age to 21; military supports new law

  31-12-2015 18:14 via krqe.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is raising the legal smoking to age 21 for traditional and electronic cigarettes on Jan. 1, becoming the first state in the nation to do so.
  Public health officials are hoping that by making it more difficult for young people to get their hands on cigarettes, they’ll keep them from developing an unhealthy addiction.
  “In Hawaii, about one in four students in high school try their first cigarette each year, and one in three who get hooked will die premature
  
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• Hostage situation ends with 1 in custody

  31-12-2015 17:49
  
  Albuquerque police have taken one person into custody after a Thursday morning hostage situation.
  
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• 58 workers laid off at Montana mine as coal industry slumps

  31-12-2015 17:06
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana coal mine has announced that it laid off dozens of workers and is cutting production amid an industrywide slowdown that’s starting to impact the largest coal-producing region of the United States. Signal Peak Energy announced Wednesday that 58 employees had been laid off and eight vacant positions eliminated at its […]
  
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• US applications for unemployment benefits jumped last week

  31-12-2015 17:03
  
  WASHINGTON — More Americans requested unemployment benefits last week, but the level remains near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market. THE NUMBERS: Applications for jobless aid jumped 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The less volatile 4-week average climbed 4,500 to 277,000. Over the past 12 […]
  
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• Target’s turnaround gets shoppers back into stores

  31-12-2015 17:03
  
  NEW YORK — Target’s efforts to draw shoppers back into its stores are paying off. Take Annabel Bernardo, who once bought trendy clothes at Target but cut back after she felt it lost its fashion edge. Now, Bernardo, who lives in Rockville Center, Maryland, is back: “The store is looking much better. It’s looking more […]
  
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• US stocks edge lower, pulling S&P 500 into red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  U.S. stocks veered lower on the last day of the year as the market headed for a sluggish end to 2015. The modest losses in early trading Thursday dragged the Standard & Poor’s 500 index back into the red for the year. With dividends included it will have a slight gain. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks edge lower; S&P 500 goes red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  U.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday, capping the worst year for the market since 2008. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended essentially flat for the year after the day’s modest losses nudged it into the red for 2015. Even factoring in dividends, the index eked out a far smaller return than in 2014. The […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks edge lower, pulling S&P 500 into red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  Stocks are edging lower on the last day of the year as the market heads for a sluggish end to 2015. The modest losses in midday trading Thursday dragged the Standard &P Poor’s 500 index back into the red for the year. With dividends included it will have a slight gain. Energy and materials stocks, […]
  
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• Average US rate on 30-year mortgages rises to 4.01 percent

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates crossed the 4 percent mark this week, a slight increase in the wake of the Federal Reserve decision this month to hike a key short-term interest rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 4.01 percent from 3.96 […]
  
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• Taos ends New Year’s Eve fest on Plaza at 10 p.m. — but it does have a pig roast

  31-12-2015 17:00
  
  Santa Fe is not alone in the state with a New Year’s Eve celebration on its ancient and historic Plaza. Taos has one too. It ends at 10 p.m. Make fun of Santa Fe all you want for its aging population and set-in-its-ways mindset (although a lot of creative young people are swaying that) — […]
  
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• State’s new food stamp requirements to take effect Friday

  31-12-2015 17:00 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – Thousands of New Mexico residents will be required to complete paid or unpaid work in order to receive government food assistance after they ring in the new year.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that beginning Friday, most childless adults without disabilities and between the ages of 18 to 49 who receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will have to prove they spend 80 hours a month in an approved work activity to continue receiving monthly bene
  
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• Powerball jackpot rises to $334M, 12th-highest in history

  31-12-2015 16:57 via krqe.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot has risen to $334 million, the 12th largest in the game’s history.
  No one won the jackpot on Wednesday, and the next drawing is set for Saturday. The lump-sum cash prize for the winner is $205 million.
  Iowa Lottery spokesman Kevin Kirkpatrick says the prize hasn’t been this large since March 2013, when a New Jersey man won $338 million.
  Powerball’s largest jackpot was more than $590 million in May 2013. Kirkpatrick says the ga
  
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• New Year's in ABQ: Balloon rise vs. chile drop

  31-12-2015 16:57
  
  If you live in an Albuquerque, you have a tough choice on how to spend New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Flooding forcing evacuations, traffic troubles

  31-12-2015 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or train to a virtual standstill Thursday in the St. Louis area.
  Swollen rivers and streams, already high from a wet late fall, were pushed to heights not seen in nearly a quarter- century after more than 10 inches of rain fell this week in a wide swath from central Illinois through southwest Missouri.
  While St. Louis itself was not flooded, hundred
  
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• Obama, lawmakers see centennial as chance to boost parks

  31-12-2015 16:50 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the nation prepared for the 50th birthday of the National Park Service with a spending splurge that refurbished Independence Hall in Philadelphia and helped complete the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway. Next year, the world-famous system turns 100 and the celebration will be far more modest.
  The Obama administration and Republican lawmakers have vastly different ideas about what to do.
  Both parties agree
  
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• Updated: Man arrested after SWAT call for allegedly holding 3 at gunpoint

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  The Albuquerque police SWAT team has arrested a man they say held three people hostage at gunpoint, not letting them leave the Northeast Albuquerque apartment they were in, according to police spokesman Simon Drobik. Curtis Sena, 46, was arrested after an hour-long SWAT call and will face a slew of charges in the incident, Drobik […]
  
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• Breaking: SWAT called to possible armed suspect holed up in SE ABQ

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  Albuquerque police SWAT officers are trying to negotiate with a suspect they believe is armed and holding someone against that person’s will at a home in southeast Albuquerque. Police spokesman Fred Duran said someone called 911 early this morning to report that someone was holding the caller inside an apartment and wouldn’t let the caller […]
  
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• Breaking: Man arrested after SWAT call for allegedly holding 3 at gunpoint

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  The Albuquerque police SWAT team has arrested a man they say held three people hostage at gunpoint, not letting them leave the Northeast Albuquerque apartment they were in, according to police spokesman Simon Drobik. Curtis Sena, 46, was arrested after an hour-long SWAT call and will face a slew of charges in the incident, Drobik […]
  
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• US 93 reopens near Kingman after closure due to fatal wreck

  31-12-2015 16:25
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. — Arizona authorities say the highway that is the main route between Phoenix and Las Vegas has reopened after being closed near Kingman several hours early Thursday morning because of a fatal accident. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says one person was killed in the one-vehicle accident that occurred on U.S. 93 […]
  
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