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• One Tweet Unleashes A Torrent Of Stories Of Sexual Assault

  11-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  On Friday, writer Kelly Oxford shared the story of the first time she was sexually assaulted. She was 12, she said, when a man on a city bus grabbed her genitals and smiled.
  She used the same word that Republican candidate Donald Trump used in a recording where he talked about doing things to women.
  “Women: tweet me your first assaults,” Oxford said: “they aren’t just stats.”
   Women: tweet me your first assaults. they aren’t just stats. I’ll go firs
  
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• Obama really wants people to live on Mars

  11-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  For years, President Obama has been saying the U.S. must send humans to Mars. Permanently.
  There was the 2010 speech when he said, “By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it.”
  There was that time in 2012 when he said the Curiosity rover was inspiring kids to tell “their moms and dads they want to be part of a Mars mission — maybe even the first person
  
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• Groups sue to declare Fairbanks air out of compliance

  11-10-2016 22:55
  
  Two Alaska groups want the Environmental Protection Agency to formally declare that Fairbanks is seriously out of compliance with federal air pollution standards.
  Citizens for Clean Air and the Sierra Club on Tuesday sued the EPA, claiming the agency missed a June deadline for declaring the Fairbanks North Star Borough a “serious non-attainment area.”
  That designation would kick in stricter pollution control requirements.
  The EPA in November 2009 designated Fairbanks a moderate a non
  
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• Murkowski, Sullivan resign GOP posts after denouncing Trump

  11-10-2016 22:46
  
  Alaska’s two U.S. senators resigned leadership posts in the state Republican party in denouncing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
  Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, says Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan voluntarily resigned over the weekend as honorary members of the party’s state central committee.
  Murkowski on Saturday called on Trump to step aside as the party’s nominee after a 2005 video surfaced in which Trump made lewd comments about women. Sullivan,
  
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• What to do if you have a Samsung Galaxy Note 7

  11-10-2016 22:03
  
  NEW YORK — Worries about the safety of Samsung’s replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have consumers fretting about what to do.
  U.S. regulators ordered a recall of the original Note 7, a large phone, bordering on tablet size, with a huge battery, in late September after the devices demonstrated an unwelcome tendency to catch fire.
  Now, following reports that the company’s replacement versions have also overheated or caught fire, Samsung announced Monday evening that it is
  
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• Drug crisis boosts supply of organ transplants

  11-10-2016 21:34
  
  The spike America has seen in drug overdose deaths in recent years has provided an unexpected lifesaving benefit for others by increasing the number of desperately needed organ transplants.
  So far this year, 12 percent of deceased organ donors in the U.S. died of drug intoxication, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) — 791 out of a total of 6,557. That’s more than the number who died of gunshot wounds.
  While the percentage of organ donations from people
  
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• After Hurricane Matthew, Floodwaters Rise To Record Levels In North Carolina

  11-10-2016 21:30 via ktoo.org
  
  When Hurricane Matthew lost strength and headed out to sea over the weekend, the storm took its high winds and driving rains with it.
  But it left behind water — from the record rains that fell during its trip up the southeastern U.S. coast. And particularly in North Carolina, the long-gone storm has continued to threaten lives as floodwaters rise, sometimes to record levels, flowing over the banks of rivers and threatening dams.
  The hurricane killed hundreds of people in Haiti and elsewher
  
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• Travel Tuesday: Advantages to traveling during off-season

  11-10-2016 21:00
  
  If the last two weeks have been any indication, it can prove to bring some pretty nice weather to southcentral. October is the month the tourist start to thin out. Combine the two, and it’s a great time for Alaskans to get out during the off-season to explore Alaska or beyond.
  Tuesday, Julie Saupe, the president and CEO of Visit Anchorage joined Daybreak with five benefits of traveling now.
  For more information, click here.
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• Recount shows Skagway senior center bond passing by 5 votes

  11-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A recount of Skagway municipal election ballots Monday shows the senior center bond question passing by five votes.
  The Canvass Board counted 228 votes for the $6 million bond and 223 against. Those results are just slightly different than the initial ballot count last week.
  The board tallied one more “for” vote in the recount.
  Borough Clerk Emily Deach said that sometimes happens if the mark on the ballot is too light for the machine.
  The borough assembly ordered the recount because
  
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• Juneau Access Road, PFD on Haines and Skagway minds leading up to Walker visit

  11-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  This week, Haines and Skagway residents will have the chance to tell Alaska Gov. Bill Walker their thoughts on the Juneau Access Road and state budget situation.
  Walker is making brief stops in each community Friday.
  His staff said its part of a slate of visits around the state to talk to communities about the Alaska’s fiscal outlook. But Walker will also hear from residents in this area about the Juneau Access Project.
  Walker is venturing to two of the three communities that would be
  
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• Recipe Box: Egg-in-the-Hole

  11-10-2016 20:51
  
  If breakfast really sets the tone for the rest of the day, why stick to the mundane?
  This week, KTVA 11’s Daybreak is packing protein into a fun meal for the kiddos, with the help of Anchorage mom Lesleigh Frank.
  Egg-in-the-Hole is one of Frank’s favorite meals from her childhood. But this version has an Alaska twist. Instead of using an old-fashioned biscuit cutter or the rim of a glass, animal-shaped cookie cutters allow the chance for her toddler, Waverley, to join in the bre
  
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• ‘We Are Better Than That’: Clinton Sees An Opening In Voters Turned Off By Trump

  11-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton, who has long been public enemy No. 1 for many in the Republican Party, is now making a direct appeal to Republican and independent voters turned off by Donald Trump.
  For months, her campaign has been courting these voters, but as Clinton and her team see it, the events of the past week have given them a much wider opening. Her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, is in open warfare with members of his own party and is still reeling from the release of a 2005 video where he boasted
  
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• Petersburg Indian Association pursues new one-mile trail near town

  11-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The proposed trail is just in the initial stages and would likely take years to complete.
  According to the proposal, the trail would link the south part of town to the airport area without going through downtown Petersburg. The proposal would open up opportunities for the area residences of Severson Subdivision.
  “In Petersburg we have beautiful scenery, a ton of space that is unused at this point that people would love to take advantage of,” said Barry Morrison is the Council Pr
  
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• Thief makes off with trailer used as mobile pretzel parlor

  11-10-2016 19:32
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – It’s a twisted crime: Someone stole the Pretzel Chef trailer, a food truck that operates in Fairbanks, Alaska.
  The Pretzel Chef is a fixture at summer events such as the Tanana Valley State Fair, selling pretzels in various flavors, including a pizza pretzel.
  Co-owner Michelle Hajdukovich (heye-DOOK-oh-vich) tells the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/2ecdOrI) that the white, 14-foot trailer had been parked for the winter.
  It has a concession window t
  
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• Trump Apparently Quotes Russian Propaganda To Slam Clinton On Benghazi

  11-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Monday. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)
  During his speech, Trump held up a piece of paper. “This just came out a little while ago. I have to tell you this,” Trump said as he read from the page, which he identified as an email from Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.
  “The attack was almost certainly preventable,” Trump read. He continued, “Clinton was in charge of
  
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• GCI announces $100,000 in donations to suicide prevention efforts

  11-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska telecommunications company GCI has announced $100,000 in donations to support nine suicide prevention efforts across the state.
  Two village organizations in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region will receive some of that money.
  GCI’s Suicide Prevention Grant program partnered with the Alaska Community Foundation, which was established in 1995 as a grant distribution center, to administer the donations.
  According to a news release Wednesday, GCI decided to launch their new program earlier this
  
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• Ferry storage costs close to a half-million dollars

  11-10-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The fast ferry Chenega undergoes repairs in drydock at the Ketchikan Shipyard in 2014. It is being tied up and stored in Tacoma, Washington, until its future is decided. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  The Alaska Marine Highway System is paying more than $1,200 a day for long-term storage of two unused ferries.
  One critic says it would be better to sell them than to tie them up.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/10LayUp-L.mp3The state has awarded contracts totaling more than $450
  
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• Bethel to re-examine ATV laws after spike in citations

  11-10-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  BETHEL — Bethel officials are set to reconsider their request for police to step up enforcement of laws banning all-terrain vehicles on city roadways.
  KYUK-AM reports the City Council will discuss the matter at a meeting Tuesday following concerns from residents that police have been handing out too many tickets.
  The meeting comes weeks after the council directed police Chief Andre Achee to increase enforcement of laws prohibiting the use of four-wheelers.
  Some council members had cited sa
  
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• JBER soldier apologizes to downtown business after urinating on storefront

  11-10-2016 08:46
  
  Last week, downtown Anchorage business owners spoke out about rowdy behavior outside Brown Bag Sandwich Co.’s bar, and Russ Reno, owner of Anchorage Downtown TourGroup, provided some shocking surveillance video. The footage showed men and women peeing all over the sidewalk, vomiting, littering and even a violent assault.
  Reno reached out to KTVA again over the weekend when he was shocked to see that after the report aired, a man shown in the initial footage came back and peed on his s
  
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• Gov. Walker declares Oct. 10 Indigenous Peoples Day

  11-10-2016 06:56
  
  ANCHORAGE — While much of the nation observed Columbus Day on Monday, Alaska’s governor once again proclaimed Oct. 10 Indigenous Peoples Day.
  Columbus Day, named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, is a federal holiday. In Alaska, it is not recognized as a state holiday, according to Katie Marquette, Gov. Bill Walker’s press secretary.
  “Proclamations do not have the force of law,” Marquette explained in an email Monday. “To make it permanent (aka
  
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• Gov. Walker declares Monday Indigenous Peoples Day

  11-10-2016 06:56
  
  ANCHORAGE — While much of the nation observed Columbus Day on Monday, Alaska’s governor once again proclaimed Oct. 10 Indigenous Peoples Day.
  Columbus Day, named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, is a federal holiday. In Alaska, it is not recognized as a state holiday, according to Katie Marquette, Gov. Bill Walker’s press secretary.
  “Proclamations do not have the force of law,” Marquette explained in an email Monday. “To make it permanent (aka
  
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• Ahtna conducts exploratory drilling for natural gas near Tolsona

  11-10-2016 06:38
  
  Kristal Bengtson can’t remember a day in her life she hasn’t had to stuff her wood stove with logs. Like a puzzle piece, she moves the logs around to fit as many as she can. The more she puts in, the fewer times she has to come back and refill the stove.
  “The less you use the better,” Bengtson said. “I like to use as much wood as possible because it’s definitely much more efficient heating-wise and much more efficient for the pocketbook.”
  Bengtson’
  
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• ‘A monster scratched me’: 4-year-old hit by stray bullet describes shooting

  11-10-2016 05:49
  
  Hayley Francy was sleeping in her East Anchorage bedroom when a stray bullet hit her last week.
  Anchorage police got called to the apartment on San Roberto Ave. near Russian Jack Park just after midnight Thursday. The four-year-old’s mom, Jessyca Francy, said she came home from work to find her daughter’s mattress covered in blood. She took her daughter to the hospital, where she learned the bullet had missed Hayley’s femoral artery by a quarter of an inch. When police arrived
  
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• StoryCorps to record Alaskans’ stories of health and wellness

  11-10-2016 05:16
  
  The nonprofit group StoryCorps has come to Anchorage. The group, which often airs its work on public radio, plans to record conversations with Alaskans on the subject of health and wellness and what they’re calling “whole person care.”
   The two-year “Hear Me Now” project is a partnership with Providence Health Care Systems. Eddie Gonzalez with StoryCorps said people who participate will sit down for a 40-minute conversation that will be recorded about some aspe
  
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• Sweet Rivalry brings local chefs together for a good cause

  11-10-2016 05:15
  
  Rustic, Alaska food: That’s what Kaladi Brothers chef Katie Wright likes to cook.
  “We’ve made a kabocha and sugar pie pumpkin chevre cheesecake,” she said as she sliced through the marbled dessert.
  Wright is one of eight local chefs competing in Sweet Rivalry on Tuesday. It’s a fundraiser for Arc of Anchorage, an organization that works with intellectually and developmentally disabled people. There’s a plated dessert competition as well as a category for
  
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• Millett calls for Alaskans to stand against Trump, but few colleagues will stand with her

  11-10-2016 05:08
  
  Another Alaska Republican leader is distancing herself from Donald Trump after a video released Friday caught Trump talking about sexually assaulting women.
  “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful, I just start kissing them,” Trump can be heard saying behind the scenes during a 2005 Access Hollywood appearance, while wearing a microphone. “I don’t even wait, and when you’re a star they let you do it, you can do anything. Grab them by the p—y
  
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• One last chance to protest at the end of an era for the Tongass

  11-10-2016 03:11 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Part of the Tongass National Forest in April 2008. (Creative Commons photo by Xa’at)
  The federal government is getting close to finalizing a plan that could shape the future of timber in the Tongass National Forest. Various stakeholders have given input through the years. But if the objection letters are any indication, several agencies and groups are still not content — for different reasons.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/10OBJECT.mp3Buck Lindekugel has been spending
  
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• Stolen art piece to raise awareness of homelessness replaced

  11-10-2016 03:08 via ktoo.org
  
  A wooden figure stands in housing officer Scott Ciambor’s office at Juneau City Hall, Oct. 4, 2016. It’s a replacement for one that was stolen from outside City Hall in September. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  The life-size wooden figure intended to raise awareness of homelessness stolen from outside Juneau’s City Hall has been replaced.
  The theft happened last month. Organizers of the nationwide project in Charleston, South Carolina, sent the replacement figure.
  Before the orig
  
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• Man robs Anchorage bank, drives away with 2 others in SUV

  11-10-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — A man claiming to be armed robbed a bank Monday on Anchorage’s east side.
  Anchorage police say a man walked into the First National Bank on east
  Northern Lights Boulevard and handed a note to a teller.
  The note demanded money and indicated the man and companions were armed.
  The man left with cash and drove off in a red sport utility vehicle with a black tailgate and spare tire on the back. Two other people were in the SUV.
  No one was injured.
  Police received a call on the
  
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• Trump comments cause stir amid Alaska’s GOP

  11-10-2016 02:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump points out to the crowd of supporters as he arrives at a campaign rally on Oct. 4, 2016 in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
  Ralph Freso/Getty Imagesib
  Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators said over the weekend they won’t support Republican Donald Trump for president, not after seeing him brag on a 2005 videotape that being a star meant he was free to grab women by the private parts.
  Rep. Charisse Millett, an Anchorage Republican and the state House maj
  
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• State says first federal trust status application filed

  11-10-2016 02:33
  
  Alaska officials say the first application by an Alaska Native entity to put lands into federal trust has been submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  The state Department of Law says in a news release Monday it was notified by the BIA about the application filed by the Craig Tribal Association. Officials say the state has 30 days to comment.
  The application submitted seeks federal trust status on a one-acre lot in the city of Craig that holds the tribe’s administration building
  
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• Pew report sees Alaska ahead of other states in its ‘sovereign wealth fund’

  11-10-2016 02:32 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.’s exterior sign. A Pew Charitable Trusts report found the fund is ahead of those of other states. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  A national report said other states can learn from the example of the Alaska Permanent Fund as they seek to grow their own funds built from natural resource extraction.
  The Pew Charitable Trusts focused on seven states that have funds from extraction revenue, which the report describes as “sovereign wealth funds.”
  
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• Buckets of formaldehyde and fish spill on Alaska Airlines flight

  11-10-2016 02:25
  
  Alaska Airlines has apologized to passengers aboard an Anchorage-bound flight from Barrow Friday after buckets containing fish and formaldehyde leaked in the cargo area of the plane.
  When flight 55 landed in Anchorage, crews unloading the plane could smell the chemical and discovered the spill, according to Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobby Egan. She said a passenger was transporting the buckets as checked baggage.
  Protocols for handling hazardous materials were initiated, Egan said, and in
  
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• Troopers investigate death of woman in Willow home

  11-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  WILLOW — Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of a woman at a home in Willow.Elizabeth Foster, 41, was found dead Sunday morning, Troopers said.The death is being investigated as a homicide.A 14-year-old boy was taken into custody. He’s been referred to juvenile authorities.
  
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• Nestlé Drumstick ice cream recalled due to possible Listeria contamination

  11-10-2016 01:42
  
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  Nestlé USA, Inc. has recalled its Drumstick Club ice cream after production equipment tested positive for Listeria.
  The recall for 16- and 24-count packages of vanilla Drumsticks is voluntary, the company said in its recall on the Food and Drug Administration’s website.
  “There have been no positive test results for [Listeria] present in the Drumstick cones themselves,” Nestlé explained. &ldquo
  
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• Record number of absentee, questioned ballots could change Mat-Su Borough election outcomes

  11-10-2016 01:04
  
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials say the October election set a borough record — the highest number of absentee and questioned ballots, all of which must still be counted before the election is certified. Those ballots could change the outcome of some of the election races.
  The Canvass Board spent the weekend counting the 3,629 ballots — 2,295 absentee votes and 1,334 questioned ballots, according to a statement from Mat-Su Borough spokeswoman Patty Sullivan.
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• Chicken ordinance draws children to Kodiak assembly meeting

  11-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  It’s not often that a child gives public comment at a Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting, but last week, a 10-year-old stood up for the right to keep chickens and roosters.
  On Thursday the assembly held a public hearing on an ordinance that would put a temporary hold on poultry restrictions in certain areas of the borough until the Planning and Zoning Commission can review that code.No one stepped up during the actual public hearing, but Thor Berestoff made his statement during
  
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• Smoke billows up Gastineau Channel from boat fire

  11-10-2016 00:48 via ktoo.org
  
  A small vessel burns in Gastineau Channel near Aurora Harbor. (Lakeidra Chavis/ KTOO)
  Smoke is billowing up Gastineau Channel this afternoon from a boat fire near Aurora Harbor.
  The fire appears to be burning aboard a barge. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. an ambulance and three fire trucks arrived on the scene. An emergency boat was in the water but had not approached the fire directly.
  Emergency officials arrive on scene of a small barge fire near Aurora Harbor. (Lakeidra Chavis/ K
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Lee Butterfield

  11-10-2016 00:37
  
  Students at South Anchorage High School get to learn real-world tech skills in Lee Butterfield’s drone class.
  “Democratization of media equipment is insane,” said Butterfield. “It’s cheaper to get good equipment in people’s hands and with the software they have, to be able to edit on their own and work on their own means that they are a viable employee and or entrepreneur as soon as they walk out of this building.”
  KTVA 11’s Teacher of the Week hel
  
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• One injured in Sunday morning crash south of Aleknagik

  11-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  One person was injured when a Ford Expedition drove off Aleknagik Lake Road early Sunday morning.
  State troopers say the accident happened about 5 a.m. near Silver Salmon Creek. The Expedition rolled over and ended up in the woods by the downhill curve in the road.
  Volunteers with Dillingham’s EMS responded.Of the four passengers, one was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
  Kendall Alvarado, 21, of Dillingham was driving. Alcohol and speed were “significant factors&rdquo
  
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