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• Troopers say 3 children removed from Alaska foster home

  09-08-2019 23:27
  SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say three children were wrongfully removed from a foster home in Seward, and their mother is also missing. Troopers said the children were removed from the home late Monday night. The foster couple released the children to the woman’s care because she used the name of someone from […]
  
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• Parents arrested after missing children found

  09-08-2019 23:27
  SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say three missing children have been found safe with their mother, who was arrested along with the children’s father. Troopers say 40-year-old Melissa Salgado and 46-year-old Jeffrey Erickson were arrested on charges of custodial interference Friday. Troopers say 4-year-old Slate Erickson, 7-year-old Jedidiah “Fox” Erickson and 9-year-old Pepper […]
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 89 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: August 9-11, 2019

  09-08-2019 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffKick off your weekend with live music from the Dandy Warhols, Naked Giants, Whitney Mongé, and other great local acts at the free South Lake Union Block Party. South Lake Union Block Party via Facebook
  Panicking because you don’t know what to do this weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from the free music festival Wainestock MMXIX to a bo
  
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• Law governing adoptions of Native American children upheld

  09-08-2019 23:09
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children. Friday’s decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal upholds the Indian Child Welfare Act and reverses a Texas-based […]
  
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• A New Gas-Station-Turned-Burger-Joint and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: August 9, 2019 Edition

  09-08-2019 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe team behind sustainable sandwich shop Homegrown has opened Old 76, a new burger joint in a former gas station on Mercer Island. Old 76
  This week, Seattle food-scene star Brian Clevenger opens his latest restaurant Haymaker in West Seattle, the team behind Homegrown opens a new burger joint on Mercer Island, and a former Seattle Sounders player unveils a new cafe in Roosevelt. Plus, frosty wine slushies like "frojolais" and "friesling" are headed for Capitol Hill
  
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• Reader Advice Roundup: Thoughts About Abortion and Someone You Should Be Following On Instagram

  09-08-2019 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Roundupby Dan Savage
  This week's Savage Love Letters of the Day: Multiple sex partners and the not-so-single girl who doesn't wanna get pregnant. The runaway husband with the pregnant girlfriend returns—but he's got some (unreasonable) demands for his wife. A whole lot of straight drama that somehow doesn't involve a pregnancy. And she was sure she couldn't get pregnant and told her married lover she couldn't get pregnant and now—surprise&
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Chilling "If You Pray Right" by Odd Hip-hop Boy Band BROCKHAMPTON

  09-08-2019 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Track of the day is anomalous hip-hop boy band BROCKHAMPTON's morose and chilling "If You Pray Right."by Dave SegalThe Wu-Tang Clan for an odd future? Question Everything/RCA Records
  BROCKHAMPTON, "If You Pray Right" (Question Everything/RCA)
  First off, I generally have no time for boy bands. Second, I am skeptical of groups who use all caps in their names; it smacks of self-importance. Third, I think prayer is delusional bullshit and religion a dangerous scam. Yet, against great odds, BROCKHAMP
  
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• Governor appoints new director of Nevada Indian Commission

  09-08-2019 21:36
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A former public relations officer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has been named the new executive director of the Nevada Indian Commission. Gov. Steve Sisolak announced the appointment this week of Stacey Montooth. Montooth is a member of the Walker River Paiute Nation. She replaces longtime director Sherry Rupert, who […]
  
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• Elderly Couple in Washington Reportedly Commits Suicide Over Medical Bill

  09-08-2019 21:35
  
  by Katie Herzog“It is very tragic that one of our senior citizens would find himself in such desperate circumstances where he felt murder and suicide were the only option," the sheriff said. Stock / Getty Images Plus
  Tragic story out of Whatcom County this week.According to the Whatcom Sheriff's Department, on Wednesday morning, a 77-year old man living in near Ferndale called 911 and told the dispatcher, "I'm going to shoot myself." The dispatcher attempted to keep him on the line, but th
  
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• EPA won’t approve warning labels for Roundup chemical

  09-08-2019 20:59
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration says it won’t approve warning labels for products that contain glyphosate, a move aimed at California as it fights one of the world’s largest agriculture companies about the potentially cancer-causing chemical. California requires warning labels on glyphosate products — widely known as the weed killer Roundup — because […]
  
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• Good God, the Second Season of Succession Is Gloriously, Brutally Hilarious

  09-08-2019 19:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann Peter Kramer / HBO
  At first, Succession didn’t look especially promising. The HBO series stumbled out of the gate with its first couple of episodes, which were mired in an uncomfortable blend of drama, commentary, and cruelty. Succession embedded us within the obscenely wealthy Roy family, whose patriarch, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), is head of a massive media conglomerate, Waystar Royco, and whose four children jockey for the position of Logan’s successor. The parallels
  
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• Family of 2-month-old El Paso orphan said they wanted to share their pain with Trump

  09-08-2019 19:34
  Tito Anchondo wishes people would stop politicizing his family’s tragedy. Anchondo, who lost his beloved brother and sister-in-law in the rampage outside an El Paso, Texas, Walmart on Saturday, said he chose to take his orphaned nephew to University Medical Center of El Paso on Wednesday to meet the president and first lady. The 2-month-old […]
  
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• Lawsuit seeks to halt construction of central Idaho trail

  09-08-2019 19:21
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Central Idaho ranch owners want construction of a proposed trail connecting the popular tourist destinations of Redfish Lake and Stanley stopped and further work to make it a smooth path for hikers and bikers prohibited. Sawtooth Mountain Ranch owners David Boren and Lynn Arnone have been fighting construction of the trail […]
  
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• UK power cut snarls trains and road traffic

  09-08-2019 18:59
  LONDON (AP) — Large chunks of Britain, including London, were hit with a power cut Friday afternoon that disrupted train travel and snarled rush-hour traffic. Power supplier National Grid said issues with two generators had caused a loss of power across parts of the country and that they had been resolved. Power failures were reported […]
  
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• Huge UK power cut disrupts rail, road traffic in rush hour

  09-08-2019 18:59
  LONDON (AP) — A power cut disrupted rail travel and snarled rush-hour traffic across large chunks of Britain, including London, on Friday, leaving passengers stuck on trains or unable to get home for the weekend. Power supplier National Grid said two generators failed at the same time around 5 p.m., leading to a drop in […]
  
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• Trump administration moves to enforce abortion restriction

  09-08-2019 18:37
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving ahead despite objections, the Trump administration on Friday set a timetable for federally funded family clinics to comply with a new rule that bars them from referring women for abortions. The action is part of a series of efforts to remake government policy on reproductive health to please conservatives who are […]
  
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• We Don't Deserve Olivia Colman

  09-08-2019 17:55
  
  by Erik Henriksen 1091 MEDIA
  Olivia Colman isn't in Them That Follow a whole lot, but whenever she's onscreen—as Sister Slaughter, the dour, hardened matriarch of a small, isolated Appalachian community of snake-handling Pentecostals—she's all but unrecognizable from all of her other remarkable turns in everything from The Favourite to Broadchurch to Peep Show to The Night Manager to whatever else you want to mention. She's always great, and she's great again here, as a woman with su
  
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• California scientist dies on research dive in Alaska

  09-08-2019 17:54
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A scientist conducting research off a federal vessel died while diving in southeast Alaska. The National Park Service says 27-year-old Umihiko Hoshjima of Santa Cruz, California, died Wednesday off the outer coast of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Hoshjima was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. […]
  
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• Idaho tribe sues mining company over pollution at idle site

  09-08-2019 17:41
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Nez Perce Tribe has filed a lawsuit to force a Canadian company to clean up an idle central Idaho mining area — which the company says it plans to do if it gets approval from U.S. officials to restart mining at the site. The tribe contends in the federal lawsuit […]
  
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• Idaho tribe sues mining company over continued pollution

  09-08-2019 17:41
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Nez Perce Tribe is suing a Canadian mining company contending the company is illegally allowing arsenic, cyanide and mercury to pollute a central Idaho area that the tribe has hunting and fishing rights to from an 1855 treaty with the United States. The tribe filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. […]
  
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• Woman trying to cross Alaska glacier dies in fall

  09-08-2019 17:27
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman died when she fell while trying to cross a glacier. Alaska State Troopers say 57-year-old Leslie Lahndt of Kasilof (kah-SEE-lawf) was killed in the fall on Penny Royal Glacier in the Hatcher Pass area. Lahndt, her daughter and a friend were hiking Sunday. Troopers say Lahndt slid several […]
  
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• Slog AM: Everett vs. the Bikini Baristas, Trump Still Employs Undocumented Workers, A Kenyan Fart

  09-08-2019 17:00
  
  by Nathalie GrahamWhile we're on the subject, we should talk about anal cleft.GETTY
  Amazon Echoes are made by Chinese teens: The company that assembles most of the gadgets we're familiar with, Foxconn, has come under fire for the goings-on at its Chinese plant. Wages are low and as of last year had been determined too low to live off of. Those were recently slashed again this year. Overtime was through the roof and over the legal limit. And, a lot of the labor depended on high school interns. Th
  
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• 2 people killed breaking down Pickathon music fest set up

  09-08-2019 16:47
  HAPPY VALLEY, Ore. (AP) — Two arborists breaking down the setup of the Pickathon music festival were killed after the cherry picker they were in fell over. KGW reports the incident occurred at around 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Pendarvis Farm. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said arborists were helping take down shades that were strung […]
  
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• Mount Vernon police testimony recalls chaos after officer shot

  09-08-2019 16:11
  Several Mount Vernon police officers testified in the trial of Ernesto Rivas, who is charged with the attempted slaying of Officer Michael "Mick" McClaughry.
  
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• Seattle area is in for a cooler, drizzly weekend

  09-08-2019 16:09
  Through the weekend, an unsettled weather pattern could keep the Puget Sound region damp and gusty, says the National Weather Service in Seattle.
  
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• Attendant removed from flight charged with intoxication

  09-08-2019 16:04
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A flight attendant on a Chicago-to-South Bend flight has been charged with public intoxication. Forty-nine-year-old Julianne March of Waukesha, Wisconsin, faces an Aug. 29 initial hearing after being charged Thursday. Court documents say March was part of an Air Wisconsin crew working an Aug. 2 United Express flight when passengers became […]
  
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• A restroom in Washington state is a finalist in a ‘best public restroom’ contest; you just might have to leave here to see it

  09-08-2019 16:02
  Yes, there is an annual contest for the best public restroom. No restroom in Washington has ever won. But this year, our state has a finalist in the running.
  
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• To boost workforce, medical schools try to sell rural life

  09-08-2019 15:57
  BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — On a field trip to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Ashish Bibireddy put on headphones and scrolled through a jukebox of music from an influential 1927 recording session. Bibireddy and nine other medical students had already been biking and rafting on their visit to rural Appalachia organized by a nearby […]
  
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• Lakewood police investigating apparent homicide and crime spree

  09-08-2019 15:50
  Lakewood police are investigating an apparent homicide in a barber shop. The death came amid a nearby crime spree that had residents defending themselves with a gun and a golf club.
  
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• Lakewood police investigating apparent homicide and bizarre crime spree

  09-08-2019 15:50
  Lakewood police are investigating an apparent homicide in a barber shop. The death came amid a nearby crime spree that had residents defending themselves with a gun and a golf club.
  
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• ‘We just aren’t willing to look at ourselves in the mirror, are we?’: The best comments this week on seattletimes.com

  09-08-2019 15:00
  With a primary election this week, there was no shortage of discussion happening in Seattle Times comment threads. But readers had plenty else to talk about, too, from a Seahawks mock game to new bike-lane requirements. Here are a few comments that caught our eyes.
  
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• King County Council’s Larry Gossett fighting for his political life against Girmay Zahilay, first-time candidate who calls him a hero

  09-08-2019 15:00
  Zahilay leads Gossett 55% to 38% in a primary election foreshadowing what be the toughest campaign of Gossett's long career.
  
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• ‘It’s gonna kill this community’: A tiny Alaska town and others in the state brace as governor guts budget

  09-08-2019 15:00
  In Alaska, the fishing town of Cordova is afraid that cuts to the state ferry system will eliminate their highway to the outside world. That's just one example of what might happen statewide as the budget battle between Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Republican-dominated legislature rages on.
  
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• ‘I’m not a bike zealot, but…’: The best comments this week on seattletimes.com

  09-08-2019 15:00
  With a primary election this week, there was no shortage of discussion happening in Seattle Times comment threads. But readers had plenty else to talk about, too, from a Seahawks mock game to new bike-lane requirements. Here are a few comments that caught our eyes.
  
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• Girmay Zahilay calls Larry Gossett a civil-rights hero. He wants to unseat him on the King County Council.

  09-08-2019 15:00
  Zahilay leads Gossett 55% to 38% in a primary election foreshadowing what be the toughest campaign of Gossett's long career.
  
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• 220 million trees planted in single day in India

  09-08-2019 14:57
  LUCKNOW, India — More than a million Indians have planted 220 million trees in a single day in a government campaign to tackle climate change and improve the environment in the country’s most populated state. Forest official Bivhas Ranjan says students, lawmakers, officials and others planted dozens of species of saplings Friday along roads, rail […]
  
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• Trump says he wants background checks, also reassures NRA

  09-08-2019 14:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a response to last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. At the same time, Trump said he had assured the National Rifle Association that […]
  
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• Trump reassures NRA on gun-control talks

  09-08-2019 14:36
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he has reassured the National Rifle Association that its views about the right to bear arms won’t be ignored in Washington’s response to recent mass shootings. Trump said he is talking with the NRA and others to make sure that their “very strong views can be fully represented […]
  
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• Region hit hard by opioids embraces jail-based treatment

  09-08-2019 14:30
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — As western Massachusetts struggles with a dramatic spike in fatal overdoses, officials are embracing a controversial solution: sending men who have not committed any crimes to jails and prisons for court-ordered addiction treatment. Hampden County Sheriff Thomas Cocchi has designated a wing of his jail for the treatment of men civilly […]
  
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• Fukushima nuclear plant out of space for radioactive water

  09-08-2019 14:26
  TOKYO (AP) — The utility company operating Fukushima’s tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant says it will run out of space to store massive amounts of contaminated water in three years, adding pressure on the government and the public to reach a consensus on what to do with it. Three reactors at the plant suffered meltdowns in […]
  
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• How to improve your chances against an active shooter

  09-08-2019 11:30
  The phenomenon of mass shooting has grown and changed over the years. Experts say that there is no single response that works in every situation. Their best advice is to keep your options open, what’s known as the multi-option response.
  
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• Alaska’s oil money headaches: ‘We did this to ourselves’

  09-08-2019 07:01
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Daniel Bowen came to Alaska in 2011, looking for adventure and opportunity. He and his wife eventually settled on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, a salmon fishing haven calling itself “Alaska’s Playground.” But the Bowens, both teachers, recently returned to their native Michigan. After years of stress over delayed state […]
  
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• Alaska budget woes prod debate over oil-wealth fund checks

  09-08-2019 07:01
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Daniel Bowen came to Alaska in 2011, looking for adventure and opportunity. He and his wife eventually settled on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, a salmon fishing haven calling itself “Alaska’s Playground.” But the Bowens, both teachers, recently returned to their native Michigan. After years of stress over delayed state […]
  
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• Cook Inlet Native corporation backs Alaska governor recall

  09-08-2019 06:59
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A major Alaska Native regional corporation has announced its support for a recall campaign against the state’s governor. The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday that the Cook Inlet Region Inc. said Wednesday it is backing the effort to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy vetoed line items equaling $444 million in reductions […]
  
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• Anchorage police delete social media post about naked man

  09-08-2019 06:58
  EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Police Department has removed a social media post making light of a man asking officers to arrest and hold him in jail for public nudity. The Chugiak-Eagle River Star reported Wednesday that a department spokesman says the first-draft post should not have been published. The post generated several […]
  
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• Alaska police delete social media post mocking naked man

  09-08-2019 06:58
  EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska police department has removed a social media post making light of a man asking officers to arrest and hold him in jail for public nudity, a report said. Anchorage police spokesman MJ Thim said the first-draft post should not have been published, The Chugiak-Eagle River Star reported Wednesday. […]
  
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• Witnesses to SeaTac shuttle bus crash sought

  09-08-2019 05:00
  Detectives are seeking witnesses to a collision in SeaTac involving a hotel shuttle bus that killed one man and injured several others. The collision occurred on International Boulevard just north of South 176th Street around 1 p.m. on July 25. Officials believe a shuttle bus from the Seattle Airport Marriott was heading north when a car […]
  
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• 2 deputies shot, suspect in custody in Oregon

  09-08-2019 03:32
  GASTON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say two Washington County Sheriff’s deputies were shot outside of Gaston, Oregon. Washington County Sheriff Pat Garrett said the suspect was shot and taken to a hospital Thursday. The deputies were taken to hospitals. The sheriff’s department said a deputy who was seriously injured has an encouraging prognosis. The second […]
  
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• Slog PM: Spaghetts for Breakfast, GOP Twitter Drama, Biden Says Trump Is Maybe a White Supremacist

  09-08-2019 03:27
  
  by Chase BurnsWe drank these on TV today.
  McConnell says he'll consider legislation regarding gun safety in September: The Senate Majority Leader said "what we can't do is fail to pass something" and "the urgency of this is not lost on any of us." But he won't reconvene the Senate early like Democrats want him to.Wow, so sad: The GOP announced this afternoon that they will not be spending any ad money on Twitter advertising after Twitter locked an account associated with Mitch McConnell's reelec
  
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• Dunleavy signs capital budget, vetoes more than $30 million

  09-08-2019 02:56
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed more than $30 million from Alaska’s capital budget, including $10 million for grants for new addiction treatment centers. Dunleavy’s office cited limited financial resources in explaining the vetoes. Laura Cramer, deputy director of Dunleavy’s budget office, said the administration did not receive any backup information on […]
  
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