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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 3.28.19

  28-03-2019 23:45 via sportspyder.com
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• Bagley Cartoon: Medicaid Expansion of Our Own Design

  28-03-2019 23:40
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, March 29, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/27/bagley-cartoon-millenials/" target=_blank><u>Millennial’s World</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/26/bagley-cartoon-our/"><u>Our National Dinosaurs</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/2
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Is there such a thing as a coach yelling too aggressively? A recent Tom Izzo incident raises the question, but Jazz players say they love Quin Snyder’s approach

  28-03-2019 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  In last week’s NCAA Tournament first round, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo called timeout and marched to half court to yell at 19-year-old freshman Aaron Henry, one of his players who had evidently done something wrong. Izzo screamed at Henry, put a...
  
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• Chase Hansen misses Utah’s Pro Day tests, while revealing that he played the second half of the 2018 season with a herniated disc in his back.

  28-03-2019 23:16
  Chase Hansen is unable to run or perform in other tests in advance of the NFL draft, so the former Utah linebacker can only hope that his play on the field last year is a convincing enough audition.The body of work includes Hansen’s playing the second half of his senior season with a herniated disc in his lower back.And that disclosure explains how Hansen became the biggest story of Utah’s Pro Day, as the Ute seniors worked and others including former receiver Darren Carrington II wo
  
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• HUD accuses Facebook of housing bias, reviews Google, Twitter ads

  28-03-2019 23:15
  U.S. regulators say digital advertising practices at Facebook Inc. violate housing law and they are reviewing whether ads placed by Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google also discriminate against those seeking a place to live.The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday accused Facebook of enabling and encouraging bias based on race and religion, as well as sex, by restricting who can see housing-related ads on its platforms and across the internet. HUD also has sent letters to
  
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• Dems demand Mueller’s full 300 pages, mock ‘scaredy-cat’ GOP

  28-03-2019 23:09
  Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report is more than 300 pages long, it was revealed Thursday, sparking fresh criticism from Democrats arguing that Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary was gravely inadequate and the full findings must be quickly released.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Barr’s synopsis that cleared President Donald Trump of campaign collusion with Russia and criminal obstruction of the federal probe “condescend
  
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• After going with a receiver-by-committee approach last season, BYU wants more throws to fewer targets in 2019

  28-03-2019 23:06
  Provo • Eight different receivers started in games for the BYU Cougars last season, partly due to injuries, but mostly because the coaching staff’s strategy was to shuttle guys in and out so they could be fresh to run their routes and block on running plays.BYU didn’t have anything close to a go-to receiver; The leading pass-catcher was actually a tight end, Matt Bushman, who caught 29 passes for 511 yards and two touchdowns. The receiver with the most catches and yards was Alev
  
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• Is there such a thing as a coach yelling too aggressively? A recent Tom Izzo incident raises the question, but Jazz players say they love Quin Snyder’s approach

  28-03-2019 23:03
  In last week’s NCAA Tournament first round, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo called timeout and marched to half court to yell at 19-year-old freshman Aaron Henry, one of his players who had evidently done something wrong. Izzo screamed at Henry, put a finger in Henry’s face, and continued to the point that other players had to separate Izzo from Henry, trying to get the coach to move on to normal timeout affairs.The video showed Izzo at a frenzied enough state, though, that it sparked a
  
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• Interior secretary nominee: ‘We’re developing a business case for moving’ the BLM headquarters out West

  28-03-2019 23:02
  Washington • Interior secretary nominee David Bernhardt says the department is intent on moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to the Western United States and promised Thursday that he’ll protect public lands while cutting regulations and making it easier for Americans to access vast swaths of federal tracts.Bernhardt, who is currently the acting secretary, faced a Senate confirmation hearing that broke along partisan lines with Republicans staunchly defending President D
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Former Utah State University football star Torrey Green is sentenced to 26-years-to-life for sexual assault

  28-03-2019 22:58
  Former Utah State University football star Torrey Green is sentenced to 26-years-to-life in prison for sexual assaults. Sen. Mike Lee says the solution to climate change is people having more babies. And Utah women no longer need a prescription to buy birth-control pills and other contraceptives.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce, reporter Jessica Miller, and news columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top storie
  
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• Of mice and Mozart: University of Utah researchers find a link between music and pain relief

  28-03-2019 22:39
  Take two sonatas and call me in the morning? It’s possible that’s good medical advice, thanks to research recently done at the University of Utah that shows a connection between music and pain relief.A research paper published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, chiefly authored by researchers at the U., found that mice who listened to Mozart and were given ibuprofen had inflammation pain reduced 93 percent compared to mice who only got the drug.“We know these drug
  
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• Utah is ready to ‘flip the switch’ on Medicaid expansion next week despite not yet getting a federal waiver

  28-03-2019 22:33
  Utah is days away from Monday’s scheduled, partial expansion of Medicaid, despite the state not having yet received permission from the federal government to move forward with its plans.Tom Hudachko, spokesman for the Utah Department of Health, said Thursday that all indications suggest the waiver will be approved in time.“We don’t require any sort of advance notice or anything like that,” Hudachko said. “We’re ready to essentially flip the switch the second w
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Utah Jazz Dancers—Meet Crystal

  28-03-2019 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  Get to know some of our Utah Jazz Dancers ⤵️ Meet Crystal, a second-year dancer who majored in ballet at the University of Utah and who now works as a medica...
  
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• [Deadspin] - Request A Triple-Double From Joe Ingles And He Will Only Smirk At You 

  28-03-2019 22:02 via sportspyder.com
  Joe Ingles performs nearly every NBA skill, up to and including heavily-accented shit-talk, at a high level. On a team as diffuse and decentralized as the Utah Jazz, the Aussie is a do-everything hub. The scoring rarely leaps out, but that isn’t the...
  
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• Request A Triple-Double From Joe Ingles And He Will Only Smirk At You 

  28-03-2019 21:55 via deadspin.com
  Joe Ingles performs nearly every NBA skill, up to and including heavily-accented shit-talk, at a high level. On a team as diffuse and decentralized as the Utah Jazz, the Aussie is a do-everything hub. The scoring rarely leaps out, but that isn’t the point.Read more...
  
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• Monson: Donovan Mitchell loves playing at Vivint Arena, but looks forward to the Jazz delivering more at home

  28-03-2019 21:12
  In the aftermath of the Russell Westbrook incident and Gail Miller reminding everyone that they’re supposed to act like … you know, energetically charged, but decent human beings instead of animals at Jazz games, some people have said Vivint Smart Home Arena isn’t as loud or intimidating as it used to be, not as advantageous for the home team.That’s exactly what the Jazz need: an advantage.They do not need a looney bin in which a few fans engage in insulting, idiotic and
  
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• Man charged with murdering his ‘best friend’ in Avenues home

  28-03-2019 21:12
  Prosecutors on Thursday filed first-degree felony murder charges against a Salt Lake City man accused of killing a longtime friend who also was his landlord.Jesse J. Bruce, 40, remains in the Salt Lake County jail. Charging documents list bail at $1 million and describe the violent scene where police found the body of Corey Haney, 40, on March 21.Police responded to a report of a fight at a home near 800 E. Northcliffe Drive, on the North Bench in Salt Lake City’s Avenues neighborhood.Offi
  
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• She was once labeled ‘the dumbest girl’ in class. Now, she’s been inaugurated as the president of Utah Valley University.

  28-03-2019 21:03
  Orem • When Astrid Tuminez started school in a little hut in the Philippines, she sat in the sixth seat in the sixth row — a spot, she said, that was “reserved for the dumbest girl” in the class.She was determined to not stay in that desk for very long.So she read as much as she could, from the packaging on the food in her kitchen cupboard to the papers she sometimes found on the muddy streets around her home. And she tried to learn as many words as she could from her pare
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Donovan Mitchell loves playing at Vivint Arena, but looks forward to the Jazz delivering more at home

  28-03-2019 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  In the aftermath of the Russell Westbrook incident and Gail Miller reminding everyone that they’re supposed to act like … you know, energetically charged, but decent human beings instead of animals at Jazz games, some people have said Vivint Smart...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: The 'Lonely Master' is in good company

  28-03-2019 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  Also, that downtown mural for Donovan Mitchell: Does it say 'please don't ever leave'?
  
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• Rock On: The 'Lonely Master' is in good company

  28-03-2019 20:31
  Jimmer Fredette is back in America, and a billion people in China care.The ex-BYU star was in Salt Lake on Monday, having left the Shanghai Sharks to play for the Phoenix Suns. Rock On expects him to have a happy stay in Arizona, even though the Suns are 26.5 games out of the playoffs and 13 games behind their nearest competitor.What better place for "The Lonely Master" to land than with "The Lonely Team"?EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESSRetired BYU coach Dave Rose tells of the 2010-11 season when the Coug
  
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• Utah Royals will start the season a week later than the rest of the league. They’re just fine with that.

  28-03-2019 20:30
  Sandy • After three weeks of preseason, the Utah Royals are about to dispense with the training grind and start preparing for the real thing.The Royals are coming off a weeklong stint in Los Angeles where they faced the women’s soccer teams of California State Long Beach and the University of California. URFC dispatched each rather easily, left the sunny skies of L.A., and returned to the thin air of Salt Lake City, where they will have one more week of preseason before switching into
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Former Jazz player Enes Kanter on faith, basketball and political activism

  28-03-2019 20:30 via sportspyder.com
  Enes Kanter is not your average NBA player. Yes, he’s 6 feet, 11 inches tall (7 feet on his tiptoes). And, yes, he weighs in at 250 pounds (when he’s not fasting for Ramadan). And, yes, his hands are bigger than my entire torso.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Dante Exum out indefinitely after surgery to repair torn patella

  28-03-2019 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz point guard Dante Exum has been ruled out indefinitely, according to an official injury update from the team. Exum underwent a surgical procedure on Wednesday morning to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee. His...
  
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• Commentary: Former Jazz player Enes Kanter on faith, basketball and political activism

  28-03-2019 20:05
  Enes Kanter is not your average NBA player. Yes, he’s 6 feet, 11 inches tall (7 feet on his tiptoes). And, yes, he weighs in at 250 pounds (when he’s not fasting for Ramadan). And, yes, his hands are bigger than my entire torso.But how many NBA players have clashed publicly with dictators and their regimes? Or have had their home countries request red notices from Interpol? Or have contacted the U.S. government for the purpose of extradition and prosecution?Kanter, a Turkish native,
  
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• Tribune editorial: Mike Lee gets laughs, but the joke is on Utah

  28-03-2019 20:03
  So what was that Mike Lee performance? Standup comedy?He wasn’t exactly killing it on stage with his joke props to mock the Green New Deal resolution, but then it took a decidedly odd turn:“The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution that we’re considering this week in the Senate but rather the serious business of human flourishing. The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married and have some kids.&rdqu
  
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• New plays by women writers will take center stage in Plan-B Theatre’s 2019-20 season

  28-03-2019 19:52
  Voices of Utah women playwrights will be heard loud and clear in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center next season, in Plan-B Theatre Company’s 2019-2020 season.The season, announced Tuesday, will deliver three new original works in its subscription season, a free children’s play, and two of its “Script-In-Hand” reading series performances — all written by women. Also scheduled are a reading of short plays from the Theatre Artists of Color writing workshop, and the
  
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• Six Utah cities signed up for a new election method aimed at giving voters more say. At least half of them have bailed out and more may follow.

  28-03-2019 19:51
  At least half the Utah cities that were planning to pilot a new voting method are backing out ahead of their 2019 municipal elections, citing complications with implementation and voter education.These challenges appear to outweigh, for now, ambitious visions of boosting turnout and saving money through so-called ranked-choice voting.Lehi this week became the latest city to bail out, leaving fellow Utah County cities Salem, Payson and Vineyard to decide whether to stay aboard.“We’ve
  
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• Of Mozart and mice: University of Utah researchers find a link between music and pain relief

  28-03-2019 19:50
  Take two sonatas and call me in the morning? It’s possible that’s good medical advice, thanks to research recently done at the University of Utah that shows a connection between music and pain relief.A research paper published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, chiefly authored by researchers at the U., found that mice who listened to Mozart and were given ibuprofen had inflammation pain reduced 93 percent compared to mice who only got the drug.“We know these drug
  
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• Commentary: I’m not passing my parents’ religion on to my kids, but I am teaching their values

  28-03-2019 19:49
  My children, a 3-year-girl and a 1-year-old boy, aren’t baptized.Many people take issue with this parenting decision — especially the people I know from my days as a devout, practicing Catholic. Most of the judgment comes through passive-aggressive comments. Some folks, though, have no problem telling me to my face what a great disservice I’m doing my children. One woman actually told me my children would likely go to hell because of my choice. She didn’t say it malicious
  
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• [NBA] - Danté Exum injury update—3.28.2019

  28-03-2019 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  Exum underwent a successful surgical procedure Wednesday morning to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee. The procedure was performed in Los Angeles by Dr. Neal ElAttrache.He
  
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• Pope Francis explains reluctant ring kiss: fear of spreading germs

  28-03-2019 19:28
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has set the record straight about why he pulled his hand away when throngs of people lined up this week to kiss his ring: for fear of spreading germs.Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Thursday that Francis was concerned about hygiene when, after greeting dozens of well-wishers in a lengthy receiving line Monday in Loreto, he began pulling his hand away to discourage people from kissing his ring.Video of the incident went viral, with conservative critics b
  
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• Utah Jazz fans have some questions for Donovan Mitchell. Here are the answers

  28-03-2019 19:26
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz fans saw Donovan Mitchell standing in the middle of a city street this week, and they had some questions.Nobody asked why he was standing in the street, by the way. They knew. Mitchell was in the barricaded intersection of Rio Grande Street and Karl Malone Drive for a ceremony to officially announce that a pedestrian bridge at The Gateway was being renamed in his honor.After he expressed his gratitude — and got Jazz fans' hopes up by predicting the team wou
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz’s Dante Exum had surgery to repair his knee injury

  28-03-2019 19:25 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz reserve point guard Dante Exum underwent surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday to repair the partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee, the team announced Thursday.
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz guard Dante Exum has surgery to fix tendon in knee

  28-03-2019 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz say guard Dante Exum underwent surgery to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee and will be sidelined indefinitely.
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz guard Dante Exum has surgery to fix tendon in knee

  28-03-2019 19:20 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz say guard Dante Exum has undergone surgery to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee and will be sidelined indefinitely
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz fans have some questions for Donovan Mitchell. Here are the answers

  28-03-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz star conducted an impromptu Q&A with fans after having a bridge named after him this week.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Obliterating the idea of truth comes back to haunt Trump

  28-03-2019 19:17
  I had to laugh, not only because this is a problem entirely of President Donald Trump's own making, but because it tells us political karma is alive and well. CNN reports:"Though President Donald Trump has claimed "complete and total exoneration" based on Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the American public disagrees, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS."A majority (56%) says the President a
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU basketball fans get a double gut-punch

  28-03-2019 19:06
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Ardent BYU basketball supporters were hammered with a wicked one-two punch, as popular 14-year coach Dave Rose announced his retirement Tuesday and fan-favorite Yoeli Childs signaled his departure via Twitter on Wednesday.Neither announcement came as a huge surprise.Rumors began percolating the day after BYU lost 80-57 to San Diego in the West Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals that Rose had g
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Dante Exum had surgery to repair his knee injury

  28-03-2019 18:52
  Jazz reserve point guard Dante Exum underwent surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday to repair the partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee, the team announced Thursday.The procedure, which was performed by noted surgeon Neal ElAttrache, was deemed successful. The guard will remain out of action indefinitely, and will presumably miss the remainder of the season. The Jazz said Exum will begin the rehab process as soon as possible.The former lottery pick was averaging 6.9 points, 2.6 assists,
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz G Exum has knee surgery, out indefinitely

  28-03-2019 18:49 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz reserve point guard Dante Exum underwent surgery to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee Wednesday and remains out indefinitely, the team announced Thursday.
  
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• [KSL] - Dante Exum has surgery on right knee and will remain out indefinitely

  28-03-2019 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  Dante Exum had surgery to repair a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum undergoes knee surgery, remains out indefinitely

  28-03-2019 18:30 via sportspyder.com
  Exum suffered a partial tear of his right patellar tendon on March 14.
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum undergoes knee surgery, remains out indefinitely

  28-03-2019 18:27
  SALT LAKE CITY — When the Utah Jazz announced on March 15 that guard Dante Exum had suffered a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee the night before, the organization indicated that the Aussie would "continue to seek opinions on how to best treat the injury."On Thursday morning, the team announced that Exum underwent surgery on Wednesday to repair the tear, and that he remains out indefinitely. Patellar tendon injuries suffered by players such as Oklahoma City wing Andre Robers
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Kyle Kuzma isn’t surprised by Alex Caruso’s aerial exploit vs. Jazz

  28-03-2019 17:53 via sportspyder.com
  Los Angeles Lakers point guard Alex Caruso shocked the basketball world on Wednesday night as he flushed down an amazing alley-oop jam in his team’s matchup against the Utah Jazz. One man that was not at all surprised by Caruso’s utter display of...
  
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• Teen boy allegedly admitted to shooting his stepbrother, but said he thought the shotgun wasn’t loaded

  28-03-2019 17:35
  A 15-year-old boy is facing a manslaughter charge in connection to his stepbrother's death — a shooting that initially was reported as accidental.The boy at first told police that his stepbrother, Jerrad Jacobsen, had accidentally shot himself with a shotgun at they sat in Jacobsen’s bedroom on March 18 in Kearns.But a medical examiner later found that the shot that killed Jacobsen had been fired into the top left side of his head at a downward angle, according to a juvenile court pe
  
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