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Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kelly. Now

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Speaker 1: here's Kel. Did you know that there have been eleven

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Speaker 1: human children born in Antarctica? At Murdo Station, Antarctica, temperatures

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Speaker 1: are rarely above thirty eight degrees in the summer and

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Speaker 1: rarely go below negative thirty three in the winter. However,

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Speaker 1: the coldest recorded temperature was July three at Bostok Station,

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Speaker 1: where attempts plunged to a hundred and twenty eight point

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Speaker 1: six degrees below zero. Although there are year round residents

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Speaker 1: here that include people, penguins, and seals, the largest native

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Speaker 1: terrestrial animal is only about a quarter inch long. It's

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Speaker 1: called Belgica Antarctica and it's a wingless midge. Don't just

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Speaker 1: call this thing a bug as Belgica Antarctica is an

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Speaker 1: extreme o file that means something that lives in extreme environments.

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Speaker 1: If it were to live in conditions a bit more hospitable,

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Speaker 1: a place that doesn't get too hot or too cold, say,

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Speaker 1: you could call it a meso file, which is a

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Speaker 1: critter that lives in environment to uh D and fifteen

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Speaker 1: degrees or let's say critter lakes an environment with a

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Speaker 1: pH level that is neutral, that'd be a neutro file. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're a fly fisherman, you might know Belgica Antarctica

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Speaker 1: as a chronomd as in Hey, we've been catching a

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Speaker 1: lot of rainbows on chronomid patterns. The ace nous and

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Speaker 1: snow nous of this particular chronamid's chosen locale brings to

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Speaker 1: mind one of the more popular chronomid fly tying patterns,

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Speaker 1: the snow cone. This week we've got what it takes

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Speaker 1: to graduate in the Philippines, toilet weasels, poachers, wooly mammas,

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Speaker 1: wilderness and more. But first I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: my week. I took the weekend to dial in my hovel.

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Speaker 1: I got a place here in Bozeman, Montana a few

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Speaker 1: months back, and it felt like a squatter in it

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Speaker 1: for a while. I got a few European mounts up

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Speaker 1: on the wall. A European mount or euromount if you

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Speaker 1: aren't hip to that one is a skull that has

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Speaker 1: had the flesh either eaten off by domestic beetles, or

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Speaker 1: the flesh is boiled off by spending several hours in

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Speaker 1: a pot Either way, all that is left is a

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Speaker 1: clean skull. You can then set the clean skull on

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Speaker 1: a shelf or bookcase or a wall or something. Not

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Speaker 1: to quote trophies. But I'll admit the place looks class

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Speaker 1: here and there's some strong memories attached to them. One

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Speaker 1: of these skull induced memories comes from a British Columbia moose.

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Speaker 1: I got stuck waist deep in the glacial silt of

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Speaker 1: a river with a hundred plus pounds of moose meat

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Speaker 1: on my back. Had made a poor choice of choosing

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Speaker 1: to shoot the moose on an island in a river, which,

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Speaker 1: as it turned out, was very deep and unwaitable. That

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Speaker 1: story goes on for a while. Also put up a

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Speaker 1: couple of mule here that honestly mean a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more for reasons I may go into later. Not the

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Speaker 1: most important thing I got done at the new places

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Speaker 1: I got some earth boxes planted, which are neat little

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Speaker 1: tupperware type setups full of soil that make growing food

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Speaker 1: possible for a bachelor guy on the move like myself.

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Speaker 1: The other highlight is I got to take my three

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Speaker 1: year old nephew fishing along with a small herd of

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Speaker 1: other children. Quite proud to report that as the kids

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Speaker 1: slowly started to lose interest in fishing and gain more

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Speaker 1: interest and less important forms of play, my three year

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Speaker 1: old nephew stayed focused and fished longer than three five

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Speaker 1: long as the nine year old, and the nine year

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Speaker 1: old is, as I would say, a real fishy dude.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, the Philippines, an island country consisting of islands

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles of coastline, was once heavily forested. However,

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Speaker 1: twentieth century. Logging, mining, illegal logging, climate change, general habitat

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Speaker 1: destruction are the culprits here. However, a new Filipino law

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Speaker 1: aims to make a change. The new law requires all

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Speaker 1: over the course of one generation, five hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five billion trees would be planted. Even if ten percent survived,

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Speaker 1: that will be an additional five hundred five million trees.

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Speaker 1: I think I built a four weight fly rod for

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Speaker 1: my senior project, which I had no cause to second

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Speaker 1: gas or rethink until now. Moving on to our most

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Speaker 1: recent Lazarus species discovery. For those of you slow to

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Speaker 1: the game, Lazarus as an old boy from the Bible

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Speaker 1: Think blackfooted ferrets, the Lord how Walking Stick, and the

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Speaker 1: Sela camp I'd be negligent here not to plug Nick

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Speaker 1: Cave's album Dig Lazarus Dig, So keep that in mind

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Speaker 1: once you've listened to every last single episode of this

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Speaker 1: A self described amateur naturalist in Columbia has managed to

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Speaker 1: Looks not dissimilar to our short tailed weasel here in

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Speaker 1: the US, except this weasel has shaggy your hair and

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Speaker 1: only known from four total specimens, and these new pictures

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Speaker 1: The Columbian weasel was known to inhabit dense jungle riparian zones,

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Speaker 1: but this weasel managed to get his picture taken on

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Speaker 1: he stumbled upon a picture of the Columbian weasel and thought, quote,

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Speaker 1: could this be my toilet weasel? Something to keep in

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Speaker 1: mind next time you walk in on our squad on

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Speaker 1: interesting critter in their natural setting or your natural setting.

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Speaker 1: Jumping over to our law enforcement desk, Montana man was

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Speaker 1: recently sentenced to five hundred hours of community service for

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Speaker 1: a wildlife conservation organization which I like, ten years of probation,

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Speaker 1: thirty three thousand fifty bucks and restitution, as well as

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Speaker 1: forfeiture of hunting, fishing, and trapping rights for life. What

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Speaker 1: did he do to get all that? In two thousand seventeen.

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Speaker 1: The poacher killed and for the most part wasted, a

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Speaker 1: two antelope, and two turkeys. When investigators showed up to

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Speaker 1: the man running out the back door with an armload

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Speaker 1: of animal skulls. The poacher pled guilty. I have to

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Speaker 1: but the first lie he broke was not having a

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Speaker 1: five foot long mammoth tusk. After arrest and conviction, he

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Speaker 1: was sentenced to thirty three months in federal prison. After

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Speaker 1: permission of his probation officer. Apparently, Booster Gary an accomplice,

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Speaker 1: BLM officials called it an irreplaceable paleontological resource. Mammoth are

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Speaker 1: fairly rare, obviously, as the animals have been absent from

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Speaker 1: But there was one population of mammoths located on Wrangel Island,

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Speaker 1: The Wrangel Island mammoth population didn't go extinct until six

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Speaker 1: that would resemble a shaggy African elephant with much smaller ears.

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Speaker 1: You know, because big ears on elephants helped dissipate heat.

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Speaker 1: now you know that anyway, the wooly mammoth was still

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Speaker 1: milk this mammoth story a bit more. A booster, as

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Speaker 1: in booster Gary in this case, could be a person

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Speaker 1: a bit of stealing themselves. Booster Gary is from Wasilla,

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Speaker 1: Was Scilla has a population of about eleven thousand people.

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Speaker 1: Coming from a relatively small community myself and spending lots

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Speaker 1: a bit. A fifty million year old slab of rock

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Speaker 1: Researchers are puzzling over explanations. They have not come up

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Speaker 1: with one that satisfies them all. In fact, most theories

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Speaker 1: mind all that recent hubbub over the paleontologist Robert de

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Speaker 1: Palma is sort of swashbuckling adventure type who claims to

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Speaker 1: have found paleontological evidence of animals and that and a

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Speaker 1: meteor crash near the Yucatan Peninsula, which is widely considered

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Speaker 1: to have ended the era of the dinosaurs and ushered

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Speaker 1: years ago. His interpretation of his findings is deeply controversial,

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Speaker 1: and discussion of this controversy has brought up discussions of

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Speaker 1: older controversies that DiPalma was involved in prior to his

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Speaker 1: latest shocker. One of these controversies involved Montana's own Jack Horner,

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Speaker 1: easily the most famous dinosaur researcher and an inspiration for

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Speaker 1: which Horner provided technical expertise. Horner really liked to push

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Speaker 1: questionable opinion or theory. Horner retorted that maybe the had

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Speaker 1: We have two point three billion acres of land in

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Speaker 1: are managed under a wilderness designation. Wilderness meaning tip quickly

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Speaker 1: I am paraphrasing here, but a good piece of shorthand

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Speaker 1: designated wilderness is a place where motors and wheels are

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Speaker 1: the Rattlesnake Wilderness area, located about four miles from Missoula, Montana.

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Speaker 1: The Rattlesnake Wilderness is roughly thirty four thousand, three four

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Speaker 1: Rattlesnake Creek and Pestor Trout and backwater. There. I went

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Speaker 1: there and a lot of things to do. Once you do.

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Speaker 1: You know, due to the unrefined nature of wilderness, it's

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Speaker 1: right now, Senator Mike Lee of Utah as a bill

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Speaker 1: Wilderness Act, which was passed in ninety four by a

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Speaker 1: the proposed legislation quote, this bill would enrich americans enjoyment

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Speaker 1: Guess what, America, if you can't see how rich the

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Speaker 1: are as is. I don't think that peddling a bye

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Speaker 1: pedal power is your preferred method aboutdoor wreck, you already

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Speaker 1: Point being, we aren't going to run out of surfaces

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Speaker 1: where bicycle traffic is allowed, but we're really pretty damn

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Speaker 1: the lower forty eight is federally designated wilderness. Let's ease

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Speaker 1: up on it, folks. It's doing good as is. So

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Speaker 1: this is your call to action. Email, write a letter,

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Speaker 1: Call your duly elected officials and let them know that

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Speaker 1: wilderness areas act and give it the boot, the no go.

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Speaker 1: Do it for those within the womb of time, as

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Speaker 1: and wild places. If you don't, they could melt away

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