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InsideQ CROSS CULTURALGorton Quad got a unique treat on Dec. 3, check out the pictures! ARTS / PAGE 4

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VERONICA LEYVA-EISSACity Times

A student on campus is diag-nosed with having Tubercu-losis, a highly contagious and dangerous disease, the Student Health Services department announced.

The discovery was reported by the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, who contacted City College just before Thanksgiv-ing Break.

The unidentified student has been the only report so far, stated the announcement. Student Health Services work-ing closely with the County has been able to reach the staff and many students who were in immediate contact with the Tuberculosis-active individual.

“Tuberculosis is not uncom-mon in San Diego. It was reported that last year 280

people were infected in San Diego County and more than 150 people this year”, the announcement reported.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacteria-forming disease, which thrives in oxygen and blood rich areas making the lungs a perfect place to develop. This is called Pulmonary TB, the most common form seen.

According to the County of San Diego Human and Health Services Agency web site, Tuberculosis, is highly conta-gious because it spreads easily through the air. If a person is infected with TB all they have to do is breath near another person to pass on the bacte-ria. It is done much easier if the infected person sneezes, coughs or laughs.

A productive cough, many times with thick and bloody

Case of TB found at City

American Lung Association poster from 1919 depicting tuberculosis as an inva-sive scourge. The ALA created posters such as this one to increase public aware-ness as tuberculosis was on the rise beginning in the late 1800s

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Courtesy photo

Unidentified student reported as single case of tuberculosis on

City College campus

see TB, page 2

Dancing the night away

San Diego City College Visual and Performing Arts Dept. put on an evening of dance Dec. 5th and 6th at the Saville Theatre and directed by Alicia Rincon. Above, stu-dents in the dance program Ranae Pryjmak, Jeannine Torres, Ramon Montes, Mahrz Monroe, Ellye O’Brien, Janelle Buckley and Marco Carreon perform “Perrdido en Un Recuerdo” (Lost in Memory) choreographed by dance student Phoebe Velazquez. At right, dance students perform “A Clown’s Hustle”, one of two hip-hop perfor-mances. ‘Hustle’ was choreographed by Joshua Burks and featured music by Lud-acris, Cee-Lo & Timbaland. See more photos at www.sdcitytimes.com

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mucus, is one of the widely known symptoms of this disease. Other recog-nizable symptoms include a high fever, night sweats, chills, swelling of the neck or lymph nodes and chest pain.

Many already carry the bacteria and are not aware. The first step in checking if the disease is present is to have a medical pro-vider administer a skin test. If the skin test has a positive reaction then a chest x-ray is ordered to determine if the disease has become active.

Although many will test positive with a skin test the disease may be in a dormant state, also known as latent TB.

The Student Health Services strongly encourages students to get screened. The

Health Services department is located in Building A-116 or call 619-388-3450.

One can also contact a primary health-care provider and request a Tuberculin test. If one does not have a healthcare provider, a skin test can be administered by contacting the local San Diego County Public Health Center. For info on locations and schedules students can call 619-692-5565.

If a healthcare provider needs to con-tact the San Diego County with informa-tion on the results it is advised they contact Gabriela Abenojar of the San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency at 619-692-5754.

Students must identify themselves as part of the City College screening when requesting a skin test in any of the sites.

For more information on TB log on to the San Diego County’s web site at www.sandiegotbcontrol.org.

November 20, 20082 City Times CALENDAR

Decembern Till Dec. 12InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Christmas party Food, games, gingerbread houses, and more. For more info email CityIV@gmail.comBring canned or packaged food or new toy to donate. n Till Dec. 12City College Associated Students and a host of other great on campus clubs, has partnered with the San Diego Food Bank to host a Holiday Food Bank drive. Bring your non-perishable food items to D- 106.n Dec. 13Women’s Basketball vs. Cerro Coso at home 3 p.m.Men’s Basketball vs. SDCC Alumni at home 5 p.mn Dec. 1 - 16InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Spanish club toy drive for foster youth in San Diego and the Child Devlopment Center Dec. 1- 1 6 collecting in T-311 E Mesa center, A-10 Trio Aspire, and D-106 Associated

Student Government.n Dec. 16Women’s Basketball at Mt. San Jacinto 5 p.m.n Till Dec. 16Police department toy drive collecting for Polinsky Children’s Center T-211 n Dec. 17Men’s Basketball vs. Miramar at home 5 p.m.n Dec. 19 Women’s Basketball vs. UW-Waukesha at home 2 p.m. San Diego Surf ‘N Slam TournamentMen’s Basketball vs. Cuyamaca at home 5 p.m.

Januaryn Jan. 12Last day to file a petition for Repetition Violation for Spring 2009n Jan. 5 - 31Intersession

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SAN DIEGO (U-WIRE) — Four men were arrested Tues-day in Sacramento County in connection with the Oct. 4 stab-bing death of 22-year-old Mesa College student Luis Felipe Watson dos Santos.

Santos was killed at approxi-mately 2:55 a.m. on 55th St. in

front of San Diego State Univer-sity’s Parking Lot M when he and four friends became involved in a physical altercation in which Santos and two of his friends were stabbed and another was injured. Santos died at the scene.

Ryan Jett, Esteban Nuñez, Leshanor Thomas and Rafael Garcia—all 19 years old—were arrested at separate times on Dec. 2.

According to San Diego Police Capt. Jim Collins, Nuñez is the son of Fabian Nuñez, former speaker of the California State Assembly. None of the four men are from the San Diego area, but Collins said they were partying in San Diego the night Santos died.

One of the suspects, Col-lins said, has a relative in the San Diego area and another has

friends in San Diego, but he did not specify which two have San Diego ties.

Investigators were led to Sac-ramento through a lead provided by an unnamed witness pres-ent the night of Santos’ death. According to Collins, San Diego Police Homicide Unit detectives traveled to the Sacramento area in October. Investigations con-tinued until enough information

was gathered to make a move on the four men, he said. “We just had warrants issued for their arrests yesterday,” Collins said.

Still in custody in Sacra-mento last night, the men are expected to be transported into San Diego County Jail today and will be charged with one count of murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, Collins said.

arrests made in case of mesa student’s death

sofia CanCinoCity Times

Wear your pants tight? Baggy?

Loose? Fit? Whatever your choice, it might no longer be your choice.

The bare-your-britches style is now slowly on its way to be passed through out the United States that makes it mandatory for people to have their pants expose skin below the waist and/or undergarments.

This style may be fading, but the nation is still progressively trying to make a style change. A big issue with people for the “baggy pants ban” is the showing of lower back cleavage, “plumb-ers’ crack”.

Think of the baggy pants law as absurd? Well, according to the Louisiana House Criminal Justice Committee, the town of Opelou-sas and the town of Westwego it’s a justified law that has already been put into e ffect.

The fashion police, literally, claim that exposing one’s “assets” or intimidate apparel in public is indecent and offensive. They will charge $500 fine if police officers in these areas see this rule being ignored.

Other locations that endorse the ban are Atlanta, Georgia and Trenton, New Jersey, taking it so far as to make, not only a fine mandatory, but also assigning a city worker to asses where your life is headed if you do get caught with your pants down. In Dallas, Texas they are hoping to put a fine of up to $50 for the low-riding violators.

Why so important? It’s just a style that our generation and possibly the generation before us

have decided to make as a popu-lar dress code, right?

Well in fact, this significant style is believed to have started in prisons, where for the sake of avoiding hangings and beatings, inmates aren’t given belts with their “one-size-fits-all” uniform pants.

Starting slowly in the 80’s the now popular trend started making it to most mainstream rap videos, then progressed on to teens in the suburbs and eventually into most high school hallways. This new ban is a complete style change for many people, especially since it’s almost impossible to wear baggy wear without showing off boxers or briefs.

They are hoping that the “waistline location” might improve their behavior. Most pro-testors of the ban believe that this law is filed under racial profiling and is mostly targeted at African-American male youths.

Louisana is the only state that has passed this bill, but it is still trying to get passed across the states.

Rapper Ludacris and pop singer Britney Spears might stir up some controversy in their home state of Louisana for their notorious attire of boxer showing and belly baring attire.

What this bill is trying to avoid is making it unlawful to appear in public wearing pants, or lack thereof, which would expose but-tocks skin or undergarments.

So if this is your style, enjoy your sagging pants and low-rise hip hugging jeans for as long as you can. Because this ban just might make it across to Califor-nia, possibly even just southern California.

several states implement banon baggy pants

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Health Science major Dalal Duh shows off his prefference for baggy pants outside the campus cafeteria. So far, Luisiana is the only state to adopt the baggy pants ban. Atlanta, Georgia and Trenton, New Jersey may soon follow suit.

tony PughMCT Campus

Shrinking endowments, state funding reductions and families struggling to pay tuition are forc-ing many colleges and universi-ties to cut staff and spending or to delay construction and develop-ment plans.

From well-heeled Ivy League schools such as Harvard and Dartmouth to large public institu-tions such as the California State University system, many schools are facing difficult financial deci-sions stemming from the nation’s economic standstill.

Last week, the California State University system announced

plans to trim 10,000 students across its 23 campuses in the next school year because of fund-ing problems caused by a state budget crisis. The CSU system _ the nation’s largest, with nearly 450,000 students _ will make the cuts by moving up application deadlines and raising academic standards for incoming freshmen.

“We have been, for the last two years, over-enrolled by over 10,000 students that the legisla-ture has not funded,” CSU Chan-cellor Charles B. Reed said. “We can’t continue to admit more and more students without receiving adequate funding.”

Dartmouth College recently announced a hiring freeze and

plans to cut its budget by 10 per-cent, or about $40 million over the next two years, because of the situation. Staff reductions are also possible.

In previous economic down-turns, college enrollment remained steady as more people bolstered their education to help

economic crisis squeezing colleges, universities

see eConomiCs page 8

CityArts December 9, 20084 City Times

‘Twilight’, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison, fol-lows a well-worn path where vam-pire movies are concerned. Sure, the cinematography is engaging and exhilarating, the lead charac-ters are attractive and monotone, and look good in light makeup and grey screen wash, but isn’t that what we’ve come to expect?

Stewart plays Bella Swan, a 17-year-old high school student who moves in with her father (Billy Burke) after her mother remarries and decides to travel for a year. The school welcomes her with open arms and she instantly has a group of friends that include her in all that they do, as well as give her the low down on a particular group of students

that attend the school, the Cul-lens.

Pattison plays Edward, the Cullen closest to Bella’s age, and has an instant reaction to Bella – good or bad, it isn’t really clear right away. But as the story unfolds we can tell he wants noth-ing more than to be near her, though he fights it. We soon find out he has a secret, and the story unfolds from there.

Stewart, who played Jodi Fos-ter’s daughter in ‘Panic Room’ and Emile Hirsch’s love interest in ‘Into The Wild’, is quite beauti-ful and appropriately sullen in her role, and has some nice moments aside from the sometimes over dramatic dialogue that is given to her. Pattison fares quite the same. Some may remember him as Cedric Diggory in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’. He is admittedly older here and has grown into his looks a bit, but doesn’t show the range he did in ‘Potter’. Sure, he’s handsome, brooding, has big hair and is soft-spoken, but it doesn’t go much further than that.

The supporting cast isn’t bad. No one stands out and all do an admirable job with what they are given to do, except Peter Facinelli

who plays the head of the Cullen clan. Facinelli with bleach blonde dyed hair and over-the-top white face makeup, makes you wonder why his look and behavior hasn’t alerted someone to think there’s just something not quite right with the Cullen family.

The story moves along, and we pretty much guess what will happen, even if we haven’t read the books, and that’s ok. It’s a vampire movie. A stylized vam-pire movie with an attractive cast and it’s not bad, but it won’t be winning any Academy Awards as far as I am concerned.

‘Twilight’ was originally a novel written by Stephanie Meyer; Melissa Rosenberg wrote the screenplay and Catherine Hardwicke directed the film. Meyer wrote Twilight in 2005 and it became an instant hit. She followed that with three sequels selling over 17 million copies worldwide.

Should you see the film? Sure, just don’t pay full price for it. The theatre I went to offers a student discount on Thursdays ONLY, and the price for a matinee ticket was nine bucks.

‘The Boy in the Striped Pyja-mas’ is much like ‘Twilight’ in the sense that it, too, follows a well-worn path where Holocaust films are concerned. However, this one is good and gives us a fresh per-spective on the sad reality of what has happened in the past.

Pyjamas may not be the best holiday fare, but it sure should be an Oscar contender.

The film takes place in Nazi

Intense blockbusters for the Holidays

Above, Bella (Kristin Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattison) share a moment in the long awaited movie adaptaion of the book ‘Twilight’. Below, Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) ponders his new friend in the big screen version of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’.

COURTESY IMAGE Imprint Studios

COURTESY IMAGE Miramax Pictures

see MOVIES, page 8

At The MoviesTom Andrew

Music, dance & art

Nadirah (above) performs a traditional bellydance for enthu-siastic audience members Dec. 3 on Gorton Quad. The event,

entitled “Music, Dance, & Art”, was coordinated by the Language Department and featured dances from around the world along with international foods, relics and memoribilia displaying aspects of each of the cultures represented. Below, District professor of drum and dance Silfredo Lao sings one of

his native Cuban songs

photos by CARLOS MAIA City Times

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After the bitter good-byes to Starbucks and Maui Wowi coffee bars, students are still bright-eyed and java-happy thanks to City Espresso.

“It has been in City College for at least 10 years and in that location for 4 years,” said Gayla Pierce, District Food Service Manager.

City Espresso is widely known among students and always has been. According to Pierce, the closing of the nearby cafes did not have much of an impact on busi-ness. “We have been fairly steady. What affects business most is the weather, when it’s cold or hot.”

But Joan Holloway, a barista at City Espresso, has seen the numbers increase. She shared a story from a student who had no idea the coffee bar existed until after his favorite café closed and now gets his daily dose from City Espresso. He was happy to find it.

“It was kinda sad that students at City College didn’t know it

existed,” Holloway said. Holloway has been working

for City Espresso for seven and a half years.

Many more students are delighting in their coffees, and the lines keep getting longer. Hol-loway says the mocha is the most popular drink.

“We pride ourselves in getting students in and out quickly,” Hol-loway said. Usually, students rush during their 10-15 minute break. “We want students to remember we give speedy and friendly ser-vice.”

There is also an a la carte coffee stand on campus located in the Schwartz Square, between the A and the T building. The stand is powered by the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and is steady with customers.

One of the reasons City Espresso did not stand out to stu-dents is possibly the location; it stands in a corner of the cafeteria with just an “Espresso” sign over it. “Maybe we do need to do more advertising,” said Holloway.

City Espresso is generally open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. depend-ing on business.

City Espresso keeps students java happy

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Old espresso bar becomes new favorite; number of customers continues to increase

City Espresso baristas Joan Halloway and Zaquia Salenas hustle to make hot coffee of all types and flavors for City students during one of the busy rushes on Dec. 3rd. City Espresso is located in the cafeteria and is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. depending on the demand of caffeine-hungry students.

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Vox Populi

Questions and Photos by Michele Suthers

How will you be celebrating the winter break?

Bill De Angelis, 27 Math “I’m going home to Philadelphia to visit

family.”

Prince Henry, 28Linguistics “Working.”

Will Emigh, 28 Geography“Going home to Fresno.”

Cathrina Manal, 19 Nursing “ I’m volunteering in a hospital.”

CorrectionsIn the Oct. 7 issue of City Times, editors misidentified opinion writer Jason Frye as president of the Associated Student Government. He is the president of FAGS. Robert DeMartini is City College’s stu-dent government president.

In the Nov. 4 issue of City Times, the name of a Vox Populi respondent was misspelled. The student’s name is Rogelio Canchela. He was also misquoted in his answer to the question, “What brought you to California and where are you originally from?” He said he came to California from the Philippines to be with his wife, not to marry her when he arrived.

Urbanalities By Michele Suthers

I wanted to share my thoughts as the Obama campaign and movement trans-forms itself into a presidential administra-tion. I think we here in the United States, along with many around the entire world, are rightfully still celebrating this moment of amazing symbolic importance: the elec-tion of an African American as president of a nation that was built on the contradiction between freedom and equality.

It must be solemnly noted that the White House was built by slaves whose descendents would not share the full rights

of citizenship until 1965.During the heat of Barack Obama’s pri-

mary campaign battle with Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Obama was asked, “Who would Martin Luther King support? Would he support you or Senator Clinton?”

“He wouldn’t support either of us.” Obama responded. “He’d be out in the street building an independent social jus-tice movement.”  

What an amazing response.  It reminds me of something Martin Luther King said in a speech  at Riverside Church in New York City in 1967.   “The greatest purveyor of violence on this earth is my own coun-try.” 

I have often wondered if this remains true some four decades later. Whatever your reaction and position is, as Barack Obama himself said on the evening of his historic election, “Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

It behooves all of us to continue the par-ticipatory and enthusiastic spirit we had in the months and days prior to casting our votes. Meaningful change and real justice comes from below, that means, from all of us.

For my part, the greatest satisfaction in life is in the classroom, where I have assisted hundreds of community college students understand and participate in the seemingly complex and incomprehensible American political system for more than 12 years.  

Over the course of the past year and the coming year, I will also continue conduct-ing doctoral research that will lead to new findings regarding minority representation in the American states. What you can do is as varied as who each of you are. Happy Holidays.

Angela Romero is the Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego Miramar College

Look toward the future

PerspectiveAngela Romero

CitySports City Times 7December 9, 2008

Tom AndrewCity Times

Brandon Lupian, City College men’s tennis coach, is a man on a mission to find players for this season’s tennis team and is stop-ping at nothing to bring success to a team that has had a shaky few years to say the least.

“When I look at the last few years I see that we have definitely had a strong team collectively, but we either have a strong one and two position strength, or a three through six position strength,” Lupian said. “The trick is to have a strong team across the board. The number one agenda for this year will be how the players progress socially, psychologically and physically. We live in a very result-driven society. What mat-ters to me are those things that make up a player, things that are

unseen, not necessarily who wins or loses.”

The way the tennis team works is they have six players who make up the team. They are placed 1-6 in order of strength. Those six will play a singles match and then they pair off into three doubles teams and play doubles.

“We do have a good start for the upcoming spring season, but we are always looking for new players. The tough thing here at City College is finding players that can commit to the sched-ule. I am currently recruiting and will be up until we start next semester,” Lupian said. “There are many perks to being on the team. We offer great camaraderie, equipment and uniforms. There is also the opportunity to travel. Last year we went to Arizona and Ojai as a team and we are doing that this year as well. All expenses

are paid for and it’s a great oppor-tunity to meet new people and compete.”

Lupian comes to City College after starting the tennis program at Otay Ranch High School and

after being an assistant coach at Southwestern College for two years. He has been the coach here at City College for the last three seasons.

“I am really looking forward to

this upcoming season. We have a lot to look forward to. New uniforms, hats, fundraisers and our trips to Arizona and Ojai—it should be a great season,” Lupian said.

This year was the first year for the City College Tennis Team Fundraiser, sponsored by the San Diego City College Athletics and Barefoot Fitness www.barefoot-fts.com. They plan on making the fundraiser an annual event. This year, $500 was raised for the tennis teams, and players got the chance to play with the many alumni who made it back to City College to lend a hand.

If anyone is interested in becoming a part of the City Col-lege tennis team, please contact Coach Brandon Lupian at 619-252-9455 or email him at blu-pian@sdccd.edu. Spring season starts Jan. 26.

Tennis coach seeks new talent for upcoming semester

Coach Brandon Lupian hopes to bring new players to City College’s tennis team for the upcoming semester.

Tom Andrew City Times

Knights win seven in a row and place third in stateVeronicA eissA

City Times

A second consecutive tourna-ment win ranks the Knights bas-ketball team third in state.

City’s men’s basketball team won the Rancho Vista Shootout on the weekend of Dec. fifth,

making this a total of 7 wins in a row, according to an athletics department announcement.

“We are 11-2”, announced head coach Mitch Charlens, who knows the potential of his team and attributes much of the victory to the team’s talent and the coach-ing team.

“We are fortunate to have

a coaching staff at our level.” Charles said.

There are a total of five coaches on staff.

Sophomore Malcolm Thomas is now the team’s MVP and of the leaders in the state, Charlens said.

“We are very talented,” Char-lens, said about the team. He has been coaching at City for the past

five years and noted, “This is the funnest group to be around.”

When asked about the spirits of the team Charlens stated, “We do a good job at celebrating our victories”.

The victories might not be over. The Knights are expected to play 17 more games. Charlens does not have expectations, though he

said he tells his team repeatedly not to fear any other team but to fear the mental approach to every game.

The next game is scheduled for Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. against Mira-mar.

For more information visit the web site at www.sdcity.edu/ath-letics/default.asp

Germany. Director/Screenwriter Mark Herman and novelist John Boyne show us the war through the bright and wide eyes of eight-year-old Bruno, played engagingly by Asa Butterfield.

For Bruno life is pretty easy--running home from school through the streets of Berlin with his school chums mimicking a fleet of flying planes until his father, a Nazi Officer, played by David Thewlis, uproots his mother (Vera Farmiga) and sister (Amber Beattie) and moves them out to the country.

Bruno wants to do more than just sit at home with his tutor. He goes out into his

back yard and after walking for a while comes upon what he thinks is a farm. He discovers that there are many things wrong with this farm, actually a concentra-tion camp. There he befriends a boy his age named Shmuel played by Jack Scanlon. They continue their friendship through an electrified fence, until Bruno feels he must help his friend.

Thewlis turns in a chilling performance and Farmiga slowly and painfully discov-ers what her husband is doing, what they live next to and that her children are being exposed to something she can’t stop. Her performance will break your heart.

The last 15 minutes will leave you breathless and if you are like me, just sick to your stomach. It’s a wonderful film that shouldn’t be missed.

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chief financial officer at Indiana University, said recently that his staff was seeing more affluent families struggling with tuition payments.

“Based on the applications, these are families that look like they can afford col-lege, but with the economic conditions, I think they have investments that have gone poorly over the last several months,” Theobald said.

Many students are cutting costs even further by attending community colleges for two years before transferring to four-year institutions to complete their under-graduate studies.

Enrollment at Oklahoma regional uni-versities fell by 1.5 percent this semester, while their community college enrollment jumped by an almost identical amount, 1.3 percent, according to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

Community colleges have their own economic problems. State budget cuts and declines in funding from local property-tax revenue have forced many of them to

scale back popular programs, particularly vocational/technical courses that are more costly to offer and require additional state money.

“Unfortunately, the most expensive pro-grams that correlate to the highest-wage jobs are the ones that are most at risk,” said Stephen Katsinas, the director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama.

The funding problems also have limited the amount of student financial aid that community colleges can offer and are cre-ating waiting lists at a time when applica-tions for admission are growing.

In Texas, community college enroll-ment is up 6 percent this year, an increase of more than 34,000 students, said DeJuana Lozado, a spokeswoman for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Even Harvard University announced that it’s considering budget cuts this school year and next due to investment losses, mainly in its mammoth endowment, which was valued at $36 billion this summer.

“While we can hope that markets will improve, we need to be prepared to absorb unprecedented endowment losses and plan for a period of greater financial con-straint,” Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust wrote to the university community earlier this month.

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