Ayomide Samuel Jekami, a software developer and recent graduate of Veritas University with a CGPA of 4.71 in Computer Science, has made significant strides in academic excellence He achieved a top 3 ranking in his department and hoped to develop an impactful community application, blending his tech skills with creativity Despite challenges like time management and difficult courses, Ayomide's structured routine, mentorship, and resilience have paved the way for numerous opportunities and a promising future in tech and innovation Don't miss out! Join Legit.ng's Sports News channel on WhatsApp now! From the very beginning, Ayomide Samuel Jekami sprinkled his academic journey at Veritas University with the magic of dedication and hard work. He eventually emerged as one of the top three students in his department, finishing with a stellar CGPA of 4.71 in Computer Science . Yet, like every enviable achievement , Ayomide's tale had its fair share of challenges. Ayomide Jekami’s Path to Success In an interview, he shared his challenges as an undergraduate with Legit.ng and how he overcame them: Read also Elizade University's best graduating law student who bagged first class breaks silence PAY ATTENTION : Standing out in social media world? Easy! "Mastering Storytelling for Social Media" workshop by Legit.ng. Join Us Live! “I faced the challenges of time management issues as well as in some specific difficult courses. Also, there were challenges of balancing studies with other interests. These obstacles sometimes felt overwhelming, but they also taught me resilience and the importance of seeking support when needed. I coped by developing a structured routine, reaching out to mentors, and staying organized. Dancing also served as a mental break. Seeking advice from professors and connecting with peers in tech helped me work through difficult projects, and the support I received made a huge difference.” Key to Academic Success The secret to Ayomide’s success lay in his treasure chest of habits. Time management and discipline, he told Legit.ng , were central to his success . “Key habits that contributed to my success include time management, discipline, setting achievable goals, and maintaining a growth mindset. I also developed strong research and analytical skills, which helped me tackle assignments more effectively. Also having fun with friends to ease out stress and get my mindset prepped for the next task.” Read also Faith over Fame: Silvan Wallner's decision to leave football after meeting Jesus Ayomide envisioned a future where he could continue to blend his technical prowess with his creative passions, developing innovative Flutter applications adorned with multimedia elements. His ultimate dream was to bridge the gap between art and technology , crafting platforms that would empower users. For those who wish to follow in his footsteps, Ayomide offered words of wisdom: “My advice is to set clear, realistic goals and stay consistent with your efforts. Find a study method that works best for you, and don’t be afraid to seek help when needed. Remember that excellence is a journey, not a destination, so celebrate small wins along the way. Finally, stay disciplined, prioritize your well-being, and believe in your ability to succeed.” Graduate Bags First Class Degree from UNILORIN Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Ebiomofari Omowumi Janet, a graduate of the Department of Agriculture at the University of Ilorin, defied the odds and proved that hard work can rewrite destinies. Read also Final year student who attended technical college builds portable solar generator as project work In an interview with Legit.ng, Janet said she began her academic journey with a mere 1.3 CGPA. For many, such a beginning would signify the end. PAY ATTENTION: Сheck out news that is picked exactly for YOU ➡️ find the “Recommended for you” block on the home page and enjoy! Source: Legit.ng
Brookline Capital Management started coverage on shares of Palisade Bio ( NASDAQ:PALI – Free Report ) in a report issued on Wednesday morning, Marketbeat.com reports. The brokerage issued a buy rating and a $38.00 target price on the stock. Separately, Maxim Group decreased their price target on shares of Palisade Bio from $22.50 to $8.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. Get Our Latest Report on PALI Palisade Bio Price Performance Palisade Bio ( NASDAQ:PALI – Get Free Report ) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November 12th. The company reported ($2.32) EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($3.35) by $1.03. As a group, analysts expect that Palisade Bio will post -13.11 EPS for the current year. 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Recommended Stories Receive News & Ratings for Palisade Bio Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Palisade Bio and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bill Belichick spent time after his NFL exit talking with college coaches wanting his thoughts on managing new wrinkles at their level that looked a lot like the pros. The two-minute timeout. The transfer portal as de facto free agency. Collectives generating name, image and likeness (NIL) money for athletes becoming like a payroll. The impending arrival of revenue sharing. It didn't take long for Belichick to envision how a college program should look based on his own NFL experience. "I do think there are a lot of parallels," Belichick said. And that's at least partly why the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is now taking over at North Carolina. Years of rapid change at the have only increased the professionalization of college football across the country, with schools adjusting staffing to handle growing duties once seemingly more fitting for a pro team. People are also reading... UNC just happens to be making the most audacious of those bets, bringing in a 72-year-old who has never coached in college and asking him to build what amounts to a mini-NFL front office. But plenty could follow. "I really think there's going to be some of those guys that maybe don't have a job in the NFL anymore," Kansas State general manager Clint Brown said, "and now that this is going to be structured in a way where there is a cap that that's going to be something they're interested in." A changing college course The rapid changes in college athletics have fueled that, notably with players able to transfer and play right away without sitting out a year and be paid through NIL endorsement opportunities in the past five years. Recruiting is now just as much about bringing in veteran talent through the portal as signing recruits out of high school, mirroring the NFL with free agency and the draft, respectively. And a bigger change looms with revenue sharing, the result of a $2.78 billion legal settlement to antitrust lawsuits. Specifically, that model will allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million for athletes in the first year, with a final hearing in that case set for April 2025. It will be up to schools to determine how to distribute that money and in which sports, though football's role as the revenue driver in college sports likely means a prominent cut everywhere as a direct parallel to a professional team's salary cap. Throw all that together, and it's why coaches are adjusting their staffs like Florida's Billy Napier interviewing candidates to be the Gators' general manager. "We're built to do it now," Napier said. "The big thing here is that we're getting ready to be in a business model. We have a cap. We have contracts. We have negotiation. We have strategy about how we distribute those funds, and it's a major math puzzle. "We're going to build out a front office here in the next couple of months, and it's primarily to help us manage that huge math problem," Napier added. "There'll be a ton of strategy around that. I'm looking forward to it." Still, that also explains why Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, the former head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, said: "This job as a head coach is a juggernaut. There's way more to do here than I had to do in the NFL." The value of a hire And it explains why the Tar Heels are betting on Belichick to be the right fit for today's changing climate. "If I was 16 of 17 years old, a coach who came at you and won how many Super Bowls? And he said, 'Come play for me,'" said New York Giants offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu, now in his third year out of UNC. "I mean, that's pretty hard to turn down now, especially in this day and age, he's telling you to come play for him and he's offering you some money, too. I mean, you can't go wrong with that choice." The timing worked for UNC with Belichick, who was bypassed for some NFL openings after leaving the New England Patriots last year and instead spent months taking a closer look at the college game. Those conversations with coaches — some in the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, he said Thursday — made him understand how the changes in college aligned with his pro experience. "College kind of came to me this year," Belichick said. "I didn't necessarily go and seek it out." And his mere presence in Chapel Hill makes a difference, with athletic director Bubba Cunningham saying his "visibility" would likely allow the team to raise prices for advertising such as sponsorships and signage. Belichick is also hiring Michael Lombardi, a former NFL general manager and executive, as the Tar Heels' general manager. Cunningham also said the plan is for Belichick to continue his appearances on former NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning's "Manningcast" broadcasts during Monday Night Football as well as ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" — all giving the coach the chance to promote himself and the program. Investing in football Yet these steps to reshape football at North Carolina comes with a rising price. Belichick will make $10 million per year in base and supplemental pay, with the first three years of the five-year deal guaranteed, according to a term sheet released by UNC on Thursday. That's roughly double of former coach Mack Brown, whose contract outlined about $4.2 million in base and supplemental salary before bonuses and other add-ons. Additionally, Belichick's deal includes $10 million for a salary pool for assistant coaches and $5.3 million for support staff. That's up from roughly $8.1 million for assistants and $4.8 million for support staff for the 2022 season, according to football financial data for UNC obtained by The Associated Press. And those figures from 2022 under Brown were already up significantly from Larry Fedora's tenure with the 2017 season ($4 million for assistant coaches, $2.3 million for support staff). There is at least one area where the Tar Heels are set for Belichick's arrival: facilities. UNC spent more than $40 million on its football practice complex with an indoor facility (2018) as the biggest project, while other projects include $3 million in upgrades to the locker room and weight room (2019), $14.5 million on renovations to the Kenan Football Center (2022), even $225,000 on Brown's former office (2021). Now it's up to Belichick to rethink the approach to football here for the changing times. "We're taking a risk," Cunningham said. "We're investing more in football with the hope and ambition that the return is going to significantly outweigh the investment." AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan in New Jersey; Mark Long in Florida; and Eric Olson in Nebraska; contributed to this report. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!
(Bloomberg) -- The UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive who was fatally shot in New York on Wednesday morning had no personal security detail, a circumstance that could prompt swift changes inside corporate boardrooms, especially as the global political environment grows more unstable. Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the back and the leg outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where the largest US insurer was hosting an investor day. Authorities said the shooting was a targeted attack. New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said in a press conference that Thompson did not have a security detail and arrived at the hotel alone. No UnitedHealth executive receives benefits specifically related to personal security or protection, according to the firm’s 2024 and 2023 proxy statements. That’s in contrast to companies like Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc., which have allocated millions of dollars a year to protect their CEOs. Public companies must identify spending on specific perquisites like security services if it exceeds $10,000 in a given year, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Other big insurers like Humana Inc. and Cigna Group list personal security among the benefits provided to executives, but their regulatory filings don’t specify how much they spend protecting senior leaders. Median spending by S&P 500 companies that disclosed security perquisite spending doubled from 2021 to 2023 to nearly $100,000, according to an analysis by Equilar, an executive-compensation data provider. Over the same period, the share of companies that said they provided security for at least one of their top executives rose slightly, from 23.5% to 27.6%, Equilar found. Unwanted Attention Some companies don’t invest in executive protection services because they feel it might actually draw unwanted attention to them, according to Glen Kucera, president of the Enhanced Protection Services unit of Allied Universal. The firm provides armed escorts, canine teams and other security services for New York’s World Trade Center, the US State Department and professional baseball teams. “Some don’t want the hassle, some don’t want the exposure, some don’t feel it’s necessary,” Kucera said in an interview. “Some don’t feel that they’re a controversial figure. [Thompson] probably felt he was safe as well. Unfortunately he wasn’t.” Exxon Mobil Corp. has provided full-time guards for its top executives for more than 30 years and requires them to use company aircraft for all business and personal trips to protect them from kidnappers or other attacks. The policy was prompted by the 1992 kidnapping of Sidney Reso, who was then head of Exxon’s international operations, outside his Morris Township, New Jersey, home. Reso, who was shot in the arm during the abduction, was held for four days in a storage container before he died. In 2023, Exxon spent more than $377,000 on security for chairman and CEO Darren Woods, including nearly $300,000 for residential security and more than $41,000 for security related to personal travel. In the filing where it disclosed the spending, Exxon said it “does not consider such [personal] security costs to be personal benefits because they arise from the nature of the employee’s employment by the Company.” The only UnitedHealth policy related to executives’ personal security is requiring Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty to use the company plane for all business travel. The company also encourages him to use it for all personal trips instead of flying commercial, though he didn’t use it for such flights in 2023, the company said in its proxy statement. Those guidelines didn’t apply to Thompson, who was CEO of the company’s UnitedHealthcare insurance unit. Numerous Calls The alleged shooter remained at large as of midday Wednesday, and the New York Police Department said the investigation was ongoing. Kucera, who is based in Manhattan, said he received numerous calls on Wednesday inquiring about his firm’s services, which range from protecting corporate executives and celebrities to detecting explosives, firearms and narcotics. “Some felt no need for executive protection in the past and now in light of this incident, they feel they should have it,” he said. Spending on executive perks like security has drawn attention from proxy-advisory firms. Institutional Shareholder Services has said that “excessive perquisites could be an indication of more troubling, underlying pay program design features.” ISS also acknowledged, however, that “if the perceived need for increased safety endures, we believe companies will continue offering home security benefits for CEOs.” --With assistance from Dylan Sloan and Joe Carroll. (Updates with additional background in second section.) More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.
MENLO PARK, Calif. , Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BillionToOne, a next-generation molecular diagnostics company with a mission to create powerful and accurate tests that are accessible to all, today announced that they will be presenting at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, CA , on January 14, 2025 . BillionToOne marks a transformative year of achievements as it looks toward 2025. The company closed an oversubscribed, upsized Series D funding round led by Premji Invest in June, and was recently recognized as the Biotech Breakthrough Awards' Diagnostics Company of the Year. More than 500,000 patients have received BillionToOne tests to date, and the company has grown from $0M to $150M+ in annual recurring revenue over the past five years. This will be BillionToOne's second year in attendance at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, and the company will present on the topic of "Redefining Molecular Diagnostics with Single-Molecule Precision." Presentation details are as follows: Location: Mission Bay (32nd Floor) at The Westin Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Time: 2:30-2:55 pm PT A webcast and presentation materials will be available on BillionToOne's website: https://billiontoone.com/event/jpm-2025-43rd-annual-healthcare-conference/ About BillionToOne Headquartered in Menlo Park, California , BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company on a mission to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible for everyone. The company's patented Quantitative Counting TechnologyTM (QCTTM) molecular counting platform is the only multiplex technology that can accurately count DNA molecules at the single-molecule level. For more information, please visit www.billiontoone.com . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/billiontoone-to-present-at-the-43rd-annual-jp-morgan-healthcare-conference-302338634.html SOURCE BillionToOneIndia News | 'Well-planned Conspiracy by UP CM Adityanath, BJP-RSS': Cong on Sambhal ViolenceCHECK OUT: Education is Your Right! Don’t Let Social Norms Hold You Back. Learn Online with LEGIT. Enroll Now! Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 7 years of experience covering metro, government policy, and international events Ikoyi, Lagos state - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said he would not reduce the size of his cabinet including 48 ministers and several Special Advisers. Tinubu said the large size of his cabinet was necessary for effective service delivery. He stated this while speaking during his first Presidential Media Chat held at his Bourdillon Street residence in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday night, December 23. PAY ATTENTION: Follow us on Instagram - get the most important news directly in your favourite app! According to Leadership, President Tinubu firmly defended the size of his cabinet. “I am not ready to shrink the size of my cabinet.” Tinubu explained that the ministers were selected based on efficiency and the needs of the country. “I saw the need for them when I created the portfolios,” “Nigeria is a large country. If you are to entertain over 200 million persons, calculate how many stewards will be required.” Read also Hardship in Nigeria: Remi Tinubu donates 1,000 bags of rice to Christians in Bauchi for Christmas According to President Tinubu , the number of ministers and advisers was crucial to effectively govern the country. Tinubu affirmed that he remained committed to maintaining a large team to meet the demands of the diverse nation. Legit.ng recalls that Tinubu announced the scrapping of the ministries of Niger Delta and sports development in a major cabinet reshuffle . Bayo Onanuga, presidential spokesperson, also said Tinubu merged the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy. Onanuga added that the president created a new Ministry of Regional Development to manage the affairs of the Niger Delta and other development commissions. Cabinet Reshuffle: New ministers appointed by Tinubu and portfolios Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Tinubu submitted the names of seven new ministerial nominees to the national assembly following the dismissal of six ministers from his cabinet. Read also Year in review: Aiyedatiwa, Okpebholo, other biggest political winners in 2024 The nominees are set to fill the resulting vacancies, while the President also restructured his administration by reassigning 10 ministers to new portfolios. Among the nominees, Tinubu has selected Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu for the position of minister of state for foreign affairs. PAY ATTENTION: Сheck out news that is picked exactly for YOU ➡️ find the “Recommended for you” block on the home page and enjoy! Source: Legit.ng
Are you ready for Glicked? Yes, that’s the actual nickname for the simultaneous release of Gladiator 2 and Wicked this weekend. Hollywood is hoping for another bountiful Barbenheimer box office bonanza (say that three times fast), and if the tracking is correct, they are going to get it. Expect tons of crowds at movie theaters this weekend. If you’re like me and hate people, er, crowds, then don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. You can stay in and enjoy some films that have been overlooked. I’ve assembled a list of three underrated movies that are streaming on Max right now. None of them have the spectacle of Ariana Grande singing in a floating pink bubble or Paul Mescal in a blood-stained toga, but maybe that’s a good thing. We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix , the best movies on Hulu , the best movies on Amazon Prime Video , the best movies on Max , and the best movies on Disney+ . Out of the Furnace (2013) Christian Bale is one of the best actors working today, and chances are, you haven’t seen one of his best performances ever. That’s because Out of the Furnace didn’t get the attention it deserved when it was released in 2013, even though it was praised by critics. It’s never too late to correct that mistake, and you’ll get to see both Bale in his prime and a picture you won’t soon forget. Out of the Furnace concerns two brothers, ex-con Russell (Bale) and amateur boxer Rodney (Casey Affleck), who are both working class and rely on each other to survive. When Rodney gets into trouble with some shady characters, Russell must bail his brother out of trouble before it’s too late. I’m keeping this plot description deliberately vague as Out of the Furnace takes some wild turns and ends up becoming a gripping thriller that also works as an effective character study. Bale may have won his Oscar for The Fighter, but he deserved another one for his superb work here. Out of the Furnace is streaming on Max . Anaconda (1997) Ice Cube. A giant snake. Oscar winner Jon Voight. Jennifer Lopez before she was J.Lo. Eric freakin’ Stoltz. There was a time in history when one movie contained all of these disparate things, and that movie is Anaconda . The 1997 action-thriller is as cheeseball as it gets, but it knows it, and the director, Luis Losa, works the material with a B-movie zeal that’s hard to come by nowadays. While trying to film a documentary about native tribes near the Amazon River, a film crew, headed by director Terri (Lopez) and including cameraman Danny (Ice Cube), and sound engineer Gary (Owen Wilson), encounter shady snake hunter Paul (Voight), who subtly manipulates the crew to help him find the fabled anaconda snake. Paul gets his wish, and soon, everyone on the boat must fight to survive and avoid getting killed by the deadly, oversized reptile. Does everyone make it out alive? Nope. Is Anaconda the definition of a guilty pleasure. If you watch it and like it, don’t worry, I won’t tell a soul. Anaconda is streaming on Max . The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) One of the all-time great marketing campaigns occurred at the end of 2011, when Sony decided to market its highly anticipated adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling mystery, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , as “the feel bad movie of Christmas.” They weren’t wrong as the movie deals with heavy topics like rape, trauma, and murder, but you don’t feel bad after watching it. The filmmaking by director David Fincher is too good, and the dynamic lead performance by Rooney Mara is too exhilarating to feel negative about anything. For those that don’t know, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a computer hacker who is very good at her job. She crosses paths with journalist Mikael Blomkvist ( James Bond actor Daniel Craig), who is investigating the 40-year-old murder of a teenage girl in Sweden. By combining forces, they hope to solve a murder and uncover dark family secrets. In the process, they grow closer to one another, which threatens to change Lisbeth from a social outsider to someone who can at last trust people again. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is streaming on Max .
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MINNEAPOLIS — Even as UnitedHealth Group workers have been wrongly made to feel unsafe by a barrage of threats and vitriol over the past nine days, CEO Andrew Witty said in a New York Times op-ed Friday that insurers must do better in being transparent with patients when coverage for care is denied. “Health care is both intensely personal and very complicated, and the reasons behind coverage decisions are not well understood,” Witty wrote in the guest column. “We share some of the responsibility for that. Together with employers, governments and others who pay for care, we need to improve how we explain what insurance covers and how decisions are made.” The comments follow a wave of public anger that crashed over the insurance industry online and in social media since the killing of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive and Maple Grove resident who was shot repeatedly on a sidewalk in New York City. The outrage was fueled by early media reports on Thompson’s death that quoted his wife as saying the executive had received threats, possibly over denials, and because the words “deny” and “delay” reportedly were found written on bullet casings recovered from the crime scene. UnitedHealth Group confirmed Thursday night that shooting suspect Luigi Mangione did not have health insurance from UnitedHealthcare, contrary to speculation that the 26-year-old might have been motivated by a coverage dispute with the company. Safety concerns amid the animosity prompted two other health insurers in the Twin Cities to temporarily close offices this month. Leaders of Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group have appreciated “an enormous outpouring of support” from some, Witty wrote, for Thompson as well as the company’s UnitedHealthcare insurance division. “Yet we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats,” he said. “No employees ... should have to fear for their and their loved one’s safety.” UnitedHealth Group employs about 19,000 people at its corporate headquarters as well as the health insurance business and Optum, which runs clinics and manages pharmacy benefits. In the op-ed, Witty echoed themes he started to send during an investor conference that was interrupted by word that Thompson had been killed on his way into the event. The company is well aware of problems with the U.S. health care system, he said, and is focused on driving change. “We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people’s frustrations with it,” Witty wrote. “No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a patchwork built over decades.” When making decisions on whether to deny coverage or pay for patient services, health insurers rely on clinical evidence to determine whether a treatment is safe and will bring the best patient outcome, Witty wrote. For months before Thompson’s killing, tensions over health insurance denials were on display in Minnesota during contract disputes between UnitedHealthcare and two large health systems in the state. Bloomington-based HealthPartners and Duluth-based Essentia Health threatened to drop out of the insurance company’s Medicare Advantage networks, saying the denial rate was excessive at UnitedHealthcare. The insurance company called the allegations outlandish and untrue, while suggesting hospitals in contract disputes often try using patients as leverage to win higher reimbursement rates. Ultimately, both health systems agreed to contracts so they’ll stay in-network next year for UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans. In October, a report by a U.S. Senate subcommittee found problems at three national health insurers including UnitedHealthcare, which reportedly denied prior authorization requests for post-acute care at three times the rate of other requests. The company said in response it still approves the vast majority of requests for post-acute care for patients after hospitalizations, and that it is federally required to give those claims heightened scrutiny. In July, 11 people were arrested outside its Minnetonka headquarters during an event to spotlight coverage denials. The company responded by stressing the safety of its workers while asserting it had resolved the group’s concerns for individual patients and was open to further dialogue. Health policy experts say there’s been a lack of comprehensive data on how frequently denials occur as well as the reasons for them. Surveys have shown public support for making more information available to patients. In his editorial, Witty did not advance any specific proposals but called for greater understanding of how health care is complex and change is difficult. “While the health system is not perfect, every corner of it is filled with people who try to do their best for those they serve,” Witty wrote. “Brian was one of those people. ... The ideas he advocated were aimed at making health care more affordable, more transparent, more intuitive, more compassionate — and more human.” ©2024 The Minnesota Star Tribune. Visit at startribune.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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