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by Keturah Smith

‘Jayo Productions’ hosted a comedy show called ‘Laughing my Bells’ Sunday at the Municipal Auditorium, which included several comedians such as DC Young Fly, Big JJ, JJ Williamson, and Jessie Mcdonald, who brought holiday laughter to the city ahead of the upcoming holidays.
JJ Williamson, originally from Jackson, Mississippi, began his career in comedy as a stand-up comedian in 1995 at the infamous Uptown Comedy Corner in Atlanta, Georgia, according to the website. He has worked with some of the most notable names in comedy, including Chris Tucker, D.L. Hughley and Rickey Smiley.
The website stated that for 15 years, he served as an opening act for one of the Original Kings of Comedy, Cedric “The Entertainer.” He was also featured in the movie Johnson Family Vacation alongside Bow Wow, Steve Harvey, Cedric “The Entertainer,” and Vanessa Williams.
“It always been a dream of mine to be in the entertainment business,” Williamson said. “I never truly knew that comedy was going to be my route, but I enjoy making people laugh.
“People use to tell me I was so funny, and I thought to myself — if I’m going to act a fool in school, get sent to the principal office all the time, I might as well go get paid for it.”
He said when first starting off in the industry, it was difficult due to networks such as BET (Black Entertainment Television) and Def Comedy Jam not receiving many views.
“I caught the tail end of it,” he said. “I’ve been on these networks, but I caught it when it was kind of fading out. But luckily, I was blessed to make people laugh, and some of the ‘vets’ that been in the game always spread my name when they traveled, and I also travel with some.
“But, sometimes you don’t get paid, shows get canceled, but you have to believe in your craft and keep going.”
John Whitfield, known as “DC Young Fly,” is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and has been doing comedy for 10 years, according to the website. He is a cast member of the show Wild ‘N Out, created by Nick Cannon, and has also appeared in movies such as Almost Christmas, The Trap, How High 2, and more.
The website stated that Whitfield, alongside Karlous Miller and Anthony “Chico” Bean, started their own podcast called The 85 South Show, where they discuss various topics, interact with the audience, and freestyle songs.
“It’s about having fun and turning up with the people,” Whitfield said. “It’s the holidays, lets laugh and just have a good time.”

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The Green Bay Packers made it five wins in the last six games with a dominant 34-0 victory over the visiting New Orleans Saints on a freezing “Monday Night Football” showdown. The Packers notched the first shutout of the season with one of their most complete performances of the year.
The Packers offense was methodical to open the game, scoring touchdowns on each of its first three drives. Quarterback Jordan Love pitched it to wideout Dontayvion Wicks for the first score of the game. Running back Josh Jacobs scored from 2 yards out on the next drive to make it 14-0 early in the second quarter.
Green Bay running back Chris Brooks made it three touchdowns in three drives with his first career score from 1 yard out to make it 21-0. Brooks was one of eight different players to record at least one carry in the first half for Green Bay.
The Packers defense held New Orleans to just 75 yards in the first half and forced a Spencer Rattler fumble on the Saints‘ second drive of the game. New Orleans’ defense had no answer as the Packers averaged more than six yards per play in the first two quarters and went 2-for-2 on fourth-down attempts.
Green Bay’s offense cruised in the second half with two field goals to push it to 27-0, including a season-long 55-yarder from Brandon McManus, with just over seven minutes left in the game. The defense forced another turnover and kept the Saints out of scoring range.
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Emanuel Wilson made it three Packers running backs to score a touchdown in the game with a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 34-0.
Love finished the night 16 of 28 for 182 yards and a touchdown before ceding the final few minutes to backup Malik Willis. Jayden Reed ended the night with a team-high 76 yards receiving and Jacobs had 107 total yards (69 rushing, 38 receiving) and a team-high four receptions.
Green Bay’s defense had a season-best 196 total yards allowed in the win and the offense averaged nearly 6 yards per play.
With the victory, Green Bay (11-4) clinched a playoff berth and kept pace with NFC North foes Detroit (13-2) and Minnesota (13-2), who both won this week. The Packers have a road game against the Vikings next week.
New Orleans (5-10) have lost consecutive games for the first time since their seven-game losing streak ended in early November. The Saints head home next week to take on the Las Vegas Raiders (3-12) in a game that could have major implications for the 2025 NFL draft order.
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Quarterback Malik Willis and running back Emanuel Wilson engineered a seven-play, 48-yard drive to put the game even farther out of reach. Wilson punched it in from one yard out to make it three different Packers with a rushing touchdown and Brandon McManus made his fourth extra point of the game to make it 34-0 with 2:41 to go.
With a 27-0 lead, the Packers have pulled starting quarterback Jordan Love and put in backup Malik Willis with 5:44 to go in the game.
Spencer Rattler’s pass to Dante Pettis fell incomplete onfourth-and-7 from the Saints’ 33-yard line. An unnecessary roughness penalty on Green Bay’s Colby Wooden will push the Packers offense back another 15 yards.
The Packers offense worked 56 yards down the field and nearly made it inside the red zone again, but Jordan Love’s pass to Dontayvion Wicks fell incomplete on third-and-4. Green Bay settled for a 46-yard field goal from Brandon McManus to make it a four-score game with 7:13 to go in this one.
Spencer Rattler found Dante Pettis for an 11-yard gain on the first play of the drive, but the Saints could only manage two more yards over the next three plays. New Orleans punts it back to Green Bay with 11:50 to go in the game. The Packers offense will start their next drive from their own 16-yard line.
Green Bay managed to get just past midfield but couldn’t convert a third-and-7 from the Saints’ 49-yard line. Two penalties backed the Packers up 20 yards before Daniel Whelan finally punted the ball away. New Orleans takes over on its own 34 with 13:07 to go in the game.
Green Bay’s offense took four plays to wind 2 minutes and 11 seconds off the clock and close out the third quarter at Lambeau Field. The offense is driving with the Packers up 24-0 with one quarter of “Monday Night Football” left to go.
The Saints’ offense had its best drive of the night with 48 yards, including a 20-yard shot from Spencer Rattler to Dante Pettis. But the next play saw Rattler throw his first interception of the game to safety Zayne Anderson. Green Bay takes over on its own 20-yard line.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson had 23 yards in the first half of “Monday Night Football” — all via rushing — against the New Orleans Saints. Watson was one of eight players to have a rushing attempt in the first half for the Packers.
But one of his carries, a 14-yard gain to bring the Packers deep inside the red zone, was his final play of the half and saw him hit the ground hard out of bounds.
Watson was later seen on the sidelines receiving getting attention on his knee. Ahead of the second half, Green Bay announced the wide receiver was questionable to return.
The Packers offense marched 47 yards in 10 plays but couldn’t reach the red zone in their opening drive of the second half. Kicker Brandon McManus hit a 55-yard field goal, his longest of the season, to push the Green Bay advantage to 24 points with 7:03 left in the third quarter.
New Orleans managed just 19 yards but took nearly three minutes off the game clock with their opening drive of the second half. Spencer Rattler couldn’t connect with Dante Pettis on third-and-2 and, after a delay of game penalty, the Saints punted the ball back to Green Bay. The Packers take over at their own 15-yard line with 12:14 to go in the third quarter.
New Orleans’ offense went as far as the Green Bay 34-yard line before a 12-yard sack by Packers defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt pushed them well out of field goal range. The Packers take a 21-0 lead into halftime, and the Saints will get the ball to start the second half.
After three consecutive touchdown drives, Green Bay’s offense stalled and the Packers were forced to punt. The Saints offense will get another shot before halftime starting at their own 20 with 1:49 to go in the half.
Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon got to Spencer Rattler for a sack and forced the ball loose for defensive lineman Rashan Gary to recover. The Packers get the first turnover of the game and will take over at their own 34-yard line with 2:45 to go in the first half.
Green Bay marched 67 yards for their third consecutive touchdown drive to open “Monday Night Football.” This time it was running back Chris Brooks running it in from one yard out for his first NFL score. Brandon McManus’ extra point is good and the Packers hold a three-score lead with 6:22 left in the first half.
Green Bay never faced a third down on the drive in the 2 minutes and 57 seconds they had the ball.
New Orleans’ offense went nowhere on its second drive of the game. The Packers’ defense held strong after a false start penalty on New Orleans and forced a three-and-out. Green Bay will take over at their own 33-yard line with 9:25 to go in the first half.
The Packers offense continued to churn up yards at key moments with a 96-yard drive finished off with a 2-yard touchdown run by Josh Jacobs. Green Bay converted two fourth downs on the 17-play drive that took 8:55 off the game clock. Brandon McManus’ extra point is good and Green Bay has a two-score lead with 11:43 to go in the first half.
The Green Bay offense has churned out 51 yards in 10 plays to cross midfield into Saints territory. Running back Emanuel Wilson was held to just one yard on 3rd-and-2 from the Saints’ 46. Green Bay lined up for a play on 4th-and-1 but let the clock run out on the first quarter.
New Orleans managed two first downs on its opening drive, but couldn’t get further than the Packers’ 40-yard line. After a penalty, the Saints punted and Green Bay will take over on its own 4-yard line with 5:38 to go in the first quarter.
Green Bay marched 63 yards on 10 plays and opened the game with a touchdown pass from Jordan Love to Dontayvion Wicks. Brandon McManus’ extra point is good and Green Bay takes an early lead with 8:41 to go in the first quarter.
The Packers faced just two third downs on the drive, one of which was helped by a 5-yard penalty on Saints defensive lineman Cameron Jordan. Running back Josh Jacobs had 40 all-purpose yards on the drive, including a 20-yard run that set the Packers up with a first-and-goal from the 1-yard line.
New Orleans won the coin toss and opted to defer to the second half. The Packers will start the game on offense.
The Saints-Packers “MNF” matchup is scheduled to begin at its customary time of 8:15 p.m. ET.
ESPN again is the broadcast home of “Monday Night Football.” The longtime team of Joe Buck (play-by-play) and Troy Aikman (color) will be on the call, with Lisa Salters adding reports from the sideline.
There will be no “ManningCast” for tonight’s broadcast.
For cord cutters looking for a live stream for the matchup, you can turn to Fubo. Fubo carries NBC, as well as CBS, FOX, NFL Network and the ESPN family of networks, meaning you can catch NFL action through the remainder of the season. 
ESPN+, the proprietary streaming service of ESPN, will also carry the game. 
Here’s how the USA TODAY Sports staff feels about the Saints-Packers tilt
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The Saints travel up to the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field for the “MNF” tilt. 
Lambeau Field has been the home of the Packers since 1957. During the Super Bowl era, it has hosted four NFL/NFC championship games (1967, 1996, 2007 and 2020 seasons). Prior to the AFL-NFL merger, Lambeau Field (called City Stadium from 1957-1964 before being renamed for Earl “Curly” Lambeau) hosted NFL championship games in 1961 and 1965.
Arguably the most famous game ever played at Lambeau Field was the “Ice Bowl,” the iconic championship game won by the Packers against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 31, 1967. During Week 17 of the 1993 season, Pro Football Hall of Famer LeRoy Butler did the first “Lambeau Leap” during a game against the Los Angeles Raiders.
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Green Bay Packers fans entering the team’s “Monday Night Football” game against the New Orleans Saints dreaming of two things: a playoff berth and a white Christmas.
They might get both on the same night.
The Packers can clinch a spot in postseason with a win over the Saints. They can achieve that at Lambeau Field, which could end up snow-covered because of some flurries falling in Wisconsin on Monday.
The snow isn’t going to be like what NFL fans saw during the Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers game earlier in the season. It might not even fall at all during the game. — Jacob Camenker
The Packers are sitting at 10-4, but are third place in the NFC North. Here’s how the division lines up:  
The Saints are trying to stay out of the basement of the NFC South on “MNF.” Here’s how the division stacks up. 
Green Bay can clinch its second straight playoff berth — and fifth in six years — with a win on “Monday Night Football.” 
With that being the case, the Packers already had excellent odds to make the postseason. Prior to any games kicking off in Week 16, BetMGM had the team at -10000 (99% implied) odds to be a playoff team. 
It’s win-and-in for the Packers on “MNF.” With a victory over the Saints, the Packers will clinch a wild-card spot in the NFC bracket of the playoffs.  
Derek Carr fractured his left (non-throwing) hand earlier this season. As of Dec. 17, Carr was still a few weeks away from being ready for contact, which makes a return this season very unlikely, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. 
The Saints quarterback is dealing with multiple fractures in his left hand and was still in the league’s concussion protocol as of Monday, Dec. 17.  While being cleared for contact would be a necessary step in any return, getting through the five-step concussion protocol has to happen first. 
Derek Carr suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of Week 14 against the New York Giants on a scramble. The quarterback collided with his receiver, Kevin Austin Jr., after jumping in an attempt to get a first down. Instead, Carr landed awkwardly on his head and hand, suffering a pair of injuries on the play. 
Spencer Rattler began his college career already as a well-known and hyped prospect. He was the consensus No. 1 quarterback in college football‘s 2019 recruiting class and stared in Netflix’s documentary series “QB1: Beyond The Lights” during his final year at Pinnacle High School (Arizona). 
Rattler drew the attention of many major programs but ultimately committed Oklahoma after watching Lincoln Riley develop Baker Mayfield into a top college quarterback. While Mayfield didn’t win the Heisman or become the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft until after Rattler had committed, Riley’s status as one of college football’s top quarterback gurus made the Sooners an attractive destination for Rattler. 
Alvin Kamara will be out vs. the Packers. 
Saints coach Darren Rizzi provided an update last Thursday during media availability. 
“It’s more significant than we initially thought,” Rizzi said. He added that Kamara was unlikely to play in the Saints’ upcoming game on “Monday Night Football.” 
Following the Week 15 game, Rizzi declined to elaborate on whether the injury was minor and told reporters more testing would be done on the running back. 
Unfortunately, testing has revealed that Kamara could miss an extended time. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that, while the situation is still being evaluated, it could be a season-ending injury for the veteran running back. 
The New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers are tied for the most Super Bowl wins with six. 
The Packers have won four Super Bowls in five appearances, including the first two Super Bowls (then called the AFL–NFL World Championship Game) under legendary coach Vince Lombardi, for whom the Super Bowl championship trophy is named after. The Packers’ most recent Super Bowl win came during the 2010 season in Super Bowl XLV. In all, the Packers boast 13 NFL championships, the most of any franchise.
The Saints prevailed in their one Super Bowl appearance, during the 2009 season in Super Bowl XLIV against the Indianapolis Colts.
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In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonDecember 4, 2024
Plaintiffs Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and PRH joined the Association of American Publishers in seeing the court dismantle ‘controlled digital lending.’
The Association of American Publishers’ president and CEO Maria A. Pallante, center, at the International Publishers Association’s Guadalajara international congress today, December 4. From left are Anne Bergman, director of the Federation of European Publishers; Maria Strong, US Copyright Office; Pallante; Iban Garcia del Blanco, former European Parliament Member from Spain; and Jessica Sänger, the Börsenverein’s director for european and international affairs, and chair of the IPA’s copyright committee. Image: AAP
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
The moment signifies a hard-won victory for publishing, and it comes at a propitious moment for the AAP team, key members of the staff of which are in Mexico. There, the AAP is a partner to CANIEM, the Mexican publishers’ organization, in producing for this week’s International Publishers’ Association (IPA) and thus providing more than 200 publishing-delegates with whom to share the news.
Here in Guadalajara, Maria A. Pallante—AAP’s president and CEO—has spoken on behalf of AAP’s board of directors, saying, “After five years of litigation, we’re thrilled to see this important case rest with the decisive opinion of the Second Circuit, which leaves no room for arguments that ‘controlled digital lending’ is anything more than infringement, whether performed by commercial or noncommercial actors, or aimed at authorship that is creative or factual in nature.
“As the court recognized, the public interest—and the progress of art and science that is the mandate of the Constitution’s copyright clause—is served best when authors and their publisher-licensees can decide the terms on which they make their works available.
“We are indebted to Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Wiley, their authors, and the many amici in this case who stood up for copyright, without which we would be a less inspired and less informed society.”
The primary focus of the case was the Internet Archive’s “Open Library,” an unlicensed, global distribution platform.
After scanning millions of print books—digital files that the court easily found constituted market-substitute ebooks—the Internet Archive proceeded to “lend” the copies worldwide without any consent or payment to authors or publishers.
It sought to justify its end-run around the publishers’ markets, including their substantial ebook markets with US public libraries, by presenting a radical theory: that the Internet Archive or its partner libraries could make and distribute unlicensed digital copies if they retained a print copy of the book for each digital “borrow.”
“Moreover,” the AAP’s media messaging says today, “the Internet Archive loudly encouraged thousands of libraries to stop licensing ebooks and instead use its platform.
“The court fully grasped the slippery slope and catastrophic impact of such conduct if other actors were to adopt Internet Archive’s conduct.
The International Publishers Association, seated this week at its Guadalajara congress, is one of the organizations which had filed briefs in support of the publishers, along with multiple legal experts and creator organizations—including briefs led by the Authors Guild and former Members of Congress.
Many of these made the point that the Internet Archive cannot rewrite to its own advantage the laws that the US Congress alone has power to enact.
The amici also argued that there’s an existential danger from the Internet Archive’s efforts to assemble an unlawful digital collection in which millions of literary works and other creative content are now vulnerable to piracy, including by artificial intelligence developers.
“Unsurprisingly,” the AAP writes today, “the court concluded that the Internet Archive’s theory of ‘controlled digital lending’ lacks any legal authority; harms authors (who have the right to set the terms for each format of a work); and usurps the value of publishers’ markets in contravention of the Copyright Act.
“’If authors and creators knew that their original works could be copied and disseminated for free, there would be little motivation to produce new works,’ the Court said. ‘And a dearth of creativity would undoubtedly negatively impact the public.”
The court concluded that digitizing physical copies of written work is not “transformative” (the legal requirement), because it merely “transforms” the material object embodying the expression, not the expression itself.
“The Copyright Act protects authors’ works in whatever format they are produced,” the court said.
Nor is an infringer free to mask or nullify its infringement—for example by asserting an “owned-to-loaned” ratio of physical to digital copies—the court underscored.
A minor part of the case was the Internet Archive’s self-branded “National Emergency Library (NEL),” with which the district court dispensed in one sentence.
As the AAP puts it today, “with this case concluded, publishers have achieved a decisive and broadly applicable victory for authors’ rights and digital markets, an outcome that was our foremost, principled objective.
“In addition, the Internet Archive is bound by a sweeping permanent injunction and must make a payment to AAP, which funded the action, the amount of which is confidential under the terms of a court-approved, negotiated consent judgment between plaintiffs and Internet Archive.
“We are, however, permitted to disclose that ‘AAP’s significant attorney’s fees and costs incurred in the action since 2020’ will be ‘substantially compensated.’”
The publishers and AAP were represented in this case by the law firms of Davis Wright Tremaine and Oppenheim + Zebrak. Thes second circuit opinion is available here. AAP, in seeing its efforts on the Internet Archive case conclude today in this way is following several successfully fought censorship battles in the United States.
More from Publishing Perspectives on copyright is here, more on ‘controlled digital lending’ is here, more on the Internet Archive is here, more on the Association of American Publishers is here, and more on the International Publishers Association is here.
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Publishing Perspectives is the International Publishers Association’s world media partner.
Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London’s The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA. As an arts critic (Fellow, National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.
Tags: Association of American Publishers, CANIEM, Copyright, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, International Publishers Association, International Publishers Congress, Internet Archive, John Wiley, Maria A. Pallante, Mexico, Penguin Random House, United States
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As shoppers prepare to buy the last of their Christmas gifts, they may want to keep an eye out for a few common scams over the holidays.
Gift card and ATM scams can be popular ways for scammers to steal cash at the end of the year, said Tony Binkley, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Greater East Tennessee.
“It’s crazy the lengths they will go to for $50 or whatever the gift card may be worth,” he said. “Sometimes these scammers will go in and put a different barcode over the one on the card itself. And when you scan that at the checkout counter, that money actually gets loaded to a different place.”
That means that when the cashier scans a gift card and shoppers pay, their money can actually go elsewhere and leave them with an empty gift card and out the cash. A sense of urgency during the holidays can also make folks more vulnerable to scams.
“This time of the year when people are buying gift cards and they’re in a hurry — that’s what scammers love,” Binkley said. “They love people to be in a hurry, not thinking, not making good decisions. So just slow down a bit. You’re spending your money. Make sure it’s ending up in the right place.”
Staying aware can protect shoppers from these common cash grabs, he said.
“Gift cards right now are probably a good last-minute gift to get for somebody like that, but you’ve got to be careful when you buy these things. When you buy them in a store, you want to inspect that packaging pretty closely to make sure it hasn’t been tampered with,” he said.
Anyone opting for a cash gift for someone instead of a gift card should be on the lookout at ATMs too, Binkley said.
“That piece that you’re going to slide your card into, make sure it’s secure and not loose because these skimmers can be placed right over the top of that card piece, that reader, and again that money can be intercepted,” he said.
Scammers can attach a plastic card reader on top of the actual card reader at an ATM or gas pump. When people swipe their cards, that card reader can take its card information and can use it for other purchases.
Binkley recommended to always use a credit card when shopping in a public place as a way to protect against scams. Debit cards will automatically have money taken out of bank accounts, whereas credit card transactions can be disputed.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Spartanburg Academic Movement received an early Christmas gift from the Department of Education Monday—a grant for nearly $1 million going towards their work of improving education opportunities.
“I think if communities can come together with a vision and a plan, that’s where it starts,” said Dr. Russell Booker, the CEO of Spartanburg Academic Movement or SAM.
Over the last year, SAM has been working on Movement 2030. A $100 million initiative to increase educational opportunities and cut barriers in Spartanburg’s Northside and Highland neighborhoods.
“Essentially meaning that they’re hitting all of those academic benchmarks that have been proven to really help a child’s trajectory,” Booker said.
While their work continues with 7,000 students in those neighborhoods, $945,308 over two years through the Promise Neighborhoods program will start similar work in the Southside.
Part of the Southside initiative is collaborating with not only schools, but other aspects of the community, including 3 neighborhood associations and Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
They’ll target students at District 7 schools; Mary H. Wright Elementary, E.P. Todd Elementary, Carver Middle School, and Spartanburg High School. By providing early education before kids start school, making sure kids can read by the end of 3rd grade, helping kids transition from middle to high, creating internship options, and also helping parents along the way.
“We’ve got a full time person that’s going to be embedded in the Southside community that will serve as a convener to pull together parents, students and the community,” said Dr. Booker.
Booker says this grant is only a start—next they’ll create a strategy to achieve those goals and seek out more funding to keep the initiative going.
SAM was one of seven organizations nationwide selected to receive this grant funding. To learn more click here.

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