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Good morning...I had some technical difficulties this morning and so apologize for the tardy newsletter, and the lack of commentary at the top. I will spare you the details other than to say I had to spend about an hour cutting and pasting as an automated service I rely on was down. A version of the planned commentary will be in the Friday weekly newsletter. Please excuse any typos.

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