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&lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;3,317,358&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%; border-bottom: black 2px solid"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;542,443&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 2%; border-bottom: black 2px solid"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 11%; border-bottom: black 2px solid"&gt;
&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;452,013&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 54%"&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 11%; border-bottom: black 4px double"&gt;
&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;2,856,653&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 11%; border-bottom: black 4px double"&gt;
&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0.8pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;2,865,345&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font: 10pt times new roman"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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