Issue 1 | September 17, 20136 Hoofbeat focuS Issue 1 | September 17, 2013 7Hoofbeat focuS

Wake up, brush teeth, comb hair, get dressed, eat breakfast, go to school. Come home, do homework, eat din-ner, shower, sleep, repeat. For most American teenagers, the previously listed steps outline the basic routine of any given weekday. However, over the past five years a repetitive and time-consuming step has been added to this routine: keeping updated on social media.

Pew Research Center details in an August 2013 re-port that 89 percent of young adults use some form of social media; MN is no exception.

“I’d say a lot of students at MN are addicted [to social media] because at the end of classes, almost every student takes his or her phone out, or I see students in the hallway

on their phones,” senior Madi Shepard said.

Shepard, who checks so-cial media from her phone often, but rarely sits down to binge use it, racks up a little less than two hours daily.

“I’d say it is addictive for sure, its so easy to spend hours just reading through Tumblr or the Twitter popular page; there is just so much to do and so much to explore,” Shepard said.

Freshman Taylor Tokos, who uses three social media sites, agrees with Shepard.

“I definitely think social networking has an addictive aspect because people say ‘I’m going to delete it, I’m going to stop using it,’ but then they never do, and you find your-self checking it randomly and not realizing that you’re al-ways on it,” Tokos said.

The American Society of Addiction Medicine de-fines addiction as “a primary, chronic disease of brain re-ward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.” This society furthers explains ad-diction as a disorder by listing characterizations of addic-tion including: the inability to abstain from the addictive activity, craving, the inability to carry out normal functions without the addiction, emo-tional illness, and other health problems.

So, when characterizing social media addiction, stu-dents who use it habitually are lenient to refer to themselves as addicts due to the heavily negative connotations associ-ated with addiction.

“I don’t think I’m addict-ed to social networking, but I am addicted to social net-

working. I think this because if I’m not allowed to be on my phone at a certain time I can live without it, but when I am on my phone I use it all the time,” Tokos said.

The addictive aspect of social media pages is detri-mental in more ways than one, but primarily, this medium of communication as an addic-tion prevents productivity and even sleep.

“Usually when I’m done [with homework] at night, I’ll go back onto the twitosphere and roam around social me-dia for awhile before I sleep. I spend at least 30 minutes checking them at night when I could be sleeping,” sophomore Pranav Mathur said.

Shepard recognizes the negatives of social networking addiction.

“[It] can be a bad addic-

tion because a lot of people don’t know how to control their usage without it interfer-ing with school work. I don’t think its necessarily accept-able because an addiction to anything isn’t always good: there is a fine line between en-joying something and having an addiction,” Shepard said.

For many students, social media interferes with school-work, sleep, and other aspects of the daily routine.

“What makes someone a social media addict, to me, is when he or she can’t live with-out [it]: he or she has to check it when having a conversa-tion, during class, in the halls, or whenever he or she gets a chance. I think this addic-tion can be bad because some people may be using it at times that they should not, like dur-ing class,” Tokos said.

Status Updates:

heDigital Drug:

When social media addic-tion is depicted in pop-culture, its often of a teenager staying up late browsing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, or any of the other hundreds of social media networks.

But the question remains, what cultural factors lead to addiction and make teens use valuable time on social media?

“All humans are social creatures, and social media is drama. People want to be in the know, and they want other people to see what they are up to,” counselor Carmen Hippen said.

Because humans are all social creatures, teens take pride in people liking posts, or in gathering a large number of followers. In a 2012 study, Harvard researchers proved that the pleasure centers in the brain create a response to pos-itive reinforcement through

social media that simulates craving when disconnected.

“When it starts interfer-ing with your daily schedule, your connections with your family or your peers, when its all you can think about, its def-initely a concern,” MN school psychologist Terrin Johnson said.

The same report stated that the brain’s response to social media triggers is un-cannily similar to the pleasure found in eating food and ob-taining money.

“I think that some kids feel it’s their only way of com-municating. Once they get re-sponses, it starts to snowball, and consumes their time,” school nurse Karen Horton said.

It’s this repetitive craving and consumption that leads teens to stay up until the early hours of the morning, refresh-ing the page for one more look at what everyone is up to.

In July of 2012, the data collection firm Nielsen found that in just that month alone, 121.1 billion minutes were spent on social media net-works world-wide. The same report also found that 67 per-cent of all teens with social media accounts logged into their accounts daily.

“With social media, I think that teens are losing out on the face-to-face aspect. It’s easier to make a post than talk to somebody, even just over the phone,” Johnson said.

The amount of time that teens spend on social media is staggering. According to inde-pendent market research con-ducted in late 2012, teenagers spend on average 3.8 hours per day on social media.

“I wouldn’t say that teens need to stay away from social media, I just think they have to limit their use of it. It’s be-coming part of the lifestyle now. I hope that people can

learn to use it wisely and ap-propriately,” Horton said.

As with any other addic-tion, social media addiction can be fought. The tactics are also similar to many other kinds of rehabilitation, one of the most effective of which is to go cold turkey.

“I would say to just turn your phone off, put it away. And then, talk to real people, who are really in front of you. It’s that simple,” Hippen said.

Limiting exposure and interacting with people in the real world are both key to weaning off of social media, as the previously mentioned Harvard study detailed. But as always, there are other options available to teens.

“If you feel it’s getting out of control, try talking to a peer or parent, maybe a sibling. If you think that’s not enough, you should talk to your school counselors, or the school psy-chologists,” Johnson said.

Around 97% of MN students use some form of Social Net-working, out of this group around 62% find themselves to be addicted to the world of online media. Students’ definitions of social networking addiction tend to dif-fer, however, here are a few students’ personal thoughts

on the meaning of social media addiction.

A Narcotic for the New AgeIn a 2008 study conducted by Pew Research Center, results found that less than 30% of American Adults were logged onto some form of social networking; in 2013, the same re-

search center found that 89% of young adults use some form of social media. The volume of visitors to sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, as well as the time spent

on these networks suggest that social media has become a consuming addiction.

derek nosbischstaff writer

craving connection: How social media affects teenagers

Social media’s all-consuming hold on students’ routinesmehgan cainfocus editor

The Problem Progresses

Social media use continues to skyrocket

Define Social Net-working Addiction in your own words.

How is this addic-tion harmful to

students?

Carter Collins, 12@CarterCollins.Senior

#SocialNetworkingAddictionIs when you feel the need to always be on or checking it. It’s a problem when we start focusing on it too much, and it gets in the way of real life social interaction.

#SocialNetworkingAddictionIs harmful because people become so connected that they give out too much information, and [this addiction] can also deter face to face social skills.

Justice Jones, 09@JusticeJones.Freshman

Kayleigh Baker, 11@KayleighBaker.Junior

Sean Johnson, 11@SeanJohnson.Junior

#SocialNetworkingAddictionIs A psychological condition in which a person perceives intimacy on social networks to be the same as real life intimacy.

#SocialNetworkingAddictionIs bad because it can cause your grades to take a toll; you might not get your homework done if you’re spending three hours on Facebook.

Networking Numbers

Twitter Twelve-Step

1. Step back and realize you may spend too much time surfing the web.

2. Look where your internet time is allo-cated: Is it on social networking sites?

3. If you answered yes for Step Two, ad-mit you have a problem.

4. Realize that social networking addic-tion is not made up or humorous. It is

categorized as a legitimate health prob-lem.

5. Talk to a counselor, or even pediatri-cian to learn the detriments of social

media use.

6. Start cutting back on the time you spend using social networking daily.

7. Turn off your phone or computer at night to eliminate distraction while sleep-

ing.

8. Turn off your phone both at bedtime and after school to maximize productiv-

ity and relaxation time.

9. Try staying off of all social media web-sites for an extended period of time.

10. Start using social media again in limi-tation.

11. Set up a plan which illustrates when you can check on your social networking

sites and use the internet for leisure.

12. If you have a friend you believe may be addicted, help them start this pro-

cess.

Over the past five years, the presence of social networking in daily life has become im-possible to ignore. The volume of users on social networking sites has drastically in-creased, and internet projects such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instgram and Vine have

become a nearly omnipresent part of every day.

The company, which was purchased by Facebook in 2012, announced

on Sept. 8, 2013 that the site is now home to over 150 million users, 33% of which have joined in the past six

months alone.

In the first year of its existence, Facebook racked up one million us-

ers. Since then, it has grown to have over one billion registered users.

94% of social networking teens have a Facebook.

The volume of Youtube visitors monthly tops one billion, making it not only one of the most frequently visited social networking sites, but

one of the most popular websites in existence today.

In this Twitter-owned company’s first six months of existence, it attracted 13 million users. After eight months,

however, that number jumped to 40 million registered users: a near 300% increase in only two months.

From March 2012 to Dec. 2012, the number of active Twitter users went

from 140 million to 200 million: a 42% increse in nine months. The site has 554 million registered ac-

counts in all.

Information from Youtube.com Information from Instagram

Information from Twitter BlogsInformation from TechCrunch

With every addiction, there is a treatment; here is a Twelve Step Plan to help break away from the addictive hold of Social Networking.

42% of MN students use some three or more social net-

working sites

TwitterLaunch Date: March 2006

YoutubeLaunch Date: February 14,

2005

VineLaunch Date: January 24,

2013

This micro blogging website allows users to choose from a multitude of templates to create their own blogs. As of Aug. 8, 2013 the website, now

owned by Yahoo! Inc, is home to over 130 million blogs.

Tumblr.Launch Date: February 2007

InstagramLaunch Date: October 6,

2010

:

Information from Wikipedia

FacebookLaunch Date: January 2004

Information from Social Media Today

97% of MN students use some form of social networking

75% think social networking

addiction is a problem at MN

85% of MN

students believe

social media is addictive

62% of MN students believe they person-ally are addicted to

social media

MN students display school wide trends regarding social networking addiction through the above polls. 60 MN stu-

dents were polled.

Issue 2 | October 15, 20136 HOOfbeat fOcus Issue 2 | October 15, 2013 7HOOfbeat fOcus

Sushi Swims into The American Mainstream

Rolling Up:Below: Foreign lan-guage teacher Bill

Cunningham shows students how to

fabricate their own fishy foods.

Fishy Facts

1 2

3

45

6

Best In the BusinessSakurA Bana

Blue Sushi

Wasabi Sushi

Ponzu

First: Gather all of the necessary

ingredients and tools including :

2 . Sushi rice (fat white rice)

4. Nori sheets (dry seaweed)3. Sushi Vinegar

5. Imitation crab, smoked salmon, cucumber, avocado, carrot, cooked shrimp, vegetable,

other fish suitable for raw consumption

1. Bamboo Sushi Mat

6. Soy sauce5

7. Plastic Wrap

7

8

8. Rice Cooker9. Fish Knife

9

Second: Begin to steam the rice or cook it in the rice cooker. Before cooking the rice, rinse it to clean off any excess powder, grain, or residue; once the rice runs clear cook it.

Third: Begin thinly slicing fish, crab, and/or vegetables and laying them out on a clean tray. Lay out the sushi mat, top the mat with plastic wrap, and top the

saran wrap with a sheet of nori.

Fourth: Once the rice is cooked, place it in a wooden bowl and begin folding it with the sushi vinegar while fanning and cooling it.

Fifth: After the rice has cooled, dampen your hands with a mixture of water and left over vinegar, spoon a line of rice onto the nori, top the rice with your chosen ingredients.

Sixth: Using the sushi mat, roll the stuffed nori by applying pressure (but not too much) and rolling the mat forward..

Finally: Use the fish knife to slice it into sat-isfactory pieces and enjoy!

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Must Try: Tombo Trouble Roll

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Red Dragon Roll

Fermented rice, vinegar, and sugar. Believe it or not, but these three simple ingre-dients were the recipe to the original sushi in Japan hun-dreds of years ago.

Since then, sushi has evolved into a common deli-cacy that takes many different forms. It has become a popu-lar staple of modern dining and has made its way from coastal Japan to landlocked Omaha.

Now, there are hundreds of different variations and styles of the basic combina-tion of sushi.

“It’s easy to make and is a great finger food. You can

put it in the fridge and bring it to school the next day,” senior Re-

becca Yuan said. Yuan has been part

of the Japanese program at MN for four years. Yuan

had always been fascinated by Japanese culture, and de-cided to give sushi-making a try.

Yuan received the unique opportunity to make sushi

with two young girls from Ja-pan who had come to the US as part of a special exchange program through UNO.

“I already sort of knew how to make it, but it was really cool to learn tips and tricks from them. It was like learning the authen-tic way to make sushi,” Yuan said.

J u -n i o r Macken-zie Sum-mers, an-other student who has been part of the Japanese program for three years, enjoys making various types of sushi creations with friends and family.

“[Sushi making] is one of those things where people can gather together and you can make a memory from it while hanging out with your friends,” Summers said.

While Summers now en-joys making sushi as a fun snack, her first time wasn’t so successful.

“It was a wreck. We had

no idea initially; we just worked with what we had,” Summers said.

While Yuan and Sum-mers were introduced to Sushi through the Japanese program at MN, sophomore Courtney Tullock was intro-duced to the world of sushi-

making at a much young-er age.

“My first ex-perience with

Sushi was when I was 6. My aunt’s boyfriend at the time was Japanese and

taught all of us to make sushi. We’ve

been making sushi since then,” Tullock said.

Tullock enjoys making sushi with her family and prefers making her own rath-er than going out to various sushi restaurants in Omaha.

“It’s better than restau-rant sushi because you can be creative and make your roll exactly the way you want it,” Tullock said.

Sophomore Rajan Medi-ratta was also exposed to Su-

shi at a young age. But unlike Yuan, Summers, and Tullock, Mediratta simply enjoys tast-ing the various types of sushi that Omaha has to offer.

“ My favorite place to eat sushi is at Wasabi Sushi. It’s an unlimited all you can eat sushi restaurant with tremen-dous quality,” Mediratta said.

Mediratta’s first few ex-periences with sushi though weren’t so enjoyable, espe-cially when Wasabi was in-volved.

“That green, humble looking substance is misun-derstood. I had packed the wasabi on top of the sushi roll and had taken it in whole! A few moments later, I had re-gretted my decision to even eat sushi!” Mediratta said.

Mediratta was able to get past the Wasabi incident and now enjoys eating at Wasabi Sushi and other various sushi restaurants in Omaha.

Today, sushi has signifi-cantly evolved from its tradi-tional rice, vinegar, and sugar combination to the new mod-ernized version that many stu-dents at MN love to make and to eat.

students’ sushi stories sour, sweet

Though sushi is commonly enjoyed out on the town, it can be constructed and consumed in the comfort of a domestic kitchen. These steps outline the basic process of rolling homemade sushi.

In 1824 Hanaya Yohei invented

modern Sushi by opening a cart

in the Ryogoku District of Edo

Japan. He mixed rice and rice

vinegar, hand pressing it and

topping the brick with fresh, raw

fish, therefore inventing modern

sushi

Sushi didn’t come

to America until

1966, when busi-

ness partners Nori-

toshi Kanai and Harry

Wolff opened up the

Kawafuku Restaurant

in Los Angeles.

Left: Cunningham demonstrates to senior Kano Aono how to properly roll sushi using the bamboo mat. “It’s meant to be shared and always eaten fresh— not like donuts,” Cunningham said. “Sushi is more like a sandwich— some have raw fish, some don’t.”

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Omaha's sushi scene has seen great expansion over the past de-cade. The Hoofbeat rates some of the most popular sushi spots..

Trends in America come

and go, but many of them come from other countries before being

thrown into the melting pot. Sushi, a Japanese treat, has infiltrated American life, and

more specifically life at MN and in Omaha.

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In 1970 a sushi bar opened in Hollywood catering to celebrities,

this gave modern Amer-ican sushi the popular-ity push it needed to spread east, causing

restaurants to open in Chicago, New York, and

other big cities.

In Japan, sushi is eaten at any

time of day and is typically not

doused in soy sauce. Traditionally it is

consumed in one bite.

Sushi made a splash in American cul-ture just a short time ago, this fishy food has an extensive history.

My first experience

with sushi was when

I was 6. M

y aunt’s boy-

friend at th

e time was

Japanese and taught

all of us to make Sushi.

We’ve been making

sushi since then.”“Courtney Tullock,

10

87%of students have tried

sushi before

62%of students have tried

sushi and like it

58%

athira jayanstaff writer

of students

think California

Rolls are the best sushi

45%of students favor Blue

Sushi as the best sushi res-

taurant in Omaha

*Information from pbs.org

*Statistics taken from a survey of 60 students

Originally, sushi was just preserved fish mixed with

fermented rice, made popular in

the ninth century by Buddhists.

Photos by Regan tokos

Photos from google images

Issue 5 | February 4, 20146 HooFbeat Focus

Fake BakeSynthetic Marijuana Dominated by Danger

Legality

MN graduate *Jennifer Anderson had been on that couch one million times; the worn fabric just barely held her in place as the world was spinning. She was used to the room, lights dim like street lamps in fog; she was familiar with the hazy atmosphere. As the night sped by, the room was slowing down. More people poured in as more smoke billowed up from the tiny graveyards of cigarettes: laying dormant in makeshift ash trays. Abruptly, she was snapped out of daze when a boy sitting next to her passed her a pipe. After taking a hit, reality slipped even more rap-idly, leaving Anderson in an unfamiliar state.

“[The first time I smoked K2] wasn’t the first time I was high. It was at a party my ju-nior year and I had been into some pretty bad stuff, but any-way, that was the first time a high really messed me up,” Anderson recounts.

The drug that messed Anderson up was the experi-mental cannabinoid K2. K2,

named after the company that initially manufactured it—K2 Herbal Products—is a combination of medicinal herbs sprayed with chemicals to mimic the effects of mari-juana.

“K2 is such a dangerous drug for a variety of reasons,” Community Counselor Peggy Breard said, “it’s easy to ac-cess, widespread, and it’s a shot in the dark. [Every batch] is different.”

This drug, which is also known as spice, crazy clown, genie, and chill, is almost nev-er made the same way twice. Manufacturers uses an array of legal and sometimes illegal chemicals in hopes of emulat-ing the compound tetrahydro-cannabinol, or THC, which is the high inducing chemi-cal found in natural cannabis. The ever-changing recipe for this unsafe substance, causes the end result to be just as iffy, and sometimes even deadly.

“Even after what it did to me the first time, I got a really bad headache and the room kept shrinking and growing so I think I was hallucinat-ing, anyway, I smoked spice

for awhile after that, prob-ably like a little less than 15 times,” Anderson said.

Anderson continued her habitual smoking of the drug spice, not realizing that the life-altering effects that altered her world by making life appear topsy turvy, but were also altering her brain.

“The unpredictable aspect of K2 is something that makes it stand out from drugs like alcohol and ciga-rettes,” Breard said. “When people smoke cigarettes the reaction is typical: they get light-headed, their lungs burn, they cough. But with K2, there are no consistent reaction. Everyone reacts differently to whatever cocktail of chemicals they are smoking.”

Coming down from an extended high, Anderson drifted back into the real world, realizing the dangers of her newest escape.

“One of my friends got a really bad high. I wasn’t smoking with him when it happened but one of the packets he got was messed up and he had a seizure or

something and ended up in the hospital. That made all [of my friends] think ‘Whoa, maybe this is worse than we thought,’” Anderson said.

As a newer drug, ac-knowledged on the federal level in 2011, K2 and its dan-gerous denotations are un-known to many.

“People use this drug so widely because it is legal in the community; anytime you make something legal and easy to access, people will use it. Its’ all about experimenting and most of the time people aren’t concerned about doing their research before using it,” Breard said.

Anderson agrees with Breard’s theory adding that she, herself, was just looking for a legal way to escape.

“I really didn’t know how dangerous spice was when I started smoking [it], to be honest the first time I smoked it I thought it was just weed. Once I figured out it was a cheap, easy high, I wasn’t concerned about googling how it could hurt me,” Ander-son said.

Despite her initial na-

ïveté regarding K2, Anderson stopped smoking the sub-stance on her own, even-tually seeking help for her reliance on ciga-rettes and marijuana as well.

“I haven’t smoked anything in over six months,” An-derson said, “you can find stuff to smoke any-where in college, but af-ter being into it for awhile I’ve learned it’s just not worth it. I’d rather be sober and alive than high and dying,” Anderson said.

Breard reflects this ad-vice, reminding students that the cons outweigh the pros.

“To anyone debating try-ing K2 or really any drug I’d say that its dangerous: life is more valuable than a high. Its hard to hear ‘No, No, No, Don’t do it’ from parents and teachers, so it’s normal for kids to rebel until they learn the hard way,” Breard said, “But a lot of times with K2 learning the hard way means death, and its just not worth it.”

Lethality

andNebraska Attorney GEneral Jon Brun-

ing Declares legislative war of Syn-

thetic Marijuana[ [

K2 is a very dangerous drug, there

are many myths denouncing the deadly

aspects of this substance[ [

Designer drug a detriment: Former student shares K2 story 2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

K2There are two known

types of synthetic canna-binoids in circulation

Kansas is the first state to ban synthetic marijuana in March of 2010, many more

states quickly follow.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration gives five of the chemi-cals used in making K2 an emergency designation, making the sale of sub-

stances containing the chemicals JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497

and cannabicyclohexanol illegal.

158 total varieties of known syn-thetic drugs are in circulation, and a survey conducted by the University of Michigan reports

that 11.3 percent of high school seniors admitted to consistently

smoking K2.

The Drug Enforcement Administration determines on April 12, 2013 that three more chemicals found in K2 are classified as Schedule 1 substances, a category used to describe the “most dangerous” type of

illicit substances.

Approximately 41 states (including Puerto Rico) have passed and enact-ed legislation banning K2. Nebraska Legislators have drafted legislation in hopes of seeing K2 illegalized in

NE this year.

in February of 2011 when Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed a bill outlawing an array of chemical sub-stances used to make K2. However, producers of this drug have

found ways to make it without using the illegal chemicals, without getting in legal trouble. Currently, lawmakers are in the

process of putting stricter regulations on this harmful drug.

Nebraska’s Legislature opened up the 60 day session on Jan. 8, Attorney General Jon Bruning proposed a four bill leg-

islative packet posed to crack down on the previously illegalized K2. Being that it is a ‘designer drug’ chemists behind creating K2 have been able to tweak the formula to avoid using the chemicals

that have been outlawed, so because of this Bruning’s bill is aimed to make K2 possession and sale punishable by jail time. This drafted legislation, if enacted, would make the possession of K2 in Nebraska a felony and would employ a more “catch-all” approach to

stopping this deadly drug.

HU-210

Because it is legal it is harmless

Smoking K2 is no worse than smoking a cigarette

K2 is natural so it Is ok to Use

On Oct.13, 2013, 18-year-old Billy Tucker from Waverly, NE went to bed after smoking K2, and he never woke up. Dozens of other deaths nationwide have been attributed

to this drug.

Whereas both cigarettes and K2 have negative effects on lung, brain, and overall bodily health, cigarettes carry a relative consis-tent cocktail of poisons and chemicals; the makeup of K2 differs

with every batch, making it more unpredictable with its outcomes.

Though the base substance of K2 is a variety of natural herbs and plant materials, the chemicals added to it are

what make K2 have psychoactive (mind-altering) effects. These chemicals can cause anything from confusion to

seizures to permanent brain damage.

Issue 5 | February 4, 2014 7HooFbeat Focus

JWH-073

FOund in Synthetic Cannabis as well as Fertal-izer, helps Emulate high-enducing effects of THC

K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid, or a type of chemically manufactured marijuana. The primary plant ingre-dient is Damiana leaves. Along with these leaves, the over 3000 gov-ernmentally recognized formula-tions of K2 are sprayed with an

array of chemicals, here are a few.

A SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID THAT IS 100-

800X MORE PO-TENT THAN THC

recipe

It Started

Now

mehgan cainfocus editor

Synthetic Marijuana Dominated by Danger

*name has been changed

Information compiled from ncsl.org, drugabuse.gov, livescience.com, whitehouse.gov, and MN Community Counselor Peggy Breard.

a cannabinoid receptor that is added to trig-

ger a high

4-methylbuphedroneA type of

Hydrochlo-ride, not in-tended for Consumption

CP-47,497

Myth

Myth

Myth