Exactamundo, John. But Osborne's Treasury bears great responsibility for making Universal Credit a cheap replacement for the previous benefit system.?
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On 6 Jan 2020, at 13:57, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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There up to Oganesson, element 118 now Susan
On Saturday, 4 January 2020, 14:56:30 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I’m afraid mentioning elements always has me thinking of Tom Lehrer and that song! :D Regards
Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
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So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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Totally in agreement about your final para, Chris, especially regarding politicians! Regards Susan
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On 4 Jan 2020, at 13:06, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: Well said, John!
It must be very frightening for all concerned. I’m not sure though about your point that firefighters must risk their own lives; I’m pretty certain that their job is to save lives and property without *unduly* risking their own, but it’s not clear cut.?
As an example, when a Tornado made an emergency landing at RAF Brüggen in 1996/7 the Incident Commander was slated for allowing the emergency personnel to remain under the aircraft while a fire burned internally and fuel dripped on to the tarmac. They were trying to gain access to the fuselage to enable fire fighting equipment to be aimed more effectively. Although no other personnel were at risk there ensued a long (years) discussion about the degree to which firefighters should be exposed to risk.?
Good leadership in the emergency services is essential, particularly when it is so markedly lacking in parts of the political sphere.?
Chris ? Dear Jude & Peter, Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome: "It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces. Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK Sorry, out of time at library. Take care John
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Ouch! Take care, John! Regards Susan
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They allow booking of pc's at notts library generally in hour slots. You can get longer if you make a special request, but I don't think that would be allowed on a regular basis. I've lost my CV. I don't think there's many jobs I could apply to now though. Tried to get work at the tax office. The DWP are not asking me to apply for work. I dare say there will be more work capability assessments. Trying to drink a pint of milk a day + Vitamin D. Had bone densitometry scan on 30th. There's been a lot of rays through me now. Wondering if I'm going to turn green & Hulk up? John
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I’m afraid mentioning elements always has me thinking of Tom Lehrer and that song! :D Regards
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Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
Here's another take:
So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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“Generally will” is probably the size of it, John. ?However, I think that much has changed since the time of that particular horror.
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I think they have to, or generally will, when other human life is at risk e.g. Kings Cross fire disaster sort of time sorry
On Saturday, 4 January 2020, 13:06:40 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote:
Well said, John!
It must be very frightening for all concerned. I’m not sure though about your point that firefighters must risk their own lives; I’m pretty certain that their job is to save lives and property without *unduly* risking their own, but it’s not clear cut.?
As an example, when a Tornado made an emergency landing at RAF Brüggen in 1996/7 the Incident Commander was slated for allowing the emergency personnel to remain under the aircraft while a fire burned internally and fuel dripped on to the tarmac. They were trying to gain access to the fuselage to enable fire fighting equipment to be aimed more effectively. Although no other personnel were at risk there ensued a long (years) discussion about the degree to which firefighters should be exposed to risk.?
Good leadership in the emergency services is essential, particularly when it is so markedly lacking in parts of the political sphere.?
Chris ? Dear Jude & Peter, Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome: "It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces. Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK Sorry, out of time at library. Take care John
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They allow booking of pc's at notts library generally in hour slots. You can get longer if you make a special request, but I don't think that would be allowed on a regular basis. I've lost my CV. I don't think there's many jobs I could apply to now though. Tried to get work at the tax office. The DWP are not asking me to apply for work. I dare say there will be more work capability assessments. Trying to drink a pint of milk a day + Vitamin D. Had bone densitometry scan on 30th. There's been a lot of rays through me now. Wondering if I'm going to turn green & Hulk up? John
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I think they have to, or generally will, when other human life is at risk e.g. Kings Cross fire disaster sort of time sorry
On Saturday, 4 January 2020, 13:06:40 GMT, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
Well said, John!
It must be very frightening for all concerned. I’m not sure though about your point that firefighters must risk their own lives; I’m pretty certain that their job is to save lives and property without *unduly* risking their own, but it’s not clear cut.?
As an example, when a Tornado made an emergency landing at RAF Brüggen in 1996/7 the Incident Commander was slated for allowing the emergency personnel to remain under the aircraft while a fire burned internally and fuel dripped on to the tarmac. They were trying to gain access to the fuselage to enable fire fighting equipment to be aimed more effectively. Although no other personnel were at risk there ensued a long (years) discussion about the degree to which firefighters should be exposed to risk.?
Good leadership in the emergency services is essential, particularly when it is so markedly lacking in parts of the political sphere.?
On 4 Jan 2020, at 12:26, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
? Dear Jude & Peter, Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome: "It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces. Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK Sorry, out of time at library. Take care John
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Well said, John!
It must be very frightening for all concerned. I’m not sure though about your point that firefighters must risk their own lives; I’m pretty certain that their job is to save lives and property without *unduly* risking their own, but it’s not clear cut.?
As an example, when a Tornado made an emergency landing at RAF Brüggen in 1996/7 the Incident Commander was slated for allowing the emergency personnel to remain under the aircraft while a fire burned internally and fuel dripped on to the tarmac. They were trying to gain access to the fuselage to enable fire fighting equipment to be aimed more effectively. Although no other personnel were at risk there ensued a long (years) discussion about the degree to which firefighters should be exposed to risk.?
Good leadership in the emergency services is essential, particularly when it is so markedly lacking in parts of the political sphere.?
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On 4 Jan 2020, at 12:26, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
? Dear Jude & Peter, Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome: "It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces. Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK Sorry, out of time at library. Take care John
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Dear All, We are beginning to reach the limits of computing technology. Had a look at the top range MacPro, which has 28 cores, problem is they're only 2.5 GHz each, fine for most things, but some software only works on a single thread, meaning one core only. I thought the Quad core 3.6 GHz iMac would be best for my purposes. Problem is all these components so close together generate a lot of waste heat. Military get round it with Gallium Arsenide, but I'm not sure this will be available to the public without considerable investment:
Here's another take:
So it maybe that the Gallium is available, but it will cost. John
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Dear Jude & Peter, Still thinking of you. The accounts from Mallacoota sounded feirsome: "It sounded like a jet engine, a far-away plane over the hill that we were on," Mr Van Der Merwe told the BBC.
Certainly, 10 Km is scarily close. I had no idea until you said that, that it was so close to you. The other factor is the unpredictability. I had heard of firestorms in? Dresden and Hiroshima, but obviously these were man-made. I read more about the pyrocumulonimbus events yesterday. I had heard of lightning strikes in the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, but not from fires before. I feel sorry for the firefighters. Everyone thinks there job is to put out fires, but their first job is to save human life even if it risks their own. This means cutting people out of crashed cars, getting them out of burning buildings, dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical accidents. I'm aware the organisation is different in America & Australia, but often they have to pick up the pieces. Thought about joining the fire service after BSc but was short sighted by then, which rules you out in the UK Sorry, out of time at library. Take care John
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John, so glad your move went well and things are quieter for you now; that must be a huge relief, especially after your previous neighbourhood!
Jude, will still keep fingers crossed but obvs glad you are not in immediate danger. I’m sure you will take care.
Regards Susan
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Dear Jude & Peter, The fires really seem to be out of control South of you. How are things where you are? The move has gone well, it does seem to be a lot quieter here. John
Wooowwww! ?That must be truly fabulous!
By the way, Jude, are you well away from all these terrifying fires? What a situation to be in, having to flee to the beach for “safety”! It makes my blood run cold. ?
Oh and, er, Happy New Year! Regards Susan Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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Well done with all that prep, Jude. I’m pretty sure that the whole world is watching with horror, unable to help.
Good luck!
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
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On 2 Jan 2020, at 11:47, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Meantime I have two suitcases ready in the front bedroom with all our important papers in, I have family history stuff and photos all in shoe box sized containers standing waiting, and the cat's cage is at the front door with her papers, and she has just been vaccinated fresh so if we had a situation we could check her into a vet or kennel in town. Macs are sorted ready to go and at the worst a new HD backup handbag sized. I have a written plan for the two of us with tasks outlined for leaving and notices printed to go in windows with contact numbers ....etc.... we are mentally prepared anyway. But so far at the moment so good.
Its really a catastrophic situation for those in the south. News programs are just horrendous sights.
Jude
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Hate moving. ?I know we should contemplate moving off our 11ac having already downsized from 62-1/2ac. But I don’t know that I am made for suburbia. Maybe a nice house in Tenteden or somewhere might suit me ? :-) Oh….big move that would be.?
Down south has been declared a catastrophe and they are expecting mid 40’s Centigrade tomorrow down there. ?Just truly awful to see on our TV screens. And we hold our breath where we are and local residents are pouncing on tourists taking their pictures and their car rego and telling them they can’t have a fire and what the situation is. ?Everyone is jumpy.
Jude
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Dear Jude & Peter, The fires really seem to be out of control South of you. How are things where you are? The move has gone well, it does seem to be a lot quieter here. John
Wooowwww! ?That must be truly fabulous!
By the way, Jude, are you well away from all these terrifying fires? What a situation to be in, having to flee to the beach for “safety”! It makes my blood run cold. ?
Oh and, er, Happy New Year! Regards Susan Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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We had a fire 10klm away from us -- we are on the eastern edge of the Miala national Park and the fire was into the western side and travelling in the direction of Mt Glorious which we can see from our house. The rural fire brigade burned back, ?but then the fire jumped the containment lines and we all held our breath. Nineteen appliances were sent to deal with it and they got it out. But though we have had a little rain we are not out of the woods. At our house we have tank water and a good bore and a swimming pool full. Other people up here are being quoted to end of February to be resupplied with drinking water and they have no fire fighting water at all. The creek across the road is total dry - and that creek has always been a bit of a barrier in a fire situation in previous times. Our old next door neighbour on our western side had a machine in to cut a track up his far western border as a fire barrier both for him and us, and had the local fire people in to familiarise themselves with what he has done.
Meantime I have two suitcases ready in the front bedroom with all our important papers in, I have family history stuff and photos all in shoe box sized containers standing waiting, and the cat's cage is at the front door with her papers, and she has just been vaccinated fresh so if we had a situation we could check her into a vet or kennel in town. Macs are sorted ready to go and at the worst a new HD backup handbag sized. I have a written plan for the two of us with tasks outlined for leaving and notices printed to go in windows with contact numbers ....etc.... we are mentally prepared anyway. ?But so far at the moment so good.?
Its really a catastrophic situation for those in the south. ?News programs are just horrendous sights.?
Jude?
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On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 06:42 AM, Purler wrote:
Wooowwww! ?That must be truly fabulous!
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By the way, Jude, are you well away from all these terrifying fires? What a situation to be in, having to flee to the beach for “safety”! It makes my blood run cold. ?
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Oh and, er, Happy New Year!
Regards
Susan
Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
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That sounds marvellous!
Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints
Regards
Susan
Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.?
My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
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Jude
Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.?
Regards
Susan
Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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Dear Jude & Peter, The fires really seem to be out of control South of you. How are things where you are? The move has gone well, it does seem to be a lot quieter here. John
On Wednesday, 1 January 2020, 14:42:36 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Wooowwww! ?That must be truly fabulous!
By the way, Jude, are you well away from all these terrifying fires? What a situation to be in, having to flee to the beach for “safety”! It makes my blood run cold. ?
Oh and, er, Happy New Year! Regards Susan
Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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Wooowwww! ?That must be truly fabulous!
By the way, Jude, are you well away from all these terrifying fires? What a situation to be in, having to flee to the beach for “safety”! It makes my blood run cold. ?
Oh and, er, Happy New Year! Regards Susan
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Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
Jude ? That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards Susan Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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Yes, is fainting figures. She’s just ordered new cheese grater from Apple which I think is $60,000 au and that’s without the screen or the $1000 stand to hold the screen up ... yes almost lying down in a faint money.
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On 1 Jan 2020, at 1:16 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards Susan Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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That sounds marvellous! Did you say twenty-four thousand……? /faints Regards
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Somewhat reminiscent of the old cheesegrater G5 — and on wheels I think.? My friend has the old cylindrical one and iMac Pro like mine (exxcept hers is optioned to $24000 worth).
Jude Wow! ?Is this the new one that is not cylindrical? I read in MacFormat that they are changing its shape.? Regards Susan Friend has ordered new Mac Pro from Apple ?($60,000 worth??)
She has iMac Pro like mine only fully optioned up to the gunnels.?
So I may get to see one at least -- I'll try not to drool :-)
Jude
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