Drinking hot chocolate with a good slug of Irish cream liqueur in it.
Replying to your post.
Replying to the reply to your post.
Replying to the reply to the reply to your post.
Replying to the reply to the reply to the reply to your post.
Replying to the reply to the reply to the reply to your post. Etc.
Replying to the reply to the reply to the reply to your post. Etc. Etc.
Replying to the reply to the reply to the reply to your post. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Fuck it! Ctrl+Atl+Del
I'm laughing. :lol:
Reading these posts and thinking about making hot chocolate. In fact I believe I will go make some right now.
Waiting for my husband to finish cooking supper...and commenting in this thread.
Drinking bourbon in my hotel room.
I'm just drinking a cerveza salvadoreña: Cerveza Regia. :yum:
Mags, is that the equivalent of the Mexican Cervaza? (Mexican beer that is heavily advertised and consumed in Florida) Who knew that the Salvadorans had their own version of obligitory brew?
Quote from: Icarus on November 26, 2017, 02:29:26 AM
Mags, is that the equivalent of the Mexican Cervaza? (Mexican beer that is heavily advertised and consumed in Florida) Who knew that the Salvadorans had their own version of obligitory brew?
:grin:
Yes,
Icarus, that is the equivalent of the Mexican Cerveza.
Cervezas nacionales:
Pilsener
Golden
Suprema
Suprema Roja
Regia ExtraMarcas de exportación:
Caguama
San Lucas
Del Mar
Cabaña
Rialto
Cantina
Same thing I do everyday, plan to take over the world!
Typing. :grin:
Drinking bourbon in my hotel room.
Relaxing with a drink after a shower and shave.
Scanning the HAF website. One of my daily pleasures or compulsions as the case may be.
Just had a ginger kombucha after setting the christmas tree up so the wife can decorate. (She bought a large wicker basket to place the tree inside, but I had to build a small wooden stand/base so it would sit up higher inside the basket, so as to make it look like it was planted inside)
Getting my truck inspected before going to work.
Copying Icarus.
I just went to the bathroom, and now after washing my hands and giving the hair a quick glide-over with my hands I'm back at my desk eating a bowl of oatmeal with blackberries, banana, and assorted nuts and seeds.
Taking a break from work, so I'm typing this and listening to "La Serenissima", by Loreena McKennitt...plus looking at some documents on my desk that I need to review; and waiting while my Nook downloads the "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", by José Saramago so I can start reading it.
...and drinking coffee.
...and backing up my laptop.
...and looking busy.
I should have said thst I am also sofa-sitting.
My sofa gets bored and michievious if I don't sit on it regularly - swallows smartphones, remotes, keys etc when I am not looking. Just attention seeking really.
I'll get the leather shampoo and beeswax cream out tomortow and give it a treat.
Actually I think it is getting fed up with my current high-fibre diet . . . Come to think of it, so am I!
Reading What are you doing right now?
Wondering whether I should now replace the hard disk in my old laptop with a SDD drive.
Quote from: Tom62 on November 28, 2017, 06:56:43 PM
Wondering whether I should now replace the hard disk in my old laptop with a SDD drive.
Sounds good to me. Personally, I'm just sitting here eating chicken tacos.
Laying in bed at 0520 suffering insomnia.
Quote from: Dave on November 29, 2017, 05:15:04 AM
Laying in bed at 0520 suffering insomnia.
This is so weird, :shifty: it's only 9:43 PM, here in Los Angeles, Califa.
Quote from: Magdalena on November 29, 2017, 05:43:21 AM
Quote from: Dave on November 29, 2017, 05:15:04 AM
Laying in bed at 0520 suffering insomnia.
This is so weird, :shifty: it's only 9:43 PM, here in Los Angeles, Califa.
Ah, well, you Americans are always a bit late with things!
Now 9.10, waiting for room to warm up on very frosty, but very bright, morning. Also wondering if the tendon in my left ankle is going to do its very painful thing agsin - hard, sore swelling at back and cramping in calf muscle. Wanted to go to town for lunch. Will see later.
Quote from: Tom62 on November 28, 2017, 06:56:43 PM
Wondering whether I should now replace the hard disk in my old laptop with a SDD drive.
I assume you mean SSD but there could be SDDs now, I don't keep up like I used to.
Anyway yes of course you should, your time is growing short, you've no time to waste.
There's those laptop hd caddies that slot into the dvd slot, I've got one, haven't used it.
You could get an inexpensive 120/240 GB SSD and move the old HD to the caddy.
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Quote from: Father Bruno on November 27, 2017, 02:03:14 AM
Just had a ginger kombucha...
I'm just wondering what this is.
Someone gave me a Lemonade Kombucha. I've been reading the bottle and I still don't know what it is or what it's supposed to be good for. It has electrolytes, polyphenols, enzymes, probiotics. What will this do to my body? :unsure:
Ingredients include: black tea, green tea, kiwi juice, etc, etc, and..."100% pure love!!!" That's what it says on the bottle, with three exclamation points. How do you bottle love?
The whole bottle is very mysterious, it says that it's a fermented tea and to not consume if you are avoiding alcohol due to pregnancy, allergies, sensitivities, or religious beliefs. Sensitivities? :headscratch:
Father, what is this Kombucha?
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Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 05:01:35 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
How do you know this, my friend? :eyebrow:
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 05:37:22 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 05:01:35 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
How do you know this, my friend? :eyebrow:
On good authority from Steven Spielberg.
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 05:01:35 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
I thought it was a fungal infection that only women suffered.
Quote from: Dave on December 03, 2017, 08:44:48 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 05:01:35 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
I thought it was a fungal infection that only women suffered.
People...people!!! Let's focus, here! This is about the
Kombucha, not boobs. >:(
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 08:56:31 AM
Quote from: Dave on December 03, 2017, 08:44:48 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 05:01:35 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 04:06:50 AM
Sorry, I corrected my spelling...the mistake was funny, but embarrassing. I wanted to write, green tea, but I wrote, green teat.
:lol:
Some aliens have those.
I thought it was a fungal infection that only women suffered.
People...people!!! Let's focus, here! This is about the Kombucha, not boobs. >:(
Oops, sorry, my boob!
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Boobs. *drool*
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Reading about and looking at green boobs. :reading:
Thinking of boobs with big googly eyes on them.
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Look at those pupils go! :lol:
I just spent my entire monthly salary on paying invoices on-line. I will have to ask my boss to transfer some more money, because I'm completely broke.
Loading my new, seasonal, avatar (since we are now in the festering festive month.)
Quote from: Tom62 on December 03, 2017, 03:56:27 PM
I just spent my entire monthly salary on paying invoices on-line. I will have to ask my boss to transfer some more money, because I'm completely broke.
Terrible situation to find oneself in.
Quote from: Tom62 on December 03, 2017, 03:56:27 PM
I just spent my entire monthly salary on paying invoices on-line. I will have to ask my boss to transfer some more money, because I'm completely broke.
Sorry to hear that. I truly wish it were in my power to help somehow.
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 04:44:54 PM
Quote from: Tom62 on December 03, 2017, 03:56:27 PM
I just spent my entire monthly salary on paying invoices on-line. I will have to ask my boss to transfer some more money, because I'm completely broke.
Sorry to hear that. I truly wish it were in my power to help somehow.
I spend a lot on insurances, electricity and gas, as well as the costs of having to travel to the Netherlands (to apply for and obtain my new passport). I also had to pay the huge hospital bill, but I'll get that money back from my health insurance.
Thinking thst I have disvovered my favouritest hot drink - chocolate with a slug of Madeira in it. Smoother than adding straight spirit and has a tiny "sharpness" in the back taste that beautifully balances the initial sweetness.
Eating corn chips.
Quote from: Dave on December 03, 2017, 04:23:03 PM
Loading my new, seasonal, avatar (since we are now in the festering festive month.)
I like it.
Is this you,
Dave?
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Quote from: Magdalena on December 04, 2017, 04:19:12 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 03, 2017, 04:23:03 PM
Loading my new, seasonal, avatar (since we are now in the festering festive month.)
I like it.
Is this you, Dave?
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=331;type=avatar)
Yes, my eyes are not normally that scary but difficult take a shot like that without looking a bit weird.
Well, some say I am a bit weird . . . But, wtf, being ordinary is boring!
Quote from: Dave on December 04, 2017, 04:37:52 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on December 04, 2017, 04:19:12 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 03, 2017, 04:23:03 PM
Loading my new, seasonal, avatar (since we are now in the festering festive month.)
I like it.
Is this you, Dave?
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=331;type=avatar)
Yes, my eyes are not normally that scary but difficult take a shot like that without looking a bit weird.
Well, some say I am a bit weird . . . But, wtf, being ordinary is boring!
Well, a lot of people say I am a bit weird...But, wtf, I agree with you, being "regular" is boring. When someone says I'm weird, I say, "Thank you." :grin:
:secrets1: When someone says, "You are weird" it just means that you are, "
A Limited Edition." :smug:
Listening to the podcast of a deconstruction of "Moby Dick" as a socio-industrial-religious allegory that owes much to the Bible and Shakespeare.
(Maybe some still think it is an STD.)
Part way through an intro to Python for Android and wondering if it will give me as much fun as I had learning BASIC on my Sinclair ZX81.
Dave, do you know anything about the Udemy.com teaching outfit? They have very modest prices for Python as well as several JAVA instructionals.
Quote from: Icarus on December 10, 2017, 12:17:56 AM
Dave, do you know anything about the Udemy.com teaching outfit? They have very modest prices for Python as well as several JAVA instructionals.
Let me see if I enjoy the freebie stuff before I spend money on it! Too often the novelty of things fades for me these days and its back to the book, the slippers and the sofa. There has to be a continuing refreshing interest. One or two days charity work, especially one-to-one with different people, a week keeps me interested, but not the four or five days I used to do.
Getting ready to go to the lab. On a Sunday. ::)
You will burn in hell for working on Sunday xSP. But not if you go to mass first? :unsure:
Quote from: Icarus on December 10, 2017, 10:50:05 PM
You will burn in hell for working on Sunday xSP. But not if you go to mass first? :unsure:
If I'm going there anyway... :grin:
Maybe if I find a Father and confess the sin all will be well?
Where is Papacito Bruno when you need him? :sherlock2:
I'm sitting waiting for the snow to melt.
I'm eating some wild caught smoked salmon, with pepper and olive oil.
Catching up just before going to sleep.
Warming me up after de-icing and warming car up. Minus 6C, 21F, had me wondering about anti-freeze in car. They were supposed to check fluid levels on a service but doubt that they did an anti-freeze check. Header tank took a whole bottle late last night - worrying.
Started OK at soon after 7am, had to de-ice the doors with hot water to get in. Warmed car up until air-con had dried the windows and radiator fan operating. Seems OK.
Drinking large mug of hot choc.
Psyching myself up for my first session as a computer buddy. Polishing my bluffing skills, reminding myself that though I am no real expert I have a fair knowledge where to find the info I might need. Especially where to find user manuals for devices I am not familiar with!
I'm thinking Tamales, but it's more like Chimichangas...white flour tacos. All I can say is it's time to get serious.
Quote from: Papasito Bruno on December 13, 2017, 09:59:06 PM
I'm thinking Tamales, but it's more like Chimichangas...white flour tacos. All I can say is it's time to get serious.
I'm thinking Fajitas Baja-Style. --New spices, and stuff.
I am laying in bed for the final moments before getting up for a breakfastless start, after a 24 hour starve, to the day before going for my 6 monthly blood tests..
And people are talking about food! :(
Never mind, I have a Full English to look forward to later. :)
Quote from: Dave on December 14, 2017, 07:57:10 AM
I am laying in bed for the final moments before getting up for a breakfastless start, after a 24 hour starve, to the day before going for my 6 monthly blood tests..
And people are talking about food! :(
Never mind, I have a Full English to look forward to later. :)
Good luck with the tests, Dave, and enjoy the well-earned breakfast later.
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 14, 2017, 08:53:52 AM
Quote from: Dave on December 14, 2017, 07:57:10 AM
I am laying in bed for the final moments before getting up for a breakfastless start, after a 24 hour starve, to the day before going for my 6 monthly blood tests..
And people are talking about food! :(
Never mind, I have a Full English to look forward to later. :)
Good luck with the tests, Dave, and enjoy the well-earned breakfast later.
Thanks, Icarus.
Brekkers was a treat :D
Hoping yer hip doesn't give you too much gyp.
Quote from: Dave on December 14, 2017, 10:12:28 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on December 14, 2017, 08:53:52 AM
Quote from: Dave on December 14, 2017, 07:57:10 AM
I am laying in bed for the final moments before getting up for a breakfastless start, after a 24 hour starve, to the day before going for my 6 monthly blood tests..
And people are talking about food! :(
Never mind, I have a Full English to look forward to later. :)
Good luck with the tests, Dave, and enjoy the well-earned breakfast later.
Thanks, Icarus.
Brekkers was a treat :D
Hoping yer hip doesn't give you too much gyp.
No, thank you, it's not too bad. My doctor keeps urging me to consider a replacement, but I am resisting. When I get back from Oman early next month I want to try cortisone injections into the hip.
Hermes, A hip replacement is not such a bad deal these days. My daughter, 60 years old, recently had a hip replacement, She had her surgery one morning and walked out of the surgical place in the afternoon. After about six weeks of recovery time she is riding her bicycle and doing other things that were most painful for here before the replacement. I suspect that some of your SA medical facilities are as well equipped and as competent as ours.
I have a neighbor who lives across my street. He is a trauma surgeon who got his med education in South Africa....and has a charming SA wife.
Quote from: Icarus on December 15, 2017, 12:55:24 AM
Hermes, A hip replacement is not such a bad deal these days. My daughter, 60 years old, recently had a hip replacement, She had her surgery one morning and walked out of the surgical place in the afternoon. After about six weeks of recovery time she is riding her bicycle and doing other things that were most painful for here before the replacement. I suspect that some of your SA medical facilities are as well equipped and as competent as ours.
I have a neighbor who lives across my street. He is a trauma surgeon who got his med education in South Africa....and has a charming SA wife.
Icarus, it's the 50th anniversary of Christiaan Barnard 's first duccessful heart transplant in South Africa - yesh, I think they have good people and kit there! :)
Thank you for the encouraging words, guys. Yes, medical facilities are as good as anywhere here if you are able to pay. I often visit Christiaan Barnard's hospital in Cape Town to train some of the research staff, but in spite of that they still manage to do good work!
Let's see how I get on early next year. At the moment I'm doing quite well.
I just won the chili competition at our Christmas office party. There were about 30 people voting on 4 pots of chili, and I got the most votes. I took my wife's basic chili recipe (which is plenty good) and then added a bit of pork and red pepper. Pork is not a traditional ingredient in Texas chili, but it added a nice smoothness to the taste.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 15, 2017, 08:31:02 PM
I just won the chili competition at our Christmas office party. There were about 30 people voting on 4 pots of chili, and I got the most votes. I took my wife's basic chili recipe (which is plenty good) and then added a bit of pork and red pepper. Pork is not a traditional ingredient in Texas chili, but it added a nice smoothness to the taste.
Congratulations!
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 15, 2017, 08:31:02 PM
I just won the chili competition at our Christmas office party. There were about 30 people voting on 4 pots of chili, and I got the most votes. I took my wife's basic chili recipe (which is plenty good) and then added a bit of pork and red pepper. Pork is not a traditional ingredient in Texas chili, but it added a nice smoothness to the taste.
Ever tried harissa? Arabic hot sauce made with ground chilis, olive oil and lime juice. The first fuels, the second smooths, the third sets it on fire! Some add garlic.
Quote from: Dave on December 15, 2017, 08:43:40 PM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 15, 2017, 08:31:02 PM
I just won the chili competition at our Christmas office party. There were about 30 people voting on 4 pots of chili, and I got the most votes. I took my wife's basic chili recipe (which is plenty good) and then added a bit of pork and red pepper. Pork is not a traditional ingredient in Texas chili, but it added a nice smoothness to the taste.
Ever tried harissa? Arabic hot sauce made with ground chilis, olive oil and lime juice. The first fuels, the second smooths, the third sets it on fire! Some add garlic.
Wow. Never have tried it, but now it's on my list!
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 15, 2017, 09:07:58 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 15, 2017, 08:43:40 PM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 15, 2017, 08:31:02 PM
I just won the chili competition at our Christmas office party. There were about 30 people voting on 4 pots of chili, and I got the most votes. I took my wife's basic chili recipe (which is plenty good) and then added a bit of pork and red pepper. Pork is not a traditional ingredient in Texas chili, but it added a nice smoothness to the taste.
Ever tried harissa? Arabic hot sauce made with ground chilis, olive oil and lime juice. The first fuels, the second smooths, the third sets it on fire! Some add garlic.
Wow. Never have tried it, but now it's on my list!
Needs to be a paste rather than a dip, recipes online of course. But good for experimenting with proportions!
There is also Yemeni zhug, a variation on a green chili sauce/dip
http://thymetomango.com/yemeni-zhug-green-chilli-sauce/
Going through my getting-ready-to-go-to-the-lab-on-a-saturday ritual. :levitate:
Just finished re-watching Vanishing Point. Still a brilliant movie after all these years. I kept thinking of Easy Rider during the movie.
Thinking that publishing videos here is a bit of a bind, unless you upload them to Youtube or somewhere first.
I have recently acquired new camera apps that are installed on my backup tablet. That's time lapse, panoramic and "high speed", have not tried the last yet.
Fun!
Trying to get "Maud'dib" out of my brain!
My ceiling fan has a sort of two-tone hum. Not really listening to it, like a clock tick it fades, but "Maud'dib", as when the Fremens are chanting the name in Dune, got "attached."
And now it will not let go! Time for a cup of tea... then stuff the teabags into my ears! (Wonder if that will clear the wax out of them and stop the eczema itching.)
I just finished packing the Christmas gifts.
Drinking a nice, cold cup of diet coke.
Eating a banana, drinking hot tea, watching "Miracle on 34th Street".
Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 17, 2017, 10:34:13 PM
Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.
That does sound good. Must remember to get yogurt and granola at the store.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on December 17, 2017, 10:46:26 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 17, 2017, 10:34:13 PM
Craving mashed banana with yogurt and granola.
That does sound good. Must remember to get yogurt and granola at the store.
I have six packs of granola weighing 1 kg each in my pantry. They were on sale. :shifty:
I have to find good uses for them fast.
Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 19, 2017, 11:36:40 PM
Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.
Good luck (with getting a good audience)
Quote from: Dave on December 20, 2017, 06:19:47 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 19, 2017, 11:36:40 PM
Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.
Good luck (with getting a good audience)
Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation. :grin:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 20, 2017, 12:26:00 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 20, 2017, 06:19:47 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 19, 2017, 11:36:40 PM
Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.
Good luck (with getting a good audience)
Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation. :grin:
So . . . how did it go, and what was it about?
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on December 20, 2017, 08:27:11 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 20, 2017, 12:26:00 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 20, 2017, 06:19:47 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 19, 2017, 11:36:40 PM
Preparing a presentation for tomorrow.
Good luck (with getting a good audience)
Thanks. With any luck I won't have an audience...lots of people have already gone on vacation. :grin:
So . . . how did it go, and what was it about?
The presentation went well. :) It was a presentation for the people at the lab (we all take turns presenting a paper to the rest), and some of them showed up. :lol: I presented a paper that was about memory reconsolidation and how certain types of cues are better than others. They also show the left hippocampus is more activated than the right when they presented reminder cues (that reactivated the memory) or interference cues (which made the memory susceptible to interference) to human subjects in an fMRI, after training them to associate certain words with certain images.
I'm not used to reading papers on studies using human subjects, so it was a challenge, but an interesting challenge.
Funny thing, I really have to learn how to keep my mouth shut at times. :-X Yesterday evening I sent a message to the professor asking if he was going to present the second half of a lecture he had prepared on statistics and the reproducibility crisis that psychological sciences are going through right now, and in his reply he said that he hadn't finished preparing it and asked if I would present a paper instead.
:-|
So I said yes, of course I would gladly present one of the papers he had suggested. This was as at 6:44 pm yesterday ::)
So...at around 2 am there I was frantically reading the paper for the 13th time and preparing powerpoint slides. Did I mention I have to learn how to keep my mouth shut?
But I'm glad I did. It's a paper from the research group that we will be collaborating with during my master's, and I understood their protocol a little better after reading the paper as many times.
Sounds like a good result all round!
:dance: :heyhey: :dance:
Quote from: Dave on December 20, 2017, 09:46:05 PM
Sounds like a good result all round!
:dance: :heyhey: :dance:
:grin: Yes, I felt really good about it after I came home and took a power nap. :visit morpheus:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 20, 2017, 09:38:43 PM
The presentation went well. :)
...
I'm just reading wonderful news right now. :tellmemore:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 20, 2017, 09:50:51 PM
Quote from: Dave on December 20, 2017, 09:46:05 PM
Sounds like a good result all round!
:dance: :heyhey: :dance:
:grin: Yes, I felt really good about it after I came home and took a power nap. :visit morpheus:
Sleeping cures nearly everything.
Quote from: Magdalena on December 20, 2017, 10:04:01 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 20, 2017, 09:38:43 PM
The presentation went well. :)
...
I'm just reading wonderful news right now. :tellmemore:
Can we know? (preliminary rejoicing) :cheerful dance 2:
I'm drinking red wine.
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