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Update 9/26/12: Governor Signs SB 1221!California is now the 15th state to prohibit the hounding of bears and the 14th state to ban the hounding of bobcats! Read more. Please join us in thanking Governor Brown. Thank you for your support!
Update 8/22/12: SB 1221 passes AssemblyBecause SB 1221 was amended in the Assembly to include exemptions for research, depredation and livestock protection, it now heads back to the Senate for one more vote before close of business 8/31 before going to the Governor's desk.
California Assembly Passes Legislation to Prohibit Bear and Bobcat HoundingThe California Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee voted 8 to 4 to pass Senate Bill 1221, sponsored by Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), to enact a moratorium on the inhumane and unsporting practice of bear and bobcat hounding. S.B. 1221 passed the California Senate by a vote of 22 to 15 in May. It fell one vote short of passage at a committee hearing on June 26, and passed on a July 2 reconsideration vote. The bill has moved on to Assembly Appropriations committee for the next hearing (date of hearing to be announced). If SB 1221 passes Appropriations, it will go to the Assembly floor and from there to the Governor.
The Humane Society of the United States said in a July 2 statement:
The Humane Society of the United States applauds the California Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee for voting 8 to 4 to pass Senate Bill 1221, sponsored by Senator Ted Lieu to enact a moratorium on the inhumane and unsporting practice of bear and bobcat hounding. S.B. 1221 passed the California Senate by a vote of 22 to 15 in May. It fell one vote short of passage at a committee hearing last week, and passed today on a reconsideration vote.
Read the full statement here.
About S.B. 1221Your Marin Humane Society (MHS) advocated for S.B. 1221 in a number of ways. We sent a letter to Committee Chairman Assemblymember Jared Huffman urging him to support this bill, we co-authored an Op-ed in the Marin IJ with Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of HSUS, and a group of MHS employees rallied at the State Capitol earlier this month and attended the June 26 hearing to make our position heard. In addition, we asked for your help in contacting Assemblymember Huffman's office through our online Action Center, and dozens of you took action. Thank you for your enthusiastic support!Hounding is an inhumane and unsporting practice where trophy hunters use packs of radio-collared dogs to chase down bears and bobcats before the hunter shoots the terrified animal off a tree branch. It also leads to dog welfare problems and a drain on animal sheltering resources. Dogs may be struck by vehicles, die as a result of dehydration or confrontations with wildlife, or be abandoned at local animal shelters. California voters expressed their views against mountain lion hunting in two statewide ballot measures in 1990 and 1996. While mountain lions are protected from the cruelty of hound hunting, other predators are not.Thank you for your support!


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Dr. Darryl J. Brush graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1992. He works in Columbus, OH and specializes in Psychiatry. Dr. Brush is affiliated with Nationwide Childrens Hospital and University Hospital East. He speaks English and Spanish.
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4 February 2015: Building Controls Update No. 168: Canterbury Residential Guidance online tool released »
12 January 2015: New Consumer Protection Measures now available »
24 December 2014: Guidance on the assessment, repair and rebuild of earthquake-affected industrial buildings in Canterbury »
5 December 2014: Government have agreed new consumer protection measures as a result of the Building Amendment Act 2013 »
Building Act online
ConsumerBuild: Help with building, renovating and maintaining your home.
Your Council: Look up the contact details of your local council.
Info about the Resource Management Act
A glossary of building terms with links to further information.
If you work in the building industry, you will know the law around building has changed as a result of the introduction of the Building Act 2004. The Act aims to improve control of and encourage better practices in design and construction.
Though a lot is changing, the basic processes you need to go through on a building project are staying the same. You still need to get a building consent and have the work signed off, and the Building Code is still performance-based.
The information in this section sets out the main changes, particularly for residential or straightforward building projects.
All new building work in New Zealand must comply with the Building Code. To help people comply, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) publishes Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods, which are available for free as a PDF from this site, or from Vicbooks in multiple formats: www.vicbooks.co.nz
MBIE has made changes to the Building Code documents for Structure, to increase the seismic hazard factor for Christchurch and to require stronger foundations for buildings.
We also publish guidance for designers and builders on how to ensure weathertightness , including treated timber requirements.
Grade 500E reinforcing steel was introduced to the NZ market with the publication of AS/NZS 4671 in 2001, effectively replacing Grade 430.
It's also useful to be aware of developments in basic structural engineering practice that may be relevant to your work, and building-related events and education.
You, or your customers, can also find useful information on a range of building-related topics on the ConsumerBuild website: www.ConsumerBuild.org.nz


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Philip Ford was born on October 16, 1900 in Portland, Maine, USA as Philip Feeney. He was a director and assistant director, known for Lassie (1954), The Inner Circle (1946) and Valley of the Zombies (1946). He died on January 12, 1976 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The upside to spreading your investment is that it can reduce risk. So what's the downside?
When it comes to your SIPP, spreading your investment comes at a cost. Arguably, two costs.
- 1. Spreading Your Investment Increases Your Charges
- 2. Spreading Your Investment Can Reduce Your Return
Let's Consider This With An Example
- You have £100,000 to allocate from within your SIPP
- You've chosen to invest for a five year period
- You want the annual interest paid into your SIPP
1. Spreading Your Investment Increases Your Charges
You've heard that 'putting all your eggs in one basket' is a bad thing. So instead of putting it all into the one investment, you consider spreading it across five investments, putting £20,000 into each.
For the purposes of this illustration, each of the five investments is exactly the same, earning you 13% per year.
Your SIPP operator will normally charge for each investment you make. Here's a typical set of fees:
- You'll pay a set-up fee of £300
- You'll pay an annual fee of £200 to receive the interest, check it's correct and bank it
The following tables compare a single investment with spreading it equally across five investments.
Single Investment Of £100,000
Interest Received: £65,000
SIPP Charges: £1,300
A set-up charge of £300 and five years of handling the interest at £200 per year.
Your Net Interest Is £63,700
Five Investments Of £20,000
Interest Received: £65,000
SIPP Charges: £6,500
It's the same charges as the single investment, for each of your five investments.
Your Net Interest Is £58,500
Spreading your investment has cost you £5,200. It's reduced your overall income by more than 8%.
2. Spreading Your Investment Can Reduce Your Return
In the real world, it's almost impossible to find five SIPP approved investments that pay exactly the same return. What's more likely is that you'll have to accept a range of returns.
Let's assume you find five similar five year loan notes paying 9%, 10%, 11%, 12% and 13%. Like most people, you'd be willing to accept what seems like a smallish reduction in interest rate, because if one of them goes wrong, you won't lose everything. It's a small price to pay. Or is it?
Here's a summary of the calculation for each loan note, over the five year term.
By accepting what feels like relatively small reductions in interest rate, it's reduced your net income from £58,500 in the pink box above, to just £48,500. That's 17% less income.
When you compare it to selecting one investment at the best rate in the blue box above, you're almost 25% down. From £63,700 to £48,500.
Spread your investment in the real world, and more often than not, you'll find charges and compound interest will work massively against you.
What's more, it could be argued that you've increased your risk. For now you're hedging your bets on five loan notes rather than one. You see, there's absolutely no guarantee that a loan note paying 9% is lower risk than a loan note paying 13%.
Here's the point. If the highest earning loan note 'does what it says on the tin' and pays you all the interest due, yet one of the others fails, you'll significantly lose out.
What Do The World's Most Successful Investors Do?
Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, is known as "the father of value investing". He excelled at making money in the stock market for himself and his clients without taking big risks.
Graham created and taught many principles of investing safely and successfully that modern investors continue to use today. His investment choices were always based on diligent, almost surgical financial evaluation. In short, he used to 'invest by the numbers'.
Warren Buffett credits Graham with providing the foundation for his career. But Buffett often became frustrated with Graham's insistence on focusing on 'just the numbers', and disregarding management evaluation or other qualitative analysis.
Diversification was another key area on which they disagreed. Graham was a staunch advocate of diversification. He believed it was necessary to allocate relatively equal amounts to a large group of stocks with similar characteristics. Whilst some might die, in aggregate, the insurance bet would pay off.
Buffett on the other hand, analysed qualitatively, feeling he could gain an edge by doing more in depth research. He visited companies, talked to management and considered the actual prospects of the business. But he did this alongside Graham's technique of analysing the numbers. And when he invested, he invested big, rarely spreading his investment.
History shows both men were incredibly successful investors. But Buffett was spectacularly more so.
"You Pays Your Money, And You Takes Your Choice"
Whether you follow Graham or Buffett or someone else is largely academic. What won't surprise you to learn is that throughout history, successful investors all do one thing very well. Detailed due diligence!
And a big part of due diligence is knowing the true effect that compound interest has on diversification and on charges.
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I'm a mum of two young girls (referred to here as M [9] and J [6]) and we really love words and we really love to make stuff.
Sometimes we make or do something and we want a good book (or poem / song / audiobook) that continues the game, that captures some of the magic we've enjoyed. Sometimes it's the other way round and we read a great book which inspires us to get the glue and glitter out.
Either way, we've always got plenty of books around the house, boxes of "crafty stuff" and a desire to have fun**.
However, my memory is terrible So this blog is to celebrate and remind me of many of the things we get up to as a family, of the books we've read and loved and that you might just fall in love with too. You can read more about the story behind the blog in various interviews I've done, for example here, here and here.
We're a bilingual family (English-Dutch), based in the UK. We try to live making as little impact on the earth as possible (for example, we don't drive, all our electricity comes from renewable sources, we grow as much of our own food as we currently know how to).
There's also a wonderful husband and father in our crazy home who loves reading with M and J, and who is very good at clearing up glitter / flour / squashed food and being patient with the never ending creation of book piles.
Book suggestions are always very welcome. I try to post at least twice a week – on Mondays and Thursdays.
This blog has been running for more than 5 years now. There are some old links to an Amazon affiliate scheme I was part of, and if you click those a small amount of the purchase price eventually makes its way to me. However, I no longer link to Amazon, and I encourage you to use your public library or shop local wherever possible. You can find out about the nearest independent bookshops to you (in the UK) either through the Booksellers Association search tool, or through the HIVE network.
Away from the blog I'm involved in all sorts of book-ish fun. I sit on the National Executive of a kids' reading-for-pleasure charity, The Federation of Children's Book Groups, where I have special responsibility for non-fiction books for kids and young people. At any given time I'm involved in various voluntary local projects bring kids and books together – for example, story enrichment sessions at schools or running the 8-12 book club in the local public library. Until funding was recently cut I worked as an infant school librarian. In the past I've been a judge for a children's book award and I've organised a children's literature festival. I have dreams of opening a shop front into other worlds, inspired by The Ministry of Stories and 826 Valencia.
zoe dot toft at kuvik dot net is my email address and you can find my on Twitter @playbythebook – I'm always happy to hear from my readers!
**This means – and I'm glad to admit it – that strictly speaking we don't always play by the book…
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[…] Playing by the book is a favorite blog of mine to stop by and visit; if you don't know this blogger, do stop by to meet a "mum of two girls" residing in the UK. Mum has just announced her second International Postcard Swap for Families which somehow I missed last year. While I don't have children in my home, I am going to "borrow" some children to participate with me as it sounds like such fun. You agree to send 5 postcards internationally, you receive 5 cards. And the literacy connection besides "writing" the messages? You suggest a children's book you like for the ages of your recipients. The deadline for signing up is Tuesday, May 17. Check it out! Oh, I almost forgot…Mum has made it easy for you to extend this experience by posting a great list of books about sending and receiving mail and the processes involved. […]
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[…] Zoe Toft is a part-time infant school librarian and sits on the National Executive of the Federation of Children's Book Groups, a nationwide charity which focuses on children's reading for pleasure. Since 2009 she has been writing a blog about children's literature, interviewing authors and illustrators, reviewing books and sharing the games and activities those books have inspired her family to play. […]


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Interest in SVT Lips being made? JMS and Mach1
Currently, as many of you know, there is not a single lip on the market made specifically for the 2002-2004 SVT focus. I have been talking to Extreme Dimensions through PM's a lot lately, urging them to create a few, thus basically having a Monopoly on the SVT focus lip scene, since everyone would need to come to them to buy one, because as stated, no one else makes them!
I have ran a few ideas past Khurram and I would like to share with you what we are thinking. 1st- a Mach1 style made for the Svt focus, normal and Carbon fiber. Currently you must purchase this lip which belongs on a mustang, and cut the ends to make it fit. They would make one that bolts right up and would be BEAUTIFUL! http://i44.tinypic.com/jb1lbp.jpg http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5194/img5838copy.jpg 2nd a JMS style lip for the SVT and other 00-04 models. This lip makes me wet my pants. I think the lip is the best looking lip I've ever laid my eyes on. This lip was discontinued in 2006 and now can only be purchased through a single dealer in Europe with an overstock pile and that makes it EXPENSIVE. And is only around until his quantity is 0. The neat thing about this is that you can relocate your grill turn signals into the lip. AKA Get a euro grill, and then use Euro turn signals in the lip. Please support this lip! http://i39.tinypic.com/2ry5w5s.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/w1zkog.jpg Those are the 2 lips we have been discussing, but if there are other lips made for other foci that you WISH could be on an SVT, post it here! We have to let him know! The company is taking us seriously and all we need to say is YES WE ARE INTERESTED CRANK THIS STUFF OUT |
Cf Mach 1. Not a fan of that Jms
would you like it more if the Cutout in the center were not there? Because We have discussed getting rid of the cutout...
Neither the one in middle or the other indents. Smooth, maybe. But cf if so
I like the JMS...just my 2 pennies
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Mach 1 lip all the way!!!
^In CF
Any chance we can get a mach 1 style lip for other models as well?
I like my home depot lip, but its still just a home depot lip. |
My 2¢ is: could you include the facelifted ZX series years '05-'07, too? Please
if the Mach one lip is designed exactly how it is, just shorter on the ends to fit the focus, it should also fit the zx3. You can currently use the Mustang lip, and cut it to fit.
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Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
Genre: Rock
Now that San Francisco's gone*
I guess I'll just pack it in
Wanna wash away my sins
In the presence of my friends
You and I, we head back east
To find a town where we can live
Even in the half light
We can see that something's gotta give
When we watched the markets crash
The promises we made were torn
And my parents sent for me
From out west where I was born
Some people say
We've already lost
But they're afraid to pay the cost
For what we've lost
Pay the cost for what we've lost
Now that you have left me here
I will never raise my voice
All the diamonds you have here
In this home which has no life
Oh, this city's changed so much
Since I was a little child
Pray to God I won't live to see
The death of everything that's wild
Though we knew this day would come
Still it took us by surprise
In this town where I was born
I now see through a dead man's eyes
One day they will see it's long gone.
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Read what other Viator.com travelers think about the Yosemite National Park Day Trip from San Francisco. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
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Our day trip to Yosemite National Park was amazing, what a beautiful place. Our bus tour was great and the driver really helpful.
This tour was amazing!
Everything went great. The ride was smooth, the tour guide and bus driver (Kimberly and Scott) were very informative and friendly. Yosemite is absolutely perfect. You get around 3 hours of the park to yourself and you stop at three spots with your tour group. The day was perfect. Highly recommend this
Can highly recommend this tour when visiting San Francisco.
Don't be put off by the 2-3 hour drive each way as the Yosemite National Park is a sight to behold. Plenty of free time to do your own thing with a free shuttle bus running through the park every 8 minutes.
Our host Sue was very pleasant and our driver Angel very experienced in driving in busy traffic.
A must do, amazing place to visit.
It was a really fun trip
Thank you Kimberly and Bobby for an enjoyable trip. You both are the gold standard of service.
Great experience, nice lunch
Breathtaking. Words can't describe Yosemite. Great guide and a very enjoyable day.
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A terrific day. Our driver (Wolfgang) was informative and friendly. He was also a very good driver. Yosemite was spectacular. Worth doing.
Thank you Wolfgang! Awesome day, mind blowing location. True guide with passion and interest in ensuring safety and a good experience for all on board. A must do for those with small amounts of time to try and see as much as you can in one day.
We had a great time. Wolfgang made the trip interesting and informative. We got the lunch with our trip and it was well worth it at the Ahwanee Hotel. It was eat all you can brunch. The ambience and staff were superb. Since it was Memorial Day weekend, the park was crowded, but we opted to walk to the various sites instead of riding the tram. It was a nice day. So glad we took this day tour instead of driving ourselves.
Fantastic day made even more wonderful by the fantastic tour guide Kimberly Traylor.
A place not to be missed I recommend for everyone and make sure you ask for Kimberly.
All though this is a long day it's worth ever minute we travelled on Wednesday the 9th April. Our driver Bobby and guide (sorry I forgot your name) were great, they were friendly , professional ,made the whole day very enjoyable. The sites you see are fantastic, going in April the waterfalls still were falling there was snow on the tops , plus the sun was out. We had lunch in the hotel where the queen stayed ,the food was really good. Had we been staying in San Francisco a bit longer we would have opted for the two day trip
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Bike Share Programs Roll Along in New York, Chicago
Chicago's bike-for-rent made its test premiere during the annual "Bike the Drive" event on the Windy City's Lake Shore thoroughfare Sunday, and Wednesday opened the new service for membership sign-ups.
Chicago's Department of Transportation unveiled its bike share plans in April, tapping Portland, OR–based Alta Bicycle Share, which also runs New York and DC's bike-share programs, to roll out 400 stations and about 4,000 three-speed "Chicago Blue" bicycles across the city.
Photo of the Day: Janette Sadik-Khan Ready for the Citi Bike Launch
It's finally here! Well, in a few more excruciating days, New Yorkers will be able to hop on a bright blue City Bike and cruise through the city (or at least those 12,000 or so founding members, the rest of us will have to wait one more week). While some locals haven't taken to the alien bike docking stations popping up on city streets quite yet, it appears that the vast majority of the city is ready to roll. With the docking stations in place, crews are now distributing bikes. According to a tweet from the NYC DOT this afternoon, some 850 bikes have already been docked around the city, and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and a few of the bike share team took the opportunity to pose on some of the bikes today. The official opening day is May 27.
Seattle, San Francisco, Hoboken Reveal New Bike Share Details
With summer just around the corner, bicyclists are getting excited to try out the new bike-share systems being installed in many cities across the nation. After initial delays, New York City's bike-share program is set to open by the end of the month, and San Francisco, Seattle, and Hoboken have similar plans of their own on the horizon.
San Francisco: SPUR reports that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District signed a contract with Alta Bike Share to spin the wheels on a bike-sharing program for San Francisco. Alta Bike Share runs similar bike programs in Washington, D.C. and Boston and will be the operator of new programs in New York and Chicago this year. San Francisco plans a two-year pilot program consisting of 700 bikes in 70 locations that will launch this summer throughout the San Jose to San Francisco region. Last year the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition set a goal of 20 percent of trips in the city on bike by 2020 and now, after several delays, the plan will be the first regional program in the country.
Chicago To Roll Out Alta's Divvy Bike Share in June
Chicago's bike share program will kick off in June when the city debuts hundreds of light blue, three-speed bicycles that can be rented for an hourly fee or with a yearly $75 membership.
Managed by Portland, OR–based Alta Bicycle Share, which also runs New York and DC's bike share, Chicago's program goes by the name "Divvy." Alta was supposed to launch the $22 million program last summer, and has since become the subject of controversy. Chicago Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein was formerly a consultant for the company, and competitors have alleged foul play, which Alta and the city have flatly denied.
The first of Divvy's 75 solar-powered docking stations will be downtown and in River North. Within a year the city's plan is to roll out 400 stations and about 4,000 bicycles across the city.
Pittsburgh The Latest To Join the Bike Sharing Game
Pittsburgh is the latest in a long line of cities preparing to launch a bike share system. According to the Bike PGH blog, Mayor Ravenstahl announced the 500-bike, 50-station program earlier this month. Similar to systems in other cities, bikes will be available for short-term rides for a small fee. Portland, OR-based Alta Planning and Design will partner with the city to launch the system, the same company involved with New York, Washington DC, and other major bike share systems. More information will be available at two community meetings scheduled for April 2nd and 3rd. The city hopes to roll out the new bikes in 2014.
Not Biking Up A Storm: New York's Citi Bike Program Delayed Again
New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) confirmed today what many had feared: flooding damage from Hurricane Sandy has indeed delayed New York's beleaguered Citi Bike bike share system. As AN noted last month, electrical components of the Citibike docking stations were damaged while in storage in the Brooklyn Navy Yard along the East River. The initial rollout, now scheduled for May 2013, will include at least 5,500 bikes and 293 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, later expanding to 7,000 bikes by the end of 2013. The final goal is to have 10,000 bikes and 600 stations across the city.
Pedal On, Columbus: Bike Share Contract Approved
Bicyclists, add Columbus to the list: the capital of Ohio approved a $2.3 million contract with Alta Bicycle Share on Monday. Starting in May, users will be able to pay $5 per day via credit card to roam the greater downtown area on a three-speed bicycle. Yearly memberships will be about $65, which will include unlimited 30-minute rides for the year, but they will have to pay more for longer rides.
Columbus is the first city in Ohio with such a program, but there has been talk in Cleveland and Cincinnati.
Hurricane Sandy Deals Another Blow to New York's Bike Share Ambitions
After the sad news back in August that New York City's already-delayed bike share system—Citibike—would be delayed until the spring of 2013, we'd almost forgotten about the thousands of bright blue bikes that have been in storage at the Brooklyn Navy Yard while computer glitches are worked out. The apparently-cursed bike share system is back in the news, however, as the New York Times reports that some of the equipment was damaged during Hurricane Sandy when the East River inundated waterfront Brooklyn.
Floodwaters up to six feet deep apparently damaged program equipment including the docking stations, but the NYC Department of Transportation would not comment on the extent of the damage or whether it would cause further delays in launching the system. DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan told the Times, "We're working on it." Some believe the electronic design of the docking stations could make them especially vulnerable to flooding.
Bloomberg: Bike Share Delayed Until Spring 2013, Duh
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning on his morning radio show that New York City's forthcoming CitiBike bike-share program—already mired with delays caused by software problems—would be further delayed until at least next spring, confirming rumors that the system's bugs weren't being worked out quickly enough. On his radio show, the mayor delivered the bad news, "The software doesn't work, duh." He maintained that, "we are not going to put out the system until it works." The highly anticipated program is set to become the largest is North America when it opens and was a signature piece of the mayor's bike infrastructure plan for the city.
Could Computer Problems Delay New York Bike Share Again?
If everything had gone according to plan, New York's highly anticipated bike-sharing system called Citi Bike would be in full swing. Unfortunately, earlier this month the city announced that a computer software glitch had pushed the opening back until August. While we can handle waiting one more month, rumors that the planned 10,000 bright blue Citi Bikes might not hit the street until next year had us alarmed.
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