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Author:  Plissken [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:05 ]
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Captain Caveman wrote:
Oh, totally. Current American cars are unquestionably rubbish, without one single exception that I can think of? (I suppose the latest Corvette could be considered as an exception, at least at US prices, but would you actually, like, buy one? With real money that could've bought you something nicely built and German?)


A Corvette ZR-1. But only after I'd had the 911 Turbo, the M5, the R32, the Monaro and that new Lotus.

The Ford Explorer I drove around Hawaii was nice and ate up the miles but far too big for UK roads. The Mustang convertible was all style and no substance. An auto box more indecisive than Gordon Brown, allied to an accelerator pedal that was connected to the throttle by jelly.
Author:  sdg [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:06 ]
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I just tried to start playing Xbox but had stupidly fallen asleep earlier without downloading the update for Burnout Paradise so now I have to do that and it has only done 6% so far but no one is online anyway and I don't know if I should try and have some dinner just now whilst I have the chance or if I should just drink through it cos tonight is the night I have a drink to the news I got on Wednesday and so might just get steamin' right now....*gasps for air* :metul:
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:07 ]
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kalmar wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
I want my weekend now!


...IT'S THE OFFICIAL START OF THE WEEKEND.
Author:  Cavey [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:13 ]
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... Snatch meets Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKiQfBs9lo

:D

(Sorry if it's all been done before etc. Made me laugh anyway)
Author:  Cavey [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:14 ]
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Plissken wrote:
A Corvette ZR-1. But only after I'd had the 911 Turbo, the M5, the R32, the Monaro and that new Lotus.

The Ford Explorer I drove around Hawaii was nice and ate up the miles but far too big for UK roads. The Mustang convertible was all style and no substance. An auto box more indecisive than Gordon Brown, allied to an accelerator pedal that was connected to the throttle by jelly.


Yeah, the 'Vette was the only thing I could think of. I suppose a 300C ain't that bad, if you don't mind looking like Sir Alan Sugar on a budget. With no taste.
Author:  kalmar [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:26 ]
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superdupergill wrote:
I just tried to start playing Xbox but had stupidly fallen asleep earlier without downloading the update for Burnout Paradise so now I have to do that and it has only done 6% so far but no one is online anyway and I don't know if I should try and have some dinner just now whilst I have the chance or if I should just drink through it cos tonight is the night I have a drink to the news I got on Wednesday and so might just get steamin' right now....*gasps for air* :metul:


I'll drink to that!

Sips pink cava*.


*No, really. Sorry.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:45 ]
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Kalmar, you're so not Scotch.
Author:  sdg [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 19:49 ]
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Hehe, I hope I meet ye some day ye big hippy.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 21:37 ]
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Oh for goodness' sake. Mrs C is watching "He's Just Not That Into You". Any minute now Mali's going to join us.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 22:21 ]
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HEH

Quote:
Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.

The new firm is to be called Nigaz
Author:  metalangel [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 23:16 ]
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I just watched an incredibly chilling Star Trek:TNG on Virgin One that I hadn't seen before, "Parallels".

It starts as the usual 'temporal rift causes everything to go funny and only one character realizes it', in this case, Worf. Things got more interesting when things go funny yet again and now Worf is MARRIED to Troi. And Riker is captain, as Picard hadn't survived the Locutus treatment.

"But you said chilling!"

I did. And one bit was.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Eventually they work out that Worf's shuttle passed through some kind of quantum singularity thing and now the old theory that every decision we make, a version of it is played out in another dimension, comes into play. The rift thing is causing hundreds of other Enterprises from these other dimensions to appear, and they need to send Worf back to the one he's originally from. So off he goes, on a shuttlecraft, to the 'correct' Enterprise.

And then. I'd better let Memory Alpha tell you.

Quote:
Worf sets away, but the shuttle is attacked by one of the Enterprises. Captain Riker hails it and he comes face to face with an alternate version of himself.

This counterpart Riker has a long beard, is disheveled and tired, panicking on the totaled bridge of his Enterprise. The transmission is filled with static. He begs not to be sent back to his own universe, where the Federation is gone, the Borg are everywhere and the Enterprise is one of the only remaining ships. However Captain Riker says that there is no option and if the plan works, all ships will automatically return. Desperate, the counterpart Riker declares they won't go back. He cuts the channel, then he fires on the shuttle. Captain Riker grimly orders Wesley to disable the Enterprise. Wesley fires a single photon torpedo, collapsing the ship's weakened shields and engine core, which destroys it completely.

Image
(A desperate Captain Riker doesn't want to go back to his Borg-ravaged universe)


And here's the script:

Code:
57   INT. BRIDGE (OPTICAL)

   Riker, Data, Wesley, Troi at positions. Red Alert.

               WESLEY
         Captain -- the shuttle is under
         attack!

               RIKER
         The Bajorans again?

               WESLEY
         No sir -- it's one of the
         Enterprises.
            (beat)
         They're hailing us.

               RIKER
         On screen.

   On the Viewscreen, we see another CAPTAIN RIKER
   standing on the Bridge of another Enterprise. He looks
   haggard, terrified about something. Worf can be seen
   behind him -- he also looks urgent. The ship is DARK,
   smokey, lit only by emergency lighting. A panel
   explodes in the b.g.

          STAR TREK: "Parallels" - REV. 10/08/93 - ACT FIVE         61.

57   CONTINUED:

               RIKER ON VIEWSCREEN
            (urgent)
         We won't go back! You don't know
         what it's like in our universe.
         The Federation is gone -- the Borg
         are everywhere! We're one of the
         last ships left! Please, you've
         got to help us!

   A difficult moment.

               RIKER
         I'm sorry. There's no choice. If
         this works, everything will return
         to --

               RIKER ON VIEWSCREEN
         No! We won't go!

   The transmission ENDS.

               WESLEY
         They're firing on the shuttle!

               RIKER
         Open fire! Try to disable them!

   Wesley works...

58   EXT. SPACE - THE TWO ENTERPRISES (OPTICAL)

   One of the ships FIRES TORPEDOES on the other.

59   INT. BRIDGE (OPTICAL)

   As before.

               WESLEY
            (off console)
         Direct hit... their shields have
         collapsed... their engine core's
         overloading --

   On the Viewscreen, the other Enterprise EXPLODES in a
   blast of fiery debris -- completely destroyed.

               RIKER
         What happened?


               WESLEY
            (off console)
         It looks like their ship had
         already taken heavy damage --
         their warp containment field must
         have been weak.

               RIKER
         Probably from fighting the Borg...


Fucking. Hell. Both our minds were set to racing by this little 30 second sequence, and the ending of the episode was almost ignored - we were both babbling about the poor bastards from the universe where the Borg had won, how they'd had to hide in their tatty ship knowing that all hope was lost, and now their once chance at rescue had just blow them to bits.

The more I think about it, a ragged Enterprise and desperate crew fleeing across the Galaxy just prolonging the inevitable. Crumbs.


Yes.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Jul 03, 2009 23:36 ]
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Heh. The Kingdom.

Abu Hamza did it.
Author:  Dimrill [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:17 ]
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8) 8) 8)
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Author:  Wullie [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:37 ]
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kalmar wrote:
I'll drink to that!
That caused almost as much* hilarity as the island.

*No where near as much.
Author:  Dimrill [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 15:09 ]
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Good news Owen! Two Worlds 2

Gonks wrote:
TopWare (now owned by Zuxxez) has announced a sequel to Oblivion-alike RPG Two Worlds.

Memorably dubbed Two Worlds II, the game will appear on Mac, "next-gen consoles" and PC this winter.

The sequel has been in development for two years and makes "quantum leaps" in all areas, boasts the press release. AI has been overhauled, authors ditched and a brand-new combat engine employed. Not in place of the authors, obviously.

It will be an "unforgettable experience where excitement, sheer enjoyment and graphics rule"
Author:  The Rev Owen [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 15:21 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Good news Owen! Two Worlds 2


I saw that yesterday and I've been trying to block it out.
Author:  devilman [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 15:25 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Good news Owen! Two Worlds 2

Gonks wrote:
It will be an "unforgettable experience where excitement, sheer enjoyment and graphics rule"


That doesn't sound like a sequel to me.
Author:  Bear or Bust [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 18:43 ]
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Arcade Font machine
With added Ghouls 'n' Ghosts.
Image
Author:  DBSnappa [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 19:07 ]
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Grim... wrote:
myp wrote:
I didn't mountain bikes came with horns as standard.

Sorry?

I think he meant goats
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 19:09 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
myp wrote:
I didn't mountain bikes came with horns as standard. I doubt he would've heard Malabar's bell.
There you go not thinking again.
This was brilliant, by the way.
Author:  DBSnappa [ Sat Jul 04, 2009 19:10 ]
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MaliA wrote:
I've got a twitching muscle just about the bride of my nose.

Surreal poetry, right?
Author:  Picston_Shottle [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:01 ]
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Korean internets. 1000kbs downloading stuff using Vuze (wasn't games or music if any of you people are thinking I am a terrible, terrible pirate - it was TV stuff and that is justifiable seeing as I have already paid my TV license but iPlayer is not available in Korea. OK? Good.).

Can you get downloads that fast in the UK? I have never seen it, but then I have only got a 2mb line...
Author:  myp [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:03 ]
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I'm assuming you mean kB not kb, as otherwise it wouldn't be something to be proud of. ;)
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:09 ]
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That's about 8Mb, isn't it?
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:13 ]
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This weekend was the first time in almost a year that I'd been on a bike. We went for a ride around Howden Reservoir in Derwent Valley. It's a 20km course, my saddle was set too low, I didn't bring an Allen key to fix it and it was fucking hard work. Great fun though. Would do again.
Author:  Malabelm [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:28 ]
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Picston_Shottle wrote:
Korean internets. 1000kbs downloading stuff using Vuze (wasn't games or music if any of you people are thinking I am a terrible, terrible pirate - it was TV stuff and that is justifiable seeing as I have already paid my TV license but iPlayer is not available in Korea. OK? Good.).

Can you get downloads that fast in the UK? I have never seen it, but then I have only got a 2mb line...


I can get about 1500KB/s if the servers I'm downloading from are ace, or I have a lot of good connections on torrents. I think I'm on a 20Mb line, though, and 1500KB/s is exactly 12Mb.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:40 ]
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Following on from last weeks discussion about my new solid state camera:

Official Sony SxS memory card (8 gb) - £295
Bespoke express card adaptor + 16 gb super fast SDHC card - £87

Now granted the adaptor solution still isn't as fast as the official Sony card (and therefore can't do some of the high framerate stuff) but even so, methinks Mr Sony is sticking on some substantial markup on there.

How many rewrites are a SDHC good for? Keeping in mind the card will be totally reformatted after each use?
Author:  Cras [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:42 ]
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The vending machine in the tea area has alternating packs of cheese & onion and ready salted hula hoops. That means there's a 50/50 chance of having to buy two packs to get the flavour you want. Why would they do that?!
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:42 ]
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Craster wrote:
The vending machine in the tea area has alternating packs of cheese & onion and ready salted hula hoops. That means there's a 50/50 chance of having to buy two packs to get the flavour you want. Why would they do that?!


TO MOCK YOU!
Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:43 ]
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chinnyhill10 wrote:
Craster wrote:
The vending machine in the tea area has alternating packs of cheese & onion and ready salted hula hoops. That means there's a 50/50 chance of having to buy two packs to get the flavour you want. Why would they do that?!


TO MOCK YOU!

:this:
Author:  myp [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:52 ]
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My boss told me today that he couldn't remember what AIDS stood for in his pub quiz last week, so put down Arse-Injected Death Sentence.

I've only just stopped laughing.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:56 ]
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chinnyhill10 wrote:
How many rewrites are a SDHC good for? Keeping in mind the card will be totally reformatted after each use?
Varies from card to card, but it'll be broadly similar to the official Sony card. Formats won't matter, all flash cards have wear-levelling chips that mean that you write data all over the card even when your device or OS thinks it's writing to the same few sectors all the time.
Author:  Kern [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:01 ]
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Just heard that in our 'shiny new office' the only fire exit is the main staircase. If that's blocked, we're supposed to stay up on the second floor: the doors will hold for thirty minutes. I think I'll take a rope in tomorrow and store it under my desk, else become a participant in a dire rescue movie.
Author:  Cras [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:03 ]
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Is it in Camberwell?
Author:  kalmar [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:05 ]
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Kern wrote:
Just heard that in our 'shiny new office' the only fire exit is the main staircase. If that's blocked, we're supposed to stay up on the second floor: the doors will hold for thirty minutes. I think I'll take a rope in tomorrow and store it under my desk, else become a participant in a dire rescue movie.


Can't you just slide down the pole like everyone else?
Author:  JBR [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:05 ]
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Come do the Steelman triathlon relay, said three blokes at my running club. Be a right laugh - we're going to see if we can beat Dominic, who's doing the whole thing. Yeah, alright, and three of us threw together a team. Only went and came second overall, didn't we - beating the other team from the club into third?! I am a little bit chuffed with myself and my teammates.
Author:  Cras [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:13 ]
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Good work, man!
Author:  Kern [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:14 ]
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JBR wrote:
I am a little bit chuffed with myself and my teammates.



Congratulations. What did you win (other than pride and bragging rights)?
Author:  Malabelm [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:15 ]
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Nice one, JBR! :)
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:17 ]
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Kern wrote:
Just heard that in our 'shiny new office' the only fire exit is the main staircase. If that's blocked, we're supposed to stay up on the second floor: the doors will hold for thirty minutes. I think I'll take a rope in tomorrow and store it under my desk, else become a participant in a dire rescue movie.


Well, the government DO want to cut down on public sector spending....
Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:17 ]
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JBR wrote:
Come do the Steelman triathlon relay, said three blokes at my running club. Be a right laugh - we're going to see if we can beat Dominic, who's doing the whole thing. Yeah, alright, and three of us threw together a team. Only went and came second overall, didn't we - beating the other team from the club into third?! I am a little bit chuffed with myself and my teammates.


Excellent work, sir!

Why didn't you come first?
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:18 ]
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JBR wrote:
Come do the Steelman triathlon relay, said three blokes at my running club. Be a right laugh - we're going to see if we can beat Dominic, who's doing the whole thing. Yeah, alright, and three of us threw together a team. Only went and came second overall, didn't we - beating the other team from the club into third?! I am a little bit chuffed with myself and my teammates.


Very well done that man.
Author:  kalmar [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:18 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Well, the government DO want to cut down on public sector spending....


Do you notice your HR people ever referring to 'expendable overheads' in a sinister fashion?
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:19 ]
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kalmar wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Well, the government DO want to cut down on public sector spending....


Do you notice your HR people ever referring to 'expendable overheads' in a sinister fashion?


And is the smoking area beneath the heating tanks?
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:36 ]
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MaliA's top tip:

If you have a BBQ, and forget to put the grease catching cup underneath and fat ends up on the patio, hosing it down after it has melted due to the sun does not remove it. instead, it leaves a fine film over the slab, so, after a bit of rain, it's slippery as fuck.

This post brought to you with a bruised head. Off to get some biological washing powder now.
Author:  Malabelm [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:38 ]
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MaliA wrote:
If you have a BBQ, and forget to put the grease catching cup underneath and fat ends up on the patio, hosing it down after it has melted due to the sun does not remove it. instead, it leaves a fine film over the slab, so, after a bit of rain, it's slippery as fuck.


Hah, yeah, water isn't very good at getting rid of oils ;)
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:43 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
chinnyhill10 wrote:
How many rewrites are a SDHC good for? Keeping in mind the card will be totally reformatted after each use?
Varies from card to card, but it'll be broadly similar to the official Sony card. Formats won't matter, all flash cards have wear-levelling chips that mean that you write data all over the card even when your device or OS thinks it's writing to the same few sectors all the time.


Hopefully I'll get on OK with the card readers and high quality SDHC cards. Lots of other EX1 users have been using them including my mate even though Sony don't support the combo (well they wouldn't would they?).

Some people have had trouble with cheaper cards though so the advice is to use Transcend or Sandisk top end cards only. They've basically got to be capable of sustaining 35 meg with no dropping below. The special shooting modes (for slow mo) can go as high as 70 meg so obviously nobody has yet found a card that can sustain that other than the official Sony.

You also have to use the right sort of card reader. I've got one of the bespoke Aussie ones, and there is a Kingston one coming with the camera.

That'll give me 2x16 gig and 1x8 gig (that's the official Sony one). I'll need more but I want to play first. 16 gig is good for 50 minutes at full HD.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:46 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
MaliA wrote:
If you have a BBQ, and forget to put the grease catching cup underneath and fat ends up on the patio, hosing it down after it has melted due to the sun does not remove it. instead, it leaves a fine film over the slab, so, after a bit of rain, it's slippery as fuck.


Hah, yeah, water isn't very good at getting rid of oils ;)


So, I add the biological washing liquid to the offending slab and step indoors, jsut as the heavens open, and it all gets washed away.

God really, really does hate me.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 13:26 ]
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MaliA wrote:
God really, really does hate me.


Don't worry, we love you (subs please check).
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 13:31 ]
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chinnyhill10 wrote:
MaliA wrote:
God really, really does hate me.


Don't worry, we love you (subs please check).


I don't mind. I've just realised that I've worked out the volume of my bathroom as I know the throughput of the new extractor fan, so I can set the timer to the minimum needed to change the air twice, and I'm considering getting a distress flare to test this. I really, really need to get out more.
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