WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR NOVEMBER 2018
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We had a gas explosion in our neighborhood when growing up. The couple were asleep and blown free of their home. They were sleeping on the ground floor so they were okay!2
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hi Barbiecat. came looking for you. and I think i found you Miss seeing you Around0
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Celebrating DH's birthday today. DGD baked him some cookies and we are going out for dinner this evening.
Take care, Sue in WA3 -
Did a body attack DVD today. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Weight Loss Pilates DVD
Barbara – you know it – only Hellmans/Best Foods mayo. Down here they have this Dukes brand. To me, it’s Hellmans or nothing. I know that on the West Coast it’s called Best Foods. Same great flavor, tho. Poor Shadow is really torn. She so badly wants to explore…but then she has to deal with the other cats. But there’s nothing I can do about that.
Lisa – I hope you only go to ElPaso if they pay for you to fly there. The CEO wants you there, so he/she should be willing to do at least that much.
Lanette – that is so cute how your tree is “up”. Would your cat climb the tree? None of our cats have ever climbed the tree. Now, Denise’s cat one time did, but that’s all.
Don’t know what it was, but last night I couldn’t go to sleep. I finally went in the bedroom with Shadow. I must have fallen asleep because I didn’t hear her feeder go off.
Lissa in Oregon – What a neat spelling! welcome!
Margaret – how very scary. Something like that happened to me when I was little. Not my house, mind you, but a house near us. It’s terrible when you find out what the “boom” was.
Willow – our Christmas Eve tradition is that the dinner is all fish, no meat. We’ll be making the pierogi tonight. It looks like I may have to give up that tradition.
Made a chuck roast in the crockpot to have later in the week. Just made the pierogi and only one broke this year. Well, that’s better than last year when none broke!
Sue in WA – happy birthday to your dh.
Michele in NC
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trucker743 wrote: »
Great going! I have fibromyalgia too. A solid night’s sleep is SUPER important to avoid that, but I think I got more than my share yesterday and last night. Sheesh!PressingPatience…But I did exercise... first time in years. One of the DVDs I bought the other day.
Sharon near Seattle
My psych meds help me sleep... most of the time. Plus... and y'all might think this is strange, but I read about it when looking for a "cure" for restless leg syndrome, but I put a bar of Ivory soap under the sheets of my bed and it really helps with the pain at night. I didn't think it would work. But I figured what did I have to lose if it didn't, right? Like I wasn't wasting the soap by sticking it under the sheet. You know? But it did. Someone did a study about it a while back and their conclusion was that it either consistently works for someone, or it doesn't work at all. It worked for me, and I'm glad it did. Anyway, that helps me sleep too. No more RLS and no more leg cramps -- and I've been doing it for years. It seems to help with the all over pain too. So sleep is one area where I'm okay, unless something hurts inside (gut problems or heartburn -- the soap doesn't help with that unfortunately). Or migraines. It won't help with those either. >_< Still, every little bit, right? ^_^
Willow in WA USA3 -
trucker743 wrote: »I got my hair cut today!
Last time was maybe May 2017.
M in Oz
I have had trouble dealing w mine below my shoulder blades, but then, I wore it quite short until 2015. It grows really fast. What do you do with yours at night? Mine itches if it gets on my shoulders.
Sharon near Seattle
Do you have someone you go to in Issaquah? I haven't really found anyone here in North Bend. Then again, the last time I got tired of my long hair, I chopped it off myself.
It's getting long again, and that's a pain because it's so thin that it tangles all of the time, esp in the winter. >_<
Willow in WA USA0 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Hi Gals,
Machka – I read part of the “hack” on combining holidays and vacation time to get a longer time away, and got as far as the – and only use 17 days- and burst out laughing, at my last job you got 5 days a year could not be accumulated nor taken in conjunction with a holiday or sick time. The US is not as generous as anywhere else – and at that job we only got 6 holidays New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Standard annual leave here is 20 days (4 weeks). Then we get 12 (I think) stat holidays. Plus many places have RDOs or Purchased Leave options which add another 10-12 days (mine is 10 days in my current job).
Plus weekends, of course.
So if we're strategic about it, we can get a couple months off each year.
This coming Christmas, I'm "forced" to take December 25 to January 1 (inclusive) off. Dec 24 is a voluntary holiday, so I'm not sure if I'll take it or not yet. I suspect about 80% of my work colleagues will take it off, so I might join the masses and take it off too. So that'll give me 11 days of leave, and I'll only use 4 days of annual leave.
Then I'll have to decide if we'll go somewhere. That's the challenging part. It depends. It depends on what's going on with my health and with my husband's ability to travel ... and with the fact that, since it's summer and all the kids are off school, it's a busy travel time.
Nevertheless, it'll be very nice to have time off.
M in Oz
Kim & Machka I read this with amused longing as well...I've been working for the same company for nearly 30 years. I have finally worked my way up to 15 days of paid annual leave. PAL time can't be taken in conjunction with holidays.
Karen in Virginia
Both you and Kim mentioned that. Why can annual leave be taken in conjunction with holidays? That seems really odd ... what difference does it make if a person takes annual leave in conjunction with a regular weekend vs a long weekend?
Here, and in the places I've worked in Canada, it's expected that people will take annual leave in conjunction with holidays. Occasionally it has been a little bit of a fight to get there first because the place might need some staff on ... so the first half of the staff that book the leave will get it, or something like that. But I didn't miss out very often because I usually went for the holidays that were outside "school holiday" time.
Where I am now, I think that as long as there's one person in our "immediate" department of about 30 people who turns up, the rest of us can take it off. I'm thinking of this coming Christmas eve, for example. Most people will likely take that day off, but chances are there will be at least one person who will work it because that person is banking time for a different holiday.
All that said, our purchased leave is supposed to be used up within a year, so I'm expecting HR to get all excited and start sending me emails soon. I've got about 4 or 5 days of it I will need to use very soon.
Machka in Oz
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trucker743 wrote: »I got my hair cut today!
Last time was maybe May 2017.
M in Oz
I have had trouble dealing w mine below my shoulder blades, but then, I wore it quite short until 2015. It grows really fast. What do you do with yours at night? Mine itches if it gets on my shoulders.
Sharon near Seattle
I put it above my head at night. There's enough of it that I can just pile it on the bed above my head.
M in Oz2 -
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New member here, just started today, 51 yo wife and mom, 200 pounds, 5 feet tall. Working on a Lifetime Wellness college class, where a friend recommended me to join MFP. I do not add sugar nor salt to anything, but fruit has lots of sugar to begin with. Gave up pop, and asperatame this month. Started walking 30 minutes per day at slow pace, and 1 pound weights for 30 minutes weight lifting. My goal is 140 pounds. Thanksgiving was nice, didn't overeat.8
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Sunday -- a fitness organisation here advertised a run in a local reserve (natural area, where building is not allowed, but which often has trails for people to walk or mtn bike). What caught my eye was that it advertised running distances of 5K and 10K. The 10K distance fit in my plans, and so I signed up. I also signed my husband up when I found out that it would OK for him to walk the 5K.
So today, that's what we did! I ran a 10K trail run! I've run 10K on pavement, but not on a trail ... it's a bit harder on a trail. The route was two 5K out-and-backs, so I got to pass my husband 3 times. The first 5K was faster than the second ... my legs were feeling it toward the end.
As it has been for almost a week now, it was cool, drizzly, misty and slightly foggy. But that was OK.
Distance: 10.01km
Elevation: 164m
Moving Time: 1:21:19
Elapsed Time: 1:22:20
Pace: 8:07/km
Machka in Oz7 -
Joe was unusually complimentary on TD dinner, he's really making an effort to choose to be pleasant and positive. Thank Goodness. He even put leftovers in the fridge while I finished my plate. As the eldest of 5, he eats with lightning speed, finishing 2 plates and clearing the table as this slow-eater-tiny-bite-taker lingered over her one plate. Dishes washed, stovetop scrubbed, carcass in pot, simmered overnight, picked meat for dog treats and strained for stock? broth? What's the diff? Yesterday restful except for the vacuum RIP. Today Joe's going to take us to the beach (not a perfectly stormy day, Lanette, but easier with the dogs. . . ;> ), then it's the board meeting at 1 and line dancing tonight at the grange.
Lisa wish I had your way with words of appreciation, encouragement and validation to give right back to you. I'm in awe of your resourcefulness (preparing a list of corporate sponsors for the interview, WOW!) your compassion (for all of us here) and your grit (soldiering on through knee pain while rehabbing the house you're living in). How can you keep from singing the first two lines of "Some of these days..." to that interim CEO? :devil:
Lanette "...up!" Hahahahahahahahaha! BUT when kitty decides stretching doesn't work, beware the flying tiger!
Barbie your layers sound like the younger brother's in "A Christmas Story". Please take care not to fall
Beth Ditto your Black Friday sentiments. Mama used to drive me around to see the Christmas lights, and its something I enjoy by myself wherever I am. This year think I'll do it after going to the Holiday Lights show in Azalea Park... then stop at O'Hollerans for a new-last-year-traditional adult hot cocoa. :devil:
Karen in VA How valued you are by the CEO! Despite your company's need to keep paid leave policy on a par with competition. US vacation policy stinks, and seems to get stingier each year
Sharon
Michele does what happens to your pierogi that break the same as what happens to my cookies that break? :devil:
Machka the idea of staffing a department with only one of thirty employees has me SMH. Before I retired, the company's management wouldn't allow more than one of ten out per department, and reserved the right to cancel ALL leave at "need," holidays, booked travel notwithstanding. What is "purchased leave"? Awesome trail run for you both. Well done!
Welcome Lissa in Oregon and Marycilec!
Pooped out on the line dancing, was just too cold and tired from the meeting. Went to bed early instead, so now here I am...
#24: Challenge... hmm... better fess up, the hardest challenge I've ever had to face is.... me. My default attitude is irascible, impatient, dare we say snarky? Menopause was the "decade of anger", after which I began making a conscious effort to mellow, let things be, choose my battles and fewer of them. I still struggle with impatience and bossiness (witness yesterday's board meeting). I'm embarrassed to admit this in the face of the real challenges others here face, especially those caring for loved ones, but there it is. It's all about me
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
walk one more step 17/24, 60 g protein 19/24, rx/vits 18/24, meditate 19/24, knee exercises 20/24, SWSY UP 4/8, SWSY LOW 3/8, core 4/8, play with Tumble 10/24, hang up or purge art 0/4 AF 17/24.
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My sister-in-law posted this and I thought it was good ...
Nov 1 - smell. My roses.
Nov 2 - technology. Social media and staying connected with family and friends.
Nov 3 - colour. Blue. The blue of the mouth of the river/bay/start of the ocean out my window. The blue of the sky. My new blue sleeping top that was nice and comfy last night.
Nov 4 - food ... cheese. I ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches when my husband was in hospital. They were my comfort food. Also cheese has calcium which I think I need. Unfortunately, cheese does tend to be a bit high in calories so I shouldn't eat too much of it. But anything cheese-y is comforting.
Nov 5 - sound. I like listening to the waves and the birds, but I think the sound I'm most grateful for today is my husband's voice. Just the fact that we can talk to each other again.
Nov 6 - "What in nature are you grateful for?" ... That's hard to narrow down to one thing. Oxford dictionary describes nature as "the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth". I am grateful for all of it. I find that getting out into any sort of nature helps to relieve stress.
Nov 7 - "What memory are you grateful for?" ... Another one with so many choices!!! Recently, I've been grateful for two memories. 1) June 2017 ... my husband and I had a wonderful visit to Canada and did several things to make great memories ... hiking, cycling, visiting my family. I clung onto those memories during the months he was in hospital. 2) When I was 9 years old, my family moved away from where my grandmother lived. One of of the last days there, my grandmother took me to her window and showed me a full moon outside. She told me that on every full moon, we could both look at it and know that even though we were far apart, we were both looking at the same moon. That's a memory which has stuck with me all these years, and every time I see a full moon, I think of my grandmother. She's 97 years old ... but not doing so well ... so I've been thinking of her a lot. And I've also been very glad that my husband and I were able to see her when we visited Canada in June 2017.
Nov 8 - "What book are you most grateful for?" That's easy ... The Bible.
I've enjoyed reading all your memories.
Love the discussion about books!
Nov 9 - "What place are you most grateful for?" This is not an easy one for me because I don't have the sense of "home" that many people have. I've moved too much for that.
So ... I've had to give this one some thought. What place?
Well ...
I'm grateful for our current house. It's comfortable enough. It's not very big so it's fairly easy to manage. And it has a great garden which my husband has been able to work in since returning home from his accident. It is also close to a couple beaches, which is nice.
Nov 10 - Taste! Hmmm ... salt. In the "Do you crave sweet or salty" discussion, I fall on the "salty" side.
As it happens, I have a diminished sense of taste and smell for whatever reason, so I divide foods into the basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour or bitter, and from there it's harder to distinguish precise flavours. Although, I do seem to have some odd tastes like, for example, meat and tomato taste metallic to me, and I don't like that. If I salt them well, the metallic taste goes away and they taste salty, which is OK.
Then, one of the side effects of my husband's accident is that he has lost most of his sense of taste and smell. He has regained a little bit, and they say it should return very gradually. But he'll comment that dinner has no flavour, and I'll think, "It just tastes salty to me. Is there supposed to be more flavour than that?"
Nov 11 - What holiday are you grateful for? Christmas!!!
I've always loved Christmas. I even picked up 3 Christmas CDs yesterday. I like having a decent amount of time off ... not just one day ... so I can get things done. I like all the decorations. I like the music. I like the services and celebrations.
Nov 12 - Texture. Smooth. Very, very smooth. Clothing with no texture. Textured clothing is unwearable. Smooth clothing is good.
Nov 13 - Abilities. Right now, it would have to be organisation. While I feel like I'm in the midst of a chaotic whirlwind (and have been for the past 8 months) and I don't feel very organised, surprisingly enough, stuff is getting done.
Maybe I should include things like endurance and tenacity ... "skills" I've honed from my long distance cycling carrying over to "real life".
Nov 14 - Sight. What sight am I grateful for? The ever-changing view out the window of our house looking over the bay and the surrounding hills. Right now it's all grey and misty but it still looks good.
Nov 15 - Season. The season I am most grateful for is summer. I love summer. I'd love it if the year were divided so that there was 1 month of winter, 1 month of spring, 2 months of autumn, and 8 months of real summer weather. We're coming into summer here and I appreciate each and every summer-like day.
Nov 16 - What about your body are you grateful for?
Sometimes I think ... "less and less" these days because I'm literally falling apart.
But ... I'm grateful for my legs which are one of my main methods of transportation.
Nov 17 - What knowledge are you grateful for? -- The tacit knowledge of cycling. Being able to ride a bicycle. It has taken me all over the world. It's how my husband and I met. It is stress relief. And it is part of my husband's healing process.
https://www.brainline.org/blog/getting-back-bike/what-brain-derived-neurotrophic-factor-and-why-you-should-care
Nov 18 - What piece of art are you grateful for?
That's a difficult one. I've taken an Art History course, and enjoyed it very much. And I like going to galleries. But I haven't really felt a connection to any particular pieces.
However, the one that is probably my favourite piece is:
Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamism_of_a_Cyclist
Nov 19 - What touch are you grateful for?
My husband's hugs!! This was something I missed so much when he was in hospital!!
Nov 20 - Who in your life are you grateful for?
The obvious choice would be my husband, and I am grateful to have him in my life still. However, I have been very grateful for my parents who have been so supportive through the challenges this year.
Nov 21 - What song are you most grateful for?
My taste in music changes with my moods but I've been listening to this one a lot this year ...
Jesus Loves Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osWLvRlniNo
Nov 22 - What story are you most grateful for?
The Christmas Story.
I have some of it memorised, and have done since I was about 6 years old. But I can hear it over and over.
Nov 23 - Tradition.
I had to think about this a bit because I don't think of myself as a person with many traditions, partly because I don't have children to pass them on to. But I do have a few around Christmas which I've inherited from my parents:
Decorations on or very close to December 1.
Open Presents on Christmas Eve.
Read the Christmas Story, mentioned above.
Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day.
Listening to Handel's Messiah.
Watching Scrooge with Alistair Sims.
I'm grateful for all of my Christmas traditions ... they make December a special month.
Nov 24 - What challenge am I grateful for?
Ha! I've had a lot of challenges to choose from so I had to think about this one today.
I decided on this ...
The challenge I am grateful for is my education. I'm a perpetual student. I've attended courses of some sort just about every year since I was about 5 years old. I'm grateful that I've been able to do that. It has been challenging ... sometimes more than other times. And although I've not actually gone directly into the fields in which I've been educated, it has all contributed to get me where I am now.
And it keeps me thinking and learning.
Nov 25 - What moment this week are you grateful for?
Finishing my 10K run. I slogged my way up the hill, and as I came down the other side toward the finish line, my husband was there waiting for me with a big smile.
Machka in Oz
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Woke up at 3:45 this morning it is raining here so once Doris is up and had her coffee we will start on our ride home1
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Machka the idea of staffing a department with only one of thirty employees has me SMH. Before I retired, the company's management wouldn't allow more than one of ten out per department, and reserved the right to cancel ALL leave at "need," holidays, booked travel notwithstanding. What is "purchased leave"? Awesome trail run for you both. Well done!
Most of what we do isn't urgent ... most of it is done according to schedules or with long lead times. For example, I've got one report that goes out about the 10th working day of each month, and I've been working on another project since about May with no particular end date in sight.
And certain times of the year everything we deal with is closed anyway ... like this coming Monday 24 December. Parliament won't be sitting and the universities are all closed.
Purchased leave is when you agree to take a slight deduction in pay in order to get 10 extra days of leave. So rather than the normal 20 working days of leave, I've gone for purchased leave and I've got 30 working days of leave each year. I did that because of the uni courses I'm taking. I wanted my normal leave for real holidays, and I have used most of my purchased leave when I want to take an extra day off to get an assignment done or something. I'm kind of thinking I'll do that one or two days in early December for the course I'm currently in.
And thanks! I'm just a bit stiff, but I've been stretching and walking a bit so hopefully I'll feel all right tomorrow.
Machka in Oz
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Was awake for 4 hrs last night.
Going out in a bit to buy extras to make the Christmas cake. I've got a lot of stuff left over from last year so it's not a mammoth shop.
We can't actually cook it until tomorrow because we have to soak the dried fruit in brandy for a day.
I feel ok at the moment. Many be a bit tired later.
Did my exercises.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx4 -
Lisa – I hope you only go to ElPaso if they pay for you to fly there. The CEO wants you there, so he/she should be willing to do at least that much. Michele in NC
Michele, oh yes. If I choose to go to El Paso, it will be at the company's expense, not my own.Lisa wish I had your way with words of appreciation, encouragement and validation to give right back to you. I'm in awe of your resourcefulness (preparing a list of corporate sponsors for the interview, WOW!) your compassion (for all of us here) and your grit (soldiering on through knee pain while rehabbing the house you're living in). How can you keep from singing the first two lines of "Some of these days..." to that interim CEO? :devil:
Barbara, Thank you for that... I know I've lived way too far up in my own head for months now, and am trying to just genuinely see what's out there in the world. And y'all are such a valuable part of my world--you all remind me that there are troubles so much worse than mine, and that joy takes all forms!
I know you were kidding, largely, on the song thing, but had I decided to step out of Girl Scouting entirely, I wouldn't have even contemplated making the trek to El Paso, paid trip or not. I'm still on the fence, honestly. I'm just not sure whether my own motive for going is some futile bid to gain the respect she's never given me since her arrival, or if it's the knowledge that Girl Scouting genuinely IS a small town, in ways that are hard to explain. CEOs talk to each other. Satisfying her last request for my employment time with the organization might at least create some positive spin on the transition.
I may also be overthinking the whole thing.
So I think I'll go pet Egg, the cat. Like Michele's cat, Shadow, she's having a real hard time right now. It's all involved with the stray cat, Mrr, that our son adopted after his arrival here in July. Mrr wandered up one day, and has been really good for Johnny. But he and Egg, 30 days later, still not getting along. Lots of hissing, spitting, growling, all on Egg's part. Mrr could care less.
Maybe I need to channel more Mrr, less Egg.
Love y'all!
Lisa in AR
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And, before I forget... for the ladies who've just joined us, only if you choose to participate, the November gratitudes.
And to catch mine up,
#24 - Challenge - I had to choose between work and home challenges, as there've been a bunch on both sides--but home wins the "gratitude attitude" hands down. We moved in April to Arkansas, and by mid-May, found a 1960s-era stone house that needed lots of love, and bought it in mid-July. Over the ensuing 90 days, we did tons of hard work, and evicted enough OPC (other people's cooties) for me to consent to move in. As of October 18, 2018, we moved into what we are both happy to call our forever home.
#25 - Moment - The moment I'm most grateful for is the one that happened at the interview I had last Tuesday... when I realized the two amazing women who were interviewing me were trying to sell ME on going to work for the Girl Scout Council here in Arkansas. It was a game changer. For months, I have been feeling undervalued, misunderstood, and disrespected.They took a look at my record, they listened to someone who also values my work, and they were both clear that they wanted me working for them.
I am slightly embarrassed (not lots, just a little) to say that it was my Sally Field moment.
Professional validation is not to be sneezed at, you know?
Love,
Lisa in Arkansas9 -
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Good morning all! Happy Sunday! I made my yogurt yesterday (I am straining it this morning) and I think something went wrong. I have been making it on the stove, the old fashioned way, and it comes out thick, but not as thick as I would like; so I tried a different "set up" recipe and put the yogurt into small containers before I put it in a warm spot to set. Well, it looks like it didn't set up at all. Even after nine hours in the fridge. So I will strain it and see what it leaves me with. I may have to go and buy another gallon of milk and try this again.
Katla- I love Thanksgiving; I loathe Black Friday.
Gratitude #24 Challenge I am grateful for: Probably my husband's RA. It has placed me in the "lead" position in our relationship. It is a place I sometimes love, yet also despise, because I long for the days when I didn't have to think about finances, the future, declining abilities and physical limitations. Then I stick out my chin, set my jaw and muscle my way through things. That is the part that feels kind of good. Like a sore muscle after you have given it a good work out.
Gratitude #25 Moment this week that I am most grateful for: Hmmm...I am grateful for many moments this week. I was on vacation so I have had quite a few of those moments. But I think the one that will probably stick with me is the moment of laying in bed next to my husband and looking at his profile in the dark and still seeing the 15 year old boy that I met long ago in the mall. As long as I can still see that boy, all is well in my world.
Regarding vacation/time off: It took me about 15 years in the daycare business before I gave myself more than two weeks of time off each year. One day I just realized that I need more than two weeks to re energize and care for myself so I can be kind to small children. I currently schedule myself with 4 weeks of paid time off. I also take all major U.S. holidays off. So it really ends up being about 5 weeks off. I am hoping that after a couple of years of this crazy schedule I am on, that I will be able to go back to M-F dayshift only, with a goal of a teacher's schedule (summers, christmas break and spring break off).
Trentin arriving soon, so I better get busy. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)7
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