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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 12:31pm PT
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I can't hold my breath...I'm too high up and need all the O2 I can get!
Lafayette Escadrille
Can't get the movie without renting it.
A Tab Hunter flick, Clint Eastwood bit part in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Escadrille
Gervais Raoul Lufbery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervais_Raoul_Lufbery
Talk about unsung.
The Great War In the Air (@ 8:00 mins.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0a_zDgvmNQ
Bar fighting barnstormers
Now we have Transformers
Here's to the lads of the Kosciusko Escadrille. What? No Americans volunteered to fight for Poland when Germany invaded?
MOOOOSE! What do you know of this? We stick our big stupid noses into EVERYONE's business. I cannot believe...well, just cuz I never heard of something, ya know...that doesn't mean it never happened.
But truly, Poland by J. Michener, arch-jingoist, was a great novel. Too damned long, but that's what made it great--for a doorstop or a paperweight!
Mila 18 was the one for me. Leon Uris' take on the Warsaw uprising. I had read it twice before I found out who Sal Mineo was.
I'll leave you with this, some relatively unsung performances, sung one time and archived.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
But there they are. Part of some of us. Waiting to become part of others.
NO STALGiAs NEED APPLE eye. Got lots.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Sep 15, 2014 - 12:52pm PT
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I had occasion today to be searching for the Southland Pipe and Nipples Company. It turns out it's in Texas, but is not nearly as well documented as Yosemite.
Remember the Alamo?
I don't know if there is anything quite as interesting in the world of fasteners as the Marman Clamp, rumoured to have been developed by Bridwell or Jed Clampit.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Sep 15, 2014 - 01:01pm PT
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see you next week at FL, MouseMan.
Susan
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 15, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
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hey there say, all... just checking in... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 03:35pm PT
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Juszt Czechin' in...
A Russian scientist, Martinov, and a Czechoslovakian scientist, Moosenlipsz, had spent their whole lives studying the majestic grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study these wondrous beasts.
Finally, their request was granted and they immediately flew to New York and then west to Yellowstone. They reported to the local ranger station and were told by Ranger Spinato that it was the grizzly mating season and it was much too dangerous to go out and study the animals.
They pleaded that this was their only chance. The stupid ranger relented. The Russian and the Czech were given cell phones and told to report in each day.
For several days they called in, and then nothing was heard from the two scientists. The rangers mounted a search party and found the scientists' camp completely ravaged. There was no sign of the missing men.
They then followed the trail of a male and a female bear. They found the female and decided they must kill the animal to find out if she had eaten the scientists, because they feared an international incident. They killed the female and cut open the bear's stomach and, sure enough, found the grisly remains of Comrade Martinov.
Wernini, the much-relieved rescue and search maven, turned to the other and said, "You know what this means, don't you?"
"Of course," Ranger Spinato nodded. "The Czech is in the male."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 05:16pm PT
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A few words about the drought in California.
Screw the rest of the wannabes: harden the frick up.
We know drought.
This batch is from a National Geographic dated 2010, the end of the last frickin' drought.
California has more earthquakes than firkin droughts.
California has more people than earthquakes.
Now if the extra people would go away again, the finkin' drought might go with them.
I mostly blame the water, though.
It's basically dinosaur piss, melted glaciers, and acid rain anyway.
Sorry to be so Negevtive.
Hope Springs is in Hollywood, though, not Merced County.
Tommy Lee Jones & Meryl Streep...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
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Happiness runs in a circular motion while water simply runs downhill.
Unthinking slave to entropy, doing its job.
And thinking about happiness; visiting MooseDrool's country of Poland; and reading through your thoughts and views on the peculiar subject of "Happy," which is an emotion, not an actual, tangible "object" like a summit, I happened to think of Ilie Nastase.
It's strictly the last name which brought that thought to me. "Nasty" we called him. But I did not think 'ill' of Ilie. He fought against the brat, McEnroe BITD.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2675717/John-McEnroe-jokes-Ilie-Nastase-looks-like-member-Village-People.html
John Mcenroe vs I. Nastase Head To Head
Year Name Round Surface Winning Player Losing Player Score
1980 Milan R32 Carpet John Mcenroe I. Nastase 6-1 6-4
1979 US Open R64 Hard John Mcenroe I. Nastase 6-4 4-6 6-3 6-2
1979 Richmond QF Carpet John Mcenroe I. Nastase 6-3 3-6 6-2
1978 WCT Invitational SF Clay I. Nastase John Mcenroe 6-3 7-6
1977 Virginia Beach SF Clay I. Nastase John Mcenroe 7-5 4-6 6-3
1977 Ocean City R16 Carpet I. Nastase John Mcenroe 7-5 6-4
Nasty quotes--
“I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.”
“If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.”
“My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
“Just give me a record. You give me a guitar, I'll probably hit a ball with it.”
"I am so-o-o glad I never had to play Andrzej Citkowitz. He's crazy-fast."
Say "Cheese" and hold it...POP! FLASH!
Nastalgia. Is that like rheumatism?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
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Climbing & rhyming...
Surfing & sailing...
Drag racing, hiking, biking...
Vacation trips, postcards, music variety...
Films, free university, fraternal vibes...
What is this thread REALLY about, again?
Well, I'll tellya...but first a word from my new sponsor, the USCBL, the United STates Crotch Ball League, traveling to YOUR town next spring and summer!
These athletes have the world's most ruthless, hardcore coach EVER in the history of the game.
His name is Bobby Ballboy.
"It's not Riggs, it's Ballboy, dammit! Gimme nine sets!"
[Click to View YouTube Video]These are actors, not the real deal. It's a shoestring ad budget, see. There are ties with Adidas, though, and Lipton Tea. They're hesitating.
They'll lose out, of course, because of their woeful lack of confidence in my planning...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 08:02pm PT
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TENNIS COURT
Don't you think that it's boring how people talk
Making smart with their words again, well I'm bored
Because I'm doing this for the thrill of it, killin' it
Never not chasing a million things I want
And I am only as young as the minute is full of it
Getting pumped up on the little bright things I bought
But I know they'll never own me
(Yeah)
Baby be the class clown
I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It's a new art form showing people how little we care (yeah)
We're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah (yeah)
Pretty soon I'll be getting on my first plane
I'll see the veins of my city like they do in space
But my head's filling up fast with the wicked games, up in flames
How can I f*#k with the fun again, when I'm known
And my boys trip me up with their heads again, loving them
Everything's cool when we're all in line for the throne
But I know it's not forever
(Yeah)
Baby be the class clown
I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It's a new art form showing people how little we care (yeah)
We're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah (yeah)
It looked alright in the pictures (yeah)
Getting caught's half of the trip though, isn't it?
I fall apart with all my heart (yeah)
And you could watch from your window (yeah)
[Laughs]
And you can watch from your window
Baby be the class clown
I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It's a new art form showing people how little we care (yeah)
We're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah (yeah)
And talk it up like yeah (yeah)
And talk it up like yeah (yeah)
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah (yeah)
And talk it up like yeah (yeah)
And talk it up like yeah (yeah)
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah
(Yeah)
HAPPY
Well I never kept a dollar past sunset,
It always burned a hole in my pants.
Never made a school mama happy,
Never blew a second chance.
I need a love to keep me happy,
I need a love to keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Always took candy from strangers,
Didn't wanna get me no trade.
Never want to be like papa,
Working for the boss ev'ry night and day.
I need a love to keep me happy,
I need a love, baby won't ya keep me happy.
Baby, won't ya keep me happy.
Baby, please keep me
I need a love to keep me happy,
I need a love to keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Never got a flash out of cocktails,
When I got some flesh off the bone.
Never got a lift out of Lear jets,
When I can fly way back home.
I need a love to keep me happy,
I need a love to keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Baby, baby keep me happy.
Happy was originally conceived as a more comically tragic character....Happy's favorite foods are Soup and Gooseberry pie.
It's no wonder. It's a Scandinavian blessing, right from Solvang, on the west coast of North America, north of Santa Barbara, south from San Jose.
Do you know the way to San Solvang? Or Buellton? Or 1955?
[Click to View YouTube Video]"Hap-pea" and "Pea-Wee."
Used to be a Pea soup Andersen's over in Mammoth, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2014 - 11:48pm PT
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In addition to a healthy diet (I wish I was a hunter), for a well-balanced life one needs SOME exercise and SOME dough-roy-me.
Lola the Berserk recommends twenty minutes a day, full out and a roll of about 100,000 DM.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Coach Ballboy approves this message.
JUST LIKE A REDHEADED FORREST
or "Lola Quits Her Dye Job"
I wish I was a hunter
In search of different food
I wish I was the animal
Which fits into that mood
I wish I was a person
With unlimited breath
I wish I was a heartbeat
That never comes to rest
I wish I was a hunter
In search of different food
I wish I was the animal
Which fits into that mood
I wish I was a stranger
Who understands the sky
I wish I was a starship
When Saturn's flying by
I wish I was a princess
With armies at her hand
I wish I was a ruler
Who'd make them understand
Never
(I wish)
Never say never
(I wish)
Never
(I wish)
Say never
I wish I was a writer
Who sees what is yet unseen
I wish I was a prayer
Expressing what I mean
I wish I was a forest
Of trees that do not hide
I wish I was a clearing
No secrets left inside
{All for the love of Manni Deutschmartz}
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2014 - 12:16am PT
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"Cheese!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 17, 2014 - 09:32am PT
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For Garth, Bart, and Calvin, All-American Boys.
And All All-British Boy Band lovers.
Tell me these men are not boys at heart.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Oh, never mind...
It doesn't matter:
Easy come, easy go.
It's easy to blame old Scaramouche for anything, did you know that? He's like a blame figure, and is described in texts on personality.
Blame = Intent + Consequence - Extenuation - Personal Goodness
This being a formula acceptable to most academics, feel free to use it to bargain with next time you are faced with being banned from ST.
You need to work on CMac's and the moderators' "impression formation" factors and WORK IT, BABY! "Moderate the moderator" and "Impress the Boss" with your lack of deceit, your gormless behaviour, especially if you're British...like Blakey, say... and show them a lack of fear...hey, I could care less, because nothing really matters...and modesty...that's a toughie for many of us, admittedly...and you'd be surprised what you might get away with.
You'll want to avoid being perceived as "sneaky and deceptive." It might be more to your advantage to be seen as "cowardly and boastful," too. It probably depends...so wing it till you're sure, then go ahead, like Davey Crockett said, and keep that coonskin cap pulled down tight.
You don't want to be called on all four traits as that is surely gonna work against you. A "sneaky and dishonest" dude would seem to be more acceptable (they've done probes on this in their orbiting space vehicles, too, as well as at UCB and other hot spots of personality study) when probing for dishonesty in the personality of some other dude who is labeled as "sneaky and dishonest and cowardly and boastful." That guy has to go sit on the Group W bench, sorry.
I have carefully assembled pics to either prove my position, improve my position, or to impress the ladies.
Just trying to get everyone on the same page, in the same litter box, and telling the same relatively harmless 'truths.'
And just being 'nicer' and thus becoming a true 'person of interest.'
Bankers and lawyers excepted. And the leaders and the parking meters and anyone else who can afford to buy their way out of their problems.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ask not what rSin's forgotten, scrapped, and probably illegal programs might have done for you, but what they will do for our Taco.
At least the man was honest and stuck to his guns (which were really loaded with blanks).
And his intentions were good.
Later on The Flames may have a presentation of Shades of John Gray. A little taste of things to come:
http://www.quotecollection.com/author/john-gray/
No graphs. No tables. No chairs. No fees. The Free U of Taco. Middle Earth campus is only like Columbia U in that it's urban. Well, rural/urban. See me at Facelift to talk about YOUR personality and anyone else's, for that matter. We'll 'shovel some dirt.'
Just remember, "Payback's its own reward."
"I AM NOT A THIEF. I'M a cowardly lyin' s.o.b."--RMN
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:36pm PT
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I'm feeling a little uninspired this afternoon, or evening.
I've spent a lot of time sleeping to make up for my recent insomnia.
When I awoke, just over an hour ago, my thoughts drifted to coffee, tea, and more rest.
Then I noticed the National Geographics.
"Deja vu one more time."
But in the early eighties. Likely, listening to Queen and not to Ween is partly responsible, and no offense, Psilocyborg, it's just me and my ears, not you and yours...yours are far younger and hear more.
My hearing is distorted by mental echoes.
But before I begin, let me say bravo to the moderation committee for doing away with the notorious Locker-look-alike, tamph91. No offense, Locker...he was by all reports as handsome as Hugh Grant, but he had a problem with hookers, hook moves, and his kids kept reporting on his activities to the Mrs. He was bound to fall.
Baslow Edge isn't so high. He may have lived through the experiences he had here on the Taco. I believe I'm the only one who fell into the troll trap he set.
I was so happy that I at long last got some z's that when I awoke, I made some iced coffee. Sumatran? No, Colombian, "the bes' kind."
Unfortunately, the only photos I have of Colombia are of Columbia.
And I have no interest in the town up near Sonora, the tourist trap to beat all tourist traps, but a good source for the study of America's unrestricted greed.
As to the coffee I'm drinkin', it's not decaffeinated. Who needs that garbage? I'm kind of picky about that. I feel the process robs the cup of its taste and me of A FIX.A stimulating afternoon at the Tokyo House of Klatsch, where customers pay to be buried in coffee as a medical treatment. Dont try this at Starbuck's.
Yes, Mount Pinatubo's sulfites are in most of our coffee, Ron...as are monkey-doo and tigers' hairs and rhino droppings, also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_rhinoceros
Coffee is way better and more stimulating than rhino horn, a huge scam and a serious breach of nature's peace when bought on the black markets of the world. But rhino horn is not just used in that way. In the land of Yemen, the ancient home of coffee, they prize these trad knives, the handles of which are made from a rhino's horn.
Attenborough and the blind rhino calf.
http://www.wimp.com/rhinocalf/
Stay tuned for more from the Down to Earth Geography and Coffee Company, brought to you in part by Fletcher's Family Tours.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g294226-d3329613-Reviews-Down_to_Earth_Ubud-Bali.html#photos
I need to go a-johnning, so excuse me for a bit. Amuse yourselves. Get happy!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 18, 2014 - 05:13am PT
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Ah, DMT, it's all burning up, what isn't burning down.
You knew it would happen this summer.
Let's hope it ends in a flood, because that would be something to write home about.
I hope the 88 remains un-charred this autumn.
Michael Kennedy of mercedmusic.com posted these and I figured you'd like to see'um.
44 years ago on Highway 88.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Aussies, the Eighty-Eights.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 18, 2014 - 05:53am PT
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This was the day on which the Rev picked me up and we drove to Hunter Valley to see that burn and its damage--it was a pipsqueak compared to the ones we have going.
Thanks, God.
Big Mike & Sandra, drop in if you can.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 18, 2014 - 09:46am PT
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...............Smoke on the water...................
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 18, 2014 - 01:07pm PT
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Like, Man, A Simple Timely Metaphor
Big Mike's and Sandra's Odyssey is a new forest fire burning in a straight line, uncontrolled and igniting all in its path.
The Flames is an old forest fire which began decades ago, then went underground for all that time, smoldered in the coals of yesterday, but which has re-surfaced and now has burned too big and they can't figure what it will do next or where it will break out.
And Kerouac started it with a roll of TP and a cigarette butt.
Ten million bucks bail! Sheep-DIP!
This version is amazingly clear or the wax melted from my ear.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Sep 19, 2014 - 10:48am PT
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Weird stuff happens - Sept. 19, 2000. I had forgotten all about this.
Paul used to date my sister-in-law and drove the street sweeper in La Crescenta. His death in Goss Canyon still seems to be a mystery.
Cave Death of Diver Still a Puzzle
Accident: Paul Hayden, a highly trained Air Force rescuer, lost his life in area he explored as a child. Family and colleagues are stunned.
LA CRESCENTA — The accident was freakish enough--a diver getting trapped in an old, murky well, his safety rope hopelessly tangled as he fought for air.
But the fact that it happened to Paul Francis Hayden, say those close to him, is truly unexplainable.
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Hayden was a U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper, a member of one of the most elite, best-trained units in the military, a tightly muscled 39-year-old who plunged from helicopters and swam against currents and hoisted hurt fisherman from frothy seas.
Hayden died Sunday during a recreation dive in Goss Canyon in which he suffocated in an 85-year-old abandoned well blasted out of a mountainside.
His colleagues at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., were stunned when they learned about the accident. Hayden, who joined the Air Force's equivalent of the Navy SEALS in 1986, was a full-time pararescue instructor known for his caution and reserve.
http://www.itrsonline.org/PapersFolder/2001/Lonsdale2001_ITRSPaper.pdf
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