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Mo, sounds like Strawberry is a good companion. My dog, Princess, has been trying to help me lose weight. She does this by getting on the top of the couch and climbing on my shoulder when I'm eating and licking my face to convince me to share. She's particularly fond of Ritz crackers with cheese in the middle.
I was so exhausted today that all I did was go to the post office & walmart to grab a few things. I'm supposed to cook tonight but my coordination is garbage. I had trouble getting my key in the lock at the post office and had trouble getting my card in the slot at the store.

Just heard from my friend- he found out the car he just bought has a broken K-member so the motor moves and hits the belt for the power steering & knocks it loose. Mechanic that put the belt in place had to know it so he must have been in on it with the seller to not tell my friend about the problem. If he can't get it welded together, it's a $550 fix. He's pretty upset about it. I was worried that something else was wrong with it, but I thought maybe I was just being slightly paranoid. I should have told my friend to walk. He would have listened to my advice. He's got a friend who can weld stuff so hopefully that will work. He's irritated with himself for buying it though. He can't afford the $550 to fix it since he had to pay taxes 3x (he had to pay to federal and two different states bc his employer is based in NJ-- but I think he shouldn't have to pay NJ if he lives & works here).

My brother got screwed by his employers as well. Someone essentially wrote him up so he got "points" for going home early when they set him home for being high on labor. They did it to make it so he had too many points to be able to transfer to another kitchen. All points used to clear after 6 months, but now they only clear 1 point every 3 months. He's tempted to quit and re-apply because he might be able to get re-hired in 2 months & his slate would be wiped so he'd start with zero points. He tried to argue with HR about it not being right for him to get points for being told to go home when high on labor, but they didn't care. There's no guarantee he'd get hired back if he quit & applied for another kitchen. They really need him in the one he's working at because they aren't training new people to work his shift. Oh, and he also can't change shifts while he has that many points & he's getting tired of the shift he's working because he ends up having to do the previous shifts work & having to stay at least an hour past when he should go home to finish everything. He's doing the work of 3 people.

He's also mad because I'm not doing his chores that he promised to do in exchange for living here rent free & having his food, internet, utilities, and phone paid for. The house is messy & he keeps complaining about it but isn't willing to lift a finger to help me & I can't physically do all of it with my back problems. He thinks because he works he shouldn't have to clean up after himself-- but he didn't clean up after himself or do his share of the work when he was unemployed.
 
zannej said:
Mo, sounds like Strawberry is a good companion. My dog, Princess, has been trying to help me lose weight. She does this by getting on the top of the couch and climbing on my shoulder when I'm eating and licking my face to convince me to share. She's particularly fond of Ritz crackers with cheese in the middle.
I was so exhausted today that all I did was go to the post office & walmart to grab a few things. I'm supposed to cook tonight but my coordination is garbage. I had trouble getting my key in the lock at the post office and had trouble getting my card in the slot at the store.

Just heard from my friend- he found out the car he just bought has a broken K-member so the motor moves and hits the belt for the power steering & knocks it loose. Mechanic that put the belt in place had to know it so he must have been in on it with the seller to not tell my friend about the problem. If he can't get it welded together, it's a $550 fix. He's pretty upset about it. I was worried that something else was wrong with it, but I thought maybe I was just being slightly paranoid. I should have told my friend to walk. He would have listened to my advice. He's got a friend who can weld stuff so hopefully that will work. He's irritated with himself for buying it though. He can't afford the $550 to fix it since he had to pay taxes 3x (he had to pay to federal and two different states bc his employer is based in NJ-- but I think he shouldn't have to pay NJ if he lives & works here).

My brother got screwed by his employers as well. Someone essentially wrote him up so he got "points" for going home early when they set him home for being high on labor. They did it to make it so he had too many points to be able to transfer to another kitchen. All points used to clear after 6 months, but now they only clear 1 point every 3 months. He's tempted to quit and re-apply because he might be able to get re-hired in 2 months & his slate would be wiped so he'd start with zero points. He tried to argue with HR about it not being right for him to get points for being told to go home when high on labor, but they didn't care. There's no guarantee he'd get hired back if he quit & applied for another kitchen. They really need him in the one he's working at because they aren't training new people to work his shift. Oh, and he also can't change shifts while he has that many points & he's getting tired of the shift he's working because he ends up having to do the previous shifts work & having to stay at least an hour past when he should go home to finish everything. He's doing the work of 3 people.

He's also mad because I'm not doing his chores that he promised to do in exchange for living here rent free & having his food, internet, utilities, and phone paid for. The house is messy & he keeps complaining about it but isn't willing to lift a finger to help me & I can't physically do all of it with my back problems. He thinks because he works he shouldn't have to clean up after himself-- but he didn't clean up after himself or do his share of the work when he was unemployed.
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Start charging him rent just like you would for a regular tenant.
First and last month rent in advance, water is extra, cable extra,food extra, phone extra,utilities extra.He doesn't like it.
Too bad. If he doesn't like it then he can move.
 
MoBookworm1957 said:
Start charging him rent just like you would for a regular tenant.
First and last month rent in advance, water is extra, cable extra,food extra, phone extra,utilities extra.He doesn't like it.
Too bad. If he doesn't like it then he can move.
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It's not my house. We both live with our mother. I don't pay rent or have a regular job because I'm her caregiver-- but family caregivers can't get paid in my state. I'm currently trying to get my health up enough that I can work part-time at the casino. I'll have to work out hours so that he will be home if she needs him when I'm at work and vice versa. If she gets low blood sugar or falls down, she needs someone there to help her. He constantly complains about how messy the house is but fails to see the correlation between him just throwing trash on the floor and the house being messy. LOL. Right now would be a bad time to even broach anything about his dereliction of duties considering how things are going at work.
 
Sitting up with dad tonight watching people catch alligators on the tv. I've been reading a little also on rarely used herbs.

Over 1200 species of medicinal plants grow wild where I live. It's impossible for me to keep them all straight in my mind. So I study up on them every so often in hopes I can at least keep some of them straight.
 
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I think she means that there were to many people on the clock. Not that he was actually "high".
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Correct. Business was slow and they felt that their labor costs would exceed their profits so they sent people home without telling them it would count against them in terms of points. I think it wasn't supposed to count but I think someone put him in for points to prevent him from transferring. The last person they tried to put on the back fryer solo quit on the spot because she couldn't handle it. The people they do train for the job are put on day shift but my brother is on swing shift.

No one in my family uses anything to get high. We don't drink, we don't smoke, and we don't use anything illegal. We all have very high tolerance for pain medications & such, so we have to take higher doses, but I've found that narcotics don't do jack for me (from when I had to have medical stuff). After surgery I was given Vicodin and it had zero effect. I also found out that I have an adverse reaction to Valium (I was given it before a couple of medical procedures and all it did was make me highly agitated. I'm also resistant to anesthesia-- found that out the hard way. I was in the middle of a procedure where I had to be awake and wasn't numb.

For some reason I remembered the time my brother got pulled over for allegedly rolling through a stop (there was no stop sign-- it was at a caution light with a yield sign but cop had a quota for tickets). Cop starts sniffing the air and says "I smell marijuana!" (which was an absolute lie). My brother pulled out his white privilege card and said "No you don't." The cop didn't know how to react-- he stammered and my brother said "You smell marinara." (At the time he worked at Pizza Hut). Cop tried to insist it was marijuana but my brother told him "Nope." Since he didn't actually smell it, the cop decided not to try to search the car and sent him on his way with a ticket-- after lying about where the court was for it & the printer for it was about out of toner so it was illegible. No one answered the phone when he looked up the number to call for information & it turns out there was no court & no way to contest it.

I think we had an alligator outside our fence once. Fortunately, it couldn't get through. It left on its own and never came back, but we had an elderly friend who nearly got bit by one when he was young. He told us how he and some buddies were fishing and this gator popped up and started eating their catches and went after them. They shot it & killed it then loaded it in the back of their truck and drove around town. They stopped at a car hop and a waitress asked what they'd been catching, they told her to look in the back. She screamed and ran away (they had propped it's mouth open). So they decided to pull the same prank at every car-hop in town. They also set the gator up with it's mouth open next to the town drunk. They put his arm in it's mouth and threw pebbles at him until he woke up. He saw the gator and they said he went from being horizontal to vertical without touching the ground with his arms-- fastest they'd ever seen him move. One of the friends took the gator's body & tried to sell it but got arrested. When my friend found out he went to the sheriff & explained that the guy had received the gator from him & how they had killed it in self-defense. He dropped all charges & pretended it never happened, but the state got the gator's body. Never knew what happened with it-- probably had some gator gumbo.

I made my friend feel a bit better because I found the part he needs for his car for $220.22 & free shipping. We'll buy it for him if it turns out his buddy can't weld the current part to fix it. Hopefully that will leave him enough $ to buy the tub and shower- but he'll still need to get the shower valve & trim. It's about $50 for the valve and $70+ for the trim. I had to explain to him that there are tub spouts that twist on to a threaded end and there are spouts that are secured by a set screw. The valve I'm recommending to him comes prefabbed with the copper for the tub spout sweated in so it would take a slip-fit spout.
 
That's a funny story, but without the white privilege card part. Ha. I don't buy into all of that social reprogramming.
A different plumber is coming today to work on the pipe leak under the jacuzzi tub, to unclog a tub, and to fix a slow drain on a sink. Regular guys are supposed to be tiling the shower. I'll be painting.
 
Plan on spending the morning on the phone with the credit card company.

I saw a $400 charge to my account followed by a $400 credit. Strange I thought but we did travel out of state two weeks ago, one of the merchants made a mistake and corrected it I thought.

Then a "pending" $1,000 charge appears for furniture. A year ago someone was using my CC number, card canceled and a new one issued. I'm very careful (so I thought) on who sees my CC number. I'll give the pending $1,000 a day to see if a credit for the same amount is applied.

Last night I get a email notification from my CC company. There is a $100 charge from a restaurant out east. Is this valid? "No" I click and stop my CC from any further charges.
 
Amish Heart said:
That's a funny story, but without the white privilege card part. Ha. I don't buy into all of that social reprogramming.
A different plumber is coming today to work on the pipe leak under the jacuzzi tub, to unclog a tub, and to fix a slow drain on a sink. Regular guys are supposed to be tiling the shower. I'll be painting.
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I used to not believe in the white privilege thing until I saw it in action. I live in a place where cops will pull someone over just for being black (and the cops have admitted it to white people). My friend got a new truck & kept getting pulled over when he wasn't violating any traffic rules. He finally asked one of the cops why & cop straight up admitted it was bc they saw the style of truck and assumed the driver was black. They are much more likely to use extreme force or even lethal force on someone if they aren't white. Hell, they passed a law against sagging pants that was made specifically to target black men so they would have a reason to stop them. One man was killed as a result-- a-hole cop tazed him to death in a cell for no reason. Cop claimed he only tazed him for a couple of seconds but the security footage showed he tazed him for at least 45 seconds straight-- max is supposed to be 9 seconds. But cops around here are corrupt as hell.

Hope the plumbing repairs and painting go well. I'm waiting to hear from my friend on whether or not he needs a replacement part for his car.

TLL, I'm glad you caught the fradulent charges. My best friend had his bank account cleaned out because a clerk at a gas station stole his debit card. His hand is numb from an electrical accident years ago & lost feeling in his right hand and his feet. He can't feel if his card slips out of his hand. The camera at the ATM was "broken" and the clerk hovered close enough to see his pin (but he didn't think anything of it). Not only was his account cleaned out, it was overdrawn. Bank didn't believe him about the theft despite him reporting it to the police. Cops refused to even talk to the clerk. It's the 2nd or 3rd time someone has stolen his card and used it. After he canceled the card, the bank still allowed charges to be made to it. He also has bad credit bc his ex took out 3 credit cards in his name & maxed them out. Discover card is pretty good for us on keeping an eye out for fraud, but sometimes they decline when we are traveling and it gets annoying. My mom got scammed by some turds pretending to be from DishNetwork (I told her it was a scam but she didn't listen to me). They got her credit card number & said they were charging $200+ & ended up charging $400. I called Dishnetwork fraud department to let them know what was going on. We then both talked to Discover to explain the situation & they canceled the charge. Scammers called back to complain about the chargeback & my mother told them what horrible people they were and hung up. I wonder how much $$ they get from gullible old ladies.
 
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Plan on spending the morning on the phone with the credit card company.

I saw a $400 charge to my account followed by a $400 credit. Strange I thought but we did travel out of state two weeks ago, one of the merchants made a mistake and corrected it I thought.

Then a "pending" $1,000 charge appears for furniture. A year ago someone was using my CC number, card canceled and a new one issued. I'm very careful (so I thought) on who sees my CC number. I'll give the pending $1,000 a day to see if a credit for the same amount is applied.

Last night I get a email notification from my CC company. There is a $100 charge from a restaurant out east. Is this valid? "No" I click and stop my CC from any further charges.


Update.

That was easy. Once I could understand the Customer Service Rep's accent it all went well. She listed about a dozen additional charges that were tried after I had stoped the CC. Biggest attempted was with Apple Store for $800.

CSR said it will approximately a week before I receive the new CC. If I have their APP (I do) I can see the new CC number (I did), slick. She also said I can get a virtual CC number to use for online purchase, that I didn't find on the APP.

Called two places (Missions & garbage collection) to give them update CC information. Got on our church's APP to update CC info.
 
zannej said:
I used to not believe in the white privilege thing until I saw it in action. I live in a place where cops will pull someone over just for being black (and the cops have admitted it to white people). My friend got a new truck & kept getting pulled over when he wasn't violating any traffic rules. He finally asked one of the cops why & cop straight up admitted it was bc they saw the style of truck and assumed the driver was black. They are much more likely to use extreme force or even lethal force on someone if they aren't white. Hell, they passed a law against sagging pants that was made specifically to target black men so they would have a reason to stop them. One man was killed as a result-- a-hole cop tazed him to death in a cell for no reason. Cop claimed he only tazed him for a couple of seconds but the security footage showed he tazed him for at least 45 seconds straight-- max is supposed to be 9 seconds. But cops around here are corrupt as hell.

Hope the plumbing repairs and painting go well. I'm waiting to hear from my friend on whether or not he needs a replacement part for his car.

TLL, I'm glad you caught the fradulent charges. My best friend had his bank account cleaned out because a clerk at a gas station stole his debit card. His hand is numb from an electrical accident years ago & lost feeling in his right hand and his feet. He can't feel if his card slips out of his hand. The camera at the ATM was "broken" and the clerk hovered close enough to see his pin (but he didn't think anything of it). Not only was his account cleaned out, it was overdrawn. Bank didn't believe him about the theft despite him reporting it to the police. Cops refused to even talk to the clerk. It's the 2nd or 3rd time someone has stolen his card and used it. After he canceled the card, the bank still allowed charges to be made to it. He also has bad credit bc his ex took out 3 credit cards in his name & maxed them out. Discover card is pretty good for us on keeping an eye out for fraud, but sometimes they decline when we are traveling and it gets annoying. My mom got scammed by some turds pretending to be from DishNetwork (I told her it was a scam but she didn't listen to me). They got her credit card number & said they were charging $200+ & ended up charging $400. I called Dishnetwork fraud department to let them know what was going on. We then both talked to Discover to explain the situation & they canceled the charge. Scammers called back to complain about the chargeback & my mother told them what horrible people they were and hung up. I wonder how much $$ they get from gullible old ladies.
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Hey Zanne, please show me where the law says taser maximums. I'd love to find this out because in my 25 years of using them, I never knew there was a maximum.
 
Got my new glasses for double vision.
Seems to help , I'll know more in a few days , got to adjust.

Gonna be taking my twin GKs out to eat later, they will be 14 yrs old Monday.
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Then to see their older brother play his last BB game at the HS.

May fiddlefart in garage some ,as it's 51 deg .

Y'all have a great Friday.

Stay healthy

Jim
 
phideaux said:
Got my new glasses for double vision.
Seems to help , I'll know more in a few days , got to adjust.

Gonna be taking my twin GKs out to eat later, they will be 14 yrs old Monday.

Then to see their older brother play his last BB game at the HS.

May fiddlefart in garage some ,as it's 51 deg .

Y'all have a great Friday.

Stay healthy

Jim
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Have a wonderful meal with the grand kids.
 
havasu said:
Hey Zanne, please show me where the law says taser maximums. I'd love to find this out because in my 25 years of using them, I never knew there was a maximum.
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I'm trying to find the article again, but it might have been on the live news. They said that the protocol for that police force was to not taze someone for more than 9 seconds straight. I don't know if there is any law, but that was the rule for the cops in that jurisdiction. I was mistaken about how long it lasted though. Cop said it was 5 seconds but video showed it to be 90 seconds.
 
Going to Dollar Tree to get gardening supplies for soon to be 5 year old birthday present.
We are making a turtle flower planter.
She's crazy for turtles.
I figure $5-10 for supplies at Dollar Tree.
Then $ 5-10 for flowers at Wal*Mart for flowers.
She also likes to garden, and I want to encourage that if possible.
Please grant me lots and lots of patience for this project on Sunday.
Her older sister seems to think all the good attention should be focused on her.
And all the bad attention on her little sister.
So soon to be 5 year gets to decide if the other kids get to participate in the project.
Or is this just a project for me and her.
Which will put big sister's nose out of joint.
Ask me if I care.
Finished the last Physical Therapy appointment today.
1 load of laundry is done, washed, dried, put away.
House has be swept out.
Front and back porches swept.
Strawberry seems to think she needs to go back outside.
 
zannej said:
I used to not believe in the white privilege thing until I saw it in action. I live in a place where cops will pull someone over just for being black (and the cops have admitted it to white people). My friend got a new truck & kept getting pulled over when he wasn't violating any traffic rules. He finally asked one of the cops why & cop straight up admitted it was bc they saw the style of truck and assumed the driver was black. They are much more likely to use extreme force or even lethal force on someone if they aren't white. Hell, they passed a law against sagging pants that was made specifically to target black men so they would have a reason to stop them. One man was killed as a result-- a-hole cop tazed him to death in a cell for no reason. Cop claimed he only tazed him for a couple of seconds but the security footage showed he tazed him for at least 45 seconds straight-- max is supposed to be 9 seconds. But cops around here are corrupt as hell.
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I served as an internal affairs investigator for several years. The biggest thing I learned in IA was that 99.9% of claims like this are fictional. And I was being generous with that percentage. This is why complaints against law enforcement fell dramatically when body cams were introduced, because they provided proof that these claims were being manufactured almost all of the time. If I had $1 for every time someone came in and said they were targeted because of their race but it turned out they were just breaking the law and got caught, I could buy a football stadium.

On a related note I am not "white" and I have never seen white privilege. Not on duty, not off duty.



zannej said:
I'm trying to find the article again, but it might have been on the live news. They said that the protocol for that police force was to not taze someone for more than 9 seconds straight. I don't know if there is any law, but that was the rule for the cops in that jurisdiction. I was mistaken about how long it lasted though. Cop said it was 5 seconds but video showed it to be 90 seconds.
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As a taser instructor I can assure you the standard discharge of a Taser is between 5 and 30 seconds. They can be fired again but their batteries will not support extensive periods of power drain before they become ineffective. In order to kill someone with a Taser, that person had to have a serious medical defect that greatly contributed to the loss of their life.
 
Ran my car through car wash yesterday after Dh's doc appt. Went and helped my friend again in her pantry in the afternoon. She has given me so much canned food that she just won't use now that it is just her. Definitely feel blessed!

Today I was at Walmart at 7 am for the monthly shopping including dog food ingredients. Home by 9 am and then put away all the gifted food in the back pantry. I filled my garden cart 4 times out of my car.

Will be helping another friend tomorrow who is having a Birthday party. Getting ready to make salads for tomorrow and then relax.
 
Today, or rather this afternoon I'll be whipper snipping the jungle that is my yard.
Vicious torrential storms followed by intense heat has the grass jumping out of the ground with a will and a way.
A bit frightening to have grass up to waist high with Johnny Death on the prowl.
The chickens have been let out of their pen because they were wading through mud (I REALLY need ducks) and now I can't find where they've laid their eggs and flat footing through all that grass ...urrmmm....NOPE. I choose life. Sorry Johnny.
I damned near killed myself 3 weeks ago cutting it and the grass has grown that much.
My legs and back we're black with mozzies and I even got bites on my eyelids so after years of refusing to use insect repellent I've given in and have been spraying myself with the filthy poison just to go outside.

The tropics are AWESOME.
 
zannej said:
Mo, sounds like Strawberry is a good companion. My dog, Princess, has been trying to help me lose weight. She does this by getting on the top of the couch and climbing on my shoulder when I'm eating and licking my face to convince me to share. She's particularly fond of Ritz crackers with cheese in the middle.
I was so exhausted today that all I did was go to the post office & walmart to grab a few things. I'm supposed to cook tonight but my coordination is garbage. I had trouble getting my key in the lock at the post office and had trouble getting my card in the slot at the store.

Just heard from my friend- he found out the car he just bought has a broken K-member so the motor moves and hits the belt for the power steering & knocks it loose. Mechanic that put the belt in place had to know it so he must have been in on it with the seller to not tell my friend about the problem. If he can't get it welded together, it's a $550 fix. He's pretty upset about it. I was worried that something else was wrong with it, but I thought maybe I was just being slightly paranoid. I should have told my friend to walk. He would have listened to my advice. He's got a friend who can weld stuff so hopefully that will work. He's irritated with himself for buying it though. He can't afford the $550 to fix it since he had to pay taxes 3x (he had to pay to federal and two different states bc his employer is based in NJ-- but I think he shouldn't have to pay NJ if he lives & works here).

My brother got screwed by his employers as well. Someone essentially wrote him up so he got "points" for going home early when they set him home for being high on labor. They did it to make it so he had too many points to be able to transfer to another kitchen. All points used to clear after 6 months, but now they only clear 1 point every 3 months. He's tempted to quit and re-apply because he might be able to get re-hired in 2 months & his slate would be wiped so he'd start with zero points. He tried to argue with HR about it not being right for him to get points for being told to go home when high on labor, but they didn't care. There's no guarantee he'd get hired back if he quit & applied for another kitchen. They really need him in the one he's working at because they aren't training new people to work his shift. Oh, and he also can't change shifts while he has that many points & he's getting tired of the shift he's working because he ends up having to do the previous shifts work & having to stay at least an hour past when he should go home to finish everything. He's doing the work of 3 people.

He's also mad because I'm not doing his chores that he promised to do in exchange for living here rent free & having his food, internet, utilities, and phone paid for. The house is messy & he keeps complaining about it but isn't willing to lift a finger to help me & I can't physically do all of it with my back problems. He thinks because he works he shouldn't have to clean up after himself-- but he didn't clean up after himself or do his share of the work when he was unemployed.
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Z hope tomorrow is a lot better day for you. Or tonight even better.Take care and on this sitewe have lots of good people praying for us so your in good hands and company. :thumbs:
 
hashbrown said:
Wow! been extremely busy and just checked in for the first time in awhile. The forum looks so cool now! My wife passed the real estate exam last week and will start selling our houses and I have a custom home I'm building and I'm starting another 4 plex patio home, Again I love the look of the forum!
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HashB congrates to the wife. :woo hoo::thumbs:
 
Had a long day at work. One of the ECM modules in my machine failed and rendered the left side functions useless, so I ended up just traveling it back and forth all day. Hopefully the replacement part will be here in the morning.

After work, I had IHOP for supper, and now watching "Bicentennial Man" on TV at the hotel. Life on the road is a wild time, lemme tell ya...:sarcasm:
 
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