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RE: oil filter?
I change oil by miles and not time so every 4000 - 4500 miles. I use the NAPA Platinum oil filter which has full synthetic media. The filter is the same between the 6.8L V10 and the 7.3L V-8: 41372. I’ve also used the Ford Motorcraft Racing version of the FL-820S which is M-6731-FL820 but is more expensive.
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RambleOnNW
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05/29/23 08:40pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
There are two separable thoughts there as they are separated by the conjunction “but”.
The second part makes no sense anyway. Acclimation means “physiological adjustment by an organism to environmental change”.
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RambleOnNW
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02/22/23 06:02pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
If the shoe fits…LOL.
“motivated interference,” which occurs when we hold a specific bias to ignore evidence. ”
“ I’ve only disputed Carbon dioxide as the insufficiently proven… ”.
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RambleOnNW
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02/22/23 05:21pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
“ One reason for the refusal to accept the reality of climate change is what is called “motivated interference,” which occurs when we hold a specific bias to ignore evidence. ”
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201901/climate-change-denial
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RambleOnNW
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02/22/23 03:20pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Just imagine for a moment. You fancy having a picnic tomorrow, or you're a farmer needing a dry day to harvest a ripe crop. So naturally, you tune in for a weather-forecast. But what you get is:
“Here is the weather forecast. There will be weather today and tomorrow. Good morning.”
That's a fat lot of use, isn't it? The same applies to, “the climate's changed before”. It's a useless statement. Why? Because it omits details. It doesn't tell you what happened.
Climate has indeed changed in the past with various impacts depending on the speed and type of that change. Such results have included everything from slow changes to ecosystems over millions of years - through to sudden mass-extinctions. Rapid climate change, of the type we're causing through our enormous carbon dioxide emissions, falls into the very dangerous camp. That's because the faster the change, the harder it is for nature to cope. We are part of nature so if it goes down, it takes us with it.
So anyone who dismissively tells you, “the climate has always changed”, either does not know what they are talking about or they are deliberately trying to mislead you.
Past changes in climate, for which hard evidence is preserved throughout the geological record, have had a number of drivers usually acting in combination. Plate tectonics and volcanism, perturbations in Earth's slow carbon cycle and cyclic changes in Earth's orbit have all played their part. The orbital changes, described by the Milankovitch Cycles, are sufficient to initiate the flips from glacials (when ice-sheets spread over much of Northern Europe and the North American continent) to interglacials (conditions like the past few thousand years) and back – but only with assistance from other climate feedbacks.
The key driver that forces the climate from Hothouse to Icehouse and back is instead the slow carbon cycle. The slow carbon cycle can be regarded as Earth's thermostat. It involves the movement of carbon between vast geological reservoirs and Earth's atmosphere. Reservoirs include the fossil fuels (coal/oil/gas) and limestone (made up of calcium carbonate). They can store the carbon safely over tens of millions of years or more. But such storage systems can be disturbed.
Carbon can be released from such geological reservoirs by a variety of processes. If rocks are uplifted to form mountain ranges, erosion occurs and the rocks are broken down. Metamorphism – changes inflicted on rocks due to high temperatures and pressures – causes some minerals to chemically break down. New minerals are formed but the carbon may be released. Plate tectonic movements are also associated with volcanism that releases carbon from deep inside Earth's mantle. Today it is estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey that the world's volcanoes release between 180 and 440 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year - as opposed to the ~35 billion tonnes we release.
An extreme carbon-releasing mechanism can occur when magma invades a sedimentary basin containing extensive deposits of fossil fuels. Fortunately, this is an infrequent phenomenon. But it has nevertheless happened at times, including an episode 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period. In what is now known as Siberia, a vast volcanic plumbing-system became established, within a large sedimentary basin. Strata spanning hundreds of millions of years filled that basin, including many large coal, oil, gas and salt deposits. The copious rising magma encountered these deposits and quite literally cooked them.
Now laden with a heavy payload of gases, boiled out of the fossil fuel deposits, some of the magma carried on up to the surface to be erupted on a massive scale. The eruptions – volcanism on a scale Mankind has never witnessed - produced lavas that cover an area hundreds of kilometres across. Known as the Siberian Traps, because of the distinctive stepped landforms produced by the multiple flows, it has been calculated that the eruptions produced at least three million cubic kilometres of volcanic products. Just for a moment think of Mount St Helens and its cataclysmic May 1980 eruption, captured on film. How many cubic kilometres with that one? Less than ten.
Recently, geologists working in this part of Siberia have found and documented numerous masses of part-combusted coal entrapped in the lavas (Elkins-Tanton et al, 2020). In the same district are abundant mineral deposits formed in large pipes of shattered rock as the boiling waters and gases were driven upwards by the heat from the magma.
It has been calculated that as a consequence of the Siberian Traps eruptions, between ten trillion and one hundred trillion tons of carbon dioxide were released to the atmosphere over just a few tens of thousands of years. The estimated CO2 emission-rate ranges between 500 and 5000 billion tonnes per century. Pollution from the Siberian Traps eruptions caused rapid global warming and the greatest mass-extinction in the fossil record (Burgess et al, 2017). There are multiple lines of hard geological evidence to support that statement.
We simply break into those ancient carbon reservoirs via opencast or underground mines and oil/gas wells. Through such infrastructure, the ancient carbon is extracted and burned. At what rate? Our current carbon dioxide emissions are not dissimilar to the estimated range for the Siberian Traps eruptions, at more than 3,000 billion tons per century. The warning could not be more clear. Those telling you the climate's changed before are omitting the critical bit – the details. And when you look at the details, it's not always a pretty sight.
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RambleOnNW
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02/22/23 10:56am |
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RE: Portable Solar Generators
Well ... I paid ~$400 for the Bluetti on a Black Friday sale:
1) Instead, I would have to have installed/wired a 12V DC recepable back by the rear bed, which would have been a real pain (I have higher payback things to do with my time).
2) In addition to 1) above, I would have needed to buy a 12V DC to 20V DC upconversion adapter (medical grade - for failure-proofness at ~$130) to power the CPAP machine.
3) Sometimes our family group campouts have their outside evening camp fires too far away from our rig to run the long extension cords from our rig necessary for powering heated throw-blankets for us.
4) The DW and myself didn't know what other Christmas gift(s) to buy for ourselves, anyway. :B
P.S. #1: So far during my in-home testing of the 537 Wh Blueitti it has powered a CPAP machine for 4 nights - while consuming only around 35% of it's LiFeO4's stored energy.
P.S. #2: It's ultra-safe LiFeO4 lithium battery electrochemistry is way safer than me trying to make my own more dangerous-to-use-in-confined-spaces Lithium-ion, or LA, or AGM portable concoction.
I missed this thread but it turns out I bought the same unit on the same sale.
pnichols you missed a couple capabilities I use:
- Hi/Low diffuse LED lantern on the back
- Qi wireless charger built into the top
- Both USB A and C ports. So I can charge a laptop through the 100 watt USBC ports
- Overall size is that of a group 34 battery at 1/3 the weight of an AGM. And greater capacity to 0% than a Group 34 AGM to 50%.
MPPT input can be used for solar input up to 200 watts OR you can hook any 12 volt battery into it. For example get one of the inexpensive 100A or 200A LiFePo4 lithium batteries to get an additional 1200 or 2400 watt hours.
Pass through charging: Charge with solar while powering loads at the same time.
I already had a 200 watt Renogy solar suitcase that I can hook into it and works well. We have long wires so that we can camp in shade and have the panel in the sun.
DW can run hair dryer on medium (500 watts) without starting Onan generator.
I have used it with a 200-watt AC tire inflator so I wouldn’t have to start the generator for tire inflation.
The only thing that didn’t work was a 12-volt tire compressor. It sat there and chugged and drew 68 watts but didn’t fully run.
I am not interested in wiring in a large inverter in our class C. I did enough contorting in replacing the failed transfer switch under the drawers in the rear wardrobe.
It will be the go-to unit now in a power outage at home in the dark until I get the generator set up. Grab flashlight under bed, go to closet, get power station, turn on LED light, go to living room, plug lamp into inverter outlet.
It’s also a bug-out unit. You’re not going to get that with a roll-your-own.
I realize the OP was shilling for a particular brand/unit which I took a look at online. It had a number of obviously fake reviews which is a definite warning sign.
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RambleOnNW
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02/21/23 11:23pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Scientists feel no need to debate non-scientists. Over and out.
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RambleOnNW
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02/21/23 12:33pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
It is only in the minds of non-scientists that there is no settled science. Show me a change in the understanding of the photo-electric effect in the last 100 years.
Exxon scientists nailed their global warming predictions in the 1970’s. Dispute that.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/
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RambleOnNW
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02/21/23 12:23pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
You’ve also posted peer reviewed studies that said masks prevented covid. Guess what. I guess science changes as time goes on and you learn more and more. Now to figure out if Pluto is really a planet as was the science for the last 90 years.
Pluto has not changed in the last 90 years. What has changed is that the classification system has changed as more similar planetoids like Pluto have been spotted by more powerful telescopes.
Some science is completely settled and no longer changes. Sure there is incremental engineering refinement but the basic science stands.
For example, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for discovering and explaining the PhotoElectric Effect. 100 years later we have billions of solar panels utilizing that PhotoElectric effect worldwide. "What has changed is that the classification system has changed as more similar planetoids like Pluto have been spotted by more powerful telescopes."
Thank-you for making my point: As scientist learn more through the years, science evolves and changes what was once "settled science".
For the rest of ya'll, my post wasn't about masks (masks were used as an examdple), my post was about peer reviewed studies regarding the eelctric grid. Can we get back on topic?
You ignored part 2. The understanding of the PhotoElectric effect has not changed in 100 years. The photoelectric effect is settled science.
Similarly the understanding that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere has not changed in 100 years. All that has happened since is refining the scientific predictions.
The grid? Convert electricity to green hydrogen and pipe through existing or re-lined natural gas pipelines. Don’t add more ugly power transmission towers. A single hydrogen pipeline can transmit 15 gigawatts, the same as 10 384 kV wire pairs.
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RambleOnNW
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02/21/23 11:29am |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
You’ve also posted peer reviewed studies that said masks prevented covid. Guess what. I guess science changes as time goes on and you learn more and more. Now to figure out if Pluto is really a planet as was the science for the last 90 years.
Pluto has not changed in the last 90 years. What has changed is that the classification system has changed as more similar planetoids like Pluto have been spotted by more powerful telescopes.
Some science is completely settled and no longer changes. Sure there is incremental engineering refinement but the basic science stands.
For example, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for discovering and explaining the PhotoElectric Effect. 100 years later we have billions of solar panels utilizing that PhotoElectric effect worldwide.
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RambleOnNW
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02/20/23 08:02pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
DW and I have been using our 3M N95 Surgical masks from our emergency supplies since the dawn of the Covid pandemic. When the CDC said you didn’t need masks in March 2020 we looked at the Chinese on TV all wearing masks and burning their money in panic we knew it would be bad and we ignored the CDC and wore our N95 masks in stores, etc. We’ve continued to wear them in indoor situations and have only been indoors without masks since with friends and family who are similarly careful.
3 years later neither DW nor I have had Covid. According to the datasheet the masks are 95% effective in filtering at 100nm which is smaller than the Covid particle size of 125nm.
Sure, mask fit is a risk but so far no Covid.
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RambleOnNW
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02/20/23 07:50pm |
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Not at all Sir, I agree completely, and what you describe equates to my personal perspective as well, however I’ve yet to see even a mere modicum of objective (i.e. independent) science to suggest the widely accepted narrative that carbon is bad for the environment…In fact, it far more realistic to suggest that quite the opposite is true…
Truth is at present (or the last two decades) the earth is undergoing a greening process, particularly and more importantly at the mid-arid regions, likely thanks to liberated carbon (a plant fertilizer…) from natural carbon sinks (e.g. rocks, oceans, particularly petroleum)… FWIW, per core samples, the CO2 levels upon earths formation were somewhere between 3000-9000 ppm (5000ppm in submarines and 7000ppm on the Int’l space station…), and at 150ppm or below plant life cannot even exist…There is no additional CO2 on earth (what’s present already exist), all that is happening is the liberation of carbon from natural occurring earth sinks, a return to non-deficit levels…Good luck at trying to get gov’t grant money at making or even suggesting this case, thus a return to one the dimensional narratives (scientism…) of the medieval era…
3 tons
Astounding misinformation of science and the geologic history of the earth. Provide a link to your data source so we can have a scientific dialogue.
Human life has flourished in the last 15,000 years only because climatic conditions have stayed within a narrow range in that time.
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RambleOnNW
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02/20/23 02:57pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
You Chicken little men are too much. A Tesla semi breaks down and you want to scrap the entire program. I wonder if Kenworth had this bashing when there first truck broke down!
Funny thing is we have large wrecker companies, trucker down website and all kinds of resources dedicated to repairing over the road semi trucks.
Why?............Because they break down! They all breakdown. I don't think the Tesla Semi truck sky is falling just yet!
No worries, Musks semi will be put out of business by a real semi truck company, Freightliner, with a 600 mile range hydrogen powered semi and 2 actual front seats for team driving.
https://www.kezi.com/news/zero-emissions-semi-truck-being-designed-by-osu-portland-based-truck-manufacturer/article_ab87379c-96a0-11ed-b2f2-f7a9f237acad.html
Wasnt Nikola suposed to do that?
What happened.
Hydrogen fuel cost more to make then diesel,its extremely dangerous volatile to handle and store.
Its a dead END
Get over it
Freightliner has already been shipping their 220-mile range electric eCascadia, part of their Cascadia architecture. Hydrogen is the next step for long range.
And they are a subsidiary of Daimler.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.eODyMbGKYZHZQtF_AM3uVAHaEK%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=49e54ecd02e72c7eb617a25371d41b874fab02fe081e6265396128696f60404d&ipo=images height=240 width=320
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RambleOnNW
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01/21/23 08:26pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
You Chicken little men are too much. A Tesla semi breaks down and you want to scrap the entire program. I wonder if Kenworth had this bashing when there first truck broke down!
Funny thing is we have large wrecker companies, trucker down website and all kinds of resources dedicated to repairing over the road semi trucks.
Why?............Because they break down! They all breakdown. I don't think the Tesla Semi truck sky is falling just yet!
No worries, Musks semi will be put out of business by a real semi truck company, Freightliner, with a 600 mile range hydrogen powered semi and 2 actual front seats for team driving.
https://www.kezi.com/news/zero-emissions-semi-truck-being-designed-by-osu-portland-based-truck-manufacturer/article_ab87379c-96a0-11ed-b2f2-f7a9f237acad.html
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RambleOnNW
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01/21/23 10:46am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
I prefer to look at science as an ever evolving changing learning experience.
Some science is settled and scientists no longer find a controversy. For example Einstein received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1921 for discovering and explaining the photoelectric effect. Today we have billions of solar panels utilizing that photoelectric effect. Sure there is incremental engineering refinement however the basic science stands.
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 06:54pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Respectfully, the Greeks built the Parthenon.
Thanks, my bad. Meant Pantheon. All the more amazing since it has a concrete dome. With no reinforcing steel.
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 06:25pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
An Exxon study done in 1982 focused on global warming by Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Remarkably, thirty-seven years ago Exxon accurately predicted that by 2019, the earth would hit a carbon dioxide concentration of 415 ppm and a temperature increase of almost 1°C (Figure 1).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2023/01/17/a-fresh-reading-of-exxons-predictions-of-global-warming-and-climate-change-from-40-years-ago/
and yet Exxon just completed a $2B expansion to an oil refinery in Texas after being told by our leaders to increase production, even though said leaders want to shut down their industry. :h
Exxon did nothing for 40 years to solve the problem they knew they were helping to create. Instead they chose to finance obfuscation. Still, even today, they are doing little. It’s on them, their supporters, and the denialists they created for the planetary destruction in progress they have helped create. Hope you enjoyed last summer, it will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life. Over and out.
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 12:38pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
As many have also noted, they have learned some things via this post. Let's continue to do so.
Marty
That’s a right on…
If one wants to learn a lot of interesting stuff, subscribe to Scientific American.
There I recently read about one thing that was in the back of my mind, why are nearly 2000 year old Roman concrete structures like the Pantheon and aqueducts still so intact? Modern concrete doesn’t last very long in comparison. Turns out they had a advantage over modern concrete since they used quicklime. What looked like a mixing mistake that formed clasts in the concrete actually formed a mechanism for self-healing of cracks in the concrete.
Perhaps there is a way to make modern roads much longer lived…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-roman-concrete-has-self-healing-capabilities/
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 12:30pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
An Exxon study done in 1982 focused on global warming by Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Remarkably, thirty-seven years ago Exxon accurately predicted that by 2019, the earth would hit a carbon dioxide concentration of 415 ppm and a temperature increase of almost 1°C (Figure 1).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2023/01/17/a-fresh-reading-of-exxons-predictions-of-global-warming-and-climate-change-from-40-years-ago/
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 11:59am |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
In case you missed it Glickenhaus plans to field a hydrogen Boot truck in the Baja 1000. They challenged Musk to enter a CyberTruck but got crickets for a response.
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/19/scuderia-cameron-glickenhaus-hydrogen-boot-baja-1000-update/
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RambleOnNW
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01/20/23 07:27am |
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