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1. Richard Dawkins Public Lecture - Liverpool 08

Comment #198670 by seals on June 24, 2008 at 10:59 am

I get the same error message. But if you go to the http://keepvid.com/ page posted earlier by spoo (thanks!), and paste the link of the google error page, it still downloads. (178 MB and plays in VLC).

2. New discovery proves 'selfish gene' exists

Comment #197241 by seals on June 21, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Someone has posted on the Evolution & Natural selection forum that the research will be in the July issue of Genetics.

3. Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paula Kirby

Comment #159147 by seals on April 11, 2008 at 1:51 pm

That was both interesting and entertaining. Good thing Richard battled on in spite of the virus or whatever it was that affected his voice - can you imagine what claims the opposition would be making if he couldn't talk on the day.

And I wonder if the rambling prophecy guy is right now claiming he was silenced by the presenter?

4. Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paula Kirby

Comment #157731 by seals on April 9, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I'm so glad these videos have appeared as I didn't get to the event (I usually end up behind a pillar anyways). I'm downloading them tonight v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

Congratulations Paula, on being so super cool. Your voice reminds me of Jenny Agutter!

5. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #137265 by seals on March 2, 2008 at 3:21 pm

It's fascinating to see the setting for those momentuous revelations. Very atmospheric... loved it.

6. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #132051 by seals on February 24, 2008 at 3:23 am

All is revealed, thanks! Nice ambience there.

7. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #131805 by seals on February 23, 2008 at 11:05 am

Re: socks with sandals - maybe those lizards (or other creatures) bite!

8. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #131682 by seals on February 23, 2008 at 2:23 am

The Galagpagos islands look to be an intriguing place, which I hope never becomes a tourist hotspot. I see this as a kind of travelogue enhanced with RD's insights. If it fell short of a bbc documentary in any way this escaped me. Captivating from so many different angles... what more could you want (except it could have been longer - more more more!)

9. Archbishop's 8 March centennial message: Let Sharia Law govern women's lives, Amen!

Comment #128669 by seals on February 17, 2008 at 2:38 pm

I don't understand the title of this article - it wasn't mentioned in the main text. Can anyone explain it?!


I think it's a summary, it's what the AB of C is in effect saying with his statement about sharia law, whether he realised it or not. 8 March is International Women's Day. At least, that's what I make of it.

10. Sharia fiasco

Comment #124888 by seals on February 10, 2008 at 11:49 am

A blast of fresh air - I love it!

11. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111403 by seals on January 14, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Good luck George! What memories of the war you must have. Many thanks for all you have done - I hope all goes smoothly and for a quick recovery.

12. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #105012 by seals on December 30, 2007 at 10:30 am

Father Morris (as he is irritatingly known) - was he putting on a big show for the camera or what?

Anyhow, he seemingly accused RD of not being intellectually honest in calling Hitler and Stalin practicing christians - I must have missed RD saying that - all I heard him say was that Stalin's deeds were not done in the name of atheism, and Hitler's were not done in the name of Roman Catholicism. Was this was a careless mistake or deliberate misrepresentation by Father Morris?

13. Archbishop of Canterbury Praises Richard Dawkins

Comment #104695 by seals on December 29, 2007 at 6:16 am

If Dr Williams, a christian, accepts RDs "amazement and awe at God's creation" as genuine, (and to me, it's amazing that RW should do so and admit it), I don't see what opinion of RDs world view he could have, other than that RD is an unconscious believer while consciously/wilfully denying god's existence. The alternative would be for RW to accept the atheistic viewpoint as valid. Maybe he does that too, on the quiet?

14. Richard Dawkins - Science and the New Atheism

Comment #95848 by seals on December 9, 2007 at 10:49 am


137. Comment #95559 by krisking on December 8, 2007 at 3:26 pm
....and why does he think he needs social courage to break out of eating meat? Plenty of people I know don't eat meat.


I'm beginning to wonder if there is some social bonding thing going on with eating meat. Not quite so much when choosing the veggie option in a restaurant, but when you visit someone's house and refuse the offer of say, a sausage roll (cos you know they aren't the Linda McCartney kind) - you have to explain that you don't eat meat, and this does seem to cause a reaction. Even though I don't volunteer why I don't eat it, which apart from the factory farming aspect, is because I don't like the taste, texture or smell (not even bacon grilling, the thing that's supposed to turn us all into instant carnivores). Not eating baked beans, curries, eggs or whatever, is seen as just a harmless fad but there does seem to be a wariness of the vegetarian - or am I being paranoid?

I find that when having safely pre-ordered a veggie option at the restaurant quite often when you arrive that option is no longer available, is part of "an out of date menu" and you're left with the more common veggie dishes eg. veg lasagne or even on occasion, cheese salad - although according to the menu, there is a wide variety of vegetarian choices. Makes me wonder if some of these menus are just for show! (nothing wrong with veg lasagne, but if that's all they have, their menu should make this clear).

15. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #86969 by seals on November 10, 2007 at 7:13 pm

On the subject of children generally speaking, suppose something were to happen unexpectedly - accidentally meeting someone who had a diverting influence, or even a fatal accident or illness - to prevent them from eventually getting the message about God, which the parent hoped and expected would reach them in the fullness of time. Do they get sent to burn in hell forever, as a result of the previous misfortune - It just doesn't seem fair! and no different to what happens in real life, where one misfortune does often lead to another. Depressingly familiar, you'd think God would arrange things differently.

And how can anyone envisage blissfully relaxing in heaven while their nearest and dearest are suffering torment in hell. This idea leaves me totally creeped out.

16. There Go The Dinosaurs

Comment #73858 by seals on September 26, 2007 at 11:30 am

No doubt it's all metaphorical, poetic and symbolic, rather than factual in a scientific sense. To think otherwise is just a sensationalist, emotive misunderstanding of religion ... (roll eyes)

17. Review of Darwin's Angel

Comment #70243 by seals on September 14, 2007 at 1:52 pm

It is an intuition, a sense of something more than meets the eye, a glimpse of transcendence, of a higher purpose, but nothing more tangible.

End of a long, long day and maybe I'm not quite with it. I haven't read Cornwell's book (have no intention of doing so) but from this review, this sounds like Einstein's version of god - so what is all the fuss about? Surely many if not most people have had those moments of awe and wonder. I don't think TGD was written with this barely-there god in mind. It seems a very flimsy frame to hold the weight of all that biblical fire and brimstone stuff.

It reminds me of Rene in 'Allo 'Allo who whenever his wife catches him in flagrante delicto, calls her "You stupid woman!" and comes out with some preposterous explanation for his actions.

18. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68696 by seals on September 8, 2007 at 7:24 am

All those books - surely they protest too much?

Anyone who doesn't feel that life is too short and manages to plow through that lot, please report back here on anything of substance. I won't be holding my breath though...

19. The importance of doubt

Comment #67036 by seals on September 1, 2007 at 12:42 pm

Re John Cornwell - his name does appear inside the paperback alongside the following

'... could not be more apt for our time - [Dawkins] pulls out all the stops to demonstrate the force of his thesis in this passionate new book... lively and highly readable'

This is reminscent of Rod Liddle whose comment is on the back, but who expressed another opinion elsewhere.

Oddly Ian McEwan's quote is on the front cover of the paperback. Someone of that name is mentioned a lot in Private Eye's satirical "Summer Reading" section, including the piece attributed to RD (a whole lot of people got caricatured in that article - RD is alongside Jordan!)

What does it all mean?

20. The Gullible Age: Review of 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #61494 by seals on August 5, 2007 at 11:10 am

Re: 26. Comment #61412 by Richard Morgan

Way back, when I was still living in the UK, I had a friend who eked out a humble living as a free-lance journalist, selling mainly to those bastions of the British intelligentsia such as The News of the World, The People and , occasionally the Manchester Evening News. He specialised in "exposing" frauds in all sorts of areas - health, religion, pyramid sales etc.
One time he exposed a con-artist who was selling a miracle cure for baldness. Very expensive bottles of magic lotion which contained nothing but perfumed water. So, the scam as exposed. And that was the end of the story.
Well, not quite. A few weeks later my friend was contacted by the would-be saviour of the world's baldies : "Do you think you could expose me again, please? Business has never been better!"


I do wonder if giving this new age stuff too much attention might be counterproductive, as some people might be inclined to think if it's worth confronting, there must be something it it?

21. The Gullible Age: Review of 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #61491 by seals on August 5, 2007 at 11:07 am

I always thought this new age stuff is pretty harmless. Many years ago just out of curiosity I went to a psychic fair and it was like an amusement arcade sort of atmosphere. Even then I wouldn't dream of relying on it for anything important, and have lost interest now - though it was funny one day at work to be lectured on how my house was a bad layout in feng shui terms as the stairs go straight up from the front door, letting out the energy or something... I thought what do you want me to do, sue Barratts or knock a hole in another wall or what?

Its my impression that those who claim to be experts, even when they are just giving impromptu advice free of charge, are really just massaging their ego on the strength of others' "ignorance" of this claptrap.

22. Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

Comment #59771 by seals on July 30, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Re : 18. Comment #59758 by Bonzai

I don't have philosophical terminology, so all I can say is if this is nihilsm, it's not all bad. But I didnt mention nihilism until you did - there generally seems to be some paranoia about that here ... what I meant was, in not having to think about ultimate meanings, something clicks in a way that frees you to move on and just be yourself, whatever that may be, not measure up to some ideal. And it's okay not to feel wonderful all the time.

It's the death of others, rather than the self which is the problem I think, our own death we're not going to know anything about, but until then we have to deal with death of family and friends with increasing frequency. (Only mentioning this for the sake of completeness).

23. Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

Comment #59756 by seals on July 30, 2007 at 2:51 pm

No I meant it seriously. It's the truth - in a way, its a relief. I thought this was all about the truth not being what we've been led to believe, which may not accord with our personal experience and impressions.

24. Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

Comment #59744 by seals on July 30, 2007 at 1:57 pm

I used to wonder why life sometimes seems hollow, meaningless and pointless. Now I know why... life really is hollow, meaningless and pointless!

Problem solved :)

25. Is there an Artificial God?

Comment #57869 by seals on July 21, 2007 at 6:18 pm

It is easier to believe a lie like life after death than to face the square reality ...


If an artificial god, why not an artificial afterlife... at least we'll never be disappointed.

26. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

Comment #54593 by seals on July 8, 2007 at 2:26 am

134. Comment #54590

However, atheists have a lot to say about religious beliefs, so it would be nice if they acknowledged that the same applies to moral beliefs.


Maybe morality isn't a belief, but an instinct?

if you think something is wrong, it isn't necessary to refer to a book to confirm your thoughts on the matter (at least, certainly not a holy book).

27. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

Comment #54548 by seals on July 7, 2007 at 5:52 pm

127. Comment #54526

"It is possible to be moral, advocate morality, live a satisfying life, and help others, without believing in "god". That is what humanists do."


I would agree. Where I would disagree would be if you said "It is possible to be moral, advocate morality, live a satisfying life, and help others, if there is no God." Humanists can be moral, because God is still real even if they don't believe in God, and morality is still there even if you can't explain how it could be. However, if there were no God, there could be no morality. Humanists could behave altruistically, but altruism would not be 'good'.



I still don't see, in all that people said above, how you can have genuine morality, meaning that one course of action is actually right, and another is objectively wrong, alongside atheism.


If god makes morality real for humanists, who don't believe in god, then even from the point of view of the believer, there should similarly be no problem about morality with atheism?

28. A child's Darwinian revolution (Review of 'Growing Up in the Universe')

Comment #53362 by seals on July 1, 2007 at 3:08 am

Nice review. Almost wish I had children to watch the dvd now. In an ideal world... *Sob* ... Only kidding!

Truly sad about Douglas Adams, though. "Those who deserve a long life are cut off in the prime of their years... "

29. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

Comment #53271 by seals on June 30, 2007 at 1:20 pm

Haha quite a demolition job - c'mon say what you really feel! If thats RD feeling sorry for Behe, what if it was no holds barred.... but then again, facts are facts.

I would not dare read Michael Behe's book, just in case I started remembering fragments of it without realising where I remembered them from. That's the danger of these non-information books.

30. Lecture on Sex Ratio Theory and Sexual Selection

Comment #53198 by seals on June 30, 2007 at 4:10 am

Given that female humans stop being fertile in their 30s, why such a long life span? How does natural selection account for the presence of so many old timers among us? Are grandparents somehow necessary for the species?


I think this is what Dawkins tentatively explains in The Selfish Gene, Battle of the generations (ch 8) - with age, women in the natural state become less efficient at bringing up children, and the existence of a "grandchild altruism" gene, which would prosper when grandchildren have a greater expectation of life than children. So genes for becoming infertile in middle age become more numerous. Of course, it's way better explained in the book.

Paradoxically, as the age for menopause approaches, it's easy to get lulled into a false sense of security!

31. Richard Dawkins talks about Darwin and his visit to the Galapagos

Comment #53190 by seals on June 30, 2007 at 3:06 am

Re: Comment 4. #52990 Alarmingly, as apparently 99% of species that ever existed are already extinct - dinosaurs, mastodons, mammoths, sabre toothed cats etc, we're down to 1% already. I hope evolution is continuously taking place as on the evolutionary timescale, Earth will be a lifeless place pretty soon otherwise...

32. Lecture on Sex Ratio Theory and Sexual Selection

Comment #53156 by seals on June 29, 2007 at 5:55 pm

Great videos, thanks, wishful thinking I know but I almost feel like I was on that trip. Even the picture behind RD's head, of what looks like rock formations and waves crashing on a shoreline (or is it clouds in the sky?) has become so familiar, I could swear I'd seen it before. Poor Richard... always having to work to deadlines, like 1 minute for Q&A - what's to follow that could be more important than this?

33. Response to Orr

Comment #42894 by seals on May 20, 2007 at 4:33 am

I said you adopted a double standard-like many atheists, I might add-and were attempting to protect religion from serious criticism, for reasons I am curious to know. These misconstruals do not strike me as unintended, but perhaps you read with a broad brush.


I thought he meant, not that many atheists adopt a double standard, but that many atheists said he (Orr) adopted a double standard?

34. Dawkins transcendent

Comment #40076 by seals on May 13, 2007 at 2:58 am

Re: Comment #40043

Much more to the point and of far more importance, what was Richard thinking of when he bought that donkey shown in the picture? Had he just come back from his holidays in Ibiza?


from the other Ruth Gledhill article May 9 -

In the background, as we speak, are the carved wooden fairground figures collected by his wife, Lalla (Ward), daughter of the seventh Viscount Bangor and known to Doctor Who fans as Romana.

Maybe this is the explanation? but I dont think the drawing is "numinous" (should it be?) at least not what I understood by the word, or even a likeness! Baffling.

35. 1986 Oxford Union Debate

Comment #25485 by seals on March 13, 2007 at 4:19 pm

I noticed that too, I thought maybe someone was changing tapes but after only 14 minutes?

Very atmospheric anyhow, I had no idea at that time about creationists.

36. William Crawley meets Richard Dawkins

Comment #23766 by seals on March 2, 2007 at 2:47 pm

A very good interview, but regarding the vulnerability of the underlying assumptions of science to the same critique as the underlying assumptions of religion, I was disappointed that Dawkins didn't point out the crucial difference: that the assumptions needed to make science work are exactly the same for everyone, and are demonstrable and testable as such.

Hmm I could be mistaken but I thought that was what he meant, when after admitting that common sense, ie not being able to walk through doors, is subject to the same limitations as science, he said "I accept that"? But, that isn't accepting very much - it just seemed like he was accepting something, when he wasn't. Or am I missing something? probably... On the other hand talk about eating humble pie, as some would see it anyways, being interviewed in church!

37. Faith

Comment #23280 by seals on February 27, 2007 at 1:36 pm

11. Comment #23019 by Russell Blackford

... And as for the abominable expression "people of faith" - analogous to "people of colour", as if it is religionists who have rational cause to fear persecution and intolerance - well, this is one of my pet hates. I am currently on a one-person mission to challenge this expression; anyone here want to join in?


You're right, but I think it's unstoppable so how about calling ourselves people of reason?

Mind you sometimes I wonder if atheism is right to reject being called a religion. If it was regarded as a religion, atheists could whinge on in the same way as the religious do and get heard, and get all those religious perks, like their "belief" getting treated with reverence. (That's the theory... )

38. Panel discussion on atheism where no atheists are included

Comment #21057 by seals on February 7, 2007 at 12:41 pm

No need to get knickers in a twist about this IMO ... Atheism being a minimalist philosophy, will always be less attractive to the kind of - well, the word that springs to mind may not be allowed - seen here (the guy was not so bad, he supported free speech). People like to shout about their faith/belief, not lack of it, and if you "believe there is no god", that makes atheism into a belief, which atheists claim not to be?

I think I would actually put up and shut up, if I lived there. I would not care if the cents and dollars have in god we trust on them. They don't say which god, anyhow. Likewise one nation under god - but which god? who cares? It sounds grand, but is totally meaningless. It's just a quaint thing about america, and there's a lot worse going on in the whole world to worry about. I lived there for a while; I was asked if i minded saying the pledge before class, being british, but i didn't mind because it was totally meaningless to me. *shrug*

39. Atheist Rap: Extian, The Verse from Atheist Nation Pt III

Comment #20658 by seals on February 5, 2007 at 2:36 pm

It's okay but I like Nas ;) although I have little clue about these lyrics either!

40. The Chronicles of Kearnya, or, Principles of Evolution Observed in the Field at Kearny High School

Comment #20543 by seals on February 4, 2007 at 1:00 am

Maybe this is silly, but could they use their mobile phones to record, no tapes involved.

41. Root of All Evil? Discussion

Comment #20460 by seals on February 2, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Whoa, the religious nuts are becoming caricatures of themselves... entertaining, if it weren't so deadly serious. The more I see of these discussions, the more I think space travel sounds like a good idea - there should be an escape route in case they take over the world. The good guys were good though! And for a change the presenter wasn't on "the other side".

It looked like RD on a videoconference?, so maybe it wasn't too gruelling for him. It must be so wearisome to meet the same cliched accusations every time. Even I start to see a pattern emerging...

42. The Mystery of Consciousness

Comment #20149 by seals on January 31, 2007 at 3:33 pm

And when the physiological activity of the brain ceases, as far as anyone can tell the person's consciousness goes out of existence. Attempts to contact the souls of the dead (a pursuit of serious scientists a century ago) turned up only cheap magic tricks, and near death experiences are not the eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain. In September, a team of Swiss neuroscientists reported that they could turn out-of-body experiences on and off by stimulating the part of the brain in which vision and bodily sensations converge.

There did seem to be something going on in victorian times. How to explain how they got the results that they did? A lot of mediums were fakes as always, or became fake as it was more convenient, but there were apparently some utterly inexplicable goings on. Heh, maybe spirits are like comets and only come around every few centuries ... Just because there were/are a lot of fake mediums around, doesn't necessarily mean that the real thing doesn't exist but sure makes it harder to find.

If an experience can be simulated, doesn't mean the real thing doesnt happen; I would think it actually makes it more likely to happen, as the facility is demonstrably there. But why should there be a near death experience? At the moment of dying a natural death, the individual is just a husk of their former self, has served whatever purpose they had - propagating their genes or whatever, and will not live to tell the tale, however unpleasant the ending may be. They are now quite inconsequential. So why all the stuff about a tunnel of light, out of body experience etc? It's not like you can look back on it later, like a fond memory, "the day I passed away". Why should there be anything remotely pleasant at the end - wouldn't it make more sense if everything just went black.

Edit - (just in case anyone reads this, which I doubt, but still... ) for remotely pleasant, I meant apparently meaningful, ie. symbolic of something yet to happen such as light at the end of a tunnel, a being of light. I mean, who cares when we are literally minutes or even seconds from death. Why should symptoms of oxygen starvation occurring at death produce comforting visions/hallucinations?

43. The Mystery of Consciousness

Comment #19533 by seals on January 28, 2007 at 1:45 am

Just wondering, what are the simplest conscious animals, and how to determine if they are conscious, ie have subjective experience? I doubt if microbes are conscious, but some very small insects, barely visible to the naked eye, do give that impression - do they even have a brain, in the normal sense, or just some kind of nerve centre? They certainly move fast when you try to catch them but maybe this is just a reflex from stimulus to the eye. (If it is just a reflex, does this actually mean they are not conscious?) Spiders can seem quite clever in the inaccessible places they lurk, again this may be instinct, yet some seem cleverer than others. It seems obvious all mammals and birds must be conscious.

44. Grief Without God

Comment #19531 by seals on January 28, 2007 at 1:16 am

"God never gives us more than we can handle" - This is so blatantly untrue, I wonder how they have the nerve to say it. Another version is "God will not try them beyond their strength". Oh no? happens many times, every day...

I once took prozac during a difficult time, but couldn't notice any effect of the drug either. I find long walks are more effective but of course, everyones' reasons for their depression are different.

45. A Culture of Faith, Devoted Yet Complex

Comment #19423 by seals on January 27, 2007 at 4:39 am

FWIW, while I may not be a true-blue atheist, I find Haggard quite insufferable. I did see the progams on TV, but focusing on this one clip is an eye opener.

"Your grandchildren might listen to the tape of you saying that and laugh at you"... talking to RD while smiling sideways presumably at people off camera... misinformation (that evolution states the eye formed "by accident") ... that chanting, know it all singsong voice... etc

*shudder*

Enough to give any reasonable person high blood pressure.

46. A Culture of Faith, Devoted Yet Complex

Comment #19191 by seals on January 25, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Oh yeah, poor old Haggard. What a sleazebucket. The word supercilious was coined for him. Well he got his comeuppance, after watching that clip, can't say I feel much sympathy...

47. The Mystery of Consciousness

Comment #18906 by seals on January 23, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Whatever the solutions to the Easy and Hard problems turn out to be, few scientists doubt that they will locate consciousness in the activity of the brain. For many nonscientists, this is a terrifying prospect. Not only does it strangle the hope that we might survive the death of our bodies, but it also seems to undermine the notion that we are free agents responsible for our choices--not just in this lifetime but also in a life to come.

Hmm but scientists aren't exactly known for their impartiality at times are they .... they seem to have something to prove too... Actually, as a non scientist whilst I might be able to cope with the thought of an afterlife in some other dimension, I find the prospect of reincarnation here on earth far more terrifying than annihilation. For a start it seems so popular in India, and I haven't any wish to go there ;)

As for undermining freedom ... if I feel free, relatively speaking, surely I am free? *shrug* Absolute freedom doesn't exist in these conditions.

48. 12 Year Old Girl Prodigy Paints Pictures of God

Comment #18718 by seals on January 22, 2007 at 4:03 pm

The video was jerky and the sound intermittent, but from what I could see, too nauseatingly chocolate box-y ... (IMO) and the hands are way too small!

49. Atheist Richard Dawkins on 'The God Delusion'

Comment #18462 by seals on January 21, 2007 at 4:10 am

I find there is a lot more to dreams than meets the eye, although not so far any evidence of god ;) They seem not always to refer to the past/present, but sometimes future situations and events. Therefore they do seem like nonsense on waking, but if recorded, they can sometimes fall into place later, maybe months/years later. (I know this sounds cuckoo... ) Sometimes quite trivial events, sometimes not. This just happens with so many dreams, eventually the meaning sinks in. How often do you find yourself reminded during the day of last night's ludicrous dream? And there are dreams that seem like part of a pattern, like the hero myth dream. I think I had something like that one once.

50. Neither intellect nor faith will save humanity

Comment #18427 by seals on January 20, 2007 at 6:09 pm

I thought the 1st comment was tongue in cheek?

2004 - thats all right then. I got quite confused there for a moment, January seems an odd time of year for the book festival, bit drafty in that tent... (if it is still held in the tent, that is)

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