The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22): Recent Episodes
John MaGuirk
12 1/2 minutes each Monday about the universe in your pocket or purse. If you have a new App I’d like to hear about it, call 615/584-2717 go to voice mail and leave your nomination & contact information to receive a Starbucks gift card.
Banjo Music Courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Civil War Medley
Memo to News Channel 17 Nashville -- Alice Rolli hits the first question out of the park, while that boob from the metro council stammers & cites nonsense. I'm not voting for anyone who was on the council that raised our local taxes by 40%..
Locally West Nile virus mosquitos have been found in Nashville, look for standing water in your backyard.
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Last the numbers don’t work in order to receive 24 hour “sunshine” a propeller device would have to fly in the troposphere which begins 18 miles above Earth. 70,000 feet equates to just over 13 miles.
A solar powered device might work well up until September 21st but after that nights will be longer than days. Even at 70,000 ft.
If these drones did log 67 Continous days of flight it was obviously done as a relay no single unit could manage it. The numbers just don’t work!
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The Entertainer
This is your iPhone tip of the day a beta version of iOS 17 has been released to developers. If your iPhone prompts to upgrade — Don’t Do It!
You can’t go back. Beta versions are not intended for the casual user.
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In addition to ads for Nashville Ballet Xmas overdone production of the Nutcracker. Home decorating is a cottage industry even our local Hallmark retailer is celebrating Xmas in July. It’s disgusting!
AccuWeather gets into the act beating the drum for their fall foliage guide with at least three months to go before fall arrives.
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Join me on Monday when I explain election law to those dunces in Colorado, seeking to bar Donald Trump, before he’s even a candidate.
Hint: it involves a recent Supreme Court Decision.
Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church.
Answer: this was the only place a known tax cheat could get an audience!
Later this week on Losing Control of The Language Podcast we’ll talk about airlines, your safety, and your discomfort.
In the meantime see if you can decipher this sentence —
“…They are built for people from the 40’2/50’s. They cannot remotely accommodate a person over 6 ft or 200 pounds….. I’m 5ft tall and I even feel too confined in these seats….” WSJ 07-15/16 (another misnomer)
You heard here First — Flying on a domestic airline is more about stuffing sausage than passenger comfort!
Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church,
Seri is a cranky bitch. She doesn’t respect homonyms or synonyms, and every language is loaded with them. For example, there’s a difference, however slight, between a submarine & a submersible.
Hack Number two Using homonyms or synonyms requires human discernment.
Take it away Webster -- Homonym - a word with the same pronunciation as another but with a different meaning, origin or usually spelling. Webster NewWorld second edition (2002) P-304
I know the modern usage is “homograph”, but it’s less precise in definition./Ed note.Synonym a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language. IBID.P642
Next time I explain Lake Mead is not Rising, Lake Powell is being emptied another Hack number one of ChatWTF
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee.
Can you believe it — a “professor” of clinical research said:
“It’s really hard to boil water….. ."
Don’t believe me, read it for your self the WSJ July 1 - 2 p/D-5
No, good coffee requires hot water, just off the boil. I didn’t say it — Alton Brown says so. The writer was touting a $645 machine, which imitates a $7.00 Melitta single-serve device she used in college. Let’s consider renaming news writing ChatGRP - Chat/WTF.
Just because your so-called Barista can pull a handle doesn’t mean he knows coffee! Even if he has an MFAEngLit/Thank You, George Orwell.
*Let me let you with this thought — We live in a country that won’t drink instant coffee, but we are okay with news writing by Chat/WTF.
Next Time Hack Number Two of ChatWTF -- Seri is a cranky Bitch*
Closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, You can’t tell me the captain of the Titanic might have been warned.
Hack Number Four for spotting AI in news writing: When AI compiles a list it will include redundancies & conflicting statements.
Closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church.
One wag once remarked that watching a bicycle race on TV was like watching grass grow. Meaning it didn’t happen fast enough.
That’s where the similarity to baseball begins. No matter what you might think professional baseball is slow & deliberate.
Consider these words from Bull Durham the movie
“Strike-outs are boring the fans want action…”
Kevin Costner as Crash Davis catcher
Next time we meet
“You Can't Tell Me What He Knew - That's Hearsay” -- Judge Judy — Or Hack number one in spotting NewSpeak in news writing.
AI is not a silver bullet, it’s a dum/dum(b) bullet, they do more damage.
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut Waiting for The Robert E. Lee.
Yes, Seri Can Get It Wrong Again, A cogent list requires discernment
Fault Number Four for spotting AI in news writing:
When AI compiles a list it will include redundancies & conflicting statements.
Seen on Today (Channel Four Nashville) more evidence of AI’s basic flaws —
A story about Summer Savings in the fuel department — I find these two items on the list:
Use a credit card to accumulate rewards points,
Pay Cash,
Buy regular gas,
Of course, the “human” host created the caveat.
(Buy premium if your car requires it)
Here’s Seri’s problem —
Seri was tasked to make a list, she was not asked to eschew conflicting statements — that’s a human attribute.
Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church
Wisdom from baseball edition this is The Wizard Of iPhone Speaking series iii 06 - 26 - (20-23)
Join me Wednesday Wizard of iPhone/Special Series II #24 06 - 28 (20-23) There is no immaculate connection Burner Phones Are Used by Dopes who don't know better. Or you can't ever be the smartest guy in the room!
Today's avatar courtesy of Wikipedia - "Twenty Walking Liberty half dollars (left), which contain 90% silver. In an example of Gresham's law, these coins were quickly hoarded by the public after the Coinage Act of 1965 debased half dollars to contain only 40% silver, and then were debased entirely in 1971 to base cupronickel (right)."
Today's factoid -- Memo to POSITV Stalag 17 depicts life in a prisoner of war camp, NOT a "death camp" -- Typically the Luftwaffe (read military) was responsible.
Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Waiting For The Robert E. Lee.
Let’s examine this proposition:
Much of the water pictured in the FNB/Weather photo, has arrived from the “west” via the Missouri River.
The reason I mention i70 I noticed from the time you leave St.Louis (486ft above sea level) you are driving uphill to Denver, Colorado “the mile high city” (5280ft.) above sea level.
Water from the Mississippi River won’t flow west, it has to be pushed west.
To reach the Colorado River basin any water has to cross the Continental Divide. I have peddled my bicycle over Tennessee Pass - the highest railway pass in North America and it’s over 10,000 feet.
Every day the Edmonton Lift plant uses thirty percent of the generating capacity of Boulder Dam to provide drinking water for the City of Los Angeles.
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church recorded live via iPhone 07-22-2022
Digital rule of life number one:
It's not what we don't know which endangers us, it's what we do know which is Wrong which imperils us!
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Under The Double Eagle
In a recent TV documentary centering on the loss USS Scorpion (SSN-589) it was postulated a “hydrogen explosion” from batteries. FYI/Nuclear submarines do not have batteries. Nuclear reactors produce steam without combustion.
The Nation Agonizes Over Roe V Wade It’s a crock of crap
I have watched virtually every hearing for Supreme Court justices since Bork and every nominee who was approved “promised” to protect “a woman’s right to choose.” That is except for Judge Bork who refused to answer that question.
As he reminded the committee his personal feelings are what we ask justices “to put aside” & rule on the law of the thing
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Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Join me on Wednesday of this week -- Those E-bike fires in New York City are not spontaneous — they are a sign of poor management. We are living in the age of lowered expectations, while we can buy “forever” postage, our digital devices are limited by charging cycles. Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo Hang Out
Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The Entertainer
The one thing which Wikipedia and most history gloss over is that unlike America’s Ninji Warriors & most modern reality TV shows, behind the scenes (of This Old House) is an editor who reviews the tape and spices it together to create “the show”. His equipment was a razor blade and tape! This was in the age before digital production.
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Battle Hymn of The Republic / Dixie
As Dave Ramsey is fond of saying “Christmas is in December This Year”
Ramsey’s Christmas Cash giveaway is back there will be five weekly prizes of $500 & one grand prize of $5000,
Enter daily for a chance to win there is no charge to you & you may enter daily on each device. To discourage “bot” entries Ramsey Solutions have engaged “CapChta”.
FYI/From your smartphone check the box to accept texts to confirm your entry.
Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Jazzy Jerico
Closing courtesy of. Steinway & Sons Sprio plays The Entertainer recorded by iPhone December 2014 at Green Hills Mall used with permission.
We conclude our series about America’s favorite celebratory beverage, on our alternate channel GeekOfTheWeek and talk about the science of bubbles & opening techniques. Join me on Monday, November 7th Wizard Of iPhone Speaks when I will tell the real history of Thanksgiving, & guess what fans — Pilgrims nor Indians had anything to do with it — that’s strictly Norman Rockwell stuff.
Open piano music courtesy of Tucker Biddlecomb recorded 10-30-2022 via iPhone Closing Banjo music courtesy of BanjoHangOut The Entertainer
Next time We’ll lead off with November Silliness — The baseball season used to conclude with the “October Classic” -- Memo to Speaker Pelosi — Hubby hasn’t been behaving:
“Harvey you’re a bright guy & God willing you may want to be president one day… but every hip person knows, this one (seated agent) is toting around that one (blonde bombshell) for you….”Burt Lancaster as — J.J.Hunsecker Sweet Smell of Success/1957 — The classic definition of a “beard” — NY 50’s street slang!FYI/If you watch this movie on TCM look for Ron Howard’s stepmom (Judy Howard) in a Cameo role, as the “long-suffering wife” of another gossip columnist.
Vocal courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission.
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Music courtesy of Bellevue (37-221) Presbyterian Church recorded by iPhone.
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It might be great Spanish grammar, but it’s a fraud, just like our so-called global warming and sea level rise.
Here’s the 411 — The Pacific weather pattern known as El Niño is a warm flow off our western coast, it is forced offshore, by the Japan Current a cold water flow (south).
The onshore winds, pick up moisture over the warm current but tend to dump it before reaching the coast, which puts California in a drought pattern.
The weather pattern El Niño means child/“boy” in Spanish, because of its erratic behavior, (Spanish words are gender specific) normal pattern is the flow of warm water forces the Japan Current offshore hence more moisture for California….
This is the same nonsense that has given us those wonderful Him-a-canes & Her-a-canes.
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Piano music courtesy of Steinway & Sons "Spiro" plays The Entertainer recorded by iPhone at Green Hills Mall (2014) used with permission.
So gentle listener be advised you need to be frequently changing your password on the ATT network. Password managers like DashLane are no help, because of the limitations of the ATTs’ network.
FYI/the BBB lady missed one important “clue” be wary of any payment method involving the use of pre-paid gift cards. Reliable businesses rarely activate this form of payment.
PS BBBs’ explanation was lame & not specific enough because they did understand the nature of the hack.
Banjo music courtesy of Banjo Hang Out -- This is a Monday Holiday re-run of material previously posted in 20-20.
This is a Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade Extra
Consider this speech from Bull Durham by Kevin Costner.
“I believe in three things: The baseball sweet spot, Long slow wet kisses which last a lifetime, and that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot President Kennedy…”
Kevin Costner portrayed Jim Garrison, New Orlean’s, DA in the movie JFK, which speculated an assassination conspiracy — never believed anywhere else but in this movie.
Certainly, Christopher might have been better off with a One and Done. After his first voyage, his reward was the title Admiral of The Ocean Sea. It’s not well known he returned from his last voyage in chains. So much for Ollie's assertion that CC plundered those peaceful savages he encountered.
For a graphic representation of Columbus's career, I suggest you consult a Scotts' Stamp Catalogue.
Look up United States Post Office Colombian Exhibition stamp series 1892/3. The two-cent Purple Columbus landing in the New World was USPOs’ best-selling stamp until the 1993 Elvis stamp. That alone should tell you just how far we have fallen as a nation.
Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church...
Join me on Monday when I will retell the story of The World’s First Government Contractor, Christopher Columbus first Admiral of The Ocean Sea.
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Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, The Entertainer
There is Hope however try YouMail it’s available in the App Store or GooglePlay and it’s free to download!
I’ve used it let me tell you about it, there are an increasing number of clones YouMail was first.
I used the free version on my business iPhone. At that time the free version only permitted 25 blocked calls per month.
iPhone users were permitted to block calls starting with iOS 7. Before that, if you wanted to block a call you had to add the caller to Contacts. It was all good however Contacts is bottomless. Unlike my Motorola razor which permitted only 40 contacts.
If you have multiple smartphones on a family plan, YouMail will permit “family sharing”, so you will need only one subscription.
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Music courtesy of Bellevue Bluegrass Trio at Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission, recorded by iPhone.
California’s electric problems may soon be over — Two months ago (July 25) it was reported that a turbine exploded at Hoover Dam. The report was incorrect — it was a transformer fire.
Generating Turbines are not off-the-shelf equipment, of course neither are transformers, but there are many of them, and they are much easier to repair they are an exterior part, not like a turbine and interior part.
Instead of not charging Tesla’s, perhaps housewives in LA can “line dry” their clothes, go back to hand washing dishes or turn off every other light in their home. Any one of these strategies will ease the shortage.
PS You may not use solar energy to charge your Tesla, it requires 220V & we live in a 110V society.
The Blair String Quartet plays Hyden -- recorded by iPhone at Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission.
Don't Forget -- Book signing by Fran Myers author of When God Speaks -- Listening for the. voice of God -- Saturday, September 24 -- 11 AM to 1 PM -- St. Paul's Book Store -- 1909 West End Ave. Nashville, TN. for more information call 615/329-1835
Banjo music courtesy of. Banjo HangOut "The very thought of you"
Today's avatar -- a fancy doggie fountain in a park with unpaved roads.
Don't forget a book signing by Fran Myers author of When God Speaks - Listening to the voice of God -- Saturday, September 24th, 11 AM to 1 PM St Mary's Bookstore -- 1909 West End Avenue, Nashville Tennessee.
I am reading from a new novella The Trial of Bridget O’Shawnesse By Jerome Cowan.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church & Dr. Ming Wang
Answer on terrestrial radio they cost you more! Ask Kim Komando!
A token of my appreciation is winging its way toward podnews an online podcast development service from the UK.
A podcast critic from the UK dinged a podcast host for “doing it badly”. Of course, he’s entitled to his opinion.
If you’re lucky enough to have a sponsor, treat them well.
The only thing poor performance can cost you is listeners & they are everything.
Yes, it helps to “separate” commercial content from “editorial” but that’s a function of “stingers”. Those little broadcast squiggles are so beloved of “real” radio.
I am reminded of a comment by Mark Twain “Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.”
I have changed it to: “Don’t pick a fight with anyone who only goes by initials which includes: IRS, BMI, & ASCAP.”
FYI/Internal Revenue Service (the income tax guys - for the benefit of listers in the UK), Broadcast Music Inc, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. You don’t want to get that message “Show us your copyright”.
Fortunately for this podcaster, my Apple is populated with stingers & jingles, “Apple’s” royalty-free music
This podcast critique reminds me of those words of George Bernard Shaw “England & America are one people separated by a common language."
Opening & closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church (37221)
We got hurt & the nation demanded retribution.
We lost the first battle of WW IV and we don’t know it! We don’t even know when it happened. Was it the Marine barracks in Lebanon or the USS Cole? 911 was a wake-up call.
What are we trained to do in an emergency? Dial nine - one - one of course. It’s the one thing you may do from an otherwise locked iPhone.
Our problem is our focus we employed the same strategy as in Viet Nam. We fought an amorphous enemy on his terms. The famous “seek & destroy” found nothing & destroyed the wrong stuff.
We could have played The “Great Satan” card & made Kabul vanish in a cloud of nuclear dust. Sun Tsu would have counseled patience.
“Know your enemy & in 1000 battles, you will not know defeat.”
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Jazzy Jerico the walls came tumbling down.
How the mighty has fallen, in truth, just about everything manufactured contains some recycled content. It’s part of the process, but to claim “recycled” content is more efficient is bogus.
How would anyone know?FYI/tightening the money supply erodes the spending power of every American by making housing more expensive. The cost of housing is a component of the consumer price index (CPI) just like groceries & gasoline.
It’s no longer on our radar, but during WWII, Princess Elizabeth served her nation in the woman’s army as a driver.
I was privileged to have seen her on my first visit to England.
It was “Remembrance Day” we arrived late to the wreath laying & were directed to Horse Guards Parade. That’s the back side of The Palace at White Hall we found a place on the kerb(sic) UK spelling here.
Pretty soon we heard a band approaching from our right. It was the Coldstream Guards followed by veterans of 1st British Airborne (A Bridge too Far) & a convoy of vehicles led by a Rolls Royce bearing The Sovegens Standard. HRH was sitting on our side waving & smiling at the crowd. It was a thrilling moment.
Although I had a camera I didn’t take a photo, I cherish the memory of the Queen coming to see Me!
Closing Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- William Tell Overture.
Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian "Do Remember Me", For the remained of this podcast The PodCast Doctor is IN! we’ll review another podcast titled Stuff You Missed in History Class.
Also in the podcast, the host claimed Weegee experimented with infra-red film — beep — that’s another misnomer caused by a lack of knowledge of light rays. Red is the shortest of the visible spectrum. The infra-red process is a matter of using an infra-red filter or lens. Infra-red light is below the visible light spectrum.
So friends if you find this podcast you might be informed about Stuff You Missed in History Class.
Yeah, it works if you went to school at PS 12 in New York City. They could use another writer to fact-check their material. I must say I salute them for having to shoehorn in more than six “sponsor breaks” in a 37-minute podcast or more than our terrestrial cousins over at iHeart “live”.
Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut The Very Thought of You.
For the third time in as many months, we have been treated to Elon Musk’s Ten Favorite reads including Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
FYI/if he did it was the Reader’s Digest condensed edition.
He’s the guy who tried to buy Twitter with BitCoin.
My pal Fran Meyers author of When God Speaks — Listening to the Voice of God is having a book signing at St.Mary’s Bookstore — Nashville, Tennessee on September 27, 11 Am to 1 PM.
We may be in more trouble than we know, seen on News Channel 17 Nashville, an ad for a home design firm for your Xmas lighting on August 25th, and Krogers has not yet put EggNog on display.
Not only are we in a recession — this is Xmas Creep on steroids.
Banjo Music Courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Under The Double Eagle.
The PodCast Doctor talks to another author. I subscribe to two writing journals, Writer’s Digest is digital & a paid subscription to Poets & Writers.
FYI/Poets & Writers long & strong is the list of writing contests in the index of each issue (it’s a bi-monthly).
Writer’s Digest on the other hand has mastered the art of making money in writing — they are all about teaching others. A recent article piqued my interest with the title:
8 Steps To Prepare for Podcasts and Radio Interviews To Promote Your Forthcoming Book.
Generally, if you follow the advice of this author you might not like the result. I once interviewed a guest who was determined to manage the interview (he was a retired Army officer) and used to being “in charge”. My audience didn’t respond, he never promoted his organization.
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Piano music courtesy of Steinway & Sons -- The Entertainer played by Spiro recorded live via iPhone at the Green Hills Mall (2014) used with permission.
You’ve seen those commercials for a home battery backup system & it’s a crock I ran the numbers
Another example of “it’s not what we don’t know which endangers us, it’s what we know that is Wrong which imperils US.”
Yes, I have considered buying a home backup generator since my spouse is on oxygen therapy. The barrier is the cost of $8000 according to Generac.
Lately, they have shifted to a battery backup solar array for even more money with a tax credit if you act this year.
Here’s the problem the battery storage capacity is “limited”.
Yes, charging the backup battery is indeed free because it’s solar. When there’s no sun after dark the charge is maintained by the electric provider.
If anyone tells you different they don’t know anything about alternating current.
Opening. piano. music courtesy. of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- closing courtesy of Steinway & Sons Spiro. plays The. Entertainer recorded live by iPhone at Green Hills Mall 2015 used. with. permission.
There is bad advice everywhere consider this headline:
"18 Online Resources to Expand your English Vocabulary
If you're looking to expand your English vocabulary, here are 18 handy resources you can use for extra practice when learning the language"The preceding courtesy of the website MUO (Make Use Of) 08 - 13 (20-22)I know Pakistan used. to be part. of the British. Empire, but it's outrageous for a foreign national to "teach". English outside of his home. It just ain't Kosher. Yes, I’m indeed from a different time & place, and I treasure the printed word. Yes, I own more than a single desk dictionary and no matter where I am sitting in my office one is usually within reach.
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut - Civil War Medley
Friends, there is only one winner here & it’s GooglePlay or the App Store & yes of course the developer gets a slice, but it’s the thinnest of all.
There’s been a recent spate of TV ads about “spending money to make money”, and it’s equally bogus. I ran the numbers and to earn the reward of $20,000, the business owner would have to spend/charge $2.5/M, and that’s not chump change.
Everywhere you go someone is wetting their beak, on your transactions just like today’s avatar — the famous drinking bird of the 1950s, it’s alive and well and living in your pocket or purse, it’s called a smartphone.
Every time you pick it up, somebody makes money, but it’s usually not the user!
Let’s examine this proposition:
Much of the water pictured in the FNB/Weather photo, has arrived from the “west” via the Missouri River.
The reason I mention i70 I noticed from the time you leave St.Louis (486ft above sea level) you are driving uphill to Denver, Colorado “the mile high city” (5280ft.) above sea level.
Water from the Mississippi River won’t flow west, it has to be pushed west.
To reach the Colorado River basin any water has to cross the Continental Divide. I have peddled my bicycle over Tennessee Pass - the highest railway pass in North America and it’s over 10,000 feet.
Every day the Edmonton Lift plant uses thirty percent of the generating capacity of Boulder Dam to provide drinking water for the City of Los Angeles.
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church recorded live via iPhone 07-22-2022
Digital rule of life number one:
It's not what we don't know which endangers us, it's what we do know which is Wrong which imperils us!
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Hello Dolly --
“The largest man-made reservoir in the United States is in serious trouble…”. Another Headline that doesn’t deliver. Lake Mead has been in trouble since the impoundment of Lake Powell with the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam(1960). Lake Powell is the nation's second-largest artificial lake & doubles the potential evaporation surface of the Colorado River.
A photo from 2010 shows the famous “bathtub ring” which showed the 1937 initial fill level. FYI/Hoover Dam was completed in 1935 it took two years to reach the “bathtub” ring level.
Life’s little lesson number one: if you pour a cup of water into a gallon jug, it’s still just a cup of water.
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Banjo Music courtesy of BanjoHangOut -- The Gal I Left Behind Me --
The manuscript is now complete and you may order a printed PDF proof copy for $12.95, not including priority mailing of $8.95 plus $5. Shipping & handling, these proof copies contain a further special offer.
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You may order A copy of the e-book for $7.95 — these copies may include illustrations.
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Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Closing New River Train courtesy of Banjo HangOut.
Heard today on Fox News Business weather “time-lapse photography of New York Hudson Bay!”
Sorry, Charlie StarKist wants tuna which tastes good, not with good taste.
I’m not sure if it’s a lack of knowledge or a poor vocabulary.
Hudson Bay is a body of water found in Canada. That body of water in the home of the nation's second-best salsa is the Hudson River.
Of course, the on-air talent is only reading from the teleprompter. It’s the writer whose flawed. Live television doesn’t support rehearsal. Miss Cornwall would have a C O W! Miss Cornwall was my sixth-grade English teacher. Her goal was to teach me to write a clear simple declarative sentence. She taught English, not language arts.
Opening & closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church. Recorded live by iPhone, used with permission.
In this edition of Nashville Writes — BNABridgeMaven Interviews Fran Myers author of When God Speaks "Listening for the voice of God". Fran Myers is director emeritus of Visitation Hospital Foundation of Nashville, Tennessee. Please consider a donation to Visitation Hospital if you enjoy this content.
Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian "Down by The Riverside" --
FYI/Typical of the nonsensical reporting I find this photo caption: “A prolonged surge in US Covid 19 cases began in the spring but hospitalizations and deaths have stayed at more muted levels.”
No, what’s muted is the press no longer reporting hospitals receiving patients in Haz-Mat suits….”
Join me tomorrow for a Wizard of iPhone Speaks Special Nashville Writes when my guest will be Fran Myers author of When God Speaks.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church recorded live via iPhone 05-22 - 2022 used with permission.
A recession is defined as two quarters in which the GDNP shows negative growth. We are not there yet, but we are sliding closer each day. We are a far cry from the 2% to 3% growth during the Trump administration. How soon we forget!
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Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo Hang Out The William Tell Overture.
The production from many producers goes through a common gin. Flaw number one, There’s no empirical evidence that organically grown cotton makes any difference. Let’s face it fans, adding the word “organic” to a cotton product is a code word for “it’s going to cost more”.
The My Pillow Guy on TV has got it right. The essential characteristic of cotton is called “staple” and Egyptian cotton is prized for having a long staple.
Flaw number two — “slub” is a technical term used to designate a yarn imperfection, thread yarn is prized for being smooth & slub free, a “slub” has the appearance of a “bump” in the road, definitely not desirable.
I recommend to L.L. Bean, that they substitute the word “cable knit” for “slub”.
Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Closing music courtesy of Steinway Piano Gallery Spiro -- Gershwin plays Gershwin recorded live by iPhone at Green Hills Mall 2016 --
My advice is to choose the weather of the local news channel which in your opinion has the best weather personality. I favor News Channel Two, Nashville — they have Davis Nolin the “dean” of Nashville weather — he’s currently the longest-running Nashville personality.
If you want a national weather app try AccuWeather — they have been providing weather services to small market AM/FM radio stations from State College, PA, since before the world ever heard of the weather channel.
If they do something such as “We demand producers justify price increases” — It’s just so much eyewash. Mass Market retailers stopped caring about pricing since the advent of the product bar code
Modern writers would call it posturing!
Retailers “rent” shell space to favored producers — Consider the soft drink aisle. There’s red stuff & blue stuff with a smattering of Green Stuff. Coke & Pepsi pay for the privilege of offering a blizzard of varieties of a single product and we believe we have a choice.
For confirmation peek in at the deodorant aisle and you find Proctor & Gamble owns that section.
Consider Costco, not only do they charge you $50 for the privilege of shopping — they offer only two grades of gasoline. Low-priced regular & high priced premium.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission
Music by Harpeth Presbyterian "Ode to Joy" Beethoven, by Tucker Biddlecombe & opening from Bellevue Presbyterian -- Jerico
This weather system regardless of its name has jumped the congenital divide, and become an “anti-hurricane” in astronomy a “retro-grade” movement. Sometimes distant planets appear to move in the opposite direction, because of our perspective.
You may not recall but the same thing happened last year during the first hurricane of the season.
Today's avatar -- Joe Biden "Can't flip the switch to lower prices..." from the same person who released over 100/m Barrels from our petroleum reserve.
Music courtesy of "Irregular BlueGrass trio", used with permission, recorded live via iPhone at 1st Presbyterian Church Nashville, Tennessee. See today's avatar.
I discovered something interesting on Sunday morning viewing desert. A weather program on FNB — that’s Fox News Business
Problema/Sp it’s only one hour and it’s early to boot 7 AM CDT but it’s worth setting your recorder to watch later instead of those endless Sunday talking heads.
Back in “the day” one wag asserted the only thing which changed was the host & the backdrop and the movable desk with a new avatar.
Instead of an endless recycle of him-a-canes & her-a-canes I propose something more catchy.
For our western shore EPAC - 05 / 14 — 01 for our eastern shore, it would be WATLA 05/14 – 01-22
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, a special performance.
Tech News is more important than the weather!
Jamey Tucker WhatTheTech TV —
Not at USA Today
Tech writer WhatTheTech/TV Jamey Tucker told me that nine years ago. He was a reporter for Channel Two News Nashville Tennessee.
I have been buying the weekend edition of USA Today to access another of my “favorite” tech writers Kim Komando & paying an ever-changing price to do it. Today's issue was a disappointment KK wasn’t there and I paid $3 for the privilege of not reading her advice.
Perhaps the solution should be to open the paper & look for KK before I commit to purchasing.
Instead, The USA is telling us how our leadership is putting “baby formula” on a wartime basis. It’s a crock.
We are the county that insisted on having two telephone suppliers, and two smartphones — How come we wound up with one Baby Formula Supplier?
Closing piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission -- Join Scot on Sunday, May 22 when his guest will be an Italian tenor JONATHAN CILIA FARO
Before we conclude I would like to say one thing about an issue in the news — We are the county which insisted on having two telephone suppliers, and two smartphones — How come we wound up with one Baby Formula Supplier?
Music courtesy of Steinway & Sons Sprio plays The Entertainer recorded live via iPhone at Green Hills Mall used with permission.
The local Pan American Airways manager in San Francisco hires the firm of Spade & Archer to investigate the possibility Pan American employees might be implicated in Japanese jade smuggling. Sam secrets an “operative” on the Treasure Island sea base terminal.
During delivery, a “solider” of the local mafia is killed by Chinese Nationalist agents. Sam uses his connections with the San Francisco mafia to head off a vendetta.
Opening music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, closing music by a Vandy (Bluegrass) Trio, recorded by iPhone at Harpeth Presbyterian Church used with permission.
If not in production certainly in transportation — Last Spring I picked up a Tomato @ $1.95/lb. in Publix — labeled produced in Canada, which meant that tomato traveled from Canada to Lakeland Florida & then from Lakeland to Nashville, Tennessee.
What’s the latest from those environmental dunces’ at the Nashville Public library?
You know those guys who received a paycheck from you when you couldn’t go to work. Not content with a false claim to be a so-called LEED Building Yes Virginia those electric hand warmers are in evidence.
Last week I showed you how they are contaminating the plastic recycle stream by combining recycle bins A bad idea akin to putting household edibles in your compost pile. It’s not efficiency it’s contamination
The latest from these environmental know-nothings is the plastic library card
It’s past time for us to apply the brakes to this Tsunami of unnecessary plastic that includes distributing N’Focus magazine in the plastic wrapper.
What they have to say is just not that important.
Music courtesy of Dr. Ming Wang -- playing the two-string Chinese Violin recorded live via iPhone at Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission.
FYI/in the program Horsepower the generating capacity of Hoover Dam is estimated at 200,000 KW The city of LA uses 24% of that power to provide drinking water, that’s before the first Tesla leaves the factory.
You may be startled to learn an electric vehicle requires between 1500/20,000 kW to charge or about four times the power required by your clothes dryer!
See the site calculator.net under electricity calculator.
I accèssed this site looking for information regarding statements which didn’t add up in a recent program talking about power requirements for the LA Lift plant,
So-called hybrid electric technology is like driving the wrong way on a one-way street because it relies on steam technology for recharge.
Now, if we could just locate those redwood charging stations in the California Sequoia forests our lives would be so much simpler to manage.
Closing Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- Ode to Joy (Beethoven) Tucker Biddlecombe playing.
There’s something fishy about a cellular company that receives a JD Power award for customer service who uses the ATT network & won’t install the sim card when your purchase service.
Memo to American Hero’s Channel — Clash of Warriors Halsey Vs Kurita your narration & video don’t match the carrier St Lo was an escort or Jeep carrier, not the Essex Class Carrier shown. 04-17-2022.
Music courtesy of Blair String Quartet recorded live via iPhone, used with permission.
Tampa Bay Pipes & Drums play Will Ye No Come Back Again. Next Monday our lost Holiday series continues with a The Battle of Culloden (/kəˈlɒdən/;….. 16 April 1746. Wuhan hysteria is alive & well and residing in the formerly “United” States of America.
Coming soon to a news outlet near you is the annual electricity vampire story. It usually surfaces about the time your electric bill surges with A/C usage,
Memo to American Hero’s Channel The DKUW sometimes called “the duck” is not a boat at all. It’s a 2 1/2 ton truck with a dual drive. The military knew it as an amphibian device.
Dr. Ming Wang plays the two-string Chinese Violin used with permission.
In 1962 Andy Warhol once famously remarked: "in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes…”
Little did he realize that after the debut of Facebook everyone can be famous for 15 seconds every day.
If I have overlooked your favorite app or necessary app, please take a moment to tell me about it. Your text is welcome to 615/491-1099 or call 615/584-2717 go-to voice mail leave your nomination and you may have been your 15 seconds of fame if I use your nomination in a future podcast.
Join GeekOfTheWeek The Magazine this Thursday and I will attempt to make some sense of the shenanigans in The Ukraine.
Piano music courtesy of Steinway & Sons recorded Live via iPhone at Green Hills Mall Spiro plays The Entertainer.
The original iPhone came equipped with widgets: including one named Weather.
Widgets were prototypical apps and could be managed by visiting Settings and toggle your selected widget on/off, they could not be deleted.
Widgets were by design to be always running, displayed when touched.
If you live in a major metropolitan area find the local TV channel which in your opinion has the best weather or best weather “personality” and load their weather alert app.
The purpose is to enable local alerts for weather conditions, local source local alerts. Flash flood, lightning & tornado will be delivered to your phone. Be sure you choose weather and not news.
I favor Nashville News Channel Two — they have Davis Nolin — the dean of Nashville Weather.
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Come The Fount of Every Blessing.
The way to get rid of Daylight saving is not to do it at all.
Meanwhile, the Tennessee Legislature is wasting their time and my money debating “year-round daylight saving time”. I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Most modern appliances shift the time automatically. Gone are the days when you had to run around changing clocks.
You Can’t Have Cheap Gas & Unlimited Plastic Bags/Straws, Kureig Pucks & Designer Eggs in Foam Cartons, It’s all from petroleum
When this writer is confronted with a “life challenge” in this case rising fuel prices, I begin by examining my behavior and finding ways to use less fuel.
First on my Hit Parade of Fuel Saving is S L O W D O W N which always works.
When I travel on the interstate I typically set my cruise control to 62 MPH & maintain 2250 RPM on my V6 Mercedes. Depending on the terrain I can get between 19 to 22 miles per gallon.
Yes, Virginia, you may get there sooner if you drive 70 MPH but the time you save will be spent refueling your ride.
Closing music by the Vandy BlueGrass Trio -- recorded live at Harpeth Presbyterian -- used with permission.
My usual recommendation for a weather app is your local TV station has the best local weather personality.
FYI/if you live in the greater Chicago area you can’t do better than Tom Skilling. America’s best-known weatherman — he doesn’t use “the flawed European model”. He’s got more experience than anyone else. Clime’s best graphic is NOAA weather radar. Accuweather also permits a download of NOAA Radar which I eschew. I prefer Accuweather Radar on my smartphone. It pins my location, not the airport as NOAA does. Don’t be fooled by the phrase “Doppler Weather Radar” every Radar is a Doppler device. Storms are either moving toward the Radar or away from the Radar. Radar is an anachronism for radio ranging & detection.
To paraphrase Mark Twain:
“Everybody complains about ‘time’ but nobody does anything about it….”
There’s nothing anyone can do about it. Time is how we measure our lives.
How do I know? Each year I buy an almanac. It knows stuff every writer needs to know.
In one of his most famous cases, Abraham Lincoln was able to discredit the testimony of an eyewitness.
The witness claimed he had seen the crime by the light of the moon. Lincoln produced an almanac that showed the moon had not yet risen.
Our concept of Daylight savings dates from WWI. Since that was more than a years ago it may be considered a historic event. It’s never been popular, particularly in rural communities. This is strange because it was envisioned as a “grain saving measure”.
Our main problem with so-called DST is twofold first is feature creep we have extended DST on each end. Starting in March instead of April & extending on the other end until after Halloween.
The Entertainer courtesy of Steinway Piano Gallery -- recorded live by iPhone at Green Hills Mall - Sprio plays The Entertainer. If you have found my recommendations somehow helpful and/or entertaining — please feel free to share this podcast with two friends & ask them to do the same.
On this week's GeekOfTheWeek The Magazine my interview with a writer of mystery stories Micheal Mullen and his heat packing Dominican. Join me then
Last night 03 - 06 - at about 18:30 hours CST my main TV was interrupted with this message
“Now you can link all your devices to your U-Verse service….”
If A. T. & T. thought of it — it’s probably a bad idea - from the viewpoint of the user that is.
Friends don’t fooled by the presumed generosity of this former communications giant. I can imagine what’s in my future - billing for each connected device — “Stugart Passes”
I had one hell-of-a-fight when I had cellular service with ATT — they kept billing me $25 monthly for Safari on my iPhone. I finally settled their hash by switching carriers.
If it wasn’t for Steve Jobs & the iPhone, ATT would be a footnote in the history of the twenty-first century. This is just one more ploy to increase their revenue stream at your expense.
Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church was used with permission.
Kim Kommando gets it wrong -- again QRL scanner is a widget -- it's native to the iPhone, it's not necessary to load to "control panel"
Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas 2021 at Nashville Tennessee
As with any government entity, we must use the term service in a guarded manner.
Direct rail between Knoxville, Nashville & Memphis is a nonstarter! There is no right of way. That’s a technical way of saying, “there ain’t no tracks”.
Not so many years ago a member of the state legislature pitched a HiSpeed rail connection but the Cumberland Mountains are a barrier.
The Hoosac Tunnel (Massachusetts) remains our nation's longest rail at just over a mile.
Yes, I know The Chunnel is longer than the Cumberland Plateau is wide. It’s also built-in softer chert unlike the more solid limestone of our modest mountains.
Yes, we have the technology all we lack is the need, the will, and the dollars.
The William Tell Overture Courtesy of Banjo HangOut.
I just love it when they get it WRONG! The current production of Around The World in Eighty Days on so-called “educational TV”, is a prime example of sloppy writing.
Tonight’s Episode Phileas Fogg in New York City — you know the home of the nation's second-best salsa.
A boarding officer of The Henrietta, informs a waiting passenger “You have twenty minutes…,” After glancing at his wrist.
Problema/Sp. Around The World in Eighty Days© Written in (1872)
GIRARD-PERREGAUX produced the first wrist devices for the German Navy in 1898 & they didn’t come into common use for men until The First World World War, after 1914. British officers favored them over the more common pocket watch.
In the same episode, Phileas Fogg is shown reading a cablegram at sea, wireless radio had to await Marconi 1895.
FYI/in 1943 The Supreme Court of The United States overturned Marconi’s patent & declared Nikola Tesla, et al the inventor of the wireless radio.
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church (coming & going) used with permission. Scott Huie may be in some trouble today he announced Amy Grant will be a special guest for worship on 02-27-2022. Is the sanctuary big enough for the crowd -- maybe some folding chairs in the Narthex?
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The Entertainer -- Piano courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian. Mark Twain once remarked, "Yes, he's a Christian and he's hardly dull at all"..
Welcome to our annual "Spring" PotHole Festival -- The MetroDunce has spent all our maintenance Money on those silly 25MPH signs.
Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- The Entertainer -- Piano courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian. Mark Twain once remarked "Yes, he's a Christian and he's hardly dull at all"..
No, it’s my headline which is bogus, David Weber made a more egregious error, and here it is:
“…air travel poses a low risk of infection because of the plane’s filtration systems…”
Seen in the USA This Day 01 - 28 - (20-22)
Today's factoid: More workers build iPhones than there are residents of Nashville, Tennessee.
Join me on Monday (02-07-2022) The Wizard of iPhone Speaks I’ll explain what this “meta-verse” is all about.
Closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission recorded live via iPhone.
Opening music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian, closing courtesy of BanjoHangOut, Civil War Medley.
If Omicron Cases Are Surging What Does That Say About Our Virus Fighting Methods?
“Our efforts aren’t worth a cup of warm spit….” To paraphrase, “Cactus” Jack Garner former Vice Presidential candidate.
Mark Twain also famously remarked, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a July afternoon in San Francisco…”
The weather dunces rely on something called the European model, which assumes that so-called global warming is a done deal & that’s a problem.
In the digital world, we would express it this way: “garbage in — garbage out”. No computer can provide an analysis, it merely sorts the data. Analysis requires thought, and no computer can think.
Halleluiah Praise The Lord — Governor Newsome of California has discovered rampant litter in a major city.
His solution, visit the site with a plastic bag to pick up the litter caused by these notorious litterbugs.
In the process, he has managed to alienate friendly nations in the third world, by announcing his disgust with "third world litter...." Music courtesy Tuba Christmas, Nashville, Tennessee recorded live by iPhone Dec 14 20-21, used with permission.
My guest today is Dakota Grady, The Tax Doctor and host of his podcast The Your Money Hour, you may find him on Apple Podcast or Stitcher or his YouTube channel. Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Nashville, Tennessee.
This is The Wizard of iPhone Special S/i (Special) is #3 01 - 12 - (20-22)
Headline Digital USA
CES 2022 Even Fido Gets A Fitness Tracker
No, what your dog needs is an owner who cares. That “fitness collar” is also a tracker.
Buy a Tile it’s cheaper & you don’t need a subscription to make it work either.
Better still visit The App Store & download WAG For Providers & walk other dogs while you get fit.
PS Your pet's fitness collar is more about one more internet subscription account for you to pay for.
Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Nashville, Tennessee,
If you live in Nashville, Tennessee & have found there’s a shortage of windshield spray stuff to melt the ice on your favorite ride, try this work-a-round.
Visit the local mega-mart, find kitchenware, & look for a plastic squeeze bottle the kind you put ketchup or mustard in, it may cost $3.45. Go around to the prescription department & buy a bottle of alcohol. (Yes, it’s now green stuff, which is okay.)
Load the squeeze bottle, store it next to your car keys, in the warmth of your home. You’ll need it the first freezing morning.
In the Army, we would have called it "a Field Expedient" Think "sticky bombs" Saving Private Ryan.
Not long ago I was invited through Writer’s Digest Online to a webinar entitled
How to Research Like a Journalist
Author: Bob Girolamo
Problema/Sp — news writers don’t do any research, and it shows.
From construction headlines that don’t deliver to a bald misstatement of the facts consider this write up which appeared on American Hero’s Channel.
Thanks to Blaine Little for sharing this post on LinkedIn "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending" Maria Robinson. This week's accidental food -- Chowdah (chowder) Wars. It all started in Providence, Rhode Island (which is not an island at all).
On GeekOfTheWeek we'll discuss English as the universal Language "some folks think it's not fair..." We have Woodrow Wilson to blame for Language/Cultural "equality." Enjoy music by G.R. Davis & The Diva of Tuba Christmas Carman Sanders. The only singer I know has the guts to perform against a 90 Tuba ensemble.
Tuba Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Harriman, Tennesse & Tuba Christmas, Bowling Green, KY - Jingle Bells. Writing reviews, be more circumspect, don't write from ignorance. Not every transaction should be or can be Five Stars.
If you enjoy this podcast share it with two friends, it's renewal time of the year for my podcast efforts, I had planned to go to Gallatin on Tuesday, but a scheduling conflict developed. Gallatin is a great Two-For The Tennessee Tech Christmas Tubas, followed by a performance of Tuba Christmas. But go early for the best parking and seating.
This is the promised fuel saving strategies which didn't get posted in GeekOfTheWeek. We missed production because of a family emergency -- which has been resolved.
The previous file was corrupt, this is a reprocessed file -- sorry for the glitch, Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Hello Dolly
Digital tip of the day -- don't engage third party payers, it's too hard to open a dispute. Rachel Cruze reviews AfterPay (the app), someone else is "wetting his beak" at your expense. Don't fall for it -- it's another scam. How do I know it's popular with Millenials & Gen Z. Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian.
Sorry fans but the previous file was corrupt, I won't bother to explain, but I apologize for any inconvenience caused by my ineptitude -- Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Join me on GeekOfTheWeek we continue to talk about America's favorite celebratory beverage champagne -- a little smutz is a good thing, but only in your flute -- I'll explain.
Next week our three part series on America's favorite celebratory beverage Champagne returns, episode One & Two Monday & Tuesday here -- Three on GeekOfTheWeek (Thursday). Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian church 37221
Join me on GeekOfTheWeek/The Magazine for a special Nashville Writes, my Zoom interview with John Thalheimer, we’ll learn about the right way to spell biscuit.
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Chasing Tuba Christmas 2021 will return — there are five performances in Tennessee, Alabama & Kentucky one each.
Saturday: December 4th Harriman, TN., usually noontime Harriman High School (Eastern Standard Time)
Sunday: December 5th Huntsville, AL, Covenant Presbyterian Church 3:30PM ,
Tuesday: December December 7th, Gallatin TN, First Baptist Church 7 PM — conductor R. Winston Morris
Sunday: December 12th. Bowling Green, KY Greenwood Mall 4 P.M.
Tuesday: December 14 Nashville, Tennessee (one performance only) First Baptist Church 11 AM
Finally Monday December 20th Kingsport, TN. 6PM(EST), Renaissance Center 1200 E. Center St. — 37662
Piano music courtesy of Stineway Piano Galleries recorded live by iPhone -- My interview with Tom Seals God's Word for Warriors -- remember Vistaation Hospital of Haiti
Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian church used with permission recorded live by iPhone.
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Music courtesy of Dr Ming Wang recorded live via iPhone. News writers don't know enough words, or they don't understand the meaning of the words they do use.
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