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BraveUlysses posted:auto pay to your credit card, collect those reward points or cashback, pay it off every single month. Can't pay most student loans with a credit card, normally has to be EFT. I can pay my rent with a credit card, but I get smacked with a $30 "convenience fee" if I go that route. And if you pay more than 24 hours late, your only payment options are CC ($30), moneygram ($15 charge from the apt, plus whatever a $850 moneygram costs), or drop off a money order in person (no night-drop box, and no checks or EFT when you're more than 24 hours late). Pretty sure they only allow auto pay on EFT. Wistful of Dollars posted:It was weird visiting a US Costco and finding the card there was a visa instead of MC, like. It is here. It used to be American Express (at US stores) until pretty recently. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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gently caress. That. The Hunter I had is either 01 or 02, but wasn't remote controlled. Just the typical pull chains. Good to know for whenever I shop for a fan again though. I'm not really a fan of having an integrated remote control unit anyway... the remote is just another remote for me to lose. You can get a complete set of blades at big box home improvement stores, but good luck on them being balanced (I think they do come with weights, but... balancing a fan is a PITA) I remember that hook when I hung my old fan, and mentally going "how the gently caress is this piece of thin stamped metal supposed to support the entire fan?". Every other fan I've hung mounted a brace to the box (which Hunter does too), but the brace had the receiver (I guess that's the term) for the ball on the end of the rod - instead of the entire weight of the fan being supported by what should be a decorative cover. But it's been there for 16 years, and used daily for most of that time (moved 3 times tho). It's probably getting moved back into my original bedroom in that house soon, which is now an office - more because the fan that's in there now only has a single bulb lamp (complete with candelabra base and shallow, odd-sized globe), and it's a cheap fan where you can't replace the light fixture portion. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm hitting this point in some regards. It helps that "cheap" is hitting the "good enough" tier. My Nexus 6 is closing in on being a three-year-old design, but the only real problems I have with it are due to aging of the battery. Part of me wants a Pixel XL (or whatever replaces it soon) but part of me would rather spend half as much for something that is as close as possible to a newer version of the Nexus 6. Perhaps the newer version of the Nexus 6, known as the Nexus 6P?  Battery life on mine has never been great (mine was an open box return, but that massive AMOLED screen sucks the battery dry), but it's still a hell of a phone. I got mine when the 6P was still being sold new - 64GB model, paid a little over $400. Seems to still sell for about that. Found out the hard way it bends kinda easy though... I used to fall asleep with it playing something from hulu or netflix with it on the bed. Woke up to a kink in the side one day and a stuck volume button.  Managed to get the button unstuck (eventually), but drat.
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Damnit Time Warne...er... Spectrum. Whatever the gently caress you're called these days. This packet loss is getting really annoying. Dealing with overseas tech support is bad enough. Dealing with them when they absolutely refuse to deviate from their flowchart and phone scripts is really frustrating. According to them, my modem is bad and I have "serious line quality issues" and "we must send someone out to correct your line". Modem shows drat near picture perfect signal levels, but I'm seeing >50% packet loss even pinging their gateway IP.  Seminal Flu posted:Through the Nexus 4, 5, and 6, I was ways using a 1-year-old Nexus. Each year, Google would announce a new model and blow out the previous year's. I got the N6 for $199 straight from Google. Goddamn, $250? Mine's from Amazon Warehouse Deals too, but it was a bit of an impulse buy. And I agree, the fingerprint sensor is drat nice. My Moto X 2015 was having serious issues with dropping calls and unintelligible calls, and would also drop data at random (or fall back to EDGE in an area with good LTE coverage)... so I definitely needed a phone, I just didn't need one as nice as the 6P. But I wanted to go back to the Nexus line; I've owned the Nexus S 4G, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and now the Nexus 6P. I still have a Moto X 2014 that I use for work, but the touchscreen is starting to get a little wonky. That phone has been to hell and back though.
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Honestly, in terms of hardware, the 6P isn't much of an upgrade (aside from the fingerprint reader), and I'd argue the 6 is built a bit better. But the 6P does have a better rear camera (it's not fantastic, but it performs a lot better in low light situations, mostly because of the laser autofocus), much better front camera, and it's a lot thinner. Also brings all of the upsides and downsides of USB-C, and you lose Qi charging on the 6P. You'll still get security updates for most of this year, and if you want to keep current on Android after that, there's always XDA. A lot of people have complained about 7.x destroying battery life on both the 6 and 6P. I noticed a bit of a difference, but not significant. I haven't heard anything about them trying to roll back from 7.1.1, but I don't keep up with the 6 much. On days that I work, I use it heavily enough that there's no way I can leave home without a charger - I have a dedicated work phone, but it may or may not be looking for more shifts for me through the day (and it definitely never does it with any kind of automation tool, no sir, that would be unethical and completely against my contract with that rainforest company, even though anyone who manages to do this more than ~8 hours a week uses such tools), so the 6P is often running Google Maps for me. e: leaving Sprint was one of the best decisions I've ever made, IMO. Last phone I had on their network was the Galaxy Nexus... which was the first Nexus they had with LTE. I got an LTE signal a handful of times with it, and it was almost always a strong signal with zero connectivity (so probably someone testing equipment on a tower?). My personal phone is on Cricket (which has crappy speeds, but gives prepaid customers conditional call forwarding... so I can still use Google Voice), work phone is on T-Mobile. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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MrChips posted:I mean my Nexus is beat to gently caress, in that the screen is burned in badly, the battery isn't great and the USB port is so worn out that the cable doesn't stay in at all, but I'm willing to live with it at that cost. gently caress that noise 100% You just described my work phone (2014 Moto X). When I'm in the car I wrap the cable around the dash mount to keep it from falling out of the phone, and the battery is only good for about 2 hours if I'm working and don't have a charger on me (... yet it'll go 3-4 days off the charger if I don't touch it - but the only apps on it outside of standard Android stuff is Google Maps and Amazon's delivery app, and it doesn't get touched at all unless I'm working). The display is burned so bad that you can see the outline of Google Maps anytime you're not using, well, Google Maps. I love AMOLED for how bright it is. But goddamnit they burn as easily as a CRT. I've seen LCD panels get burn-in too, but those were usually always-on monitors for security cameras and the like (but you could see it even with the monitor off). scrubs season six posted:If I owned a gas station (or 10,000 gas stations) I'd just make it free regardless. I have to think that the good will and additional gas/snack/drink sales would easily pay for the minor amount of maintenance and electricity it takes to do it. Or you could charge 50c-$1 and make an extra $5-100 a day, even if you turn it on for free if people just ask. That seems to be the norm here with the chains - if you walk up you pay, if you ask they'll turn it on for free. e: I really need to get a compressor. I've been sidelined so many times by slow leaks that could be otherwise fixed by just throwing air in it until I can get it patched the next day. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Yet another reason to sing the praises of QuikTrip. Free air, just have to pres butan (and hope that the air chuck hasn't chooched her last). A few of of the QTs here charge for air (unless you go inside and ask nicely). Racetrac - their main competitor here - always charges when they actually have an air station (again, unless you go inside and ask nicely). I prefer QT because they're generally a bit nicer than Racetrac, and they pay their employees a hell of a lot better, but Racetrac's stuff (aside from fuel) tends to be a bit cheaper. They tend to build either across the street from each other or down the street from each other here too; I think this is their biggest competitive market outside of Racetrac's home market (Atlanta). Last time I went out of town (yet remained in TX), I was so confused over not being able to find either of them, and people looking at me like I was speaking French when I asked where one was. I figured with as much as QT had penetrated the market here, it had to be statewide, right? NOPE. I think there's one QT in TX outside of DFW. Racetrac has similar representation in TX. scrubs season six posted:It's hard to accurately quantify all the financial pluses and minuses of something like that though. Like I would definitely favor a gas station if they just had free air all the time without me having to walk in and get them to turn it on or give me tokens or whatever. And maybe that means I end up buying more energy drinks or vape juice or beef sticks from that station. As much as I agree with you... look at it from this side - making you walk in to ask them to turn it on means you get a brief look at what they sell, which means a slightly higher chance of you buying something from them. All of the profit in a C-store is on the stuff inside, they're pretty much breaking even on fuel. scrubs season six posted:Where I lived (in Iowa) they were branded as QuikTrip but I remember when I was visiting relatives in another state they had always just been branded as QT and it blew their minds when I told them what it stood for because they'd never thought of it as anything other than QT. Newer stores here only have QT on the big signs; they may have QT or QuikTrip on the building. Older ones still have QuikTrip on the small signs by the road (the small pedestal/headstone style signs that have fuel prices). The receipts still say QuikTrip, but who actually reads those these days? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Welp... actually woke up early (for me) and knocked out work, last delivery was 2 miles from home (always nice, especially during rush hour). .... because I thought we were supposed to get fisted by storms around 6pm, and wanted to be off the road by then. Nope, drat storms decided "hey Oklahoma looks like more fun!". Still another round of storms coming overnight, and possibly a lot of nastiness tomorrow. Damnit. Normally I'd just stay home if the weather was gonna be ugly, but I have to pay rent this weekend, and tomorrow is the last day of this pay period (get paid for Mon-Wed on Friday).
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blk posted:When I was in high school I was diagnosed with ADD but shrugged it off; I've been diagnosed again as an adult (now called inattentive-type ADHD; no hyperactivity) and I'm wondering how to treat it so I can hold my grip better at work. I've previously floundered in full time jobs but have done well with part time gigs; I'm currently working full time and am banging my head against the wall by lunch. Anyone else have this going on? What worked for you? Sup ADD/ADHD goons. The self employed bit worked for me. I'm a contractor for several terrible companies, but together they add up to an okay income (for me anyway - most would laugh at what I bring home, but I work about 25-30 hours a week and don't spend much except on beer) A bit of  helps me keep sadbrains away.I used to love retail, much for the reason that CPP pointed out. But dealing with people in general just pisses me off now, and the older I get, the harder it gets to just smile and nod instead of telling them to gently caress off. e: diagnosed with ADD around 8 years old, diagnosed with anxiety and sadbrains in my mid 20s e2: ooh something shiny
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If I don't have several projects at once (even something as basic as "do the dishes, vacuum, do laundry"), nothing gets done. Pile of dishes in the sink? Doesn't exist until laundry or vacuum day. Laundry? Doesn't exist until sink or vacuum day. Vacuum? Doesn't exist until laundry and dishes day. I have to be able to switch back and forth among multiple things, otherwise I work at something for a few minutes and get bored. edit: never really thought about it until now, but this is probably why driving anything with an automatic drives me crazy. I need the 3 pedals + knob in my hand. 
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gently caress. Right when I was finally falling asleep, my weather radio went apeshit. Okay, severe thunderstorm warning. Big deal, that's the norm for this time of year. Falling back asleep again...  TORNADO WARNING at the western edge of the county to the west.. I'm at the east edge of my countygently caress you spring. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Edit : I've lost 3kgs inthe last two days and now I cant loving fart. gently caress YOU STOMACH I made a pot of beans yesterday, and they've had me farting ever since. How many kg of texmex-style pinto beans do you want? (warning: you might poo poo yourself)
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Darchangel posted:I slept through it all. Woke up and looked at the tornado warning on the phone from 2AM and shrugged. I have only one interior room - bathroom. Everything else in my apartment is on an outside wall. I'm on the top floor anyway, so my floor will be the first to go. Some pretty impressive damage in Rockwall; the neighborhood that got hit is about a 15 minute drive from me. I slept through it..
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rdb posted:Living in the present, let's see... my 15 month old son died a month ago and it still feels like I stood in front of a cannon, my employment contract expires tomorrow so I will be officially unemployed, car was in an accident and still not fixed so my wife and I only have one vehicle, and I had been riding my motorcycle but the rear tire corded and the tire changer/balancer I ordered a month ago hasn't come in. Holy poo poo dude.  I can't even imagine what it's like to lose a kid. I fall apart for a couple of weeks anytime a friend dies, I'm pretty sure losing a kid would land me in a mental hospital for a few months. everdave posted:The only thing keeping me alive is my kids Kinda the opposite for me. I know my mom would off herself if something happened to me. funny Star Wars parody posted:Me and my wife had saved 6 months of expenses and then my mum died and suddenly our consumer debt was gone so all I can say is I'm extremely blessed otherwise I would be in the same boat as a lot of people Dave Ramsey listener spotted. Dude usually gives out some pretty solid advice. ... I have $5 in savings. And only because that's the minimum balance. Sadly, I'm also paying a $5/mo fee for my account, when many banks and CUs give you a free account if you have direct deposit. But between sadbrains and taking much of Jan + Feb off, I'm now on Chexsystems, which will prevent me from opening an account anywhere that does a decent background check (another bank account got closed thanks to being overdrawn for so long). I'm stuck unless I want to go to to a bank that specializes on focusing on people with bad credit/bad bank account history (such as Woodforest), and their fees add up in a hurry. I'm with a very well established credit union (CUTX, which Darchangel may have heard of; formerly Dallas Teachers Credit Union, I joined as a student in the 1990s), they generally have fantastic customer/member service, and they have ATMs that accept cash deposits (with instant credit) within a 15 minute drive from home and much of my work area. LloydDobler posted:And I'm not even that great myself, I come from bad money habit stock and it's been hell to outgrow it, even at 45 years old I'm still a work in process. I'm kind of the opposite. Dad is a CPA (well, was... he goes on cruises more than he works now, but he's also 70), and while I've never asked directly if he's prepared for retirement, I do have a good idea of how much he takes home a year... and I know his house is paid for, my stepmom's car is paid for, and while he always has a newish car, it's nothing extravagant for someone who makes what he does. I think right now he's driving a '16 Honda Accord EX-L; probably the most expensive car he's had would be a tossup between his last Acura (whatever the largest model was in 2012 or so?) or the G35 he had when they first came out. Pretty sure his net worth is well into the 7 figures. Mom used to be pretty good with money, but as she's gotten older, she burns through it as quick as she gets it. But she's also making a whopping  an hour these days, plus a bit of social security. Stepdad is generally good with money (so long as you keep him away from stocks and day trading), but he and I bring home about the same amount of money a year (gross, anyway... mileage deductions get my taxable income down below the poverty line, and I shudder to think what I spend on gas - I'd guess about $4-6k/year on gas alone). My stepdad has been in my life since I was 5, and tried to teach me to be frugal. But... mom and stepdad both debt free. Mom did the bankruptcy bit when she couldn't work for several years (she could barely walk for a long time, she now has a matching pair of titanium hips), but she was living off of credit cards when she couldn't work, and just transferring the balances back and forth until her minimum payments got to the point where she couldn't make them.Me? I burn through it, and don't really even know how - the only luxuries I have are reasonably fast internet (100mbit @ $40/month, but that's the base plan for TWC/Charter/Spectrum/whateverthefucktheyarenow in my area), Hulu ($8/month), Amazon Prime ($100/yr), and a fairly large apartment (for a 1 bedroom - but it's run down and not in a great area - rent is reasonable though), but I'm definitely one paycheck away from everything falling apart. Upside is I only have about $2k in credit card debt, and ~$15k in student loan debt (the majority of which is subsidized federal loans), so I'm not in that bad of shape in terms of debt. I'm thinking about trying to put the student loans on a forbearance for a bit so I can catch up on everything else for a few months, especially the maintenance debt on my car. Car finally stomped its feet and bitched at me a bit tonight, the clutch no longer disengages, so I'm off to the junkyard tomorrow to find a pedal (and possibly the pushrod between the pedal and master cylinder).
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Welp, 3 manual 05-07 Ions at closest Pick n Pull, but they've been on the yard since January. I'm gonna gamble and hope the clutch pedal is still there on one of them (and maybe a MAP sensor). And probably swear a whole lot trying to get there and back with a clutch that doesn't want to clutch. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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VICTORY! Found another 06. Pedal wasn't like new, but it's a lot better. Seminal Flu posted:Is there a shadetree mechanic fix, or stop-gap, method to keep you functional until you find the part? What is the actual failure mode of the part? Plastic assembly. Pushrod eats through the pedal. Now that I have a replacement, I can reinforce that spot a bit before I install it. Phone posting, but once I get home I can snap a few pics to better describe the lovely design.
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Finally got home. Holy poo poo trying to limp my car 20 miles home without a functional clutch during rush hour (which in DFW is basically 3:30pm-7pm) wasn't any fun at all.Darchangel posted:Ooh-rah! You may even be able to fix the old on by drilling across and inserting a steel pin or something, depending on the exact design. I'd offer tools and poo poo, but I'm in the mid cities, as you know. I don't think that'd work, more because the plastic seems kinda brittle. But I finally got some pictures of the failure point. The first manual Ion I ran across was full of broken glass, and laying in that while trying to remove the pedal was fun. The pedal FELT fine at first, then I heard a crack as I moved the pushrod, and suddenly a few pieces of plastic fell and the pushrod wasn't moving until the pedal is almost to the floor.... exactly the way my existing one is. Walked around the yard for about half an hour before I found another manual Ion. This one had a little bit of play in the pedal, but nowhere near as bad as what my car has. I think some expoy would be a good fix, but only with the pedal removed from the car until it's fully cured; otherwise if you have to replace the master cylinder (or clutch) in the future, you're hosed. So the point where the pushrod contacts the arm is just behind this white plastic cap. If you remove this cap and a bunch of broken plastic falls out, congrats, you're replacing the pedal! All you did was let the broken bits escape, but it was already far along into failure at that point anyway.  Here's the contact point where the pushrod hits the pedal:  You can see that this one shows slight wear, and looking closer, I can see a crack already.  A used one is still a shitload easier to stomach than...  Pretty sure I can just drill out the part that's cracked, through the white plastic cover, and probably put in a screw so long as it doesn't have a sharp tip. For now, I'm going to try just taping a small piece of plastic over the part that's trying to fall out from the back of the pedal and throw the cover on to retain everything. I did find a bushing insert for GM clutch pedals, but it doesn't look like it'll fit this pedal. The bushing, in this case, is cast as part of the pedal. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I would probably just JB weld a furniture slider in there and call it a day. I don't think you'd even need a furniture slider, just a few dabs of JB Weld (or maybe even superglue) if it hasn't completely fallen apart yet. This one has not fallen apart, all the pieces are still there. Unfortunately, the one in my car has completely fallen apart, to the point that I'm pretty sure the only thing pushing the pushrod is that little white plastic cap. I have an old credit card (no longer valid), gonna reinforce it with a couple of small pieces of that and throw it in. e: looks like that might work, just have to adjust the pedal height up a little. e2: gonna go throw it in before it gets too dark. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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I'm taking a break for a bit. Steering column broke free of its home before the pedal did and decided to say hello to my head. Thinking I should have unbolted the column after I had freed the pedal, instead of before... I'll come up with something witty about hindsight once the headache and tweety birds circling my head go away.. This is the existing pedal. Toward the end (kinda blurry), you can see the pushrod to the master cylinder poking through the pedal arm to say hello.  The plastic ball on the end of the pushrod is loving trashed too, ugh. I'll doctor it a bit with some electrical tape before the replacement pedal goes in. I have the hardest part pretty much done, just need to get the pedal free now (it's completely unbolted), then wedge the new one in.randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Jesus loving christ. Never doing this poo poo again. gently caress you GM. Just NOW got the original pedal out.. and I finally got it out by yanking the steering column entirely. There's also no saving the original pedal, it has a hole where the pushrod punched through. Plenty of room now, but I'll have to disconnect the battery before I even think about hooking everything back up. I don't want to catch an airbag to the chest, that'll probably hurt more than dropping the column on my face earlier. I'd left the battery hooked up for now since I didn't think I would be going this far into the drat thing (and also wanted working interior lights), but if I'd just yanked the steering column to begin with, I would have been done an hour ago. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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SATURN IS A loving GO-GO (loving finally) (mostly anyway... I'll finish putting the interior back together tomorrow, I'm loving DONE with this godawful piece of poo poo for tonight) I never, ever want to do that job again. It doesn't help that the internet is full of "oh you don't have to remove the steering column, just unbolt it and let it hang and work the pedal out around it. NO, loving REMOVE THE COLUMN, I WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE HOURS AGO HAD I DONE THAT TO BEGIN WITH. Now I just have to re-learn how to use a loving clutch. The slip point has been "through the firewall" for so long that I'm having a lot of trouble driving it - and i'm going to guess that the clutch is pretty close to well done based on where the slip point is now. Seems like I got the steering wheel pretty well centered too, it seemed dead on when I took it down the road and back. Never... again... if I have to do this job again, it will involve a bonfire. e: remember the pic I posted earlier showing the ball socket on the replacement pedal? This is the original:  I don't think there's supposed to be a hole there. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Most of my driving, at least for the past year and a half, is highway.  Admittedly, I never realized I had an issue until a coworker sat in my car and touched the clutch, and literally said "what the gently caress is wrong with your clutch?". So I sat in his car (a 2007 Jetta with >200k on the original clutch) and YUP, something was definitely very hosed up on my car. That was a few months ago, and once he pointed out it, it was painfully obvious something was wrong. I just kept putting it off until the car couldn't really be driven anymore. It took about an hour and a half to get home from the junkyard (20 miles) - drove home during rush hour, during the worst of it I had to pull into a parking lot and wait for traffic to die down. I was able to stop just fine, I could idle fine, but the only way to get the car to move from a stop was to shut off the engine, jam it into 1st, and abuse the hell out of the starter. (in our next installment, I'll probably be replacing the starter... at least the starter on this car is beginner mode for a FWD starter)
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Darchangel posted:No, what should be there is a cast in piece of metal to reinforce that spot. Any decent mechanical engineer would know that spot will fatigue, but they were probably overruled by the bean counters. I'll have to ask my brother in law about his Cobalt's clutch. I don't know if the Cobalt and G5 suffer from this issue nearly as much - they use a different part number, and a quick google didn't really turn up any results for the same issue.
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Mar 31, 2017 16:59
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