Monthly Archives: June 2017

STAYCATION UPDATE

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My mother is in the hospital, or has been all week.  She had a knee replacement.  Once it’s healed, the surgeon will do the other knee in about 3 or 4 months.

Brewster will not be left alone here.  He has really bad anxiety even if we’re here during a rain/thunder storm, he’s high maintenance.  Other than that, we would visit mom in the hospital.  She was discharged Thursday evening.

 

If you’re here for the update news, that’s all I have for you today. 

 

Seems that lately everything offends everyone???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WHY??????????  Some stuff is better to be left alone.  How does a photo of a guy sitting on a chair backwards bother people???  I don’t think Social Media was meant for people to whine & complain about the tiniest little thing they find?  Have you ever sat in a chair backwards?  If so, that offends me since you’re complaining about Justin Trudeau sitting backwards in a chair!  Let’s get over every insignificant thing & maybe focus on the important stuff????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Sure, this is about music, it can mean nothing to one person & everything to the next person, I get that.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/justin-trudeaus-latest-magazine-cover-sparks-amusing-reactions-online-175545214.html

Even if you think this is just a music blog, this “music blog” actually means A LOT to me!

 

Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy the Star Wars franchise.  I don’t own any collectable toys still in the original packaging or anything like that, but maybe I should?

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/star-wars-r2-d2-unit-sells-for-276-million-w490359

 

The Toronto Blue Jays might get into the playoffs but I don’t see them making it to the World Series.  This is a team that relies too much on home runs.  52% of their runs scored are through home runs.  Many of the home runs are solo home runs.  It might look impressive when a hitter hits a ball 500 feet, but with no one on base it only counts for 1 run.

 

Walk off the Earth are releasing a movie??????

 

Would you ever speak publically or privately as Trump has & continues to do so?  If you have a child would you approve of his language?  Some people voted for him, so I guess they approve, why?  I’ll never understand.

I’m usually not a political person, especially here in Canada!  I’m fairly ignorant when it comes to politics.  However I do know the difference between right & wrong.  I watch a TON of CNN lately.  It’s a bad car crash I can’t look away from.

 

Gotta say it’s been a good/needed break for both of us!

 

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“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

STAYCATION

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I fell asleep to a bit of “Judah & the Lion” the album “Folk, Hop & Roll”, then these 2 complete albums “Nothing but Thieves” the debut S/T album, “Paramore” the new album “After Laughter”

From yesterday.  I exercised to “Lamb of God” the album “Ashes of the Wake”

It takes me a while to fall asleep, music or not.

 

Pretty mellow start to our staycation, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon & night, night time immediately after.

We’re bad at staycations.  We both want to do something productive & end up mildly doing something.  Kim tends to clean, I make a mess & occasionally exercise.

Why do we do staycations?  We like hanging out with our dog & we can’t afford to jump on a plane & go anywhere.  Brewster always has to be with someone.  He has bad anxiety issues when he’s alone or if there is a storm.  Once he hears thunder he immediately starts panting & scratching at the door or hides in the main washroom.

He has small valium pills he will only take if we hide it in cheese or deli turkey.  If he smells the pill, he won’t eat it.  Brewster makes our staycation somewhat normal for us?

We didn’t even venture out to my families cabin last year.  I guess we’re cheap & lazy?  I’m not very adventurous anyways, poor Kim.  I know she’d enjoy a trip.  As long as I get out of the house 1 or 2 times a week, I’m good!

 

If you’re here strictly for the cancer news, that’s all I have for you today. 

 

How U2 started in, drummer, Larry Mullen Junior’s kitchen.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/bono-on-how-u2-began-inside-larry-mullen-jrs-kitchen-1976-w489180

At the moment they’re touring for the 30th anniversary of ‘The Joshua Tree’

 

How did Wayne Gretzky get his nick name “The Great One”?

Despite being Canadian, I really don’t watch much hockey & I never played ice hockey.  Just road hockey as a kid.

 

How is the new ‘Tool’ album coming?  Ask bassist, Justin Chancellor.

http://loudwire.com/tool-justin-chancellor-new-album-90-percent-there/

I’m still not holding my breath for a new album this year.  It will be released when “Tool” wants it to be released.

 

Nickelback’s “Feed the Machine” album debuts at number 5 on the charts.  I’m not going to trash them, they’ve done very well for themselves!  Their lead single wasn’t bad for this album.  I’ve heard it 3 or 4 times though & I’m good now.

http://loudwire.com/nickelback-feed-the-machine-debuts-no-5-billboard-album-chart/

 

Queens of the Stone Age shared their new single.  August 25th for the entire album release!!!!!

 

The Pretty Reckless shared it….

 

SNES + 21 games for $100.  Sweet deal!  Wait…..I already had my birthday this year.  A console without 18 buttons on the controller is something I’ve been waiting for & available for the public!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/super-nintendo-classic-announce-1.4178166

 

I’ll be here checking Facebook & my email just not 4 times a day!  You may hear from me on Saturday?  Then Monday for certain!

 

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Stay safe out there,

Chris

“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

WEEKEND UPDATE

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Saturday we had to get up early, well relatively early.  I jumped in the shower around 8:30 am.  I had to get some routine blood work done before I ate or drank anything other than my water & pills.  It’s really quiet at the blood clinic in the morning on a Saturday.  We were in & out in 5 minutes.  It caught me as an odd request?  I gave my blood work less than a month ago, the cancer clinic has never asked for it after an appointment?  Ah well, no big deal, my doctor told me the CT scan looked good.

We’ve called my family doctor about my referral to the back surgeon.  They thought it was odd that we hadn’t heard anything yet.  That was over a week ago that we called, still haven’t heard anything.

Kim went out in the afternoon to get groceries with her sister, I watched the Blue Jays lose…………………again.  As of Saturday after the game they’re 35W-39L.  I’m a sucker for punishment Blue Jays & Saskatchewan Roughriders (0W-1L) thus far.

We made a trip to the Sobeys liquor store.  Beer glorious beer, I found the very dark Village Wit.  Brewed & sold in Calgary.  I found my Bacardi Oakheart Rum & Sambuca there a tad cheaper as well.  Good find!

We watched “A Dog’s Purpose” good movie, but I’m a sucker for dogs.  In the end it’s a happy movie, getting to the end is a little tougher though.

Today I see more Blue Jay baseball, possibly some popcorn & a visit from my bro & that girl he lives with.  In all honesty, they’re pretty cool.

 

 

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New Alter Bridge video!

 

I don’t think Bernie likes the health care plan?  FEEL THE BERN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

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“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

WEEKLY EXERCISE TOTAL/ALL ABOUT KIM

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I fell asleep to “Soundgarden” the album “Superunknown”

I exercised to “Royal Blood” the new album “How Did We Get So Dark?”

 

Only 4 days, Kim took the day off, so did I!

160 pushups, 400 leg lifts, 400 crunches, 80 back flexes, 20 minutes of planking, some yoga.  Numbers stayed the same this week.  100 leg lifts, 100 crunches, 20 back flexes, 40 pushups, 5 minutes of planking & random amounts of yoga first thing every day!

Why am I still alive after stage 4 brain cancer?  Family, friends but mostly Kim.  She’s been my rock/island whatever Simon & Garfunkel were singing about?

I would have literally died.  She learned how to administer my TPN (food & water IV).  She did that, so we could go to the lake, sleep at home, go out to a few concerts, etc.  She came to every appointment with me!  She’d push my wheelchair until I was strong enough to do it myself, she would give me my pills at night or get a nurse to do so when I was too weak to push my call button.  She argued with the hospitals to sleep on a cot beside my bed at each hospital I was in, & would write updates on how I was doing in a Facebook group of 500 people!  She was truly “The Nurse Who Loved Me”

Would I change anything?  Maybe the cancer part of my life or my attitude towards the end of it all, but nothing else comes to mind.

I asked Kim if she’d like to go see “Wonder Woman” in the theater.  She said “Why do we need to go to the theater?  I’m right here!”  Well played Kim, well played!

Routine annual cancer check up at the cancer center.  Saw the doctor that routinely tells me to lose weight.  Instead of just calling me fat once this year, she told me 3 times that I should “lose weight”.  After the appointment we went out for lunch, I had fish tacos, I think they’re my new favourite food!  I hope it’s relatively healthy?  It’s not like I eat much unhealthy food or drink heavily, oh well,

 

If you’re here strictly for the cancer news, that’s all I have for you today.

 

LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Highly Suspect shared their video…..

 

Didn’t take him long to realize he was totally wrong!

 

This won’t end well?  Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour vocals) vs. (Chad Kroeger Nickelback vocals).  All I have to say is, “Nickelback is diverse?  What did I miss?”  No doubt they’re doing well for themselves.  When you listen to Nickelback, AC/DC, or Motorhead, you know what you’re getting, I’m always up for some Motorhead!

 

It’s only June 23rd & it’s been a great year in music for me.  Big Wreck, The Watchmen, Linkin Park, Ed Sheeran, Ascot Royals, Paramore, Royal Blood, & these 4 albums yet to be released but I have them preordered!  I’ll have these by the end of September!  Most recent concert was Big Wreck w/ Ascot Royals opening.  FANTASTIC SHOW!

 

 

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Stay safe out there,

Chris

“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT ME.  FRIDAY WON’T BE ABOUT ME!

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I fell asleep to “Ed Sheeran” the album “Divide”

I exercised to “Halflives” the album “Empty Rooms”

Kim & I binge watched the first 5 episodes of “The Ranch” on Netflix Sunday night.  I love that show!  They swear, they drink, & they’re ranchers in their spare time.  We watched the other 5 episodes on Tuesday night, now we wait until next summer to binge watch the 4th season.

LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

YAY, back to working out on Monday.  I was so comfortable in bed, I stayed there until I had to go to the washroom, so until 8:00 am.

When I stopped using a catheter in the WRC, I was terrified that I’d pee in my sleep.  Thankfully that wasn’t an issue at all.  Me with a condom catheter is a different story.  The most unreliable catheter ever, they’d leak or just randomly fall off, they were awful!

My wheelchair is in as of Monday morning to be fixed.  Left break doesn’t do anything, I can do FANTASTIC right turns, & both of my arm rests are unattached!  I have a rental chair which is taller.  I almost can’t touch the ground.  The repair is free, but it’s $35 a day for the rental.

 

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Just finished deleting stuff from my iTunes & iPod that I don’t listen to on Sunday.  The self-titled “Nothing but Thieves” is the most played album on my iPod at 50 plays!

Alter Bridge’s “The Last Hero” wasn’t far behind at 40 plays & the 2 Diemonds albums are in the upper 30s for the amount of times played.  I’m not a fan of GNR, if you are, I highly recommend “Diemonds”!

 

 

I just can’t get enough of the new ‘Paramore’ album.  Here they are playing “Hard Times” on air in the live lounge on Beats radio 1.

 

Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) interview on Beats radio 1.  Part 1 is 12 minutes long.

Part 2 of the interview is not available at the moment.

 

I don’t feel in any way that we’re entitled, as fans, to have a new Tool album as Maynard has previously stated.  I do feel as though, when Tool knows, we should know if they’re just going to tour & not record an album or if there is new recorded material on the way.  Until I hear whatever they plan to do, I don’t need to go to a show of theirs.  I saw them 3 times on the last tour in Edmonton, Saskatoon, & Regina.

 

I had a cell phone for like a year or 8 months, a flip phone in 2007.  I’ll admit that I taught myself guitar mostly on the internet.  I learned to read tablature on guitar.  I can’t read music despite my early, grade 1 & 2 in elementary school, taking piano lessons.  Playing in the school band for 4 years, then joining the choir for 2.5 years.  I’ve never had a formal guitar lesson.  I also didn’t have the distraction of a cell phone.  I don’t think I’ll need one.  If I’m at home, I have a land line & if I’m out I’m with someone who has a cell phone.

 

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.  LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

BIG, HUGE, FOO FIGHTERS NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With 3 new songs all over www.youtube.com we all had a hunch there was an album or EP on the way.

 

The album I fell asleep to Monday night.  And here on Tuesday ‘In Flames’ shares it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Racism is still everywhere.  Disgusting, woman flips out since there is no “white doctor” at the clinic?  Lady pull your head out of your @$$ or get a “white doctor” to help you!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/white-doctor-video-mississauga-1.4168199

Chris Cornell’s daughter writes a Father’s Day letter to him on his Facebook account.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornells-daughter-pens-poignant-fathers-day-note-w488849

 

I’m going to put on my general manager hat for a second & pretend I know what the Toronto Blue Jays should do either at the end of July or in the off season.  1.  Trade Troy Tulowitzki for high end prospects & hand the short stop duties to Ryan Goins.  2.  Trade Jose Bautista for high end prospects give Dwight Smith Jr. or Dalton Pompei the outfielder spot after spring training.  3.  If they really want to, trade Russell Martin & give Luke Maile the starting catcher job while bringing up Ohlman to back him up.  I just traded $58,000,000 worth of older, right handed players while really spending only $20,000,000 on players already within the organization.  2 of the replacement players are left handed, & the catcher is younger as are the other 2.  Now all you need is to find teams that are willing to trade for older players!

 

I’ll be back later time for some “Royal Blood” & breakfast.

 

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“Learn from your mistakes & don’t repeat them”-Chris

Stay safe out there,

Chris

“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

WEEKEND UPDATE/HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

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Friday finished with me coaching the Jays on TV & then the Roughriders.  Both lost.  I’m either a terrible coach or I’m not shouting loud enough?!

Fairly quiet Father’s Day.  We celebrated Father’s Day on Saturday at my parents’ house.  My brother BBQd steaks for 11 of us. Mitch, Rachel, my parents, grandparents, my aunt & uncle, my aunt’s parents, us, & my aunt’s friend Lori.  Lori’s a part of the family & has been for as long as I can remember.  Saturday I woke up around 9:00 am & had breakfast, watched the Toronto Blue Jays lose again! Finished emptying & re-loading the dishwasher & then it was off to my parents place.

Honestly a pretty regular life in a wheelchair.  I did scrape my left ankle on something here on Saturday.  I didn’t even notice until I crossed my legs with my ankle on my right knee.  Then I noticed mass amounts of blood on my knee & ankle.  Didn’t feel a thing, cleaned it up & carried on, more of a hassle than anything.  Rub a little dirt on it & forget about it!

Sundays here are quiet.  Baseball, couch, groceries, & preparing for the week ahead!

 

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Haha!  Michael Jackson mash up with Iron Maiden

http://loudwire.com/iron-maiden-the-trooper-michael-jackson-beat-it-mashup-best-of-youtube/

 

Dave Grohl’s daughter plays drums with Foo Fighters in Iceland in front of 20,000 people!

A couple of new Foo Fighters’ songs live.  LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 new songs?  There’s at least an EP on the way I would think?  That 2nd song I can’t say I’m big on.  Grohl likes to scream though, but REALLY, with an acoustic guitar, piano, & drums?

http://loudwire.com/foo-fighters-new-song-lah-di-da-live/

Foo Fighters’ albums ranked

http://loudwire.com/foo-fighters-new-song-lah-di-da-live/#photogallery-1=9

 

Ronnie James Dio’s widow slams Gene Simmons as he tries to trademark metal horns symbol.  It’s just as ridiculous as Taylor Swift trademarking the words “…+h!$ $!(k B3@+”

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/06/ronnie-james-dios-wife-slams-gene-simmons-disgusting-attempt-to-trademark-the-devils-horns-gesture/

I like Taylor Swift’s “1989” album, then she did something incredibly ridiculous!

 

Anyone interested in some Metallica figurines?

http://loudwire.com/metallica-funko-pop-vinyl-figures-august/

 

Pitch Perfect 3 in December!!!!!!!!!!! 1 & 2 were HILARIOUS!  This will be the final Pitch Perfect movie.

 

Sure, because we all want our favourite band to continue re-hashing the first album they made…….NOT!  BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://loudwire.com/bands-sound-nothing-like-first-album/

In Flames took a lot of heat on social media of fans saying this album wasn’t heavy enough.  I had no problem with it

 

I rarely listen to the radio.  We had some errands to do.  Kim runs into where ever we are & I flip through the 3 stations I can tolerate.  I usually can’t find anything I like but on Saturday afternoon & again in the evening I heard these 4 songs & turned it up!!!

LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People look at you weird if you’re head banging inside a parked vehicle in the parking lot of a grocery store, with the radio turned up LOUD!  I assume it’s because the vehicle is shaking?

 

 

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Stay safe out there,

Chris

“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres

WEEKLY EXERCISE TOTAL

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I fell asleep to “The Watchmen” the album “Live & in Stereo”

I exercised to “Royal Blood” the brand new album “When did we get so dark?”

 

Yay it’s Friday & I’ve been waiting for it!  Sure I’m at home all day, but I exercise, take care of Brewster, have breakfast, watch minimal TV, shower, have lunch, write portions of this blog, practice guitar, & then I’ll hit the couch & listen to some music.  Then it’s 3:00 pm or so unless the dishwasher or hand washed dishes need to be tended to, or I need more fruit & veggie juice or I need to clean up something.  I’m usually out of bed by 8:30 am at the latest, I tend to go to bed around 11:00 pm.  Once I’m up it’s go, go, go, until everything I wanted to accomplish is done.

500 leg lifts, 200 pushups, 5 minutes of planking, yoga, 500 crunches & 100 back flexes this past week.

That’s 100 leg lifts, 40 pushups, 20 back flexes, 25 minutes of planking, 100 crunches & yoga 5 days a week.  First thing I do when I leave the bedroom, then breakfast & a shower.

Yes, those are my current goals.  I think they’ll stay at that limit for quite a while.  You know me though, I’ll likely push to raise some of the numbers sooner.

I used to be a decent swimmer.  I never took swimming lessons as a child.  My dad grew up playing water polo & swimming in the morning before class at the University.  He taught me how to swim.  My grandparents’ old condo had a swimming pool.  He taught me there & in the summer at the lake/cabin. My grandparents’ owned, built by my great grandfather.  I used to swim with no problems at all.  Now I wouldn’t get into a pool or lake without a life jacket on.

 

If you’re here strictly for the cancer news, that’s all I have for you today.

 

Shooting at GOP gathering.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/congressman-shot-as-gunman-opens-fire-on-gop-gathering-w487952

 

Queens of the Stone Age’s website!  They’re teasing us with new FANTASTIC music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://qotsa.com/

“Villains” by Queens of the Stone Age out August 25th.  Pre-order now on iTunes

 

Ariana Grande is now an honorary citizen of Manchester.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ariana-grande-to-become-manchesters-first-honorary-citizen-w487951

Honestly I couldn’t give you a song of her’s.  I’m pretty sure a 37 year old, straight, white male isn’t in her demographic.

 

Jamie Foxx does LeBron James impression on Jimmy Kimmel

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/jamie-foxxs-lebron-james-impersonates-on-jimmy-kimmel-w488109

 

New video from ‘In Flames’

AWESOME SONG but “In Flames” didn’t cover it.

 

New studio video from ‘Stone Sour’

 

How old are you?  Have you ever head banged this hard to Metallica at a stop light?

 

Royal Blood’s Facebook page

“Pleased to announce we’ll be supporting Queens of the Stone Age in North America in September/October. Tickets on sale 22nd June.”

Only Canadian date is in Toronto in October.  I guess technically that makes it a North American tour.  Toronto, just over a 2 day drive away from Saskatchewan.  Musically, I should move to Toronto or Europe.  Many North American tours are 20+ shows in America w/ 3 Canadian dates, Montreal, Toronto, B.C., & sometimes Calgary depending on the popularity of the artist(s).  Although Tool, Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne, Garth Brooks, Dixie Chicks, Blue Rodeo, Foo Fighters, In Flames, Trivium, Lamb of God, Megadeth etc.  Have at least played Saskatoon and a few of those have made their way to Regina.

 

TONS of great music for me being released this year.  I adore the new Big Wreck album. But the Paramore album “After Laughter” is on heavy rotation on our stereo & my iPod.  It’s much more of a pop album than previous albums that were the typical pop/punk/distorted guitars.

 

Just checked the ol’ iPod for counts of play on it!

30 times listening to Big Wreck’s ‘Grace Street’ & Paramore’s ‘After Laughter’

12 times for The Watchmen’s ‘Live & in Stereo’

The odd thing is I listen to our stereo more than my iPod!  I think I have a problem?

 

I’d sing & play these 2 songs at the band practices with my brother’s group!  He really doesn’t like these songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mitch Fraser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Because we know Gene Simmons needs more money????????????????

http://loudwire.com/kiss-gene-simmons-seeks-trademark-rock-hand-gesture/

Wait for it………he’ll trademark air & water next at this rate!

 

Green Day albums ranked.  If it were me “American Idiot” would be a distant last place!

http://loudwire.com/green-day-albums-ranked/

 

I’ve listened to the new Royal Blood album a few times this morning & WOW, no sophomore slump in sight.  I’d say it’s even better than their first album & it’s phenomenal also.

 

I went to a friend’s house last night to see his new place.  Pretty sweet place.  His condo looks great, could be that I haven’t scratched up, or demolished his walls with my wheelchair….yet!

 

New Walk Off The Earth video

 

Barak Obama gives Jay Z songwriters Hall of Fame award

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/barack-obama-honors-jay-z-with-songwriters-hall-speech-w488293   Video inside the link

 

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Chris

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