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00:16Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, there are awards ceremonies, they come and go,
00:36but down in London tonight, there's a particularly hot one.
00:39It's the British Curry Awards, of course, and they were started in 2005.
00:44And all those people involved in curry restaurants, curry powders,
00:49curry the ingredients, all the rest of it, get together and the awards are handed out.
00:55And good luck to them all down there, Reg.
00:56What do you think? Are you a big curry fan?
00:58Oh, I do like a good curry.
01:00What's your favourite?
01:01Favourite, probably green Thai curry.
01:03Really?
01:04How about you?
01:04I'm not a big curry fan, to be honest with you.
01:08I mean, I used to be a bit more.
01:11I love Lassie, that'll be the drink rather than the dog, and I love Nan.
01:17Now, if I've got both of those, and a mildish curry, yes, I'm very happy.
01:21And a pint of beer, actually.
01:23And now that the Curry Awards are on tonight, it's renewed my interest.
01:27I shall have one over the weekend.
01:28What an apperty.
01:29All right.
01:30Now, who have we got?
01:31Bradley Horrocks is back, Rachel.
01:33He's an extraordinary young man.
01:35He's a mathematic student, I think.
01:37Is that right?
01:38From Bolton?
01:38That's correct, yeah.
01:39Two good wins.
01:40Two centuries, actually.
01:42So, congratulations on that.
01:44Very, very good.
01:45You're joined today by Alenka Butkovishova, an investment manager from London.
01:50And you're on a very big mission.
01:53There are 1,052 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and it's your ambition to go to them all.
01:59And you've knocked off a few already.
02:01Yeah.
02:02How many?
02:02I think it's around 90 at this stage, although I've gone to a few by accident.
02:06So, when I discover that, actually, I've been to a UNESCO site, then I add it to the list.
02:10You tick it off.
02:11And your favourite so far?
02:13I really like the ones which are cities, which are the entire city is a UNESCO site.
02:18So, Venice is probably my favourite.
02:20It's such a beautiful place.
02:21And I used to live in the city of Bath, which also is entirely a UNESCO site.
02:25They're just stunning places.
02:27Two beautiful cities.
02:28Two beautiful cities.
02:29A big round of applause for Alenka and Bradley.
02:37Hand over it from Susie.
02:38And once again, Dr Linda Papadopoulos is there, who appears for the first time on Thursday.
02:43And I hope you enjoyed it and have had a restful weekend.
02:46I have, raring to go.
02:47You enjoyed it, I hope.
02:48A lot, a lot.
02:49More from you later.
02:50But now it's Bradley Horrocks, who's going to get down to a letters game.
02:54Hi, Rachel.
02:55Hi, Bradley.
02:56Val, start off with, please.
02:57Start the week with I.
02:59And a consonant.
03:02Y.
03:04And a vowel.
03:06U.
03:08And a better one.
03:10Better vowel.
03:12Are you picky?
03:13I.
03:14Consonant.
03:16S.
03:17Consonant.
03:19L.
03:21And a vowel.
03:23E.
03:25Consonant.
03:27Z.
03:30And the last one, D.
03:34And here's the countdown clock.
03:36C.
03:38TOLANSO faites másoooo.
03:53TOLAN nous.
04:04I.
04:06I.
04:08Yes, Bradley.
04:09Six.
04:11Alenka.
04:11Just a five.
04:12And your five?
04:13Slide.
04:15No, Bradley.
04:16Sidely.
04:18Sidely.
04:19Yes, a rare adverb meaning obliquely.
04:22In other words, from the side, indirectly.
04:25Very, very good.
04:26Now, Linda and Susie.
04:29Linda and Susie, what have you counted up?
04:32We got slide the five.
04:34It was really tough and we were well beaten on that one.
04:36Yeah.
04:36Well done, Bradley.
04:37And now, another letters game, this time for Alenka.
04:41Yes, Alenka.
04:42Hi, Rachel.
04:42Hi, Alenka.
04:43Can I have a consonant, please?
04:45Start with P.
04:46And another, please.
04:49G.
04:50And a vowel.
04:52I.
04:53And another vowel.
04:55U.
04:56And another vowel.
04:59E.
05:00And a consonant.
05:02S.
05:03And another.
05:05R.
05:07And a vowel.
05:09A.
05:11And a consonant, please.
05:13And lastly, S.
05:15Stand by.
05:16Thanks Canada.
05:17Excuse me.
05:26Thanksこう.
05:34I'm sorry.
05:38I'm sorry.
05:39See you soon.
05:39Bye.
05:41Bye bye.
05:41Bye you.
05:42Bye bye.
05:43Bye bye.
05:45Bye bye.
05:47a linker a six a six and Bradley seven and a seven Alenca grapes now Bradley
05:56Garcia yes absolutely fine and what else have we got I wonder and we've got
06:05aspires yeah which is nice which also changes into praises yes very good and
06:12if you could add a u to praises and have up raises as you have an upraised arm for
06:18example that would give you an eight
06:19all right and now it's the first numbers game of the day yes Bradley can I have
06:29the bottom row please thought we might say that six little ones to start the
06:34week thank you very much Bradley and they are eight seven three nine two
06:42and four and the target six hundred and three six oh three
06:50so
06:52so
06:54so
07:20Alenca six eighteen not written down six oh two eighteen and
07:26Bradley six oh three six oh three yes Bradley eight plus two eight plus two
07:32is ten times by seven seventy minus three sixty seven and then times by nine
07:39perfect six oh three well done well done very good good start there for Bradley
07:47the twenty three points as we turn to our first tea time teaser which is brides two and the clue
07:53the brides desire to have a child was too strong the brides desire to have a child was too strong
08:16and the answer that is she was the broodiest the broodiest
08:26now Bradley on twenty three a link yet to score but lots of that is she was the broodiest the
08:30broodiest
08:30of time Alenca try this letters game and have a vowel please thanks Alenca you and a consonant
08:37B and a vowel E and another vowel I and a consonant K and another consonant T and another consonant
08:54W and
08:57and lastly L stand by
09:06and lastly L
09:08and
09:10and
09:11and
09:11and
09:12and
09:13and
09:14and
09:14and
09:22and
09:30and
09:38ALENKA
09:39Five
09:41Five, Bradley
09:42Five
09:43ALENKA
09:44BLEAT
09:46And
09:46Table
09:48Yeah, absolutely
09:49Tough enough
09:50Can we beat that?
09:51Any sixes over there?
09:53Yeah, we found Taki
09:54Which, um, one more
09:57It was a hard one though, wasn't it?
09:59Yeah
09:59Yeah, not really that K
10:00Yeah
10:01Anything else, Susie?
10:02Yeah, a talking film
10:03Talking, we had bewail as well
10:05To limit to bewail something
10:06Bewail, yeah
10:08Well done
10:09So, a link is off the blocks there
10:1128 plays five
10:12And it's Bradley's letters game
10:14Yes, Bradley
10:14A vowel, please
10:16Thank you, Bradley
10:16O
10:18And a consonant
10:20P
10:21And a vowel
10:23E
10:25And a consonant
10:27S
10:28And a vowel
10:30O
10:30And a consonant
10:32N
10:34And a consonant
10:36L
10:38Vowel
10:40A
10:42And consonant, please
10:44And lastly, R
10:47Countdown
11:17We'll be right with us
11:18Well, Bradley?
11:19Eight.
11:20And eight, Alenka?
11:22Eight.
11:23Thank you, Bradley.
11:24Personal.
11:25And Alenka?
11:26Yeah, personal.
11:27Same again.
11:28Well done.
11:32Thank you, Linda.
11:34Very good.
11:35And over in the corner there, Linda, Susie?
11:38We got Soralind.
11:40Soralind, so I remember when I was doing my doctoral work,
11:43I did a lot of work with pigmentation disorders
11:45and different skin disorders.
11:47And Soralinds are used with ultraviolet light
11:50to kind of help repigment the skin,
11:52so I always remember, yeah, that word from there.
11:54Excellent.
11:55Oh, well done.
11:56Well done.
11:57Now, 36 plays 13.
11:59Bradley on 36, and it's Alenka's numbers game.
12:03Alenka?
12:04Can I have one from the top, please?
12:05You can indeed.
12:06Thank you, Alenka.
12:07And five little ones.
12:08And these five small ones are six, four, five, seven,
12:15and another five.
12:16And the large one, 50.
12:18And your target, 372.
12:21372.
12:25We'll see you next time.
12:25Bye-bye.
12:25We'll see you next time.
12:26And our contract ждall.
12:45There we go.
12:51You're Tim.
12:51wolvesmusic in the world.
12:51We'll see you next time.
12:53ALENKA
12:53370
12:552 away, and Bradley?
12:57372
12:59372, yes Bradley?
13:0050 add 7, add 5
13:02Add 7 and 5, 62
13:04Times by 6
13:05Well done, 372
13:07Very good
13:09APPLAUSE
13:13Excellent, now
13:15Linda, Dr Linda
13:17What have you got for us today?
13:19I think you want to talk about Big Brother
13:21the very first series
13:23you were involved with.
13:24I just find the whole way
13:27that popular culture is affected
13:29by the media we consume
13:31really interesting, so 16
13:33years ago, some of my
13:34research actually to do with Soralen's
13:36skin disease was profiled on
13:39a television show, and the producers
13:40of this brand new social experiment
13:43called Big Brother came to see me
13:44and they explained what it was
13:47and I was fascinated
13:48and I remember back in the day
13:49they would send me VHS tapes
13:51of what people had been speaking about
13:54and it was, I would say
13:55quite a different ilk of person
13:58that was on that first show
13:59to what you see on reality TV shows today
14:01because no one knew what to expect
14:03so you actually found people
14:04I remember watching them
14:05and they would say things like
14:06oh, I told my boss
14:07I'd only been gone for a week
14:08and you know, I've been here
14:09for nine days now
14:10and they'd be like, oh don't worry
14:11they're like, no one's watching
14:12you just, when you go back
14:13say something, you know
14:14make up an excuse
14:15they had no idea
14:16about the enormity of it
14:17and just kind of, you know
14:19you reflect on what it is now
14:21and now this notion
14:22that we're all kind of
14:24again, I think to some extent
14:25through social media
14:26sort of stars of our own show
14:27we feel that we are watched
14:30in some senses
14:31the kind of notion of Big Brother
14:33kind of extends to all of us
14:35in our everyday lives
14:36and I wonder if a lot of the kind
14:38of mental health issues
14:39that we're seeing
14:40comes from this amplified self-awareness
14:44comes from this idea
14:45that we're all being seen
14:47we're all being observed
14:47especially amongst young people
14:50Absolutely
14:51I mean, it's extraordinary
14:52Twitter and Facebook
14:53and all the rest of it
14:54it strikes me that so many people
14:56put their entries on Facebook
14:58to show what a wonderful life they have
15:00Yeah, absolutely
15:01and it used to be about
15:02going on to connect
15:03and of course now
15:04it's going on to compare
15:05Exactly
15:06and I think that's this sort of
15:07social comparison theory
15:08so, you know
15:09I mean, I've worked a lot
15:10with body image
15:11and if you want to make
15:12someone feel bad
15:13like get them to look
15:13at a glossy magazine, right?
15:15because that's what you do
15:16and it's what psychologists
15:17call upward social comparison
15:19so when we compare
15:20to someone who seems to be
15:22prettier, smarter, you know
15:24whatever, more successful
15:25we feel bad
15:26and we're much more likely
15:27to make upward social comparisons
15:29than downward
15:29so what happens online?
15:31We tend to post things
15:32when we're on a high
15:33I'm on this trip
15:34I'm having this dinner
15:35and we tend to surf
15:37and see what everyone's doing
15:38when we're sitting there
15:39with pimple cream
15:40eating the leftovers
15:41in front of the TV
15:42Yeah
15:42and as a consequence
15:43the difference between
15:44where we are
15:45and where we assume
15:46other people's lives are
15:47has a bigger and bigger gap
15:49and I think that's
15:50a really interesting thing
15:51to hold on to
15:52this idea that actually
15:53what we're putting up there
15:55is PR
15:55they're press releases
15:57of our lives
15:57it's not really reality
15:58it's, you know
15:59it's the best possible reality
16:01that we're experiencing
16:02Beautifully expressed
16:03Oh brilliant
16:04Thank you
16:08Tremendous
16:09Now
16:10Bradley
16:12Letters again
16:13A vowel please
16:14Thank you Bradley
16:15I
16:16And a consonant
16:18N
16:20And a vowel
16:21E
16:23And a consonant
16:24X
16:26And a vowel
16:28O
16:29And a consonant
16:31T
16:32And a vowel
16:34E
16:36And a consonant
16:38C
16:39And a consonant
16:42And a consonant
16:43And a consonant
16:43And a consonant
16:45T
16:45And a consonant
17:18Bradley.
17:19Six.
17:20Alenka.
17:21Six.
17:22Now, Bradley.
17:23Exotic.
17:24And Alenka.
17:25Yeah, exotic.
17:28Any more exotics?
17:30Yeah, we've got exotic too.
17:32Anything else?
17:33Yeah, great one.
17:34There is an eight there, Nick.
17:36Ejection.
17:37Ejection.
17:39Well done.
17:4452 plays 19.
17:45Back to Alenka for a letters game.
17:47Can I have a consonant, please?
17:49Thank you, Alenka.
17:50L.
17:51And a vowel.
17:53I.
17:55And another.
17:57E.
17:58And another.
18:00A.
18:01And a consonant.
18:03D.
18:05And a consonant.
18:07M.
18:08And another consonant.
18:10D.
18:12And a vowel.
18:15O.
18:16And a consonant, please.
18:19And lastly, D.
18:22Stand by.
18:22And one.
18:50And a other.
18:52And another.
18:54Now, Alenka?
18:57Six.
18:58And Bradley?
18:59Seven.
19:01Alenka?
19:02Mobile.
19:03Now then.
19:04Loaded.
19:05Loaded, absolutely fine.
19:07Strong performance there.
19:08Now, Linda and Susie?
19:12We got tabloid, which is...
19:16What is that, a seven?
19:17Seven, yeah.
19:18And we got an eight as well.
19:19Yeah.
19:20It comes from the 1950s.
19:22It sounds very modern.
19:22An Admobile.
19:24So it's a car or some form of transport that's got lots of advertising slogans on them.
19:30An Admobile.
19:34They have those big sort of hoarding boards on the back of a van, that sort of thing, you
19:38mean?
19:38Yeah, so a giant bottle on the top or something.
19:40Yeah.
19:41Taxis have started to have those sort of advertisements on the roof these days, illuminated.
19:46It's a little New York thing.
19:48That's right.
19:48It's an American thing, you know.
19:5059 plays 19, and it's Bradley's numbers game.
19:54Yes, Bradley?
19:54Can I have two large and four small, please?
19:57You can, indeed.
19:58Thank you, Bradley.
19:58Just the two big and four little this time.
20:01And these four littles are one, seven, four, six.
20:06And the big one's 150.
20:09And your target?
20:11503.
20:11503.
20:14503.
20:45Bradley.
20:465 or 3?
20:475 or 3.
20:48Alinka?
20:485 or 3.
20:495 or 3.
20:51Bradley.
20:516 minus 1.
20:526 minus 1 is 5.
20:55Times about 100.
20:56500.
20:587 take 4 is 3.
21:00It is indeed.
21:01And add on.
21:02Well done.
21:025 or 3.
21:03And Alinka?
21:05Yeah, that's exactly the same.
21:06Same way?
21:06There we go.
21:14So 69 plays 29.
21:16Bradley in the lead as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser, which is Tire Under.
21:21And the clue, I tire under the stresses of the job, but alas, I'm still working.
21:25I tire under the stresses of the job, but alas, I'm still working.
21:38APPLAUSE
21:45I left you with the clue.
21:48I tire under the stresses of the job, but alas, I'm still working.
21:52That's because I'm unretired.
21:56Unretired is the answer to that one.
21:58From 69 to 29, Alenka on 29, and it's Alenka's letters game.
22:04Can I have a consonant, please?
22:06Thank you, Alenka.
22:07M.
22:08And another consonant, please.
22:11R.
22:14And a vowel.
22:16U.
22:18And another vowel.
22:20A.
22:22And another.
22:24E.
22:24And a consonant, please.
22:28F.
22:29And another.
22:31M.
22:32And another.
22:35S.
22:37And a vowel, please.
22:39And the last one, O.
22:41Stand by.
22:42There.
22:56So.
22:58And another.
23:10S.
23:13I think I've got a risky seven and Bradley seven I think um smear no Bradley Foreman
23:24Foreman is absolutely fine no and smear unfortunately and smear I think that's
23:30gonna be unlikely as well sorry it's not there a linker yeah but like what can we
23:35have I wonder Linda and Susie we got franums f-r-a-e-n-u-m-s yes another term
23:44for
23:44well the frame is another term for the frenulum and that's a small fold of skin
23:48or tissue which supports it's a motion if you like so that little bit of flesh
23:53that you have under your tongue that is the frenulum oh yeah
23:56thanks for that one Susie 76 to 29 Bradley letters game oh please thank
24:07you Bradley you a consonant D vowel a consonant D vowel I consonant
24:25T T vowel E consonant Q another consonant and lastly L and here's the countdown clock
24:43oh
24:58you
25:14Bradley.
25:15Seven.
25:16Seven.
25:17Alenka.
25:18Seven.
25:19Bradley.
25:21Tequila.
25:22And Alenka.
25:23Quilted.
25:24Quilted.
25:25Nice.
25:26Very good.
25:27Tequila.
25:27Like this, yep.
25:28Now, Linda and Susie?
25:31We've got liquidated, which is an eight.
25:34Yes.
25:34Very good.
25:35Doesn't mean the same as liquidated quite.
25:36It's to separate or purify a metal by melting it.
25:43All right.
25:45A good score there for Bradley.
25:4683.
25:47Alenka.
25:48A good, creditable 36.
25:50As we turn to Susie for her origins of words.
25:53Now, Susie, what have you for us today?
25:56Well, a lovely member of our studio audience asked me the other day where Tommy Rot comes
26:03from, which is a slightly old-fashioned term now for complete nonsense.
26:07And English is just full of so many words to do with nonsense.
26:11So you have twaddle and you have bunkum and poppycock and balderdash.
26:15And if you looked in the historical thesaurus, you would probably find 100 or 200 words, which
26:19probably reflect perhaps slightly badly on the English temperament.
26:25We have codswallop as well, which is one of the big mysteries of English etymology.
26:29We think it goes back to Hiram Cod, who invented a special bottle to contain fizzy drinks.
26:35And because beer drinkers used to call weak beer, if you like, wallop, it was a bit of a scathing
26:42criticism of what was contained in these bottles.
26:45Codswallop perhaps goes back to Hiram Cod.
26:47But to Tommy Rot.
26:49Tommy Rot is actually a World War I term.
26:53Tommy was very much the name for your traditional generic soldier.
26:58It was used in a very good way.
27:00It was a very, very positive way.
27:01But Rot obviously wasn't very positive.
27:03And it was bread.
27:04It was the soldiers' rations.
27:06And soldiers have a great way of poking fun at the food, which isn't, by all accounts,
27:11always particularly nice.
27:12So Jack Brew, one of my favourite terms, is a cup of tea that you make for yourself,
27:16but not for anyone else.
27:17Or bags of mystery is an old term for sausages, which soldiers have adopted,
27:22because you never know what's in them.
27:23I quite like that one.
27:24And Tommy Rot simply was your soldiers' rations.
27:27Tommy Atkins, as I say, was a general term for a sort of honest, private soldier.
27:32But that's as simple as it gets.
27:35It was just a rather nasty food that you would eat out in the field by your traditional Tommy.
27:40Oh, very good.
27:46Poor old Tommy.
27:4783 to 36.
27:49And it's Alenka's letters game.
27:51Alenka.
27:52Can I have a consonant, please?
27:54Thank you, Alenka.
27:55And a vowel.
27:58And another.
28:01And another.
28:06And a consonant, please.
28:09And another.
28:11And another.
28:14And another.
28:19R.
28:20And a vowel, please.
28:21And the last one.
28:23A.
28:25Stand by.
28:26Now.
28:28And a vowel.
28:54Like.
28:57Alenka?
28:58A six.
29:00And Bradley?
29:01Six.
29:02Alenka?
29:03A favour.
29:04Thank you, Bradley.
29:05Same word.
29:07There we go.
29:09Any advances from the corner, Linda?
29:11We've got favour as well, but we also got author, which is again a six.
29:15OK.
29:15Susie, that's it?
29:16You can have fourth for six, rather confusingly.
29:19Fourth.
29:20Came fourth?
29:21Yes.
29:2289 to 42.
29:24Bradley, final letters game.
29:26Vowel, please.
29:27Thank you, Bradley.
29:29E.
29:29And a consonant.
29:31L.
29:33And a vowel.
29:34I.
29:35And a consonant.
29:38M.
29:39And a vowel.
29:41A.
29:43A consonant.
29:45T.
29:47Consonant.
29:48G.
29:50Vowel.
29:53E.
29:55Final consonant.
29:57And a final D.
30:00Stand by.
30:01Do it.
30:02Do it.
30:17I.
30:17Two.
30:24In a superintendent.
30:24To.
30:30A ancient Familie.
30:32Bradley.
30:33Seven.
30:33Seven.
30:34Alenka.
30:35Seven.
30:36Bradley.
30:38Legated.
30:39And Alenka.
30:40Gleamed.
30:41Gleamed, absolutely fine, yeah.
30:43No problem with either of those.
30:45Very good.
30:46Now, Linda and Susie.
30:47We've got mileage.
30:49Yes.
30:49Anything else, Susie?
30:51Legated was ours as well.
30:53And legated.
30:53Mileage, thank you.
30:5596-49, final numbers game.
30:59Alenka.
30:59Can I have two large, four small, please?
31:02You can indeed, thank you, Alenka.
31:04Two from top, four little.
31:05And the final one of the day is seven.
31:08Five.
31:10One.
31:11Nine.
31:12And the large two, 175.
31:15And the target, 648.
31:17Six, four, eight.
31:53Yes, Bradley.
31:55Six, four, eight.
31:56Yes, Bradley.
31:58Seven plus one.
31:59Seven plus one is eight.
32:01Take five.
32:02Is three.
32:0375, take three.
32:0572.
32:06And times by nine.
32:07Perfect.
32:08648.
32:09Well done.
32:10APPLAUSE
32:13A good mathematician there.
32:15106.
32:16He's bounced through the hundred again.
32:18And it's 106 to 49.
32:21It's fingers on buzzers as we go into the final round.
32:25Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:33Yes, Bradley.
32:34Purposely.
32:35Purposely, he said.
32:37Just a hint of a smile there.
32:39Let's see.
32:40Here it comes, purposely.
32:45Well...
32:49116.
32:50Oh, Alenka.
32:52This is one tremendous player.
32:54Indeed.
32:55Yeah, he really is.
32:56I think he holds great promise.
32:59If I was a betting man, I'd put quite a lot of money on him.
33:02Alenka, he'd pay pretty well, actually.
33:04But when you come up against a young Bradley Horrocks,
33:06you know, it's a tough old gig.
33:08Yeah.
33:09But thank you so much for coming.
33:11Good luck with the 1,052 World Heritage Sites.
33:15How many have you done?
33:16You told me 90-something?
33:17Yeah, something like 90.
33:18Amazing.
33:18I mean, I've done by accident.
33:19Well, good luck.
33:20Take this with you.
33:21And as you're travelling between them,
33:22you can have a look up the occasional word.
33:25Thank you so much for coming.
33:26Thank you very much.
33:26Travel safely.
33:27All right.
33:28My word, Bradley, that's tremendous.
33:30Tremendous form.
33:30I think that's your highest score, 116.
33:32Yes.
33:33Fantastic.
33:34All right.
33:34We'll see you tomorrow.
33:37See you tomorrow.
33:38Well done.
33:38Congratulations.
33:40Formidable performance.
33:42See you tomorrow, Linda.
33:44And Susie, too.
33:45Look forward to it.
33:45We look forward to it.
33:46All right.
33:47Well, Rachel?
33:48And Old Trafford's just over the road.
33:49I'm sure that's part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites by now.
33:52It should be, yeah, sure.
33:53Have a look on the way out.
33:55Yeah.
33:55Now, what about this Bradley?
33:57He's flat.
33:58I predicted not having much to do, and I think the prophecy is coming true.
34:03Tremendous.
34:03Yeah.
34:03Tremendous.
34:04See you tomorrow.
34:05See you later.
34:05Join us then.
34:06See how Bradley gets on.
34:08Hmm.
34:08You never know.
34:09Same time, same place.
34:10You be sure of it.
34:11A very good afternoon.
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