David Attenborough and Barack Obama face-to-face in TV interview
In unexpected turn of events, US president interviewed naturalist during visit to White House in May – though Attenborough asks toughest questions
VIDEO - 1:46 Embed - US president Barack Obama discusses climate change and the future of life on Earth with Sir David Attenborough
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It sounds like a scenario from a fantasy dinner party: the most powerful man on the planet interviewing one of the world’s most beloved naturalists about his life story, about climate change and the future of life on Earth.
But in May, it has emerged, this encounter did happen, when Barack Obama invited Sir David Attenborough .. http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/david-attenborough .. to the White House for a televised discussion – in which he, the US president, was to ask the questions of the broadcaster, not the other way round.
In the interview, to be broadcast simultaneously in the UK and US on BBC1 and BBC .. http://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc .. America on Sunday, Obama tells Attenborough: “I’ve been a huge admirer of your work for a very long time … you’ve been a great educator as well as a great naturalist.”
But it is Attenborough, on the day in which he marked his 89th birthday, who poses the most probing questions of their encounter, asking the president why he cannot show a commitment to tackling climate change in the same way previous presidents had strived to put people on the moon.
Challenged by the naturalist, Obama says: “We’re not moving as fast as we need to and part of what I know from watching your programmes, and all the great work you’ve done, is that these ecosystems are all interconnected. If just one country is doing the right thing but other countries are not, then we’re not going to solve the problem, we’re going to have to have a global solution to this.
“What we’re seeing are global trends that depends on the entire world working together, and sadly we haven’t made as much progress as we need to on climate change.”
Attenborough says that being invited to meet the president on his 89th birthday – the first time in his long career he had ever visited the White House – had been “a considerable surprise”. He says he found the president “friendly, hospitable and genuine”.
The president tells Attenborough that he grew up watching his programmes. Attenborough presented his first natural history programme for the BBC in 1954. The pair discuss the broadcaster’s career, his recent trip to dive in the Great Barrier Reef, (which he has called “the most magical thing” he has ever seen .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29141151 ), and what he believes needs to be done about pressing issues such as the rising population, climate change and renewable energy.
“I believe [if] we find ways of generating and storing power from renewable resources we will make the problem with oil and coal disappear,” Attenborough tells the president, “because economically, we’ll wish to use these other methods. If we do that, a huge step will be taken in solving the problems of the Earth. I think what’s required is an understanding and a gut feeling that the natural world is part of your inheritance. This is the only planet we’ve got and we’ve got to protect it. And people do feel that, deeply and instinctively, it is after all where you go in moments of celebration and in moments of grief.”
Obama, in turn, talks about his paternal roots in Kenya as well as his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, and how travelling across the world throughout his life had shaped his thoughts on the environment.
Attenborough has previously said he believed Obama was “very much in favour of tackling climate change … [but] of course, as we also know, he is coming to the end of his last presidency”.
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King tide causes flooding in parts of South Florida
October 27, 2015
HIGHLIGHTS King tides will continue through Wednesday Flood-prone areas in South Florida should expect rising water at high tide
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Miami Beach has put into action an aggressive and expensive plan to combat the effects of sea level rise. As some streets keep flooding from recent king tide events, the city continues rolling out its plan of attack and will spend between $400-$500 million over the next five years doing so. Emily Michot emichot@miamiherald.com
By Joey Flechas and Jenny Staletovich jflechas@miamiherald.com
Julian Cohen watched the water rise Tuesday morning from the backyard of his Miami Beach home with his dog Kimbo.
Kimbo couldn't go for his usual morning walk because their house, which is on a canal, was marooned after the king tide swamped his street and driveway.
"It's double-waterfront," Cohen said, peering out from his front porch as cars splashed by just north of the Miami Beach Golf Club.
Video: The King tide is high on Miami Beach Miami Beach, and South Florida, is experiencing a King tide during the full moon. Walter Michot / Miami Herald
Tidal floods were expected Tuesday morning and will continue through Wednesday as the annual king tide causes saltwater to seep up in low-lying areas of South Florida.
From Fort Lauderdale to the Keys, flood-prone areas should plan for soggy conditions at high tide.
In Hollywood, where Robin Rorapaugh stacked 150 sandbags to keep her house dry, water bubbled up from storm drains to flood Buchanan Street and into her yard. Rorapaugh, who has lived in her 1923 house since 2000, said flooding has gotten progressively worse, with streets flooding after two inches of rain.
“I’m becoming an expert on all kinds of plants that do well with saltwater,” she said.
Just east of the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, even before the highest tides, seawater flooded the street outside Shooters Restaurant and lapped at sidewalks.
“I love everything about the neighborhood and the location and restaurants nearby, but it seems to be getting worse,” said Robert Owen, who purchased his condominium at the nearby Tides at Bridgeside Square about seven years ago. “It can’t be good for property values.”
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While recently installed pumps have kept some streets dry in Miami Beach, other neighborhoods that are waiting for their pumps continue to deal with several inches of water pooling in front of their homes and often up into their driveways.
Cohen, a 28-year-old real estate agent, said he rented the home without knowing the tides would inundate his street.
"It causes a river in front of my house," he said.
Miami Beach officials are entering the second year of a five-year plan to install dozens of pumps through the city to push water out into Biscayne Bay.
It's an aggressive push to combat high tides and the long-term effects of sea level rise. Miami-Dade County and other governments are in the planning stages to develop a strategy for contending with future sea rise.
This week's rising tides are commonly known as the king tide, which occurs every fall. South Florida got a preview of this in late September, when a supermoon-fueled high tide caused similar flooding. Another seasonal high tide is forecast for Nov. 24 through Nov. 27.
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On Parched Navajo Reservation, ‘Water Lady’ Brings Liquid Gold
By FERNANDA SANTOSJULY 13, 2015
Slide Show|8 Photos Liquid Gold Delivered From a Treasure Chest on Wheels CreditRick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times
THOREAU, N.M. — The yellow truck slogged along the red-dirt roads in this impoverished corner of the Navajo reservation last week, its belly full of water — liquid gold in a treasure chest on wheels. The truck’s driver, Darlene Arviso, steered it patiently, up, down and around pockmarks chiseled on the ground by a recent downpour.
“So much rain, but a lot of people with no water,” she mumbled, angling toward the entrance of a mud-splashed hogan, the traditional Navajo hut that was the first stop on her delivery route that day.
Her job is simple: She brings clean water to people who have none of it at home. One-third of the roughly 50,000 households on the Navajo reservation face this problem, one of the highest concentrations of water-poor homes in the country. A multiyear drought has only made it worse.
Water has never been abundant for the Navajo people, whose land straddles the high desert across three states — New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. That has created a culture of conservation, making Navajos a model for much of the parched West .. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/us/california-drought-tests-history-of-endless-growth.html , even as their own search for water has also become more of a challenge.
Darlene Arviso, right, delivered fresh water to Lindsay Johnson, 78, and her family near Thoreau, N.M. The Johnsons reuse much of the water they get. Credit Rick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times
Scientists behind the National Climate Assessment, a major report measuring the effects of climate change in the United States, heard Navajo elders speak .. http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/indigenous-peoples#intro-section-2 .. of a perceptible decline in snowfall over the years and the gradual disappearance of streams, lakes and shallow wells atop the flat-topped mesas that dot the reservation.
They call her the “water lady,” but she is much more than that. She listens to their desires and afflictions, then helps resolve them, if she can. She is psychiatrist, benefactor and best friend.
[beautiful! Ms. Arviso sounds a wonderful dear lady]
She also has her own struggles — she is a widow raising her children’s children in a home with a broken septic tank. But she does not complain.
When she needs comfort, she reads the Bible verse that hangs from the rearview mirror of her truck, Ephesians 3:20: “Now to him who is able to do exceedingly more above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
A devoted Pentecostal, Ms. Arviso, 51, started delivering water six years ago, the first and only driver of the diesel-powered Chevrolet Kodiak C8500 owned by the St. Bonaventure Indian Mission .. http://www.stbonaventuremission.org/ , which also runs a Catholic school and mobile-home park in town.
“I pray every day that I give myself to the Lord,” she said. “He’s working through me.”
Ms. Arviso hugged the homeowners she serviced on Monday, greeting them with warm smiles and an effusive Yá’át’ééh (pronounced YAH-t-eh) — hello in Navajo. She promised one of them, Marta Cleveland, that she would swing by a thrift store and pick up some old sheets. Ms. Cleveland, stooped and hard of hearing at 77, said she made quilts out of the sheets to pass time.
Two 55-gallon barrels were waiting for Ms. Arviso outside Ms. Cleveland’s home. One still had about five gallons of water in it, but the water was dirty. Ms. Arviso suggested throwing it out so she could fill the barrel with clean water. Ms. Cleveland protested. She would use it to clean the cracked tile floor in her home.
Ms. Arviso, a water truck driver for the St. Bonaventure Indian Mission, on her route last week. Credit Rick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times
Nearby, Angela Largo, 46, leaned in close to Ms. Arviso and described the hardships of raising a severely disabled son on her own. Ms. Arviso listened quietly, her eyes on the water flowing through the thick hose connected to her truck, filling four barrels — 200 gallons, which was supposed to last three weeks.
Here, conserving water is not a choice or a mandate. It is a way of life.
Ms. Arviso’s clients store their water in closed-top rain barrels and recycled buckets — Mrs. Klein’s Dill Pickles, Block & Barrel Dill Hamburger Slices, Augason Farms Hard Wheat. They fill empty bottles of Coke, jugs of Tampico Mango Juice and whatever plastic container they can find.
“We take what we can from the water lady,” said Lindsay Johnson, 78, as her grandchildren ran around the barren yard, playing a game of tag.
They also reuse much of what they get. Inside, one of Ms. Johnson’s daughters, Britanna George, dumped water from the buckets into a tank next to the stove. “That,” Ms. George said, “is for cleaning and cooking.”
On the floor, two basins sat empty, to be used every three days, when all the family members wash their hair. When that water gets too dirty, too full of suds, Ms. Johnson uses it to clean the floor.
A nonprofit, DigDeep Water .. http://www.navajowaterproject.org/ , has been working with the St. Bonaventure Mission to build a well and water filtration plant along Ms. Arviso’s route so she can fill up her tank more easily and, in turn, serve more families.
She has a daughter in Texas, earning a decent living as a heavy-equipment operator. The daughter has called her to come visit, take time off from her busy life — Ms. Arviso also drives a school bus, before and after her water delivery shifts. But she resists leaving the reservation and her work, even for a little while.
“I can’t,” she said as she pulled in the mission’s parking lot midafternoon, the truck’s belly empty after 11 deliveries. “If I’m not here, who’s going to bring these people their water? Right now, I’m all they’ve got.”
A version of this article appears in print on July 14, 2015, on page A11 of the New York edition with the headline: On Parched Navajo Reservation, ‘Water Lady’ Brings Liquid Gold. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Seas are now rising faster than they have in 2,800 years, scientists say
By Chris Mooney February 22 at 3:11 PM
Waves driven by a cyclone appear in the Elbe estuary near the North Sea close to northern Germany. (Christian Charisius/European Pressphoto Agency)
A group of scientists says it has now reconstructed the history of the planet’s sea levels arcing back over some 3,000 years — leading it to conclude that the rate of increase experienced in the 20th century was “extremely likely” to have been faster than during nearly the entire period.
“We can say with 95 percent probability that the 20th-century rise was faster than any of the previous 27 centuries,” said Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who led the research with nine colleagues from several U.S. and global universities. Kopp said it’s not that seas rose faster before that – they probably didn’t – but merely that the ability to say as much with the same level confidence declines.
The Great Chinese Climate Hoax Is Getting Very Convincing
"What Earth would look like if all ice melted"
Just ask these Alaskans.
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By Charles P. Pierce Nov 23, 2017
It’s been a while since we checked in with Shishmaref, the ancient Inuit village on a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea in arctic Alaska, the place that is steadily being eaten by the sea due to the ramifications of the Great Chinese Climate Hoax. It turns out that the folks in Shishmaref are having something of a rough autumn, as The Anchorage Daily News .. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/weather/2017/11/21/bering-sea-storm-threatens-western-alaska-with-flooding-and-major-erosion/ .. informs us.
There always have been severe storms in this area. The Chukchi Sea is where Pacific typhoons have always gone to die, and storms originating in the area can be almost as bad. Back before the Great Chinese Climate Hoax, these storms would pound themselves to death on the thick ice pack that was strong enough to resist them no later than the beginning of October. The land was relatively safe from erosion because of the strength of the permafrost. But, because of the Great Chinese Climate Hoax, the ice forms later in the year, and thinner, and the storms strengthen themselves before making landfall. Because the permafrost is disappearing, great chunks of places like Kivalina and Shishmaref gets pulled out to sea. I spent a week there a few years back. These are good people. They deserve better than to lose everything to a talking point, and on behalf of someone else’s profits.
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First
"What Earth would look like if all ice melted"
The city has another serious water problem.
A rock lake at the edge of Miami-Dade County. Photographer: Anastasia Samoylova for Bloomberg Businessweek
By Christopher Flavelle August 29, 2018, 7:00 PM GMT+10
One morning in June, Douglas Yoder climbed into a white government SUV on the edge of Miami and headed northwest, away from the glittering coastline and into the maze of water infrastructure that makes this city possible. He drove past drainage canals that sever backyards and industrial lots, ancient water-treatment plants peeking out from behind run-down bungalows, and immense rectangular pools tracing the outlines of limestone quarries. Finally, he reached a locked gate at the edge of the Everglades. Once through, he pointed out the row of 15 wells that make up the Northwest Wellfield, Miami-Dade County’s clean water source of last resort.
Yoder, 71, is deputy director of the county’s water and sewer department; his job is to think about how to defend the county’s fresh drinking water against the effects of climate change. A large man with an ambling gait, Yoder exudes the calm of somebody who’s lived with bad news for a long time.
“We have a very delicate balance in a highly managed system,” he said in his rumbly voice. “That balance is very likely to get upset by sea-level rise.” What nobody knows is when that will happen, or what happens next.
From ground level, greater Miami looks like any American megacity—a mostly dry expanse of buildings, roads, and lawns, sprinkled with the occasional canal or ornamental lake. But from above, the proportions of water and land are reversed. The glimmering metropolis between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades reveals itself to be a thin lattice of earth and concrete laid across a puddle that never stops forming. Water seeps up through the gravel under construction sites, nibbles at the edges of fresh subdivisions, and shimmers through the cracks and in-between places of the city above it.
Miami-Dade is built on the Biscayne Aquifer, 4,000?square miles of unusually shallow and porous limestone whose tiny air pockets are filled with rainwater and rivers running from the swamp to the ocean. The aquifer and the infrastructure that draws from it, cleans its water, and keeps it from overrunning the city combine to form a giant but fragile machine. Without this abundant source of fresh water, made cheap by its proximity to the surface, this hot, remote city could become uninhabitable.
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One of Miami-Dade’s many canals, which the county relies on to drain its flat surface when it rains. Yoder calls the canals “probably the most complex” water management system in the world. Photographer: Anastasia Samoylova for Bloomberg Businessweek
Climate change is slowly pulling that machine apart. Barring a stupendous reversal in greenhouse gas emissions, the rising Atlantic will cover much of Miami by the end of this century. The economic effects will be devastating: Zillow Inc. estimates that six feet of sea-level rise would put a quarter of Miami’s homes underwater, rendering $200 billion of real estate worthless. But global warming poses a more immediate danger: The permeability that makes the aquifer so easily accessible also makes it vulnerable. “It’s very easy to contaminate our aquifer,” says Rachel Silverstein, executive director of Miami Waterkeeper, a local environmental protection group. And the consequences could be sweeping. “Drinking water supply is always an existential question.”
County officials agree with her. “The minute the world thinks your water supply is in danger, you’ve got a problem,” says James Murley, chief resilience officer for Miami-Dade, although he adds that the county’s water system remains “one of the best” in the U.S. The questions hanging over Miami and the rest of Southeast Florida are how long it can keep its water safe, and at what cost. As the region struggles with more visible climate problems, including increasingly frequent flooding and this summer’s toxic algae blooms, the risks to the aquifer grow, and they’re all the more insidious for being out of sight. If Miami-Dade can’t protect its water supply, whether it can handle the other manifestations of climate change won’t matter.
The threats to the Biscayne Aquifer are unfolding simultaneously, but from different directions and at different speeds. In that way, Miami’s predicament is at once unique and typical: Climate change probes a city’s weaknesses much as standing water finds cracks in the foundation of a house.
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In 2008 the Florida legislature passed a law dictating that the state’s water utilities stop discharging sewage into the ocean by 2025; complying with that timeline could cost as much as $5?billion, Yoder says. Then, in 2013, Miami-Dade entered into an agreement with the EPA, which had found the county unlawfully discharged more than 28 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Biscayne Bay. The county promised to upgrade its wastewater collection and treatment facilities at a cost of $1.6?billion.
In its latest capital budget, Yoder’s department estimated that $13.5 billion would be required for these and other future infrastructure projects, of which $9.5 billion would be funded by bonds. But last November, Moody’s Corp. warned that the county’s creditworthiness depends on “future annual rate increases to meet escalating debt service requirements”—saying, in effect, that the county’s elected officials who must approve rate increases had better be willing to accept the political pain associated with ratcheting up their voters’ water bills. If not, the county’s credit rating could fall, necessitating higher interest payments on its bonds—and even higher water bills to cover them.
The county’s crush of climate-related spending requirements goes beyond protecting drinking water. Add to that the cost of pumps and sea walls as rising seas turn the area’s gravity-reliant drainage canals back on themselves. “Anything that this county relies on that is gravity-based is in jeopardy with sea-level rise,” says Wilbur Mayorga, head of environmental monitoring and restoration at the county’s Department of Environmental Resources Management. “We’ve been lucky all this time. The time will come that it may not be so easy.”
Spending on that scale is hard for any county to manage on its own. The challenge is greater here: Despite pockets of extreme wealth—one study estimated that the Miami metro area has the nation’s eighth-highest number of millionaires—the county overall is poor. Its median household income of $44,224 is almost one-quarter lower than that of the country as a whole.
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Asked if the state would help Miami-Dade protect its drinking water from climate change, Governor Rick Scott’s office directed questions to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which said in a statement that it “continues to work to protect the resiliency of our coastal ecosystems and shoreline communities.” But José Javier Rodríguez, a Democrat who represents Miami in Florida’s Republican-held senate, says his city is unlikely to get bailed out by the state. It’s not a question of believing in science. “The massive political and institutional resistance to taking action, in my view, is not largely ideological,” he says. “It’s not largely even political. It’s a question of being intimidated by the price tag.” As the low-tax state struggles against a revolt among school districts protesting meager budget increases and a $28 million prison funding deficit, there’s no appetite for funding the solutions to future crises, even when the future is almost here.
The obvious solutions would cause problems of their own. Why not stop mining near the wellfields, for instance? Because the limestone from those mines goes into the concrete used to construct sea walls and build higher off the ground around Florida’s coast. There’s little disagreement about the need to get rid of the septic tanks, but which homes get help first? If a coastal neighborhood will have to be abandoned anyway, is it worth spending money on new sewers?
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“People will hang on with their fingernails to keep what they’ve got,” Stoddard says. “But who’s going to move here? And that’s what’s going to kill us.”
On vital issues such as genetically-modified foods and climate change, having correct scientific knowledge is vital for making good public policy. How does philosophy help us understand science? How strong is the scientific consensus about climate change, and the effects our species has on it? Naomi Oreskes, co-author of the award-winning book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, has studied the climate change debate as a historian and philosopher, and will explore the above questions, and more. Oreskes courageous work to expose deliberate attempts to sow confusion and doubt about important issues, such as climate change, is not based in rhetoric, as it is with some of the 'merchants of doubt' she writes about, but on looking at science using philosophical techniques.
Miami, New Orleans and New York City completely under water it’s a very real possibility if sea levels continue to rise. In Earth Under Water we’ll see these events unfold as leading experts forecast how mankind will be impacted if global warming continues.
They’ll break down the science behind these predictions and explore ways humanity could adapt, including engineering vast dams near San Francisco, or building floating cities outside of New York.
Doubts over Sydney’s desalination plant as storage levels plunge
Sydney’s desalination plant after a storm hit in 2015. Picture: Chris Pavlich.
By Elias Visontay 12:00AM August 14, 2018
A drought-induced “free fall’’ in Sydney’s water-storage levels could force the activation of the city’s desalination plant within weeks, but there are concerns it may not be ready in time.
The desalination plant will be activated for the first time when the city’s water storage falls below 60 per cent. With current levels at 66 per cent, experts predict this threshold could be crossed in as little as 10 weeks if there is no substantial rain.
If the dry conditions continue, the city could be just months away from its first water restrictions in nine years, which take effect when levels fall below 50 per cent.
Level 1 water restrictions include limits on the use of sprinklers, the times of day garden hoses may be used, the use of hoses when washing vehicles and hard surfaces, and topping up swimming pools.
“The outlook for August to October shows high chances of warmer and drier conditions over the Sydney region,” said Simon Grainger, a Bureau of Meteorology climatologist.
“August in particular has a greater than 80 per cent chance of warmer days for much of the southern and eastern parts of the country.”
The desalination plant costs about $195 million a year to be maintained, despite not having contributed to the city’s water supply. That translates to about $85 in costs a year to each household, even though it is dormant, according to a 2017 report by the independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal in NSW. If the plant were to be used, it would cost consumers $130.
Dry conditions have storage levels under pressure across the country. In Melbourne levels are at 59 per cent, Adelaide is at 56 per cent and Perth is at 48 per cent.
Ian Wright, a lecturer in environmental science at Western Sydney University and a former water scientist at Sydney Water, said the dry conditions meant the amount of water people were using would need to be examined.
He said the current 300 litres of water an average Australian uses each day was “unsustainable”. The figure needed to be reduced to between 200 to 250 litres to ensure longevity of water supply, he said.
The Sydney desalination plant had the capacity to contribute about 15 per cent of the city’s daily water needs, Mr Wright said, a figure that paled in comparison to Perth’s, where more than half the city’s water is sourced from desalination and recycling.
In Brisbane and Melbourne, desalination facilities operate every year, feeding into a “water grid”, with surplus water sent to regional basins.
“Sydney is facing a steep downhill slope,” Mr Wright said.
Given the rate of the recent decline in dam levels, Mr Wright called for the desalination plant to kick in earlier.
“Water is the lifeblood of a city. It’s not like the internet going down,” he said, warning that levels could drop below 60 per cent by November, and be at 50 per cent by February.
The concerns over whether the Sydney desalination plant, at Kurnell in the city’s south, will be ready have been sparked by storm damage in December 2015. Repairs to fix the facility were marred by a dispute between the private operator and its insurer. “It’s certainly not ready today,” NSW Labor water spokesman Chris Minns said. Speaking of the uncertainty surrounding the facility, Mr Minns said: “If I was in government I’d be screaming to find out.”
Sydney Desalination Plant, the private operator of the facility, did not respond to questions regarding the status of the site. A spokeswoman for Energy and Utilities Minister Don Harwin was unable to confirm whether the site was ready to operate.
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