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From: [e-mail] (Tony Lindsey)
Subject: Mac*Chat#090/22-Sep-95

Mac*Chat#090/22-Sep-95
======================

Welcome to Mac*Chat, the weekly electronic newsletter biased
  toward Mac users who are production-oriented professionals.  Other
  Mac users may find many, many items of interest as well.  I'd enjoy
  hearing your feedback and suggestions.  Unfortunately, due to the
  massive numbers of messages I get every day, I can't guarantee
  a personal reply.

  Tony Lindsey, <[e-mail]>.
  <http://www.cts.com/browse/xxltony>

Mac*Chat may be copied freely, provided that all copies are left
  intact and unedited.

Financial donations are gratefully accepted, to help defray the
  costs of putting-out one of the fastest-growing newsletters
  within the Internet.  For more information, send e-mail to the
  above address, with "Donations" in the Subject line.

  Mac*Chat back-issues may be found within any Info-Mac ftp archive at
  /info-mac/per/chat
  and read with any Web browser at
  <http://www.ese.ogi.edu/macchat/>

See the end of this file for legalisms and info on how to get a free
  subscription.

Any [comments in brackets] are by Tony Lindsey.

Topics:
Highlights Of This Issue
The Curtain Lifts...
Time To Talk About First Virtual
First Virtual, Explained
Tips For AOL Users - Installing Power-Tool "Grinders"
Tips For AOL Users - Using The Web Browser
Copland Web Site
Consulting
Tony's Consulting Tips
New Jobs
Technical Section Starts... Here
ClayBasket - Wow!
Netscape Palettes - The 256 Colors Of Netscape
Legalisms
Free Subscriptions To This Newsletter

Highlights Of This Issue
------------------------
  I (finally!) tell folks about my system for receiving donations
  to keep Mac*Chat growing, I open the topic of transferring funds
  safely across the Internet, David Cole explains about the First
  Virtual system for transferring funds, I explain a few things for
  America Online users who need better use of their Internet
  capabilities, we learn of a great web site for getting news
  about System 8, I explain my consulting techniques a little bit
  more clearly, we hear from two folks who are using their Macs to
  make money in ways they never expected, and I rave about a
  grrrreat program to help me manage all of my saved Internet
  locations within Netscape.

The Curtain Lifts...
--------------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>

  After a long period of deep mystery concerning Mac*Chat's new
  status as a donations-requested (but not required) newsletter,
  I'm now beginning to activate the system.


  It's going to be a few weeks before the system is running smoothly.
  I would really, really appreciate suggestions and advice from
  everybody along the way!

  In case you missed what was discussed before in issues 81 through
  85, I dislike the idea of any advertising in Mac*Chat.  I also
  don't like to nag and make people wrong, (life's too short to
  rank on your friends) so I'm simply asking for a simple donation
  if you like the newsletter and want to keep it independent.  For
  further details, check out those back-issues, or check out the
  new Web Page:

  <http://www.cts.com/browse/xxltony/mac-chat-donations.html>

  - For those folks who want to get information through e-mail,
  they should contact me at <[e-mail]>, (America Online
  users: send e-mail to XXLTONY), hopefully with the word
  "donation" in the Subject line (but it's not required).  These
  arrangements are definitely going to be adapted as time goes by!

  Either way, you'll receive the Register 1.1.6 program and an
  explanation of how the system works.  Register will allow you to
  transfer funds from anywhere on the planet using a check, cash,
  invoice, VISA, Mastercard, American Express, NetCash, or First
  Virtual account.  It has full Balloon Help.

  As I said back in Mac*Chat issue #85, I need to start soliciting
  donations to keep Mac*Chat thriving, since it has grown to be one
  of the Top Ten electronic newsletters on earth in less than a
  year's worth of frantic expansion.  It's very-definitely taking
  time away from my Real Business, and I need some help justifying
  Mac*Chat from a practical standpoint.

  From an impractical standpoint, I'm thrilled that I get to do
  something so wonderful as editing Mac*Chat - I can't imagine why
  more people aren't doing this!  I want to do it for many years to
  come, taking big, fat risks if I can make the newsletter better.

  Many, many thanks to the several hundred folks who have written
  to tell me how glad they will be to contribute to Mac*Chat - My
  faith in the basic goodness of humanity remains unblemished!

Time To Talk About First Virtual
--------------------------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>

  Of the many, many methods of transferring finances over the
  Internet, I have to express my personal preference for First
  Virtual's system.  I'm nervous about hackers making off with my
  credit-card numbers if they are transmitted over the Internet,
  even if those numbers are encrypted.  First Virtual appears to be
  the ONLY system that avoids this.

First Virtual, Explained
------------------------
  By David M. Cole, (see info below)

  [I've asked David for permission to re-post something he wrote
  for the apple-internet-users mailing list.  I've edited it
  slightly for length...]

  Though I am in the employ of neither First Virtual nor Apple, I
  am familiar with the problems surrounding running a commerce Web
  server -- especially one on a Macintosh.

  You can get the whole schmere on First Virtual at its Web site

  <http://www.fv.com>

  Here is how the process works:

  *You fill out a form on the FV site with your name, address,
  phone number, e-mail. You send this form in. (You can also fill
  out an e-mail form or get one through telenet.)

  *FV e-mails you a one-time code number and an 800-phone number.
  You call the 800 number and an audiotext system walks you through
  punching in the code number and your Visa or MasterCard number
  (doesn't work with any others). You are charged $2 for a
  "buyer's" account. Though this represents a certain cash-flow,
  I'm certain it's mostly to discourage frivolous registrations.
  You are e-mailed a message stating your buyer's account is
  established and what it is.

  *You encounter a widget on the Web you want to buy and it can be
  paid for through FV. You put in your buyer account name and
  order. If this is a physical widget, the seller will probably
  wait for the whole process (see below) to conclude before
  shipping said physical widget. If the widget is software (content
  or programs), you're probably going to get the widget downloaded
  to your machine right then and there.

  *FV sends you e-mail asking if you bought the widget. You hit the
  "reply" button on your e-mail software and write one of these
  words, "Yes," "No" or "Fraud." If you type "fraud," the account
  is automatically terminated, thereby preventing any further
  fraud. If you type "No" too many times (they don't say what that
  is), your account is also terminated.

  *Your yes, no or fraud response is then sent to the seller. At
  FV's discretion, it bundles together all the sales accrued to the
  seller and immediately deducts $1 for the Federal Reserve to
  reimburse FV for the cost of transferring the funds to the
  seller's checking account. Also, a fee of 29 cents per
  transaction plus 20 percent of the seller price is deducted. For
  QuickTime downloads, Apple sees -- at the most -- $9.51 off the
  $10 transaction and if there are only a couple of transactions a
  day, maybe only sees $9.01. Further, sellers pay $12 ($2 to
  register as a buyer and then an additional $10 to convert the
  buyer account to a seller account).

  The only non-secure portion of the system is that someone could
  tap your phone while you're punching in that credit card number
  and translate the tones into the corresponding numbers. If I were
  attempting to steal your credit card number and was going to the
  trouble of tapping your phone, I'd probably wait until you called
  MacWarehouse and gave them your number verbally. If I *really*
  wanted your credit card, I'd probably just do some dumpster
  diving on your garbage can to get old credit card slips.

  Is it a hassle? Yes, especially for the seller. Does it work?
  Yes, the money does flow from one account to the other.  FV may
  be the only present way to achieve a secure cash transaction.

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Editor & Publisher, The Cole Papers              [e-mail]
Consultant, The Cole Group                         V: [phone]
Columnist, Presstime Magazine, TechNews Magazine   F: [phone]
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Tips For AOL Users - Installing Power-Tool "Grinders"
-----------------------------------------------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>

  I help many America Online users on a regular basis, and I've
  recently felt the need to write down the steps that I use to make
  life easier for others.  If you follow through the steps I've
  given below, you'll be a lot better-equipped to deal with files
  you get from the Internet, even if they arrive in an odd
  file-format.

  A "Grinder" is a utility that sits out on your desktop, waiting
  for files to be dragged into it.  Once that happens, the program
  processes the files and then spits out a result.  There are a
  zillion grinders out there, but these are a few of my favorites...

  In my instructions, I'm assuming that you are using System 7.0 or
  later.  I'll also assume that you have the habit of downloading
  your files onto your Desktop.

  First, let's do a minor bit of setup, allowing us to avoid
  plugging-up our hard drives with unnecessary, extra copies of
  files we will download:

  - Start up the America Online program, but don't "Sign On" yet
  - Pull down the "Members" menu and choose "Preferences"
  - Scroll to "Downloading Preferences" and click on it
  - Make sure all three options have a checkmark next to them, by
      double-clicking on them if necessary
  - Close the Preferences window and Sign On

  Now, it's time to go get a few of my very-favorite power-tool
  programs:

  You need to go get Stuffit Expander.  This is a copyrighted
  freeware software program from Aladdin Systems.  It can convert
  many kinds of files stored in compressed or oddly-coded formats,
  such as binhexed files with names ending with ".hqx".  It
  translates them to a better format for Mac users.

  Now that you're online within America Online,

  - Pull down the "Go To" menu and choose "Search Software
  Libraries"

  - Type "Expander" and hit Return.

  - Using the "Download Now" button, download "Stuffit Expander
  3.5.2 Installer" and store it somewhere you can find it later
  (such as on your desktop)

  Stuffit Expander can convert MANY kinds of files, but it doesn't
  know how to deal with files that end with ".image", so you'll
  also need ShrinkWrap for those files:

  - Follow the above steps we used to look for software, and search
  for "shrinkwrap"

  - Download "ShrinkWrap 1.4.2" and store it in the same place as
  Stuffit Expander Installer.  ShrinkWrap is copyrighted freeware
  software by Chad Magendanz <[e-mail]>.  It was mentioned
  in Mac*Chat issue #78.  It makes it very easy to archive
  diskettes, and it also makes it easier to access the contents of
  files you find online that end with ".image".

  - Quit from America Online.  When you do, the files you
  downloaded will become decompressed.  This is good.  The old,
  compressed versions will be deleted, saving disk space.  This is
  also good.

  Look for the files you downloaded, and you'll find a folder
  called "ShrinkWrap(tm) 1.4.2".  Open it up, and drag
  "ShrinkWrap(tm)" out onto the desktop, right above your Trash
  Can.  It stays there FOREVER.  That's where it lives.  It's a
  "Grinder," which means that it belongs out there on your Desktop.
  Trust me.  It looks "messy" to folks who want everything tidy
  and empty-looking, but it's worth keeping there.

  You'll also see "StuffIt Expander(tm) 3.5.2 Install" sitting
  nearby, so double-click on it, and keep clicking "Continue" until
  it gets installed properly.  After you quit, you'll see an alias
  (with italicized lettering) called "StuffIt Expander(tm) alias"
  sitting above your Trash can, too.  It has found its perfect new
  home, too, so we'll leave it there.

  We need to do a minor bit of setup within Stuffit Expander, so
  please double-click on the alias file.

  - Under the "File" menu, choose "Preferences..."
  - You'll see two check-boxes that say "Delete after Expanding"
       Make sure they both are checked with an "x"
  - Close the window
  - Quit.

  Now, go read the "Read Me" files associated with those two
  utilities.  It's worth doing, and there's not a lot of it.

  Next week, I'll be explaining how to use these files on a regular
  basis.  You'll definitely want to!

Tips For AOL Users - Using The Web Browser
------------------------------------------
  By [e-mail]

  Thanks for the info on how to save a ton of money on AOL but now
  please address what to do with the web browser that makes finding
  info so easy.

  Great idea.  A lot has changed recently. Here's how to
  check out my Grand Central page:

  - Fire up America Online version 2.6 or later
  - Go to the Internet Section, and click on WWW (World Wide Web)
  - It will start loading the browser and the images affiliated
  with America Online's main Web Page.  At the top of the screen,
  notice that there's a line that starts with "http:"

  - Replace it with
  <http://www.cts.com/browse/xxltony/>
  without the angle-brackets at the beginning and end.  After a few
  moments (minutes?) you'll see the Mac*Chat graphics and the text
  below it.

  - Pull down the "Services" menu and choose "Add to Main Hot
  List".  This makes it unnecessary to ever type that long Mac*Chat
  URL address ever again.

  - From now on, if you ever want to get back to my page, pull down
  the "Services" menu, pull down to "Hot Lists" and choose "Main
  Hot List".  There's my web page waiting to be double-clicked-upon.

  Now that you're on my page, scroll down and click on the part
  that mentions "Tony's Grand Central Station."  That's a list of
  all of my favorite places to visit from a few months back.  I
  expect to be updating it soon.  I haven't been in any great
  hurry, since I've been mentioning a lot of the newer sites in
  Mac*Chat.

  You should check out Mac*Chat's back-issues for more of such web
  addresses.

  <http://www.cts.com/browse/xxltony/back-issues.html>

  By the way - AOL Version 2.61 is very nice and much more stable.
  The browser is nicely quick, even with a 14.4 modem, in my direct
  experience.  It should be out to the general public soon.  It's
  still in beta testing.  I got a sneak peek at a friend's place.

Copland Web Site
----------------
  By F. L. Beaver <[e-mail]>
  <http://fly.hiwaay.net/~fbeaver>

  A very good WWW page on Copland (System 8) that's maintained by
  Austin Shoemaker can be found at:

  <http://www.netline.net/~austin/cops/cops.html>

  The site has a Copland FAQ section, Copland clip-art, Copland
  resources, and links to other Copland-related sites among other
  things. It's well worth a look for anyone interested in the
  future of the MAC OS.

Consulting
----------
  By Randy Chevrier at PAINTMASTER, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  <[e-mail]>

  Have you ever heard of HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL COMPUTER
  CONSULTANT, 3RD EDITION by Alan R. Simon? It's published by
  McGraw-Hill (Feb 1994).  If so, would you consider it helpful for
  someone getting into consulting part time? (I've been talking to
  trusted business associates about whether or not I would be a
  good consultant.  I have a successful business now in a totally
  unrelated area and I think I would be much more happy working
  with computers full time. I have the luxury of leaving my current
  business most any time to do consulting.)

  [Sorry, I've never heard of this book before.  Has anyone else
  read it?]

Tony's Consulting Tips -
------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>
  Randy (see above) also asked me about an apparent conflict
  between something I said in two different back-issues.  In issue #63,
  I said that a bad consultant ignores how a client prefers to use
  their own computer and imposes their own preferences no matter
  what.  In issue #88, I said something that sounded like I was
  imposing my own style on my clients.  Here are my further
  thoughts:

  You're making an excellent point, and it's easily answered - I
  make sure the client is WATCHING me at all times, and give them a
  vote on what I will do as I'm doing it.  For instance, I'm
  currently helping about a dozen Mac users in a big corporation.
  Several of the Macs I've worked on are quite different from each
  other - The difference is due to the learned habits of the user.
  If somebody LIKES their own way of doing things, I don't mess
  with it - I show them the alternative, and if they don't prefer
  it, we go back to Plan A.  I'm not completely "on rails" with my
  personal preferences.  The Bad Consultant comes in and forces
  change no matter what, and then insinuates the client is wrong
  for having preferences.

  Perhaps I didn't explain this before, but my techniques are
  RADICALLY better than most people's.  When I'm done, you can get
  at any data file in one mouse-motion, fire-up any program in one
  mouse-motion, or get at any character in any font in one
  mouse-motion.  There's nearly nothing in between somebody and the
  work they want to accomplish.  Ninety-nine percent of my clients
  prefer my methods, or just want a few tweaks to adjust it.

  After I'm done working on their Mac, I also urge my clients to
  create a "Tony List."  This is a collection of little, niggling
  irritations that they notice as time goes by - Maybe the mouse is
  too fast, the Trash Can isn't asking them for permission to
  empty, or whatever.  I gladly work them through these things to
  their satisfaction, showing them how to make their own
  adjustments.  THIS IS IMPORTANT.  Someone will feel much better
  knowing that they're not being invalidated, and they are more
  likely to trust you (and refer you to people that they like) as
  the years go by.

New Jobs
--------
  By Joel Chadwick, Fort Worth, Texas
  <[e-mail]>

  I would like to make a reply to your question of "good paying,
  New Jobs that people have found, using Macs as their main tool?".
  I actually have three answers to this question.

  First, information on me.  I am a 24 year old male with a
  Bachelor degree in Business Administration/Computer Science from
  Abilene Christian University (ACU).

  Now, on to the answers.

  My first "Mac" job was at ACU I was a tutor and tutor supervisor
  for the Learning Enhancement Center (LEC) on campus.  All of the
  stats and reports for the center were generated with Macs.  The
  Mac was an everyday tool of use while in the position.  We had
  e-mail, file sharing, and other office automation programs.  This
  was my intro into the Mac environment and I loved it.  Low pay,
  however, since this was a college work-study job.  But all of my
  Mac experience came from this job, and for the future, it would
  be important.

  After graduation, I was planning on taking my business degree to
  a bank to become a financial officer of some sort.
  Unfortunately, nobody hired me right out of college in this kind
  of position even though I had a 3.75 GPA.  This was sort of good
  though, because my first real job was working for an Apple
  Authorized Dealer here in Fort Worth selling, what else,
  Macintosh computers, peripherals, and complete Mac solutions for
  home, education, and corporations.  Was I happy to get this job,
  and even happier that I did not work at a bank. Why?  MONEY!!!
  The job paid straight commission.  I sold $100,000 of Mac only
  products for 18 months, and made a commission of $3500 almost
  every month.  My best offer at a bank was $1750 per month.  I did
  not feel bad.

  The job selling Macs gave me the experience for the job I do now.
  I now work for Motorola as a Macintosh Network Administrator.  I
  have touched and supported every Mac from the 128K to the
  9500/132 which as a ThunderColor 1600 card and 98 MB of RAM.  I
  set up MS Mail servers, run Retrospect backup scripts, control
  SMTP gateways for the internet, recommend new machines, and
  support all software that is installed on the Macs.  This job is
  a dream come true for me as a Mac enthusiast.  The pay is in the
  $30k range, which is slightly less than selling Macs but with
  much better benefits and a faster and easier way to climb the
  corporate ladder.  This salary is still twice as much as any bank
  would be paying me.  Just two years out of college makes me very
  proud to be doing this.

  My main objective in my jobs was to stay with Macs someway,
  somehow.  I have achieved this objective so far.  I plan on
  continuing.

  --------

  By Kelly Clark <[e-mail]>

  For the past 10 years, Alden & Clark has been hiring out
  temporary freelance production artists. Originally they were
  mechanical artists; now they work on clients' Macs (or their own).

  Company data was stored, DOS style, on a PC. Every time I wanted
  a monumental change -- like inserting a comma in a sales letter
  -- we placed a call to our friendly programmer and in a day or
  two or seven, he'd show up, magically make the change before our
  very eyes and present us with a bill.

  Then we switched to Macs...and discovered FileMaker Pro. Within a
  week, Alden (my business partner) had managed to transfer all the
  hocus-pocus-whatever-do-those-symbols-mean data -- clients,
  artists, invoices, reports, everything -- into an easy-to-use,
  easy on the eyes format. Making a change is cake work.

  Like your clients, some of my freelance marketing accounts have
  Macs and want their data -- mailing lists, accounting, whatever
  -- easily accessible. I shamelessly recommend Alden who performs
  his FileMaker Pro magic!

  Speaking of marketing clients -- I've been using the Internet to
  do the research they pay me to do. Talk about time savings! And I
  don't need to crawl all over the web. Just a couple of bookmarks
  -- The Boston Public Library is my favorite little gem:

<http://www.ll.mit.edu/Links/metroboston.html>

  I can find out just about anything about anything. I'm able to take
  on _more_ business and more _varied_ types of clients.

  Yes, Alden & Clark is still hiring out freelance Mac production
  artists. But a relatively small investment in a couple of Macs
  and some software resulted in making _more_ money -- and making
  it _easier_.

Technical Section Starts... Here
--------------------------------

ClayBasket - Wow!
-----------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>

  I pay a monthly bill to get pure, unfiltered access to the
  Internet.  I use Netscape 1.1N all of the time.  Being a real
  Web-Cruising Hipster, I tend to add a lot of bookmarks, and my
  list has become amazingly long and awkward.

  I recently found out about ClayBasket, by Dave Winer
  <[e-mail]>

  <http://www.hotwired.com/userland/clay/>

  or

  <ftp://hrz-ws26.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub3/mac/info-systems/URL-manager/>

  It's a great outliner program for making all those bookmarks
  behave exactly the way you want them to.  Instead of seeing a
  zillion bookmarks in one long list, I see eight categories that
  _I_ created, and sub-categories under those that pop off to the
  side.  Perfection.

  Why the heck wasn't this built into Netscape in the first place?

  A caution: Since ClayBasket and Netscape arm-wrestle over who
  gets to modify the bookmarks file, I personally run them
  separately, using Netscape to Add a Bookmark, and then exiting
  later and running ClayBasket to tidy things up.  Tedious?  Why,
  yes it is!  But, maybe Netscape 1.2 will have a decent outliner
  built-in.

  Oh, and for all of you Web-page designers- ClayBasket is a GREAT
  tool for creating indented lists for your pages!

Netscape Palettes - The 256 Colors Of Netscape
----------------------------------------------
  By Tom Lane, organizer, Independent JPEG Group <[e-mail]>

  The info quoted on Netscape palettes in issue #89 was correct as
  far as it went, yet it was almost wholly misleading.  Here's a
  fuller picture.

  First, all versions of Netscape will convert images into a local
  palette for display; in no case is the image's own palette used.
  But the specific local palette varies.  On Unix/X Windows,
  Netscape will try to grab a 6x6x6 color cube, that is, all
  combinations of 6 equally spaced values of red, 6 equally spaced
  values of green, and 6 equally spaced values of blue --- 216
  colors altogether.  If Netscape can't do that (because other
  programs have grabbed too many colors), it tries for a 5x5x5 cube
  (125 colors), and failing that, a 4x4x4 cube (64 colors).  Note
  that except for the corner colors, *none* of the colors in the
  6x6x6 cube exactly match any of those in the 5x5x5 cube, nor is
  there any exact match between these and the 4x4x4 entries.  So
  with the exception of the "pure" or corner colors, you can't hope
  to know just what colors Unix/X Netscape will be using.

  Windows Netscape uses a similar strategy, although I think it may
  always end up allocating a 6x6x6 cube on a 256-color display
  (haven't used it myself).  On a 16-color display, the best it can
  do is 16 colors.  Please note that Windows 3.x defaults to
  16-color mode, and a large fraction of Windows users haven't
  figured out how to change this setting ;-)

  Mac Netscape uses the Mac system palette, which I think is not a
  color cube, but I can't find my reference just now.  It probably
  *includes* a color cube of some size, but also other colors.

  Of course, if the user happens to be running with 15- to 24-bit
  color, palettes aren't an issue --- the exact requested colors
  are displayed, to within the display capabilities.

  Furthermore, NETSCAPE IS NOT THE UNIVERSE.  (How I wish I could
  write that in 72-point blinking red type...)  There are many
  other Web browsers, each with its own idiosyncrasies.  Mosaic,
  for example, does use the exact colors requested by the loaded
  image(s), until it runs out of colors.

  Bottom line: you as an HTML author can't predict the exact colors
  with which an image will be displayed, and it's folly to try.
  What then should you do?  Simple: describe the image you wish to
  portray, and let the browser render it as best it can.  It's more
  profitable to worry about download speed (image file size), which
  is something that you *can* control effectively.  The simplest
  rules of thumb are:

   1.  Use JPEG for photos and artwork containing smooth color
  gradients.

   2.  Use GIF (or soon, PNG) for icons, line drawings, and other
  material that requires only a few distinct colors.  In choosing
  these colors, try to minimize the number of distinct colors you
  ask for on a page.

  Following these rules will give you best page downloading speed,
  and will also result in high-quality display on 15- to 24-bit
  displays.  On 8-bit displays, you're at the mercy of the
  browser's rendering algorithms, but really that's true anyway.
  The above rules do give the browser a reasonable shot at
  displaying your page effectively.  Current browsers don't
  optimize the JPEG-plus-GIF combination scenario as well as they
  might, but I hope to see this situation improve over time.

  Sorry to go on so long about this, but there's a lot of
  misinformation out there on this topic, much of it coming from
  individuals who think their particular platform/browser
  represents how the whole Web works, should work, and always will
  work...

Legalisms
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