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	<title>Omni Writers &#38; Artists &#187; Alex Wire</title>
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		<title>The end</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/07/the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we have been told that our ‘termination date’ (so sensitively termed, don’t you think?) is Thursday. Or Boxing Day 2013. It’s still not entirely clear. But probably Thursday.Anyway, now I must try not to spend all my redundancy money on b...]]></description>
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		<title>Play time</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/07/play-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I started writing a new play.Last night I finished it.Now I just need to middle it.]]></description>
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		<title>Parrots, and all that</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I swear this has nothing to do with Sunday’s sorrowful event (an apt description coined by a non-footballing friend) but part of me really wishes this World Cup was over.It’s the part of me that likes to spend evenings and weekends being productive...]]></description>
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		<title>Right For Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I really need is a portable telly on my desk. Or for the powers-that-be to pull their finger out and get my inevitable redundancy over with so I can go home and watch the World Cup in slothful bliss.Either way, June is not going to be a productive...]]></description>
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		<title>Limbo music</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/05/limbo-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been told last week that the end is nigh, motivation has fallen to an all-time low at the office. It’s hard to feel either obligation or excitement towards work duties when the company has made it clear you are no longer wanted. The general ma...]]></description>
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		<title>One of those fucking awful black days</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/05/one-of-those-fucking-awful-black-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has been shit. Woke up with the memory of last night, tired but restless on the way to work and a really dull day there. Took bloody ages to get home due to crashes on seemingly every major road my bus takes and when I finally get here my interne...]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Sillitoe</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/04/alan-sillitoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope the city of Nottingham creates a memorial for Alan Sillitoe. We’re very proud of our angry young men in these parts, with statues for Brian Clough and Robin Hood, but generally I don’t think the city makes much of its literary heritage.Every...]]></description>
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		<title>Idiot hole.</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/04/idiot-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I did some pretty stupid things.It started at about 1 in the morning when my inability to work a cash machine under the influence of a great deal alcohol resulted in me paying a fortune in taxi fares (yes, that’s right, they don’t stop th...]]></description>
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		<title>Old devils</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the pub down the road from our office.It was ‘Pub of the Year’ in 1987 and in recognition of this honour they haven’t done a thing with the place since. Half of the sign letters on the wall outside have dropped off in a Fawlty Towers style...]]></description>
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		<title>Not so Rotten</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/04/not-so-rotten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm McLaren was a sleazy, obnoxious wanker - but a genius and a national treasure all the same.John Lydon, of all people, had reason to be ambivalent about him, but his response to the Sex Pistol svengali’s death is quite magnanimous.Good him on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Quitting</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/03/quitting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m giving up smoking. It shouldn’t be hard as, truth be told, I’ve only smoked about two dozen cigarettes* in my life. But the two I had on Saturday night have left my hands stinking of fags and my throat as dry as the Bahrain Grand Prix. This s...]]></description>
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		<title>Busking cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/03/busking-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've just signed up to do Busking Cancer with a colleague at work in May. Sounds like fun and nice to have a gig of sorts to look forward to after the demise of the Subs. Trying to set up a new band at the moment, first rehearsals with potential bandma...]]></description>
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		<title>Write on</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/02/write-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I started this blog to chronicle my writing endeavours, I sometimes feel I should be updating it when I'm actually writing. But when I have the chance, I prefer to focus my energies on whatever project I'm working on. Updating the blog just seems li...]]></description>
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		<title>A pale landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/02/a-pale-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a special kind of headache you get when you haven’t slept for an entire day and night. It’s like a mangle squeezing your head from the back, slowly dragging you between the presses.I don’t think I’ve been this tired and disorientated ...]]></description>
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		<title>The daemon</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/02/the-daemon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Beer is going at four bottles for £3 in the Co-op. I suggest you take advantage of this offer, unless you live round me, in which case - hands off.For the last few months whenever I have bought alcohol to drink in the evening, voices in my head ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rare: a good day at work</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/02/rare-a-good-day-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work at a newspaper office and today there was a giveaway of a load of books and CDs sent in for review, all piled up on a table like a jumble sale. I walked away with a book on playwriting, about 15 albums and a few singles.I hadn't heard of most of...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/02/2850/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have lost the ability to read during the day, at least without falling asleep. I hope it's just tiredness and not a permanent fault I've developed. In Plath's The Bell Jar it's when she realises she can no longer read that she first attempts ...]]></description>
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		<title>RIP JD</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/01/rip-jd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you really want to hear about it, I am one of those people who, after reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, “went around for months afterwards being Holden”. Years later I even confused my friends by signing up to Facebook under a C...]]></description>
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		<title>Okay&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/01/okay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...I admit it. Yesterday's nonsense was my way of saying that I have finally bought a diary for 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Realisations</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/01/realisations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of denial, I’ve reluctantly come to accept that 2010 is actually happening and, despite much evidence to the contrary, a new decade has begun. But I’m not going to pretend to be pleased about it.]]></description>
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		<title>I feel ***tty, oh so ***tty</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2010/01/i-feel-tty-oh-so-tty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to report for a while, but I have uploaded a new portrait picture.]]></description>
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		<title>Caustic acoustic</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/12/caustic-acoustic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As well as Scalextric, my Christmas presents this year included an ebow and a condenser mic (although to be fair I did buy that for myself).I’ve put them to use recording some acoustic versions of my band’s songs, which I’ve stuck up on the old m...]]></description>
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		<title>Racing around the Christmas tree</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/12/racing-around-the-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary friends,For once I return from the Christmas break feeling refreshed and cheerful. There are three reasons for this:1) It was my mum’s turn to play hostess to the family this year so we didn’t have to travel.2) Having a long weekend ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s alive!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/12/its-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[An Island Story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first completed book, An Island Story, is out there in the grubby hands of the readers. Well so far in the hands of my friend Nicola whose hands aren't grubby at all. I dropped the book around at her house this lunchtime and she promised to start it...]]></description>
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		<title>Some obscure news</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/12/some-obscure-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news – there is new material from Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip in the Spring. I love their work.More good news – I’ve finished editing the second draft of An Island Story. Getting a couple of copies printed on Lulu to give to friends and fami...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230; 2</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/11/2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still tired. Still depressed. Full of cold. Very snotty and my throat feels about a millimetre wide. Will be at least three more hours until I can get home and tell the world to fuck off for a few days while I try and recover. Feel like I might slip in...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/11/2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy. Busy busy. No time to blog. Had week off and ended up more busy, anxious. Did overdue work on geeky side projects, then began Novel #3 (yes, #3! Novel #2 waylaid). 6,000 words. Pretty good start. Trying to be organised about this one to avoid edi...]]></description>
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		<title>Injury</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/11/injury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, in the middle of a fit of depression and a nightmare journey home from work, I started writing a poem in my head about some recent personal ordeal. When I finally got home, still miserable and cold from getting caught in torrential r...]]></description>
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		<title>Not rocking all over the world</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/not-rocking-all-over-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I begin the first leg of what is going to be a nationwide tour of Britiain to see aging American punk rockers. Tonight it’s Green Day at the Sheffield Arena, in December I’m going to see the New York Dolls in Leamington Spa (yes, I thought th...]]></description>
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		<title>School’s out!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/school%e2%80%99s-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had my final OU exam which marked the end of my course this year – I think it went okay, but it’s hard to tell without any previous experience of writing about art in test conditions. I expect I rambled a bit, got too focused on one arg...]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter and verse</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/chapter-and-verse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary friends,I’m feeling in a confident-about-getting-published mood at the moment.In this month’s edition of Left Lion (Nottingham’s free culture paper) I read about some local indie presses who I’m going to try out my short stories ...]]></description>
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		<title>I ♥ the taxman!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/i-%e2%99%a5-the-taxman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/i-%e2%99%a5-the-taxman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just checked my bank balance online to see how close I am to reaching my overdraft limit (a monthly occurrence for the past five years) and what do I find but a deposit from HMRC for £770.40 in overpaid taxes! I know I’m bragging now but I feel li...]]></description>
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		<title>Tonight I am mostly&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/10/tonight-i-am-mostly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...admiring my new website. Nice int it?I'm now also calling myself 'A L' on manuscripts in a bid to appear more professional, so I've changed the name of the blog too.]]></description>
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		<title>Cliffhanger</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/cliffhanger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve discovered a new method of relaxing at night to combat my insomnia – I turn off all the lights, climb into bed and listen to murder mysteries (my latest obsession) on the radio.The only problem is, last night I fell asleep midway through The M...]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a subtitle?</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-subtitle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw a bloke on the bus reading the new biography of William Golding which has the baffling subtitle ‘The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies’.As Robert McCrum writes in The Guardian, “Why a potential reader who had never heard of Goldi...]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still standing!</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/im-still-standing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you, Derren Brown! Not only did you cheat to make it look like you predicted the lottery, now you've failed to hypnotise me – twice! I watched your film on Channel 4 and again on 4 +1 and the only effect it had on me was making me feel a little ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the last mile the hardest mile?</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/why-is-the-last-mile-the-hardest-mile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/why-is-the-last-mile-the-hardest-mile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beside me I have a packet of powerful pain killers that promise “symptomatic relief” from sprains, strains, rheumatic pain, lumbago, muscular aches and pains, joint swelling and stiffness, which is handy as I'm experiencing all those of things toda...]]></description>
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		<title>Here goes everything</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/here-goes-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 24 hours time I expect to be in absolute agony. But as long as I am still running, that is all that counts because by this stage tomorrow I should be at least approaching the finish of the Robin Hood Marathon.I'm running with an injured leg that was...]]></description>
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		<title>The agony of the long distance runner</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/09/the-agony-of-the-long-distance-runner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary friends,Today has been a surreal day. There was a charity event at work (in aid of Help for Heroes), part of which involved me and a colleague getting a bit David Brent and getting our guitars out. So this morning I found myself playing ...]]></description>
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		<title>My Ted Kennedy biography</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/my-ted-kennedy-biography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/my-ted-kennedy-biography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write obituaries for a memorial website and penned one for Ted Kennedy about a year ago. Unfortunately due to a mix-up at editorial level it wasn't used when news broke of his death last night. I hate to see work unpublished, so thought I'd put it up...]]></description>
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		<title>I knew it was the groan of mortal terror</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/i-knew-it-was-the-groan-of-mortal-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/i-knew-it-was-the-groan-of-mortal-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have been reading stories by Edgar Allan Poe on my way to and from work.Tomorrow I have something even scarier to do – my tax return!]]></description>
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		<title>Half a mile to Tithby</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/half-a-mile-to-tithby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/half-a-mile-to-tithby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm just enjoying a cold beer after running 18 miles around what felt like most of the villages in South East Nottinghamshire. I hadn't ever run more than 13 which was in the Leeds Half Marathon earlier in the year, so I was a bit daunted by the task, ...]]></description>
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		<title>So long, Les Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/so-long-les-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Les Paul player myself, I thought I shouldn't let the night pass without a quick mention for the inventor of that wonderful guitar, Les Paul, who has died aged 94.The Gibson Les Paul is in my opinion the sexiest thing ever created by man and it so...]]></description>
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		<title>Aquí, allí y en todas partes</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/08/aqui-alli-y-en-todas-partes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary friends,Did I tell you I'm running in the Robin Hood Marathon? It's in precisely a month's time so I've really stepped up my training, running a solid distance every other day, eating lots of pasta and drinking milk like cows are going o...]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of the end</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the first chapter 30 months ago in March 2007, and not half an hour ago I finished the last. Novel #1 is now complete, in first draft form at least.Like a child, I hate it and love it with equal inexplicability, resent the chunk of my life it has robbed me of, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mound of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary friends,I&#8217;m sorry I haven&#8217;t written for a while, but it feels like someone has tipped a lorry load of life on top of me.At the weekend, due to the financial crisis and a c*nt money-grabbing landlord I had to move out of the house I was sharing with friends and into one I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I live to fall asleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a very quiet journey to work today. There were only four other people on the bus and the roads were so empty I only had to wait for a green light at one of the half-dozen traffic lights on my route to the office; the kind of morning that makes me think I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit hearted girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I&#8217;ve been listening to Lungs, the appropriately titled debut album by Florence &#38; the Machine. It&#8217;s an incredible record – every song is an epic and Florence Welch&#8217;s voice is just breath taking.I saw her perform at Glastonbury and had an inkling then it was a special moment. Now I&#8217;m sure. Forget Pixie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lunatic has taken over the asylum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until this weekend I shared a house with five friends, but two of them moved out at the weekend to go into their own place (being a couple and therefore inclined to do things like that) so the house was suddenly quite empty.The door had barely slammed shut behind them when I decided I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ashes are academic</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/07/the-ashes-are-academic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ashes start today in Cardiff and I&#8217;m working at home this morning. Not only that but this afternoon I have to make a start on an Open University art history essay due in on Friday. This might not go well! Read the original post on Alex Wire &#8211; Sparkle and Believe]]></description>
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		<title>Fame at last</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/07/fame-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A book I wrote a short story for, Born in the 1980s, could be up for an award.It is nominated at the People&#8217;s Book Prize website which promotes and celebrates independent books.The publishers, Route, will also be at the Manchester Book Market later this month. They want readers to perform. I must resist the temptation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men of importance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I watched two films starring that great actor Albert Finney – A Man of No Importance and The Browning Version, both of which were released in 1994.Both films dealt with themes of isolation and a struggle for acceptance, though in the former he played a convivial Irish bus conductor obsessed with Oscar Wilde, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better to burn out than to fade away</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/better-to-burn-out-than-to-fade-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was surreal being at Glastonbury when Michael Jackson died. The rumour that he&#8217;s dead goes around the festival every single year. Him and Rolf Harris. After getting the sad confirmation that Michael really was dead, I was a bit concerned about Rolf too until he performed on the Saturday.Many artists paid tribute to MJ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just as unique as&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/just-as-unique-as/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who the hell is this?He&#8217;s even beating me in the Google search results.I feel violated. Read the original post on Alex Wire &#8211; Sparkle and Believe]]></description>
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		<title>The music played inna de boomtown</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/the-music-played-inna-de-boomtown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear imaginary blog friends,It’s been quite a week. With my free afternoons I reached my 4,000 word target and also managed to watch lots of cricket and old sitcoms. At the weekend I seemed to live entirely on barbequed food.I also learnt all the major chords on the piano and put them to use by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxfam – making my poverty not history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxfam bookshops are the most wonderful and evil places in the world. If the Futurama version of the internet, where you walk around in a 3D virtual reality instead of browsing page, was for real then these shops would be the equivalent of Amazon, in that I wouldn&#8217;t ever be able to log on without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working from home</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/working-from-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working from home for the rest of this week which means I&#8217;m getting paid to watch old sitcoms and cricket (shame England won&#8217;t feature any more though).I also have the afternoons free which means I&#8217;ll get to do some writing. My target for the weekend is 4,000 words. Sri Lanka are 109 for 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shappi days</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/shappi-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished watching this week&#8217;s Have I Got News For You.It featured the incredibly talented Shappi Khorsandi.Shappi might just be my dream woman. Funny, intelligent, beautiful, exotic.She&#8217;s recently been appearing on Just a Minute and here&#8217;s a recent show at the Apollo: Read the original post on Alex Wire &#8211; Sparkle and Believe]]></description>
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		<title>Sick to the back teeth</title>
		<link>http://www.omniwriters.co.uk/2009/06/sick-to-the-back-teeth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I managed to write just over 1000 words, which was half what I had hoped for, but I managed to lay the foundations of a difficult key scene. Not bad considering halfway through I was afflicted with terrible pain like an earthquake across half my face. The pain has now subsided though the epicentre, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;of mice and men and writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I booked myself a week off work in July, which time I plan to use completing Novel #1. I&#8217;ve also got tomorrow afternoon off to work on the same, providing I don&#8217;t get distracted.But now I&#8217;m going to watch The X-Files: I Want To Believe which has finally arrived! Read the original post on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who says sport is good for you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not my right leg which is itchy because it got sunburned playing cricket when the weather was shiny, still aching from running on Friday, and seems to have developed a twinge, possibly as a result of too many tense Twenty20 matches.This evening I am editing and preparing a story to submit to the BBC National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My life in film</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I watched six films, and none of them were Space Chimps.They were:Friday: Monty Python and the Holy GrailSaturday: Australia, Planes, Trains &#38; Automobiles, Kill Bill: Vol 1 &#38; Vol 2Sunday: Righteous KillOne was relaxingly violent, one was a bit racist and corny, one was reliably hilarious, one was predictable but well-acted and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bands on the run</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Wire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran the Notts 10 in one hour and 21 minutes, which was a minute over my target but near enough for me to be happy, particularly as my sensible legs refused to move any faster during the last two miles.I shouldn&#8217;t really set myself targets anyway because I run to a) keep fit, b) [...]]]></description>
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