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WFF on silica dust

Natalie Tinsley of the HSE speaking at the WFF masterclass in controlling dust at Granite Tops in Preston, Lancashire, on 23 January.

Market Intelligence

WFF gets the low down on silica dust

24 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Mission Zero

A new review of Net Zero by MP Chris Skidmore says there are opportunities for businesses to reap the financial benefits of carbon reduction while saving the planet.

Sustainability

Don’t see cutting carbon as a cost but as an historic opportunity to make money, says Chris Skidmore in Mission Zero

13 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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CSCS card app

Check more than 2million CSCS cards onsite using a phone with the new CSCS Smart Check app.

Legislation / Standards

Have you got the CSCS card Smart Check app yet?

11 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Dry cutting stone creates a lot of dust

For much of his working life stonemason Gordon Somerville worked like this without wearing a mask. The damage to his lungs has left him housebound. 

Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Stonemason housebound by diseases from dust blames ignorance

10 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK

The slimmed down, less dramatic up-date of the All Party Parliamentary Group's report on silicosis.

Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

Updated Parliamentary report calls for silicosis to return to being a notifiable disease

10 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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D Zambelis take on Emmedue agency

The Emmedue agency for the UK has been taken on by D Zambelis.

D Zambelis takes on Emmedue agency

10 January 2023, by Eric Bignell
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Editor's Picks

  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Dry cutting stone creates a lot of dust

    Stonemason housebound by diseases from dust blames ignorance

    2023-01-10
  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK

    Updated Parliamentary report calls for silicosis to return to being a notifiable disease

    2023-01-10
  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Chris Churm

    New MD of Marshalls Stone and Landscape Protection prepares for Martyn’s Law with anti-terrorist products

    2022-11-22
  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Trolex wins Air Quality and Emissions Award

    Two more awards for Trolex realtime silica dust moniter

    2022-11-18
  • Market Intelligence
    WFF on silica dust

    WFF gets the low down on silica dust

    2023-01-24
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  • Sustainability
    Mission Zero

    Don’t see cutting carbon as a cost but as an historic opportunity to make money, says Chris Skidmore in Mission Zero

    2023-01-13
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  • Legislation / Standards
    CSCS card app

    Have you got the CSCS card Smart Check app yet?

    2023-01-11
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Dry cutting stone creates a lot of dust

    Stonemason housebound by diseases from dust blames ignorance

    2023-01-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK

    Updated Parliamentary report calls for silicosis to return to being a notifiable disease

    2023-01-10
    Read more
  • D Zambelis take on Emmedue agency

    D Zambelis takes on Emmedue agency

    2023-01-10
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  • Market Intelligence
    Jeremy Hunt

    Energy costs support reduced but help continues for another year

    2023-01-09
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  • Stone Heritage
    Heritage Lottery logo

    Tweet your contribution to join in with Heritage Treasures Day, 11 January

    2023-01-05
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Letter from George Freeman, Minister for Science, Research & Innovation

    Albion MD frustrated by government's negative response to extending geographical protection of products

    2023-01-04
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    Polycor makes it easier to choose low CO2 stone

    Polycor is making it easier for specifiers to cut their carbon footprint with stone

    2023-01-02
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    Robert Merry

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    2022-12-21
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  • Training
    Mark Priestman

    A Qualified Workforce: Mark Priestman asks if you've got WoTT it takes for the challenges of 2023

    2022-12-20
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    Dekton Malibu and Laguna

    Dekton introduces its SilverKoast Collection

    2022-12-20
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    Wall callendars

    Wall calendars for 2023

    2022-12-19
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    Salvatore Caruso

    Brief in counters: David Coster talks with Salvatore Caruso

    2022-12-18
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  • Stone Heritage
    Medieval Bishops Palace Lincoln

    HERITAGE: conserving the ruins of a Medieval Bishops’ Palace

    2022-12-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    Covid virus

    40,000 construction companies default on Covid bounce back loans

    2022-12-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    Joe Simpson

    Comment: 2022 was a year of unparalleled upheaval, says Joe Simpson

    2022-12-15
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  • Market Intelligence
    UKCA marking delayed

    UKCA mark postponed to 2025

    2022-12-12
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  • Stone Heritage
    Adrian Attwood

    Comment: Adrian Attwood from DBR talks about helping the existing built heritage cope with climate change

    2022-12-08
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  • Market Intelligence
    1 Derby Gate

    STONE CLEANING: Cleaned stone makes the best case for stone cleaning

    2022-12-08
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    Stone Award winners

    Industry meets face to face again as Natural Stone Awards 2022 return to prestigious London venue

    2022-12-03
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Controlling exposure to stone dust

    New from HSE: Controlling Exposure To Stone Dust

    2022-12-03
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Super Blanco-Gris Matt Polished

    Marble designs in MDi exclusively from CRL Stone

    2022-12-01
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  • Training
    Gordon Jenkins of CSCS

    Stone training group hears about CSCS cards after grandfather rights and providing jobs for apprentices from a training agency

    2022-11-23
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Powys Teaching Health Board website

    £160,000 HAVS fine is a reminder to protect employees from exposure to vibration

    2022-11-23
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Polishing the edge of a worktop

    Union in Australia calls for a ban on high-silica engineered quartz

    2022-11-23
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Chris Churm

    New MD of Marshalls Stone and Landscape Protection prepares for Martyn’s Law with anti-terrorist products

    2022-11-22
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    The Pallet Loop

    Bradfords and Tarmac go green with Loop pallet re-use trial

    2022-11-21
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  • Stone Heritage
    Bank Hall

    Welsh Slate helps country mansion leave the 'At Risk' register

    2022-11-20
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Trolex wins Air Quality and Emissions Award

    Two more awards for Trolex realtime silica dust moniter

    2022-11-18
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    Charlie Luxton

    TV personality architect Charlie Luxton to present Stone Awards

    2022-11-18
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  • Market Intelligence
    Jeremy Hunt

    Autumn Statement completes unravelling of Kwarteng tax cuts

    2022-11-18
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  • Training
    Westminster Abbey

    Westminster Abbey joins Cathedrals Workshop Fellowship

    2022-11-17
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  • Equipment
    Andy Bell with Christian Montanari

    Stone Equipment International parts with Emmedue and concentrates on Marmo Meccanica

    2022-11-16
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  • Market Intelligence
    The statue of The Queen at York Minster

    Lepine limestone statue of The Queen unveiled by King Charles at York Minster

    2022-11-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    HSE continues to focus on RCS

    HSE warns it will prosecute as it extends its focus on silica dust

    2022-11-09
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Polishing the edge of a worktop

    Warning about dust as testing firm fined

    2022-11-03
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  • Stone Awards / Competitions
    The Levine Building at Trinity College

    Bath Stone Levine Building at Trinity College Oxford receives two awards

    2022-11-02
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  • Stone Heritage
    Cliveden Lime Day

    Cliveden plans more lime days around the country following success of first at Reading Abbey Ruins

    2022-10-31
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  • Stone Heritage
    The undercroft at Priory House in Dunstable

    Renovations reveal history of medieval undercroft at Dunstable’s Priory House

    2022-10-27
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    HSE campaign against musculoskeletal disorders

    Share ways you have taken the strain out of working and you could be a winner

    2022-10-27
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  • Hard Surfaces
    WFF meeting October 2022

    WFF aims for blue CSCS cards and standard contracts

    2022-10-26
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  • Market Intelligence
    BMBI sales graph

    Inflation sees the value of Builders Merchant sales up while volumes fall

    2022-10-24
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  • Training
    Moulton Students at the House of Lords

    Moulton stonemasonry students show their work at the House of Lords

    2022-10-22
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Tubadzin Jellyfish

    TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says… enjoy wallpaper wonders in porcelain

    2022-10-20
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    From the website of The Guardian newspaper on 18 October

    Second marble coffin niche structure collapses in Italy

    2022-10-19
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    One of the new range of Alpha Sentinel face masks

    New range of British-made masks that operatives will want to wear

    2022-10-18
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Roberto Colonetti's marble bust of Mchelangelo's David

    Porcelain superstar goes back to his marble roots for a bust of David

    2022-10-17
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  • Market Intelligence
    Kwasi Kwarteng

    Budget tax cuts in the September ‘fiscal event’ unravel as Chancellor is replaced

    2022-10-14
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    Press headlines

    Questions of memorial safety continue as Scarborough topples stones

    2022-10-11
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Joe Simpson

    TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says... it’s good to see some science in sustainability

    2022-10-10
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Thomond Bridge at Limerick City

    £225,000 fines for companies whose health & safety failures led to two men drowning

    2022-10-08
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Hartham Park underground quarry

    Lovell buys the freehold of Hartham Park

    2022-10-07
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    Scott Taylor

    British stones win top prizes in this year's Memorial Design Award

    2022-10-05
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  • Events
    Marmo+Mac 2022

    Return to Verona: British visitors are back at Marmo+Mac in Italy

    2022-10-04
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  • Hard Surfaces
    Joe Simpson

    Hard Surfaces signs up Joe Simpson for 2023 show in London

    2022-10-04
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  • Legislation / Standards
    Cutting the red tape for more businesses

    Red tape slashed as 'small' company status is extended to those with 500 employees

    2022-10-03
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  • Market Intelligence
    Robert Merry One Million Mentors

    The Merry Month: One Million Mentors

    2022-10-03
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  • Equipment
    Robo Sawjet

    Baca robot saws now represented by KMT Waterjet

    2022-10-02
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  • Events
    Counting House

    Women in Natural Stone (WINS) return to The Counting House

    2022-10-02
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  • Market Intelligence
    Duke of Gloucester Gold Medal

    Nominations invited for the Duke of Gloucester Gold Medal

    2022-10-01
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Iain Kennedy carrying out block evaluation in the Outer Hebrides

    CONSULTANTS: Knightsbridge Stone is a chip off the old Blockstone

    2022-10-01
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Stone UK

    Northern Powerhouse investment means more jobs at Stone UK

    2022-09-27
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  • Market Intelligence
    Joe Simpson

    TILES & CERAMICS Joe Simpson says... Cersaie: The compelling ceramic catwalk

    2022-09-24
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  • Stone Heritage
    Hadrian's Wall

    HERITAGE: It’s not just about history

    2022-09-24
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Cumbrian Stone at the Natural Stone Show

    Hours cut but pay stays the same as stone company decides its employees are ‘working too hard’

    2022-09-24
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  • Training
    Mark Priestman

    A Qualified Workforce: a new employer network

    2022-09-23
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental

    Partners who failed to control vibration exposure fined when employee gets HAVS

    2022-09-21
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  • Equipment
    Donatoni Jet 625 CNC.

    Marmo+Mac show preview: Developments in stone processing machinery

    2022-09-19
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    AF Jones running men

    STONEMASONS: AF Jones is sprinting forward to be in for the long run

    2022-09-19
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  • Natural Stone Memorials
    Odlings at Tradex

    Memorials: Face-to-face again at Tradex

    2022-09-18
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  • Market Intelligence
    Robert Jay

    Brief in counters: David Coster talks to Robert Jay

    2022-09-18
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    Welsh Slate's new railhead

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    2022-09-15
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  • Stone Heritage
    Stone of Scone

    Stone of Scone returns to England for coronation of Charles III

    2022-09-14
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    HSE focus on silica in October

    HSE to focus on silica dust in October

    2022-09-10
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    Awake in the Onirika collection

    Dekton promises new ranges are easier to cut

    2022-09-09
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    GMM Litox at stoneCIRCLE

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    2022-09-09
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  • Equipment
    New Swift and Ace bridge saw blades from Vetro

    Toolmaker Vetro introduces new saw blades as it heads for Verona

    2022-09-09
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  • Market Intelligence
    Electricity meter

    Government announces energy price cap for businesses for the winter

    2022-09-09
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    Restore London's 10th anniversary celebrations

    Restore London celebrates 10th anniversary in Drapers Hall

    2022-09-09
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    Singleton Birch bought by US lime company ‘to power next phase of growth’

    2022-09-09
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  • Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
    Manhole

    £324,000 fines for companies and suspended prison sentences for managers after 18-year-old is crushed in manhole

    2022-09-07
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  • Natural / Engineered Stone Company News
    DBR website

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    2022-09-07
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    Natural Stone Show moves to June

    Natural Stone Show and Hard Surfaces exhibitions in London move to June dates

    2022-09-07
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    York Minster gets planning approval for training centre

    2022-09-07
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  • Stone Projects
    Women's International Stone Alliance at Shibden Hall

    Women’s International Stone Alliance builds a monument to ‘Gentleman Jack’

    2022-09-05
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    Grantech's premises in Flintshire

    Natural Stone Surfaces buys Grantech in Wales

    2022-08-29
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  • Market Intelligence
    Equanimity on show at the Royal Academy this summer

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    2022-08-28
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    2022-08-25
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    Memorials: Monumental return to Warwickshire

    2022-08-23
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    lettercutting on a memorial

    Memorial masons disqualified as directors for taking deposits when insolvent

    2022-08-19
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    Mark Priestman

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    2022-08-12
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    National Lottery Heritage Fund

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    2022-08-12
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    2022-08-11
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    2022-08-09
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    2022-08-08
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    2022-08-07
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