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Siân Ifan
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Myron Evans,
Independent, Mawr
Ganwyd Myron Evans yn Nghraig Cefn Parc yn yr un ty mae e'n byw nawr, ty a'i adeiladwyd gan ei hen ddadcu, William Newlands, hefyd ty Thomas Elim Jones, Prif Ddiacon Elim, Capel y Bedyddwyr. Aeth i Ysgol Craig Cefn Parc, Ysgol Rhamadeg Pontardawe, a Choleg y Brifysgol Aberystwyth. Enillodd gradd B. Sc. (dosbarth cyntaf) yn 1971, gradd Ph. D. yn 1974 a'r uwchradd D. Sc (Scientiae Doctor) yn 1977. Aeth i Rhydychen yn 1974 a dychwelodd i Aberystwyth, Bangor ac Abertawe, wedyn i IBM fel athro, a Cornell yn Efrog Newydd. Buodd yn athro (Professor) hefyd yng Nghogledd Carolina, ac ers 2005 nawr mae e'n un o wyddonwyr y Restr Sifil, anrhydedd arbennig am ei waith yn wyddoniath. Fe'i godwyd i Foneddwr yn 2008, gyda arfau ei hun. Ei wefan yw www.aias.us, ac y mae hefyd yn fardd ac yn awdur. Mae e'n gryf yn erbyn y twrbinau a bydd yn chwalu Mynydd y Gwair a Mynydd Betws. Mae ei fanifesto llawn ar flog www.aias.us gyda lawer o negesau yn erbyn y twrbinau. Mae e'n disgynu o ach ei tad o'r Twysog Bleddyn ap Maenarch Brycheniog a theuluoedd Hopkin amser y Tuduriaed a Havard RhyndwyClydach a Chwm Cerdinen o ach ei fam.
Myron Evans was born in
Craig Cefn Parc in the same house where he lives now, a house built by his
great grandfather William Newlands, and also the house of Thomas Elim Jones,
head Deacon of Elim Baptist Chapel. he went to Craig Cefn Parc school, Pontardawe Grammar School
and University College
of Wales Oxford in 1974 and returned to Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea , then to
IBM as a full professor and to Cornell in New York State North
Carolina
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Diolch yn fawr Siân.
Mae'n debyg bydd mil new fwy o Fawr yn llofnodir's deiseb, hynny yw, mwyafrif
Mawr yn barod. Mae Ioan Richard yn sefyll unwaith eto. Mae fy mapurau'n barod,
af a nhw lawr i Abertawe yfori. Mae un deiseb (Wynford Cooke) wedi mynd dros
Mawr unwaith yn barod, dros mil o lofnodion yn erbyn unrhyw fath o ddatblygiad.
Mae bron PAWB yn erbyn y twrbinau, bron PAWB yn erbyn unrhyw fath o godi tai
newydd. Felly mae bron pawb yn erbyn Cyngor Abertawe, llawer iawn yn erbyn Ioan
Richard. Mae datblygiadau yn cael ei gwthio ar Fawr.
Thank you very much Siân.
It is likely that the paper petition will get over a thousand signatures from
Mawr, a large majority against any further MA development. The electronic
petition might also get strong support. Ioan Richard is standing again. My
election papers are ready and I will take them down to Swansea Swansea
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Electoral
dictatorship is clearly visible in Mawr as housing development is being forced
on the electorate against a large majority who do not want it. There is a
serious danger that objectors will be ignored. Turbine development is being
forced on Britain
For any one worldwide
who is concerned with basic democracy, I invite them to sign the electronic
petition on the blog of www.aias.us:
I have
asked Dave Burleigh to cross link from www.aias.us to this petition site. The
electronic petition has been approved and is ready for signing. The paper
petition already shows an overwhelming majority in Mawr against forced housing
development and forced turbine development. It is imperative that the encumbent
councillor be voted out. It is imperative that the electorate be represented
democratically
My
nomination papers have been filed today and I am Myron Wyn Evans Independent /
Annibynnwr candidate for Mawr. My initial talks with the electorate immediately
revealed that they want no further MA development in Mawr and no turbines. Many
did not know what MA was, especially the elderly. MA007 is illegal, it
contravenes Section 38 of the Commonland Act of 2006 which prohibits any works
on commonland. It is thought that MA007 is ultimately an underhand wind turbine
proposal on commonland described by Swansea
County Wales
There
should be an absolute limit on the number of new houses in Mawr, an area of
great natural beauty. I am not talking about native Welsh people who have tried
to learn Welsh, we Welsh speakers talk to them in English and that is an
accepted way of life. I am talking about bigotted people from the middle ages
who loath the sound of the Welsh language. Only a very few of these bigots
still exist because there is widespread international support for the language.
At a time when UNESCO has warned of the extinction of the Welsh langugae, Mawr
is being flooded by unwanted development that further damages what is left of
the language. This creates a rich middle class elite who try then to dictate
the running of Mawr and even start abusing retired and elderly coal miners.
Today the conversation about my nomination papers was entirely in Welsh. Swansea County
Message to the people
of Mawr
I would respectfully but
strongly advise voting out the incumbent in the May election. How you do this
is up to you, but if you do not use your vote wisely he might get back yet
again on a split vote, so will be there yet again for four years, a total of
about 35 years. There is no term restriction and there is no proportional
representation. If Plaid Cymru fielded a candidate who is against turbines, I
will give Plaid Cymru my considerable support. I have already heard a lot of
complaint against the encumbent, not only from Mawr but elsewhere. If you do
not want totally destructive development forced on you, vote him out. I filed
my papers and I am an official candidate. My name on the ballot paper is Myron
Wyn Evans, Independent / Annibynnwr. You have not been represented for many
years, and have been ignored for many years. The signs are clear that the
incumbent represents developers only. People have had enough of the vulgarity
of personal attacks and crude disinformation, that message is coming through
very strongly. That kind of adolescent behaviour has nothing to do with the
traditions of Wales Swasnea
County
Overdevelpoment is a
major problem in Mawr, it critically threatens the Welsh language in violation
of the Welsh Language Act and EEC laws. A petition organized aaginst
development by Mr and Mrs Wynford Cooke recently gathered over a thousand
signatures in Craig Cefn Parc alone. This was handed in but mysteriously
"lost". So I am organizing another petition with the help of Mr and
Mrs Wynford Cook and their son Mr Teifion Cook. The total population of Mawr is
about 1,800, including those under 18. So there is a very large majority of
voters against all MA development and against the encumbent councillor, now a
candidate for Mawr like myself. This opposition needs to mobilize itself and
vote him out. Craig Cefn Parc is one of the three main villages of Mawr, the
other two being Felindre and Garnswllt.
The MA007 plans of Swansea Swansea County Swansea
As county council
candidate for Mawr I echo the 95% opposition to wind turbines, and urge the
Plaid Cymru candidate to come out against turbines to help vote out the
encumbent, a very unpopular councillor as polling shows. Countries are now
beginning to drop subsidies for wind turbines, notaby the US , Japan ,
Spain and the Netherlands China ,
Denmark and Germany
1) They are intermittent
and must be backed up by conventional power stations. In the cold and calm days
arond Christmas in Britain
2) The total amount of
power they produce is very small. One medium sized power station is equivalent
to 3,500 turbines. Politicians mix up capacity and total power.
3) They are wildly
expensive, and the cost is passed on to consumers - huge electricity bills.
4) They are
environmentally a disaster, they are very ugly, and need rare minerals for the
manufacture of their magnets. So the rare mineral stock is severely depleted.
In China
5) They are a very
dangerous threat to democracy here in Wales
6) They do not save on
emissions, and there is no runaway global warming. That was due to error in
computer code - incorrect input parameters. Change in climate always occurs,
but it is not man made at all.
7) In Britain Britain
So I advise a class
action in court against the Mynydd y Gwair proposal to seek an injunction to
stop all development. The most dangerous thing of all is that objections are
just ignored undemocraitcally and the planning process is severely corrupted. I
also advise strike action, boycott of turbine companies, and above all,
elimination of wind turbine subsidies. The coal mining industry in Wales
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As many messages of this blog record, I have
been working against illegal use of Mynydd Gelliwastad by criminals who use
motor bikes without number plates, insurance and tax records. I have
apprehended several personally. The police are undermanned and are given no
support by the Beaufort Estate or Swansea
County Wales Swansea County Wales Swansea County Swansea
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Overdevelpoment is a
major problem in Mawr, it critically threatens the Welsh language in violation
of the Welsh Language Act and EEC laws. A petition organized aaginst
development by Mr and Mrs Wynford Cooke recently gathered over a thousand
signatures in Craig Cefn Parc alone. This was handed in but mysteriously
"lost". So I am organizing another petition with the help of Mr and
Mrs Wynford Cook and their son Mr Teifion Cook. The total population of Mawr is
about 1,800, including those under 18. So there is a very large majority of
voters against all MA development and against the encumbent councillor, now a
candidate for Mawr like myself. This opposition needs to mobilize itself and
vote him out. Craig Cefn Parc is one of the three main villages of Mawr, the
other two being Felindre and Garnswllt. The MA007 plans of Swansea Swansea County Swansea
Today on
my daily patrol I observed further destructive arson on the rare ecology of
Gelliwastad, again just above Craig Felen. This is the second outbreak this
year, there is severe danger of further arson. I have reported this to the
Council and police. New trees of this spring have again been severely burnt,
extensive damage to fauna and flora. The ecology has not recovered from arson
of last year. I am the only candidate who patrols the ecology on foot every
day.
My
supporters had already implemented your excellent idea, and several blogs of
this type are ready. We have an electronic petition ready as you know, as well
as a paper petition. This time the petition will not be "lost", i.e.
ignored. Many thanks to my international friends for having the patience to
read these debates. I should say that on my side it is debate, on the other
side a lot of threats and abuse and the old fashioned type of bigotry against
the Welsh language. This is now illegal. We have a lot of experience in dealing
with that type of stuff.
The Plaid Cymru candidate Linda Frame has
declared against wind turbines so I intend to try to form a coalition with
Plaid Cymru to vote out Ioan Richard. My distant cousin, His Grace the Duke of
Beaufort, is unelected, so a Land Act is needed to remove all his lands. My
ancestor Lord Tudor Watkins founded the Brecon Beacons
National Park United States then we might get a Welsh language
college founded in for example Pennsylvania , North Carolina and Utah
I have also set up an
electronic petition as you know. I am now supporting Plaid Cymru candidate
Linda Frame. So my supporters should now switch their support and vote to her.
I have done the groundwork in revealing a detestation of overdevelopment, a
deep dislike of the incumbent Ioan Richard throughout Wales Swansea
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In the
last Council election of 2008 for Mawr the Labour candidate obtained only 4.3%
of the electoral register, the Tory only 3.7%. They are in favour of wind turbines
so go against a 95% majority against wind turbines. I request them to follow my
example and withdraw in favour of Linda Frame, Plaid Cymru, in order to present
a unified opposition to Ioan Richard and not uselessly split the vote. I know
from my own support that Ioan Richard is deeply unpopular. A petition against
development recently obtained a thousand signatures in Craig Cefn Parc alone.
This was organized by Mr and Mrs Wynford Cook. In the 2001 Census the total
population of Mawr was 1,800. The turnout last time (2008) was only 48.64%.
Ioan Richard calls himself "The People's Representative", but not any
more. It is imperative to get him out this time because the petition indicates
a large majority against him. This majority against must be mobilised into
votes against. The petition was ignored by Swansea County Swansea County
I am withdrawing as
candidate in favour of Linda Frame, Plaid Cymru, and all my support goes to
her. She has declared against wind turbines and against development in Mawr. I
will continue my petition work, to gather as many signatures against any
further development in Mawr of any kind unless there is a Welsh language test.
I have discovered that the encumbent Ioan Richard is deeply unpopular, so Linda
Frame should be able to get a large vote from my supporters, who will now
campaign on her behalf. In the present antiquated voting system there is no
proportional representation, so a split opposition to Ioan Richard must be
avoided. The Labour and Tory candidates do not oppose wind turbines so they do
not represent anyone except themselves, because 95% of the electorate here
oppose wind turbines. They only have a handful of votes in Mawr. As Armiger I
am deeply disturbed by reports of abusive e mailing by Ioan Richard. Any
further abuse from him should be reported to the Local Authority.
Another reason for contesting in this
election is that MA development brings
in bigots against the Welsh language and Ioan Richard has failed to object to
this. In fact he seems to encourage it. Sian
Ifan and Gethin ap Gruffudd have also criticised Ioan Richard for abusive e
mailing and I think he should come under investigation (because there are
several independent reports of abusive e mailing) and disqualified from holding
office.
Linda Frame will give
Ioan six of the best. She should be able to mobilize the support found by
Wynford Cook and myself. Last time she was second with 156 votes to 450 for
Ioan, so there needs to be a swing of 148 votes. My supporters will campaign
for her. If she can capture all of the potential votes found by Wynford she
should win. Can support be mobilized for her in the newspapers and other media?
There has
been intense interest in my blog this week. readers are becoming aware of the
deep unpopularity of Ioan Richard and the electorate in Mawr is ready to vote
him out. So I strongly advise a large turn out. I have withdrawn as candidate
and handed over all my support to the Plaid Cymru candidate Linda Frame, who is
a head teacher and community councillor. I stood in protest against Ioan
Richard's abusive e mailing and because Plaid had no anti wind turbine policy.
Now the local Plaid Cymru candidate has declared against wind turbines and against
forced development in Mawr. So I stepped down so as not to split the vote
against Ioan Richard. He will be a deeply unpopular lame duck councillor even
if allowed in by a low turn out and apathy. The Mawr turn out in 2008 was very
low, less than a half, indicating alienation of the electorate by the very
remote Swansea County Swansea County
The proposed turbine
development will cause huge environmental damage and damage to wild life, and
is essentially unanimously opposed all over South West
Wales . This is a major threat to democracy and I advocate class
actions all over Wales under Section 41 of the Commons Act of 2006 to renmove
turbines, permanent strike action, and boycott and a Land Act to natonalize all
of Beaufort's lands and to protect it as an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Vote of Linda Frame, Plaid Cymru candidate, Mawr. The tremendous damage to
Mynydd Bettws is already evident and there are also threats to Mynydd Gwrhyd. I
urge Plaid Cymru and Labour in Wales
The brutal
and mindless destruction of the beautiful ecology of Mynydd Bettws has begun
after an eight to one majority of objectors against was ignored. This is an
intolerable threat to democracy. I have fought the Mynydd y Gwair proposal for
years as on this blog. That was thrown out by the Welsh Government, but a High
Court judge based in Birmigham has attempted to challenge the Welsh Government.
I have rebutted that judgment in detail on my blog, which has attracted almost
a hundred thousand readings in just over two years. This judgment is the
familiar threat to Welsh sovereignty which began with Edward 1st in 1282, who
was opposed by my ancestral cousin Prince Llewelyn ap Gruffudd against
overwhelming odds. After that the Welsh language was savagely suppressed by
Edwrard 1st., thought by modern historians to have been unbalanced in mind. The
People of Wales rose
furiously against suppression under my ancestral cousin, King Owain IV Glyndw^r
of Wales Wales
I think
that all the chapels in Mawr should be conserved and the sale of them
completely prohibited by law and similarly throughout Wales
Many thanks, this idea
has been very successful recently in New Zealand Europe there ie EEC
legislation which is supposed to prevent developers buying corrupt politicians
and destroying languages. In Switzerland Switzerland Wales
The Buy
Anything Society (BAS) has just bought the idea of wind turbines, and the
wholesale destruction of the beautiful Mynydd Bettws is now visible, generating
nothing but deep an unanimous hatred of those responsible. In one article I saw
that 3,500 wind turbines equal one medium power station, and in order to back
up the planned ten thousand wind turbines of the Cameron Government, ten new medium
power stations have to be built. So in order to build 10,000 turbines the
equivalent of another 35,000 trubines have to be built, all emitting carbon
dioxide. This is a recently discovered script from Monte Python's Flying
Circus. So the turbines must be opposed in every way that is legal, for example
permanent strike action, permanant work to rule, permanent boycott, legal
action to seek injunctions and so on. An injunction can be sought by class
action under Section 41 of the Commons Act 2006, and the insane developers told
to pay for their mess to the tune of billions in damages. I was part of an
eight to one majority against the destruction of Mynydd Bettws, and this was
overruled undemocratically. So I urge Plaid Cymru in Wales
as a whole to declare against wind turbines, followed by Labour in Wales
This was signed by over
a thousand people from Craig Cefn Parc alone and handed in to Swansea County Martin Caton, should demand
from the Council a response, and complaints made about the Council to Mr Caton
and the Local Authority Ombudsman. As Armiger I am very disturbed by this
insult to democracy. A second petition is now being prepared, and we aim to get
well over a thousand signatures from the whole of Mawr, (population 1,800),
asking for cessation of all development in Mawr and for a change of county
councillor. In effect this is a petition for the resignation of the present
county councillor and all councillors who have tried to force through
development against an overwhelming majority, natives of Mawr. These are
already therefore lame duck councillors. Deeply unpopular and isolated, several
being recent incomers, they are people who try to force their views on the
electorate - the opposite of representative democracy. They are in unhealthy
alliance with unwanted developers.
Beaufort has rights to minerals more than a foot under the
surface, so it is not possible to build houses on this commonland (Rhydd Waun
neu Rhyddwen), because their foundations are more than a foot deep. It is also
in blatant contravention of Section 38 of the Commons Act 2006. The best thing
is to have a talk with Wynford Cook tomorrow and organize the campaign so that
it is effective. It is clear that a few councillors are in league with a few
developers, and that they are opposed by 95% of the electorate. As soon as
newcomers arive, they try to get on the council. The big problem is apathy.
There was a meeting here
this evening attended by Siân Ifan, Gethin ap Gruffydd, Wynford Cook and
myself. The deep resentment against wind turbine multi nationals was discussed,
and the idea of a Land Act to nationalise Beaufort's estates so that mediaeval
despotism is removed from Wales Owain
Gyndw^r rising against ugly undemocratic despotism. There is almost unanimous
outrage at this assault on ancient civilization and all decent values. It was
concluded unanimously that Ioan Richard is a lame duck councillor. His abusive
e mailing causes deep resentment throughout Wales
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These are exellent
arguments by Robert Cheshire. The internet abounds with a multitude of strong
arguments against turbines, scientific and economic. All of that is well known.
So on the Irish model my suggestion of a Land Act will be taken up throughout Wales Westminster
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Many
thanks and fully agreed. In this case it is an alliance of failed theory and
greed as outlined very well by Robert Cheshire. Everything possible will be
done here to try to make sure that these turbines are never built, and if they
are built, that they never make a profit and ultimately safely demolished. The
damage to the ten thosuand year old ecology will be permanent and devastating
to flora and fauna. The companies should be sued for billions in damages in
class actions all over Europe . They go against
democracy, which is being eroded to such an extent here that I advocate direct
rule by electronic referendum on all important issues. We we campaign
vigorously on behalf of the anti turbine Plaid Cymru candiate, Linda Frame. I
would like to see these anonymous gentlemen in suits do a shift underground in
a two foot eight seam, crawling 250 yards to the coalface. This is what my
friend Wynford Cook used to do for an honest living.
To Plaid Cymru:
I am a fluent Welsh
speaker. I was horrified by the negative changes that have ocurred here in Mawr
during my twenty six years away (1968 - 1993). I bought back this house in
1993. I greatly admire the young families who stand up to the bigotry by
ignoring it, and bring up their children as Welsh speakers. I have put my house
in trust here so the developers cannot get their hands on it, and intend to try
to help put Elim chapel in trust before it is sold and destroyed. Whatever you
achieve in this kind of society you always have to be on the look out for
prejudice working behind your back, and whatever you achieve you are not
rewarded if you stand for the language. So the Welsh Language Act of 2010 must
be strictly implemented. My grandmother, Martha Jane Jones, nee Newlands, lived
in the era of the "Welsh Not" and had a block of wood hung around her
neck for speaking Welsh. The fact that she could not speak English was
overlooked. All kinds of human rights laws are being broken when a language is
subjected to bigotry. I am not talking about my good friends of many years here
who cannot speak Welsh but support it. I am talking about newcomers who have
just revealed themselves for what they are. Ioan Richard supports these
newcomers and has plans for twelve houses on his own land under MA008. These
will all be bought tby outsiders. I advocate extensive use of Trust law to
protect houses and chapels from being sold, the etsablishment of language nest
areas in which overdevlopment is banned completely by legislation. Otherwise
the language will become extinct as warned by UNESCO.
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The language is hanging
on by a thread in Mawr, but there are still enough dedicated families to keep
it going. I try to speak in Welsh as much as I can to as many people as I can.
There may be half who can speak it (i.e. 900 people), but over development
severely endangers it by bringing in people who refuse to learn it. This
campaign has revealed the existence of such hostile bigots. They expect the
native Mawr people to speak English to them. This they do with complete
reluctance and eventually the community polarizes and there is little or no
contact. The natives of Mawr who cannot speak Welsh come over to the side of
the Welsh speakers, their friends of many years. Liberal and enlightened
incomers sometimes also come over to the side of the language, and some try to
learn it. In this they are given all encouragement. So it is logically obvious
that Mawr must be made a language nest area. This means individual strength of will
to form a Welsh language family, speak it to the children, protect them from
bigotry, Welsh language schools again in Mawr, use of the internet to form a
cohesive Welsh speaking community, protection of Welsh speaking chapels, an
absolute and permanent ban on development, an absolute limit to the number of
new houses built, a stringent Welsh language test that goes with any planning
application, a cap on house prices, a land tax of 100% of the potential value
of the house on any incomer. Mawr is also a clear example of electoral
dictatorship deeply offensive to democracy. An electronic referendum would
bring in results completely different to those forced on the electorate by
pseudorepresentatives. The problem is therefore apathy and low turn out. The use
of council tax in Mawr needs to be subject to an immediate investigation. There
appear to be irregularities. In my youth Mawr was almost completely Welsh
speaking, it had a thriving coal and real farming industries. There has been no
coal industry for a long time, and the farms are uneconomical, they are used as
playgrounds such as riding stables or just exist on subsidy. However there are
still some farms with traditional Welsh speaking families. These must be
protected by use of Trust law. There is no real representation of the
electorate, as the petition shows. That is why the first petition was
suppressed. When fuel rationing starts soon, the surfeit of fuel guzzling cars
will have to be replaced by public transport. That at least would ease the problem
of narrow roads blocked by cars. Tourism will disappear and self sufficiency
will have to appear in Wales
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It has been decided that the petitioners
should advise everyone to vote for Linda Frame, Plaid Cymru. A lot of
development under MA is unlawful and forbidden because Beaufort owns the
mineral rights, and any development will have to go to a vote of the People of
Mawr. Wynford Cook has also been subjected to hostile e mailing from Ioan
Richard who described him in severely defamatory terms to approximately fifty
third parties. I advised Mr Wynford Cook that he can complain to the Local
Authority Ombudsman. He confirmed that Swansea
Wynford Cook is an
honourable and capable man, a former coal miner who worked in the coal mines
with my father, Edward Ivor Evans. Due to the complete rejection of wind
turbines and any further development in Mawr, Linda Frame should win easily if
these mobilization procedures are implemented. Wynford Cook asks if Siân Ifan
and Gethin ap Gruffudd can confirm ownership of mineral rights by Beaufort by
looking up the Council records and Land Registry. We are also looking in to
this in Mawr. I can confirm that my distant cousin, His Grace the Duke of
Beaufort, owns the mineral rights on my freehold here. So if he needs a lump of
coal with potatoes from the garden he can have it. Wynford was badly injured in
the coal mines and walks with a limp. He is therefore disabled. There are other
well educated people here who are also against Ioan Richard, who must be voted
out by a combined, focused and effective Plaid Cymru campaign combined with
much good will for Linda Frame and Plaid Cymru.
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