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TDWG MIDS Task Group working session Thursday 17 April - Registration Reminder
by Elspeth Haston 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear all The TDWG MIDS Task Group working session will take place this week. Please remember to register for the session HERE<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lHx6CcFVTveu-VbzJHSdcA>. Minimum Infor Dig Specimens (MIDS)<https://github.com/tdwg/website/blob/master/community/cd/mids> 2025-04-17 14:00 See in your time-zone<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Minimum%20Infor%2…> ▶️<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lHx6CcFVTveu-VbzJHSdcA> UPDATE and WEBSITE! There will be a general update about the progress made and a chance to hear about the new draft TDWG MIDS website (https://tdwg.github.io/mids/index.html) TRY YOUR DATA! This is a great chance to bring along a dataset. You will get guidance and support to use the tools to calculate the level of digitisation of your dataset and get the MIDS scores. * Just bring along a Darwin Core Archive or a Biocase ABCD XML archive file to try out the MIDS Calculator Tool (https://github.com/AgentschapPlantentuinMeise/MIDSCalculator) * There may be time to download a file from GBIF at the working session if it's not too large, but we advise requesting the download beforehand to be safe. * Biocase files take longer to run so you may want to bring a smaller dataset if tryingthis option. * An installer for Windows can be found here<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ioRhHIvdYI88yoPTsYLG_k5-8n-05CiP>. The tool is an RShiny app and can also be run by executing the code in the app.R file. * You can also use the MIDS Checker for existing GBIF Datasets (https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/) TDWG Working Sessions timetable and links Link below for more information about all the TDWG Working Sessions, including a link to check the time of the session in your time-zone. website/community/working-sessions/2025/index.md at master · tdwg/website · GitHub<https://github.com/tdwg/website/blob/master/community/working-sessions/2025…> [https://opengraph.githubassets.com/22c40c178ab3f71f2ad7d4c13fc6eb0e8bfe4296…]<https://github.com/tdwg/website/blob/master/community/working-sessions/2025…> website/community/working-sessions/2025/index.md at master · tdwg/website<https://github.com/tdwg/website/blob/master/community/working-sessions/2025…> TDWG website. Contribute to tdwg/website development by creating an account on GitHub. github.com We are looking forward to seeing you there Best regards Elspeth and Cat TDWG MIDS Task Group Conveners The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk/> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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Tomorrow's meeting
by Elspeth Haston 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Dear all I'm afraid I will not be able to join the meeting tomorrow. Possible items to discuss would be: Comparing a dataset that has both DarwinCore and ABCD - can we get a dataset for this? https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/94 It might be an idea to update the website based on the updated docs before more people go in and review them Review current sitemap plan: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/tree/main/source/md https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QyN5FtDHe-9FGy-2SDKc0Yp6_PGdW3_x7Vogqaq… The Agenda and Notes document is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ET0p6641ZNzNQG4qNs_jje0LokoKJ9Ls5bhFdU… I'm sorry I won't make it this week, but I will try to check e-mails in case anything comes up. Feel free to focus on different topics to those suggested here. Best wishes Elspeth [Logo] Dr Elspeth Haston Deputy Herbarium Curator Tel 00 44 (0)131 248 2800 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR Scotland rbge.org.uk<https://rbge.org.uk/> @emhaston | Google Scholar | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 Search our Herbarium collections online at http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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TDWG Living Data Conference 2025
by Elspeth Haston 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

Dear all There has been an extension to the deadline for proposals for sessions at the TDWG Living Data Conference 2025, giving us an opportunity to submit a proposal for a MIDS session. Please let myself and Cat know if you would be interested in co-chairing this session. We will be meeting tomorrow so you can also let us know then. This would be a good chance to present a range of talks looking at the broad application of MIDS, including the use of MIDS in planning digitisation programmes, the implementation of MIDS calculators in monitoring digitisation progress and to prioritise data enhancement, and how it can be used in funding proposals. Hope to see you at the meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC. Best wishes Elspeth The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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TDWG MIDS Task Group
by Elspeth Haston 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

Apologies for any duplication in sending this invitation through. Elspeth Haston is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89321928120?pwd=tc1AG6KqCz5Sv0eca4nvFKF0Df8sja.1 Meeting ID: 893 2192 8120 Passcode: 459138 --- One tap mobile +13017158592,,89321928120#,,,,*459138# US (Washington DC) +13052241968,,89321928120#,,,,*459138# US --- Dial by your location * +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) * +1 305 224 1968 US * +1 309 205 3325 US * +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) * +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) * +1 360 209 5623 US * +1 386 347 5053 US * +1 507 473 4847 US * +1 564 217 2000 US * +1 646 931 3860 US * +1 669 444 9171 US * +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) * +1 689 278 1000 US * +1 719 359 4580 US * +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) * +1 253 205 0468 US * +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 893 2192 8120 Passcode: 459138 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/knnx5ANWd The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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Happy New Year! Meetings for 2025 starting today
by Elspeth Haston 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Happy New Year to all! I hope that everyone managed to have a bit of a break - it was a busy year in 2024! Apologies for not creating the new set of meetings before now but they have not been created and I'm hoping that an invitation was sent out automatically by Zoom. Please let me know if you have not received it. Just in case, the meeting can be found below. It will start at 15:00 UTC [cid:image001.png@01DB6285.A75660F0] Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89321928120?pwd=tc1AG6KqCz5Sv0eca4nvFKF0Df8sja.1 Meeting ID: 893 2192 8120 Passcode: 459138 --- One tap mobile +13017158592,,89321928120#,,,,*459138# US (Washington DC) +13052241968,,89321928120#,,,,*459138# US --- Dial by your location * +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) * +1 305 224 1968 US * +1 309 205 3325 US * +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) * +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) * +1 360 209 5623 US * +1 386 347 5053 US * +1 507 473 4847 US * +1 564 217 2000 US * +1 646 931 3860 US * +1 669 444 9171 US * +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) * +1 689 278 1000 US * +1 719 359 4580 US * +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) * +1 253 205 0468 US * +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 893 2192 8120 Passcode: 459138 [Logo] Dr Elspeth Haston Deputy Herbarium Curator Tel 00 44 (0)131 248 2800 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR Scotland rbge.org.uk<https://rbge.org.uk/> @emhaston | Google Scholar | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 Search our Herbarium collections online at http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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Meeting reminder - today
by Elspeth Haston 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Dear all Just a reminder about the TDWG MIDS Task Group meeting today. We have been organising the work needed for the ratification of MIDS, deciding on some milestones and creating a schedule for some of the work. This are all being shared in the GitHub. Ideally, we will be using the MIDS Project part of the GitHub for this stage of working, everyone should now have access to this: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4. The Tasks that are currently in here are also visible in the Issues part of the GitHub: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues. We will plan to use the first 30 minutes to discuss any issues, etc, and the second 30 minutes to tackle some of the work needed. As part of the plan to organise the work needed, we can prepare some agendas for future meetings so that there is a clearer focus for each meeting. Please let us know if there are key tasks that you would like us to look at on a particular week. This week (depending on people present) we will be looking at the following Issues: * Check access to MIDS Project: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4/views/1 * Informative work * Add information to Wiki: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/wiki * Information mainly coming from Specification Development document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc9sf8X8l8iSc-GO2ZFmgCoOiJNxKRhYeGq5OFm… * Normative work * MIDS Calculator/Checker functionality * Generalise functionality in the MIDS calculator to handle any DWCA file #92 https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/92 * MIDS Checker - Create conditional calculations for disciplines #97 https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/97 Best wishes Elspeth Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85039169478?pwd=QzIvam8xRy9CdFVtdEh3MDU3TFJydz09 [cid:0f048b13-49c2-468d-832d-355ef584801a] Best wishes Elspeth [Logo] Dr Elspeth Haston Deputy Herbarium Curator Tel 00 44 (0)131 248 2800 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR Scotland rbge.org.uk<https://rbge.org.uk/> @emhaston | Google Scholar | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 Search our Herbarium collections online at http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk/> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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Reminder: TDWG MIDS Task Group meeting today
by Elspeth Haston 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Dear all Just a reminder about the TDWG MIDS Task Group meeting today. We will aim to organise the work needed for the ratification of MIDS, deciding on some milestones and creating a schedule for some of the work. This will all be shared in the GitHub. Ideally, we will be using the MIDS Project part of the GitHub for this stage of working, but we have not yet been able to give everyone access to this: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4. However, the Tasks that are currently in here are also visible in the Issues part of the GitHub: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues. We will plan to use the first 30 minutes to discuss any issues, etc, and the second 30 minutes to tackle some of the work needed. As part of the plan to organise the work needed, we can prepare some agendas for future meetings so that there is a clearer focus for each meeting. Please let us know if there are key tasks that you would like us to look at on a particular week. Best wishes Elspeth Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85039169478?pwd=QzIvam8xRy9CdFVtdEh3MDU3TFJydz09 [cid:image001.png@01DB0A8D.68D09C10] Best wishes Elspeth [Logo] Dr Elspeth Haston Deputy Herbarium Curator Tel 00 44 (0)131 248 2800 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR Scotland rbge.org.uk<https://rbge.org.uk/> @emhaston | Google Scholar | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 Search our Herbarium collections online at http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk/> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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Meeting today
by Elspeth Haston 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Dear all Just a reminder that we will be meeting today at the usual time of 14:00 UTC with the aim to get the information elements in place. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85039169478?pwd=QzIvam8xRy9CdFVtdEh3MDU3TFJydz09 Meeting ID: 850 3916 9478 Passcode: 912779 We have submitted a presentation for the TDWG/SPNHC conference which will be part of the following symposium https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/sessions/#sym17, organised by Wouter and Anton. It would be good to also consider additional publications that we should be considering for MIDS to raise awareness. Best wishes Elspeth Dr Elspeth M Haston Deputy Herbarium Curator Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://rbge.org.uk/> 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, United Kingdom @emhaston | Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T3LgDsoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848 Search our Herbarium collections online at http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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GBIF API MIDS Calculator
by Josh Humphries 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

Hi all, As trailed in a previous meeting, I've finished putting together and deploying a little web app which uses the GBIF API to calculate MIDS scores. You can access it here: https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc and the source is here: https://github.com/naturalhistorymuseum/gamc. From the home page just search and select your GBIF occurrence dataset, the app then runs some calculations by querying the GBIF API a few (~25) times, and then you'll see a couple of charts showing your dataset's record counts against the 4 MIDS levels as well as a more detailed breakdown of record counts by MIDS element. For example, here's the NHM London's breakdown<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/dashboard/7e380070-f762-11e1-a4…>. For more info about how it works, check out the about page: https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about. Specifically of interest to this group will be the how does it work<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about#how-does-it-work> section and the caveats<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about#caveats>. Any and all feedback welcome, including suggestions for changes (particularly around the mapping where we are somewhat limited, again see the caveats). The primary goal of this tool at the moment is to help people understand and explore their own MIDS scores, but when GBIF implement MIDS in their systems I fully expect it to become redundant. Additionally, it may be worth exploring a GeoCASe API based version of this too (and it would be pretty trivial to add I expect), though this may have limited usefulness given the discussion we had in the last meeting about the general lack of availability of datasets that cover all earth science disciplines. All the best, Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Humphries (he/him) | Head of Science Data Platforms | Digital, Data & Informatics | NHM London Email: j.humphries(a)nhm.ac.uk

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FW: MIDS in GBIF - follow-up after TAG meeting
by Elspeth Haston 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

For information, we received this very positive e-mail from Cecilie confirming GBIF support for MIDS and interest in implementation. Elspeth ________________________________ From: Cecilie Svenningsen <csvenningsen(a)gbif.org<mailto:csvenningsen@gbif.org>> Sent: 05 July 2024 09:27 To: Elspeth Haston <EHaston(a)rbge.org.uk<mailto:EHaston@rbge.org.uk>> Cc: Tim Robertson <trobertson(a)gbif.org<mailto:trobertson@gbif.org>>; Marie Grosjean <mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>> Subject: MIDS in GBIF - follow-up after TAG meeting You don't often get email from csvenningsen(a)gbif.org<mailto:csvenningsen@gbif.org>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Dear Elspeth, Thank you for the presentation on the MIDS progress at the TDWG Technical Architecture Group meeting last week. I wanted to follow up with you because you mentioned that GBIF had declared interest in implementing MIDS when ready, but I was not aware of the discussions at the time of the meeting and could not provide any feedback. I have now talked with people in the Secretariat who are more familiar with MIDS (cc in this email) and can confirm that GBIF would be interested in including MIDS to support community requests for the implementation. Specifically, we think it could be of value to implement in GRSciColl at the collection level. But before we can investigate implementing MIDS, we want to see a finalized specification of the calculation rules in place, that will be maintained externally to GBIF, and we hope TDWG can support those efforts. I understand you will have some follow-up discussions with TDWG after the meeting, but can I ask what your impressions are of how the standardization process in TDWG is going for the MIDS task group outputs? Kind regards Cecilie Cecilie Svenningsen (csvenningsen(a)gbif.org<mailto:csvenningsen@gbif.org>) Data Administrator, PhD GBIF Secretariat DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/> The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<https://www.rbge.org.uk/> is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us<https://www.rbge.org.uk/support-us> This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Where this e-mail is unrelated to the business of RBGE, the opinions expressed within this e-mail are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of RBGE. RBGE emails are filtered and monitored.

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