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Speaker 1: Scott flowing back on seven hundred w WELW show. You're streaming,

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Speaker 1: you're on your phone, you.

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Speaker 2: Got devices in the background. Things are going all. Everything's good.

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Speaker 2: You're using all this data. And then one day one

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Speaker 2: of those platforms you're on, or maybe all of them

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Speaker 2: slow down. You get that spinning wheel of frustration. Well,

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Speaker 2: what's going on? This thing sucks? It's broken. No, that's

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Speaker 2: the AI boom. Okay, so we're all on our phone,

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Speaker 2: we're all using stuff. AI comes along puts even more

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Speaker 2: stress on the system. You may not think you're using AI.

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Speaker 2: You're using AI as we speak. So people in Mount

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Speaker 2: orb in Maysville and Butler County and Wilmington for that matter,

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Speaker 2: taking a hard look if they want them in their towns.

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Speaker 2: So the City of Cincinnati is getting very proactive on this,

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Speaker 2: putting a temporary moratorium on new data centers while they

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Speaker 2: do a zoning stead of review. It's not a band,

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Speaker 2: it's just a pause. And she is part of the

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Speaker 2: Housing and Growth Committee, and that would be council Member

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Speaker 2: Mika d Owens and the D stands for data Meka,

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Speaker 2: good morning, how are you.

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Speaker 3: That's the same. Well, that's a good one. That sounds great. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I am doing well. Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 3: me this morning. Very excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so obviously major corporations need them, we get pg

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Speaker 2: Kroger fifth or they require data infrastructure we have more demand.

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Speaker 2: People in the city would often talk about the urban

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Speaker 2: areas being a desert for connectivity when it comes to

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Speaker 2: high speed that would help with this thing. So starting

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Speaker 2: with the basics here, city doesn't even have a zoning

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Speaker 2: definition for data centers right now. So has there been

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Speaker 2: any interest from the outside the facilities up to this

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Speaker 2: point and what triggered this need for moratorium in the

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Speaker 2: point where literally you want to vote on this today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, first of all, I think it's important that

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Speaker 3: we recognize we are in an AI zone similar to

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Speaker 3: I think the Internet, and so what that means that

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Speaker 3: this technology is here, It's on your iPhone, it's everywhere,

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Speaker 3: as you indicated, and so you know, this is not

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Speaker 3: a question of whether or not just going to grow.

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Speaker 3: It's how organizations, companies and cities jurisdictions get ready for

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Speaker 3: this type of technology, revitalization or resolution, whatever you want

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Speaker 3: to call it. And so what this step is is

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Speaker 3: really a pactive step that will help us to one

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Speaker 3: define what data centers are and you know data center

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Speaker 3: centers in terms of being able to run AI. It's all.

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Speaker 3: Also the concern is the industry consumption that it is

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Speaker 3: required to do that. So the first step is, let's

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Speaker 3: pop to define this. Let's look at areas of the

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Speaker 3: city where this might occur. So we're looking at twenty

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Speaker 3: two thousand parcels and what that will do is really

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Speaker 3: healthy administration to get in to one get more educational

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Speaker 3: understanding and create a framework around if somebody actually wants

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Speaker 2: Okay, and that is probably sooner rather than later. Again,

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Speaker 2: a pause, not a ban. But so let's say P

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Speaker 2: Obviously Kroger, you've got there's a need to expand. If

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Speaker 2: they need to expand their data infrastructure during this temporary period,

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Speaker 2: this this moratorium, are they grandfather? Then what do you

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Speaker 2: what do you tell the biggest employers and some of

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Speaker 2: the biggest companies in the world you can't have it.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's going to be a part of the engagement

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Speaker 3: they are getting all of the pieces on the administrative

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Speaker 3: there are different types of data centers. You know, most

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Speaker 3: people probably think of them as some large warehouse off

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Speaker 3: want to recognize with the landscape is. And so that's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I think that makes sense in

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Speaker 2: the Central Business District obviously, no go. But there's land

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second to power these things,

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Speaker 1: In the data centers.

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Speaker 2: We've got the Ohio River right there, you know, worried

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Speaker 2: about in some of these counties, you know, like folks

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Speaker 2: but also the people and Cincinnati needs needs that infrastructure

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Speaker 2: when it comes to data and when comes to the

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Speaker 2: And so it's a it's a beautiful fit I think

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Speaker 2: think just being near the Ohio River is a bonus here.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, absolutely, that is the attraction to the Midwest

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Speaker 3: it is. It is all a part of the changing

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Speaker 3: The Midwest is going to be so attractive because we

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Speaker 3: So just by that, you know, we have got to

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Speaker 3: get ready for folks who are coming to this network region. Yes,

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Speaker 3: our natural water water source is a benefit, but it's

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Speaker 3: a step to say, hey, let's uncover all of this,

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Speaker 3: other city in this country trying to innswer these questions.

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Speaker 3: I think we're putting ourselves in a really great position

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Speaker 3: And so because right everyone spects to come home and

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Speaker 3: you know, solar panels and all of the abolt.

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Speaker 2: Well, now's the time to look at this, and I'm

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Speaker 2: glad you are, Mika Owens. You know, I was just

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Speaker 2: thinking top of my head the Queen's Gate area, lower

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Speaker 2: Price Hill, that area is in need of development, and

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Speaker 2: the question is what to do after the New Brunch

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Speaker 2: bench Bridge corridor projects done. Hell, we haven't started digging

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Speaker 2: of these big plants in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean Queens Queen's Gate, aliso A Mountains, the

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Speaker 3: West End is a place that has so much promise

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Speaker 3: considering what happened and what devastated that community. I seventy

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Speaker 3: storing place for black people in this city. You end

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Speaker 3: up migrating in other spaces. We think about the Western

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Speaker 3: it definitely has to include housing and you know, amenities

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Speaker 3: exciting conversation to think about what that mix of things

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Speaker 2: Mika Owen's council person on the Scotsland Show on seven

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Speaker 2: hundred WLWD city trying to fast track a temporary moratorium

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Speaker 2: just a pause data centers coming to the City of

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati and trying to get some policy together. Uh. But

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Speaker 2: at the same time, I look at Columbus and Columbus

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Speaker 2: Columbus is moving forward, are we going to get left behind?

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Speaker 3: Well? And that's what we don't want, right and so

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Speaker 3: I think what we need to do right now is

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Speaker 3: of us and doing that. We're currently in our code

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Speaker 3: for us to stop recognize what a data center might be,

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Speaker 3: maybe Coumbus zoning UH is exponentially you know, moving moving

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Speaker 3: this is a moment of revolution where we cannot be

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Speaker 3: left behind, not only by way of policy and how

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Speaker 3: by way of attracting new businesses to the signal to

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Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha? Mika Owens on the show, where are you

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Speaker 2: at Kroger? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: You checking out? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Gosh? I started, I sent so funny. I am at

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Speaker 3: a coffee shop in college tail. You know, a girl

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Speaker 3: got many things to do in the morning. We could

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Speaker 3: do model tacting, but I do want to say Scott

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Speaker 3: that are not even set up with departments like planning

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Speaker 3: certainly we will have to wrestle with and be prepared for.

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Speaker 2: Has the city had or scheduled talks with Duke Energy

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Speaker 2: to see if they are great our infrastructure locally can

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Speaker 2: handle this or is that too.

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Speaker 3: Far out that that's the part of what what will

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Speaker 3: happen over the next three months while you know, the

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Speaker 3: administration is doing this work, so we're talking about the

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Speaker 3: you know, engaging with with Duke is at the top

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Speaker 3: relates to how do we really coordinate energy and utility

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Speaker 3: usage if someone wants to come here and open a

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Speaker 2: Three months moratorium a hard deadline? Because you know, personally

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Speaker 2: Three months, no question about mick owens, the more times

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Speaker 2: Okay, obviously the city's behind moving forward with a data

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Speaker 3: For sure. Yeah, absolutely all of the above, which is

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: You look at communities around and I'm sure at some point,

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Speaker 3: Well, we ask the administration and in the you know,

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Speaker 1: Well, coffee you're going with this morning at the coffee shop? There?

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Speaker 1: What do you got?

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Speaker 3: Oh? You know, sometimes I'm a lot taker to go

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Speaker 1: You like you like a grande. You a big one.

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Speaker 1: You bring your own mug. What do you got work

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, you know, I always enjoyed turning out of

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Speaker 2: And do you also have to get like a giant

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Speaker 3: Yes, I try to make Marty water me as well.

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Speaker 3: I know one of these days, you know, someone might

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I know, that gag.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's your hook and it works. It works for

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Speaker 2: that thing is. It's awesome and it's good to talk

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Speaker 2: to you, Mika. You have a great day. Okay, thanks again,

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Speaker 2: all right, she's a council member. Mika Owens on the

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Speaker 2: show on seven hunderd WW from easily the loudest coffee

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Speaker 2: shop in Cincinnati. It was in CVG or something. I'm

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Speaker 2: not quite sure, but Meek always a pleasure to talk to.

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Speaker 2: And this is an issue that's gonna hit all of

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Speaker 2: and it's something we demand. It's it's hard to vilify

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Speaker 2: News on the Way, when a return on the show,

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Speaker 2: we'll keep at Cincinnata. Christy Samage here from three CDC.

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Speaker 2: All right, the convention center's open. They got ten point

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