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IC4296 is the host of a zvirgul0.012 of a very powerful radio jet openParPopenPar1.4GHzcloseParvirgul5E24 W-Hz. Recent VLA observations have revealed it has enormous openPar160 kpc diamterclosePar lobes over 230 kpc from the nucleus. Because it is so close comma we can study the ambient hot gas in the central kpc of this system in exquisite detail with Chandra and its large-scale comma radio-plasma-filled bubbles with XMM. This system provides a unique opportunity to test ideas about how AGN feedback may be fueled by cold gas condensing out of the hot ambient interstellar medium. Given our vanishing capability of detecting soft X-rays at high spatial resolution comma this may be our last opportunity to measure the thermodynamic state of the hot gas in this system for years.