What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering is called Wacky Cake! The instructions are a little different from what I’m used to. See what you think!

Wacky Cake

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¾ cup granulated sugar

⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon kosher salt

⅓ cup oil

1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup water

Wacky Cake Frosting

¼ cup chopped toasted pecans

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt into an ungreased 8- x 8-inch baking pan; spread mixture evenly in pan. Make 1 large well and 2 small wells in mixture in pan. Carefully pour oil into the large well, vinegar into 1 small well, and vanilla into remaining small well. Pour 1 cup water evenly over entire mixture in pan. Stir everything together using a fork until combined.

Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack.

Pour Wacky Cake Frosting over warm cake. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. Cool completely, about 2 hours.

Wacky Cake Frosting

Ingredients

⅓ cup butter

¼ cup whole milk

3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

2 ¾ cups powdered sugar, sifted

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Cook butter, milk, and cocoa in a small saucepan over medium-low, stirring often, until mixture comes to a simmer. Remove from heat; gradually whisk in powdered sugar and vanilla until completely smooth. Pour on your favorite cake. 

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      1. Morning!
        wow! 61?
        i was worried about the birds this morning…
        a male oriole flew ONTO the feeder as I was bringing it out…he was hungry!

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        1. Our typical weather – we may hit 80 again today but, after that, we’ve got a couple of days with highs only in the 60’s coming up, then back up into the high 80’s into next week – I’m betting we’ll hit 90 before it starts down again.

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          1. wow!
            btw hubby found the dead raccoon–not far off from where he hit him. it’s behind a tree so we couldn’t see it from the house

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              1. yeah he’s waiting for the tall grass to dry out a little because the tractor will sink in there–I may have to grab a shovel and try to retrieve it myself and bring it out to the path

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              2. Um, he doesn’t just want to put on some gloves and pick it up – presumably you’re going to bury it somewhere? So, dig the hole, pick it up and drop it in, cover up – done deal! Right? Or not….?

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              3. no, we don’t bury them. he will take it in the tractor and dump it over the lower bank of the driveway—away from the house where “nature” will take care of it…

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            2. Somebody hit a squirrel right in front of my house and I had to take a shovel and bury it across the street in the woods. It was not fun.

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              1. Morning GA!
                the scavengers will get it–the turkey vultures and coyotes and others–but we don’t want to draw them towards the house

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  4. Morning, Pat! Well that’s something I’ve never heard of, the vinegar….something I don’t quite “get:” adding sugar, yet using unsweetened cocoa powder….I guess they say kosher salt because regular salt is iodized? Hmm…what IS iodize anyway….??? And personally, I think these “mandates” need to stop!!! The government should provide the info to the people and let them decide for themselves! But, then, far too many people today are unable to do even that!!!

    Ah-ha! Iodides: “An iodide ion is the ion I−.[2] Compounds with iodine in formal oxidation state −1 are called iodides. In everyday life, iodide is most commonly encountered as a component of iodized salt, which many governments mandate. Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability.[3]”

    Hmmm….intellectual disability….”Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom[3] and formerly mental retardation,[4][5] is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning. It is defined by an IQ under 70, in addition to deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors that affect everyday, general living. Intellectual functions are defined under DSM-V as reasoning, problem‑solving, planning, abstract thinking, judgment, academic learning, and learning from instruction and experience, and practical understanding confirmed by both clinical assessment and standardized tests. Adaptive behavior is defined in terms of conceptual, social, and practical skills involving tasks performed by people in their everyday lives.[6]”

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    1. Good Morning ☀️
      Filly, you’ll often see vinegar in a baking recipe where baking soda is used…the acid activates it.
      If there is buttermilk in the recipe, the acidity of buttermilk serves the same function…

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              1. salmon? that’s a color not a food…LOL
                now the steak? we could be dining partners over that…LOL
                I’m a diabetic and shouldn’t eat the good stuff either–but I compromise…i eat what i want in limited amounts and then walk about 30-35 miles a week. it helps a lot.

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        1. I have that problem sometimes – I WANT to believe people – I still think people are good overall, with good intentions for the most part, and I inevitably get caught somewhere along the line. So I’ve swung the opposite direction now, suspicious of everything – never right down the middle for me! Sometimes, this is exhausting!

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    1. I understand why they are doing this but they are wrong – he SHOULD be expelled for all the lies he told and fraud he committed. So now we devolve even more so “we” can be as bad as “they” are? Oh, hell, no! Do you not see where this is headed???? Same with ballot harvesting – if it is wrong for one party, it is equally wrong for the other!!!!! Same with lawfare! If we don’t live up to our principles, then what happens to those principles over time? THEY DISAPPEAR!!!! AND I DON’T CARE IF IT’S LEGAL OR NOT!!!!

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      1. IF they expel schiff, i would say you have a point. but differential treatment is not fair.
        piglosi is a lair, turtle is a liar, most are. to expel one and not the other is not fair. so if they expel schiff–who was on tv constantly lying to the american people about seeing PROOF…then we go after all the others. to equate what santos did with what schiff did is disingenuous.
        ballot harvesting is LEGAL.
        and if it is legal in a state, then BOTH sides must be able to do it.
        if you want to outlaw it, fine, but while it is LEGAL, it must be used as a tool.

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        1. This is where you and I differ and, I expect, always will – legal and right are two different things. I don’t care what the law says – I will continue to live according to MY principles that I know in my heart are true and moral. Since when do we allow the GOVERNMENT to decide for each of us what is moral and true???

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          1. no one said anything about moral–see that’s your opinion.
            if your elderly aunt (made up example) was in a nursing home and wanted you to take her ballot to the election center (or drop box) because she trusted you…would you do it?
            it’s legal. you do it.
            immoral and illegal would be to take that ballot out of the envelope and insert one with a candidate YOU choose instead of her.

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            1. Yes, I would because that is HER choice to make, not mine. I would, however, try to dissuade her first. That is completely different from the ballot harvesting being discussed here and you know that.

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              1. hardly. they are doing it outside the law by getting paid for it and having ballots sent to empty lots etc.
                at least we can do ours within the law.

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              2. We’re talking about 2 different types of “ballot harvesting.” I see nothing wrong, for instance, for a family to choose one family member to drop off the votes for the entire family – that is a one-on-one with a known entity. What I’m talking about is what Scott is talking about – just going out and “harvesting” strangers’ ballots. That is true ballot harvesting, IMO, not a joint decision between family members or known friends/entities. No-one should give their ballot to ANYONE they don’t know well. By all means – go door-to-door or whatever method you choose to encourage people to vote – absolutely!

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  16. Barb
    May 18, 2023 6:37 am

    Two hotels in Phoenix Az are quarantined because the illegal aliens staying there have brought in chicken pox. 180 persons in one hotel.It was on the local news yesterday, but you never heard about it..

    Chicken pox is caused by the herpes zoster virus. It is responsible for the rare ARNS disease (Acute Retinal Necrosis) which attacks the retina and can cause blindness. Herpes Zoster also causes Shingles disease. Let’s just call it the illegal Alien Disease Invasion coming to a city or town near you and your family.

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      1. not saying that at all…
        saying letting these illegals roam freely into the us without a thorough medical examination, produces unintended (or maybe INTENDED) consequences for the general public.

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  17. Hungary will block EU aid to ukraine
    FTA
    The Hungarian government will veto any further European Union aid to Ukraine or sanctions on Russia, according to the country’s foreign minister, citing Ukrainian “belligerence” towards Budapest.

    “It’s fair to say that we’ve had enough,” said Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, speaking in Vienna, Austria on behalf of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, per Bloomberg.

    “I want to make clear that as long as Ukraine keeps OTP on its list of international war sponsors, we can’t support decisions requiring new economic and financial sacrifice on the part of the European Union and its member states,” Szijjarto said, referring to Ukraine having put Hungarian lender OTP Bank Nyrt on a blacklist of sorts for doing business in Russia.

    “The same goes for sanctions,” Szijjarto added.

    Hungary, which borders Ukraine, is also believed to be irate over Washington Post reporting which suggests President Volodymyr Zelensky considered blowing up a pipeline which transfers Russian oil to his NATO neighbor.

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/05/17/report-hungary-will-block-further-eu-aid-to-ukraine/

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  18. group that seeks “transparency” from SCOTUS (called Fix the Court) inadvertently leaks it’s own funders and goes crazy…
    FTA
    As far as its 2022 funders, the Washington Examiner can reveal that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which has supported climate groups and said in 2015 it had a “moral obligation” to divest from supporting pro-fossil fuel groups, gave $50,000 to Fix the Court, according to tax forms.

    The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation, an organization that has bankrolled pro-abortion causes and is affiliated with hedge fund manager Larry Lebowitz and Naomi Aberly, who once chaired the board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, gave $35,000 to Fix the Court, according to tax forms. Tax forms also show that a group based in Pennsylvania called the Weinberg McCann Foundation gave $100,000 to Fix the Court.

    Fix the Court’s “panicked reaction” to releasing its donors is evidence that the group “is not serious about transparency,” according to Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank. Roth further told the Washington Examiner that he “wanted to fix the mistake as soon as possible” since his “donors don’t want their names out there.”

    “They have attempted to smear honorable men like Justice Thomas over his own financial disclosures but are apparently terrified at the thought of someone obtaining their own,” Thayer said.

    The New Venture Fund’s prior sponsorship of Fix the Court meant it did not have to file tax forms with the IRS before 2021, an arrangement that watchdog groups have decried as a dark money maneuver that is adverse to transparency. The New Venture Fund posted a staggering revenue of almost $963 million in 2021, supporting a variety of left-leaning matters in the areas of climate, education, and the arts, according to tax forms. It is the largest group in the Arabella Advisors network, which also manages the Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, Hopewell Fund, and North Fund.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fcourts%2Fsupreme-court-dark-money-group-leaked-fix-court-clarence-thomas

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  19. “How to Assess Conspiracy Theories Using the EPOE Protocol — This is a minor contribution to a major problem. But only the strongest minds can do this.”

    JAMES LYONS-WEILER
    MAY 18, 2023

    EXCERPT: “We need to normalize the words “CONSPIRACY THEORY”. It’s a tool used to dismiss conjecture, claims, charges, and admissions of conspiracies. There is no doubt that conspiracies happen. The trick is to try to determine whether individuals worked together to conspire to mislead the public on important issues. I end with proposed Categories of Conspiracy Theories to facilitate rational discourse on any proposed conspiracy.

    Before we begin, I want you to think of something you would describe as a Conspiracy Theory or something that is considered by many to be a Conspiracy Theory. Go ahead. Put it in your head or write it down. Got it? Now, proceed.

    We’ll start with this: A Conspiracy Theory is an idea or hypothesis that poses that two or more people were involved in the planning of specific events. That seems innocuous enough. Next, let’s consider a protocol that anyone can that applies logic, reason, and evidence to assess CTs. The protocol specifically avoids any consideration of consensus or authority.”

    https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/how-to-assess-conspiracy-theories

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  23. EXCERPT from NYT Opinion piece: “Hard to imagine the Trump and DeSantis families getting together for a cookout. But the gap between the two men grows much wider when you look at personal behavior. Only one of them just lost a $5 million verdict from a jury that found he sexually abused a woman in a department store dressing room.

    Trump has been trying to insinuate that DeSantis had some shady doings with high school girls in his far, far distant past. And running an ad reminding the world that his probable Republican opponent has a history of eating pudding with his fingers.

    But what about the issues? Sorta hard to pin down since Trump is given to, um, free-associating on this stuff. But he certainly has been running to DeSantis’s left, accusing the Florida governor of wanting to slash Social Security and Medicare benefits.

    When he was in Congress, DeSantis did vote for Republican proposals along that line. He’s on the no-changes-no-how bandwagon now. But let’s look at abortion — much easier to pin down. DeSantis, as governor, just signed a bill he supported that will bar abortions in Florida after six weeks. By which time many, many women — particularly the very young, very poor, very traumatized — have no idea they’re pregnant.

    DeSantis has at least been consistent. A devout Catholic, he’s had the same position for his entire political career. Trump, on the other hand, um, adapts.” — New York Times Op Ed

    Our Take: “Is the Trump-DeSantis feud real? Doesn’t matter, for now. Why? As recent events have rendered clear, Donald Trump is the past, present and immediate future of the America First movement. There will be other MAGA leaders. But, anyone attempting to get you OFF the Trump train and onto another is attempting to divide, not unify. Con Inc. fell right into the same quicksand as the Media Industrial Complex. Don’t join them.” — Burning Bright

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  25. Winston
    May 18, 2023 8:27 am

    The Hospital Protocol Killed Their Loved Ones and They Want Justice
    MAY 17, 2023

    https://brownstone.org/articles/hospital-protocol-killed-loved-ones-they-want-justice/

    When the federal government sent $9,000 to Patty Myers to pay for her husband’s funeral, she got angry. “I didn’t want to take a penny. It felt like hush money, like they were paying me to keep quiet about how my husband died in the hospital.”

    In a burst of inspiration, Patty decided to take the government’s money and use it to make a documentary. She found a director through a church friend on Facebook and created Making A Killing, which exposes the covid hospital protocol that she believes killed her husband and thousands of other Americans.

    [snip]

    Alas, as Patty discovered, all that sweet federal money came with a catch: it incentivized specific medical treatments for Covid that happened to be deadly. If the hospital admitted you with a Covid diagnosis – great, they got paid more! If they “treated” you with remdesivir, a drug well-documented as lethal – fantastic, they got a 20% bonus on the whole bill! If the hospital tortured you with mechanical ventilation that caused secondary bacterial pneumonia – hooray, they got an even bigger payout! And if the hospital really lucked out and you died of Covid (even if not directly of Covid) – the cash bonanza was absolutely awesome.

    “The hospital billed over $500,000 for Tony’s treatment and they couldn’t even find someone to give him water,” Patty said. I notice that Patty can’t talk too long about Tony without breaking into sobs. “He was my best friend. He was my partner. We did everything together.”

    https://www.makingakillingdoc.com/

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  26. Oh, wow! I looked outside and it looked like it had gotten foggy. When I stepped outside, I could immediately smell smoke – that odor when something plastic is burning. There is definitely a fire somewhere – I can’t believe it is coming from the forest fires in Canada, with that plastic smell…..so much smoke that I can’t see east to the county road or south to the highway. It is much closer than Canada!

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      1. IKR? I’m out in front, out in back, looking in all directions, but it’s impossible to tell where it is coming from – it is spread everywhere! Even more hazy now….we’ve got an ethanol plant just east of town, between us and Osmond….it’s not the trash transfer station over on the county road – I would see flames if that were the case. So it’s not right here in town, I do know that. Curiouser and curiouser!

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          1. I’m sure it would be for people outside – thankfully, I can’t smell it in the house – just went out and the smell is less now. It’s strange, tho – the smoke appears to be coming from the NE/E direction, yet the wind is from the west….hell if I know! I just know it can’t be good!

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  28. M posted this Tweet:

    I went to the link, fully intent on signing the petition….hmmmm…why is she using Winred….? I was going to sign it but I’m not now!!! Guarantee that would open me up to TONS of fund-raising pleas and a bunch of other BS!!! Nope, nope AND nope!

    https://secure.winred.com/marjorie-greene-for-congress/impeachment-team-cosponsor-ws

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  29. Good morning, Miss Pat,

    WOW – Wacky Cake goes back to WWII and rationing. This is the first I’ve ever heard of it.

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      1. well the fib whistleblowers are speaking out…and isn’t there a whistleblower law that was passed? protecting them? and that means revoking their security clearances and removing them from cases is illegal?

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  38. boy i like this part: “We’re not interested in negotiating with the feds,” Robinson said of keeping Zavala in local custody. “They can take custody of his body when [Department of Corrections] is done with him. We aren’t going to negotiate for a lesser charge so the feds can deport him.”
    FTA
    An illegal alien is accused of raping a teenage girl in Prattville, Alabama, after having been released into the United States at the southern border by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

    Grevi Geovani Rivera Zavala, a 29-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested and charged with the first-degree rape of a teenage girl late last week.

    According to WFSA 12 News, Zavala allegedly raped the girl in the women’s restroom of a restaurant. Police allege that the illegal alien forced the girl into a bathroom stall, held her down, and raped her in a completely random attack.

    “This rape never should have happened,” Autauga County District Attorney CJ Robinson told local media of the incident, noting that Zavala was an illegal alien who first arrived at the southern border in November 2021 using a fake name.

    Despite having a criminal record in Honduras, Zavala was apprehended, processed, and quickly released into the U.S. interior by Biden’s DHS — ending up in Prattville, Alabama, to work in the local construction industry, illegally.

    “We’re not interested in negotiating with the feds,” Robinson said of keeping Zavala in local custody. “They can take custody of his body when [Department of Corrections] is done with him. We aren’t going to negotiate for a lesser charge so the feds can deport him.”

    Zavala remains in the Autauga County Jail without bail.

    The Biden administration has welcomed millions of border crossers and illegal aliens to the U.S. under its expansive Catch and Release network.

    According to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), since late January 2021, Biden has welcomed close to five million border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior — a foreign population that exceeds the populations of 28 states — which includes those who successfully crossed the border and those released directly into American communities like Zavala.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fillegal-alien-charged-with-raping-teen-girl-released-into-u-s-by-bidens-dhs%2F

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  48. Alrighty then….Jerry came over to look at the mower – I was hoping it was something he could just fix here, as was he, but he said there is another bushing inside the gears that will probably also have to be replaced. It may be a day or two before he can pick it up – it won’t steer at all now so this will be fun getting it up the ramp onto his trailer! And I got sidetracked, as usual, pulling weeds – west bed is now cleared (I did the west lily/lily tree bed yesterday), and the sprinkling of weeds in the front garden beds are now cleared. I also took before pics of my flowers and the cantaloupe beds for comparison later. I also took a pic of the Lily of the Valley – I have GOT to thin them out – they are so packed in there, you can hardly see the blooms! Oh, they smell so nice and yes, that I can smell. The odor of plastic burning is now gone and it is still hazy but not as bad as earlier.

    I looked out earlier and saw 3 Blue Jays, a RH WP (still hitting the feeder now), a blackbird and 4 Orioles. Before that, the 3 BJ’s and a bunny scratching in the garden bed under the feeders.

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  49. Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
    Coyote
    May 18, 2023 12:11

    THE FUCKERS!!! :wpds_mad:  THIS is why they got rid of Tucker!

    THEY ALL LIED AND WE HAVE PROOF!
    Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6. Documents Leaked to The Gateway Pundit – FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys,
     :wpds_arrow:  Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! — See Texts and Documents IN FULL!!

    The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to viciously politically persecute American Citizens and terrorize the public.

    Now they’ve been caught.

    Shame on the McCarthy-like January 6th Unselect Committee for abusing their power and using groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers as fall guys so they can punish their political opposition!

    This is not the United States we were promised.

    Their lies are being exposed.

    A whistleblower has leaked a treasure trove of documents and text messages, some marked “Highly Sensitive”, to the Gateway Pundit. These documents contain incredible exculpatory evidence proving the Department of Justice was aware that a group of Indicted Proud Boys were innocent- yet are prosecuting them anyway.

    You can find the entire dump of documents below, which includes hundreds of pages of transcripts of audio-recorded interviews with an Assisting United States Attorney, FBI Agents and their “Confidential Human Source”. The Confidential Human Source, or CHS, infiltrated the Kansas City Proud Boy Group for over a year and a half before the January 6th event and kept the FBI goons informed on the group’s activity.

    Our source who is familiar with the FBI informant and has identified him as James Ehren Knowles.

    According to the source, Knowles had gained the group’s total trust and was included in all group communications….

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  50. LOL

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