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Selection glimpses from my painterly pinterest board, and from I just like it 3.
For Now.
More detailedness, and more boards, overthere.
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even the ...
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Dabble de Los Muertos
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1.11.11 painting.
First I gathered some pics:
from:
Two large Beauties - coloured one found here (ps I just found the original: Dia De Los Muertos Calaca 2011, and a Beauty-full work-in-progress pics post. The original is much larger than I realised. Lovely.)
and black and gold Dia De Los Muertos 2011 - Ernesto Yerena - see it large and fabulous here.
Ernesto Yerena's tumblr page is full of wonders.
(That's one of those good find-as-you-blog links. I was thinking earlier how I'd like to see it larger. And there it is, and a Whole Lot more besides. I love this poster there, too.)
small blackandwhite = dia de los muertos + small coloured image original here. Thanks to all these artists ~ sorry not to know all your names!
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And I put all the pics together and filled my Air screen with them, and got down to some restorative dabbling.
So I had a fine 1.11.11. O so good to paint again. Big Thank you to dear Pamela for keeping me keeping on.
I figured I needed a better 'play' word. 'Dabble' it is. For Now. Dabble's had a bad name for too long. I'm bringin Dabble back.
Happy continuing creativities to us all.
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this particular night
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I and all my Ancestors wish you and all your Ancestors a truly Happy Hallowe'en.
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And here are some deeply delicious biscuits for you and them, from me and them:
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Mmmmm that third baking session was the Killer. Best Baking Yet! Mmmmmmmmm.
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And some Beauty from I just like it 3, to round off our toast this fine unique evening:
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See these, and other Beauty~full gatherings, more clearly overthere.
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October foliage
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One of these is not a leaf... can you tell which one? Yes! A rare sighting of Snippy the Blackbird!
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The Sun sinks lower and quicker beyond the fence. Tomorrow this will 'be' an hour earlier... hmmm...
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Such a rich lavender harvest this year, and plenty more to come. It smells Divine.
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bakebakebake
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My second batch of wheat-free baking proved even more delicious than the first.
These are the Honey Cornmeal Cake and the Apricot Thumbprints, from the Flying Apron's Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book.
The first baking book I have ever really Loved. Lovely, simple recipes. Lovely size - smallish - to work with in the midst of a worktop-full of ingredients and utensils.
The cake was going to be 50 mins in the oven, and I felt like doing some more mixing "just quick".
As it turned out... the cake was out of the oven again, before my Apricot Thumbprints went in. I was learning as I went, it all took a liitle longer than jussquick; making organic puree and indentations and whatnot, and it got to that full-blown crazy kitchen thing for a while there... But I pulled it round, and ended up with all these fabulous new things to eat. The tastes and textures turned out so well.
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I'm fascinated by this practical nutritional alchemy. It never made sense to me previously, to put so much effort into baking when I could buy fine wheatytreats so easily. Now that the no-wheat-zone is in effect, it makes perfect sense. A whole new playground of making to explore. And eat. And not be bloated by.
I think they look so Beauty-full when they emerge into this early evening kitchen light too. Which is why I took their portraits, before sinking my teeth in... So so yummy.
The raisin circle (not in the recipe) is made from well-tasty Cherry-Infused Raisins. Just sose ykno.
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JedHugs Galore
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It's Jedward's twentieth Birthday today. (They say they are now "TwinTeen".)
Such fun online: JedwardGenius made a lovely celebratory page, (Yep, - scroll down: this one is in there),
and of course there is twittering like a rainforest symphony.
Youtube fan HB vids galore, made with care and collaborative creativity. 2011 style.
Something deeply sweet about all those Happy Wishes flying around, with so much Love.
xxx
YumYumYum
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A new era has begun. jaihn is making wheat-free cakes. YumYumYum!
These were a version of a recipe for muffins, using cornmeal and rice flour, found in the recently acquired, and lovely, Flying Apron's Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book.
I improvised with slight variations in my ingredients, and added hazelnuts and almonds, and experimented with two forms. Cakes and loafyness. Nice. Both Nice.
Lemon and vanilla and nuts all taste goooood together, I find... Texture pretty good. I'm very proud of my first batch.
A splendidly enjoyable project for a Sunday late afternoon in early October, 2011.
You may notice there is one less cake in the pic after they are out of the tin.... I could not resist. YumYumYum.
I went wheat-free a few weeks back, and feel hugely better for it. Long term bloat and belly pain all just vanished. Altogether feeling like a fresher, more comfortable, version of me. Whoooooop.
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In other news: I am going to vanish the 'ragster espial' blog very soon. I've said something about that overthere, for those of you who were in on that. Time for simplifications online - there will be more. It's the Autumnal streamlining tuning-time again...
xxx
"Your Time Is Limited..."
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Thank you, Steve Jobs, for all the marvels you brought my way, while you were here.
1955 - 2011...Not such a long time, to influence the way the world carries on. Likeyadid.
Today I just happened to have a one-to-one session booked at my local Apple store. There were some honouring flowers left at the storefront, and a couple of the guys inside mentioned them to me. I like that people did that. It was a day I didn't have my camera on me, so no pic. But you can imagine.
I found this fine stellar pic here. And I really like the quote Yolie has put here.
Peace Be With You, Mr Jobs. And thank you for these exquisite keys under my fingers, this Beauty-full screen before my eyes.
So very much I couldnadone without your creativities... xxx
ps ~ edit to add ~ Ms Moss made a lovely honouring post, "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" and there are more good links in the comments there, too. xxx
stitchpics catchups
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So now ... on this gloriously delicious warm and Sunny last day of September 2011...
I get around to posting pics of stitchedness which happened somewhere back there. Current TimeWarpSpeed has it all blurring into 'somewhere back' there, if it isn't happening now....
So, in the blur of previous-to-today, I made a feather for jude's Magic Feather project, and I made a blessingstitch for my newest friend, Genevieve, who is my dear friend Zoe's first baby. I met G thru Z's belly, for a delightful hour, a few weeks before she was done cooking. We had a deeply pleasant thru-belly exchange. Zoe was my assistant a decade ago. It's so very Lovely that she is blossoming on into Mothering, now. After all kinds of wondrous adventures inbetweentimes.
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The Feather, and some pics from my first visit to Beauty-Full Cromer, which just want to sit on the screen next to the stitchedfeatherpics:
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jude's pic of my feather, + the note I sent with it, is here. Along with a growing flock of other fine featherpics.
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And the Blessingstitch for Genevieve:
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While I was making it, everything was pink. Everything.
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Cromer (Pluto)
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Pics from my second lovely trip to Cromer, last week. Or 'Cromer (Pluto)', as Poppy mysteriously says in her magnificent mermaid drawing...
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...My assistant Bruce gathering some fabulous stones, who now nestle by my Silver Birch Tree.
... Another of Cromer's Mysteries: Who Ate All The Bunting?...
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I did wonder, watching the tribes of Seaside Spectacular audience zimmer, buggy and shuffle their way back along the marvellous pier to the awaiting buses, whether I would ever join their ranks. I don't suppose they all dreamed of being as they are when they were 21... or even when they were 49.
Meanwhile, back a little further inland, the skies behind the shape+colourshifting leaves are bright Blue, and the forecast looks like something from July, not late September. Really, I am not complaining.
I may even manage another trip to lovely Cromer (Pluto), while the Sun shines.
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+ Happy New Moon to us all.
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Everyday Superstars
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ok so I think there is a thread or seven dancing between these pics I want to post now:
So happy about my new portrait pic, taken today. Technically yesterday, but it's a wee small hours Thing and I am going with it... Good to keep the portraitpic fresh, and the previous shadowy one began to feel old-hat, as the bright Sunshine sinks faster each evening...
First one taken on my beyond-words-lovely new MacBook Air. Yep. Uhhuhhh. Mmmmmmhmmmm.
And the wheel-wing thing just delighted me.
And led neatly to a way to bring in my latest crush. I mean Deep Love crush.
My JoyBoys.
Pure Baby Popsters. Who Fly. And who have a fondness for wing-ish RockStar outfits.
(That's my link and I am sticking to it.)
(this pic, and the next one too, from the glorious jedwardGenius site)
I fell for these soon-to-be-20-year-olds a few weeks back, and have been sleuthing ever since.
I'll keep this brief-ish for now. But the nutshell version is that Jedward is/are, most unexpectedly, my new Love/s.
They got me smiling and Dancing. I mean; Proper lift-the-Spirit Dancing, again.
Nice when Love visits.
And since a bit of Astro sleuthing is bound to follow, I went on to find all kinds of direct hits between their chart and mine. I had to create just a noon one, since I cannot find their birth~time online, but it's enough to see that juicy Virgo-Venus-Jupiter of theirs Dancing (Large, naturally) to the degree, all over my Pluto, and their Sun right on my Ascendant, and their Chiron smack on my North Node. Ok. Well. That's a few Deep Somethings...
And it seemed like even more of a something once I read they were born 3 months prematurely.
That's early, huh? I mean, not long cooking.
Divine Choreography. Whatcanyedo?
I surrender. I do.
And clearly, they have cooked a bit in the two decades since then...
And I will post only two pics of them here now. Maybe a couple more links for interested folk...
one: PlanetJedward
two: My trulyspacious YouTube channel.
Many, Many, Many glimpses going on overthere. But, trust me: there is a Lot more Jedward material to be found/heard/seen than is there.
And I may not admit to quite how many pics and links which I now have, already, in my shiny new Air folders...
As one (an astro-aware one, anyways) might anticipate, when we are talkin Pluto, we are talkin Truly Madly, Deeply. And p e r h a p s a l i t t l e o b s e s s i v e l y. Perhaps.
And, since we are also talkin, on their side, Venus joining Jupiter, then we are also talking a Lot of Beauty. A Phenomenal Lot of pics. And vids. They are prolificly present, and I cannot imagine who they will become, but I am so looking forward to watching it unfold. Because there is Something they bring that I want to see more of, while I am here too. Something Bright and Pure. I don't seeeeem to be alone in seeing it.... Hah!
So funny.
Ok. That's enough of that for the moment.
The next two things I want to post are these: a little Ijustlikeit3 (Pinterest board) snippet:
Mmmm, nice, eh?
and another Artrage Doodle.
WIth all the sortings of The New Air, I didn't get to the Wacom tablet yet.
Speakers, yes. ("Everybody. Rock Your Body...")
Tablet; soon. Meanwhile, fingers on new, exquisitely-sensitive touchpad...
"Throw your Hands Up in the Air... Wave'em round like you just don't care."
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Love Doodle
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I just downloaded an Artrage update. This is my trying-out-new-things doodle. I'm in Love.
And this was mostly with left hand on laptop. I am dusting down my Wacom tablet soon soon.
And then, O, and then...
O the instant joy of Artrage play. It's like meeting again with an ole pal who has grown a lot in the meantime...
Happy Creative Weekend Wishes to us all.
xxx
3.9.2011
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... Good to stitch again. It's bin a while...
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evidence
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Evening in Cromer, on Monday. Maybe the last Summer Evening...
I've been unwell in the days since then, and it's been raining a lot... the pics I took in Cromer are reassurance that I didn't simply dream my Sunny Seaside trip... it Really Happened... I finally made the 25 mile trip up to the North coast of Norfolk, and, as dearly hoped, I Really Love it there.
I'll post more of those pics, and and and, soon.
Mercury is turning direct. Perhaps I'll find my way properly back to onlineness again...
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17.08.2011style
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A wee extract of recent lovely gatherings over on my I just like it 3 pinterest board. Click thru the link to see the fine original images, and to visit the worlds beyond. Particularly the Diane Savona world!
Mercury retro time has me in the inbreath-before-the-next-outbreath mode, so do please excuse my extensive quiet overhere. And at ragster espial... and everywhere, really...
The young men involved in Concrete Circus are having an altogether different kind of riot in this incarnation than the other, more famous, recent ones. If you have time; watch the whole film thru that link. It's astonishing. Beauty-full evolution. Available online for another 27 days...
Unlike me, who is not particularly available online at all - for just a while longer.
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For Now ~ Here's a snippet:
and another treasure:
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Sun-day-ness
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Stitching on a Sunny Sunday. All-round pleasant. These pics click much larger.
And prints taken from wet-painted doiley. Experimental-like.
And some new Pinterest pins, on a new board ~ I just like it 3:
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I enjoy the visible echoes between all these.
More pics now in 2011 stitchpics, and over at ragster espial.
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She went back
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Thanks for pic; found here - ('Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images', 2008)
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jude posted a good vid of Amy, and I commented overthere ~
"Sweet Tears dripped for Baby Amy, and the other young sudden-gone-already humans.
... 'Rehab's in my head, it's all over the echo-airwaves.
Once someone dies young, it seems to me looking back, their expressions while incarnate were imbued with the urgency of not-long-for-this-world, and we all felt that raw depth, and can see it clearer, later.
Also thinkin 'if only' she coulda felt the Love coming at her now, from so many directions, and been able to drink that in. But it doesn't always work like that. And who knows what another Soul's idea of a Good Life is? Exploring killer voice and killer addictions was perhaps simply the focus, that time around, for her / for us all.
Peace Be With You, Wild Babe Amy. ... xxx"
And I like the words Russel Brand wrote, and the pic there. His knowing eyes.
In 2008 I read words written by Clive James: "I remember too well the first time I heard her sing and was so moved that my heart hurt." He hadn't hitherto seemed like someone who'd speak in such a way, and I remember noticing, and noticing Amy further because he had.
Moving, moving, moving on thru.
Like we do.
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clear echoes
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Funny how things go along, eh.
I was preparing to post this, a pic of my current explorings within the 21st Century Rags course;
went to make tea, and on my screensaving slideshow on my return was this pic, a drawing from 2007.
Clear Echoes!
I've put some more detail pics, of this and other recent stitchings, into the 2011 stitchpics gallery, too.
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truly eclectic
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A snippet of newly-gathered echo-treasures over at I just like it 2.
String, Giraffes, Carved Stone, Stitches, Cloth, Pattern, Shapes, Adornments... all kinds of wonder-full.
I just like Pinterest.
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NC ~ CN, Carrying oN
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Natural Centre / Central Nature cloths are carrying on.
I yabber more about this over at ragster espial.
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Miss B's Gifty
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A Birthday Gifty.
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'ragster espial' invite
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I've created a new password-protected blog, ragster espial, to go along with my participation in the Magic Diaries project.
It's not a top-secret place, only a slightly more secluded spot than here, in which I may yabber and muse, at length and in detail, about what's what on the stitching+cloth front.
With my Natural Centre / Central Nature Carry oN Cloths, as this one announced they'd like to be known, today... Whatcanyedo?
If you'd like to read along, please leave a comment here, or email me ~ do include your name (!), your blog address if you have one, or say a few words about your interest ~ and I'll send you the password.
I'm going to keep this announcement post at the top of the page for a while.
Fresh posts will continue to be added, as and when, below, in the general truly spacious manner.
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glimpses, swirling
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Recent pinnings, of the non-physical variety. Gatherings. More over at my Pinterest zone.
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And a mosaic, of flickrfaves - other folks pics - It's bin a while.
1. Antique Japanese Textile, paulownia kamon, 2. Vintage Japanese Shibori, 3. Caterpillar on my wall,
4. La patita...con canasta y con reboso de bolitas..., 5. Lampara, 6. Huipil Tuxtepec,
7. Mapuche Silver Jewelry, 8. Mexican Blouse Puebla, 9. Mazahua Deer Mexico
As always, my Big Thanks to all the generous flickr artists for making these pics available.
Click on the pic here for larger clearer mosaic, and click on these links to visit the original pics and connected zones.
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Seeing the myriad echoes calling me, having been thinking and yabbering about influence and synthesis and and and.
I have this sense of bringing many many threads of fascination into synthesis now.
Eessagoodone!
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And a reminder - maybe I will put a fixed post about this at the top for a while, too? But for now - a reminder - please see previous post for details - my new password-protected blog is ragster espial, and you're welcome to join me there if stitchery and my free-er flow musings, and cloth and that ilk, and maybe being a student of jude, are fascinating for you, too. Leave a comment here, or email me.
Ok.
For The Moment.
And as P'taah says, and I like: "sufficient unto the time".
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Lavender, pins + 'ragster espial'
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Mmmmmmm i wish you could smell these.... picked today, my first Lavender harvest, and now bunches are hanging and beginning to dry, perfuming my home. It's truly Lovely.
Yesterday I pinned a lot...
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another one which I can't show here just now because it's going to be a birthday gift next week.
And...
I can show it over on my new password-protected blog: ragster espial...
Wherein I intend to yabber a bit more about my stitchings, cloth-learnings, and wonderings, to go along with my Magic Diaries participation.
If you would like to access ragster espial, please email me - address is on righthandbar overhere, and then I can give you the password. (***Edit to add ~ as Jeannie figured ~ you can also leave a comment here, with your email address invisible to others.***)
It's not going to be a top-secret space, but a rather more secluded zone, wherein I feel more comfortable to have a wander with my wonderings as I go along, finding my way with it all.
If we haven't e-met yet - maybe you're participating in Magic Diaries, or any of jude's courses ~ you're welcome too - just let me know, and please include your own blog address in your mail, so I can e-visit you too.
And here - have another cyber~sniff of Beauty:
Mmmmmmmm
xxx
July espial
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I just learned a new word. "Espial". Eessagoodone.
Main Entry: espial
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: observation
Synonyms: attention, beholding, cognizance, detection, discovery, eyeing, finding, note, notice, observance, spotting
I'm learning lots with this new woven~stitching, not least by using colours and prints which I am not quite in Love with. Experimenting with stitching into pattern, and with the quiltystitching which I haven't gone for much previously, but which begins to appeal more, now... Feeling like a nervy beginner again, in moments. That's a triumph of sorts in itself, really ~ to keep it fresh, within a long-time familiar-ish form. Newness, emerging. Noticings. Espials galore.
This one isn't a finished Thing. I'm carrying on... And jude's Magic Diaries is just beginning, too. (If you're dropping over from there ~ Hi!)
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fine pin medley
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I like the way these are, 2gether. They're all Quite Lovely in themselves, too.
Sometimes one image shows me something I had not consciously noticed in another.
Sweet Synergy.
xxx
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