FYI - Make a CAKE w/ DIET SODA & Other things instead of eggs & oil

Why make cake with eggs and oil when there are TONS of better options? Cake mix with diet soda? Just egg substitute? Only applesauce? We tried each of these methods and more (and had fun doing it)! Here's what we learned...

Cake Mix + No-Sugar-Added Applesauce PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 179 calories, 3.25g fat, 299mg sodium, 36g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 21.5g sugars, 1.5g protein -- POINTS® value 4* Ingredients: One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix 1 cup no-sugar-added applesauce Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients in a large bowl and add 1 cup water. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.) MAKES 12 SERVINGS Best Flavor: Yellow cake mix. It goes perfectly with the fruity taste of the sauce. The Texture: VERY moist and fluffy. A+! The Taste: AMAZING!!!! Sweet and slightly apple-y. Two YUMS up...

Cake Mix + Diet Soda PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 171 calories, 3.25g fat, 301mg sodium, 34g carbs, <0.5g fiber, 19g sugars, 1.5g protein -- POINTS® value 4* Ingredients: One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix One 12-oz. can diet soda Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.) MAKES 12 SERVINGS Best Flavor Combo: Yellow cake mix + diet cream soda. Runners-up include lemon cake mix + diet lemon-lime soda and devil's food cake mix + diet cherry cola. The Texture: Moist and light. The Taste: Pretty darn impressive! However, if you're sensitive to the sweetener in diet soda, you may notice a slight aftertaste... especially if you use cola of any kind.

Cake Mix + Canned Pure Pumpkin PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 183 calories, 3.5g fat, 301mg sodium, 37g carbs, 1.25g fiber, 20.5g sugars, 2g protein -- POINTS® value 4* Ingredients: One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix One 15-oz. can pure pumpkin Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine ingredients in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly -- batter will be VERY thick -- and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.) MAKES 12 SERVINGS Best Flavor: Devil's food cake mix is CLEARLY a classic choice. (Hello?! Yum Yum Brownie Muffins!) But spice cake mix... WOW. Yellow and white cake mixes, sadly, do not work as well. The Texture: Thick and dense in the BEST possible way. Brownie-like, in the case of the devil's food; the spice cake reminded us of pumpkin bread! The Taste: No one would ever guess this is guilt-free in any way. It's delicious!

Cake Mix + Fat-Free Liquid Egg Substitute PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 181 calories, 3.25g fat, 337mg sodium, 34.5g carbs, <0.5g fiber, 19.5g sugars, 3.5g protein -- POINTS® value 4* Ingredients: One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix 1 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters Original) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients in a large bowl and add 1 cup water. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.) MAKES 12 SERVINGS Best Flavor: Egg sub is like the little black dress of cake companions; it goes well with everything. The Texture: The first time we made this, we used only 1/4 cup of water; it was a little dry and dense, but it reminded us of pound cake, which isn't a bad thing. With a full cup of water, it came out light and fluffy. It had a more substantial, cake-like consistency than the applesauce and soda versions, but it wasn't quite as moist. The Taste: Good! But it's not our favorite. That one's up next...

Cake Mix + Fat-Free Greek Yogurt PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 180 calories, 3.25g fat, 306mg sodium, 34.5g carbs, <0.5g fiber, 20g sugars, 3.5g protein -- POINTS® value 4* Ingredients: One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix 1 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt (like Fage Total 0%) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients in a large bowl and add 1 cup water. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.) MAKES 12 SERVINGS Best Flavor: Devil's food cake mix. Hands down. The Texture: The word "velvety" comes to mind... Super moist and decadent! Kind of like a brownie-cake hybrid. The Taste: YUMMY! Everyone who tried this loved it. There wasn't any yogurt taste at all... just pure cake-tastic deliciousness!

 

Click here: Hungry Girl - Friday Newsletter

http://www.hungry-girl.com/girls/biteoutdetails.php?isid=2126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MASSIVE Fisher Price Recall - over 10 million products recalled

Please pass this on to Anyone with Kids or Grandkids..  Thanks

 

 

article on the recall

http://jerseyshore.momslikeme.com/members/JournalActions.aspx?g=739738&m=14577379&grpcat=

 

and here's the  mattel / fisher price items recalled

http://service.mattel.com/us/recall.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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McDonalds Food - The Truth ( A MUST SEE )

 

YIKES...   And To Think We've Feed these French Fries to Our Kids/Grandkids.....

but they're Just Sooo Yummy.. lol      

 

YouTube - McDonalds Food - The Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ljW5YEdao

 

 

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Check out YouTube - sweet home alabama (SORRY) LOL

I apologize for this in advance.. as you may NEVER be able to get this vision out of your head..lol

Click here: YouTube - sweet home alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA

and if you've gotten thru that one.. Try this .. lol

Click here: YouTube - the no no song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8JWWhivXtQ

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This is ADORABLE

This should put a smile on your face.. Adorable..

 

coochie coochie coo..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

 

 

 

 

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Great Site to Interpret Your Blood Tests

GREAT SITE TO INTERPRET YOUR BLOOD TESTS -

 

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tests/default.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bottle Bombs - Be Careful Before you pick up Empty Bottles

THIS IS TRUE -

 

Click on the Snopes web page listed below, read the article and
watch the video.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

 

Please pass on to your friends & family.

 

This is true and happened just a few months ago -- April 27.

Do NOT pick up any plastic bottles in your yard, in your mailbox, etc.,
with liquid in them and the cap still on. Please read this and then
click the Snopes link for more info and to watch their video! Please be
careful.

People are finding plastic bottles, just waiting for someone to
pick them up intending to put 'em in the trash. But, they'll never make
it! It only takes about 30 seconds for the bomb to explode after you
move the bottle.

The bomb is a plastic bottle with a cap, containing a little
Drano, a little water, and a small piece of tin foil. Disturb it by
moving it; and BOOM! No fingers left and other serious effects to your
face, eyes, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Dog Story - Watch this to the end... A GOOD ENDING

Click here: YouTube - Dog Surprises Officer After Being Freed From A Fence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSywiwgC4Dk&NR=1

THis is SOO SAD.. Cat Lovers Alert

Even Animals Feel Pain & Sadness

Click here: YouTube - Cat tries to revive dead friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP7STV1aFs

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Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx

 

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

Click here: Download for Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74

 

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows Vista, WIndows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed. The tool creates a log file named mrt.log in the %WINDIR%\debug folder.

To download the x64 version of Malicious Software Removal Tool, click here.  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74

This tool is not a replacement for an anti-virus product.

To help protect your computer, you should use an anti-virus product.

Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month. New versions will be made available through this web page, Windows Update, and the Malicious Software Removal Tool Web site on Microsoft.com.

To have the newest versions automatically delivered and installed as soon as they are released, set the Automatic Updates feature to Automatic. The version of this tool delivered by Windows Update runs on your computer once a month, in the background. If an infection is found, the tool will display a status report the next time you start your computer. If you would like to run this tool more than once a month, run the version that is available from this Web page or use the version on the Malicious Software Removal Tool Web site.

Please review KB890830 for the list of malicious software that the current version of the tool is capable of removing as well as usage instructions. Also, please be aware that this tool reports anonymous information back to Microsoft in the event that an infection is found or an error is encountered. The above KB article contains information on how to disable this functionality and what specific information is sent to Microsoft.

It is strongly recommended that you review KB891716 before you consider deploying this tool in an enterprise environment.

The user must be an administrator to run this tool. This tool will not run on any version of Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT 4.0.

Note that this download is now a multi-lingual tool. For all supported languages, the same tool will show the correct language depending on the language of the operating system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BASIC ADULT EDUCATION FOR WOMEN - Men will LOVE this

 

 

Spring Classes for Women at  THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER  REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED By Sat., May 29, 2010  NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM.  Class 1  Up in Winter, Down in Summer - How to Adjust a Thermostat Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.  Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hrs beginning at 7:00 PM..  Class 2  Which Takes More Energy - Putting the Toilet Seat Down, or Complaining About It for 3 Hours? Round Table Discussion.  Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.  Class 3  Is It Possible To Drive Past a Wal-Mart Without Stopping?--Group Debate.  Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.  Class 4  Fundamental Differences Between a Purse and a Suitcase--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.  Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.  Class 5  Curling Irons--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Bathroom Cabinet? Examples on Video.  Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning At 7:00 PM  Class 6  How to Ask Questions During Commercials and Be Quiet During the Program Help Line Support and Support Groups.  Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM  Class 7  Can a   Bath  Be Taken Without 14 Different Kinds of Soaps and Shampoos? Open Forum. Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.  Class 8  Health Watch--They Make Medicine for PMS - USE IT!  Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.  Class 9  I Was Wrong and He Was Right!--Real Life Testimonials.  Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.  Class 10  How to  Parallel Park In Less Than 20 Minutes Without an Insurance Claim. Driving Simulations.  4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.  Class 11  Learning to Live--How to Apply Brakes Without Throwing Passengers Through the Windshield . Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined    Class 12  How to Shop by Yourself.  Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.  Upon completion of ANY of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.  Send this to all your guy friends for the best chuckle of their day ....    And to all your gal friends who have a sense of humor

 

IMPORTANT... PLEASE DON"T IGNORE THIS

 

There's a site called spokeo.com and it's an online phone book

that has information that you have posted on different sites,  

your home address, family members names, home phone number,

credit score, credit card numbers, profession, home value,

income , # of children, age, etc.. and if Anyone pays a small fee,

they can get ALL that information about you ...

 

Don't Believe me.. Do A Search for Yourself

http://www.spokeo.com 

HOW TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE SITE _

How can I remove my information from Spokeo search?

 

First visit http://www.spokeo.com 

Search for your name and information page

there will be other people with the same name,  so Make sure you have

YOUR INFO PAGE - copy the URL (you need it to be removed)

 

IF YOU USE AOL - USE IE or another browser FOR THIS PART -

IT WON'T WORK w/ AOL....

 

Then go to www.spokeo.com/privacy  

Enter the URL of YOUR spokeo page and a REAL email address

once you've entered the info, hit send /submit

and it will tell you that you need to open & read the Email they've sent to you.

 

Once you get that email, MAKE SURE TO COPY THE URL that's Will

REMOVE YOU and paste it into your browser to be OFFICIALLY REMOVED..

 

YOU WILL get a confirmation email stating you've been removed..

 

 

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Please note that since the information aggregated by Spokeo is publicly available, opting out of Spokeo does NOT remove the information from its original sources, which are hundreds of additional websites.

 

You may remove your information listed on social networks by deleting your profiles or by setting them to "Private."  Spokeo's Privacy Mirroring Technology can detect the latest privacy settings of your content, and will update our database accordingly.  If you would like to remove your information from all of these websites, please consult www.ReputationDefender.com

 or other privacy-protection services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Free Program to Burn Disks

HELPFUL HINT - 

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SCAN ANY PROGRAM WITH

YOUR ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE BEFORE INSTALLING..

ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THEN SORRY...

 

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If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

 

If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious

diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up;

what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....

 Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda
 
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,

there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like

that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!  

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but

look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy! 

I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!  

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
 
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet.  If we wanted

to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up

ourselves, in the card catalog!!  
 
There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!  

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox,

and it would take like a week to get there!  Stamps were 10 cents!
 
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. 

As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had

permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
 
There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! 

If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the

record store and shoplift it yourself!
 
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ

 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! 

There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. 

We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and

then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.

Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby!  Dig?
 
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!  If you were on the

phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
 
There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house,

you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to

be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!!  Think of the horror...

Not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!  And then there's TEXTING. 

Yeah, right.  Please!  You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had

no idea who it was!  It could be your school, your parents, your boss,

your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agency... You just didn't know!!! 

You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!  We had the Atari 2600!  With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'.  Your screen guy was a little square!  You actually had to use your imagination!!!  And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever!  And you could never win.  The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!  Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!  You had to get off

 your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! 

NO REMOTES!!!  Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
 
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons

on Saturday Morning.  Do you hear what I'm saying?

We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. 

If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove!  Imagine that!    

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... All day long. 

Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort.  And if you came back

inside... You were doing chores!  

And car seats - oh, please!   Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. 

If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last

moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard,

well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!  

See!  That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have

got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten!  You guys wouldn't have lasted

five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd  

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DailyOM: The Real Thing - LOVE

April 19, 2010
The Real Thing
Love Should Feel Good

Love should feel good. Relationships that leave you feeling depleted, sad and making excuses are not based in love.

Often in our lives, we fall prey to the idea of a thing rather than actually experiencing the thing itself. We see this at play in our love lives and in the love lives of our friends, our family, and even fictional characters. The conceptualizing, depiction, and pursuit of true love are multimillion-dollar industries in the modern world. However, very little of what is offered actually leads us to an authentic experience of love. Moreover, as we grasp for what we think we want and fail to find it, we may suffer and bring suffering to others. When this is the case, when we suffer more than we feel healed, we can be fairly certain that what we have found is not love but something else.

When we feel anxious, excited, nervous, and thrilled, we are probably experiencing romance, not love. Romance can be a lot of fun as long as we do not try to make too much of it. If we try to make more of it than it is, the romance then becomes painful. Romance may lead to love, but it may also fade without blossoming into anything more than a flirtation. If we cling to it and try to make it more, we might find ourselves pining for a fantasy, or worse, stuck in a relationship that was never meant to last.

Real love is identifiable by the way it makes us feel. Love should feel good. There is a peaceful quality to an authentic experience of love that penetrates to our core, touching a part of ourselves that has always been there. True love activates this inner being, filling us with warmth and light. An authentic experience of love does not ask us to look a certain way, drive a certain car, or have a certain job. It takes us as we are, no changes required. When people truly love us, their love for us awakens our love for ourselves. They remind us that what we seek outside of ourselves is a mirror image of the lover within. In this way, true love never makes us feel needy or lacking or anxious. Instead, true love empowers us with its implicit message that we are, always have been, and always will be, made of love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How to cuddle with an elephant seal. [VIDEO]

This is amazing and adorable..

 

 

Click here: How to cuddle with an elephant seal. [VIDEO]

http://www.wimp.com/elephantseal/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DailyOM: Womens Support

 

Women's Support
Becoming Our Own Role Models

There was a time where women stood together in a bond of sisterhood, women supporting women.

As women embrace the fullness of who they are as individuals, they may find themselves supporting other women, helping others to reach the level of inner comfort and outer freedom that they themselves have found. Among those who are less sure of themselves and their place in the world, it may be more common to criticize other women than to seek their help. But there are things that a woman can only learn from another woman, as there are things about being a man that can only be learned from other men. We all recognize that we have much to learn from each other regardless of gender, but sometimes we could use a supportive role model that gives us a more precise example of what and who we can become.

There was a time where women stood together in a bond of sisterhood, women supporting women. It is only natural that the pendulum swings out of balance for a while so that we may have the experience of what we do not want. It is up to women to bring the pendulum back into balance and bring back the sacred sisterhood we yearn for at our core.

If we envision a world where women support each other and help each other find their place in an ever-changing world, then we can become the change we want to see. Jealousy, envy, criticism, and judgment are refuges for the insecure. As we help others to become self-assured, we create a world in which all people help each other, regardless of gender. Only women can make the change in how women are seen and understood, not just by other women but by the world at large. The way we speak about each other to other women and to the men in our lives informs everyone to treat us with the respect that all women, and all people, deserve.

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Drive On Chairs - Neat

Neat Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZ6IFEnfys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZ6IFEnfys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No Underwear: Uncensored « Improv Everywhere

 

I Love this Group, they do some really fun stuff... 

 

 

Click here: No Underwear: Uncensored « Improv Everywhere

http://improveverywhere.com/2010/04/04/no-underwear-uncensored/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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