Subject: X-Day: Bad News and Good News

From: Modemac <modemac@modemac.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.binaries.slack
Date: Tue, May 29, 2007 8:04 PM
Message-ID: <qrep53dsovvjsllf8fhdr2r578eafhebn9@4ax.com>

Some recent news that will have an effect on the End of the World this
coming July.

Here's the bad news: it is very likely that D.J. Shaver, the
undisputed master of Bulldada music, will not be at X-Day this year.

Here's the good news: D.J. SHAVER will not be there because HE IS
GETTING MARRIED! On his honeymoon, he and his blushing bride plan to
explore the historic areas of Europe. (Of course, the world itself
will be reduced to a SMOKING CINDER on July 5th! But hey - for their
honeymoon, they can tear those areas of Europe out of the very crust
of the planet Earth, and explore them before blasting them to space
dust.)

So here's some additional bad news: Because D.J. Shaver will
(probably) not be there, we will not have the opportunity to be
blessed and cursed by some of the most awe-inspiringly oddball and
awful music that has ever passed through musical instruments. This
includes Nickie Deathchick's own wedding.

And here's some good news: This means we have the chance to compile
our VERY OWN X-DAY MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK! We still have over a MONTH
until the world ends, and this should be more than enough time for
mutants and Yeti to gather together their own selections of music
worthy of X-Day. We should figure out how to get it all together --
maybe by burning our own CDs and bringing them with us, or sending
musical suggestions to friends who will be attending X-Day.

It can be pretty much any kind of music you want. Techno, lounge,
techno *and* lounge, country, jazz, metal, thrash, classical, spoken,
or "other" -- if you think it's good for X-Day, then BRING IT! That
way we can make Nickie's wedding something truly ORIGINAL.

--
The High Weirdness Project
http://www.modemac.com

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, May 29, 2007 8:57 PM
Message-ID: <1180486670.085535.139660@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>

On May 29, 8:04 pm, Modemac <mode...@modemac.com> wrote:
> Some recent news that will have an effect on the End of the World this
> coming July.
>
> Here's the bad news: it is very likely that D.J. Shaver, the
> undisputed master of Bulldada music, will not be at X-Day this year.
>
> Here's the good news: D.J. SHAVER will not be there because HE IS
> GETTING MARRIED! On his honeymoon, he and his blushing bride plan to
> explore the historic areas of Europe. (Of course, the world itself
> will be reduced to a SMOKING CINDER on July 5th! But hey - for their
> honeymoon, they can tear those areas of Europe out of the very crust
> of the planet Earth, and explore them before blasting them to space
> dust.)
>
> So here's some additional bad news: Because D.J. Shaver will
> (probably) not be there, we will not have the opportunity to be
> blessed and cursed by some of the most awe-inspiringly oddball and
> awful music that has ever passed through musical instruments. This
> includes Nickie Deathchick's own wedding.
>
> And here's some good news: This means we have the chance to compile
> our VERY OWN X-DAY MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK! We still have over a MONTH
> until the world ends, and this should be more than enough time for
> mutants and Yeti to gather together their own selections of music
> worthy of X-Day. We should figure out how to get it all together --
> maybe by burning our own CDs and bringing them with us, or sending
> musical suggestions to friends who will be attending X-Day.
>
> It can be pretty much any kind of music you want. Techno, lounge,
> techno *and* lounge, country, jazz, metal, thrash, classical, spoken,
> or "other" -- if you think it's good for X-Day, then BRING IT! That
> way we can make Nickie's wedding something truly ORIGINAL.
>

Modemac, I get the impression that you haven't been to many of those
parties where every kid and old fart in the place has his own "DJ
compilation CD" or iPod program that they insist everybody else be
subjected to.

The Deathchick and Bob may well have their own selections in mind. I
would trust Nickie's taste in music for her wedding but not, for
instance, MY taste in music.

On the other hand, we could probably pack all of those home-made dance
party discs into one two hour party if everybody brought their own
SOUND SYSTEM, TOO, so that ALL the godawful Youth Music and Old Fart
Shit can be played simultaenously. Then it would sound a little like
Burning Man -- you'd be hearing a completely different genre of music
every few yards, with odd accidental mixes in between. But not for a
wedding. All you need for a wedding is a Wedding March at the
beginning and end so that everybody cries (and we could HUM that if
necessary), and then a whole bunch of, I dunno, The Ramones or
Slayer... something Nickie-like.

The great thing about DJ Shaver is that he's a PRO DJ, not an amateur,
and not only has a huge collection with infinite variety, a little
something for every weird taste, but also he has a good sense of the
mood of the room and programs appropriately on the fly. Now, anybody
can use the stage(s) to play any damn kind of swill or wonderment they
please, for many hours a day, but I dunno if Nickie's wedding is when
we want Generic Bobbie Z suddenly blasting out his home made
antimusic. Generic Bobbie Z can do that, I dunno, 7 am Sunday morning.

Ya know, it occurred to me just today that I'm gonna have to lay out
the basic SCHEDULE booklet within the next couple of weeks. It so
happens that this June, my week just before X-Day is totally taken up
by other stuff, so we have to have everything ready a week EARLY.
And... gulp... BOBBIE AWARDS! The endless endless judging committee
meetings... for days and days... and we haven't even filled out the
certificates from LAST year!

I am really gonna miss DJ Shaver's sock monkey porn show.

The future Mrs. Shaver must be a brave gal indeed. Might I ask... does
she by any chance happen to be deaf?

I need another half decent condensor (probably) vocal mic with a
standard phono plug on the end, or two, if anybody has things like
that lying around rusting. For Tarzan's Radio Station. Otherwise I'll
have to rent Brushwood's.

Hey get this. This X-Day, we "organizers" (and Dr. Hal) REALLY WILL be
staying in "The Big House"! (A house on the land that has been
recently vacated.) Too bad Alcandor got banned from Google Groups
before he could hear about that one. I am told the water is kind of
sulfuric and Infernal, so we'll have to bring bottled. Otherwise, man,
we'll be living like Rock Stars. Amish Rock Stars, maybe, but Rock
Stars just the same.

We need a volunteer who will round up volunteers and tell them what to
do. I am trying to learn to delegate authority to somebody who is good
at delegating authority. My idea of delegating authority is to just
fucking do it myself. That has backfired X-Day Drill after X-Day
Drill. On the other hand, when I've delegated, it was often even WORSE
because then NOTHING AT ALL, or WORSE than Nothing got done in those
areas. That's why I'm looking for a BETTER DELEGATOR.

Last year I oversaw registration myself -- and consequently I have
only the ROUGHEST CRUDE GUESS as to how many people paid to attend.
All I know is, last year we exactly broke even despite having to PAY A
BAND for the first time. Back when we didn't pay bands anything, we
always made a little money. Jesus was a GENIUS!! Obsviously I fall
into the True SubGenius category when it comes to the business part
(and the show part) of show business.

Hmmm... yeah, we really DO need another DJ Shaver. There must be a DJ
Slaver or a DJ Waver or SOMEBODY. Somebody with a porno sock monkey.

Hey, I seem to recall hearing of Rev. Susie the Floozy assembling
collections of highly varied and insane music once or twice in her
career... and she IS a porno sock monkey!

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: ima <imasubgenius@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, May 29, 2007 9:12 PM
Message-ID: <1180487551.238951.185520@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>

On May 29, 8:57 pm, "Rev. Ivan Stang" <s...@subgenius.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 8:04 pm, Modemac <mode...@modemac.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Some recent news that will have an effect on the End of the World this
> > coming July.
>
> > Here's the bad news: it is very likely that D.J. Shaver, the
> > undisputed master of Bulldada music, will not be at X-Day this year.
>
> > Here's the good news: D.J. SHAVER will not be there because HE IS
> > GETTING MARRIED! On his honeymoon, he and his blushing bride plan to
> > explore the historic areas of Europe. (Of course, the world itself
> > will be reduced to a SMOKING CINDER on July 5th! But hey - for their
> > honeymoon, they can tear those areas of Europe out of the very crust
> > of the planet Earth, and explore them before blasting them to space
> > dust.)
>
> > So here's some additional bad news: Because D.J. Shaver will
> > (probably) not be there, we will not have the opportunity to be
> > blessed and cursed by some of the most awe-inspiringly oddball and
> > awful music that has ever passed through musical instruments. This
> > includes Nickie Deathchick's own wedding.
>
> > And here's some good news: This means we have the chance to compile
> > our VERY OWN X-DAY MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK! We still have over a MONTH
> > until the world ends, and this should be more than enough time for
> > mutants and Yeti to gather together their own selections of music
> > worthy of X-Day. We should figure out how to get it all together --
> > maybe by burning our own CDs and bringing them with us, or sending
> > musical suggestions to friends who will be attending X-Day.
>
> > It can be pretty much any kind of music you want. Techno, lounge,
> > techno *and* lounge, country, jazz, metal, thrash, classical, spoken,
> > or "other" -- if you think it's good for X-Day, then BRING IT! That
> > way we can make Nickie's wedding something truly ORIGINAL.
>
> Modemac, I get the impression that you haven't been to many of those
> parties where every kid and old fart in the place has his own "DJ
> compilation CD" or iPod program that they insist everybody else be
> subjected to.
>
> The Deathchick and Bob may well have their own selections in mind. I
> would trust Nickie's taste in music for her wedding but not, for
> instance, MY taste in music.
>
> On the other hand, we could probably pack all of those home-made dance
> party discs into one two hour party if everybody brought their own
> SOUND SYSTEM, TOO, so that ALL the godawful Youth Music and Old Fart
> Shit can be played simultaenously. Then it would sound a little like
> Burning Man -- you'd be hearing a completely different genre of music
> every few yards, with odd accidental mixes in between. But not for a
> wedding. All you need for a wedding is a Wedding March at the
> beginning and end so that everybody cries (and we could HUM that if
> necessary), and then a whole bunch of, I dunno, The Ramones or
> Slayer... something Nickie-like.
>
> The great thing about DJ Shaver is that he's a PRO DJ, not an amateur,
> and not only has a huge collection with infinite variety, a little
> something for every weird taste, but also he has a good sense of the
> mood of the room and programs appropriately on the fly. Now, anybody
> can use the stage(s) to play any damn kind of swill or wonderment they
> please, for many hours a day, but I dunno if Nickie's wedding is when
> we want Generic Bobbie Z suddenly blasting out his home made
> antimusic. Generic Bobbie Z can do that, I dunno, 7 am Sunday morning.
>
> Ya know, it occurred to me just today that I'm gonna have to lay out
> the basic SCHEDULE booklet within the next couple of weeks. It so
> happens that this June, my week just before X-Day is totally taken up
> by other stuff, so we have to have everything ready a week EARLY.
> And... gulp... BOBBIE AWARDS! The endless endless judging committee
> meetings... for days and days... and we haven't even filled out the
> certificates from LAST year!
>
> I am really gonna miss DJ Shaver's sock monkey porn show.
>
> The future Mrs. Shaver must be a brave gal indeed. Might I ask... does
> she by any chance happen to be deaf?
>
> I need another half decent condensor (probably) vocal mic with a
> standard phono plug on the end, or two, if anybody has things like
> that lying around rusting. For Tarzan's Radio Station. Otherwise I'll
> have to rent Brushwood's.
>
> Hey get this. This X-Day, we "organizers" (and Dr. Hal) REALLY WILL be
> staying in "The Big House"! (A house on the land that has been
> recently vacated.) Too bad Alcandor got banned from Google Groups
> before he could hear about that one. I am told the water is kind of
> sulfuric and Infernal, so we'll have to bring bottled. Otherwise, man,
> we'll be living like Rock Stars. Amish Rock Stars, maybe, but Rock
> Stars just the same.
>
> We need a volunteer who will round up volunteers and tell them what to
> do. I am trying to learn to delegate authority to somebody who is good
> at delegating authority. My idea of delegating authority is to just
> fucking do it myself. That has backfired X-Day Drill after X-Day
> Drill. On the other hand, when I've delegated, it was often even WORSE
> because then NOTHING AT ALL, or WORSE than Nothing got done in those
> areas. That's why I'm looking for a BETTER DELEGATOR.
>
> Last year I oversaw registration myself -- and consequently I have
> only the ROUGHEST CRUDE GUESS as to how many people paid to attend.
> All I know is, last year we exactly broke even despite having to PAY A
> BAND for the first time. Back when we didn't pay bands anything, we
> always made a little money. Jesus was a GENIUS!! Obsviously I fall
> into the True SubGenius category when it comes to the business part
> (and the show part) of show business.
>
> Hmmm... yeah, we really DO need another DJ Shaver. There must be a DJ
> Slaver or a DJ Waver or SOMEBODY. Somebody with a porno sock monkey.
>
> Hey, I seem to recall hearing of Rev. Susie the Floozy assembling
> collections of highly varied and insane music once or twice in her
> career... and she IS a porno sock monkey!

monkeys are sooooooo sexy
GOD SHMOD I WANT MY MONKEY MAN

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: RevNickie <revnickie@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 9:52 AM
Message-ID: <1180533136.566582.294070@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

Yeah...shit.

I was really counting on Shaver being there!

I don't exactly have time to make a mix tape right now.

But anti-music is not on the table.

Crap.

-RevNickie

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 10:05 AM
Message-ID: <1180533924.082423.307160@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>

On May 30, 9:52 am, RevNickie <revnic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah...shit.
>
> I was really counting on Shaver being there!

But apparently SOME people feel they simply MUST get MARRIED! Of all
things.

>
> I don't exactly have time to make a mix tape right now.
>
> But anti-music is not on the table.
>
> Crap.
>
> -RevNickie

We're just talking crazy dance party after-wedding music, right? Carry
a list with you and write down your faves and prefs when you think of
them. I'm sure something can be assembled. It takes me about half an
hour to make a compilation CD from a stack of mp3s and CDs. Any music
you don't have can probably be found in file share world or friendly
SubG collections. I'm sure many of us have the same punk and novelty
tunes stashed away as DJ Shaver does, although they aren't necessarily
as well organized...

Believe it or not however my album collection is completely
alphabetized and compartmentalized (goofy old novelty tunes and
Tenacious D, etc. are separate from the rock and roll, and the techno
has its own box, and movie scores, etc.) for ease of nabbing.

I still have 4 CDs of stuff I put together for our wedding reception
in 2001 but somehow I doubt if old Hendrix, DEVO, Tangerine Dream etc.
were what you had in mind.

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: Modemac <modemac@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 10:16 AM
Message-ID: <1180534617.113187.272070@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

On May 30, 9:52 am, RevNickie <revnic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't exactly have time to make a mix tape right now.

Put together a quickie wish list, and we'll see what we can do! (I
suspect this will be the first wedding reception to play music by
Slayer.)

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: Curtis R Anderson <gleepy@gleepy.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Jun 3, 2007 9:21 PM
Message-ID: <QOJ8i.1656$jW6.1620@trnddc01>

Modemac wrote:
> On May 30, 9:52 am, RevNickie <revnic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I don't exactly have time to make a mix tape right now.
>
>
> Put together a quickie wish list, and we'll see what we can do! (I
> suspect this will be the first wedding reception to play music by
> Slayer.)

I think when some friends of mine were married in October 2002, they hay
have had Slayer played at the reception. The wife has posted here once
or twice a few years ago.

Then again, they played and performed some karaoke whech they did when
they first formally dated.
--
Curtis R. Anderson, Co-creator of "Gleepy the Hen", still
"In Heaven there is no beer / That's why we drink it here ..."
http://www.gleepy.net/ mailto:gleepy@intelligencia.com
mailto:gleepy@gleepy.net (and others) Yahoo!: gleepythehen

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: Christopher Lee <chris.lee@insightbb.comNOSPAM>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 1:32 PM
Message-ID: <oJGdnQeTyKi8KMDbnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@insightbb.com>

SUNRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE SUNSET!
SUNRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE SUNSET!

Is this the little Connie I carried?
Is this the little Bobbie at play?
I don't remember growing older,
When did they?

Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset,
Slackly flow the days,
Yeti turn overnight to Overmen,
Blossoming even as they gaze . . .

RevNickie wrote:
> Yeah...shit.
>
> I was really counting on Shaver being there!
>
> I don't exactly have time to make a mix tape right now.
>
> But anti-music is not on the table.
>
> Crap.
>
> -RevNickie
>
>

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Subject: Re: X-Day: Bad News and Good News
From: Crissi-Topper <xt235@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 2:01 PM
Message-ID: <1180548090.519744.313100@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

On May 29, 8:57 pm, "Rev. Ivan Stang" <s...@subgenius.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 8:04 pm, Modemac <mode...@modemac.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Some recent news that will have an effect on the End of the World this
> > coming July.
>
> > Here's the bad news: it is very likely that D.J. Shaver, the
> > undisputed master of Bulldada music, will not be at X-Day this year.
>
> > Here's the good news: D.J. SHAVER will not be there because HE IS
> > GETTING MARRIED! On his honeymoon, he and his blushing bride plan to
> > explore the historic areas of Europe. (Of course, the world itself
> > will be reduced to a SMOKING CINDER on July 5th! But hey - for their
> > honeymoon, they can tear those areas of Europe out of the very crust
> > of the planet Earth, and explore them before blasting them to space
> > dust.)
>
> > So here's some additional bad news: Because D.J. Shaver will
> > (probably) not be there, we will not have the opportunity to be
> > blessed and cursed by some of the most awe-inspiringly oddball and
> > awful music that has ever passed through musical instruments. This
> > includes Nickie Deathchick's own wedding.
>
> > And here's some good news: This means we have the chance to compile
> > our VERY OWN X-DAY MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK! We still have over a MONTH
> > until the world ends, and this should be more than enough time for
> > mutants and Yeti to gather together their own selections of music
> > worthy of X-Day. We should figure out how to get it all together --
> > maybe by burning our own CDs and bringing them with us, or sending
> > musical suggestions to friends who will be attending X-Day.
>
> > It can be pretty much any kind of music you want. Techno, lounge,
> > techno *and* lounge, country, jazz, metal, thrash, classical, spoken,
> > or "other" -- if you think it's good for X-Day, then BRING IT! That
> > way we can make Nickie's wedding something truly ORIGINAL.
>
> Modemac, I get the impression that you haven't been to many of those
> parties where every kid and old fart in the place has his own "DJ
> compilation CD" or iPod program that they insist everybody else be
> subjected to.
>
> The Deathchick and Bob may well have their own selections in mind. I
> would trust Nickie's taste in music for her wedding but not, for
> instance, MY taste in music.
>
> On the other hand, we could probably pack all of those home-made dance
> party discs into one two hour party if everybody brought their own
> SOUND SYSTEM, TOO, so that ALL the godawful Youth Music and Old Fart
> Shit can be played simultaenously. Then it would sound a little like
> Burning Man -- you'd be hearing a completely different genre of music
> every few yards, with odd accidental mixes in between. But not for a
> wedding. All you need for a wedding is a Wedding March at the
> beginning and end so that everybody cries (and we could HUM that if
> necessary), and then a whole bunch of, I dunno, The Ramones or
> Slayer... something Nickie-like.
>
> The great thing about DJ Shaver is that he's a PRO DJ, not an amateur,
> and not only has a huge collection with infinite variety, a little
> something for every weird taste, but also he has a good sense of the
> mood of the room and programs appropriately on the fly. Now, anybody
> can use the stage(s) to play any damn kind of swill or wonderment they
> please, for many hours a day, but I dunno if Nickie's wedding is when
> we want Generic Bobbie Z suddenly blasting out his home made
> antimusic. Generic Bobbie Z can do that, I dunno, 7 am Sunday morning.
>
> Ya know, it occurred to me just today that I'm gonna have to lay out
> the basic SCHEDULE booklet within the next couple of weeks. It so
> happens that this June, my week just before X-Day is totally taken up
> by other stuff, so we have to have everything ready a week EARLY.
> And... gulp... BOBBIE AWARDS! The endless endless judging committee
> meetings... for days and days... and we haven't even filled out the
> certificates from LAST year!
>
> I am really gonna miss DJ Shaver's sock monkey porn show.
>
> The future Mrs. Shaver must be a brave gal indeed. Might I ask... does
> she by any chance happen to be deaf?
>
> I need another half decent condensor (probably) vocal mic with a
> standard phono plug on the end, or two, if anybody has things like
> that lying around rusting. For Tarzan's Radio Station. Otherwise I'll
> have to rent Brushwood's.
>
> Hey get this. This X-Day, we "organizers" (and Dr. Hal) REALLY WILL be
> staying in "The Big House"! (A house on the land that has been
> recently vacated.) Too bad Alcandor got banned from Google Groups
> before he could hear about that one. I am told the water is kind of
> sulfuric and Infernal, so we'll have to bring bottled. Otherwise, man,
> we'll be living like Rock Stars. Amish Rock Stars, maybe, but Rock
> Stars just the same.
>
> We need a volunteer who will round up volunteers and tell them what to
> do. I am trying to learn to delegate authority to somebody who is good
> at delegating authority. My idea of delegating authority is to just
> fucking do it myself. That has backfired X-Day Drill after X-Day
> Drill. On the other hand, when I've delegated, it was often even WORSE
> because then NOTHING AT ALL, or WORSE than Nothing got done in those
> areas. That's why I'm looking for a BETTER DELEGATOR.
>
> Last year I oversaw registration myself -- and consequently I have
> only the ROUGHEST CRUDE GUESS as to how many people paid to attend.
> All I know is, last year we exactly broke even despite having to PAY A
> BAND for the first time. Back when we didn't pay bands anything, we
> always made a little money. Jesus was a GENIUS!! Obsviously I fall
> into the True SubGenius category when it comes to the business part
> (and the show part) of show business.
>
> Hmmm... yeah, we really DO need another DJ Shaver. There must be a DJ
> Slaver or a DJ Waver or SOMEBODY. Somebody with a porno sock monkey.
>
> Hey, I seem to recall hearing of Rev. Susie the Floozy assembling
> collections of highly varied and insane music once or twice in her
> career... and she IS a porno sock monkey!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Many of Susie's music-collection shows are dubious at best - 25
different versions of "Music to Watch Girls By", 35 versions of "Light
My Fire", that kind of thing. Most not what anyone'd want for their
wedding music, except maybe for her and I. I'll pass the idea along
to her. Heh-heh, with Susie, it's a "porno fishnet-stockings monkey"!

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