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  • The British Home Office has issued advice to households to stock up on bottled water, tinned food, torches and a battery powered radio.
  • The public should stock up on tinned food, bottled water and have a battery-powered torch and radio, the Home Office advised last night.
  • Where a surface was unlikely to be seen but nonetheless required a finish, it was tinned.
  • He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
  • All the cables are sleeved with a tinned copper braid, which act to shield the rest of the PC from EMI.
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  • When onions are very soft, add the tikka spice powder, tinned tomatoes and chopped coriander and bring to the boil. The Sun
  • Add tinned tomatoes, chilli powder and ground cumin, then season with pepper. The Sun
  • And although tinned iron was known to him by the 1790s, it appears that he did not use it for roofing until his work at the University of Virginia.
  • We finally produced carrots and potatoes, fresh green peas and mint, tinned meat, gravy, plum pudding and custard, nuts, raisins and sweets.
  • Not dissimilar to the 1960's standby in the 'burbs of Toronto called "ambrosia" which was a white sweet glommy glob including coconut flakes, tinned mandarin orange segments and other preserved ingredients. Latter-day fixin's!
  • So if you crave something sweet, try its opulent fruit salad loaded with kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes and strawberries or tinned lychees (the only fruit that is arguably as good tinned as fresh).
  • The jidda, made of tinned copper, came in a variety of sizes, large sizes being required for festival meals.
  • The starters were poor, though, a thinnish seafood broth with chunks of tinned tomato expiring at the bottom and a ham hough terrine that, while chunkily rustic, contained too much gristle for comfort.
  • Among the items needed are toilet soap, toothpaste, paper towels, toothbrushes, washing powder, washing up liquid and dried food, such as pasta, rice and tinned food.
  • For the beaded shade, all you need are a couple spools of 20-gauge wire (we used tinned copper) and a bag of cool 5mm beads.
  • A rod of quartz thus "tinned" can be soldered up to anything to which solder will stick, at once. On Laboratory Arts
  • They were all full of tinned meats and mixed drinks, from ammoniated quinine to white vodka, for they had taken their full share in the overnight loot. Kim
  • So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
  • More than 130 pre-packaged foods, including tinned food, sauces, dried food and drinks, were collected from shops by the department.
  • The lockable frieze drawer usually contained three tinned compartments with tightly fitting lids in which to store tea and sugar.
  • We have a large stock of tinned fruit.
  • They took the wrong sort of tent and their tinned food proved inedible. Times, Sunday Times
  • At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans.
  • Daily Echo readers can help support the charity by donating tinned food, breakfast cereal, tea and coffee this month.
  • Pineapple - tinned, fresh, or fresh-cooked - is excellent in coleslaw and an unexpected success in sauerkraut.
  • With the current loan for 2,500 soles, she will buy sacks of rice and sugar, packages of noodles, milk, and cases of tinned fish of a variety of brands; beauty products for men, women and children, such as colognes and talcum powder; and housecleaning and personal hygiene products, in order to continue satisfying her customers and providing them with better service. Kiva Loans
  • During the war years, Auntie Flo always sent food in the Bundles for Britain from America and we had a tinned fruit cake, a much appreciated novelty.
  • Something to cut the mincemeat is a good idea, but this is strictly for lovers of tinned custard, with a blanket of sugary, starch thickened yellow goop doing its best to mask the sharpness of the mincemeat and artificial tasting pastry. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Mix 100g drained tinned salmon with a chopped spring onion and plain low-fat yogurt. The Sun
  • I tinned some small speaker wires, but found that soldering and splicing wires is questionable depending on the size of the wire.
  • The place became a charnel house, and in the middle of the night the survivors fled forth, taking nothing with them except arms and ammunition and a heavy store of tinned foods. Page 5
  • Having finished the hurried and uncomfortable meal, consisting chiefly of tinned tongue and a rather out-of-date cream cheese, Toni was allowed to run home to change her dress; and at half-past two precisely she was back, robed in the daintiest, filmiest white lawn gown, to take her place with the other stallholders, in readiness for the opening ceremony, performed, much to the delight of the entire Madgwick family, by a real duchess. The Making of a Soul
  • Daily Echo readers can help support the charity by donating tinned food, breakfast cereal, tea and coffee this month.
  • They are allowed to buy basics such as shaving foam and cigarettes with money earned in jail and twice a week they can also buy pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, onions, meat, eggs and seasonal vegetables.
  • The tinned tuna and baked beans are top drawer. The Sun
  • Today, the tambour has found its rightful place, a typical orchestra is made up of a tambour and a diatonic accordion, complemented by some percussion instruments: triangle, drum sticks, objects filled with grains producing a sound close to the maracas and empty tinned cans that are rubbed or struck.
  • Recently there's been a movement away from tinned food towards fresh food.
  • Into a large pot was put tinned stewing steak, peas, beans and fresh potatoes and water.
  • The starters were poor, though, a thinnish seafood broth with chunks of tinned tomato expiring at the bottom and a ham hough terrine that, while chunkily rustic, contained too much gristle for comfort.
  • Untinned copper is traditionally used in ‘preserving pans’ for making jam, which should be well scoured before use.
  • The items I usually stock up on are, cereals, tinned goods, rice, beans, pasta, coke, toothpaste, body wash, shampoo, toilet paper etc.
  • My granny likes eating tinned peaches.
  • So I offered to make some delicious tinned cream of mushroom soup with buttered toast. SOMEBODY
  • Mix 100g drained tinned salmon with a chopped spring onion and plain low-fat yogurt. The Sun
  • This brand of tinned beans contains no artificial colouring.
  • We have a large stock of tinned fruit.
  • Lewis Cooke, who runs a newsagent which is four miles away in Skipton, continued to deliver newspapers and tinned items on to the porch of the shop so residents could come and collect their goods. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • There is a mild background flavour of tinned tomato and a hint of malt vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Potatoes at twelve o'clock -- seldom "brose" nowadays -- are the staple dinner dish, and the tinned meats have become very popular. Auld Licht Idyls
  • So, smear the wrap or sandwich with guacamole, hummus, coleslaw or tsatsiki and add in some salami, tinned tuna or grated farmhouse cheddar.
  • I'm also a dab hand at tinned salmon soufflé. Times, Sunday Times
  • We might make him a pasta with tomato sauce; then add tinned tuna. Times, Sunday Times
  • Add tinned plum tomatoes and equal volumes of white wine and fish stock. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a mild background flavour of tinned tomato and a hint of malt vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • To cut costs, four earlier tinned products, have been relaunched in pouches at a lower price.
  • People were amazing and gave him things like bones, cat food and tinned sardines. Times, Sunday Times
  • You could swap some tinned sardines for the 20 tins of tuna you have in your cupboard. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are no preservatives in tinned soup. The Sun
  • By then fruit products were one-fifth of Tasmania's exports; and in fact the factory continued to produce tinned fruit, juice and cordials until the early 1970s.
  • This brand of tinned beans contains no artificial colouring.
  • Have tinned tuna in the house so if you get hungry, you can drain it and have it with a tiny bit of low-fat mayo. The Sun
  • What to buy: tinned and preserved foods like bonito tuna, white anchovies and anchovy olives.
  • Feel free to use tinned butter beans or chickpeas if you like. The Sun
  • It was a very tedious time and as rations were none too plentiful, foraging parties used to go down to the beaches with the hope of collecting any odd dainties, such as tinned chicken or tinned fruit that might be found in the vicinity of the canteens that were being rapidly dismantled. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
  • There is a mild background flavour of tinned tomato and a hint of malt vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Recently there's been a movement away from tinned food towards fresh food.
  • The soup, which relied on lettuce, tinned marrowfat peas and ready-cooked crispy smoked bacon, was a triumph. The Sun
  • The abattoir is expected to produce salami, polony, ribs and tinned baboon meat for markets in central Africa and eastern ANC Daily News Briefing
  • People were amazing and gave him things like bones, cat food and tinned sardines. Times, Sunday Times
  • We found a huge hoard of tinned food in the basement.
  • The soup, which relied on lettuce, tinned marrowfat peas and ready-cooked crispy smoked bacon, was a triumph. The Sun
  • Added to these were baked beans, tinned tomatoes and two slices of buttered toast.
  • So she mixed it up with tinned tuna and left it by the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
  • An egg and sausage, two rashers of bacon, mushrooms and black pudding, beans and tinned tomatoes filled the plate.
  • This brand of tinned food does not contain artificial coloring.
  • Many supermarkets now carry organic tinned pulses that are an excellent option.
  • So it was cold tinned soup with vodka in. Times, Sunday Times
  • The truth is that the tinned tomatoes you can easily get hold of don't taste tomatoey. Times, Sunday Times
  • He spoke with such fondness of the tuna melt, that despite my disdain for tinned tuna, I felt compelled to try one.
  • Still one of the best tinned soups around. The Sun
  • On that wonderful apocalyptic note, I shall leave you all to begin building your supervolcano shelters and raiding your local supermarket for tinned foods and preservatives.
  • Here, cooks will prepare a light meal of mixed salad, tinned cold fish or meat, bread and cheese and fruit.
  • Yesterday more then 1200 children received a filling meal of samp and beans with tinned fish and vegetables.
  • A lustrous dry wine, the nose exudes tinned apricot, the wash is a blend of nut, lime and very sweet ripe melon.
  • Add tinned plum tomatoes and equal volumes of white wine and fish stock. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fresh and tinned food kept her girls ahead of the scabborous scags practically giving it away on street corners. Cheeseburger Gothic » Pepsi Challenge. London after the Wave.
  • If a thicker consistency is preferred, pour away some of the juice from the tinned tomatoes. Asthma and Eczema - special diet cookbook
  • She advises women to eat leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, cereals, and pulses and avoid spicy or tinned food and bakery products.
  • The tinned cooked ones are fine, and are a great standby. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tonight it was tinned chicken soup, peanut butter on toast and semi-skimmed milk. Her Fearful Symmetry
  • Buy organic dry and canned goods such as pasta sauce, baked beans and tinned tomatoes when they are s t a while. The Sun
  • Tinned fruit usually has a lot of syrup with it.
  • But we still need plenty of water, medical supplies, tinned food and baby food.
  • One surprising ingredient is a couple of tinned anchovies, the sort preserved in olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
  • She also found work translating Greek into English, labelling halva and tinned dolmas for export. COUP D'ETAT
  • Mix 60g of well-drained tinned salmon with a chopped spring onion and a teaspoon of reduced fat salad cream. The Sun
  • She put her longevity down in part to the plain food she had eaten over the years - home grown vegetables, very little tinned food, and nourishing desserts, like steamed puddings.
  • We bought in large stocks of tinned goods for the tour.
  • All the Arbroath smokies, the oak-smoked kippers, the tinned pilchards, the wild salmon leaping up the glens -- all that purine. BLOOD IS DIRT
  • Add the drained kidney beans and tinned tomatoes and simmer on a low heat. The Sun
  • There is a mild background flavour of tinned tomato and a hint of malt vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Martinned: Yes, the indicting magistrate is on the left, but according to the Economist the complainants are members of far right organizations with a vested interest in avoiding digging into the past (figuratively and literally). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted
  • The food was tinned military rations, tuna or bully beef.
  • An egg and sausage, two rashers of bacon, mushrooms and black pudding, beans and tinned tomatoes filled the plate.
  • Reducing tinned tomatoes and enriching them with cream means the sauce has that local takeaway authenticity that a ready meal just can't provide. The Sun
  • I have searched the shelves for either packet or tinned pumpkin soup but alas there is none!
  • It was a small shiny object, a ‘roundel’, which caught my eye because its surface was silvered or tinned.
  • Not long afterwards he introduced the use of tinned iron containers in place of glass jars - hardly surprising, as he was a partner in an ironworks.
  • I opened the door of 10-8 with my own little klootch, and inside our malenky quarters all was quiet, the pee and em both being in sleepland, and mum had laid out on the table on malenky bit of supper - a couple of lomticks of tinned sponge - meat with a shive or so of kleb and butter, a glass of the old cold moloko. Where's the show?
  • Now, listen: first, caviare on toast; then, clam bouillon; and creamed lobster; and tinned lamb chops with French peas -- you know, the peas that melt in one's mouth; and California asparagus with mayonnaise; and -- oh, I forgot to mention fried potatoes and cold pork and beans; and peach pie; and coffee, real coffee. CHAPTER XLIX
  • The soup which had been waiting was of the variety known as tinned, an old acquaintance which X. had hoped to have left in the jungle until his return. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India
  • Add the tinned tomatoes and swill out the tin with some stock or water
  • A film of copper is deposited on the blacklead surface of the mould; and when this shell is sufficiently thick, it is taken from the bath, the wax removed, the shell trimmed, the back tinned, straightened, backed with an alloy of type-metal, then shaved to a thickness, and mounted on a block to make it type-high. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
  • Surfaces to be riveted together should be "tinned" before riveting, to ensure the solder getting a good hold afterwards. Things To Make
  • In the evenings we'd boil our tinned ratatouille on the petrol stove and eat goat's cheese with cider from the farmer's barrel. WHITE LIES
  • Add the tinned tomatoes, the beef and chicken stock cubes and the water and slowly cook until the vegetables are done.
  • These alloys can be tinned although some compositions are more suitable than others.
  • The still is of tinned copper, two gallon capacity, and the condenser is the usual worm surrounded with cold water. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
  • We have a stock of drinking water, washing water, a box of tinned food, biscuits, crisps, chocolates, we certainly won't go hungry.
  • The tinned tuna and baked beans are top drawer. The Sun
  • So, smear the wrap or sandwich with guacamole, hummus, coleslaw or tzatziki and add in some salami, tinned tuna or grated farmhouse cheddar.
  • The decision on whether to allow the sale of GM food in the EU, in the form of tinned sweetcorn, is due before EU agriculture ministers later this month.
  • Martinned: Generally a blockade is an Act of War, meaning that most aspects of it are dealt with under that category, rather than maritime law. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
  • If mixture sticks, add some of the tinned tomato juice. The Sun
  • The items I usually stock up on are, cereals, tinned goods, rice, beans, pasta, coke, toothpaste, body wash, shampoo, toilet paper etc.
  • Buy tinned fruit in natural juice rather than syrup. Coping with Angina
  • Most people would be sensible about water and making sure they have some tinned food.
  • They took the wrong sort of tent and their tinned food proved inedible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Attach this piece by first binding to its extremities two strips of aluminium, or by preference very thin tinned iron, Tl and T2. Things To Make
  • Food which has been closed up in tins is called tinned food.
  • This consisted of an egg, bacon, sausage, tinned tomato, baked beans and a slice of fried bread.
  • We have a large stock of tinned fruit.
  • ‘My family started off as grocers and sold tinned food, soap, flour and that sort of thing, but that would not be enough these days,’ he said.
  • It's fine to use tinned fruit, so long as it is in natural juice - this is easily pulped if you are using a liquidizer/food processor rather than a juicer.
  • I recently bought a copper frying pan and need to have it "tinned". A Copper Fryingpan
  • We're modifying our PLoM efforts, the meatpuppet and me, to include some calorie restriction, and preliminary results are that, although we're feeling a bit sharp-set, the current diet seems sustainable as long as the farmer's market produce and tinned soup holds out. Metal heart, you're not hiding
  • For example, some types of bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits (savoury and sweet), sauces, tinned vegetables and soups can all be high in salt, as well as ready-prepared meals.
  • The food was tinned military rations, tuna or bully beef.
  • A new soldering iron or one that has been misused will have to be "tinned" before using. Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon
  • In the end the taste of tinned concentrated tomato became all-pervading and deadly.
  • Apparently cats do not get enough protein from tinned food and being natural-born predators even couch-potato felines will feast as nature intended.
  • There was no tinned steel or can manufacturer in Australia and the firm imported tinned steel from the UK and made its own cans as part of the process.
  • tinned foods are not very tasty
  • Keep tinned fruits without sugar to a minimum also. The Vitality Diet
  • I wonder if I should go buy some extra cans of tinned food?
  • Tinned mango is great for a lassi and costs less than fresh fruit. Times, Sunday Times
  • At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans.
  • There was lots of tinned foods, boiled bacon and cabbage.
  • Thus my heart danced at his sardines-on-toast ice-cream (made with tinned fish and sliced white bread), and at his vanilla pod sherbet dib-dab and his spacedust chocolate.
  • Basically, fizzy drinks are a slurry of sugar (actually, in tinned soda, it's usually high-fructose corn syrup, which is to sugar as plutonium is to oat muffins) with enough liquid to slide out of the can. - Boing Boing
  • In both cases, however, the proviso is still that no one can be tried until they’re caught first.) Martinned (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas.
  • When I first arrived here I was very puzzled by tinned food - I still don't understand spaghetti on toast, or why you use so much vinegar.
  • She advises women to eat leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, cereals, and pulses and avoid spicy or tinned food and bakery products.
  • She put her longevity down in part to the plain food she had eaten over the years - home grown vegetables, very little tinned food, and nourishing desserts, like steamed puddings.
  • Add tinned tomatoes, chilli powder and ground cumin, then season with pepper. The Sun
  • Add tinned tomatoes, chilli powder and ground cumin, then season with pepper. The Sun
  • Martinned: Whether the PA in the Gaza strip is a sovereign is highly tricky. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
  • The only thing standing between them and death is a discovered stash of tinned carrots and the morning dew they collect from the roofs of their ramshackle dwellings.
  • Even then, admits one of the organisers, all the food is tinned because buying fresh fruit and vegetables would overshoot the budget of around £6 per parcel.
  • Living largely off tinned vegetables and any sea trout they could catch, the team dived down to the seabed and squeezed airbags beneath the Maud. Times, Sunday Times
  • The seeds of P. nigrum are also a source of oil of pepper and oleoresin, used for flavouring sausages, tinned food, and drinks.
  • Add the fresh or tinned beans to a bowl along with the olives, feta and herbs. Times, Sunday Times
  • (Here in the Netherlands, where we have no juries, appealing an acquittal is always possible.) Martinned (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted
  • My plate contained an ample helping of baked beans, two tinned tomatoes, three bacon rashers, two eggs and what I thought were two sausages.
  • This brand of tinned food does not contain artificial coloring.
  • Preformed tinned or galvanized aircraft cable (Spec AN-RR-CRS) was used throughout the surface control systems.
  • The tinned cooked ones are fine, and are a great standby. Times, Sunday Times
  • So if you crave something sweet, try its opulent fruit salad loaded with kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes and strawberries or tinned lychees (the only fruit that is arguably as good tinned as fresh).
  • A film of copper is deposited on the blacklead surface of the mould; and when this shell is sufficiently thick, it is taken from the bath, the wax removed, the shell trimmed, the back tinned, straightened, backed with an alloy of type-metal, then shaved to a thickness, and mounted on a block to make it type-high. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
  • We might make him a pasta with tomato sauce; then add tinned tuna. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's when you stop buying premium cuts from Sainsbury's and force-feed yourself a grisly tinned economy brand.
  • It's such a pity, when perfectly reasonable tinned crab is available in the supermarkets!
  • Tinned fruit usually has a lot of syrup with it.
  • Eat five portions of fruit and veg a day, which can include tinned and frozen, and cut down on fat, salt and added sugar.
  • Spoon out the baked beans in a layer, then do the same for the tinned tomatoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Porcelain and other wares may be platinized, silvered, tinned, or bronzed, in a similar manner. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
  • We want Daily Echo readers, schools, businesses and church groups to make a difference this Easter by donating crucial food such as breakfast cereal, tinned meat, tea and coffee.
  • Of the side-lines, such as tinned fish, rice, prunes, oatmeal, etc., what there was of these did not go far to appease the appetites of men used to better fare and having now to undergo hard training. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula
  • Add tinned tomatoes, chilli powder and ground cumin, then season with pepper. The Sun
  • The same can't be said of the River Café Christmas vongole, in which the seafood is completely drowned in a thick, earthy sauce of porcini mushrooms, tinned tomatoes and oregano. How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
  • Actually, Martinned, what makes obscure events so amazing is if you watch long enough, you start to understand what separates a medal-winner from an also-ran. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Curmudgeonly Take on the Olympics
  • For many people tinned food is synonymous with crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • We also went to the picturesque local shops and stocked up on tinned olive oil, dried porcini mushrooms, Lavazza coffee, Arborio rice and bottles of wine and Amaretto.
  • It is true that, in deference to the prejudices of their Hindu neighbours in these ignorant wilds, they forbore from the sacred cow, but tinned substitutes offered sufficient opportunity for homage to British instincts. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • The tinned food is running out. Times, Sunday Times
  • So she mixed it up with tinned tuna and left it by the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Food is also symbolic of corruptive Europe, which offers only tinned, synthetic unnatural food.
  • Could I salvage some form of kedgeree with tinned tuna?
  • The lockable drawer usually contained three tinned compartments with tightly fitting lids in which to store tea and sugar.
  • Martinned: But seriously, you may want to take into account that it was Cinco de Mayo, which is, more than any other, the day for a bit of Mexican nationalism. The Volokh Conspiracy » California High School Sends Kids Home for Wearing American Flag on Cinco de Mayo
  • I took a mixture of freeze-dried, boil-in-the-bag and tinned food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Add tinned tomatoes, chilli powder and ground cumin, then season with pepper. The Sun
  • This brand of tinned food does not contain artificial coloring.
  • The official recipe for bolognese calls for tomato paste rather than tinned or fresh tomatoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fish cakes, made with tinned salmon, with herby mayonnaise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Place tuna fillet or tinned tuna on top, season and garnish with anchovy fillet and lemon wedges. Times, Sunday Times
  • · Formula and other milks, such as tinned milk or the milk of animals, do not protect babies from disease. Chapter 12
  • Here, cooks will prepare a light meal of mixed salad, tinned cold fish or meat, bread and cheese and fruit.
  • They collect and deliver donations of canned and packet food such as tinned meat, sausages, spaghetti, beans and fruit.

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