A question of character
Today, Dylan Farrow's letter wherein she states that actor/writer/director Woody Allen molested her when she was only seven years old. The alleged sexual abuse took place over 20 years ago. She has remained silent in public, until now. You can read the letter she wrote here: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/kristof/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Her silence until now is certainly understandable. Likewise her choice to speak out now, in the wake of Woody Allen receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the most recent Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
There are 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Ten of them sit on the organization's Board of Directors. Those ten determine who will be honored with Cecil B. DeMille award. The award that Woody Allen received this year. The HFPA website says the following about this award:
"When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to establish a special,prestigious award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,the members wanted it to bear an internationally recognized and respected name. So they turned to a born showman, Cecil B. DeMille, who accepted the idea graciously,and the first Cecil B. DeMille award went to him in 1952, the year his penultimate film, The Greatest Show on Earth, premiered."
I'm sure they probably have written criteria somewhere in their offices that spell out eligibility and qualification for this and other Golden Globe Awards. My question is, when did questions of character become part of the process for determining awards? Roman Polanski wasn't just an accused molester. He had pleaded guilty to statutory rape and fled to avoid sentencing. That didn't stop the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences from giving him their highest honor for a film he directed. I'm still waiting for Whoopi Goldberg to explain what "rape rape" is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZskUvAGyjQ (by the way Ms Goldberg, having sex with a minor IS statutory rape). Interestingly enough, Ms Farrow's letter was published on the anniversary of the date that Polanski fled to France.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Some will think it is wrong for the HFPA to recognize Allen because of the allegations against him. He wouldn't be someone I'd have nominated for, or voted for, for this particular award. It must be noted that the prosecutor chose not to proceed against Allen because he didn't want to put Dylan Farrow through the "possible trauma" of a trial. Was Dylan Farrow coached by her mother to make these claims back in 1992? That was the conclusion of the doctor who investigated by interviewing Dylan on nine separate occasions.
I don't know where the truth is to be found in this matter. I will give Dylan Farrow the benefit of the doubt, and ignore what the doctor's report says. The devastating effect all of this has had on her life is evident.
In the end, ten people who no one has ever heard of chose to give Woody Allen a trophy. Is it really all that important, even if we disagree with their decision?
* * *
It is February 1st as I write this and the IRS has just opened the door to accept e-filing. This is the second straight year that they've delayed opening that door. In 2013, not only did the IRS not accept e-filed returns until January 30th, but those returns that had Education Credits on them weren't processed until well into February.
In 2012, 2011 returns could be e-filed as early as January 14th. Filing of 2010 returns began later in 2011 due to changes to tax laws that were enacted late in 2010. In 2010, 2009 returns began being accepted on January 15th.
That's about the point in the month of January where that door should swing open. The intransigence of the Republicans in Congress this past year to pass a budget is the only reason people aren't already receiving refunds.
History will repeat itself late this month or early in March when and if these same nincompoops fail to work with the Democrats to pass an increase in the debt ceiling.
Maybe there will never be a solution to the problems of our federal budget. Maybe there isn't one. All I know for certain is that shutting things down and sending people home to be paid to do nothing is nowhere near a solution.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Emily Maynard's engagement ring might look better if she got her nails done by a professional.
Tracy McGrady trying to be a baseball pitcher is going to end badly. He tore the labrum in his throwing shoulder and even if he's hitting 91 mph on the gun now, something's going to give.
I could have gone my entire life without seeing a photo of Justin Bieber and a member of his enabling group suckling on the breasts of a stripper. Fortunately I wasn't blinded by the sight.
Whoever advanced the idea of having George Zimmerman box against an African-American in a celebrity boxing match would probably make more money auctioning off the right to fight the acquitted killer.
I saw a documentary-type program on the Bloods this past week that says red "do-rags" are out, but red laces, red belts and red kicks are in. Justin Bieber was wearing red kicks when he was stopped by Customs in New Jersey. Hmmmmm.
The man who stole Kim Kardashian's identity is going to prison. Hope he doesn't have a butt like hers or he's going to be really popular in the gray bar hotel.
The Oakland Raiderettes should take Penthouse up on its offer to post for a tasteful pictorial. At least they'll make some decent bucks.
Record quantities of pizzas, chicken wings and toilet flushes are expected for tomorrow's Super Bowl. No surprises there.
It took J. K. Rowling until now to realize Harry belonged with Hermoine?
Most conservatives don't need the new Google Glass app to provide them with "talking points", they get them from Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity already. How long before there's a liberal app to do the same thing?
Let me see if I get this. The Mayor of Atlanta believed the way to reach the largest audience during the major storm this past week was to do an interview on The Weather Channel, and that it had to be an in person interview. Mr. Mayor, there are phones, there are web-cams and there are other channels with larger audiences.
If Kevin Love can make three-pointers in practice with a blindfold on, he ought to be the odds-on favorite to win the three-point contest at the NBA All-Star weekend competition.
You can tell the Super Bowl is tomorrow by the fact that the films "We Are Marshall," "Invincible" and "The Express" were all on at the same time on Saturday evening.
* * *
February 1st in History:
481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1790 – In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1990 – Humanitas publishing house is founded in Bucharest, shortly after the Romanian Revolution, by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.
1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner
1994 – Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 – 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
Famous Folk Born on February 1st:
Conn Smythe
Charles Nordhoff
Jerome F. Donovan
John Ford
Clark Gable
Langston Hughes
S. J. Perelman
Richard Hooker
Stuart Whitman
Boris Yeltsin
Garrett Morris (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Q0cyJSs04)
Sherman Helmsley
Bibi Besch
Mr. Saito
Jessica Savitch (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jessica%20savitch&sm=3)
Rick James (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNIQVYGXbM)
Bill Mumy (cue cheesy graphics and theme music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1bEpmmGMs&list=RDC3yK77GWBbk)
Jani Lane
Sherilynn Fenn
Linus Roache
Brandon Lee
Meg Cabot
Lisa Marie Presley
Andrew Breitbart
Jill Kelly
Big Boi
No movie quotes today.
Her silence until now is certainly understandable. Likewise her choice to speak out now, in the wake of Woody Allen receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the most recent Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
There are 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Ten of them sit on the organization's Board of Directors. Those ten determine who will be honored with Cecil B. DeMille award. The award that Woody Allen received this year. The HFPA website says the following about this award:
"When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to establish a special,prestigious award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,the members wanted it to bear an internationally recognized and respected name. So they turned to a born showman, Cecil B. DeMille, who accepted the idea graciously,and the first Cecil B. DeMille award went to him in 1952, the year his penultimate film, The Greatest Show on Earth, premiered."
I'm sure they probably have written criteria somewhere in their offices that spell out eligibility and qualification for this and other Golden Globe Awards. My question is, when did questions of character become part of the process for determining awards? Roman Polanski wasn't just an accused molester. He had pleaded guilty to statutory rape and fled to avoid sentencing. That didn't stop the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences from giving him their highest honor for a film he directed. I'm still waiting for Whoopi Goldberg to explain what "rape rape" is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZskUvAGyjQ (by the way Ms Goldberg, having sex with a minor IS statutory rape). Interestingly enough, Ms Farrow's letter was published on the anniversary of the date that Polanski fled to France.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Some will think it is wrong for the HFPA to recognize Allen because of the allegations against him. He wouldn't be someone I'd have nominated for, or voted for, for this particular award. It must be noted that the prosecutor chose not to proceed against Allen because he didn't want to put Dylan Farrow through the "possible trauma" of a trial. Was Dylan Farrow coached by her mother to make these claims back in 1992? That was the conclusion of the doctor who investigated by interviewing Dylan on nine separate occasions.
I don't know where the truth is to be found in this matter. I will give Dylan Farrow the benefit of the doubt, and ignore what the doctor's report says. The devastating effect all of this has had on her life is evident.
In the end, ten people who no one has ever heard of chose to give Woody Allen a trophy. Is it really all that important, even if we disagree with their decision?
* * *
It is February 1st as I write this and the IRS has just opened the door to accept e-filing. This is the second straight year that they've delayed opening that door. In 2013, not only did the IRS not accept e-filed returns until January 30th, but those returns that had Education Credits on them weren't processed until well into February.
In 2012, 2011 returns could be e-filed as early as January 14th. Filing of 2010 returns began later in 2011 due to changes to tax laws that were enacted late in 2010. In 2010, 2009 returns began being accepted on January 15th.
That's about the point in the month of January where that door should swing open. The intransigence of the Republicans in Congress this past year to pass a budget is the only reason people aren't already receiving refunds.
History will repeat itself late this month or early in March when and if these same nincompoops fail to work with the Democrats to pass an increase in the debt ceiling.
Maybe there will never be a solution to the problems of our federal budget. Maybe there isn't one. All I know for certain is that shutting things down and sending people home to be paid to do nothing is nowhere near a solution.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Emily Maynard's engagement ring might look better if she got her nails done by a professional.
Tracy McGrady trying to be a baseball pitcher is going to end badly. He tore the labrum in his throwing shoulder and even if he's hitting 91 mph on the gun now, something's going to give.
I could have gone my entire life without seeing a photo of Justin Bieber and a member of his enabling group suckling on the breasts of a stripper. Fortunately I wasn't blinded by the sight.
Whoever advanced the idea of having George Zimmerman box against an African-American in a celebrity boxing match would probably make more money auctioning off the right to fight the acquitted killer.
I saw a documentary-type program on the Bloods this past week that says red "do-rags" are out, but red laces, red belts and red kicks are in. Justin Bieber was wearing red kicks when he was stopped by Customs in New Jersey. Hmmmmm.
The man who stole Kim Kardashian's identity is going to prison. Hope he doesn't have a butt like hers or he's going to be really popular in the gray bar hotel.
The Oakland Raiderettes should take Penthouse up on its offer to post for a tasteful pictorial. At least they'll make some decent bucks.
Record quantities of pizzas, chicken wings and toilet flushes are expected for tomorrow's Super Bowl. No surprises there.
It took J. K. Rowling until now to realize Harry belonged with Hermoine?
Most conservatives don't need the new Google Glass app to provide them with "talking points", they get them from Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity already. How long before there's a liberal app to do the same thing?
Let me see if I get this. The Mayor of Atlanta believed the way to reach the largest audience during the major storm this past week was to do an interview on The Weather Channel, and that it had to be an in person interview. Mr. Mayor, there are phones, there are web-cams and there are other channels with larger audiences.
If Kevin Love can make three-pointers in practice with a blindfold on, he ought to be the odds-on favorite to win the three-point contest at the NBA All-Star weekend competition.
You can tell the Super Bowl is tomorrow by the fact that the films "We Are Marshall," "Invincible" and "The Express" were all on at the same time on Saturday evening.
* * *
February 1st in History:
481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1790 – In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1990 – Humanitas publishing house is founded in Bucharest, shortly after the Romanian Revolution, by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.
1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner
1994 – Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 – 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
Famous Folk Born on February 1st:
Conn Smythe
Charles Nordhoff
Jerome F. Donovan
John Ford
Clark Gable
Langston Hughes
S. J. Perelman
Richard Hooker
Stuart Whitman
Boris Yeltsin
Garrett Morris (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Q0cyJSs04)
Sherman Helmsley
Bibi Besch
Mr. Saito
Jessica Savitch (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jessica%20savitch&sm=3)
Rick James (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNIQVYGXbM)
Bill Mumy (cue cheesy graphics and theme music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1bEpmmGMs&list=RDC3yK77GWBbk)
Jani Lane
Sherilynn Fenn
Linus Roache
Brandon Lee
Meg Cabot
Lisa Marie Presley
Andrew Breitbart
Jill Kelly
Big Boi
No movie quotes today.
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