Good Morning!
On this day in 31 B.C. the Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor.
In 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.
In 1775 Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington.
In 1864, during the U.S. Civil War Union forces led by Gen. William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta following the retreat of the Confederates.
And in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, then Vice President, said “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
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Quote of the Day
“Any team can win.”
Terry Bradshaw
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Today is Laurindo Ameida’s birthday.
And today is Tom Glazer’s birthday. You may not recognize the name, but you’ll recognize his work. 🙂
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Wandering Views 
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Morning Janice.
Good Night Janice. 🙂
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Good morning, Aj. Hello, everyone! Still waking up…drinking coffee…
We had a really nice visit with my MIL yesterday. She’s leaving for a ten day trip to Detroit and Chicago in a couple of weeks to visit family. It’s such a miracle she’s doing so well–everyone thought she’d be dead by now due to her brain cancer diagnosis three years ago. The last experimental treatment they did was hugely successful. I’m grateful for my husband and children that she’s still with us.
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Evening, Jo. Hope you get some good rest!
Hi, Janice!
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I need coffee this morning!
Possible question of the day:
During your lifetime, what would you consider to be the best deal you have made, as in you bought something and saved a lot or what you got was worth a lot more than what you paid for it (maybe it lasted a really long time), etc.
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Good morning or good afternoon or good evening. Whatever applies.
I think Tom sang with the Glaser’s. I have a DC by them.
You don’t have to be good at math to be a good church treasurer. You need to be good with numbers thought. Be organized, prompt and have a tight mouth. You know things about the membership that no one else should know.
Elvera was never church treasurer, but she was on the finance committee for years. There are things she never told me.
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Good morning, Annms.
Good evening, Jo.
One of the better small bargains I got was when our son was at the age to take on a lawn mowing job. We needed a new mower. Someone I knew was moving and offered their very nice mower to me for $50.00. It served us well for a number of years. Eventually we did get a new mower, and I gave the older mower to my brother. He was able to repair it and still uses it.
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There may be other things Janice, but the first thing that comes to mind is this:
In 1972 there was this big gasoline shortage. People waited in line and paid almost a dollar for a gallon of gasoline.
I needed a car. So I stopped by the local Pontiac dealer.
He had a new Pontiac Catalina he needed to get rid of because it was a gas guzzler.
I bought it from him for $3900. It was a $4500 car.
At work, my people laughed at me. “What are you going to do? Store your gas in it?”
But the price of gasoline soon came back down. (The market, you know?)
I put over 120,000 miles on that car. Had it repainted twice. (It was mechanically a dream, but it started rusting the first year I had it.)
I got 14 mpg on the highway, but that car would run. The perfect beltway car.
In the winter time, I put snow tires on it and it plowed through like a tractor. I loved that car. even when it was old and junky looking and people laughed at me.
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Another reslly good deal was when we were able to purchase my brother’s car from his company. Being in sales, it was high mileage, but my brother had maintained it well thinking we might want to buy it when it was time to sell. It became my husband’s favorite car, and he drove it for years.
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I told you about the hat I bought for $5.00. I still wear it, but not it public much.
I’m sensitive, you know.
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Back in those days, Elvera was young and pretty. She once said, “Are you going to love me that much when I get old?” I said, “Yeah. I’ll just get you repainted”
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Chas, back when you bought that car was when people had really started downsizing their vehicles. I remember our neighbor bought a Toyota and he would give us a ride to school since he took his son. I could not believe how cramped it felt in that tiny car after riding in my dad’s big Chyrslers (and a Desoto).
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I think Chas might appreciate this. Our DIL’s grandfather died a few weeks ago and the memorial service was this past Saturday. In his bio, it told the story of his marriage to his late wife. It didn’t say what year it was, but he was 91 when he died and they were married when they were young so it was a long time ago. They were both in choir and were married before choir practice one Thursday night. A lady in choir made a cake.
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Janice, You just blew it. You’re old enough to remember the Desoto?
One of the worst auto mistakes I made when I tried to downsize and bought a Datsun B210.
The next mistake was putting it on the beltway.
That car would go from zero to sixty an 90 seconds flat. Try mixing into beltway traffic with that!
You can tell that the Washington Beltway was a big factor WRT autos. I drove US 495 from Sept. 1962 to March 30, 1989. Never had an accident, though lots of heart stoppers. When I started, it was a four lane highway, incomplete in Maryland. The last time I was there, it was five lanes each way and the speed limit is 55 mph. I was driving 65 and cars were passing me on both sides.
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Chas, during the height of the gas issues in the seventies, I heard about the long lines but never saw them, because I was little and my dad would take the cars to fill them up without us along.
We had a car with two gas tanks. Dad pulled the water tank out of a trailer and added it to the car as a third gas tank. (That sounds to me like a really bad idea, but Dad was a bit of a fix-it man, and obviously it worked.) He came home laughing one day because he went to the gas station to fill up. He went to the window to pay, and the attendant pulled up his pump but then thought he had made a mistake, because that Ford had obviously not taken 35 gallons or whatever it was. Dad had to tell him yes, that was his car.
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My brother still drives a Desoto.
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Today we get a starling, huh?
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Found this last night:
There have to be hundreds more out there. Maybe you should look up something in your state or city.
The first “memorial” you see is the WW! Memorial at the “Loop” (that is where the street cars used to loop around to go back downtown. The “Peanut Man” still sold peanuts at that intersection when I was a small child. My grandfather gave him a ride home once. He was a mean ol’ cuss (well, both of them really),
The history of the azaleas is interesting. The dunes at the beach are no longer quite that high. Citronelle was name for all the citronella that was grown there. It’s a cute little town that time has passed by. Gulf State Park still exists. One of the lakes is Lake Shelby. The water is tea colored.
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Wait a minute, we still only have one starling? Usually getting one means you’ll have more later, at least if that one sticks around.
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I just went to pay a utility bill, and the teller was wearing a piece of jewlry I have never seen before. Maybe someone here can explain what it means. It was a necklace with a chain that was thick, probably a quarter inch wide, and for the pendant there was a diamond or rhinestone cross turned on its side.
It could be a way for employees to wear a cross when they are told they can’t. It could be a negative statement from another religious group that hates Christians, it could be a symbol like the fish, it could be a statement about God defeating death and overpowering crucifiction. So does anyone have a clue?
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Janice, are you sure it wasn’t just a decoration that wasn’t meant to be a cross at all? I think I’d be inclined to ask her, “Does your necklace have any special meaning, or did you just like the design?”
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I remember the gas shortage. Once, my Dad came home and said the station down the street had gasoline. So we all got in our cars and headed over. My dad and brother got there before me and got gas, but the station attendant put the road block up in front of my car, so I didn’t get any. Another time I was in line for gas and ended up having to push the car to the pump since I ran out waiting in line.
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Cheryl, there was no doubt in my mind that it was a cross turned on its side. I considered asking, but depending on her answer I might not have been ready to address what she said. She could have gotten a “good deal” and had no thought of it being anything other than a glittery accessory. But I think the designer had something in mind besides just $$$.
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http://www.sidecrossnecklace.com/what-is-meaning-of-side-cross-necklaces/
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I was offended the first time I saw a sideways cross. I understand the symbolism now, but I still do not like them nor would I wear one.
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I also found this article from what looks to be a Chattanooga newspaper.
http://m.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jun/24/bling-or-blasphemy-upside-down-and-sideways/
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😦
One mess of lima beans and one mess of string beans. I didn’t have enough bees or other pollinators. There is good farmland in Henderson Co., but it isn’t on my hillside. I used to get more from my small plot in Annandale in one year than the entire 14 years I’ve been in Hendersonville. This is likely my last year at farming.
I once came up with this theory, don’t know if it’s true.
“The number of beans in a pod is directly proportional to the number of times the flower was visited by a pollinator.”
I used to grow Kentucky Wonders. They grew on a vine and as long as you kept picking, they kept bearing. But if you went away and let the beans mature, the vine thinks it’s done its job and quits bearing. Elvera used to say, “You aren’t bringing any more beans into this house!” I’d say “Start cooking woman, there’s more where these came from.” She’d cook them “to death” as Yankees say, in ham or hamhock, and freeze them. We had beans all winter.
I’m taking the garden out today.
Summer is over.
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I have never seen a sideways cross. Women in Hendersonville aren’t very fashionable.
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Hi kids.
I remember the 1970s gas lines, I had to commute to college so I teamed up with a journalism classmate to at least carpool every day. That way we also had the odd-even thing covered (the days you could buy gas depending on your license plate #). I drove a 1968 VW Beatle back then, baby blue (I loved that car), so it didn’t take much gas really.
The Jeep’s another story. 😦
(But I love that ‘car,’ too!)
And we’re set to see a big hike in gas prices in California come January when a new gas tax is set to go into effect. There’s legislation that would delay it for 3 years making its way through Sacramento now. But if that fails and the tax goes into effect, it would mean that gas here would probably never be below $4 a gallon again.
http://www.10news.com/news/effort-underway-to-delay-what-some-call-hidden-gas-tax-in-california-08092014
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Re: sideways cross- Most people who wear a cross have no clue as to what it means. And I really wonder if the early church would take offense at using a symbol of cruel capitol punishment as a decoration. Just think if Jesus came today. Would you wear an electric chair around your neck as jewelry?
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I think I’ve seen the sideways cross design on chain bracelets mostly. Never thought much about it I guess, but it is different.
I’m pretty traditional, I’ve been wearing the same small silver celtic cross on a black cord around my neck every day for a number of years now.
I also have larger, plain pewter cross (not celtic) on a long brown leather cord that I like & wear sometimes too, but not often.
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I’ve heard that argument too, Peter. For me (and I suspect for most serious Christians who wear the cross), it’s not really ‘decoration,’ but rather a statement.
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I was surprised by the sight of a sideways cross. As jewlry, it was attractive, but it bothered me that it could have such ambiguous meaning. From that newspaper article, it looks like we are behind the times, too.
When I was young, my AL cousin told me fashion trends made their way from CA across the states meaning a small town in AL was more hip than Atlanta because of its proximity to CA. I was never quite sure if she was joking or what. But if it is true, perhaps your town will get sideways crosses soon. 🙂 That has to be why Kim already knew about them. And we all know Donna and Michelle will tell us that style is passe. 🙂
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I can better understand the sideways cross on a bracelet because people often view a bracelet from an angle that would make a cross attached like that appear upright. But the one I saw this morning was a fairly large, not quite chunky, piece of jewlry. On a neclace like that it really grabs attention, especially with it being studded with diamonds or wannabe diamonds.
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Another style that’s prominent out here is the “rose gold” large (“boyfriend”) bracelet watches for women. At first I thought they were copper, but they’re supposed to be (or mimic) rose gold.
Cute on some of the young gals.
Back to church treasurer: Our pastor mentioned from the pulpit once that he purposely stays completely out of the loop on that as well, he doesn’t want to know who gives what or how much, ever.
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Our pastor in Virginia never knew what anyone gave. That was a change. The pastor before him used to visit the counting room.
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I think my dogs may need to get to the groomer sooner rather than later.
I found several thick mats on Cowboy’s back legs and haunches last night, I started just cutting them out (so he looks funny now) as he won’t tolerate much else in the way of brushing or combing through the tangles.
The fur clumps that came off with the scissors was like sheep’s wool, it was so thick and intertwined in chunks. Ugh. Bad owner.
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Brutus, the monster dog, and Betty, had burdock growing in their pen. I was going to cut it out and going to cut it out. It went to seed so he got large burdock burrs in his coat. I was taking them out everyday until I finally went in and cut them all out of the pen. Bad owner turned good.
Barney goes back to the vet today and so I am taking them all in for their sometimes yearly. I believe this is their third yearly and they are now nine years old. Good happy healthy dogs. I am so glad I was willing to let them live in a healthy environment….outdoors. With the rocks.
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Seven year old daughter has just finished putting together her new wheel barrow. She helps me with all of my chores so I told her she is such a hard worker, I would get her a wheelbarrow of her own. Husband found one, not a toy, and brought it home the other day. She has been reading the directions and putting it together for three days. She had many offers of help but I told her she was to do it herself. She is quite pleased and I expect to see that thing rolling all over the property as she works on various projects.
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Mumsee, you are so cool even if you do allow burdock to grow in your animal’s fur on occasion.
We sometimes have baby trees growing in our gutters. We are the only house in the neighborhood with trees growing on the roof. They go quite nicely with the moss up there. Very distinctive. 🙂
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Put this on the political page, but thought I’d post it here, too, for those who haven’t heard.
From Twitter:
Mollie @MZHemingway
Lord, have mercy. RT @jameshohmann: BEIRUT (AP) – video purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State group.
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Bosley just got all excited because I opened a can of garbanzo beans. Last night I rattled a box of Raisin Bran, and husband got excited. We had used up what we had, and he did not know I had been to the store and bought more. Not sure what that says about the priorities of a young cat and a 65-year-old man, but surely someone here will have a relevant comment. Mumsee?
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Really bad news continues from those evil-minded and evil-hearted people. We must keep praying. This morning I prayed for changed hearts and if that’s not possible then I prayed for God to smush them He knows if their hearts are eternally hardened.
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Janice, Re: Trees growing in the gutter.
I used that as an illustration once in a SS lesson about the parable of the seed that fell on rocky ground.
We had a neighbor in Annandale who hadn’t cleaned his gutter. I noticed a maple tree growing out of his gutter. The tree was sprouting, about a foot high. It was sure that it would be the greatest tree in the forest. But I had a view of the big picture. And though the tree was still prospering when I used the illustration, we all knew the tree would never mature. It’s roots are too shallow.
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Well, Chas, I guess you could say we grow bonsai in our gutters!
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We grow Bonsai in the gutters and Bosley in the house 🙂 Does that mean we are going green? Nah! Bosley is too black and white to be green, but if she were a newspaper she would be black and white and red (read) all over. When was the last time you heard that one? Donna’s all-time favorite!
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Karen O I used to have a dog that was allergic to everything you and I would be allergic to. I line item in my monthly budget was $100- Bay Animal Clinic! Finally the vet told me that you cannot overdose a dog on Benedryl–they are also very mellow and sleep a lot, just an added bonus. I have given a few to Lulabelle in her short life. Mr. Medical argued with me about the dosage and her poundage. Pshaw. She was fine.
The other night she kept scratching and Mr. Medical said something about her flea pill not working. Told him I would “fix that”. Took her in the kitchen, rolled up a clove of garlic in a piece of bread–she wouldn’t eat that so I rolled a piece of turkey around the bread and she got the garlic down. She hasn’t scratched since!
Dr Kim is in for your dog questions…
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I have not noticed any necklaces like that, but I thought the one shown was beautiful. I would not find it offensive at all. I think of the song line, “I will cherish the old rugged cross…” when I see a believer wearing one. It is to be cherished because it was used to give us salvation. What the devil used (and still uses) was used by God and Jesus Christ defeated the devil.
I remember the gas lines, but do not remember it ever being an issue for us. Apparently, we live in a rural enough area to not have had a problem.
We had two Chevy vehicles during that time and they both rusted prematurely. I since heard that there was some issue with the paint used. We still used the truck to death. We usually drive our vehicles to death and have gotten our money out of them.
One of the best deals I made was to take advantage of a used washer. I was not going to buy it, but the woman had to move out of her home and told me it was almost new. I was able to buy it for almost nothing, since they just wanted to have someone take it. We had moved out of our apartment and into a house, but still had an apartment size washer and dryer. I was able to sell that and buy a full-size dryer to add to the washer.
I also took advantage of getting a free electric water heater and going on off peak hot water. That has saved us hundreds of dollars.
My husband traded a twelve string guitar for the Martin guitar he has used for many decades now. It was a great deal—far better than he realized at the time.
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Nice visit to the vet. Everybody is the picture of health and they have no idea how Brutus could have come up with the temperament to damage Barney. He is such a baby. I explained that he has his moments….She said they all looked very much healthier for their ages than they ought to. And they all enjoyed the dog treats she gave them. Even Jake acquiesced and accepted two.
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Half a hundred! 🙂
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The earth is filled with your love, Lord; teach me your decrees.
Psalm 119:64
I believe we are missing the desire of the ending part of that passage “teach me your decrees” what does that mean to people today?
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I know Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
Well, the line ain’t never busy
Tell Him what you want
Wo, that line ain’t never busy
Tell Him what you want
Well, the line ain’t never busy
Tell Him what you want
Keep on calling Him up
And tell Him what you want
Well, if you want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
If you want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
If want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, call Him up, call Him up
You can call Him up and tell Him what you want
Well, if you’re sick and want to get well
Tell Him what you want
Well, if you’re sick and you want to get well
Tell Him what you want
If you’re sick and you want to get well
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
And if you’re feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
And if you’re feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
And if you’re feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
I know Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, call Him up, call Him up
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
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53% of 100!! (For what it’s worth.)
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Roy, that poem looks way too focused on what “I” want. Jesus isn’t a genie in a bottle waiting for me to tell Him what I want!
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Cheryl- It’s an old Gospel song. Many of those are self-centered in some way. “I’ve Got a Mansion Just Over the Hilltop,” “I come to the Garden Alone,” etc. Some are still good, thoughtful songs, but too many focus on the “golden streets” and other quasi-scriptural things.
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And since I’m here now…
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…I’ll take #57!!!
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fifty seven!
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oh, hi Peter L. Just edged out by a mere fifty eight minutes. So close.
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Mumsee, do your children get passing grades in math, as a rule?
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My children get excellent grades in math. They seem to do even better after seventh grade. I don’t know why as I am not their teacher then. Instead, they get somebody who loves math. Insane isn’t it?
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Good evening Jo & Tychicus.
Everyone else is still sacked out.
I wish I were.
🙂
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Sori tru, Chas
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