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There is a great series of questions everyone asks or thinks about but no one has ever really solved. George Carlin made a career of spotting these and pontificating about them. One of these curious and irritatingly persistent questions is, "What did Barney Rubble do for a living?"

In 1960, the first ever prime-time animated TV series took to the air. The Flintstones was, pretty obviously, a blatant, albeit animated, take-off (read rip-off) of the legendary TV series The Honeymooners. The similarities of the main characters were all-too-easy to spot.

Fred Flintstone, the show’s central character, was a blustery, quick-tempered, loud-mouthed, blowhard. But he somehow had a fun and lovable side to him, exactly like Jackie Gleason’s brilliant Honeymooners lead character, Ralph Kramden.

Fred’s long-suffering wife, Wilma, was familiar with her husband’s many and frequent flaws and foibles. Wilma was strong and wise-cracking, more or less patterned after Ralph’s tough but caring wife, Alice. Both Alice and Wilma put up with the childish, ridiculous antics of their respective husbands because they had the characteristic wisdom of all great women, and also because they knew that underneath their husbands' bluster and foolhardiness, their husbands loved them very much and were trying to succeed mainly for their wives, to give them a better life.

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Clik here to view.On The Honeymooners, Ralph’s happy-go-lucky, easygoing best friend was Ed Norton. Fred’s counterpart was the affable and always loyal Barney Rubble. Ed Norton had a job working as a city sewer worker. And Barney was… er, well, umm …you see, Barney’s job was…

What exactly did Barney Rubble do for a living?

Even self-professed Flintstones fanatics can’t agree on an answer.  The people who ponder about “imponderables” weren’t the only ones who asked the question. In research for his book series Imponderables, author David Feldman made a direct call to Hanna-Barbera studios, the studio that produced The Flintstones TV show in its original run from 1960 to 1966.

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Clik here to view.Before Feldman could even ask the question, he was surprised at the security guard’s opening statement. “I know why you’re calling”, the security guard said, “you want to know what Barney Rubble did for a living. He worked at the quarry. But why don’t you call back after opening hours?” The security guard went on to explain to the amazed Feldman that he received many calls from inebriated and drunken Flintstones fans in the middle of the night.  They anxiously ask for Barney Rubble’s vocation before they nod off for the evening.

Feldman did call back, this time during regular hours. He spoke to Carol Keis of Hanna-Barbera’s public relations department. Carol immediately informed him that “What does Barney Rubble do for a living?” was, indeed, the company’s most frequently asked question in all of Flintstones trivia.

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Clik here to view.She confirmed the most commonly accepted answer: “The fact is that Barney worked for Fred’s employer, Bedrock Quarry and Gravel.” But Carol continued, “However, out of 166 half-hours from 1960-1966, there were episodic changes from time to time. Barney has also been seen as a repossessor; he’s done top secret work; and he’s been a geological engineer.”

As for the manner in which Barney’s occupation was revealed, it was never concretely established. “It revealed itself according to the occupation set up for each episode.”

Hanna-Barbera does not have official archives, so the helpful Ms. Keis couldn’t assure Feldman that she hadn’t neglected one of Barney Rubble’s jobs. Yes, Barney did have other jobs during the six year run of The Flintstones. In fact, Barney actually played Fred’s boss at the quarry in one episode. Along with Fred, Barney also, in other episodes, was a private detective, a photographer, and a short-order cook.

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Clik here to view.Sure, the lack of continuity is distressing. But as with all the great classics of early TV, Gilligan’s Island, I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie, et al, at the time of the original filming of these series, now regarded as “classics”, the actors and actresses had no idea these shows would still be watched, enjoyed, dissected and pored over by rabid fans the world over.

Remember, in those days, there was no such thing as YouTube, VCR tapes, DVDs, video collections, computer websites devoted to classic TV, or the perennial rerun. So we still love and enjoy these wonderful shows, mistakes, omissions, unanswered questions, and all. We suspend our minor disbelief for the great pleasure of enjoying Lucy and Ethel's latest scheme, Fonzie helping Richie and Potsie, or Gilligan's latest goof-up that cost the castaways another chance at getting off the island.

The Flintstones remains a beloved animated television classic the world over. Barney Rubble, as voiced by the immortal Mel Blanc, remains one of animation's most beloved characters. Whatever the heck he did for a living.

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Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Gaze upon the work of Nick of DudeFoods. It is a glorious, but it is also sad. For what worlds are there now for Nick to conquer? He writes:

After all 43 sandwiches were finished and sitting at my table I got to work putting the McEverything together. I originally anticipated it only being a couple of feet high, but as you can see from the pictures it ended up MUCH taller than that. I took a few photos along the way as well just so the whole thing wouldn’t be a total waste if ended up tumbling over onto the floor before I finished stacking all the sandwiches on top of one another. Oh, and if you’re wondering how I held the entire thing together the answer is bamboo skewers… lots and lots of bamboo skewers….

At the link, you can see more photos and read the story of our hero's journey into greatness.

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Grand Theft Auto V is supposed to be the most realistic video game ever. College Humor ponders whether that might not be such a great thing. After all, we play videos to get away from the real world, right? -via Daily Picks and Flicks

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Just Keep Flying by Dooomcat

Browncoats, here's a shirt for you - it's got everything: dinosaur, spaceship, a sudden but inevitable betrayal ... Ah, Doomcat (that's three o's mind you) tugged on our heartstrings with this Just Keep Flying T-shirt.

Check out Alison Acton and Jim Charalampidis of Dooomcat Studio's official website and Bear Nuts webcomic (it's pretty neat! Their comics are updated every Monday) and Facebook page, then visit their NeatoShop page for more spiffy shirts.

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Clik here to view.This may sound like a horror movie or a nightmare or an urban legend, but it happened last week in Ohio. A group of Ohio State University students rented a house near campus. To be specific, five students rented the first floor, and ten other students rented the second and third floors. That's fifteen people in a house. Or make that sixteen -with so many people in one house, it's easy to overlook someone. It turned out there was another guy living in the basement, who none of the other residents knew.

The roommates thought a locked door in the basement led to a utility closet. When maintenance workers knocked the door down, they found a bedroom complete with framed photographs and textbooks, said Jimmy Alderman, a fourth-year in civil engineering.

The residents had the locks changed that night and posted a note asking their houseguest to call them, said resident Brett Mugglin, a fourth-year in computer science and engineering. A man named Jeremy contacted them and then moved his belongings out of the room.

“He was a nice enough guy,” Mugglin said. “He just wasn’t supposed to be there.”

Jeremy's cousin had lived in the house the year before, and since the locks weren't changed, he was able to use the old key. One of the residents had actually met the guy earlier, but assumed he belonged to the other unit. Link -via Metafilter

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Owl on a Tombstone Salt & Pepper Shaker

Do night owls haunt your kitchen? Welcome hoo-ever dares to steal snacks from your fridge with the Owl on a Tombstone Salt & Pepper Shaker Set from the NeatoShop. This frightfully fun set features is made of glazed ceramic and features an owl sitting on a tombstone. The tombstone reads "Pepper Lies Here." This set is a real scream.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers. 

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Earlier this month, we ran a New T-Shirt Giveaway over at the NeatoShop. We got tons of entries (Thanks Neatoramanauts, you're the best!) and have picked the winners at random:

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Congratulations for winning the T-shirts guys! They've all been notified via private message.

Catch our next New T-shirts giveaway soon - in the meanwhile, visit the NeatoShop's New T-Shirts list, Funny T-shirts, Artist-Designed T-shirts, and Science T-shirts for more nifty tees! Your purchase helps support the blog, so buy something, mmkay?

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Far beyond getting friendzoned is this, the bluntest form of rejection in the animal kingdom. Female opalescent inshore squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) can turn on stripes that resemble male testes. Daniel DiMartini, a doctoral student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explained:

"This discovery reveals a fundamental relationship between the switchable leucophores and the tunable color-producing iridocytes, suggesting they share a mechanism at the molecular level," DeMartini said.

DeMartini noted that the white stripe looks very similar to the white testes seen in male squid. Turning on these leucophores could help females look like males to avoid attention from notoriously aggressive males, the researchers say.

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Last month, Jill ran NeatoShop's Dream Picnic Pin to Win contest, where you can win neat stuff simply by pinning your favorite NeatoShop items to Pinterest. We've got a lot of neat entries (Thanks guys!) and so it's time to announce the winner!

Congratulations to Neatoramanaut Jennifer LeMay who won the NeatoShop's Dream Picnic Pin to Win! She won:

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Clik here to view.Is it mad science or necromancy? Neither! Medical researchers at Peking University insist that they're just researching human papillomavirus (HPV):

A hospital's request for blood from healthy female virgins has attracted public attention while raising awareness of the human papillomavirus, the primary cause of cervical cancer.

The notice, which requests the blood for HPV studies, appeared on online bulletin board systems at Peking University and Beijing Normal University last week.

Peking University Cancer Hospital is conducting studies of possible antibodies. The hospital said it would need 100 healthy female virgin college students from 18 to 24 years old as blood donors for the studies.

Some netizens denounced the request as promoting virginity worship, which they said is demeaning to women.

But hospital spokeswoman Guan Jiuping defended the request, saying the blood of virgins is medically necessary for the studies.

"It's in line with international practice to collect female virgins' blood samples, which serve as negative control substances in HPV research, given that the risk of contracting HPV is low among women who have never had sex," Guan said.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Screen Junkies gives Brad Pitt's World War Z the honest trailer treatment. This was the first film I'd gone to a theater to see in years, and found it utterly forgettable, for reasons that will be made clear in this video. -via reddit

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We've got some pretty neat My Family decals on the NeatoShop (I'm particularly proud of the My Zombie Family and the Extended My Zombie Family stickers by Adam Koford), but we're still pretty amazed at this little bit of genius, as photographed by imgur user shannonbtweet.

Now that's a busy woman! With quintuplets and a dog, we're not sure whether the dad is in jail on purpose. Maybe it's easier to be incarcerated than to have to raise five mewling babies (kidding! No hate mails, please).

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You've seen weddings in which a pet or a trained animal is included in the ceremony, but this one didn't come off as planned. A couple from Oxfordshire, England, were married at Holy Cross Church in Sherston, Wiltshire, with a barn owl as a ring bearer. It was a surprise for the groom. But Darcey the barn owl, instead of flying over the wedding guests and delivering the rings, decided the tall church sanctuary had wonderful places to perch. So that's what he did.

He liked it so much up there that he fell asleep for an hour, and no amount of coaxing and calling would make him come back down and deliver the rings. After halting the service for a few minutes, the vicar, the Rev Chris Bryan, decided to continue with the owl high above him, and the bride and groom used a back-up set of wedding rings.

“It was a lovely idea, and it was supposed to be really stunning – it would have been absolutely superb… if it worked,” said Mr Bryan.

The owl was retrieved by ladder after the ceremony. Link -via Arbroath
 

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iPod? Check.

Headphones? Check.

Music? Check.

Having the time of your life? Check, check, and ... CHECK for hidden cameras if you're dancing by yourself while waiting for the bus.

Thirty five-year old secretary Ellie Cole of Eastleigh, England, became a minor Internet celebrity when this video clip, titled "Eastleigh's Got Talent," went viral.

Back in April, YouTuber Jane Rowland noticed a woman dancing across the street from her cafe, J's Corner Cafe, on Bishopstoke Road, Eastleigh. So she took out her camera, videotaped Cole tapping her toes and wagging her fingers. Her partner Nigel Baker, a former DJ, set it to the soundtrack of ABBA's Dancing QueenImage may be NSFW.
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Cole later admitted that she was listening to Alesha Dixon's hit "Knock Down" (Alesha later praised Cole's moves as "brilliant"). Cole said this about her dancing routine, "My mum thinks I'm bonkers. But I'm a normal 34-year-old woman who just loves to dance."

Rowland's video clip went viral (after it was mercilessly copied by other YouTubers - a sad but incredibly common state of affairs, but that's another story), and writers for AH Men and director Lynne Paris took notice. They've invited Cole to perform on stage for a one-time performance last weekend.

You are the dancing queen, girl!

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A cat walked into the library in Novorossiysk, Russia, and found a home, a job, and stardom. A library or bookstore with a cat is practically an institution in the U.S. but the cat that came to be named Kuzya has captured the Russian imagination.

Kuzya showed up at the library’s door one day and impressed staff with his uncanny ability to look cute and fluffy. After arching his back and running his face along people’s legs he was able to procure food and (secretly) a warm place to spend cold winter days.

Unfortunately, Kuzya lacked the proper documents to be kept in a public space such as a library, so the staff, seeing the cat’s potential, worked to acquire it. Kuzya would need a cat passport, which apparently does exist. To get it he had an ID chip embedded along with a rabies vaccination.

With the paperwork in order, Kuzya could now openly roam the aisles of the library. Under his new title of “pet” he worked hard licking himself, looking cute, and taking naps so much that the library saw a significant increase in patronage. It turned out that people would come for the cat but stay for the book lending service.

It wasn't long before Kuzya was promoted to assistant librarian, which meant issuing a certificate. It also means Kuzya has to dress up for work -in a fetching bow tie. Read the rest of Kuzya's story and see a video (in Russian) at Rocket News 24. Link -via Buzzfeed

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All right, all right. It's obviously a viral campaign. But it's a dream of mine, so bear with me, mmkay?

New Zealand beer Tui commissioned a team of pranksters to route the plumbing of their friend's house so beer came out of every tap. Kitchen sink? Beer. Bathroom tap? Also beer. The guys wired their house with hidden cameras to catch the unsuspecting friend's reaction.

The friend, a man named Russ, came home with his wife and dog, and went to the kitchen. His wife noticed the kitchen tap dripping - but it wasn't water that came out. Rather, a dark and strange liquid ...

Now, you'd think that Russ' first instinct was to take a bath in beer (like the beer bath in the Starkenberger Brewery in Austria), but instead, he decided to investigate. Watch the man's reaction in this YouTube clip - Thanks Cole Stryker!

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Well played, Kiwis. Now, when can you come to my house?

Oh, and if you think that my dream to have beer piped straight into the house is strange, just know that physicist Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, got Carlsberg to pipe beer straight from the brewery to his house. I don't know what's better, winning the Nobel Prize or having a perpetual supply of beer in the house.

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3-D Mini Skull Pan

Halloween is coming. Are the spirits inspiring you to make devilishly sweet treats. Cook-up a batch skulls, shrunken, or zombie heads with the 3-D mini Skull Pan from the NeatoShop. This spooktacularly fun pan allows you to create drop dead gorgeous three-dimensional skull cakes in no time. Your unique mini cakes are sure to turn heads.   

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween Entertaining items. 

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"Listen, kid, it's bad enough that I have to wear the Cone of Shame, and now you act like my tail is your personal plaything. A tomcat can only take so much. Scram!" -via Daily Picks and Flicks

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The Detective of 221B by Winter Artwork Illustration

The game is on! The card game, that is - and the appropriate wear is this The Detective of 221B "playing card" T-shirt by Winter Artwork.

We're super excited to welcome T-shirt artist extraordinaire Winter Artwork to the NeatoShop! I LOVE his "playing card" design, like the Detective of 221B above, and these ones below, featuring our favorite time travelers:

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Visit Winter Artwork at his Facebook page, Twitter, Tumblr, Behance and deviantART (man, he's everywhere!). Check out more neat T-shirt designs by the artist over at the NeatoShop:

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Modern Farmer is celebrating Goat Week, their response to the success of Discovery Channel's Shark Week. The centerpiece of Goat Week is the GoatCam, through which you can monitor real goats in real time. And, most likely in a tribute to the fake documentary Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, Goat Week takes a look at the legendary Goatman of Prince Georges County, Maryland.

When scared teenagers whisper about Goatman, not all agree on the form he takes. Some say he was a man who kept goats and went mad after teenagers killed his flock, driven to seek revenge against any youngster. But perhaps the most titillating version traces the origin of Goatman to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a sprawling USDA facility anchored by a big brick building appointed with white columns. In this version, a mad scientist is conducting experiments on a goat when something goes horribly wrong, turning him into a half man-half goat beast that is, naturally, hungry for blood.

Read the history of the Goatman tales and how this local legend became known throughout the nation, if not the world. Link

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Now that the weather finally is cooling down, it's time for a fun rainy day activity for the youngsters. While you'll do the fun part on a sunny day by applying NeverWet to your sidewalk with a stencil, the real pay off occurs when it rains and the area you painted stays dry.

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You know how cats love to play with paper. Fun to watch, but apparently the paper is pretty darned tired of it all. In this video, the paper fights back! -via Metafilter

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Paging Hello Kitty Hell, these Hello Kitty contact lenses are a whole new level of horror, going beyond cute and far into the realm of pure creepiness. For those interested, they come in all shades, but if you really want to bring attention to your adorable contacts then pink is certain to catch the eyes of others.

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Jackson Landers was bitten by a black widow spider that had taken up residence in his shoe. Not knowing how bad the bite was, he waited hours before going to the hospital. Even then, he knew that he might not get the classic antivenin used to treat spider bites.

While the antivenin has saved many lives, it carries dangers of its own. Some patients turn out to have a life-threatening allergy to horse proteins. So the medicine is given only if the victim seems to be at death’s door; most patients are expected to tough it out, an ordeal that can take days.

That night, I was the hospital’s closest thing to a rock star. A parade of residents and medical students stopped in my room to gawk at me; few had ever seen a black widow patient. By now, the pain had crept into my lower chest, sending out waves of muscle spasms.

The reason Jackson was not given painkillers was that he was a candidate to test out a new black widow bite antivenin called Analatro. Read about his experience, and learn more about black widow spiders, at the New York Times. Link -via Digg

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Looking to do something a little different with your pumpkin this year? Consider following the instructions on the Better Homes and Gardens website to make a great mummy pumpkin like this. Be sure to include eyes like the black marbles used in the picture though or else it might just look like it's been sliced up one too many times.

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The Costa Concordia cruise ship has been lying on its side, partially submerged off the Italian coast, since it ran aground in January 2012. Finally, a salvage crew began bringing it upright yesterday. The process took 19 hours and was completed this morning. This time-lapse video shows it in a mere minute. What's still inside? Just about everything that was there 20 months ago.

In the weeks after the accident, the divers called the inside of the ship a "toxic stew" of spilled oil, rotting food and floating tableware. There were five massive restaurants on the ship -- each one in operation when the ship crashed at 9:42 p.m. on January 13, 2013, spilling tables of buffet food into the water. More than a dozen kitchens and freezers had enough food to feed the 4,200 passengers and crew for a week, plus extra supplies that all cruise ships carry in case of emergencies and delays. Many of the freezers burst and their contents were gobbled up by sea life and the colony of sea gulls that has multiplied on the island since the disaster.

Fishermen off Giglio say that the fish have changed, too. They are much larger and harder to catch after gorging on the ship's offerings. The freezers that have not burst under the water pressure are still locked with their rotting thawed contents sealed inside. Fridges too, filled with milk, cheese, eggs and vegetables, have been closed tight since the disaster. One has to only imagine leaving a home freezer -- a fraction of the size of the industrial freezers used by cruise ships -- unplugged for 20 months to get an idea of the type of rancid mess trapped inside.

No one has been allowed inside the ship because it is considered a crime scene -32 people died in the wreck. The plan is for the passenger's belongings to be returned to them eventually. Link -via the Atlantic Wire

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Aleksandr Mushkin built this elegant wood and brass hippopotamus. It contains two small safes, one in the side and another in the rear. It has an obvious security flaw, but it's safe to assume that the hippo is intended for decorative rather than practical purposes.

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Monty Python's Wafer Thin Mints

Couldn't eat another bite? We are sure there is still room for one of Monty Python's Wafer Thin Mints. These little mints are perfect when you want a small explosion of flavor after a heavy meal.

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Written by Ali Almossawi and illustrated by Alejandro Giraldo, An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments explains logical fallacies so you can avoid using them or defend yourself against them -or at least recognize them. The cartoons that accompany each fallacy show animals who take the concept at hand to a ridiculous level. Above, you see the confusion of correlation and causation.

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"Equivocation" is when the meaning of a word changes in the middle of an argument. Suddenly, the argument makes no sense and it can be difficult to pin down why.

Consider the following argument: How can you be against faith when we take leaps of faith all the time, with friends and potential spouses and investments?    Here, the meaning of the word “faith” is shifted from a spiritual belief in a creator to a risky undertaking.

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Godwined! Or, guilt by association. If the bad guy likes the idea, the idea itself must be bad, no?

You can read the entire book online, but if you know someone who should own this, the hardback edition will be released in November. Link -via Buzzfeed

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Crab cakes are so boring and old school. Why bother with something so passe when you can instead enjoy deep-fried soup without even traveling to a KFC in Japan?

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