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Mosaic Shelter |
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Ruins |
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Greek Theater |
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Collin |
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The Boys enduring a lecture |
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Main street view |
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Pear-a-cleeze the great orator |
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enthusiastic fans |
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another performance |
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This place is cool! |
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Carvings |
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Pilgrim on the apian way |
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Even Spence liked this |
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A young archeologist and future "Dr. Schumaker" |
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Sub Floor in the Roman bath house |
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Smoke chambers |
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Dirt |
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Road Stones |
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Earth Quake that destroyed Bet Sh'ean |
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Ruins |
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Columns |
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Big Place |
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A long climb |
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Dirt |
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Atop the tell |
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Tell 2 |
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Looking East over the Jordan towards Sauls Burrial from Bet Sh'ean. 1 Samuel 31 |
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vista view |
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North towards Galilee |
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Old Roman Bridge |
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Sauls Story |
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Sauls Story 2 |
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Sauls Story 3 |
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Sauls Story 4 |
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Sauls Story 5 |
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Sauls Story 6 |
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Debbie Liked it |
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Olive tree shade |
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Me |
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I Like Olive Groves |
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Bone yard of ruins |
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How did they figure all this out? |
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Ruins |
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Corridor |
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Entry |
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Stage Right |
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The Crowd roars |
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The Floor |
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Collin |
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Real stone
Roman Carvings |
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Out side the Jafa Gate |
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Roof Tops |
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Boys |
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Near the zion Gate , David's tomb and the "upper room" |
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Bullet riddled (6 day war '67) Zion Gate |
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From Mount of Olives |
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Inspireing |
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Jewish tombs |
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Jerusalem |
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Jerusalem 2 |
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Whole Family |
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Christmas Card shot |
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Garden of Gethsemane |
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Church at Gethsemane |
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Looking up at the wall from Gethsemane |
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Over view |
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View |
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Rampart Walk |
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Dome of the Rock in the back |
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Approaching the Western Temple Wall |
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City Street |
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walking tour |
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Dates and Figs |
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Collin at the Damascus Gate |
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Modern Crusader |
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Damascus side |
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The Wall |
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Market shopping |
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Creps |
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I mean Creeps |
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Brunch on a terrace |
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Hungry |
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beautiful weather |
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Ben Yehuda street alley |
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a brush with the long arm of the law |
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City hall |
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tired pedestrians |
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construction site |
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The garden tomb on easter sunday. It was closed!!!!!!!!!! |
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View of the valley after a tour at the new holocaust museum |
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Yad Veshem museum |
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Opening day. We met tattoed survivers from consentration camps. |
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shopping |
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Judean caves |
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Masada! |
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Cable car to the top |
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Boys get a lecture about Masada |
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Romans siege the Fortress |
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not a cloud in the sky |
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but win a hard long empty vicory |
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the water shed basin |
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Herrods residence and the outer cisterns |
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Looking west |
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left over movie props from the early 80's |
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Looking west |
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Ruins |
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not a drop of water |
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Dead sea in the back |
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Nice Jewish family weathering the siege |
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Flowers in full bloom |
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March is beautiful here. |
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Oh Israel! |
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Cable car |
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Receeding Dead sea |
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Qumron |
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Hot and tired boys |
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Old Syrian bunker |
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sea of galilee from atop Golan |
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Looking North |
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Looking toward capernaum |
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inside the bunker, |
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Looking north west towards Lebanon |
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A kibutz once the target of Syrian Shelling and gun fire |
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An easy target for the Syrians |
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Organic farming at the Kibutz |
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Galilee |
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Collin |
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bunker entrance |
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bunker look out |
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bunker advantage |
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a much better use for the bunker |
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bunker boys |
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Wind power for the Golan |
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Russia/Syrian spoils of war |
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This thing was a death trap |
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Carefull! |
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they had to be short |
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My first Tank Command |
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Collin speaking Russian |
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Spence considers shelling Syria |
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Decides it makes a better playground |
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Horse |
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E'rin go brag? no this is Israel. |
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Lush green |
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Debbie's lost |
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New Israeli vantage point bunker |
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Flowers in bloom |
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Tanks, its just part of life in the Golan |
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Ancient pre israelite burrials at Gamela |
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I asked a wise man "what is a kibutz"? |
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He said I have lived in a Kibbutz for 18 years, |
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And I am not sure I know what a kibbutz is! |
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People share buildings but not neccessarily houses |
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They farm, work, manufacture in |
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cooperative peace, and share resources. |
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It's socialism sort of |
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but they welcomed us as guests, and fed us too! |
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Thanks so much Oded! |
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Here we are |
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Peter's house? |
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Capernaum 6th century synogog built on the ruins of the old synagog. |
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Restored ruins |
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Would bible desciples recognize these streets? |
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Oded knows alot |
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Capernaum ruins |
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an olive oil press |
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gallilee |
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old baptismal |
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Church of the multiplication (5 loaves and two fish) |
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The fransiscan monks are meticulous |
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Bouganvilla in bloom |
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new freinds |
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The road back towards Jerusalem. Up hill all the way. |
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We loved date palms |
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Gallilee |
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Boat model |
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a 2000 year old vessel |
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found durring slack water in '86 |
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preserved and documented |
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spence on the shore at Gallilee |
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Collin tired of posing |
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Great place for jetskis |
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Driving south towards Nazareth |
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Endless wheat |
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Not a weed nor tare to be found |
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a quick stop at meggido some history and off we go |
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ariel poster of Meggido |
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Ceasarea
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Nearing the end of our trip |
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The sunset at the aqueduct that brought water |
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9 miles from the hills |
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to Crazy King Herrod's gift |
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of a city, "Ceaserea" |
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We found some potery and cool stuff here |
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Sand dunes drift over the ruins |
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an artsy shot |
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all with slave labor and no internal combustion engines |
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The Kangaroo Zoo Near Gilboa
Comentary
All in all we had a fantastic time this last week (March 24th-31rst, 2005). The country is amazingly diverse.
The cities are as varied as anywhere on the planet, as are Israel's people. The mountains are
beautiful. The deserts are amazing. Intifada (the recent war of terror) is over. We felt
safe the entire time. The food was awesome. We loved every second of our trip!
Special thanks to Oded, our tour guide for several days.
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