Music Week

Expanded blog post, October archive (in progress).

Tweet: Music Week: 50 albums, 4 A-list

Music: Current count 44977 [44927] rated (+50), 29 [20] unrated (+9).

New records reviewed this week:

• $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (2025, Lex/DB$B): [sp]: B+(***)
• Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (2025, Fönstret): [sp]: B+(*)
• Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (2025, Sciensonic, EP): [bc]: B+(*)
• Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (2022-23 [2025], OYO): [sp]: B+(*)
• Chrome Hill: En Route (2024 [2025], Clean Feed): [sp]: B+(**)
• Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (2024 [2025], Wide Hive): [cd]: B+(***)
• Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (2025, Versa): [cd]: B+(**)
• Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (2023 [2025], Buh): [sp]: B+(**)
• Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (2025, Sub Pop): [sp]: B+(***)
• Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (2025, Edition): [sp]: B+(*)
• Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (2020 [2025], Savant): [sp]: B+(***)
• Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (2003, Tru Thoughts): [sp]: B+(**)
• JID: God Does Like Ugly (2025, Dreamville/Interscope): [sp]: B+(***)
• Rick Keller: Heroes (2024-25 [2025], Vegas): [cd]: B-
• Zack Lober: So We Could Live (2025, Zennez): [cd]: B+(***)
• Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (2024 [2025], Edition): [sp]: B
• Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (2025, Puro Unity, EP): [bc]: B+(***)
• Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (2025, Relative Pitch): [sp]: B+(***)
• Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (2025, Pulse, EP): [sp]: B+(**)
• Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (2024 [2025], Silver Current): [bc]: B+(***)
• Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (2024 [2025], Calligram): [cd]: B+(***)
• Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (2025, American Dream): [bc]: B+{*}
• Kalie Shorr: My Type (2025, Pound It Out Loud, EP): [sp]: B+(***)
• Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (2024 [2025], Intakt): [cd]: B+(***)
• Sprints: All That Is Over (2025, City Slang/Sub Pop): [sp]: B+(***)
• Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (2025, Vegas): [cd]: B+(*)
• The Third Mind: Right Now! (2025, Yep Roc): [sp]: B+(***)
• Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (2023 [2025], Nyahh): [bc]: B+(***)
• UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1: Double or Nothing (2025, Vegas): [cd]: B
• Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (2025, Milan): [sp]: B
• Wednesday: Bleeds (2025, Dead Oceans): [sp]: A-

Recent reissues, compilations, and vault discoveries:

• Armen Donelian: Stargazer (1980 [2025], Sunnyside): [cd]: B+(**)
• Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition (2005-22 [2025], Domino): [sp]: B+(**)
• Mark O'Leary Group: I See Further Than You (2001 [2025], TIBProd.): [bc]: B+(**)
• Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Sings "Walkin' and Talkin'" and Other Smash Hits [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005 [2025], Yep Roc): [sp]: B+(**)
• Atef Swaitat: Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (1970s [2025], Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive): [sp]: B+(***)
• John Taylor: Tramanto (2002 [2025], ECM): [sp]: B+(**)

Old music:

• Abdullah: Life's Force (1979, About Time): [sp]: B+(***)
• Pheeroan ak Laff: House of Spirit: "Mirth" (1979 [1980], Passin' Thru): [yt]: B+(***)
• Willem Breuker Kollektief: William Breuker Collective (1983 [1984], About Time): [bc]: B+(***)
• François Carrier Trio With Uri Caine: All' Aba (2001 [2002], Justin Time): [bc]: A-
• Mike Clark: Plays Herbie Hancock (2022 [2023], Sunnyside): [spo]: B+(**)
• Jerome Cooper: The Unpredictability of Predictability (1979, About Time): [bc]: A-
• Jerome Cooper Quintet: Outer and Interactions (1987 [1988], About Time): [bc]: B+(***)
• Fred Hopkins/Diedre Murray Quartet: Prophecy (1990 [1998], About Time): [bc]: B+(***)
• Sam Jones Plus 10: The Chant (1961, Riverside): [sp]: B+(***)
• Joe Morris: Racket Club (1993 [1998], About Time): [bc]: B+(***)
• Mark O'Leary/Cuong Vu/Tom Rainey: Waiting (2004 [2006], Leo): [sp]: B+(***)
• Mark O'Leary/Ståle Storløkken/Stein Inge Braekhus: St. Fin Barre's (2002 [2008], Leo): [sp]: B+(*)
• Mark O'Leary/Eyvind Kang/Dylan Van Der Schyff: Zemlya (2004 [2008], Leo): [sp]: A-
• Mark O'Leary/Kenny Wollesen/Jamie Saft: The Synth Show (2005 [2008], Leo): [sp]: B+(*)
• The Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That? (1981 [1982], About Time): [bc]: B+(*)
• The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (1983, About Time): [bc]: B+(**)

Grade (or other) changes:

• Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album (1998 [2025], TIBProd.): [bc]: B+(*)
• Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (1999 [2025], TIBProd.): [bc]: B+(**)

Unpacking: Found in the mail last week:

• Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) [10-17]
• Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973, Time Traveler) [10-17]
• Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) [10-24]
• Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970, Time Traveler) [10-17]
• Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) [10-24]
• Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Time Traveler) [10-17]
• Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) [10-17]
• Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released) [08-14]
• Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) [10-17]
• Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music) [10-17]
• Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2) [10-17]
• Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (self-released) [09-12]
• Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music) [11-07]
• Pat Thomas: Hikmah (TAO Forms) [11-07]
• Patricia Thomson: Your Love (PT Designs Productions) [10-01]
• Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi) [09-26]
• Wayne Wilkinson: Holly Tunes (self-released) [11-07]

Daily Log

I got up at 6:48 AM. My eyes were too blurry to make out the digits, so I originally read them at 8:48, but thought it was too dark for that. I went to the bathroom, then back to bed, but couldn't go back to sleep. I gave up around 8. I read Beauchamp on Hungary, which didn't exactly cheer me up. I thought a bit about how to open Music Week. I thought about writing a post on the "Trump peace plan." I should do some Loose Tabs collection to get those points down. I also need to find out about the shutdown. That happened unawares to me, and curiously doesn't bother me at all. The Trump government is so rotten, my main regret is that they're not shutting enough of it down. But mostly I thought about the roof, the insurance company, and the contractors, all of whom failed to do the one thing I wanted done yesterday: to put a temporary patch up on the high roof before it rains and starts rotting out the decking and leaking into the attic and eventually the bedroom. They all promised me they would do this, and they all left without doing. The contractor promised to come back, and he didn't. And yes, it rained overnight.

Had I realized what was going on, I would have patched it myself. As it was, the best I could manage last night was to bring a tarp in from the shed and spread it out in the attic, where it should catch most of what drips through the holes. It's hell to get back to that part of the attic, so I started thinking about how to measure it and add some decking -- mostly how to support decking given the largely buried joists and oddly oriented rafter ties. It's an ugly job. And I'm pretty near hopeless here.

Dentist appointment today, at 3PM, to get "permanent" filling for the crown they tore up in doing the root canal "retreatment," which doesn't seem to have worked very well. I suppose I'll just work on computer today, at least until then.

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Got up at 9, sleep score 95, which I figured was as good as I could do, at least for today. Waiting for insurance adjusted and roofer, 1-3 PM, who hold my fate in their hands, and will no doubt clash over how best to spend my money. I went out and inspected the carport patio yesterday. The aluminum gutter tops showed evidence of hail hits, but nothing else did. I cut a couple branches back, but nothing major. I also went into the attic to see if I could find any evidence of roof damage. I found some, and took one picture of two spots, but I'm not really sure what I was seeing. I took a couple more general pictures.

When we first moved in, the attic was nothing but joists and blown-in rock wool (which in addition to being nasty covered up most of the knob-and-tube wiring, contra code; the wiring has since been disconnected, if not removed, replaced by romex that is mostly stapled to roof rafters). One of my first projects here was to drag some plywood up to the attic and build a deck around the stairs. Mike and Matt "helped," but they mostly fought with me, and we didn't get very far. My father had taken his attic space, floored it, and could use it for maximal storage. Early on he dropped the ceiling in the garage to get some head room up there. He initially used that part as a wood shop. Later on he turned it into a bedroom, which was my room from roughly 14 until I left for St. Louis. (After which it became Kathy's room. The advantage was maximal distance and isolation from the rest of the family.) So I was thinking along those lines, but I was never as competent or as desperate for space as my father was (plus we had all that disgusting rock wool to bury or dispose of), so that project floundered. But here I am again wondering whether I can hire someone to extend the decking: if not to the far edges, then at least down the center to the ends, where it would be nice to be able to dust off the vents.

I went out shopping yesterday. The car electronics remain very annoying: I have to manually dismiss two messages at start up: one is the legal disclaimer, the other a complaint about not being able to connect to Laura's phone. I sometimes get complaints about Laura's phone being low on power, even though it's not in the car. I have to fiddle with my phone to get Spotify working (well, I also have to set the audio source on the car to S9, but I have no ability to use it to change the music: that I have to do with the phone). I was able to get Google Auto to work once, but I wasn't able to do anything with it, and switching the audio source breaks the connection. Some of this is learning curve, but most of it is pure hate. I'm not sure that a different car would be any different, but it bothers me having been railroaded into this car. I'm going to have to seek out some expert advice. That seems to rule the dealer out.

Anyhow, shopping: I went to Home Depot to get a new soft toilet seat. I found a Glacier Bay one for $20, like I've been buying, but couldn't find online. Amazon had a bunch of $40-60 options, mixed in with risers that I definitely don't want, so for once the brick and mortar store seemed like the better idea. I also wanted to look at small ladders: a V that could straighten out to 12 feet, or one of those pop-up extension things. Amazon had both, weighing 30 lbs or less, for $100 or less. Home Depot didn't have anything like them. I can think of several uses, including with getting onto the high roof from the back roof, which might have been sufficient incentive to pick one up, but I definitely don't need/want the $350 monsters they had in stock. And it's not like the roofing people are lacking in ladders, or that I want to do their job.

I also wanted to pick up a couple light T-shirts with pockets. I shopped on Amazon, and couldn't tell what was what. (I had bought one shirt from them previously, and hardly ever wore it.) Kohl's had some "supersoft" T-shirts I liked, but last time I was there, they had nothing with pockets. So I thought I'd try Target. They had very little selection, but I bought one $15 shirt. Then I went to Kohl's, and struck out again, and then to WalMart, again finding nothing. I may have to try Amazon again. Seems like I'm buying a lot of crap there lately. I bought a flipper the other day, then compared it unfavorably to the one with the damaged handle I was throwing out. I checked the brand name and found I could have orderded an exact replacement instead, so I did. I figure it's not worth the trouble of returning the one I just got: I often find myself using 2 or 3, and the new one would work for that. Still annoying that I looked through 6-8 screens of spatulas/turners looking for one they had but I couldn't find.

I pretty much wasted the rest of the day. I picked up barbecue, and probably blew out my diet (but I hadn't eaten lunch). I replaced the toilet seat (but have no room in the dumpster). I did nothing to wrap up my "Cooking Chinese" blog post, so still have to do that today (along with Music Week, which may as well slide). I wound up spending some time on Amazon researching Indonesian cookbooks. I figure if that's my 75th birthday dinner, I'm entitled to a new cookbook or two, but so far pickings are slim. And then the first book I added to the shopping cart was an America's Test Kitchen book called When Southern Women Cook -- which suddenly is more of what I find myself craving.

Beauchamp ended his chapter with an argument that what's driving the "reactionary spirit" behind Trump is a "culture-first story," and not an economic gripe. I don't doubt that he is right, but Democrats lost out with white working class voters not because they didn't sufficiently cater to their prejudices and vanities but because they abandoned the economic arguments that should have favored them -- Biden perhaps less so than Clinton or Harris, if only because, being an old white dude and a bit of a clod, he seemed less obviously running away from the white working class.

I expected to do more Loose Tabs yesterday, but didn't get into it, either. I did notice a couple pieces on the "Trump peace plan" for Israel, which makes me think that maybe my next NOEL post should be my peace plan. I won't try to explain it here, but I did write some shortly after 10/7/2023, when the genocide had started but had not yet reached its point of no return. Since then, there's been little point, but if we're going to talk about what Trump's pushing, I might as well offer my two bits.

Just caught a small bit of rain. That bodes ill for today.

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Insurance adjuster(s) and contractor came on time, and did a pretty thorough job of looking at everything. Two major disappointments: insurance doesn't cover replacement value, but and worse still the insured value is being depreciated, approximately by 50%; also, the damage caused by windblown trees isn't covered. That's by far the most serious (and urgent to repair) damage. I don't have the report yet, but it's disappointing to have so little covered given that we haven't filed a claim since 2008. So it's probably worth rethinking our coverage, but that's little help now.

What's got me more chagrined right now is that while the insurance adjusters promised to cover the damage with a tarp before leaving, they didn't. Evidently our contractor told them he would take care of that, but he didn't do it either. I've left messages, and only got a text promise to call back, but no call by 7:45 PM, and it's dark now. That was the one thing I was really concerned about making sure of, and they totally blew it.

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Laura got confused last night about when to "fall back" the clocks. I got confused when I sat down at the computer and saw 2:06 AM. I was exhausted, and decided to treat that as my 3 AM cue to go to bed. When I did, the bedroom clock read 1:15 AM, in anticipation of a change that hadn't happened. In the morning, she admitted her error. I had woken up at 8-something, tried to sleep some more, got up 10-something, read some, and came down to write this at 11:17 AM. Sleep score was at 100, but I'm pretty tired.

I sent out the Substack post yesterday. I got 3 fairly quick likes, but no further reaction today (so far). I needed to update the website to pick up the new recipe links and the archival copy of the post. It occurred to me that since I was doing an early update, I could write some more on the topic, and file it as a blog post. I did write some, then remembered I needed to do the update, so I left what I wrote as a partial post. I wrote more later, and updated again before I went to bed. I expect to write some more today before I call it done. Other than that, I'll probably work on Loose Tabs.

Package came from Amazon, with a 9-inch tart pan, and an OXO Good Grips stainless steel turner. While the latter looked good, I still balked at throwing out my old GoodCook turner (the silicone handle grip had started falling apart). I tried searching for the brand, and found the one I wanted -- on Amazon, "only 3 left." I went ahead and ordered one. I figure I'll keep the OXO, but just like the shape of the GoodCook better. It's been my "first choice" implement, but I do on occasion need more.

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Cooking Chinese

Pick up text from here. I added to this several times, finally publishing on Oct. 6.

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Finally did manage to do some work on the Chinese cooking letter. Did a fair amount of editing along the way, which helps. Added one paragraph at the end. I think I need one (or two) more, but finally have an idea how to proceed.

I did take time yesterday to work on the bathroom sink. Small amount of water in the pan. When I started to work on it, I noticed that the nut that holds the lever ball in was loose, so I wondered if I could fix the problem simply by tightening it. I did so, and it helped, but there still appeared to be some leak. So I took the whole assembly out, and replaced it with a new one I had bought. The replacement had a push-down/pop-up stopper, so no external assembly. It was one piece, so you slipped it straight in from the top. The top had a silicone washer, so didn't need any plumber's putty. Then from the bottom, you slid another silicone washer up to the bottom of the sink, another plastic washer, and an aluminum nut, which had six faces, almost one inch high, so it was easy to get a wrench on to tighten it. Once the washers were tight, there was no place where it could leak. I then slid it into the plastic assembly below, with another rubber washer, and tightened the plastic nuts. Still dry today. I have some racks that fit in the vanity and slide out, so next step will be to install them. I replaced the old liner with some leftover vinyl flooring, and I've found a bit of trim to finish that off as well.

I was, however, embarrassed to find that the toilet seat replacement I had bought was the wrong one (round, where we need elongated). I shopped for a replacement on Amazon, but couldn't make up my mind, so I'll probably go out to Home Depot so I can see what I'm buying. Same problem with the short, lightweight ladders I've been looking at. I did, however, order a 9-inch tart pan, and an Oxo stainless steel flipper. Tarts seem like a nice dessert option if I can get the hang of the dough, and the smaller size is a good option. The handle on my old (much loved) flipper is deliminating, so it's probably headed for the trash. I had bought it at Dillons, but I haven't seen anything like it recently.

Got up after 10. Read some about "competitive authoritarianism" -- how autocracies, especially in the post-reconstruction south, learned to disguise themselves with democratic garb.

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Failed to wrap up my Substack post yesterday. Will try again today. Also made no progress on the Jazz Critics Poll website. Nor did I fix the bathroom sink, so tasks are piling up today. I did boil my chunk of pork, so I can make twice-cooked pork today. I still have fried rice and peanut noodles, so they will accompany. The pork recipe calls for bell pepper (and, I think, bamboo shoots), so that should suffice in lieu of a vegetable side. I just have to slice the meat, mix up a sauce, and do a quick stir fry. Only other things I got done yesterday were: take dog to vet; shop for groceries; pack the dumpster with tree detritus. Also agreed to use Interstate Roofing to repair the roof. Their manager will be available when the insurance adjuster comes on Monday.

Slept ok. Went to bed at 2:30, exhausted, and got up just after 10. Read the rest of the first chapter of Beauchamp. While I was thinking that today's "reactionary spirit" had nothing to react to, he largely answered that question: it wasn't in response to a revolution (like 1917, or 1789, or 1848), or to a more cultural upheaval like 1968, but to a long ferment of "progress," as those ideals became increasingly realized in western societies and around the world. Fair enough, but the current wave of fascism is not just reaction: it is agression, far in excess of any imagined provocation from a left which either only exists as a marginal fringe (still concerned to right prejudices against groups like LGBT+, whose importance largely exists on the right's targeting of them) or as a large but only casually principled democracy. Only to the far right do those groups appear to be any kind of continuity.

If the rich were smarter, they'd appreciate how well off they are, and embrace the neoliberal compromise, which allows them to keep and build on their riches, while allowing the working classes comforts and respect, and tolerating (and thus minimizing) individual quirks. But they're greedy bastards, relentlessly seeking power, which they can only prove by forcing their supposed enemies to bow and scrape. And since they cannot distinguish between liberal impulses that pay respect to equality and more radical agendas to promote justice, they seem hellbent on making enemies (and potential allies) of the majority, not just by insulting them but by breaking their otherwise comfortable world. Today's right is in radical overreach mode, which so many people were in denial about until Trump took office.

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Spent all day yesterday working on my Chinese meal post. Got to the end of the dinner, and the plate photo, but couldn't come up with a way to wind up. Several ideas floating through my mind, but none are especially good. I'll need to settle on one today. Only other schedule item is to take the dog to the vet late afternoon. Although it occurs to me that I have a chunk of pork I picked up in last week's shopping that I should boil -- first step toward making twice-cooked pork, which doesn't obligate me to take the second step right away. But we still have fried rice and noodles left, so that should suffice as a dinner for two.

Exhausted again last night. Got up at 7, then again at 10:30. Started reading Zack Beauchamp's The Reactionary Spirit. Turns out I already had a cover scan, so all I had to do was to add it to the "Recent Reading" list. I've been thinking about "waves" of fascism, where the 1930s were the last, and we seem to be going through an analogous period, so is this a second wave? Or was there another one worth noting? It depends a lot on how much weight (and what sort of slant) you put on Reagan and Thatcher, but if that's a second wave, Pinochet is the star attraction. The usefulness of this conception may depend on looking back a decade-plus to the revolutionary upheavals the reaction weighed against. There it's easier to set up analogies between 1917-22 and the late 1960s than it is to find provocation for the current reaction. The latter seems to be more rooted in dissatisfaction with Reagan-Thatcher (and their reconciliation through Clinton-Obama and Blair) than with any sort of political upheaval. (Cultural is perhaps a different story.)

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I was so exhausted last night I went to bed at 1:30. I got up around 8:30, but the machine only registered 259 minutes, 80 score. I vaguely recall waking up earlier and finding the mask off. I read into Graham's final chapter on defense and foreign policy, with Project 2025's twin challenges of countering China and purging the war departments of any inclination to wokeness. Conspicuously missing is any mention of Israel, which since the 1990s has been the bedrock (or cutting edge?) of Vulcan (neocon) foreign policy. Trump's worldview differs from Cheney's in some cosmetic details, but the deep faith in muscle endures, even if the ends have shifted to something more squalid and corrupt. I should finish the book today, so we'll see whether that omission holds up. Graham is one of my jazz poll voters, so I'm likely to write to him afterwards.

Big relief to get the car registered and the tag ordered. We went out to dinner last night (Thai Tradition), and some specialty grocery shopping (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's). We had a lot of trouble fighting with the electronics. Laura's phone outranks mine, so when we both get into the car, it connects to her audio book instead of my Spotify. I find it virtually impossible to pick out new music with Spotify on the phone. At one point, I got Chuck Berry's Definitive Collection selected, which is always welcome. But last night, it ran out mid-drive, and I couldn't select anything else with voice commands while driving. Eventually I did manage to restart it. Still very unhappy that we don't have CDs. Generally unhappy with the car, but we're probably stuck with it for now. I feel like we got railroaded into this purchase, but that in itself warns against trying to do anything rash on the rebound.

Started writing a NOEL post last night, on cooking Chinese. Only got two paragraphs in, but that may be all the start I need. Will expand a bit on how and why I cook, then get into the meal details (which I've mostly written up in notes already). Street is closed today for repaving. They've been working this morning, but seems quiet now (11AM), so maybe they're done. They did a couple of adjacent blocks yesterday, and opened them up pretty quickly. We have no needs to go out today, but have the dog appointment tomorrow, insurance on Monday, dentist on Tuesday. I should renew driver's license next week. Aside from writing, one key project today will be to finally fix the bathroom sink drain. I have a new drain spout piece that should be foolproof. Once that is done, I can install the racks and some trim and call it done.

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