tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89919121686930313862024-02-20T05:01:55.999+11:00MUMMADUCKA'S KAOSMummaducka's Kkids, Kcooking, Kcracking- Whipcracking, Animals & Other StuffMummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-49672249322003381572015-04-26T19:50:00.001+10:002015-07-04T19:33:06.286+10:00The grass is greener<div>
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I'm loving my garden this year! It's giving me some beauties!! Sent via Adobe Photoshop Express (<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235">App Store</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.psmobile">Google Play Store</a> | <a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/adobe-photoshop-express/c08a0d72-28a1-465a-9e70-6a5b80b44d60">Windows Store</a>)</div>
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We had a wonderful Brolga in the White swamp near our place recently.</div>
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Early last month, we went fossicking for bits of metal around this old truck that's out in the paddock.</div>
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It's a lovely old truck, full of character. It would be fantastic if we could get someone to restore it, but I fear it is too far gone!</div>
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Daughter's shot of the grass, I worked on this one too.</div>
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Only a couple in the last 12 months. </div>
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But now they've been slowly increasing and we've been inundated in the last week.</div>
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Three separate mobs in the last 4 days.</div>
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We got the majority of one mob on Friday night, leaving only 2 piglets who got away.</div>
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The little piglets were pretty cute.</div>
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We gave chase,</div>
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Husband was charged by this old sow.</div>
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I was charged by her too and screamed and promptly ran and got back in the ute!</div>
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Henry was in the ute driving, squealing with laughter!</div>
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We felt a bit sorry for her as she seems to be missing her rear right trotter.</div>
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We wonder how she lost it, quite possibly another pig ate it off. yuk!</div>
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We went looking for them again this afternoon and only managed to find yet another new lot!</div>
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They were too far away to shoot. There was the most ginormous boar I've ever seen.</div>
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Good god I feel like I'm surrounded by the pigs from the book/movie Hannibal!</div>
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I went for a drive to take photos of an old truck and got a surprise at the calves being on the ground, we thought they might have been ready next month.</div>
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I now have a seventeen year old son!</div>
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My big boy had his birthday last week.</div>
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He's almost driving on his own.</div>
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Keeping the recipient out of the kitchen was a big job!</div>
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As requested by Sharon, The Pitman's Pullet Penitentiary Post.</div>
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The girls are doing well with their incarceration and hard labour all in the production of these.</div>
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There's just enough width between the two for the big dog to have made a nice racetrack around the hens!</div>
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It's very funny to see him running around and around with the little ones chasing him, oblivious to what it is he is obsessed with!</div>
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Inside the coop it's pretty ugly. The corrugated iron is from the old shed.<br />
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To get some shade on the coop in summer we've also planted some bamboo.</div>
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I love my chooks and love sharing their amazing abilities.</div>
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They lay eggs.</div>
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I just find this completely amazing.</div>
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A person I know whose family is in the egg industry once said to me, 'What other food can you get to feed a whole family so well, so cheaply?"</div>
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A dozen eggs can feed a family quite well for around 6 dollars.</div>
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I now have 24 hens. 12 old, and 12 young.</div>
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They have a special new chook yard that I have been waiting for since my birthday in February.</div>
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It was worth the wait! The boys have done a top job of it.</div>
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Mine have laying mash (I like the seedy stuff mixed with molasses) The pellets made one lot of my chooks lose all their feathers, I think it makes them too hot. We go through a bag of feed each week, plus they are free ranging these last couple of weeks. I let them free range each afternoon since their move into their new yard when I get home, they're waiting at the gate for me and I let them out for a couple of hours.</div>
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The old red girls are 3 or 4 years old, and the black ones are 2 years old.</div>
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They have just finished moulting and we have gone from 2 eggs a day from 11 hens to 6 eggs a day.</div>
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I'm pretty happy with that, I thought they might have been past it.</div>
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They're more interested in searching for scraps in the chookyard!</div>
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The chooks give them a little peck if they get in their space!</div>
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The young red ones are just starting to lay. I bought them back in March as 12 week olds.</div>
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Last year we didn't get any babies though as all the chooks were in the big aviary (where I would normally put the chicks) waiting for a new yard to be built, as the new shed built for the solar panels meant my old chook yard and veggie patch had to be demolished! </div>
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The best thing we've ever done around here was to put the fence up around the garden. </div>
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I had to really push for it after one of my german shepherds was run over on the road.</div>
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Now we can have some calves (and with a bit more fencing) hopefully some lambs in the paddock.</div>
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Each morning and night we go through the following routine with the motley crew!</div>
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In order to get them to come when called, we had to talk to them and say 'come on, come on' while they were being bottle fed in a confined space.</div>
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I also insisted that we rubbed them all over and talk to them the whole time so they aren't afraid of us.</div>
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This big guy hasn't ever been on milk.</div>
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Watering that grass has had me walking about 3 km every day just moving sprinklers and turning the hoses on and off. I am clocking up well over the 10 000 steps recommended most days.</div>
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It's the million dollar grass.</div>
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It's no secret that a huge part of Australia is in drought conditions.</div>
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We too have been having a fairly huge lack of rainfall around here! But we have been far more fortunate than others and we had a bit a few weeks ago and then another inch and a half today! </div>
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A few weeks ago I found this lovely out the front of my house on the main road, so I popped her in our paddock and waited for her owners to come and get her.</div>
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It was that day I thought I should start watering the paddock, so I spent a small fortune on sprinklers and hoses and fittings so that I could get it going.</div>
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It's nice and green now as I have been madly watering since early January. In order to prepare for an influx of these little suckers.</div>
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These guys were bought from the sale yards and had a really tough time in the drought. </div>
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Husband was hinting at bringing home a hundred of our own if the cows got too poor and stopped producing milk.</div>
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Thankfully that hasn't happened, they have struggled on with the supplements we have been giving them and the dry grass that was still in the paddock.</div>
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Daughter has now gone off to boarding school and this little boy needed some new brothers and sisters! So poddy calves it is!</div>
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A new netting and electric fence that keeps my doggies in!! </div>
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Lazy things we are!</div>
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"Sensational sunset after 1.5inches of rain!! The rain was most welcome, but not during our school swimming carnival where I got a nice little surprise when a past student told me I had given him THE BEST DAY OF HIS LIFE!! when I shared my (unhealthy) KFC lunch with him!! #itsthelittlethingsthatmattermost" <br /> </div>
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We had some rainfall this week, not as much as the near flood rainfall of January. </div>
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This old guy is on the mend after almost losing him 2 weeks ago. He has a bacteria in his sinuses that can block him all up and overwhelm his system and this time he just couldn't breath, nor eat, nor drink. It was so close!</div>
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I have mine set for automatic backup and it picks bursts of 5 or more shots- when I am shooting in continuous mode I shoot heaps!</div>
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I seem to have found a bit of a blogging voice again, along with painting my fingernails- that has been a long time coming as well. I have some new shatter polish that I have painted onto feature nails- my ring fingers, I haven't ever been a fan of the shatter polish, but I think I like this.</div>
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I was a bit consumed by work there for a while. Being the girls' supervisor I was organising a Girls' Savvy day. It was a bit like an all day party for 150 teenage girls. Imagine it!</div>
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It's taken me a while to recover! </div>
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I organised some personal care talks and a few activities for the girls based around the party theme as they are at an age where they are called upon to help out with siblings and other children relative's parties so we ended the day with a round of party games. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;">how to sew a button on</span></span>- and making a piece of art from it and I will make them into wall hangings for our Library, </div>
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and a bit of <span style="color: magenta;">jewellery making</span>- beaded bracelets on elastic for ease. </div>
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Mummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-56418873549537938882013-05-30T12:51:00.002+10:002013-05-30T12:51:57.978+10:00I'm Getting ready for a cold winter!<iframe id="vp1cY6mJ" title="Video Player" width="648" height="364" frameborder="0" src="http://embed.animoto.com/play.html?w=swf/production/vp1&e=1369881903&f=cY6mJNDpmXGXeXk6jrUeuQ&d=0&m=b&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&animoto_domain=animoto.com&options=" allowfullscreen></iframe><p>Try our <a href='http://animoto.com'>slideshow maker</a> at Animoto.</p>
What a fun thing this was. We saw cat beards on telly and just had to give it a try. But then it struck me that I knew someone with a fantastic beard. Thanks Miss Jaller the Cairn terrier!! This last photo has got me more likes on Instagram than any other shot I have posted!Mummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-70775917478230871322013-05-30T11:05:00.001+10:002013-05-30T11:07:49.323+10:00test<object id="vp1q6CEE" width="648" height="364" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/production/vp1&e=1369875692&f=q6CEEJgLYkjI6bLrjiVDZA&d=0&m=b&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=null&i=m&asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&animoto_domain=animoto.com&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp1q6CEE" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/production/vp1&e=1369875692&f=q6CEEJgLYkjI6bLrjiVDZA&d=0&m=b&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=null&i=m&asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&animoto_domain=animoto.com&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="648" height="364"></embed></object><p>Try our <a href='http://animoto.com'>slideshow creator</a> at Animoto.</p>
Just testing why my school blog won't accept this!! I'm very grateful that it works well here.
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Missy was not impressed to be a gum tree!</div>
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The pink roses were out of focus.</div>
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This is our first year without my Father In law to march in the Anzac Day March.</div>
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Our son wanted to march, wearing Pa's medals, with the servicemen and not with his school.</div>
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He did a great job, fitting in quite well with the older people, I think he chewed their ears off all the way up the main street.</div>
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Daughter marched with her school, wearing a great, great Uncle's medals</div>
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The little guy was a bit green by the time the service had finished. He was very happy to take a seat, get the hot vest off, and get a cool drink!</div>
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This past weekend it was our local show. </div>
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Luckily I had my camera to take photos of my own children in their Whipcracking demos.</div>
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Still, I wasn't really in the mindset on day 1 and missed heaps of opportunities to capture images as I was organising our kids and still recovering from a stomach flu the day before. I was very relieved to hear that there were a few of us put on the job!</div>
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I think I managed some artful ones on day 2!</div>
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A competition Wyandotte. with some editing and a texture added.</div>
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The farmers challenge, to see which group of 'farmers can complete a set of tasks first. My little guy had to show some of them how to start the Quad bikes ;)</div>
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I think we have THE best fireworks around, they go on for a full 10 minutes and are absolutely sensational! I am so pleased -I managed to get these in fully manual settings!!</div>
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Mummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-11698628487020681762013-04-20T09:54:00.001+10:002013-04-20T09:54:28.367+10:00What have I been up to?<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been pretty quiet here in the last couple of months as I have been deep in study. </div>
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Not for anything job associated or highly academic, but something new and a bit foreign to me.</div>
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I consider myself a lifelong learner and am always keen to run with learning new things when I get the urge.</div>
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I have been teaching myself photography skills, plus Lightroom and using presets and Photoshop and using actions, making watermarks and brushes and adding textures to images. Whew!!</div>
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I have been doing online courses/tutorials with Udemy, Kim Klassen (who has the most calm and soothing voice I have ever heard!) - using her textures, and MCP presets, actions and textures.</div>
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I'm loving it.</div>
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There's a lot more to learn!! I don't ever think I will be an expert, I just want to be competent.</div>
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Here's some examples:</div>
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Watermarks that I have made into brushes that I can change colour when I place them on images.</div>
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The difference between Raw and Jpeg coming out of my camera.</div>
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And saving images as PNG from photoshop, before posting to Facebook to reduce compression.</div>
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Images from the Kim Klassen tutorials (which I absolutely love- her button is down on the right) where textures and Text are added.</div>
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And my own images That I have manipulated and added text (in colours from the image) to.</div>
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I am really thrilled with how much I have accomplished.</div>
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Mummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-16037982564750880072013-03-19T23:25:00.001+11:002013-03-19T23:33:49.902+11:00Picasa web upload in LR without resizing photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The last three posts I have been testing publishing photos from my Lightroom catalogue to use in my blog- This I have found is best done via loading into google + photos = Picasa web albums. This one I have found finally works the best for me!</div>
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Picasa web uploads without resizing the photos.</div>
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Happiest!- I think!</div>
Mummaduckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538993178188989025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991912168693031386.post-49450725474084401752013-03-19T23:03:00.001+11:002013-03-19T23:03:09.913+11:00LR bees- Picasa web upload<div style="text-align: center;">
With this one I load to photos in Google plus or Picasa web albums and then log into the blog and then find and insert the photos.</div>
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A lot more steps, but I think better quality photos.</div>
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I am loving Lightroom, and how I can load straight to this blog post, via the LR blog plug in, after selecting my photos. I think I am going to use this function or Picasa web upload (perhaps better!) so very much!</div>
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Only thing is that you can't expand on the photos at all! Still- I am Happy happy happy!</div>
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