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Ok, so we all know that you can drink mate out of a gourd through a bombilla. We know that some people brew it in handy little tea bags. I even use my coffee maker to make up large quantities to have over ice. What I'm wondering is how other people are brewing and using mate. Here's your chance to share your secrets. It's time to share your favorite use for mate. What else do you mix with it? Do you have a mate cookie recipe? Does it keep dogs off your lawn? Might it be a fossil fuel alternative?
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, January 23, 2004 - 4:35 PMyou have just opened up a whole new world to me....
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sat, January 24, 2004 - 9:39 AMRight on!
Over the holidays we were mixing our usual summer liquer 'The Captain' with our Mate. Niiiice...warming, and jus t a little honey. lip-smmmack! -
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Yerba Mate smokes, soda, and more
Fri, January 30, 2004 - 6:15 PMHere's a couple-
I once flavored a hand rolled tobacco cigarette with yerba mate and it was better than any clove I have ever smoked. I had that same rich, flavorful smoke as a clove, but it wasn't harsh! It was just magnificent. I must temper that comment by owning up to the fact that I had been eating green cookies all night, so I may have to try that again in a more objective state of mind.
I have also been thinking about creating Yerba Mate soda-- ever since I discovered that soda is really just strong tea, syrup, and bubbly water. I have been thinking how to do it and I'm about ready to give it a try-- I'll keep you posted.
My favorite coffee shop int he world: The Good Cup in Santa Barbara, makes something called a Chewbaca-- A full cup of yerba with chai powder mixed in. That's a great kick.
As for my usual morning yerba, it's usually a cuppa hot water with three teabags and some hunnay. It's great with some rice milk thrown in there too. -
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Re: Yerba Mate soda
Wed, February 4, 2004 - 7:49 PMthe mexican shops in SF sell cool Mate soda in cans ... -
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Re: Yerba Mate soda
Wed, February 4, 2004 - 8:50 PMReally?
Do you know any brand names I can check into? -
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Re: Yerba Mate soda
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Re: Yerba Mate soda
Sun, February 15, 2004 - 4:31 PMThanks. CJ. I'll check into it... -
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Re: Yerba Mate - many ways of using the yerba
Fri, February 27, 2004 - 6:56 AMhere i share with you two ways i use yerba mate beside
drinking from gourd with bombilla or da french press.
occasionally place the mate in a tea-egg (?) [it is a small closed container with holes all around it] and let it sit in wine or bear before consuming the liquid
when i make rice, instead of water will use the tea of yerba mate, same for preparing soups. while surely will cook away some of the 196 nutritive ingredients, surely some remains from the yerba. -
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Re: Yerba Mate - many ways of using the yerba
Fri, February 27, 2004 - 1:23 PMWOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
thanks for that.
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Re: Yerba Mate - many ways of using the yerba
Fri, February 27, 2004 - 3:54 PMExcellente! Anybody ever bake with this stuff? Yerba brownies, perhaps? -
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Re: Yerba Mate - many ways of using the yerba
Thu, August 21, 2008 - 9:12 PMWhy yes! Yerba Mate Tea Gourd Greenies I call them and have the whole recipe here www.yerbamateteagourd.com/recipes.php. The really decadent thing is to make two layers: one with coffee flavor and the other with yerba and then ice it over with chocolate. The only way to improve upon that [I suppose] would be to use doctored butter as well--but I leave that up to your imagination.
Be careful--as my habit is to consume any sweet with a nice mate and, if you do so, you may be a bit overstimulated. I recommend milk if you need to be coherent shortly after eating them. Enjoy!
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Re: Yerba Mate soda
Mon, September 10, 2007 - 3:48 PMsol mate, commonly sold at health food stores.
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Re: Yerba Mate in SF
Sun, August 15, 2004 - 11:41 PMthe larger produce stores on 24th street have several varieties of mate. a one pound bag is something like five or six bucks.
The store at 25th and Mission sells Cruz Rioja and Roseamante brands...
Just FYI.
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Re: Yerba Mate in SF.... 13 varieties!
Tue, August 17, 2004 - 12:02 AMYeow - Just went to Casa Lucas @ 2934 24th street
They had Thirteen diffent varieties of Mate - different brands, flavors, bulk and in tea bags.
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Re: Yerba Mate smokes, soda, and more
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 5:26 PMit's already been done
check out Materva
have been thinking of making my next terere with it
or would that be overkill?
lol
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, March 26, 2004 - 7:32 AMyerba & rum (cruz de malta & bacardi white, for the name brand conscious)..it was alright, not spectacular -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, July 11, 2004 - 2:18 PMBooze...? Apparently the kids in Formosa, Argentina to avoid getting hassle from the cops when they're hanging around drinking on street corners (kinda like the botellón that used to happen in Madrid) they just filled their thermoses with beer or wine - problem solved! No idea how it tastes though -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, August 21, 2008 - 9:19 PMYes again! Making a traditional mate dulce (sweet mate with sugar) and pouring a dash of good whiskey over it before the hot water is excellent. I give you my link as a matter of shameless self-promotion and goodwill... www.yerbamateteagourd.com/serving.php
We learned this recipe from Tio Pancho--when we went to visit him in his typewriter repair shop in La Pampa and, upon seeing him with the whiskey bottle, asked him what he was up to. One, of course, doesn't have much to do in a type writer repair shop these days!
Cheers!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, March 28, 2004 - 2:44 PMNo...no cookie/mixed-drink recipes yet (although it might be nice with tequila, spiced rum, or brandy). I tend to use loose tea in a French press or single-cup filter (I used to have a percolator made specifically for tea, but the teapot broke, dammit), and sweeten it with turbinado sugar.
And there's a commercial product that I've developed a taste for: SoBe Fuerte. It's yerba with orange and mango juice and guarana.
-K.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 7:13 PMMagic Mate' Mushroom Tea (also very good with a couple heaps of hot chocolate mix)
plant food (just a theorey, any thoughts?) -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 5:55 AMprolly have to make the shroom tea separate before adding to mate so as not to boil the mate, no?
Since Mate supposedly works synergistically with other healing herbs it can be added with them to catalyse them further including cannabis;) -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 9:41 AMwell you should not boil mushroom tea either
it is even more delicate -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Tue, February 1, 2005 - 6:04 PMthat's not what i heard- i low simmer of the shrooms- similar to how you would prepare roots and barks- especially if they are dried...
now this is a whole new world to me....
time to scavenge
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Tue, February 1, 2005 - 6:06 PMi have used my teas in the compost- when i had outdoors- very very good! for compost- i dunnno about the strait tea- tannins are good for some plants- but i woudn't say as a food base- not extremely sure- but yay for rotted tea compost
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Mon, January 14, 2008 - 9:16 PMMate, ginseng, San Pedro cactus, shroom, and coca leaf. -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, January 17, 2008 - 7:08 PMKrista's earlier post was not entirely accurate
"Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Mon, January 14, 2008 - 9:16 PM
Mate, ginseng, San Pedro cactus, shroom, and coca leaf. "
The complete Dreamtime blend was as follows:
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Yerba Mate (several different brands and consistencies)
American Ginseng root
Red Panax Ginseng root
Eleuthero root (Siberian Ginseng)
Maca root (Peruvian Ginseng)
Ashwagandha root
Gotu Kola
Ginkgo Biloba leaf
Guarana seed
Green Tea
Spirulina
Peppermint
Spearmint
Coca leaf (Elotherium coca)
Peruvian Torch (Trichocereus peruvianus) Cactus skin
Psilocybin Mushrooms
Salvia Divinorum leaf
Love
Light
High Frequency Distilled Water
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Thanks everyone for all the great recipes.
-Namaste
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, August 15, 2004 - 11:34 PMAt the bar I work at we do a mate-vodka infusion.
with pinapple juice, a little 7 up it's called a buzz bomb
with red bull it's called crack.
even better is a mate mind eraser -
in a tall collins glass - Ice - shot of mate-vodka - about a half shot of Kahlua layered ontop of the vodka and a float of soda water. Place long straw in bottom and suck until it's gone... then bzzzzzz.
We also usually keep an air pot full of the tea. It's really usefull on long shifts.
The whole staff is hooked and rather evangelical.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, October 31, 2004 - 3:42 PMMy favorite is the mate latte;
Steep xtra strong mate in a french press. Add honey and rice or soy milk(or moo juice if it doesnt tear you up!)
great hot or cold
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, November 5, 2004 - 1:35 AMmate put through an expresso press with fresh cocoa leaves..that some buzzzzzzzz...... -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, November 11, 2004 - 1:03 PMwhere do you find cocoa leaves?
i did a show with mate and tequila...not mixed, just a sip from one, a sip from another as the night went on...the buzz from the two mixed very nicely...
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, November 28, 2004 - 11:10 AMstolen ideas from Mate Factor in Manitou Springs, CO--- with grape juice (how I learned to love the green taste) peach juice or apple juice...organic of course.
I like it as a mate-lemonade.
I HAVE used the rinsings of the french press on plants and they LOVE it. Better results than coffee grounds. -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sat, March 8, 2008 - 3:19 PMCoffee grounds attract earthworms in the soil. Worm poo is THE best compost. That's why not so much for houseplants. Earthworms on caffiene, yay! Poo poo poo! -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 11:55 AMBack when we where worm farming in Florida, we'd put in our mate grounds and the worms would LOVE it. They prefered them to anything else we ever put in.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate ---NYC
Fri, January 21, 2005 - 10:04 AMOn the lighter side of mate...Mate Ice Cream! It's the best ice cream i've had in a long time. The shop is near the corner of Bleeker and 6th ave, NYC
I ll get the exact address if you wanna check it out
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate ---NYC
Fri, January 21, 2005 - 6:44 PMHmmm...I like it to taste like dirt. A lot of my friends put a bunch of honey and junk and syrups, but I say nay.
Yes, plants love it and so do worms...good for soil. Composte is always good...except some times.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, January 21, 2005 - 8:00 PMI buy the Guyaki brand in the orange bag sold at Wild Oats. I buy it in the Loose bag and toss it in my espresso machine and I drink it with honey and milk (soy or cow). Yuuuuummm!!!! And it smells too damn good for anyone to refuse it when I offer... ! My ex (whose from Porto Alegre, Brasil), her family, friends and all the rest of the Southern Brasilains who I know curse me for drinking it that way... Blasphemous they call it! lol
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Tue, January 25, 2005 - 4:36 PMI brew my mate in a ceramic pot. And strain it when I poor a cup out.
I mix all kinds of herbs with it.
Ashwaaganda is a very nice herb to mix with it.
Peppermint of course.
Gotu Kola is another nice one. Dont add to much of this. It tends to turn bitter/sour after it sets out a few hours.
Astragalas is a good one to add.
Ginger! and or lemon.
Maca is another great herb to mix!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, January 28, 2005 - 10:16 PMYerba Mate Chai Goat Milk Latte:
first, put a bunch of handfuls of yerba mate in a jar with enough cold water to completely cover it so it starts seeping, let it sit and wait,
then, boil up a huge vat of licorice root, (along with other herbs like astragalus and oregon grape root,) for about 5-10 mechanical minutes, then turn it down to low and pour in a bunch of raw goat milk, stevia (herbal sweetener), cardamon, nutmeg, a little ginger power, and then stir in the steeped yerba mate.
let it sit for a few moments, then strain into a cup and ENJOY -
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Earl Grey Mate
Sat, March 12, 2005 - 7:02 PMI just got some essential oil of Bergamot, the stuff that makes Earl Grey tea smell so magical. I'm going to try it in some mate-- perhaps with some lemongrass and lemon.
Wish me luck!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, March 24, 2005 - 3:04 PMThere is a classic way to drink mate at the north of Argentina, just pour cold orange juice.
I love to drink mate with warm milk, and if you want mate-soda, just change water for club soda. I love to put brown sugar on it, just to please my sweet tooth.
I been drinking mate since I was a child with my grandparents back in Argentina, and the true it's that I keep drinking mate just to remember them, I love the flavor and everything, but mate it's more a tradition, that’s why we do it, to share a moment with friends, or perhaps to make a moment eternal. My grandparents are gone, but every morning their souls sit down with me and share mate.
Thanks for reading.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Wed, April 6, 2005 - 4:51 AMso where do you buy cocoa leaves? and why does it ruin mate to make it with boiling water. i use the french press too... it can be kind of a mess though.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, April 10, 2005 - 9:58 AMmy sweetie uses fresh squeezed citrus, usually grapefruit, and a chunk of crystallized ginger.
we also have aguave nectar and Madhava honey, raw, fro sweetening, which is about 1/3 of the time (as i said, I used grape and other sweet juices in my cold mate)
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, August 21, 2008 - 9:27 PMI liked your post. The mate is a soul drink and binds us with feelings to those close to us. Then, when I'm alone... maybe I pour "Squirt" and ice on the leaves on a hot day for a blasphemous version of Terere! jeje! Chau!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Wed, April 6, 2005 - 12:15 PMIn a french press, before adding hot water, add just enough cold water to make a green sludge, let soak for 30-60 seconds, this releases minerals and vitamins that hot water can not. Then I add hot, steep for 1-2 minutes at the most, them press and serve quickly. Add honey and soy or half/half sometimes.
MMMMMMMMMMM.
Trust
PS can no one answer my search for bulk in LA? -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Wed, January 24, 2007 - 11:41 AM
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Mon, January 14, 2008 - 9:20 PMI don't know about LA, but in Salt Lake the Spanish markets carry it in bulk. You might try looking at one there (I'm sure there are PLENTY in LA!)
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, August 21, 2008 - 9:32 PMYou can save yourself a drive through the traffic. 50 miles @ 30 MPG is 1.6 gallons x $4.00 = $6.40 you can use toward shipping. For $10.00 shipping we can send you 6.69-lbs. of yerba. I wouldn't mind opening a shop in L.A. if someone else would run it. Good luck. www.yerbamateteagourd.com
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Terere with diferent herbs
Thu, April 14, 2005 - 5:11 PMTerere is like mate, but cold and with other herbs. It is tipical from paraguay.
I drink terere at the office almost every day. Depending on the mood, with lemon, mint leaves, ginger or citronela. There are also some pre mixed products in the local market that are gaining notoriety, most of them mix mint and boldus.
The primary requirement is that the water should be really cold. Usually a mix 60 % water 40 % Ice and the mixture of smashed herbs in a termic container. Serv in the "guampa" drink with the "bombilla". -
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Re: Terere with diferent herbs
Mon, May 2, 2005 - 3:16 PMin regards to the tea bags, does anyone else out there think that they suck? i had a mate latte made for me at a coffee stand they used tea bags--i asked for 2 bags because i thought it would be weak, but it came out tasting really nasty. not sure why...but it seems that Yerba Mate wants to be free to float in the hot water.
m7
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Wed, January 24, 2007 - 10:32 AMSome people use yerbamate's leaves to dye wool, cloth and fibres. And it does work!!!!!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Wed, January 24, 2007 - 1:26 PMCheck out this new organic beer company: www.mateveza.com. Yup, mate beer!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, January 25, 2007 - 7:46 AMHi there!
Love to find a place of Yerba Mate fans!!!
I´m argentine and as you probably know it´s our national drink.
I would suggest you try organic yerba mate, it tastes better and you will be helping small farmers as well
an the environment.
Here´s an interesting slide show on how we brew it in South America :
www.mymateworld.com/step1.htm
I hope this will be of interest!
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Mon, January 29, 2007 - 12:20 PMThis little store in winnipeg sells mate power bars, i'm not sure how they extract the mate goodness, i think if i where going to make them, i'd soak some green mate in cold water for an hour then strain and mix with agave nector for the liquid part of the recipe, then add nut butter and oats and flax.... yum, i'm gunna go do it right now.
peace
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 2:34 AMThe absolute best way to drink this fabulas tea is with Vanilla Silk soy creamer (the little blue container) Yeah Baby! Absolute YUM! Y'all gotta try it! -
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Fri, September 28, 2007 - 2:48 PMi love this tribe.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, September 30, 2007 - 4:06 PMI did try it with the vanilla soy creamer.....and oh my gosh....
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Sun, December 9, 2007 - 5:48 PMI mix the mate with nettle and add a couplr drops of peppermint oil to the final brew. Green and minty
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Thu, January 24, 2008 - 11:05 AMI put my brasilian mate together with roasted mate, chimarrao and stevia for a delicious morning wake up. I used to use mix goat milk and honey and add that in too. Awesome. For other interesting additions I put in holy basil (tulsi), damiana and roobios.
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Re: 101 uses for Yerba Mate
Tue, March 18, 2008 - 11:46 PMi like to drink my mate cold with a bombilla. i usually add some rooibos as well, and have found that fresh lemon grass from the garden makes a great addition. other favorites are licorice root and a TINY touch or cayenne pepper. by drinking it cold i get the same flavor with quite a few cups, thus increasing the use of a small amount of mate and keeping myself well hydrated.
i have also found that a pinch of used mate (cold) will help some houseplants root in water faster
peace
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