diff --git a/recipes/ac-octave.el b/recipes/ac-octave.el
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+(:name ac-octave
+       :type emacswiki
+       :description "octave completions support for auto-complete"
+       :autoloads t)
diff --git a/recipes/emacs-grads.el b/recipes/emacs-grads.el
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+(:name emacs-grads
+       :type git
+       :url "git://github.com/yyr/emacs-grads.git"
+       :website "http://www.iges.org/grads/grads.html"
+       :autoloads t)
diff --git a/recipes/epresent.el b/recipes/epresent.el
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+(:name epresent
+       :type git
+       :url "git://github.com/eschulte/epresent.git"
+       :description "make presentation slides from a org-mode file within emacs"
+       :autoloads t)
+
+
+
diff --git a/recipes/profile-dotemacs.el b/recipes/profile-dotemacs.el
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+(:name profile-dotemacs
+       :type http
+       :url "http://www.randomsample.de/profile-dotemacs.el"
+       :description "profiles your .emacs"
+       :autoloads t)