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Zafar Anjum: The man behind the 'dream-making' – Filmwallas
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Garima Kapil Friday, January 27th 2017
Last few weeks have seen some heavy-duty action in Hindi cinema. What with two big blockbusters, Raees and Kaabil, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan respectively, releasing on the same day. Connected to India was at forefront tracking the big stars and covering the big releases.
Perfect time to talk to an NRI filmmaker who has recently started a company called Filmwallas. Singapore-based Zafar Hasan Anjum is also a writer, journalist, media consultant, entrepreneur and the founder of a publishing company called Kitaab International.
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Zafar Anjum
Zafar has worked in Australia, Singapore and India with companies like Fairfax Business Media, Executive Networks Media, Encyclopaedia Britannica and MediaCorp. Zafar is the author of bestsellers such as, The Resurgence of Satyam (Random House India, 2012), Startup Capitals: Discovering the Global Hotspots of Innovation (Random House India, December 2014), and Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician (Vintage Books/Random House India, 2014).
Born in Kishanganj, Bihar–a small town in India–Zafar has studied at some of India's prestigious educational institutions such as the Indian Institute of Mass Communications (Delhi), Jawaharlal Nehru University (where he dropped out of a Masters programme) and Aligarh Muslim University. He also has a certification in Screenplay Writing from the University of the Arts, London.
Connected to India spoke to Zafar about his journey and goals ahead. Excerpts.
CtoI: How did you think of starting Film Wallas?
Zafar Anjum: There are three important trends in the video content space that grabbed my attention: there has been an explosion in the creation and consumption of video content, the duration of video consumption is becoming shorter (watching a short video on Whatsapp or your Facebook page while traveling on a bus or a train) and the rise of the creator-consumer. Today, anyone with a smartphone and the desire to make a film can easily create and share video content. And I can see my 11-year-old daughter doing this every day. She makes videos using her iPhone and shares them with her friends, and the wider world. And she does not do it for any monetary benefit. She does it for fun and for building her social capital. It makes her happy. Many of her friends are doing the same. Futurist Gerd Leonhard says that if you want to know the future, look at your children. What they do today will be the future tomorrow? So, the video is the new language for us, and we are going to express ourselves through video more and more. On the consumption side, the growth of digital media platforms (such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime and HotStar in India), along with the growing rate of mobile penetration, is powering this trend. That's one.
Second, in my own case, when I came to Singapore, I had no friends who could help me put a film together. I knew only writing. Who would direct my film, who would edit it, where would find actors and other collaborators, especially when I had nearly a zero dollar budget? There was no answer to all these questions. Professionals in the film and TV industry wouldn't bother to work with me. I was a nobody and they don't have the time to do unpaid stuff. So, there was a need for a platform like Filmwallas that solves the problem of someone like me: how to find the right people and resources, and how to get your perfect team together?
Now put yourself in my place. You might be working in a bank in New York or Singapore or you might be a school teacher in London or a salesman in Chandigarh but you have an idea to make a film. Where will you find collaborators, under one roof, across geographies, and cultures to realise your dream? The idea behind Filmwallas was to enable this access and collaboration for 'dream-making'.
On the other hand, there are problems with the film industry too. They are always looking out for new talent and it takes them a lot of time to find talent through traditional means. Now, there are many people out there who are talented, (they might be living in small towns) or who have this desire to make films or be part of the filmmaking process. Not all of them can go to Mumbai/Los Angeles to work in Bollywood or Hollywood. Even if they go, getting a break is not that easy. There is a lot of competition and a lot of jostling. So, Filmwallas.com also bridges this gap--it brings work to aspiring actors and filmmakers and empowers the filmmakers or casting directors to find the right talent within seconds, using our cognitive engine.
Photo courtesy: Filmwallas
The thought behind 'Filmwallas' is to bring together and converge the entire eco-system of filmmaking with the underlying objective of empowering the 'dreamer' in each one of us with the right resources and access.
CtoI: What are the challenges you foresee in making this idea a success?
Zafar Anjum: We are a very young startup, and we are taking baby steps at this point in time. There will be challenges galore. The first challenge is to get the word out there, rise above the noise and let the world know that we exist, that here is a new platform that enables collaboration among creatives, that brings the newbie and the experienced together, that brings the brands and the consumers together, using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
And since we intend to be a global platform for all nationalities, crossing over might be another challenge, as some people might see us purely as an Indian marketplace player. But that's not the case. We want to be a global player, like YouTube, Facebook and Uber.
Along the way, we will face the typical challenges that all startups face during their journey: getting the smart money and the smart brains to propel this young company to success. We have just started out and there is a long way to go. Luckily, we have the guidance and blessings of veteran industry players like Prakash Jha, Nagesh Kukunoor and Ashish Vidyarthi, among others, who have validated our concept and are advising us in our journey.
CtoI: Do you think across nationalities Indians have the highest attraction towards films?
Zafar Anjum: I think Indians are madly in love with two things: cricket and movies. Please don't ask me which one comes first! We believe that lots of Indians, whether millennials or others, would love to fulfil their dreams of creating movie magic through collaboration. It could be in the form of a short film or a documentary or just an amateur video. There is no limit to creativity. And this applies to people of all nationalities. If you look at the statistics, the trend of video snacking is common to all nationalities, and there is a hunger for consuming and creating non-mainstream content.
CtoI: Has the concept of crowd sourcing been applied to movies?
Zafar Anjum: Crowdsourcing will cause a monumental shift in film and media. Crowdsourcing is going to be big because the greatest resource for filmmakers is their community—they will fund and consume what they like. Gone are the days of the old saying "if you build it, they will come". The new dictum is: "if they want it, they will help you build it". It is already happening today, in all kinds of forms--from audience voting and engagement to collaboration on projects to crowdfunding. For example, Amazon is putting scripts online and letting the crowd vote for the stories they would like to see made into a series, and the ones with the most votes are the ones that actually get made.
Documentary filmmakers like Tiffany Shlain are using crowdsourcing techniques to put together films that are global in scope. Filmmakers upload video to the web, and it becomes part of the edited film. For her film Connected, Shlain had more than 100 different endings and she asked the users to translate the film. It now exists in 65 languages. Another example of overall crowdsourcing is 50 Kisses, a film created by the London-based filmmaker Chris Jones and hundreds of collaborators from around the world. The film, which includes 50 scenes built around a Valentine's Day and a kiss, was an initiative created by the London Screenwriters' Festival to connect emerging screenwriting talent with emerging filmmaking talent.
A very recent example is my adman-turned-novelist-turned filmmaker friend, Aditya Kriplani, who has partly crowdfunded his film, Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (under production now), and raised about S$20,000 through Wishberry.
So, the fact is crowdsourcing is here and with more mobile penetration and the social networking effect, more and more people are going to collaborate and indulge in 'dream-making'! Filmwallas.com is here to enable them to achieve it!
Garima Kapil – Senior Writer
Garima Kapil has around five years of experience in the field of writing and editing. Specialised in writing, performing proof-reading and text editing functions along with content ideation; she has worked with leading e-commerce and as a freelancer. She writes on lifestyle, news, telecom, travel, education, healthcare, immigration, along with other subjects required as a full-time writer and freelancer.
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JACKSON, Miss. – Cody Gribble and his caddie talked a ton during the final nine holes of his impressive run to a Sanderson Farms Championship victory. Very little was about golf.
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Anything to keep Gribble's mind off the incredible run he was making.
"I knew I was in a good spot and I knew I was playing well," Gribble said. "It's hard not to sit there and look at the scoreboard, look where you're at and how you're doing."
The small talk worked. Gribble finished with a 7-under 65 – which included five birdies on a spectacular back nine – to turn a tight fight into a four-stroke victory and his PGA Tour title.
The 26-year-old rookie started the day a stroke behind playing partners Chris Kirk and Luke List.
Gribble had two birdies on the front nine to stay in contention, then ran off birdies on Nos. 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17. He finished at 20-under 268.
Gribble looked as if he might have trouble just making the cut at the Country Club of Jackson after an opening 73. He bounced back with a 63 in the second round to jump into contention – one shy of the course record – and followed it up with a 67 on Saturday.
On Sunday, Gribble started slowly, but picked up steam on an unseasonably hot day in Jackson where the temperature pushed 90 degrees. He made a short birdie putt on 11 and then hit a difficult downhill 18-foot putt for birdie on 13.
Then he was rolling, making three more birdies on 15, 16 and 17 to pull away.
Kirk and List each shot 70 to tie for second with England's Greg Owen (68).
"Cody played unbelievable," List said. "He definitely deserved to win. I was happy to scramble around and get a couple under out of it."
Kirk won the tournament in 2011, back when it was called the Viking Classic and played at nearby Annandale Golf Club. He was in contention again at the Country Club of Jackson after shooting a 65 in the third round, but nobody was able to keep up with Gribble's torrid pace on Sunday.
"It was definitely impressive watching Cody play that back nine," Kirk said. "I wish that I could have given him a little better run. I was just a little bit off, I guess."
Gribble played in college at Texas and is the second member of the school's 2012 national championship team to win a PGA Tour event. The other is Jordan Spieth.
Gribble obviously has a way to go to match the accomplishments of Spieth, who is among the world's best players, but the Sanderson Farms win is certainly a good start. He earned $756,000, 300 FedExCup points and exempt status on tour through the 2018-19 season.
The four-stroke win was the second largest in tournament history, trailing Frank Conner's five-stroke win in 1988.
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Deals announced fell to 31, a two-week low.
Four brokered deals were announced for $8.7m, a two-week high.
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Kennady Diamonds Inc. (TSX-V:KDI) opened a $5 million offering on a best efforts basis. The deal is expected to close on or about September 30, 2014.
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In its sporty style, the 2018 Chevrolet Cruze Hatch is prepared to efficiently take you anywhere. Designed with your needs in mind, this compact hatchback offers the best in entertainment technology and safety features. Trust the 2018 Chevrolet Cruze to get you to where you need to go!
The 2018 Cruze Hatchback's 1,336 L (47.2 cu. ft.) of generous rear cargo space is prepared to bring whatever you need along for the ride. Along with its sporty features and sleek curves, the Cruze Hatchback is ready for an adventure.
Besides offering a compact, stylish look, the Cruze Hatch is ready to keep you entertained, too. Equipped with standard Chevrolet MyLink® and a 7-inch diagonal colour touch-screen, your music and select apps are available at your fingertips. Staying connected is easy in the 2018 Cruze Hatch since standard Apple CarPlayTM, Android AutoTM and OnStar® 4G LTE are all included.
Keeping the 2018 Cruze Hatch fuelled up is not a problem with its standard 1.4L turbo engine. An engine that delivers up to 6.2 L/100 km highway means that frequent fuel-ups are a thing of the past.


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Speaking more than one language has its obvious benefits. The main one is, the more languages you can communicate in, the more people you can communicate with. The more people you can communicate with, the more qualified leads you can develop as a salesperson, the more potential clients you can engage with as a content creator, and so on. Looking at the simple math of it, knowing more than one language obviously benefits working professionals.
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The latest schedule for the symposium—a printable pdf document—has been added to the "Schedule" page, underneath the timetable on the page. You can also download it by clicking here.
At the end of the talks by the speakers, there'll be a panel on which they'll all feature to table your questions. There'll also be an additional panelist: me.
If you're not familiar with me, my name's Anthony Hogg. I'm a vampirologist and editor-in-chief of Vamped.org. I'm the guy who's been writing (most of) these posts. I run two blogs, Did a Wampyr Walk in Highgate? and The Vampirologist. I've also been collaborating with Dax Stokes and Erin Chapman to turn the symposium from a dream into a reality.
I'll be flying out to Texas tomorrow morning from Melbourne for the (ugh) 17 hour flight. I've never even been to the US before. That's how much I believe in this event.
Travel time aside, it'll be worth it to see the speakers and my colleagues, Erin and Dax. Erin is my co-collaborator on Vamped.org. It'll be the first time we've met in person (she lives in Vancouver, Canada).
This is a huge journey for me in more ways than one. You'll see what I mean, soon enough. In the meantime, looking forward to meeting everyone there. Hope you can make it, too.
In the meantime, here's something to whet your whistle: a distilled view of my thoughts on vampires in an interview Nadine Moritz conducted with me through her blog, My Addiction. Presenting: "Comprehensive Interview with Anthony Hogg a Vampirologist, on Absolutely Everything Vampire" (May 29, 2015).
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Yesterday, I wrote about our event's appearance on GuideLive. Well, another news outlet's followed the lead, courtesy of a Heather Goodwin's Lewisville Leader article "NCTC to Host Halloween Symposium on Vampires," published on September 24.
In honour of our event's glacial spread into media outlets, I've created a "Press" page to keep a record of further appearances (I've dropped the "Sponsors" page from the menu because it only had our sponsors' logos).
The earliest article about the event goes back to June 10, with Dax Stokes' Vamped article "Vampire Studies Symposium to Be Held in Texas on Halloween." If you see any other press appearances, be sure to let us know.
There's only 36 days left till the symposium and seats are starting to fill, so be sure to book your ticket before they're sold out.
As an added bonus—as if seeing our incredible line-up of speakers wasn't enough—you'll be in the running for a prize.
Attendees will be given a ticket on arrival; hold onto it, because at the end of the day, a winner will be announced. What could you win? That brings me to my second announcement: we have a new sponsor.
Keeping with the event's theme—academic vampire studies—I asked whether they could provide one of their books as a grand prize for a lucky attendant. Christina Ekonomi, ABC-CLIO's Marketing Communications Assistant Manager, got back to me the very next day saying she would be happy to. That's why ABC-CLIO now takes pride of place as one of our sponsors.
So which book did I ask for? What will you win? Wait and see. Oh, and there'll be more prizes too. Watch this space! In the meantime, be sure to browse through their excellent range.
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Copy-write Releases - I include a copy-write releases with all my packages that includes digital negatives. The copy-write release is only for personal use and I still retain the rights to my images. You may not sell the images.
Cancelation Policy - I know more then most that things come up. If you have booked a regular portrait session (maternity, newborn, family, headshot..) I allow one reschedule. I only allow one reschedule because I had some reschedule 5x, which makes it very difficult to run a business.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 01: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill February 1, 2011 in Washington, DC. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Collins discussed the release of a report that says that less than one percent of the 4,000-mile U.S.-Canada border is monitored by U.S. border officials. (Image: Getty)
GOP Sen. Susan Collins Criticized After Kavanaugh Votes Against Abortion Rights Case
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) came under fire again Monday for casting the deciding vote in confirming conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, after he dissented in a key abortions rights ruling.
The 5-4 decision was the first case concerning reproductive rights under the Trump administration. Both of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks, Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch voted to uphold a Louisiana law that required doctors performing abortion procedures to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic.
The court ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it placed an "undue burden" on those seeking abortions, particularly since Louisiana has a mandatory waiting period between the time of the initial consultation to the procedure.
Collins faced intense scrutiny during Kavanaugh's confirmation in October 2018, which was accompanied by televised hearings and sexual assault allegations.
Many pro-choice advocates feared Kavanaugh would seek to overturn Roe v. Wade, which made abortion a constitutional right, but Collins cast the deciding vote after a meeting in which Kavanaugh called the decision "settled law."
In a statement, Collins said she supported the court's decision and encouraged people against "reading too much" into the decision.
"I agree with the Supreme Court's decision in June Medical, which recognizes the burden that the Louisiana statute could impose," Collins said.
"Some have tried to suggest that this opinion is an indication of how certain justices would vote on the question of whether abortion will remain legal," she continued. "That is reading too much into this specific decision. As Justice Gorsuch noted, 'In truth, Roe v. Wade is not even at issue here.' And while Justice Kavanaugh called for additional fact finding in this case, he gave no indication in his dissenting opinion that he supports overturning Roe."
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"Since, however, each individual event, taken as an act of God, only partially illumines the nature of God, revelation in the sense of the full self-revelation of God in his glory can be possible only where the whole of history is understood as revelation. History as a whole is thus revelation of God. Since it is not yet finished, it is only in light of its end that it is recognizable as revelation" (page 77).
"This eschatology acquires its eschatological character only from the fact that reality cannot yet be contemplated as a whole because it has not yet come to an end. With this, however, the God of promise threatens to become...whose epiphany will be represented by the totality of reality in its completed form. The world will one day be theophany, indirect self-revelation of God in toto" (page 79).
And then he goes on to explain Jesus Christ, specifically the risen Christ, as the full revelation of history, the totality of reality visiting history in process.
"It is not merely said that Jesus is the first to arise and that believers will attain like him to resurrection, but it is proclaimed that he is himself the resurrection and the life and that consequently believers find their future in him and not merely like him. Hence, they wait for their future by waiting for his future" (page 82-83).
"The appearances of the risen Lord were recognized as the promise and anticipation of a really outstanding future. Because in these appearances a process was manifestly perceptible, they provoked testimony and mission. The future of the risen Lord is accordingly here present in promise" (page 87).
I have to apologize, first of all, for the density of Moltmann's quotes here, if you find them difficult to understand. I suppose, to simplify what should not necessarily be simplified, Moltmann is suggesting the risen Christ as the disclosure of an undisclosed reality. Because history is not finished yet, we cannot examine it as a whole, but Jesus Christ, in his resurrection and victory over death, infiltrates the present with the foretaste of a future promise. The future, in essence, visits the present on Easter Sunday. Reading Moltmann was definitely very helpful in my Easter reflection this year.
N.T. Wright's book, After You Believe (another of my current reads), hints at this truth as well when Wright speaks of the role of virtue in Christian discipleship. The "goal" of Christian virtue and spiritual practice, unlike it's secular counterpart, resides in Christ himself and specifically in his Kingdom which, though presently apprehendable, persists as a future reality. In other words, our work and life as followers of Jesus are fixed in Jesus Christ's future kingdom present in our world here and now, making our strivings worthwhile. 1 Corinthians 15's epic closing statement brings the point home as Paul proclaims "Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain" (1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV).
The story is not over yet but the end is Jesus. The last word has not been spoken yet but it will be a word of resurrection and vindication.


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Пелла () — місто () в США, в окрузі Меріон штату Айова. Населення —  особи (2010).

Географія
Пелла розташована за координатами  (41.404520, -92.917996).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 22,61 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкали  особи в  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 458 осіб/км².  Було 4086 помешкань (181/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 1,4 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 22,3 % — особи молодші 18 років, 61,3 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 16,4 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 33,3 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 91,2 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 88,4 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долар для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 9,8 % осіб, у тому числі 10,4 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,1 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 34,3 %, виробництво — 21,6 %, роздрібна торгівля — 9,8 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 7,6 %.

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Джерела

Міста Айови
Населені пункти округу Меріон (Айова)

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This month I want to celebrate YOU! Every day I feel so honored that you read my blog, connect with me on social media, and make Wardrobe Oxygen what it is today. I want to thank you for letting me have the chance to take the leap and pursue this blog full-time. Throughout this month I will be hosting some awesome giveaways with some of my absolute favorite brands. They also helped me pursue my dream full-time, and I'm thrilled that they want to celebrate you too!
I want you readers to be the winners, so these giveaways will only be promoted on InstaStories and my blog's Facebook, and there won't be any extra giveaway entries by promoting the giveaways on social media. I know some of you readers aren't in the United States, a couple of these giveaways will also be open to international readers.
To keep the content interesting during this month, each of these giveaway posts will be actual posts as well, with an outfit or a review of product. There will be regular content between them, and there won't be a giveaway every single day. I only reached out to brands I adore and have had a long-term relationship with, and I promise each of the prizes are going to be really good!
Thank you again for all your support over all these years, and thank you for standing by me through this transition. I am so excited for 2018, I think it's going to be fantastic and you're the reason why!
I have followed your blog for maybe a year now…one of the only blogs I make time for these days. Appreciate your content immensely!
Love you and your blog! I have seen such positive changes in you since you've transitioned to full time blogger. You are definitely an inspiration to us all.
You are the reason we're here. Celebrating YOU, your style, your personality and your willingness to share yourself with us!
I echo what Heidi said, and add that it is so sweet of you to recognize readers/followers this way. What a Valentine, I look forward to having lots of new pists to see this month!
Hi Alison, I'm a long time reader of your blog and I wanted to tell you that I appreciate the fact that you haven't ramped up the "try" in your posts. I find that when a lot of bloggers leave their jobs for blogging full time, their posts develop a sense of urgency and they become very transparent. They should know that in their attempt to gain followers, they begin to look desperate, and I don't feel that with your site. I think you've set just the right tone. Keep up the good work!


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A food additive which provides a sweet taste just like that of sugar while containing less calories are known as sugar substitutes. Sugar substitutes are produced both by nature and synthetically. Those not produced by nature are called artificial sweeteners. There are various types of sweeteners available in the market, the major ones being high-intensity sweeteners and low-calorie sweeteners. The high-intensity sweeteners are organic compounds with multiple times the sweetness of sucrose but have extremely low-calorie counts or even no calorie content. The low-calorie sweeteners also known as polyols or sugar alcohols and are a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate and have low-calorie content as compared to sugar.
Sweetener market is one of the fastest growing businesses, which is a sub-segment of the food additives sector. An artificial sweetener is derived chemically and possesses the sweetness similar to sugar. On the other hand, sweeteners of natural origin are extracted from berries, fruits and certain plant species. The sugar market is one of the oldest food processing industries in the world, with more than 100 countries and territories participating in the value chain.
The key factors driving growth of the global sweeteners market include rising diabetics population, increasing obesity cases, growing ageing population and increasing health expenditure to treat diabetics. Some of the noteworthy trends and developments of this industry include launch of new products, growing awareness towards health and wellness, self-regulations by companies, awareness of stevia, and rising demand for non-caloric sweeteners. However, the growth of the industry is being hindered by high prices, stringent regulations along with various health hazards associated with high sweetened food products.
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George V. Shoemaker of Camp Hill died Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.
Born George V. Papoutsis in 1936 in Neohorion, Nafpactias, Greece, he was the son of the late Vasilious "William" and Demetra Papoutsis. He came to the United States with his parents and siblings in 1951.
He attended school in Waynesboro.
Mr. Shoemaker and his brother Nick Papoutsis operated the former Texas Lunch in Waynesboro, which Mr. Shoemaker later operated as the John Wallace Kitchen.
He and his first wife, Rhea, and their two children, William and James, moved to Harrisburg in the early 1970s and operated the Inn 22 restaurant for more than 30 years.
Mr. Shoemaker was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church and served on the board of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Camp Hill, where he helped run many bazaars.
He enjoyed the outdoors, serving at his church and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his second wife, Karen D. Bruner; two sons, William Shoemaker and James Shoemaker; two granddaughters; two sisters, Joy Chaney and Irene King; three brothers, Nick Papoutsis, Andy Papoutsis and Dr. Dean Papoutsis; four stepchildren, Brian Hurst, Christina Slother, Amy Thompson and Michelle Bruner; and several stepgrandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his baby sister.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1000 Yverdon Drive, Camp Hill, with Father Yanni Verginis officiating. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro.
The family will receive friends from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday in the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, One Charles Center, 100 N. Charles St., Suite 234, Baltimore, Md. 21201.


MGNREGA was an ambitious set up to improve the declining condition of the rural economy. While at one hand, the urban part of the country is s prospering, the rural parts of the country are facing unconditional poverty. With the change in the leadership of the country in the year 2004, under the make employment scheme, Congress put up the plan of MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) in front of a panel of leaders. This act did not gain support from the various members of the panel till late 2006.
This act was passed with the aim of counter attacking poverty which seems to have filled in the lands of India. Every year, many farmers struck badly with poverty and debt, commit suicide leaving behind their family in a helpless state. With MGNREGA, the government aimed to reduce these numbers.
Before moving on to the current scenario, it is very important to understand the issues this act was empowered to handle. This act was drafted with the help of several economists and activists who belonged to grassroot levels. The law was basically established to help the underprivileged citizens of India, the ones who are unemployed or do not have enough funds.
These underprivileged are those citizens who are buried under debt and have a family that needs looking after. Through this act, the government offers employment to these people within a period of 100 days.
The employment privilege is given to one member in one family. The daily wages that can be earned through this scheme was around 100 rupees. With this act, there was complete transparency.
An audit was conducted regularly to measure the accountability of this scheme. In case, the local authorities were not able to provide employment, they had to pay 25 rupees as unemployment allowance to the government.
Practically everything was good about the scheme. Around 4.4 Million people were employed in this scheme. Approximately 784 billion rupees were released by the government to serve close to 619 districts in India. In the year 2004, when the new leadership was announced, the number of people under poverty level was 456 million.
Post the implementation of this scheme, the number of people living under poverty level has increased to 488 million. Where there was a promise made to decrease the level of poverty, more and more people are growing to be poor.
It was around 2009, post the re-election, that the country observed a declining effect in the policies of MGNREGA. Most farmers who were granted jobs could not manage to earn even the sum of their eight day's salary in an entire year. In fact, the social welfare elements are being merged with other government activation programmes thus ruining the effects of MGNREGA.
Corruption is on a high in the MGNREGA scheme. Fake vouchers, fake employment books etc. are being created. Even after giving the needy their job account number and other details, this programme fails to provide them job. There is an increasing number of people who are growing unemployed each day.


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London : T&T Clark, 2019.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Sweet Boondi recipe is one of the popular dessert recipe found in temples and other religious places used as Prasad. The main ingredients are gram flour and sugar. I still remember my childhood days whenever there is a function in my school or in the temple I used to get a colorful sweet boondi recipe. You may also like my previous post of boondi laddu.
Boil water in a vessel, add sugar to make syrup.
Add 1 tsp. of milk to the syrup, this will clarify and scum the syrup.
Remove that scum and boil the syrup until you find thin syrup.
Tip: While making Meethi boondi it is important to know the consistency of the syrup thickness, take a spoon of syrup and check the thickness with two fingers. If it's sticky between two fingers then remove from flame.
Don't cool the syrup, keep it warm.
On other hand add a little water to the gram flour and make the batter.
Make sure it's not too thick and too think. Again its consistency should be in a way that it flows from the perforated spoon when external pressures are used.
Heat ghee or oil and pour little batter over the perforated spoon.
Tap gently at the edge of the spoon so that small droplets of batter fall in the oil.
Fry boondi until they attain golden brown (not crispy).
Using other perforated spoon remove the fried boondi from oil and transfer them into the sugar syrup.
Keep them in syrup until they absorb syrup i.e – 2-3 minutes.
Drain sugar syrup and spread on a wide plate.
Sprinkle cardamom powder and almonds over it.
Tip: you can add cardamom powder during the preparation of sugar syrup.
Cool sweet boondi recipe until each droplet is separated.
Store in a tight container once it's totally cooled.
Tip: If you want to prepare colorful sweet boondi recipe, divide batter into equal parts for the different color. Also, the thickness of balls depends on the perforated spoon you are using. If the holes of the spoon are big you will get bill balls.


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/* @author booleanhunter
 * @details These are the API handlers for citizens
 */
var async = require('async');
var underscore = require('underscore');

var citizenDbApi = require('../../database/citizen-db-api');
var googleMapsApi = require('../utilities/google-maps-api');

var debug = require('debug')('nammapolice:citizen-api-handlers');

function getNearbyCops(req, responseCallback) {
    var reqBody = req.body;
    if (typeof(reqBody.coordinates) === 'string') {
        reqBody.coordinates = JSON.parse(reqBody.coordinates)
    }

    var coordinates = [Number(reqBody.coordinates[1]), Number(reqBody.coordinates[0])];

    citizenDbApi.getNearestCops(coordinates, function(err, results) {
        if (err) {
            debug(err);
        } else {
            var resultData = results.map(function(policeDetails) {
                return {
                    address: policeDetails.location.address,
                    coordinates: [policeDetails.location.coordinates[1], policeDetails.location.coordinates[0]]
                };
            });

            var responseData = {
                locationDetails: resultData
            }
            responseCallback(responseData);
        }
    });
}

function requestCop(req, responseCallback) {
    debug('api-handler requestCop');
    var reqBody = req.body;
    if (typeof(reqBody.coordinates) === 'string') {
        reqBody.coordinates = JSON.parse(reqBody.coordinates)
    }
    var coordinates = [Number(reqBody.coordinates[1]), Number(reqBody.coordinates[0])];

    async.auto({
        one: function(callback) {
            googleMapsApi.getlatLngDetails(reqBody.coordinates, callback);
        },

        two: ['one', function(callback) {
            citizenDbApi.getNearestCops(coordinates, callback);
        }],
        three: ['two', function(callback, results) {
            var citizenDetails = {
                    userId: reqBody.userId,
                    displayName: reqBody.displayName,
                    location: {
                        coordinates: coordinates,
                        address: results.one.results[0].formatted_address,
                        type: "Point"
                    }
                },
                date = new Date();
            var citizenObj = {
                citizenDetails: citizenDetails,
                occurrenceTime: date.getTime(),
            }
            citizenDbApi.registerNewIssue(citizenObj, callback);
        }],

        four: ['three', function(callback, results) {
            var resultArray = results.two.map(function(policeDetails) {
                return {
                    userId: policeDetails.userId,
                    displayName: policeDetails.displayName,
                    phone: policeDetails.phone,
                    location: {
                        address: policeDetails.location.address,
                        coordinates: [policeDetails.location.coordinates[1], policeDetails.location.coordinates[0]]
                    },
                    rating: policeDetails.earnedRatings / policeDetails.totalRatings * 100
                };
            });
            //debug(resultData);
            var policeArray = underscore.filter(resultArray, function(policeDetails) {
                return policeDetails.rating >= 50
            });

            if (policeArray.length === 0) {
                policeArray = resultArray;
            };
            var citizenData = {
                issueId: results.three.issueId,
                citizenDetails: {
                    userId: reqBody.userId,
                    phone: reqBody.userId,
                    displayName: reqBody.displayName,
                    location: {
                        coordinates: coordinates,
                        address: results.one.results[0].formatted_address
                    }
                }
            }
            var policeData = {
                policeData: policeArray
            };

            responseCallback(citizenData, policeData);

            callback(null, citizenData);
        }]
    }, function(err, results) {
        if (err) {
            debug(err);
        } else {
            //debug(results.four);
        }
    });
}

function endIssue(req, responseCallback) {
    debug('api-handler endIssue');
    var date = new Date();
    var data = {
        issueId: req.body.issueId,
        endTime: date.getTime()
    }
    citizenDbApi.endIssue(data, function(err, result) {
        if (err) {
            debug(err);
        } else {
            var responseData = {
                status: 'resolved'
            }
            responseCallback(responseData);
        }
    })
}

function rateCop(req, responseCallback) {
    debug('inside rateCop');

};

function updateCitizenLocation(req, responseCallback) {
    debug('inside updateCitizenLocation');
    var reqBody = req.body;
    if (typeof(reqBody.coordinates) === 'string') {
        reqBody.coordinates = JSON.parse(reqBody.coordinates)
    }
    async.auto({
            one: function(callback) {
                googleMapsApi.getlatLngDetails(reqBody.coordinates, callback);
            },
            two: ['one', function(callback, results) {
                debug(results);
                var locationData = {
                    phone: req.session.user.userId,
                    address: results.one.results[0].formatted_address,
                    coordinates: [Number(reqBody.coordinates[1]), Number(reqBody.coordinates[0])]
                }
                citizenDbApi.updateCitizenLocation(locationData, callback)
            }]
        },
        function(err, results) {
            if (err) {
                debug(err);
            } else {
                var resultData = {
                    status: 'Location updated'
                }
                responseCallback(resultData);
            }
        }
    );
};

function getIssues(req, responseCallback) {
    debug('inside getIssues');
    citizenDbApi.getIssues(function(err, resultData) {
        if (err) {
            debug(err);
        } else {
            var geoJsonData = resultData.issues.map(function(issueDetails) {
                return {
                    type: 'Feature',
                    geometry: {
                        type: "Point",
                        coordinates: issueDetails.citizenDetails.location.coordinates
                    },
                    properties: {
                        address: issueDetails.citizenDetails.location.address,
                        occurrenceTime: issueDetails.occurrenceTime,
                        responseTime: issueDetails.responseTime,
                        status: issueDetails.status
                    }
                }
            });
            var responseData = {
                type: 'FeatureCollection',
                features: geoJsonData
            }
            responseCallback(responseData);
        }
    });
};

exports.getNearbyCops = getNearbyCops;
exports.requestCop = requestCop;
exports.endIssue = endIssue;
exports.rateCop = rateCop;
exports.updateCitizenLocation = updateCitizenLocation;
exports.getIssues = getIssues;


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2022 off-street parking fees raise specter of on-street parking mayhem
by North Shore Beacon | Jan 27, 2022 | Features
Locals have raised concerns in recent weeks about Central Elgin's attempt to offset municipal expenditures with more user fees for off-street parking.
The worry is that summer tourists and visitors may try to skirt off-street parking costs by either avoiding the village altogether or by flooding free parking spaces on side streets and main thoroughfares.
The latter scenario threatens to exacerbate parking issues that have dogged the village – particularly the downtown – for years. And while tourists and visitors are, for the most part, welcomed by village residents, and certainly are vital to Elgin County's economy, perennial parking issues are putting a strain on the relationship.
At times, municipal regulations and enforcement don't seem to scratch the surface of the parking mayhem caused by tens of thousands of people enjoying Port Stanley's summer attractions.
Many tourists and visitors are already in the habit of dumping cars on streets, not only monopolizing on-street parking spaces throughout the daylight hours, but also blocking driveways and in some cases, impacting emergency access to the beaches.
On-street parking in the downtown can be a free-for-all, as there are no painted lines to control overcrowding. Street signs offer some guidance, but they may also seem confusing. On the east side of the village, a sign offers a one-hour on-street parking limit from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. On the west side, another sign offers a two-hour limit from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many signs indicate no time limits at all. There is no parking bylaw on the Central Elgin website for clarification.
As a result, if they choose to drive, Port Stanley residents may continue up the road to St. Thomas to fulfill their day-to-day shopping needs because there's no parking here. And the village entrepreneurs that locals would like to support are similarly affected. Business owners and their employees struggle to support their clientele because they can't park either.
"If they can't find a parking spot, locals won't come," said Dustin Allen, proprietor at Ports Pets, and President of the Port Stanley Business Improvement Area (BIA).
"There are a lot of things that still need to be looked at," added Allen. "There's nothing we can do about what's been done. At least we can work with them. Now's the time for us to say it."
Allen is referring to the new Rates and Fees Bylaw approved by Council on November 8, 2021, expanding the village's off-street parking network. Allen is currently consulting with other BIA members, with hopes of corroborating with Council to develop a complementary on-street parking system.
Central Elgin's User Fee Committee – chaired by Deputy Mayor Tom Marks – decided to expand the off-street parking network after a review last year of the $412,317 that the municipality generated from 5.2 acres of space on four lots.
The off-street parking lots – referred to as Main Beach, Old Ball Park, Pierside Beach and Boat Launch – operate daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., from May 1 to September 30. The Boat Launch lot operates 24 hours a day.
For 2022, CE Council accepted the committee's recommendation to add 4.58 acres of space in five lots, generating up to $336,016 in additional revenue, equivalent to two per cent of the 2021 tax levy. The new paid, off-street parking lots are: Little Beach, East Headlands, the Visitor Centre, Erie Rest, and the Pharmacy Lot. Four "courtesy parking spots" will allow 15 minutes of free parking at the Visitor Centre, or at the Pharmacy lot.
Council has also approved spending $125,762 plus taxes for the purchase of 14 new parking meters, including nine to replace the old ones at Main Beach and the Boat Launch lots. They will be installed in May, before the Victoria Day weekend.
"These considerations would align with the October 28, 2019 climate emergency resolution of Council, to identify target areas in municipal policy that can have the greatest impact to reduce local impact on climate change," according to the committee's report.
"Generally, it would be beneficial to appreciate and utilize the value parking assets have in realizing other social and environmental objectives," the committee report continues. "In the 2021 Central Elgin Budget, the net expenditure for the beach is $621,898 funded from the tax levy. The generation of additional parking revenues could be utilized to offset these expenses."
Morgan Kennedy, past president at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 410, is concerned the new off-street parking fees to be charged at the Visitor Centre parking lot may hinder attendance at Legion events, and ultimately reduce its ability to support local charities.
"If we don't make any money, they're all going to lose money," said Kennedy, adding that Central Elgin has so far rejected the Legion's claim that a previous landowner had essentially gifted that space to the Legion for parking. "Pretty soon, the whole downtown will start losing business because there will be paid parking everywhere.
"We're pretty upset about it," added Kennedy. "We do banquets and funerals and meat draws and all that. We don't know where people are going to park. We don't want to put asphalt for parking in front of the Legion."
The CE committee and municipal staff seem to have formulated their off-street parking strategy after reading a new paper prepared for the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), by Almos Tassonyi and Harry Kitchen.
"The strength of a user fee is its capacity to recover all costs of providing a service by linking charges for its use to those who use it," according to the report by Tassonyi and Kitchen. "This is the classic benefits-received model of public finance – in other words, those who benefit are those who pay, also known as the 'Wicksellian connection'. When this linkage is achieved, it is possible to satisfy several important criteria in financing public services: efficiency, accountability, transparency, fairness, and ease of administration."
The costs at the municipal parking lots are $4 per hour, $20 per day, and $30 per day if users have a trailer. A single vehicle season pass costs $100. A season pass for a single vehicle with a boat trailer is $120.
If you don't pay at the meter, Central Elgin also accepts payments using the free Honk mobile app. The municipality also offers residential overnight parking permits, subject to terms and limitations.
Central Elgin's website states the municipality charges for off-street parking because "operating and maintaining a large public beach is costly. CE provides lifeguards and washrooms. The beach is raked regularly. Garbage and recycling cans must be emptied. Parking revenue helps fund these services."
"We're never going to please everyone," said Deputy Mayor Marks. "All the things that make Port Stanley so beautiful cost money. This will increase our revenues. We always hear the taxes are too bloody high. By doing this, we're cutting taxes.
"I'm convinced this isn't a bad start," he added. "This will be seasonal. This isn't every day, and it all stops at 5 p.m."
Marks said the new strategy targets "seasonal people … who do not pay a cent toward the taxes for Port Stanley."
A member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 41 in St. Thomas, Marks said he empathizes with the Port Stanley Legion. "I went to them and said this was coming," he said. "I'm going to go to bat for them."
The new Rates and Fees Bylaw "can be amended once, twice, 20 times if needed," added Marks. "It's not etched in stone. It is a living document. If it goes sideways, we can change it.
CE Mayor Sally Martyn did not respond to North Shore Beacon inquiries about the bylaw, however, at Council's meeting earlier this week she said "local residents will still have seven months where there's no charge."


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CMX Cinemas Acquires Cobb Theatres
Exhibition News • Boxoffice Staff • December 11 2017
MIAMI, Dec. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CMX Cinemas, the wholly owned subsidiary of Cinemex, has announced the acquisition of Cobb Theatres, a highly respected operator of progressive movie theatre brands primarily located in the southeast, as part of its continued expansion plan. The purchase represents the on-going strategy of CMX Cinemas to establish a major footprint within the motion picture exhibition industry in the United States.
This acquisition positions CMX as the eighth largest movie theater chain in the United States with 30 currently operating sites in 10 states, 342 screens and 2,030 employees.
"We are proud to announce that all of Cobb's 25 existing locations as well as two theatres under development in Floridaand Georgia have been acquired, strengthening the growth of the CMX family in the U.S.," said Luis Castelazo, Director of CMX. "This acquisition creates a perfect fit for us due to CMX's and Cobb Theatres' shared vision to provide a top-quality guest experience. In addition, Cobb Theatres' locations and its renowned expertise in the motion picture exhibition industry will complement CMX's theatres in the United States."
This new acquisition is part of a very ambitious expansion plan, which consists of both organic and inorganic growth. It includes, in addition to this acquisition, confirmed sites in 10 different locations, including Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and New Jersey, among others. While these 25 venues will keep operating on a regular basis, over the coming months, they will eventually be going through a transformation and brand transition into CMX, reinforcing the meaning of the cinema-going experience.
"We thank Cobb Theatres for its continued support during this transition and in turn, CMX reiterates the commitment to offer the best service to our guests," Castelazo said.
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Angelique Kerber should remain unbeaten against Kirsten Flipkens when the two face off in the quarterfinals of the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey on Friday.
Angelique Kerber faces Belgian veteran Kirsten Flipkens for a place in the semifinals of the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey, where neither player has dropped a set so far.
Kerber is playing her first International event of 2019 in Monterrey; she went 0-1 in International events in 2018, losing in the first round of Mallorca shortly before winning Wimbledon. Needless to say it's going a lot better at the Abierto GNP Seguros, where she has made the final on two of her three previous appearances, finishing runner-up to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in 2013 and 2017.
Kerber and Pavlyuchenkova, who has won four titles in Monterrey, could be due to clash in the semifinals, with defending champion Garbine Muguruza also in the mix for Friday's quarterfinals, so the closing stages of the hard-court tournament promise to be quite enthralling.
World no. 5 Kerber is looking for her first title of the season in Monterrey – her first title since winning Wimbledon in fact – after having failed to defend her Apia International Sydney title and losing in surprisingly one-sided fashion to Danielle Collins in the round of 16 at the Australian Open. Defeated in the semifinals of Doha and the round of 16 in Dubai to Elise Mertens and Su-Wei Hsieh respectively, Kerber made her first final of the year at Indian Wells but lost to Bianca Andreescu, who also beat her in Miami, a defeat that frustrated Kerber into publicly calling her opponent a 'drama queen'.
The next meeting between Kerber and Andreescu should be interesting to watch, but Kerber has already exorcised a bit of Miami aftermath in Monterrey with her second-round victory over Karolina Muchova. The Czech had surprised Kerber in the latter's opening match in Miami, taking the first set and forcing her to dig deep and come back, but after a 7-6(4), 6-2 victory over qualifier Kristina Kucova in the first round, Kerber kept things much more tightly controlled against Muchova this time, beating her 6-3, 6-4 in 84 minutes.
'I knew what to expect before the match,' Kerber said afterwards.
Next up for Kerber is an opponent against whom she is unbeaten, Kirsten Flipkens.
The Belgian veteran is playing the Abierto GNP Seguros for the third time, having finished runner-up to Heather Watson on her last appearance in 2016 (scoring wins over Anett Kontaveit, Johanna Konta and Alison van Uytvanck on the way).
Flipkens was ranked as high as world no. 13 in 2013, when she made a surprise run to the Wimbledon semifinals, beating Petra Kvitova on the way. The Belgian, now 33, won her first and so far only WTA Tour title in Quebec City in 2012 but continues to make an impact in WTA Tour events, generally at International level: In 2018, she was a semifinalist in Nurnberg, won the ITF $100k in Southsea and reached the final of 's-Hertogenbosch, beating Kiki Bertens and Aryna Sabalenka before losing to Aleksandra Krunic.
Flipkens broke back into the top 50 in 2018 after having been ranked outside it since January 2014, but comes into Monterrey ranked world no. 58 after struggling for singles wins so far in 2019: In the six events she had played this season before the Abierto GNP Seguros, Flipkens had only won four matches, beating Sachia Vickery in Auckland, Dalila Jakupovic and Vitkoria Kuzmova to reach the quarterfinals in Hobart and Eugenie Bouchard in the first round of Indian Wells.
So far in Monterrey, Flipkens has been winning her matches quite easily, beating Olga Danilovic 6-2, 6-1 and Jakupovic 6-3, 6-3 to set up this quarterfinal clash with Kerber.
Flipkens's last win over a top 10 player came at the Olympics in 2016 when she beat Venus Williams; she has lost her last seven matches against top-10 players, and has an overall 5-25 record, with four of those wins over top-10 opposition coming on grass where her slice backhand and volley skills appear to their best advantage.
All three previous meetings between Kerber and Flipkens have gone the German's way, even when Kerber was ranked well outside the top 300 back in 2006. Flipkens has taken just one set in those meetings, and that was at Wimbledon in 2014. The Belgian can't overpower Kerber, nor outlast her in baseline rallies, and her skill-set, which works best against error-prone power hitters, is not well suited to facing off with the athletic German. A suitably disciplined and aggressive performance from Kerber should see her into the Monterrey semifinals in straight sets.
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