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Duval Property Appraiser Jerry Holland and wife hospitalized with COVID-19
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Duval County Property Appraiser Jerry Holland confirmed that he and his wife, Beverly, have been hospitalized since Monday after both contracted COVID-19.
Holland hopes to be released to continue recovering at home no later than Sunday, but he said he expects his wife will remain hospitalized possibly for another week. Both are at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, he told the Times-Union by telephone Saturday.
"I'm improving but she's not doing so well," Holland said. "I may go home today or tomorrow [Saturday or Sunday] but my wife's probably got four or five more days here."
Fortunately, he didn't need a ventilator. His wife hasn't needed one and hopefully she won't, he said.
Holland said neither of them had been vaccinated against the virus.
"I wish we had been vaccinated but no, we hadn't been," said Holland, noting he regrets not getting the vaccine.
"After going thru it, do it," he said urging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Holland said he contracted the virus from an employee in his office, who has since recovered.
"She's back but we have about seven employees that came down with it," Holland said.
He also said his 39-year-old son, Brian, just tested positive for the virus and is recuperating in quarantine at home.
Holland's two grandchildren are being tested this weekend for the virus, he said.
"So far, so good," he said of his grandchildren.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville activated its "surge plan" after reaching its maximum capacity as a result of a sharp increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations during the recent Northeast Florida coronavirus resurgence, the hospital announced in a letter Aug. 8 to Jacksonville city officials.
A few days earlier Mayo Clinic Jacksonville called for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for staff. Holland praised the care he received at Mayo.
Holland is among the most recent Jacksonville elected officials to contract the virus.
City Council member Ju'Coby Pittman is still recovering after spending weeks in the hospital.
Also CEO of the Clara White Mission, Pittman was among several employees and residents — including one who died —of the nonprofit facility who recently contracted the virus, forcing a temporary halt to the non-profit organization's meal service for the needy.
It's unknown, he said, when he will be able to return to the Property Appraiser's Officer.
"I will take a week or so, two weeks to get a negative test. So, I will recuperate at home starting in the next week or two. Hopefully, it won't take long for her to come home too," he said.
Holland said he wants people to know and understand one thing.
"This stuff is dangerous. Don't mess around with it," said Holland, again urging vaccination.

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In reference to our earlier letter of even number dated January 22, 2019, all the three issues, which have been discussed with your goodself, in the presence of the MS and CRB, i.e. revision of rates of Running Allowances and other allowances related to Running Staff, as has been informed to us, has been sent to the MoF(Deptt. of Exp.), but not traceable there, implementation of four-grade structure(in the ratio of 10:20:20:50) in case of Track Maintainers, the file, as has been informed to us, has been sent to your goodself by the M.E., the case regarding restructuring of the IT Cadre, it was informed to us, has also been forwarded to your goodself by the F.C.
Since all the above-mentioned issues have been agreed by your goodself, being delayed at various stages, need to be resolved at an earliest to avoid mental agony of the concerned vulnerable categories of the Railway employees.
We are quite thankful for your directions to the Railway Board for filling-up of vacancies. This will definitely improve the efficiency and productivity of the Railways as well as will provide some relief to the Railwaymen who are working beyond their duty hours under lot of stress.
Dear Sir, the Indian Railways, at present, have almost more than six lakh Railwaymen, who are covered under National Pension System(NPS) and are having lot of anguish against this scheme. Many a times this issue has been raised by the AIRF as also by the NC/JCM(Staff Side) and NJCA. The staff working under this scheme is agitating here and there, but their main demand of Old Pension Scheme is not being considered, resulting in lot of frustration amongst these staff. Since at present you are also looking after the Finance Portfolio, it is our humble submission that, the letters written by the Hon'ble Railway Ministers for bringing the Railwaymen under Old Defined Pension Scheme, should be restored for the Railwaymen who are working under all arduous and hazardous circumstances 24X7, all weathers, as also more than 400 to 500 Railwaymen are sacrificing their lives, for running the lifeline of the country, every year.
We sincerely hope that, you will kindly look into the above burning issues and will try to resolve these at an earliest.
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Bret Robert Boone
Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 10", Weight 180 lb.
School University of Southern California
High School El Dorado High School (Placentia)
Debut August 19, 1992
Final Game July 30, 2005
Born April 6, 1969 in El Cajon, CA USA
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On August 19, 1992, Bret Boone became the first third-generation player in the major leagues since he was the grandson of Ray Boone and the son of Bob Boone. His brother Aaron later joined him in the major leagues. Another brother, Matt, played in the minors as did uncle Rod.
On May 2, 2002, he and teammate Mike Cameron hit back-to-back home runs twice in the first inning, when the Mariners put 10 runs on the scoreboard; it is the only time in major league history that two teammates have homered twice (and back-to-back) in an inning. Cameron went on to hit four home runs in that game, but partially because of batting behind Boone, he only had four RBI all game.
He announced his retirement on March 1, 2006. He attempted a comeback in 2008 and hit .261 in 18 games for the Columbus Clippers before retiring once again.
Bret Boone was hired as a television commentator for the 2003 World Series. It turned out that the New York Yankees made it to the Series, and Bret's brother Aaron Boone was there also, having been traded to the Yankees at the end of July. Aaron was a high-profile player in the Series, and Bret seemed uncomfortable being a commentator about his brother Aaron's performance (which is only natural).
He was a Southern League All-Star in 1991. In 1992, he was a Pacific Coast League All-Star.
He wrote Home Game about his life.
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3-time All-Star (1998, 2001 & 2003)
4-time Gold Glove Winner (1998/NL & 2002-2004/AL)
2-time AL Silver Slugger Award Winner (2001 & 2003)
AL RBI Leader (2001)
20-Home Run Seasons: 6 (1998, 1999 & 2001-2004)
30-Home Run Seasons: 2 (2001 & 2003)
100 RBI Seasons: 3 (2001-2003)
100 Runs Scored Seasons: 3 (1999, 2001 & 2003)
200 Hits Seasons: 1 (2001)
Records Held[edit]
Fielding percentage, second baseman, season, .997, 1997
Fewest errors, second baseman, season, 2, 1997
Bret Boone and Kevin Cook: Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family, Crown Archetype, Random House, New York, NY, 2016. ISBN 978-1101904909
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My birthday is coming up and I'd like for you to celebrate it with me by supporting my fundraising campaign for Compassion International, one of the world's leading child development organizations. As of this writing, I've raised $200 of my $1,000 goal. Every dollar that I raise for this campaign will go straight to Compassion, and it is my prayer that I get enough help to reach poverty-stricken children from all over the world, providing them with their necessities and giving them the opportunity to be welcomed into the Father's arms, and so I pray that I may be able to touch your hearts and encourage you to joyfully give and love on these children of God.
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Job recruiters say home sales signal Pasco's demographic change
A new home awaits a buyer at the Starkey Ranch subdivision located north of State Road 54 in Odessa. [OCTAVIO JONES | Times]
By C.T. Bowen
Published Mar. 9, 2017
LUTZ — Tom Ryan, economic development manager for the Pasco Economic Development Council, says he gets asked a common question from executives pondering a company relocation to Pasco.
"Where are my employees going to live, work and play?" Ryan said. "It's almost a cliche now."
The answer, he said, signals the changing demographics of Pasco County. They are choosing to live in Pasco, where, in some locations, particularly along the State Road 54 and State Road 56 corridor, higher-end housing is the new norm, catering to an expanding, educated workforce.
"This isn't the Pasco County we knew 10 years ago," said J.D. Porter of Wiregrass Ranch.
Their comments came last week during the Pasco EDC's third annual meet-the-developers breakfast, at which 130 brokers, bankers, engineers, small-business owners, land-use lawyers and others networked and received updates on four developments: Starkey Ranch, Bexley, Wiregrass Ranch and Epperson, which is part of the connected city corridor in Wesley Chapel.
The average new home price in the Wiregrass development, east of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, is $450,000, Porter said, with the average buyer six years younger, but with a median income 49 percent higher than typical home buyers across the country.
There, the housing boom followed the construction of the Shops at Wiregrass mall, Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, the Porter campus of Pasco-Hernando State College and other nonresidential uses.
"We basically fill in the hole in the doughnut," Porter said about housing trailing the other uses.
It also meant employment centers already were in hand to drive home buying.
"Your higher-wage earners don't want to lose time stuck in traffic," said Ryan, noting that the vice president of Tru Simulation + Training, a company expanding in Lutz, purchased a home in Starkey Ranch because it is a 10-minute drive to work.
The progress reports to the PEDC audience showed Epperson, east of Interstate 75, has not yet opened, but has sold 15 homes. At Starkey Ranch in Odessa, buyers have closed on 157 homes, and 149 others are under contract. The average price is a little more than $425,000. The most expensive was $874,000, the least expensive $266,100. To the east, Bexley by Newland Communities opened in November in Land O'Lakes and has sold 70 homes averaging about $350,000.
The activity helped push Pasco's average sale price in January to $177,000, a 24.2 percent jump over a year earlier. Contrast that to the most recent information available from the U.S. Census — showing the median value countywide of owner-occupied homes at $117,800 over a four-year period ending in 2015 — and the reason for the optimism becomes apparent.
"One thing that ties this together is quality," Bill Cronin, president and CEO of the PEDC, said about the developments and their roster of luxury amenities and proposed commercial enclaves. Combined, they bring an "oh, wow" factor, he said, indicating to the public, "That's not the Pasco I knew."
While the focus was on the rosy residential market, the presenters — Porter, Matt Call of Starkey Ranch, Tom Panaseny of Newland Communities and Kartik Goyani of Metro Development — also touched on retail and industrial developments. Among the details shared during the session at the Residence Inn by Marriott in Lutz:
• Ryan said 64 locations in the county can be targeted for site-ready industrial use. After the properties are certified as site-ready, the information will be delivered to national consultants who help companies pick relocation spots.
• Porter revealed that Wiregrass Ranch is on the short list of potential sites for two Fortune 200 companies seeking land for separate employment centers that have a combined total 1.8 million square feet.
• Newland Communities is projected to build 1,720 homes and apartments, plus 562,000 square feet of offices and 94,000 square feet of retail space on 1,733 acres, but plans to acquire 600 additional acres from the Bexley family later this year, essentially growing its project by one-third. The company previously has disclosed plans for a Florida Hospital 24-bed stand-alone emergency room and medical office building and a 110-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott.
• Starkey Ranch expects to begin construction on its town center, at SR 54 and Gunn Highway, later this year. The northward extension of Gunn Highway and the realignment of the SR 54 intersection is scheduled to begin this month and finish around Thanksgiving. The shopping center on intersection's northeast side will be anchored by Publix and is projected to open in 2018.
• Three other colleges/universities will join the Saint Leo University-anchored education center within the Epperson development. It is the initial project within the connected city corridor, the first smart gigabit community built from the ground up in the nation. Its most high-profile amenity is the 7.5-acre Crystal Lagoon that is under construction.
C.T. Bowen
Pasco County Reporter
Four Tampa Bay companies ranked as world's "most admired"
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Four Tampa Bay businesses made Fortune's list of "Most Admired Companies" in the world for 2020.
Florida gas prices dip after last week's spike
Low demand and higher gas supply are bringing cheaper gas this week, experts said.
Tampa's Pirate Water Taxi expanding its fleet, stops and routes
The service, owned by the operator of Yacht StarShip Dining Cruises, is investing $1.6 million in three new vessels and adding a long-desired stop near the Florida Aquarium.
Lucky's Market is pulling out of Florida, closing St. Petersburg store
After Kroger's split from Lucky's, the chain is closing all but one of its Sunshine State stores.
Ranking names Delta the best U.S. airline of 2019, American comes in last
The annual ranking from the Wall Street Journal placed Delta in first place for the third year in a row.
Dear Penny: My nephew broke his promise to buy my home. Should I evict him?
You should look out for your own interests, the advice columnist writes.
Update: Tampa Premium Outlets re-opens, deputies investigating robbery at diamond store
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Deputies are searching for a suspect. There is no public safety threat.
Familiar face joins Pasco EDC staff
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The Towers of Channelside condo association has filed a lawsuit against the bar, as residents complain about noise.


The Frozen Four is on the Westwood One NCAA Radio Network! Brian Tripp will serve as the play-by-play announcer for the first time. Former Minnesota Golden Gopher Pat Micheletti will be the color analyst. Shireen Saski returns as the rinkside reporter.


Want to learn how to grow your own garlic? This guide will teach you the basics.
The most common type of garlic found in stores is artichoke garlic, which also is easy to grow at home in your garden. The savory bulbs are closely related to onions, and can be found in many varieties of two types: hardneck and softneck garlic.
Hardneck garlics come in dozens of bulb varieties and are considered the "original" or native garlic, while various growers for commercial production have cultivated softneck garlics, and these are the kinds usually found in supermarkets. You may want to try growing a different type of garlic best suited to your climate. Creole garlics are adapted to warm weather, while porcelain garlic grows better in northern regions.
Garlic will grow on a range of soils, but prefers a loamy soil rich in organic matter. The soil should be in the neutral pH range, from 6.5 to 7.0 for successful garlic growing. If your soil doesn't meet these qualifications, add compost, humus or manure before planting garlic, and mix the soil well. Amend the soil pH if needed with lime or sulfur.
To grow bigger garlic, add plenty of 10-10-10 fertilizer throughout the growing season. Use an irrigation system or regular watering. If the bulbs are in dry soil, they tend to grow unevenly, so keep the soil moist for best results.
Garlic requires a fairly long growing season and can either be started indoors in the spring or outdoors in the fall. The plants begin to produce bulbs quickly in warm temperatures, so indoor plants should be strong enough to support the bulbs before they go outside. In zones 4 to 6, plant garlic in March or April. In warmer zones, plant garlic in the fall, letting it establish some roots before going dormant. It will then come up on its own in the spring.
Sow garlic outdoors anytime after September, or after the first frost, when the nights are cold enough not to encourage germination. Garlic is not grown from seed; to plant it, separate the cloves of a bulb and plant the larger, outer cloves. Place them in soil about a half-inch to an inch deep in an upright position, about three to five inches apart.
Water garlic regularly and keep the soil moist, but not wet. A rain gauge might be helpful for you to determine how much you need to water. In dry areas, mulch will be beneficial to help the soil stay moist evenly. Fertilize once a month at the start of the growing season by sidedressing the plants or using liquid fertilizer. Stop fertilizing when the plants begin to produce bulbs, since the fertilizer will encourage leaf growth rather than bulb growth.
You can harvest garlic as needed throughout the summer. Stop watering in the fall a week or so before you plan to harvest the rest of your garlic, to let the soil dry out for easier harvesting. Dig up garlic bulbs rather than pull them from the surface, to reduce injury to the bulbs and breakage of the stems. This is easily done with a hand cultivator or trowel in a home garden, but should be done before frost sets in for ease of digging.
Let the tops of the plants dry before storing garlic. When the tops are dry, cut them off an inch or so from the bulb. Garlic bulbs should be stored at 32 degrees Fahrenheit for the winter. Too much warmth and humidity in their storage location will encourage mold. Garlic should last six to seven months stored well.
Growing underground, garlic is not as susceptible to insects and diseases as some garden plants, but it has been known to be affected by the onion maggot. The leaf tips will show yellowing or browning if infected; pull the garlic and discard it to keep the bug from moving on to other bulbs.
Fungi and nematodes also should be guarded against with root crops. You can avoid fungi and nematode infestations in your soil be making sure the garden bed is well-drained and kept at a constant moisture level, not letting it get too wet or too dry.


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'Waking Watch': Keeping high-rise buildings safe
IN JUNE 2017, the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of flats in West London, claimed the lives of 72 people. In the aftermath of the episode, questions were asked about the safety and security of high-rise buildings, writes Michael Knibbs.
Cancer-Causing Contaminants: Why Firefighters Need to Take Extra Care of Protective Footwear
FIREFIGHTING IS a life-threatening job, with every shift bringing dangerous incidents such as fires, floods, storms and road traffic collisions. Alongside risks including heat exhaustion, burns and mental stress, other less visible hazards pose a threat to firefighter safety. In a timely move, functional footwear expert HAIX Group has now issued Best Practice advice on how to thoroughly clean and decontaminate firefighters' boots to help prevent a build-up of dangerous contaminants and protect wearer safety.
Electrical Fires in Data Centres: Reducing the Causes and Consequences
EVERY YEAR, more and more Data Centres are created to host websites and company data. Breakdowns, cyber security attacks and fires are some of the risks posed to those Data Centres. The consequences of a fire are considerable in economic, material, environmental and, potentially, human terms. Electrical failures are often blamed, but as Ash Crompton observes, new innovations can limit the risk.
'Bridging the Gap Between Fire and Emergency Lighting Systems' served as one of the latest webinars to run in Fire Safety Matters' ongoing series. Taking place on Thursday 10 June at 10.30 am, the event was chaired and moderated by Mark Sennett (CEO at Western Business Media). Brian Sims outlines the main takeaways from the online session
Peter Baker is at the very forefront of establishing the new Building Safety Regulator within the Health and Safety Executive and leading on the delivery of a stronger and more robust safety regime for higher risk residential developments. Brian Sims unearths more of the underpinning detail in conversation with the newly appointed Chief Inspector of Buildings


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Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights, a blog hosted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), is a unique resource for journalists, policymakers, scholars, activists and others interested in understanding Venezuelan politics and human rights.
The contributors call it as they see it, providing insights on Venezuela's politics that go beyond the polarized pro-Chavismo/anti-Chavismo debate. The views expressed in the posts are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect WOLA's institutional positions.
David Smilde, curator of the blog, is a WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University. He has lived in or worked on Venezuela since 1992. He is co-editor of Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Chávez (Duke 2011).
Geoff Ramsey is WOLA's Associate for Venezuela. He is an avid observer of the situation in Venezuela—having helped coordinate WOLA's response to and coverage of the December 2015 legislative elections from Caracas—as well as a regular contributor to WOLA's Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights blog.
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How Congress Can Advance Non-violent, Democratic Solutions to the Venezuela Crisis
By Geoff Ramsey and David Smilde
Congress Can Support a Political Solution and Provide Multilateral Humanitarian Assistance
As the House Foreign Affairs Committee takes up important legislation related to the crisis in Venezuela, we take this occasion to offer some considerations regarding the most effective way to address both the political and humanitarian aspects of the crisis in Venezuela. It is important for Congress to stand against U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, as does H.R. 1004, the Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act. U.S. intervention would be counterproductive, costly, and would—above all—worsen the suffering of the Venezuelan people.
At the same time it is important to recognize that Venezuela is in the midst of a deep political and economic crisis, fueling a humanitarian emergency that has forced more than three million people to flee abroad. The May 2018 electoral process that Nicolás Maduro used to claim a new term lacked the fundamental guarantees of a free and fair process. The only viable path out of this crisis is a multilateral process that leads to free and fair elections, in which Venezuelans can choose their leaders. This must include a multilateral plan to address the humanitarian emergency on the ground without instigating armed conflict.
1.) Members of Congress should support Latin American and European-led International Contact Group efforts to facilitate a negotiated, democratic solution:
The International Contact Group brings together three countries from Latin America (Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uruguay) as well as eight European Union member states.
There have been many rounds of failed dialogue in Venezuela. The major obstacle has been Nicolas Maduro's failure to negotiate in good faith or make significant democratic concessions in the past. As a result, both the Vatican and Uruguay have recently declined to serve as dialogue mediators.
The International Contact Group is a different approach from previous failed dialogue processes. In fact it is a more robust diplomatic initiative to facilitate a negotiated, democratic solution. Its starting point is that new elections are necessary, and it has a specific mandate create the necessary trust-building measures and conditions for credible elections, as well as to support methods to bring in humanitarian aid into the country while avoiding conflict. Among these conditions are the creation of a fair electoral authority, the release of political prisoners, and the end to political restrictions on the opposition.
The International Contact Group has engaged with actors in both the Maduro government and the democratic opposition. It has credibility and access in both camps.
The International Contact Group has been very active behind the scenes after their February 7 first meeting in Uruguay. From February 20-22 an International Contact Group technical team was in Caracas and quietly carried out meetings with stakeholders in the Maduro government, the opposition, and civil society. Another meeting of the group will take at the ministerial level in late March.
2.) Members of Congress should also take the following actions to alleviate suffering and provide humanitarian assistance:
In discussions on humanitarian aid, including H.R. 854 (the Humanitarian Assistance to the Venezuelan People Act of 2019), Congress should support humanitarian assistance in Venezuela through existing multilateral channels and in keeping with humanitarian principles. It should encourage the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase funding for experienced humanitarian groups already working on the ground in partnership with active UN agencies in Caracas, including WHO-PAHO and UNICEF. The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) have been funding increasingly large-scale humanitarian operations in Venezuela for some time, and USAID should join with them;
Endorse Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans;
Increase funding to strengthen refugee and migrant reception systems in Latin America;
Insist that countries receiving refugees from Venezuela take steps to allow Venezuelan migrants and refugees to access education, healthcare, and legal employment. Countries that receive U.S. assistance should adjust their migration policies to accept expired travel documents as valid for migration purposes, as many countries have already agreed to in principle in the Quito Declaration of 2018;
Endorse coordinated, multilateral pressure on the Maduro government through diplomacy and targeted sanctions that avoid deepening the suffering of the Venezuelan people. To be effective, sanctions should be:
Multilateral, and coordinated with European and Latin American allies;
Explicitly tied to concrete outcomes under which they can be eased or lifted; and
Conditions for sanctions relief must be clearly communicated, with respect to their purpose, targets, and scope, as well regarding conditions that would allow for sanction relief.
Request that the Departments of State and Treasury work jointly with other countries imposing sanctions on the Maduro government (the European Union, Canada, Panama, and Switzerland) to develop a clear and coherent set of conditions under which existing sanctions—whether sectoral or against individual actors—can be eased or lifted;
Ensure that pressure is paired with engagement, including through the International Contact Group as well as direct U.S. government backchanneling with actors in the Maduro government; and
Encourage the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to continue to use its voice and vote to elevate the political and humanitarian response to Venezuela's crisis within the priorities of the United Nations, to ensure a peaceful return to democratic governance and avoid armed conflict and bloodshed.
CONTACT: For more information, contact WOLA Assistant Director for Venezuela Geoff Ramsey at [email protected].
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MANILA, Philippines — Some of the best Filipino products from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao were showcased in the 2019 National Food Fair (NFF) in SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City on Thursday.
NFF featured 233 micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) selling the "best" food products in the Philippines.
Food pavilions for fruit wine and chili garlic oil from Luzon provinces were among the attractions in the event.
Fresh mangoes and other mango products from Guimaras, Visayas were also offered in the food fair.
Also available at the food fair were cacao products such as cacao beans and cacao nibs from Mindanao were also present in the event.
Organized by The Department of Trade and Industry, NFF's launch was held at Megatrade Hall inside SM Megamall.


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Q: Eclipse-RCP Wrong encoding when deploying the product I am creating an RCP application, with many Greek messages, so everything is in UTF-8. As I develop and test through Eclipse IDE, everything is fine.
When I am deploying through "Eclipse Product export Wizard" the resulting exe does not correctly display the Greek letters.
I know that I am missing something stupid, but I have no idea what. Could you please help?

A: The trick is to start the Eclipse IDE using the same file.encoding as the java editor uses:
eclipse -vmargs -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
AND
Window -> Preferences... -> General -> Workspace -> Text file encoding -> Other -> UTF-8
When you export your RCP application then, the UTF-8-labels are displayed correctly. There are no special VM arguments needed to start the RCP application.
With this, you can share UTF-8 source code between Linux and Windows Eclipses.

A: When exporting a plug-in, it gets compiled through a process separate from the normal build process within the IDE. There is a known bug that the build process (PDE.Build) disregards the text encoding used by the IDE.
The export can be made to work properly by specifying the text encoding in the build.properties file of your plugin
javacDefaultEncoding.. =  UTF-8

A: (copied from the question - so this shows as having an answer)
I found the solution although it was not as trivial as I anticipated.
Eclipse gives the ability to control the build process with build.properties, in which you can specify a property javacDefaultEncoding with the following value for example
javacDefaultEncoding..=UTF-8
Documentation can be found at Eclipse Help in "Plug-in Development Environment Guide > Reference > Build Configuration"
Hope this helps someone.

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Rihanna outdoes herself again with 'Savage X Fenty Volume 2'
After the monumental success and praise of last year's Savage X Fenty fashion show, expectations were high for singer-turned-fashion mogul Rihanna. Yet somehow, she managed to set them even higher for next year.
Rihanna is one of the only celebrities equipped to provide fans with an event even more dazzling than the Met Gala. An ethereal experience of sexuality and fashion, "Savage X Fenty Volume 2" combines music and lingerie in a spectacle that's as visually enticing as it is impressive.
In a similar fashion to Volume 1, the show featured a long list musical performers, some of which were Travis Scott, Rosalia, Bad Bunny, Miguel and Ella Mai.
Additionally, the fashion show was packed full of star-studded cameos, with several bonafied celebrities stepping in as Savage X Fenty models. Some of these stunning appearances included Bella Hadid, Normani, Paris Hilton, Demi Moore, Willow Smith and Cara Delevingne, all dressed head-to-toe in meticulously designed outfits.
To keep up with the changing and more inclusive times of 2020, Savage X Fenty has consciously and continuously pushed the boundaries on what society views as sexy. In just the two years the show has been around, fashion enthusiasts have been spared from another year of watching skinny white women strut the runway in oversized wings. Rihanna's statement is clear – fashion is for everyone.
Sticking true to the theme of embracing beauty of all kinds, "Savage X Fenty Volume 2″ paved the way for more LGBTQ+ representation in fashion. This year's lineup included an array of drag queens and queer icons owning the stage, from actress Indya Moore to "Ru Paul's Drag Race" contestants Gigi Goode and Jaida Essence Hall.
One of the most remarkable parts of the show is the confidence and power which each of her hand-picked dancers exude. A perfect example is about midway through, when cameras cut to 32-year old, plus-size icon Lizzo, who's doing something we're probably all guilty of – performing seductively to an audience of no one but herself and the mirror.
The fearlessness and love she, and all the models, have for their bodies despite the world telling them not to is inspiring.
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Interviews are woven throughout the show, during which Rihanna discusses the vision that she's now turned into a reality.
"Displaying sexuality has become something that's way deeper than the surface," she says in one of them. This sentiment remains throughout, each detail more meticulous than the last and meant to showcase the beauty of the human body—every human body.
Compared to Volume 1, which took place on one large stage, Volume 2 has an array of stunning set changes. The coolest stage setup is easily a colorful lingerie "fairyland" that features pastel shades of lavender and pink to create a floral look. It reads as something straight out of Disney's "Fantasia."
It is nothing short of a miracle that Rihanna was able to pull this off in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. If you're looking for something magnificent to watch this week, this is it.
"Savage X Fenty Volume 2" aired Friday, Oct. 2 and is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
Featured image from @savagexfenty on Instagram.
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"For Mother Teresa, mercy was the "salt" which gave flavor to her work, it was the "light" which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering. "I think, perhaps, we may have some difficult in calling her "Saint Teresa": her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful that we continual to spontaneously call her "Mother Teresa".
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Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists after show trial
Alex Lantier
Egyptian courts sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to long prison sentences yesterday on trumped-up charges of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to broadcast false news to discredit the US-backed military junta in Cairo.
Al Jazeera East Africa correspondent Peter Greste and Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy were both sentenced to seven years in a maximum security prison. News producer Baher Mohamed, who had previously worked for Japan's Asahi Shimbun, was sentenced to ten years, with the extra three years imposed supposedly for possession of ammunition—a spent bullet casing he had found on the ground during a protest. The three, together with Al Jazeera itself, have all consistently denied the charges.
The trial made a mockery of legal procedure. Prosecutors provided no evidence to support their claims, leading defendants' families to hope for an acquittal. Asked to show the false news reports they were charging the journalists with having produced, prosecutors showed unrelated footage from the journalists' laptops, including images of Greste's family vacation, horses grazing in a pasture in Luxor, Egypt, and a news conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
At another stage in the trial, prosecution witnesses admitted they could not recall footage shown to them by prosecutors, and one suggested that prosecutors had tampered with the evidence, adding more footage after he first viewed it.
The show trial is also an indictment of Egypt's backers, and particularly the US, which has supported all the crimes of the military regime since it overthrew MB President Mohamed Mursi in a coup last July.
The verdict came a day after a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry and two days after the Egyptian courts announced a new mass death sentence against 183 MB supporters. Kerry pledged to release a further $575 million in US military aid to Egypt and said that delivery of Apache attack helicopters to use against Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula would proceed "very, very soon." Kerry even said he had spoken "specifically about Al Jazeera journalists" with Egypt's new president and military dictator, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—who proceeded to jail all of them.
Egyptian prosecutors and media had dubbed the journalists the "Marriott Cell," for operating without accreditation out of two suites at the Marriott hotel in Zamalek. This came after Al Jazeera faced repeated arrests and had equipment confiscated by Egyptian authorities.
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A total of twenty defendants were on trial, including eleven in absentia, on charges of "spreading false news," portraying Egypt as being in a state of "civil war," and aiding the banned MB. The sixteen Egyptian defendants were all accused of joining the MB—a charge Fahmy refuted, pointing out that he was a "liberal" who drinks alcohol and had participated in demonstrations against the MB shortly after the coup.
Three other foreign journalists were among those tried in absentia: Britons Sue Turton and Dominic Kane, who previously worked for Al Jazeera in Cairo, and Dutch journalist Rena Netjes. Netjes had been allowed to leave Egypt after discussions between the Dutch embassy and the Egyptian foreign ministry. All those tried in absentia received 10-year prison sentences.
Two of the accused Egyptians, including Anas Beltagy—the son of Mohamed Beltagy, the general secretary of the MB's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party—were acquitted of all charges.
In a statement, Al Jazeera -English managing director Al Anstey said the verdicts defied "logic, sense, and any semblance of justice."
"Today three colleagues and friends were sentenced, and will continue to be kept behind bars for doing a brilliant job of being great journalists," Anstey wrote. "Peter, Mohamed, and Baher and six of our other colleagues were sentenced despite the fact that not a shred of evidence was found to support the extraordinary and false charges against them. At no point during the long, drawn-out trial did the absurd allegations stand up to scrutiny. There is only one sensible outcome now—for the verdict to be overturned, and justice to be recognized by Egypt."
The British and Dutch governments both announced they were summoning the Egyptian ambassadors in their countries to discuss the ruling, while Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said her government was "deeply dismayed at the sentence that was imposed [and] appalled by the severity of it."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had had a conversation with al-Sisi, stressing the innocence of the journalists and adding that "in the long run, a free and vigorous media are good for democracy, good for security, and good for stability."
Kerry, on tour in Iraq, said he had called Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to register "serious displeasure" over a "chilling and draconian verdict."
The attempt by Kerry and Washington's imperialist allies to pose as concerned but powerless onlookers of the junta's attacks on democratic rights is cynical and absurd. Washington is handing over billions of dollars to the army—headed by al-Sisi, a graduate of the US Army War College—while claiming that it has no leverage over Cairo except for impotent expressions of "displeasure" at its reactionary policies.
In fact, the jailing of Al Jazeera journalists is of a piece with the military government's broader campaign to terrorize the Egyptian people and crush any force that might set off a renewed revolutionary struggle of the working class. In this campaign, Cairo has enjoyed the unswerving support of the imperialist powers—who fear the social anger in the Egyptian working class and are determined to prevent the outbreak of revolutionary struggles against al-Sisi like those that toppled the US-backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The imperialist powers have supported al-Sisi as his government slaughtered nearly 2,000 people in bloody crackdowns in the streets after the July 3 coup last year, jailed 16,000 political prisoners, and in recent months handed out a series of mass death sentences to destroy the MB—the country's main right-wing bourgeois opposition party—as a political force.
It is this political support from Washington and its allies that allowed the al-Sisi regime to proceed with its show trial against the Al Jazeera journalists.
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One can find plenty of starches, whole grain, fruits, vegetables, fresh fish and seafood in Lebanese cuisine. Animal fats are rarely used. More of poultry than red meat is eaten. When red meat is eaten it is usually lamb in the coastal and goat meat in the mountain regions. It also uses ample amounts of garlic and olive oil, often seasoned with lemon juice. Olive oil, herbs, garlic and lemon are typical flavours found in the Lebanese diet.
Foods here are mostly grilled, baked or sautéed in olive oil. Butter or cream is rarely used other than in a few desserts. Vegetables are often eaten raw, pickled or cooked. Herbs and spices are used and the Lebanese are very particular of the freshness of ingredients. Like most Mediterranean countries, much of what the Lebanese eat depends on the seasons. Lebanese recipes are a rich mixture of a variety of ingredients that come from all the Lebanese regions, and each Lebanese area has its own special dishes that bespeak the culture of the area.
Soak the burghul in water for about 15 minutes. Drain well. In a blender, add lamb mince, burghul, chopped onion, crushed peppercorns and blend. To maintain the temperature, add a little ice and blend to a smooth and fine paste. Keep the refrigerator for ½ hour.
Take a little mince at a time, shape into torpedo shape. Heat oil and deep-fry the kibbeh on medium heat so that the mince gets cooked. If you so wish you can stuff them with pine nuts. Fry till they turn golden. Drain and serve hot with chutney or sauce.


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In September 1990 I began working for the Beverage Network/Beverage Media Publications as associate editor. Two years later, I was appointed managing editor, a position I held until July one year after that.
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ODF Workshop in Brazil Reveals Big New Wins
Posted in America, Formats, Free/Libre Software, IBM, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 8:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Assemblage of microblogs showing considerable ODF progress
As we noted before, this week is the week of the ODF Workshop (not the same as the ODF Plugfest [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 10, 11]). The FFII writes: "ODF Workshop in Brasilia, today and tomorrow http://www.odfworkshop.org/"
Rob Weir passes on the following message: "Live stream from ODF Workshop: http://bit.ly/HeY8r click on "Salao Nobre Michal Gartenkraut"."
This links to a page written in Portuguese because the event takes place in Brazil. In addition to seemingly repetitive microblogs, there is Jomar Silva claiming that the "Brazilian Army and Navy just signed the Brasilia Protocol. The Airforce signed last year. Now they're all using ODF !!! Wow "
Brazil has been an ODF supporter for quite some time. The additional good news comes from some Twitter users located in Brazil and passed on by Rob Weir, then Yoon Kit. Silva also writes: "Arno Webb now starting his presentation about Open Standards and ODF in South Africa."
Later messages from Silva, who takes a key role in this event, say the following:
"Estimative from Fabiano is that they have almost a million ODF users on Paraná state. An impressive work on ODF & free software"
"South Africa has 11 official languages, and they can't have problems with interoperability when translating & publishing. The solution: ODF."
"Brazilian Army and Navy just signed the Brasilia Protocol. The Airforce signed last year. Now they're all using ODF !!!"
–Jomar SilvaAnd also:
"Paulo Maia told us that the Brasilia Protocol involves almost 600.000 ODF users… We'll reach a 1M soon "
About participation he writes:
"40 participants from 13 countries, 1 and a half days of excellent presentations and discussions and the 3rd ODF Workshop is over."
The following update is wonderful news:
"Just signed the Brasilia protocol, representing ODF Alliance Latin America "
John Drinkwater concludes with:
"twitter.com/w3cbrasil/status/3578396616 ← that's impressive, W3C Brazil signing up to support #ODF documents"
South America is apparently more progressive than many other countries. Some Danes, for example, are OK with ignoring Microsoft's OOXML corruption. One person writes: "The Danish Competition Authority seems to actually LIKE sitting back and watching Microsoft and ODF advocates flame each other. Popcorn?"
Watch how IDG pretends that those OOXML crimes are all behind:
It's not exactly the thawing of the Cold War, but Microsoft's inclusion in a new group launched by Oasis is a sign that the bitter war over open document formats has been forgotten.
Says who? OASIS was hardly part of this dispute.
Regarding the i4i case [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], here is another Web site (goodbyemicrosoft.net) which uses it to rationalise a move to ODF and ODF-anchored software.
Fast forward to today, and we learn that a company called i4i has won a lawsuit against Microsoft because Microsoft's use of XML — including OOXML — infringes an i4i patent. Microsoft has to pay i4i $290 million, and stop selling Word 2003 and Word 2007. Presumably, any product supporting OOXML will need to pay royalties to i4i.
Meanwhile, ODF does not violate the i4i patent. (i4i has "looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn't infringe on its patents." OpenOffice uses ODF.)
If you want your documents to be widely accessible, and remain accessible, you should use Open Document Format.
At IBM, employees are apparently encouraged to use Lotus Symphony as their ODF-compliant office suite. Good news all around. █
Latest Wins for OpenDocument Format
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twitter said,
Sure, the war is over. Who uses OOXML? I've only heard of clueless public school types using them and have never seen one in the wild. M$ has had a very hard time moving it's new Office programs and an even harder time pushing new formats. No one really wants to buy a new version of Word and they dread what M$ has made.


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Lil Sara / Discussion

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			Date:  06 Jun 2009 21:55

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					Moare 06 Jun 2009 22:09

How the signature works:

You use a include in which you only insert your "Character ID" (it is the last 5 digits of the Billy/image link. example:"00000") where it says "your ID here".

how you did it:

[[=]]
[[include include:Signature image http://www.animecubed.com/billy/?73962 link="http://www.animecubed.com/billy/?73962"]]
|id=YourIdHere

[[/=]]

how it should be done:

[[=]]
[[include include:Signature
|id=73962
]]
[[/=]]

this discussion page wont allow me to show the result, but it should work as I tested it on another page.

I also noticed that you didn't know the tab code so here it is:

[[tabview]]
[[tab TABNAME 1]]
Something
[[/tab]]
[[tab TABNAME 2]]
Somthing else
[[/tab]]
[[/tabview]]

result:

TABNAME 1

TABNAME 2

Something

Something else

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 19:38

Thank you. I did it for signature.

The village of the signature won't match my current village (yesterday and early morning = Chiaki, now = none, tonight and until later = Invisible). I went to Chiaki only to Survive the Impossible. I'll be going back to Invisible as soon as my application is accepted (and it will be, given my 6 weeks of active membership). This is why I put my info on top as Invisible.

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																		Tab problem

					Moare 07 Jun 2009 20:08

The blocks [[code]] and [[/code]] aren't suposed to be before and after the tab

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 21:01

Thanks. Well I managed to create tabs.

But now there's something. I want to have an "empty" tab, so it doesn't take as much space. I'd also like not to overlap my character avatar with the allies tab. I don't know how to add the mission box either.

Could you help me with those please?

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 21:10

I added an history, but somehow, just like the regular charbox, it gets behind and overlaps with the tabs, instead of making the next area go lower. Thankfully I looped not long ago, so I remember what level I was and what items I had.

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 21:14

I based myself off Fyfe's page somewhat. He was able to limit the tab length so it wouldn't overlap his avatar/charbox and mission info on the right side, and was able to make the box longer. Sadly, since I can't edit that page, I also can't see its code, as far as tab-length, and "see source code" gives it to me in html, which doesn't help one bit when using javascript.

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 21:21

I mean the history box ajusts to fit-in the charbox inside, while mine stays blank, doesn't lengthen (pushing down other stuff below), aligns it to the right by default. It also forces me to have Doujutsu levels/info (if I delete them, they still appear) even though I didn't have access to Burger Ninja missions in S1.

What I'd like basically:

-Have the tab background for my charbox within the history tabs so it lengtens downwards pushing down the Allies tabs when open.

-Have the tab box go less to the right than right into my avatar/charbox of the page (for all tab boxes).

-Have the avatar/charbox within the history tabs aligned to the left.

-Know how to link to images from the wiki as far as allies, jutsus, trophies, themes, and permanent items. Basically I want to 'copy' the layout of those pages with having the items info (loops or not, stats it gives etc) for allies, having the pictures, for themes, linking back to the source showing that one.

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					Moare 07 Jun 2009 21:27

Emtpy Tab

An empty tab is created by using a tab without any text:

[[tabview]]
[[tab Empty Tab]]
[[/tab]]
[[tab Not Empty Tab]]
Not Empty
[[/tab]]
[[/tabview]]

Empty Tab

Not Empty Tab

Not Empty

Overlap

The easiest way to prevent the ally tab from overlapping the avatar is to fill in text between the top and the ally tab or use " _" to make empty rows (if used on the start of a row)

_

I do not know any other ways to do it.

Mission Box

I think the missionbox is something some players have created manually so it isn't created automaticly by the wiki software like the other boxes, but here it is anyway, I can create a easier thing later, but I don't have time now. Insert numbers where the text is CAPPED

[[table style="width:220px;font-size:small;cell-padding:-8;cell-spacing:-8;border:2px solid black;background-color:#DCF8DB;float:center"]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#04470A;text-align:center;color:#FFFFFF;border:2px solid black"]]Missions Completed[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]D Missions: DMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]C Missions: CMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]B Missions: BMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]A Missions: AMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]AA Missions: AAMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]S Missions: SMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]Reaper Missions: REAPERMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]Monochrome Missions: MONOCHROMEMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]Outskirts Missions: OUTSKIRTMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]Wasteland Missions: WASTELANDMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#C0EFC5;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]Burger Missions: BURGERMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell style="background-color:#DCF8DB;text-align:center;color:black;border:0px solid black"]]R00t Missions: R00TMISSION[[/cell]][[/row]][[/table]]

Missions Completed

D Missions: DMISSION

C Missions: CMISSION

B Missions: BMISSION

A Missions: AMISSION

AA Missions: AAMISSION

S Missions: SMISSION

Reaper Missions: REAPERMISSION

Monochrome Missions: MONOCHROMEMISSION

Outskirts Missions: OUTSKIRTMISSION

Wasteland Missions: WASTELANDMISSION

Burger Missions: BURGERMISSION

R00t Missions: R00TMISSION

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 22:28

I was able to space it in History, with the " _" code (added 40 empty lines after the CharBox code).

I'd like to make the CharBox align to the left instead of the right (which it does by default).

I checked in the source code also: Fyfe uses tabs of 80% of the original length.

The html source code says: style="width:80%"

How do I code this for that page? I would include it in all my tabs.

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					Little Sara 07 Jun 2009 22:29

Oh and I'd want my mission box aligning to the right, below my profile CharBox.

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