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By John W. Lawrence
In a 2002 Oxfam report entitled "Mugged: Poverty in Your Cup of Coffee," the authors present the horrifying details of the current "coffee crisis." Coffee prices have plunged to historic lows destroying the livelihood of 25 million coffee producers around the world. The low prices are the result of three events: the end of managed markets in 1989, a great increase in production particularly in Vietnam and Brazil, and little increase in demand in Western markets. Seventy percent of coffee is grown by peasant farmers. These farms are now selling their coffee below production costs. Farms get about 6% of the final retail price of a bag sold in a store and less than 1% of the price of a cup of coffee in a coffee bar. Meanwhile, the four largest coffee roasters, Kraft, Nestle, Proctor & Gamble and Sara Lee, which control approximately 50% of the market, enjoy estimated profit margins between 15% and 30% annually.
This example typifies the violence inherent in unregulated global markets. Workers, communities, and entire countries are forced to compete against each other to the point of literally undermining their means of existence. On the other hand, a few transnational corporations (TNC's) dominate most markets, setting the rules and not following them. Market competition for workers is arguably the most effective social control technique of the global elite in the twenty first century.
The fair trade movement is playing a critical role in challenging the corporate managed international trade system. It is not only advocating for changes in the structure of the current system but creating a moral alternative. Nonprofit religiously based organizations such as Ten Thousand Villages (Mennonite) and SERRV International (Church of the Brethren) introduced fair trade in arts and crafts in the USA following World War II. Equal Exchange, a for-profit worker cooperative, was the first company in the USA to sell a fair trade commodity, coffee, in the mid 1980's. In the 1990's, the Fair Trade Federation (FTF), an association of fair trade organizations in the USA, was founded to serve as a "clearinghouse for information on fair trade and provide resources and networking opportunities for its members."
The FTF defines fair trade by seven principles and practices: fair wages, cooperative workplaces, consumer education, environmental sustainability, financial and technical support, respect for cultural identity, and public accountability. In addition, gender equality is highly valued. According to anthropologist Kimberly Grimes, author of Artisans and Cooperatives, 80% of artisan fair trade producers are women-run cooperatives and gender equity in pay is required. Fair trade has been an economic life raft for many communities because they pay producers two to five times more than what they get on the corporate-dominated market. In addition, fair trade has also fostered democratic organization and production.
FTF's 2003 Annual Report on Fair Trade Trends (the 2004 report has not been published yet) reported that fair trade is booming! Total sales in North America increased by 44% to $180 million in 2002. The primary fair trade products are coffee (29%) handicrafts (24.5%) and jewelry (11.5%). According to Rodney North of Equal Exchange, other commodities such as tea and cocoa are being introduced to the market. The product with the greatest increase in sales was coffee (54%) followed by tea (44%). FTF has a list of fair trade wholesalers, retailers and producers at its website. TransFair USA, a nonprofit created in the mid-nineties, has played a unique role in facilitating the introduction of fair trade commodities to the market. TransFair USA audits producers and certifies that the producer meets fair trade standards of production.
More than 300 companies now offer Fair Trade Certified coffee including corporations such as Safeway, Starbucks, and Dunkin' Donuts. According to the Oxfam report, initially the large TNC roasters objected to the term "fair trade" because it implies that the status quo trade relationships are unfair. Now the large roasters have introduced their own brands of Fair Trade Certified coffee, although they have not marketed them aggressively.
The prospect for further growth of the fair trade market is good. The European market is eight times the size of the USA market. The key is educating consumers and developing relationships between producers and consumers based on empathy, solidarity, and equality.
Fair trade has served as a refuge from global market violence for tens of thousands of people in the countries of the Southern hemisphere. Moreover, it has created a global market for democratically produced goods. However, fair trade accounts for only .01% of world trade. Reform of the current corporate-managed global trading system is still desperately needed. The fair trade movement demonstrates that a more just trading system is not only a possibility; it is a working reality.
Equal Exchange (www.equalexchange.com)
Fair Trade Federation (www.fairtradefederation.com)
Fair Trade Resource Network
Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org)
The European Fair Trade Association
The International Fair Trade Association
Ten Thousand Villages (www.tenthousandvillages.com)
SERRV International (www.serrv.org)
TransFair USA (www.transfairusa.org)


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Brass for Beginners
Brass for Beginners, an American venture which introduces children to brass instruments through the use of natural trumpets, is to launch its products into the UK. Brass for Beginners is the first brass programme geared specifically for the primary school classroom. It is a 'learn by ear' method utilizing a cross-disciplinary curriculum and a natural trumpet designed for school-age children.
The story-driven approach, tracing the development and significance of lip-blown instruments throughout human history, engages young learners and helps to place emphasis on musical outcomes while students develop the skills necessary for success in playing modern brass instruments.
The first volume of the curriculum, Around the World in Twenty-One Trumpets: A Brass Odyssey creatively intertwines brass pedagogy with stories that capture significant moments in the history of the trumpet. Created by music and history educators, it brings human history and the history of lip-blown instruments to life through the adventures of Ragnar, a hypothetical prehistoric trumpeter. The curriculum puts the focus on the fundamentals of playing and the development of aural skills, while simultaneously preparing students to play any of the modern brass instruments. Students learn either by listening to their classroom teacher of by playing along with online sound files, recorded by some of the world's best brass players.
International trumpet soloist and music education proponent, John Wallace, has recently been working on the scheme with colleagues in Chicago, where the programme has run since 2007. Wallace hopes the UK-adapted programme will be embraced here by primary schools and music hubs.
Brass for Beginners will exhibit from 9-10 February 2017 at Music & Drama Education Expo (Stand J2). During the Expo on the 9th February, John Wallace will also present, along with his Chicago-based colleagues, Around the World in 21 Trumpets: A Brass Odyssey.
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This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending the 2019 NCAA Track and Field meet in Austin, TX, thanks to my daughter who qualified in the 800 meter run. The best of the best, division 1 athletes, competed for a NCAA title. The men competed on days 1 and day 3, while the women competed on days 2 and 4.
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I love being a woman and I am extremely proud to be a black woman, a black mother. There are definitely frustrations that come along with it but you learn, "teach", re-adjust and move on.
My daughter? She made it to the finals and came in second overall. She got her NCAA trophy and represented women and women of color, along with her competitors extremely well. I couldn't ask for a better day! If you are a woman of color in sports or any profession, I applaud you and I will be in the stands cheering for you. There's a lot to be done, so keep moving forward, ladies!
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DWC Announces Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2017
California's Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) announced that the minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates will increase on January 1, 2017:
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California Labor Code section 4453(a) (10) requires the rate for TTD be increased by an amount equal to the percentage increase in the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) as compared to the prior year.
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Get Ready for Phone Security and Regulations by (author unknown)
Emergency services providers and others are being hit with telephone-based denial of service attacks. Nasty stuff, powered by IP-based phone systems. This relates to SWATing (what hit Brian Krebs). It has become trivial to use computers to make and spoof phone calls.
This is the sort of thing that could lead to new regulations. It is already against the law, but these incidents may lead to rules tightening how companies connect to the phone system. Which probably isn't great for innovation, and might not work anyway.
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In my book, 369 Days: How to Survive a Year of Worst Case Scenarios, I basically have four dominoes of things that happened in those 369 days. If you look at the cover, you'll see what they are. What I found probably the most frustrating of the four dominoes, because I was not in town when it happened, was the car situation.
Back story: in 2009 I had a heart attack and then after 17 weeks of recovery, I lost my job. And then I had to relocate to Toronto to find work. So, going back to that time frame, I was in my new role for about six weeks. Then, I received a phone call from one of my daughter, and she was crying quite strongly on the call. Once she was able to compose herself, I was able to get information that our car, family vehicle, had been repossessed by the bank.
When you're unemployed for nearly a year and you're not getting any income for a period of time, it's amazing how quickly things can go sideways. Once I finally had received a paycheck again, I started catching up on some things. Mind you, I didn't have a drug coverage, so my medical expenses for the prescriptions for my heart medication were close to $700 a month. So, I kind of needed that in order to stay alive. Those were the priorities; food and medications to keep me alive. Car payments, obviously, would take a back seat to other things. We had negotiated with the auto loan organization a delay in payments. But, that timing had come to an end and over a period of time, once I got a normal paycheck coming in and finding a new place to live and everything else, we would have been able to start making our car payments again and start catching up.
Unfortunately, we ran out of time. I was in Toronto, family was in Windsor. When the car, our family vehicle, was repossessed, I was four hours away. It was probably one of the most powerless feelings I've ever had as an adult, knowing that I had zero control, that I wasn't there to try to deal with the situation. Thankfully, the tow truck company was kind enough to allow the family to empty the contents of the vehicle before they towed it away. I can't imagine what that visual was like seeing the family vehicle being taken from us. I know that was a traumatic experience for my daughter and I'm sure for the rest of my family as well. It was traumatic for me being so far away and not being able to do anything about it.
As with everything, it was probably the best thing that ever happened because based on income levels and all of that, that was a very expensive car payment. It was a very expensive lesson. The hallmark for you, is I want you to look at what you're spending your money on. This is not a financial course by any stretch, but you need to look at how you spend your money and what your budget looks like. You need to be able to control what you spend. We're all on fixed incomes, so you need to be able to spend accordingly on the things that are important. I'm not saying that you're spending money that you shouldn't be spending. We work because we want to be able to do things and have things, there's nothing wrong with that.
You also have to make sure that you're able to pay your bills and take care of the things that you need to do. Personally, it was an embarrassing period of time. Frustrating for sure, because we were hoping to be getting back on our feet to be able to pay our bills again. Unfortunately, the bank had lost its patience and decided to take the vehicle back. Hopefully, you've never experienced that. If you have, I know how you feel. It was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, one of growth, on where I focus on what's important and what's not. You don't need the brand new shiny car. You need a vehicle that can serve you and the needs that you have.
The next story I'll talk about, is our home. That one is something that is definitely a worst case scenario for many, many people. I hope that you can take and find inspiration in what happened to me and you can make the changes in your life so it never happens to you.
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The fire onboard an empty Boeing 787 Dreamliner at London's Heathrow airport was linked to an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) system produced by Honeywell International, the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said in a report today.
That unit, the RESCU406AN, is present on all Dreamliners, a Boeing spokesperson confirmed.
According to the AAIB, Honeywell has produced about 6,000 units of the model, "which are fitted to a wide range of aircraft."
This is the first "significant thermal event" associated with the ELT, which uses a set of Lithium-Manganese Dioxide batteries to transmit the plane's location in the event of a crash.
The AAIB has recommended the FAA order the device be made inert in 787s "until appropriate airworthiness actions can be completed," and that it and other regulatory agencies review similar ELT systems in other types of aircraft.
The fire had nothing to do with the Dreamliner's lithium-ion batteries, which overheated in two separate incidents in January, leading the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to order the jets be grounded. Boeing's fix for the battery system does not address the root cause of the failures (which was not discovered), but should prevent future problems and contain them if they occur.
In a statement, Boeing said it supports both of the AAIB's recommendations as "reasonable precautionary measures," and stands by the safety and "overall integrity" of the Dreamliner.
As Leeham News and Comment points out, a different Honeywell ELT model, the RESCU 406S, was subject to a Canadian airworthiness directive in December 2009 for "potential failure to transmit the required 406 MHZ coded signal."
Honeywell — whose shares just took a nose dive — issued this statement:
As a safety-first focused company, we support the AAIB's proposal and will offer assistance to Boeing and the airlines if needed. The investigation continues, and it's premature to jump to conclusions. Temporarily addressing the ELTs on Boeing 787s as a precautionary measure is prudent.
The Boeing 787 ELT product action is a straightforward process, and we do not anticipate any material financial impact to Honeywell. We also support conducting safety reviews for installations of any lithium battery-powered ELTs from the variety of manufacturers who sell them.
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- Being Open For Changes – Scrum framework is simple but not easy to implement unless there is an open minded people across the organization. Simple doesn't mean easy. What sort of an open mind does it need? Well, First and foremost, be open for changes. Scrum requires radical changes as far as the process is concerned. Team needs to be independent, no one should baby sit the team, team should take control over things to be done. No one has the right to assign the team tasks, maintaining product vision by Product owner etc. Lots of them. This isn't the case in traditional project management, You don't have a complete project plan done with Microsoft Project! In Scrum, you take a small step towards the final goal and make necessary changes when your iteration completes at a certain time. Everything in Scrum is time bound.
- Trust Towards Others – Senior management should trust the Scrum team. They can partially influence product owner for any changes needed in the product vision. Even the Product Owner can not assign tasks to the team. He just needs to maintain the vision and priorities for the project. He can be there during the sprint planning, sprint review meeting to see the progress and verify if the team is building the right things. How much to do in a sprint, how to do is all up to the team. That gives the complete ownership of the tasks to the team. No project manager drives the show. Scrum team together manages the show. This can just be done with trust.
- Willingness To Understand Changes Required – Scrum framework is intended to handle frequent changes. Only during Sprint, things committed will not be changed. Before and after sprint, there is always changes proposed by product owner, management, team etc. Scrum encourages changes that refine the product. So, everyone needs to provide feedback and be ready for the changes.
- Inspection and Adaptation – Scrum needs constant inspection, review process to understand the progress made. If anything needs to be changed, it has to be done. Team needs to adapt best practices as and when needed.
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- No Blame Game – Scrum Team members should not point fingers at each other. It is very important to maintain this during Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings. Members need to respect each other and be polite to each others. If we are rude in pointing mistakes, the team chemistry gets affected adversely. All these qualities in an enterprise is not easy to find. Management needs to do a considerable work to provide such environment in the first place. Company policies need to have changes to accommodate such things.
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"The new version is equally hilarious and probably even more effective. Three of the five comedians are back for this adaptation, with new material, as is brilliant co-writer, composer-arranger, music director Jesse Case. New segments include a fully improvised operetta - to great 'musicale' results and belly laughs all around. Although some of the musical numbers are not purely operatic, they are actually quite touching, and in the small setting, even poignant. 'The Guide' has proven itself to be a superb idea."Read More


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Remember the actor who played the younger Sonny Corinthos in the special episode of GENERAL HOSPITAL on Nov 12? Well, that was Maurice Benard's son, Joshua, and he just turned 14 on Dec. 5. Of course, his proud pop had a special message for his boy on his big day. "Let me tell you a little bit about my son," Benard shared on Instagram. "People say he's a mini-me. But I don't think so. He is his own individual. That's what I love about him.
"He has more confidence at 14 today than I have at 55," the Emmy winner added. "One of the things that I love about him is how much he loves his mama. I think that's a great trait and I have no doubt that he will be whatever he wants to be. Happy birthday, my son. I love you very much."
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Let me tell you little bit about my son. People say he's a mini me. But I don't think so. He is his own individual that's what I love about him. He has more confidence at 14 today than I have at 55. One of the things I love about him is how much he loves his mama. I think that's a great trait and I have no doubt that he will be whatever he wants to be. Happy birthday my son I love you very much🥊❤
After watching Joshua playing a younger version of his dad, GH viewers already know that he inherited his father's acting talent. And the kid can also sing, as Benard previously shared video of Joshua singing along to a Justin Bieber song.
Benard posted an older picture of Joshua to commemorate his 14th birthday, but you can see some more recent photos the proud father has taken of his son in the special gallery below.
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Paris Brown: Could 'right to be forgotten' help?
Tearful teenager Paris Brown sobbed on television at the weekend as offensive tweets she had posted years prior to her appointment as Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner were picked up by the media.
Some of the tweets were about sex, drinking and drug taking, while others were considered to have been potentially homophobic and racist.
She described the tweets as "stupid, immoral" and apologised profusely for their content - but also said she didn't believe they should play a part in her life today.
"I don't think they should shape my future and my career and how I'm going to represent young people," she said of the tweets she posted between the ages of 14 and 16.
Her new boss, Kent police and crime commissioner Ann Barnes, said Ms Brown was "learning very quickly" about her public persona.
Right to be forgotten
Ms Brown has now deleted her Twitter page, but under a European Commission proposal known as "the right to be forgotten", EU citizens would also be entitled to ask companies such as Twitter to delete their data from the firms' servers.
Those organisations would then be obliged to comply unless there were "legitimate" reasons not to.
After the unveiling of the proposals last year, designed to replace 27 individual regulations in place in member countries, a spokesman for European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told the BBC they were drawn up with young people in mind.
"They are not always as aware as they could be about the consequence of putting photos and other information on social network websites, or about the various privacy settings available," he said.
So would it have helped Paris Brown?
"The idea that it would have had much impact here would be over-stated," said Jim Killock, head of the Open Rights Group, a campaign group for privacy and consumer rights online.
"It may be that [Ms Brown] could have asked for the account to be deleted in full but it wouldn't remove the historic record of what she said, which might well be in other caches," he added.
That is because material posted onto Twitter is public, so it is collectable by any other website or individual, and the "right to be forgotten" only applies to the source company, Mr Killock explained.
"The right to be forgotten is more about the right to delete or erase," he said.
"Twitter as a private company might be asked to remove data but it doesn't put anyone else under the right."
In any case Ms Brown may not have had access to the proposed directive at all from her home in Kent, as UK Justice Secretary Chris Grayling opposes it.
"The UK does not support the 'right to be forgotten' as proposed by the European Commission. The title raises unrealistic and unfair expectations of the proposals," said the Ministry of Justice in a statement.
"We are also concerned about potentially impossible requirements for data controllers to manage third-party erasure; the 'reasonable steps' required by the draft regulation would promise much, but deliver little."
'Unclear and un-enforceable'
Mr Killock disagrees.
"Everybody wants to be part of a single data protection regulation, apart from the UK government," he said.
Mr Killock dismissed the UK's current data protection laws as "inconsistent, unclear and un-enforceable" but not all businesses want to turn their backs on them, said BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones .
"The EU plan for a 'right to be forgotten' has raised the stakes in the battle over our online privacy," he said.
"Consumer groups have welcomed the policy as an essential protection in a fast-changing world - while major technology firms are complaining that it will be impractical and damaging to investment in Europe.
"But with more and more examples of the damage our online histories can cause, the pressure to give consumers more control will only grow."


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Doesn't sound possible, does it?
Well, if you're selling your house, it is.
Someone my husband used to know sold his million dollar house on the Gold Coast. As an experiment, he put all the money he made onto his Frequent Flyer linked VISA card. Then he used that money to buy the next house.
Frequent Flyer points accrue on all purchases (you might have to check that this works if your card is in credit - i.e. has your own money on it), so he ended up with $1M worth of Frequent Flyer points.
This translated into about 20 Round World tickets!
Enough to keep the whole family's wanderlust sated for a few years, in fact!
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What do Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Paul McCartney have in common? Sound City. The famous and now shut-down recording studio in Van Nuys, Calif. has seen thousands of albums go from scribbled down notions to platinum gold, but as Dylan famously sang, "The times, they are a-changin."
"You don't have to be perfect. You can buy a f*cking guitar at a garage sale and start a band with your neighbor. And if everyone is as passionate about this as I am, there will be like a f*cking wave of radical garage bands!" This was the war cry of Nirvana and Foo Fighters legend Dave Grohl at the premiere of his documentary "Sound City" at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday afternoon. It is the rock star's directorial debut but from the sound of it, he didn't set out to make a huge movie.
"The 20-year anniversary of 'Nevermind' was coming up, the studio was closing, so I bought the recording board and thought, well, what an incredible thing this is; this board is responsible for the person that I am now," he said to The Huffington Post. Grohl intended to make a short film about the legendary recording studio's importance to him, but when he asked Sound City for a list of everyone who had recorded there, he was greeted with a frank, "Are you f*cking kidding me?" The list was over 100,000 names.
"So they made me a short list, and I just started calling people, reaching out, saying 'Hey I'm Dave, I'm making a movie and can I interview you? And everyone said yes,'" Grohl told HuffPost. "There were a few that couldn't make it. But I f*cking hunted people down too. If they blew me off, I was like we're not done…"
Rock legend after rock legend grace the screen in the "Sound City" documentary -– and some bundled up at Sundance to help celebrate the project. Rick Springfield had a quick answer when HuffPost asked what his favorite memory at Sound City was. "Meeting my wife in front of that recording board. She was 15 at the time, but I waited until she was 18," he laughed. "Sound City was in one of the ugliest parts of LA, but it was a magical black hole that sucked all this talent into it."
Icon Stevie Nicks recorded some of the most famous music in rock with Fleetwood Mac at Sound City. "When we moved to Los Angeles in 1971, we lived with our producer Keith Olsen, and he was the one that ordered that board and customized that board. He is like the dad of that board," she told HuffPost. When asked about her own documentary, she said, "I'm going back into Fleetwood Mac, and it's like the Volturi is coming for me. I don't love being filmed, and I don't love all the stuff you have to think about instead of thinking about your music. I don't love the whole vanity thing, it bugs me. I'd never want to be a movie star."
Grohl recorded Nirvana's generation-changing 'Nevermind' album at Sound City and calls this documentary the most important project of his career.
"I'm telling the story of human beings making music -- showing Paul McCartney writing a song or Stevie Nicks and Neil Young talking about the human element of music and how important it is that human beings do it with other human beings," he said. "That's way more important than a fucking record."
"It's a much broader conversation, and it's meant to inspire people to do the same thing," Grohl continued. 'When I was a kid, and I saw another 12-year-old in a punk rock band I thought, well f*ck, I want to be in a punk rock band too. It's exactly what inspired me to do it. Seeing another person do it."
"Sound City" will be released Feb. 1 and will have a star-studded LA premiere on Jan. 31 with a special concert at the Palladium.


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One thing I never compromise, my cup of coffee must be grinned and brewed instantly with my favorite coffee beans. And that must be my special blend with that fantastic aroma and excellent taste. If you feel the same about coffee as I feel, forget the electric devices. Go for the Manual coffee grinders. One of my personal choices is Life Essential Manual Coffee Grinder.
It is one of the Best compatible manual coffee grinders available at the market. It's not just a coffee grinder, it's more than that. This product comes with a surprise package including a Hand coffee grinder, cleaning brush, storage bag, measuring spoon with attached bag clip and instruction manual. I would call this product- 'All in all'.
Things should be considered
If you visit the market today, you will see varieties of Manual coffee grinders manufactured by different companies. Some are so big in size, above your demand and some are with high degree of complexity to use. Before deciding to invest your money in Manual coffee grinder you should have to look for following things.
- It must be handy and durable.
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All in one:
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What is the capacity of this grinder?
You can easily make coffee grounds enough for two cups by it.
How can I clean this device?
You can use the cleaning brush (free accessory with the product) to clean it.
How much time it needs to grind coffee?
You can make coffee grounds for two cups within 5-6 minutes.
How much durable this device is?
It is made of stainless steel, so without any doubt it is a sturdy and durable coffee grinder.
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Alternatives: You may love this!
Casual Grounds Manual Coffee Grinder
- This device is well-built of top quality materials with ceramic burr inside it.
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Chinu CG-J18 Manual Coffee Grinder
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The Life Essential Manual Coffee Grinder is a complete package of surprises. If you are planning for long trips but your travel bag is tight on space, then this grinder wins for its compactness.
This device would give you your own favorite flavor of coffee even if you are on a boat in the middle of a river or in a camp on a freezing mountain or in a jungle waiting for the rain. So, coffee lovers buy and take this wonderful coffee tool with yourself and make your travel more adventurous.


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Short Term JHH - Apartment
Lovely, Bright 2 bdr. on Palmach
Comfortable 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom vacation apartment (1 en suite shower, 1 full bathroom) on 2nd floor of a quiet building set off from the road on HaPalmach street in Katamon (close to the Islamic Museum). Open-plan kosher kitchen, dining area and salon.Sleeps 4 comfortably.
HaPalmach Street, Old Katamon
Walking distance to Emek Refaim, the new Track Track walking path and First Station "Tachana" and Palmach. The area is replete with cafes, restaurants, convenience stores and supermarkets, alongside health food stores, clothing and jewelry shops.
The new Train Track recreation path (HAMESILA in Hebrew) for walking, running or cycling leads to the cultural and social hub of the First Station (or The TACHANA) and stretches as far as Malcha mall (approx 8 km) in the other direction.
Transport: There are frequent buses to all parts of Jerusalem (lines 13, 14, 18, 34, 34a, 77, 77a), bus connections to the Light Rail in the Center of town.
For more info + price quote on this vacation apartment, please contact us.
Additional Details
- Beds: Sleeps 4
- Minimum Stay: 3 Nights
- Floor: 2nd
- Emek Refaim: 12 mins
- Old City: 40 mins
- Town Center: 30 mins


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the world looks different each year that passes
like a little lens
that I peer through and see a wider landscape
my life spreading out
I see my children and how they dance wild along the continuum of time
the time that slices slowly for them
that moves so slightly that they never see me change
they never see me jumping up and down in the backdrop of the day
raging and screaming for it to all slow down
and all they want is to push the clock
and tear the calendar
and make the morning come
and I can't seem to catch my breath or
find my steps
on the edge of all this love
but sometimes it's good to fall in step with them
to just throw all the shit down and sit on hard floors
and hold new shiny Christmas nutcrackers
and agree with them that this is the most beautiful thing.
to listen to my son tell me how it is perfect.
only he says "puuurfect" because his daddy is English
and sometimes we all sound alike.
and how if I try very hard there are nights where I can sit alone at my white kitchen table and instead of being fearful and petulant at the rushing away of each day
I can find peace
little moments where I allow myself to know
that even inside of the days that are hard
there are truths that stick out and spin right in front of my face
that even if all of my invincible skin has been torn away from me
that even if I have glimpsed the reality of how fast this is all going down
that even if I am scared sometimes by the way my heart feels
(because it is very big and sometimes cumbersome)
there is love here and it is big
it is big time love
and it is my job to spread it around


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Create a Highly Engaged Facebook Group with Josh Stanton of Screw the Nine to Five
Episode 221: Show Notes
Today on the show we welcome Josh Stanton. Josh is the co-founder of Screw The Nine To Five, which is his and his wife, Jill's, slice of the internet where they help entrepreneurs bring more attention to their brands, make more money in their business and get more out of their life through simple strategies, how to's and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the realities of building a business online. In this episode, we tackle the topic of how to create a highly engaged Facebook group. We're here today to let you in on a little secret and that Facebook member numbers is kind of a load of BS if you don't have engagement! But how do you cultivate engagement, and better yet sustain it, from the get-go?
Josh lets us in on their tips, tricks and processes that have helped him and Jill create a successful, highly engaged and empowered Facebook group that actually drives members to sales. All done in as little as thirty minutes a week! We discuss how to show up for your people personally, how to drive them to your products or services, how to set group rules and expectations and how to keep your page alive and buzzing with content, questions and resources that impact the community you are serving. If you are looking to step up your Facebook game and create a thriving community – then this is the episode to fill up your notepad up with!
Find Out How Josh and Jill Started Screw The Nine To Five
What many people might not realize is that Screw The Nine To Five was not initially started as a business. Josh and Jill first started a skincare blog together because they wanted to create a business that could travel with them wherever they went. They looked at the various models that would enable them to do this and came across affiliate marketing. This was the perfect business model for their lifestyle. They did further research into the products that they were selling online and came across skincare. Josh and Jill knew nothing about skincare and it took six months before they had a full-scale business and when it was up and running, they moved to Thailand. It was here that they decided to start a blog about the lifestyle they were living and Screw The Nine To Five came about. This was the birth of the first version of Screw The Nine To Five and since then it has had many iterations and evolvements. There were a lot of mistakes that have led them to where they are today and as Josh puts so well, "We are not overnight successes, we are products of our own mistakes."
Getting Started With Your Facebook Group: How To Spark Engagement
Josh and Jill were running into a problem where they didn't know who their audience was. So they launched their first digital product based off of what they thought their audience wanted and it was a complete flop! It was here that they made a conscious decision to get to know their people and wondered what the best way to do that was. The first thing they did is they sent an email out and in the subject line they wrote, "Can we call you?" They got a ton of positive responses and this was the first through road to understanding their audiences' wants and needs. Facebook groups became really apparent at that point and they decided to jump on board with this and try it out in 2014. Initially, they had abut 20 people in that group and began posting questions and responses in the group. The group grew and grew and grew to eventually over 45,000 people! Josh encourages us not to feel bad if you are posting something in a Facebook group and no one is responding. This is completely normal. But it is the first step to initiating engagement in your group.
Driving Traffic To Your Facebook Group & 3 Steps To Sustaining Engagement
Josh does not advise running ads for people to join your Facebook group in the beginning. Josh only runs ads when he knows what the ROI is before they spend money. That is their first rule of thumb for an online business. What Josh and Jill did to first get people in their group, was send an email out on their email list and place the "Join" button in a few navigation areas on their website. They also included a sidebar banner on their site and placed a "Join" button on their "Thank you" email received after anyone signed up for the mailing list. Growing your group can't be rushed. For us at TCC, our group was really quiet for the first year! But as long as your group is made easily accessible from your other communication channels, then it's gravy. Josh learnt from another very successful online business owner named Shannon Hernandez, to do monthly audits of everyone in your Facebook group. Although her FB group was tiny, every month, Shannon would remove anyone who was not engaging in the group to ensure that the engagement in the group was always really high. Josh then asked Shannon how she gets people to buy her products.
Her process was to 1.) Always welcome people as they enter the group. Always. And 2.) Post a content piece once a week, such as a Facebook Live, based on some aspect of her product. Anyone that commented or participated on that post, she would private message them and ask if she could help them out with their specific need. 3.) She would then recommend that they join her $100 masterclass. After that workshop, she would them lead them toward more products and services. This is a simple process that only takes a little bit of time each week. You just need to own the fact that small can be mighty! There is so much BS when it comes to numbers. The only metrics that Josh really cares about is 1.) Money – How much is the business making? And 2.) Impact. Usually, both go hand in hand. If you are impacting more people, then you are making more money.
Turning Your Facebook Group Into A Selling Tool For Your Business
Josh and Jill are always trying to do things that allow for scale. They wanted to grow a large Facebook group but they also wanted to create procedures to help them run it and make sure that it's actually providing a lot of value to people first. Their process is as follows: Someone comes in and the first question they ask this member is whether they agree to the group rules and the second is a market research question. Such as, "What are you struggling with the most right now?" And the third piece is sending them down a route toward a particular product to help them with their problem. They also use the Facebook welcome post function to welcome in members who have just joined, using three welcoming variations. They then ask members to introduce themselves to the rest of the group. The two things they care about most is to get engagement and from there, to move people down their pipelines. What they also do is create a 30-day content calendar for posts in the group, where they plan out all of their content in advance. But the really important thing to take note of is tracking links. How many people are actually clicking the links in your Facebook group? You need to know how many leads you're getting from Facebook.
Personal Engagement and Showing Up For Your People
Josh and Jill definitely don't sit there and answer people's questions all day, that's for their paid community members. Their free group is kind of a platform for members to talk to one another. Josh spends about 30 minutes a week in the free Facebook group where he will comment, like and engage a bit personally, but that's about it. It can become a bit of a problem when your free Facebook members are expecting you to be the ones to answer ALL of the questions but if there are thousands of people in the group – other people can jump in and answer too! Sometimes you just need to empower the other members to answer by referring to podcasts or previous resources that answer their questions and set those expectations for them. If it gets out of hand with the rules and regulations of the group, you can also shoot a quick video outlining these and re-post it to the group to re-set those expectations.
The Facebook Group Shutdown Saga of 2017 and Starting Fresh
The Facebook group phenomenon got to a point where there was a culture of getting things for free on these groups. Josh and Jill decided to shut their group of over 45,000 people down because everybody just wanted free stuff and weren't necessarily customers or even supporters of the products or business. This made it almost impossible to gage how effective their group was even being. So they decided to restart their group and set expectations from the beginning. And they decided that all they were going to use Facebook for was a marketing channel for their business. What they discovered was if they give people something for free, they do not take action on it. But if they spend money, and the more money they do spend, the more accountable they are and the more transformation they can get from them. So that was the problem that start happening with Facebook groups and why a lot of people moved away from groups at that time, because they felt like they weren't able to work with people anymore. In the original group, Josh and Jill were answering way too many questions and now they only answer questions for paying members mostly. They also post useful links in the group now surrounding existing group conversations, which they never used to before.
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While I was on vacation with Randa back in August we celebrated her birthday a bit early, and announced what we were up to in a random Facebook status update, which received a good number of comments asking whether or not her birthday wasn't still a few weeks hence. One commenter, omitting a crucial comma in her attempt to set the record straight, proclaimed, "It is people!"
That exclamation came back to me the other night as I sat in a half-full auditorium at George Washington University to hear Jonathan Franzen read from his latest novel, Freedom.
Literary circles have been abuzz for the past month — pretty much since Franzen was the cover boy for Time in its August 23rd issue — with chatter, reviews, discussion, critique, and other pablum (this?) about Freedom. The New York Times Sunday Review proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction," while the Atlantic's B.R. Myers chided in his review's subtitle, "Jonathan Franzen's juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen" and summed it up by calling it "a 576-page monument to insignificance." In addition to these mainstream reviews and the cover story in Time, Franzen has been featured on All Things Considered and he was interviewed in early September by Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
I haven't read it yet, and I've gone back and forth about whether or not I want to. Terri Gross's interview made me not want to read it; for some reason that I can't really explain, the idea of a 200 page "autobiography" at the beginning of the book, in which one of the main characters writes about her life in the third person, made my stomach turn. I'm not sure why, but it just doesn't sound like good reading (this autobiography is, interestingly enough, what Sam Tanenhaus in the Times calls "the novel's most ingenious device"). Talking to a good friend who had just finished it, however, made me change my mind and become excited about reading it. Then I read Myers's review in the Atlantic, which made me not want to read it again. And then in an ironic twist, having read the glowing Times review, I wanted to read it even less. I read the Times review while sitting in the auditorium waiting for Franzen to take the podium, and I decided to reserve further judgment as long as possible; at the very least until he had finished speaking.
Franzen was immediately affable. For whatever reason, the minute he walked on stage I started liking him. The times I have heard him on the radio I did not like his voice. It grated — there was something off-putting about the hint of Midwestern twang and the sticky, sucking sounds that I can only describe vacuously as "mouth noises." Seeing him in person, however, actually watching him read his own work, I was strangely attracted to him. He's tall, has graying wavy hair, wonderfully nerd-chic glasses, nice jeans that fit him well. His shoes could be trouble, but I could not see them behind the podium.
I had read that people who interview him find him humble and gracious. I found him self-deprecating, funny, and [as they might say in Boston] wicked smart. During the Q&A, after going on for a while about the nuances of character development, how he lives with lots of notes and small observations about human behavior and people and life that he grafts onto characters who are making themselves known to him — an enterprise, he notes, that is simultaneously an exercise in self-reflection — he deadpanned: "So, there's some practical advice for you."
He read from the chapter in which Patty deals with her date rape; I don't know where this is in the book precisely, but it must happen during the two hundred or so page "autobiography" section which, as I've said, is the one section that most makes me not want to read the book. He read from the same section that Tanenhaus mentions in his review, in which a teenage, athletic Patty chases down a girl on the softball field to tag her out and her mother, Joyce, remarks: "I don't see the fun in defeating a person just for the sake of defeating them." He read from that part.
Franzen was on the final night of a three week book tour; he made comments alluding to a very rough (contentious? vitriolic? unkind?) Q&A session the previous night in Philadelphia. He said that, after three weeks on the road reading, promoting, talking, fielding questions, he wanted to say: it's just a novel, people! I suppose he could have meant it in a petulant, haughty sort of way, but that's not how I took it. He just seemed tired.
Which is the main reason why I gave him a pass on what was a pretty lackluster performance during the Q&A. Most at fault were the questioners themselves. But even when he was lobbed a softball ("After three weeks on the road is there any question you haven't been asked about the book that you would like to answer or, otherwise put, what would you like to tell us about the book that you haven't had a chance to talk about yet?" In all, a very generous question) he failed to rise to the occasion and didn't really give a very insightful or even interesting response — he rambled on a little bit about the sections dealing with overpopulation which, not having read the book, meant nothing to me.
When someone raised a question about the negative Atlantic review — asking whether or not he had canceled his subscription — he quipped: "The Atlantic canceled its subscription to fiction about three years ago." About Myers he said that he would have felt like he had done something wrong if he had liked the book.
The problem with things like public readings is that, well, they're public. I have a love-hate relationship with these types of events — I love hearing authors read and speak about their work (I've got tickets to hear Sarah Vowell in November!). But, really, people ruin everything. And yet, without them, there would be no readers of novels; there would be no characters in novels. Franzen spoke about misanthropy, remarking that you cannot be a misanthrope and a novelist. While he loves birds, it would be difficult to write a novel whose characters were all birds; and while it has been tried, the rabbits in Watership Down bear a striking resemblance to human beings.
We were in a large auditorium with cushioned seats the bottoms of which you have to pull down in order to sit in them. Standard fare for a large hall. The problem with these seats turned out to be the idiots who occupied them, the people who began vacating them ten minutes before the reading ended in order to rush out to the lobby to line up for the book signing. The seats made loud thwack sounds as they were released from beneath the ass flesh of these anxious assholes. As I've said, Franzen didn't seem to be having a particularly inspired night. But, seriously? He wasn't finished speaking. And yet with ten minutes left to go the auditorium thundered with the thwacks of retracting seats echoing through the hall, thwack [pause] thwack [pause] thwack, like the beginning of a giant piece of percussive performance art.
Perhaps I would not make a good novelist.
Even still, I'm coming around to this novel and, after all, I'm looking forward to reading it. Such a realization arose from several things, not the least of which was hearing Franzen read from it himself. But other things, as well: Tanenhaus's idea that "the only way to freedom runs through the maze of the interior life." Franzen's sentiment that freedom "became something to write toward." Or this quote from the Time magazine article, in which Frazen says that "`We are so distracted by and engulfed by the technologies we've created, and by the constant barrage of so-called information that comes our way, that more than ever to immerse yourself in an involving book seems socially useful' […] `The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world'" (48).
One man stood before the mic and told Franzen a story about reading his book in a bar when someone next to him asked what the book was about. He asked how Franzen would have answered that question. "Freedom," Franzen said, and we all laughed. And, having listened to him read from his book and talk about its characters and themes, having read the hype and suffered the audience and begun to get excited about one day reading it myself, I couldn't help but imagine that another way to sum up what Freedom is about might also be: it is people.


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Tom was confident at the audition for the school play and felt pleased to get a role. It wasn't a major role; those had gone to the senior drama students and, after all, this was only his first year at high school. It just felt good to be in the play, even if he had only four or five lines.
He worked hard at perfecting those lines. He repeated them over and over again. He put in the emphases and intonations that his drama teacher had suggested and, because he was on stage much longer than for just his four or five lines, he had many actions to rehearse and perform.
"Do them in front of a mirror," his drama teacher had advised him. "Watch how you look; practice and rehearse as often as you can." Tom did just that. Drama was not just an interest. He wanted to be a movie star, to make it his job.
He worked and worked at it. It was fun and exciting rehearsing. He enjoyed the time with the older students. Then finally the big night came.
Suddenly, things felt different. The theater was full of people. As he dressed, he could hear the chattering and noises of the audience in the auditorium—something that hadn't been there during rehearsal. He looked around at the other, more experienced actors and saw that the confidence they'd shown at rehearsal seemed to have vanished. Everyone was on edge, anxious, and worried. Had they got their makeup right? Was the costume done up correctly? What if they forgot their lines? Would they remember their cues?
The more people talked about their anxiety, the more edgy everyone became. The worries bounced from one person to another—like a baton being passed in a relay race—until the whole of the backstage area seemed to be buzzing with tension and worry.
Tom was onstage early, at first performing his nonspoken role in the background with several other guys around the same age. They slipped into their roles and did what they had done at rehearsal over and over again. When, suddenly, Tom heard his cue, the lights were bright in his eyes; he couldn't see the audience but knew there were hundreds of people out there all watching him. The words that had flowed so easily standing in front of a mirror in his bedroom didn't want to come, and when they did he found himself hurrying into them. He tried to slow down his thoughts and his words but, thinking about doing that, he suddenly realized he had missed a sentence. What should he do? Go back and start from the beginning? Try and add the sentence in where he was, or just go on as though nothing had happened?
He chose to carry on, but when he finished and left the stage his hands felt sweaty and his heart was racing. He didn't think about what he had achieved—performing his first solo part in a major production. Instead he was beating himself up for the sentence that he'd missed.
The audience, of course, didn't know he had missed a sentence. They made no gasps of horror, sounds of rebuke, or peals of laughter at his mistake. His fellow actors had just carried on as though nothing had happened and, after the play had finished, they were so busy talking about their own performances that no one commented on Tom's missed sentence—apart from his drama teacher.
"Well done," she said. "Acting is a like learning to ride a bike. You may not get it perfect the first time. You may fall off a few times, yet each time you get back on you do it better. Your performance may not have been perfect but, for your first time, it was great."
Tom felt reassured. It seemed like his teacher was saying it is okay to learn. You don't have to be perfect, especially when you start something new.
Tom caught the look ofhis face in a mirror—the face that he'd seen many times as he'd rehearsed those lines, over and over again. It was smiling back at him with a sense of satisfaction, for there was much with which to be satisfied. First, he'd been selected for the production. Second, he'd worked and worked to prepare himself. Third, he'd performed in front ofthe biggest audience he'd ever faced in his young life. Finally, he'd learned that it was okay to be good without having to be perfect.
He looked at his face smiling back at him and raised two hands with his thumbs up.
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 2
Ingredients: 2 wild mahi filets, (also, Whole Foods has a nice wild mahi in the freezer section) 1 t sea salt 1 t coarse ground pepper 10 chopped baby tomatoes 10 chopped black olives 1/4 chopped red onion lime juice of 1 lime 1/2 T olive oil 1/2 T white vinegar
Cooking & Chopping: Pre-heat oven to 425. Place tin foil on baking sheet and lightly brush with olive oil. Place fish on top and rub with olive oil, sea salt and pepper. Place in heated oven. Chop tomato, olive and onion and top with olive oil and vinegar. Mix and set aside.
Cook fish for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and top with tomato mixture and cover lightly with foil. Cook 5 to 10 minutes longer until opaque and flaky. Remove and put over your favorite veggie or grain (I like a combination of 1/8 cup brown rice and sauteed onion and bell pepper) - photo below. For the veggies, coarsely chop and sauté in olive oil for about 10 minutes.
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Celebrate Easter this year with a new tradition by making a stuffed steak, this one is sure to please your whole family. Settle in for the perfect family dinner and add the delicious number to your arsenal.
In this recipe, you can use any steak of medium thickness such as the flank steak I used here. Just make sure it is butterflied so it cooks evenly and quickly. You can either butterfly it yourself or ask your butcher to do it, which is totally what I did!
The stuffing is sensational. A mix of sautéed mushrooms, onions, garlic and rosemary combines with fresh spinach, seasoned bread crumbs and butter. All of these flavours come together like a dream, and really provide balance to the tender steak.
Speaking of tender steak, I loved using the roast mode on the Wolf Gourmet Countertop Oven for this recipe because it browned the outside of the steak while making sure the inside was the right temperature and kept the wonderful, tender texture. I was blown away at the ease of using it, and can't wait to use it for more holiday recipes. I also cooked the brussels sprouts in the oven using bake mode. To make these, I simply drizzled them with a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper and baked until they were browned and tender. They were sensational, and the ideal side dish for this steak.
Mushroom and Spinach Stuffed Steak
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups chopped mushrooms
- 1/2 cup diced onions
- 1 teaspoon rosemary
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 1 lb butterflied flank steak
- 1 1/2 cups fresh spinach
- 1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
- toothpicks for securing
Turn Wolf Gourmet Countertop Oven mode to Roast and preheat to 350 degrees.
Add olive oil and butter to medium sized pan over medium high heat. Once melted, add mushrooms, onions, rosemary, and salt & pepper to taste, stir and cook until tender.
Next add the minced garlic and cook for an additional minute, making sure not to burn it. Add in Worcestershire sauce, stir together and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes, then set mixture aside while you prepare the steak.
Lay butterflied steak on a cutting board and season with salt and pepper on the outside of the steak then turn over. Spoon mushroom mixture in an even layer across the steak.
Next arrange spinach and sprinkle breadcrumbs evenly over the surface of the mushroom mixture. Drizzle half of the butter over the breadcrumbs.
Starting at the very bottom of the steak, carefully and tightly roll steak, and secure seam with toothpicks to hold it together.
Place the rolled steak in the centre of the Wolf Gourmet baking pan and brush the top of it with the remaining butter.
Bake until the probe inserted into the steak reaches an internal temperature of at least 145 degrees F, around 40 minutes. Your steak will be medium to medium well around this temperature. If you prefer it well done, continue cooking until it reaches internal temperature of 155.
Remove rolled steak from oven and allow it to sit for 10 minutes. Cut the steak into 1 inch thick slices, remove toothpicks, and serve with easy roasted brussels sprouts if desired.
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Old Drawers to Shadow BoxesAugust 11th, 2014 in member junk
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found old kitchen drawers on side of road and with a little sanding and paint and a few miscellaneous items, they can now compliment any wall space.
Pattern or design used: My own design
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gadgetsponge writes: Great reuse! They are perfect frames.
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