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WrestleZone Forum Files #2: Broken Matt Hardy Is Awoken (Get on the Main Page!)
Welcome back to the Forum Files where the best posts make it up to the main page! Post in here until the end of Thursday December 7 and the best ones are put into a special article on WrestleZone.com!
Today's topic: Broken Matt Hardy is Awoken
Earlier this week, Matt Hardy debuted his Awoken persona in WWE, which is pretty much the same thing as the amazing Broken character from Impact Wrestling. Word on the street is that Vince McMahon is a big backer of the new character, which could mean some great things for Matt.
What are your thoughts on this new character and where it's going? Is it good? Bad? A big mistake? Hardy's ticket to the main event? Let us know and see if your response is as wonderful as Senor Benjamin's green beans.
I never got to see Broken Matt Hardy on Impact because I didn't get the channel they were on by that point. That said, by all accounts from what I heard, it seemed to be one of those "so bad, it's good" kinds of things. From what I saw this past Monday, that holds true. But things like that tend to thrive in professional wrestling when they're done right.
I'm not sure on his first program being with Bray Wyatt though. WWE has shown in the past they have no idea how to handle his character. And the back and forth promo thing they did Monday didn't help. I also see a lot of people thinking they'll join forces which doesn't make sense to me at all. Supposedly Matt Hardy has a lot of freedom with this character, and I think teaming him with another character that's almost as far out there as him would only hamstring him. If Brother Nero worked well with him in Impact, what makes you think such a vastly different character would also? For now, let him be himself.
I am certainly intrigued.
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Admittedly, the current product does tend to bore me. There are so many entertainment options out there with characters I can pay attention to much better than the ones who get title shots in WWE. I think fans like myself have taken to Matt's new gimmick because it's not of that norm, that standard that we've come to expect the passed few years. Matt Hardy has become something akin to an anime character. He's not an indy icon that'll do seven flips in a row. He's going to build a drone army and play violin.
Like many, I do hate that it is with Bray Wyatt. Wyatt has proven to be entertaining even when he rambles on about nothing. The potential there is astounding. Unlike several others on the roster, The Consumer of Terrestrial Entities does have a backstory caked in mythology. There are reasons to care about Wyatt. Why it couldn't have been Goldust or virtually anyone else, who knows. But the contrast in crazy style should make for a fun feud.
At the end of the day, WWE is still live theater and I don't care how many push ups the vanilla talent can do. I want characters I can either sympathize with or laugh at. Matt is someone I find genuinely funny as he captures that dadaist absurdism we usually find reserved for memes. He's so out there that you can't help but want to know what he will do next. No heel goes out of his way to ruin a perfectly mowed lawn. But Broken Matt does, and it's delightful.
That video on Youtube with him and Bray Wyatt cutting their promo trended. Matt could easily be a big deal when their feud is "Ovah".
The Room's not a good movie but it's made Tommy Wiseau a lot of money.
I distinctly remember people flocking to take the piss out of Matt Hardy when he debuted the Broken gimmick, me among them. This is the gimmick that's now got him a job back with WWE, a re-debut at WrestleMania, and his first seemingly heartfelt push since Edge slept with his girlfriend - not to mention the character itself is every bit as credible as Bray Wyatt's.
A million views in less than a week. I can already see the "Did You Know" banner coming from comercial bragging about it. All because of Matt Hardy.
People have begged for it since Wrestlemania. We were forced to wait 8 months to finally see the character and despite it being already homogenized with Kevin Dunn obsessive bright lighting and "I swear I can do movies" looks, it was a smash hit off the bat despite the wait. The BROKEN/WOKEN character plays off meme culture very well and understands the seemingly random humor of saying things in funny ways and inspiring fans to repeat them. And of course all that means more social media exposure which WWE showed they'd do anything for. Even crown a mediocre wrestler as WWE Champion for it.
Will it get the same freedom it did in TNA? Probably not. Vince and Kevin have nasty habits that refuse to die and probably inspired Matt Hardy's tagline in his earlier run. But it's more about the character. Señor Benjamin, Vanguard 1 and Reby came after he was a smash hit after all. Matt's shown to be more than versatile enough to find a way around that if need be.
I've only seen the various "Broken" stuff via some clips on YouTube because, like Bill, I didn't get the Pop channel, though I hadn't watched TNA/Impact in years even before they moved from Spike.
As I said in the forum addressing this in the WWE section, it's not really something I'm into; I know that wrestling is all about over the top stuff and I respect that Matt Hardy went so far out of the box and is finally out of his brother's shadow. For me though, it's so quirky that it's hard to take seriously, though maybe that's part of the point. With that being said, I don't think I'll mind it all that much as long as it's not something that eats up TV time. I may not be into it, but if it's a big hit, then WWE should run with it.
As to where it's going, it's hard to tell. When you think about it, the whole "Broken" concept is 100% pure sports entertainment and seems so cheesy in some ways that your first instinct is that Vince would love it. After all, Vince has allowed it to be brought back since Anthem announced that Impact stars could retain the rights to their characters and reports say that Matt Hardy will have a lot of creative freedom so that's another sign that you'd think he's into it. However, Vince can be unpredictable, downright irrational really when you get right down to it; he may love it right now, but might just suddenly change his mind in a couple of weeks because he's done stuff like this in the past. A month from now, you may have an entire arena going nuts for Matt Hardy, his merchandise could be selling through the roof and his segment could be the most watched on Raw but none of that will matter if Vince doesn't like it. His reason for dropping it, if he ever gave one, will be some bullshit observation that the angle isn't getting over or something along those lines.
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So happy to see this gimmick finally come to the WWE. I don't watch TNA/Impact. Haven't for years. I used to for many years but gave up on them for good after Bound For Glory 2014. I just couldn't take it anymore. I had no intention of ever watching any of their content again. And then I heard about something called The Final Deletion. I looked it up and got my first experience of Broken Matt Hardy. In all honesty, at first I thought it was extremely stupid. It was different though. Silly, fun, and unique. I gave it another chance and watched a couple of other pieces of footage. The character won me over. This was the most entertaining Matt Hardy had ever been. Other than his love triangle feud with Edge in 2005 and his United States Championship feud with MVP in 2007, nothing ever stuck out about the guy. He was always the other less entertaining Hardy brother. This gimmick is Matt's chance to be successful in his own way. The promos going back and forth between Bray and Woken Matt were a great start. Looking forward to Dilapidated Boats, Deletions, and other silliness with this gimmick in the WWE.
"And that's the bottom line, because DAGGER DIAS said so!"
It is fantastically silly; a throwback to early/mid 90s gimmicks while still having some anchor in 'reality' in that Matt has lost the plot rather than actually being some kind of deity.
It also provides for fantastic lines like calling Bray "the consumer of terrestrial entities."
And dare I say that Bray could be an interesting Woken disciple...
Anyway, here goes. The problem I foresee with Broken/Awoken Matt Hardy is that Vince has shied away from outside the ring production. Most every Broken thing I tuned in to see in TNA was on location. That's not a big deal when your show is pre-recorded, but it can take away from the live audience experience if you're going to cut to a farm or King Maxel for fifteen minutes. I guess WWE has gotten out of the arenas a bit lately with some of the Wyatt Family stuff (w/New Day, Orton) but not that much and it is hard to say if that little bit was worth it and that WWE wants to spend all that money and time on a veteran like Matt.
My suspicion is that we are going to get a watered down version with shorter but still wacky special effects driven promos and a lot of emphasis on the catch phrases so that they can sell t-shirts as opposed to building compelling characters and stories.
I think if WWE is smart they take a shot on Broken/Awoken segments on location but push fans to The Network to see the matches, attacks, and general wackiness. It may bring in Raw fans that don't have The Network while not completely killing their live audience experience.
We still have a few months to go but does anyone think the Broken Universe will get much effort and attention on the road to WM? Forgive my cynicism but my reaction is excited but pessimistic. I'm happy to see WWE give the idea a chance but I'm not feeling too strongly that it will be as enjoyable as it can be.
Why didn't you just watch it online. Impact put all the Broken Matt stuff on their youtube channel. Final Deletion, Delete of Decay, The Great War, Total Nonstop Deletion there are several playlists on youtube.
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Dec 7, 2016
Facebook, for all the familiality it engenders, can still be a pretty rough place. It has become a melting pot for interesting pronouncements and scary prognostications — and that is before you add election cycles into the mix.
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Q1 6th 1m27.374s (on Primes)
Q2 8th 1m26.485s (on Options)
Q3 6th overall 1m25.982s (on Options)
"Sixth position isn't great, but we can still do well: Mark Webber had a good race from 18th in China, so we can definitely have a good race from sixth.
"Maybe I should have just done a single run for Q3 because my second run wasn't any faster than my first – and you tend to lose time if you push these tyres too hard. But to be honest I couldn't get a really good balance in qualifying.
"It's difficult to know people's overall pace from Friday running because the changeable weather has mixed everything up. I'd hoped for more but we'll see what happens.
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"It's very tight, very competitive, at the sharp end of the grid this year – and it's worth noting that, had Lewis managed to string together his three best sector times in a single lap, he'd have been second-quickest. As things turned out, he was fourth-quickest, and Jenson was sixth-quickest, but they're both fantastic racers and they'll approach tomorrow's race with all the controlled aggression that we've come to expect from them over the years."


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The puck goes into the net behind Czech goalie Vladimir Dzurilla after Team Canada's Bobby Clarke poked it between his legs to tie their Canada Cup final game and sent it into overtime, April 15, 1976. Other players are Bill Barber of Team Canada and Czechoslovakia's Milan Kajki. (CP PHOTO/Chuck Stoody)
Canadian diplomats wryly noted the Soviets were "never short of reasons" as to why their hockey team stumbled against the world's best four decades ago, newly declassified documents reveal.
Millions of Canadians watched with delight in 1976 as the home side captured the inaugural Canada Cup — a forerunner of this month's World Cup of Hockey tournament in Toronto.
Behind the scenes, Canadian foreign service officers in Moscow keenly observed the reaction to the games, widely televised in the Soviet Union, through the lens of the then-simmering Cold War.
The Canadian Embassy reported to Ottawa in a post-tourney memo that interest in hockey remained "intense and pervasive" in the Soviet Union.
"The games became the instant topic of conversation whenever an embassy employee engaged in conversation with a Soviet citizen," the cable says. "Even the admission by a jay-walking employee that he was Canadian brought forth a 'go-go Can-a-da' from an otherwise taciturn militiaman and allowed the Canadian to avoid a stern lecture on the necessity of using the underpasses."
The Sept. 23, 1976, memo is among several documents in RCMP security files obtained by The Canadian Press from Library and Archives Canada through the Access to Information Act.
The Canada Cup featured select squads from Canada, the United States, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Finland. The games took place in five Canadian cities as well as Philadelphia.
The event came four years after Canada's professionals first squared off against the Soviets in the unforgettable Summit Series, which Canada won by the narrowest of margins.
Russian standouts who became familiar names to Canadians in 1972 — including goalie Vladislav Tretiak, defenceman Valeri Vasiliev and forward Alexander Maltsev — could not lift their team to victory in the Canada Cup.
The Soviets finished third, with the Canadians besting the Czechs in the final.
Many in Canada saw the tournament as the closest thing to a genuine world championship, given that the best Canadian players were routinely busy battling for the Stanley Cup each spring when the actual World Championships took place.
Four more Canada Cup tournaments took place before the event was rebranded the World Cup of Hockey in 1996.
The Mounties diligently vetted Soviet players, officials and journalists who travelled to Canada for the 1976 tournament, the archival records show.
The Canadian Embassy found Soviet TV broadcaster Nickolai Ozerov to be "in good form" and "no more partisan than usual."
The diplomats got the impression that once the Soviets were eliminated, "references to Canadian 'roughness' were superseded by references to good Canadian backchecking and an admiration for the pressure that the Canadian team applied to the Czechs."
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Still, the Canada Cup was seen as useful because it allowed Soviet officials to evaluate young, fresh players who might be part of the "main Soviet national team" in Vienna, the Canadian diplomatic cable says.
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Burnaby, B. C. Six Objects
Date: December 22, 2004
Time: 4:39 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Katkam's west-south-west toward English Bay or south-west at the Burrard Bridge and Vancouver's West Side.
Number of objects: 6
Shape of objects: Rods
Full Description of event/sighting: Hi, Brian Vike. I was watching Katkam's webcam when I noticed huge objects in the sky.
I used lot of enhancement and I believe it shows 6 rods in the vicinity of downtown Vancouver and south Vancouver.
The first pair are almost 4 kilometers from the webcam but they must be at lease a kilometer long to be noticed. The next pair are on upper right corner and they are very much rods (after enhancement they seem to have curved lines around the objects). I have used Photoshop to get pictures enhanced and I can send the pictures that were taken in 2 minutes intervals, but what should up was at 16:39. The picture taken at 16:37 and 16:41 doesn't show any object in sky not even a plane nor any bird.
I can send these pictures plus the enhancements.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War, several government agencies have joined forces to restore a Byzantine-era mosaic in the Cardo section of the Old City's Jewish Quarter, and add nine new colorful mosaics.This is a bit confusing. The Madaba Map is an ancient mosaic in a church in the town of Madaba in Jordan. Among other things, it depicts sixth century CE Jerusalem, including the Cardo thoroughfare. There are (at least) two replicas of the Madaba Map in Jerusalem, one in the lobby of the YMCA Hotel and the other in the Cardo. Apparently the latter is being restored and nine other mosaics are being added to go with it. Some of the information in the article could be presented more clearly. I think that's what it is is saying, although it took me a while to sort it out.
The beautification project was recently initiated by the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter and the Tourism Ministry, with aid from Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Antiquities Authority.
According to Pini Refael, manager of the company's education and tour guide department, Jerusalem's Cardo dates back to the 6th century CE, and is depicted on the Madaba Map, part of a floor mosaic discovered in 1884 in a Byzantine church in Madaba, Jordan.
To mark the capital's half-century milestone, Refael said it was decided to focus on the Jewish Quarter's rich historic culture and art. Apart from the replica of the Madaba Map, he said the nine other mosaics will illustrate the stories of people who lived and worked there during Byzantine times.
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To my friends and readers: We are about to conclude the Jewish High Holidays which began 10 days ago with Rosh Hashanah and ends tomorrow with Yom Kippur. In the spirit of this season, I must ask everyone, if I have offended any of you, whether knowingly or unknowingly, I ask your forgiveness. If I have not published articles I promised you I would, please forgive me. I meant to when I said I would but have so many other commitments and things I must do. I am sure that the article is not forgotten and I may get to it in the coming year. But I ask forgiveness for overreaching and for commitments and promises I have not kept.
By the way this free ranging stream of consciousness blog will go, it could also be called Jews in the News, the "News" being New Years and New York, and of course films. Imagining this as a new feature, and because it might only run once a year, I am going to use it here as a platform to mention everyone on my mind as they come up as a sort of New Year's wrap up of things left undone.
To begin, I am writing about all the people and things I saw and did in New York and, again, I hope friends I don't mention will forgive me. Like Lynda Hansen whom I did see at New York Film Society's Walter Reade Theater…or Wanda Bershan whom I saw across the room at a press screening or Gary Crowdes the editor-in-chief of Cineaste Magazine and whom I meant to greet but didn't. I saw so many old New York friends and acquaintances and because it was New Years and a time of reflection, I revisited what were my circumstances when I left it in 1985 to return to L.A.
When I first moved to New York in 1980 to work for ABC Video Enterprises, I had spent 5 years practicing Orthodox Judaism. Being in New York represented the apotheosis of all things Jewish (outside of Israel, whose films and festivals will be the subject of another blog – excuse me Katriel Schory of the Israeli Film Fund and Alesia Weston the new director of the Jerusalem Film Festival). In New York, even those who were not Jewish by religion seemed Jewish to me by virtue of living in New York. When I realized this, my own Orthdoxy fell away from me as if I were shedding a cloak. I understood that my Jewish self was Jewish no matter what life style I would live. And I liked the New York life style most of all.
After TIFF 12 (Toronto International Film Festival 2012), Peter and I came for a week of relaxation to New York City. What a city! So NEW YORK, in-your-face, loud, crowded, lots of horns honking, and people: PEOPLE. The best. We saw our friends, we saw New York with New Eyes.
We arrived by train from the airport, straight to our apartment! What great rapid transit, even if it is old and ugly, so blackened by dirt and age. I noticed new decorations on some walls of some stations, some works were better than others. I wish we had such a quick easy way to zoom around our fair city of L.A.
We stayed in an apartment in Chelsea – that of our daughter's mother-in-law who lives half the year in the apartments built by the Amalgamated Ladies Garment Union. (The other half she spends in Truro.) Such history! Coincidently these are the very apartments I had wanted to live in when I was leaving NYC in 1985.
We were invited to a screening by Hisami Kuroiwa, whose friendship goes back to our early days in Cannes, or back to the days she produced Smoke and Blue in the Face with my other old friend Peter Newman. Araf (Venice FF, Tokyo FF, ISA: The Match Factory), which she associate produced, will be presented at the New York Film Festival (NYFF50), September 28 – October 14. The press screening at the new Walter Reade Theater was a great treat. The film's director, Yesim Ustaoglu, ♀, who also directed Journey to the Sun and Pandora's Box spoke via Skype at the press Q&A afterward.
Araf in Turkish means "somewhere in between". The Somewhere in Between in the film is a 24-hour restaurant halfway between Ankara and Istanbul. The young girl whose first job it is; her friend – an "older" woman, not much older than herself who becomes her guide to adulthood; the girl's childhood friend who works there as a teaboy and whose mother is not much older than the other two women and a truck driver who comes through en route, are the protagonists in this piece which brings to life a very distant place where the people's most intimate issues are very much like our own to the degree that all the women share the same life issues of sex, love, work and family today in a world where traditions are giving way to the exigencies of modern life.
The issues are so much the same as what we are facing today, namely, our own bodies and all that entails. Parenthetically, these are the same issues in The Patience Stone (ISA: Le Pacte), which takes my prize for the Best Female Film at TIFF 12.
Both of these films deeply affected me in my own ways. When I say "affected", what I mean is that some thought comes into my head which seems unrelated to the film but comes so suddenly and vividly to me and illuminates some part of my life. When this happens to me during a film, I know the film is really good because it is affecting a subconscious part of me and of something of concern to me. A thought comes to me which makes my life come together in a new way and I sometimes feel transformed by the experience. This is my criteria for what makes a good film. Of course story, script, direction, cast, music, costume and art decoration also count, but in the end, it is the emotional impact a film has upon me as a passive viewer which makes it a winning film for me. The same pertains to me for all art, whether painting, architecture (WOW factor here for NYC on the architecture front!) , sculpture, music, dancing, etc.
We were given a week's guest pass to The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers by Alan Adelson whose documentary about James Joyce's hero, Leo Bloom in Ulysses, In Bed with Ulysses, is an exciting new film which I hope to see in the upcoming festival circuit. At the dinner, prepared and served by Alan and his wife Katie Taverna, an editor, who also has a new documentary about to surface, I was astounded by their home – so NEW YORK. Only in New York could someone live in Tribeca's 19th century warehouse district in such an architecturally unique home amid such astounding works of art. Docu filmmaker, Deborah Schaffer and her late dear husband, the N.Y. architecht, Larry Bagdanow, introduced us to Alan several years ago. He also publishes Jewish Heritage Press, and he gave me a beautiful book entitled, The Last Bright Days: A Young Woman's life in a Lithuanian Shtetl on the Eve of the Holocaust . Beile Delechy who, along with her brother, were the photographers for a small town called Kararsk in Lithuania, brought her photographs with her when she left Europe for the U.S. in 1938. They show the everyday reality for Jews and Lithuanians during the 1930s. Published by Jewish Heritage and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, this book embodies my own aspirations. If I could have my books on my family published in such a way as this, I would die happy.
Speaking of Lithuania and this blog, being Jews in the News, must also cover some other Eastern European news because like New York, its innate character still seems Jewish, even though there are very few Jews there. There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the subject however, among the third generation since the Shoah.
Kaunas International Film Festival's Tomas Tangmark, who heads distribution for the festival, is also a filmmaker whom I met at Wroclaw's American Film Festival last November. By now his 12 minute short films should have wrapped. In Cannes, when we met again, he showed me his financial plan for "Breshter Bund – A Union Forever" which has received Development Support from the Swedish Film Institute and money from Swedish TV, has a production budget of around €25,000. It is about the workers at the Vindsberg factory in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania in 1896. Influenced by the current events in the world, the workers at the factory organize a strike. Their demand is a 10-hour working day. Whether they win, or lose, the outcome could change The Russian Empire. It was to shoot on location in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania in Yiddish this year.
This 12 minute short is only 1 of the 2 Yiddish language films we have heard about. Peter also heard about a feature which will be entirely in Yiddish. Thank you Coen Brothers whose A Serious Man opened the way!
When I was in Cannes this past year, I heard about Jewish Alley (Judengasse) at The Short Film Corner. Unfortunately Blancke Degenhardt Schuetz Film Produktion GmbH did not include any contact information on the brochure I picked up. Judengassse tells of the ordeal that the Jewish family Blumenfeld undergoes from 1933 to 1938. It is shot in B&W from a single camera position and presents the Holocaust and thoughts for the coexistence of different cultures in our modern society.
Also in Cannes I was so sorry to miss Raphael Berdugo's second film since he left his company, Roissy Films, in the hands of EuropaCorp in 2008. The Other Son (Le fils de l'Autre) (ISA: La Cite, U.S.: Cohen Media Group) directed by Lorraine Levy ♀ about a man preparing to join the Israeli army who discovers he is not his parents' biological son. In fact, he was inadvertently switched at birth with the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank.
Returning to the subject of Eastern Europe in Cannes, Odessa comes to mind. Odessa cinema tradition began in 1894, a year and a half before the Lumiere brothers showed on the Boulevard des Capucines and its first studio opened in 1907. Serge Eisenstein made Odessa legend. On the very place where Battleship Potemkin was filmed, the Odessa Film Festival holds an open-air screening for 12,000 with a view of the sea. During their first year, there were 30,000 attendees. By year three, there were 100,000. It takes place in an opera house on a level of that in Vienna, but their emperor did not pay as in Austria; the people themselves paid for the building. There are $15,000 cash prizes giving for Best Film, Best, Director, and Best Actor. Tomboy won last year. It has a small market for Russian and Ukrainian films, a pitch session and a "summer school" where the students live in tents at attend master classes and a sort of Talent Campus. There is good food by the sea! Don't you want to attend? I'm hoping to find a way to go, especially after Ilya Dyadik, the program director, so graciously showed me all that goes on there and introduced me to Denis Maslikov, the Managing Director of the Ukrainian Producers Association. It takes place in July.
Estonia is another country on my mind. During TIFF A Lady in Paris (ISA: Pyramide) warmed my soul. Starring Jeanne Moreau, and costarring Laine MÄGI, an actress who reminds me of Katie Outinen, (Kaurimaki's favorite actress) the film was about women and love and oh so French! How could you not love the imperious Jeanne Moreau wearing Chanel and being won over by an Eastern European drudge who, under Moreau's tutelage transforms herself in a vividly chic woman. And ,Patrick PINEAU, who plays the owner of of those upscale cafes you like to have lunch in when in Paris, only needs to take one small step toward Laine, and oh la la, you too fall in love with him!
Edith Sepp, the film advisor for the Estonian Ministry of Culture, met us originally at the Vilnius Film Festival in Lithuania and we had a lot of fun hanging out there. We already had a connection to Estonia because the Estonian American documentary The Singing Revolution was our client's film. We introduced our client to Richard Abramowitz in 2006 who did extraordinarily well with the film's theatrical release. Edith invited us to their Cannes reception at Plage des Palmes and we continued our conversation. At TIFF 12 and Karlovy Vary, their film Mushrooming screened, but the one I am really eager to see is In the Crosswind. It shot through four seasons. The director is a 23 year old young man and this is his first film. It cost 700,000 Euros which went into historical costumes, extras and a new technology he is creating to make a profound drama about the relocation of whole populations by the Soviets, a theme which has shaped European history. I hope to see it in Berlin…or Cannes…or Venice.. The film is a sort of documentary story, somewhat similar to Waltz with Bashir, but it is old in live action and with still photography. During Cannes, they were seeking 200,000 Euros to complete the film. There is much to say about both of the Eastern European countries with their new generation of articulate and talented filmmakers. I hope they will be the subject of another blog or two in the coming year.
One last note on Eastern European films. A veteran Czech producer, Rudolf Biermann whom we know since the early days of Karlovy Vary's freedom from the Soviet bloc, is still producing young, fresh comedies like the one one that showed at TIFF 12, The Holy Quaternity by Jan Hrebejk (ISA: Montecristo). This romp brings marital sex which has become boring to a new and simple solution between two couples who have been best friends throughout their marriage. It's risque and sweet and plays with two generations' differing views on the sex games we play for fun.
But I have digressed from New York…And now I must go to Yom Kippur services for the rest of today. This blog will be continued tomorrow!! Watch for Part II which will be about New York!
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The Swiss Olympic delegation has sent the 23-year-old home from the Olympics after he posted the message in the wake of the team's 2-1 defeat to South Korea on Sunday.
"Michel Morganella gravely insulted and discriminated against the South Korean people and their football team with his highly offensive comments on Twitter," said Gian Gilli, chef de mission for the Swiss Olympic delegation at the Games.
"We condemn his comments, which are in fundamental violation of the IOC's Olympic charter and Swiss Olympic's own ethics charter.
"This is why, in consultation with the Swiss Football Association, we have withdrawn Morganella's accreditation."
The player has accepted the decision and apologised for his behaviour.
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"I wish to apologise to the people in South Korea and their team, but also to the Swiss delegation and Swiss football in general. I obviously accept the consequences for my actions."
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Fewer Canadians are working while those with jobs are less productive, reports on Friday are expected to show, underscoring why the Bank of Canada on Tuesday will again announce that it's keeping its key trend-setting interest rate at an economically stimulative one per cent.
"The Canadian labour market is forecast to have shed 10,000 jobs in November, which when paired with a modest increase in the labour force, will push the unemployment rate a tenth of a percentage point higher to 7.5 per cent," analysts at TD Economics project. "This forecast is consistent with the recent softening in help wanted listings … which is generally consistent with our longer term assessment of a front-loaded labour market recovery that will struggle to expand further amid an extended period of below-trend growth and mounting global uncertainty."
Not all forecasters expect job losses but none are anticipating strong job gains either.
Last week's report of weaker than expected economic growth in the third quarter — an almost non-existent 0.6 per cent annual pace — also suggests that labour productivity during the quarter remained anemic. Canada's lagging productivity, largely blamed on a lack of business investment in machinery and equipment, is viewed as a major impediment to future economic growth, leaving Canada less competitive than its trading partners, especially the U.S.
The jobs and productivity reports will, along with expected weakness in the October building permits report, add to mounting evidence that the Canadian economy is succumbing to the global slowdown, domestic government austerity, and US fiscal cliff jitters.
As such, the Bank of Canada, following its latest interest rate review meeting, will without any doubt announce again that it is leaving its key rate at its current near record low. In fact, no rate hike is expected until the second half of next year at the earliest.
The Bank of Canada is only one in a string of central banks _ Europe's, England's, Australia's, New Zealand's, Russia's, Peru's, and Poland's _ that are also expected to announce this week that they are keeping their rates steady until they see the outcome of US Congressional negotiations aimed at avoiding more than $600 billion in year-end tax hikes and spending cuts that would push the world's largest economy back into recession.
"The week's key global central bank meetings are most likely to keep policy on hold as markets await the outcome of negotiations in Washington with Shakespearean bated breath," says Scotiabank economist Derek Holt.
Here, the Bank of Canada's brief rate comments will also be cautiously crafted to reassure financial markets that there is no change in monetary policy direction in the wake of last week's announcement that Governor Mark Carney is leaving to take over as head of the Bank of England at the end of June.
"Put simply, the course of monetary policy has not changed this week, even with the surprise departure of Governor Carney," notes TD economist Sonya Gulati, in an analysis of the "rut" in which Canada's economy is now "stuck."
The low rates may be keeping the domestic economy from sinking deeper into that rut but the central bank in its semi-annual Financial Systems Report on Thursday will also reiterate that the rise in household debt to record levels, spurred in large part by those low rates and bank-fed fears that they won't last, remains a major risk to the economy.
The bank's concern is that too many households have taken on too much debt and that when rates rise, as it has repeatedly warned they eventually will, those families will not be able to meet their debt payments, putting not only their own financial health at risk but Canada's financial system itself.
However, following last week's news of record profits at RBC, the country's largest bank, the coming week's continuing parade of year-end bank earnings reports _ TD, BNS, CIBC, BMO _ are expected to show that so far at least Canada's financial institutions are doing just fine, thank you.
That's reflected in the performance of bank stocks.
"The financial sector has been the TSX's second best performer in the last month, and has seen the largest improvement in 2013 (earnings per share) expectations in that time _ a 5.4 per cent rise, primarily due to upgraded estimates for the banking segment," notes CIBC World Markets analyst Peter Buchanan.
Meanwhile, further evidence of the slow but ongoing recovery in Canada's main export market will be delayed until the new year, as reports there, including the closely watched November employment report on Friday, reflect the dampening impact on the US economy of Superstorm Sandy and increasing fiscal cliff jitters.
"Sandy likely held nonfarm payrolls to a modest 120,000 gains in November," says BMO Capital Markets economist Sal Guatieri, who also expects that the storm will result in reported declines on Monday in US manufacturing activity and on Wednesday in non-manufacturing activity.
The weakness, however, should be temporary, with the repair of storm damage, along with an expected resolution of the fiscal impasse, refuelling the recovery there in the months to come.
Also of economic interest this coming week, will be the release Monday of a first-ever international comparison by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development of how well or poorly countries have done in integrating immigrants into their societies, across a broad range of indicators, including school and work.
"Issues covered include: the impact of the economic crisis on immigrant labour market integration; how well immigrant children perform at school; countries with the lowest and highest employment rates of migrant women; access to health care for immigrants; and poverty levels of immigrant families compared to the native-born," says the Paris-based international research arm of the developed countries.
And here, Statistics Canada on Tuesday will release an analysis that looks at "the expected working life and post-retirement life-expectancy of workers when they reach 50 years of age."
Now looking back to last week, here's what was making economic news.
- Ottawa's deficit deepens as revenues succumb to weak economy – Canadian Press, Nov 30 – A slippage in revenues helped add $2.7 billion to the federal deficit in September, supporting Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's warning that this year's shortfall will be $26 billion, or $5 billion more than expected.
- Canadian dollar weakens as growth trails forecast – Bloomberg, Nov 30 – Canada's dollar fell against most currencies after news that economic growth slowed more than forecast, while stocks were flat amid fears that a U.S. budget impasse will throw Canada's main export market into recession.
- Economic confidence at 16 month high: report – Canadian Press, Nov 29 – Canadians are getting more optimistic about the economy, reversing three quarters of decline, according to a survey which indicates nearly two-thirds believe the economy is growing, the highest reading since July 2011.
- World economy in best shape since 2011: investors – Bloomberg, Nov 29 – The world economy is in its best shape in 18 months as China's prospects improve and the U.S. looks likely to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, according to the latest Bloomberg Global Poll of investors.
- Chief negotiator: India resisting IP, labour, and environment in trade deal – iPolitics, Nov 27 – With Canada and India close to finalizing the their trade negotiations, India is resisting the inclusion of a chapter on intellectual property and side agreements on the environment and labour, Canada's chief negotiator says.
- Corporate profits up 3.7 per cent in Q3 – Canadian Press, Nov 27 – Corporations earned $72.2 billion in operating profits in the third quarter, up 3.7 per cent from the previous quarter, led by gains in the manufacturing sector, and following a 7.0 per cent decrease in the second quarter.
- Carney to head Bank of England – iPolitics, Nov 26 – Governor Mark Carney, after months of rumours, speculation, and denials announced Monday, said he will leave the Bank of Canada to take on a new role as the head of the Bank of England, effective Canada Day next year.
- OECD: Global recovery is weakening – again – Canadian Press, Nov 27 – A new forecast says the world's economic recovery will be "hesitant and uneven" next year, with Europe's debt troubles dragging down growth in more vibrant economies, including Canada's.


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When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't help but fall in love with him, a fatal move that endangers her own life when a coven of bloodsuckers try to challenge the Cullen clan.
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Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal.
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19 March 2008
chinois on the cheap...
anyway, during during his hunt, maison21 randomly came across a website- www.orientalfurniture.com- that is kind of a virtual chinatown. lots of kitsch- paper fans, buddha statues, shoji screens, etc- the flotsam of many different asian cultures (real and imagined) mashed into one store. just like in a real chinatown! and of course, just like real chinatown gift shop, there are always a few jewels amongst the tourist crap:
maison21 thought these towel sets were actually kind of cool- both simple and a bit dramatic. m21 isn't a big fan of embroidery on towels- he likes to keep it simple in the bath- but he'd make an exception for these (maybe). though the black & gold borders on kitsch, maison21 loves it the most- he sees it in a dark and dramatic powder room. $189 for 7 pcs.
maison21 knows from reading his blogging friend decorno's frequent "reader decorating dilemma" posts, that lots of fledgling decoristas have trouble finding wall art that has both size and impact, so one of these gold leaf screens would fill up 6 feet of wall space for 200 bucks. they ain't perfect by any means (that border- *shudder*), but maison21 can see one in a dining room with the walls lacquered eggplant or a chinese red. voila- instant drama!
these sunny yellow jar lamps are kinda fab (this pick is a shout out to habitually chic's current yellow obsession). you'd have to toss the not-right shade and finial first thing, but with a shorter, updated shade (maybe black), maison21 thinks these lamps would look far costlier than their $200.00 price tag. course, with new shades and finials, i guess they would be costlier too! oops!
last, maison21 thought that these silk covered journals would be great little inexpensive gifts- $15.00 each or $55.00 for a set of 4.
the orientalfurniture.com website put maison21 in the mind of another chinois on the cheap chinatown shopping standby, pearl river mart (if you live in manhattan, you already know of it). on their site, he saw this deliciously colorful chinese brocade fabric with a cherry blossom motif- at $12.50 a yard, he's sure someone, somewhere, can figure out a use for it:
a while back, maison21 bought a bunch of different size, shape, and color paper lanterns similar to these at pearl, added some cheap $3.99 cords from ikea ($5.50 at pearl river) and transformed a portion of a back yard that was basically a driveway with overgrown trees above it, into a festive courtyard for a summer party. he particularly loves this big 24" oval version for $12.50!
so whaddya y'all think? chic on the cheap? or cheapo chinois?
7 comments:
- Pigtown-Design said...
M21--- an east coast resource for all things chinese is Pearl River Mart in NYC. They used to say they were the largest chinese department store outside of china. They also used to be located above the stalls on Canal Street and you had to search for the right door... otherwise you'd end up in some opium den.
With so much of our decor being transitional, unless you're hunting for an heirloom piece, these are fun. I get the brocade silk notebooks by the armload - and at Pearl River, they're a fiver!
- Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 8:13:00 AM PDT
- maison21 said...
meg- i've long known of pearl river, and had in fact added it to this post, but somehow as i blearily published the post last evening at 2 in the morning, the pearl river mart portion didn't save. so as you were leaving your comment, i was simultaineously adding back in pearl river mart to my post!
what i didn't know is that they had those brocade notebooks for 5 bucks! i wonder if i can cancel my order for the $15.00 dollar version! just goes to show it pays to shop around!
thanks, meg!
- Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 8:40:00 AM PDT
- Pigtown-Design said...
And the PRM ones have "leather" bindings and corners to keep them from being beaten up... also fun designs on the pages.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 10:13:00 AM PDT
- Habitually Chic said...
Thanks for the lamp suggestion! I love the yellow! The next time you come to NYC, we must go to Pearl River together! It's the most amazing store. I can just see you in the Chinoiserie silk pajamas now!
I kind of miss it's old location on Canal. I always thought I might get mugged or bit by a rat. You also had to blow the dust off some of their wares so I guess I am glad they are in a new clean location!
- Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:24:00 AM PDT
I love the yellow jar lamps and *forgive* me but I even like the slope on those shades.....
love your posts
sara L.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:03:00 PM PDT
- maison21 said...
hi sara l.-
thanks for your kind words!
i don't mind the shape the shade either, really- it just looks a little too tall or something...
thanks for visiting!
- Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 10:56:00 PM PDT
- Alkemie said...
I say Chic on the Cheap! I love chinois elements. Great post and I really love that yellow lamp in the middle there!
- Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:46:00 PM PDT


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Sports may be good for the body but it is no secret dental injuries are pretty common especially in physical contact sports like basketball, hockey and football. There is even a bigger chance they occur in combat sports like boxing, wrestling and ultimate fighting. The common dental injuries that you can expect to get are bruising of the lips and fracturing of the teeth.
It is a good thing there is such thing as a mouthguard because it is something that prevents these types of dental injuries from happening. At Red Hill Dental, we recommend using mouthguards that are professionally made. Red Hill's Dental Clinic offers a walk in service for residents of Brisbane City and our emergency dentist will be more than happy to measure your teeth in order to produce a mouthguard that perfectly fits you. The main purpose of the mouthguard is to protect the upper front teeth and soft tissues from an unexpected hit.
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It is never a good feeling getting a dental injury because they would prevent you from doing a lot of things. If you are a varsity player then it is possible the injury will force you to miss games and it is never a good feeling to sit wearing street clothes while watching the rest of your team play. You would want to do everything in your power to help your team win but in the case of an injury, you have no choice but to cheer them or help with the strategy.
Another possibility is you won't be able to eat right after getting a dental injury. It is possible the emergency dentist would suggest that you will have to avoid eating solid foods for the foreseeable future. It may be good for your health but it will make you mad since that is something you are not used to.
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An emergency dentist highly recommends using a custom made mouthguard specifically for your teeth. After all, it would feel uncomfortable to use a mouthguard that does not fit your mouth. You don't have to worry about not being able to talk properly while wearing a mouthguard because it does not have any effect in that.
Before the emergency dentist makes a mouthguard specifically for your teeth, she would ask about your dental history in order to come up with the type of mouthguard that is best suited for your sport. If you are playing multiple sports then that is something you should tell the dentist too.
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Kennewick Mobile Home Fire
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Rosemary Fried Chicken
Savor our easiest fried chicken as part of a special summer supper.Source: Everyday Food, June 2008
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Cook's Notes
You don't need a thermometer for the oil -- once the rosemary sprigs are hissing, it's time to add the chicken. Frying time is cut in half by finishing the chicken in the oven.
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MS1080943814 JUN, 2012This is the best fried chicken recipe I have made . Great for picnics or outdoor events- the chicken can be served cold. I use skinless chicken breast cut into strips. Definitely worth a try.Reply
babyzebra26 JUL, 2011This was my first attempt at making fried chicken an it turned out amazing! Even the kids had seconds and the leftovers were great too. The trickiest part was keeping track of the chicken being fried and the chicken in the oven, so it was handy to use several kitchen timers.Reply
itsmeherzog2 AUG, 2010Thank you for this recipe; it was delicious, I both fried it and baked it. my family and friends loved it. Its definitely a keeper, I will make it again. By the way, I used all skinless chicken thighs.Reply
sarahk_21130 JUL, 2010I used some breast meat and it turned out much tastier. Everyone loved it!!Reply
India1419 JUL, 2010My family is use to eating fried chicken, but they never tasted any thing like this. They all said it was very good and tender. The buttermilk bath for 24 hours was the trick. I skipped the baking and just straight fried it. I really did not need 3 cups of flour. I do not cook fried food often, but next time I cook fried chicken, I will definitely use this recipe!Reply
capecodda10 MAY, 2010i will be making this again for graduation this weekend, this chicken is just fantastic, the preparation is worth it! my family special requests this dish!Reply
josie99919 JUL, 2009Wow- so this was probably one of the most labor intensive chicken recipes I have ever made. Maybe the crowd I was cooking for was too big... Delicious, but I will probably never make this again,Reply
MS1010982011 JUL, 2009I made the chicken but the frying it and then putting it into the oven did NOT work. The chicken itself tasted great but the batter was falling off the pieces. So! I think I'll simply fry it... Any suggestions on how to correct this would be great.Reply
cupcakelady198720 MAY, 2009My friend and I made this last night for dinner, it was amazing! It was our first time frying chicken and the recipe turned out so well. I'm definitely going to make this again.Reply
HollyS8323 OCT, 2008Once I saw this recipe I knew I had to make it! Well, I finally made it last night for some family and friends and it was a huge HIT!!! The chicken was so tender and flavorful! I actually used skinless chicken breast and regular chicken legs for skin lovers. The breasts turned out perfectly, even without the skin! I highly recommend this recipe! This is the only way that I will be making fried chicken from now on!! YUMMMM!Reply
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Phiri, A. 2012. Prospects of Environmental Education in Zambia: Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co UK
Conor Murphy., Mavuto Tembo., Adrian Phiri, Olusegun Yerokun & Bernie Grummell, (2015). Adapting to climate change in shifting landscapes of belief, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht
Phiri, A. (2016). Risks of domestic underground water sources in informal settlement in Kabwe – Zambia. Journal of Environment and Pollution Volume 5 No.2 www.ccsenet.org/ep
Phiri A, Nierkerk, D & Eeden ,V. (2016). Theoretical Orientation Of Community Based Disaster Risk Management, Global Journal of Human and Social Sciences GJHSS Vol. 16 Issue 6 Version 1.0
Silengo. M, Nyambe.L.M & Phiri, A. (2015). Building the Evidence Base on the Agriculture nexus: RAPID Scans for Informing Policy and Practice in Zambia: Mulungushi University/ University of Zambia Working Paper. CTA, ACP and EU.
Silengo, M. and Phiri. A. (2010). Community- based disaster risk reduction/WASH: training manual. http://www.preventionweb.net/go/24773
Phiri, A. (2015) Tackling urban flooding in a 'shanty' settlement Action at the Frontline, Kabwe, Zambia. USAID, Global Network for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)


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The Houston Astros and their rookie-laden lineup were once again no match for Yu Darvish.
Darvish was nearly perfect against the Astros for a second time, taking a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and striking out a career-high 15 to lead the Texas Rangers to a 2-1 victory Monday for their eighth straight win.
The low-budget Astros have the worst record in the majors and are barreling toward a third 100-loss season. Their latest lineup featured five rookies and no player with more than two years of major league experience.
Darvish dominated the Astros until Carlos Corporan lined a home run into the right-field seats with one out in the eighth for Houston's only hit.
Outfielder Alex Rios chased Corporan's drive to the wall, but had to watch as it sailed about five rows into the stands. Darvish simply looked around, and then wiped his brow with his arm before preparing to throw his next pitch.
Corporan was glad he kept his team from being on the wrong end of a no-hitter, but didn't want to make too much of it.
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Until the homer, Houston's lone runner came when rookie Jonathan Villar drew a two-out walk on a full count in the sixth. Texas catcher A.J. Pierzynski was ejected for arguing with plate umpire Ron Kulpa on a 2-2 breaking pitch he called low.
In early April, Darvish (12-5) was one out away from a perfect game at Minute Maid Park before Marwin Gonzalez singled between his legs.
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Darvish struck out 14 in four prior games this year, including his earlier gem at Houston. The Astros haven't been able to do anything against Darvish at home this season where he is 3-0 with a 1.52 ERA and 37 strikeouts in three starts.
Joe Nathan pitched a perfect ninth for his 35th save.
The AL West-leading Rangers took a quick lead over the last-place Astros. With two outs in the first, Ian Kinsler and Adrian Beltre doubled and Pierzynski hit an RBI single off Brett Oberholtzer (2-1).
Oberholtzer yielded seven hits and two runs with six strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings for his first loss in three major league starts.
The Houston hitters had no such luck with Darvish.
Darvish was strong from the start relying mostly on a four-seam fastball, sliders and a cutter against the Astros' inexperienced lineup. He struck out the side in the first inning before getting two fly outs and a ground out in the second.
The 26-year-old righty fanned two each in the third and fourth innings, struck out the side in the fifth and the first batter of the sixth inning. His strikeout of Chris Carter to start the fifth was his 200th of the season, giving him a team record for fewest games (23) needed to reach the mark.
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Darvish, a two-time MVP in Japan, flirted with perfection last Sept. 3, too, retiring the first 17 batters at Kansas City.
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