Japanese researchers find another possible source of energy
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Japanese researchers have found another possible source of energy. Officials at Japan’s industry ministry say a survey they conducted suggests the possibility that there’s another methane hydrate deposit off the country’s northernmost main island. They are hoping to extract from such deposits sustainable and stable supplies of natural gas. Methane hydrate is a type of natural gas that forms in a frozen state from methane and water.
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Kaptan Singh Solanki appointed Haryana Governor
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Veteran BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Kaptan Singh Solanki was appointed the Governor of Haryana in place of Jagannath Pahadia who completes his tenure on Saturday.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué on Friday night said the President has appointed Solanki as Governor of Haryana with immediate effect. Pahadia completes his tenure on Saturday, it added.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué on Friday night said the President has appointed Solanki as Governor of Haryana with immediate effect. Pahadia completes his tenure on Saturday, it added.
75-year-old Solanki, a former professor, hails from Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh and was renominated to Rajya Sabha in August, 2012.Haryana goes to assembly polls later this year.
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Bindra bids CWG adieu with gold, teenager Malaika gets silver
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Updated on : 26-07-2014 03:02 AM
It was a memorable swansong at the Commonwealth Games for Abhinav Bindra as the ace marksman bagged the 10m Air Rifle gold medal in a gripping finale with young schoolgirl Malaika Goel turning out to be surprise package winning silver in the 10m air pistol event.
After a cracking opening day where they bagged seven medals, it was a relatively quieter day for the Indians as they added a gold, silver and a bronze to their tally.Apart from the two medals at the shooting range, India won a bronze in the weightlifting through 20-year-old Santoshi Matsa who finished third in the women’s 53 kg category.
India are currently placed fourth in the medals tally with three gold, four silver and three bronze medals behind England, Australia and Scotland.
The cynosure of the day certainly was the 31-year-old Bindra, who finally won an individual gold at the quadrennoal extravaganza which had eluded him on four previous attempts.
Bindra, who has already won nine medals including three gold in pairs events, was calmness personified as he did not put a foot wrong in the final round, having finishing third in the qualifications at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre,Dundee.
Bindra, first Indian Olympic individual gold medallist, shot an aggregate of 205.3 to set a Games Record.
“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me,” Bindra said while speaking to Indian journalists.
“It was a well-earned medal because I work hard and I am happy to have achieved the feat. I got the desired result.”
Asked if Rio 2016 would be his last Olympics, he said, “I will take on thing at a time. I will decide later.”
Bindra said he would now focus to the World Championships to be held in a few months time.
“I will relax a bit and then prepare for the World Cup,” he said.
The 16-year-old Malaika gave India its first shooting medal with a score of 197.1 while favourite Heena Sidhu fell by the wayside at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre at Dundee.
India’s good show in the weightlifting arena continued as young Andhra girl Santoshi grabbed the bronze medal with a total lift of 188 kg in snatch and clean and jerk to get the bronze as 16-year-old Nigerian schoolgirl Chika Amalaha won the gold with a total lift of 196 kg.
India’s Swati Singh, who was placed third at the end of the snatch event finished fourth with 183 kg.
It was second time that Swati missed out on a podium having finished fourth during the last edition in the last edition.
Santoshi tried a lift of 109 kg on the third clean and jerk attempt but failed.
The successful attempt wouldn’t have ensured anything more than bronze though as both Amalaha and Toua went on to break the Games Record with a lift of 111 kg each in the clean and jerk section.
Swati, on her part, failed on two attempts to lift 103 kg and 106 kg respectively as she had to settle with a total score of 183 kg.
The Indian men’s hockey team launched their campaign on a sluggish note as they toiled hard to register a 3-1 win over a lowly Wales in their opening Pool A match at the National Hockey Centre.
Ranked ninth in the world, India had to dig deep to overcome a resolute Wales defence and pocket full points.
India scored two goals through penalty corner conversions by V R Raghunath (20th minute) and Rupinder Pal Singh (42nd) before comeback man Girvinder Singh Chandi scored from a field effort in the 47th minute.
Wales’ lone goal was netted by Andrew Cornick in the 23rd minute from field play.
India will next play hosts Scotland tomorrow, while Wales will be up against world champions and reigning Commonwealth Games champions Australia.
Indian judokas failed to replicate their opening day performance with Sunibala Huidrom missing out on a bronze medal in the women’s 70 kg event losing to Sally Conway of Scotland.
Sunibala faced a tough test in the repechage contest but she managed to prevail over Monika Burgess of Canada in a battle that lasted for three minutes and 58 seconds to make the medal round.
However, it was curtains for Garima Choudhary in the women’s 63kg category after she went down fighting in her repechage round.
Garima, who was the only Indian judoka to have qualified for the London Olympics in 2012, lost to K J Yeats-Brown of England in the repechage. Yeats-Brown won on the basis of two Wazaris.
Indian men had a disappointing outing as both Balvinder Singh and V Vikender Singh lost in the round of 32 in 73kg and 81kg, respectively.
In swimming, Sandeep Sejwal finished a poor sixth in 100m breaststroke semi-final and finished a disappointing 12th among the 16 swimmers who qualified. Sejwal’s timing of :103.24 secs deteriorated from his timing in the heats which was 1:02.97 secs.
Indian paddlers continued their rampaging form as the men’s and women’s teams blanked Guyana and Kenya 3-0 respectively in the group stage of the table tennis team competition.
After thrashing Vanuatu 3-0 on the opening day, the Indian men’s team continued their good showing with Anthony Amalraj brushing aside Shamar Britton 11-4 11-3 11-3 to give his side an early lead.
Young Soumyajit Ghosh then beat Christopher Franklin 11-8 11-5 11-9 to make it 2-0 in India’s favour.
Sanil Shankar Shetty and Amalraj then paired up to get the better of Paul David and Franklin 11-8 11-6 11-5 to complete the rout.
Indian squash star Joshna Chinappa suffered a 1-3 defeat against World No. 4 Joelle King of New Zealand in the round of 16 to crash out of the women’s singles competition.
However Dipika Pallikal stormed into the quarterfinal defeating Delia Arnold of Malaysia in three straight games 11-6 12-10 11-5. She will meet Alison Waters of England in the last eight clash.
Joshna, who won the Winnipeg Winter Open trophy — her maiden WSA world title in February this year — lost 3-11 8-11 11-8 5-11 against her third seeded opponent at the Scotstoun Campus.
Indian cyclists’ dismal show continued at the Games as they failed to qualify for the finals of both Men’s 4000m Individual pursuit and Women’s 3000m Individual pursuit events.
In the men’s 62 kg weightlifting event, Rustam Sarang of India finished seventh with a total lift of 263 kg.
Talented pugilist Mandeep Jangra started his Commonwealth Games campaign in style defeating Mozambique’s Augusto Mathule in the 69 kg welterweight division bout in Glasgow on Friday.
However Parveen Kumar of India lost to Corey Henderson of Scotland in the Superheavyweight (+91 kg) category to bow out.
Shiva Thapa (56 kg), Sumeet Sangwan (81 kg) and Amritpal Singh (91 kg) have all got byes in their respective categories and will now be directly fighting in the pre quarter-final bouts.
It was Jangra, who dominated the proceedings from the start as his opponent didn’t have any answer to some of his deft hooks and uppercuts. In fact, Jangra followed his opponent effecting a knock down.
He got a perfect 10 from all three judges in the first and third round while he got 29 in round two.
He was severe in the final round landing some straight punches which totally caught his rival unawares.
Jangra will next fight Jamaican boxer Kestina Davis in the round of 16 bout.
In the +91 kg bout, Parveen was no match for Henderson, who was buoyed by the local support as he landed some crushing punches which the Indian boxer failed to evade.
All three judges gave perfect 10 to Henderson in the first two rounds while the Scottish boxer managed 29 from round three. The Indian could manage only 28, 27 and 27 from his three rounds.
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Qualcomm to invest $150 million in China startups
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Children and teenagers crossing border into US to be deported : Obama
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President Barack Obama has told the Presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that most unaccompanied children and teenagers crossing the border into the United States without a valid reason to stay will be deported.
More than 50,000 children have been detained at the US border with Mexico since October. Mr Obama said they must deter more children from attempting the journey.
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Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour ceasefire
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Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour ceasefire for humanitarian relief operations in Gaza. The ceasefire began at 8am local time. Israeli Army confirmed the truce on Twitter saying it would respond if it came under attack. Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri said in Gaza that there was national consensus on a humanitarian truce for 12 hours on Saturday.
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PM launches portal for citizens to contribute in governance
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a website MyGov that aims to help citizens contribute in governance by giving their opinions and views on important issues like clean Ganga or skill development.
The inauguration of the people-centric platform also marks the completion of 60 days of the new government. The Prime Minister said in the past 60 days, the experience of his government was that there were many people who wanted to contribute towards nation-building and devote their time and energy, an official statement said.
Modi said MyGov (mygov.nic.in) is a technology-driven medium that will provide citizens an opportunity to contribute towards good governance, the statement added. “The platform would bridge gap gulf between people and government.
Democracy cannot succeed without people’s participation in government and this participation should not be limited only during elections,” the Prime Minister said.
Besides Modi, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, DEITY Secretary R S Sharma were also present at the launch of the portal.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) will implement and manage the platform.
There are multiple theme-based discussions on MyGov where a wide range of people can share their thoughts and ideas with the government, Sharma told reporters after the launch.
“It is also an initiative to build a digital knowledge library. We will guide the people on the topics of national importance on which the government would like to know their views and ideas,” he added.
The platform presents an opportunity for the citizens to both ‘Discuss’ and ‘Do’, Sharma said, adding, any idea shared by a contributor will also be discussed on the discussion forums, allowing constructive feedback and interaction. At present, there are six groups on the platform — Clean Ganga, Girl Child Education, Clean India, Skilled India, Digital India and Job Creation.
“Citizens can also volunteer for various tasks and submit their entries. These tasks would be reviewed by other members and experts. Once approved, these tasks can be shared by those who complete the task and by other members on MyGov,” Sharma said.
Each group consists of online and on-ground tasks that can be taken up by the contributors. The objective of each group is to bring about a qualitative change in that sphere through people’s participation, he said.
“We will review the working on MyGov in three months and over time the number of groups, tasks and discussions will increase. The platform will also be used as a comprehensive knowledge repository,” Sharma added. The portal can even be extended to act like public audit platform for government projects like citizens giving feedback on status of completed infrastructure projects or availability of various social sector programmes, he said.
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उत्तरप्रदेश में सांप्रदायिक माहौल बिगाड़ने की साजिश
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आम आदमी पार्टी उत्तरप्रदेश में सांप्रदायिक माहौल बिगाड़ने की भारतीय़ जनता पार्टी, कांग्रेस और समाजवादी पार्टी की साजिश की कडे शब्दों में भर्त्सना करती है।
पिछले कुछ दिनों के घटनाक्रम से स्पष्ट है कि मुरादाबाद के कांठ इलाके में सांप्रदायिक तनाव फैलाने में भाजपा के केंद्रीय और प्रदेश नेतृत्व ने पूरी ताकत झोंक दी है। भाजपा के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष लक्ष्मीकांत वाजपेयी के धरने पर बैठने और पांच सांसदों के संवेदनशील इलाके में गिरफ्तारी देने से प्रदेश में सांप्रदायिक सदभाव बिगड़ा है।
कांग्रेस ने इस मौके पर शांति मार्च के नाम पर जो राजनीति की है उसने आग में घी डालने का ही काम किया है। सांप्रदायिक आधार पर मतों के बंटवारे की कुत्सित राजनीति में पहले प्रदेश में सिर्फ भारतीय जनता पार्टी और समाजवादी पार्टी ही शामिल थी। पर अब कांग्रेस भी इसमें शामिल हो गई है। यह दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि कांग्रेस ने अपने एक वरिष्ठ नेता की अगुवाई में शांतिमार्च के नाम पर विभाजन और घृणा की राजनीति की शुरूआत की है जिससे सांप्रादायिक माहौल तो बिगड़ा ही साथ ही शांति मार्च के नाम पर जमा हुए हुड़दंगियों ने राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग-24 को भी जाम कर दिया जिससे आने-जाने वाले लोगों को भारी परेशानी का सामना करना पड़ा।
उत्तरप्रदेश में पिछले एक साल में प्रदेश की समाजवादी पार्टी सरकार सांप्रदायिक तनाव और हिंसा के मामलों को रोकने व उनपर नियंत्रित करने में बुरी तरह असफल रही है। आज सहारणपुर में दो गुटों के बीच हुई पत्थरबाजी और हिंसा इसका सबसे ताजा सबूत है। पर ज्यादा खेदजनक बात यह है कि ज्यादातर घटनाओं में समाजवादी पार्टी के नेता खुद भी शामिल रहे हैं। सांप्रदायिक राजनीति के भारतीय जनता पार्टी और समाजवादी पार्टी के प्रयोग ने मुज्फ्फरनगर में बड़ी तादाद में निर्दोष लोगों की जाने ली थी। अब, कांग्रेस पार्टी भी इस खेल में शामिल हो गई है। मुरादाबाद समेत पूरे पश्चिम उत्तरप्रदेश में ये राजनैतिक दल सांप्रदायिक राजनीति का भयानक प्रयोग को दुहराने की तैयारी में हैं।
आम आदमी पार्टी उत्तरप्रदेश के लोंगों से अपील करती है कि वे नफरत व खूनखराबे की राजनीति के शिकार न हों। प्रदेश में राजनीति को सही दिशा देने की जिम्मेदारी आखिरकार उत्तरप्रदेश के लोगों की है। उन्हें विभाजन और सांप्रदायिकता की राजनीति करने वाले राजनैतिक दलों को संदेश देना होगा कि प्रदेश के अमनपसंद लोग राजनैतिक दलों के बहकावे में नहीं आएंगे और विकास के मुद्दे पर इन राजनैतिक दलों के कार्यक्रम और उनकी प्रतिबद्धता पर सवाल पूछेंगे। उत्तरप्रदेश के मतदाताओं को विभाजन और नफरत की राजनीति को खारिज करना होगा वर्ना उत्तरप्रदेश विकास के पथ पर पिछड़ता चला जाएगा।
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EPA to launch third-annual Campus RainWorks Challenge
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महिला उत्पीड़न मामले में यूपी पुलि
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आचार्य गिरिराज किशोर के कार्य को आगे ले जाना ही सच्ची श्रद्धांजलि: मोहन भागवत
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आचार्य गिरिराज किशोर के कार्य को आगे ले जाना ही सच्ची श्रद्धांजलि: मोहन भागवत
श्रद्धांजलि सभा में उमड़ा विशिष्ठ जन सैलाब
नई दिल्ली, जुलाई 25, 2014। विश्व हिन्दू परिषद के दिवंगत वरिष्ठ नेता व राष्ट्रीयस्वयंसेवक संघ के वरिष्ठ प्रचारक आचार्य गिरिराज किशोरको श्रद्धांजलि देने उमड़ा विशिष्ठ जन सैलाब आज अपनी भावनाओं को रोक नहीं पाया। श्रद्धा-सुमन अर्पित करते हुए राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ के सर-संघचालक पूज्य डॉ मोहन भागवत ने कहा कि विपरीत परिस्थितियों में भी कार्य को पूर्ण करने की अदम्य इच्छाशक्ति रखने वाले आचार्य गिरिराज किशोर जी आत्मविलोपित व आत्मविस्मृत स्थिति में रहते थे। सरलता, सकारात्मकता और सहचित्त होकर कार्य करना उनका ऐसा स्वभाव था जिसका अनुकरण हम प्रत्येक कार्यकर्ता को करना ही चाहिये। उनका कार्य सतत् व सही दिशा में चले यही उनकी आत्मा को सच्ची श्रद्धांजलि होगी।
नई दिल्ली के लोधी रोड स्थित चिन्मय मिशन में खचाखच भरे ऑडिटोरियम में अपने श्रद्धा-सुमन अर्पित करते हुए विहिप संरक्षक श्री अशोक सिंहल ने कहा कि हिंदू समाज के बहुमत वाली संसद तो आचार्य जी ने देखी किंतु अयोध्या में भव्य राम मंदिर का उनका सपना अभी अधूरा रह गया। गौ रक्षा, गंगा रक्षा, राम जन्मभूमि हो या एकात्मता यात्रा सभी में उन्होंने निपुणता हासिल की। उनका कहना था कि मैंने जितनी बार उन्हें याद किया मेरे मन को बहुत शांति मिली। विहिप कार्याध्यक्ष डॉ प्रवीण भाई तोगडिया ने कहा कि श्री राम जन्मभूमि पर भव्य मंदिर निर्माण के आचार्य जी के संकल्प को हम अवश्य पूरा करेंगे।
इस अवसर पर विहिप के पूर्व अंतर्राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष श्री विष्णु हरि डालमिया, महामंत्री श्री चंपत राय, उपाध्यक्ष श्री ओम प्रकाश सिंहल, केंद्रीय मंत्री डॉ सुरेंद्र जैन, प्रांत अध्यक्ष डॉ रिखब चंद जैन, भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय संगठन मंत्री श्री रामलाल, साध्वी उमा भारती, श्री संजय जोशी, श्री विनय कटियार, श्री विजय गोयल, साध्वी ॠतंभरा, साध्वी विभानंद, प्रसिद्ध कत्थक नृत्यांगना नलिनी जी, मातृशक्ति संयोजिका श्रीमती माला रावल, धर्मयात्रा महासंघ के श्री मांगेराम गर्ग, राष्ट्रीय सिख संगत के सरदार चिरंजीव सिंह इत्यादि अनेक वक्ताओं ने आचार्य जी के जीवन पर प्रकाश डालते हुए श्रद्धांजलि दी। देश के प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, भूटान नरेश, संघ के सह-सरकार्यवाह श्री सुरेश सोनी, भाजपा के वरिष्ठ नेता श्री लालकृष्ण आडवाणी, राजस्थान की मुख्यमंत्री श्रीमती वसुंधरा राजे, श्री प्रेम कुमार धूमल, संघ के सह-कार्यवाह भैया जी जोशी, डॉ मुरली मनोहर जोशी, केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्री डॉ हर्षवर्धन, केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री श्री राजनाथ सिंह व आचार्य धर्मेंद्र तथा डॉ नित्यानंद जी जैसे अनेक लोगों ने पत्र के माध्यम से श्रद्धांजलि दी। मंच का संचालन श्री प्रकाश शर्मा ने किया।
श्रीराम जन्मभूमि सहित अनेक सामाजिक आंदोलनों के पुरोधा आचार्य गिरिराज किशोर जी का 95 वर्ष की आयु में गत 13 जुलाई को दिल्ली में निधन हो गया था। संकल्पानुसार, उनकी दोनों आँखें तथा शेष पूरा शरीर आर्मी मेडीकल कॉलेज को दान कर दिया गया था।
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A shorter form of boxing tourney makes its entry in India in an age of abbreviated forms of sporting events
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Even as cricket, football. Hockey and now kabaddi have gained national importance, it is equally essential to promote games of both skill and action.
But unlike other sports, boxing as an entertainment twist to it, as it is so akin to dancing. As professional American dancer Twyla Tharp once said: “The content and thematic materials of dance is like boxing. Boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.”
With this aim, Puneet Dureja who is the CEO of Guilty Boxing India has brought this concept to India with a tie-up with DD Sports. He said at a launch function in the capital that the “sole objective was to give credentials to those players who could not make it to the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games. I also have a vision of taking up female boxers in future.”
Inspired by well known American boxer Floyd Mayweather, he launched Guilty Boxing a decade earlier aimed at promoting and marketing boxing.
Guilty Boxing Inc. was a dream venture by the founding partners Nick Ratteini and Puneet Dureja. The USP of Guilty Boxing rests with 60 million viewers in 10 countries all over the world with major media networks and channels promoting the same namely America One, CBS Sports Network .
The launch of Guilty Boxing India added thrill by choosing the best boxers from the country, training them in their own academy, and conducting action packed tournaments internationally.
Puneet remarked: ‘This is the best platform for young boxers to display their talent as IPL where 5 young persons will fight in rounds of 2 to 3 minutes duration and motivate youth to be a part of this sport by providing proper training and maintaining international standards of boxing as per Olympic Association and retaining transparency and anti-pressure policies on players’.
Guilty Boxing Inc will be holding up its first tournament in Las Vegas on the September 19th this year. Matches will be held initially in the United States. Puneet added ‘Rome was not built in a day’ and boxing will also take its time to obtain the glamour that cricket enjoys.
Media Director Ms Deepa Roy said ‘We need to groom female boxers not just for a sport but as a part of self-defence as there is a tremendous potential and strength among Indian women and we expect to launch them internationally in a year or two’
Mr Harsh Pathak, Legal Advisor, added ’Guilty will follow the international standards and norms of maintaining fairness and ethical policies.’
Mr Vineet Prabhu, Media Advisor, said ‘This is the right time to publicize boxing and BTL activities in rural areas so as to aware, enlighten and expose the masses through commercial means thereby encouraging the youth to take up boxing as a career.‘
The Guilty programme has the advantage of the ten-country “International Standards” tournament matches has countries that already have a built-in “competitive” demand to watch their best fighters fight with the best fighters from their counterpart countries.
This is why countries like India and Pakistan, China and Japan, the United States and Mexico, Russia and Germany and the United Kingdom and Australia are part of the programme. For the first time, boxing fans and fans who like “action” sports from all over the world will be able to see the boxing matches they most want to see. TheGuilty Boxing Plan ensures that the 10 countries get to participate every month and the whole programme lasts for 12 consecutive months.
In 2005, Guilty Boxing signed agreements granting America One, Fox Sports International, BEN Television, Urban American Television, Urban American Television and other cable outlets telecast rights to Guilty Boxing’s weekly boxing series, “Guilty Fight Night”. This is a weekly boxing series that provides a minimum of 48 episodes a year to a continually expanding broadcast carriage of more than 60 million households all over the world.
For more information, please contact:
Ankit Nagpal
Director, Bang on Target PR & Media Solutions
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