Kristen BoyesenX Close
This photographic kaleidoscope series is one of the many areas of the creative world that Kristen Boyesen explores.
Kristen began art instruction at age 13 with professor Curtis Stocking from Purdue University. She graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a major in painting and currently displays her drawings, pastels, paintings and prints in the Gallery, Willoughby, Ohio; the Gallery, Canton N.Y.; Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, Canandaigua, N.Y.; Creative Spirit, Potsdam, N.Y.; and at www.ImaginationArts.etsy.com.
Jan Philips, visionary thought leader and author of the award-winning book, The Art of Original Thinking, says "Kristen is a creative genius with an uncanny ability to unlock the creativity inherent in others. I highly recommend her if youÕre trying to jumpstart originality and innovation."
Jan's reference is to Kristen's workshops, "Imagination Arts", which use a simple anyone-can-do-it drawing technique to trick the brain into letting go of stress and activating the creative mind. The easy exercises will be a component of Kristen's new workshop series, "True Heart Arising", which will add meditation, informal writing, group discussion and the exploration of the inner self to the workshop experience. "Draw and Paint" classes meet every week. Call Kristen at 216- 577-9874 for information on current art classes and workshops. Class and workshop examples and discussion are available through the different links at www.Art-Experiences.blogspot.com.
Observation of the visual world and the psychosocial interactions of the mind-body organism are an ongoing life study expressed through Kristen's art, writings and teaching. She resides in the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Statement:
Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence." Tibetan monks and the Navaho Indians create sand mandalas to demonstrate the impermanence of life. Mandalas are used in meditative practices around the world.
The images inside a kaleidoscope are indeed impermanent. The movement of handing the device to someone to share a beautiful display can cause the components to rearrange themselves into a new image. These photographs are brief snapshots in time of a light and color display that stopped time in my brain as I looked at them. Letting go of time is to be immersed in the joy of the moment.
This photographic kaleidoscope series is one of the many areas of the creative world that Kristen Boyesen explores.
Kristen began art instruction at age 13 with professor Curtis Stocking from Purdue University. She graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a major in painting and currently displays her drawings, pastels, paintings and prints in the Gallery, Willoughby, Ohio; the Gallery, Canton N.Y.; Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, Canandaigua, N.Y.; Creative Spirit, Potsdam, N.Y.; and at www.ImaginationArts.etsy.com.
Jan Philips, visionary thought leader and author of the award-winning book, The Art of Original Thinking, says "Kristen is a creative genius with an uncanny ability to unlock the creativity inherent in others. I highly recommend her if youÕre trying to jumpstart originality and innovation."
Jan's reference is to Kristen's workshops, "Imagination Arts", which use a simple anyone-can-do-it drawing technique to trick the brain into letting go of stress and activating the creative mind. The easy exercises will be a component of Kristen's new workshop series, "True Heart Arising", which will add meditation, informal writing, group discussion and the exploration of the inner self to the workshop experience. "Draw and Paint" classes meet every week. Call Kristen at 216- 577-9874 for information on current art classes and workshops. Class and workshop examples and discussion are available through the different links at www.Art-Experiences.blogspot.com.
Observation of the visual world and the psychosocial interactions of the mind-body organism are an ongoing life study expressed through Kristen's art, writings and teaching. She resides in the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Statement:
Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence." Tibetan monks and the Navaho Indians create sand mandalas to demonstrate the impermanence of life. Mandalas are used in meditative practices around the world.
The images inside a kaleidoscope are indeed impermanent. The movement of handing the device to someone to share a beautiful display can cause the components to rearrange themselves into a new image. These photographs are brief snapshots in time of a light and color display that stopped time in my brain as I looked at them. Letting go of time is to be immersed in the joy of the moment.
Craig BungoX Close
In addition to being an artist, I am also employed as a middle-school art teacher in the Parma City Schools. I have a B.A. from Cleveland State University, where I majored in art and minored in education. I am currently earning my masters degree from The Ohio State University. I have exhibited in galleries in Cleveland, Columbus and Chicago.
Artist statement
I use a variety of materials to communicate the ideas I am working on. The concepts I have examined closely in my art over the years are relationships, power, identity and mythology. I think of my collages as sparse stages and off-stage notations, in which I place actors and controllers. I am not interested in strictly defining the spatial environment of the scene or setting episodes at one point in time. The images are, therefore, in multiple time frames and environments shown simultaneously. The disparate images create tensions and possibilities. The collages are narratives, although they are not meant to be linear story telling. I am interested in presenting the actors, developing the mood and insinuating the story's direction through the title, but I do not dictate exactly what story is being told. I want viewers to derive their own interpretations, by bringing their own content to the situation in the art work. This leads to various narratives, which I find much more intriguing than scripted story telling.
In addition to being an artist, I am also employed as a middle-school art teacher in the Parma City Schools. I have a B.A. from Cleveland State University, where I majored in art and minored in education. I am currently earning my masters degree from The Ohio State University. I have exhibited in galleries in Cleveland, Columbus and Chicago.
Artist statement
I use a variety of materials to communicate the ideas I am working on. The concepts I have examined closely in my art over the years are relationships, power, identity and mythology. I think of my collages as sparse stages and off-stage notations, in which I place actors and controllers. I am not interested in strictly defining the spatial environment of the scene or setting episodes at one point in time. The images are, therefore, in multiple time frames and environments shown simultaneously. The disparate images create tensions and possibilities. The collages are narratives, although they are not meant to be linear story telling. I am interested in presenting the actors, developing the mood and insinuating the story's direction through the title, but I do not dictate exactly what story is being told. I want viewers to derive their own interpretations, by bringing their own content to the situation in the art work. This leads to various narratives, which I find much more intriguing than scripted story telling.
Evan DubailX Close
Evan Dubail lives in Northeast Ohio, where he studies music and experiments with a variety of visual media, including photography. This unusual series of digital images was made outdoors by moving the camera in different ways at the moment of shooting.
Evan Dubail lives in Northeast Ohio, where he studies music and experiments with a variety of visual media, including photography. This unusual series of digital images was made outdoors by moving the camera in different ways at the moment of shooting.
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For 15 years, Lisa Cortese of LSC Designs has been fabricating custom wood furniture from trees harvested from urban areas, mostly for contemporary interiors. During the past few years, Lisa has been including other materials in her wood designs and has been exploring using metals to frame mirrors in unique ways.
All pieces are custom fabricated using mostly cold-rolled steel. They are top-coated with a clear lacquer. Place in dry locations only.
www.lscdesigns.com
For 15 years, Lisa Cortese of LSC Designs has been fabricating custom wood furniture from trees harvested from urban areas, mostly for contemporary interiors. During the past few years, Lisa has been including other materials in her wood designs and has been exploring using metals to frame mirrors in unique ways.
All pieces are custom fabricated using mostly cold-rolled steel. They are top-coated with a clear lacquer. Place in dry locations only.
Kelly FerjutzX
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My Dad was a camera nut, so of course I followed eagerly in his footsteps.
He had a fold-up Kodak (which I was not allowed to touch!) and gave me my first camera for my 13th birthday. It was a Kodak Hawkeye. Remember them? The boxy look-down-into-the-viewer thing? Talk about awkward - but even so, from the very beginning, I received compliments on my photos, mostly because I usually managed to get both head and feet of my subjects in the photo, even while standing closer to said subject than others did! I didn't 'shoot' all that many people, however, being very attracted then, as now, to unusual designs or interesting effects, or to nature. Or all three at the same time.
Even after I grew up, I loved the smaller, direct-viewer camera models, but discovered a whole new world with my first SLR—a Pentax ME. From there I moved to an MX, until I needed reading glasses and had difficulty with settings. So, I went back to easier-to-use cameras and actually quite enjoyed the throw-away variety. Being recyclable, they made eminent sense to me. During my first 10-day trip to Europe, I went through 19 of them!
I was a latecomer to digital, having to be almost dragged—kicking and screaming all the way—into it. But now, most of the time, I'd have to be forced to use a film camera. Currently I have a Kodak and a Pentax, and am very fond of them both, as they each have their own individual 'best at' capabilities. I suppose I like the Kodak best, because it has a view-finder.
My greatest passions are classical music and writing, so it pleases me greatly that I write about music (and other things) for www.CoolCleveland.com and other sites. I also write books and teach classes on writing. I have a blog (who doesn't?) at www.theseniorreader.com.
My Dad was a camera nut, so of course I followed eagerly in his footsteps.
He had a fold-up Kodak (which I was not allowed to touch!) and gave me my first camera for my 13th birthday. It was a Kodak Hawkeye. Remember them? The boxy look-down-into-the-viewer thing? Talk about awkward - but even so, from the very beginning, I received compliments on my photos, mostly because I usually managed to get both head and feet of my subjects in the photo, even while standing closer to said subject than others did! I didn't 'shoot' all that many people, however, being very attracted then, as now, to unusual designs or interesting effects, or to nature. Or all three at the same time.
Even after I grew up, I loved the smaller, direct-viewer camera models, but discovered a whole new world with my first SLR—a Pentax ME. From there I moved to an MX, until I needed reading glasses and had difficulty with settings. So, I went back to easier-to-use cameras and actually quite enjoyed the throw-away variety. Being recyclable, they made eminent sense to me. During my first 10-day trip to Europe, I went through 19 of them!
I was a latecomer to digital, having to be almost dragged—kicking and screaming all the way—into it. But now, most of the time, I'd have to be forced to use a film camera. Currently I have a Kodak and a Pentax, and am very fond of them both, as they each have their own individual 'best at' capabilities. I suppose I like the Kodak best, because it has a view-finder.
My greatest passions are classical music and writing, so it pleases me greatly that I write about music (and other things) for www.CoolCleveland.com and other sites. I also write books and teach classes on writing. I have a blog (who doesn't?) at www.theseniorreader.com.
Kulture KidsX
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Kulture Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing arts and culture through performances, workshops, residencies and products. It was founded by Robin Pease, a longtime teacher of drama, dance and speech at such educational institutions as Hiram, Notre Dame and Lakeland Community colleges and Hawken and Laurel high schools.
Kulture Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing arts and culture through performances, workshops, residencies and products. It was founded by Robin Pease, a longtime teacher of drama, dance and speech at such educational institutions as Hiram, Notre Dame and Lakeland Community colleges and Hawken and Laurel high schools.
Robert GoodrichX
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Robert Goodrich (writer, director) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked in both theatre and film for the past 20 years. A staged reading of his play "Occam's Razor" was presented at the prestigious Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2001. He was awarded Best Director for his short film Spaceship at The Palm Beach International Film Festival, Voices of Local Film. Robert has directed two digital features, and nearly a dozen shorts. Four of his plays have been produced. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Florida Stage.
Robert Goodrich (writer, director) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked in both theatre and film for the past 20 years. A staged reading of his play "Occam's Razor" was presented at the prestigious Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2001. He was awarded Best Director for his short film Spaceship at The Palm Beach International Film Festival, Voices of Local Film. Robert has directed two digital features, and nearly a dozen shorts. Four of his plays have been produced. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Florida Stage.
Will LimkemannX Close
I have always been a bit of an innovator and inventor, crafting many works from wood and dabbling in electronics since I was a teenager. You're welcome to take a look at some of my crafts on www.wolcraft.com.
My day job as a business counselor is to help entrepreneurs develop and build healthy, productive, and profitable businesses. An accredited associate of the Institute for Independent Business, I have been helping business owners in the Cleveland area for over four years. To learn more about how I assist businesses, I invite you to visit www.neobizadvisor.com.
An outgrowth of my own business experiences, as well as those of clients I have helped, is a book to be published soon by Doubleware Publications, called The Successful Home Business Guide. Further information about the book can be seen at www.doublewarepub.com.
I have always been a bit of an innovator and inventor, crafting many works from wood and dabbling in electronics since I was a teenager. You're welcome to take a look at some of my crafts on www.wolcraft.com.
My day job as a business counselor is to help entrepreneurs develop and build healthy, productive, and profitable businesses. An accredited associate of the Institute for Independent Business, I have been helping business owners in the Cleveland area for over four years. To learn more about how I assist businesses, I invite you to visit www.neobizadvisor.com.
An outgrowth of my own business experiences, as well as those of clients I have helped, is a book to be published soon by Doubleware Publications, called The Successful Home Business Guide. Further information about the book can be seen at www.doublewarepub.com.
Michael Scott ManneX Close
Michael Scott Manne has been designing award-winning buildings for the past 20 years. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he currently resides with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works at Middough Inc. as a Lead Design Architect. In addition to being an architect, Michael is an avid painter and sculptor. His work has exhibited and sold throughout the region. Michael has also been a participating artist in a number of public art exhibitions and a finalist in several public art competitions. Recently, he has written and directed two short independent films, and he is currently working on his first full-length independent feature film.
Michael describes his work as narrative, but inherently architectural:
"The underlying presence of architecture is hard to escape in everything I do, whether it's building design, sculpture, painting, or even film. I can't help but think three-dimensionally, focusing on space and its expression through the use of color, texture and light."
Michael Scott Manne has been designing award-winning buildings for the past 20 years. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he currently resides with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works at Middough Inc. as a Lead Design Architect. In addition to being an architect, Michael is an avid painter and sculptor. His work has exhibited and sold throughout the region. Michael has also been a participating artist in a number of public art exhibitions and a finalist in several public art competitions. Recently, he has written and directed two short independent films, and he is currently working on his first full-length independent feature film.
Michael describes his work as narrative, but inherently architectural:
"The underlying presence of architecture is hard to escape in everything I do, whether it's building design, sculpture, painting, or even film. I can't help but think three-dimensionally, focusing on space and its expression through the use of color, texture and light."
Mary Lou SneydX Close
She's 50. She's a mom and a wife. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and works as a page designer at The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest daily newspaper. Mary Lou Sneyd has been making and creating things all her life, following in the footsteps of generations of folk artists in her family. She likes to recycle and repurpose found items in her jewelry. Most recently, though, she has been drawn to the sculptural elements of wire. The shapes and colors, combined with the accents of beads, mimic aspects of nature that fill the windows around her as she works.
She's 50. She's a mom and a wife. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and works as a page designer at The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest daily newspaper. Mary Lou Sneyd has been making and creating things all her life, following in the footsteps of generations of folk artists in her family. She likes to recycle and repurpose found items in her jewelry. Most recently, though, she has been drawn to the sculptural elements of wire. The shapes and colors, combined with the accents of beads, mimic aspects of nature that fill the windows around her as she works.
Robert ThurmerX Close
I was born in 1953 in Vienna, Austria, and first came to the U.S. as an exchange student to a New York high school, where I met my future ex-wife. Married in 1973, I divorced in 1987. I have a daughter, Kate (born in 1981), and a son, Clayton (born in 1986).
I attended Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, majoring in sculpture and painting, followed by an MA program in American painting and sculpture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 with an MFA in sculpture and film.
Since then, I have worked in the art-museum field for 25 years as exhibition designer (Cleveland Museum of Art), curator (Everson Museum of Art), and university art gallery director (Cleveland State University). I have also taught studio art, art history, and museum studies for 25 years at various institutions.
As an artist, I am primarily concerned with ontological and epistemological phenomena; I am not interested in the social universe. I like to work with light and ideas. My work is often "elemental." I have an active international exhibition record. Highlights include one-person exhibitions in Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; and an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in New York, as well as exhibitions in Beijing, China, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The present series of drawings emerged from my contemplation of the conventions of image-making with graphite and charcoal on paper in the Western tradition.
In very reduced terms, an image exists typically as a combination of a "figure" and a "ground" - with the "mark" often, but not always, representing the figure, and the blank paper representing the ground.
These drawings explore various simple combinations of making marks, with the astonishing result that images emerge in a sense "automatically" by simply applying rudimentary paradigms for laying down the medium.
These images are truly "discovered" - they are a gift!.
I was born in 1953 in Vienna, Austria, and first came to the U.S. as an exchange student to a New York high school, where I met my future ex-wife. Married in 1973, I divorced in 1987. I have a daughter, Kate (born in 1981), and a son, Clayton (born in 1986).
I attended Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, majoring in sculpture and painting, followed by an MA program in American painting and sculpture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 with an MFA in sculpture and film.
Since then, I have worked in the art-museum field for 25 years as exhibition designer (Cleveland Museum of Art), curator (Everson Museum of Art), and university art gallery director (Cleveland State University). I have also taught studio art, art history, and museum studies for 25 years at various institutions.
As an artist, I am primarily concerned with ontological and epistemological phenomena; I am not interested in the social universe. I like to work with light and ideas. My work is often "elemental." I have an active international exhibition record. Highlights include one-person exhibitions in Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; and an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in New York, as well as exhibitions in Beijing, China, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The present series of drawings emerged from my contemplation of the conventions of image-making with graphite and charcoal on paper in the Western tradition.
In very reduced terms, an image exists typically as a combination of a "figure" and a "ground" - with the "mark" often, but not always, representing the figure, and the blank paper representing the ground.
These drawings explore various simple combinations of making marks, with the astonishing result that images emerge in a sense "automatically" by simply applying rudimentary paradigms for laying down the medium.
These images are truly "discovered" - they are a gift!.
Kevin WhiteX Close
Ohio artist Kevin White suffered a spinal cord injury when he was young, as the victim of a drunk driver. The accident left him a quadriplegic, dependent on a wheelchair and with very limited use of his hands. Kevin had attended art school prior to his accident with the intention of working toward a career in art. With encouragement and support from SIL staff (Services for Independent Living, a United Way partner agency) Kevin began to pursue his dream. Kevin designs and creates his artwork on a personal computer with special equipment that coordinates the computer cursor with his head movement. Kevin's work has been shown at Ashtabula (Ohio) Art Center, Painesville Art in the Park, Rabbit Run Community Theatre and HeARTworks in Cleveland's Galleria. See more of Kevin's work at www.donsphotos.com.
Ohio artist Kevin White suffered a spinal cord injury when he was young, as the victim of a drunk driver. The accident left him a quadriplegic, dependent on a wheelchair and with very limited use of his hands. Kevin had attended art school prior to his accident with the intention of working toward a career in art. With encouragement and support from SIL staff (Services for Independent Living, a United Way partner agency) Kevin began to pursue his dream. Kevin designs and creates his artwork on a personal computer with special equipment that coordinates the computer cursor with his head movement. Kevin's work has been shown at Ashtabula (Ohio) Art Center, Painesville Art in the Park, Rabbit Run Community Theatre and HeARTworks in Cleveland's Galleria. See more of Kevin's work at www.donsphotos.com.
Johnny K. WuX Close
Johnny K. Wu is a veteran filmmaker, media specialist, events producer and teacher, with an MBA degree in marketing. Since 1998, when he co-founded Media Design Imaging, he has been involved in the creation of video and audio services, helping small and medium businesses to develop focused media campaigns through promotional and corporate videos and commercials. At the same time, Wu has become a film artist, creating short feature films and documentaries that have enjoyed DVD distribution and been shown online, on television and around the world at film festivals and conventions. Wu belongs to the American Federation of Film Producers; he also co-founded the Cleveland Indieclub, a monthly networking group for local Cleveland, Ohio, filmmakers. His short film, "A Joker's Card," has been shown at festivals across the U.S. and the globe. It won a 26th Telly Award for Best Entertainment/Film and Video and was chosen Best Comedy Short at Ontario's 2005 Wreck-Beach International Film Festival.
Johnny K. Wu is a veteran filmmaker, media specialist, events producer and teacher, with an MBA degree in marketing. Since 1998, when he co-founded Media Design Imaging, he has been involved in the creation of video and audio services, helping small and medium businesses to develop focused media campaigns through promotional and corporate videos and commercials. At the same time, Wu has become a film artist, creating short feature films and documentaries that have enjoyed DVD distribution and been shown online, on television and around the world at film festivals and conventions. Wu belongs to the American Federation of Film Producers; he also co-founded the Cleveland Indieclub, a monthly networking group for local Cleveland, Ohio, filmmakers. His short film, "A Joker's Card," has been shown at festivals across the U.S. and the globe. It won a 26th Telly Award for Best Entertainment/Film and Video and was chosen Best Comedy Short at Ontario's 2005 Wreck-Beach International Film Festival.
Michael ZelenkaX Close
Michael Zelenka creates sculpture and functional objects from glass. A native and resident of Cleveland, Ohio, where he maintains his studio, he has established a reputation that reaches across America and Europe, keeping him in demand as an artist and teacher by some of the world's premier institutions. Michael's work can be found at the world headquarters of Sony in Tokyo, Novalis in Atlanta and General Motors in Detroit; at Denmark's Museum of Modern Glass in Ebeltoft, The Netherlands National Museum of Glass in Leerdam and at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and in the private New York collection of painter Philip Perlstein. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and is also an alumnus of Seattle's Pilchuck School of School of Glass and the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. He has taught at The Netherlands' Glass Unica Workshop in The Hague and at Maxwell Crystal in Tiffin, Ohio, where he also held the position of designer glassblower. A longtime demonstration glassmaker of 19th-century reproductions at Hale Farm & Village in Bath, Ohio, he also maintains an association with the Oxbow School of Arts and Crafts in Saugatuck, Mich., where he is a visiting artist. Michael's glass creations have been featured in exhibitions in Seattle; Wichita, Kan.; Louisville, Ky., Atlanta; Bethesda, Md., Evanston, Ill.; and Youngstown. In Europe, they have been exhibited in Weert and Den Haag, the Netherlands; and in Brussels.
Michael Zelenka creates sculpture and functional objects from glass. A native and resident of Cleveland, Ohio, where he maintains his studio, he has established a reputation that reaches across America and Europe, keeping him in demand as an artist and teacher by some of the world's premier institutions. Michael's work can be found at the world headquarters of Sony in Tokyo, Novalis in Atlanta and General Motors in Detroit; at Denmark's Museum of Modern Glass in Ebeltoft, The Netherlands National Museum of Glass in Leerdam and at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and in the private New York collection of painter Philip Perlstein. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and is also an alumnus of Seattle's Pilchuck School of School of Glass and the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. He has taught at The Netherlands' Glass Unica Workshop in The Hague and at Maxwell Crystal in Tiffin, Ohio, where he also held the position of designer glassblower. A longtime demonstration glassmaker of 19th-century reproductions at Hale Farm & Village in Bath, Ohio, he also maintains an association with the Oxbow School of Arts and Crafts in Saugatuck, Mich., where he is a visiting artist. Michael's glass creations have been featured in exhibitions in Seattle; Wichita, Kan.; Louisville, Ky., Atlanta; Bethesda, Md., Evanston, Ill.; and Youngstown. In Europe, they have been exhibited in Weert and Den Haag, the Netherlands; and in Brussels.
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