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Mary who used her first FINCA loan to purchase an oven to bake bread, buns, and mini scones, which she sold out of her home. As demand for Mary's delicious baked goods grew, she seized the opportunity and used a second FINCA loan to purchase three more ovens. Today, Mary owns two bakeries and even bakes enough to supply several local grocery stores and schools.

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Playlist: The Cave fill, Triple R FM, December 23, 2022

listen back on demand here

Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House

Funkadelic - Groovallegiance

Caroline Munro - Pump Me Up - vocal

Au Pairs - It’s Obvious

Low Life - Dream Machine

Fun Boy Three - Faith, Hope And Charity

John Cameron - Half-Forgotten Daydreams

The Glass Picture - Stairwell

Hydroplane - The Love You Bring

A.C. Marias - To Sleep

Anne Clark - The Sitting Room

Maximum Joy - Stretch 12” version

Marine Girls - Tutti Lo Sanno

Shop Assistants - All Day Long

EXEK - Unseasonable Warmth

Th Blisks - A2: Gasper

Oren Ambarchi - I (Shebang)

Dania - An Individual

Low - Disappearing

Mazzy Star - Flowers in December

Mark Lanegan, Hey Colossus - The Mirror

Romance, Dean Hurley - A Single Day, A Thousand Years

Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded

Working Week - Venceremos - We Will Win (Bossa)

Pharoah Sanders - Sun Song

Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness

Sunbear - Let Love Flow For Peace

Savage - Don’t Cry Tonight

Makaya McCraven - Dream Another

Moor Mother - UMZANSI

Laurie Anderson - Language Is A Virus

Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes - May 1965 demo

Akron Family - Love, Love, Love (Everyone)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up

Devo - Luv Luv

Ween - Bananas and Blow

James Brown - Soulful Christmas

The Ethiopians - Ding Dong Bell

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We recently chatted with Jamie Stillman, owner and mastermind of Akron, Ohio’s Earthquaker Devices, one of the leading innovators in guitar pedals/effects. We touch on everything from general guitar nerdery to how the pandemic is affecting the day-to-day operations of EQD. You can delve more into everything Earthquaker Devices related here.

Dave Kezer [9:30 Club]: There’s a joke that anyone who starts to listen to rap immediately wants to try to rap. It seems like anyone who starts to build guitar pedals immediately thinks they can start a pedal company. What do you think it takes to actually get a company off the ground in a sustainable way?

LOL! I used to make a similar joke that every guitar player with a soldering iron is a pedal company. It used to feel that way, but I think the craze has died down. It takes a lot of patience, hard work, and (possibly most importantly) good ideas to build a stable effect pedal company. They almost always start out as a hobby and it’s good to realize when it has moved beyond that point. In my case, it was very important to realize when I was in over my head and when to bring on people who have real knowledge in handling the business on a day-to-day level and have the ability to look at the bigger picture. I have punk rock business skills which worked up to a point, but I’m better suited to the creative role.

In your EQDQ&A Ep. 1, you joked about how long it took you to truly start understanding the differences/complexities of gear. I nerd out on gear so much that sometimes I lose focus on just enjoying playing instruments for the sake of it. How far is too far when it comes to putting every facet of gear under the microscope?

I think the threshold is different for everyone. There are people who won’t settle down until every piece of gear they own is top of the line and Reddit approved and there are people who don’t give a shit if their cable crackles if it moves a certain way. I put myself in the middle. I don’t really care about the proven quality or name brand of whatever I’m using, and I just make sure it works 100% of the time whenever possible. I make an exception on pickups, cables and power supplies because I think those are the most important part of the equation for me personally. I’ll always use the best I can find, and I decide what is best by putting it to use and seeing how it performs.

Your feature on the Rainbow Machine focuses on the usability of weird pedals. Have you designed something so weird that it is truly unusable?

Personally, I don’t find the Rainbow Machine to be so weird, but a lot of other people do, so we ran with that. I know the “pixie trails” function of the Magic switch is obnoxious, but I think it’s cool. There are way weirder pedals out there, lol. I’ve definitely designed things that I thought were cool but not exactly functional in every setting, but I usually work to make them more multi-dimensional. There’s only one that I’ve been working on for a really long time that has a million controls with minimal functionality. I’m not sure I’ll ever finish it but it’s (kind of) fun to keep trying once or twice a year when the mood strikes.

Are there any guitars that you’re completely satisfied with and won’t continue to modify? It seems like for gear people (myself included), a piece of gear will operate at 99% of its maximum potential, but the search for that 1% will make your brain itch forever and lead to continued modification.

No, I constantly modify all of my guitars lol. I change pickups a lot, more than anyone should. The closest I think I’ve gotten to “perfection” would be my stock Nash Telecaster and a heavily modded Fender Jazzmaster. The Jazzmaster is a 60th anniversary that I gutted and replaced almost everything except the neck and body. It has Seymour Duncan custom shop ’59 humbuckers for Jazzmaster with 500K push/pull pots for coil tapping and the rhythm circuit is removed. It also has locking tuners, a Mastery vibrato, bridge, and string tree. It still feels too new, but it sounds perfect.

Your Reverb “Does This Work?” interview focuses on old effects and their tendency to break down over time. What are the typical things that cause old circuits to stop working?

In my experience it has been dust, humidity, and neglect resulting in bad switches, corroded solder joints, cracked wires and dried caps. I never get around to fixing my old gear though. I’ll get in there if I really want to use something, but I’ll usually turn it over to Joe Golden, our in-house repair wizard. Most of the broken gear in the Reverb video is still broken…

Two of my favorite EQD pedals are the Tentacle and the Acapulco Gold, if not simply because there are one/no options to choose from when getting sounds. I tend to get freaked out when I see a pedal that has 4+ knobs, which is something I’m working on, haha. Where do you draw the line when it comes to simplicity vs. versatility when designing pedals?

I used to have a “whatever it takes” approach to design as long as it wasn’t confusing for the general user, but I’ve been moving towards a “less is more” approach. I don’t think pedals should require hours of reading manuals and menu diving to use. The faster you can get to making actual music the better. That’s not to say I don’t have some elaborate, sometimes confusing, products in the pipeline but I’m generally leaning towards simple design.

Don’t mean to be a bummer, but I have to ask — how has the pandemic affected EQD’s business operations? If I understand correctly — it seems like your builders are assembling pedals at home?

We have taken the pandemic very seriously. We knew the shutdown was coming and some of our employees had already been working to get things in place to make the transition to home building as easy as we could. We had almost 50 employees working from home for almost three months and the production capacity was greatly reduced. We didn’t ship any product for about two months. We kept all the employees on the payroll and had regular Zoom meetings to keep everyone up to date on what we were doing. Now, as of June 16, 2020, we are still mostly working from home but we have a skeleton crew in the shop so we can populate PCB’s more efficiently and start shipping product. We completely rearranged the shop to spread people out and invested a lot of time and money into making it a safe and sanitary workspace. We have gone above and beyond all the recommended protocols — too many precautions to list. It would be very hard to catch any illness inside EQD now.

Do you have a favorite “Let’s Go!” guitar riff? For example, whenever I’m driving and “Unchained” comes on the radio, I dime the volume and start driving like a complete lunatic.

I’m pretty reserved but, oddly enough, “Unchained” is also one of my favorite riffs ever! I think I play it at least once every time I pick up a guitar. Also a big fan of “Siberian Khatru” by Yes once it kicks in. Same with “In the Light” and “Rain Song” by Led Zeppelin and anything on Sonic Youth’s Sister. I guess these are more riffs that I wish I wrote than riffs that make me lose my shit. I guess most of them also make me sound like a real dad rocker too.

Is there a piece of gear you’ve spent a completely stupid amount of money on simply because you had to have it?

Yes, a Sunn Model T and it was worth every penny! It’s the most perfect amp I’ve ever owned.  

Not asking you to talk smack, but do you have a “Dumbest Pedal Ever Designed” award in your head?

I’ll keep my mouth shut on this one.

Finally, have you been through D.C. while touring or seeing shows? Anything about D.C. venues or the music scene in general you’d like to share?

I’ve been through D.C. about six or seven times, maybe more. I’ve always held D.C. in high regard because of Dischord records and bands like Ignition, Bad Brains, Jawbox, Fugazi, etc. 9:30 Club is actually one my favorite venues ever. I’ve been through twice when I was tour managing and the staff was super friendly and accommodating, which is unfortunately rare in the touring world. It also has the best green room of any venue I ever worked in; the bunks are a nice touch!

— Dave Kezer

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The Queen Full Episode

Prior to moving to the Tampa Bay area of Florida, I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for 17 years. During this period, I went to high school, graduated from college, and we started our business which we subsequently moved to Florida. Quite often I am asked to describe what life is like in the "Queen City," representing the city's nickname ("Queen City to the West" to be precise). I have lived in quite a few locations throughout the country, not to mention visiting many more, but Cincinnati was a unique experience that is difficult to describe; instead, you have an intuitive feeling that is difficult to articulate. Such is Cincinnati. There is just something "different" about it. It is certainly not like Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, or any other city in Ohio. It is unique. For example, most cities have their airport near the downtown area; Cincinnati's is across the river in Kentucky, not Ohio. The airport designation "CVG" doesn't mean "Cincinnati Vicinity G???", but "Covington" instead (Kentucky) thereby representing an interesting political chapter in Cincinnati's history.

The city rests on the northern shores of the Ohio River in the Southwest corner of Ohio, adjoining Kentucky and Indiana making up the "Tri-State" area. It was settled in the late 1700's, and it was a frontier town that made good. So good, it quickly became the crossroads of America, where settlers traveled through on their way to the western frontier. The city prospered so much in the early days, the federal government seriously considered moving the capitol there after the British burned Washington during the War of 1812, thereby eliminating the potential of attack by the sea. This, of course, never transpired but Cincinnati continued to grow nevertheless. By 1870 it represented the mean center of U.S. population. Today, the Queen City is strategically located within a 700 mile radius of two-thirds of the industrial wealth of Canada and the United States, making it an ideal locale for conducting business.

The city has a strong German heritage based on immigrants settling there and setting up shop. Breweries grew, shipping and manufacturing proliferated, and for a long time was called "Porkopolis" because of the pork processing plants there. Even to this day, Cincinnati's strong work ethic, food, and general attitudes can be attributed to its German roots.

Seven hills surround the city making up a valley that traps pollutants and humidity, and explains why it has evolved into a "Sinus Gulch" where the inhabitants suffer from an annoying nasal "Sniff" heard throughout the day. During the summer, the weather can be stifling; in the winter, the valley can retain the cold. Spring and Autumn are perhaps the two most scenic and enjoyable seasons.

Cincinnati has a unique sight, sound, smell, and even taste to it. From an architecture perspective, the city has everything from massive mansions made of brick and hidden away in country settings, to simple turn-of-the century wooden structures with steep roofs and front porches that dominate the neighborhoods. Television is rather unique, or at least was a few years ago. Considerable television innovations originated from the Queen City and, for a long time, local talent dominated the channels with homespun humor and a blend of bluegrass and midwest music. Natives fondly remember people like Bob Braun, Paul Dixon, Bob Shreve, Glenn Ryle, and "The Cool Ghoul." However, celebrities such as Steven Spielberg, Jerry Springer, Doris Day, Roy Rogers, and the Clooney family all started here as well. Alas, the locals eventually gave way to national programming and the Cincinnati character faded from television screens. Fortunately, local radio stations still feature homegrown personalities.

Over the years Cincinnati has had many breweries due to its German heritage. One by one, they were all pushed aside by national brewers. Names like Burger, Hudepohl, Schoenling, and Wiedemannn slowly faded away. In terms of food, Cincinnatians enjoy their restaurants. Since there are no real glamor places to relax locally, particularly in winter, there isn't much to do but tuck away the groceries. In addition to having some of the finest restaurants in the country, the fare is based on its "Porkopolis" past, featuring a variety of sausages, ribs, and a breakfast meat called "Goetta" which is similar to Philadelphia Scrapple, but made with pinhead oats instead. Cincinnati chili is also unique. Do not expect a bowl of hot spicy meat. Instead, it is served on a bed of spaghetti, with a layer of onions, a layer of kidney beans, and topped with a bed of grated American cheese.

Even driving around town is strangely different in Cincinnati. Instead of a cut-throat rush hour in the morning, Cincinnatians seem to just quietly go about their business in the morning and possess an intuitive understanding of every twist, turn, and back alley to be navigated in the city. It is also common to see motorists stop to give aid to other motorists in trouble.

What this all adds up to is a strong sense of neighborhood in Cincinnati which took me a long time to figure out. At first it seems elitist in nature. The citizens genuinely love their hometown, particularly their sports teams (e.g, the Reds and Bengals), local celebrities, and hometown boys and girls that make good on the national stage. It's no small wonder many people grow up and never leave Cincinnati, nor understand why people want to leave. It's very introverted in this regard. Should you move to the area, as we did many years ago, you must adapt to the culture for it will certainly not adapt to you.

Not surprising, Cincinnati is conservative in both its thinking and politics. They simply do not like to change. This has hurt them on more than one occasion, particularly the downtown area which has lost considerable business over the years to Northern Kentucky. When I return to my old neighborhood there, it is like time has stood still; nothing of substance has changed. I know where everything is and all of the names of the families. Although I've been gone for over a quarter of a century now, it is like I never left. Although it may take an act of God to implement a change to Cincinnati, such as a new building, road or restaurant, the citizens remarkably embrace it. On the one hand, Cincinnatians give the appearance of being "stick in the muds", but on the other they are some rather creative innovators and inventors. In addition to television and radio, Cincinnati is home to massive jet engines, consumer products, machine tools, banks and insurance companies, and some rather impressive computer technology. Their strong and determined work ethic, coupled with a competitive imagination, and strategic location in the country to conduct business, makes Cincinnati a stable work environment.

As an aside, it is relatively easy to recognize a person from the Queen City. They will say "Please?" instead of "I beg your pardon?" or "Huh?" I haven't heard this specific idiom used anywhere else in this context. Also, true native Cincinnatians tend to say "CincinnatAH" as opposed to "CincinnatEE." It's a dead giveaway as to their roots. "Sniff".

Keep the Faith!

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Giant Eagle and Grabango to offer no-wait checkout service

 A no-wait checkout service for Giant Eagle's stores has been developed through a partnership with technology provider Grabango.

Giant Eagle's goal of investing in cutting-edge technologies to improve customers' shopping experiences is strengthened by the partnership.

Grabango's checkout-free technology lets customers easily shop for the items they need by keeping track of the items they choose and making it easy for them to pay.

The solution, according to the company, uses machine learning and computer vision to track purchased items. All data is anonymized to protect the privacy of customers.

In order to conduct testing, the retailer has installed Grabango's checkout-free technology at one of its locations. Several implementations of the payment technology, including an app-based solution, are currently being optimized.

Dan Donovan, director of corporate communications for Giant Eagle, stated: Giant Eagle is committed to developing technologies that safeguard our customers' privacy while simultaneously enhancing and simplifying their shopping experience.

We have discovered a partner in Grabango who shares our commitment and can assist us in bringing this enhanced experience to life.

More than 460 Giant Eagle stores are currently open in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland, and Indiana.

Giant Eagle announced in April that Simbe Robotics' autonomous shelving solution Tally would be piloted in a few stores in the Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Akron areas.

It is anticipated that store stock management will be improved by the auditory and inventory analytics solution.

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Brimfield Chips

May through September in the Northeast is the time for some major antique festivals.  In Upstate New York, there is antique week at Madison-Bouckville.  The GrandDaddy of them all is Brimfield in Massachusetts which attracts people from all over the world.  http://www.brimfieldshow.com/.  There are three annual shows each a week long occurring  in May, July and September.   They take place in grass fields, many under tents.  Some fields are free and others require a payment to enter.   Fields open on a staggered schedule at various times of the day and on different days.  Many arrive in the wee small hours of the morning, lining up to enter the fields when they open.  I attended the July show in extremely hot weather looking for potato chip memorabilia.  See the photo of me at a vendor that had multiple chip tins.  I didn't purchase them as I either had them or did not feel that there was anything unique about them. 

Vintage signs are becoming harder to find, partially because of television shows such as American Pickers.  I searched all of the extensive Brimfield fields and only one item caught my eye, a vintage sign from Salem Potato Chips in Akron, Ohio.  I was attracted to the silhouette of the woman.  After leaving the vendor a couple of times, I went back just before closing and was able to negotiate a reduction from his asking price and then purchased it.  

To better understand the sign, I contacted the Akron-Summit County Public Library, Special Collections Department and spoke with Cheri Goldner, Librarian.  Cheri explained that she had written an article on the history of potato chip companies in Akron, Ohio and provided me with a copy as well as other resources for me to investigate.  Immediately below is the portion of her article addressing the Salem Potato Chip Company.    

The Salem Manufacturing & Specialty Company was the first of Akron’s “big three” chip manufacturers to open for business. Lebanese immigrant Kareem Thomas “K.T.” Salem founded the company in 1927. According to a 1999 Akron Beacon Journal article, Salem was working as a candy salesman and happened to be visiting a cousin’s confectionary store when a chip supplier from Sandusky dropped off a dozen bags of chips. When the cousin mentioned that the supplier couldn’t keep up with his demand, Salem opened a bag of chips and began doing some calculations. He was in the chip business just a few days later. In the beginning, Salem and his mother peeled three bushels of potatoes a day and sliced them using a crank-operated machine for cutting cabbage for sauerkraut that he had modified. His first shop was located on West Bowery. It later moved to East South and then moved to North Main. In 1934, Salem was the first to distribute chips in glassine wax paper bags. His innovations continued as he opened a larger, completely automated factory on the corner of West Bowery and Cedar Streets in 1948. When the smell of freshly cooked chips filled the air, providing better marketing than any billboard, Salem took advantage of the situation by letting customers purchase hot chips scooped right from a factory conveyer belt. By the mid 1960s, Salem had expanded the factory and was cooking roughly 30 tons of potatoes each day and storing more than 2,500 tons of potatoes in a climate-controlled warehouse adjacent to the factory. The company branched out into other products and remained successful throughout the mid 1970s, employing about 100 people. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, Salem’s luck began to change. Corporate giants like Frito-Lay and Proctor & Gamble proved too much competition for smaller companies, and bad potato harvests in Ohio and Michigan in the fall of 1981 slowed production from five days a week to just two. After filing for bankruptcy in November of 1981 then being sued by the FDA in February of 1982 over alleged unsanitary conditions, the company finally closed its doors in June of 1982. K.T. Salem died in 1987 at the age of 94.

In his book Crunch, A History of The Great American potato Chip, author Dirk Burhans includes a reference to the

Snack Food Blue Book

, about how K.T. Salem started his chip business in the 1920's after noting brisk sales of potato chips in nearby states.

Salem calculated "a bushel of potatoes has 60 lbs.  Each pound has 16 oz.  So a bushel of potatoes would make 960 bags.  Retail price is 5 cents.  That would bring $48.  If I make them, I don't want to sell retail.  I want to sell wholesale.  So 25 percent to the storekeeper.  This leaves $36.  I thought "Ohheeeeee!!  You're going to make to much money (78)."  But as Salem processed the first batch, he soon found his sixty pounds of potatoes reduced to fifteen pounds of chips, because water in the potatoes had boiled off during frying.  

This harken back the Seinfeld "Shrinkage" episode.

Also attached are some articles about the company spanning the 1950's through 1975 from the Akron Beacon.

  The Toga Chip Guy 

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Gemini Syndrome Set To Kick Off New Tour Tomorrow Night

Alt- Metal band Gemini Syndrome are kicking off a new headline tour tomorrow night in Oklahoma. The thirteen date “Synner Conversion Tour” will see direct support from Code Red Riot, except for the bands' appearance at Rock USA Festival. The band is currently in the process of writing their third studio album, expected to be released in late 2018 via RED MUSIC. All tour dates are on sale now. Drummer Brian Steel Medina commented: "The Oracle has foreseen that Gemini Syndrome will be sharing the stage with fellow conspirators, Code Red Riot, occurring in alignment with the Estival Solstice. This Summer Conversion is a recess in writing and recording our next album, the third and final act of the trilogy. We look forward to sharing this sacred rite with you.”

Synner Conversion Tour w/ Code Red Riot: 07/08: The Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK 07/10: Lefty's Live – Des Moines, IA 07/11: The Forge – Joliet, IL 07/12: Rock USA – Oshkosh, WI † 07/13: Nikki's – Sturgis, MI 07/14: The Machine Shop – Flint, MI 07/15: Empire Concert Club – Akron, OH 07/17: Guitars – Joplin, MO 07/18: Aftershock – Merriam, KS 07/19: Sunshine Studios Live – Colorado Springs, CO 07/20: Herman's Hideaway – Denver, CO 07/21: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM 07/22: Club Red – Mesa, AZ † Festival date, no Code Red Riot

The band is offering VIP packages for $60, including an intimate acoustic performance, autographed poster and an exclusive “Synner” laminate. VIP experiences can be purchased at the band’s official merch store. The “Synner Conversion Tour” kicks off on July 8, and tickets are available now at the venue ticketing websites. Read the full article

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Gemini Syndrome Tour Dates

JUL 8   Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom*   JUL 10  Des Moines, IA - Lefty's Live Music JUL 11  Joliet, IL - The Forge*   JUL 13  Sturgis, MI - Nikki's*  JUL 14  Flint, MI - The Machine Shop*   JUL 15  Akron, OH - The Empire Concert Club & Bar*  JUL 18  Merriam, KS - Aftershock Live Music Venue*   JUL 19  Colorado Springs, CO - Sunshine Studios Live* JUL 20  Denver, CO - Herman’s Hideaway*    JUL 22  Mesa, AZ - Club Red Mesa*  AUG 25 Council Bluffs, IA - Westfair Fairgrounds and Amphitheater 

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Thomas Alva Edison born on February 11, 1847 Ohio, U.S. was a American inventor who singly or jointly, held a world-record 1,093 patents. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera and early versions of the electric light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother who used to be a school teacher. He attended school for only a few months. However, one biographer described him as a very curious child who learned most things by reading on his own. Edison developed hearing problems at the age of 12. As he got older, Edison believed his hearing loss allowed him to avoid distraction and concentrate more easily on his work. Thomas Edison began his career selling candy, newspapers and vegetables on the trains running from Port Huron to Detroit. He became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. He also studied qualitative analysis and conducted chemical experiments on the train until he left the job. In 1866, at the age of 19, Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where as an employee of Western Union. On December 25, 1871 at the age of 24 Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier. she was an employee at one of his shops. They had three children. On February 24, 1886 at the age of 39, Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller (1865–1947) in Akron, Ohio. She was the daughter of the inventor Lewis Miller, His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, U.S. Patent 90,646, which was granted on June 1, 1869. Finding little demand for the machine, Edison moved to New York City shortly thereafter. Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931 in his home, "Glenmont" in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford museum near Detroit. #thomasalvaedison #american #inventor #bussinessman #legend #thomasedison #experiment https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJG2Cig-H4/?igshid=acwbr3pd795z