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There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center.
Even as troops fight militants in the south, government officials and donors in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan valley are training tour guides and teaching restaurateurs about customer service. It's an attempt to draw tourism and return one small part of Afghanistan to normalcy.
The challenges are many — land mines, dangerous roads outside Bamiyan, and, not least, Afghanistan's reputation as anything but a tourist haven. But the hope is to persuade history buffs and adventure seekers that Afghanistan can be safe, and locals are eager to give it a shot.
"I can improve my province this way, and my homeland," said 19-year-old Zahra Naseri, as she rattled off facts about the calcium carbonate that gives the ground a whitish cast around a series of cascading mountain lakes. Naseri is one of about 20 people, mostly university students, who gather once a day at the tourist center for lessons on how to become tour guides. "I want to show that Bamiyan is a historical place."
The tourism training program is funded through a Geneva-based Islamic organization, the Aga Khan Development Network, as part of a $1.2 million ecotourism program. All Afghan tourism initiatives are currently funded by international donors, according to Deputy Minister for Tourism Ghulam Nabi Farahi. New Zealand and Japan are big donors in Bamiyan.
Back in the 1960s, Afghanistan was a major stop on the "hippie trail" of backpackers and enlightenment seekers. Foreigners tramped through on their way to India, staying in teahouses and touring the ancient cliff-hewn Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
There are now signs that tourism is increasing again, however slightly. Airport and hotel records show more than 400 foreigners had visited the Bamiyan area by early June, up from about 180 the same time in 2008, said Najibullah Ahrar, a representative from the information and culture ministry. He said many of them may have mixed work in the area with seeing the sights.
Mine-free and beautiful
There's still much to attract: Towering cliff caverns hold remnants of the Buddha statues. Ancient cities have been preserved from looters by the very landmines that make them dangerous to visit.
But by the end of October, the major historical sites are expected to be landmine-free. The area around the Buddhas has already been cleared. Deminers are now clearing mines from the top of the cliff, from where they were washing down with the spring rains.
A two-and-a-half hour drive away through golden canyons sits Afghanistan's first national park, dedicated in June — the glassy Band-e-Amir lakes. Reflecting the jagged grey and red cliffs that surround them, the lakes have been described as Afghanistan's answer to the Grand Canyon.
Entrepreneurship is also on the rise. A pizza joint is about to open at the foot of the destroyed Buddha statues. One of the more popular hotels with tourists — The Roof of Bamiyan — is working on getting wireless Internet. And a hotel that caters more to business workers already has WiFi, run off a backup battery so it works even when the generator doesn't.
The U.N. Environment Program is also mapping out hiking trails between villages, with stops at way-stations manned by locals.
"Afghanistan is definitely a good brand. People will come ... They go to Nepal this year, they go to Chile the next year, they're off to Afghanistan if it's accessible," said Andrew Scanlon, a protected areas expert working on the U.N. project. The plan, he explained, is "providing really really fantastic outdoor experiences in natural landscapes that are somehow managed so it doesn't get out of control."
Scanlon is organizing a 13-mile run for late September, which he bills as "the world's most beautiful half marathon, linking the cultural and natural landscape in Bamiyan." It will go through areas that were inaccessible a few years ago because of land mines.
Of course, there are still safety issues. In Bamiyan itself, there are no suicide bombings or roadside ambushes, no checkpoints to get from one part of town to another. The area — almost completely populated by the Hazara ethnic minority — doesn't have ethnic clashes.
But tourists still have to get here. Road attacks mean that the eight-hour drive from Kabul to Bamiyan over a rocky dirt road can be dangerous. The only flights are for the U.N., or other aid or development workers.
One tour operator, Great Game Travel, stopped trips to Bamiyan last year because they were concerned about road safety. The non-profits and private tourism companies say there are lots of plans to work out flights to the area, but no firm commitments.
No region 'immune from violence'
And the country itself is still very much at war, with Taliban militants controlling large parts of the south and launching attacks in the east. Many Western nations warn their citizens to stay away.
"No part of Afghanistan should be considered immune from violence, and the potential exists throughout the country for hostile acts, either targeted or random, against American and other Western nationals at any time," states the U.S. travel warning on Afghanistan.
There are also language issues — for example, it's unclear who will employ the tour guides, since many do not speak enough English to easily guide international tourists. Training coordinator Jawad Jahid describes the training as a first step, much like the business seminars they're running for local hotels and restaurants.
Tourism backers can look to the north of Afghanistan for hope. There, trekkers and culture buffs never stopped visiting the northern Wakhan corridor and the historical city of Mazar-e-Sharif, because they can be entered through the neighboring countries of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There's no need to enter the heavily barricaded Afghan capital.
Peter Schneider, a German doctor, is typical of the type of tourist who goes to Afghanistan: he has experience in difficult countries from his time working on medical evacuations. He has vacationed in Lebanon and Congo. The 44-year-old said in a phone interview that his trip to the north with a tour company this spring was his attempt to understand the people and the culture of a country he'd heard so much about.
"It's some sort of adventurous traveling, so it's of course more interesting than going to Thailand. Which is actually quite boring, isn't it?" Schneider said.
Schneider would like to go back and see Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan.
But he said he'll wait until it's a bit safer.


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Portugal sells bonds, first since bailout
- Portugal sells 10-year bonds for the first time since its 2011 financial rescue
- Officials say the interest rate will likely be below 5.7%25
- Results were to be announced later Tuesday
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal held a sale of 10-year bonds Tuesday for the first time since it needed a bailout in 2011, a milestone in its efforts to regain investor confidence and prove its austerity policies are paying off.
Foreign Minister Paulo Portas told a business meeting in Lisbon the bond sale is evidence the government's economic reforms are working. Yields on outstanding Portuguese 10-year bonds had recently fallen to around 5.5%. Last year, yields were in double digits.
Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar said early indications Tuesday were that the interest rate in the latest bond sale would be below 5.7%, with market demand for around 9 billion euros by mid-morning.
"The operation has been a great success," he told Portuguese media during a visit to Brussels.
The finance ministry was expected to announce the result of the bond sale later Tuesday.
The sale was also good news for the bailout lenders, whose inspectors returned to Lisbon on Tuesday to assess the country's compliance with the three-year recovery program that is supposed to restore Portugal's fiscal health.
Portugal hadn't sold long-term debt since a 78 billion euro ($102 billion) rescue two years ago. The three major international ratings agencies downgraded Portugal's credit worthiness to junk status as the debt-heavy country fell victim to the eurozone financial crisis that spooked investors.
Growing concern that Portugal had too much debt and too little growth made investors uneasy about lending it money. That sent the interest rate, or yield, that the country pays on its 10-year bonds above 7% — a rate that made selling debt unaffordable and which compelled Portugal to ask for help from the International Monetary Fund and its European partners.
As the 17-nation eurozone tries to reduce its debt load, Portugal has been at the heart of the debate about the merits of the austerity policies demanded by the bailout creditors in return for their loan.
Many Portuguese and international economic experts blame the last two years of pay cuts and tax hikes for the record jobless rate of 17.5%. The government forecasts a third straight year of recession in 2013.
Portugal is keen to show it is more like Ireland — which has stoically abided by its austerity program and also held its first bond sale this year since its financial rescue — than Greece, which needed a second bailout and where street protests have turned violent. European leaders are eager to avoid a repeat of Greece's record and put the three-year crisis behind them.
The coalition government, though, has had a hard time persuading the Portuguese people that their sacrifices are worthwhile. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho last week announced plans to cut another 4.8 billion euros over the next three years.
Government workers, pensioners and public services will bear the brunt of those unpopular cuts. But Passos Coelho said government spending must be reduced or the rescue funds, which are disbursed in installments, won't be released by the bailout lenders.


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Why are Gaza babies in need of medical care in Jerusalem systematically separated from their mothers?
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Al Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem is the leading provider of neonatology expertise in Palestine, however its service is being undermined by a confluence of political and economic forces related to the ongoing occupation.
The neonatology department at Al Makassed is a tertiary referral unit, meaning that it exclusively deals with cases of high-risk obstetric complications that have been referred to it from other hospitals throughout Palestine. Hatem Khamash, the hospital's head of neonatology, says that his department is often indirectly restricted from doing all the work it could be doing by the practices and policies of the occupation. In particular, the restrictions on movement in and out of Gaza produce a number of follow-on issues for the department.
The children born at Al Makassed often require prolonged periods of intensive care, particularly if they have been born prematurely or with complications. If the mothers of these children come from Gaza, they are usually obliged to return home without their children.This is primarily because their permits to enter Jerusalem only last for the extent of their own medical concerns, but also because it is too expensive to stay in Jerusalem while their child recovers.
Al Makassed has attempted to provide accommodation for family members of its Gaza patients by fitting out shipping containers with bunk beds on the roof of the hospital. However, as it assumes all the costs of their stay, the hospital cannot afford to accommodate these people for more than a few days at a time.
Consequently, after a mother has been discharged, she may stay for only a few days before returning to Gaza. Once this occurs, the process of her visiting her child, or bringing them home, becomes far more difficult. This means that babies are left in the hospital's sole care for months at a time with no familial contact.
The first concern arising from this situation is the physical separation between the child and its mother. Khamash notes that it is standard practice in modern hospitals around the world for babies to be kept with their mothers in the first months of their life, even if they require intensive care. This practice reflects
that suggests sensory contact between mother and child in the first weeks or months after birth increases brain development and decreases the risks of a number of neurological and behavioural issues.
Of course, on the mother's side, separation from their child after birth can be highly traumatic. Earlier this year, AFP
on a mother from Gaza, Jumana Daoud, who had been separated from her newborn daughter Maryam for six months after giving birth to her at Al Makassed. Daoud was forced to return to Gaza and was unable to obtain a permit to visit her daughter at all while she recovered. Khamash added that Maryan had in fact finished her treatment a full two months before her mother was eventually permitted to retrieve her, but that delays in the processing of permits meant that she was needlessly forced to remain at the hospital during that time.
Khamash says that it was only after the UK organization Medical Aid for Palestinians investigated the case and attracted media interest to it that Israeli authorities granted Daoud a permit to retrieve her daughter from the hospital. Israeli authorities stated their Palestinian counterparts had failed to file the permit request.
In its monthly
on Gaza medical access, the World Health Organization reported that, in January, the rate of denial or delay of permits for the companions of patients to leave Gaza was 61.4%, while in December it was 65% and in November 57.3%.
These figures are particularly important for Khamash because they represent actual delays in his department's provision of care to new patients. Khamash says Israeli authorities do not allow for the babies to travel to Gaza unless a family member accompanies them and so, until a companion permit is granted, the hospital is forced to continue wasting unnecessary beds and resources.
Khamash recounts, "At one time I had four or five babies that I wanted to transfer. They had completed the treatment – they had nothing to do… I can't accept new babies. I can't do anything until these babies go back to Gaza."
Khamash says the minimum time it takes to get approval for a baby to be accompanied back to Gaza is two to three weeks, but that, in most cases, it takes one to two months. Furthermore, when a companion is approved, it is almost never the child's mother or father because they are usually less than 35 years old and therefore deemed a security risk.
The limitations on the number of beds and other resources the hospital can deploy means that it is forced to turn away at-risk mothers. Khamash says that no other hospital in Palestine can offer the level of specialized care that Al Makassed offers in its neonatology department and so having to turn these at-risk women away is dangerous.
Of course, many of these problems would be averted if better services were available throughout Palestine. Gaza, for instance, has only one specialist neonatologist across twelve hospitals. To counteract this, Al Makassed has begun a program to bring doctors in for three-month residencies to transfer some of the skills and expertise of Khamash's department back to Gaza. A large problem with this, however, says Khamash, is that most of the junior doctors that would be ideal for the program are automatically denied permits because they are under 35.
Ahmed Jebara, a more senior doctor from Gaza who has been granted a permit to participate in the program, suggested that a lack of expertise was only one facet of the problem. Jebara said that there was not enough equipment or nurses in Gaza's hospitals. The newborns of Gaza are not receiving all the care that babies with complicated births require. Hospitals in Gaza also have to cope with electricity shortages due to the ongoing power crisis, which normally sees the Strip on a schedule of eight hours on and eight hours off. Hospitals use generators, but these are less reliable and expensive to run on fuel.
Much of the equipment being used in Gaza's hospitals is also donated second-hand, meaning that breakdowns are frequent, while Israel's blockade of the Strip makes the importation of repair parts extremely difficult. For the at risk mothers and children of Gaza, the bureaucratic delays of people and equipment moving in and out of the Strip hold very real dangers.
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It's pretty grim really. These surveys are pointing to a pretty deep recession
LONDON/SINGAPORE — Eurozone factories sank deeper into recession in December as new orders tumbled, business surveys showed on Wednesday, a sharp contrast to continuing signs of revival in China.
U.S. manufacturing reports, to be released later in the day, are expected to show activity in the world's largest economy to have expanded modestly.
Purchasing managers' surveys in the 17-nation eurozone showed economic decline spread further into the core members, suggesting the overall economy may have slipped deeper into recession at the end of 2012.
Markit's Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) edged down to 46.1 in December from November's 46.2, below a flash reading of 46.3. It has been below the 50 mark that divides growth from contraction since August 2011.
"It's pretty grim really," said Jonathan Loynes at Capital Economics. "These surveys are pointing to a pretty deep recession. If the German industrial sector is contracting quite sharply it is pretty hard to see where growth across the eurozone as a whole is going to come from."
Germany, Europe's largest economy, saw its crucial manufacturing sector shrink for the 10th straight month and at a faster pace, while French data showed a decline in all but one of the past 17 months. The slump in Spain deepened, while Italy's index, although improved, remained below 50 for the 17th month.
Ireland was the only member of the currency union to show manufacturing growth in December.
Separate data on Wednesday showed French car sales dropped 15% in December, the worst annual performance in 15 years, while Spanish new car registrations were down 23%.
But British factory activity jumped unexpectedly to grow at its fastest pace since September 2011, raising the chance that its economy eked out some growth at the end of 2012.
"The sector seems to be showing some signs of improvement – probably as the eurozone (debt) crisis is easing a little bit and Chinese growth is bottoming out," said Rob Wood at Berenberg Bank.
In Asia as a whole manufacturing activity expanded, driven by revival in China's economy, but export demand was uneven, pointing to further sluggish growth for the region.
Factory activity in India expanded at its strongest pace in six months in December, boosted by output and a spike in new orders and similar reports showed an increase in South Korea and Taiwan for the first time since May.
For Asia, much hinges on the pace and quality of the recovery in China as a new generation of leaders prepares to take charge.
The official China manufacturing PMI on Tuesday held steady in December at 50.6, matching November's seven-month high. A similar survey by HSBC released a day earlier, which focuses more on smaller and mid-sized firms, suggested activity was at its strongest since May 2011.
Together the surveys support a growing consensus that economic activity in China picked up during October to December — after GDP growth had slowed for seven consecutive quarters to 7.4% in the third quarter — partially offsetting persistent weakness in Europe and Japan.
In India, Asia's third-largest economy, the HSBC Markit Manufacturing PMI, which gauges the business activity of the country's factories but not its utilities, jumped to 54.7 in December from 53.7 in November, its biggest monthly rise since January 2012.
Activity in Southeast Asia's largest economy, Indonesia, expanded but at a slower rate, as growth of new export orders eased from a month earlier.
A lot may depend on elsewhere, however.
"Asia is gradually improving, but the region, including China, remains largely exposed to exports and without signs of improvement in the U.S. and Europe it will be hard for activity to take off," said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economics at HSBC.
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S 1789 - United States Postal Service Amendments - National Key Vote
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Vote to pass a bill that amends the United States Postal Service.
- Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service to offer early retirement incentive payments to postal employees who voluntarily retire before October 1, 2015 (Sec. 102).
- Limits the early retirement incentive payments to no more than $25,000 (Sec. 102).
- Reduces U.S. Postal Service contributions to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund to an amount equal to the difference between (Sec. 103):
- 80 percent of the U.S. Postal Service's actuarial liability as of September 30 of the most recently ended fiscal year, whereas existing law specifies 100 percent of the actuarial liability; and
- The value of the assets of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund as of September 30 of the most recently ended fiscal year.
- Defines "actuarial liability" as the difference between the net present value of future payments for current and future U.S. Postal Service retirees and the net present value attributable to the future service of U.S. Postal Service employees (Sec. 103).
- Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service to mail distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages provided that all of the following conditions are met (Sec. 405):
- The items are mailed in accordance with the laws and regulations of both the state where the sender is located and the state where the addressee is located; and
- The addressee is at least 21 years of age and presents valid, government-issued photo identification upon delivery.
- Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service to reduce the nationwide delivery schedule to 5 days per week, provided that certain conditions have been met including, but not limited to, the following (Sec. 207):
- The delivery schedule is reduced no earlier than 2 years after the enactment date of this bill;
- The U.S. Postal Service has conducted a study to identify customers, communities, and small businesses for whom the change would have a disproportionate negative impact;
- The U.S. Postal Service has developed measures to mitigate any disproportionate negative impact that the reduction in delivery schedule would have on customers;
- The U.S. Postal Service has implemented measures to increase revenue and reduce costs; and
- The U.S. Postal Service has evaluated whether the increase in revenue or reduction in costs will allow the Postal Service to achieve long-term solvency without a reduction in delivery schedule.
- Prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from establishing new or revised service standards for "market-dominant" products for 3 years after the passage of this bill (Sec. 201).
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Haunted CastleHaunted Castle (1969) Episode 11-C- The Smokey Bear Show Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Traditional Animation
- Rankin-Bass Productions, Tôei Animation Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Smokey The Bear, Grizzly, Freddy, Benny, Bessie, Hiram, Floyd, Mayor Owl, Mr. Gabby.
- Voice Actors: Jackson Weaver, Billie Richards, Carl Banas, Billie Richards, Paul Soles.
- Directed By Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass.
- Produced By Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass.
- Animated By Toei Animation Studios, Steve Nakagawa.
- Written By Shamus Culhane, Fred Halliday, Romeo Muller, Frank Freda, Hal Hackady, William J. Keenan.
- Music: Maury Laws, Jules Bass.
- First Aired about 1969.
- Originally Aired on ABC-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 6 minutes.
- Episode Number: 11-C
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Smokey The Bear and his animal friends prevent forest fires and protect the environment as adults and kids.
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Houston Mayor Parker marries longtime gay partner
Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a major city, married her longtime partner, Kathy Hubbard, on Thursday.
Parker, who was recently sworn in to a third term, and Hubbard have been together for 23 years. The couple got married in Palm Springs, Calif., where same-sex marriage is legal.
"This is a very happy day for us," Parker said in a statement released by the city. "We have had to wait a very long time to formalize our commitment to each other. Kathy has been by my side for more than two decades, helping to raise a family, nurture my political career and all of the other ups and down and life events that come with a committed relationship."
Parker had said she and Hubbard would not marry until their marriage was legal in the state of Texas. Parker posted her new marital status on Twitter.
The mayor announced in late November that the city would begin offering health and life insurance benefits to spouses of all legally married city employees regardless of their sexual orientation, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The city's statement on the couple's wedding states Hubbard has other insurance options available to her and will not participate in Houston's new policy on health insurance benefits for legally married city workers.
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Sunday night was absolutely incredible!!!! We had 30 folks join us for some yoga in the orchard – all ages, sizes, and shapes! The feedback from the participants was amazing!
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I know I was supposed to be not thinking about things but I had to sneak a picture or two. I love the sun in this shot!
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I've done a 1000 yoga classes and enjoyed them all but this was so special... truly thankful to our host and instructor for what will likely be my fave class ever. Sun, moon, breeze, amazing scenery, and hour of personal time. I Have so many things to be thankful for! ~Jeannie H.
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I'm so excited that Yogi Amy is joining us at Lapacek's Orchard THIS Sunday from 6:30-7:30 to lead a slow flow yoga class IN the orchard IN the apple blossoms! It's going to be an incredible night to enjoy the beauty of the orchard in may, practice yoga, learn from Amy (if you haven't before - she's AMAZING!), and just breathe! This event is open to ALL ages and skill levels!
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When Ilmaexpertit installed the ventilation and indoor climate system in the new head office of Suomen Posti, the Finnish Postal Service, the demands were particularly stringent in the building's VIP area.
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Alyssa Chambliss, a student in agricultural education at Utah State University, recently accepted a six-month internship in Indianapolis, Ind., working for National FFA.
"My official title will be career development events intern," Chambliss said. "I'll oversee the delivery of materials for all career development events (CDEs) at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky."
CDEs were developed by National FFA to help students think critically and communicate effectively in the current job market. High school students across the nation compete as individuals or teams in events that range from communications to veterinary medicine.
Chambliss heard about the internship through an announcement on Canvas, an academic Internet program used by the university. After submitting her resume through the FFA website, Chambliss was interviewed twice before being selected for the position.
"The opportunity for Alyssa to work with National FFA will provide her with experience that she cannot get in the classroom," said Brian Warnick, a professor in the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education at USU. "Alyssa's organizational and interpersonal skills, along with her drive and work ethic, make her ideal for the position."
The internship will give Chambliss a variety of opportunities and responsibilities.
"I will manage and inventory all the materials needed for the contests as well as arrange travel for judges and communicate with state staff from all over the country," Chambliss said. "I will be developing and managing a Twitter account and possibly a Facebook page to give updates on CDEs and the National FFA convention."
As part of her internship, Chambliss will work with the National FFA staff and the national adviser Steve Brown before traveling to the National FFA convention in October.
Chambliss believes her involvement with the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education was instrumental in receiving the internship.
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Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of adolescents, only 21% of our children eat the recommended 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day. So not very many children are asking their parents to "pass the peas," and parents are resorting to other methods to get their children to eat their vegetables.
One popular method is hiding vegetables. There are even cookbooks devoted to doing this and new food products promise they contain vegetable servings but don't taste like vegetables! But this "sneaky" technique has been controversial, as some dietitians, doctors, and parents have argued that sneaking vegetables into food does not promote increased vegetable consumption because children are unaware they are eating vegetables, and are not likely to continue the practice into adulthood. A study in the March/April 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found that informing children of the presence of vegetables hidden within snack food may or may not alter taste preference. Acceptability of the vegetable-enriched snack food may depend on the frequency of prior exposure to the vegetable.
Chickpea chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip cookies? Investigators from Columbia University enrolled 68 elementary and middle school children and asked just that question. In each pair, one sample's label included the food's vegetable (eg, broccoli gingerbread spice cake), and one sample's label did not (eg, gingerbread spice cake). Participants reported whether the samples tasted the same, or whether they preferred one sample. What the children didn't know was that both samples contained the nutritious vegetable. The investigators found that taste preferences did not differ for the labeled versus the unlabeled sample of zucchini chocolate chip bread or broccoli gingerbread spice cake. However, students preferred the unlabeled cookies (ie, chocolate chip cookies) over the vegetable-labeled version (ie, chickpea chocolate chip cookies). The investigators also assessed the frequency of consumption for the three vegetables involved and chickpeas were consumed less frequently (81% had not tried in past year) as compared to zucchini and broccoli.
Ms. Lizzy Pope, MS, RD, the principal investigator of this study states, "The present findings are somewhat unanticipated in that we were expecting students to prefer all three of the "unlabeled" samples. These findings are consistent with previous literature on neophobia that suggests that children are less apt to like food with which they are unfamiliar. Since the majority of students had had broccoli and zucchini within the past year (as compared to chickpeas), it appears that there must be some familiarity with a vegetable for the labeling of the vegetable content not to influence taste preference. Considering this then, it is not surprising that the unlabeled version of the chickpea chocolate chip cookies was preferred over the labeled version."
Dr. Randi Wolf, PhD, MPH, co-investigator adds, "Food products labeled with health claims may be perceived as tasting different than those without health claims, even though they are not objectively different. I've even read studies that have shown children like baby carrots better when they are presented in McDonald's packaging. These prior studies suggest the potential power that food labels can have on individuals. Although anecdotal reports suggest that children may not eat food products that they know contain vegetables, little is actually known about how children's taste preferences may be affected when the vegetable content of a snack food item is apparent on the item's label. This study is important in that it may contribute knowledge of the potential effectiveness of a novel way to promote vegetable consumption in children."
Based on what the investigators learned from this study, it seems more important to introduce our children to a variety of vegetables rather than continually hiding them.


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RYE — Jacqui Harmon is hoping 2014 is a big year for the Serenity Cafe brand.
RYE — Jacqui Harmon is hoping 2014 is a big year for the Serenity Cafe brand.
The owner of the cafe located on the roundabout at Foyes Corner said she has significant plans this year. At the Rye location, the cafe is beginning a transformation into a marketplace.
Meanwhile, she is expanding to Exeter, opening a new Serenity Cafe location at 100 Domain Drive, the Bauer Hockey headquarters. The cafe is opening in the location that recently held the now-closed Loaf and Ladle.
Harmon said local chef Jesse Minard is creating menus for both locations. The Rye location will continue to serve cafe food and have indoor and outdoor seating for customers, she said.
The inspiration behind shifting the focus toward a market is the old corner market that was once located in the area, Harmon said. The renovations are also in conjunction with developer Mike Labrie's plan to build a restaurant at Foyes Corner, she said.
Harmon said the market will offer homemade bread and local produce. She said she is partnering with Estes Farm in Durham to bring in locally sourced products.
"We're going to be bringing that local produce to the market. We'll be selling it, as well as using it in our food," she said.
She hopes the business can collaborate with other local farms to become a central location where customers can purchase produce from many of the growers in the region.
"We really want to go local. We're surrounded by farms," she said.
The Serenity Cafe market will also be seeking a liquor license to sell beer and wine, Harmon said.
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Granger on Movies: 'God's Not Dead'
Following is a review of the new movie, "God's Not Dead," by Fairfield Citizen reviewer Susan Granger:
Why the sudden proliferation of Christian movies? Have Hollywood's heathens been converted? Not likely. Biblical films have been around as long as the movie business; back in 1927, "The King of Kings" depicted Mary Magdalene's liaison with Judas Iscariot. In recent decades, evangelical Christians have become voracious media consumers; Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" remains the highest-grossing independent film ever.
But this maudlin melodrama is not only forgettable, but also unlikely. Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) is a pre-law student who enrolls in a philosophy class taught by arrogant Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo). On the first day, Radisson outlines the philosophers they'll be studying, all of whom are atheists -- and insists that each student sign a pledge asserting: "God is dead." Immediately, the proselytizing concept loses credibility because no teacher at a legitimate academic institution would make that demand, augmenting it with the threat of failure in the course.
As a devout Christian, Josh cannot comply, despite protests from his girlfriend (Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford). When Professor Radisson demeans religion as "primitive superstition," Josh decides to defend his principles in a mock trial with fellow students serving as the jury. While Josh's support of God's existence is intelligent and thought-provoking, too little time is spent on theology. Instead, non-Christians are portrayed as loathsome and self-centered. There's a corporate exec (Dean Cain) who ditches his cancer-stricken girlfriend (Trisha LaFache) and refuses to visit his mother who is suffering from dementia. And a Muslim father (Dean Cain) whose daughter (Hadeel Sittu) is banished for her beliefs.
Written by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon and directed by Harold Cronk, it's contrived and undeniably amateurish, including a cameo from "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "God's Not Dead" is an implausible 3, likely to please only the faithful -- with a host of Christian-centric movies to follow, including "Left Behind" with Nicolas Cage as a commercial airline pilot caught in the wake of the Rapture.


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Story highlights
- Drew Magary is known for his rants as a contributor for Deadspin and GQ
- Magary has written a parenthood memoir called "Someone Could Get Hurt"
- He says he's matured and calmed down in the course of becoming a father
Drew Magary is an angry guy -- or at least he plays one on the Internet. The Deadspin, Gawker and GQ contributor and sci-fi author has amassed a large, rabid fan base for his sharp, smart, acidic rants on subjects ranging from the coaching abilities of Bill Belichick and the uselessness of scab referees to his hatred of scarves and the punchability of Justin Bieber's face. He's got opinions.
But all that ire and energy were of little use as Magary and his wife watched their prematurely born child cling to life in a neonatal intensive care unit as a result of a condition known as intestinal malrotation. Luckily, the youngest Magary survived, and the ordeal inspired the father of three to share his parenting experiences in a new memoir, "Someone Could Get Hurt."
CNN spoke with Magary about the peaks and pitfalls of being a dad in an often dangerous world. An edited transcript is below:
CNN: There are a lot of dad stereotypes out there, from doofus to "Father Knows Best." Do they have any impact on you?
Drew Magary: They suck. Dad is clueless, bumbling and useless, or he's a hippie who's trying to breast-feed his kid. That can dictate behavior that you think you're expected to live up to.
CNN: Fear is a prevalent theme in the book. What's the difference in the fear you felt before and after you had your kids?
Magary: Every guy thinks, "The kid is here, life's not going to be fun anymore." There's a dread of not having the world revolve around you. I'm over that, and I'm more than happy to be a lameass who goes to bed by 9 every night.
Once you have kids, you have all kinds of other fears: the kid getting hurt, or worse. You fear that everyone is watching you fail -- that there will not be another human being at the playground who is a worse parent than you are. It's all very self-inflicted and self-involved.
I get too concerned with looking like I'm doing a good job rather than parenting well. You have to get past that layer of self-analysis, and that's very hard in this day and age.
CNN: How do you think the Internet has affected how people parent?
Magary: Your mistakes, admissions and fears are much more public. In that way, it's very good because there's more information for you to draw on and parents to commiserate with. It's really important for parents to have an outlet.
Every time I've gotten advice on parenting, it might not have worked, but at least I felt more secure, not completely helpless.
The downside is that people are d****. On certain mom forums, people are very supportive -- you present a problem and people will rush in with answers. But then there's a news story about a mom giving her kid a vegan diet, and it's 300 comments about "You're a horrible person." It's all amplified: The judgment and the support are more out in the open.
CNN: What did your own dad teach you about fatherhood?
Magary: He's a good dad, but he's a different kind of dad. I always expect things to work out for me the same way they worked out for him. When I'm not as effective as he was, I get really pissed off and frustrated, and I feel like I'm failing him.
CNN: Are you having parenting discussions with your friends who are fathers?
Magary: No. When moms get together, they'll talk shop a lot. Guys just would rather talk about anything else -- sports or something. There really isn't as much help or sounding boards for dads. There's no one who is like, "Hey, come here, I'll help out."
Guys won't sit down and open a handbook; you get it all from the mom. She'll read something or make you read it (and you read half of it). The other useful person is the pediatrician. Still, you can ask if your kid is barfing too much, but you can't really ask, "How do I get my kid to listen?"
CNN: In the book, you shared a story of getting so frustrated with your daughter, you worried about what you might do. What did you take away from that?
Magary: I reacted poorly. You feel so awful for being angry at your kid, and you can see the precipice that you're on. Down one avenue there's a nice relationship where you're mutually respectful of each other, and down the other is abuse or just antagonism all day long. It's terrifying to see that and visualize a future where the fighting never ends. I'm getting better at it.
CNN: Is it hard to let your kids have free rein to screw up?
Magary: I was allowed to go outside unsupervised when I was 8 or 9 and explore the way you're supposed (to). It's good parenting to let kids figure out things on their own.
But it's more difficult now because the world is more dangerous. The Internet has lots of terrible s*** on it. My neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks, so it's not amenable to walking. There's Lyme disease in the backyard. It's not the safe meadow it used to be, so that makes it a little bit of push and pull.
CNN: You're known in your writing for having very strong opinions about how things should be. Do you set that perfectionism aside at home?
Magary: I do a pretty good job in real life about not having huge expectations of my kids going to X school, having X job or making X amount of money. That's very old-fashioned, and it's going away.
The things kids say and do are unlike anything you'd think of, and that's the fun of being a parent. When it's not fun is when they're acting in a way that presents a problem you don't know how to solve. They're screaming their heads off for three hours, and you have this fear that they'll keep screaming forever.
You're trying to get your kid to the bus stop, and really, they don't have to go if they don't want to. What are you gonna do about it? That's a terrifying thing to realize -- that only they have the control over what they're going to do, and you just have to try to guide them in the right direction. That's the difference between being a good parent and a helicopter parent.
CNN: How do you pick yourself back up from a bad parenting day?
Magary: I have a glass of wine and go to bed. When my wife and I know the day is going badly, we'll just cut our losses, go to bed at 8 and wake up with a fresh slate. It usually works. You don't usually get two bad days in a row. Of course, all the parents of teenagers tell me it gets worse. They all look shellshocked; it's terrible.
CNN: When you were a teenager, did you think that manhood included being a dad?
Magary: No, I was like any other guy, "I'll get married when I'm 50 and I'm gonna make movies and snort cocaine. ..." All guys are like that, and then they undoucheify.
A lot of what we do at Deadspin is debunking the bro thing. Men should get more credit than that. When guys write to me, they have fears and hopes and imaginations. They're a lot more interesting psychologically than just being douche bags who want to go clubbing.
CNN: Did you have a moment when you saw that transformation in yourself?
Magary: Probably when my third kid almost died. I was more grateful for existence -- I wasn't quite the cynical ass I'd always been, and that's permanently the case now.
CNN: What did facing that teach you about the kind of man and father you want to be?
Magary: You can have kids and not fundamentally change -- you just get to do more stuff. People say they change your life, but you're still pretty much the same person, but walking around grumpy because you don't get any sleep.
I'll still get frustrated with my kid when he's crying his ass off, but I'm happy he's here. I have a fundamental understanding of how ridiculous it is to be annoyed at him -- because I'm happy he's not dead.
I tell my kids I love them every day. I hug them and kiss them and all that, probably more than they want. I'm not the stoic dad, where you're fighting for 50 years to hear your dad say, "I love you" once.
CNN: What advice would you give to a first-time dad?
Magary: Know when to walk away. Not from parenting, of course, but from meltdowns and conflicts. It's not worth it.
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Thank you Hana- So happy to connect with Jewish Hostesses in LA!! Thanks for sending in you Tu Bishvat table! Your menu is so similar to our Syrian appetizers- its really a small world after all! Marlene M.
"Dear Marlene,
"Hi Marlene,
For Tu B'Shevat this year I prepared a table full of small plates that centered around fresh and dried fruits, nuts, olives and an assortment of Moroccan pastellim. A simple olive green table linen displayed an enormous bouquet of fragrant purple blossoms (I honestly don't know what they're called. The tag read "Costco stock bouquet"), The variety of colored fresh and dried fruit plates served as festive decoration and sweet snacks. For more from the menu and a link to a great citrus salad recipe visit lakosherkitchen.com . Hana Itzhaki."
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Recipe for Citrus Salad with Mint Sugar
Recipe via Bon Appetit
Attention Hostesses- Grand Marnier listed below is not recommended as a kosher liquor as per the Star K website- does anyone have a good idea for a substitute?
- 7 each of grapefruits, navel oranges, tangerines, and clementines
- 2 lemons
- 2 limes
- 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier (optional)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- 8 kumquats, thinly sliced (optional)
Cut peel and white pith from all fruit except kumquats. Slice clementines crosswise into 1/4" slices. Cut between membranes of remaining peeled fruit to release segments. Mix fruits in a large bowl. Add Grand Marnier, if using; toss gently to incorporate. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
Combine sugar and mint in a small food processor. Pulse until mint is finely chopped. Transfer fruit to a large bowl, scatter kumquat slices over, if using, and sprinkle salad with 2 Tbsp. mint sugar. Serve remaining mint sugar alongside.
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What is going on off of the coast of Yemen?!
There has been a tremendous number of earthquakes that began early during 14-Nov, and are ongoing at this moment.
More than 30 strong earthquakes ranging from magnitude 4.5 to 5.4 have rattled under the sea where the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea meet at a point off of Yemen.
The depths have been mostly around 10km, with a few deeper. A closer look reveals something that appears highly unusual. That is, so far 20 of the earthquakes have been at a depth of exactly 10.0 km.
This earthquake swarm is occurring right now, and is happening right in the middle of major oil and freight transit sea lanes, the busiest in the world.
Stay tuned and check back for more details and graphics as this unfolds…
Yemen Earthquake Swarm, closeup view, Gulf of Aden
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The first earthquake occurred at 06:29, 14-Nov-2010 as a magnitude 4.6.
Just 3 minutes later, boom, a magnitude 5.4. Subsequent earthquakes have been shaking the ocean floor, some only minutes apart, and some just seconds apart.
The earthquake swarm location is at a tectonic plate boundary region where the Arabia plate meets the Somalia plate and the Nubia plate. A string of volcanoes are in the vicinity.
Update, 15-Nov, 04:00 UTC, they just keep on coming… 39 by my last count. Amazing. I wonder exactly where, and how deep the oil and gas fields are in the region, and what affect or hazard that an undersea volcanic eruption would present to that region.
Yemen Earthquake Swarm – Depths
What seems out of the ordinary, is how so many of the earthquakes have been at a 10 km depth. It's as though there is a rift there, at that plane. The more recent earthquakes have varied a bit deeper, while there is one shallow 2.4 km event.
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Update, 15-Nov, 1500 UTC, three additional earthquakes rumbled near magnitude 5 within 30 minutes of each other, bringing the current total count up to 42. Location map and depth chart have been updated.
The earthquake swarm just off the southeast coast of Yemen is actually located on the Aden Ridge. This ridge separates the Arabian Plate and the Somalia Plate (Somalia Plate is a subplate of the African Plate). The ridge itself is pulling apart (a divergent boundary).
During 2005 in an area just 400 km from the current Aden Ridge earthquakes, a 35 mile stretch of land suddenly ripped open in Ethopia as two parts of the African continent pulled apart.
Not long after, a University of Rochester study, apparently published in an issue of Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed.
Could the earthquake swarm that we are witnessing, be a precursor to an undersea tear in the Gulf of Aden Ridge? Time will tell.
Look at this image showing the tectonic plate boundary and see how a larger cluster of earthquakes occurred to the north on the Arabian Plate, while a smaller group occurred on the Somalian Plate. Both are pulling away from each other, and the trench can be seen on the sea floor.
Here is a different view, showing more of a topographical map structure under the sea, and Gulf of Aden.
The following image shows the location of all volcanoes nearby. There are so many that it nearly looks like Indonesia over on the Ring of Fire.
Update, 15-Nov, 21:30 Pacific, (UTC – 8:00), although less frequent during day #2 then day #1, this does not appear to be over yet. Expect new updates and maps in the morning.
Update, 16-Nov, 07:30 Pacific, (UTC – 8:00), total earthquakes from swarm equal 46, and activity has definitely subsided. We'll see how it goes today. Whoops, minutes after typing this, there goes another (magnitude 4.8 at 9.8 km depth), so make that 47 so far.
Update, 17-Nov, 07:30 Pacific, (UTC – 8:00), there have a total of 47 earthquakes in the swarm, which appears to have stopped.
- Day 1, 37 earthquakes
- Day 2, 7 earthquakes
- Day 3, 3 earthquakes
Update, 18-Nov, 07:30 Pacific (UTC – 8:00), activity has not yet ceased. There were no earthquakes during the 17th, however 2 additional quakes so far during the 18th has brought the total number to 49. The depth map and closeup location map above should now be updated.
- Day 4, 0 earthquakes
- Day 5, 2 earthquakes
Update, 20-Nov, 08:30 Pacific (UTC – 8:00), after a quiet period, one more popped today at 9.8 km depth.
- Day 6, 0 earthquakes
- Day 7, 2 earthquakes
Update, 21-Nov, 13:00 Pacific (UTC – 8:00), it hasn't given up yet… one more yesterday, and so far one more today.
- Day 8, 2 earthquakes
Update, 24-Nov, although the swarm frequency of occurrence is negligible at this time, after 2 quiet days, another earthquake at 10 km depth brings the total to 53.
- Day 9, 0 earthquakes
- Day 10, 0 earthquakes
- Day 11, 1 earthquake
Update, 25-Nov, two more today, so far, 10 and 11 km.
Update, 30-Nov, after five days of quiet, the deepest quake so far popped at magnitude 4.6, depth 18.2 km.
Update, 5-Dec, 1 today, 9.5 km depth, magnitude 4.6
Update, 11-Dec, 1 today, 11.2 km depth, magnitude 4.8
Update, 31-Dec, after 20 days of silence, suddenly 2 new earthquakes pop here today, 11.4 and 9.6 km depth, magnitude 4.6 and 4.8.
Update, 10-Jan, it hasn't stopped yet, 1 more today
Here is a map of the Yemen – Gulf of Aden earthquakes which shows more specific location detail. Many of the earthquakes seem to form a pattern, the way I see it. I drew lines connecting the earthquakes that appeared related in some way. Again, it's just the way my eye sees it. Interesting.
Update, 19-Apr-2011
After a period of quiet, 2 Earthquakes within 30 minutes shake the sea floor of the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen and Djibouti, a magnitude 4.9 and 4.7. Could this be the beginnings of a new swarm? We'll see…
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Hart hoping health holds up in outfield
Two-time All-Star begins first camp with Mariners after battling injury
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Given that Corey Hart is coming off two microfracture knee surgeries and has not played outfield on a full-time basis since 2011, there were questions over where he would line up when Spring Training began with his new Mariners club.
But the two-time All-Star right fielder has jumped straight into the outfield mix in the opening days of full-squad workouts, raising the distinct possibility that he could be far more than just a solution at first base and designated hitter on a team greatly in need of some added pop in the outfield.
"I feel good," Hart said Wednesday before heading out for his second day of full-team workouts. "Obviously as the spring goes, I'll be able to see how much I can do. It's still fresh. My body feels good now, so I want to make sure it stays fresh. I need to know what I can and can't do as it gets going. But so far, so good. There are no limitations. It's fun since I haven't been out there for a while."
Hart skipped only sliding drills the first day, and he was held back in some of the more rigorous defensive work being conducted Wednesday by new outfield coach Andy Van Slyke, who is pushing his protégés through some twisting and turning maneuvers in tracking balls over their heads.
But for the most part, it is full speed ahead for the 31-year-old slugger, whose looming 6-foot-6, 230-pound presence would be a welcome sight in the clean-up spot behind Robinson Cano. Hart averaged 29 home runs and 83 RBIs with a .279 average over his last three seasons with the Brewers (2010-12), and he brings a needed right-handed bat to a lefty-heavy Mariners lineup.
"He's very important to this club," manager Lloyd McClendon said. "As we sit right now, hitting behind Robinson, if he's healthy, he should have a real big year."
McClendon said he would love to see Hart able to play 145 games in the outfield this year, though he acknowledges that is the most optimistic projection. More likely, the big man will rotate between the outfield and designated hitter, with some first base possible.
"I don't really care where I'm at position-wise; I'm just happy to be on a team that wants me," said Hart, who signed a one-year, $6 million deal in free agency, with up to $4.65 million in further playing time incentives. "I've only been here a week, but it's a good group and I'm excited to be part of it."
When healthy, Hart is more athletic than one would expect for a big man. This is a guy who played shortstop in high school and was drafted as a third baseman by the Brewers when Jack Zduriencik was that club's scouting director. Hart converted to the outfield early in his career, and while he has always had some pop in his bat, he also stole 23 bases in both 2007 and '08 with Milwaukee and batted leadoff in 161 games for the Brewers early in his career.
Hart has become more of a power guy in recent years, and that is fine with the Mariners, who need a middle-of-the-order presence. But that will require that Hart stay healthy and regain his timing at the plate after a year off, his two looming priorities this spring.
"I have to be careful to not do too much," he said. "I'm going to get sore. It's going to take all of spring to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy. Every day is going to be a little different, and I need to make sure I don't overdo it. I can go out there and be full speed, but I'm going to limit what I do just to make sure when it comes to the season, I'm ready to go."
Hart has been working hard with hitting coach Howard Johnson on regaining his timing at the plate, and he has driven the ball hard in early batting practice sessions. But that too is a work in progress and something that can't be rushed.
"Until games start, I really won't know," Hart said. "Me and HoJo have worked a lot, hitting off machines, seeing velocity. After a few days, that feels fine. Now it'll be getting game experience, but I'll have plenty of that. I'm not worried at all, going toward the season feeling comfortable. That will come.
"I've never gauged spring," he said. "The only time I had a great spring, it was my worst season. It's not about production, it's just trying to get comfortable and making sure that once the lights come on, my body is healthy and I can go out there and be competitive. That might take all spring; it might take two weeks. But I'm not worried about it. If it takes five weeks, that will be right on track to start the season."
The other adjustment, after 14 years in the Brewers' organization, is a fresh start. Hart has always trained in nearby Maryvale, but he is now surrounded by an entirely new group of players in a different facility with a new coaching staff.
"It's different," he said. "I was with the same team for so long, so it's a little more exciting to be part of a new club. This team is definitely an up-and-coming team that is heading in the right direction. The energy is high, and that's something I haven't felt in a few years, so it's nice to be part of something like that.
"It's interesting looking around and being one of the older guys now. These guys are young, but it's a good team. We can't use that as an excuse. You have such a good mix now, and we're all here to win. The older guys they brought in, John Buck, Fernando Rodney and these guys, we're definitely excited to be part of this group, and hopefully things work out and we can take them to the next level."


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