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Traveling... what condiments should I bring back?
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:12 PM
I'm traveling to Italy, Greece and turkey. while i fully plan to see every ruin I can, I am also preparing for my real passion. The pantry.
I have already prepared my second suitcase with tons of bubble wrap, and copied every page of the customs documentation on what is allowed. By the question though is what should I focus on to bring back. I have gone abroad enough times to pick all of the low handing fruit. Its simple to find good dijon, good balsalmic (although expensive) and other things here.
What I am looking for meets the following two criteria:
1.never makes it out of the county so if you dont get it there, you will never taste it.
2. would cost your right arm IF you could find it in the states.
So far, the list has one thing. Saffron and lots of it. I keep hearing about amazing pistachios. I hope to find a level of balsamic that I could not afford at home. What is the one spice I should not leave the grand Bazaar without?
I am looking forward to whatever you propose. any brand suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I will also be on the lookout used cooking magazines and saute pans. any ideas of where to find good, used equipment would also be really appreciated.
thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:27 PM
Greece some wild oregano. I sometimes get that via my sister in Germany who gets it from friends that live in Greece and collect it themselves. Wonderful.
Sadly you can't bring cheeses or meats or breads, but that's pretty much first thing I buy when I'm in Europe, and lots of it. I don't go on vacation to loose weight :-D
High quality espresso from Italy, if you like that and have a machine for it - or one of those Bialetti (spelling?) stove top makers I love.
Some dried peppers if you like spice, there are plenty you just can't get here. Spice mixes. The best curry I ever bought comes in a spice grinder from an Austrian company of all things. Super fragrant and tasty.
Throw out the bubble wrap and use pasta bags instead :-)
beech wood or other locally used wood if you have a smoker.
Explore the local markets, dried herbs from a farmer, maybe something pickled, things like that.
Anything commercially available you can pretty much order online nowadays. I look at the local specialty stores and see what I don't know, take that.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:32 PM
Well, except those locally picked and prepared things, that you probably can't buy one village over.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:40 PM
Posted 20 December 2012 - 02:47 PM
Beware most of the red thready stuff for sale there is safflower, not saffron. As for real saffron, despite what you hear about Spanish and Greek and god knows what, the best, hands down, is Iranian "sargol" saffron (sargol = head of the flower). See if the saffron for sale in Turkey is from Iran, and if it's all a uniform dark red, then you're in business.
Get something called isot, which is roasted, dried, and oiled hot pepper flakes. It's similar to "Aleppo pepper", usually called pul biber in Turkish, but is roasted (I think), much darker, and has a deeper taste. See here: http://www.lezzetspi...ts/isot-pepper. You can also get some nice pul biber
Also get something called salça, which is a paste made of sundried tomatoes or peppers (domates salçası or biber salçası, respectively). The latter especially is AWESOME stuff to cook with, and comes in two varieties, mild (tatlı - "sweet") or hot (acı). The hot isn't that hot and makes a great addition to any tomato-based sauce or stew.
As far as I can think, most other Turkish spices and seasonings can be found in the west rather easily. See if you can get pure ground salep, which is a flour made from orchid roots and the basis for a very thick, creamy winter drink.
You probably CAN get all the above overseas, but they won't be as fresh or good, especially the salça. It's sold in jars in Turkish supermarkets, but the Mısır Çarşısı has it in bulk in big tubs. It's much better.
What is MUCH harder to find is called in Turkish ceviz sucuğu, or walnut sausage (like the Georgian churchkhela, if that's familiar). It's a string of nuts dipped in boiled down grape juice concentrate and left to firm up. Looks gross, tastes delicious. VERY hard to get outside the region. Buy lots of it.
As for pistachios, yes, they're very good. A lot are probably grown in Turkey, but Iran produces by far the most in the world, and some of the best, so there's a good chance you're actually buying Iranian pistachios. Just FYI
If you're a caffeine addict, Çaykur, the Turkish state tea monopoly, has a product called Tiryaki Çayı, which means "addict's tea" (literally opium addict's tea, but the word has come to mean any addict). I don't know if they add caffeine to it, but it has way more of a caffeine buzz than regular Turkish tea. I haven't seen it for sale outside Turkey.
Edited by Hassouni, 20 December 2012 - 02:49 PM.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:56 PM
Always on the lookout for dried mushrooms -- most are 1/2 the price I pay here...make sure they're from the country you're in, however.
Interesting dried spices/herbs are always fun.
I think the coffee here, now, is light-years better than what they serve at most places in Italy, so I eschew bringing back coffee.
A pound or two of whatever cool salt they're selling in the supermarket. Same with a few cans/jars anchovies. Honey.
A bottle (per person) of some hard-to-find, not imported booze.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 06:52 PM
I have often brought back honeys that I have never seen/tasted anywhere else; look at farmers' markets. And I always, in Italy, buy some good vin santo; it is very hard to get here outside of a major city, and very pricey.
Posted 20 December 2012 - 07:50 PM
If you take one of the little vacuum sealers and the ziplock bags that go with it - I find that helpful for cheese packing. Or get the vendor there to vacuum pack it for you.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 07:52 PM
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 08:31 PM
truffles if you like them. Easy to find in Italy. I'm sure you can find Balsamic in any quality, from cheap to $1000 or more per bottle.
Sadly you can't bring cheeses or meats or breads, but that's pretty much first thing I buy when I'm in Europe, and lots of it. I don't go on vacation to loose weight :-D
Do not bring white truffles home unless you buy them the day before you return. I've seen a lot of very expensive disappointments this way.
You can bring meat in as long as it is in a can or a jar. A few times we've been successful with vacuum-packed salumi, but that depends on your customs agent and my failure rate is over 50%.
I don't think I've ever had cheese refused by US customs, despite the fact that 95% of it has been raw milk. Be aware, though, that the most recent security regs classify soft cheeses as a tool of Al Qaeda, and they are verboten on carry ons. I really thought my wife was going to attack that guy at CDG this spring, or at least make us miss our flight...you don't want to step between her and her raclette. So make sure you put those soft cheeses in checked luggage.
If'n it was me, I'd be bringing home all kinds of greek goat cheese (including feta, if Greece was my last stop). And lots of Italian cheese too. Raw milk is officially acceptable as long as it's aged long enough. But, as I said above, most customs agents don't worry about the aging requirement.
But none of these are condiments. I'd do a good stock of the best tinned anchovies, and salted capers. Good olive oil. Some authentic Turkish ajvar. Canned sicilian tuna. I've never had good luck buying balsamico in Italy; if I want the real stuff, Rare Wine Co is more reliable (great olive oil, too). Some interesting jams/jellies/confitures from things that don't grow well here.
Posted 21 December 2012 - 03:15 AM
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. . . . I'd do a good stock of the best tinned anchovies, and salted capers. Good olive oil. Some authentic Turkish ajvar. Canned sicilian tuna. I've never had good luck buying balsamico in Italy; if I want the real stuff, Rare Wine Co is more reliable (great olive oil, too). Some interesting jams/jellies/confitures from things that don't grow well here.
Word of warning regarding anything that is jarred or bottled: the TSA is well with in its rights when opening any and all items of that sort, and they don't always re-close containers properly (or at all). I had one aggravating mess involving a bottle of shampoo was opened, and then just tossed back into my suitcase without being recapped. The oil from anchovies or the like would have to be exponentially worse, so you might want to keep this in mind, when you're packing for the homeward journey.
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Posted 21 December 2012 - 07:19 AM
Largest tin of salt cured anchovies I can fit into the luggage
Ditto to above for salt cured capers
Basalmic - Im sure that there is a working class "special occasion basalmic" that I can afford a goodly amount of to bring back. I will start my search at Billa but have a list published by the guardian of their 10 best alimentari.in Rome to check out also.
Vin santo
You are my new best friend. Can I use the spellings you put in this post? Will they know what I am talking about or should I spend some time with google translate? I would be interested in the following things you mentioned:
sargol- how will I know sargol or is my only option to ask the vendor?
isot- is this spelling anglicized?, if so, how is it written in turkish?
domates salçası or biber salçası,
ceviz sucuğu,-Is this typically sealed or air dried? Should I look for it air drying in the market or bagged?
Tiryaki Çayı-I would love to get some of this.............but is it called anything else that has less of a probability of getting me in trouble if I am mis-understood? Remember, I don't know Turkish for, "No, No take the handcuffs off!! you misunderstood!!!"(Im old enough to remember midnight express, so im just being careful)
Your link to the spice vendor (Lezzeri?) no longer exists, error code 404 http://www.lezzetspi...ts/isot-pepper
You made a reference to the, :Mısır Çarşısı, is this a vendor in the spice bazaar?
I will also be going to Izmir, are my best options in Istanbul?
LOS- if its any consolation, my husband and I had the same experience at CDG many years ago. My husband was trying to figure out he he was going to explain to my family that I had snapped on security personel over some cheese......................It made perfect sense to me.
I have a weak spot for acetic agents that I have never seen before and have been known to bring back vinegars just because I have never seen then before. Is there anything that I should be on the lookout for? An example would be something called Melfor, that I found in a supermarket in Brittany. It was in the vinegar section of the supermarket and made it home with me. Im still not sure what its made of. all I can say is that my husband always uses it in his "special" vinaigrette.
Thanks again for all of the comments and please post more if something else comes to mind!
Posted 21 December 2012 - 08:10 AM
for everything else, it's exactly as written in Turkish - Turkish uses a form of the Latin alphabet. Domates salçası is tomato paste, biber salçası pepper, if it's hot it'll be acı biber salçası, mild will be tatlı biber salçası. There might be other adjectives in front (adjectives in Turkish go before the modified noun), but it should be a nice deep red and smell good. You might be able to have a sample.
Ceviz sucuğu (or sucuk, it changes as a function of grammar) is sold both sealed and unsealed, hanging on strings off of hooks. The open air ones are better - the bag ones are more industrially produced.
Tiryaki çayı will get you in no trouble at all, don't worry It's made by a subsidiary of the Turkish govt so it's all good.
Don't worry about the Lezzet spice vendor, it was just to show you what isot looks like.
Mısır Çarşısı is simply the name in Turkish for the famous market known in English as the Spice Bazaar, one of the two main bazaars of Istanbul. It's not nearly as big as the grand bazaar, and has lots of stuff besides spices, but it is more food-oriented than its larger counterpart. There are also lots of vendors along the outside walls of it. It's right by the waterfront of the Golden Horn, near the Yeni Cami (new mosque) and the ferries to the Asian side. If you're by the dock, you can have great fish sandwiches (balık ekmek) for a song, sold off a cart on the docks.
İzmir: not very familiar with it, but they say it's the most European city in Turkey culturally. It's very famous for its nargile (hookah) culture, so if you're into that, send me a message and I can give you some tips.
Edited by Hassouni, 21 December 2012 - 08:11 AM.
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Posted 21 December 2012 - 03:07 PM
Greece - honey, figs oregano, ouzo (aniseed liqueur), olive oil & olives.
Italy - Limoncello, Limoncello and more Limoncello
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Posted 21 December 2012 - 10:35 PM
Actually most cheeses can be imported for personal use into the US - link here to the rules.
If you take one of the little vacuum sealers and the ziplock bags that go with it - I find that helpful for cheese packing. Or get the vendor there to vacuum pack it for you.
Thanks for this info. I've had locally produced raw milk cheeses--the kind that are really local to a village--taken from me at customs. I had pretty much given up.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 05:14 AM
As for Turkish delight (lokum or rahat lokum) - Istanbul airport has a ton, and the Mısır Çarşısı has a decent vendor, Güllüoğlu (one of the best for baklava), but the VERY VERY BEST, and the inventor of it, is Hacı Bekir, whose main shop is on İstiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue) just south of Taksim Square. If you're going to Istanbul it's a shame not to spend an afternoon at least on İstiklal Caddesi - definitely get your lokum from here. They also do ceviz socuğu if I remember correctly, though don't quote me on it. Here's their website http://www.hacibekir...eng/asayfa.html and their address:
İstiklal Cad. No.83 / 6 34433 Beyoğlu / İstanbul
They also have a location in the old town (Eminönü), which you can see on their site.
You can find Hacı Bekir products overseas, but not as easily as some of the more inferior brands, so get a few boxes at their shop.
As for ouzo, if that's your thing, Efe Rakı and Tekirdağ Rakı from Turkey are more refined and smooth than almost any ouzo I've tried. You can get Tekirdağ at Istanbul Airport but not Efe.
As for olive oil, you're going to the Med region, so I'd get a bit of high quality stuff from each place, if you're interested in that. Keep in mind that really fresh olive oil starts to deteriorate very quickly.
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August 21, 2011
CHENGDU, China (AFP) – US Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that the world's biggest economy would never default on its debts, during a visit aimed at boosting Chinese confidence in America's beleaguered finances.
In a speech to hundreds of university students in the vast southwestern city of Chengdu, Biden also urged China to "cherish" a free flow of information between the government and public, as the communist state quells dissent anew.
Biden said at Sichuan University that the United States remained the "single best bet" for investment — despite the historic downgrade this month of the country's top-notch credit rating by Standard & Poor's.
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under eyes: Make Up For Ever HD Concealer in 325
eyeliner: MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
eye shadow: Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow in Strut, Make Up For Ever Flash Color in Silver
eye brows: MAC Eye Brow Pencil in Fling
eye lashes: Dior Blackout
Metallics are my favorite thing to incorporate into a party makeup look. They will instantly make you look and feel ready to take on the night.
First I lined the upper and lower inner rim with Blacktrack, using a good amount of product.
Next I applied Benefit's Creaseless Cream Shadow with my finger to the lid from liner to crease, blending away any edges. I also applied it into and below the lower lash line, as well as around the inner corner of the eyes.
Next I lined the top lid with Blacktrack, starting the liner from the inner corner of the eye and winging the shadow into pretty dramatic cat eyes. Remember, I usual do cat eyes, because that is personally how I like to wear my eyeliner, but that doesn't mean you have to. Wear your liner how you feel it looks best on you.
Using a small flat brush I applied the metallic silver Make Up For Ever Flash Color close to the liner on the top lid and directly under the lower lashes, blending as I go. I also applied the silver shadow around the inner corners of the eyes.
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The organization wants to distribute 563 backpacks on Aug. 17
West Island Mission's employees want to be able to distribute 563 backpacks filled with school supplies to West Island children in need on Aug. 17. Chronicle photo François Lemieux
West Island Mission is getting ready to hold its annual back to school distribution on Saturday and needs your help to make this effort a success again.
The organization will serve 269 families at the occasion, a total of 1,189 residents including 563 children, numbers that represent a 55 per cent augmentation compared to last year. The main objective is to distribute a backpack filled with school supplies to every child and food to the families as well. Every family will receive fruits, vegetables, milk, bread and toiletry items.
The Mission needs to obtain $15,000 to be able to carry out its Aug. 17 operation. Every $20 donation buys a backpack. President Wendy Gariepy said last week that the objective had not been met yet. She says this is the most important time of year for the organization. She claims many families who do not require assistance during the rest of the year seek help during back to school.
"At back to school time, there are lots of expenses for families. They have to buy new clothes, supplies and all the things for school on top of being able to buy groceries. If a family is tight with money without school, when this time of year comes, it's so expensive for them," she said.
Gariepy stresses out the importance the backpack full of new school supplies has on children's self-esteem and ability to succeed in class.
"If children go back to school with new items, then they are the same all the other children in their class. It gives them better self-esteem and they do better in school. There have been studies on that and it's proven that they will do better in school if their self-esteem is higher," she said.
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Google's move to provide more transparency into the DMCA takedown requests it receives was seen as a good move. Google is obligated by law to comply with the requests it deems valid. But that doesn't mean it can't reveal all those requests to the world.
At the very least, Google's report showed the scale of the problem and the growing number of requests it receives.
But it seems that too much transparency isn't always a good thing, as Google pointed out that providing this service generated a huge increase in the number of requests it receives.
Indeed, since May, when Google made the data public, requests have gone through the roof and the number is growing each week.
As TorrentFreak points out, the week ending August 13, the latest for which Google provides data, set the record for most requests by a huge margin. In that week alone, Google got 1,496,220 requests, that's 1.5 million URLs that the search engine was asked to remove.
And it removed most of them since, even though Google does sometimes challenge these requests, you can imagine that it can't possibly review 1.5 million URLs in one week and thoroughly examine them to determine whether the requests are valid.
Google got 156,708 requests in the week ending August 15, 2011. In one year, requests grew 10 times and there doesn't seem to be any stopping it. The first time the site got more than one million requests was the week of July 23.
In fact, three months ago when Google revealed the project, it was getting 1.2 million requests per month. Even that was a huge increase over the previous year. In just three months it went from 1.2 million per month to 1.5 million per week.
For the last four weeks, Google got 5,733,402 requests. It's quite obvious that the figure will blow past 6 million for August, a 500 percent increase in three months.
Even better, Google started penalizing sites that have a significant number of valid takedown requests. Since it made the announcement and the change went live, the number of requests grew dramatically.
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Content Marketing: Why More Content Isn't Better
By Joe Pulizzi, Content Marketing Institute
Everywhere I go, I find marketers who are challenged with creating more content. More blog posts, more eBooks, more videos, more podcasts… more, more, more. Even our latest content marketing research found that the number one challenge for business marketers is producing enough content.
I'm done with more.
Here's a little state of the industry that I've noticed:
- There are hundreds of marketing gurus out there who will tell you that more is better.
- Brands and publishers alike are setting up massive newsrooms to newsjack every possible opportunity.
- Keyword phrases are being locked and loaded, as we speak, into thousands of content marketing programs around the world — curated content and original content alike.
- Organizations of all sizes are figuring out how much content they can get out of every contractor they work with, and how to get that investment down to as little per hour as possible.
Now, I'm not saying that any of this is wrong; but it's definitely not better.
There was a time for more
Going back almost a decade ago, I believed more was better — more of any and all types of content helps us market all types of things (as long as it's good content, right?).
Good sites like Mashable and Huffington Post came along and started to show us what amazing traction we could get with more. More content would get more play on Reddit and Digg, and then Facebook and Twitter. Inevitably, this led to thoughts like, "Hey, we need to target these 150 keywords. We need more content."
And then media companies like Forbes added a million [exaggeration] contributors, and started to create more content and cover more niche areas.
More eBooks for SlideShare. More videos for YouTube. More content for syndication. More blog posts for Buffer to buffer… and on and on.
There was a time for more, but that time has passed.
Epic content marketing
My upcoming book, out in September, is called "Epic Content Marketing." I have one goal for the book: to say something worth saying.
There are many definitions of the word epic. According to dictionary.com, the sixth definition given for epic is "of heroic or impressive proportions; an epic voyage." This is the one I'm focusing on for my book.
In North America, nine in 10 businesses (of any size in any industry) use content marketing. Content marketing is not new, but it is getting cluttered; contaminated, if you will.
How do we break through this clutter? We need to be epic with our content marketing. We need to do it better.
What do I think of when I think of truly epic content marketing? I think of Marcus Sheridan and his blog posts — when I read them, I can tell that he spent way more time than any average human would take to make what he was saying worth saying.
I think of IBM and its amazing research reports, which are always helpful. The company never, ever takes shortcuts with its research.
I think of thinkMoney magazine from Ameritrade. Heck, I'm not even a trader and I enjoy this publication immensely.
The next phase of content marketing
Think about your current content marketing program. Now read the questions below:
- Do you have a documented content strategy as part of your marketing program, or are you just filling channels with content?
- Is the content you are distributing truly best of breed — meaning that it's as good or better than anything else available?
- Are you really making an impact on your customer's lives or careers with the information you provide to them?
- Are you in the game just to sell more, or are you in it to make a difference?
- Are you setting up your content marketing department around more or around best?
How do you know if your content is truly epic?
Here is one easy litmus test: Are you seeing behaviors change?
Are customers sharing your content? Are members of your customers' networks sharing your content? Is your content a central part of conversations on the web? Are prospects signing up to receive your content on an ongoing basis? If you don't deliver your content at the regularly scheduled time, are customers calling you to find out where it is? Are influencers creating new content from your old content?
If the answers to all of these questions are "yes," then your content is worth saying. Your content is epic.
This responsibility falls on every one of us. It is on us to change our wicked ways and stop the contamination that comes from the endless, and misguided, quest for more.
(Okay… getting down from my soapbox now. Thank you for listening!)
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Serious sexual assault charges by Newquay town councillor Gary Redman denied
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A NEWQUAY town councillor accused of nine sexual offences against young boys is set to stand trial at Truro Crown Court in the new year.
Gary Redman, 55, of Cranstar Apartments, Hilgrove Road, Newquay, faces eight charges of indecently assaulting two boys and one of gross indecency against a boy under 14. He denies all charges.
Redman was given unconditional bail by magistrates at Bodmin on Wednesday until he appears before a judge at Truro Crown Court on January 16.
The case has been sent to Crown Court because the alleged offences are too serious to be dealt with by magistrates.
One charge of indecently assaulting a boy under 14 was withdrawn at Bodmin Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
During Redman's previous hearing, Chris Hart, for the prosecution, said the charges alleged a variety of sexual activities with young boys in Newquay over a period from 1998 to 2002.
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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's leader denied suggestions that his country's security forces sheltered Osama bin Laden as Britain demanded Tuesday that Islamabad answer for how the al-Qaida chief lived undetected for six years in a large house in a garrison town close to the capital.
Bin Laden was killed close to a military academy in the bustling northwestern town of Abbottabad, not in the remote Afghan border region where intelligence assessments had assumed he had been holed up. That was quickly taken as a sign of possible collusion with the country's powerful security establishment, which Western officials have long regarded with a measure of suspicion despite several notable al-Qaida arrests in the country since 2001.
"Some in the U.S. press have suggested that Pakistan lacked vitality in its pursuit of terrorism, or worse yet that we were disingenuous and actually protected the terrorists we claimed to be pursuing. Such baseless speculation may make exciting cable news, but it doesn't reflect fact," Zardari wrote.
Ties between the two nominal allies were already strained amid U.S. accusations that the Pakistanis are supporting militants in Afghanistan and Pakistani anger over American drone attacks and spy activity on its soil. They came to head in late January after a CIA contractor shot and killed two Pakistan's, in what Washington said was self-defense.
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said Pakistan's intelligence and army have "got a lot of explaining to do," given that bin Laden was holed up in such a large house with surrounding buildings, the fact that its residents took the unusual step of burning their garbage and avoiding any trash collection.
"It's hard to imagine that the military or police did not have any ideas what was going on inside of that," Levin said.
Cameron, who has also made supporting Pakistan a major foreign policy commitment, echoed those concerns.
"Those are questions we have to ask, those are questions we will want answered and we will be asking that question of everyone in Pakistan and the Pakistani government," Cameron told BBC radio before acknowledging the West's limited leverage against Islamabad.
"We could go down the route of having some massive argument, massive row with Pakistan, but I assess our relationship with Pakistan and it is my very clear view that it is in out interests to work with the government and people of Pakistan to combat terrorism, combat extremism and help development in that country."
Suspicions were also aired in many Pakistan's media and on the street Tuesday.
"That house was obviously a suspicious one," said Jahangir Khan, who was buying a newspaper in Abbottabad. "Either it was a complete failure of our intelligence agencies or they were involved in this affair."
U.S. officials have said that Pakistani officials were not told about the early morning helicopter raid until the strike team had killed bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan from where they took off from, citing security reasons.
Many Pakistanis were surprised at how this was possible, especially when initial reports stated that the choppers took off from a Pakistani air base. Some were angry that the country's sovereignty had been violated -- an especially sensitive issue given the unpopularity of America here.
Zardari said it "was not a joint operation" -- the kind of which has been conducted in the past against lesser terror suspects in Pakistan -- but that Pakistani cooperation, in a general sense, had helped lead them to bin Laden.
"A decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world," he said.
President Barack Obama also said the country's anti-terror alliance had helped in the run-up to the operation, but did not thank Pakistan when he announced the death of bin Laden.
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- Chambliss bill would keep Guantanamo Bay open ( May 11, 2011 )
- Obama administration says bin Laden photo "gruesome" ( May 3, 2011 )
- DNA, wife used to identify Bin Laden's body (Updated 2:33 p.m.) ( May 2, 2011 )


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Rakim, DJ Premier, Big Daddy Kane, More Talk Hip-Hop's 40th Anniversary
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"The era of how black people were living back then, the conscious soul brother, 'right on'—even though we had the Black Panthers—that whole movement with the platform shoes and the afros and the dashikis, the dances like Rerun from What's Happening!!, those dances were poppin.' When I was a kid we was doing those moves, throwing the hand, turning the head like a robotic style, even before break dancing even took place. It was the early stages of the b-boy movement, poppin' and lockin.' My seventies era, even though I was only like, six years old in 1971, I still grew up with two older sisters and my mom—who was an art teacher—all that type of music that turned into hip-hop. The breaks like 'Take Me To The Mardi Gras' and 'Dancing to The Drummer's Beat,' all that Al Green, 'Let's Stay Together,' Barry White, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin—all that stuff was just regular household records in my home. Most black families had those records automatically.
"I remember Alchemist one day told me he was making the 'We Gon' Make It' beat for Jadakiss and Styles P, and he was like, 'Yo man, did you grow up on Barry White and all these other artists?' And I was like Yeah man! He was talking about all this great stuff they did, and I was like well, in a black household, most families had all those same albums. So it's not like I was digging for all these records to sample, we were already born into the Commodores, Jacksons, Prince came in the 70s, 80s, and he brought the same great music style, even the rock stuff, the Beatles. We already knew the words to it, to James Brown and Parliament. There's no way hip-hop could have sounded the way it did in the early '80s and '90s the way we were sampling without those sounds, because those artists gave us those sounds.
"The difference now is the younger generation don't really do the research or keep up with how it sounded prior to how it sounds now. The soul of it is only present in the '70s, '80s, '90s era. The 2000s era, the soul isn't really in it the way it used to be, which is why we still do it in the traditional way, with the really really dope original beats, with the raw, original sample, the construction of the rhyme style, all that. That's why we always tell the older MCs not to try to rhyme like the younger kids, 'cause you don't have that lane. Keep your original styles that we like and we know and we understand from being around in that era.
"[The biggest difference between then and now is] originality. If you did a style that was already out, you could get beat up, and I witnessed it many times—step to an artist, like, 'Yo, you bit our style,' and start throwing punches—that was soo so important, to not bite somebody else's style back then. It was like, when you remember the groups from the '80s, Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J, Run DMC, they might've all been wearing shell toe Adidas, but they still were all rocking in a way that everybody still had their own look, that different image within that style of dress and uniform. That's why when I see the younger kids rockin' shells, or shell toes, I'm always like, I wonder if they know the dangers of rocking those back then, of getting robbed or killed. It was raw back then in the city. You just could not turn your back on it.
"It's very mainstream now. SportsCenter all the way to sitcoms, they're saying 'My bad,' stuff like that, that's all hip-hop language, our language is being used. Anything with hip-hop sets trends now, and by the time they catch on we're already using new words—nobody says swag anymore, that was a real quick in-and-out word. It's a generation gap, which I never thought would happen in hip-hop. We'll still keep holding the fort down like we've been doing." —As Told To Dan Rys (@danrys)


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Waiting in Washington
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SPOKESMAN: Senator Bradley is a friend of the union, and he brought us some doughnuts. (Cheers and applause)
GWEN IFILL: A funny thing happened on the way to Super Tuesday. The two men competing for the Democratic Party nomination, overshadowed by an unexpectedly lively Republican race, are suddenly in love with the Pacific Northwest.
AL GORE: I want your vote and your support so I can fight for you; I want to fight for your family, I want to fight for your community, I want to fight for Washington State and the future of the United States.
GWEN IFILL: Appearing at competing chili suppers, Gore with Democratic elected officials. Bradley, dishing it up at a bar in downtown Seattle.
BILL BRADLEY: You know, there is another event that the party establishment is at, eating chili on the other side of town. I decided I would come to pioneer square and serve the people's chili to all of you.
GWEN IFILL: The two Democrats have turned this off-the-beaten-path primary into a party showdown. This could be Bill Bradley's last stand. He chose this battlefield after losing to Gore in Iowa and New Hampshire. Now, Bradley's looking for momentum anywhere he can get it– even in Washington State, where Tuesday's primary is strictly for show. Delegates won't be picked until separate party caucuses a week later. Blair Butterworth, a Democratic political consultant here, says Bradley must compete here if he hopes to survive.
BLAIR BUTTERWORTH: I don't think he has a choice. If he let Washington State go by, and the Vice President won here, and he entered the big 7th of March series, East and West Coast, without any kind of momentum, without any kind of victory under his belt, I don't think there'd be anybody who would think that he would have a chance of winning.
GWEN IFILL: Butterworth says for Bradley, the point is to prove that he can win somewhere.
SPOKESMAN: Senator Bill Bradley, Senator from New Jersey and Democratic candidate for President in Seattle beginning a full-court press in Washington State as we lead up to the primary.
BLAIR BUTTERWORTH: It's sort of like hunting. When you are a hunter, and you bag one, you hold it up and say, "by God, I'm a hunter and here's the dead bird to prove it." And so Washington is the potential dead bird for all these hunters. He can go then to California and New York and to the people who give him money and to his organization and to his true believers and to the press, and say, "by God, I did it; I beat the vice president – you see, it can be done."
BILL BRADLEY: The independent voter of Washington is going to determine who should be the next President of the United States.
GWEN IFILL: For Bradley, it's a slingshot strategy: Try to get some attention here and hope to reap the benefits a week later in the 16-state super primary, when nearly one-third of the national Democratic convention delegates will be chosen.
BILL BRADLEY: It still means that the delegates are going to be fought out in places like New York, New England, Missouri, California, Maryland. We continue to go on to March 7 because that's the decisive day. We have to take off that day. We need to win a some primaries that day.
GWEN IFILL: But even some Bradley supporters are worried that he is putting too much on the line here. For Bradley's plan to work, he wants to sell himself as the true liberal reformer while painting Al Gore as a closet conservative.
BILL BRADLEY: My opponent has a little different background. You know him as the Vice President of the United States in the Clinton administration implementing Bill Clinton's policies. But you don't know him as the conservative Congressman, particularly social conservative he was in Congress and in the Senate. It's a matter of knowing where he was in the past, and that might explain to you why now I'm the only candidate who wants access to quality health care, quality, affordable health care in America for all Americans. He's not there yet. I'm the only one who's laid out a gun registration and licensing for all handguns. He's not there yet.
AL GORE: Let's get on with the task of winning the election for working people in this country.
GWEN IFILL: But Gore has been sailing above it all– his crowds more raucous, his speeches more energized. He scarcely even mentions Bradley, reserving his attacks for Republicans McCain and George W. Bush instead.
AL GORE: There is a clear and stark contrast between what we stand for and what we've done, and what they stand for and what they've done. Instead of the biggest deficit, we've got the biggest surpluses in history – instead of the worst recession, we've got the strongest economy in the entire history of the United States of America, 20 million new jobs in America, lowest African-American unemployment in history, lowest Latino unemployment in history, highest private home ownership in history, higher standards of living in history, higher wages. We are moving in the right direction.
GWEN IFILL: Washington State has voted for underdogs before: Paul Tsongas, Gary Hart, Jerry Brown. But this year even Jerry Brown is endorsing Al Gore this year, and Bradley finds himself battling the hot new kid on the block, who is, of all things, a Republican. That would be John McCain. McCain, who rechristened the Puget Sound ferry, the "U.S.S. Straight Talk," last week, is generating new excitement here and drained Bradley's independent support. Now even Washington State Congressman Jim McDermott, who is supporting Bradley, worries that McCain may be his candidate's undoing.
REP. JIM McDERMOTT: He's his real enemy. Al Gore's not his real enemy. His enemy is John McCain because he'll get a certain number of Democrats. But the big fight in this state is for the 40 percent who are independents.
GWEN IFILL: Even voters who come out to Bradley rallies wax enthusiastic about McCain.
DARIN SCHEER: I think he's a straight shooter. I mean, I really do. I think he knows what he believes. I don't even necessarily agree with everything that he believes, just like Senator Bradley, but I feel like we know where he stands. I really am tired of seven years now of wishy-washiness. I'm absolutely frustrated with poll-driven politics.
GWEN IFILL: How do you break through that love affair, this swoon which is going on with John McCain?
BILL BRADLEY: First, I am the reformer on the Democratic side, equally if not more the reformer — but then to point out that there are these differences. Many of the independent voters you talk to are pro-choice. John McCain isn't. They're pro gun control in this state. John McCain isn't. They really want to protect the environment. He has like a 20 percent League of Conservation voting record. They want major investments in education and health. He doesn't make them.
CROWD CHANTING: We want Al, we want Al!
GWEN IFILL: McCain's strength may be hurting Bradley, but nationally, the biggest threat to his political future remains the popular vice president. So in every speech, Bradley tries to raise doubts about the vice president.
BILL BRADLEY: He had an 84 percent right to life voting record in the Congress…84 percent right to life voting record. The head of a major abortion rights group said he once voted for a bill that was the first step toward criminalizing abortion. He was referred to by the head of the NRA recently about his career in the Congress as being the poster boy for the NRA. On education, health care, well, he introduced four education bills in 16 years; I introduced 37. He introduced zero health care bills to expand health care. In 1993, he said I am with Bill Clinton, so I am now for national health insurance. He's now on his own, and he says it's too difficult to do. He says, I'm for it, remember, I'm for it, but not now.
GWEN IFILL: Sometimes, it works.
KRISTEN LENHART: I need to go back and reevaluate Gore. I thought his comments on Gore's past voting history and his criticisms toward that really make me think about Gore in a different way. I need to go back and see what his record really was and if that's something I want to support.
AL GORE: Thank you.
GWEN IFILL: But Bradley was outflanked on the abortion issue when the National Abortion Rights Action League endorsed Gore.
AL GORE: I am deeply honored by your endorsement and by your support. I know that this was… that this was kind of an unusual decision in a contested primary where both of the candidates are pro-choice.
GWEN IFILL: And Gore not ceding ground on the environment either. The campaign's latest ad features Gore's father-son hiking trip up Washington's Mount Rainier last summer.
AD SPOKESMAN: But you get to know somebody in the mountains, how they react to pressure, how they handle adversity, and we had a very tough climb, terrible conditions. A lot of people turned back. But Al, he didn't want to quit. He wanted to try to get to the top. And we made it safely.
GWEN IFILL: Frank Greer, a media strategist in the 1992 Clinton campaign, now lives in Washington State. A Gore supporter, he believes Bradley has spent too much time criticizing Gore, too little time defining himself.
FRANK GREER: All of a sudden, Bradley lost that message, and instead, he started running to the left and trying to explain that Gore was too much in the center. Well, the interesting thing we learned in 1992 with Bill Clinton, the center, the dynamic center, is where the votes are. And McCain is drawing from that center as well. And McCain took all of the votes and I think the excitement away from Bradley.
AL GORE: Here in Washington state my opponent has been in the primary has been attacking me by calling me a conservative. The former head of the Christian Coalition has warned that with Al Gore in the administration there is a real liberal in the White House. Well, you know, one attacks me as too conservative, and then the Christian Coalition says I'm too liberal. I must be doing something rights. (Laughter) (applause)
GWEN IFILL: Washington State Party Chairman Paul Berendt, a Gore supporter, has been scolding Bradley for taking the Vice President on.
PAUL BERENDT: This is the way I see this race. If Bill Bradley cannot win in the state of Washington, he's going to have a hard time winning anyplace. He has pulled out all the stops — using negative advertising, negative mailings and every means possible. I believe this is his Waterloo. If he cannot win here, his campaign will fail.
GWEN IFILL: Bradley, of course doesn't see things quite this way. What others see as his last gasp, he sees as another in a series of opportunities.
GWEN IFILL: So, Senator, is this your last stand?
BILL BRADLEY: Absolutely not. This is the beginning of the takeoff.
GWEN IFILL: It's only the landing that's in doubt.


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beta1/beta2 bug reports
okay folks, here's where you post about those bugs...
please tell me the EXACT error message (give me a screenshot if you like), and EXACTLY what you did to get it.
firstly, i already have solved these:
- "list index out of bounds" when you open openlp.org and you don't have powerpoint installed
- "list index out of bounds" when you double-click on a song in the order of server in order to make it go live
- no hints for toolbar buttons
- "close-up preview" on the settings form is huge
- no scrollbars on the song editor form and the add song wizard
secondly, i know about these:
- titles in the slide control panels don't always change
can't think of anymore right now... if you know of any i haven't mentioned, add it below.
Getting solutions?
If you have already fixed some of those things, how do we get the fixes? Is it coming in another beta version? At current, I cannot use the newer version but I would like to as soon as possible. Thanks.
Beta 2 Errors
OK, when I leave my old songs DB in with beta 2 I get the following alert messages:
" is not a valid integer value.
On the Secondary Monitor:
Access violation at address 004B48B1 in module 'OpenLP.exe'. Read of address 00000034.
This box refuses to be closed, every time I click "OK" it comes up again...
On The Primary Monitor:
Access violation at address 004B48B1 in module 'OpenLP.exe'. Read of address 00000034.
beta1 database compatibility
Just for the record for this thread, beta1 used the same DB schema as .994, and is not compatible with >=beta2. Please use the Importer tool, linked to on the downloads page.
It's a Beta 1 db
I never actually went live with OpenLP before then...
bible search shows nothing
I cannot get the bible search to work at all-beta1.
acess error 0000000 when I try to open a ppt presentation.
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Clicking to go forward a
Clicking to go forward a slide when no slides are loaded causes a "List index out of bounds (1)" error.
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End of Summer Round Up: DuWop IcedTeas Review
Anyone else still in Summer mode? I'm kinda still exploring my Summer options lately and rounding up what I haven't used or didn't try out yet. It's pretty much very cool the last few days so I suspect Fall is well on it's way. Guess I better hurry along now and get all my Summer lovin' in as quickly as possible. Which is why you'll see a burst of Summer fun coming from me. It'll be a rather great excuse to try out these items if you haven't yet as they are liable to fly off the shelves and get quickly replaced by Fall and Winter stuff.
Today's review brings me to DuWop IcedTeas.
Check it after the jump.
DuWop IcedTeas are a translucent lip treatment that pack a mighty fine flavor. I only hauled one so far and it's tasty so I might just take a bite of mine in the near future. Seriously, it's sweet, fruity, and just yummy. This is one thing I absolutely adored about it.
The formula is a cooling treatment so it applies in a refreshing way while leaving behind subtle color. Actually this is where things go downhill….subtle color hmm.
They don't promise pigmentation so I really shouldn't rant too much but the fact is the color is somewhat non existent. Mind you, I got the darkest shade of the bunch too. It does give a very slight hint of red but nothing dramatic. Aside from this I also felt like the formula wasn't as moisturizing as I would have liked. It's a strange thing but I honestly thought the gel-like look of the product would interpretate to a smooth, gelly-like formula. Not the case at all. It's somewhat hard, not very moisturizing at all, and just doesn't have a nice, natural glide as many lip products do.
The shade I purchased was Black Currant which has an exotic fruity, candy-chery-ish flavor. I do wonder if each one has a different flavor? I assume so as they have names like White Peach and Passion Fruit. Black Currant is a deep black cherry shade. You can see my dilemma here as I thought maybe this deep shade would translate as giving my lips a bit of pink but that bit of pink is very subtle.
I think I could have forgiven the lack of pigment as it doesn't promise such but the crummy formula is unforgivable for me. Love the refreshing coolness, like the fact that it contains sun protection, absolutely adore the yummy flavor, but the formula totally sealed the deal for me and left me wanting. If you want color and a bit of moisture I'd try out Lipstick Queen Medieval Lipstick. If you prefer or like balms that are tasty, this may appeal.
As for the Muse, she's left feeling kinda disappointed.
Anyone try yet?
Do share your yay or nay review!
By the way no swatches sadly as when I try I just get a clear film on my wrist.
9/4/09 15:26 nova:
I've tried the passionfruit and I must say for something that smells so delicious, it doesn't give any gratification beyond that. It leaves a weird dried-gel feeling on my lips after application. It's a glorified jello chapstick. With sunscreen.
9/4/09 15:34 webcake:
Bah. Disappointing. I'm a huge fan of legit gloss flavors though, as some of even the best ones I've had have tasted like fruity, sugary wax..ew. But yeah, after reading this I'm not going to waste my time on it, thank you! ^^ That's a big NAY!
9/6/09 5:27 Eru:
I've just tried my first DuWop product (Twilight Lip venom! <3 ) And I can't wait to try more things by this brand. What would you recommend me? 😀
9/6/09 13:01 Dina:
Have the white peach of this, definitely has no color as you said. Like the cooling effect but overall performance is nothing special as far as moisturizing goes as you said. Certainly doesn't warrant the $19 price if it was less expensive maybe I'd repurchase.
P.S. Just started reading your blog and I'm hooked. LOVES IT!! :O)
have a great weekend.
9/7/09 20:46 Kanita:
nooo it's still summer don't even say that yet lolol I don't think fall officially starts until the 23rd of september so we have at least 2 weeks left! I just stick with my labello passion fruit, those are yummy and I really haven't found a better lip treatment than labello for my problem lips.
9/8/09 9:59 Jennifer:
Hi Muse,
I have this in the same color you do. I knew it was a balm and I didn't expect any color, so no disappointtment there. I have to disagree about the texture, though. While it is kind of hard, I actually like the texture. I feel it's quite substantial for a gloss, and If I'm correct it also has SPF? If so, this texture gives it some staying power, unlike most glosses. Plus, I can't stop looking at the actual lip stick portion through the light because it's actually translucent – so cool! I do think it's overpriced for what it offers, though.
9/9/09 13:49 Johanna:
Hi Muse,
I just sampled this product in passionfruit in the Sephora in Hollywood, CA. It was a hot day and my lips were parched, and this DuWop product felt quite refreshing. It was more soothing than chapstick. Definitely, no color. I liked the feel of the formula, but it wore off very quickly. I didn't purchase because they didn't have any in stock, but if they did, I might have been tempted, though $19 is a lot for a glorified chapstick.
5/15/10 22:11 Liz:
I bought this today in Strawberry Kiwi. I must say it could be better for it's $19 price, but I'm in love with it. I'm a person that doesn't like a lot of stuff on her lips, and this is really light which is a major plus for me. As for color I've noticed something weird about it. It seems like when I put it on it gives me a very subtle but noticeable pink look to my lips. I also like it because even though it has sunscreen in it, you can't taste it. I've noticed with lip products that have SPF in them, you get a bad taste in your mouth. Not with this. I'm also a musician and noticed when I was practicing my bass clarinet that it didn't get ALL OVER my mouthpiece like I've experienced with ChapStick and other lip products. Which is another MAJOR plus for me.


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12-03-2012 09:29 - edited 12-03-2012 09:30
So I ruthlessly plugged the benefits of TiVo and VM and finally got my neighbours to switch to VM and even through the recommend a friend.
Initially I was told it was after the first bill, now they're (VM) saying third bill?
Anyone gone through this process and if you did how long did it take to get the credit?
Thanks for any help.
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on 12-03-2012 09:30
i have only done this the once
but my friend paid their 1st bill and then i got my £50 credit added on my next bill
so i would presume its the same as always on their first bill when they pay it
on 12-03-2012 09:31
swt4ajp wrote:
i have only done this the once
but my friend paid their 1st bill and then i got my £50 credit added on my next bill
so i would presume its the same as always on their first bill when they pay it
They are now on their second bill.
on 12-03-2012 12:20
your friend has paid their first Virgin Media Cable services bill you will receive a £50 credit applied to your Virgin Media account. You, the customer, must be an active Virgin Media Cable customer when the friend pays their first bill in order for you to qualify for the £50 credit.
the above taken from
so yea it sounds like an issue on virgins servers which needs looking at
on 12-03-2012 14:07
Yes it worked fine for me, think it was a couple of months after my friend signed up before the credit showed up.
on 13-03-2012 02:27
I recommended a friend once, they signed up etc, paid on time. Telewest (as they were known at the time) never bothered paying me what they promised.
Since, I stopped recommending them to anyone.
on 13-03-2012 07:45
i had a nightmare getting my money credited to my account when rec a friend. They kept saying its done but it was never, so i e mailed a complaint to vm and a complaints lady rang my house within a few days and sorted it out straight away.
Took about 3 months for the money to appear into my vm account mind.
on 13-03-2012 17:29
I spent a load of effort convincing some friends to ditch their Sky package and come over to a VM TiVo box package... only to be told I couldn't have the £50 because they weren't new customers because they already had the phone from the old NTL days...
Similarly, my work started a Corporate Partner scheme with VM discounts for new customers; I didn't qualify because I was already getting all three services...
Wish I hadn't bothered...
on 24-03-2012 13:02
When my friend came over from Sky she double checked that we would get the credit and was told there was a note on her account and on ours. When we didn't receive the credit a few weeks after she paid her first bill, she checked with CS and was told again that there was a note on her account linking it to ours, and the credit was probably on its way.
After the 2nd month of not seeing it on our bill, I phoned CS and was told that my friend had taken a special "switch from Sky" package so wasn't eligible. I wasn't having that - what difference does it make what package she chose? We recommended, she signed up, and she checked several times that the recommend-a-friend was applicable.
I was then told that we should have had an email when she signed up with a code which would be activated when she paid her first bill. As we never got an email, we weren't eligible for the credit. How were we supposed to know we should have had an email?? We did what they asked - it was their operator who failed to follow procedure. Very fed up by this point, so I told the woman at CS that we were sick of them lying to us and put the phone down on her. Got a call back 10 minutes later saying that she had spoken to her manager and they were giving us the credit "as a goodwill gesture".
I won't be recommending them again.
on 01-10-2013 16:51
I've got 2 Virgin accounts on 2 properties so I'm trying to recommend me to myself to get the credit. I've received both the recommender and recommendee emails and both say they're going to phone me. Problem is, my Virgin phone installation hasn't gone well and I have no phone line at the new account so that can't happen - I hope this will be sorted soon but would prefer Virgin to email me to complete the confirmation process - as this is an option - rather than rely on the phone. What do I have to do to get this option activated, please.


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