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BEIJING (AP) ? China's fast-growing economy is helping to drive demand for U.S. agricultural products, offering a potential new market for American corn, wine and other goods, a U.S. official said Friday.

Michael Scuse, an acting undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said that while soybeans remain the biggest U.S. agricultural export to China, other products could significantly expand sales.

Scuse was speaking at the end of a weeklong trade mission that brought 39 American agricultural businesses to Chengdu and Shanghai ? the USDA's biggest-ever overseas trade delegation.

China has 20 percent of the world's population but only 9 percent of the world's arable land. Rising incomes have greatly boosted meat consumption, driving demand for feed grains.

U.S. exports to China last year exceeded $103 billion, including $14.7 billion in crops, the U.S. China Business Council reported earlier this week. The bulk of those crop imports are soybeans but demand is growing for other crops, Scuse said.

"This past year, China got into the corn market in a much larger way," Scuse said. "So, now corn also is a major factor in our trade and we're looking hopefully to continue to expand in that area."

He said there is also Chinese interest in U.S. dried distiller's grain, a product of ethanol production that is used for livestock feed.

At the same time, China's new middle class is buying more imported organic produce and luxury goods such as wine though tariffs remain high.

"We have a great possibility, even in spite of the tariffs, to increase our wine sales in China," said Scuse. "If you look at the economic conditions improving so much here ... we think there's tremendous opportunities."

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Fossil discovery could unravel mystery of how humans learned to walk (+video)

The discovery of foot bone fossils from an early hominin may help unlock the mystery of how humans learned to walk upright. ?

Ancient foot bones from a recently discovered pre-human species, which had opposable big toes like a gorilla's, could shed light on how the ancestors of humanity came to walk upright, researchers say.

Skip to next paragraph A few million years ago, our ancestors stopped climbing trees and started walking upright, on two feet. To work out how and when this happened, researchers look for fossils -- and recently they found a surprising set of foot bones in Ethiopia. The foot is about 3.4 million years old, making it roughly the same age as 'Lucy' and her species, Australopithecus afarensis. But while Lucy's species had feet much like modern humans, the new foot has an opposable big toe, like a chimp. So do the foot bones represent a new species of hominin? Watch the video and decide.

Humans dominate the planet partly because walking upright frees their hands for tool use. Among the earliest known relatives of humanity to walk upright was Australopithecus afarensis, the species including the famed "Lucy." This hominin is a leading candidate for direct ancestor of the human lineage, living about 2.9 million to 3.8 million years ago in East Africa.

Although Lucy and her kin were bipedal, there is debate about how much they depended on life in trees. Now scientists also have fossils of a hitherto unknown species of hominin that lived about the same time and place as Australopithecus afarensis. Judging by its feet, this newfound relative of humanity was a tree-dweller ? which suggests that, in turn, Australopithecus afarensis adapted to life walking on the ground.

"In biology, if you have two closely related species that live close to each other, they may start to diverge in what niches they occupy," said researcher Bruce Latimer, a paleoanthropologist at Case Western Reserve University.

Since this newfound hominin possessed feet good for climbing trees, "it does really hammer home the idea that Australopithecus afarensis might have been a bipedal animal that committed itself to the ground and walking long distances," Latimer told LiveScience. [Photos of New Hominin Species]

The 3.4-million-year-old fossils were discovered in 2009 in a part of Ethiopia known as Burtele. Nowadays this area is hot and dry, with temperatures skyrocketing up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius). But "nearby fossils of fish, crocodiles and turtles and physical and chemical characteristics of sediments show the environment was a mosaic of river and delta channels adjacent to an open woodland of trees and bushes," said fellow Case Western researcher Beverly Saylor.

Scientists have long argued that Australopithecus afarensis was the only pre-human species between 3 million and 4 million years ago. These new fossils of an unknown hominin species are the first incontrovertible evidence that at least two pre-human species lived at the same time and place around 3.4 million years ago.

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Kate Middleton delivers first speech, but media focus on blue dress (+video)

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, gave her first public speech at the Treehouse charity. But her sartorial selection was as big a story in Britain as her delivery.?

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, made her first public speech as a royal Monday in Ipswich at the opening of a facility called the Treehouse, part of East Anglia?s Children?s Hospices.

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The hospice is one of several British charities or non profit groups, including the Scouts and the National Gallery, that the Dutchess has identified as the focus of her attention. ?

British media praised her speech Monday, for which the Duchess used notes but which she delivered slowly and clearly.?

??The Duchess of Cambridge looked calm and confident as she gave her first public address today,? Daily Mail writer Rebecca English wrote. ?Kate[?s] three-minute speech was faultless -? made with a slow but measured delivery.?

?The Telegraph noted that the Duchess ?appear[ed] understandably nervous at first,? but that she ?delivered her maiden speech slowly and carefully, sticking precisely to her script, without any ad-libs.?

It was reported that she?penned the speech herself.?

The speech made headlines in some British newspapers, including the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, for the dress the Duchess wore to the event, which reporters noted is one she bought in 2008 and appeared to be the same one worn by her mother in 2010 when Carole Middleton went to Ascot. The British media has been fascinated by Kate Middleton's, and her sister Pippa's, fashion choices.?

?During the Duchess?s speech, she said she regretted the absence of her husband, Prince William, who is finishing military training in the Falkland Islands.

??What you have all achieved here is extraordinary," the Duchess said during her speech. "You as a community have built the Treehouse -- a group of people who have made every effort to support and help each other.?

?She noted the support the Treehouse and other East Anglia Children?s Hospices (EACH) facilities offer for families.

??For many this is a home from home?- a?lifeline?enabling families to live as normally as possible during a very precious?period of?time,? the Duchess said.

The Duchess is the royal patron of the Hospices, which helps families with children who have a life-endangering sickness. The organization provides therapy for the children, support for parents and family members and other services, offered at their centers or in the family?s home. The Treehouse will be the service center for Suffolk and Essex.

During her visit, she received a tour of the building and met children and their families who receive services from EACH, including 10-year-old Bethany Woods, who has been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Woods performed the song ?Rainbow Connection? for the Duchess, who congratulated Woods after her rendition, according to the Daily Mail.

?A reception was held for EACH staff members and those who have supported the organization. According to the Daily Mail, the Duchess told another person attending the reception, ?I find doing speeches nerve-wracking.?

?She also planted a tree at the facility in commemoration of her visit.

The Duchess has been the royal patron of EACH since January and is also a supporter of the Scouts organization, planning to attend camps with the Girl Scout troops in north Wales and London and assist with games. The royal family has traditionally been a supporter of the Scouts, and Queen Elizabeth serves as the association?s current president. The Duke of Kent, the queen?s cousin, is its patron.

?The Duchess also serves as a patron for the National Gallery, the organization Action Through Addiction, which helps those with a drug addiction and their loved ones, and the Art Room, a charity which attempts to help children?s self-image through art.

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House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich.

The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was headed for all but certain House passage Thursday, mostly along party lines. It faces a demise that is just as sure in the Democratic-run Senate, which plans to ignore it, but the battle remains significant because of the clarity with which it contrasts the two parties' budgetary visions for voters.

Republicans were focused on sharper deficit reduction and starkly less government than Democrats wanted and were proposing to lower income tax rates while erasing many unspecified tax breaks. Obama and Democrats were ready to boost taxes on families making above $250,000 and on oil and gas companies, add spending for roads and schools and cull more modest savings from domestic programs.

"They're choosing the next election over the next generation," Ryan said, deriding Democrats' plans as far too timid. He added, "If we don't tackle these fiscal problems soon, they're going to tackle us as a country."

Democrats said they, too, were eager to stanch deficits that now exceed $1 trillion annually. But they said it needed to be done in a more balanced way, with rich and poor alike sharing the load.

"It's a path to greater prosperity ? if you're already wealthy," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, top Democrat on the Budget panel, mocking the "Path to Prosperity" title Ryan has given his document. "Because our Republican colleagues refuse to ask millionaires to contribute one cent to deficit reduction, they hit everyone and everything else."

In a pair of preliminary votes expected Thursday, conservatives were offering their own proposal with deeper spending cuts and far faster deficit-reduction than the GOP plan, claiming to balance the budget in just five years. Democrats were pushing a measure featuring pumped-up spending for education and new tax credits for companies creating jobs and raising wages, while claiming savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, government waste and reductions in farm payments.

Both were destined to be defeated.

Underscoring the prickly partisan gulf over how to tackle the budget's drastic imbalances, the House late Wednesday on a 382-38 vote easily shot down a compromise, bipartisan deficit-cutting plan by moderates of both parties that mingled tax increases with spending cuts.

The measure was modeled roughly on a package produced by Obama's deficit-reduction commission. The commission's plan drew praise from prominent deficit foes but was treated coolly by Obama and congressional leaders of both parties.

The House also voted 414-0 Wednesday to reject Obama's budget, with Democrats accusing the GOP of forcing the vote to embarrass them. Democrats were concerned Republicans would use campaign ads to link Democrats who supported Obama's plan to all of its details, including tax increases and boosts for unpopular programs.

Congress' budget is a nonbinding road map that suggests tax and spending changes that lawmakers should make in separate, later legislation.

Particularly with voters deciding control of the White House and the Capitol in November, the two parties are sure to stalemate each other's budgetary priorities until after the election.

The House GOP budget would cut spending by $5.3 trillion more over the next decade than Obama's would ? out of more than $40 trillion that would still be spent during that period. It envisions repeal of the president's health care overhaul and sets a course for deep reductions for highway and rail projects, research and aid to college students and farmers while easing planned defense cuts.

It also would cut taxes by $2 trillion more than the president over that time, leaving Republicans seeking about $3.3 trillion in deeper deficit reduction than Obama.

Drawing the most political heat was Ryan's plan for Medicare, the $500 billion-a-year health insurance program for older Americans that all agree is growing so fast that its future financing is shaky. Both parties know that seniors vote in high numbers and care passionately about the program.

Republicans would leave the plan alone for retirees and those near retirement, letting the government continue paying much of their doctors' and hospital bills.

For younger people, Medicare would be reshaped into a voucher-like system in which the government would subsidize people's health care costs, which Republicans say would drive down federal costs by giving seniors a menu of options that would compete with each other. Democrats say government payments won't keep up with the rapid inflation of medical costs, leaving many beneficiaries struggling to afford the care they need.

"It ends the Medicare guarantee," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said of Ryan's budget.

"This plan doesn't end the Medicare guarantee," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. "Arithmetic does. Unless we change something, unless we put it on a solvent footing, the Medicare guarantee is gone."

Republicans would turn Medicaid, the nearly $300 billion-a-year federal-state health insurance program for the poor, into a grant that states could use as they wish. They also would trim its growth by $800 billion over the next decade.

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'Hammer Dance' Video A 'Day In The Life' Of Slaughterhouse

'When it's done, you'll see how authentic it is,' Crooked I tells MTV News on the video set.
By Nadeska Alexis

Slaughterhouse on the set of "Hammer Dance"
Photo: MTV News

AUSTIN, Texas — Slaughterhouse passed through Austin, Texas, to perform at the Shady 2.0 Showcase during South by Southwest earlier this month, and while they were in town, the boys — Joe Budden, Royce Da 5'9'', Crooked I and Joell Ortiz — slotted some time to film the video for their latest single, "Hammer Dance."

MTV News caught up with the four rappers on set, where they explained the video's concept and gave an update on their upcoming album, Welcome to: Our House.

"I think it's just a day in the life of Slaughterhouse, a lot of energy," Crooked I told MTV News. "We're gonna give fans a chance to shine, and I think when it's done, you'll see how authentic it is. When we roll into town, we jell with people, no matter where they are, who they are, what part of the world they're from. We're just average dudes trying to do extraordinary things."

"Hammer Dance" is the latest single from the group's sophomore album, which is expected to debut this summer. Slaughterhouse wouldn't give a specific release date just yet, but they did reveal that their Shady Records boss, Eminem, is in the final stages of mixing.

"[We're] still working out minor tweaks, [but] it's way more done than people know," Royce said. "Marshall is actually mixing right now. He's actually mixed the entire album, and that wasn't even the original plan, so we're super excited about that. He's just taking songs to another level."

Eminem is known for his hands-off approach with artists, but the Detroit native was very much involved in the creation of Welcome to: Our House, as the group explained. "Real talk: A lot of people don't give Eminem enough credit for his production and his arrangement and his mixing," Crooked I said. "What he's doing to add to the album is phenomenal, and I think he deserves props and a salute for that."

"He's turning it into a movie," Royce concluded. "It's becoming way more visual, when he comes and puts his stamp on it, if you will."

What are you expecting from new Slaughterhouse music? Let us know in the comments!

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You need to get a reliable roofing company or firm in order to have high quality work done on your roof. When looking for a roofing company, you have to consider the Austin roofing contractors that they have working for them. The roof is a delicate part of your house, and if anything happens, it might cause a lot of damage. Therefore, you need a Dallas roofer who can deliver. The Dallas roofers should also be able to offer you advice on how to maintain your roof from time to time. There are some considerations you should make when choosing Dallas roofers.

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"Tens of billions" of habitable worlds in Milky Way

By Ben Hirschler

LONDON | Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:14am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may be tens of billions of them in our galaxy alone.

A European team said on Wednesday that about 40 percent of red dwarf stars - the most common type in the Milky Way - have a so-called "super-Earth" planet orbiting in a habitable zone that would allow water to flow on the surface.

Since there are around 160 billion red dwarfs in the Milky Way, the number of worlds that are potentially warm enough and wet enough to support life is enormous.

Xavier Bonfils of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble, the leader of the team, said the 40 percent figure was at the high end of what had been expected and the finding underscored the prevalence of small rocky planets.

His team is the first to calculate the number of super-Earths - planets with a mass between one and 10 times the Earth - in such habitable zones, although previous research has found the Milky Way to be awash with planets.

Red dwarfs, which are faint and cool compared to the Sun, account for around 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way.

After studying 102 of these stars in the southern skies using a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile, Bonfils and colleagues found rocky planets were far more common than massive gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system.

However, the rocky worlds spinning around red dwarfs are not necessarily cosy places for alien forms of life.

Because reds dwarfs are much cooler than the sun, any planets with liquid water will need to be orbiting much closer to the star than the Earth is from the Sun. That may mean they are bathed in damaging X-ray and ultraviolet radiation.

Scientists aim to take a closer look at some of the Earth-like planets as they pass in front of nearby red dwarfs, which should yield information about their atmospheres and help in the search for possible signs of life.

The research was presented in a paper to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics link.reuters.com/bav37s

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A Jungle-Grade Wedding Cake at Walt Disney World Resort

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One of my favorite parts of a wedding is the cake. It brings people together, makes for great photos and is a chance for couples to express their personalities. Newlyweds Lisa and Steven did just that. The duo met on the Disney College Program while Steven was a skipper at Jungle Cruise, so when it was time to say ?I do? Lisa worked with our bakery team to design a cake after the attraction itself.

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Foreign Relations chairman: US must carefully weigh any military intervention in Syria (Star Tribune)

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The Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Has Been in Orbit For a Whole Year [Airplanes]

The Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months on unspecified errands in Earth's orbit, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 2, has now been in space for a year and two days - and is still going strong. The endurance milestone is unqualified good news for America's space force at a time when its funding and future missions are in doubt. More »

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Video: Mom loses limbs protecting children

>>> and an incredible story of heroism and sacrifice during that massive outbreak of tornadoes last friday. it's about a mother who used her own body as a human shield to protect her children as their house came crashing down on top of all of them. we get her story tonight from nbc's tom costello.

>> reporter: huddled in the basement with a massive tornado bearing down on their new home, stephanie decker had just seconds to protect 8-year-old domenic and 5-year-old reese, so she wrapped them in a blanket and laid on top of them just as the house started coming apart.

>> everything was just slamming into my back. i had my children in the blanket and they were screaming. mommy, i can't live without you, i don't want to die, please don't let me die. i said, you're not going to die, we're going to make it.

>> reporter: when the storm cleared the home had been wiped from its foundation. stephanie and the kids were buried.

>> i took my phone and made a video to my husband -- telling him i love him.

>> reporter: it was domenic who climbed out and ran for help. a neighbor, sheriff's deputy brian lovens came running with friends to find stephanie bleeding heavily with a severed leg.

>> she's like, i'm dying. i ain't going to let you die.

>> reporter: using a belt as a tourniquet they got her out and into an suv for a mad dash to an ambulance. stephanie 's husband joe only knew she had stopped texting from the basement.

>> are you okay? are you guys okay?

>> reporter: he rushed home to find this. it was at the hospital he learned of stephanie 's injuries. one leg severed at that time kn -- at the knee, the other at the ankle. the kids didn't have a scratch.

>> she's alive and the kids are alive. so i told her, you get to see your kids grow up. that's all that matters.

>> i love you.

>> i love you, too.

>> reporter: at the hospital today stephanie said she's no hero.

>> i love my kids.

>> reporter: one family built on a foundation of love, faith and sacrifice. tom costello, nbc news, henryville, indiana.

>> incredible story out of indiana tonight.

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Pirates lock up their star

It was a long time coming, but Andrew McCutchen finally got the Pirates to beat the Justin Upton and Jay Bruce deals. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the two sides have agreed to a six-year, $51.5 million contract that will take care of all of the outfielder?s arbitration seasons and his first two years of free agency.

The deal includes a $14.75 million club option for 2018.

McCutchen, 25, made his first All-Star team last year, though he faded badly in the second half. He ended up hitting .259/.364/.456 with 23 homers and 89 RBI in 572 at-bats. The .820 OPS was right in between his marks from his rookie season in 2009 (.836) and his sophomore campaign in 2010 (.814).

McCutchen and the Pirates had been trying to come to terms on a deal since last summer, with McCutchen using the previous six-year deals signed by Upton ($51.25 million) and Bruce ($51 million) as a guideline. The Pirates were hoping to do something in the $40 million range, and when McCutchen failed to relent, there was even some talk that they could trade him.

McCutchen, Upton and Bruce were all chosen in the first-round of the 2005 draft, and though Upton is pretty clearly the biggest star in the group, he signed his deal before the 2010 season, back when he was less established. Bruce signed his with the Reds one years ago.

While this is more than the Pirates wanted to spend, it was a necessary deal for the team. McCutchen isn?t a superstar, but he plays a key position pretty well and he is a fan favorite. Had the Pirates opted to trade him rather than build around him, it would have furthered the idea that they have no intention of trying to compete. Now they have their best player tied up for a very long time.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/05/pirates-andrew-mccutchen-agree-to-six-year-51-5-million-contract/related/

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Television section

For the week of Feb. 20-26

1. "Academy Awards," ABC, 39.34 million.
2. "Oscar's Red Carpet" (8 p.m. EST), ABC, 24.07 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 19.29 million.
4. "Oscar's Red Carpet" (7:30 p.m. EST), ABC, 16.63 million.
5. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.20 million.
6. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 16.10 million.
7. "The Voice," NBC, 16.04 million.
8. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 15.64 million.
9. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.47 million.
10. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.56 million.

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by starfish on March 4, 2012

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AIG seeking to raise about $6 billion from AIA sell down (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Bailed out U.S. insurer AIG is seeking to raise about $6 billion by selling part of its stake in AIA Group Ltd (1299.HK), according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Monday.

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PFT: Gibbs 'shocked' Redskins had bounties

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Though Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson seems to believe that the franchise tag represents a badge of honor, there?s little honor in being prevented from becoming a free agent.

Sure, the franchise tag also constitutes a one-year offer for employment at a salary that the player wouldn?t be offered in any other line of work.? But it?s far lower than what the player would receive if the player were able to sign a multi-year contract with significant guaranteed money.

Without significant guaranteed money, the risk of serious injury remains on the player.

And so most players will be upset by the maneuver.? Players like Falcons cornerback Brent Grimes will decline to accept the offer.

?We have no plans to sign the tag at this time,? Grimes? agent, Ben Dogra, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday.? ?We hope to be able to continue to discuss [through] all the issues at the appropriate time.?

The use of the phrase ?no plans . . . at this time? allows Grimes to change his mind later.? But the fact that he?s not under contract also allows him and every other franchise player to withhold services indefinitely.? He can boycott the offseason program, training camp, and the preseason, and he can show up only days before the start of the regular season, sign the tender, and receive the full amount, fully guaranteed.

He also can stay away until Week 10 of the regular season, sign the tender then, finish the year, and hit the market in 2013 ? unless the team is willing to offer 120 percent of his 2012 salary in order to use the franchise tag a second time.

The only risk a player takes by not signing the franchise tender is that the team can rescind it at any time, making the player an unrestricted free agent.

While on one hand that gives the player what he wanted in the first place, on the other hand it can put the player on the market well after teams have blown their budgets and/or determined their depth charts.? Jackson?s intention to sign the tender in Philly surely was influenced in part by the fact that the Eagles twice before have rescinded the franchise tender.

The Falcons likely won?t do that with Grimes.? In an increasingly pass-happy league, they need him.? Especially since Dunta Robinson has yet to play at the level his own multi-year, free-agent contract would contemplate.

Grimes is surely holding out hope that, by holding out, the Falcons will give him the kind of multi-year deal that Grimes would have gotten if he hadn?t been blocked from becoming an unrestricted free agents.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/03/joe-gibbs-shocked-that-gregg-williams-had-bounties-in-washington/related/

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