Bargaining is a big part of life. It is how prices are set, business deals get made, and political differences are hashed out. Sometimes you get the advantage, sometimes not -- and often it's the bargain itself that's memorable.
By John Yemma,?Editor / November 26, 2012
A rug merchant waits for customers at the Mecca market in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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A?hot wind blew off the Red Sea. Along with a dozen other reporters, I was camped out in an air-conditioned foyer at a royal palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, waiting for the Saudi foreign minister and the US secretary of State to emerge from crisis meetings in the weeks before the 1991 Gulf War. Hours ticked by. Reporters dozed. Somewhere near dawn, our Saudi handlers ushered in a rug merchant to distract us with his goods.
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I was a tough but seasoned bargainer, tossing out the word ?soumak? when he unrolled a flat-woven rug. Not to be taken for a rube, I began decisively, cutting the offering price of the tribal textile in half, all the while staying cordial with my new ?friend.? I knew when to act miffed, when to say I could go no higher, and when to give ground.
?Mabrouk,? the merchant said, pumping my hand as we finally closed the deal. ?Congratulations, sir. You bargain well and have excellent taste.?
I got my prize, plus a small brass coffeepot ? and something even better: a great story. Robin, my wife and artistic director, had taught me to look for that tribal rug design. I had watched her 10 years earlier drive a hard bargain in the Hamidiya souk of Damascus, so this would be an excellent ?Hi, honey, I?m home!? trophy. I could see my carefully acquired soumak spread out under the coffee table.
One day, I imagined, someone might ask the intrepid foreign correspondent if there was a story behind that rug. Well, yes, ?ha-ha, now that you ask: A hot wind blew off the Red Sea....
Some weeks later, I unpacked my bags, and Robin examined the rug. She seemed to admire the style. I told her about the negotiations, the back-and-forth drama, and the hearty ?Mabrouk? that sealed the deal.
?Nice to have you home, dear,? she said.
The rug was placed under the table. A few days later, somebody spilled a tumbler of water on it. The colors ran, burgundy flowing into beige, brown into ochre. The wool puckered, and forever afterward the not-so-valuable and certainly-not-old dust catcher was known as ?John?s famous mabrouk soumak.?
Our dogs enjoyed it. Goodwill eventually accepted it.
The larger point? Negotiations are tricky. Prices and values are not objective facts but markers of give and take, set by us when we engage with each other. When we negotiate, we know our starting position but cannot dictate the outcome.
Congress and the president of the United States are engaged in an epic negotiating session to try to figure out how much government should spend and tax and how to avoid plunging off the Jan. 1 ?fiscal cliff.? The Monitor?s David Grant has dug deeply into the issues and explained them clearly and calmly in a recent Monitor cover story.?
Psychologists say that when you are negotiating, the important thing is to clearly articulate what you want, remain open-minded and genial, and be ready to make a deal. You may not get what you thought you wanted, but you don?t get anything by refusing to bargain. I wanted an impressive trophy. I got something that has lasted much longer: a story.
John Yemma is editor of The Christian Science Monitor.
Robin Sharma calls it ?the 5 am club.?? I saw the Rock tweeted this morning, ?Nothin? more honest than sweat..?? What they?re talking about is the price you pay for success.
I?ve been up since 6, did my cardio, weights, and self-development reading, cleaned out my inbox, and am ready for an amazing day.
But amazing days don?t just happen?
They take work.? And that?s the part a lot of self-help literature and feel good inspiration leaves out.? If you want to do something epic, be prepared to work your ass off.? Because success in anything takes self-discipline.?? Sweat.? Work.? Determination.? Guts.
Yes, you want to work smart.? Yes, success is divine order.? But success doesn?t come without sacrifice or inconvenience.? Pay the price ? it?s worth it.
Always remember you are overcoming to become.
-RG
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If you're planning a cocktail party, prep your home with must-have spirits, cocktail ingredients and garnishes to make sure you have everything you need to keep drinks flowing and guests entertained. When throwing a cocktail party, it's essential to prepare you home bar. Here's advice on how to make sure your bar is well stocked and ready to serve:
Shop for your Cocktail Party a few days before your event date.
Follow your taste buds to the produce section of your local grocery store or farmers' market, and experiment with new fruits and vegetables in your favorite classic cocktails
Find a signature drink to serve at your party and find out the history of that cocktail and share it with your friends. All bartenders are story tellers.
Make cocktails in batches. To serve a crowd, break the drink recipe into cups for a pitcher. A pitcher typically serves 20 drinks that are 4 ounces each. Multiply your ounces by two and turn into cups. Always make sure to taste as you batch for quality control.
Buy enough beer and wine. While special cocktails can be a hit, beer and wine are often what people reach for at a cocktail party. A few tips to keep in mind when shopping for wine and beer:
Each guest drinking beer with likely consume one 12oz bottle per hour for the duration of the party. Try buying a mix of domestic brews and local micro brews. Each guest drinking wine will consume one 5 oz glass of wine per hour for the duration of the party. There are approximately five glasses of wine per bottle.
Have fun with your home bar. Cocktails are meant for celebrations to create good memories with your friends and family.Know you guests and ensure your bar is stocked with what they like to drink. Make them special and taken care of.
Buy enough ice, Have you ever tried to drink a cocktail and it's only got two half melted ice floating on the top and is?barely?cold. It tends to ruin a great thing. You should have 2.5 pounds of ice for every person at your party. If you plan to have an ice bucket or nice stainless buckets filled for your white wines and beers to keep chilled buy enough extra ice to fill those as well. Remember your ice bucket and displays will sit out and melt don't forget to account for that.
Try this drink recipe for a signature cocktail for the night:
Orange - Cranberry Gin & Tonic
5oz ice
1oz Gin
1.5oz OJ 3.5oz Tonic Garnish with a few frozen cranberries and a twist of orange rind.
Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure itPublic release date: 26-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Hughes hughes.r@ghc.org 206-287-2055 Group Health Research Institute
People with earlier, less severe diabetes benefit more in HMO Research Network study
SEATTLEAfter gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some peopleoften even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.
Among the two thirds of the study's patients whose diabetes at first went away, more than a third re-developed diabetes again within five years after gastric surgery. After adding in the one quarter of patients whose diabetes never remitted after surgery, most (56 percent) of the study's patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following gastric surgery. However, when diabetes did go away, the research team extrapolated, it stayed away for a median of eight years.
Which kinds of obese people with type 2 diabetes are likely to get the most benefit from gastric surgery? "Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery," said principal investigator David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute. "Gastric surgery isn't for everyone," he said. "But this evidence suggests that, once you have diabetes and are severely obese, you should strongly consider it, even though it doesn't seem to be a cure for most patients."
The multi-site study tracked 4,434 adults at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and HealthPartners for 14 years: from 1995 to 2008. The research arms of all three of these integrated health care delivery systemsand Group Health Research Institute, where the study's results were analyzedbelong to the HMO Research Network. The patients had type 2 diabetes that was either controlled with medication or else uncontrolled, and they were also obese enough to be candidates for gastric bypass surgery.
"Diabetes is an increasingly common disease that tends to keep getting worse relentlessly," Dr. Arterburn said. More than 25 million American adults have diabetesand as populations age and keep gaining weight, 50 million are predicted to have it by 2050. Already, diabetes accounts for 5 percent of all U.S. health care spending. And it raises the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"Prevention is by far the best medicine for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Once you have diabetes, it's really hard to get rid of. Attempts to treat it with intensive lifestyle changes and medical management have been disappointing." For instance, the National Institutes of Health recently halted the Look AHEAD study of intensive lifestyle changes for people with diabetes. Despite improvements in risk factors like body weight, fitness, and blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, that study showed lifestyle changes did not lower the outcomes that matter most: heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"No wonder so many were excited to learn that diabetes can remit after gastric surgeryeven, in some cases, before any significant weight lossand many were hoping that gastric surgery might be a 'cure' for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Our study is the first major evidence that diabetes often recurs after gastric bypass surgery." Still, he added, even after diabetes comes back, having had a long period of post-surgery remission is likely to have many positive effects, such as fewer complications of diabetes: less damage to eyes and kidneys, and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. The researchers are now funded by the National Institutes of Health to study that possibility in this same population. Dr. Arterburn is also leading a randomized controlled pilot trial of intensive behavioral treatment vs. gastric surgery at Group Health with colleagues from the University of Washington.
It's still not clear whether diabetes relapse happens because of gaining weight back or because of underlying the progression of diabetes. But patients' weightbefore and after surgerywas not strongly correlated with remission or relapse of diabetes in this population.
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As part of the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded this project under contract HHSA290-2005-0033-I-TO10-WA1, led by Dr. Arterburn.
Drs. Arterburn's co-authors were: Andy Bogart, MS, and Mary Kay Theis, MA, MS, of Group Health Research Institute; David McCulloch, MD, of Group Health Cooperative; Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD, and Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH, of HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland; Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in Pasadena; Guilherme M. Campos, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison; Sebastien Haneuse, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston; and Joe Selby, MD, MPH, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), in Washington, DC. Dr. Arterburn is also an affiliate associate professor of medicine and Dr. McCulloch is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. AHRQ is a home to research centers that specialize in major areas of health care research such as quality improvement and patient safety, outcomes and effectiveness of care, clinical practice and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems. It is also a major source of funding and technical assistance for health services research and research training at leading U.S. universities and other institutions, as well as a science partner, working with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for what worksand does not workin health and health care and to translate this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.
HMO Research Network
The HMO Research Network includes 19 research centers, each associated with a health care delivery system. Researchers at the centers collaborate on multi-site studies in real-world health care settings across the United States and in Israel. With access to information on more than 16 million ethnically and geographically diverse patients, these researchers are finding solutions for common and rare health problems. Since 1994, the Network has been answering pressing questions about keeping people healthy and delivering effective care.
About the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research conducts, publishes and disseminates epidemiologic and health services research to improve the health and medical care of Kaiser Permanente members and the society at large. It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. Located in Oakland, Calif., the Division of Research employs over 600 staff working on more than 250 epidemiological and health services research projects. For more information, visit www.dor.kaiser.org.
About the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation
The Department of Research and Evaluation (R&E) conducts high quality, innovative research into disease etiology, prevention, treatment and care delivery. Investigators conduct epidemiology, health sciences, and behavioral research as well as clinical trials. Located in Pasadena, Calif., the department focuses on translating research to practice quickly to benefit the health and lives of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members and the general population. Visit www.kp.org/research.
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research is dedicated to improving health through discovery, the translation of research, and health professional education. Our researchers are dedicated to conducting high-quality, public-domain health research, proposed and led by multidisciplinary teams of independent PhD- and MD-level investigators rigorously trained in statistics, economics, epidemiology, and other fields. The Institute is part of a larger organization consisting of HealthPartners, Regions Hospital, and clinics.
Group Health Research Institute
Group Health Research Institute is the research arm of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system. Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative coordinates health care and coverage. Group Health Research Institute changed its name from Group Health Center for Health Studies in 2009. Since 1983, the Institute has conducted nonproprietary public-interest research on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major health problems. Government and private research grants provide its main funding.
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Gastric bypass surgery helps diabetes but doesn't cure itPublic release date: 26-Nov-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Rebecca Hughes hughes.r@ghc.org 206-287-2055 Group Health Research Institute
People with earlier, less severe diabetes benefit more in HMO Research Network study
SEATTLEAfter gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some peopleoften even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years.
Among the two thirds of the study's patients whose diabetes at first went away, more than a third re-developed diabetes again within five years after gastric surgery. After adding in the one quarter of patients whose diabetes never remitted after surgery, most (56 percent) of the study's patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following gastric surgery. However, when diabetes did go away, the research team extrapolated, it stayed away for a median of eight years.
Which kinds of obese people with type 2 diabetes are likely to get the most benefit from gastric surgery? "Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery," said principal investigator David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute. "Gastric surgery isn't for everyone," he said. "But this evidence suggests that, once you have diabetes and are severely obese, you should strongly consider it, even though it doesn't seem to be a cure for most patients."
The multi-site study tracked 4,434 adults at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and HealthPartners for 14 years: from 1995 to 2008. The research arms of all three of these integrated health care delivery systemsand Group Health Research Institute, where the study's results were analyzedbelong to the HMO Research Network. The patients had type 2 diabetes that was either controlled with medication or else uncontrolled, and they were also obese enough to be candidates for gastric bypass surgery.
"Diabetes is an increasingly common disease that tends to keep getting worse relentlessly," Dr. Arterburn said. More than 25 million American adults have diabetesand as populations age and keep gaining weight, 50 million are predicted to have it by 2050. Already, diabetes accounts for 5 percent of all U.S. health care spending. And it raises the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"Prevention is by far the best medicine for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Once you have diabetes, it's really hard to get rid of. Attempts to treat it with intensive lifestyle changes and medical management have been disappointing." For instance, the National Institutes of Health recently halted the Look AHEAD study of intensive lifestyle changes for people with diabetes. Despite improvements in risk factors like body weight, fitness, and blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, that study showed lifestyle changes did not lower the outcomes that matter most: heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.
"No wonder so many were excited to learn that diabetes can remit after gastric surgeryeven, in some cases, before any significant weight lossand many were hoping that gastric surgery might be a 'cure' for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Our study is the first major evidence that diabetes often recurs after gastric bypass surgery." Still, he added, even after diabetes comes back, having had a long period of post-surgery remission is likely to have many positive effects, such as fewer complications of diabetes: less damage to eyes and kidneys, and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. The researchers are now funded by the National Institutes of Health to study that possibility in this same population. Dr. Arterburn is also leading a randomized controlled pilot trial of intensive behavioral treatment vs. gastric surgery at Group Health with colleagues from the University of Washington.
It's still not clear whether diabetes relapse happens because of gaining weight back or because of underlying the progression of diabetes. But patients' weightbefore and after surgerywas not strongly correlated with remission or relapse of diabetes in this population.
###
As part of the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded this project under contract HHSA290-2005-0033-I-TO10-WA1, led by Dr. Arterburn.
Drs. Arterburn's co-authors were: Andy Bogart, MS, and Mary Kay Theis, MA, MS, of Group Health Research Institute; David McCulloch, MD, of Group Health Cooperative; Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD, and Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH, of HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland; Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in Pasadena; Guilherme M. Campos, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison; Sebastien Haneuse, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston; and Joe Selby, MD, MPH, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), in Washington, DC. Dr. Arterburn is also an affiliate associate professor of medicine and Dr. McCulloch is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health. AHRQ is a home to research centers that specialize in major areas of health care research such as quality improvement and patient safety, outcomes and effectiveness of care, clinical practice and technology assessment, and health care organization and delivery systems. It is also a major source of funding and technical assistance for health services research and research training at leading U.S. universities and other institutions, as well as a science partner, working with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for what worksand does not workin health and health care and to translate this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.
HMO Research Network
The HMO Research Network includes 19 research centers, each associated with a health care delivery system. Researchers at the centers collaborate on multi-site studies in real-world health care settings across the United States and in Israel. With access to information on more than 16 million ethnically and geographically diverse patients, these researchers are finding solutions for common and rare health problems. Since 1994, the Network has been answering pressing questions about keeping people healthy and delivering effective care.
About the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research conducts, publishes and disseminates epidemiologic and health services research to improve the health and medical care of Kaiser Permanente members and the society at large. It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. Located in Oakland, Calif., the Division of Research employs over 600 staff working on more than 250 epidemiological and health services research projects. For more information, visit www.dor.kaiser.org.
About the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation
The Department of Research and Evaluation (R&E) conducts high quality, innovative research into disease etiology, prevention, treatment and care delivery. Investigators conduct epidemiology, health sciences, and behavioral research as well as clinical trials. Located in Pasadena, Calif., the department focuses on translating research to practice quickly to benefit the health and lives of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members and the general population. Visit www.kp.org/research.
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research is dedicated to improving health through discovery, the translation of research, and health professional education. Our researchers are dedicated to conducting high-quality, public-domain health research, proposed and led by multidisciplinary teams of independent PhD- and MD-level investigators rigorously trained in statistics, economics, epidemiology, and other fields. The Institute is part of a larger organization consisting of HealthPartners, Regions Hospital, and clinics.
Group Health Research Institute
Group Health Research Institute is the research arm of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system. Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative coordinates health care and coverage. Group Health Research Institute changed its name from Group Health Center for Health Studies in 2009. Since 1983, the Institute has conducted nonproprietary public-interest research on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major health problems. Government and private research grants provide its main funding.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A Republican senator said Sunday "it's fair to ask my party to put revenue on the table" as part of the solution to avoid the looming automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff."
South Carolina's Lindsey Graham said he's "willing to generate revenue" by steps such as capping tax deductions, which he says would most affect upper-income Americans. But he says he won't agree to higher taxes ? a position shared by most Republicans in Congress.
President Barack Obama wants to let tax rates rise for wealthy families while sparing middle- and low-income taxpayers.
Graham told ABC's "This Week" that "for the good of the country," he's ready to violate an anti-tax pledge followed by most Republicans if Democrats agree to big changes in entitlement programs.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said a pledge signed years ago should not necessarily apply in economic conditions that have changed greatly.
"I think everything should be on the table," he said, adding "I'm just saying we should not be taking ironclad positions."
King said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "we have to show the world we're adults. The election's over." Get Obama and the congressional leaders in a room, he said. "That's what representative government should be about. No one gets all their way."
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Cats and dogs can live together peacefully.? The thing is, they don't always live together peacefully.? There's plenty of things that can go wrong in the cat/dog relationship.? For now, let's talk about what to do when the cat picks on the dog.
Cats like to skulk and pounce and swipe.? This mighty?predator?kitty show is quite charming.? That is, until all this taunting and zooming has left the poor dog unable to move around in his home without being ambushed.??
Take action before it comes to this.
The cat jumps on the dog because it's fun.? One thing you might try is playing with your cat, then perhaps he'll get his fill of?fun, leaving him?no need to torment the dog.?
Some say squirting the cat with water deters bad behavior.? From what cat owners trying to keep kitty off the kitchen counter or out of the house plants tell me, the squirt bottle system doesn't work very well.? At best, the cat refrains from the designated bad behavior only when you are present.? This will help the long suffering dog only if you keep dog and cat separated when you are not watching.
You can anticipate when the cat is about to attack the dog.? The cat will arch his back, lower his head, and may get a determined gleefully hostile look in his eye.? Yelling NO at this point won't do much good.? (It works with dogs.? Do dogs have a conscience and cats don't?? Are dogs more inclined to be respectful of authority?? Is it that cats think they are the authority?? Thorny questions to be explored another time...)
You can do something before kitty leaps unto the dog.? Distract him.? Step in before the cat takes flight.? Engage and entertain this energetic feline.? Offer a toy on the end of a stick, for instance.? The cat can deploy his killer instinct by swiping at a stuffed fish rather than Rover's tender hide.? Help the cat release some of that vigor with other toys, a new scratching post, or invest in one of those cat rigs with the tunnels and planks to run on.? Even if you live in a small place, you can find room for a cat's amusement park by placing it up high.? Cat's don't generally fear heights!? Just be on the look out that kitty doesn't use his new improved higher perch to banzai the dog.? That would make you a sort of an enabler. Just to be on the safe side, consider arranging for ways that the dog can avoid the cat when you are not there to referee.
One other suggestion.? Maybe the cat needs his chin rubbed or a chance to sit with you on the couch.? Is the dog the only one getting petted?? Could be the cat just wants more attention from you.
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