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I am so excited announce a Mary Kay fundraiser for the Merritt family! The Merritts live near Nashville, TN and are in the process of adopting two young children from Ethiopia.
Shop Mary Kay online at www.marykay.com/brandydwade and a portion of all sales (until November 30th) will support the Merritt families adoption expenses. Here are a few holiday gift ideas to get you started:
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This blog post has been widely shared on adoption blogs these past few weeks. But I wanted to share it here specifically for our friends and family. This post, written by Jen Hatmaker (an AWAA Ethiopia adoptive mom and published author), is the perfect follow-up to What We Want You to Know About Talking About Adoption and Tonia's Outside Looking In post.
You can see the original blog post here:
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How to Be The Village
by Jen Hatmaker
Sometimes being ever-so-slightly in the public eye is rough. With a mouth and discernment problem like mine, you can imagine. I basically offer my life on the altar of criticism daily, then douse the sacrifice with plenty of fuel to make disparagement a lay-up.
For instance, Brandon and I attended a Halloween party last weekend with the theme "Heroes and Super villains." Our friends came in such costumes as Captain America and the Joker and Kim Possible. They were all very polished and adorable. We came as washed-up, possibly strung out Superman and Supergirl complete with ripped fishnets, smeared makeup, and pistol tattoo drawn with Sharpie. We may or may not have had unlit cigarettes dangling from the corners of our mouths.
These choices are often met with disapproval from the watching masses, as you might well guess. I know you wish I would only dress up as Little Bo Peep or Mary Mother of Jesus, but Brandon and I are very, very silly and immature, and I've been trying to tell you people this for some time.
But usually I am grateful for the connection to the greater world, if only through social media and the miracle of emails (plus embarrassing transparency). For example, just a few days ago, I received this email:
Our good friends just returned from Ethiopia last night with their two little boys. Ok, they've had their "airport" moment and we were right there with them. What are some things we can do now to support them in the "real life" journey without overstepping our boundaries? Thank you so much for your transparency and honesty. Everyone can benefit when you share from your heart.
I was so moved by this email. Having benefitted from a community that practically smothered us with support throughout our adoption journey, I am so grateful for all the other good friends out there, loving their people and asking how to help. Since reading this email, I've been marinating on her question, and I've decided to write this Field Guide to Supporting Adoptive Families. (And it will be brief because I will try to remember that this is a blog and not a manuscript and the rules of blogging include succinctness, so that is exactly how I'll proceed today, except for the exact opposite of all that.)
Let's break this down into two categories:
Supporting Families Before the Airport
Your friends are adopting. They're in the middle of dossiers and home studies, and most of them are somewhere in the middle of Waiting Purgatory. Please let me explain something about WP: It sucks in every way. Oh sure, we try to make it sound better than it feels by using phrases like "We're trusting in God's plan" and "God is refining me" and "Sovereignty trumps my feelings" and crazy bidness like that. But we are crying and aching and getting angry and going bonkers when you're not watching. It's hard. It hurts. It feels like an eternity even though you can see that it is not. It is harder for us to see that, because many of us have pictures on our refrigerators of these beautiful darlings stuck in an orphanage somewhere while we're bogged down in bureaucracy and delays.
How can you help? By not saying or doing these things:
1. "God's timing is perfect!" (Could also insert: "This is all God's plan!" "God is in charge!") As exactly true as this may be, when you say it to a waiting parent, we want to scratch your eyebrows off and make you eat them with a spoon. Any trite answer that minimizes the struggle is as welcomed as a sack of dirty diapers. You are voicing something we probably already believe while not acknowledging that we are hurting and that somewhere a child is going to bed without a mother again. Please never say this again. Thank you.
2. "Are you going to have your own kids?" (Also in this category: "You'll probably get pregnant the minute your adoption clears!" "Since this is so hard, why don't you just try to have your own kids?" "Well, at least you have your own kids.") The subtle message here is: You can always have legitimate biological kids if this thing tanks. It places adoption in the Back-up Plan Category, where it does not belong for us. When we flew to Ethiopia with our first travel group from our agency, out of 8 couples, we were the only parents with biological kids. The other 7 couples chose adoption first. Several of them were on birth control. Adoption counts as real parenting, and if you believe stuff Jesus said, it might even be closer to the heart of God than regular old procreation. (Not to mention the couples that grieved through infertility already. So when you say, "Are you going to have your own kids?" to a woman who tried for eight years, then don't be surprised if she pulls your beating heart out like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.)
3. For those of you in Christian community, it is extremely frustrating to hear: "Don't give up on God!" or "Don't lose faith!" It implies that we are one nanosecond away from tossing our entire belief system in the compost pile because we are acting sad or discouraged. It's condescending and misses the crux of our emotions. I can assure you, at no point in our story did we think about kicking Jesus to the curb, but we still get to cry tears and feel our feelings, folks. Jesus did. And I'm pretty sure he went to heaven when he died.
4. We're happy to field your questions about becoming a transracial family or adopting a child of another race, but please don't use this moment to trot out your bigotry. (Cluelessness is a different thing, and we try to shrug that off. Like when someone asked about our Ethiopian kids, "Will they be black?" Aw, sweet little dum-dum.) The most hurtful thing we heard during our wait was from a black pastor who said, "Whatever you do, don't change their last name to Hatmaker, because they are NOT Hatmakers. They'll never be Hatmakers. They are African." What the??? I wonder if he'd launch the same grenade if we adopted white kids from Russia? If you'd like to know what we're learning about raising children of another race or ask respectful, legitimate questions, by all means, do so. We care about this and take it seriously, and we realize we will traverse racial landmines with our family. You don't need to point out that we are adopting black kids and we are, in fact, white. We've actually already thought of that.
5. Saying nothing is the opposite bad. I realize with blogs like this one, you can get skittish on how to talk to a crazed adopting Mama without getting under her paper-thin skin or inadvertently offending her. I get it. (We try hard not to act so hypersensitive. Just imagine that we are paper-pregnant with similar hormones surging through our bodies making us cry at Subaru commercials just like the 7-month preggo sitting next to us. And look at all this weight we've gained. See?) But acting like we're not adopting or struggling or waiting or hoping or grieving is not helpful either. If I was pregnant with a baby in my belly, and no one ever asked how I was feeling or how much longer or is his nursery ready or can we plan a shower, I would have to audition new friend candidates immediately.
Here's what we would love to hear Before the Airport:
1. Just kind, normal words of encouragement. Not the kind that assume we are one breath away from atheism. Not the kind that attempt to minimize the difficulties and tidy it all up with catchphrases. We don't actually need for you to fix our wait. We just want you to be our friend and acknowledge that the process is hard and you care about us while we're hurting. That is GOLD. I was once having lunch with my friend Lynde when AWAA called with more bad news about Ben's case, and I laid my head down on the table in the middle of Galaxy Café and bawled. Having no idea what to do with such a hot mess, she just cried with me. Thank you for being perfect that day, Lynde.
2. Your questions are welcomed! We don't mind telling you about the court system in Ethiopia or the in-country requirements in Nicaragua or the rules of the foster system. We're glad to talk about adoption, and we're thankful you care. I assure you we didn't enter adoption lightly, so sharing details of this HUGE PIECE OF OUR LIVES is cathartic. Plus, we want you to know more because we're all secretly hoping you'll adopt later. (This is not true.) (Yes it is.)
3. When you say you're praying for us and our waiting children, and you actually really are, not only does that soothe our troubled souls, but according to Scripture, it activates the heavens. So pray on, dear friends. Pray on. That is always the right thing to say. And please actually do it. We need people to stand in the gap for us when we are too tired and discouraged to keep praying the same words another day.
4. If you can, please become telepathic to determine which days we want to talk about adoption and which days we'd rather you just show up on our doorstep with fresh figs from the Farmer's Market (thanks, Katie) or kidnap us away in the middle of the day to go see Bridesmaids. Sometimes we need you to make us laugh and remember what it feels like to be carefree for a few hours. If you're not sure which day we're having, just pre-buy movie tickets and show up with the figs, and when we answer the door, hold them all up and ask, "Would you like to talk for an hour uninterrupted about waiting for a court date?" We'll respond to whichever one fits.
Supporting Families After the Airport
You went to the airport. The baby came down the escalator to cheers and balloons. The long adoption journey is over and your friends are home with their new baby / toddler / twins / siblings / teenager. Everyone is happy. Maybe Fox News even came out and filmed the big moment and "your friend" babbled like an idiot and didn't say one constructive word about adoption and also she looked really sweaty during her interview. (Really? That happened to me too. Weird.)
How can you help? By not saying or doing these things:
1. I mean this nicely, but don't come over for awhile. Most of us are going to hole up in our homes with our little tribe and attempt to create a stable routine without a lot of moving parts. This is not because we hate you; it's because we are trying to establish the concept of "home" with our newbies, and lots of strangers coming and going makes them super nervous and unsure, especially strangers who are talking crazy language to them and trying to touch their hair.
2. Please do not touch, hug, kiss, or use physical affection with our kids for a few months. We absolutely know your intentions are good, but attachment is super tricky with abandoned kids, and they have had many caregivers, so when multiple adults (including extended family) continue to touch and hold them in their new environment, they become confused about who to bond with. This actually delays healthy attachment egregiously. It also teaches them that any adult or stranger can touch them without their permission, and believe me, many adoptive families are working HARD to undo the damage already done by this position. Thank you so much for respecting these physical boundaries.
3. For the next few months, do not assume the transition is easy. For 95% of us, it so is not. And this isn't because our family is dysfunctional or our kids are lemons, but because this phase is so very hard on everyone. I can't tell you how difficult it was to constantly hear: "You must be so happy!" and "Is life just so awesome now that they're here??" and "Your family seems just perfect now!" I wanted that to be true so deeply, but I had no idea how to tell you that our home was actually a Trauma Center. (I did this in a passive aggressive way by writing this blog, which was more like "An Open Letter to Everyone Who Knows Us and Keeps Asking Us How Happy We Are.") Starting with the right posture with your friends – this is hard right now – will totally help you become a safe friend to confide in / break down in front of / draw strength from.
4. Do not act shocked if we tell you how hard the early stages are. Do not assume adoption was a mistake. Do not worry we have ruined our lives. Do not talk behind our backs about how terribly we're doing and how you're worried that we are suicidal. Do not ask thinly veiled questions implying that we are obviously doing something very, very wrong. Do not say things like, "I was so afraid it was going to be like this" or "Our other friends didn't seem to have these issues at all." Just let us struggle. Be our friends in the mess of it. We'll get better.
5. If we've adopted older kids, please do not ask them if they "love America so much" or are "so happy to live in Texas." It's this simple: adoption is born from horrible loss. In an ideal world, there would be no adoption, because our children would be with their birth families, the way God intended. I'll not win any points here, but I bristle when people say, "Our adopted child was chosen for us by God before the beginning of time." No he wasn't. He was destined for his birth family. God did not create these kids to belong to us. He didn't decide that they should be born into poverty or disease or abandonment or abuse and despair aaaaaaaall so they could finally make it into our homes, where God intended them to be. No. We are a very distant Plan B. Children are meant for their birth families, same as my biological kids were meant for mine. Adoption is one possible answer to a very real tragedy… after it has already happened, not before as the impetus for abandonment. There is genuine grief and sorrow when your biological family is disrupted by death and poverty, and our kids have endured all this and more. So when you ask my 8-year-old if he is thrilled to be in Texas, please understand that he is not. He misses his country, his language, his food, his family. Our kids came to us in the throes of grief, as well they should. Please don't make them smile and lie to you about how happy they are to be here.
6. Please do not disappear. If I thought the waiting stage was hard, it does not even hold the barest candle to what comes after the airport. Not. The. Barest. Candle. Never have I felt so isolated and petrified. Never have I been so overwhelmed and exhausted. We need you after the airport way more than we ever needed you before. I know you're scared of us, what with our dirty hair and wild eyes and mystery children we're keeping behind closed doors so they don't freak out more than they already have, but please find ways to stick around. Call. Email. Check in. Post on our Facebook walls. Send us funny cards. Keep this behavior up for longer than six days.
Here's what we would love to hear or experience After the Airport:
1. Cook for your friends. Put together a meal calendar and recruit every person who even remotely cares about them. We didn't cook dinners for one solid month, and folks, that may have single handedly saved my sanity. There simply are not words to describe how exhausting and overwhelming those first few weeks are, not to mention the lovely jetlag everyone came home with. And if your friends adopted domestically right up the street, this is all still true, minus the jetlag.
2. If we have them, offer to take our biological kids for an adventure or sleepover. Please believe me: their lives just got WHACKED OUT, and they need a break, but their parents can't give them one because they are 1.) cleaning up pee and poop all day, 2.) holding screaming children, 3.) spending all their time at doctors' offices, and 4.) falling asleep in their clothes at 8:15pm. Plus, they are in lockdown mode with the recently adopted, trying to shield them from the trauma that is Walmart.
3. Thank you for getting excited with us over our little victories. I realize it sounds like a very small deal when we tell you our kindergartener is now staying in the same room as the dog, but if you could've seen the epic level of freakoutedness this dog caused her for three weeks, you would understand that this is really something. When you encourage us over our incremental progress, it helps. You remind us that we ARE moving forward and these little moments are worth celebrating. If we come to you spazzing out, please remind us where we were a month ago. Force us to acknowledge their gains. Be a cheerleader for the healing process.
4. Come over one night after our kids are asleep and sit with us on our porch. Let me tell you: we are all lonely in those early weeks. We are home, home, home, home, home. Good-bye, date nights. Good-bye, GNO's. Good-bye, spontaneous anything. Good-bye, church. Good-bye, big public outings. Good-bye, community group. Good-bye, nightlife. So please bring some community to our doorstep. Bring friendship back into our lives. Bring adult conversation and laughter. And bring an expensive bottle of wine.
5. If the shoe fits, tell adopting families how their story is affecting yours. If God has moved in you over the course of our adoption, whether before the airport or after, if you've made a change or a decision, if somewhere deep inside a fire was lit, tell us, because it is spiritual water on dry souls. There is nothing more encouraging than finding out God is using our families for greater kingdom work, beautiful things we would never know or see. We gather the holy moments in our hands every day, praying for eyes to see God's presence, his purposes realized in our story. When you put more holy moments in our hands to meditate on, we are drawn deeper into the Jesus who led us here.
Here's one last thing: As you watch us struggle and celebrate and cry and flail, we also want you to know that adoption is beautiful, and a thousand times we've looked at each other and said, "What if we would've said no?" God invited us into something monumental and lovely, and we would've missed endless moments of glory had we walked away. We need you during these difficult months of waiting and transitioning, but we also hope you see that we serve a faithful God who heals and actually sets the lonely in families, just like He said He would. And even through the tears and tantrums (ours), we look at our children and marvel that God counted us worthy to raise them. We are humbled. We've been gifted with a very holy task, and when you help us rise to the occasion, you have an inheritance in their story; your name will be counted in their legacy.
Because that day you brought us pulled pork tacos was the exact day I needed to skip dinner prep and hold my son on the couch for an hour, talking about Africa and beginning to bind up his emotional wounds. When you kidnapped me for two hours and took me to breakfast, I was at the very, very, absolute end that morning, but I came home renewed, able to greet my children after school with fresh love and patience. When you loved on my big kids and offered them sanctuary for a night, you kept the family rhythm in sync at the end of a hard week.
Thank you for being the village. You are so important.
Formula is on it's way!
21 pounds of formula, enough to make 338 6 oz bottles, along with donations from Angi's niece are on their way to a family in Virginia this evening. It will all travel with them to Ethiopia on the day after Thanksgiving.
I also delivered three stuffed shoeboxes to Sullivan yesterday for Samaritan's Purse. Thank you all so much for donating!
24 Hours Left to Drop Off Formula!
Outside Looking In...
Anyone who knows me, knows Tonia is my best friend. And anyone who knows Tonia, knows that she is an amazing writer. Let me tell you, it makes me nervous every single time I use punctuation, because I know Tonia reads every letter of on this blog (because that's the kind of friend she is) and I know she is noticing each of my many grammatical errors (because that's the kind of friend she is... just kidding... no, I'm not).
I have been begging Tonia to write a blog post forever. And after the post, What We Want You to Know About Talking About Adoption post, she confessed that she had been working on a blog post about what it is like to be on the outside of an adoption. So I thought it would be good, for those of us inside the adoption world, to read what it feels like for our friends and family on the outside. I hope you enjoy it!
Outside Looking In
by: Tonia Carroll Johnson
My friendship with Brandy started when we were two college freshmen who knew of each other but didn't really know each other. We had been high school tennis teammates, and although we had talked before, we had never really had a real conversation. We found ourselves away at college, two and a half hours from home, lonely and homesick. We started spending evenings together, and the rest, as they say, is history. I'd love to add a lovely picture of us, circa 1999, but I have already been warned about ever posting such a thing on the internet…
A lot has changed over the years, and we have been there for each other through the peaks of happiness and the pits of despair. One thing that has not changed, however, is Brandy's desire to adopt. Before she even spoke of marriage, she spoke of wanting to adopt. It may have been during one of those lonely college evenings when we were still teenagers. I know that it has always been her heart's calling. Logan shares that calling, and their passion for the orphans is contagious.
As an outsider looking at their adoption journey, it isn't always easy, though. I am excited for them as they anticipate the arrival of their second child, but I find myself not always knowing what I can do to help, or wondering if I'm doing enough. I am careful in my conversations about adoption because I worry that I'll say the wrong thing. It is difficult for me to understand the adoption process, and I know that there are times when I should say something, but I don't know what to say, so I say nothing. Nothing, when my better judgment pleads "Say something!"
I don't speak for all family and friends of adoptive families, but these are specific things that have, or would, help me wrap my brain around things my heart already knows. Or is it the other way around?
* When we ask what we can do, give us specific ways that we can help, whether you are in need of prayer, are collecting supplies to send to the orphanages, or just need encouragement. Suggest ways we can use our God-given talents to help. For me, those things are "write a letter," or "make a craft." I can do those things and know that I am helping.
* Be forgiving when we say the wrong thing and gently correct our misconceptions. Or, when we're really just not getting it, be blunt. Know that adoption is a foreign concept for some of us, something we can't fully understand without having experienced it ourselves.
* Help us better understand the adoption process. Encourage us to ask questions and share resources with us. Invite us to an adoption seminar for friends and family, or allow us to share with you in your child's culture – at a restaurant, a church service, a traditional dance. Don't make us (me!) dance, though.
* Share your hopes and dreams for your future child. Speak of him/her/them often, and don't let us forget that they are already a part of your family, regardless of their present location a few states or half a world away.
It's true that some of us can be clueless. But some of us are really trying. We want to support you during the lows of the process and rejoice with you in the highs. We don't always know the most graceful way to do that, but our hearts are waiting with you to welcome your sweet baby home.
I have two fun opportunities to help orphans around the world this week!
First, there is another AWAA Ethiopia adoptive family with some extra luggage space for donations! I would like to fill a 50 pound suitcase with formula for them! They will be able to take the formula to Kids Care (or the orphanage that they deem the most in need) just a few days after Thanksgiving.
This is what happened the last time we collected formula and I would LOVE to do it again!
After that family delivered all of that formula, this is what they wrote to me:
"I was able to put the suitcases of formula directly into the hands of the nanny who was over-seeing the infant room. Thank you for making that possible! The nanny was thrilled. In the infant room there were only 6 little ones, but at least 3 of them were mal-nourished. One little guy in particular was swaddled in layers of blankets so that only part of his face showed. He had a feeding tube inserted through his nose, and the nanny said that he was brought to them almost starved and he had simply given up the will to try to live. They were feeding him formula in tiny amounts through the feeding tube. I was able to hold him and cuddle with him as I prayed (and cried) over him, asking him to fight and grow up to be a big, strong boy. It was SO good to know that there was plenty of the right kind of formula so that he would have a chance."
So, here is our chance to do this again. I will have to get it in the mail by Friday November 18th. Please, if you would like to donate a container (powder is best), drop it by our house or Smidgens or Lewellyn Technology. Or if you live outside of the area you can donate with our donate button on the sidebar. I have several $5 off Similac coupons so a $10 donation could purchase an entire container!
Every year Logan and I fill a shoe box for Samaritans Purse and this year we wanted to spread the word in hopes of collecting more shoe boxes to send.
To pack a shoe box, you simply find an empty shoe box and fill it with toys, gifts, school supplies and other personal items for a boy or girl ages 2 - 14. You can also add a picture of yourself and a letter if you want. Mark on the box the gender and age that you are packing for and I will attach the appropriate tag.
You also must include a check for $7 to cover the shipping costs. Checks should be made out to Samaritan's Purse.
You can read more about the shoe boxes and watch a video on packing a box here: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/index/
The national collection week is November 14 - 21. So if you would like to put together a box, please get it to me by Thursday, November 17th. I will take care of tagging it and delivering it to a drop-off point.
Ethiopia Vehicle Decals
We are selling Ethiopia Vehicle Decals for $5.50 each (this includes shipping). They are white vinyl and measure around 5 inches in height.
For payment, use our PayPal button on the righthand side of the page
If you have any questions, please contact us: BrandyDWade(at)gmail.com. Thanks for your support!


text: In this week's portion the Jewish People receive the Torah at Mount Sinai. How did G-d's voice sound like at Mount Sinai? Why did G-d command Moses to speak to the women before the men? What does it mean 'Don't Covet'? Rabbi Mizrachi categorises all the mitzvot of the Torah and shares fascinating insights to the parsha.

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THE results are in!
The most popular boys' and girls' baby names of 2016 in the UK have been revealed, with Olivia holding on to the top spot for yet another year.
Meanwhile Oliver has jumped a place to become the number one choice for boys, followed by Muhammed, Noah, Harry and Jack.
In second place for the girls was Lily (third most popular last year), then Sophia, Emily, Amelia and new entry Ava.
The research, conducted by global parenting site BabyCentre, showed more new parents are taking inspiration from the world of celebrity and showbiz and the great outdoors for their kids' name choices.
Traditional, nature-inspired names like Lily, Poppy, Daisy and Holly have all seen their positions rise within the top 50.
George has risen four places to take a spot in the top ten for the first time since 2012, while Harry also continues to rise, appearing in the top five this year with a jump of two places from 2015.
Other royal names continue to rise – Charlotte has shot up ten places and Kate and Catherine have also seen a boost, though William has fallen slightly from 13th to 19th place.
This year Rolling Stones rock 'n' roll legend Ronnie Woods called his twin girls Gracie and Alice – prompting many other parents to follow suit. Both names rapidly gained popularity in 2016.
Jamie Oliver's unusual name choice for his new baby boy, River, saw a last minute surge in popularity, with more babies called River than ever before.
Harper, the name of Victoria and David Beckham's daughter, is still a popular choice and is one of this year's biggest risers, jumping an astonishing 31 places to sit at number 56.
The Beckhams named their daughter after the author Harper Lee, who died earlier this year. Perhaps that news inspired other parents to honour the writer too.
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Coleen and Wayne Rooney's baby name choices are also proving popular, with Kai a new entry to the top 100 and twice as many babies called Kit and Klay compared to last year.
Names inspired by all things heavenly have been rocketing up the charts this year.
Nova, Orion and Luna have all increased in popularity – even the name Jupiter has been spotted in the far flung reaches of the baby names universe. Perhaps Tim Peake's epic space voyage ignited parents' imaginations.
Star Wars names Leia, Kylo, and Finn have all seen a boost.
And Ezra, from spin-off animation Star Wars Rebels, has had a meteoric rise, entering the top 100 for the very first time in 2016.
Biggest risers in the baby name charts include Jenson, up 31 spots to number 62; Stanley, up 21 spots to number 77, and Darcie, which rose 26 places to sit at number 34.
The highest new entries to the top 100 include Arlo, Ezra, Kai, Jesse and Albie for boys, and Mya, Luna, Lexi, Heidi and Lyla for girls.
Sarah Redshaw, managing editor of BabyCentre, said: "Luna is one of the highest new entries and with 2016 being all about Major Tim Peakes' epic space adventure, Star Wars and Super Moons it's no wonder names like this have seen a rise.
"With more Marvel and DC Comic films planned for next year and beyond, I suspect superhero names will increase further in popularity in 2017."
The full list of the top 100 baby names goes live tomorrow – to view it, click here for the boys and here for the girls.
Last week we reported the children's names on Santa's naughty and nice list.


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Norwalk, Conn. native averaged 19.3 points per game over three contests
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (February 5, 2018) – Freshman guard EJ Day (Norwalk, Conn.) of the Western New England University men's basketball team has been named the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Rookie of the Week, the league office announced on Monday afternoon.
Day averaged 19.3 points per game over three contests last week, and posted a pair of 20+ point efforts against CCC opponents.
Day opened the week with a 21-point performance against Endicott on Tuesday, shooting 8-of-13 from the field. He followed that up with nine points and three rebounds in a non-conference win over Dean on Thursday.
In Saturday's setback at Gordon, Day broke out for a season-high 28 points off the bench, as he shot 9-of-14 from the field to go with an 8-of-9 effort at the free throw line.
For the week, Day shot 52.6 percent (20-for-38) from the field and 92.3 percent (12-for-13) from the charity stripe.
In 20 games this season, Day is averaging 10.7 points and 1.8 rebounds per game. The Norwalk, Conn. native has scored in double figures 12 times, including eight of the last ten games.
Western New England (9-12, 5-9 CCC) travels to Curry on Wednesday night before hosting Nichols on Saturday afternoon.


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I will forever be the girl who only loves football so that I can stay in the kitchen and whip up the most delicious Sunday dinners and treats. Unfortunately, we are about to walk into the weekend where Sundays make a turning point, and the meals we associate with gamedays are forgotten about until after Labor Day. This gave me the perfect excuse to whip up an INSANELY delightful dessert that will be the hit of all your Super Bowl Festivities: Super Bowl Superfood Blondie Bars! Grain free and packed with protein. I think I've found my new yearly tradition. You will never know that these are so nutrient dense, and your guests will be WOWED by these drool worthy treats. Let me know if you try! Have an amazing Super Bowl weekend!
Ingredients (Makes 12 squares):
- Wet
- 1/2 Cup (Organic) Unsweetened Apple Sauce
- 1/4 Cup Nut Butter of choice
- 1 finely shredded medium sized zucchini
- 3 Room Temperature Eggs
- 1/2 cup ghee
- 1/2 Avocado
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- 2 Tbsp Chia Seeds
- 2 Cups Cassava Flour (I use Otto's, found at Whole Foods)
- 1 tsp Gluten Free Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Himalayan Pink Salt
- 1/4 Cacao
- 2 scoops Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides
- 1/4 cup Coconut Sugar
- 1/4 Cup Dark Chocolate Chips
Heat oven to 375, grease a brownie sheet, put all dry ingredients together and mix. Mix together all the wet ingredients (I do it one at a time with my Kitchen Aid stand mixer). Lay mixture flat into brownie sheet, cook for 22 minutes. Let sit for 10 before eating!
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Following UN Watch's speech today before the UN Human Rights Council exposing Iran's abuses, the Ahmadinejad government fired back, accusing UN Watch of "unsubstantiated allegations" and lacking "accuracy and decency." See our statement, delivered by Iranian human rights defender Nazanin Afshin-Jam, and Iran's reply below.
UN Watch Statement
UN Human Rights Council, 12th Regular Session
Item 2: Update of High Commissioner for Human Rights
Delivered by Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Thank you, Mr. President.
Madam High Commissioner, thank you for calling attention to victims of torture. My father was tortured, by a vicious regime. I know what it means.
Thank you for spotlighting discrimination in Tibet; the violation of women's rights in Sudan; and the shooting of human rights defenders in Russia.
Thank you also for putting a spotlight on the Islamic Republic of Iran: its fraudulent elections in June, brutal arrest of peaceful protesters, murder of Neda and other innocents, and rape of female and male detainees. Detailed evidence of these horrific crimes was released this week by opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi.
This is the government that tortured my father. And sitting next to me is Ahmad Batebi. They tortured him for 9 years, for attending a student protest.
This is the government that has at least 160 juveniles on death row, in violation of Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The evidence is documented in this new report by Stop Child Executions, entitled "From Cradle to Coffin: A Report on Child Executions in Iran."
Madam High Commissioner, you spoke of human rights, courage and political will.
Mr. Batebi and I here today to present this appeal by 50 Iranian human rights defenders.
We urge you to call for an immediate Special Session of this Council, to investigate Iran's gross violation of all basic human rights, and to take action to protect the victims.
After June, the world knows: President Ahmadinejad does not represent the people of Iran. The people of Iran want freedom, democracy, and human rights. The abuses are getting worse and worse by the day. There's no time to spare. Please, we need your help.
Thank you, Mr. President.
IRAN — Right of Reply
Mr President, in exercising the right of reply, initially I would like to reply to the references in the statements made by Sweden yesterday on behalf of the EU, as well as France and UK concerning the developments relating to the recent presidential election in Iran.
First and foremost, I should reiterate that the unbalanced and biased vision towards country situations in the world, prevailing in the aforementioned statements, has led to the stereotyping the situation in my country, while there are a lot of verily alarming human rights situations across the world, including among EU countries.
This negative approach, which is politically motivated, deprives one to gain a balanced constructive and inclusive attitude toward human rights. That's why an outstanding 85 % turnout of the Iranians in the recent pres'l election and compet election debates have not caught aan eye among these few countries.
Furthermore, the cause for releasing the detainees involved in the events subsequent to the election without mentioning the due process of law again shows a non-constructive approach towards human rights in a country.
Mr. President, what we really need is a change in such negative and non-constructive approaches.
Finally, with regard to the statement made by the UN Watch this morning, my delegation, while rejecting the unsubstantiated allegations therein, would like to remind the pertinent rules of procedures which stress accuracy and decency in addressing human rights issues before this august body.


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Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born stage director whose productions, known for their shrewd probing of human behavior and attention to acting subtlety, were featured in Europe's most prestigious theaters and opera houses, died on Saturday. He was 67.
Odéon Theater in Paris, where Mr. Bondy was the director, said on its website the cause of death was pneumonia. Unconfirmed news reports said that he died in Zurich. Since receiving a diagnosis of cancer in his 20s, he had often had health problems.
Mr. Bondy's range encompassed the classic and the modern. In theatrical drama, he directed Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen as well as Ionesco, Jean Genet, Peter Handke and Yasmina Reza. He directed operas by Mozart, Verdi and Strauss and by the contemporary composers Philippe Boesmans and Marc-André Dalbavie.
Mr. Bondy was a widely respected figure in Europe. President François Hollande of France said in a statement that Mr. Bondy had "embodied, by his personal history and his exceptional work, the culture of Europe." But his reputation didn't shield him from controversy in the United States, where he is best known for his production of Puccini's "Tosca" for the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2009. (It concluded its most recent engagement at the Met on Tuesday.)
The production, spare, dark and sexually daring replaced Franco Zeffirelli's sumptuous, hyper-real "Tosca," which had been a Met favorite and a tourist attraction since its first staging in 1985; it created an immediate brouhaha.
The curtain call on opening night elicited a wave of booing; several critics weighed in with corrosive reviews; and Mr. Zeffirelli, who hadn't even seen it, called Mr. Bondy a "third-rate" director and declared his tinkering with "Tosca" to be "a crime."
The New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini wrote, "Mr. Bondy probably wanted to rid his 'Tosca' of stock clichés, yet his heavy-handed ideas are just as hackneyed."
When that production returned in the spring of 2010 with a different cast led by Patricia Racette, Bryn Terfel and Jonas Kaufmann, Mr. Tommasini wrote that Mr. Bondy's production remained "drab, confused and full of gratuitous strokes geared to rattle 'Tosca' devotees." Though he also declared the opening "one of the most exciting performances of the Met season to date, thanks to three exceptional singers."
In any case, most critics acknowledged that however notorious Mr. Bondy's "Tosca" had become, it was not representative of his work.
Mr. Bondy was far from a self-aggrandizing extravaganza creator or provocateur.
In operas, including Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte" and "Don Giovanni," which he created in the early 1990s for the Vienna Festival; in "Hercules," an oratorio by Handel that Mr. Bondy staged in modern dress when it appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2006; and in theater works including Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," Mr. Bondy became known for illuminating character and finding unexplored depths in the emotional lives portrayed on the stage.
Manuel Brug, the music critic for the German newspaper Die Welt, said in an interview on Monday that Mr. Bondy was a great director who made the most of great collaborators. One example, he said, was Mr. Bondy's production of Richard Strauss's "Salome," which was created for the Salzburg Festival in 1992. It starred the soprano Catherine Malfitano and Mr. Terfel, the bass-baritone, and was conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi.
"You could feel his great sensitivity in his work," Mr. Brug added. "He was at his best when he was exploring relations between human beings. With him it was always about shadow and light. He made you look in the corners. It was not so much that he told me something new about the text; but he did show me the most subtle things in the heart of a piece. Not newness, but richness and nuance. When you saw a good Bondy production, you went away happy."
Mr. Bondy was born in Zurich in July 1948, into a family of intellectuals — the French newspaper Le Figaro reported that his father, François, was a philosopher — and grew up there and in Paris. He studied mime with the French actor and teacher Jacques Lecoq, and then spent much of the early part of his career in Germany, working in Frankfurt and Cologne and helping lead the Schaubühne theater in what was then West Berlin.
Mr. Bondy's survivors include a wife and two children.
His most recent productions include Chekhov's "Ivanov" at the Odéon in Paris this year, and Mr. Dalbavie's opera "Charlotte Salomon," at the Salzburg Festival in 2014.
"He was Swiss but with a French twist," said Mr. Brug, noting that Mr. Bondy was a bit of an outsider in Germany, where his career began after a period of political and protest theater.
"French elegance, French taste — and French melancholy, that too," Mr. Brug added. "He was never a guy for spectacles. He was not a political guy. His work seldom had political impact. He started doing pantomime, and he always loved magicians onstage. He had tricks, he showed tricks — but subtle tricks. He would never let an elephant disappear — but a mouse, yes."


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Imagine the following customer service scenario. Your customer has an issue. Your customer contacts you and seeks help. Your customer gets exceptional service. Your customer is thankful, so you ask your customer to tell the world. Your customer happily tells the world. You earn new business because of your customer's experience and willingness to share the great news.
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- DO – Listen. The most important thing you can do for your customer is listen and pay attention to what they have to say. A great listener will easily lower frustration levels and encourage the customer to provide all the important details, which will help you then resolve their issue.
- DON'T – Defend with Excuses. There's no reason to provide commentary or excuses. This will only heighten the customer's frustrations and delay the process for helping them with the issue itself.
- DO – Stay Positive. Your demeanor with regard to how you will support them and find them a solution will go a long way to keeping frustration levels down and allowing you to focus on finding the solution.
- DON'T – Make Promises you aren't Responsible for Keeping. You may not be the person who can actually fix the problem, so be clear that you will be relying on additional people and resources to get the issue resolved. Only go as far as saying that you'll do everything within your power to assist in the resolution of the matter.
- DO – Evaluate and Communicate. Based on what you know, formulate and discuss the plan to resolve the issue. If possible, provide timeline estimates and inform the customer of the steps you'll take to remedy the situation.
- DON'T – Blame. Don't point fingers at your processes, your colleagues or the customer. What's happened has happened and rehashing who's at fault serves no purpose. Keep the customer focused on moving forward and getting the situation resolved.
- DO – Follow through and Follow up. Be sure the issue is resolved, the customer then understand how it was resolved and that the customer is satisfied with the end result.
- DON'T – Stop Once the Problem is Solved. Don't pass up the chance to thank the customer for bringing the issue to your attention. Use the experience to help prevent the situation for other customers. Ask the customer to provide public praise and, if possible, direct referrals to others in their network.
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I am not a very good cook.
I still remember that I didn't know how to make rice (meaning, the most basic food in my culture) four years back. Over the years of random trial and errors, I advanced greatly via learning from other people's recipes.
台灣水煎包 Taiwanese pan-fried buns
數量 Amount of buns: 16
花費時間:麵團我花了兩小時發酵,其他包加煎大概一小時。 Time: the dough takes 2 hours, total 3 hours.
材料 ingredients
1. 內餡 Stuffing
- 絞肉 minced meat 390g
- 韭菜 leek 165g
- 雞蛋 egg x1
- 白胡椒粉 white pepper 2 tea spoon
- 醬油 soy sauce 2 table spoon
- 料理米酒 cooking wine 2 table spoon
- 麻油 sesame oil 1 tea spoon
- 鹽巴 salt 1 tea spoon
- 太白粉 potato starch 1/2 tea spoon
- 薑泥 grated ginger 2 teaspoon (see how to grate ginger here)
- 牛肉口味的果凍狀湯底 beef stock pot / capsule x1 (this is how it looks like, thanks Lauren :D!)
2. 麵團 Dough
- 中筋麵粉 flour 400g
- 乾酵母 dry east 7g
- 溫水 warm water 1.5 cup (180ml, 大同電鍋的水杯)
- 橄欖油 olive oil 1 table spoon
- 少許砂糖 a pinch of sugar
- 少許鹽巴 a pinch of salt
步驟 Step by step
麵團的部分 About the dough
- 把乾酵母泡在溫水裡面5分鐘,然後倒進400公克的麵粉裡面。然後加水加到總共1.5個電鍋杯的量,加上鹽巴、砂糖,最後加進橄欖油,好好認真的揉麵團。Put the dry yeast into warm water for 5 minutes, pour it in the bowl where you have 400 g of flour. Then add total 1.5 cups of water (including the previous dry-yeast water), sugar, salt and lastly olive oil. Push, fold, slap, roll the dough.
- 麵團滾圓,收口向下,表面灑一點水 After kneading the dough, roll it into round shape and make the silky, elastic, pretty side up. Sprinkle some water on the surface of the dough
- 用濕布把裝著你寶貝麵團的盆子蓋好,放在溫暖的地方(我這邊外面約零度,所以我放電磁爐邊,想說這樣會輻射熱可能會讓麵團發得比較好)Cover your dough with moist cloth. I stored it near the stove because the outdoor temperature was around 0 Celsius.
- 我調手機鬧鈴一個半小時,然後響之後開始把內餡的料拿出來擺好,這樣一來差不多讓麵團發了兩個小時。I set my alarm for 1.5 hours. When the alarm rang, I set the table for making the bum– the total time for the dough to grow was about 2 hours.
內餡的部分 [溫馨提醒~步驟1,2花的時間長,需要多一點時間準備. Note: you might need more time for step 1 and 2, so make sure you leave enough time for them]
- 把絞肉剁碎一點,到有一點黏性的跡象就可以。把韭菜切成大概0.2公分小段。 Chop the minced meat so it becomes finer. Chop the leek into 0.2 cm.
- 把牛肉凍湯底那個切碎倒入,把所有內餡的材料均勻攪在一起 Cut the beef stock pot / capsule into small pieces. Mix well the jelly, minced meat, leek and all the stuffing ingredients.
怎麼包? How to make the buns?
- 把發好的麵團放在撒有麵粉的沾板上,花一到兩分鐘揉一揉把空氣揉出來。Sprinkle flour on your dry chopping board, take out your dough and knead it for 1-2 minutes so the air comes out.
- 把麵團切一半,一半放回去蓋有濕布的容器裡面(防止它乾掉),另一半把他分成八等份。Divide the dough into half. Put half of the dough back to the container and cover it with moist cloth (just in case it gets dry). Divide another half into 8 pieces.
- 把小麵團壓扁,桿皮(或用手,都可以)把小麵團用到中間厚周圍薄。Make the small dough pieces into round shape, push it flat. Use the rolling pin (or just your hands) to make the pancake-shaped dough thinner on the margin and thicker in the middle. (for reference, see this video from 楊桃美食網, around 7 minute he demonstrates how to make the dough)
- 麵皮光滑朝外,放入內餡(跟麵皮重量差不多為原則),一邊轉一邊折,重點是不要讓餡露出來 Make the smoother side of the dough the outside of your bun. Put the stuffing in the middle of the pancake-shaped dough (rule of the thumb: the same weigh of the stuffing as the dough itself). Gently turn and fold the bun up so the stuffing is in.
怎麼煎?How to pan-fried it?
- 平底鍋燒熱(我先調到6,然後慢慢熱了之後再降到5),加上兩湯匙半的油。Heat up the pan (I heated up stove with max heat, 6, after the pan is getting hot I decreased it to 5 ). Add two table spoons of oil into the pan.
- 把包好的水煎包排好到平底鍋裡面,讓水煎包底部上色。Place the buns neatly into the pan, making the bottom of the buns nice and beautiful brown.
- 把水加熱,把這熱水分三次加入平底鍋裡面:加,蓋蓋子,等它水分收乾,再加,蓋蓋子,耐心等它收乾,再加,蓋蓋子,等它收乾。這樣的過程大約花10分鐘。Heat up the water. Add the hot water in the pan (so the water covers the pan surface) three times. That is, add the water, cover the lid, wait that the water disappear; then add again, cover the lid, wait that the water disappear; and finally add water again, cover the lid, wait until the water disappear. The whole process was about 10 minutes.
- 水煎包上加一些芝麻,趁熱吃!Sprinkle some sesame on the buns, serve immediately.


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Norman Wisdom, the cheeky joker in a cloth cap, dies at 95
Legendary comedian and actor Norman Wisdom died last night at the age of 95.
His family said he died "peacefully" yesterday evening on the Isle of Man, where he had lived for many years. He had suffered a series of strokes over the past six months that left his physical and mental health impaired.
In a statement, the family said: "He had maintained a degree of independence until a few days ago. However, over the last few days his condition rapidly declined."
Wisdom was the knockabout clown who made a million playing the downtrodden man in the cloth cap and the ill-fitting jacket. "Don't Laugh at Me 'Cos I'm a Fool," he sang. But people did laugh -- helplessly -- and they loved him.
The gump with the gormless totter and the sad eyes was a family favourite for laughs. But he also made them cry at the way he was constantly at odds with the world.
He was a 5ft 4in dynamo who clowned his way out of a poverty-stricken childhood, when he was forced to steal to eat, to become a world favourite comedian and a multi-millionaire knight of the realm.
He appeared in 32 television sitcoms, 19 films and won Royal approval with a string of Command Performances.
He also earned international acclaim, winning fans from Albania to Argentina and China to the Soviet Union -- in the days before technological wizardry and glasnost.
Born Norman Wisden on February 4, 1915, he had a tough upbringing in Marylebone, London. The son of a chauffeur and a dressmaker, he had one older brother Fred. His parents divorced when he was nine and he was brought up by his father.
Money was short and Norman's father was often away for long periods, either driving or in a drunken rage.
The hungry brothers pinched eggs, bacon, and bread to eat.
Wisdom left school at 13 and took a job as an errand boy for Lipton's Teas for 50p a week.
He broadened his sexual horizons through the keyholes of the London Ladies Forum Club where he was a pageboy. He was a cabin boy on a ship to Buenos Aires and also learned his skills as a prize-winning boxer at sea.
His first break into showbiz came in 1946 at a music hall in Islington, north London, and he won a place in his first Royal Command Performance in 1952. Rank soon snapped him up for a seven-year contract.
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He owned a Rolls-Royce but enjoyed speeding around country lanes on his motorbike. "It makes me feel young again," he said.
He loved football and was a keen Arsenal supporter.
When he turned 75 in February 1990, he said he would not appear on television again because most of it was "too smutty".
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Greetings NaNoLansing Wrimos,
It's hard to believe that we only have a week before we set sail for this crazy and exciting adventure called NaNoWriMo! Don't know about you, but there's a lot more preparation I'd like to complete before the 1st.
Luckily for all of us, we have 2 more prep workshops available – one in person and one online. (Details below under activities.)
If you're like me and love to track stats and see where everyone is in their writing journey, NewMexicoKid has once again provided the NaNo Faces graph for us. If you want to participate and see where you stand amongst your fellow NaNoLansingites, please post over at our NaNo Faces Thread.
Also, if you haven't done so, come say hi to us in the introduction thread, post questions or ask for help in this thread, share your NaNo Prep Resources here, let us know how you're preparing for NaNo here and sign up for or refamiliarize yourself with ChatNaNo (our online chat room) here.
Additionally – Friday is your last day to RSVP for our kick off. (Your ML needs time to make all of those goodie bags and assure she has enough goodies to go around.) If you haven't done so, RSVP here. More info on our fun kick off is here.
Onto our activities:
Thursday 10-25
Tomorrow's NaNo Prep workshop will be given by Elizabeth Heiter. She will be providing timely information about how to write efficiently and effectively, which will definitely help as we start NaNo. Elizabeth is a tremendous speaker and a prolific writer who has published numerous books in the last 4 years. She definitely knows how to use her time well and you won't want to miss this workshop!
Time: 7-9 pm (We can stay longer to prep more if we wish)
Place: Old Chicago 1938 Grand River Avenue, Okemos, MI 48864 – Map
Friday 10-26
Come join us in a Wrimoverse online writing workshop where you will get to know your characters better, practice writing titles, and give your fingers and creativity a workout with people from all over.
Time: 2-4 pm and 7:30 – 9:30 pm. (Two options. Same workshop.)
Place: ChatNaNo #wrimoverse channel (Be sure to sign up in advance so you will have easy access without waiting.)
Sunday 10-28
Our awesome kick off party!
Time: 2-5 pm
Place: The Avenue Café, 2021 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48912, USA (map)
We'll learn about our month long fun, have prizes, a potluck, games and receive a very special goodie in the goodie bag that you won't want to miss. (But you need to RSVP by Friday to be assured of one.) And if you want to bring something to our potluck, sign up here.
Thursday Nov. 1
Our first write in will be on the first from 7 until 10 pm at Old Chicago
Saturday Nov. 3
We will all be able to Dive Into NaNo at an all day write in at the Library of Michigan.
For more information and to sign up for the potluck, check out this thread.
Time: 10 am- 4 pm
Place: Library of Michigan 702 W. Kalamazoo St. Lansing (Lake Michigan Room 4th floor) – map
That's enough for now on the regional end. Onto Wrimoverse news. (And if you don't know what wrimoverse is, check out this thread. There's still time to join the fun!)
Greetings cadets!
The distress call is decoded and preparations are underway. Can you believe that week 3 of the SSA has now bubbled up from the deep? It doesn't seem quite possible, but there it is!
Those who've attended last weeks extra training session in the chatnano pool have been able to gather some extra points for their ships. It's a very close call; however, a fast wave can change that all. That is why you should quickly log your points to help your shipmates out and get ahead before we set sail for November!
You can check your ships bearing on the ship cup page.
Have any of your fellow cadets or cadets from other ships been super helpful to you? Did someone save you from drowning in prep, explain how to stay afloat really well or give you some pretty seashells? Then give them a Kudos! Just fill out the form and it will appear on the Shout Out page. You can do this at any time to point out an awesome shipmate or fellow cadet.
You can still sign up for the adventure by taking the S.T.A.R.S. More info on this can be found on the message boards in each living quarter or on the Wrimoverse website.
Those who would like to stretch their muscles and do some laps in the chatnano writing pool can join us on Oct 26, for a pre-academy training session. (inflatable scribbling aids not included)
10/26/2018 2 pm and 7.30PM at www.chatnano.net #wrimoverse
A week later there will be THE Launch Party!
Wednesday, October 30 from 10am- 1am, do join us in the chatroom for our kick off event that spans all the wrimoverse timezones.
That is all for now, Cadets.
Plot well!
Contemplative Cat aka Annette
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