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    <title>OUKosher.org Featured Article/title>
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    <dc:creator>brukirer@ou.org</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2008-07-14T16:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Glossary of Kosher Terms for Companies</title>
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      <dc:subject>Industrial Kosher, The Kosher Certification Process</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some non-English kosher terms that you may come across along with their explanations.
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      <dc:date>2006-12-25T18:40:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Kosher Supervisor In Louisville Plays Matchmaker</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_kosher_supervisor_in_louisville_plays_matchmaker/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, OU Kosher News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rabbi Yosef Levy’s official job is as a Rabbinic Field Representative (RFR) in Kentucky and Indiana for the Orthodox Union, in which he certifies food plants as kosher, but in his spare time he uses that position for another, altruistic pursuit: playing matchmaker between the OU-certified companies he supervises and Louisville’s Jewish Family and Vocational Service’s (JFVS) Food Pantry. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-07-14T16:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lo basi Ella L&#8217;orer &#45; Waiting 24 hours to do hagalah</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lo_basi_ella_lorer_waiting_24_hours_to_do_hagalah/</link>
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      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-07-11T18:11:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>General Mills Cereals</title>
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      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A list of General Mills cereals, their status and their <i>brachah</i>.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-07-10T15:28:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Process of Koshering</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_process_of_koshering/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-07-10T15:02:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lo Basi Ella L&#8217;orer &#45; Calculating Bitul</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lo_basi_ela_lorar_calculating_bitul/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-07-07T14:31:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Kashruth Issues of Toothpaste</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/kashruth_issues_of_toothpaste/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Behind the Scenes (Theoretical Kashruth)</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-07-07T13:28:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>New Concern For Kosher Pizza Eaters Prompts OU Kosher</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/new_concern_for_kosher_pizza_eaters_prompts_ou_kosher/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, OU Kosher News, Programs/Events</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Kosher pizza, anyone? Those who keep the laws of kemach yashan must check whether their favorite pizza stores certify that the wheat used to bake the pizza is kemach yashan, the Torah law that states that only grains (barley, oats, rye, spelt and wheat) that took root prior to Passover may be consumed in the current year. Jewish law mandates its observance in Israel, while allowing for leniencies outside of Israel. Nonetheless, there are people who observe this law even outside of Israel, and they are facing problems.
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      <dc:date>2008-06-20T15:04:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Styrofoam Cups and Aluminum Foil</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/styrofoam_cups_and_aluminum_foil/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Behind the Scenes (Theoretical Kashruth), Kosher Professionals, Articles</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the past several decades the kosher industry has grown considerably. Food companies recognizing the profitability of the kosher market have pursued kosher certification in an effort to increase marketability and sales of their products. What has been especially remarkable is that the pursuit of kosher certification has not stopped with food. It is not unusual to find nowadays a hechsher on non-food items. Are there really any viable kashrus concerns with something that is inedible? This article will focus on three popular household items, aluminum foil and pans, Styrofoam cups, and paper towels. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-06-20T15:01:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lo Basi Ella L&#8217;orer</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lo_basi_ella_lorer1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Articles, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We know that in general before kashering a utensil one must make sure that it is an aino ben yomo. This is because otherwise the utensil will reabsorb the ta’am issur that it expelled. Because we say Chanan by sha’ar issurim even lach b’lach (unless there is a hefsed mirubah) all the kashering water will become assur and will reenter the pot.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-06-20T14:59:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Maror</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/maror/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Kosher Professionals, Articles, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Whether it’s the days immediately prior to Pesach, or throughout the yom tov itself, unquestionably, we always find ourselves in a period that encompasses myriads of details. Aside from the many halachos that pertain to cleaning for yom tov and riding oneself of possessing chometz, Pesach is also a time where one directly encounters many standard and unique kashrus sheilos. It is obviously impossible to thoroughly addresses even a few of the kashrus issues that are relevant to this special time. This article will specifically focus on the selection and preparation of maror. 
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      <dc:date>2008-06-20T14:56:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Chometz Sheavar Alav HaPesach</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/chometz_sheavar_alav_hapesach/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Kosher Professionals, Articles, Audio Shiurim, Kosher in the Kitchen</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pesach is a period full of kashrus related halachos. During this unique time we observe various dietary restrictions, which are part of the holiday’s special “halachic diet”. However, kashrus issues associated with Pesach do not end with havdalah after the last day of yom tov. Chometz sheavar alav hapesach, a term that describes chometz that was possessed or controlled by a Jew during Pesach, is strictly forbidden after yom tov is over. This issue is unfortunately quite relevant, since many food manufacturers, distributors, and retail stores may have either full or partial Jewish ownership. In each of these sectors, unless the party or parties involved are shomrei Torah u’mitzvos, any chometz in their possession may very well be forbidden after Pesach.    ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-06-20T14:51:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lo Basi Ella L&#8217;orer</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/lo_basi_ella_lorer/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-06-19T16:20:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Mesorah Conference On Mitzvot Of Eretz Yisrael Both Enlightens And Educates Audience Of Over 300</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_mesorah_conference_on_mitzvot_of_eretz_yisrael_both_enlightens_and_educa/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, General Interest, Industrial Kosher, OU Programs</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[They came from Randallstown and Baltimore, MD; Edison and Highland Park, NJ; Monsey and Spring Valley, NY. They came from Lakewood, Teaneck, Elizabeth, Passaic and Jersey City, NJ. They came from Allentown, PA, Plainview and New Rochelle, NY and throughout the Metropolitan New York area.  Speakers came from Eretz Yisrael via Boston and Stamford, CT. A crowd of over 300 gathered this past Sunday at Lander College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, for a fascinating eight-hour Harry H. Beren program on the Kedushat Ha’Aretz and Its Mitzvot, that is the mitzvot especially related to the land of Israel. The audience sat mesmerized by one powerful presentation and dynamic shiur after the other.

 
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      <dc:date>2008-06-19T15:32:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Mission Not Impossible: The Kosher Jew in a Non&#45;Kosher Milieu</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/mission_not_impossible_the_kosher_jew_in_a_non_kosher_milieu/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth, Industrial Kosher, Kosherization</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is well-known that when Robert A. Heinlein entitled his most famous novel, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” he adopted a phrase from the book of Exodus. Very often, the kosher consumer feels like a stranger in a strange land. Whether it’s an executive in a hotel during a business trip, or a Ba’al Teshuvah in his parents’ home, kosher consumers must sometimes navigate their way in a nonkosher kitchen. The purpose of this presentation is to offer some points of guidance to those faced with such challenges.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-06-12T13:23:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Are All Fromages Created Equal? Waiting Between Cheese and Meat</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/are_all_fromages_created_equal_waiting_between_cheese_and_meat/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Kosher, Practical Kashruth</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“You mean that I have to wait SIX HOURS after I eat cheese before I can eat meat??" Well, often yes. The Remo (Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 89:2) states that the minhag is to wait after eating hard cheese before partaking of meat, just as one waits after meat before dairy; this minhag has become accepted practice for Ashkenazim. (See Chochmas Adam 40:13.)
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      <dc:date>2008-06-12T13:20:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Nothing Fishy Here! OU Releases &#8216;The Kosher Fish Primer&#8217; DVD</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/nothing_fishy_here_ou_releases_the_kosher_fish_primer_dvd_to_clarify_issues/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News, Corporate</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Nothing Fishy Here! OU Releases 'The Kosher Fish Primer' DVD To Clarify Issues Of What Makes These Creatures Kosher

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      <dc:date>2008-06-05T13:43:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Kosher Releases Educational DVD Containing 91 Harry H. Beren ASK OU Kashrut Presentations</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_kosher_releases_educational_dvd_containing_91_harry_h_beren_ask_ou_kashr/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If you “ASK OU” Kosher about the intricacies of kashrut, you are going to get a very substantial answer, almost 55 hours worth.
            
That became perfectly clear today as the Orthodox Union Kosher Division announced the release of a DVD containing 91 presentations of ASKOU programs --kashrut education seminars presented by OU Kosher and made possible by a grant from the Harry H. Beren Foundation of Lakewood, NJ, in memory of Harry H. Beren z”l. Played end to end, the DVD would provide 25 hours of video and 29 hours of audio presentations.           

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      <dc:date>2008-05-29T14:43:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Kosher To Present Mesorah Conference IV, On Perspectives of Eretz Yisrael at Lander College</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_kosher_to_present_mesorah_conference_iv_on_perspectives_of_eretz_yisrael/</link>
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      <dc:subject>OU Kosher: Consumer News</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[OU Kosher To Present Mesorah Conference IV, On Perspectives of Eretz Yisrael at Lander College, June 15
OU Kosher will provide a halachic, historic and archeological perspective of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the special mitzvot that are connected to this holy land  when it presents Kedushas Ha’Aretz and its Mitzvos, Sunday, June 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p. m. at Lander College in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.

 
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      <dc:date>2008-05-22T14:35:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unauthorized OU’s</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/unauthorized_ous1/</link>
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      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Unauthorized OU's presented by Rabbi Baruch Cywiak. Recorded on August 11, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY, NY as part of the Harry H. Beren ASK OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:46:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pesach Issues</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/pesach_issues2/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pesach Issues - Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Singer on August 11, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:45:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Tevilas Keilim</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/tevilas_keilim3/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tevilas Keilim: Commercial and Private - Rabbi Elimelech Lebowitz - Recorded on August 11, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:44:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>OU Kosher Online</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ou_kosher_online1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[OU Kosher Online presented by Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff. Recorded on August 11, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY, NY as part of the Harry H. Beren ASK OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:43:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Oleo Chemical Industry</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_oleo_chemical_industry1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Oleo Chemical Industry - Presented by Rabbi Yosef Goldberg on August 11, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.

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      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:43:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The OU’s Hafroshas Challah System</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_ous_hafroshas_challah_system1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The OU's Hafroshas Challah System - Presented by Rabbi Dovid Rockove on August 18, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:42:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Flavor Industry</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_flavor_industry1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Flavor Industry - Presented by Rabbi Nosson Neuberger on August 18, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.

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      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:41:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Ingredient Research</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/ingredient_research1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ingredient Research - Presented by Rabbi Gavriel Price on August 18, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.

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      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:40:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Shiur on Bishul Akum</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/shiur_on_bishul_akum/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Shiur on Bishul Akum - Rabbi Menachem Genack - Recorded on August 21, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY,NY as part of the Harry H. Beren Ask OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:39:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The State of the (Orthodox) Union</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_state_of_the_orthodox_union1/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The State of the (Orthodox) Union presented by Rabbi Moshe Elefant. Recorded on August 21, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY, NY as part of the Harry H. Beren ASK OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:37:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Shul Kiddush: Is It Really Kosher?</title>
      <link>http://oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single/the_shul_kiddush_is_it_really_kosher/</link>
      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Kosher Professionals, Audio Shiurim</dc:subject>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Shul Kiddush: Is It Really Kosher? - Presented by Rabbi Dov Schreier. Recorded on August 21, 2006 at OU world Headquarters in NY, NY as part of the Harry H. Beren ASK OU8 Kashruth Internship Program.

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      <dc:date>2008-05-14T19:36:00-05:00</dc:date>
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