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Main Street Gazette: World News Roundtable - 7 February 2013


Here I am, talking about a nice, hot cup of joe ? again. After all of the Starbucks chatter over the past few months, you'd think we'd be all coffee'd out, but you'd be wrong. This week, it was revealed that Joffrey's Coffee will be replacing Nescafe throughout Walt Disney World and Disneyland. My response: YIPPEE! I know that NesCrape has its supporters, but I couldn't be happier to see it go the way of The Skyway. I've enjoyed Joffrey's several times from the espresso stations in Epcot and at the TTA (you probably have, too, without realizing it), and it's a nice, strong cup of warm, delicious energy. Word on the street is that they grind all of the coffee fresh in Orlando, which sounds just right to me.

Another week, another Limited Time Magic. It seems like lately I've been focusing a lot of time trying to understand this promotion, which in theory I love. But the problem with theories? They're often proved wrong...

So far each week has been very hit or miss. When I saw that "True Love Week" (Feb. 11 - Feb. 17) would include special prix fixe meals at several signature dining restaurants I thought this week would be a definite hit. Then I got a glimpse of the special menus...which include not one vegan option.? Each of these restaurants tout wonderful vegan options on their normal menus, so whats the harm in throwing us lowly vegetarians a scrap or two? I'm not asking for much, just ONE SOLID vegan prix fixe menu for this Limited Magic. Or, better yet an entire week where the whole resort is vegetarian. Hey I can dream, right?

Another round of Long-Lost Friends graced the Magic Kingdom this week, but their visit had nothing to do with Limited Time Magic. On Monday, February 4, guests found rarely seen characters dispersed throughout the park: two penguins with Mary Poppins in Town Square, Rabbit with Pooh and Tigger in Fantasyland, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum near Mad Tea Party. The appearances were unannounced and not part of any promotion or special event. They do not reflect a permanent change in the park's entertainment schedule, but rather a surprise treat for those who happened to be in the Magic Kingdom that day.

This kind of character greeting?spontaneous, unannounced, not drawing a lot of attention to itself, and existing for no other reason than "just because"?is exciting and commendable. There's something fun in the idea of exploring the parks without knowing who you might run into, and I hope the practice is put to use more often.

Last November, Amid Amidi posted an article on Cartoon Brew about his yet-to-be published biography of Disney animator, Ward Kimball. The release date continued to be pushed back because the Disney Company had decided they didn?t like how a genuine look at the life at one of their artist?s made their company look.

It?s truly disheartening that Disney would use its power to exercise such censorship, gypping their fans the opportunity to learn about an important figure in the company?s history.

Sadly, last week Amidi announced on his Twitter page that Disney had indeed blocked Ward?s biography from hitting bookshelves as a publication of Chronicle Books. Despite setbacks, the fight to get this book published is not over yet, Amidi promises in his tweets.

We can only hope that Disney and art fans alike will one day get the opportunity to learn more about Kimball through this biography, without interference from a company that strives too hard to perfect an image that is more like a fairy tale than real life.

Alan Mize

The Disney Company is good at a lot of things.? They've built fantastic theme parks around the world. They've built numerous themed resort hotels.? They've got top notch cruise ships and they've managed to be very successful in the timeshare business. All of that, however, pales in comparison to Disney's true calling...squeezing every last penny out of a franchise.

For those that haven't heard, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Disney plans to not only release Episodes 7, 8, and 9 of the Star Wars film franchise, but they also plan to release spin-off films that are based on specific characters. While part of me is excited about the possibility of a film about Yoda or Boba Fett, another part of me is very aware that you can get too much of a good thing. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic here, but let's be honest; Disney has a tendency to beat a dead horse sometimes. Perhaps you recall such cinematic gems as The Lion King 1 1/2, Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World, or Cinderella II. Those are just a few examples of Disney taking beloved characters and cashing in on them with reckless abandon. Maybe my concerns will be all for naught. Maybe I'll be wrong and these films will be fantastic. But for now, let's just say that I've got a very bad feeling about this.

There are plenty of stories in the Disney family of a small-time nobody making good and becoming royalty. No, I?m not talking about Tiana and Aladdin, I?m talking about individuals that started out as Cast Members selling magic tricks and ice cream bars or sailing down the rivers of the Jungle Cruise who rise to become big wigs in the company, famous actors, directors, and Imagineers. One such individual, Tony Baxter, hung up his ears at the end of last week.

In an open letter to Imagineering, you can see Tony Baxter wandering through decades of hard work and lessons learned. Mentoring to Baxter went both ways, whether he was working alongside Claude Coates or Imagineers who are up and comers but whose names are not yet recognizable. You learn from one another, the latest and greatest and time tested strategies. In his parting words, Baxter sought to show the qualities that were for so long instilled in the blood of not just WED and Imagineering, but the Disney organization as a whole. He had spent years attempting to bridge the earliest of Disney creators with whatever the current mindset was of the company, in his letter you can see how he has not given up this lifelong work to legacy, but instead will continue to be a voice of wisdom around the halls of Imagineering and hopefully will be picked up and carried on by the younger generation.

It is no secret that Big Thunder Mountain has been a favorite attraction of my since my earliest visits to the Magic Kingdom, and regardless of how it came into being, Tony Baxter had a hand in its creation. For that, he shall always occupy a special place in my heart. He came up through the Disney ranks to become the voice of imagination, ingenuity, and storytelling, a path a fear is all but locked off today. Then again, if there is magic in the world, and if we can dream it, then maybe we can make a difference, just as Tony did.

Source: http://www.mainstgazette.com/2013/02/world-news-roundtable-7-february-2013.html

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Senate committee postpones vote on Hagel confirmation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Armed Services committee will not vote this week on Chuck Hagel's confirmation as President Barack Obama's next secretary of defense, the panel's chairman said on Wednesday.

"The committee's vote on Senator Hagel's nomination has not been scheduled," Senator Carl Levin said in a statement. "I had hoped to hold a vote on the nomination this week, but the committee's review of the nomination is not yet complete."

He said he intended to schedule a vote as soon as possible.

Levin, a Democrat, said after Hagel's contentious confirmation hearing last week that he hoped the panel would vote during a meeting on Thursday.

But Republicans said they still wanted more information on issues including the former Republican senator's business dealings and past speeches, and would try to prevent a quick confirmation if they did not get it.

"I look for people to slow this train down, and let's get everything we need. And that's what I want to do," Senator James Inhofe, the committee's senior Republican, told reporters after a news conference on the defense budget.

Levin aides declined to elaborate on why the vote would not take place on Thursday as had been expected.

Hagel has provided some information on his personal finances, but said he could not provide all of what has been requested because it was confidential information from private organizations that he was not authorized to disclose.

Some Republicans have demanded the texts of speeches by Hagel, which Hagel said were not available because he spoke extemporaneously. Others have said they were awaiting results of a 2007 sexual harassment claim against a former member of Hagel's staff by another member of his staff, Foreign Policy reported.

There was no indication Hagel was involved in the incident.

Democrats have said the Republicans' objections were a last-ditch effort to convince Obama to withdraw Hagel's nomination, which is not likely.

Hagel, a former senator from Nebraska, faced a barrage of often heated questions about his record from fellow Republicans last week when he appeared before the Armed Services Committee, which must approve his nomination before it faces a vote in the full Senate.

(Editing by Jackie Frank)

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Ala. kidnapper planted bombs in bunker and shot at cops

Jimmy Lee Dykes, the man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker in Alabama, had two homemade explosive devices on his property and engaged in a firefight with SWAT agents before they stormed the bunker and killed him, according to the FBI.

One explosive device was found inside the bunker and another was located in the PVC pipe negotiators used to communicate with Dykes, the FBI said Tuesday night. Both devices were "disrupted," according to the FBI. The search for hazards is expected to continue through today.

Preliminary investigation reports indicate that Dykes engaged in a firefight with the SWAT agents who made entry, according to the FBI.

Officials were able to insert a high-tech camera into the 6-by-8-foot bunker to monitor Dykes' movements, and they became increasingly concerned that he might act out, a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the case told ABC News Monday.

FBI special agents were positioned near the entrance of the bunker and negotiators were able to convince Dykes to approach the bunker door. FBI agents used two explosions to gain entry into the bunker. It also appears that Dykes reinforced the bunker against any attempted entry by law enforcement, according to the FBI.

ABC News has learned that Dykes first opened fired on the agents during the bunker raid. Moments later, the agents returned fire, killing Dykes.

The shooting review team continues to gather facts regarding the incident, the FBI said.

The boy, only identified as Ethan, was rescued from the scene by a waiting ambulance. The bunker raid came six days after Dykes boarded a school bus, fatally shot the driver and abducted the boy, who suffered no physical injuries.

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"It's all about timing that is why you practice. You practice blowing the door in split seconds, flash bang, shoot before Mr. Dykes would even have an opportunity to react," Brad Garrett, former FBI agent and ABC News consultant, said.

Meanwhile, Ethan is set to celebrate his 6th birthday today, happily reunited with his family.

Ethan's thrilled relatives told "Good Morning America" Tuesday that he seemed "normal as a child could be" after what he went through and has been happily playing with his toy dinosaur.

"He's happy to be home," Ethan's great uncle Berlin Enfinger told "GMA." "He's very excited and he looks good."

"For the first time in almost a week, I woke up this morning to the most beautiful sight...my sweet boy. I can't describe how incredible it is to hold him again," Ethan's' mother wrote in a statement released by the FBI Tuesday.

Ethan is "running around the hospital room, putting sticky notes on everyone that was in there, eating a turkey sandwich and watching SpongeBob," Dale County Schools Superintendent Donny Bynum said at a news conference Tuesday.

When asked about a birthday party for Ethan, Bynum said, "We are still in the planning stages. Our time frame is that we are waiting for Ethan, waiting on that process, but we are going to have it at a school facility, most likely the football stadium at Dale County High School."

He said many "tears of celebration" were shed Monday night when Ethan was reunited with his family.

"If I could, I would do cartwheels all the way down the road," Ethan's aunt Debra Cook told "GMA." "I was ecstatic. Everything just seemed like it was so much clearer. You know, we had all been walking around in a fog and everyone was just excited. There's no words to put how we felt and how relieved we were."

Cook said that Ethan has not yet told them anything about what happened in the bunker and they know very little about Dykes.

What the family does know is that they are overjoyed to have their "little buddy" back.

"He's a special child, 90 miles per hour all the time," Cook said. "[He's] a very, very loving child. When he walks in the room, he just lights it up."

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Majority of Japanese Android users will never return to Galapagos

Will you never go back to a standard mobile phone? graph of japanese statisticsjapan.internet.com recently reported on an interesting survey from Trend Micro into Android smartphone usage. Actually, no survey title was given in the article, but that is probably close enough to the theme.

Demographics

Towards the end of 2012 316 people between the ages of 18 and 59 who had changed from a feature phone to Android in 2012 completed a web-based questionnaire, although it is not clear how they were selected or if the survey was private or not.

Note that Galapagos in the title comes from a frequently-used term for Japanese feature phone which have evolved in isolation to devices uniquely suited for their environment, but unable to establish a foothold anywhere else in the world.

Research results

Q1: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (Sample size=316)

I?m glad I changed to a smartphone.

Agree 35.3%
Perhaps agree 51.9%
Perhaps disagree 10.1%
Disagree 2.8%

I?ll never go back to a standard mobile phone.

Agree 25.9%
Perhaps agree 30.7%
Perhaps disagree 32.6%
Disagree 10.8%

My smartphone is as important to carry with me as my wallet.

Agree 24.1%
Perhaps agree 28.8%
Perhaps disagree 23.7%
Disagree 23.4%

I?ve become more efficient and can use my time more effectively.

Agree 21.2%
Perhaps agree 35.8%
Perhaps disagree 35.4%
Disagree 7.6%

When asked about which aspects of their smartphone they were satisfied with, 69.3% said the convenience of being able to read internet news and watch news video anywhere, 67.4% a rich set of apps, 63.9% taking high-quality photos, and so on.

When asked how changing to a smartphone affected their usage patterns, 29.1% had more opportunities for taking photos, 28.8% spent more time on the internet, 26.6% spent less time on their computers, and so on. On the other hand, 68.0% complained about battery life being worse than their old feature phone, and 25.3% said they now carried a spare battery or a recharger with them.

Q2: What do you pay attention to when installing apps? (Sample size=316, multiple answer)

I read user reviews 70.3%
I read the app explanation 70.3%
I check the safety with security software 44.6%
I check reviews of the app on the internet 40.2%
I study the permissions the app asks for 26.9%
I check other apps from the same developer 17.7%
I look up developer information on the internet 9.8%

Regarding security and privacy, 54.4% said they didn?t install software that looked dodgy, and 20.3% didn?t open email from people they didn?t know. Furthermore, only 11.1% took data backups, and 6.6% used some form of service for protecting the device (remote wipe, etc) when lost or stolen.

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Legendary NYC mayor Koch dies; Monday funeral set

FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

In this Sept. 11, 1985 file photo, New York Mayor Ed Koch raises his arms in victory at the Sheraton Centre in New York after winning the Democratic primary in his bid for a third four-year term. Koch died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 from congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. He was 88. (AP Photo/Mario Suriani, file)

In this Sept. 7, 1981 file photo, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, center, gestures as he marches in a Labor Day parade down New York's Fifth Avenue. Koch died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 from congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. He was 88. (AP Photo/Perez, file)

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2004, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch speaks at the first day of the Republican National Convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1977, file photo, Rep. Ed Koch, second from left, celebrates in New York with Bess Myerson, left, Carol Bellamy, center Diana Goldin, second from right, and her husband Harrison Goldin after being elected as New York's mayor. Ed Koch, right, as they leave New York's Grand Central after holding a news conference for the "Committee to Save Grand Central Station." Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? In 1977, New York City was deep into its worst fiscal crisis ever. Riots erupted that summer during a blackout. And a fire in one of the most blighted, bombed-out parts of town that fall led Howard Cosell to announce during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."

Into that mess stepped Ed Koch as the city's newly elected mayor. Within a few years, New York was back on firmer financial footing and the fears that the city was sliding into anarchy had given way to a new sense of energy and optimism.

Koch didn't do it all by himself, but is credited with hectoring, cajoling and noodging the city to make the hard decisions on its road back.

"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.

"When we were down, Ed Koch picked us up. When we were worried, he gave us confidence," Bloomberg said. "When someone needed a good kick in the rear, he gave it to them ? and, if you remember, he enjoyed it."

The brash, opinionated Koch, who led the city in the late 1970s and '80s with a combination of determination, chutzpah and humor, died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88.

A funeral was set for Monday in Manhattan as tributes poured in from presidents, political allies and adversaries, some of whom were no doubt thinking more of his earlier years in City Hall, before many black leaders and liberals became fed up with what they felt were racially insensitive and needlessly combative remarks.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said that although they disagreed on many things, Koch "was never a phony or a hypocrite. ... He said what he meant. He meant what he said. He fought for what he believed."

President Barack Obama said in a statement that Koch's energy, force of personality and sense of commitment "always informed and enlivened the public discourse." Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised him as a leader who "stood up for the underprivileged and underrepresented in every corner of every borough."

During Koch's three terms from 1978 to 1989, he helped New York climb out of its financial crisis through tough fiscal policies and razor-sharp budget cuts.

To much of the rest of America, the bald, paunchy figure became the embodiment of New York City's brash, irrepressible character ? the mayor who raced around town asking average New Yorkers, "How'm I doing," and usually being in too much of a hurry to wait for an answer.

Quick with a quip or a putdown, Koch dismissed his critics as "wackos," feuded with Donald Trump ("piggy") and fellow former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ("nasty man"). He lambasted the Rev. Jesse Jackson and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears.

"You punch me, I punch back," Koch once observed. "I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag." Or as he put it in his best-selling autobiography "Mayor": "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them."

Koch's favorite moment as mayor, fittingly, was a loud one. During a 1980 transit strike, he strode down to the Brooklyn Bridge to boost the spirits of commuters who had to walk to work.

"I began to yell, 'Walk over the bridge! Walk over the bridge! We're not going to let these bastards bring us to our knees!' And people began to applaud," he recalled last year.

But New Yorkers eventually tired of Koch. Homelessness and AIDS soared in the 1980s, and critics charged that City Hall's response was too little, too late. Koch's latter years in office were also marked by scandals involving those around him and rising racial tension.

In 1989, he lost a bid for a fourth term to David Dinkins, who became the city's first black mayor.

A lifelong bachelor who lived in Greenwich Village, Koch championed gay rights, taking on the Roman Catholic Church and scores of political leaders. His own sexual orientation was the subject of speculation and rumors. During his 1977 mayoral campaign against Mario Cuomo, posters that read "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" mysteriously appeared in some neighborhoods.

Koch offered a typically blunt response to inquiries about his sexuality: "My answer to questions on this subject is simply, 'F--- off.' There have to be some private matters left."

Describing himself as "a liberal with sanity," Koch supported President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004 and spoke at the GOP convention. He also endorsed Bloomberg's re-election at a time when Bloomberg was a Republican.

Proudly Jewish, Koch was an outspoken supporter of Israel.

After leaving office, he worked as a lawyer and continued to offer his opinions as a political pundit, movie reviewer, food critic and judge on "The People's Court." He wrote 10 nonfiction books, four mystery novels and three children's books, played himself in the movies "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The First Wives Club" and hosted "Saturday Night Live."

Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx on Dec. 12, 1924, the second of three children of Polish immigrants. During the Depression, the family lived in Newark, N.J.

After serving as a combat infantryman in Europe during World War II, he got a law degree and began his political career in Greenwich Village by winning a district leader race as a liberal Democratic reformer. Koch was elected to the City Council and then to Congress, serving from 1969 to 1977.

With New York in dire financial condition in 1977, Koch defeated Mayor Abe Beame and Cuomo in the Democratic primary to win his first term in City Hall. He breezed to re-election in 1981 and 1985, winning an unprecedented three-quarters of the votes cast.

In 1982, he made a run for governor against Cuomo, then the state's lieutenant governor. But Koch's bid blew up after he mouthed off about a possible move to Albany, saying that living in the suburbs was "wasting your life."

Koch's third term was beset by corruption scandals, one of which ended in the suicide of a top party boss in 1986.

Meanwhile, racial unease ran high after the deaths of two young black men who were set upon by gangs of whites in 1986 and 1989, and the mayor fell out with many black voters for purging anti-poverty programs and saying, among other things, that busing and racial quotas had done more to divide the races than to achieve integration. He also said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson during the civil rights leader's 1988 presidential campaign.

Koch attributed his defeat to longevity, not racial tensions. But he also said his biggest regret as he left office was that "many people in the black community do not perceive that I was their friend."

On Friday, Jackson said in a statement that Koch's "leadership and legacy will never be forgotten."

At 83, Koch paid $20,000 for a burial plot at Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space. "I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone," he explained.

The funeral will be Monday at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Dignitaries including Bloomberg and Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, will be among the speakers, said a person familiar with the arrangements, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to discuss them.

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Associated Press writer Samantha Gross contributed to this report.

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Biodiversity exploration in the 3-D era

Feb. 4, 2013 ? Taxonomy -- the discipline that defines and names groups of organisms -- is a field of science that still employs many of the methods used during the beginnings of the discipline in the 18th century. Despite the increasing use of molecular information to delineate new species, the study of the morphology of specimens remains one of the major tasks of taxonomists. These studies often require first-hand examination of the reference specimens (so-called type material) deposited at museum collections around the globe -- a time-consuming and laborious task.

To facilitate this procedure, a group of researchers from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) are exploring the possibilities offered by 3D digital imaging. In a recent article published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, the researchers use X-ray computed tomography to create digital, three-dimensional representations of tiny animals, displaying both internal and external characteristics of the specimens at a detail level similar to that of the microscope.

To demonstrate their method, the researchers imaged a number of polychaete species (marine bristle-worms) -- the choice of this group being obvious to Sarah Faulwetter, the leading author, because "despite being ecologically very important, these animals exhibit a fascinating diversity of forms and tissue types, allowing to test the methodology across a range of samples with different characteristics."

The resulting interactive 3D models allow any researcher to virtually rotate, magnify or even dissect the specimen and thus extracting new scientific information, whereas the structure and genetic material of the analysed specimen are kept intact for future studies.

The team stress the importance of 3D imaging methods for taxonomy on its way into the twenty-first century: "Our vision for the future is to provide a digital representation of each museum specimen, simultaneously accessible via the internet by researchers and nature enthusiasts worldwide," says the team leader, Dr Christos Arvanitidis from HCMR.

The instant accessibility of specimens will speed up the creation and dissemination of knowledge. As the authors point out, "human efforts, combined with novel technologies, will help taxonomy to turn into a cyberscience whose discoveries might rival those made during the great naturalist era of the nineteenth century."

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The study was supported by the European Union projects MARBIGEN (FP7-REGPOT-2010-1) and ViBRANT (RI-261532)

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  1. Sarah Faulwetter, Aikaterini Vasileiadou, Michail Kouratoras, Thanos Dailianis, Christos Arvanitidis. Micro-computed tomography: Introducing?new?dimensions to taxonomy. ZooKeys, 2013; 263 (0): 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.263.4261

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