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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>From the city of brotherly love is Amanda Ibrahim’s personal blog. Founder of Ferasha Films (www.ferashafilms.com) sharing her passion for film making with compassion for those in need.  She spent part of the summer of 2008 in Rwanda, Africa collecting footage, meeting street children, and volunteering at Umuryango Childrens Network.  Over the summer of 2009, Amanda began a new documentary film project in Kolkata, India, devoted to documenting the lives of underclass women living in poverty.

Ferasha means butterfly in arabic.</description><title>[ferasha] in the sky.</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ferasha)</generator><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>roseann:

brooklynmutt:siddman:hneeta:tommaso:Christmas is...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkum4IIHy1qz4afoo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://roseann.tumblr.com/post/255931047/brooklynmutt-siddman-hneeta-tommaso-christmas-is" target="_blank"&gt;roseann&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brooklynmutt.com/post/254668476/siddman-hneeta-tommaso-christmas-is-coming" target="_blank"&gt;brooklynmutt&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://darkerme.com/post/254662355/hneeta-tommaso-christmas-is-coming" target="_blank"&gt;siddman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://hneeta.tumblr.com/post/254628681/tommaso-christmas-is-coming" target="_blank"&gt;hneeta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://tommaso.tumblr.com/post/254622994/christmas-is-coming" target="_blank"&gt;tommaso&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://9gag.com/gag/14478/" target="_blank"&gt;Christmas is coming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;no thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Creepy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/256982732</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/256982732</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:02:11 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Thanksgiving is coming up in two weeks… why not watch some...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://www.fancast.com/tv/A-Charlie-Brown-Thanksgiving/59153/1078052292/Peanuts%3A-Specials%3A-A-Charlie-Brown-Thanksgiving/embed?skipTo=0" width="420" height="382" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanksgiving is coming up in two weeks… why not watch some Charlie Brown?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/241977367</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/241977367</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:58 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>life in bullet form</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Ahem. I’d like to dedicate this post to &lt;a href="http://laurenharper.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Lauren Harper&lt;/a&gt; who has been pestering me to update my tumblr and tell everyone about what is going on in my life. It will only make sense if I tell you what’s been happening since August.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;AUGUST:&lt;/b&gt; After completing my internship at &lt;b&gt;CBS News New York&lt;/b&gt; this summer, I found myself with two lovely weeks at home before adventuring off to &lt;b&gt;Kolkata, India&lt;/b&gt; to work on another documentary about the lives of women in poverty. But before I headed on my Lufthansa flight, I celebrated my birthday on August 11 by heading to baltimore with my “boyfriend.” Heh, &lt;b&gt;turns out he’s not my boyfriend anymore&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;i&gt;we’re getting married January 2011&lt;/i&gt;. And my ring is probably the most unique ring anyone has ever gotten. Screw the diamond industry and telling us what to buy. Ariel bought me a lovely garnet stone ring (the stones vary in shapes, oval, circle, and square, and they wrap all around my finger!). Although I wasn’t expecting to propose to him. For the past couple of months since he’s taken my dad out to dinner I’ve been asking him to &lt;b&gt;marry me!&lt;/b&gt; Apparently he was waiting for me to ask all day, although I asked too soon while we were in the car. &lt;i&gt;Oops.&lt;/i&gt; He even warned me that I would tell him to not do it that way when the moment would come—I automatically said &lt;b&gt;“YOU CAN’T DO IT THAT WAY!”&lt;/b&gt; Yeah, he knows me inside out… but I’m glad he does. So yes, that was the highlight of my August. I wasn’t expecting to ask him though! &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;SEPTEMBER:&lt;/b&gt; After leaving at the end of August to Kolkata, India, I return back mid-September from &lt;b&gt;filming and eating amazing Indian food&lt;/b&gt;. India is a very dirty place, but oh so much fun! But I would recommend to not go during the summer months, or you will hit the &lt;b&gt;97% humidity&lt;/b&gt; rates and suffer like I did. But at least their tasty food made up for it. School ended up starting, and after a very eventful summer, it was really hard to go back. &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;OCTOBER:&lt;/b&gt; My Rwanda Documentary &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;UMURYANGO&lt;/i&gt; premiered October 2nd in State College, PA. About 250 showed up to my premiere. It was a beautiful night filled with a large photo gallery, lots of people, and good Rwandan tea. Then I had my hometown screening on October 9 where about 70 people came. You can find out more about my projects on &lt;a href="http://www.ferashafilms.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ferashafilms.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.ferashafilms.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I’m going to turn &lt;i&gt;Ferasha Films&lt;/i&gt; into my senior project. &lt;/b&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;NOVEMBER:&lt;/b&gt; Well, it’s November now. Finals are coming up. But nobody wants to hear about the things I dread. My best friend is getting married next weekend. I’m one of her bridesmaids. She’s making me wear an orange dress. Ok. Persimmon. I’m helping organize her Bachelorette Party. I need ideas. &lt;b&gt;Thanksgiving is coming up too.&lt;/b&gt; I can’t wait to eat &lt;b&gt;turkey and the big cow butt&lt;/b&gt; my dad roasts every year. &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;So here you are, my life in about 4 months. I can’t wait for Christmas break either.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/240728428</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/240728428</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:31:12 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Verizon Wars</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/08/verizon-takes-another-swing-at-atandt-puts-iphone-on-the-island-o/"&gt;Verizon Wars&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;I found this site that shows all three Verizon Commercials mocking AT&amp;T’s iPhone service/internet/etc. It’s a good laugh…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/240694650</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/240694650</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:57:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Chinese bride gets married in 1.4 mile-long wedding dress </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5986681/Chinese-bride-gets-married-in-1.4-mile-long-wedding-dress.html"&gt;Chinese bride gets married in 1.4 mile-long wedding dress &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/157948041</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/157948041</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:22:14 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>School of Seven Bells, I saw them in Manhattan this past Friday....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/et5jHZbQhorl5u2dfewJUKgAo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;School of Seven Bells, I saw them in Manhattan this past Friday. Awesome Show. They don’t use any lighting, it’s all about what they project behind them. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/124340859</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/124340859</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:15:03 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>my life this past week.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Moved into &lt;b&gt;Manhattan for 2 months&lt;/b&gt; two Sunday’s ago for an internship&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Last Monday is my first day at my internship. After work I catch a train to Philly to take a final exam the next day. &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Took a final this past Tuesday in Philly for Business Statistics&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Spent Tuesday at the &lt;b&gt;Philly Art Museum&lt;/b&gt; and Ikea with Ariel while eating too much&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Spent Tuesday night in Queens with Marry&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Wednesday: made it to work. phew. Dead tired. Saw &lt;b&gt;Charlene Ava and Vinny&lt;/b&gt; at the Delancy. I filmed their show. Good stuff. &lt;b&gt;Plus Ariel came.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;I eat a pretty &lt;b&gt;huge burrito&lt;/b&gt;. Amazing! I also had a cupcake, the icing was too buttery though.&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Thursday: Settling in… finally getting to know my roommate. We eat out together. I aslo encounter my first ever &lt;b&gt;cockroach&lt;/b&gt;. I scream. Thursday night I have nightmares about them, I sleep with the hallway light on…&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Friday: I see &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;School of Seven Bells&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; at the Bowery Ballroom. They were freakin awesome. Their show would be killer if they ever got a live drummer though. It was the only thing really missing. &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Saturday: Sleep in. ZZZ. I shop with Charlene and we go to &lt;b&gt;Uni Qlo&lt;/b&gt;, my new favorite store (to all those american apparel fans, ha! you’re screwed). Then spent the night in Queens again with Marry. We saw &lt;b&gt;UP&lt;/b&gt;, Pixar is genius. &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Sunday (yesterday): Umm… I wake up in Marry’s bed with my clothes still on, apparently I fell asleep while we were in conversation. She takes the air matress in her living room. I’m such a good friend. We head back to the city and go to church, &lt;b&gt;Journey Metro&lt;/b&gt;. The worship leaders made me want to crack up, they need adderal. Then we meet one of Marry’s friends. I also went to the &lt;b&gt;Maoz&lt;/b&gt; here. They accept debit/credit here unlike Philly. Although they give you less falafel (boo!) by stuffing in lettuce with your pita. BUT they make Sweet Potato Fries at the NY Maoz! Philly needs to catch on. &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;li&gt;Today: just another day. Going to head to the lincoln center to buy my ticket for a documentary filmed in Rwanda called “My Neighbor, My Killer”. Film isn’t until the 22nd. &lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;/ul&gt;I &lt;3 NY.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/124116462</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/124116462</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:29:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>i like this song.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="BlipEmbedPlayer" height="150" width="100%" codebase="http//fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://blip.fm/_/swf/BlipEmbedPlayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="blipId=9982604" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://blip.fm/_/swf/BlipEmbedPlayer.swf" quality="high"height="150" width="100%" name="BlipEmbedPlayer" align="middle"play="true"loop="false"quality="high"allowScriptAccess="always"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"wmode="transparent"flashVars="blipId=9982604"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;"&gt;i like this song.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/105847376</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/105847376</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 11:05:24 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/et5jHZbQhn1lmvfs9foprw1Do1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/103012618</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/103012618</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 14:06:37 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>http://doihaveswineflu.org/</title><description>&lt;a href="http://doihaveswineflu.org/"&gt;http://doihaveswineflu.org/&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/102016275</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/102016275</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:25:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Of course Egypt slaughters 300,000 of it's pigs. I mean, it's Egypt.</title><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/101510744</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/101510744</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:45:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I have a secret obsession with Gilmore Girls. I thought I'd make it public today.</title><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/101205837</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/101205837</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:19:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://marry.tumblr.com/post/100216306" target="_blank"&gt;marry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bikeljackson.tumblr.com/post/100190596" target="_blank"&gt;bikeljackson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://plasticteacups.tumblr.com/post/100165748" target="_blank"&gt;plasticteacups&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;i lost the game about nine times today.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now, I lost the game&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;…. i just lost the game….&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;i hate you people. i lost it now too.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/100311970</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/100311970</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:29:25 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My friend’s band REILLY did a music video to their song...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4213047&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4213047&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4213047&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;My friend’s band REILLY did a music video to their song “Sunlight” — check it out!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;reillytheband.com&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/98254290</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/98254290</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:53:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>PLEASE TELL ME THIS GIRL IS KIDDING. </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mirandasings08"&gt;PLEASE TELL ME THIS GIRL IS KIDDING. &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;I found this girl on YouTube, and please please please tell me she is kidding! Free voice lessons? Professional singer? Whhaaaaaaaaaaat????? &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/92941300</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/92941300</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:57:35 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I have been the happiest person on the planet lately.</title><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/88896748</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/88896748</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:28:03 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>roseann:

thedailywhat:

Joe Heller.
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63kr4e1rbm12RGPR5o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://roseann.tumblr.com/post/84683054/thedailywhat-joe-heller" target="_blank"&gt;roseann&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedw.us/post/84228610/joe-heller" target="_blank"&gt;thedailywhat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/hellercartoons" target="_blank"&gt;Joe Heller&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/84773637</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/84773637</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:48:50 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>rwanda:
REILLY is performing to some of my documentary images in...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/J6zWx0vljkgm6btdaWkQumOro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rwanda.tumblr.com/post/82031245/reilly-is-performing-to-some-of-my-documentary" target="_blank"&gt;rwanda&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;REILLY is performing to some of my documentary images in their show tomorrow night in Bethlehem, PA. It’s at the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem (2344 Center Street zip: 18017) at 6pm! Don’t miss it!&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/82047872</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/82047872</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:25:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>“Say it Out” by SHIROCK
My buddies from Nashville,...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://ferasha.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/80369882/et5jHZbQhk8ovspyOXmneUy9&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Say it Out” by SHIROCK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My buddies from Nashville, TN, SHIROCK, just released their full length album “Everything Burns” February 3rd. They are on tour now, and I was able to see them at the West Chester show this past Wednesday (they tried really hard getting a show in Philly but the venues were being weirdos). Hopefully they can get a Philly city gig soon. Their album gets 5 stars from me. I’d recommend buying it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/shirock" target="_blank"&gt;myspace.com/shirock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://shirock.net" target="_blank"&gt;shirock.net &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://everythingburns.org" target="_blank"&gt;everythingburns.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EVERYTHING BURNS is a non-profit organization started by SHIROCK—&lt;i&gt;living for things that matter:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;“It’s been said there’s only two ways to live: You can either love things and use people, or you can love people and use things…I’ve made my choice, I’m going to love people and use things…People they last forever…everything else just burns.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://shirock.net" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/80369882</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/80369882</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:12:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I joined the twitter bandwagon. </title><description>&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ferashafilms"&gt;I joined the twitter bandwagon. &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/80261393</link><guid>http://ferasha.tumblr.com/post/80261393</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:18:40 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
