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+Title: overlay test news item
+Author: Nathan Phillip Brink <binki@ohnopub.net>
+Content-Type: text/plain
+Posted: 2010-08-18
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 1.0
+
+This is a sample news item :-p.