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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:35:36 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, CHRIS SCHMIDT wrote:

> Speaking from quite a few years of experience, Windows and MAC OS are not much
> alike.  If you've ever done more than turned either machine on, you wouldn't
> have made such a stupid comment.

Ah, yes, Chris, too bad we can't transmit our enlightened state to these
unwashed...

Looks like the FTC is going after MS...anti-trust allegations in air. MS
stock falling like a rock at this hour, perhaps Chairman Bill will have
afew less coins in his pocket by close of business. But Bill has Balls of
Stone(tm) and will go to the mat with FTC rather than pull one copy of
Windows off the shelves.

Windows, from the fine people who gave us EDLIN.

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:23:26 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Trivial Pursuit
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        3 (or 4, if Tushar really does have an Indian version of the game; or 5
if
        Graham joins in).... Canada, Australia and the US. As each persons turn
comes

This implies you *are* using actual TP questions.  In that case, definitely
include me out.  I might just have been tempted if we got to make up the
questions too.

The rest of us could play Trivial Gleanings for points instead.  10 points
for every gleaning you spot that's been done before; 5 points if you
spot someone answering a gleaning who answered the same one last time
it was asked, and 20 points if you answer a gleaning with something
totally bogus and no-one picks you up on it...

G
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:22:06 CST
From:         Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: GWW's Fountain-Pen Thread
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In article <9212141541.AA25578@Ra.MsState.Edu> Natalie Maynor
 <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> says:
: > Mini-club?  That's 1/220 actual size.  If it comes with 41 feet of track
: > (that sounds like an odd figure, are you sure it's not 4.1 feet?) that
: > works out to approximately 1.7 scale miles.)
:
: I just double-checked.  The catalogue says 41 feet.  It could have been
: a printing error, of course.

41 feet is a fairly common measure I think.  It makes a nice standard
figure-eight-on-a-sheet-of-plywood.  I'll bet its correct.

That is a rather large area at scale though.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: The Royal Dysfunctional Family
Date: 15 Dec 1992 05:52:43 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>        That is why the obligation on whomever the current royal stud is, is to
>        produce only an heir and a spare.
>*cough-splutter-chortle-chortle* - I hope you don't mean Edward!
>
Nope, he's more like the Third Wheel!  Or third heel, considering the
bahaviour of royals past....  Just how much truth is there in the rumors
surrounding Princeling #3, anyway?:-) [only his hairdresser knows for sure?]

<*chuckle* *big grin*>

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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:27:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Unprecedented Chicago journalism

Hi everybody!

Has everybody survived "While UGA freezes over?"  Are all the east
coasters alive, powered up, and on line again?

Exams are done, and I should be able to respond to a few old posts that
I've stored away during the fall rush ...

Some kind of history made this morning ... the lead story during the sports
reports on the Chicago all-news radio I listen to was not the Bears'
victory ... it was the Packers' 5th straight win ... longest winning
streak since 1966, in the Era of St. Vincent of Paterson.  (If there
are any Houston fans among the regulars or the tenet lurkers, forgive me,
but geez, down there where it almost never snows, what's the idea
playing football inside?)

Steve Karlson

The Pack is back, standing tall.
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:22:59 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: End of year Retrospective
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        Get a good start and sit on Santa's lifted ...

Oh, how <tacky>...

G
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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Posted on 18 Dec 1992 at 12:48:43 by Anne Burton Harwell
>Ah, yes, Chris, too bad we can't transmit our enlightened state to these
>unwashed...

Hey, I bathe regularly!

>Windows, from the fine people who gave us EDLIN.

ROFL in my office,
Karen
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:46:10 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Identification etc
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> Subj: RE: Identification etc

> There is no law in Canada that requires anyone to carry ID of any sort.
> The only time you can be required to provide ID is when you enter the
> country, and even that isn't entirely clear.  A Canadian citizen has

All very true, AND convenient. Much easier than for the Yanks going
in orpossite directions -- easier even since free ripoff er trade
was put in place. Nonetheless, try getting ANYWHERE to do ANYTHING
in Canada with out at least a driver's license and one other piece
of ID. Gov't doesn't have to do anything, 'cauz business already has
things royally in hand. Even our S.I.N.s  (social insurance numbers) are
supposed to be sacred. It is illegal for anyone but the tax people to
ask one for one's SIN, but eveyone does it anyway.
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: OS/2, Mice & Icons's
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
> Oh, btw--Karsten's supervisor has more storage on his home computer
> than our network does for 130 people!

My supervisor has three '486 computers networked together with a
total of almost 2GB of hard disk space.

He prefers to multitask by using multiple processors.

--karsten

(wondering how cold Chicago will be when he arrives Saturday afternoon)
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:22:31 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?

On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:03:01 EST Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>*** Resending note of 12/18/92 11:29
>
>>Greetings,
>
>>Okay.  Everybody lighten up except Don, alright?
>
>Aaarrghh, Marty..... :-(

Ditto. :(

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:05:12 EST
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Vicious rumors....
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...are afoot that the longed-for List Honey, A. Hartfield, is about to
make a brief reappearance in New Jersey.  I can confirm that this is
true, since he's supposed to be at my house sometime tomorrow
afternoon to do some work on my sink traps.  It is possible that when
the aforementioned L.H. sees this computer and modem, it will NOT be
possible for me to keep him away from the machine, and he might be
persuaded (HA!) to send a Seasonal Message of Comfort and Joy to the
List.

THEN I'll show him where I keep the plunger.
--
Kenneth Wolman                  |       I'm a Doctor, you're a Doctor
AT&T Bell Laboratories          |       He's a Doctor, she's a Doctor,
(908) 582-4815                  |       Wouldn't'cha like to be
Kenneth.Wolman@att.com          |       A Doctor too??
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:57:03 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (71)
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        Sure. Which one came first, kewaladvaita or shuddhadvaita?

I am but an egg.

G
From: rrkeuche@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Rainer Keuchel)
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Subject: English-German dict ftp ?
Keywords: dict,german
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:17:43 GMT
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Is there a English/German dictionary available via ftp
somewhere ?
---
General Paranoyaxc  [himmler@reichstag.gov.de]
"Man,all I saw were their teeth."
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:56:45 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Blather

Did you know that a blatherskite is a babbling, foolish person?
By the way, Rip Torn was married to Geraldine Paige and their
mailbox read, "Torn Paige".
Burma Shave:  Punch line for a joke featuring Hilary Clinton:
"Read my lips, no more Bush."

"Behind every successful man there is an astonished woman."
    -when I finish unpacking all our books, I'll find out
     where I read this

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:37:40 EST
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Tree Ornaments

(This is for Joan)

Christmas tree ornaments can usually be found in most of the larger gift
shops at tourist attractions, any time of year.  They usually take one of
the following designs:  traditional glass bulbs; multi-part brass-plated
outlines; and wooden, shadow-box, style.  All designed as hanging decorations.
Part of our Christmans/Travel collection:

     wooden "santa & wife", with our names written in gold - Pigeon Forge
     Little winter Swiss house - from North Pole, Pikes Peak entrance
     wood Opryland Hotel - from same
     brass Corn Palace - Mitchel SD
     brass mobile - Pikes Peak summit
     wood buffalo - Mt Rushmore
     wood goose - Branson, Mo
     glass, shuttle Discovery - Cape Kennedy
     glass, - Wyoming
     brass, - Mt. Rushmore
     brass - Grand Canyon
     brass - Maine
     glass - Garden of the Gods
     brass - Badlands
     glass - Helen, Ga
     glass - Old Faithful Inn
     brass - Yellowstone

There are others, but guess you get idea ...all are pretty decorative, and
bring back pleasant memories.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:38:03 PST
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Trivial Pursuit

On Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:20:09 EST Brad Baxter said:
>>>By the way, who said,
>>>"You still don't get the big brain thing, do you?"
>>>* Alt-Brad *
>>  It's time to reveal this one, Brad.
>>  Unless you want to give clues.
>>  --brad
>
>Of *course* I want to give clues:
>  1. Albert Brooks
>  2. Meryl Streep
   3. Rip Torn
   4. Defending Your Life
   5. How am I doing?
>
>* Alt-Brad *
Peace,
EPD
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:49:16 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (71)
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 08:19:47 GMT, "Jill Werts" <jill@netcom.com> wrote:
> But Graham, one of the things I find interesting about people who know
> this type of trivia is that (if you go by me, anyway) they don't try
> to remember all this trivia...it just seems to stick around.  Why is

No offence, but the people who did best the time I tried trivial pursuit
were dick-brained morons.  I know I shouldn't generalise, but it seemed
that knowlege of useless trivia was inversely proportional to intelligence...

(Intelligence being to some extent a function of wide knowlege, but
in my humble opinion knowlege that has been filtered for content rather
than an accumulation of all trivia one is exposed to coupled with a
lack of discrimination in storing it)

G
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:23:12 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>:> I didn't understand the rules - are onlookers permitted?  I'd like to watch.
>:> -rashmi
>:Me too.
>:doris
>
>Have I stumbled into the wrong group again? :-)
>
How would you tell the difference?:-)

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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:35:12 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (72)
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12) Patricia Person Festival (Nancy H.)

Akio, you caught me in grandmother mode.  "Patricia Person" is one of the
ways I refer to my first granddaughter, Susan's five-month-old daughter
Patricia.  Susan had mentioned in a message that July 7 was a day of
celebration in her home because it was Patricia's birthday, and I was
agreeing that any special occasion involving Patricia was a day of
rejoicing in our home as well.
ndh (who is finding GapKids and toy stores every bit as interesting as
BookStop this Christmas)




-----Nancy Harwood-----------------------------------------------------------
Journalism Department                           Telephone:  (713) 357-3254
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Tomball, TX  77375                              Inquiring minds want to know.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:37:01 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Character Recognition

\\\\\\\\\\  <==(should be 10 backslashes)

I am curious about character conversions between my machine
and those that the rest of you use.  I have reason to believe
that the above backslashes are being turned into something
else somewhere down the line.  Am I right?

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:52:20 EST
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: JMW

John,
  Can you get a group of disgruntled E-mail users together and go to your
postmaster's boss?

Evelyn

P.S.  Take 5 deep breaths and fix a cup of Sleepytime Tea.
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:31:51 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: End of year Retrospective
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>On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, Judith E. Schrier wrote:
>
>> Graham and Tushar will hate this, but I have to mention, as
>> "Best and Worst Events", the list supporting those of us
>> who have had family and personal tragedies in the past year.
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>Screw 'em.... what Primate said!
>
>-abh

Oooh, may I really?

love, j
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:15:55 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1992 ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU wrote:

> Interesting.  I have touched a Macintosh for many years, but using
> Windows felt *very* Macintoshy to me (especially using Word, I guess...).
> In a way that OS/2 doesn't.

Oh please. I don't want to *hate* you, Karen....
;-)

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:26:44 EST
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From:         John <GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Burke again

> The Dictionary of American Regional English goes into considerable
> detail (someone just read parts of the entry to me over the phone):
> reporting it as early as 1949, and claiming its use is sometimes
> "neutral, accepted."

  Only if you're a member of the group -- or a good friend of a
  member.  Similar to black uses of 'nigger'.

  JAG

> No relation apparently to the vulgar slang 'coon' for a black person.

>-brad
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:50:16 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Contranyms
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 02:05:39 -0800, "Peter Montgomery"
 <MONTGOMERY@camins.camosun.bc.ca> wrote:
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> DUST           MOOT          STRIKE         WITH
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> Feel free to agree or not.
> Further contributions are welcomed.
> *************************************************************
> *  Peter Montgomery               Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca  *
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Did you say something?  It shot by on my screen and I missed it.
Must be some new counter-minimalist signature thang...

G
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:21:15 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: enclosed solicitation -- anyone else get one?
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:  Yes, my comments were not directed at people who get upset about junk mail
:of all kinds. Not that I see any point in chasing after purveyors of junk.
:A big waste of time.

Sure, but it's *fun* tracking them down and making them squirm.  But then
all games are a big waste of time, practically speaking.

G
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:06:11 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Words-L Trivial Pursuit
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But...I don't know if I want to play.  You mean we have to *decide*????
We can't just choose to answer a question or not?  That's the beauty
of gleanings.

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:55:40 EST
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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Natalie wonders:
>  >Uh oh.  I've been worried about my brain cells . . .

Torkel skriva:
>  Det ar helt enkelt sa att vem som helst kan skriva till words-l pa vilket
>sprak som helst, och sa lange den som skriver och den som laser har den ratta
>installningen framstar det skrivna och det lasta som engelska eller swahili
>eller vilket sprak som helst som alla inblandade forstar. Att du inte har
>haft nagra problem med att lasa mina inlagg - som ju alla skrivits pa
>svenska - hanfor jag till det enkla faktum att du ar Listgudinnan och
>forstar allt.

It is simply that anybody can write to words-l in any language, and
so far the writers and the readers here have the drivers installed that
what's written and read either in English or Swahili or whatever language
everyone is first involved with the reindeer and the pickled herring.
You don't have any problem here with reading my postings - just write
everything in Swedish - I refer to the simple fact that you are
List Goddess and foremost of all.

Bill
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:16:22 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <9212121739.AA05555@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal) writes:
>
>        >        My opinion of academia fell several more notches when I read
>        >that.
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>        What are you talking about?  I even went back through usenet and
>        couldn't find the original subject line.
>
>Rita and bwp are still lurking preparation-h... that's where the original
>posting came from.


Nope--it came from a different group--CMC newsgroup, I think. It should be
noted that the original thread was from, I think, an undergrad who asked
if the term "lurker" was/was not PC and the responses were mostly from
undergrads and Rita herself. She taints herself with her own brush.
It's not clear how she generalizes to "academia" in her attack, since 
I'm sure CMC is no more the domain of academics or silly threads than
any other newsgroup.
From: gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 18 Dec 92 16:38:11 GMT
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: 6.  Testimony of witness of maternal parentis infidelity with Kris Kringle.

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