HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:56:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.192325.29264@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec24.043607.25557@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <28125@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>
>>>  +I was told we wouldn't have to wear helmets in this group.
>>>  +
>>>  +cj "black tie" l
>>>
>>>But where do you wear it, Charles?
>>>
>>In New York.
>
>Does it help with the "New York method"?

Yes, but what about the "Venus Butterfly"?

>
>Ted "watch for falling buildings" Frank

There are likely people that believe that the building will fall down if too
many people watch it at the same time.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 00:43:32 GMT

t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
:  (MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET) wrote:
: : The colors used in the Olympic Rings were chosen because they represent
: : all of the colors of every flag in the world. So says my old boss.
: : 
: :                                   -- Rick Yukon, the Hypothermiac.
: 
: They were supposed to represent the colors of the flags of the members in the
: Olympic committee when the Olympic flag was designed, I think.

Ok, the Olympic Rings symbol (flag or whatever) was designed in 1906
I believe. (Common use of the symbol, however, was 1924.) Anybody out
there with a list of the nationalities of all IOC members in 1906?

---
YuNoHoo  "No countries are represented in IOC. It's a boys club
          with an international membership. Kindof like the
          Trilateral Comission - eh?"
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: WAY stupid things to do with guns (was self-i
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:42:17 GMT
 <1992Dec19.222536.19404@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec20.134604.10673@ulysses.att.com>
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>> Jon "A house divided makes two smaller houses." Papai
>
>and is probably against the zoning codes, besides.

And plays hell with the plumbing and electrical work to boot...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "doesn't rhyme with `volts'" Joltes 		joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Thawing food in cold water
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:35:20 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:

>What say ye? Does food thaw quicker in cold water or just in the air?

How cold is the water? How much water is there? How much food is there?
What type of food is it? How hot/cold is the air in the room where the
food is being thawed? Are the air currents? Is the food cut-up before
thawing? How non-frozen does the food have to be to be considered thawed?

Inquiring minds couldn't care less.

Use the microwave, or even a conventional oven. Use HOT water. Put it into
a pot of boiling water on the stove, even (can use it for soup, or stock,
or gravy later, or something.) Seriously, hot water would be my method o'
choice, unless there's some reason why you don't want the food immersed in
water for any length of time, in which case, some place with warm, moving
air would do the job fine.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
** Hon Cog Sci  Min Psyc  Senate  URC  FARSIDE  LEAD  CCCS  COCP  PSU  **
These opinions are mine. Mine!! ALL MINE!! No one else's! NO ONE ELSE'S!!

"You think you're thinking, therefore you possibly are."
                      --Grant Naylor, "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Reply-To: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:11:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.083626.7784@wetware.com> mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech) writes:
>
>
>some people can walk between the raindrops.
>
>
>some of us merely have the good sense to come in out of the rain.
>
>
>
>-- 
>if one falls on you,
>we just carve your name on it
>and leave it there...
>mlegare@wetware.com

and here we have the philosophic poetic response to the query posted...

Bruce
From: wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:59:36 GMT
Organization: The Harvard Lymph Node Fan Club

In article <1992Dec25.122232.21686@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>I bought a couple of CD's the other day, and noticed some strange things
>about them.
>
>The other, the new Nine Inch Nails album, has just six tracks listed on
>the cover, but continues to play through empty tracks 7 through 97 before
>finishing with an additional two songs on tracks 98 and 99.

Actually, it's not the new one ('Fixed'), but the one before that, 'Broken'.
It has the same gap on the tape, which is even more annoying than on the CD.

>I saw a post on one of the newsgroups about a band whose last CD track
>was lyrics, played at 2400 baud ASCII and transcribable somehow.

'Hack' by Information Society, I believe. This and the above topic have both
been covered in rec.music.industrial...

>Anyone have any interesting CD stories not involving green markers, or
>know someone who does?

Well, you should know that it's a good idea to cover up the little window in
your CD player (if it has one, of course). Otherwise, random light leaking in
can be interpreted as part of the signal, affecting the sound quality. Honest.
=8^)

--John "Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die than give you
        correct information" Wichers

-- 
Her eyes were cold and || John Wichers || wichers@husc4.harvard.edu
harsh, which made them || 121 Museum St #2, Somerville Ma. 02143
tough to chew. - Danno || Jesus died for your sins; make it worth his while
|| 3.0 x 10^8 m/s - It's not just a good idea, it's the LAW! ||
From: sdj@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Stephen Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Left Footers
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:30:22 GMT
Reply-To: sdj@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Stephen Jones)
Organization: Advanced Robotics Research Centre, Salford, UK.

I didn't spot this in the FAQ and afu seems to be the only place that might
lay this one to rest. Apologies if its a UKism but

Why are Catholics called left footers ?
Anyone have any answers...

-Steve
From: Bruce.Baugh@p23.f79.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Baugh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: A FAQ for the Holidays
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:42:19 GMT

On (23 Dec 92) Charles Lasner wrote to All...

 CL> >>SPECULATION ON CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK'S MIDDLE NAME
 CL> >>   - "Terry"
 CL>      - "Terryberius"
 CL>      - "Tachyon"
 CL>      - "Tastes like chicken"
          - "This was no boating accident" (swiped, admittedly, from
             alt.tv.mst3k)
          - "Turfdaddy"
          - "Tinkertoy"
          - "Tinkerbell"
          - "Tree"
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32028 rec.food.cooking:23832
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:18:04 GMT
 <28140@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: The Ohio State University

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) ponders:
>Quoting me:
>  +>Terry "Can't someone give me a straight answer w/o a flame?!" Chan
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>  +
>  +What do you expect?  Can't have rec.cooking w/o flame.
>
>Well, there's brine curing as a form of cooking.  Also sun drying
>(although you can argue that somewhere, there is a flame there).
>
>Are there any others?
>
>Terry "Say, are you related to 'papain'?" Chan

Sorry, no tropical fruit products here.

Jonathan "good for making apple pie. " Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:01:28 GMT

jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:

>IMHO, the man *gots* to learn how to enjoy being big-rich.  A good
>way to start would be going ahead with the test, drinking a champagne
>toast to the impact, and decorating one's study with a picture of the
>Crash Test Dummies sprawled amid the wreckage.

ObUL: Since the crash test dummies were licensed to a toy
company and have become big sellers, the networks no longer
run crash test dummy PSAs.  They consider them free advertising.

Jon "Will crash test for food." Papai
From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:14:57 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Dec31.094204.16484@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>: 
>: I thought cars only burst into flames on TV.  Isn't it just a UL?
>
>No - it actually does happen once in a while.  It is not a common
>occurance.
	ok, maybe it didn't burst into flames. I don't remember, I was twelve
at the time and my brothers family was living in Texas.

	Liz "exaggeration makes a better story" Stokes
-- 
Liz Stokes         | 	Ilaine's E-Z Garb Workshop
Ilaine de Cameron  | 	We're going to try an experiment now. Instead of using
                   | 	a loom, we're going to wind all the yarn into balls
ilaine@panix.com   |    and adopt an infinite number of kittens...
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:44:10 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec22.235420.19821@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
>: In article <1992Dec22.185915.27317@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>: >: 
>: >: Well, stay tuned.  Object 1992QB1 is reckoned to be a good candidate for a
>: >: distant (40-50 A.U.) minor planet and may be the first of many discovered at
>: >: that distance.
>: >
>: >The statement was asteroid - not planetoid. The asteroids originate in the
>: >asteroid belt. It is doubtful if any of them could be perturbed enough to
>: >reach the orbit if Neptune.
>: >
>: >The planetoids are a different matter. It is possible that some of them
>: >came from outside the Solar System. They could also have been formed just
>: >about anywhere in the system, so the same limitations do not apply to
>: >them. I would not argue that a planetoid could not have been captured
>: >by Neptune - although the fact that Pluto has a moon makes this very
>: >unlikely.
>: 
>: No, Bill, you're wrong.  There are many flat-out ASTEROIDS that orbit that
>: far.  You're not an astronomer, don't lecture us from a vacuum of knowledge.
>
>I could easily be wrong. This is AFU - after all.
>
>Guess I will have to do some study of the recent research. Do you have some
>cites to simplify my astronomical task?
>

Well, yes. I've been trying to get into a library to get actual books to
cite from, but they're all closed here at Va. Tech for the holiday.  You
claim that all true asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter.  Then, I ask
you, what about the asteroids that show up in the papers zooming past
Earth every so often?  Every year or so they tell us that another one came
within a million miles.  Furthermore, although the name of the asteroid
class escapes me while I'm unable to get at books, there is a whole class
of asteroids that spends most of their time out around Saturn and beyond,
in highly elliptical orbits that infrequently bring them in nearer the
Sun.  Saturn and Jupiter now have so many moons verified as orbiting them
that it's not big news anymore.  Each has ten or so tiny rocks that used
to be asteroids orbiting way out.  From what I recall reading in astronomy
books, some of these will orbit their gas giant for a few million years
and then escape again.  Pluto's "moon", however, doesn't strike me as a
likely asteroid capture because Pluto just wouldn't have the gravitational
pull to snag something nearly as large as itself and keep it there.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: soc1071                         
Subject: Re: Don't tell them the recipe's from the Mrs. Field's cookbook
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:51:00 GMT

In article <Bznv9t.Bxo@monster.apd.saic.com>, tomj@monster.apd.saic.com (Tom Johnson) writes...
>styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
> 
>>Pro. equip. I can understand, but what is pro. ingredients (part from
>>snake oil)? Is it a polite way of saying "secret ingredient", or do
>>pro. cooks have a license to buy things ordinary people must do without.
> 
>>C'mon, I've been working with pro. chefs that never brought anything
>>special into the kitchen except the odd "secret spice mix". Ok, I do
>>have things in my kitchen that I have to buy at the chemist rather than
>>at the local supermarket, but - pro. ingredients???
> 
>Have you ever tried to buy the cheese stuff they use to make cheese
>popcorn?  They don't have THAT at my grocery store.  Maybe we
>should cross-post to alt.conspiracy......
> 
>Actually, they probably don't mean "pro ingredients", they probably
>mean "artificiallycreatedinamadscientistschemlabforfactoryproduction
>indgredients".
> 
>--------------------
>Tom "I Wanna Make My OWN Cheese Popcorn" Johnson

I have been bought the cheese stuff to make cheese popcorn for years,
its right by the canned parm. cheese (no I don't really use canned
parm. cheese by the way!)  Kraft makes it - it's called grated american
cheese food (sounds good hmmm!)  

Elisabeth
soc1071@vx.cis.umn.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1992Dec21.084939.19583@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:35:19 GMT

obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:

>I've read many times that 12% of the population is left-handed, and you
>can bet there's discrimination still present, though most of it is
>unintended.  If we were only 1%, there'd be people wanting to eliminate
>us.  If we were 50%, most people would begin to understand it's just a
>difference.  Not better not worse, not more, not less, just different.
>

	I've heard 20 % for sinistrality.  12 % sounds too low.

>I got this out of someone's .sig:
>    "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person
>    were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified
>    in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would
>    be justified in silencing mankind."
>                                                      -John Stuart Mill
>A

							-Churchill

ObUL: Some people go out of their way to be offended by simple questions.

Jon "Out of left field" Papai
From: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:48:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler) 

<  > The story I heard is that the 1950s era government rigged the social security    
<  > system so that any government agent or knowledgeable employer or banker could  
<  > tell the ethnicity of someone by the middle two numbers. An -06-, -52-, -32-,   
<  > -12- or any other EVEN middle number belongs to Blacks, Hispanics, Jews,
<  > Asians, etc. Any ODD middle number (e.g.  -67-, -43-, -07-) shows its owner
<  > to be a WASP of reasonably pure upbringing.
<  >    I asked around and could find very few odd middle numbers. My results:
<  >
<  >      * EVERY even-numbered peson was either, Black, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian,
<  >        Roman Catholic, Greek, or other Eastern European.
<  >      * EVERY odd-numbered person I found was white. A few were half Jewish
<  >        or half Roman Catholic.
<  >
<  >     Coincidence or not, I would like to know what other people have
<  > found about this and the results of their informal surveys.

My middle two digits are -72-.  My father is Swiss (Calvinist) and my
mother is German (Lutheran).  I was born in the US.  I am white.  Go
figure.  Of course, my number was assigned in the mid-70s, so I may be
young enough to have missed these shenanigans.

Bill "Sounds like it might be Jewish but it isn't" Duetschler

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: illegal for private citizens to own
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:45:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.003807.10916@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>ObUL: Nixon recieved a big settlement from the Govt. for his tapes.

True.  Recent Supreme Court ruling made it so.

Ted "[expletive deleted] Haldeman" Frank
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Pluto laid bare in Brit press!
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:59:08 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Honest Ernie's Used Ions
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.152

There's an interesting article in the 14 November issue of the British
magazine "New Scientist" on recent thinking about Uranus, Neptune,
the Disney character that might not be a Real Planet (tm) after all, the 
Planet X  that is now thought by some theorists to be Planet Ex, 
and Kupier's trans-Plutonian halo of garbage.   

One or two dead theories.  No breasts.  No car chases.  One star and 
eight or nine significant planets.  Retrograde moons.  Dutch 
Astronomer Fu.  Joe Bob sez check it out.

Joe "But what if 'Lost in Space' is better?" Chew
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Trademark legends
Date: 30 Dec 1992 07:41:46 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

Fixing up my response to a thread that I have since long forgotten, 
phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

  +The learned judge got his hand in the matter because Henry Cabbage Cod
  +(sp?) kept us out of the Treaty of Versailles during what cjl would
  +call the Edith Wilson administration.

It's Henry Cabot Henhouse III.

Terry "Just keeping things straight" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem
From: mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 2 Jan 1993 00:43:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


>pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>: 
>: I thought cars only burst into flames on TV.  Isn't it just a UL?

I saw two burning cars in three days this past year. One was on the
freeway, just over a hill, and I saw the glow from a couple of miles away 
as I came at it in the dark, and felt a major wash of heat as I passed
it two lanes away. The other was just down the road from my house, and
it completely burned down to a metal hulk that sat on the side of the road
for a couple of days. On TV a car bursts into flames, and then immediately
goes out except for a couple flickers here and there. Real life was more
spectacular.

---------
Also, I made a foray to my GARAGE where I performed twisted experiments
on my innocent light blue Tercel. It was _remarkably_ easy to pick up
the back corner of the car and lift the wheel an inch off the ground.

Then I stood there wondering, now what? How do I get the hypothetical
child out from under the car (if it can't get out under its own power)?
I couldn't drag it out with no arms free. I couldn't even kick it out
because both legs were busy. I couldn't figure it out. So I put the car
down and went inside.

Summary: lifting a car off a helpless child was more of a brainteaser /
creativity test (which I failed) than a question of crazed, muscle tearing,
ligament rending hysterical strength.

Marty
From: JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: little girl embedded in grille (was: Re: I Li
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:43:36 GMT
Organization: Honest Ernie's Used Ions
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.152

In article <1992Dec22.125534.18781@husc3.harvard.edu>, 
joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) wrote:
> the cop said `no, you were going 5MPH!' and wrote him a ticket."

Seems like an exaggerated story with a core of truth:  excessive
caution (driving far too slowly for conditions, stopping ten feet
behind the stop sign just to make sure, negotiating a corner as
though you were docking the Exxon Valdez) is one of the most
useful signs by which the nice officer spots a drunk.

Joe "You're in a heap a trouble, boy" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: dave@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (David Eddy)
Subject: Re: Mark Brader Posts! (Was: Re: Amusing Signs)
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:00:53 GMT

In <1992Dec18.124136.2146@nntp.nta.no> styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
>And a linguistic tidbit - in the nordic countries we use a very old word
>for Christmas: `Jul'. It's used in english as well - you spell it `wheel'.
>That's my kind of a cross-cultural concept.

Actually, the English equivalent of Norwegian "Jul" is spelled "yule"
(which is pretty much a phonetic transliteration of "Jul" into English
if bitrot hasn't gone too deeply into my brain) and it means the same
thing.  Granted, the word isn't used very much any more because 
English-speaking countries now celebrate Christmas ("the birth of
Christ") rather than Yule ("the winter solstice") -- the Church of Rome
strikes again.*

I grant that the Norwegians could use "Jul" to mean "wheel" as well;
I wheely wouldn't know one way or the other.

What this has to do with a.f.c I've no idea but I couldn't resist.

* According to certain Conspiratorist/Skeptic theories.... 1/2 :-)

--
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