HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala)
Subject: Re: *** Shahram Nazeri Concert, Colombus, Ohio
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:38:27 GMT

etxmajz@solsta-c.solsta.ericsson.se (Majid Zolfaghari  TX/DKG) writes:


>> >>>I have heard a rumor that this concert is being sponsored by
>> >>>the elements of the regime. Is there any truth to this? I
>> >>>have been also told that in LA this was exposed and the
>> >>>concert was boycotted. Can anyone from LA either confirm or
>> >>>deny this? 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>      And even if there was no such rumor, you are making it now! It
>> >>      certainly won't kill anybody to lie!
>> >>   
>> >> Mohammad
>> >> 
>> >>    P.S- What happened to your signature? ( Asghar, or something!)
>> >
>> >       Thanks Mohammad.
>> >
>> >       Saharam Nazeri and Jalal Zolfenoun are certainly two of the
>> >       best and most recognized of the circle of few traditional music artist,
>> >       who have constantly helped to teach and expand on persian traditional
>> >       music. Their virtue and mastry and their effort to revive the 
>> >	[ the rest deleted ]
>> 
>> WHO CARES IF NAZERI'S CONCERT WAS ORGANIZED BY THE ISLAMIC REGIME OR NOT?
>> AND SO WHAT IF IT WAS? ANYBODY WHO HAS OBJECTIONS IS FREE NOT TO ATTEND.

>Shahram Nazeri was in Sweden about 3-4 years ago but some guys
>(of some revolutionary?! kind) made such a violence in his concert
>that he and his orchestra must leave the scene. There were hundreds
>of iranians and a lot of swedish who wanted to listen to persian music
>but unfortunately the action(!) of a few people made it impossible.

>It was specially impossible to explain it to the swedish guests.
>One could ask if this is your opposition, what makes it better than
>the government they criticize.

>As an iranian, I was ashamed that night, and very sad. I asked myself why
>a little minority can always destroy others' possibility.

>I hope that such a thing will not happen any more!

>Majid Zolfaghari
>etxmajz@solsta.ericsson.se

I went to Shajarian's concert a few months ago.  The same kind of
people were making a very minor noise outside the building.  I was
watching them for over 20 minutes.  People did not even get close to
them.  Everyone tried to keep a SAFE distance and enter the building
without being exposed to their propaganda.  They had brought a TV set
to show a slanderous show they had prepared before.  I was amazed how
people are indifferent to their noise and how they have learned to
ignore them.  That night people of different social groups had gathered
to listen to a master of Iranian music.  Why couldn't they join others?
At least we could have unity in this.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:17:59 EST
From: Reza Modarres <RMODARR@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: A course in C
 <lm8mm9INNk19@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <sehari.728080894@vincent2.iastate.edu>
 <1993Jan27.004450.17661@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
 <sehari.728173231@vincent1.iastate.edu>



   This is for both of you guys. It seems like you find anything I mean
   anything at all to argue about. It looks like "roo kam kar dane". On
   the other hand, it's just stupid. So, leave it alone. I am asking the
   saner of the two of you to stop responding to the other person.

P.S. sigh...
From: afsar@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Haji Firoz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Haji's KABOB KOBIDE
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:45:33 GMT
Organization: SCI. relatives of gi_j
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

shahrokh@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Shahrokh M.) writes:

  [*** Haji the GI_J deleted the text ***]

: >                         /        /       |                  |      .T
: >               !     >  _)   _7_,_)     _ |_w_7  q        _7 |_7  4_7|  
: >                 (_S   /    (_. :    (_S.        / /   (_S.
: >		             ^^^^^^^
: whats the scoop?  be "gAf" hassAsiyat dAri? :)
: 

Mokh_le_ssam

You are correct Haji is GI_J and most the times does not know the difference
between "GAF" v "KHAF". I think I should eat more chelogabob. OPS I did it
again it is chelokabob.

I tell you this story. One day I was explaining the farsi word Mokh_less to a
non farsi speaker and I mixed up the farsi and English so I said the word
Mokh_less means: Mokh means brain and less means less which means "brain less"!

Do not worry, Haji is confused only 2 month of the year.

Cha_ke_ram

Haji
From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: >Why Tashdid?
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:14:18 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

In article <1993Jan21.060950.3659@cc.uow.edu.au> g9020985@cc.uow.edu.au (Mansour Esmaili) writes:

> In article <1993Jan20.201620.26863@netcom.com> of soc.culture.iranian,
>   bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
>   > Not that we have completely settled the case of 'eesAr' but does any
>   > person know why there is a tashdid in words 'dovom' and 'sevom?'
>   >
>   > Arabic-0A : tashdid is an Arabic language solution to shorten words that
>   > repeat two of the same characters (normally one is with vowel and one w/o).
>   > For example, aval is - which is an Arabic word - really av-val hence written
>   > by one vAv, but a tashdid symbol will be put above the vAv character.
>   >
>   > So the question is why dovom became 'dov-vom' and sevom became 'sev-vom?'

> Hooshyar khAn,

> I guess that is because we are using some of the Arabic rules in our language, Farsi.

The use of tashdeed is not a matter of language but of scripture.  Our
language is Farsi, but we use Arabic script.  In that script, it is
natural to use tashdeed whenever a letter is going to be repeated.  It
may be (I am not sure) that in pre-Islamic time when we used other
scripts, we did write repeated letters as is common in Latin script
etc.  The use of tashdeed in Arabic script is consistent with its
decorative nature of putting dots, madd, zir, zabar, pish etc
over/under the letters.

> What you asked about is not the only case. Some of the others are "dovoman", "sevoman",....
> As you know "an, en, on" which are called "tanvin" are Arabic, but we normaly use them.

The use of these endings, however, is language (not script) related.
As such, these uses are not correct in Farsi words.  So, avvalan, is
okay, but not dovvoman sevvoman etc.  Dovvom, sevvom, etc will do.
(These are both adjectives and adverbs.)

Similar misuses have been seen in telefonan, telgerafan etc.  The
correct terms for these are: telefoni, telgerafi...

> I think the best meaning for "aval", as one of the "ahAli" has said, is "nakhost".

If avval is used as the first number (followed by dovvom etc) then
yekom is the answer.  Nakhost (or nokhost) is when avval is used in
the sense of "prime" - the one before all.  
Like prime-minister = nakhost-vazir.  

-hossein
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:29:17 EST
From: Reza Modarres <RMODARR@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: poem [sci-anon-poster] [sci-anon-poster]

In article <C19nI2.LI@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, ebrahim@ee.umanitoba.ca (Mohamad
Ebrahimi) says:
>
   <Something to the effect that the poet is not vahshe-e bafghe  >

   I am positive that the poet is Vahshe-e bafghe. I even used to know most
   of it by heart. But, that does me no godd now. Does it?
RezA

P.S. Still waiting to see if anyone can dig it up.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: shahrokh@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Shahrokh M.)
Subject: Re: Economic news from Iran [sci-poster]
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University, CA   USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:03:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.221859.22691@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri) writes:
>In article <lm8dq7INNje3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, Mohamad Ebrahimi <ebrahim@ee.UManitoba.CA> writes:
>|> 
>|>   From Kayhan Havai #1015 - Jan. 13,1993
>|> 
>|> 
>|>   Ahvaz(IRNA)- About 400,000 tones will be added to Iran's annual output of
>|>   sponge iron with the opening Sunday of direct processing unit 1 of the
>
>Thanks for the info but what is "sponge iron" ?
>
>For a second I thought it was a  
>
>make up kit for mAdare folAd-zereh!

they also cut them into thin slices and make 'eskAch berAyt' out of
them!
From: >>>>>> Anonymous
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re; Desperately Seeking [sci-anon-poster]
Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:00:12 GMT
Organization: Notgheh MajjAni, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel
To: sci-anon-poster 
Originator: daemon@handel

Blade-Runner writes:

>On behalf of my unwed sister and his baby, I'm looking for a person by the 
>name of M. Roohol-Amini.  If you know him or of his whereabouts, please 
>contact me immediately.
>
>There is a $5000 dollar award for this.
>
>Blade-Runner,
>
>(415)911-3759


I thought there is more reward for my head.  You are cheap.

But anyway, you don't have be mad at me.   It was all her fault.  
This is the way she wanted it.   Talk to her first and make sure 
that I am telling the truth then I will tell you where you can reach 
me.  

Vahid 
 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: shahrokh@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Shahrokh M.)
Subject: Re: Wierd jokes!
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University, CA   USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:44:12 GMT

In article <93022.092941U60001@uicvm.uic.edu> U60001@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>many wierd (bee-mazeh) jokes one can see in SCI these days about the
>recent application of computer technology by religious scholars in Qhom.
>
>well tell me that,
>
>whatevert this be, it is better than some assholes who come to this world
>as a kore-khar and leave as a khar.
>
>willing to elaborate this for anyone who needs it!

ok, ill bite.  please elaborate.

ps any thots on those who come to this world as a goosaaleh and leave
as a cow?



Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: shahrokh@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Shahrokh M.)
Subject: Re: Any Iranians with U.S. citizenships
Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University, CA   USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:23:39 GMT

In article <71DsXB1w165w@halcyon.com> jelly belly <death@halcyon.com> writes:
>masoud@pokey.hi.com (Masoud Sadrolashrafi) writes:
>
> This is really sad to me to see someone who turned his back on his own 
>country by throwing away his Iranian citizenship, something I am proud to 
>say I still have even though I have lived here for over 18 years, now cry 
>about not being able to go back! Bo hu, bo hu hu hu! You may think that 
>your not a sell out, but you are. What made you do? A stupid American ho? 
>Your Jewish boss? Who, who! If you want to go back to Iran tear up your 
>worthless American citizenship and get your original Iranian one. Trust 
>me, then you won't have any problem going back.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dear mr jelly belly, 

the problem isnt going back to iran, its returning from it. 

a proud iranian.

>
>P.s. 
>
From: bashir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Noushin Bashir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Iranian/American culture (Re: .. translator in the house)
Keywords: followup on Aref/Ala discussion, Iranian/American cultural diff.
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:42:18 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

In article <1993Jan27.155333.16247@walter.bellcore.com> farshid@baum.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Farshid Ketabchi) writes:

Wow, Splendid posting! keep up your modern and ever young spirit
Farshid. 

>
>
>           "My holy of holies  is the human body, health,
>           intelligence,  talent,  inspiration, love, and
>           absolute  freedom -- freedom from violence and
>           falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest
>           themselves."
>
>                                        -- Anton Chekhov

Wonderfully put by Chekov, thanks for sharing it with us.;-)


				Go Bills!
				Noushin
-- 
Happy the man, and happy he alone. He, who can call today his own. He
who, secure within, can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived
today. 
				-John Dryden
From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Why Tashdid?
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:27:49 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

In article <8726@charon.cwi.nl> farhad@cwi.nl (Farhad Arbab) writes:
[with thanks for your kind words, and appreciation of the rest of
your valuable observations]

> In article <1993Jan22.111418.1597@fmg.bt.co.uk>, ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk
> (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani) writes:

>   |> If avval is used as the first number (followed by dovvom etc) then
>   |> yekom is the answer.  Nakhost (or nokhost) is when avval is used in
>   |> the sense of "prime" - the one before all.
>   |> Like prime-minister = nakhost-vazir.
>   |>
>   |> -hossein
[so this post did appear elsewhere even though it didn't show on my own
system - with apologies for the repeat]

> I'm afraid this is not so.  The word "nokhost" is simply the
> Persian word for the first ordinal number, i.e., the exact
> equivalent of "first" in English.  The word "nokhost-vazir"
> literary means "first-minister" NOT "prime-minister" as you
> suggest.  Also, the words "nokhost" and "nokhostin" are NOT
> synonyms as some other posters have indicated.  The suffix "in"
> in Persian turns nouns into adjectives: "nokhost" is a noun, but
> "nokhostin" is an adjective.  From the ordinal numbers "nokhost,
> dovvom, sevvom, chAhArom, etc." we get "nokhostin, dovvomin,
> sevvomin, chAhAromin, etc."  The word "nokhostin" is the
> equivalent of "prime" in English (as an adjective, implying first
> ordinality).  By the way, it is also OK to derive "avvalin" from
> the Arabic "avval", but it is perhaps in bad taste to use "avval"
> in the first place!

I beg to differ.  The ordinals with or without the "-in" ending are
adjectives.  Their noun versions are the cardinals.

In Farsi, we may follow a noun by an adjective, using the "kasreh-ye
vasfi" (as distinct from "kasreh-ye ezaafi") like "jaameh-ye siaah"
(black clothing) or precede it by the adjective with no use of "kasreh"
like "siaah jaameh".  We can do the same with ordinals.  However, for
some reasons unknown to me, it has become customary to end the
ordinals with "-in" whenever they are used in the second form.  So,
we`ve got "dovvomin pelleh" even though "dovvom pelleh" should be
correct as well as "pelleh-ye dovvom".

It should also be noted that the "-in" ending is generally used to
make a relative term into an absolute.  So a "bozorgtar" (greater)
becomes "bozorgtarin" (the greatest).  But no such meaning may be
inferred when the ending is given to the ordinals.

As for nokhost and nokhostin, they are both adjectives too.  However,
the use of nokhost (with no "-in") preceding a noun is more common
than (other) ordinals.  On the other hand, nokhost(in) is an original
Farsi word (unlike yekom) with extensive use in the literature.
Perhaps a search in the literature then would establish if it (in
either form) is used to mean either or both of "prime" and "first".

-hossein
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: muntuck@bombay.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (MunTuck Yap)
Subject: Re: <None>
Reply-To: muntuck.yap@columbiaSC.NCR.COM
In-reply-to: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:27:53 GMT
Organization: CCSD - Somewhere in AT&T
	<1993Jan22.032753.19360@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:21:51


   : Incidentally, there have been rumours that Protons are heavily subsidized
							    ^^^^^^^
   : by the M'sian government.  Wonder if this is true.
   CAn't be true especially when it is a public company already. All accounts are
   public now.

=========================

   It has been ascertained that the Protons cost more in Malaysia than in
   UK or for the matter in USA. It is possibly true that the Protons are
   not subsidized by the Malaysian government. I heard that every Proton
   sold in the Malaysian market has something like a 200% to 300% levy on
   it while for foreign cars it is like 300% to 400% levy. These are
   ridicously high numbers (somebody could check on it). That explains
   why a low-end Proton can cost about R$40,000.

   For the UK and USA market, it is possible that the tariffs or levies
   are not applied. This can explain why it costs less in these markets.

   Any other explanation is just as plausible as mine.
From: ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: NO MORE IMMUNITY FOR SULTANS! (Newsbrief)
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:37:06 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <9301280704.AA11448@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, uc580503%UMCVMB.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Albert Foo) writes:
> 
> 
>     WHEN A RULER IS NOT IMMUNE (The Malay Mail, Jan 11 1993)
> 
>     By Faridah Yaacob
> 
>     Rulers who abuse the law when acting in their personal
>     capacity will lose their immunity and can be prosecuted in
>     Court. This is the essence of one of three proposed
>     constitutional amendments to be tabled in the Dewan rakyat at
>     a special sitting. The contents of the amendments were
>     discussed yesterday by the Umno Supreme Council.

	Isn't there something about prosecuting a ruler in his own court?  Is
that "allowable"???  Just curious.  Ciao.

-Tai
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: looi@ssfarch.attmail.com (Wan Looi)
Subject: Re: Discussion on Malaysian sultanate amendments
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:36:46 GMT
Organization: DHL Worldwide Express, Redwood City, Calif., USA

In article <1993Jan25.172314.3498@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>, dyip@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (dawei yip) writes:

> By the end of last week, Dr Mahathir had moved forward the big guns.  In
> future, he said, funds would be given to the royalty only in strict
> accordance with regulations.  In effect, this means the withdrawal of
> many millions of dollars from the royal purses.

> Each day fuller stories of alleged royal misdemeanours have emerged. 
> One sultan is said to have been in the habit of opening fire on vehicles
> careless enough to come close to royal motorcades.  Another is said to
> have sold timber concessions worth millions of dollars to pay debts.
> There have been tales of manslaughter and in one case, murder, with
> allegations made in parliment that a sultan killed his golf caddie.


In fact, the "rumors" about misemeanours of sultans, especially
the Johore sultan have been around for a long long time. I don't
mean to provoke another potential heated discussion, but imagine
what were to happen if the "rumors" had been disclosed or made
public by the less privileged non-Malays years ago. I'm glad 
that Malaysians, especially the Malays finally awake from 
their hibernation.

-looi

-- 
Systems Arch., DHL Airways, Inc., 333 Twin Dolphin Dr, Redwood City, CA 94065
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: twm27@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: NO soc.culture.malaysia
Reply-To: twm27@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:17:21 GMT

In article <004844m.6.727995545@axe.acadiau.ca>, 004844m@axe.acadiau.ca (NORLAILY MAHAYUDDIN) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.153301.81284@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> hra2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad) writes:
>>From: hra2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad)
>>Subject: NO soc.culture.malaysia
>>Date: 25 Jan 93 15:33:01 GMT
>
>>Hi!  I say NO to soc.culture.malaysia
>
>>hra2@lehigh.edu

	Always think twice... especially when you're not thinking in
the first place. Or when thinking is one of the defect that one has...

>
>and why not.....?
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: NO MORE ILLEGAL WORKERS, PLEASE!!!
Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:21:41 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu


Pak Othman writes:
> What is the KKK?
The Ku Klux Klan.

And even if kambala were beautiful, doesn't mean that the rest of the 
country is in a wonderful state, does it? Use your head, Pak Othman.
As the original poster said before, Uganda's ruler is siphoning off
money to build a tiny piece of paradise, while the rest of the country
is going to hell. And do you believe everything you watch on TV?
Geesh....

Chua
+==+
From: uc580503%UMCVMB.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Albert Foo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: He who beat caddy to death....
Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:36:54 -0600
Organization: MU Information Center, USA.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan26.065129.7012@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> on
Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:51:29 GMT you write:

>>have sold timber concessions worth millions of dollars to pay debts.
>>There have been tales of manslaughter and in one case, murder, with
>>allegations made in parliment that a sultan killed his golf caddie.
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>        I heard this long time ago (> 3 years). Can't confirm it though.
>Anyone know who this sultan is?
>--
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Wey Jing Ho    Tel: 61-3-565-3615   E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
>>  Physics Dept, Monash Univ, Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, AUSTRALIA   <
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

      It was then the KING (Agong!) Sultan Mahmood Iskandar Ismail of
      Johore (sp??) in 1987 at a golf course (in Johore of course!)
      Another case which involved the sultan was a murder in a shooting
      death of a smuggler in 1977.  He was not a sultan yet, so got
      convicted but freed later after the PARDON by his father, the
      sultan.  Now, ain't that nice if your daddy can do that! :)


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From: boon@cowan.edu.au (B.LEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: To All The Malaysian Chinese
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:53:47 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au

noorazid@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (mohd idris noorazida) writes:

>     _/_/_/_/    _/_/_/_/    _/_/     _/    _/_/_/_/
>    _/          _/    _/    _/ _/    _/    _/      
>   _/   _/_/   _/    _/    _/   _/  _/    _/   _/_/
>  _/	 _/   _/    _/    _/     _/_/    _/     _/
>  _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/    _/       _/     _/_/_/_/


>   _/     _/    _/_/        _/_/_/_/    _/_/
>    _/  _/     _/_/        _/_/       _/   _/
>     _/_/     _/_/        _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/
>   _/   _/   _/_/        _/_/       _/    _/
>  _/     _/ _/_/        _/_/       _/    _/


>     _/_/_/    _/    _/    _/_/     _/_/    
>   _/         _/    _/   _/   _/   _/_/
>  _/         _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/  _/_/
>   _/       _/    _/   _/    _/  _/_/
>   _/_/_/  _/    _/   _/    _/  _/_/     _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

	Very imaginative and very good. A very prosperous and safe CNY
to you too; except that it is

		Gong Xi Fa Cai (not Chai).
	Anyhow, thanks for the goodwill shown.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LEE, Boon Guan (a Malaysian)
b.lee@cowan.edu.au
Dept. of Computer Science
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia

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