HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:32:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.141319.7511@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
|> 
|> Yes, this is funny ('least I have always felt so), but Rush Limbaugh
|> claims that in Lowell, CT, they (the town council) have actually taken
|> it upon themselves to remove these signs because they are potentially
|> offensive (read, "not PC").  This story sounds pretty ULish to me.
 
 Sounds even more ULish to me; I grew up in Connecticut, and there is 
no town of Lowell in that state.
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From: neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:49:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.013335.14007@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>On the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, a
>nothbound one-way dead ends into another street. This street is
>one way in each direction away from the intersection.
>
>       -----------------|\
>      |                    \
>      |      One Way        *
>      |                    /
>       -----------------|/
>
>     /|-----------------
>    /                   |
>   *        One Way     |
>    \                   |
>     \|-----------------
>
>
   We've got that at McGill university also. There's a bit of a twist,
though. As you come in the front gate you'll find that the math, chem,
engineering, and physics faculties are all on the right, and the
languages, history, sociology, anthropology, and so on are on the left.
When I was an undergraduate there somebody had spray-painted the signs so
that the one pointing to the right said "Reality", the one to the left
said "Wonderland".
   Unfortunately, the signs have been replaced with new ones which are
not spray-painted.


-- 
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From: dif@xilinx.com (Diana Foss)
Subject: Wwy is the sky blue? (was Re: Daytime Stars - Not Donahue or Oprah)
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:24:24 GMT



The sky is blue because of scattered light. It was right the first time.
Air molecues are approximately the same size as the wavelength of blue
light (~ 4000 Angstroms) so blue light is scattered more strongly than
red. Incidentally, this is why the setting and rising Sun looks red. At low
angles, sunlight goes through lots more atmosphere, so much more blue light
gets subtracted from the beam. White - blue = red.


	Diana "glad to see alt.folklore.urban converge with sci.astro" Foss
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Why Not?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:10:24 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
: 
: This is remarkable.  If I didn't know better I would _swear_ that this post
: bears the mark of the inevitable Peter van der Linden in troll mode.

I thought it was Cindy who had a troll. I am sure that she said his name
was something besides Peter.

Bill
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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: And that number again is....oops! (was: Gay Likelihood
Keywords: and that's without the repeating decimation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:42:43 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Ad absurdum per aspera writes:
>> Has anyone heard any similar stories?  Can anyone shed any light
>> on the veracity of the stat?
>
>I've always heard it as common knowledge that "10% of the population
>is gay."  It may not be true, and I don't know what the origin of the
>belief might be (probably some combination of the Kinsey and Masters 
>and Johnson research and the derivatives thereof), but I'd say it is 
>very widely held in the US.
>
If the number comes out of Kinsey then it will have to be revised
downward. The followup Kinsey report found a decrease in the number
of men who reported ANY homosexual contacts. In fact from the 40s
through the 70s, according to the Kinsey report, Out of Bounds Nookie
of all kinds -- except for the cohort involving adolescent girls --
declined. And this is all Pre-AIDS. OoBN included pre-marital sex,
adultery, and homosexual sex. The off-the-cuff explanation: people
work far more hours now than they did in the 40s and as a nation,
we're just too pooped to pop. 
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Don't be a stranger.
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:52:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <Bz8Gpz.KFI@hatch.socal.com>, richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg) writes:
>  In this manner the left side became the "landing board side"
>which was shortend to "labboard", then "port side" and then to "port".
>The "steering board side" was shortend to "starboard".
>

Sounds good to me. I don't quite see how "labboard" gets abbreviated
to "port side" smoothly, but hey . . .

obTypographicalOddity: The English word with the largest number of
apostrophes is "fo'c's'le", short for "forecastle".

obUL: Some people on the net actually know when apostrophes should
be used.

obDerivation: Isn't there a mnemonic that begins with "Port out" our
something?

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Sailors are busy people. They don't have time to pronounce more
than two syllables for anything.)
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All just the opinions of pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.
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From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:13:27 GMT

Yep, I saw this one in grade school as well.  In my class, *one* person
got it "right"  {snicker}

	Bob "damn right it was me!" O'Brien
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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Why Not?
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:06:20 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Dec19.070836.14894@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes in:
>>My English Constitutional History professor told us ......
>    ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       Wait a minute.   I thought England didn't have
>a constitution.   Or do you mean an Professor from England
>who taught 'History of the American constitution' ?

No, he was actually an instructor in the Physical Education department 
who had us take long walks while carrying stones and scones.

Bruce "demonstrating against your country in foreign soil burns
1000 calories per hour" Tindall
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:43:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Amusing Signs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

asurpren@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (aimee surprenant) writes:

> My favorite sign (I think I saw it in England or Scotland) is
> an upside-down yellow diamond with a big "!" in the middle of it.
> I've always read it as "PANIC!"
> 
> Aimee Surprenant

Great.  Now I'm sitting here, doing mental convolutions, trying to figure 
out what an "upside-down diamond" shape looks like.


Buon Natale
(and save some panettone for me)
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
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From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: They used to think...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:55:31 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Dec16.161922.5171@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall) writes:
>  I know a real strong candidate for the origin of this belief.
> Check out Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear "anthropological"
> novels.

Nope -- the story long antedates her books.  She just used it.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Gay Likelihood
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:17:51 GMT

In article <28010@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>For some reason, Jane Beckman's recent post reminds me of a 
>story I recently heard.  A friend of mine recalls seeing in 
>_The Daily Cal_ (student newspaper of the Univ. of Cal., 
>Berkeley) in the 1960s, a story that "10% of the student 
>population" was gay.  
>
>Within a week, he saw a similar headline in the _San Francisco 
>Chronicle_ which then reported that "10% of all students at the 
>Univ. were gay."  Shortly followed by a story that reported that 
>"10% of all people are gay."  Then he recalled seeing it written
>up in other papers.
>
>He has since heard this statistic quoted by various acquaintances
>over the years, but ran into more people in the last year or so
>who mentioned this.
>
>Has anyone heard any similar stories?  Can anyone shed any light
>on the veracity of the stat?

Kinsey, way back when, did a study of male sexuality which involved
interviewing a lot of prisoners.  He found that 4% of his sample
were exclusively homosexual, and another 6% had spent at least three
years being predominantly homosexual.  Somehow, someone added 4%
and 6%, ignored the sampling error, extrapolated to females (even
though even Kinsey found homosexuality only a third as prevalent
among women), and, voila, "ten percent of all people are gay."

I think this is the proper etymology, to use a malapropism.

At least, whenever I mention that 2.5% of the population (and 4%
of the male population) is gay, as just about every other study done 
has shown, I get a lot of angry e-mail saying "Kinsey says ten 
percent!", so it must be true.
-- 
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standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Traffic Light UL's
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:22:34 GMT

trice@bnr.ca (Tony Rice P885) writes:
: |> I used to live in San Diego, where they have the sensors on the
: |> traffic light poles.  While most of the sensors could not be triggered
: |> by flashing high beams, there was one particular one that could be.
: |> 
: 
: My understanding is that traffic lights are triggered by sensors embedded in
: the roadway.  Look for the lines cut in the lane.  An electromagnetic field
: is setup in the loop of wire there.  That field is upset when a big metallic
: car runs over it, triggering the light to change.
: 
: Maybe this is just the way it is in the south.

No, that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the sensors
that allow an emergency vehicle to trigger the light from a distance, giving
them a green light by the time the get to the light. This will occur, no
matter where the light happens to be in the normal cycle.  For example, the
light could have just turned green for the cross street - it would immediately
turn red again - even if the traffic has not started to move.

Bill
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From: ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:23:16 GMT

 Yes, in fifth grade we had a teacher who did this to us. It wasn't an
exam per se, but a set of instructions. This was also in the days of
those purple colored mimeographs and I got a copy in which the
last line was illegible. Kind of ruined the effect for me.

Andrew Hall
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Chelsea Clinton
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:46:30 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <3048@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>Warren "I'm not Tiberius and you're not, either" Burstein

You are close to Tiberius, though.

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From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Gay Likelihood
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:50:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.063051.296@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>twcaps@dante.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) queries:
>
>>For some reason, Jane Beckman's recent post reminds me of a
>>story I recently heard.  A friend of mine recalls seeing in
>>_The Daily Cal_ (student newspaper of the Univ. of Cal.,
>>Berkeley) in the 1960s, a story that "10% of the student
>>population" was gay.
>.....
>>"10% of all people are gay."  Then he recalled seeing it written
>>up in other papers.
>>
>>He has since heard this statistic quoted by various acquaintances
>>over the years, but ran into more people in the last year or so
>>who mentioned this.
>>
>>Has anyone heard any similar stories?  Can anyone shed any light
>>on the veracity of the stat?
>
>	yes and yes.
>
>	Oh. Something more complete?  I always assumed these were
>from Masters and Johnson, and that their methodology was
>inadequate.  Recent reports indicated the number is probably half
>or a little less than half of "10 %".

Yes, there was a news story on some big survey done in the UK a few weeks
back. It turned out that number of partners was related to cash and
mobility (big surprise) and that about 5% of respondents were gay. BTW, it
was an anonymous survey...

Then they got some twit from Gay Christian Alliance(?), who trotted
out the standard soundbite about so many people being afraid to admit what
they are, and that the real figure was - wait for it - 10%.

Maybe he was feeling lonely...

The Wisp. [what's 5% between friends...]
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Subject: Re: College Libraries Funded by the Trivial
From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 03:13:42 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Dec14.022412.19178@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>Wasn't Yale funded by a lock manufacturer?
>
>Derek "You can always pick them" Tearne

That was a barrel of laughs.

Hugh "laughed until I stopped" Grierson

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     of the Southern Hemisphere anymore" [Pres. Bush, on the Ozone hole]
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From: doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:35:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <me2sVB1w164w@admiral.uucp> mookie@admiral.uucp (Michael Wynne) writes:
>"Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> "I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me
>> understand." -Depeche Mode
>Depche Mode? I think I understand now..

Care to enlighten the rest of us?  (Well, *me*, anyway?)

  Thanks awfully,
             Patrick
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From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: WAY stupid things to do with guns (was self-inflicted death) 
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:23:45 GMT



>obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
>: I have a video tape of someone holding a paper target in front of his face,
>: you then see a hole appear in the target, and he lowers the target, showing
>: a bullet in his teeth.

>: The actor's name is David Leisure, the brass is still on the bullet (you
>: can even tell that the primer is undented), and it's a car commercial.

	Maybe they do this to emphasise that it is not real, just so
they can't be accused of putting such a stupid idea in _anyone's_ head,
no matter how young or retarded they are.

Jim Del Vecchio
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Subject: Re: Cats-eyes and some other stuff
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 23:09:26 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Dec15.133038.27495@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.001644.7456@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>> In article <1992Dec11.181153.2771@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon) writes:
>> >
>> >Russ "Cloroform taught me not to wear jewlery in the lab!" Nixon
>> 
>> I think it may have had an adverse effect on your spelling too.
>> 
>> Derek "Try Ether next time - it's much easier to spell" Tearne
>> 
>Hey,
>
>  It can be spelled ether cloroform or chloroform. [smiley deleted for the 
						     sake of my diode]

I'm not convinced - perhaps it's a Merkin spelling. 
How jew spell jewelery over there then?    || | ||||| ||||| | 

Please note pulse code modulated stealth smiley in above line.

Derek "Avoid spelling flames around volatile chemicals" Tearne


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From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:08:11 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <7939@news.duke.edu> klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj) writes:
>
>But you seem to be correct that there is not one in "Connecticut" [sic].
>
>kg

  When I wrote this I made the mistake of not spell-checking my own self.  As
at least one emailer has pointed out already, "Connecticut" is the correct
spelling.  I made the mistake of seeing the middle "c" and saying "Gee, I
pronounce it "con - net - ee - cut"", which is obviously wrong.  My sincere
apologies to everyone from Connecticut, anyone who knows anyone in
Connecticut, anyone who has seen Connecticut represented on a map, ... and
to the network for wasting hundreds, if not 10's of thousands of dollars to
post this.

k "Conne_c_ticut - Conne_c_ticut - Conne_c_ticut - Conne_c_ticut" g


-- 
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From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: Wwy is the sky blue? (was Re: Daytime Stars - Not Donahue or Oprah)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:44:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.170143.2416@xilinx.com> dif@xilinx.com (Diana Foss) writes:

[stuff about light scattering...]

>
>Duh. If someone had asked me how big the Bohr radius was, I would have said
>"One Angstrom." But what's a factor of 10^3 among friends?
>

Doesn't it depend on how loudly you're talking?

The Wisp. [pungent wit, or is that sh...]
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From: inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:25:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.230435.24191@zeus.franklin.edu> scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs) writes:
>>>A friend of mine told me this story about trekkies...
...
...
...
>>>One day, my friend's friend noticed one of her sister's stories,
>>>and was curious about her sister's writing style.  When she
>>>read the story, she was shocked because it was pornographic.
...
...
...
>>>one that stuck in her mind was Kirk and Spock's homosexual
>>>Can anyone provide any further enlightenment on this point?

>>If *anyone* can, it's the readers of talk.bizarre.  Why, just the other day
>>Matt Welsh was rhapsodizing about a hot date between the Horta and that being
>>that ate hatred.  Oy, the lubricant bill for that episode alone could have
>>bankrupted the Gorn . . .

> Any discussion of this nature going on about TNG?? My imzadi and I have
> been thrashing this about recently... She thinks that Riker and Picard
> make a cute couple and that DatSela will get together sooner or later....
>
> Other matchups include Wesley-Troi,Guinain-Ro,Worf-Ro,Picard-Wesley,
> Data-Geordi,Data-Worf,Data-Picard,Lore-Picard, Lore-Riker (this one starts a
> mutiny...)... well you get the idea...

Boring. Imagining matchups between fictional characters is a sure sign of a
misspent youth. Especially when the puny imagination INSISTS on matching
only in pairs. Why not Riker-Picard and the babe who reads minds? or
Data-Worf-Wesley-Troi-Guinain-Ro-and the babe who reads minds? Or how about
just the babe who reads minds getting it on on the astral plane with a
computer network from the far, far past? Or just with my terminal maybe.

This has been a boring alert.


-- 
Gary Benson   -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-inc@sisu.fluke.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Every new technology carries with it an opportunity to invent a new crime.
                                                    -Laurence A. Urgenson
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From: Junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu (Peter D. Junger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Legal language
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:19:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University Law School
NNTP-Posting-Host: samsara.law.cwru.edu

In article <lhoe9uINNdbq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@diskus.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>From: linden@diskus.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
>Subject: Re: Legal language
>Date: 2 Dec 1992 04:19:10 GMT


>Trelford Pinkerton asks:
>> what would be an example of an "appurtenance" that isn't a "fixture"?

>Ted "or an outhouse" Frank replies:
>> A barn.

>I'm sorry Ted, but all barns *are* fixtures.   They have to be, otherwise
>they'd fly away when the wind blows.   Outhouses too.   

>My big dic says that appurtenances are "buildings other than the main building"
>and fixtures are anything "firmly in place".  For me, even in Calif, buildings
>are firmly in place, so all appurtenances are fixtures.   Hence the land
>contract was needlessly wordy and archaic in its first clause.

>But I'll change my mind if you can post some non-intersecting definitions
>that still have relevance today, from an even bigger legal dictionary.   

These examples are not from a dictionary--they are from actual practice.
Appurtances can include the land outside the boundaries of the parcel that 
lies under the bed of a street or highway, the right to enforce restrictive 
covenants against a neighbor, and an easement across that neighbors driveway 
to get to one's garage.  None of these appurtenances are fixtures.

Peter D. Junger

Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, OH
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