HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dpj4303@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Yes.  Another observation
Reply-To: dpj4303@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:32:50 GMT

oboy... 

akay, after having read the last infinity-plus messages and seen
how subjects can be beaten to death, I came up with an idea

But then I saw someone else tell how that most micro-points had already
been beaten severely to death already, and that any new point was, therefore,
old.

So.

On with my point anyway... This is along with the rest of the standard
"Did anyone notice..." questions.

Arthur's scrabble set had just the right amount of letters for the 
prehistoric man to put into the right sentence.  Obviously, at least
a partial imprint was left in Arthur's mind in order that he build the
scrabble set with non-standard amounts of pieces.  And it obviously
took a combination of the caveman's early stage in the process and
Arthur's Golgafrinchian (sp!?) descent to obtain both the letters
*and* the answer.

Of course, due to what Prat said, it *could* (speculation, of course)
be concluded that the answer cannot be known and that a flaw automatically
introduced itself into the program so that the caveman and Arthur came
up with connecting parts of a conclusion not meant to be known.
And even if the Universe *were* replaced by something bizarre and
inexplicable?

Well then... That flaw could also explain why 6 * 9 != 101010 (binary)

Of course, I could be imagining all this.

Any thoughts to confirm/deny/slam-to-the-ground/dismiss/praise/
                extol-the-virtues-of/thank

                or just plain agree/disagree

send them to iforde@csnext.colgate.edu

Thanx.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: c9037395@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Helen Lee)
Subject: Re: Hitchhikers Guide to "BoB" (Mostly Harmless spoiler)
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:45:49 GMT

ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley) writes:

>In article <1992Sep04.225315.18037@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) writes:
>>From the soon-to-be-released Douglas Adams novel "Mostly Harmless:"
>[except deleted]

>Tell me there has been a mistake, please! That didn't sound like Adams
>to me, more like some Pratchett trash, somebody tell me our DNA hasn't
>sunk to such levels, I was looking forward to Mostly Harmless ...

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Andrew J D Hurley ,   ><>         |  Email:   A.J.D.Hurley@bnr.co.uk

                      ^^^^I assume you say this because you are Xian?
I thought it no more offensive than the fellas at Milliways waiting for
the 2nd coming of the Great Prophet whatshisname. ie. not much at all (& yes,
I am a Xian) As for humour, IMHO it (the extract) was pretty funny!
I'm *still* looking forward to MH. :)
 
No offense intended, Andrew.
Cheers,
Helen.
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begins now. All VAXes are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle
and then thin again at the far end. That is my .sig, it is mine, and belongs
to me and I own it, and what it is too.            c9037395@cs.newcastle.edu.au
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:01:36 EDT
From: <JVI100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: The ACTUAL answer to life the universe and everything

      One late night while I was just about to doze off, I was thinking while
  in that half dreaming half awakened state I'm sure we've ALL experienced,
  when I came up with something that startled me awake! I had been thinking
  about the Hitchhiker books and the odd 42 answer that was given out by
  Deep Thought. And I think I may have stumbled over something!!!!!!!!

      Has anyone thought that what Deep Thought ACTUALLY said might not have
  been 42, but something else? This original thought wasn't the one that jolted
  me awake though. It was when I continued my line of reasoning and thought:
  If he didn't say 42, what then? Maybe it was..... FORTITUDE!! This is a much
  more interesting answer and when said aloud and quickly, FORTITUDE almost
  sounds like 42. I could understand the misunderstanding.

            How about it sirs? What do you think?
                                                 Jimothy.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
Subject: Re: Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:38:52 GMT

Sorry, I have been attacked by a sudden workload. I will get down to some
serious drinking and posting when I get time.
-- 
Conrad Leviston	 | Got to find a brightness in the soul,
mongoose@yoyo.	 | Not look outside to find out where we are,
cc.monash.edu.au | Otherwise you won't be satisfied, 
Save the gherkin | 'Til you've made possession of the stars. (K.Wallinger)
From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Looking for HHGTTG game for the PC. Yes I have read the FAQ.
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <19533.2aacd811@ul.ie>, brehonyt@ul.ie writes...
>In the FAQ it says that the HHGTTG game for the PC was originally produced
>by Infocom and that after they went bust it was marketed by Virgin 
>Mastertronic Ltd. I wrote to the address given in the FAQ but didn't
>get a reply. Are these people still in business or have they gone to 
>the wall too ?. If they have does anybody know where the game is
>available now, if at all. Thanks in advance.
> 
>Tom Brehony.
>Email : IN%"brehonyt@ul.ie"
Greetings.
Well, the next best thing for you to do is to take a ride down to your
friendly PC software dealer and ask him (or her) if they have "The Lost
Treasures of Infocom" in stock. The drawback to this though is that to get
HHGTTG, you also have to purchase the other 19 games that come along with the
package (which, if you like text adventures, is not much of a drawback).
Otherwise, the only other thing you would be able to do, is see if someone
is willing to trade or sell it to you.
If you plan on getting TLTOI, expect to pay ~$50 - $60 American.
T.

---		                       __         ~~~        ^    ^
MST3K, Douglas Adams, AC/DC,          /  \       /   \       (####(
Amiga and Monty Python fan.           \  /      <    |     (~~\   /
"I'm confused." - Arthur Dent	       ||>       \   |      ~~~| |
				      /  \       /   \       /~   ~\    
~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~~~~\  /~~~~~~
V122KZKW@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu    || Oh!-Huh? || Yeah, ok || Hikeeba!  ||
From: ajv@datamark.co.nz (Andrew Vignaux)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: zb: TV Show...
Date: 13 Sep 92 04:40:19 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <92255.211426JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu> JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> [...].  I think his picture was also in another segment, but I
> forget which...I'll try and watch the tapes, and post whether there
> was another occurence of DNA-cameo'ing.

I believe another DNA cameo was as one of the patrons (off to the
right) as Zaphod and pals walk past and into the Milliways restaurant
area (just before the six impossible things bit).

Andrew
-- 
ajv@datamark.co.nz
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:35:40 EDT
From: <JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: DA's computer

Doug has many Macs in his office.  As far as I know, he is not on "our" net,
but he is on CompuServe (and I know our net can e-mail to it).  I will NOT,
repeat: NOT!!!! give out his e-mail address. I promised...I won't even give it
to my boyfriend...=)  If you do want to get his e-mail address, write to him
via his agency in London.  That's how I got it.
                             Cheers,
                             Jean
                             aka Chainsaw
From: JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: zb: TV Show...
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:14:26 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

First of all, he wasn't the one who tried to steal Ford's beer. DNA was lurking
waaaaayyyy in the back.  He can be seen when Arthur and Ford walk over to the
window.
Actually, he wasn't in the rest of the series...his picture was!  He was one of
the "first people up against the wall when the revolution comes/came", and his
picture (plus pigtails) became Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (or whatever her
name was), the author of THE worst poetry in existance.  I think his picture
was also in another segment, but I forget which...I'll try and watch the tapes,
and post whether there was another occurence of DNA-cameo'ing.
                              Cheers,
                              Jean
                              aka Chainsaw
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: time@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tim Evans)
Subject: Re: Voice of the Book                   
Cc: time@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: time@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:15:54 +0000

 
>        P.S. Does anyone know who does the voice of the book in the T.V. 
>        series ? 
> 
>        Cheers, 
> 
> 
>                RIK 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>- 
>Rik O'Chet, Bristol, England. 
>Email: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com              One's never alone with a Rubber Duck 
>! 
> 
> 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 
       Just had a look at the Video and the Book's voice is Peter Jones, the 
same person who did it in the Radio Series. 
 
 
time@cix.compulink.co.uk 

>>>MATRIX version  1.20g
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Guiness T.V. advert (was READ/NEW)
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:46:20 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <BuF606.KzG@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS) writes:
> In article <1992Sep11.101939.315@dct.ac.uk>, mcramm@dct.ac.uk writes...
>>Script was something like - 
>>"Sometimes it's hard to put a value on things.........This is 42"
> Greetings.
> Am I to gather that, what you're saying is this about the great answer to 
> life, the universe and everything, that the answer is not 42, but infact
> is something, that, when spelled out with a scrabble set, gives a player
> a word score of fourty-two (42)?
> Deep thought was way ahead of its time.
> Purely ingenious!
> MST3K, Douglas Adams, AC/DC,          /  \       /   \       (####(
-- 
I suspect it's more of a comment on Guiness itself..............
Either that, or Deep Thought is cleverer than we thought - he'd have to be
to have such a weird sense of humour.

(I wouldn't *dare* to suggest anything about scrabble scores - it's probably
been done several squitnillion times over already, as has the suggestion that
DT knew about the Golgafrinchans and was setting up the biggest practical joke
ever)

 Angus M. Marshall, 
 e-mail: MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.                  
         MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.CLUS                                 // 
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 Phone: (+44 382) 308000 ext. 2265 or (+44 382) 308600    \\ //
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".. and in the grove, by gate and hill, midst  merry  throng  and  market
clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter "                             
(from the legend of Beenzon Toste - Hawkwind)      
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From: dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg)
Subject: credit cards
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:16:08 GMT

yes, that is the correct way that credit cards work.
The reason why it is safe is beacuse of the fact that a credit card
has 14 (or so) numbers on it.  Seeing how there are 99,999,999,999,999
possible combinations but prob. only around 3,000,000 credit card
holders (taking a wild stab), the odds of randomly choosing a correct
number are low...
Excuse me if my math is off, maybe one of the "42" people can correct
me.
-David "ZZYZX" Steinberg
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: f90-jos@nada.kth.se (Johan Smros)
Subject: Credit cards
Originator: f90-jos@byse.nada.kth.se
Reply-To: f90-jos@nada.kth.se (Johan Smros)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:35:54 GMT


There may be true that there are 10E16 or so different combinations of
numbers on yours credit card, but it is very easy to construct a fake
credit card number. If I would do it, maybe I would hit a number owned
by someone, maybe not. Still most companies accept a fake, but true
number. That is, if I were a little more criminal, then I could buy
lots of stuff from stupid companies and let them or VISA, MasterCard
or American Express take the bill (unless there really exists such a 
number, then the owner will get the bill). That's a fact, and it has
happened too.

Johan

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Those CDs from BBC
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:26:25 GMT

I recently faxed my address to those guys from BBC World Retail, where-
upon they sent me a catalog and an order form. In there there was a par-
agraph included about methods of payment. Has anyone else also gotten
it? Because I don't get it! They say bank transfer is not possible, and
as far as I understood from then on you either have to have an account
in the UK or a credit card. Or did I miss anything?
All right, my parents got a credit card, but we Europeans (at least we
Germans) aren't as acquainted to that stuff. Maybe some of you experts
from across the Ditch can help. All they ask for is the card number and
the cardholder's name. No signature or anything. Is that enough for them
to be able to withdraw the money? I find that rather dangerous. Maybe
I'm naive, but then so is the staff of my bank, because not even they
could tell me about how this is done. (They'd have gotten the money
across without the card, oh yeah, but for a fee of about $10 -- average
dollars, that is, not currently low dollars.)

Anybody got similar experiences?

Another thing: I just read some titles of expired articles about "Mostly
Harmless" being out in America. Is that true? If yes, then it should be
available in Germany, too, and I should see that I order it.


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Richard Beckett)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:13:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Tea.(could be a game spoiler)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Reply-To: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com


In article <gefwQna00aw5QT7kUu@andrew.cmu.edu>, Geoffrey Spear
<gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> 	That makes perfect sense.  How COULD you drink no tea?  You have to GET
|> the tea to drink it.  Of course, listing no tea in your inventory might
|> be pointless (as you also have, for example, no small thermonuclear
|> devices and that's not listed)... but you just have to accept the fact
|> that you have no tea.
|> -----------------------------------
|> Geoff Spear		gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu
|> Freshman, ECE          (412) CMU - 4793
|>                                          Box# 1362, 1060 Morewood Ave.
|>                                          Pittsburgh, PA  15213
|> (for a transcript of this message, please send all of your money to the
|> above address.)
|> ------------------------------------
|> "This statement is not true."
|> 
	This could be a spoiler for the game so BEWARE !!






























	I can't tell whether you guys are messing about or what.

	The whole point about the tea and no tea is this ......




SPOILER FOLLOWING !!!


















	When you appear inside your own brain you have the opportunity to
	remove your "common sense".


















	The advantege to doing that is :
	When you "drop tea", it says "no tea taken".
	Then type "take no tea". Because your common sense has been removed
	this works. You now have tea, and no tea.



























	This enables you to open the screen door, because it is baffeled
	by your having "Tea and no Tea".

	Cheers,


		RIK


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice)
Subject: HHGTTG on YTV TODAY (Saturday September 12)!!!!!
Summary: Yep. At 4:30 (Central) pm.
Keywords: HHGTTG, YTV
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:57:11 GMT

The subject tells it all.  Flip on the Tellie at 4:30 pm (Central) and,
as today's TV News says, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will be on.

Hope this helps all of you that have been curious.  Excuse me, but I have to
find a tape to shove it on....

Happy viewing...
-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Stephen Rice                                          "I am, therefore I think"
umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca                 "These are definitely my own opinions
University of Manitoba  CANADA                  or I would not have said them."
From: djesimps@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson)
Subject: Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:12:28 GMT

Ok, a few weeks back, someone posted a request for a recipe to
a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. I unfortunately lost net-access for the
next couple of weeks, and would like to know if anyone replied, and, if so,
would they send me the same information via Email, so as not to waste
bandwidth.

Maybe this should be a FAQ?

My Email address is: djesimps@descartes.uwaterloo.ca

Thanks in advance!

	Darel J. Simpson

(still looking for a quote for my .sig!)


Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Hitchhikers Guide to "BoB" (Mostly Harmless spoiler)
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:20:02 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, Harlow, GB

In article <c9037395.715931149@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au> c9037395@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Helen Lee) writes:
>ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley) writes:
>>Andrew J D Hurley ,   ><>         |  Email:   A.J.D.Hurley@bnr.co.uk
>                      ^^^^I assume you say this because you are Xian?
Yes.

>I thought it no more offensive than the fellas at Milliways waiting for
>the 2nd coming of the Great Prophet whatshisname. ie. not much at all (& yes,
>I am a Xian) As for humour, IMHO it (the extract) was pretty funny!
>I'm *still* looking forward to MH. :)

I didn't find it offensive, just un-funny. I don't know why exactly, but I
have never found Pratchett's style funny. I have tried several times to
get to grips with his work but failed - despite the encouragements of
friends. Maybe it's the disjoint, repetative and predictable nature I
dislike, I don't know.

Anyway, hopefully MH will have plenty of the DNA humour we have come to
know and love and the extract was a hoax or just a bad choice. I believe
it was the former and am still looking forward to MH.

>No offense intended, Andrew.
None taken.


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: robertee@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Marble)
Subject: Re: Adams' books
Summary: go to the Tattered Cover
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:28:13 GMT

In article <715564280snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.154749.6473@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
>umehn@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
>> A Book Store's Humor Section:
>>    The Meaning of Liff
>
>went to the bookstore today to get this, and they told me it was
>out of print.  anyone out there know where I might find a copy?
>perhaps a bookstore that still has the book?
>
>thanks....
>   --jim
>
	A few years ago, Adams came to the Tattered Cover bookstore in 
Denver and gave a fabulous reading from his (then new) book LDTTOTS. He
mentioned _The_Meaning_of_Liff_ and that it was out of print, but
amazingly, a few months later, the bookstore had many copies of it. :)
The last time I was there, they still had several, but that was a while
ago. Anyhow, call or write them, it's an amazing bookstore and I've 
always found the staff to be incredibly helpful. So if they don't have it
they might be able to point you to where you can get it, and I know
they ship anywhere in the world. Enjoy:

Tattered Cover Bookstore
(303) 322-7727
Toll Free: 1-800-833-9327

2955 East First Avenue
Denver, CO 80206

	--Elizabeth Roberts

--
my .sig is out making crop circles
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Game spoiler wanted - I've been stuck for 4 years now!
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:49:02 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Since there are obviously some THHGTTG gamers out there  

Could someone please mail me either
i) a solution to the Infocom game
or
ii) A hint about what to do once you've completed the sub-games ?
(I've been using the improbability drive, and think I'v finished them all).
I'm stuck on the Heart of Gold and can't find anything else to do.

Oh yes, and while I'm inside Arthur's brain - is there any way to get the
particle of common sense without being fried ?

-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, 
 e-mail: MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.                  
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         amarshal@uk.ac.dund.mcs                              //
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".. and in the grove, by gate and hill, midst  merry  throng  and  market
clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter "                             
(from the legend of Beenzon Toste - Hawkwind)
From: aproden@ac.dal.ca (Andrew P. Rodenhiser)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: YTV Broadcast ???
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:40:48 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <BuBoFB.Hz7@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Luc Marcouiller) writes:
> Hi there, this is Eddie your .... (you know the rest >8^0 !)
> 
> To the point now, there was a post about YTV broadcasting the HHGTTG TV serie
> some time ago (the post not the broadcast) and I never saw any further info
> than "somewhere in september".  I would hate to miss it and scanning TV guide
> (no highlights on this show) is not my idea of fun.
> 
> Thanx world, Share and Enjoy !
> 

I believe I made the original post.  I have not seen any further
news either, but when I do I will certainly inform you all.

> Luc
> 
> e-mail ---> marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
-- 
KISS/Cooper/Metal/Seattle/Gangsta/MontyPython/NASCAR/Oldsmobiles
Andrew P. Rodenhiser, Chemistry, Dalhousie University
Halifax, N.S., Canada      APRODEN@AC.DAL.CA
"Now I know why everything turns grey, but it's our own world we paint
And I want the brightest, I want fluorescent, every day and night,
For the rest of my life, Open your eyes, Won't you?"--Faith No More
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: Simon Jones
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:36:53 GMT

Thomas Beagle asked whether Simon Jones was the same guy as in Brazil. I've
never seen Brazil, so I don't know, but my friend Adam is a Brazil fan and
he was raving about some guy named Simon Jones. Suggestion: try posting
that question on alt.fan.cult-movies. Most of them have seen Brazil, and
maybe they can tell you if it's the same guy.
				Rosaleen Dhu
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