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From: bkannan@ho12.eng.ua.edu (Balaji Kannan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Alt.culture.bengal
Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:05:49 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:

>In article <1hdgi0INN5hn@aludra.usc.edu> banerjee@aludra.usc.edu
> (Samit Banerjee) writes:
>>
>>>   I think you looked at it from  a very narrow perspective.. 
>>
>>No, I am looking at the issue from the broadest perspective possible 
>>and that is as an Indian.            ^^^^^^^^^^
>>                ^^^^^^^^
>>Samit Banerjee				|			
>>Internet  banerjee@aludra.usc.edu       | you will be only one who does.


[....]
>So the "broadest" perspective will be "world" not "india".
>The recent arrivals from India, please grow up. 

    Guess he meant 'Indian at heart'. How wd you know??
    It's time the old-timers stopped throwing their
    weight around under the pretext of being grown-ups.

>KS
    
    bk
From: sunder@grusin.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: AIDS drug by indian firm
Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:54:49 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: grusin.crhc.uiuc.edu

From m(isc).n(ews).s(outhasia):

|> * Indian company produces cheaper AZT
|> 
|> By Shishir Thadani
|> 
|> An Indian drug company recently announced it could produce the 
|> AIDS-treatment drug AZT and market it at one-quarter the cost 
|> charged to patients in the U.S. But Burroughs-Wellcome, which 
|> produces and sells AZT in the U.S., has moved to prevent 
|> pharmacies around the world from purchasing the Indian drug.
|> 
|> Burroughs-Wellcome has threatened the Indian company with a 
|> patent-violation lawsuit. But Indian patent laws are different 
|> from those in the U.S. Drugs cannot be patented in India; only 

[...]

I wonder at the general tone the article took, which was distinctly 
anti-western ("... the US and its imperialist allies..."). One look 
at the source (Workers World Service) convinces me that it is hardly
impartial or even deserving of the presumption of objectivity that
a news organization like UPI/BBC/AP etc. gets. Shouldn't the moderator
of m.n.s watch out for such biases to ensure that she herself is assured
of a presumption of neutrality from those who read m.n.s? Or are readers
of m.n.s supposed to able to make these judgements on their own?

This is NOT a flame.

-- 
Srinivas Sunder                                         sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu

If my employer shares these views, I'd be most surprised.
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From: test
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: testing
Date: 25 Dec 1992 18:11 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: deimos.caltech.edu
Keywords: testing
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

this is a test
From: seetam@hub.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: ......  variant of "aayaa raam..." .......
Date: 22 Dec 1992 13:04:42 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



a new variant of the famous ``aayaa raam gayaa raam'' just popped in my head...


		aayaa raam	gayaa babri




Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)


P.S.  :  There is a pun in the third word above.  Politically active/concious
	 netters will see it...  Hint : ....sharanam gaccaami....


Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran)
Subject: Looking for P.P. Sarkar of John Hopkins
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:29:26 GMT

Hi

I am looking for Mr. (Dr ?) P.P. Sarkar who used to be a
doctoral student in Dept. of Civil Engineering at John Hopkins
University. Now he has moved and his telephone is not in
servive anymore. If anyone knows his phone no. of email, please
email to me. I woluld appreciate.
Sarkar, if you happen to see this please contact me.

regards

ravi.

**********************************************************************
Rajamiyer V. Ravichandran
Department of Civil Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

email: rr2@wucec1.wustl.edu
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: rrp@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rakesh.r.patel)
Subject: Re: Poem : Calcutta and I by Sunil Gangopadhyay
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:59:16 GMT

In article <199212310356.AA22921@mp.cs.niu.edu> t60bss9@mp.cs.niu.edu (Bijoy Sagar) writes:
>
>Calcutta and I
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>Calcutta is a terrible stone in my heart.
>I'll destroy her-
>I'll rape her and take her to Haldia port,
>Give her poison mixed with coconut sweets.
>She is a terrible stone in my heart.
>Calcutta fakes moonlight,
>Nowadays she has learned to mix
>Thorns or pebbles with kisses.
>You forget to add sugar
>To the tear-like tea, distracted by so many lovers...
>Even in daylight, your thighs are open.
>
>Can I let you go so easily
>To the supreme Court of Delhi, my beauty?
>Instead in the evening, with scented heart,
>In crisp white clothes,
>I will hold your arms and take you for a taxi ride-
>Dance, twist in hotels, the rhythm flurrying your sari's border,
>Expositing in your breasts the twin cameras,
>The Jadus, Madhus, Shyams will whistle-
>Such music in the body, you are like an august offering of light
>Reflected in the mirror.
>
>I can bring praises, from the south of the city,
>You want lotuses in your hands?
>You will be murdered at midnight,
>Where will you escape from my hand? You cannot
>Hide in Canning street. If you run along Chinese road
>I'll follow you, tiger-like,
>Leaping over traffic lights, crossing the Burrabazar of sorrows.
>Through Chowringhee, the sick man's tonic,
>My chase will continue,
>As a disembodied, air-borne soul,
>Avenging my pitiful love,
>Where will you escape? On the Ganga, I'll turn the faces
>Of all the ships
>Piercing with my strong torchlight the Maidan darkness.
>
>I'll strangle you
>Fling gunpowder in the drains of your body,
>My secret passages: one day in the centre
>I'll light a match-
>The palaces will fall, the bricks and woods will crackle,
>All the graces, jewels, the immortal Chitpur world
>Will dissolve.
>Since you have pushed me towards death,
>What can prevent you from sharing my fate?
>
>******** Translated by Subhoranjan Dasgupta and Sudeshna Chakravarty********** 


What drivel! This is poetry!! Please, NO MORE BAD POETRY!!!



Rakesh Patel
From: tstpcc@gwunix1.gwu.edu (Paul C. Chemmanoor)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Acksharam/KairaLi: The a.c.k. Magazine, Invites Articles from you.
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:47:39 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Acksharam/KairaLi: The a.c.k Magazine, Invites Articles from you. 
---------------------------------------------------------------------

The magazine of the news group alt.culture.kerala invites articles 
for net publication in its innaugral issue to be released on Jan 31, 93.

The primary focus of the magazine will be on kerala and its culture.
However we invite articles that are relevant to Indian society in general
and kerala society in particular. 
We hope we can attract the best writing talent available on the net
for the fiction to be net published in Acksharam/KairaLi (a/k).

Kerala and malayalam have a rich literary heritage, 4 sahitya academi
awards going to malayalam in the past years. We hope a/k will reflect
the high place that kerala and malayaalis gives to the written word.



The format of a/k will be :

(1) Editorial.
(2) Articles on current topics.
(3) News from Kerala.
(4) Fiction- Poetry.
(5) Fiction- Prose.
(6) Humour.
(7) Travelogues.


The Editorial will be written by the a/k commitee (a/k:com).

Articles on current topics are invited from the net.public.
These articles will be from 100 lines to 500 lines.
Examples of topics:
(i) Secularism and Kerala.
(ii) Trade Unions and Economy.
(iii) Socialism.
(iv) Cultural change.
etc.

News on Kerala is invited from all sources. Proper source
must be given along with name and address.

The Fiction in Malayalam/English can be a translation of an existing
work in malayalam into english or an original composition in english.
Here the topic does not have to be kerala.
The same applies for humour.

The travelogues are recountings of journeys made in Kerala.


To facilitiate planning of the magazine, people who think they
have something to contribute in terms of articles can make a 
pledge to the a/k:com and send in the actual article later.

IMPORTANT: Those leaving on vacations for kerala please keep
a/k in mind, keep your eyes and ears open so that you can come back and 
tell us about the trip and news from home.


For any information about a/k or for pledging contributions
or sending in articles send mail to any member of the commitee.

Sincerely,

            The a/k: commitee.
Santy Kumar --    skumar@eagle.wesleyan.edu   ,
Mathai Chundat --  mchundat@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu  ,
Donald Kailath --  kailath@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com ,
Jacob Thomas --    jacobt@nynexst.com  ,
Paul Chemmanoor -- paulchem@tigger.cs.colorado.edu .
From: crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Do we need a religion?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:44:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <1992Dec21.152945.7813@ryn.mro4.dec.com> verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma) writes:
>
>	That is what I meant by "learning to disagree" not "agree to 
>	disagree" because later is not possible as Mr Fafat mentioned.
>-- Virendra Verma

Using "Yoga technology" (VV patent #00001), you should have realized long ago
that the "realizable truth" is that I *am* disagreeing with you, and have been
from the start.  Unfortunately, since I am not at DEC, I am not able to use
these marvelous new inventions of "Yoga technology" to aid my arguments.  
Perhaps I can fashion an ersatz piece of "Yoga technology" from materials
available at Radio Shack.

Ed
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: krao@krao.mentorg.com (Krishna Rao)
Subject: Greetings
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 21:15:19 GMT
Organization: mentor
Keywords: 1993
Followup-To: 

     Happy New Year!

                        Krishna P Rao

Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: shahdp@rtsg.mot.com (Deepak Shah)
Subject: test
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: all
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:11:46 GMT

Hi!

This is a test 
-- 
Shah Deepak v.
Phone#632-6691

Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:42659 soc.culture.pakistan:19102
From: an4329@anon.penet.fi (Tera Baap)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: AJIT JOKE AJIT JOKE  !
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:48:45 GMT
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From: shm@syl.syl.nj.nec.com (Shailendra Majmundar)
Subject: Cheaper Electronics: Singapore or Dubai?
Reply-To: shm@syl.nj.nec.com
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:26:18 GMT

I wish to purchase small electronic items while going to India. Does
anyone know where I may find the electronics cheper than the US - 
Singapore or Dubai. I am thinking of routing my way via one of those
ports.

Thanks,
 Shailendra (shm@syl.nj.nec.com)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: sramacha@nyx.cs.du.edu (srivatsan ramachandran)
Subject: accomodation
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 04:16:07 GMT


dear readers
looking for accomodation for my brother in los angeles for spring semester
(1993).  would be willing to share room.  the school he proposes to attend
is West Coast University in Los Angeles.  interested readers please
correspond to the above email address or to "WATSON@NSULA.EDU".  Thanks.

Srivatsan Ramachandran
From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Subject: Re: Alt.culture.bengal
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:54:14 GMT

(Kuram T Narayana) writes:
> (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>>
>>As I recall, all these inane and fear-mongering attacks on ethnic
>>groups were presented when people wanted Tamil and Telugu groups.
>>
>
>All our fears have been amply demonstrated in soc.culture.tamil.
>That it is a group for terrorist propaganda, and for spreading
>hate and blasphemy. To say otherwise is a consummate lie. 
>You seem to be quite immune to truth.
>
Oh, come on! Please don't assume the role of the supreme censor now.
There are (I suppose) Usenet laws divined to contain terrorism and
let the law take care of that. With respect to blasphemy thing,
you sound like Jerry Falwell than a reasoned individual. Looks like
the first amendment stops at your whim and fancy! 

>Having said that I don't see any reason why ACB cannot be created.
>An alt group can be created by anybody.

Then why did we ask for soc.culture.indian? We should have been 
happy with alt.culture.indian!

Satya Prabhakar

--
___________________________________________
Happiness, dear Phaedrus, is a passed pawn!
Xref: sparky soc.culture.indian:41723 soc.culture.tamil:4613
From: gupta_sn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sandeep N Gupta)
Subject: Re: KNOCK! KNOCK! P-Js
Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Academic Computing
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:38:01 GMT

>
>Knock! Knock!
>Who's there?
>Amnesia.
>Amnesia who?
>You got it too.
>
>Knock! Knock!
>Who's there?
>Sharma.
>Sharma who?
>Sharmao mat, darwaza kholo.
>
>Knock! Knock!
>Who's there?
>Ya.
>Ya who?
>Don't be so happy, it's only me.
>
>
>

Knock!Knock!
Who's there?
Ya.
Ya who?
Yahoo! Chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe

Knock!knock!
Who's there?
Vishal.
Vishal who?
We shall not reveal our identities.

Thuk! Thuk!
Kaun hai?
Iss.
Iss-kaun?
Hare-Krishna, hare raama...
   
>I could have sworn that I knew at least two million, three hundred and
>forty seven thousand, eight hundred and fifteen more of those. Now all
>I remember is Ajits phattas.  Can anyone post some more knock!  knock!

If these three were amongst your two million, three hundred and forty
seven thousand, eight hundred and fifteen , then your job has now 
reduced to finding only the remaining two million, three hundred and forty
seven thousand, eight hundred and twelve. Good luck for that!

Anyway, great that you started the knock knock series. the ajeet ones were
getting quite monotonous and were losing their charm.

-Sandeep Gupta.



>p-js pleazzzzz?
>
>Thanx.
>-- 
>Harsh Varma
>Department of Computer Science
>Rutgers University
>
>Disclaimer: None. Please, everyone adopt my opinion, I am right!
>
>Postscript: Please dont flame me, and I get very scared by death
>            threats.
From: banerjee@hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Alt.culture.bengal
Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:05:11 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu

In article <C035Mp.DqL@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:
>>No, I am looking at the issue from the broadest perspective possible 
>>and that is as an Indian.            ^^^^^^^^^^
                   ^^^^^^^^
>Well Usenet's distribution is normally "world".
>In actual numbers, usa + canada is probably 90%.
>So the "broadest" perspective will be "world" not "india".

I guess you have never heard of USENET in Europe, Australia, New zealand
and several of the Pacific Rim countries in Asia. Where did you "generate"
that 90% figure or better yet, from source did you plagiarize it?

You probably do not realize that USENET facilities will be available in
India sooner than you think and to quote Icarus " a person sitting in 
Assam will read soc.culture.assam".


>Soc.Culture.Tamil is a newsgroup for "world" people interested in Tamil .
>Not just for "tamils living now in India", Tamils who are Indian Citizens,
>Tamils who were born in India, those who voted to a particular party etc..

Ya right !!! That's why as another netter pointed out, SCT contains it's
share of terrorist propaganda. Or maybe that's all right with you too. 
Part of that nebulous "World perspective" thing that you talked about. 

>The recent arrivals from India, please grow up. 

Give me a break!!! If you want to flame me, next time do it with a 
shred of intelligence and a touch of finesse. Unfortunately your
article lacked both, this time around. 

Samit

-- 
Samit Banerjee,			    |  
University of Southern California   |  A man who smiles when things go wrong,
Internet: banerjee@scf.usc.edu      |  has found somebody to blame it on.
Bellnet : (213) 342-1401            |  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
From: nvenkate@acs.ucalgary.ca (Natarajan Venkateswaran)
Subject: a.c.bangla
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 20:15:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Hi Friends,

	Bijoy writes

>Hi Netters,
> 
> when do we have our own alt.culture.bangla newsgroup? I think
> it is overdue.  While many of these newsgroups such as a.c.tamil
> are used for people-bashing, we could use a.c.b to talk about

	I don't think a.c.tamil is in operation now. BTW if you want
to create a newsgroup, you do not have to cite other newsgroups in a
derogatory manner. 

> the poetry and culture of Bengali society, especially of the
> last century. Any takers?
> 
> Bijoy
> 
> t60bss9@mp.cs.niu.edu
> bijoy@geol.niu.edu

Natarajan
From: lmascar@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: DOWN
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:43:59 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

hghjagsjkh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
From: f43703a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp (SUPRATIC GUPTA)
Subject: re: alt.culture.bengal
Organization: Nagoya University Computation Center, Nagoya, Japan.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:06:24 GMT


 I will vote no for two reason.

It will increase cross posting between ACB and SCB.

2) No need for ACB, SCCB serves well. Some one said try a bengali
joke in SCI and see if SCI readers like it or not. It was a wrong 
question. We didnot say know to ACB because of the existence of SCI,
but because of SCB. So 

You shoud have said ..

TRY POSTING A BENGALI JOKE AT SCB, WILL THEY ENJOY.    


DON"T DEVIDE BENGAL FURTHER. IT HURTS.

By the way, I proposed 

Soc.Cul.Rel.Indian-subcontinent for the following reason.

1) Decrease cross posting, by talking the subjects of commen
interest there.

2) Religion, culture, social problems are connected especially
for our sub-continent. I cross posted it to SCI, SCP and SCB.
It did not reach accept SCB, so there is some discussion on it
in SCB, please see it.

Proposal is for droping the name INDIAN.

That is acceptable. But I insist because it helps in easy retrival
for a new reader.

Talk is un acceptable, as we will discuss, not just talk (talk in air)


-- 
With regards
 
SUPRATIC GUPTA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh,alt.config
From: godura@thorin.cis.udel.edu (Ruchir Godura)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.lang.bengali
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:56:20 GMT

>fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat) writes:
>
>>Nishit writes:
>>>Thik bolacho guru, amaro nam neyia podpakami thik posaiya na.Amar nam neyia
>>>kao podpakami koracho to sala potoldanga pateya debo.Jokhon ai addaa newgroupta
>>>chalo hoi ekto khobor diyo guru. Onak din thek na marei khabar gulo thik hozom
>>>hochai na.
>>>
>>>Nishit
>
>
>>	oomike kee khobar na loge che. ee ki bolbe tumi Bongoli bobu?
>>	Ek thau Ruchir Godura, unike anagram haube "u r a god". God key

Ai Phophot, aabar naam niye podpakami.
Toom saala, aapna bhasa mein kiya leekhta hai, malum nahin.
Kintu, ek kotha bole deta hai, gaala-gaali diya to jhamela karega hum !
Saamjha ?
:-) :-)
u-r-a-god bol-le cholega kintu. U haamara daaknaam hai.

BTW : u-r-a-god was one of my nicknames in college .. 

Ruchir.
>
>

-- 
Ruchir Godura | godura@cis.udel.edu | (302) 731-4123 (H) (302) 831-1949 (W)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
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Subject: Test
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.culture.indian
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:44:05 GMT


This is a test. Please ignore

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Internet: banerjee@scf.usc.edu      |  has found somebody to blame it on.
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From: kazi@hercules.cis.udel.edu (Zunaid Kazi)
Subject: Re: Shaping of Bengali Culture/Reply to Arindam
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:02:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.010627.25388@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu (sayan bhattacharyya) writes:

>If one wishes to really understand the wonderful heritage ,strength
>and resilience of Bengali culture, it is these earthly figures that 
>one needs to turn to, and not to the 'babu' culture of nineteenth 
>century Calcutta of which the effete and pretentious Bengali middle-class 
>'bhadralok' of today is a successor. 

Well said. This "Babu culture" is quite prevalent in Bangladesh too,
and the members of the so called Bangla Intellectuals often forget
the long history of the grass-roots Bangla literary origins.

>-Sayan.

- Zunaid Kazi
  kazi@cis.udel.edu
From: fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: The Quran and the Modern Science
Date: 2 Jan 1993 15:35:04 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

A potential demagogue :) Balaji Kannan writes:
>hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder) writes:

>            Believers like you [& me too] had better keep off atheists
>            like FFT who find recourse for *all* phenomena in science.
>            Religion, I believe :-), can have an agenda different from
>            'merely explaining physical reality' :-). 


	O definitely. Like Milind pointed out, it's a matter of faith. So
	keep it at that. Don't try to read anything scientific in Quran or
	Bible. They're bull when applied to physical reality. And by that
	same token, they're not gospel truth. [heck, now I've done it. reserved
	a place in Hell :)]


>
>>Hence, according to your definition axioms and postulates are 
>>supersititions. As such, sceince is the most methodically supersitious
>>of all sources of knowledge!!!!!
>
>             A pathetic attempt at accrediting religion by
>             discrediting science with the aid of scientific
>             tools :-) [logic of yours; only in this case it 
>             is slightly misplaced] 
>
>    bk


	:) Logic and Metaphysics use more tools than all the rest of the
	Sciences put together and do the least work.... :)

	FFT



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