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From: maya@carina.unm.edu ()
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:21:42 GMT
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>> Are the following sentences exactly the same in meaning?
>> If not, how different are they from each other?
>> 1) How much do you spend a week?
>> 2) How much do you spend per week?
>> 3) How much do you spend in a week?
>> 4) How much a week do you spend?
>> 5) How much do you spend every week?
>> 6) How much do you spend each week?



To me, 
	(2) implies a statistical average.  My insurance company tells
me that my insurance costs me "...just $17 per week..." when I think of
it as costing me $900 once a year.  If somebody were to ask me (for instance)
"How much do you spend in a week upon insurance?" my first thought would
be "Nothing".  In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, (2) implies a
statistical mean and (3), (4), and maybe (6) imply the mode.  If somebody
were to ask me (3) I would assume they meant "most normal weeks".  
I don't know that (5) implies this, but I would expect to find somebody
using a sentence of that construction when curious about the base
expense - "Some weeks we have to buy T-shirts, but every week we have to
spend X amount on Bernard.". I only meant to discuss number (2), but in
the hot thrill of classification I would put number (1) with number (2)
as indicating a mean expenditure.
	I'm not sure this was especially helpful to anybody but me - it
sure put off the grading of papers for a bit.

-maya (whose cat Simone was so very very good at the vet yesterday that
	I just have to brag about it)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:26:35 GMT
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In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:

>> The above is the one my Cassel's gives, too.  Don't blame the Brits, you
>> crazy Canadian; it's the Greeks who have to answer for that piece of messy
>> business.... [and lots of other things, too]
>
>Ah, but the Greeks did dip(h) into the right thong. The brits used
>a letter which doesn't make sense.

Tell me Peter, have you ever known a Brit to make sense, spellingwise?:-)
Me neither....

>Speaking of Greeks: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
>
"THIS IS JESUS, KENT"?  Oops, wrong movie....  Is this another Flowers joke?
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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> Natalie, when you see "Yes", "No" and "NC" in the same email, just
> what kind of logic do you apply to deduce that "NC" is the same as
> "No"?

C is more than half of O.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:41:20 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question

>Real Men (tm) lick them raw...

Reduced to tacking tm's on, eh? How have you fallen.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:29:27 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Library automation
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> Of course, one wonders why anyone would ask this question of a bunch of
> amateurs (like most wordslingers) when there are a dozen lists that
> focus on library-related topics in detail.

Because Wordslers give better answers to *all* questions.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:19:10 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Vaxstation update
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I enjoyed abh's posting!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: For you do-gooders out there

> Remember this discussion?

Yeah.  Do I ever....

> >current projects include:
> >
> >* Collecting & repairing PCs to donate to community groups in the third
> >  world; we are looking for donations of PCs, color monitors, hard disks of
> >  all sizes, and disk controllers, etc. (Repair sessions every Thurs. except
> >  the night of our monthly meeting.)
> >* Training Salvadoran refugees in Boston to use WordPerfect and other PC
> >  software.
> >* Partnership with Community Education Computing Society in South Africa.
> >
> > New members are welcome!

How about me, non-Salvadorian.  I'm sitting here at work with a busted
PC.  Smoke began pouring out of it this morning.  The service contract
technicians are supposed to come and fix it...sometime.  Ever try to
get a brand new motherboard (love that term!) for a 286 IBM clone made
by Olivetti and wearing an AT&T deathstar logo?  I have about 80 megs
worth of dead files in there that I'm probably going to lose: thank
God for backups.  MAYBE they can get me a rebuilt board by
cannibalizing another machine, since AT&T no longer supports its own
product line (and didn't when they did).  We've been told that the
entire Division is supposed to get 486 machines from our new captive
company, NCR...sooooooooooon!

In the meantime, in betweentime, maybe somebody wants to donate a nice
486DX/50 with about 32 meg RAM and a 600 MB hard drive to a nice guy
in the First World who is working in a company that treats him like a
Colonial.  I don't need a monitor, that's okay....

Ken
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:21:36 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Yet Another Holiday Report.
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:>Kalamazoo, eh?  Hmm...not much like Oz as I remember it.  But there is
:>a lot of snow.
:>
:>Karen
:>Michigan native

:Am I missing some piece of vital information? What's Oz got to do with it?

:Carolyn

Obligatory joke directed at anyone named Dorothy.  All the Dorothys I knew
hated it.

G
"I want to go home, I..."
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:43:15 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: a couple of points

>> first: The generally accepted academic catchword for the subcontinent
>> now is "South Asia".
>
>Yeah, I've noticed the term South Asian being used in academia.  But, in
>the real world, the term Asian appears to be reserved for the Far East.

That was the only point I was trying to make. I didn't say anything about
"academic catchwords". If I want to check out a Marathi book from the lib-
rary I know I must go to the "South Asia" section. What I was talking about
is how a lot of Americans DO say "The library is full of Asian and Indian
students." In the perception of a lot of people, there is a difference.


>> I've noticed the same problem with people from Pittsburgh denying
>> they're from the Midwest.
>
>Same thing w/ Rochester.  I almost came to blows recently with someone from
>there for suggesting that it was part of the Midwest.

Yes, but the how is it relevant? Blomberg's complex similes totally escape
me.


>>                                                 And I don't even want to
>> start in on the Russians, who always insist they are European, but never
>>call it Western Europe, just Europe.
>
>What is the accepted convention for Turkey?  Asia or europe?

Simple, Rashmi. Just ask this in soc.culture.european and soc.culture.turkish.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:07:28 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Inauguration
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        Wow, Harwell, it's gonna be a long four years, huh?  You're starting
        to do Rush Limbaugh bits.  Anyone could tell from looking at him that
        Dan Rather's hard-on was full-(ahem)blown.

To Harwell, that's <half-hearted>...

G
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:53:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Salmonbake bitching
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> Just keep that fucking Miata away from me.
>
> G

Such a <card>...  the truth is, when the line forms for spins in
the little silver bullet, we all know who will be at the <head>,
yelling Take a Fucking Number, Chaps, Take a Fucking Number.
--ggs
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: signoff
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:39:09 GMT

In article <9301241326.AA22163@bast.sics.se> torkel@SICS.SE writes:
> >I was simply indicating that the discussion
> >of netiquette is not always subtle, as the previous comment had
> >stated.
>
>  I don't think Rita said that the discussion of netiquette was subtle,
>but rather netiquette itself.

	Thank you, Tushar.  I can't for the life me understand how he
could have attributed that thought to me.  The discussion of
netiquette is rarely subtle.




-- 
Net.Personality for hire.                       Will Post for Food.
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Question for Torkel
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N-one can understand Danish.  It's practically a foreign language...
G
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:26:17 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: a couple of points

>first: The generally accepted academic catchword for the subcontinent now
>is "South Asia". Tushar seems to have accepted the anglicized upper-class
>belief/hope that "We are not Asians, that's all those dirty buggers over
>there. We, on the other hand, play cricket.

Read carefully before opening your mouth.

tushar
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Torture, again.
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g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) writes:
> Read the Stanley Milgram stuff that Karen referred to.  It takes about
> an hour to turn the average American into a vicious killer.

Who says American education is deficient?  Why, I have it on good
authority that it takes a full 67 minutes to turn the average
Brit into a vicious killer and nearly 72 minutes for the average
Japanese.

--karsten

(on the other hand we're all lagging far behind the Serbs right now)
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:19:17 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Evelyn's Sport/Leisure Question

>are you claiming that you or Rashmi have telepathic abilities?

It so happens that Rashmi and I were the first two people
to guess who the infamous Santa was. Indians are well known
for their abilities of divination. Contrast with several
Americans who had the most ridiculous guesses:

"abh"   - It's Tushar
Brad    - It's Frank Peters
Natalie - It's Galmin

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:42:40 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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Posted on 28 Jan 1993 at 05:26:09 by BrownVM Mailer (108969)
>Can any
>of you imagine being a parent in pre-antibiotic days?

Parent, schmarent, I'm on antibiotics for the second time since New
Year's.  I can't imagine LIVING without them!

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:09:58 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Vatican Online
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     ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE
                        an Exhibit at the
                       Library of Congress
                      Washington, DC  20540
                 Available by anonymous FTP from
                          seq1.loc.gov
                         (140.147.3.12)
                      /pub/vatican.exhibit

ROME REBORN:  THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in
the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and
Rome.  The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican
Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the
Renaissance.  The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson
Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through
April 30, 1993.  The online exhibit will be available by
anonymous FTP indefinitely.

     [The rest of this announcement is in docs/words-l/Misc
      with filename vatican.online]
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:30:55 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Salmonbake Uprising
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> >Judith didn't even use her guest account to telnet when she was here.
> Nonsense. She was guest3.

I think she still is guest3 officially, but she didn't use that account.
She found it more convenient to telnet directly instead of going through
Ra.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:08:55 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Maya's poem

>
>Glass of milk,
>Stands between extinction in the cold and explosive radiating growth.
>And the warm blood flows through the large four-chambered heart,
>Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.
>
>[And how many recognize it?]

    Could we get closure on this challenge from Chris Davis?
    Who is the poet and what is the poem?

    brad
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:09:58 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Torture, again.

>The ultimately chilling conclusion is that torturer's MUST have normal
>personalities--"Any of us, in a similar situation, might be capable of
>the same cruelty.  One probably cannot train a deranged sadist to be an
>effective torturer or killer.  He must be in complete control of himself
>on the job."
>
>The evidence for this is quite convincing, but I still want to deny it.
>I guess that's just my American Optimism.


First you, on your own, brand the conclusion as chilling, then you want
deny it. Then you call this optimism.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:46:20 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      The Poem

From another conference:

>  Want to hear the Inaugural Poem again?  Call (714) 550-INFO for the Orange
>County Register (newspaper) and when asked for a category, enter 1110 on your
>touch phone.  You can chose between the Inaugural speech and the poem.  /john

Tony H.
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
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From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

> In a previous article, g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) says:
>
>>At the other end, I suppose, one might tell an overly diarrheic doxy to
>>loosen up a bit.
>>
>>diarrhoeic.  English Professors, I ask you...
>
> Even academics need spellcheckers....  probably more than most....

Ruth, tch, tch. The spelling I used is the U.S. one as in Am. Her.
As for the other spelling, it's just like the bloody pommie bastards
to dip a thong where it doesn't belong.

Peter
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In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>                          Remember, you're talking to a woman
>>with a shirt picturing Michaelangelo's David balls and all.
>
>No, I am not. Stop trying to guess about what I am doing. More
>generally, stop bullshitting your way through false statements.
>
Trinity College [WRTC] shit in this case, Tushie; that's who sold me
the shirt.  I don't have to guesss what you're doing, luv - you're trying
to act as agent provocateur, only it's not working.  It's only bullshit if
the shirt doesn't exist.....

  btw - how does one "bullshit through false statements"?  You're the past
 master of defecation, and as I'm rather poor at slinging the stuff, I could
 use some advice from one of the best in the field.
 
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (76)
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        3) Thunderbird ==  is a really *cheap* wine, was about 50 cents a
           bottle when I was a youngster, when my friends and I would
           says things like: "I'm gonna git me a bottle of Thunderbird
           and have me a good time."
        I don't say those things now, as a <mature> person.

Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine and a white handkerchief?

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:14:08 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Mail from Dan
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> Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:59:54 -0500
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> Subject:      WORDS-L: error report from IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU
> To: Jeff Kell <JEFF%UTCVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>, MAYNOR@RA.MSSTATE.EDU
>
>The enclosed mail file, found in the WORDS-L reader and shown under the spoolid
>9585  in the  console log,  has been  identified as  a possible  delivery error
>notice  for  the following  reason:  "Sender:",  "From:" or  "Reply-To:"  field
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>
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>  7486; Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:01:23 MST
> Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:45:35 MST
> From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
> Subject:      Re: From WORDS-L
> In-Reply-To:  Message of Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:27:06 CST from
>  <maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu>
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:27:06 CST you said:
> >> Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:22:37 EST
> >> From: Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> >> Subject:      Dan?
> >>
> >> Has anyone heard from/about Dan Lester lately?  It seems like a long
> >> time since we've had a cyclops update.
> >>
> >> Karen
> >>
>
> the cyclops lives!
>
> this is a brief version of what has been going on, as reported by
> me, his faithful scribe....
>
> we went to the doctor in boise on tuesday, last, who expressed awe
> over the handiwork of the dr. on salt lake city....said everything
> looks ok and to just keep on looking at the floor...and come
> back in a week....
>
> meanwhile....the cyclops has been watching fugitive reruns, listening
> to books on tape and slowly sorting through the junk  (excuse me, important
> documents) piled around his office
>
> on thursday, cinda started on a 15 hour bus trip from hell, which finally
> got her to old dad's side around noon on friday.....
> andy, dan's programmer son from chicago, was due in on the train around
> 3 am on sat, which train finally arrived about 7 am, met by cinda , who
> now had been virtually without sleep for two nights ....
>
> at 12:30 pm on sat., dan's sister arrived (on time...actually about
> 5 minutes early) via plane from pennsylvania....there was a tearful
> reunion shortly at the house.....
>
> the evening was spent with various festivities, during which dan dutifully
> kept his head bowed.....and therefore not invoking the wrath of a wife, a
> daughter and a sister, three women who would kick him in a strategic place
> if he didn't!!
>
> anyway...things are going well and he thanks you for all the good vibes
> everyone has been sending....
>
> i am learning more than i ever expected to about this email stuff...but
> am happy to be able to help .....just glad things are progressing on
> track so far....
>
> love and hugs to everyone...
>
> gail and dan in potatoland
>
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (BillMerrill) writes:
>> DS> The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
>> DS> Of their sojourn here
>> DS> On our planet floor,
>>
>>Am I the only one who immediately started thinking . . .
> . . . of dinosaur doo-doo on the planet floor?

No.  That's what I thought, too.  I knew from here that it
was not going to be a winner.

--karsten
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Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland

> How about voting?  All in favor of Portland?  All in favor of NC?
> Write-ins?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

If anyplace, North Carolina.

Ken
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Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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Posted on 27 Jan 1993 at 06:15:10 by Joan Boorstein
>> Pleasant.  I don't think it's ever really humid in NC.  And if we're in the
>> mountainy areas, it will be cool.  (Not cold like RI, but cool.)

The only 'cold' part of RI I remember was being near the water on 'bake day.
In the main, I remember sweating like a pig.

>Although the Smokies have great scenery, there is much to see in Portland
>and environs: Mount Hood, Columbia River, Pacific Ocean within a couple of
>hours ...

And don't forget the bookstores!  There's a good Japanese bookstore and also
that bookstore that is the largest in the US--I can't remember the name, but
others mentioned it.

Besides, while NC is East Coast, it's hardly a day's drive from Boston/NYC/
Philadelphia.  I think the East Coast advantage is diminished by going so
far south.

Karen
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