From: ane-digest-owner@oi.uchicago.edu To: ane-digest@oi.uchicago.edu Subject: Ancient Near East Digest V1 #58 Reply-To: ane@oi.uchicago.edu Errors-To: ane-digest-owner@oi.uchicago.edu Precedence: bulk Ancient Near East Digest Monday, 28 February 1994 Volume 01 : Number 058 In this issue: Israeli universities--forwarded from colleague in Israel IES E-mail address Re: IES E-mail address Re: IES E-mail address Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron Re: Eloquent Peasant Condemnations.... Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron Re: IES E-mail address Condemnations of condemnations of condemnations.... Unknown origins and trashing the treasure blacksmith Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron Address Re: Who was teaching then? (fwd) Email add. Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron Treasure or trash Condemnation of the condemnation of the Hebron massacre Cuneiform WSDs Summary See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the ANE or ANE-Digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Baines Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 18:38:53 +0000 Subject: Israeli universities--forwarded from colleague in Israel This document was sent to me by a colleague in Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Jerusalem who wants the world to know about the crisis it describes and to offer support in the ways described. John Baines From: MX%"Shisha@HUM.HUJI.AC.IL" 23-FEB-1994 18:21:30.55 To: ABYDOS Subj: updated version of previous doc The Israel National Association of University Professors February 23, 1994 CRISIS IN ISRAELI HIGHER EDUCATION Higher education in Israel ground to a halt seven weeks ago when the 4,500 faculty members of Israel's seven major universities declared a strike. On the surface, the faculty strike appears to be due to a wage dispute between academic faculties and the government. However the causes are much deeper. In its first decades, Israel made a strong commitment to higher education and invested heavily in it despite a heavy burden of defense costs. This commitment reflected a tradition of learning which has characterized Jewish societies for so many centuries. The young were encouraged to study. Israeli universities have faculty members who are world-renowned for their scientific work; tenure criteria are among the toughest in the world. However, during the past two decades, this tradition of devotion to learning has changed and, as Israel enters a period of prosperity, it seems to be disappearing. This is reflected in the low priority which successive governments have given to higher education. The present Rabin administration, which was elected on a platform which promised to give top priority to education, quickly forgot this commitment once elected. Budget cuts, year after year, have squeezed the universities to the point where they are in danger of becoming second-rate institutions. For example, 44,360 students were studying in Israel universities in 1972. Their number grew by 77% to 78,640 in 1992, while the number of academic staff increased by only 23%. As a result, professors must teach classes whose size, on the average, is greater by 45% than twenty years ago. At the same time, there has been a continual erosion of the salaries of academic faculty. It should be understood that the salaries of academic university staff are set by the Israeli government. Repeated attempts by the university professors to receive equitable salaries have been rebuffed by the government. Our salaries are half of what researchers with the same academic rank in government companies and research institutes receive. More significantly, a young faculty member in Israel, with a PhD, on the average 34 years old (with a rank equivalent to an Assistant Professor in the United States), has a take-home pay which represents 47% of that which the government itself publishes as the basic expense for an urban family. The consequences of such low salaries are already endangering our ability to function properly and the future looks bleak. Most of us must moonlight, or go abroad for extended periods to make ends meet. Young people who might otherwise consider an academic career continue to reject academia in increasing numbers for private or government jobs in Israel or abroad. We feel that we can no longer be called upon to maintain world-class universities at the current level of our salaries. The strike should therefore be seen as more than just a wage dispute. Professors, and the students who support them, see the future of higher education in Israel at stake. If higher education is not given proper priority, then the scientific and intellectual edge for which Israel is known, and which it needs to survive, will be jeopardized. In many respects, the universities are already feeling these effects. Unfortunately, the government has sent a clear message about its commitment to higher education through the demeaning rhetoric of the Prime Minister himself who is reported to have declared that he would not hesitate to close down all the Israeli universities. In an attempt to turn public opinion against academic university staff, derogatory comments in the media by government officials about professors have become daily occurrences. Listening to governmental spokesmen and politicians, one wonders if Israel is, in reality, the land of the "People of the Book"! We turn to you, our colleagues and friends abroad, and ask for your help in putting our case to the Israeli government, members of parliament (Knesset), opinion makers, and leaders of industry and commerce. Some of you have spent time, effort and money helping to build the universities. Others, have been involved in joint research projects, or had the opportunity to have spent time here. We know that all of you care. Please take the time to express your opinion and help us in this hour of crisis. ________________________________________________________________________ For further information please contact Prof. M. Gur, fax no. 972-3-640-7410. ========================================================================= Appendix A: Table 1. Gross monthly income on April 1993 in US dollars. |------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------| | Rank | University | N.R.I. | Gov't Comp. |Exper. (yrs)| |------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------| | Lecturer | 1,637 | 3,618 | 3,748 | 5 | | | | | | | | Senior Lecturer | 1,840 | 3,838 | 4,950 | 7 | | | | | | | | Assoc. Professor | 2,194 | 4,013 | 6,030 | 13 | | | | | | | | Full Professor | 2,777 | 4,564 | 6,783 | 20 | |------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------| University - All 7 universities of Israel: Ben-Gurion, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem, Technion, Tel-Aviv, Weizmann Inst. N.R.I. - National research institutes such as Rafael, Nuclear Res. Ctr, etc. Government Companies - Senior workers in positions comparable to faculty members. Note: In Government companies and in national research institutes they also have extra benefits such as car expenses, meals, etc. Reference: H. Kratch & Assoc., Ramat Hasharon. Table 2. Higher Education in Israel - Some Basic Statistics. |-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------| | Year | Total Students |Senior Faculty | Ratio | GDP/CAP | | | S (SN) | F (FN) | S/F |(Const $) (normalized)| |-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------| | | | | | | |1972/73| 44,362 (1.00) | 3,748 (1.00) | 11.84 | 6,015 (1.00) | | | | | | | |1984/85| 61,155 (1.38) | 4,296 (1.15) | 14.24 | 6,790 (1.13) | | | | | | | |1991/92| 78,640 (1.77) | 4,590 (1.23) | 17.13 | 7,755 (1.29) | | | | | | | |-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------| Note: SN, FN, GDP/CAP - Data normalized to 1972/73. GDP/CAP (Gross Domestic Product per capita) - a measure of wealth of the country. Reference: Statistical Abstract of Israel: 1976 (No. 27) pp. 617,619 1993 (No. 44) pp. 193,677,692. Remark: In the period from 1972 to 1992, while the number of university students increased by 77%, the university senior faculty staff only increased by 23%, thus causing an increase of the S/F ratio from 11.84 to 17.13 (namely an increase of 45%). =========================================================================== Appendix B: LIST OF FAX NUMBERS OF ISRAELI MINISTERS: 1) Itzhak Rabin (Prime Minister, Defense Minister): 972-2-664-838 2) Shimon Peres (Foreign Minister): 972-2-303-506 3) Beiga Shohat (Treasury minister): 972-2-635-769 4) Amnon Rubinshtein (Education minister): 972-2-292-246 5) Shulamit Aloni (Communication and Science minister): 972-2-240-029 6) Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Construction minister): 972-2-811-904 7) Uzi Bar-am (Tourism minister): 972-2-250-890 8) Micha Harish (Commerce and Industry minister): 972-2-243-738 9) David Libai (Justice minister): 972-2-285-438 10) Ora Namir (Welfare and Labor minister): 972-2-666-385 11) Yair Tsaban (Absorption minister): 972-2-669-244 12) Yaacov Tzur (Agriculture minister): 972-3-696-8899 13) Israel Keisar (Transportation minister): 972-2-319-238 14) Moshe Shahal (Police minister): 972-2-811-832 15) Shimon Shitrit (Economics minister): 972-2-536-101 16) Yossi Sarid (Environment minister): 972-2-611-147 LIST OF FAX NUMBERS OF AMBASSADORS & CONSULS ABROAD: 1) New York: General Consul - Collete Avital: 212-490-9186 or 212-697-6272 2) Washington: Ambassador - Itamar Rabinovitch: 202-364-5607 3) Boston: General Consul - Dan Kiram: 617-338-5449 4) Los Angeles: General Consul - Uri Oren: 213-651-3123 5) San Francisco: General Consul - Yehudi Keinar: 415-398-8589 6) Chicago: General Consul - Arthur Avnon: 312-565-2063 7) London: Ambassador - Moshe Raviv: 44-71-957-9555 8) Paris: Ambassador - Yehuda Lankri: 33-1-40.76.55.55 9) Hague (Holland): Ambassador - Michael Bavli: 31-70-376-0555 10) Rome: Ambassador - Avi Pazner: 39-6-321-5762 ====================================== end ------------------------------ From: John Ellison Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 21:32:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: IES E-mail address Does anyone have an E-Mail address for the Israel Exploration Society? Thanks, Jay jellison@husc.harvard.edu ------------------------------ From: ofer avi Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:04:44 +0200 (IST) Subject: Re: IES E-mail address As far as I know they do not have e-mail, and such is the case also for the IAA (Israel Antiquity Authority). You may ask one of the Jerusalemites on the list to pass them a message. Snail from the States take about one week. You may also send to me and I will snail them (about 1-2 days, inside Israel). Avi Ofer. ------------------------------ From: "Bob Haak" Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:34:02 GMT-500 Subject: Re: IES E-mail address > From: John Ellison > Subject: IES E-mail address > Does anyone have an E-Mail address for the Israel Exploration Society? > Thanks, > Jay > jellison@husc.harvard.edu I don't think they have an e-mail connection....but you can FAX them at 972-2-247 772. Bob Haak Augustana College ------------------------------ From: ofer avi Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 00:48:45 +0200 (IST) Subject: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron Although this has no direct connection with ANE, I feel a moral need to denounce hereby the sinful massacre in Hebron, to take part with the mourning of the bereaved families and of the whole Palestinian People, and to express my wishes for a complete recovery to all injured people. May peace will come soon, "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spares into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more". Avi Ofer. ------------------------------ From: Ian George Tompkins Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 23:54:27 +0000 Subject: Re: Eloquent Peasant Many thanks to all, particularly to Jaromir Malek, John Baines, David B. Peabody, [text deleted] etc. Could someone provide a brief summary of what the *Tale of the Eloquent Peasant* is about? Having contributed to this string, I find my ignorance concerning its contents to be frustrating! Ian Tompkins Classical Studies University of Wales Aberystwyth ------------------------------ From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 20:16:24 CST Subject: Condemnations.... >Although this has no direct connection with ANE, I feel a moral need to >denounce hereby the sinful massacre in Hebron... The world is filled with problems. Labor difficulties in Israeli universities, budget difficulties here in the US. Nutcases with guns on the loose. Wars. A neighbor of mine just had her husband up and leave for Moscow with all their savings and anything that was not bolted down in the apartment. It's easy to appreciate the significance of such matters. I also appreciate, however, places of respite, such as this list. Richard Goerwitz U of Chicago ------------------------------ From: Seth L Sanders Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 22:48:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron A bitter irony for me personally was that I had just been enjoying a poem of Al-Maarri, an 11th-century Syrian: "Now this religion happens to prevail Until by that one it is overthrown,- Because men dare not live with men alone, But always with another fairy-tale. God is above. We shall never attain Our liberty from hands that overshroud; Or can we shake aside this heavy cloud More than a slave can shake aside the chain?" (Henry Baerlein trans.) Perhaps I could retreat into scholarship, maybe to read about heads on Assyrian stakes or a Herem being declared in the book of Joshua. Not much of a retreat. We can't escape these forces. Abraham bargained hard for that cave at Makpela and it belongs to all of his descendants and I'm ashamed that a Jew desecrated it. Seth Sanders, re-reading Genesis 23 with a queasy stomach. ------------------------------ From: "Bernard Knapp" Date: 27 Feb 1994 15:57:55 Subject: Re: IES E-mail address To correct the information on IES, their e-mail address is: IES@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL ============================================================ A. Bernard Knapp School of History, Philosophy and Politics Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA PHONE: +61-2-805-9962 FAX: +61-2-805-8892 E-MAIL: BKNAPP@OCS1.OCS.MQ.EDU.AU (Internet) ------------------------------ From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 23:13:44 CST Subject: Condemnations of condemnations of condemnations.... >Perhaps I could retreat into scholarship, maybe to read about heads on >Assyrian stakes or a Herem being declared in the book of Joshua. Not much of a >retreat. I respect the fact that personal anguish is part of the human experience. No one's life is secure. I simply do not see scholarly lists as a place to express feelings of rage or shame brought on by current social or poli- tical events - especially when there are hundreds of electronic newsgroups and mailing lists where such expressions would not only be appropriate, but welcome. This opinion is borne of long (by electronic standards) ex- perience reading large quantities of automated and personal mail every day in times of joy, calm, outrage, and tragedy. If I have given the appearance of belittling Avi's feelings, then I regret very much the way I have expressed myself. Perhaps my infelicities have something to do with having been up half the night with the neighbor I men- tioned in my last posting, driving her to the airport to chase down her thief-husband, dealing with irate Chicago police and local government, and comforting a devastated eight year-old girl who has spend much of yester- day and today with my wife, son, and me. Life is a rich and varied thing. With regret for any pain I have caused, Richard Goerwitz U of Chicago ------------------------------ From: CFRBWIL@UCHIMVS1.UCHICAGO.EDU Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 21:35 CST Subject: Unknown origins and trashing the treasure In the discussions of provenience, it is becoming clear that the archaeological "floaters" are not just political hot potatoes, they have the potential to distort knowledge in all sorts of interesting ways. A long time ago, some people in an archaeology class at Chicago went over the publication of one of the ANE's most famous museum treasures. There were a lot of inconsistencies, oddities, and even crudities in the collection, and we decided it was bogus, a conclusion whose impudence rather shocked the professor. At any rate, I later had occasion to examine the actual treasure, and report on it, using some fairly extensive (non-public) documentation. Everything got worse. I had to conclude that the treasure was a hodge-podge of authentic fragments, some assembled into spectacular (and fake) objects, a lot of complete fakes, and bits and pieces of various dates up to 500 years apart. The stuff had not been acquired at once, but picked up over several years. It had been given quite a bit of analysis according to the forensic standards of the day, but wide variations were ignored as warning signs and the occasional obvious bit of "improvement" was also ignored (some refined gold). The trouble was, the treasure was so romantic everybody really wanted to believe in it. The man who acquired it became extremely powerful in the art world, and is still something of an icon, for he was an astute researcher, excellent writer, and very able administrator. Reviewers heaped praise on his book, even some who could spot a fake quicker than Lovejoy, but it would have been very unwise to displease that author. So the treasure stayed on as a kind of standard for its period. Interesting techniques of metalworking appear in it, and they became part of the lore of crafts. Very interesting people are named on the objects, and even though none like them appear elsewhere, they entered the historical literature as important evidence for international relations. The inscriptions are odd, so they were drawn into discussions of paleography. The objects were used to validate and date all sorts of stuff, which now seems to have been the produce of a kind of mini-industry that grew up to fill the demand created by the treasure. The dealer who had put all this together was thoughtful enough to provide a findspot, and salt it with a couple of fragments and locals who would claim knowledge of the dirty deed. The findspot was also wierd, so it wound up in discussions of burial customs and necropolis topography. Even materials science "took a hit," because the analyses became bases for further identifications and I am not sure that the spurious results have been purged entirely to this day. So one collection distorted knowledge in half a dozen areas within the field, not just art history. It happened because the clout of a man and an institution were enough to walk over everbody's better judgement. This brings me to my last quandary. The unprovenienced object, or group of objects, that one might want to publish is interesting because it is somehow unique. In many cases, maybe even most, is not that uniqueness fair warning that the piece may be fake? Then how can we use such a thing without imposing yet another false charter on our field. Bruce Williams CFRBWIL@uchicago.edu bb-williams@uchicago.edu ------------------------------ From: Clemens Leonhard Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 10:23:32 MEZ Subject: blacksmith Some time ago there was a discussion on this list involving the social status etc... of blackmiths in ANE societies. A colleague of mine who wrote his M. A. thesis on this topic mainly concentrating on Europe wanted me to post the following citation of a doctoral thesis (Vienna, Austria) on the list. He would be interested in further discussions.He would like to send the bibliography which he compiled for his thesis to people working in the field. The dissertation: MAROLD Edith, Der germanische Schmied im Altertum. Vienna (unpubl.) 1967. The author also (in spite of the title) dealt with the phenomena in other cultures (such as African or Caucasian). Clemens Leohard ------------------------------ From: violaine@limsi.fr Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:55:07 +0000 Subject: Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron > >Although this has no direct connection with ANE, I feel a moral need to >denounce hereby the sinful massacre in Hebron, to take part with the >mourning of the bereaved families and of the whole Palestinian People, >and to express my wishes for a complete recovery to all injured people. > >May peace will come soon, "and they shall beat their swords into >plowshares, and their spares into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift >up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more". > >Avi Ofer. > > - ---- Thank you Avi for such a thought. Even when not confronted with violence, we are nowadays subject to ugliness and hostility. This ANE list is a haven of beauty and confort for me. Violaine Prince - ---------------------------- Groupe Langage et Cognition LIMSI CNRS BP 133 91 403 Orsay cedex France - ---------------------------- tel : (33 1) 69 85 80 18 fax : (33 1) 69 85 80 88 ------------------------------ From: "Abbas Alizadeh" Date: 28 Feb 1994 10:14:40 U Subject: Address Address#000# Does anybody know where Jane Wheeler can be reached? Thanks. Abbas Alizadeh#000# ------------------------------ From: Jane C Waldbaum Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:54:26 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Who was teaching then? (fwd) Forwarded message: >From PETER@dendro.mail.cornell.edu Thu Feb 24 17:31:53 1994 >From: "Peter I. Kuniholm" >Organization: Aegean Dendrochronology Project >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:32:18 -0500 >Subject: Re: Who was teaching then? >Reply-To: peter@dendro.mail.cornell.edu >Priority: normal >X-Mailer: PMail v3.0 (R1a) >Message-Id: <1913A2E46C00@dendro.arts.cornell.edu> > I wonder whether your questioner could have transposed >his numbers from 1952 to 1925. That would help account for >his apparent puzzlement. And 1952 would be a legit. date >for someone to go to Brandeis.... Cheers, Peter > > > > >========================= >Peter Ian Kuniholm, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, >G-35 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3201. >Tel. (607)255-8650 lab.; (607)255-9732 office; (607)257-7845 home. >INTERNET address = peter@dendro.mail.cornell.edu > > ------------------------------ From: "Abbas Alizadeh" Date: 28 Feb 1994 11:16:23 U Subject: Email add. Email add. Does anybody have email address for Georgina Herrmann? Thans, Abbas Alizadeh#000# ------------------------------ From: "James Strange (REL)" Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:39:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Condemnation of the massacre in Hebron I wish to second Ofer Avi's message, if there is such a thing. The killing of Muslims worshipping in Hebron and the killing of Christians worshipping in Lebanon advances no noble cause whatever. But peace and justice will not come unless we participate in insisting that it come. On Sun, 27 Feb 1994, ofer avi wrote: > Although this has no direct connection with ANE, I feel a moral need to > denounce hereby the sinful massacre in Hebron, to take part with the > mourning of the bereaved families and of the whole Palestinian People, > and to express my wishes for a complete recovery to all injured people. > > May peace will come soon, "and they shall beat their swords into > plowshares, and their spares into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift > up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more". > > Avi Ofer. > > ------------------------------ From: jpn@vax.ox.ac.uk Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:49:26 +0000 Subject: Treasure or trash Bruce Williams has made some interesting comments about the problems raised by unprovenanced material in even old and well-established collections and, perhaps, the motives involved in publishing it and fostering its acceptance. As in other areas of life the price to be paid is eternal suspicion and vigilance. In assembling a catalogue of all the Bronze Age hoards in the Principality of Wales it has been necessary to wield a whole battery of forensic skills to eliminate fakes and replicas (e.g. four Victorian copies of one axe), accretions to hoards, track down provenances mis-translated from the Welsh, estimate a provenance on the basis of the activities of a particular dealer in the 1900s, etc. etc. If you need to include an unprovenanced collection in you research then you have to pursue all this - accept nothing as read. When new material appears on the market what do we do? We must apply every scientific technique that is appropriate and every test of documentary and verbal evidence that we can. A case in point in the UK. A new 'hoard' of Celtic coins presenting a new variety and a new alloy for the type, with almost all the coins in the hoard die-linked and a lot of circumstantial evidence about the find spot including acceptance by the local professional field archaeologist. Compositional analysis, microscopic analysis of die cutting, metallography, analysis of the patina, soil analysis of any residues on the coins, etc. can be applied and probably will be. If the results are inconclusive we will say so firmly, but such statements can always be distorted. As we know, "It is a possibility that .... " becomes after two or three generations of citations "It can be accepted that ..." We also have an economic problem - the cost of the science will almost certainly exceed the market value of the coins. In summary, we are only too well aware about the problems caused by old collections, pastiches and unique and exotic newcomers. Where it is both necessary and possible to do so they should be rigorously examined and tested and the results reported without undue diffidence. If no conclusion can be reached this should be firmly stated. It is also possible that in the future a means of solving that particular problem might come along so the pieces should not be completely expunged from memory. Peter Northover University of Oxford ------------------------------ From: Ehud Ben Zvi Religious Studies Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 11:11:17 MST Subject: Condemnation of the condemnation of the Hebron massacre From: Ehud Ben Zvi Religious Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1 Canada Although I agree with Richard Goerwitz that, AS A RULE, we should not address modern violence in this list, I think that (a) the massacre in Hebron was an appaling crime, and (b) I cannot see the damage inflected to the subscribers of this list from Avi Ofer's note. After all, that note had a very explicit heading, such as this one. Whoever does not want to read the note can delete it in a second, just as I actually do with many notes that are not in my main areas of interest. What drives me "mad" is rather notes without a heading, or with misleading heading. As for Avi Ofer, thanks Avi for expressing my feelings in such a good way. Ehud E. Ben Zvi FAX: (403) 492-2715; PHONE: (o) (403) 492-7183 Bitnet: EBENZVI@UALTAVM; Internet: EBENZVI@VM.UCS.UALBERTA.CA ------------------------------ From: Patrick Durusau Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:41:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: Cuneiform WSDs Summary SSBwcmV2aW91c2x5IHBvc3RlZCB0aGUgZm9sbG93aW5nIHF1ZXN0aW9ucyB0 byBURUktTCwgQU5FLCBDQUFMIGFuZCAKU0dNTC1MLiBUaGlzIGlzIGEgY3Jv c3MtcG9zdGVkIHN1bW1hcnkgb2YgdGhlIHJlcGxpZXMsIHBsZWFzZSBwYXJk b24gYW55IApkdXBsaWNhdGlvbi4KCgo+MS4gQXJlIHRoZXJlIGFueSBwcmVz ZW50IGVmZm9ydHMgdG8gY3JlYXRlIFdTRHMgKFdyaXRpbmcgU3lzdGVtIAo+ RGVjbGFyYXRpb25zKSB0aGF0IGNvbmZvcm0gdG8gdGhlIGd1aWRlbGluZXMg aW4gVEVJIFAyLCBDaGFwdGVyIFdECj4oRHJhZnQgVmVyc2lvbiAyLCBTZXB0 ZW1iZXIgMjAsIDE5OTMpIGZvciBhbnkgb2YgdGhlIGxhbmd1YWdlcyBmb3Vu ZCBpbiAKPkxhYmF0J3MgKk1hbnVlbCBkRXBpZ3JhcGhpZSBBa2thZGllbmU/ CgpOb25lIG9mIHRoZSByZXNwb25zZXMgcmVjZWl2ZWQgaW5kaWNhdGVkIHRo ZSBleGlzdGVuY2Ugb2YgYW55IHByZXNlbnQgCnByb2plY3RzIHRvIGNyZWF0 ZSBXU0RzIGZvciBhbnkgbGFuZ3VhZ2Ugd3JpdHRlbiBpbiBDdW5laWZvcm0g 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