if (typeof YAHOO == "undefined") { var YAHOO = {}; } YAHOO.Shortcuts = YAHOO.Shortcuts || {}; YAHOO.Shortcuts.hasSensitiveText = true; YAHOO.Shortcuts.sensitivityType = ["adult"]; YAHOO.Shortcuts.doUlt = false; YAHOO.Shortcuts.location = "us"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_id = 0; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_type = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_title = "Letter to the Editor (Gen Dobry)"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_publish_date = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_author = "[email protected]"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_url = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_tags = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_language = "english"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet = { "lw_1231374891_0": { "text": "Christmas", "extended": 0, "startchar": 658, "endchar": 666, "start": 658, "end": 666, "extendedFrom": "", "predictedCategory": "", "predictionProbability": "0", "weight": 0.224437, "relScore": 3.3522, "type": ["shortcuts:/in/instance/event/festival", "shortcuts:/us/instance/event/holiday"], "category": ["EVENT"], "wikiId": "Christmas", "relatedWikiIds": ["Black_Friday_%28shopping%29", "Boxing_Day", "Christmas_Eve", "Easter", "Halloween", "Iowa", "Kwanzaa", "New_Year%27s_Eve", "Santa_Claus", "Thanksgiving"], "relatedEntities": ["black friday", "boxing day", "christmas day", "christmas eve", "halloween", "iowa", "kwanzaa", "new year's eve", "santa claus", "thanksgiving"], "showOnClick": ["lw_1231374891_4"], "context": "Zenon Znamirowscy, and is written in excellent english. 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