Friday, February 29, 2008

Goddesses and Mythology: eris








St. Tib's Day: happy birthday to me-Fnord

St. Tib's Day, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3174

February 29
(St. Tib's Day): St. Tib's Day (POEE)/Leaping Birth Day (D&D of the ECG). Tell everyone today is your birthday. Figure out how old you would be if you only had a birthday once every leap year. Act your age. Determine if you're of legal age to drive, raise children, buy a gun, gamble, leave school, get a job, drink, get married, get drafted, sign a contract, vote, run for parliament or congress, have sexual congress, have sexual congress for money, retire, or walk across the street by yourself. Realize how silly having a legal age for everything really is, and how arbitrary it is, and how it doesn't recognize the individual as an individual, and how it's all culturally-biased ageism anyway. Forget about age limits, and do whatever you want. If you're lucky, maybe you can convince them you're too young to get arrested for doing any of the above (but don't count on it).

from Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, Holydays: Season of Chaos

via: 23 Apples of Eris - Discordian Chaos






Thursday, February 28, 2008

♠↕☼• Froggy Crossing

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from the Home of The Electric Frog


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the Ouroboros


Ouroboros



In Gnosticism, it was related to the solar God Abraxas,
and signified eternity and the soul of the world.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Ten Principles To The Zen Of Attraction

  1. Promise Nothing
    Just do what you most enjoy doing.
    Hidden benefit: You will always over-deliver.
  2. Offer Nothing
    Just share what you have with those who express an interest in it.
    Hidden benefit: Takes the pressure off of wanting other people to see you as valuable or important.
  3. Expect Nothing
    Just enjoy what you already have. It’s plenty.
    Hidden benefit: You will realize how complete your life is already.
  4. Need Nothing
    Just build up your reserves and your needs will disappear.
    Hidden benefit: You boundaries will be extended and filled with space.
  5. Create Nothing
    Just respond well to what comes to you.
    Hidden benefit: Openness.
  6. Hype Nothing
    Just let quality sell by itself.
    Hidden benefit: Trustability.
  7. Plan Nothing
    Just take the path of least resistance.
    Hidden benefit: Achievement will become effortless.
  8. Learn Nothing
    Just let your body absorb it all on your behalf.
    Hidden benefit: You will become more receptive to what you need to know in the moment.
  9. Become No One
    Just be more of yourself.
    Hidden benefit: Authenticity.
  10. Change Nothing
    Just tell the truth and things will change by themselves.
    Hidden benefit: Acceptance.

Somethings just happen for a reason!: Ten Principles To The Zen Of Attraction

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Leonardo Da Vinci and The Elephant

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci - Full Text Free Book (Part 13/16):

1245.

THE ELEPHANT.

The huge elephant has by nature what is rarely found in man; that is
Honesty, Prudence, Justice, and the Observance of Religion; inasmuch
as when the moon is new, these beasts go down to the rivers, and
there, solemnly cleansing themselves, they bathe, and so, having
saluted the planet, return to the woods. And when they are ill,
being laid down, they fling up plants towards Heaven as though they
would offer sacrifice. --They bury their tusks when they fall out
from old age.--Of these two tusks they use one to dig up roots for
food; but they save the point of the other for fighting with; when
they are taken by hunters and when worn out by fatigue, they dig up
these buried tusks and ransom themselves.

1246.

They are merciful, and know the dangers, and if one finds a man
alone and lost, he kindly puts him back in the road he has missed,
if he finds the footprints of the man before the man himself. It
dreads betrayal, so it stops and blows, pointing it out to the other
elephants who form in a troop and go warily.

These beasts always go in troops, and the oldest goes in front and
the second in age remains the last, and thus they enclose the troop.
Out of shame they pair only at night and secretly, nor do they then
rejoin the herd but first bathe in the river. The females do not
fight as with other animals; and it is so merciful that it is most
unwilling by nature ever to hurt those weaker than itself. And if it
meets in the middle of its way a flock of sheep

1247.

it puts them aside with its trunk, so as not to trample them under
foot; and it never hurts any thing unless when provoked. When one
has fallen into a pit the others fill up the pit with branches,
earth and stones, thus raising the bottom that he may easily get
out. They greatly dread the noise of swine and fly in confusion,
doing no less harm then, with their feet, to their own kind than to
the enemy. They delight in rivers and are always wandering about
near them, though on account of their great weight they cannot swim.
They devour stones, and the trunks of trees are their favourite
food. They have a horror of rats. Flies delight in their smell and
settle on their back, and the beast scrapes its skin making its
folds even and kills them.

1248.

When they cross rivers they send their young ones up against the
stream of the water; thus, being set towards the fall, they break
the united current of the water so that the current does not carry
them away. The dragon flings itself under the elephant's body, and
with its tail it ties its legs; with its wings and with its arms it
also clings round its ribs and cuts its throat with its teeth, and
the elephant falls upon it and the dragon is burst. Thus, in its
death it is revenged on its foe.

1245 [Humorous Writings.] (Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci)



YouTube - Adoration of the Magi - Pr. Seracini video

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Leonardo da Vinci
Adoration of the Magi
1481
Charcoal and white lead over plaster priming on wood (h. 243 cm, w. 246 cm)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence inv. 1890, n. 1594

Recent diagnostic investigations on Leonardo da Vinci’s the Adoration of the Magi, conducted by Maurizio Seracini, have revealed that the painting was carried out in two distinct stages, during two different time periods (a).

During the first stage Leonardo applied, on a panel made of an assembly of ten poplar planks (b), a ground consisting of layers of coarse and fine gesso bound with animal glue (c). He then developed a detailed brush drawing with lamp black and natural resin. This was covered with a thin priming of lead white, transparent enough that the drawing would remain visible during the painting phase (d). The only area that Leonardo went on to paint substantially was the sky, which is made of a mixture of lead white and a little ultramarine. He also applied occasional highlights to some of the figures and parts of the architecture (e).

A second stage came much later, when another artist added several layers of paint made of red and brown earth pigments, copper resinate and a lot of charcoal in oil with some resin (f). These monochrome layers do not follow the lines of the underdrawing, instead largely obscure it.

In summary, Leonardo’s magnificent creative moment in the Adoration is represented by the superb preparatory drawing, which can once again be admired thanks to the results of scientific studies (g, h, i).

In the preparatory drawing on paper, Leonardo first traced the architecture and a large covered structure on top of meticulously-drawn lines of perspective (j). He then went on to fill in the scene with figures and horses, sketching first in charcoal and then adding greater detail with iron gall ink (k).

IMSS - . Scientific Analysis of the Adoration of the Magi

The Mind of Leonardo - The Universal Genius at Work: Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Da Vinci Detective
(It is also the only elephant ever painted by Da Vinci.)

Leonardo ignored that:
Elephants can swim quite well. Fogonazos: The swimming elephants




the elephant crossing by leonardo da vinci & inneke 23

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Extinction Blog: Elephant conservation too successful, culling to ...
"They may be conscious of suffering in other elephants, they may have a knowledge of the 'other' that puts them low down but on the path to some kind of self-consciousness. They are higher than most animals but lower than humans." ...
Plenty Magazine - Environmental... - http://plentymag.com/

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Disneyland Memorial Orgy


via « Adam Gorightly’s Untamed Dimensions



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We Walked around til the Moon got Full like a Plate - Alhambra mirrörpond

We Walked around til the Moon got Full like a Plate


Changes in Latitudes: synesthesia







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Some people really do feel your pain
Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
Monday, 18 June 2007
touch
The researchers suggest there is a link between our sense of touch and empathy

Some people experience the physical sensation of touch just by watching someone else being touched, say British researchers, who suggest the ability is an extreme form of empathy.

Michael Banissy and Dr Jamie Ward of the University College London's psychology department report their findings online ahead of print publication in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

They say watching someone being touched triggers the same part of the brain as actual touch, and this connection helps explain how we understand what other people are feeling.

"It suggests there is a link between certain aspects of the tactile system and empathy," says Banissy.

People who experience a tactile sense of touch when they see another person being touched have what is called mirror-touch synaesthesia.

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LITFILI ?: Prelude to the Literature of the Future

Humanity is continuously becoming. It is yet to evolve towards its true pure form. And we can see in our literature how we have changed from how we were in the past and how we are now in the present. Literature is a reflection of our experiences.



... Fuck the past. ...

"And when men become free then mankind will be free.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris.
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at home, he's a tourist: LITFILI ?: Prelude to the Literature of the Future

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

cafe Parole: Hier is geen categorie voor

heel ver ontwaard
rode zetels, uitzuipkroegen
en de muzikanten nogeens verkracht met een paar drankbonnekes waarschijnlijk
zum kotzen

vive la boîte!

een muziekdoos en een boom vol vogels op elke straathoek!
who's afraid of the scarecrow?

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Elke dag veront-waardiging


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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Herman J. Claeys: Maar nee hoor

Maar nee hoor



Jij dacht dat ik jou leiden zou naar de Elyzeese velden,

maar nee hoor,

ik voerde jou langs fjorden en klippen,

langs kloven en ravijnen.



Jij dacht dat jij mijn bevrijde prinses zou zijn

en ik jouw koene ridder op een wit paard,

maar nee hoor,

wiij waren voetvolk

wij waren een berooid stel aan de bedelstaf

dat zijn armoe en zijn nooddruft met elkaar deelde.



Jij dacht ik jou gretig zou begeren

En ik dacht dat jij mij vurig lief zou hebben.



En ja hoor.




Herman J.Claeys, Valentijnsdag 2008

Friday, February 8, 2008

--> SATURNUS (Ludo Mich) & MALADOLESCENZA (Pier Giuseppe Murgia)+ LYSISTRATA (Ludo Mich) downstairs in the bar

DOLLEMOL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8 AT 20:00
--> SATURNUS (Ludo Mich) & MALADOLESCENZA (Pier Giuseppe Murgia)
+ LYSISTRATA (Ludo Mich) downstairs in the bar

This is an announcement for a special cinema night
at the DOLLEMOL arranged by Merzedes Sturm-Lie.

Jeffrey Babcock from Amsterdam has been invited
to present and screen the film MALADOLESCENZA
(1977) by Pier Giuseppe Murgia.
The films LYSISTRATA (52 min) & SATURNUS (30 min) by Ludo Mich (Belgian filmmaker, painter, sculptor, holographer, musician, performance artist and Fluxus artist), will be shown at the dollemol.
Lysistrata will be shown as a loop in the bar, Saturnus will be shown as shortfilm before MALADOLESCENZA.


SPOORMAKERSTRAAT 52, 1000 BRUSSELS
FREE ENTRANCE

Hope to see you there!

MERZEDES STURM-LIE & THE DOLLEMOL

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LYSISTRATA & SATURNUS



Ludo Mich is a painter, sculptor, holographer, musician, performance artist and fluxus associate best known for the series of hysterical films he made in the sixties and seventies, especially : 'Lysistrata' (1975) , an adaption of Aristophanes' satirical poetic comedy into a strictly personal ludic burlesque. All actors perform naked. This was due not simply to the budget being too small to accommodate the appropriate costumes and regalia; Ludo Mich also intended to use his particularity to heighten the impact of Aristophanes' anarchistic ideas.
'Saturnus' (1971) van Ludo Mich blijft éen van de topwerken uit de Belgische Underground Cinema van de jaren zestig en zeventig.
'Saturnus' (1971) by Ludo Mich still remains one of the topworks of the Belgian Underground Cinema of the sixties and seventies.


MALADOLESCENZA
(1977)

Directed by Pier Giuseppe Murgia
93 minutes
In Italian with English subtitles

When Maladolescenza came out, it was immediately decried as child pornography and the film was banned or heavily cut in many countries. This film is still legal with an X certificate in Austria, but was recently re-declared banned in Germany on July 28th 2006. This is definitely one of the most sought after and controversial cult films of the 70s.

A chamber play with 3 characters (2 twelve year old girls and a slightly older boy) who create a cruel "menage a trois" with a dramatic and fatal outcome. This is a film about jealousy, erotic obsession and how sex is translated into emotional power. The blunt Lolita-like sexuality of the children, mixed with the cruelty of childhood, all shot with a picturesque cinematography all adds up to a volatile cocktail that keeps this film banned throughout the world.

Lets listen to what some others have said about the film:

1)This movie is definitely a masterpiece. Granted, it shows its age in the props, and the style the characters dress. Still it is a beautiful picture, with very atmospheric camera work, and a fitting soundtrack that ranges from beautiful to unnerving, even disturbing.

The three kids in the plot are the only characters in this movie. They have to carry the whole movie, which makes their performance even more impressive. Lara Wendel is great in her portrayal of Laura, the innocent, naive 12-year old. You just can't help but feel sorry for the poor little thing. Eva Ionesco while being a beautiful girl, plays the part of the arrogant, cruel, manipulative Sylvia with perfection. As for Martin Loeb, his accurate portrayal of the sadistic punk ruined his career and he was only able to make one more film after this.

After watching this movie, I understood why it is one of the most controversial ones around. The theme of cruelty between kids, and the sexual awakening of adolescents is very dangerous territory to tread on. Still it shows that adolescents and teenagers are not the innocent angels that many adults like to think they are (as I had to find out the hard way), and it does so very well.

2) Often beautiful at a visual level, poignant on its directorial style, joyful but nostalgic at the same time, and ultimately a satisfactory experience for the all-rounded, open-minded viewer.

You may love this movie, you may hate it, or you may simply end up wondering what's all the controversy about and why is it still banned or heavily censored in certain so-called "advanced" countries.

Not only because it's a centerpiece both of cinema styles and social perspectives in change and of its own author's career and I dare say, personal life, but also because it's one of those rare, last standing moments of sheer honesty which are representative of a bygone era, and indirectly also representative of how close-minded and hypocrite our western world has become in the past two decades, in direct contrast with what should be expected from a society which repeatedly acknowledges itself as the most "advanced" - making it all the more ironic that this simple but interesting movie IS, after all, all about the loss of innocence and youth.


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8

DOLLEMOL
Spoormakerstraat 52 Brussels
Time: 20:00

Entrance- FREE


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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Vrije Haiku

De rat race ontglipt
Innerlijke rust gevonden,
In een eeuwig moment van diepste onthechting

Iets vinden dat nog nooit gevonden is,
Gebeurt elke dag
En is dus geen Kunst meer

En de kunst draait in vreemde toeren
Over de toren van het bewustzijn te loeren
Op een drafje komt parafje het heelal ondertekenen
Schopt daar een bisschop tegen de kont van een imam
En de heimelijk homofiele achterdeur waait open

Bittere tranen huil ik,
Smachtend naar jou, mijn spiegel
Samen zullen we voorgoed verzinken

Een constenmaker ben ik geweest
Waar is mijn ik
Dan in mijn verzen
En wie is mijn
Geweest?

Mijn mijn is gaan lopen
Om weer een volgend kunstwerk te dopen
In schrijnend schrei-werk

Ik loop voluit tegen de muur
Van mijn eigen trots
Om me te goddelijk te voelen

Mensgod moet losgemaakt worden
Van zijn sokkel, en zacht
Neerkomen op rotte bladeren
Om de poëzie
Te kunnen inzien van god-zijn

Mensgod wentelt zich in herfstbladeren
Mensgod vreet aan de aftandse tijd
Mensgod bevrijdt de lente in de zomerzon

Mensgod wordt nederiger met de dag
Niet langer tot Atlas gedoemd
Een nieuwe inslag
Een nieuwe impuls
De nieuwe mens is een feit

Waarom worstelt het wezen
Daar waar eenvoudig achterover
Ook kan?

Mijn handen buigen om mijn rug heen
Kruisen degens van liefde en hoop
Zie hoe ik mij verstrengel in wezenloosheid

Wie ben ik en waar ga ik heen?
Oeverloos dobber ik op de het oppervlak
Van het water mijner gemoed
Op zoek naar niks meer
Eeuwig thuisgekomen

Is het streven.
Huis-in-huis is de wereld
En zo zou het altijd blijven

In de zonderlinge poel van de totale stilstand
Voelt de chaos de orde aan de tand
Omgeeft de chaos de blinde systemen tot over de rand
Wie beitelt er nog in stilte aan de vrolijke ruimte?
Is het niet het tuimelende kind op het ritme van de wind?

We zijn verlichte geesten
Met een groot hart
Voor wat al wat leeft en beweegt

Het geheim van dit rijm?
Rijm is iets dat rolt
Dat rock ’n rollt …

Rijm is geen geheim
Rijm is goddelijk bewustzijn
De dauw dansend over een blad
De kristallijne neerslag van koning winter
We warmen ons aan het haardvuur

Opgetekend door Manu Bruynseraede, de Antistresspoweet en Kristo op 5 februari 2008 te Antwerpen @ Kristo’s place.


http://antistresspoweet.blogspot.com/2008/02/vrije-haiku.html



MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Contact: Bryan J. Pesta, Ph.D., b.pesta@csuohio.edu

Atheists & Agnostics GroupMySpace Deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World.

Cleveland, OH.— Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content.

Early this month, MySpace again deleted the Atheist and Agnostic Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.

What’s unique in this case is that the Atheist and Agnostic Group was the largest collection of organized atheists in the world. The group had its own Wikipedia entry, and in April won the Excellence in Humanist Communication Award (2007) from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and the Secular Student Alliance.

“MySpace refuses to undelete the group, although it never violated any terms of service,” said Bryan Pesta, Ph.D., the group’s moderator. “When the largest Christian group was hacked, MySpace’s Founder, Tom Anderson, personally restored the group, and promised to protect it from future deletions.”

“It is an outrage if Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the world’s largest social networking site tolerate discrimination against atheists and agnostics-- and if this situation goes unresolved I’ll have little choice but to believe they do,” said Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain of Harvard University. News Corporation, Murdoch’s global media corporation which also includes Fox News, purchased MySpace in 2005.

“My personal profile was deleted as well, and despite weeks of emails to customer service, plus a petition signed by 500 group members, MySpace won’t budge. I think these actions send a clear message to the 30 million godless people in America (and to businesses whose money was spent displaying ads on our group) that we are not welcome on MySpace,” said Pesta.

For a Wikipedia article on the now defunct atheist and agnostic group, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_and_Agnostic_Group.

For links to Pesta’s defunct group and profile, visit http://www.MySpace.com/aiffb.



MySpace: No place for Atheists? | Secular Student Alliance


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memory-speed-déjà vu: Why elephants do not escape?

By Imanol Galfarsoro

elephant.jpg

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But I will not complain. In the new house I am being taken very good care of. There is a woman dressing in white in my charge. Don’t ask me her name, I don’t remember. But she does talk to me very sweet, and she tickles me when she changes my clothes. The house has many corridors and turns, like memory. There are some people who come to pay me visits from time to time. I don’t know who they are, but they keep crying most of the time. They look at me and they cry, as if I was an elephant tied up to a pole. I am the elephant and they are the kids, always crying and crying. I don’t know why. I feel just fine. The woman who minds me keeps telling me they are my sons and daughters, but I don’t remember them. I don’t even know if I ever had a wife. The question is that they suffer on my behalf, and I too suffer on theirs, because I never liked seeing people in pain. There we are! I have lost the thread again. What was I talking about?

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Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night
Saturday, January 6, 2007

Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.


Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

RAW



(typed from his bedside at his fnord by the sea)




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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Thyme For Cooking and Synesthesia

I needed a turquoise folder for February because, well, 'February' is turquoise, isn't it?

I mean, everyone knows that, don't they?

Just like August is orange and September is brown.

All of my files are colored (but not labeled) and I can always find what I want: by the color.

I have synesthesia.

Don't tell me you've never heard of it!?! Really? No?

I hadn't either until a few years ago. I was reading an article in 'Discover' magazine that started out by saying that Sunday was black. How ridiculous, I thought... Sunday is red. Monday is black...well, more of a charcoal...

The article was on synesthesia... and, as I discovered, I have it.

I see words that refer to time: months, days of the week, hours of the day (3:00 is pink) in color. I also see time in shapes but that's much harder to describe.

Some people see letters in color, some whole words, some numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; some all of the above.

Others can taste music.

Sensory perception is, just slightly, askew.

The thing that I found most amazing, in reading that first article about synesthesia, is that not everyone has it, and those who do, often don't know it has a name. Most people who have this 'neurological condition' view it as a gift: from minor, like mine: to something wonderfully big and marvelous; producing art or music.

It doesn't effect a large part of the population; about 1 in 23.

How is your world colored?

Thyme For Cooking, the Blog: Pork with Herbs and Shallot Confit, and Synesthesia







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Saturday, February 2, 2008

WHO makes it green?



It has taken me some time to come to ground and ask for your help in keeping Bob's work alive, green and growing (ummm, WHO makes it green?). My name is Christina, and I am one of Bob's daughters and executor of his estate. My brother Graham, my sister Alexandra, and I have been getting used to EWOB; Earth WithOut Bob.

The website at www.rawilson.com will remain the official RAW site and online center of RAW's work. Over the next few months I hope you check back here, as we hope to get a whole lot of RAW activity generated!

The end of our Dad's life was fantastical and filled with profound love and much joy. Yes, there was also sorrow, frustration, stress, and grieving, but it was far outweighed by the lovingness. It was truly an extraordinary time. This was made possible in great part because of you, his beloved friends and fans (and boy did he love you!).

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