An unexpected journey to a "holy place"

Much of my online reading and writing is now confined to Twitter via Hootsuite.  Today I happened across an MSNBC tweet regarding Japanese internment camps.

It began a web surfing experience that I share here.

• I found a lovely blog post by travel writer Lori Erickson  written last year: 

"Wyoming’s Heart Mountain, a WWII Internment Camp, Has Lessons for Today"

• Next, I found a fabulous photo collection of 2000 black and white images taken by internees at Heart Mountain, George and Frank Hirahara.  
• The collection was eventually donated to Washington State University.

We visited the Heart Mountain site in August of 1997.  I took pictures as my sister, Donna, guided us through what remained of the camp.  

The Heart Mountain camp site was preserved and much improved over the years.

In 2011 it became the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.  You are invited to take the virtual tour.

The power of the picture

"Between Dallas and Austin, "  the title, is all I know about this photograph.  It is in the public domain.  It looks as if it were taken sometime in the 1930s.  The rest of what we can know of it must be supplied by one's imagination, or lots of difficult research.  So let's imagine.

Dad is the photographer on this trip, proud of all his girls.  Mom and the kids pose easily for this shot - on the way to or from.  They are neat and tidy folks of modest means, but we do not know just how modest.  Somehow, I do not think this is all they own.  I sense this is an early version of an RV.

What do you think?


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Just start writing . . .

. . . the words might make sense.  And they might not.

This is the thing from which comes spring fever, that  thing that makes me long for warm sunshine on my forehead.  It makes me cold to the bone.  It still hides the life about to emerge as another season rolls around.


Starting to write itself is a little poem to enhance the image,



"Words plus image equal knowing"

My thoughts are unformed, sensory drifts of misty illusory impressions.
To plow through without absorbing the chill leaves out the essence of winter.
My memories come from long ago and far away, a skiff of stuff, my confession.
To grow up with long winters leaves one always wishing for next spring, a hint
of warmth, at least.  But that means missing out on one of life's central lessons:
Thoughts of spring, ever elusive, crowd out the now, one's true enjoyment.

Copyright by Carol Gee
March10, 2010



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Living Green

This is a choice that produces a smaller "carbon footprint." It is the responsible path for responsible citizens. It is the example children deserve from parents leaving their life legacies.

Being green is an impossible state for the animal kingdom, just as being animal is impossible for life in the plant kingdom. It is a partnership that needs tending because plants and animals depend on humans to see to the future.

Living green is marked by dozens of small choices we make every day, every year, every lifetime. Look in the sidebar to find the little tool that ascertains your carbon footprint.

I hope you have a lovely day.

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Filling an empty blogging bucket

It begins with reality -- Much of the following was news to me, though you may be ahead and already know these things. I found out because I have spent the morning trying to break out of a non-creative box which leaves me without inspiration to write.

Dry spells -- Others have said the same thing and I had been reading about the decline of political blogging. I had been having the feeling that my blogging stats are down and I wondered it it were just me. I knew my Site Meter statistics had been down since June. So I checked at Technorati. In addition to my stats, which had changed, I found out that Technorati.com is going to be completely rebuilt very soon.

Breaking out of boring -- So I will save some time towards more creativity by temporarily omitting the Technorati tags I have been using at the ends of posts. While I was there I checked the Too 100 list to see whether there were good writers whose work I was missing, who could be inspiring me again.

Reading the best -- Using the list, I rejuvenated my Google reader via its Power Readers index. I began with The Strange Death of Liberal America (see "the decline of political blogging" above); and "44" at the Washington Post. This article on the hot New Jersey race shows why "FiveThirtyEight" became another of my feeds. He is an absolute whiz at predicting outcomes.

A picture is worth 1000 words -- I then subscribed to Andrew Sullivan, who had linked to The Big Picture (featuring a fabulous photo spread on Afghanistan). Much of my random surfing focused on imagery, Time Magazine's pictures of the week, for example. I concluded with Rachel Sussman's groundbreaking portfolio of The Oldest Living Things in the World.

Is social media on the web to blame for my empty bucket? Possibly, though I regularly cull my list of those I follow on Twitter. I want nothing inane. Tweets like the following example keep me involved with material that seems substantial. Rachel Maddow: "Read the godawful news of 8 US troops just killed in Afghanistan immediately before going on set for MTP this morning." My FaceBook account includes only people I have invited, plus it remains private. They are relatives, in-person friends and blogfriends. No empty bucket there.

At the end of the day -- This is what I have learned, or relearned. Creativity is about breaking the rules. The amount of political blogging has actually declined, probably for natural reasons. Regular and vigorous weeding out of one's surfing or feed-reading material is essential. Tomorrow I plan to go through my regular Email newsletters unsubscribing to several that are not useful or interesting. Imagery is an essential break from a words only regimen. I works on a different part of the brain. And social media is worthwhile for its connectivity, something else needed for an empty bucket.

(Image by Wordle.net)

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Capture of the Landscape, a reprise

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell

(Date of the original post - 8/6/06)

Capture of the Landscape

A landscape stays still so that the artist can capture it.

A drawing reduces the landscape to its simplest fit.

Photographers are not forced to catch human motion.

Painters capture multiple dimensions - landscape and emotion.

Sculptors carve out the ups and downs of valleys, hills and fiords.

Writers describe landscapes with evocative mental image words.

Memory plays tricks with capturing images of landscapes.

Childhood places may be distorted as clarity escapes.

The brain locates its storage for memory of place,

Separate from where we go for memory of face.

But we remember the most beautiful places we have ever seen,

Truly as gorgeous vistas with a look that is peaceful and serene.

Tags: art poetry landscape memory

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Landscapes I love, a reprise

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell

(Original date of this post - 3/10/06)

The Landscape Upon Which I Play

How blessed I am to have seen some of the earth's most beautiful places.

• The Tetons in Wyoming-Majestic mountains rising out of a rather flat grassy landscape. Newer than most ranges, they are the climbers' goal.
  
• The Grand Canyon in Arizona-Awesome chasm, myriad colors, almost unbelievable before your eyes. Carved by the Rio Grande way below.
  
• Northern California's seacoast-The blue Pacific plays against the rocky cliffs. Painters try to capture it. But you must see it to believe it.
  
• New England in the fall-Leaf colors so bright they make your eyes smile. Celebrate the end of the growing season with rustling sounds.
  
• Cozumel in Mexico-Ancient ones built a holy place by the quiet Caribbean. Stone upon stone, with paths worn down by peasant feet.
  
• The Capitol in Washington D.C.-Honor to our founders. Center for governance. Familiar architecture forms the People's Place to Meet.

Travel tourists Placeblog

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Mountain majesty, a reprise

(Original date of this post - 12/24/05)

There are major sensual advantages to growing up near mountains. Your eyes always have a beautiful horizon upon which to rest themselves. Chinook winds, rolling down from the mountains, can bring unexpected thaws of snow.

People, heated by too much summer, can go to the mountains for a cool evening and a warm fire. Tall pines make music as breezes pass through thick branches. The smell of pines remains imprinted years after the experience, only to be recalled by a beach side Christmas tree.

A mountain picnic on a checkered cloth never again will taste quite the same. Mountain thunderstorms boom with a grandeur unmatched on flatter terrain. Granite boulders feel cool to the touch on a summer day, because they spent the night in at cooler altitude. These memories stored by my senses are very precious to me.

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Song of the Windmill, a reprise

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell

(The date of the original post was 3/14/06)

Photo:souldestine-at-cox.net

Cool, water. Cool, clear water. Water. .

remember the song sung by "The Sons of the Pioneers" so long ago.

Not a cowboy poet, I, but one who loves them. I write the

Song of the Windmill.

Sing the song of the windmill's whirring in the breeze.

Listen to the cattle stirring as they chew and graze

on thin grass blades. The herd's not long for this place,

Cause the drought is driving ranchers to leave at a pace

that surprises everyone. The empty tank is commonplace.

"Maybe next year," the neighbors tell each other to save face.

AeroMotor is the name up there. There are other makers too.

A good windmill will outlast a house, barn, and an old buckaroo.

The bad years go by. Then the good years bring in a new crew to

Try again. More cows graze now as the pasture green and new

Makes rich milk, and grows fat calves who rest in the lean-to.

"Next year," the neighbors tell each other, "the drought is through."

Copyright by Carol Gee, March 14, 2006

Tags: ranching poetry rainfall

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Announcing the reprise series --

I often write about the state where I was born and raised, or about memories of my childhood, or associated subjects.

For the next few days I will be reposting pieces from the past as a "reprise" series. I have labeled them my "classics."

I hope you enjoy them all.

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Visual musings: a fresh start

One of the categories into which I sort the Making Good Mondays posts is called Visual Musings. Only 7 posts made it there in 2009. I have gotten away from that format, and my creative writing has suffered as a result. Today's post is an experiment in going back to my old format:

1. Pick a picture to which you have an emotional connection or reaction
2. Figure out what that is about in your mind.
3. Write down those thoughts, either directly or obliquely as a post.
4. Edit the post so that head and heart match, making authenticity your goal.

For today my visual musing is about this image:

Point Lobos, south of San Francisco, California.
I started as a landlubber, born and raised on the sagebrush western prairies, with mountains at my horizon. The water-ific abundance of the Pacific ocean could not be more different than scarce-water Wyoming. However, some things are the same.
The blue Pacific mimics the brilliant blue of Wyoming skies. Also there are mountains at the horizon in this image. The rocky coast is very akin to the Rocky Mountains, my original horizon markers.
It is also about the rocks. I grew up with a rocky outcrop not far from our place in the country. Though we had to watch out for rattle snakes, many of my fondest memories are about going to play "at the rocks." They represented a castle, a fortress, a house, an adventure. And today I take pictures of rocks, collect rocks - both tumbled and rough, and decorate my landscape with rocks. Here is a 2007 picture taken in Wyoming. It is called "Granite Fragments."

It is a picture that gathered several comments when I posted it on Red Gage. In fact shared photographs play a big part in the fun of social networking on the Internet. I have collections on Flikr, FaceBook, Picassa and several slide shows on most of my web pages.
Keeping these sites maintained takes a bit of work, but the results are worth the effort. It is a great way to share photos with the public and with friends and family. . .
. . . and to go back and enjoy them yourself.

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What's in a face?

You cannot tell me that animals don't smile. Who could argue with my take on this frog? He looks fat and happy, probably filled with errant flies.

Or maybe he (or she, who knows) is a distant cousin of my friend Kermit, The Frog, who is another one who smiles a lot.













Our dog, Scooter smiles, often. We know she smiles because we understand her context. She smiles:

• When company comes to our house -- She stands at the door and waits for her "friends," our kids and grandkids come for a visit.


• If it is play time after supper -- She brings one of us a ball, smiles and drops it for our throw/her catch.


• When she is able to engage us in one of her regular "jobs" -- Helping with coffee duty first thing in the morning is one. Another duty is to lead one of us to the other if we're separated in different parts of the house. Both are accompanied by barking notifications.
  

And, if this is not a smile, I do now know anything about critters. This great photo came in one of those wonderful forwarded e-mails from friends, that we all get. And like all such, forwards, the origin is lost in the sands of time.

Now, you smile, you're on candid camera.

Have a great day!

Blogs: My news and political blog is at South by Southwest. My general purpose/southwest focus blog is at Southwest Progressive. And Carol Gee - Online Universe is the all-in-one home page for my websites.

Hubble updating history

Today's post is a collection of miscellaneous links from Making Good Mondays that have one thing in common, the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST. The image for this post is one of the top ten Hubble image favorites.

After cautious anticipation by NASA, the Hubble servicing mission in 2008 was canceled. In effect Hubble's bubble broke, because a major piece of HST equipment went out just before the NASA repair mission was to commence. Such an event is understandable because Hubble just had its 19th birthday.

The mission is now actually underway, with the first of five spacewalks to repair and refurbish Hubble to begin shortly. The entire population of "space nuts" like me will be glued to the NASA TV channel. Space related Twitter tweets and Hubble hopes will be at a high level. We are excited because of the possibility of many more years of science coming from the work of the HST repair crew now in orbit.

Astro_Mike, Mission Specialist Mike Massimino, just sent down a Twitter message from orbit this morning "From orbit: Rendezvous and grapple were great, getting ready for our first spacewalk set." It was enough to set off a Kindle buzz and Twitter "terrifics!" He will be one the inside astronauts choreographing today's space walk, and he will be one of the outside actual space walkers tomorrow. The crew of Endeavor is standing by to effect a rescue in the unlikely event that Atlantis could not come back to earth.

You will be amazed by the eye candy for Endeavour and the various other visual links available if you follow some of these links, see Space and savor the images, for example, or if you check out the post with "The bestest list," as well as learn who's reading and why.

NASA and Congress are not yet in sync because of other priorities. President Obama has not appointed a new NASA administrator, again because of higher priorities. But from all I can tell the acting administrator is doing fine and the mission is doing fine. I look forward to several days of "space nut" fun.

Godspeed to the crew.

My brand new blog is called "Behind the Links."

Carol Gee - Online Universe is the all-in-one home page for my websites.

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Imagery - Old - Continued

Image via Wikipedia

Many people are fascinated with history, including pre-history. Making Good Mondays is often about imagery. This post combines the two ideas. It is a continuation of an earlier one here at Making Good Mondays: "The First Photograph." I was inspired by an e-mail from my blog friend "Spadoman," who read the post about the first camera. Spadoman blogs at Round Circle. I commend his piece, "The Real Reason for the Crow Creek Ride," as background reading and to get acquainted with his very fine writing and good soul. Here are portions of his e-mails:

1) The first e-mail, with Spadoman's thoughts and ideas related to my (old photograph) post:

These drawings and pictures on cave walls and rocks are fascinating. I first saw them here in Minnesota. Up in the Boundary Waters Canoe area, a wilderness area that borders Canada, there are places where the drawings can be seen. It takes a lot of work to see them as you pretty much have to canoe to where they are and there are no short cuts. It is a day or two journey to get there from any embarkation point. There is also a place where painting are found on rocks that are not verticle, but rather horizontal on the flat in a place called Jeffers, MN. The Jeffers Petroglyphs: http://www.jefferspetroglyphs.com/

Last year at this time, I spent a week or so with the Havasupai people whose reservation is at the bottom of Grand Canyon. One man I met from down there took me on a ride down a road that runs from the main highway, old route 66, to the Colorado River. It is on reservation land. Along this road, he stopped here and there to show me some things. One of the places was a petroglyph site, undiscovered by tourists, hidden from view on a desolate semi-private road. Pristine viewing of an ancient artform.

Then again, rocks that are defaced by graffiti and initials of those in love, (JS loves BM), or gang signs painted on many types of surfaces might be the petroglyphs of the future. I wonder about this and how these types of things will be depicted by future anthropologists long after we're scattered to dust. The findings of us in the distant future is also a fascinating subject.

Man did leave marks all over. The voyageurs made gashes high up in the pine trees to be seen by navigators on the lake and portage system. The Nez Perce piled rocks along trails to tell the comings and goings of people and which direction they were traveling, these are still found along the Lolo trail from long before Lewis and Clark in Eastern Idaho's Bitterroot mountains. And of course, the trash this string of generations is leaving buried in the ground in landfills and generally just scattered on the sacred earth mother.

2) February 22, 2009. Subject: Petroglyphs. Spadoman added:

Feel free to use anything I sent you. Those canyon wall pictures at the Grand Canyon were magnificent. I was right up close to them. I didn't touch them. There are also some more modern ones at a place in South Dakota called the Horse sanctuary near Hot Springs, SD. http://www.gwtc.net/~iram/

The site doesn't talk about them, but a long time ago, people used the area down by the Cheyenne River for ceremony, (Sweat Lodge, Sundance) and left marks, circles, on the banks of the river and the sandy area along the river bottoms. On some cliffs, they did some carvings into the sandstone. You can see them if you take the tour at the sanctuary. Many amazing places on this Earth Mother.

References regarding petroglyphs - these famous ones were found in caves in France:

1. The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc.
2. The Cave of Lascaux.
   

As human beings we seem to carry a psychological affinity to old images. Jung described it as the "collective unconscious." I am not sure whether it is also somehow connected to what we might call DNA memory. In any event we are connected to our forebearers from all over the world. We all descend from our common ancestors in Africa, whose traces are lost to history except in fossils. I would love to get a sense of what they did with their earliest impulses towards imagery.


My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about politics.

My new blog is called "Behind the Links."

Technorati tags: imagery history blogosphere

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• The Journals of Lewis & Clark Online (janawillworkforbooks.blogspot.com)

Mood imagery

FreeImages.co.uk deserves the credit for all these interesting pictures. These mood images are to be found free at the link above.

These images all have a certain "vantage point:" It depends on where you are, as to how you look at things.

You might be feeling "on top of the world, have an "overview," or have to "step down" from a lofty position. Up appears to be the desired location.

Or you might feel " blocked," "down in the dumps," or "trapped." Down is not the way most of us want to feel.

Most of us just wish for "a level playing field."

Have a great week!

My brand new blog is called "Behind the Links."

Carol Gee - Online Universe is the all-in-one home page for my websites.

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Risking this --

Haiku:

Japanese verse in three lines. Mood poem - doesn't use metaphors or similes.

Classic form: Line 1 - 5 syllables. Line 2 - 7 syllables. Line 3 - 5 syllables.

I am experimenting here:

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Present, but gone now

You remembered and then not

So I must know night

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Raspberry canes bend

over to bear the sweet fruit.

Red lips pucker up.

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My brand new blog is called "Behind the Links."

Carol Gee - Online Universe is the all-in-one home page for my websites.

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The First Photograph

The First Photograph

"View From the Window At Le Gras," is the first ever true photograph made by exposing a chemical coated pewter plate in France in 1826. The first photo was taken by:

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,

who was born in 1765 and died in 1833 at the age of 68, without being credited for being the world's first successful photographer. Though he formed a partnership with Daguerre, the invention of the daguerreotype, eclipsed what Niepce had called his heliograph.

It is on display in the permanent collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.

I have had the privilege of seeing this priceless treasure, myself, some years ago in Austin. It took my breath away because I am an amateur photographer myself, and understand the significance of such a rarity.

We almost did not get to see this gem because it was actually lost during the period of 1898 to 1952. After a long search, it was found and authenticated by Helmut Gernsheim, who eventually donated it in 1963, along with his entire collection, to the University in Austin.

Visit the website linked above. It has a wealth of fascinating information about Niepce, pictures of he and Gernsheim, the original photograph in its original gold frame, and the original provenience that goes with it. Entire pages tell about the hunt for the lost work, and about the amazing generosity that enabled UT to own the treasure. The last heir who owned the work donated it to Gernsheim, who in turn donated it to the Austin-based University's vast photography collection.


My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about politics.

My new blog is called "Behind the Links."

Technorati tags: photography antiques

Wild about Wordle, and other wonders.

Isn't this beautiful?  It was made by a very nifty program called "Wordle."  The design comes from the block of copy you enter into the program.  I find it quite magical.  The words are the labels I routinely use to describe my political blog.  The frequency of the word in the copy dictates its size in the composition.

"Earth From Above --Photography Exhibition Shows Unique Perspectives Of Planet#."  With the advent of Google Earth, eyes in the sky let us see as never before.  Orbiting weather satellites and photographs taken by NSAS shuttle astronauts and crew members inhabiting the International Space Station provide invaluable perspectives on important events around the earth, hurricanes, for example. The story came from The Huffington Post. To quote:

The view from a hovering helicopter affords perhaps the best vantage point from which to observe and capture the Earth's beauty -- and fragilityI recently met with artist-activist Yann Arthus-Bertrand to discuss climate change, carbon offsets, and his upcoming outdoor exhibition of 150 four-foot by six-foot aerial photographs of the Earth The collection, entitled The Earth From Above, will touch down in New York from May 1, 2009 to June 28, 2009, before continuing on to San Fransisco and Los Angeles in 2010.

"Our good earth in National Geographic says, "The future rests on the soil beneath our feet."  The piece features an ethereal color photograph that is beautifully luscious.  And "Urban Street Art, Abandoned Places and Amazing Designs#at WebUrbanist," is a visually rich website worth a visit. 

"Animals Have Personalities, Too#" is from Yahoo! News.  Those personality differences make important contributions as to how well a group of animals  prospers, for example.  More   fascinating stuff.

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The last part of this post is about a few weirdly wonderful links that landed in my e-mail box recently.  My regular contributors know how much I enjoy this kind of material, and you will, too.  "Sharks are cool," says "betmo" in the intro to "Immaculate Conception*".  She also sent this very strange looking one: "Boffins unveil life-like robo-girl.*  I conclude with this TIME magazine photo essay called,  "Your Doctor Wants You to Smoke.#"  It consists of 10 old advertising illustrations from before the time when the link between smoking and cancer was discovered.

Hat Tip Key -- Items marked with (#) were links sent to me by my regular contributor, Jon; those marked (*) were e-mailed links from "betmo."

My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about presidential politics.

Technorati tags: news nature photos imagery

Surprise. . .

Yes, you are at the right site.  

This is still "Making Good Mondays," by Carol Gee.  This was my day to be creative.

Things weren't fitting right in the old template.  So I went shopping and found this on sale.  It went together perfectly, with the addition of a new picture to go with the title of the template, "Harbor."

What do you think?

My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about politics.

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The world rocks!

It really does! Despite all the bad things happening economically, there are things that can still give us enjoyment, surprise and wonder.  Today's post is a little treasure box of interesting items for your browsing pleasure.

The first Hat Tip (HT) goes to Andrew Sullivan for this wonderful global geological map, the "world as rocks." And Congress has OK'd greater Broadband access* so the Internet will get even bigger and more fun for all of us. An Oregon boy has invented a solar cell* that might make being on the Internet even easier. Blog writing can be done almost anyplace you can get a connection, even if you are stuck in the Arctic#. Here's another  HT to Andrew Sullivan for this link to "The Seven Basic Blog Posts" published at Wired.

Nowadays almost all of the magazines we used to buy at the news stand or get in the mail are available online.  Here one can just click and see in Time's online magazine,  Paul Newman: His Life in Photographs#, The Top Ten Paul Newman Films#, or  Time pictures of the week#. There is also "America the Authentic - 50 Authentic American Experiences."  But mysteries remain, such as the very old ship hulk# dredged up by Hurricane Ike.

The third HT goes to Tom Head (who writes about civil liberties at About.com) for this list of "The Top 10 'Obscene' Literary Classics."

Hat Tip Key: Regular contributors of above links to leads are "betmo*" and Jon#.

My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about politics.

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