posts brought to you by the category “art theory”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
I see a toilet plunger, a sunken garbage can and a pair of big-ass Magic 8-balls.
Okay, so none of those things were there
when I went to look at the actual worksite for the Starship Foobar,
last Friday. In fact there wasn't much in the center save for a mess of
steel girders but it was enough to make me worry. On the other hand,
the two shiny, drunken sailors clutching to the staid and stolid New
England brownstone wannabes were surprisingly nice. Just imagine,
though, how fantastic they could be if instead of hermetically sealed
windows the architect and the university had opted for double-paned
glass windows with dark wooden frames that actually opened! Look at the
pictures and then imagine all the possible combinations of windows
opening and closing multiplied by an equal number of possible
reflections multiplied again by the light from the sun and the moon,
not to mention the surrounding buildings, as they move across the sky.
Shame, really. But seriously, what is up with the big glass balls? Some
fucker's gonna hack a satellite one day and reflect the light of the
sun through them and start frying M.I.T. weenies like they were ants.
Maybe they can all run and hide in the oversized concrete warp-core
drive that looks to be built to the left of the toilet plunger...
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C'est le sport municipal!
Phillipe A. Martin : Integration of WordNet 1.7 in WebKB-2
...although WordNet categories have intuitive names (English nouns or nominal expressions), they do not have intuitive identifiers (the WordNet API mainly uses numbers). Intuitive identifiers are mandatory for permitting people to read, write and update knowledge statements in text files, i.e. outside the graphical interface of a particular tool. This is a minimal requirement for knowledge sharing/re-use and also greatly simplifies the development of knowledge-based tools. Hence, we designed an algorithm to create intuitive identifiers for WordNet categories based on their names. This algorithm combines various heuristics we learnt from many trials.
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From the "Oui Are All in the Same Boat" department :
But then Canada would become a donut-shaped country.
Well, given the popularity of Tim Horton's it's only a matter of time.
The problem with Ontario, never mind
the nascent sea-faring nation of Alberta
(
note: I was born in the former and
spent five childhood years in the latter while my mother did her
Master's; I have developed, it's true, a somewhat irrational dislike of
both
), talking trash and threatening to leave Confederation is the rest of
the country would probably show up to help them pack.
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Me : Class::Phrasebook::Simple.pm 0.1
I'm going to send a note to the developer
of Class::Phrasebook before I submit this to the CPAN. see also :
docs
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Nicole Maile : "The seduction process is what I find so interesting as a business person."
I don't know whether to laugh or
cry...
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I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I. moustache, don't you?
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Fishing with Saddam
I couldn't tell you why (and I'm not sure I
want to know either) but last night I had a dream that
this guy
posted a long, and very detailed, entry on his weblog about an image
he'd created in Photoshop. It was a picture of a U.S. postage stamp
depicting a bust-shot of Saddam Hussein decked out in vintage
cosmonaut outfit
bobbing around in outer space showing off a big orange fish. If that
weren't enough, the image itself was a composite of news photos, a
publicity shot of some long forgotten celebrity and an old family
photograph from a fishing trip. Who the fuck knows...
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Autrijus Tang : "PAR is like Java's .jar files
.par files contains a zip-compressed folder of a
typical blib/ directory, and could be put into @INC, loaded and executed
on the fly, as well as turning into stand-alone scripts or executables
(aka Perl2Exe or PerlApp)."
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : grimble
1.Any movie in which, no matter how important the man's job (stopping an assasination, saving the universe, generally preserving life), his wife does nothing but gripe about how it's breaking the family up and that he missed little Jimmy's birthday again. 2. The act of a movie woman griping in this way.
ex. Sissy Spacek did nothing but grimble all the way through the movie _JFK_.
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Ryo Sode : rss2fmp.xsl
Hark, FileMaker is now a news aggregator,
too.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : lolalam
Acronym for "Love Only Lasts As Long As (the) Money."
ex. You can describe her lifestyle as lolalam.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : mandals
Bulky, strappy, sandals worn by men. European men wear them with socks.
ex. Phil could walk no further, as his new mandals had given him a blister. If only he'd worn his socks!
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : allugot
All you have; everything.
ex. How much do you think this marriage will cost? Allugot.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : yummolicious
When something tastes really good or yummy. A cross between yummy and delicious.
ex. Auntie Sar, this candy sure is yummolicious.
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xmlwebgui
"is a validating xml editor that runs in every
DOM-conform browser (Mozilla, Netscape6 and MSIE5+). On the client sie it
works with JavaScript and CSS, at the server side are some [Java]
servlets for parsing the DTD and transforming the xml data via XSLT."
Interesting. I'm not sure why, with all their
whiz-bang JavaScript tomfoolery, they didn't use
onmouseover
layers to display element controls. I also wonder where they manage to
fit all the possible child elements for any given DocBook element in that
tiny little sidebar. Interesting all the same.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano
Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible Spanish form. Dorkano for males. Used meaning stupid (in a funny way) or just not thinking. This is not a mean term, but rather a term to jokingly make fun of someone and bring attention to her action that caused her to look so goofy.
ex. Sally couldn't believe what a dorkano her friend was when he licked the ice cream store sign's large ice cream cone.
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Hockey Night in Canada
and other theme songs from Canadian
television
classics
. And to my
American friends
: No, the Littlest Hobo is not Lassie.
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Paul Kennedy's Ocean Journal
What is it with the Japanese and
waves?
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Kevin Altis : ""When the app starts up, it automatically grabs the text in the clipboard
and pastes it into the content field."
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will
take before this one hits the
RISKS digest
? via
scripting news
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xml-dev : Public identifiers and topic maps
"What namespace does the name "Lake Geneva" exist
in? Who owns that namespace? If, for Joe Author, Lake Geneva (the lake
itself, not just its name) is a topic, how should Joe Author refer to it?
(In fact, the Lake Geneva example points up another interesting aspect of
the problem. In France, the very same lake is called "Lac Leman". Two
names, one lake.) Joe Author needs to point at the Lake itself as a
topic, and he needs to do it in a way that will be maximally useful to
unknown others for figuring out what it is that he's regarding as this
topic. Nobody is ever going to "resolve" this pointer; if somehow they
did resolve the pointer, a flood of living water would come pouring out
of the CRT, or the user would be teleported into the lake and be drowned.
That's not what we're trying to accomplish here."
The thread is from 1998 and I haven't had a
chance to see what actually made it in to the Topic Maps spec.
Interesting discussion, all the same.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : contravene
Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contravened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contravening}.] [LL. contravenire; L. contra + venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See {Come}.] 1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. --Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. --Johnson. Syn: To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart. web1913
contravene v 1: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: {conflict}, {run afoul}, {infringe}] 2: deny the truth of [syn: {contradict}, {negate}] wn
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Radio Crankypants #6-8
6) Where the hell is the glossary? The
glossary framework
is one of the single most useful things the UserLand gang has ever
developed. It was in Manila and if it wasn't in older versions of Radio
it should have been. I mean, look, I actually know where the glossary
is
but why isn't there a web interface? 7) The navigation menu should be a
DHTML toolbar. I am already tired of clicking
>Prefs >Templates >Home page template
. And I might begin to remember what
next/prev
is supposed to mean, in any given context, in another six months but
right now it's just laughable. Both of these things should be a trivial
tasks for UserLand by now. The menus are exactly the same as building
the menubars for Radio/Frontier on the fly or building, only in HTML.
People have been beating on DHTML menus long enough that there really
is solid cross browser, cross platform, backwards compatible code
available. And the named next/prev linky widget was practically the
first thing people learned how to do in Frontier 4! 8) If the CMS
behind Radio is supposed to be
file-system based
why on earth does the file corresponding to
this page
look like this:
#flHomepage true #flArchivePage true #archiveDate "2002/01/12" <%radio.macros.viewWeblog ()%>
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Chris Nandor : Mac:: modules on MacOS X
"The icon looks more like iHam on iWhole iWheat. iSo iSue iMe."
Did Aaron think anything about that?
I finally got out the duct tape and put the
enough of the search widget in place to make it (mostly) usuable
again.
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is popinjay
| source : web1913 | Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n.
[Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zo["o]l.) The European green
woodpecker ({Picus, or Genius, viridis}). It is noted for its loud
laughlike note. Called also {eccle}, {hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing
bird}, {popinjay}, {rain bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale},
{yappingale}, {yackel}, and {woodhack}. | source : web1913 | Popinjay
\Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai, papegaut; cf. Pr.
papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which
the first syllables are perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the
last either fr. L. gallus cock, or the same word as E. jay, F. geai. Cf.
{Papagay}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot. The pye
and popyngay speak they know not what. --Tyndale. 2. A target in the form
of a parrot. [Scot.] 3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. ``To be
so pestered with a popinjay.'' --Shak. | source : wn | popinjay n 1: a
vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) 2: archaic
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developerWorks : Reading and writing Excel files with Perl
I can say, from experience, that the
Spreadsheet::* modules are a wonk's best friend if you work in a Normal
Office. I am not particularly well suited to the Normal Office
enviroment and have actively worked to avoid it. Last year, though, it
came to pass and, on my first day, I was given a quick glimpse of what
was to come. I went to a meeting to discuss the UI for a website. The
site was frames-based and after being made to understand that it was
too late to change, I piped up and said, "Well, we atleast need a print
button to spawn a new window for the main frame." Not exactly rocket
science, eh?. The response to the inevitable desire of Joe User to
create a hard-copy of a webpage?
Oh, we can just email them a Word document.
Only later did I come to understand the strange and twisted
relationship people have with their spreadsheet software... see also :
The Perl Journal on
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
and
Integrating
Perl into Microsoft Office Innards
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wiseacre
| source : web1913 | Wiseacre \Wise"a*cre\, n.
[OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to
foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w[=i]ssag?n, corrupted (as if compounded of
the words for wise and say) fr. w[=i]zzag?n, fr. w[=i]zzag? a prophet,
akin to AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, from the root of E. wit. See {Wit}, v.]
1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a
mighty wiseacre. --Leland. 2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom;
a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
source : wn | wiseacre n : an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic,
insolent comments [syn: {wise guy}, {smart aleck}, {wisenheimer},
{weisenheimer}]
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Chris Cobb : Perl Tools Architecture (PTools)
"was created after attempting to move two
web-based applications consisting of many related pieces and over 100,000
lines of Perl each. After wrestling again and again with hard-coded file
paths, duplicated data file locations and other fundamental problems and
inconsistencies, a cleaner approach was clearly needed." via
gnat
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bacchanalia
| source : web1913 | Bacchanalia
\Bac`cha*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in
the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
?] 1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken
feast; drunken reveler. | source : wn | Bacchanalia n 1: an orgiastic
festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn:
{Dionysia}, {Bacchanalia}] 2: a wild gathering involving excessive
drinking and promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery},
{saturnalia}, {riot}, {bacchanal}, {drunken revelry}]
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N.Y. Times : "Beck and his ilk try to emulate Gainsbourg
- get bad haircuts, strike ridiculous lothario
poses - but they can't resist winking at the audience: "Don't worry, I
get the joke." Gainsbourg never flinched; he was authentically cool, and
he reveled in tackiness with gusto and confidence. Listening to his
tuneful, obscene, witty records, we encounter an original: a musician
with the nerve, and the chops, to make great art out of bad taste."
We took our friends from New York to
C'est
Extra!
last night, so this article was helpful to explain --in their own
language-- what, exactly, is was they had just seen.
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Daniel Lundin : xmlrpc.el
"is an XML-RPC client implementation in emacs
lisp, capable of both synchronous and asynchronous method calls (using
the url package's async retrieval functionality)."
Yay! via
scripting news
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is yen
| source : web1913 | Yen \Yen\, n. The unit of
value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard,
in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal
to 100 sen. | source : web1913 | Ye \Y"["e]\ ([=e]"e), n.; pl. {Y["e]n}
([=e]"en). An eye. [Obs.] From his y["e]n ran the water down. --Chaucer.
| source : wn | yen n 1: a yearning for something or to do something
[syn: {hankering}] 2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
v : have a yen for [syn: {long}, {ache}, {yearn}, {pine}, {languish}]
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Jonathan Eisenzopf : XML::RSS.pm 0.97
"[adds] support for the Taxonomy module (taxo).
It only works inside the channel or item elements and only supports one
form of the module syntax. See the XML::RSS documentation for examples."
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Angus Madden : Fundamentals of Web Application Development
83% of Canadians have a uniform fetish.
It's my birthday!
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Why am I spending all my time writing Perl code?
gack!
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My friend Susie (that's Susan to you) got written up in the Globe yesterday
"Weinthaler contributed a piece she calls
Godzilla Golf, in which contestants don a gigantic latex Godzilla head
and then terrorize a miniature town by attempt to hit golf balls into
it." see also :
Purple
Girl of the Month : Susan Weinthaler
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Why are Americans so terrified of food?
Sightings
Here's me,
looking for god in all these fucking details...
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developerWorks : Dare to script tree-based XML with Perl
FILM TASK
"is an eight hour fade, from black to white,
through the grayscale palette of Warhol's EMPIRE." Thank you, Andy
Warhol, for having made such unbearably boring and silly art and for
encouraging others to do the same.
An antidote to infoglut
, indeed.
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Al Purdy, 1918 - 2000
"He wrote about going to good hockey games and
fighting with the foreman at work... the kind of things that occupy
ordinary people."
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Dahlia Lithwick : Waltzing Miranda
"Being tapped by the Supremes to defend a statute
that neither party to the case wants any part of is like being appointed
hall monitor-ratting out your buddies for extra credit." via
q
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A philosopher's café is not a philosophy lecture
"[T]he philosopher presides only as a moderator,
to maintain the conversation on a philosophical footing. The discussion
is thoughtful but nontechnical. You will be challenged to defend your
beliefs or opinions, but you will not be asked to refer to a list of
philosophy books in order to support your views. In fact, the opposite is
usually true: Instead of showing off your erudition by referring to great
works you may have studied, you will be obliged to think for yourself, to
give your own reasons for the views you hold." via
ed's
weblog
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Lamar Smith (R-Texas) : Plugging our porous border
"If Canadians want more liberal immigration and
drug policies, that is their decision. And if Americans want to act on
security concerns, that is our decision." I can hardly wait for the
punch-line after a lead-in like that.
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Morning Edition on cigarettes, taxes and the Internet
All that's missing is sex and death, but I
suppose you could make a reasonable argument that both are already
implicit in the former. (real evil g2)
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Piers Brendon : Gospel of Urbanity
"From his reporters he demanded facts, facts,
facts — about skyscraper mail chutes, the fake-fur racket,
"kosher Coca Cola." He employed the kind of
fact-checker said to have "a mind like a steel mousetrap and a
heart like a twelve-minute egg."" I miss The New Yorker of old;
it was the only mainstream magazine that ever seemed to publish articles
or interviews of any real depth. Sure, maybe you didn't care to read 120
pages about penguins or an equally lengthy profile of executive X, but it
was the attention to detail that I valued.
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Perl::Flash modules
mmmmmmm .... unprocessed fish sticks! via
<a href =
"http://www.linkwatcher.com/metalog/">linkwatcher</a>
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Rex Murphy on The Great One and Clintonian Moments
real (evil g2) video
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Jean Dion : Fume, Kafka, c'est du bon
"Mieux encore, le ministère de la Vertu pourra,
de concert avec la direction de l'entreprise, nommer un membre du
personnel rémunéré «inspecteur» auprès de ses collègues, nanti de tous
pouvoirs en deçà de la peine capitale."
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Tiananmen Square, 1989 : The Declassified Documents
"A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing
Book". Meanwhile, the radio show that does it all presents
A People's
History of Tiananmen Square
. real audio.
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United States Patent # 5,819,241
"More particularly, the invention relates to an
interactive process in which a database of demographic and other relevant
information is used to selectively apply specific, targeted information,
such as advertisements, coupons, or messages onto a letter or parcel, if
there is a match between the sender and/or recipient information on the
letter or parcel and the information in the database. The database is
constantly updated as letters or parcels pass through the system." This
has privacy violation written all over it. Consider the implications of a
database that knows everyone you've written to or received a letter from.
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Robert at bump.net
(or <a href =
"http://www.dalai-lama.com/">dalai-lama.com</a>,
depending on what your referrer logs tell you ;-) has some nice things to
say about abhb, and the <a href =
"http://aaronland.net/#sitemap">aaronland
sitemap</a>. That said, credit should go to those who
deserve it : the fancy dhtml code is courtesy of Eric Bosrup's <a
href = "http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib">OverLIB javascript
library</a> and the pointer that said code contains a
"tracking agent" comes by way of <a href =
"http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$8401">Keith
Devens</a>. Thanks to one and all!
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Le Monde : Internet, le déstabilisateur incertain des médias
"Au moment où les nouvelles technologies de la
communication bouleversent l'univers des médias, n'est-il pas nécessaire
de penser les moyens permettant de freiner les dérives ou, au moins, de
tempérer les effets pervers des plus récentes «révolutions de
l'information» ?"
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Rick Salutin
"Maybe things will start to get interesting again
after the stupid millennium."
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wtf?
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See also : W3C::LogValidator.pm
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