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This classic work, first published in 1928, concentrates on the cultivation of the technique of eroticism as an art in marriage. It sets the sexual relationship in the nostalgic prose of a more leisured age.
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An incredibly frank highly useful source........2005-08-13
I found an early print edition of this work in a GoodWill store. This is easily the best work I have ever read on the subject; balanced, calm, authoritative.
Highly useful, practical information truly sets this work apart; the reverence the author shows for marital intimacy sets this work head and shoulders above similar works of our so-called modern age.
Highly recommended.
Easily read, Valuable for Youth.......2000-07-11
Treats the subject with calmness and truth. Does not try to make sex into a science. The subject of initial intercourse and how to have this with respect and calm on both partners part was invaluable. Also the discussion of positions vis a vis weight has proven quite correct. Again, an easy read and should be mandatory before initial intercourse.
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One of the most effective forms of American propaganda during World War II was the morale-boosting dog or buddy photo. The photos in this collection are, for the most part, previously unpublished, and each is accompanied by the stories of the dogs and their service in Europe and the Pacific.
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Motorbooks Calendar Buddies 2002 Men. Dogs. And World War II 2002
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One of the most effective forms of World War II American propaganda was the morale-boosting dog or "buddy" photo-cute unit mascots juxtaposed with the wizened visages of soldiers and sailors in the midst of war. Thirteen of the best buddy photos among hundreds unearthed in the National Archives are featured along with brief stories of the dogs and their "service" with units in Europe and the Pacific.
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Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (Six Vol. Set)
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This detailed set explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. The set's 1,082 articles, written by eminent scholars, cover major topics in art, government and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. In addition, the set covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish inquisition, Utopia and others. Each volume includes an eight-page color insert. Features include approximately 575 black-and-white photographs, 60 maps, a year-by-year chronology, a topical outline, and a comprehensive index.
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William Calvin, a neurophysiologist and author of The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain, attempts to reclaim the study of human consciousness from physicists like Roger Penrose. Physicists, Calvin suggests, reduce the mind to subatomic particles and mathematical equations, whereas those in his specialty see the seat of consciousness and intelligence in higher levels of brain physiology--the neurons, synapses, and cortex. Calvin is a Darwinist who regards the unique level of human consciousness as the product of evolutionary forces that began with the ice ages two million years ago. The human response to this natural threat, he argues, was to develop mental faculties that allowed high-level communication and, thus, cooperation, leading to complex language capabilities and the distinguishing human characteristic of abstract thought.
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A Review of How Brains Think.......2006-12-02
Calvin contends that brains (OR COMPUTERS!)
are able to THINK by virtue of being "Darwin
machines," machines that emulate biological
evolution but on a much reduced time scale.
Calvin's Darwin machines possess six essential
properties:
1. Patterns are recognized and manipulated.
2. The patterns are copied and
3. modified.
4. Patterns are evaluated during their use
and compete for limited storage space.
5. The values assigned to the respective patterns
measure their success when used to control actions
of some agent in an environment.
6. The best patterns are retained for future
reuse while poorer ones are discarded.
Calvin attempts to show how these 6 processes
might be obtained with realistic biological
neural networks. I found these latter arguments
to be incomplete and unconvincing. To be fair
Calvin refers the reader to another of his books
THE CEREBRAL CODE for a more detailed discussion.
I need to read that book but have yet to do so.
I do believe, however, that modern artificial
intelligence software does qualify as a Darwin
machine according to Calvin's criteria (see,
for example my Asa H, Transactions of the Kansas
Academy of Science, vol. 109, No. 3/4. pg 159,
2006, R. Jones)
What to do next?.......2003-05-03
Calvin offers an evolutionary description of the development of human intelligence. He's very careful to avoid using "consciousness" since Dennett, Humphreys, Pinker and others have firmly employed that term. Calvin cites Piaget's "intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do next" as a foundation thesis. From this he compares human mental talents with those of other animals, mostly primates, to demonstrate evolutionary roots for our intelligence. Behaviour issues common to everyday life become visible evidence for what is going on in our brains. Calvin manages to take his analysis into the physical processes that occur as we decide on our actions. It's a well written and "down to earth" explanation of many questions we have on what intelligence is and how we use it.
Piaget's comment reflects the growing knowledge of brain processes. Much of the brain's time is spent collecting, storing, retrieving and applying information. This means that both "unconscious" events and our expressions and actions only come about after numerous and complicated signal processing has already occurred. Calvin describes in both text and graphics how neurons are constructed, convey data, and interact within the brain. Clearly, nothing is instantaneous and many elements are competing for dominance during every moment awake. Clear, too, is the notion that while other primates have many talents to deal with their surroundings, none possess the powers evolution gave humans.
What drives these powerful mental abilities? He rebuffs the idea of the "quantum brain". It's too deep in the brain's structure - "in the subbasement of physics". That's too far removed from areas of vision, speech, and memory. There are certainly quantum events going on with all that chemical and electrical activity inside your skull, but Calvin sees these forces as far to deep to have direct impact on mental processes. Calvin is more concerned with the human level of analysis. One proposal he adopts wholeheartedly, but without attribution, is Daniel Dennett's concept of the "multiple drafts model" of thinking and expression. Calvin, to his credit, outstrips even Dennett's abilities of description in depicting this process. He shows, for example, how the brain's memory storage facility considers many images before it resolves that the round thing flying past is a tennis ball. It's an exquisite example, and you perceive clearly how many other daily occurrences are resolved in a similar manner.
The accumulation of evidence about our evolutionary roots, the environmental changes forced on us and the rise of language and use of syntax are all contained within a device Calvin labels the "Darwin Machine." The Machine has six "essentials" which cover topics like replication, mutation and success in adaptation. He demonstrates how the "essentials" provide a mechanism for complexity from simplicity. Where some creatures modified things like limbs, teeth or hair, it was our brain that evolved from simple to complex.
While evolution of the human brain isn't a new topic, Calvin presents a better summary of its roots and operations than most cognitive scientists. This is a fine book to start any study of the brain, but must be enhanced by other, more complete, works. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
Calvin's Neocortical Darwin Machine.......2002-01-05
This book is an attempt to "pull together all of the essentials.....of a darwinian process" and "describe a specific neural mechanism that could implement such a process in primate neocortex." Calvin is an advocate of the idea that brain-based darwinian processes are what provides brains with what we call "consciousness" and "intelligence". The first six chapters do the pulling together and chapter seven presents the proposed mechanism. Chapter 8 explores implications of darwinian brain processes for artificial intelligence.
As we plod along towards Alan Turing's dream of constructing intelligent machines, there are a few road-blocks we need to get around. Calvin mentions that any explanation of biological intelligence ought to have implications for artificial intelligence. He admits that, "the ad-hoc schemes of AI might also produce intelligent robots", but he clearly likes the idea that the most efficient path to intelligent man-made devices that can duplicate human mental abilities (what Calvin quaintly calls a "workalike") is to learn the essentials of how biological brains work and then apply those principles to the problem of making a workalike. One road-block is the fact that so many AI researchers ignore the task of reverse engineering the human brain or, at best, they assume that what was known about brains in the 1940's is enough. Unfortunately, I doubt that Calvin's hop-skip-and-jump over this issue will move any AI researchers away from their "ad-hoc schemes". Even AI researchers who like the idea of evolutionary processes pay little attention to the idea of adapting the physiological mechanisms of biological brains to evolutionary computing.
A second road-block is the distinction that is usually made between hardware and software. Turing was among the first to recognize how to use electronic devices to implement the power and beauty of this distinction, and most AI researchers remain devoted to hardware-software duality. Unfortunately, biological brains were not designed by an electrical engineer. It thus becomes a danger that biologists will mistakenly attempt to make sense of biological brains by looking at brain processes through the distorting lenses of hardware-software duality. I think that Calvin gets caught in this trap of dualism and it deflects him from paying close enough attention to the details of how biological brains really work.
Calvin's dualistic thinking starts with the harmless division of brain processes into two types, those that depend on "cerebral ruts" (hardware) and those that dance more freely through the brain and so are able to function like "software".....Calvin usually calls these "firing patterns". The dangerous step comes when Calvin suggests that the pattern of action potentials in any particular neocortical minicolumn can be replicated and spread through the cortex like a piece of software code and be "played" on the millions of other minicolumns in the same way you can play a million copies of a CD on a million CD players......the key difference being that while all CD players are designed to do basically the same task, the various cortical minicolumns can all have their own unique "ruts" and the copies of the firing patterns are not exact duplicates. This allows for a "cerebral symphony" rather than just a million-fold amplification of the same tune and a "survival of the fittest" process whereby those firing patterns that resonate best with the existing pool of "ruts" will dominate our consciousness and generate intelligent behavior.
Allegorically, this is an appealing model of cortical function, and the sort of evolutionary mechanism that AI researchers like to build into computers. Unfortunately, biological brains were not made by engineers. Where does Calvin go wrong?
For Calvin, "copying" is the essence of darwinism, but people such as Stuart Kauffman (see his, "The Origins of Order") and Freeman Dyson (see his, "Origin of Life") have long ago made the point that evolution does not REQUIRE copying. Life as it now exists involves molecular replication, but that is just a special trick that proved useful for living organisms. Life probably had an initial "metabolic" period without molecular replication. George Dyson (in his book, "Darwin Among the Machines") has pointed out that man-made machines (such as industrial robots) can evolve without replication.
Is there another way that evolutionary processes might exist in biological brains without the emphasis that Calvin places on copying? Gerald Edelman's theory of "Neural Darwinism" (see his book by that name) provides an alternative to Calvin's emphasis on copying. Anyone who reads Calvin's theory (chapter 7) should compare it to Edelman's theory. My guess is that Edelman provides a better framework for thinking about evolutionary processes in biological brains, but Calvin's theory is more accessible and "intuitive", so it may be better as an introduction to the importance of evolutionary processes in the brain.
Calvin does not dogmatically push the "darwin machine" mechanism described in chapter 7, and, in fact, seems to invite people to simply skip that chapter. He devotes considerable space (particularly chapter 3) to discussion of trying to find the level of detail required to find the essence of how biological brains produce consciousness and intelligent behavior. I suspect that Crick (in his "The Astonishing Hypothesis") and Edelman are closer to identifying this critical level, with Calvin just a bit too reluctant to delve into the details of how synapses work. Although Calvin does touch on the function of synapses briefly in chapter 7, he spends considerable space clumping the study of synaptic learning mechanisms in with quantum consciousness theories as examples of inappropriate attempts at reductionism. But even if Calvin has slightly missed the mark, he provides an accessible account of why it makes sense to continue trying to identify and elucidate evolutionary processes in the brain.
suitable for beginners.......2001-02-01
This book provides a clear introduction to the secular materialistic viewpoint on the mind. Easy enough for layman to comprehend. Although Calvin's accuse to quantum physicists may be too vigorous and unfair, I still recommend this book for those who find Crick's "The Astonishing Hypothesis" too dense and long.
ALL THE BRAIN'S A STAGE.......2000-06-13
Coming attractions on Calvin's marquee are AI blobs of super intelligence and since they need not move nor eat I guess one could pull one along like a little red wagon. Author sets some kind of mark for hubris and keeps plugging his next book, CEREBRAL CODES. Although he admits that improved brain imagery would be required to test his ideas, he sounds certain these little details don't matter much. What are his ideas? He imports them wholly from darwinism: there must be competition in the cortex to account for changes and new ideas; the winner must have a copying mechanism in the brain (similar to RNA and DNA) to sort out the chaos. He brings on stage a Greek chorus of neurons to throw out the losers.
My biggest problem with the book was Calvin's idiosyncratic choice of terms. He seems to demand some potion of free will in the neuron's selection of input signals; he sees no value in random selection nor mutation. Intelligence he sees as "good guessing." Cerebral codes he sees as the winners of the intense competition over what will be copied in short term memory. He thinks Penrose's quantum field or"microtubles of neuron's cytoskeleton" is just another word for spirit -- the ghost in the machine, but his own stealth candidate is "dynamic patchwork quilt" of patterns. I enjoyed his metaphors but they need not conflict with Penrose's. What he has done with his cerebral codes is encrypt his own common reductionism of portraying man's mind as just a bag of neurons -- like his buddy Francis Crick (THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS). There is nothing new in this book except new terminology of which we are already stuffed.
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How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
William H. Calvin
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HOW BRAINS THINK: EVOLVING INTELLIGENCE, THEN AND NOW.
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A new theory about Intelligence,from a well-known writer on brains and evolutionwhich puts foward a drawinian model of how the mind works.
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This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig’s life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. New Preface by the Author.
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Beautiful.......2007-10-14
This book was one of the few memoirs I have written when in the end I placed the book down and sighed "wow." What a wonderful story. The author rolled experiences together in western Montana with his dad and grandmother and turned it into a lovestory for fathers and grandmothers, for people of Montana, and all that using very little dialogue. (That gave the book a sense of truthfulness, as who can recite full conversations that took place years ago?)
The constant struggle with man against nature, man against man and man against himself come alive in these pages. Montana and its bittersweet closeness never leave the reader; its isolation and wide open sky are always in the background. Thus the title is so perfect for this beautiful memoir.
This was my first Doig book and I will definitely read more of him. I definitely consider this book one of the top ten in American 20th century writing.
Great American literature.......2007-01-09
This is my all time favorite book. Period. Beautifully written, thought-provoking. It will make you want to move to Montana. It will make you love open sky and a horizon that goes on forever and the importance of family.
An excellent read!!!.......2006-12-31
This was my first Ivan Doig book, and I loved it! As a result, I've read most of the rest of what Doig has written and thoroughly enjoy reading about (and remembering) the areas of Montana where I used to live.
Strongly recommended.......2006-11-27
As soon as I started reading This House of Sky, I fell into Ivan Doig's world. By the end I was so mesmerized by his wonderful language and vivid characters that I was wandering around the house with the book up to my nose, bumping into things, trying to do chores one-handed while reading. I would never have believed that a book that starts out with the gasping, hideous suffocating death of one of the author's parents and ends with the gasping, hideous suffocating death of the other one could contain such boundless love of family, such joy, and such beauty. Doig's vivid writing shades perilously close to poetry, and he has an eye for the perfect anecdote to illustrate his point. Doig evokes in the endless drudgery of Montana ranch life a heroic struggle, and turns his hardworking, mercurial father into one of the great figures of modern literature. As a chronicle of Doig's childhood and its end and of the Montana sheepherding life in the early parts of this century, This House of Sky is a spectacular success; but as a tribute to his beloved family and especially his father, the book is a powerfully moving classic.
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind.......2005-08-27
The author "Ivan Doig" introduces Montana through his youthful eye and shares his rememberances of growing up in Montana. If you have yet to read any of Mr. Doig's excellent books or are already a fan; this book is not to be missed.
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This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Ivan Doig
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Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. He lived among sheepherders and the characters in small-town saloons and valley ranches as he tagged along with his restless father.
Doig puts us in touch with the land and its influence on us, also with ties to our family and those who shaped our values in the search for intimacy, independence and love.
"From this beautifully written, deeply felt book we recognize that other step toward the universal. The language begins in western territory and experience but in the hands of an artist it touches all landscapes and all life. Doig is such an artist." (Los Angeles Times)
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FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS for a one-day, Revolutionary War, driving tour along US Route 9W. US Route 9W parallels the Hudson River passing through the Palisades of New Jersey and the Highlands of New York, skirting the east side of the Catskill Mountains. The road trip traces British efforts to divide the American colonies along the Hudson River.
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Great Guidebook for educational daytrip.......2007-06-18
Detailed book that allows the reader to experience New York history firsthand. The book is small enough to be conveniently carried around town. It provides specific directions and driving instructions as well as historical anecdotes that highlight historical sites along US Route 9W and their role in the Revolutionary War.
A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 9W .......2006-11-05
Very helpful in our exploration of the Revolutionary War sites along Rt. 9W. Easy to follow.
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The United States went to war in Iraq to eliminate the threat from Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction—which turned out not to exist. As the war drags on, the strange case of the weapons that were not there remains a matter of bitter debate, for it underscores the fact that the goals and the motivations of the Bush administration officials who argued for war are still largely obscure. Yet in fact there exists crucial and little-publicized evidence that lets us understand the secretive, even deceptive, way that the the US launched a war of choice in the Middle East in March 2003.
At the beginning of May 2005, just before the British elections, the London Times published the "Downing Street Memo," the leaked secret minutes of a July 2002 meeting of senior British intelligence, foreign policy, and security officials. The memo made clear that eight months before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush had already decided on war. The British officials who attended the meeting were told that the "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," that the US wanted to avoid consulting the UN, and that few plans were being made for the aftermath of war.
Largely ignored in the US press for weeks afterward, The New York Review of Books published the memo in its entirety with an extensive commentary by award-winning journalist Mark Danner. Danner explains how the memo clarifies the broader—and largely concealed—history of the events leading up to the Iraq war. He shows that the Bush and Blair administrations advocated the resumption of UN weapons inspections as a means not to avoid war but to ensure it. Most importantly, Danner argues that in the face of the memo's clear evidence of deception, the press, public, and Congress still have not held the administration responsible.
The Secret Way to War, with a preface by by Frank Rich, includes Mark Danner's strongly argued analysis of the Downing Street Memo as well as the complete text of the memo and seven other leaked British documents. Collectively, the documents show the members of Tony Blair's government and their counterparts in Washington struggling to find legal and political rationales and strategies for regime change in Iraq.
Customer Reviews:
Concise & informative.......2007-06-06
This is a good book to read for information on the Downing Street memo--there was not enough press coverage on this, so I am glad this book was published.
If you hate your country...........2007-06-02
if you believe the worst about America, if you love believing everything critical about our nation, then Danner is the author of choice. Otherwise: Avoid this book.
The Downing Street Memo.......2006-11-07
Mr. Danner's pamphlet was easy to read, concise and informative on a subject about which all Americans should be better informed.
Creating Imperial Reality.......2006-10-04
In its June 9, 2005, issue The New York Review of Books published an article entitled "The Secret Way to War" in which Mark Danner reviewed and interpreted the recently released secret memo summarizing the main points of a meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, cabinet members, and senior government officials held at 10 Downing Street on July 23, 2002. The book reprints this article as well as critical letters by Knight Ridder Bureau Chief John Walcott and Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Kinsley with the author's response to each. The author adds an afterword and an appendix containing the full text of the Downing Street Memo and seven other British documents pertaining to it.
Danner makes three main points. First, it is clear that the Bush administration had decided to go to war with Iraq eight months before the actual March 19, 2003, attack. Second, from that point the Bush administration set out to "fix" the intelligence to build the strongest argument for war. Third, the Bush administration manipulated the weapons inspections to find a pretext for war even when claiming to use them as a way to avoid war.
Danner distinguishes between the possible reasons the Bush administration wanted to go to war with Iraq ("to remove the threat a hostile and unpredictable dictator was thought to pose . . . to the industrial world's oil supply; to foreclose the possibility of any collaboration between Saddam and al-Qaeda . . .; to do away with a regime hostile to Israel; [and/or] to begin a process of limited `democratization' in the countries of the Middle East") from the pretexts for going to war (self-defense, humanitarian intervention, or violation of UN Security Council resolutions demanding that Iraq cease its programs involving atomic, biological, and chemical weapons.)
Since Iraq clearly was not a threat to the United States and since this was not a case of humanitarian intervention, the US, with British cooperation, based its case on Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The two governments hoped that Saddam Hussein would resist inspections giving the Security Council grounds for authorizing military intervention. When Hussein surprised them by letting the inspectors in, and when the inspectors found nothing, the United States went to war before the inspectors could finish their job.
Most disturbing is Danner's comparison of Joseph Goebels to an unnamed senior advisor to President Bush. Goebels claimed there was no point in trying to convert intellectuals because they would always yield to "the man in the street." "Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology."
Speaking to a New York Times Magazine Reporter, the Bush advisor contrasted "the reality-based community" (people who believe that solutions emerge from the judicious study of discernable reality) with the way things work now. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. . .We're history's actors...and you [reality-based reporters]...will be left to just study what we do."
Danner concludes: "We live with the legacy of exaggerations and lies of the secret way to war: in the distortion of the public debate, the corruption of our politics, and the collapse of the one element essential to fighting a long and inconclusive conflict--the trust and support of the people."
Okay...a short book on the memo.......2006-07-11
This was good but I would not necessarily recommend everyone read it. You can read this in one night.
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Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon's citizens—rural and urban—would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving. The same trees that provided income to timber corporations, small mill owners, loggers, and many small towns in Oregon, also provided a dramatic landscape and a home to creatures at risk. The rivers whose harnessing created power for industries that helped sustain Oregon's growth—and were dumping grounds for municipal and industrial wastes—also provided passageways to spawning grounds for fish, domestic water sources, and recreational space for everyday Oregonians.
The story of Oregon's accommodation to these divergent interests is a divisive story between those interested in economic growth and perceived stability and citizens concerned with exercising good stewardship towards the state's natural resources and preserving the state's livability. In his second volume of Oregon's environmental history, William Robbins addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve these conflicts. Among the people who have had roles in this process, journalists and politicians Richard Neuberger and Tom McCall left substantial legacies and demonstrated the ambiguities inherent in the issues they confronted.
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- Lark Rise to Candleford (Penguin Modern Classics)
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- Marine Life of the North Atlantic, 3rd Edition: Canada to New England
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