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In Städsbørough to present a paper on The Master’s influence upon their practice, two workers attempt to make multiple rendezvous throughout the week from 27 Apr to 03 May 2009. Both newbies in the city and armed with incomplete and nonobjective maps, the workers schedule meetings at what would be a city’s archetypal points of interest:

church
library
park
‘the’ plaza
train station
market
museum
coffee shop

Following their failures to meet, they hurl accusations and they draw upon memories and accumulated artifacts – each adamant to prove he had been in the right place at the agreed upon time – which results in the mapping of a new city: a topography of a pwong city.



john
13h12m15
01.Oct.2008

ha! you read both ‘topography’ and ‘passing time’ right? maybe we should just put links to the powell’s site for those two books on our calendar?


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ashley
13h42m10
01.Oct.2008

would we still need to produce dwgs?


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ashley
13h51m42
01.Oct.2008

i can’t find either of them ‘reviewed’ or whatever on powell’s, so i don’t know how we’d earn off that plan, anyway.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2963301.Passing_Time

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107087.Topology_of_a_Phantom_City


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ashley
17h42m33
01.Oct.2008

slow start.

church am

i warned you it would end up looking like this.


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john
17h46m22
01.Oct.2008

hmm… i have two options, i will post them both directly.


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john
17h54m48
01.Oct.2008

physical evidence

the work.group

photographic evidence
the work.group

what are we doing again?


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ashley
18h32m08
01.Oct.2008

we are going to do shit like this 7 more times then tape them together next to a pill-a-day box.


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ashley
18h33m56
01.Oct.2008

whatever method you are using to post images in the comments seems to be hosed. i don’t even want to bother with trying to find the problem right now, so. for the foreseeable future, i will just manually edit any broken image posts…alone.


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ashley
18h53m06
01.Oct.2008

updated church image to note location of p/3


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john
09h37m54
02.Oct.2008

ok, i tried a 3rd time. i think this will be my process for the rest of them.

the work.group


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ashley
11h25m44
02.Oct.2008

is that the church still? how many ‘images’ are we producing per archetype?


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ashley
11h29m51
02.Oct.2008

is today ‘library’?


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john
16h14m10
02.Oct.2008

that is still the kirk… today is bibliotech!


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john
09h39m35
03.Oct.2008

have we gone off the rails so quickly?

breuer library

the work.group


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ashley
09h45m06
03.Oct.2008

off the rails

does that mean we are working on train station next?


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john
13h26m36
03.Oct.2008

i just came from a park, so it had better be park.


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john
14h27m48
03.Oct.2008

park


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john
14h35m31
03.Oct.2008

wtf?


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ashley
14h53m54
03.Oct.2008

shit.
when you use the new method of posting images (below comments), you need to add the ‘category’ in the 1st box and the image name in the 2nd.
in the case of your previous comment, it would be ‘news’ then ‘ah_park_1′


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john
15h08m10
03.Oct.2008

jc.


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ashley
15h12m03
03.Oct.2008

just do it!


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john
15h12m06
03.Oct.2008

i tried to fix my church image now it is fucked too.


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ashley
15h18m54
03.Oct.2008

i had already ‘fixed’ that one


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john
15h33m17
03.Oct.2008

sorry, i think it is really fucked now. where are your pictures!?


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ashley
15h39m29
03.Oct.2008

keep your knickers on, i am about to try this new system myself.


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ashley
15h41m12
03.Oct.2008

this is the worst.

lame.


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ashley
15h42m45
03.Oct.2008

wtf is happening. why do images show up in the ‘bric-a-brac’ entry but not here??


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ashley
15h43m28
03.Oct.2008


test


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ashley
15h52m10
03.Oct.2008

ok, i guess ppress converts hyphens to underscores. i’ll stop using them (-) in my image names.


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john
15h54m31
03.Oct.2008

was the lame one the library you visited?


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ashley
15h55m23
03.Oct.2008

the dwg.


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john
16h20m49
03.Oct.2008

the lame drawing?


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ashley
16h23m05
03.Oct.2008

yes, the ‘drawing’ is lame. this is the worst thing of which i have ever been a part.


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john
16h36m57
03.Oct.2008

wow! yeah, i guess you never participated in ‘trio.’


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ashley
17h21m55
03.Oct.2008

tomorrow will be a lot better.


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john
19h26m34
04.Oct.2008

piazza


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john
19h28m15
04.Oct.2008

holy fuck, this image upload is impossible!!!


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ashley
02h34m43
05.Oct.2008

it appears that you figured it out?


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ashley
09h32m30
05.Oct.2008

maybe not today.


park.


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john
10h16m47
05.Oct.2008

is sweden ahead in time or behind?!


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ashley
12h08m35
05.Oct.2008

i think they are a day behind?
should i do something for plaza?


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john
13h04m40
05.Oct.2008

i dont care. i wont be getting to the train until tomorrow, so i guess i will take the day off.


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john
13h19m38
06.Oct.2008

treno!


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john
13h42m00
06.Oct.2008

mercado.


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ashley
14h05m21
06.Oct.2008

i think there are 7 images, so we are done now?


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ashley
14h14m16
06.Oct.2008

place.


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john
14h15m37
06.Oct.2008

i have to do the museum tomorrow, then i will be done.


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ashley
14h23m28
06.Oct.2008

f! can you go to a cemetery instead?


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john
14h29m15
06.Oct.2008

hmmm… does mlk’s corpse count as a cemetery?


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ashley
14h52m31
06.Oct.2008

is that place even a museum? maybe there was some sculpture or a painting in the cemetery i visited.


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john
14h56m00
06.Oct.2008

i wasnt going to go there for a museum. i was going to go there if you were switching to a cemetery. museum is fine with me. maybe if i wait until wednesday i can go to the kimball in ft worth…


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john
17h14m18
06.Oct.2008

oi! oi! oi!


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ashley
18h08m30
06.Oct.2008

i hope you don’t have a screen grab of me throwing an orange traffic cone into a girl’s head at point blank range.


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john
22h20m05
06.Oct.2008

i wonder if daly+genik have any staff photos like that on their website?


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ashley
04h40m11
07.Oct.2008

cementerio museo


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ashley
04h50m48
07.Oct.2008

jx, this is the worst set of ‘work’ i have ever done – at least since birnbeck.


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john
07h12m32
07.Oct.2008

so what are we doing with all of this shite?


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ashley
08h06m49
07.Oct.2008

are you all done w/ yours? i have train and market left.

i guess we are going to merge the fragments into a single map? maybe your images can serve as 3d thumbnails similar to those that appear on the tourist maps that you like.

the background will be cafe au slait, i suppose, and the dates will be set in Wilhelm Klingspor.


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ashley
08h12m19
07.Oct.2008

item.


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ashley
09h32m16
10.Oct.2008

mercat.


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ashley
12h29m27
10.Oct.2008

Bahnhof


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ashley
12h29m43
10.Oct.2008

fuck it.


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john
17h04m16
11.Oct.2008

ok, ill be back on this monday, something came up.


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ashley
11h03m31
12.Oct.2008

take your time, sire.


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ashley
16h38m40
13.Oct.2008

i’ve tried to bring all my dwgs into uniformity w/ your vision; here are some thumbnails of the ‘final’ versions. i have some tifs i can send to you or upload so they can be put on that a4 or d4 thing.


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john
09h29m34
16.Oct.2008

museo


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john
08h55m26
20.Oct.2008

ok, so wong gave us a few more days. what are we doing with all of this?


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john
10h54m41
21.Oct.2008

you only posted 6 final images?


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ashley
11h40m34
21.Oct.2008

i forgot to post museum. i will work out the final version of that piece asap. my access to the internet is dodgy; do you want me to put all of these on the same file so you can type the dates on it and submit it?
or what are we doing w/ these?


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john
11h44m51
21.Oct.2008

i have started a file but havent done anything with it, do you want to maybe post some handwritten titles or notes for your pieces?


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ashley
11h46m03
21.Oct.2008

yes, i want to do that.
what does that mean?


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john
11h54m24
21.Oct.2008

i dont know, i am trying to make it feel like we tried to hook up in situ and were scrambling to find each other, maybe leaving each other notes or something?


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ashley
12h08m13
21.Oct.2008

‘dude, where were you? i was sitting right under the heat lamp, directly opposite a blonde girl in a plaid miniskirt. when she left w/ a fauxhawked toolbag, i gave up and left, too.’


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ashley
13h20m35
21.Oct.2008

what are the dimensions of your ‘file’?


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john
13h21m03
21.Oct.2008

heatlamp? wtf were you, on a buffet?


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john
13h21m54
21.Oct.2008

a5, portrait, 300ppi.


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john
13h54m47
21.Oct.2008

if i am starting the file i will need your tifs i think, or are we starting separate files?


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ashley
14h17m22
21.Oct.2008

ok, i am sending a large tif w/ all the stations on it to that wrk.grp gmail address


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ashley
14h22m27
21.Oct.2008

nevermind that; i am ftp’ing it to the transfer folder.


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ashley
14h36m03
21.Oct.2008

there is a file in the transfer titled ‘calendarB.tif’, but you don’t have to use it.


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john
13h08m43
22.Oct.2008

i have dl’d the file and made some hand drawing over mine, but i am not sure how you think the should come together, have you concocted a geography of your icons in a file that i can overlay onto mine?


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ashley
09h40m41
23.Oct.2008

can i do that w/o a scanner and internet access?

in that file, each ‘archetype’ is on a different layer (some were folders if they could not be flattened properly). they were not arranged or sized an any determined manner; i trust you will manipulate them perfectly.


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john
09h45m30
23.Oct.2008

ok. i am all over it


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ashley
09h50m55
23.Oct.2008

if you can tell me what to do today/tonight, i can work on it and post something in the morning. i can’t upload shit at ‘home’ currently.


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ashley
09h51m37
23.Oct.2008

by which i mean friday morning.


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john
09h58m08
23.Oct.2008

i will try to do something quick in sketch form and post for your review.


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john
10h44m15
23.Oct.2008

terrible


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ashley
10h49m15
23.Oct.2008

hmm, maybe i will take a crack at it this afternoon.


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ashley
10h58m31
23.Oct.2008

i don’t understand why you have dozens of copies of each image on the site, but i will d/l them and see if i can ‘help’ w/ your sketch


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ashley
08h46m01
24.Oct.2008

do we have to do this?


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john
08h48m50
24.Oct.2008

i will just send out what we have.


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ashley
08h49m53
24.Oct.2008

don’t!


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john
08h52m06
24.Oct.2008

what are your thoughts?


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ashley
08h55m37
24.Oct.2008

i’m currently taking a stab at a version of your image titled ‘terrible’.


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ashley
11h02m12
24.Oct.2008

jx, this is embarrassing.


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john
11h05m21
24.Oct.2008

yeah, wtf is all my stuff? it is easy to do it with one set.


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ashley
11h08m08
24.Oct.2008

it is too hard to include your dwgs; it looks bad enough w/ just this shit.


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ashley
11h48m29
24.Oct.2008

quit your whiiiiiinin’; i added a couple of your things to the previous image.

what should we do?


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john
12h39m06
24.Oct.2008

send it!


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ashley
13h28m52
24.Oct.2008

ok, look for ‘calendarC.tif’ in the transfer.
good luck!


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ashley
13h36m12
24.Oct.2008

wait


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ashley
13h44m13
24.Oct.2008

ok


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john
13h59m51
24.Oct.2008

is it done?


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ashley
14h13m17
24.Oct.2008

no, you need to add your 5 bldgs, then fix it.


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john
14h32m10
24.Oct.2008

jc


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ashley
14h44m06
24.Oct.2008

how is it going?


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john
14h49m47
24.Oct.2008

i havent touched it.


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john
14h52m53
24.Oct.2008

you already have some of my images in here?


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ashley
14h56m09
24.Oct.2008

quit your whiiiiiinin’; i added a couple of your things to the previous image.

what should we do?


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john
15h01m10
24.Oct.2008

jc, i already drew my map thing.


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ashley
15h04m08
24.Oct.2008

this thing?
if so, i guess just submit that after taking my name off if it.

if not, can you just paste your ‘drawing’ on top of the file i sent?


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john
15h05m26
24.Oct.2008

ok.


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john
15h26m01
24.Oct.2008


ashley
17h20m22
24.Oct.2008

looks pretty good except for those stupid blue lines everywhere.

are the dates visible? it doesn’t matter if they are.


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ashley
17h29m03
24.Oct.2008

oh:

1. Population density (inhad/sqkm) – 2, i guess?
2. average rent per sqm – prepare for compulsory liquidation
3. distance to city center (km) – from where?
4. major plus – heat lamps, girls in plaid skirts
5. amount of recommendable bars – http://www.cafetableaux.com


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john
22h45m28
24.Oct.2008

word, is that for stadtsboro?


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ashley
09h24m45
25.Oct.2008

yes, if you have other data, you can splice it in. i don’t know if she expects this to be true; maybe ‘girls on bikes’ is more accurate.


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john
16h26m18
25.Oct.2008

your answers seem adequate.


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ashley
14h30m16
01.Nov.2008

what happened with this?
did we win anything?


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ashley
17h45m58
18.Dec.2008

do you know if the press release for this thing’s unveiling has been sent?


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john
17h55m50
18.Dec.2008

eesh! i think it needs to keep its veil on.


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ashley
18h05m47
18.Dec.2008

Word of the Day for Thursday, December 18, 2008

hackneyed \HAK-need\, adjective


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