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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Generative Preformed* Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:44 am

"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime

Structures from pure mathematics, by Plato and R. T. Curtis  —

Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

* See other "Preform" posts in this journal.

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Signage for Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:16 pm

MOM WOW

("Miniaturist of Modernism" "Windows on World")

CHAT 'N' CHILL M 'N' O

(Women's Center  Central  Intelligence)

This post was inspired by eBay —

'Body/Antibody' at eBay

Saturday, July 10, 2021

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:33 am

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C. G. Jung

Recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffé,
translated from the German
by Richard and Clara Winston, 
Vintage Books edition of April 1989

From pages 195-196:

“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
‘Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind’s eternal recreation.’*
And that is the self, the wholeness of the personality,
which if all goes well is harmonious,
but which cannot tolerate self-deceptions.”

Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
England, Penguin Books Ltd., 1959), p. 79. The original:

                   … Gestaltung, Umgestaltung, 
  Des ewigen Sinnes ewige Unterhaltung….

Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from
the realm of the Mothers (Faust Part Two, Act 1, Scene 5:
A Dark Gallery).

The speaker is Mephistopheles.

"I have too much backstory" — Bryan Cranston, 2012

Or not enough.

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Transformers Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:50 pm

“Before time began, there was the Cube.”
— Hassenfeld Brothers cinematic merchandising slogan

 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:54 pm

“Alan has transformed Blank Rome. . . .”

American Jewish Committee

Monday, November 18, 2019

Transformers: Matt Damon as Max Schnell

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 am

(As opposed to the new Ford Mustang Mach-E)

Not to be confused with …

Monday, August 12, 2019

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:11 pm

See also Dueling Formulas in this  journal.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

Autobot

or Decepticon?

  .

Monday, March 13, 2017

Pragmatism at the Church of the Transformers*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:17 pm

"I would drop the keystone into my arch . . . ."

Click the Auto Body image for some backstory.

* For the church, see Transformers in this journal.

Friday, March 10, 2017

The Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

"The transformed urban interior is the spatial organisation of
an achiever, one who has crossed the class divide and who uses
space to express his membership of, not aspirations towards, 
an ascendant class in our society: the class of those people who 
earn their living by transformation— as opposed to the mere
reproduction— of symbols, such as writers, designers, and
academics"

The Social Logic of Space ,
     by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson,
     Cambridge University Press, 1984

For another perspective on the achievers, see The Deceivers .

Related material —

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Edwin Schlossberg, 'Still Changes Through Structure' text piece

Exhibit C:

Transformers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Or:  Y  for Yale  continued

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube

See also Transformers in this journal and Y for Yale.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Transformers Meet Transformations

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:30 am

"Transformations , Anne Sexton’s 1971 collection of poems, is a portal."

— "A Poisonous Antidote," by Nick Ripatrazone, at themillions.com
      at noon on October 22, 2015

"You see, opening dimensional portals is a tricky business."

— The librarian in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," season 1, episode 2

See also Transformers in this journal.

Synchronology

"Objective Quality" in this journal on the date of the above review,
October 22, 2015, at 2:26 AM ET.

Friday, February 17, 2017

Transformers

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Accentuating the positive —

"Among Mr. Grey’s accomplishments is
the enormously lucrative “Transformers” franchise;
a new installment is scheduled for this summer."

See as well (Click to enlarge. . .

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111224-Perlis-500w.jpg

Monday, January 1, 2024

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Underlying Symbolic Structures

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:27 pm

"As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity
to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, 
The Making of Incarnation  weaves a set of stories one inside the other,
rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine."

— Amazon.com description of a novel published on All Souls' Day 
    (Dia de los Muertos), 2021.

See also the underlying symbolic structures of Boolean functions . . .
as discussed, for instance, on Sept. 23 at medium.com

Sunday, January 22, 2023

“Preform an affine transformation”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:42 pm

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Transformers  (2007)

Related literature:

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Orthogonal Latin Triangles

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:38 am

From a 1964 recreational-mathematics essay —

Note that the first two triangle-dissections above are analogous to
mutually orthogonal Latin squares . This implies a connection to
affine transformations within Galois geometry. See triangle graphics
in this  journal.

Affine transformation of 'magic' squares and triangles: the triangle Lo Shu 

Update of 4:40 AM ET —

Other mystical figures —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cold Comfort Dam

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:50 am

"And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts,
there are only good and bad things and black and white
things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

— John Steinbeck, author's epigraph to The Pearl

From the Season 4 finale of Westworld :
uploading Dolores's pearl at Hoover Dam —

For those who prefer greater theological simplicity . . .

Optimus Prime on a different Hoover Dam figure, that of 
the AllSpark: "Before time began, there was the Cube."

Simplifying even more . . .

“A set having three members is a single thing
wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them.
After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as
‘three in one’ should be child’s play.”

– Max Black, Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays
in Language, Logic, and Art
 , Cornell U. Press, 1975

IMAGE- The Trinity of Max Black (a 3-set, with its eight subsets arranged in a Hasse diagram that is also a cube)

As above, Black's theology forms a cube.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Google News Spotlight

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:44 pm

Before time began . . .

IMAGE- Massimo Vignelli, his wife Lella, and cube

Monday, January 31, 2022

The Prime Mover

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:32 pm

"Metaphor in language — the prime mover"

— George Steiner in Real Presences  (1989)
 

Not so prime —

See also the "Transformers" marketing saga.

Related marketing: 
Disney  Easter eggs

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Marking the End

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

Miller died on February 7, 2021. 
See that date in this  journal

“Before time began, there was the Cube.”
— Hassenfeld Brothers cinematic merchandising slogan.

Update at noon on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 —

Related material on Frye and deconstruction —

From "The First Major Theoretician? Northrop Frye
and Literary Theory
," by Jonathan A. Allan,
Brandon University, Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature
, March 2017, page 89 —

Towards the end of his career, when it was clear that literary theory had taken hold in the academy, Frye began to reflect on literary theory. In an interview with Deanne Bogdan, Frye laments, “I am feeling out of the great critical trends today”….  Northrop Frye was right that he was “out of fashion,” both in terms of his own theories and his place in literary theory; however, he did seek to reverse the course. Frye hoped to reclaim literary studies from deconstruction, which had become, in a sense, his chief opponent ….

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Das Nichts Nichtet

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:34 pm

Also on February Seventh

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Transformers Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:50 PM Edit This

“Before time began, there was the Cube.”
— Hassenfeld Brothers cinematic merchandising slogan

Et cetera .

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Raiders of the Lost Coordinates

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:06 pm

Variations on the title theme —

Novus Ordo Seclorum — Harold Bloom and the Tetrahedral Model of PG(3,2)

I Ching  Geometry

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:04 am

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
Hassenfeld Brothers cinematic merchandising slogan

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Appropriation Appropriates*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:29 pm

* A weblog motto. See
http://enowning.blogspot.com/
2007/07/alfred-denkers-dictionary-on-ereignis.html
.

That Ereignis  post is dated July 3, 2007.
Related material for the Church of Synchronology —

"The deepest strain in a religion is the particular
and particularistic doctrine it asserts at its heart,
in the company of such pronouncements as
‘Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.’
Take the deepest strain of religion away…
and what remains are the surface pieties — 
abstractions without substantive bite — 
to which everyone will assent
because they are empty, insipid, and safe."

— Stanley Fish, quoted here on July 3, 2007
The opening date of the film "Transformers."

The opening pronouncement of "Transformers" —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Social Logic

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:16 am
 

Friday, March 10, 2017

The Transformers

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 PM 

"The transformed urban interior is the spatial organisation of an  achiever, one who has crossed the class divide and who uses space to express his membership of, not aspirations towards, an ascendant class in our society: the class of those people who earn their living by transformation — as opposed to the mere reproduction — of symbols, such as writers, designers, and academics."

— The Social Logic of Space ,
     by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson,
     Cambridge University Press, 1984

For another perspective on the achievers, see The Deceivers .

Monday, September 2, 2019

Observables

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:56 pm

A link, observablehq.com/demo(not functioning in my Chrome
browser at the present time but apparently OK in Firefox) in the 
previous post suggests . . .

"Physically meaningful observables must also satisfy 
transformation laws which relate observations
performed by different observers in different 
frames of reference. These transformation laws are 
automorphisms of the state space, that is 
bijective transformations which preserve certain
mathematical properties of the space in question."

— Wikipedia, Observable

Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may read
"automorphisms" as "auto morphisms."

"Before time began . . . ." — "Transformers" first line, 2007

Monday, August 12, 2019

Never-Ending Toy Story

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:40 pm

" … this beautiful love story . . . ."

An image from the previous post:

The above line "From the producer of Transformers " suggests
a story from March 18, 2019 . . .

      Misreading the words of di Bonaventura
yields a phrase that might be applied to 
the Church of Rome . . .
     "A franchise based on release dates." 
See dies natalis  in this journal.

     For the Church of Synchronology, see
the above di Bonaventura date, March 18.

     Then there is the Church of Cubism . . .

     "Before time began, there was the Cube."
     — Optimus Prime, Transformers , 2007

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Art Installation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Not so useless —

The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that 
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Verbum Sat

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:07 pm

Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Related art —

Escher, 'Verbum,' detail

Click image for further details.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Time Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:02 am

The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Also Sprach Aitchison

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:48 pm

The New Yorker  reviewing "Bumblebee"

"There is one reliable source for superhero sublimity,
and it’s all the more surprising that it’s a franchise with
no sacred inspiration whatsoever but, rather, of purely
and unabashedly mercantile origins: the 'Transformers'
series, based on a set of toys, in which Michael Bay’s
exhilarating filmmaking offers phantasmagorical textures
of an uncanny unconscious resonance."

— Richard Brody on December 29, 2018

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

Some backstory — A Riddle for Davos,  Jan. 22, 2014.

Friday, December 7, 2018

An Ark for Hanukkah

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:01 am

From religionnews.com

"The word 'Hanukkah' means dedication.
It commemorates the rededicating of the
ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. . . . ."

From The New York Times  this morning —

Related material —

From this  journal on Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —

From a Google image search this morning —

The image search was suggested by recent posts tagged Aitchison
and by this morning's previous post.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Hassenfeld Legacy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:30 am

The Finkelstein Talisman —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)
 

Wikipedia on Hasbro

Three American Jewish brothers,[6] Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld[7] 
founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island in 1923 . . . .
 

The Hassenfeld Auction — 

Also on September 16, 2015 —


 

The Hindman Image —

The Hood Warenkorb —

Under the Hood —

Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —


 

This Way to the Egress —

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Sixers*

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Eric Temple Bell, 'The Development of Mathematics'

See also Solomon's  cube.

* Title suggested by a 2011 dystopian novel.

Friday, December 15, 2017

Matter

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:15 pm

The previous post, "Mind," suggests a search for "n+1" in this journal.
From that search —

The above psychoanalytic remarks suggest . . .

See also "Transformers" (2007).

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime

Friday, October 13, 2017

Speak, Memra

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 am

The above was suggested by a Log24 review of October 13, 2002,
which in turn suggested a Log24 search for Carousel that yielded
(from Bloomsday Lottery) —

See as well Asimov's "prime radiant," and an illustration
of the number 13 as a radiant prime

"The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind,
and all corrections and additions can be made
through mental rapport. There will be nothing to
indicate that the correction or addition is yours.
In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us 
together. Do you understand?"  

"Yes, Speaker!"

— Isaac Asimov, 
    Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon's Plan

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime

See also Transformers in this journal.

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Auto Detailing

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:29 am

Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —

Background from January 25, 2017

"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe 

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:01 pm

See 4x4x4 in this journal.  See also

 

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Dialogue from Plato’s Cave

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:15 am

At  scifi.stackexchange.com

Why was the Cosmic Cube named the Tesseract 
in the Marvel movie series? Is there any specific reason 
for the name change? According to me, Cosmic Cube
seems a nice and cooler name.

— Asked March 14, 2013, by Dhwaneet Bhatt
    
At least it wasn't called 'The AllSpark.' 
It's not out of the realm of possibility. 

— Solemnity, March 14, 2013

Friday, July 7, 2017

A Prime Radiant for Krugman

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:00 am

Paul Krugman:
Asimov’s Foundation  novels grounded my economics

In the Foundation  novels of Isaac Asimov

“The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind, and all
corrections and additions can be made through mental rapport.
There will be nothing to indicate that the correction or addition
is yours. In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us together.
Do you understand?”

“Yes, Speaker!”

— Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon’s Plan

Before time began, there was the Cube.

See also Transformers in this journal.

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Space, Time, Gravity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:40 pm

Or:  An Apple for Marcela

Scene from the college class Astronomy 101 in "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" (June 24, 2009) —

Professor—  "Space. Time. Gravity. " 

          (Bites apple, drops it and kicks it to students.)

Coed (catching apple)—  "Thank you."

Professor to coed—  "Finish that for me."

Professor to students—

"We're going on a journey together, you and I, today.
All you eager, nubile, young minds on the very cusp
of adulthood. And I shall be your consort, your guide,
your chaperone, into the heart of darkness."

See also Big Apple in this journal as well as a film by the artist from
the "nubile" link above

Witwiccans Go to College*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:08 am

* Title suggested by my viewing last night "Revenge of the Fallen,"
   no. 2 in the Transformers  series.  That film reportedly opened
   on this date eight years ago.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Detail for Hopkins

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:56 pm

Detail from the previous post

See Space Cross in this journal.

See also Anthony Hopkins' new film
"Transformers: The Last Knight" and
 

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

All-Spark Notes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:55 pm

(Continued)

"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."

— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday

Related material —

Dormant cube

IMAGE- Britannica 11th edition on the symmetry axes and planes of the cube

Giant, useless art installation —

Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA.  See also LeWitt in this journal.

Friday, June 16, 2017

All-Spark Notes*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:30 pm

* See All Spark in this journal.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Cultist Drama

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Rosalind Krauss on the drama of 'the cultist space of modern art'

From a post of last Friday, June 2

See also Transformers in this journal.

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

  — Transformers  (2007)

Friday, June 2, 2017

Directions

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:06 am

Click to enlarge.

See also Transformers in this journal.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Exit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Beyond All Recognition

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:45 am

Prequel —

Cube symmetry subgroup of order 8 from 'Geometry and Symmetry,' Paul B. Yale, 1968, p.21

Note that Yale's die design and use of the phrase "rigid motions"
differ from those in the webpage "Solomon's Cube."

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Transformer Group*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:45 pm

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Transformers  (2007)

Plot summary — "An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races,
the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with
a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager."

* A post suggested by J. D. Salinger's phrase "a fresh impetus"
  in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" (1955)

Friday, March 10, 2017

Highbeam Woman

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:40 am

See as well the previous post.

Monday, February 27, 2017

Logic for Jews

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:07 pm

(Continued)

Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker  today reacts to the startling
outcomes of three recent contests: the presidential election,
the Super Bowl, and the Oscar for Best Picture —

"The implicit dread logic is plain."

Related material —

Transformers in this journal and

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical.  Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”

Many Dimensions  (1931), by Charles Williams

See also

The above figure is from Ian Stewart's 1996 revision of a 1941 classic, 
What Is Mathematics? , by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.

One wonders how the confused slave boy of Plato's Meno  would react
to Stewart's remark that

"The number of copies required to double an
 object's size depends on its dimension."

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Poetic Order

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:06 pm

Transformations acting on Solomon's Cube
furnish a model of poetic order.

Some backstory for Hollywood —

Hollywood analogue to Solomon's Cube in 'Transformers'

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Pronouncements

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 am

"The deepest strain in a religion is
the particular and particularistic doctrine
it asserts at its heart,
in the company of such pronouncements as
‘Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.’
Take the deepest strain of religion away…
and what remains are the surface pieties — 
abstractions without substantive bite — 
to which everyone will assent
because they are empty, insipid, and safe."

— Stanley Fish, quoted here on July 3, 2007
The opening date of the film "Transformers."

The opening pronouncement of "Transformers" —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

Those who prefer Fish's abstractions  may consult 
the previous post.

Monday, February 20, 2017

Mathematics and Narrative

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:40 pm

Mathematics —

Hudson's parametrization of the
4×4 square, published in 1905:

A later parametrization, from this date in 1986:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110220-relativprob.jpg

A note from later in 1986 shows the equivalence of these
two parametrizations:

Narrative —

Posts tagged Memory-History-Geometry.

The mathematically challenged may prefer the narrative of the
Creation Matrix from the religion of the Transformers:

"According to religious legend, the core of the Matrix
was created from Solomus, the god of wisdom,
trapped in the form of a crystal by Mortilus, the god
of death. Following the defeat of Mortilus, Solomus
managed to transform his crystal prison into the Matrix—
a conduit for the energies of Primus, who had himself
transformed into the life-giving computer Vector Sigma."

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Fluid Requiem

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:45 am

Remarks on fluidity and lucrative ventures in
yesterday evening's post Transformers suggest
a reading in memory of a Catholic philosopher
who reportedly died yesterday at 83 —

Psalm 22:  "I am poured out like water . . . ."

Verbum

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:00 am

The Log24 version  (Nov. 9, 2005, and later posts) —

VERBUM
SAT
SAPIENTI

 

Escher's 'Verbum'

Escher's Verbum


Solomon's Cube

Solomon's Cube
 

I Ching hexagrams as parts of 4x4x4 cube

Geometry of the I Ching

The Warner Brothers version

The Paramount version

See also related material in the previous post, Transformers.

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