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May 16, 2013
Brave THAT!
You know those people yelling about the "Brave" girl being prettied up by Disney? Hey - as a girl, I can tell you right now, I like BOTH versions. That's right - us girls can be the hard horse-riding bow-girl in the morning, and sparkle up for the evening parties.
Suggestion for Disney movie: That red-haired wildling has grown up, is regularly appearing before the people as a fancied-up royal adult - and then there's some crisis in which she has to get out in secret and take care of business. How does she pass in front of men used to seeing her with fabulous gowns and great makeup?
Wash her face and change her clothes.
She'll be able to walk right by any man and he'd never know her. The guards who see her every day won't know her, because men think that stuff paint on the face is REAL. She won't fool any of the women, but that's part of the plot. Or her brothers, for that matter.
Yes, guys - with us girls, it's not the hero bow girl OR the royal beauty - it's BOTH! Because we're complicated, and you wouldn't have us any other way. :DThe Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
Suggestion for Disney movie: That red-haired wildling has grown up, is regularly appearing before the people as a fancied-up royal adult - and then there's some crisis in which she has to get out in secret and take care of business. How does she pass in front of men used to seeing her with fabulous gowns and great makeup?
Wash her face and change her clothes.
She'll be able to walk right by any man and he'd never know her. The guards who see her every day won't know her, because men think that stuff paint on the face is REAL. She won't fool any of the women, but that's part of the plot. Or her brothers, for that matter.
Yes, guys - with us girls, it's not the hero bow girl OR the royal beauty - it's BOTH! Because we're complicated, and you wouldn't have us any other way. :DThe Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
May 6, 2013
Why I Write Like I Do - or, Zombies Deconstructed
This IS my normal face!Yes, I will be 'splaining why I write that way. Getting a book done when I WANT it done, and as I want it done, and you just have to Keep Up. If you're too slow, that's your problem.First of all, that's my face the way it looks now. For years that expression has scared the hell out of some people - and earned me many nervous, "Why isn't a nice girl smiling?" comments. That's just the way my face looks in repose, awright? Also, I grind my teeth, and I hold my jaw that way not to. Let's not get into the hundreds of painful hours I've spent in a dentist's chair, and why I don't want any more shattered teeth (thank you very much, rural/industrial health care of my childhood)
First of all, I've been wondering WHY the mania with alien colonization and now zombies. Now I think I've sussed it. Stay with me, here.
We've all been watching the battle of the brains all over social media - basically left vs. right, or liberal vs. illiberal, or fun vs. scared. I've been hyperlinking ideas and all of a sudden, it all fell onto a front monitor today - terms and all.
To my science and science-hag friends: YES, it's a theory (To my non-scientific friends: Look the term "theory" the fuck up and stop embarrassing yourselves).
There is an evolutionary upgrade going on in humans, from the 2-stroke antique (whose two sides could entertain two contradictory ideas at once - and actually still think that's how we define "smart") - to the 8-level modern hyperlink (I use 8 levels for convenience; it's a theory, okay?), in which all ideas are visible at once, and need to coincide.
The Antique operates on black-and-white. As in good/bad, white people/everybody else, men/women. It sees no gray. It may not be capable of seeing gray. This isn't its fault - and was probably originally perfectly complete or at least not harmful. The Antique's motto is, "God is on my side."
The Modern operates on gray (keep that word in mind). Since all ideas are visible at once, we're less capable of fooling ourselves or rejecting nonsense just to make things "fit." We often look indecisive. We're accused of being flip-floppers, because we change our minds based on the most recent information we can prove. It's why leading modern Democrats is like herding cats. We don't accept "masters" so good. Yes, we tend to be Democrats, if we're using a major political party at all, because that's the way it's developed. More girls than not are Modern - and haven't we always been accused of being indecisive? The Modern's motto is, "I'm thinking. I'm THINKING!"
Guess which level of brain looks before it leaps. It's why we dance around on top of cliff tops, chortling at the wreckage below: "We TOLD you so!" It's because we were still trying to decide while you went roaring ahead (Remember, the point guy is the one with the arrow in his forehead).
(Speaking of metaphors using arrows [Moderns can also be called Junk-brained because everything's on the screen at once} - all my First Nations friends seem to have minds using circular time. Everybody else, especially those from the original Central Asian diaspora, use linear time. While linear time is good for a deadline, to quote from the movie "Thunderheart": "White man time will give you stomach cancer." Australian Aboriginals seem to work on circular time, too - if one of you is reading this, let me know. We're just working a theory, here. Otherwise known as letting my mind drivel on through the 8 levels. Keep the "native" brain in mind, too.)
When did the Modern brain get a real boost? Moderns tend to be less violent, and perceive fewer threats, because we can think around them. Antiques are afraid of everything, especially "others" who are violent. The first victims of the Antique would be women - who were already developing the Modern to take care of their complicated world. But the Antiques, by destroying threatening, violent or upstart women, would be destroying the violent gene in their own children.
When did the Antique begin to try to explain the Modern to itself? When "logic" came about as a discipline. It was the Antique desperately trying to hammer a gray world into black and white - and often sounding extremely silly doing it.
In the past, Antiques have managed to kill off many of the Moderns. But when Europe divided soldiers from tribal warriors, it automatically took the carnage of war into the Antique population. The 19th century and especially the 20th saw the Antiques killing themselves off.
Now, of course Moderns are not threatening to Antiques. If an Antique can understand that their disappearance is good for humanity, they can calm down. They probably won't - they may not be capable of it. And they're certainly afraid of Hispanics, who are almost all part First Nations, and partake of circular time - even though people on circular time are less likely to be violent, because all things have been, will be, and are.
But the Antique fear that they are being taken over by what they perceive as a controlling intelligence - can we say "Aliens?"
Yup. And they call us "Grays," too.
They think we'll make them calm and fearless and "unemotional."
And they think we want their brains.
Pod-people. Zombies. Aliens.
And why I write the way I do. I'm a Gray.
No wonder my books - and my hyperlinking readers - scare a lot of (but fewer all the time!) people. :D
And you know it was a Modern invented this thing: () The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
March 10, 2013
So You Wanna Be A Comics Writer?
A prose writer's group asked me to write an article about getting into comics. So I wrote it. I dunno if they're going to use it or not, but it's not a paid gig, so here is is to help more prose writers, if they need it:
After a long San Diego Comicon, during the Sunday wind-down, a mother with a hopeful son approached me as a comics professional:
"My son wants to get into comics," she said. "What should I do for him?"
Pretty much wrung out after three days of marketing, I blurted, "Break his hands!'
Happily for me and her kid, they'd been around the industry long enough to recognize the reality of my comment.
Comics are hard work. They're probably the most labor-intensive art form we can successfully finish alone. The best way to get into comics, of course, is to learn to draw and write them from start to finish; that's what we call a comics author.
These days, with print-on-demand and downloads becoming simpler, cheaper and more easily organized, many comics authors are profiting quite nicely from the entire publishing process themselves.
Many people are becoming complete authors, but there's still a demand in the industry for the old-fashioned penciller/inker/letterer/colorer/writer team, especially in the old genre markets like superheroes and manga.
If you're going to write for comics, first of all attend a comics convention, the bigger the better. Look at everything and talk to everybody. Bring a big box of business cards, and no matter how good you think your memory is, write what your exchange was about, or both parties will forget it by the time you get home. There's just that much going on.
Hydrate, eat a good breakfast - you may get nothing more until supper - and learn to fish-swim through the rivers of fans (an art in itself).
Back home? Seen some books you want to write for? Learned who people are? Now it's time to get to work.
Think movie script. You're transmitting your ideas of dialog and images to another person. If you're writing licensed characters, it's like writing a Star Trek novel; you get pay, not the rights. On a comic book you get paid like the script-writer. The artist/s get paid like the actors.
The first lesson is: nobody's a mind reader. The second is: garbage in, garbage out. Artists come in at least two flavors; the ones who want you to describe every detail of every panel, and the ones who want to do the layout themselves. Too much detail just makes panels clunky. And you have to leave space for word balloons. Get some comics, and check out basic layout.
You want to become a writer for a publisher? Learning a genre and submitting scripts is the same as for any multi-level project. Each company has its own requirements. Their websites will tell you how. Nobody has time to give you the details at a comics convention. It's a trade show dealing with every level of arts, media and entertainment, and time is precious.
Of course, if all you have is a script you're probably going to end up sliding off the slush pile. A script is just a script. You need art, because the publisher isn't a mind-reader, either.
Don't try to talk some artist into working for cheap or free. Learning to be a really able artist requires thousands of hours of work and thousands of dollars in expenses. Unless you're part of a team that deeply believes in the project, that way lies fights, accusations, and a reputation as an amateur and an asshole. The artist is not lazy or feckless; you're just on the back burner because you're not paying, and somebody else is. It doesn't matter if they showed up after your project started. Artists are professionals, and while it's fun to work for the love of it - it's where the word "amateur" comes from - this is the real world, and they have a job to do.
If you've got a fat wallet, you can pay your artist without quibbling, but you still have to know if you like his or her art already. Don't demand the artist imitate a much more expensive artist, unless you're willing to pay the same fees; that's just getting copy-art for cheap. It's not going to help your reputation.
You pay up front; you're hiring the artist to do the work, not to decide if you like it or not. The usual arrangement is fifty percent up front, fifty percent upon approval.
But what if you're strapped? There's a way to get a good start. Put money together to pay well for the first pages before submitting the project to a publisher. You're acting as a small-scale producer; you have to find the funding for the film.
I can remember one young man who approached me and offered $750 for twenty pages of art. Starting at black and white for $150.00 per page and going up - he wasn't getting beyond a short story. I asked him who his dream artist would be, and if s/he was at the show. The man was. Then I asked the writer who he'd approach second, and then third. They were all at the show. I told the writer to wait until his first choice was on a break from lines of signings, then approach him politely, and offer the entire budget for one really fine color splash page.
The writer returned within the hour. His first choice worked at a higher usual page rate, so turned him down, but thanked him for the offer. The second had too much work on his plate. He got the third.
Start at the top. Offering a copy of a really top-class piece of art along with a script is going to at least let the publisher know you're serious about your project.
How many of you out there are asking what a splash page is? If you don't know, or what a Kirby grid or a signature is, or how many of them go into a comics format, then you need to google some comic book terminology. Or at least get to the largest comic book show you can find, and geek up. If nothing else, you could see Darth Maul on stilts playing a bag-pipe.*
Happy hunting!
*And yeah, it's onYouTube.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
After a long San Diego Comicon, during the Sunday wind-down, a mother with a hopeful son approached me as a comics professional:
"My son wants to get into comics," she said. "What should I do for him?"
Pretty much wrung out after three days of marketing, I blurted, "Break his hands!'
Happily for me and her kid, they'd been around the industry long enough to recognize the reality of my comment.
Comics are hard work. They're probably the most labor-intensive art form we can successfully finish alone. The best way to get into comics, of course, is to learn to draw and write them from start to finish; that's what we call a comics author.
These days, with print-on-demand and downloads becoming simpler, cheaper and more easily organized, many comics authors are profiting quite nicely from the entire publishing process themselves.
Many people are becoming complete authors, but there's still a demand in the industry for the old-fashioned penciller/inker/letterer/colorer/writer team, especially in the old genre markets like superheroes and manga.
If you're going to write for comics, first of all attend a comics convention, the bigger the better. Look at everything and talk to everybody. Bring a big box of business cards, and no matter how good you think your memory is, write what your exchange was about, or both parties will forget it by the time you get home. There's just that much going on.
Hydrate, eat a good breakfast - you may get nothing more until supper - and learn to fish-swim through the rivers of fans (an art in itself).
Back home? Seen some books you want to write for? Learned who people are? Now it's time to get to work.
Think movie script. You're transmitting your ideas of dialog and images to another person. If you're writing licensed characters, it's like writing a Star Trek novel; you get pay, not the rights. On a comic book you get paid like the script-writer. The artist/s get paid like the actors.
The first lesson is: nobody's a mind reader. The second is: garbage in, garbage out. Artists come in at least two flavors; the ones who want you to describe every detail of every panel, and the ones who want to do the layout themselves. Too much detail just makes panels clunky. And you have to leave space for word balloons. Get some comics, and check out basic layout.
You want to become a writer for a publisher? Learning a genre and submitting scripts is the same as for any multi-level project. Each company has its own requirements. Their websites will tell you how. Nobody has time to give you the details at a comics convention. It's a trade show dealing with every level of arts, media and entertainment, and time is precious.
Of course, if all you have is a script you're probably going to end up sliding off the slush pile. A script is just a script. You need art, because the publisher isn't a mind-reader, either.
Don't try to talk some artist into working for cheap or free. Learning to be a really able artist requires thousands of hours of work and thousands of dollars in expenses. Unless you're part of a team that deeply believes in the project, that way lies fights, accusations, and a reputation as an amateur and an asshole. The artist is not lazy or feckless; you're just on the back burner because you're not paying, and somebody else is. It doesn't matter if they showed up after your project started. Artists are professionals, and while it's fun to work for the love of it - it's where the word "amateur" comes from - this is the real world, and they have a job to do.
If you've got a fat wallet, you can pay your artist without quibbling, but you still have to know if you like his or her art already. Don't demand the artist imitate a much more expensive artist, unless you're willing to pay the same fees; that's just getting copy-art for cheap. It's not going to help your reputation.
You pay up front; you're hiring the artist to do the work, not to decide if you like it or not. The usual arrangement is fifty percent up front, fifty percent upon approval.
But what if you're strapped? There's a way to get a good start. Put money together to pay well for the first pages before submitting the project to a publisher. You're acting as a small-scale producer; you have to find the funding for the film.
I can remember one young man who approached me and offered $750 for twenty pages of art. Starting at black and white for $150.00 per page and going up - he wasn't getting beyond a short story. I asked him who his dream artist would be, and if s/he was at the show. The man was. Then I asked the writer who he'd approach second, and then third. They were all at the show. I told the writer to wait until his first choice was on a break from lines of signings, then approach him politely, and offer the entire budget for one really fine color splash page.
The writer returned within the hour. His first choice worked at a higher usual page rate, so turned him down, but thanked him for the offer. The second had too much work on his plate. He got the third.
Start at the top. Offering a copy of a really top-class piece of art along with a script is going to at least let the publisher know you're serious about your project.
How many of you out there are asking what a splash page is? If you don't know, or what a Kirby grid or a signature is, or how many of them go into a comics format, then you need to google some comic book terminology. Or at least get to the largest comic book show you can find, and geek up. If nothing else, you could see Darth Maul on stilts playing a bag-pipe.*
Happy hunting!
*And yeah, it's onYouTube.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
March 2, 2013
2013 Emerald City Comicon report
I'm going to be adding to this report as the weekend goes on. Mostly it's just copying from caffeinating on Facebook. There WILL be more!
First, the Drink N Draw. Yes, I'll try to find everybody's names. I'd just driven in from Clallam Bay and finished the first set-up in the Prism Booth, and then spent all afternoon promoting the Clallam Bay Comicon. Bluebear evidently feels right at home lying on everybody's art.
It's not a con until We've had Our Margarita
Prism Comic's Zan balances BlueBear.At the GayGeek party at the Raygun Club, Friday night, I vowed to have ONE drink. Hard cider. But when the barkeep hears you're the author of "The Desert Peach" and whoops, "YEAH, I'm buying!" you have another. Did I mention the mead tasting?
BlueBear Attack! That's what you get for passing mead out to everybody. On the one hand, Miss Cheap Date has to work through a bit of a hangover this morning. On the other, one does not hesitate with bus connections. I was the Queen of the Seattle Bus-hops last night... What? I wouldn't have gone partying, if I had to be at the Prism Booth any earlier than 2:30 (#1214). It let me meet or re-attach with a great bunch of people. Now who's up for R-Place tonight? :D
On the left? Yes, that IS the author of Capital HillbilliesDude came up to me, in a costume about an alternate world, said it was a "matriarchy, where the men are all chattels." Really? REALLY? Do you want to know why we roll our eyes at you? No, we would not capture you and fulfill your servant fantasies - you are all too high maintenance! We would tell you to get the hell out of the way. As in: "Hey! Put your damn warpaint and spears on, then meet that other tribe's warriors on that hill over there. We're trying to make clothes and feed the kids, here." Well, d'uh. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
First, the Drink N Draw. Yes, I'll try to find everybody's names. I'd just driven in from Clallam Bay and finished the first set-up in the Prism Booth, and then spent all afternoon promoting the Clallam Bay Comicon. Bluebear evidently feels right at home lying on everybody's art.
It's not a con until We've had Our Margarita
Prism Comic's Zan balances BlueBear.At the GayGeek party at the Raygun Club, Friday night, I vowed to have ONE drink. Hard cider. But when the barkeep hears you're the author of "The Desert Peach" and whoops, "YEAH, I'm buying!" you have another. Did I mention the mead tasting?
BlueBear Attack! That's what you get for passing mead out to everybody. On the one hand, Miss Cheap Date has to work through a bit of a hangover this morning. On the other, one does not hesitate with bus connections. I was the Queen of the Seattle Bus-hops last night... What? I wouldn't have gone partying, if I had to be at the Prism Booth any earlier than 2:30 (#1214). It let me meet or re-attach with a great bunch of people. Now who's up for R-Place tonight? :D
On the left? Yes, that IS the author of Capital HillbilliesDude came up to me, in a costume about an alternate world, said it was a "matriarchy, where the men are all chattels." Really? REALLY? Do you want to know why we roll our eyes at you? No, we would not capture you and fulfill your servant fantasies - you are all too high maintenance! We would tell you to get the hell out of the way. As in: "Hey! Put your damn warpaint and spears on, then meet that other tribe's warriors on that hill over there. We're trying to make clothes and feed the kids, here." Well, d'uh. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
February 24, 2013
Paper Dolls In My Books
Thank you, the paper-doll-collecting reader who asked for them. If you go to Indyplanet, these are the issues with paper dolls in them:
Desert Peach #8 Rosen (Reprint inside back).
Desert Peach #16 Chaplain Stange (Reprint behind main story)
Desert Peach #17 Peach and Udo FULL COLOR (Reprint inside front and inside back) AND Barb Rausch's Udo-and-Falila paper dolls on every single story page, including the two of them in their adorable all-to-gethers.
Stinz #18 Baronin FULL COLOR (Reprint outside back)
Stinz #19 Kilan FULL COLOR (Reprint outside back)
There's a paper coll of Udo somewhere, but I dunno if it's in one of the reprints. I searched through all the reprints, but I may not have put it into any of the books. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
Desert Peach #8 Rosen (Reprint inside back).
Desert Peach #16 Chaplain Stange (Reprint behind main story)
Desert Peach #17 Peach and Udo FULL COLOR (Reprint inside front and inside back) AND Barb Rausch's Udo-and-Falila paper dolls on every single story page, including the two of them in their adorable all-to-gethers.
Stinz #18 Baronin FULL COLOR (Reprint outside back)
Stinz #19 Kilan FULL COLOR (Reprint outside back)
There's a paper coll of Udo somewhere, but I dunno if it's in one of the reprints. I searched through all the reprints, but I may not have put it into any of the books. The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
February 4, 2013
WHO is that man, anyway?
EVERYBODY keeps saying Dr. Who ripped off Rosen in The Desert Peach, with a character named "Jack Harkness."
While I know my biggest fan base is my peers, the Pilot Who Shags Everybody And Everything has been around since - well, cavalry officers. BlackAdder has their own version in the World War One episodes. Red Dwarf has the alternate Rimmer. The Brits in particular do it well. Woof.
Now, in my case, Rosen is based on a boyfriend I had in the army, who actually DID introduce himself with outspread arm wings as "Hi! It's me - Old Crash-and-Burn!" Who looked pretty much like Rosen (I go for guys who look like Dad, with the black hair and blue eyes. Oh, what? We like our own genes).
I've never watched more than a couple of episodes of the old Pertwee Dr. Who, and it didn't quite push my buttons. But one of my readers sent me a link to a funny Jack Harkness montage on YouTube.
It's pretty funny. You will giggle.
I dunno if I'll ever be a Dr. Who fan, but this makes me think it would be fun to see if the library has later versions of the series. The other actors are pretty funny, and the robot ladies are cool, in a retro Richard Lester way.The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
While I know my biggest fan base is my peers, the Pilot Who Shags Everybody And Everything has been around since - well, cavalry officers. BlackAdder has their own version in the World War One episodes. Red Dwarf has the alternate Rimmer. The Brits in particular do it well. Woof.Now, in my case, Rosen is based on a boyfriend I had in the army, who actually DID introduce himself with outspread arm wings as "Hi! It's me - Old Crash-and-Burn!" Who looked pretty much like Rosen (I go for guys who look like Dad, with the black hair and blue eyes. Oh, what? We like our own genes).
I've never watched more than a couple of episodes of the old Pertwee Dr. Who, and it didn't quite push my buttons. But one of my readers sent me a link to a funny Jack Harkness montage on YouTube.
It's pretty funny. You will giggle.
I dunno if I'll ever be a Dr. Who fan, but this makes me think it would be fun to see if the library has later versions of the series. The other actors are pretty funny, and the robot ladies are cool, in a retro Richard Lester way.The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
January 19, 2013
Back-Dooring Amazon
Anybody who has worked with me knows I know how to back-door the system (thank you, U.S. Army).If all us POD or direct-publisher authors go on Amazon, and in the reviews point out which ones make US money and which ones only make collectors money, sooner or later Amazon will cordon those off automatically.
I WON't do this is I no longer have the books - but BUY FROM THE AUTHOR FIRST.
This isn't to run the collectors out of business. It's to make sure the authors get paid first. In the long run, this can only be good for the collectors, because the authors will be able to produce more books to sell.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
January 15, 2013
It's Legal Now
Of course, we have a New Freedom up here in Washington State, so the Logo has been changed to reflect the law. However, even our friend See See knows that - while comics are for everybody - not everything is.We haven't got a liquor license for the convention, unlike San Jose's Alternative Press Expo.
We do, however, have lovely long beaches and woods. It's part of the charm of the convention.
Convention Facebook Page.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
December 5, 2012
Make your own Sunturn card
Hi, folks! The annual holiday card. I say "Sunturn" because Dan is such a Sun Pagan he counts the extra minutes every day, whether less before the Solstice, or more afterwards. But you can use it for any holiday that has pretty lights. Which is most of 'em, I think.
Download the jpegs. Print one page each reversed, and then use as a card AND an envelope. It's pretty simple to do. You don't have to worry about which way each side goes; it works no matter how you do it.
Card itself. Just fold it up 1/2-way across the width, then half-way across the length.
Envelope. Reverse the card and fold it the same way.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
Download the jpegs. Print one page each reversed, and then use as a card AND an envelope. It's pretty simple to do. You don't have to worry about which way each side goes; it works no matter how you do it.
Card itself. Just fold it up 1/2-way across the width, then half-way across the length.
Envelope. Reverse the card and fold it the same way.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
Apothacarium Swapmeet
Should have posted before this about:
2012: Apothacarium Swapmeet, Nov 25, 1:00 pm, 1300 Water Street, Port Townsend, WAIt was a nice little show, with a lot of fun people, including Your Mom Comics and Neoglyphic Media. Sales weren't hot, but there was a lot of potential for show growth. Had a lot of fun getting to talk to My Peeps in Our Language.
Neoglyphic Media, obviously!Easy to get to, with access parking. Admittedly, the only place to eat was a Subway, but their crew was supportive of the show.The day before, Dan and I had gone down to Port Angeles to see the new movie, "Lincoln." While waiting, we wandered the farmer's market at the bus terminal. Got to talking to the organization that runs farmer's market. At least one of their people was so jazzed by the idea of comics shows locally, she left her table to hunt me up after I'd left it and continue the discussion. More and more people out here are realizing it doesn't take an army of minions to run a comics show, and that there are many different ways of doing it.The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
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