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The Simpsons and Carmelites

August 28, 2008 in THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS
So we managed to finish the show on time. I worked a bit of overtime. I managed to finish my scenes and was able to help out other people to complete their scenes. Around the time I was ready to go, I asked my director if there was any more work or if there was anything I could do to help before I left. There was only three scenes left out with the artists that hadn’t been turned in yet at the time but he told me to ask everyone who was working on one if they needed help. I kinda wanted to go home but I did it anyway. First person I asked, pretty much gave me a brand new scene to start on. I’d been at work for a little over eight hours at this point so it was bit annoying. Not because I had more work to do, but because I was not mentally ready to start a new scene at that moment. I took it and managed to finish it the same day anyway. It took me about three hours to do. It wasn’t horrible, just a bit annoying. At least I’ll get overtime pay for it.

Now I’m helping out on another show. I’ve found it a bit funny that this particular show has Carmelite nuns as a big plot element. It’s particularly appropriate for me, considering what I did this weekend which I talk about below.

CATHOLICISM

The Carmilite order was founded in the 12th Century by men, who had gone to Palestine from Europe either as pilgrims or as crusaders. Inspired, in part, by the Prophet Elijah they built a community of hermits on Mount Carmel near the spring called Elijah’s fountain. It didn’t take long before other pilgrim traveling in the Holy Land discovered them and joined them. Between 1206 and 1214 they received a rule from the patriarch and Papal legate Albert of Jerusalem and have been living out this Rule of Life ever since. After the Latin world lost control of Jerusalem the Carmelites where force to leave and they began to spread out through out the world. The order is till around today. The most famous Carmelites are: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and St. Therese of Lisieux. (My sources: Wikipedia, Order of Carmelites Website, Catholic Encyclopedia.)

Why am I talking about the Carmelites? Well, because this weekend, I found myself in a Carmelite run, male only, silent retreat. My dad and I went together and shared a room. It was the first time that I have ever been to a silent retreat as well as an all male one. It was amazing. Perhaps the most amazing thing of all, was how many men actually showed up to the retreat. About 70 of us.

The retreat took place at a retreat house run by Carmelite nuns. The most impressive thing about these Carmelites (besides how many they were and how happy they were) was that they still wore, more or less, the traditional habits of their order, and they were proud to wear them. I personally appreciated that very much. It was a constant physical reminder, whenever you saw them, that they had devoted themselves to something greater than themselves AND that you where somewhere Catholic. It’s not very often that you see nuns ware the older style habits. It’s very cool.

The nuns hadn’t expected so many guys to show up. In fact, they weren’t even sure if anyone would come at all. The nuns were very happy and overwhelmed by the fact that so many us did showed up . You should have heard us sing in the Chapel. We made the walls shake. It was impressive.

The retreat house was located in a small fortress of solitude in the middle of a suburban neighborhood, in the city of Alhambra, South of Pasadena. It was a beautiful garden filled place, full of trees, with small fountains spread through out the grounds and many small alcoves to hide away in. It was very well suited for the contemplative activities that we practiced through out the retreat. The retreat itself was very masculine centric. It was specifically geared to make us aware of of a few things:

Our masculinity
The attack on masculinity by our popular culture
What it means to be masculine according to the Church.
How to live out our masculinity practically in the everyday world.

If you’ve just finished reading what I wrote and frowned to yourself when I mentioned the word Masculine, then that only goes to prove that masculinity has been so attacked that it only connotes all that is bad in men. Our Retreat Master for the weekend was Rev. Brian Mullady, O.P.. (You may have seen some of his shows on EWTN). He went out of his way to let us know that, by masculinity, he did NOT mean, machismo. In fact, most of the talks we had during the retreat were about explaining to us, through the examples of St. Joseph and Jesus Christ, what true masculinity was and how it ought to be applied in our everyday life as well as our roles as fathers and husbands.

Overall the retreat was awesome. Since it was a silent retreat, this meant not only that we where suppose to be quite physically, but also mentally. We were suppose to clear our minds of all the everyday troubles and thoughts, not only to be more receptive to what was being said to us during the talks but also so we could hear what God had to tell outside of the talks.

It always surprises me how hungry I am for these kinds of experience once I’m in them. It’s like giving food to a starving child. I just can’t get enough. I couldn’t get enough from the wisdom being given to us in the talks, I couldn’t get enough praying and Mass time, I couldn’t get enough silence. I just wanted more and more. It was crazy. Even now, I all I can think about is finding a day to do it again sometime or to find time to do this on my own some how. I’m definitely thinking that next time, I’m going to a Monastery, to live as a monk for a weekend. I just need to find a monastery that will allow me to do that.

If you live in Los Angeles, California I highly recommend the Sacred Heart Retreat House.

Below are some doodles and drawings I made while I was on my retreat:

We had free time to ourselves for about two on hours on Saturday. They said we should do what we where moved to do so I chose to paint:

The finished water color painting looked somewhat like this (I say “somewhat” because the actual painting is actually brighter and more colorful than this scan. I don’t understand why the colors got dark when I turned the scan into a jpeg):

We were handed a booklet with the itinerary of the retreat. It had a few pages in that back to write personal reflections, thoughts or notes. I drew in it.

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Doctor Who drawing

August 21, 2008 in MY WEEK, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS
Okay, so, a rough cut of the clips of Homer getting hurt has already been edited together. My director Lance has been sick this last couple of days, so he hasn’t actually been to work and I’m not sure if we need anymore suggestions. I’ll update all the posts that ask for them when I find out.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on the show and I feel like I’m not going fast enough. I’ve just been given some scenes that I need to finish by Tuesday. They are very complicated, I hope I make it.

MY WEEK
My friend Aimee had a birthday the same day as my daughter. Last year I drew her a picture. This year I decided to draw her one also. A few weeks late, but it’s better late than never I suppose. After reading her Live Journal page, I realized she’s into Doctor Who, so I thought I’d draw her a picture of him. So I did:

After looking at it, I thought it would be nice to give him a digital paint job. I thought it would nice to have him in color all painted up and three dimensional looking. There was only one problem, I can’t paint. So I thought maybe I could fake it.

I took some Oil painting classes years ago. They started me off painting in only one color. That way I could, not only learn to control the paint, but also learn one of the most important things to know about painting, namely value. When you’re painting in black and white, all you’re concerned about is the separation of values so that your painting is clear and sticks out in all the right places.

At first, my paintings really stunk. The paint got all muddy on me and I had no control over it at all. My values where weak and it seemed that I never got them to separate right. In the class we where only allowed about four values. Mid-tone, lightest light, shadow, darkest dark. I got the hang of the separation after a while, though, sometimes, my dark values where too light or my mid-tones where too light, but I was slowly improving. Unfortunately, my brush strokes never really improved much. The thing is, I never got past the first few steps of the painting process they were teaching. I would set up the painting and place all the values in the right spots but I never learned what to do after that.

So here I am, years later, with this drawing I want to paint for a friend and I never learned to how to paint in color nor did I ever learn to get pasted the first steps in painting. So I thought to myself, maybe I can figure it out. So I thought, first, I should do a value pass. Paint it in black and white using Photoshop. So I started it and did what I could. I did the rough value pass using only two values (midtone and shadow), and then, I froze…I didn’t know what to do next. I just sat there and stared. I didn’t want the drawing to look like a colored animation drawing. I wanted it to look painted but I didn’t know what to do next.

After staring for a while, I decided to experiment and I started putting some reflective lights and some highlights.

I don’t think that was what I should have done. . On hindsight, now that I’m looking back on my decision, maybe I should have added the lightest light value to it, like we did in my painting class. Well, I didn’t, instead I looked at the mess I’d made and decided to add more superfluous detail by adding a core shadow to see what it looked like. While I was at it, I used the same value and darkened a lot of little spots in the drawing.

Man did I hate the way it looked. What happened to my drawing? I’d lost my way and it looked awful. I didn’t like it at all. I just sat there frustrated. I was thinking that maybe, I could add color on top of this black and white value pass, but I couldn’t see what good it would do. It wasn’t working. So then I started messing with the opacity bars on each of the layers I had put the values on, trying to find a setting that would at least allow me to see my original drawing under the mess I’d made.

It helped a little, but not much. In the end, I gave up. I’ll send her the line drawing and the last version of the tonal drawing and hope she likes it.

When I was at Comic Con this year, the booths that really made me stop and look where booths with paintings on them. I’m really interested in learning to paint this year. There are some painting DVDs out there that I want to get. There is a really expensive art school by the name of Gnomon that sells them. I’m thinking of buying a painting DVD from them, hoping that I can get a few tips from it. They’re really expensive. In order to make sure we don’t overspend, my wife and I have our own allowance for every month. I’ve already spend most of it tithing, paying for a retreat I’m going to this weekend, and small little emergency food purchases. If I have any money left over by the end of the month, I might pick a DVD up. I hope I get to, I need the help.

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Birthdays and deathdays.

August 14, 2008 in FAMILY, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Last week Father Roderick, from the Daily Breakfast Podcast and founder of SQPN (among other things), decided to go look through two seasons worth of Simpsons shows and sent me a bunch of show suggestions. (Click here to find out why he sent these in)I gave them to production as soon as I was able. For those of you who might be interested in turning some suggestions in, here are the ones Father Roderick sent in so you won’t repeat them:

Homer getting hurt in season 8:

Treehouse of Horror VII 4F02
00:02 Homer sets himself on fire while trying to light a Jack-o-Lantern
13:12 Homer gets abducted by a UFO, but they drop him
18:12 Homer gets kicked out of an election convention by security guards

The Homer they Fall 4F03
4:22 Homer gets beat up at Moe’s
9:10 Homer gets punched repeatedly in a boxing match at Moe’s
17:24 Homer gets beat up in a boxing match against Tatum

Burns, Baby Burns 4F05
18:05 Homer gets shot and dies (in what turns out to be a computer simulation)

A Milhouse Divided 4F04
11:44 Bart smashes a chair on Homer’s head while he is having a bath

Hurricane Neddy 4F07
5:25 Homer get’s almost sucked up by a tornado

El Viaje Misterioso de nuestro Jomer 3F24
5:34 Homer burns his tongue while eating super spicy chili

The Springfield Files 3G01
14:56 Homer steps into a campfire with his foot while greeting an alien

Homer vs. the 18th amendment 4F15
17:40 Homer’s beer factory blows up, Homer is on fire, rolls on grass
to extinguish the flames
19: 18 Homer tied up and to be catapulted

Grade School Confidential 4F09
1:35 Homer runs a cart into his hammock and gets stuck

Homer getting hurt in season 9:

City of NY vs H Simpson (4F22)
5:30 Young Homer gets contents of trash can dumped upon him by Woody Allen
20:51 gets hit with garbage from a sanitation car in front of him

The two Mrs Nahasapeemapetilons (5F05)
20:29 Homer gets attacked by an elephant after having eaten its peanuts.

Lisa the Skeptic (5F05)
7:09 Prehistoric Homer gets attacked by two sharks.

Reality bites (5F06)
18:00 Homer gets strangled by convict – fighting on car

Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (5F07)
2:15 Homer falls off the roof while he fixes the Xmas lights

Bart Carny (5F08)
9:28 Homer works on a fair/circus, has to sit on a high chair and when
someone hits a target with a ball, he falls in a water basin
(screaming)
18:15 Homer tries to put on his trousers in Bart’s tree hut and falls
out of the treehut (“stupid gravity!”)

The Joy of Sect (5F23)
15:27 Homer gets hit in the car by rev. Lovejoy, Willy and Marge baseball bats

Dumbbell indemnity (5F12)
12:20 Homer drives a car from a cliff into the water and sinks several times

Simpson tide (3G04)
1:08 Homer gets eaten by a donut
10:50 Homer thinks back of a moment when two toy robots beat him up.

The trouble with trillions (5F14)
5:34 Homer’s head gets stuck in closing gate of post office

Trash of the Titans (5F09)
10:46 Homer gets beaten up by security guards during a U2 concert

King of the Hill (5F16)
4:47 Homer gets egged by lots of kids
7:42 Homer hits his own head repeatedly with weights while working out.
17:34 Homer slides of a mountain backwards and hits his head a few times.

Lost our Lisa (5F17)
15:16 Homer loses control of a crane and suffers all sorts of painful
disasters while the crane goes downhill

Natural born kissers (5F18)
2:04 Homer gets hit by hundreds of forks and knives falling from a
luggage compartment in a knife.
4:34 Homer slips on some water while coming down the stairs and falls
on his back.
18:40: Homer suffers several painful moments while hanging naked on an
airbaloon.

The show is slowly getting done. Our Animatic date is August 27th and we’re now working on Act III of VI. I get the impression that we might be doing pretty well so far. I think we’ve been given some extra help from some other artists that have been put on board. Hope we can finish on time.

FAMILY

This Saturday Munchkin turned two years old. To celebrate, Alesha decided to hold a party at Chucky E. Cheese’s. If you’re not familiar with Chucky E. Cheese’s, it’s a pizza place/arcade where little kids (and big kids like myself) can spend “tokens” and play video games. There is a stage with animatronic Chucky E. Cheese characters who sing songs while videos play on monitors next to them. When we first got to the restaurant, Munchkin didn’t quite know what to make of it. She knew only one thing, the animatronic characters scared the heck out of her. I took her around the arcade while we waited for the her guests to arrive. I tried at first to get her to go on a coin operated horse, but when I put her in it, she got really sad. When it began to move after I put the money in, she started crying. Not exactly the reaction I was hoping for. I quickly took her out and had her lead me to where she wanted to go. Turns out, she wanted to get into one of the car video games. The ones you sit in with the steering wheel and pedals. At first she sat there turning the wheel but then I thought I’d put a coin in the machine. I put her on my lap played the game to see what she thought. I wasn’t sure if she liked it or not so afterward, I just let her sit there and turn the wheel again. It seemed she liked when the game moved because she motioned to me to put in another coin. We played the game a bit more and then wandered around the arcade. She began to slowly get more interested in all the coin operated “rides” when her guests finally began to arrived.

It wasn’t long before she was the center of attention and was taken from me. I didn’t mind too much since my cousin had shown up unexpectedly after he had told me he wouldn’t. We grabbed a handful of Tokens and off we went to play video games. The guests ate and went off to play games as well. Meanwhile Munchkin went around and played more video games with my parents. She finally got up enough courage to get on the coin op rides and began to have fun in them. Even my five month old son, Dante, got to go on some rides. Cutes thing ever.

Then it was time to sing Happy Birthday, Chucky E. Cheese style. It was a big performance with restaurant’s hosts and the animatronic characters as they sang along with the video monitors. At the climax of the singing Chucky E. Cheese showed up, (that is, a person in a costume dressed up like Chucky E. Cheese showed up) to sing along and hand out medals to the birthday kids. Munchkin’s cousin Cristal ran away in fear from him while Munchkin didn’t quite seem to mind as much. At least, not until he came near, then she got all freaked out and started to cry.

It seemed that, as long as he wasn’t too near, she was alright with the Chucky E. Cheese being around. The singing and the dancing, kept her distracted most of the time he was around, so it was okay. In any case, she had a great time. We cut the cake, and passed out the pieces. The cake was made by my mom. It was really good. It was a chocolate cake, I usually don’t like chocolate cake but this one was really good. As of the time of this writing, we still have cake left. There was so much left after the party. The cake was HUGE.

Afterwards my parents decided to ignore my protests and began torturing Munchkin by getting her close to Chucky E. Cheese to get her picture with him, with predictable results. I passed out some ice cream to everyone and had some myself, my cousin and I went off to play some more. We got interupted a few times for various reasons, like moving all our stuff to different tables and paying for the the party (which was expensive 🙁 ), but we played a lot of games. We even beat one of the games we played. Near the end, we ended up taking care of Munchkin again for a little while. She seemed to be very happy about being there at my party playing games. I asked my parents to get her something with some price tickets we had. I was personally trying to spend all the token we had so that I could feel like I got my money’s worth. Before we got the chance though, everyone began to leave. Including my cousin. My party was coming to an end and I hadn’t finished using all my tokens. I had to finish as soon as I could so I spent the last of the tokens playing a Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball game. Over all we all had a great time at my birthday party…uh…I mean my daughter’s birthday party (oh uh…have I been saying “my party” all this time?)

MORE FAMILY
In 1997 a family bought a Schnauzer that they discovered they couldn’t keep for whatever reason. That’s how 9th month old Louie XXV (a.k.a. Louie) came into our lives. My parents were asked if they wanted to adopt the Schnauzer and they said yes. Even though he and I had similar names, we chose not to change it. Soon after he joined our family, we wondered how we could have possibly lived without him. He accepted us as his new pack quickly enough and he was a blast to have around; he made our lives fun.

He was a very vigilant dog.

Very protective of his territory. He more than once showed his skill as a mouser by finding and killing mice that had infested our house. He was a pain in the butt to walk. Practically choking himself on the leash because he pulled ahead as if trying to run every time he was taken out. Most everyone liked him and Louie was quick to accept other people, as long he realized that they were a friend of his Pack.

Louie was with us for many many years. He saw his Pack graduate from high school and was there when we moved from one house to another. He saw us find jobs, lose jobs, deal with broken hearts, find new loves, move out (which must have made his Pack seem to dwindle), get married and he was even there to see his Pack begin to grow with new baby Pack members. Unfortunately, Louie was not able to stay with us. Little by little he began to grow sicker. He grew a tumor on his belly and he perhaps had one in his brain as well. He began to grow blind and in his last days, he shown extreme signs of dementia from the tumor in his brain. Funny enough, no matter how sick he got, he was always on the prowl for food. Something he never stopped looking for no matter what.

Louie is no longer with us. His sickness won out and finally got him only a few weeks ago. My parents house seems so lonely now and I can’t help but miss him everytime I visit. I always expect him to come running down the stairs barking at me until he recognizes it’s just me, in which case he would then jump on me and begin yipping and whining with gladness. Because I miss him, I’ve decided to put up some pictures of Louie with some of his Pack:

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Adventures at Comic Con 2008 Part 2. Good news for Rosary Army

August 7, 2008 in COMIC CON 2008, PODCASTS, RANDOM SKETCH, THE SIMPSONS NEWS

THE SIMPSONS NEWS

EDIT: (Okay, I’m keep the original post up but we are no longer accepting suggestions. Thank you all who participated. Hopefully some of your suggestions will be used when the show airs.)
First I’d like to thanks Sara J. Monge for contributing a few more show suggestions. She sent me an e-mail. She asked me if we could use more. I e-mailed her back telling her we still could. I’m not sure if she got my return e-mail though. So just in case you didn’t, thank you. I’ve already summited the suggestions to production. So that everyone knows what shows she suggested, I will repeat them here, that way everyone know what has already been suggested and there are no repeats:

The Homer They Fall– Homer is a boxer. He gets hit over and over, but doesn’t fall down (4F03).
Two Bad Neighbors-Homer fights with Pres. Bush (Sr) and also falls at the end of the episode w/ Eisenhower
Homerpalooza-Homer gets hit with Cannon Balls and an inflatable pig (3F21)
Itchy & Scratchy & Marge– Maggie hits Homer with a hammer & the red paint runs into the drain parodying Psycho. (7F09)

Had a meeting yesterday about stepping up on our work load. It seems we’re falling behind. Personally I’ve been doing well just about every week so I don’t know what the problem is.

My Director Lance brought in a sculpture of Batman he made off of a drawing my friend Paul made years ago. It turned out really great. At some point they’re going to take pictures of it and put it on Paul’s blog. When they do, I’ll let you know so you can see it. It’s great. People were going in and out of his office all day looking at it. It’s always fun to be surrounded by so many creative and talented people. You never know when they’re going to surprise you with something like that.

COMIC CON 2008

Having rid myself of the Hulk (see last week’s post), I continued on my way around the Con. Past by a booth with an interesting sculpture under glass.

Then as I went up and down more aisles, I came across two clone troopers oddly guarding a cardboard box that was labeled “George Lucas’ Good Ideas”.

When I was a kid, I always wondered why the Millennium Falcon toy wasn’t to scale with the action figures. Well, now I know.

For the second year in a row, the Dark Horse booth had a large partition with a life size line up of the characters in one of their Star Wars expanded universe comics, drawn by one of my favorite artists, Adam Hughes.

The Sideshow Collectibles booth is by far one of the best booths at the Con every year. You see all kinds of fantastic sculptures, props and things. It was amazing this year. They had life size Hellboy busts, and Ironman helmets and all kind of amazing things. There is just too much to see at the Con.

After I was done going through the whole entire floor, aisle by aisle (which took me four hours). I decided to sit down for lunch. All the seats were taken in the designated eating areas and I couldn’t find an empty spot along the walls to sit down and eat because they were also being used. After looking for a while, I finally found an uncrowded place to sit and have my lunch at.

After my lunch, I got a bit sleepy so I decided to take a nap. I had made a friend earlier in the day and he hooked me up with a place to sleep.

After my short rest, I decided to go see some panels. After all, the panels are one of the best things about the Con. That’s where you get to find out the latest news about upcoming movies and favorite Sci Fi or Fantasy TV shows. When I inspected the Con’s program guide, I discovered, to my horror, that Thursday’s panels had none of those things scheduled. All the high profile, cool panels where happening the next day and on Saturday. I was crushed. I couldn’t believe it. I was going to miss out on all that cool panels. So that really stunk. I should make sure I come on a more panel friendly day next time.

Since there was no panels to go look at, I decided I was going to go see some Anime on the screening rooms. As I walked over to them, I checked the schedule to see what was playing. I didn’t recognize any of the shows so that didn’t help much. I was in the mood for something with Sci Fi action. I went in to a screening of something that sounded promising but it was something with characters talking about relationships and it was really dull so I left that room and went to another. The other room’s movie looked like it might at least have some action in it but the characters kept stopping the action sequences to have these long monologues about something completely incomprehensible, so it didn’t keep my attention. I started trying to come up with something to do. I decided in the end that, since I was at Comic Con, I might as well buy some comics.

I went back down to the dealer’s hall, and started off on my search for some cheap trade paperbacks. I figured, since there are many comic stores selling comics there, they must have discounted trade paperbacks to compete with each other for customers. Turned out, that was not the case. Not only where the comic stores at the Con few, but there was only ONE store with trade paperbacks that were being sold at a discount. You’d think Comic Con would have more comics. I was amazed at the lack of them.

One of the comics I was looking for was The Watchmen comic. It is being turned into a movie and I wanted to re-read it. Here’s the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3orQKBxiEg

I read a friend’s copy when I was in high school and I enjoyed it, but the story was too smart for me at the time. I don’t think I truly understood it. Now that I’m older and have a point concrete world view, I’m curious to find out how I would react to it. Since I don’t own a copy, I thought I’d buy it there, since I saw so many of them earlier that day. Turned out, by the time I went to buy one, the whole Con had sold out of them for the day. I couldn’t find a copy anywhere.

In the end, after wandering around, feeling disappointed, I ended up buying House of M trade paper back written by Brian Micheal Bendis and The Settlers of Catan Card Game. The other trade paper backs I saw that I wanted, weren’t discounted enough and I figured, I could probably get a better deal on Amazon.

So I left the Con. It was 4:00pm.

On my way back to my car, I happened to pass by a large crowd taking pictures up a flight of stairs. I looked up and saw a large army of Ghostbusters getting their pictures taken.

When I got in my car, I was still disappointed about not getting the Watchmen comic, so I intended to stop off at the comic store by my house and get it there. An hour, forty minutes later, I got back to my town and drove to the comic store, only to find out, that they had run out of the comic also. Foiled again!

Not exactly the Comic con experience I was hoping for, but at least I got a few good pictures out of it.

PODCASTS

So my friends Greg and Jennifer Willits, from Rosary Army and That Catholic Show fame droped a huge bomb on all their fans on this weeks podcast: Show #238. I recommend you listen to it because it’s great the way the tell it. All I’ll say it that it involves Sirius Satelite Radio and 15 hours a week.

Congrats Guys! Sorry I didn’t draw you a picture but I found out too late in the week to meet my blog deadline.

RANDOM SKETCH

I was at work last week when I randomly started thinking about Munchkin. It made me smile and then I got this image in my head so I decided to put to paper:

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