41. Julie R. Enszer: Even Donald Hall Votes Even donald hall Votes. Read what he has to say about it in the New York Times, Snow Falling on The donald hall Standard July through December 2. http://julierenszer.blogspot.com/2008/01/even-donald-hall-votes.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Julie R. Enszer The personal blog of Julie R. Enszer, a poet, writer, and lesbian activist. Covering a variety of topics but especially contemporary poetry, LGBT activism, and queer analysis. For more information about her work visit, www.JulieREnszer.com Thursday, January 10, 2008 Even Donald Hall Votes Read what he has to say about it in the New York Times, Snow Falling on Voters Posted by Julie R. Enszer at 2:27 PM comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Links Julie R. Enszer's Home Page CIVILesbianIZATION Columns Me on Facebook! Me on MySpace! ... Sidestepping Real by Ren Powell Blog Archive January Dear Kay Ryan Cath Elliott on "designer vaginas" Op-Ed in Baltimore Gay Life: Calculating the Value... ... April About Me Julie R. Enszer The personal blog of Julie R. Enszer, a poet, writer, and lesbian activist. Covering a variety of topics but especially contemporary poetry, LGBT activism, and queer analysis. For more information about her work visit, www.JulieREnszer.com

42. Cricket Hall Of Fame: Sir Donald Bradman And W.G Grace This website has detailed descriptions of the best cricket players that have ever lived plus photos and links. It includes Bradman, Grace, Sobers, Pollock, http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/3766/

Sheranga's Cricket Hall of Fame Contents MORE COMING SOON! The cricketers are in no particular order. To view the images seperately, click on the image with your right mouse button and view it as a jpg or gif file. SIR DONALD GEORGE BRADMAN COUNTRY-AUSTRALIA BORN-AUGUST 27th 1908 Born in the small town of Cootamundra, NSW, Sir Donald George Bradman is undisputedly the greatest batsman of all time. His test average of 99.94 is head and shoulders above anyone else. The next closest is C.S Dempster with a meagre 65.72! As a young boy, Don would throw a golf ball against a water tank and hit it at various angles. This sharpened his hand to eye co-ordination and would serve a greater purpose in years to come. At the age of seventeen Don played his first serious competitive game for Bowral (where he had moved to in 1911). He made 234 and immediately impressed. He was soon picked for the St George team and in 1928 was picked for New South Wales for which he made 118 on debut under oppressive conditions. After making three first-class centuries, Bradman was picked for the Ashes side in 1928/29. His first test was a flop and subsequently he was dropped for the next test. He made a return in the third test making 79 and 112. Australia lost the series but they were looking forward to the 1930 tour with Bradman in ominous form. In the fifth test he made 123 and had made a further nine first-class centuries. This inlcuded a 340 and a world record 452. At this time he moved to Sydney for business commitments.

43. Dana Gioia Online - Donald Hall A 1994 review of donald hall s autobiographical Life Work, by Dana Gioia. http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ehall.htm

Essays Index Reviews and Author's Notes W. H. Auden Anthony Burgess Charles Causley Anton Chekhov ... Richard Wilbur American Poetry "Can Poetry Matter? "Notes Toward a New Bohemia" "What is Italian-American Poetry?" Literature in California "Literary L.A., with No Apology" "Fallen Western Star" "On Being a California Poet" Poetry and Business " Being Outted" "A Spy in the House of Commerce" "Lonely Impulse of Delight" ... "Sotto Voce: The Libretto as Literary Form" Fine Press Printing and Manuscripts "Designing Literature: Creative Collaboration" "The Hand of the Poet: The Magical Value of Manuscripts" "Drama at the Opera House" "Glass Appeal: Philip Glass's Film Scores" ... rs' Fat Men" Work, for the Night is Coming A review of Life Work by Donald Hall Beacon Press. 132 pp.

44. Donald Bren Hall, Donald Bren School Of Environmental Science & Management Because of the timing and the nature of the fourth floor addition project, it was developed in a differently from the rest of Bren hall; little attention http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/mixedmode/bren_hall.html

Project List Chicago Center for Green Technology Carnegie Institute for Global Ecology Chesapeake Bay Foundation Hewlett Foundation ... Gap 901 Cherry General Information Location Santa Barbara, CA Owner University of California, Santa Barbara Architect Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership Engineer Structural - KPFF Completed January 2002 Building Use Academic, Assembly Size 84,672 SF Stories Four Cost Occupancy Relevant codes UBC Mixed Mode System Mixed Mode Strategy Bren Hall uses a concurrent system; laboratories and rooms at the building core are air conditioned while offices and other perimeter spaces are naturally ventilated. The building is formed from two wings, one primarily of offices and one primarily of laboratories, that create an exterior courtyard between them. There are two subgroups of naturally ventilated spaces: rooms in the four-story office wing that were explicitly designed to be naturally ventilated and rooms on the fourth floor of the laboratory wing that were added into the design at the last minute. The laboratory building was originally scheduled to be three floors; the Chancellor added a fourth floor, out of a separate budget, late in the design process in order to provide surge space for different departments around campus. Natural Ventilation Details Because of the timing and the nature of the fourth floor addition project, it was developed in a differently from the rest of Bren Hall; little attention was paid to the design of the natural ventilation system. Unlike rooms in the office wing, the design team did no flow modeling or calculations.

45. Hall, Donald (Harper's Magazine) by donald hall Readings/Poem, December 1997, 4 pp. Purpose, blame, and fire by donald hall Article, May 1991, 6 pp. Edward s anecdote. by donald hall http://www.harpers.org/subjects/DonaldHall

HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Hall, Donald WRITER OF 8 Articles from 1985 to 1999 6 Poems from 1955 to 1997 SUBJECT OF 3 Articles from 1986 to 1991 3 Reviews from 1961 to 1979 CONNECTIONS HAS BORN DATE HUMAN BEINGS Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg, Janet Aliki Ancona, George ... Five poets dine out on verse by Donald Hall Cynthia Huntington Paul Muldoon Heather McHugh , and Charles Simic Article, September 1999 , 13 pp. A long illness by Donald Hall Readings/Poem, December 1997 , 4 pp. Purpose, blame, and fire: An eight year old's introduction to war horror by Donald Hall Article

46. MPR: Donald Hall Reflects On His Life Of Poetry donald hall is considered one of America s greatest poets. He s published 15 volumes of poetry. The two most recent works, Without and The Painted Bed, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2005/01/21_extra_donaldhall/

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47. Donald Hall Criticism (Vol. 151) donald hall Criticism and Essays. donald hall With Liam Rector (Interview Date January–February 1989) Bill Christopherson (Review Date Winter 1990) http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/hall-donald

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Donald Hall Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Donald Hall 1928- (Full name Donald Andrew Hall, Jr.) American poet, essayist, memoirist, children's writer, short story writer, editor, playwright, and critic. The following entry presents an overview of Hall's career through 1999. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes 1, 13, 37, and 59. INTRODUCTION Hall is considered by many to be among America's greatest living poets. He achieved success early in his career, with his poetry collection Exiles and Marriages (1955), and his reputation as a poet has steadily increased over time. His later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career, and some consider it the best of his generation. Critics have compared Hall with such poets as Robert Bly, James Wright, and James Dickey, who favor simple, direct language combined with surrealistic imagery. Hall is also a respected essayist, educator, and editor, and his thoughtful prose—like his carefully crafted poetry—is widely praised for its clarity and integrity. Biographical Information Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut, a middle-class suburb of New Haven, in 1928. He often spent summers at his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire, and his memories of this time and of the rural landscape figure prominently in his poetry and children's literature. Hall attended Phillips Exeter Academy and later attended Harvard University, where he received his bachelor of arts and socialized with fellow poets John Ashbery, Robert Bly, and Adrienne Rich. After receiving a second bachelor's degree from Oxford in 1953, Hall became a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows. It was during this period in which Hall published

48. Donald Hall: Still Dead- Dan Schneider A 21 page essay praises the poets born in the 1920s hall, donald; American poetaster, b. 1928, d. ; is it too cruel to hope for an emergent past tense http://www.cosmoetica.com/D12-DES11.htm

On American Poetry Criticism; PART 7: A Double Dose Of Dismal Donny Dope! or Carlton Fisk’s Baleful Influence On American Poetry Criticism by Dan Schneider, 2/1/02 Bonus: Make It A Triple- For Free! here Principal Products of Portugal . The 2 nd is a book of essays edited by him called Claims for Poetry - it is a 500+ page atrocity that reveals not only the man’s utter lack of editorial skill, his own terrible prosifying, but the near total lack of intelligent thinking- flat out thinking! his prose is even worse st For those unfamiliar with DH, the best point of reference might be to compare this Dead White Male (DWM) with a Dead Black Female (DBF) he shares surprisingly alot with- of course, I mean the ubiquitous Oprah-fed Principal Products of Portugal is a vibrant testament to the substance of a writer’s experience .And what [Hall] has done, and continues doing, enhances the life of his readers.”- Robert Taylor, Boston Globe ***This is a generic blurb- the 1 st part says something that applies to every aspect of every artist’s work- good or bad- so it is beyond question truthfully. The query is really

49. Poetry Daily Prose Feature - David Hamilton: On White Apples And The Taste Of St One night almost a year ago, two days home from having read in the International Herald Tribune of donald hall s appointment as Poet Laureate, my wife asked http://www.poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_dhamilton.php

On White Apples and the Taste of Stone Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by David Hamilton The Iowa Review , Spring 2007 One night almost a year ago, two days home from having read in the International Herald Tribune of Donald Hall's appointment as Poet Laureate, my wife asked about Hall's work, what was special about it? She remembered his visit several years earlier and having sat with Jane Kenyon, talking about depression and marrying older men. Hall's jacket photos, she says, are those of a satyr, which she means as a compliment, not only to Hall but to Kenyon. So I read her passages from "Her Long Illness," of their getting the bad news and working on Otherwise —"Wasn't that fun? / To work together?"—then a page or so later, "No more fucking." How great, Rebecca said, to have our laureate put "fucking" in a poem. "In several," I replied, remembering also that he had once reported Jane's lament in a letter. Hall has been an occasional contributor from before my time with this magazine, and Kenyon has appeared here several times too, starting with "American Triptych," which entered her first collection and was one of my first choices thirty years ago. One image in it, "the repeated clink of a flagpole / pulley in the doorway of a country store," still fixes our winters for me. Hall had been a senior colleague at Michigan and I'd known the two of them slightly. So my tentative letter a couple of years later when I sought a point of view from beyond Iowa City. It drew a surprisingly rapid reply—I had no idea Hall was an avid correspondent—then for years our letters sallied back and forth, filling several folders.

50. Donald Hall: An Advocate For The Understanding Of Poetry | Csmonitor.com The US poet laureate s desire to help others understand poetry motivates him to speak around the country. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0417/p13s02-bogn.html

Special Offer: Subscribe to the Monitor and get 32 issues FREE! World USA Commentary ... Multimedia Search: Donald Hall: an advocate for the understanding of poetry The US poet laureate's desire to help others understand poetry motivates him to speak around the country. By Elizabeth Lund from the April 17, 2007 edition E-mail Print Letter to the Editor Republish ... digg JOHN KEHE – STAFF Page 1 of 3 When Donald Hall, poet laureate of the United States, tells audiences that poetry is not an unpopular art form, people listen intently. Some do so because of his title and impressive dossier, which includes two Guggenheim fellowships, the National Book Critics Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and 15 published volumes of verse. Others, however, listen because they understand that resurgence is a theme for Hall, both in his poetry and his life. "A book of poems by a well-known poet used to get a print run of 1,000 copies, and you'd be lucky if you sold out," says Mr. Hall. "Now more publishers are printing 8,000 to 10,000 copies for a first edition." He also notes that many literary magazines are being published, and when you add their modest circulations together, the result is a large readership. Hall believes this upward trend has been fueled by readings – at colleges, literary festivals, and other venues – which have become increasingly popular since the 1950s. "The poetry reading used to be a rare event," he explains. "Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems." But hearing a poem read aloud "can be like reading it many times. You have a helping hand to get you into the poem. You have an actual body, an actual voice, and a series of gestures."

51. Donald Hall Biography — Infoplease.com Biography of donald hall, Former Poet Laureate of the US, donald hall is known for his descriptions of rural landscape often of New Hampshire, http://www.infoplease.com/biography/donald-hall.html

Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Jan 26, 2008 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites 2007 Year in Review Black History Month Leap Year Martin Luther King Day ... 2008 Calendar Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Biography Donald Hall American poet Born: September 20, 1928 Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Donald Hall is known for his descriptions of rural landscape often of New Hampshire, where he has lived for over 20 years. His book The One Day (1988) won the National Book Critics Circle award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer nomination. Other books include Exiles and Marriages Without: Poems (1998), and The Painted Bed (2002). He was married to poet Jane Kenyon for 23 years, until her death from leukemia in 1995. The couple was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary A Life Together More on Donald Hall from Infoplease: Love Poems on the Web - Classic Love Poems on the Web Love is only a click away by Ann-Marie Imbornoni From Donald Hall to ...

52. Light Fantastic Photography - Recording Nature's Light. All images copyright 2003, donald E. hall. All rights reserved. No form of reproduction, including copying or saving of digital image files or text, http://www.lightfantasticphotography.com/

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." Leonardo DaVinci Welcome to my world of Landscape and Nature Photography. New photographs are being added all the time. You can see the entire collection by going to the Galleries or just the recent additions by going to the New additions. "Tripping the Light Fantastic with Mother Nature." or the alteration or manipulation of said image files, is authorized without written permission.

53. Wild River Review “donald hall is one of America’s most distinctive and respected literary figures. .. PROFILE Thinking with Muscle and Tongue — The Poetry of donald hall http://www.wildriverreview.com/profile_hall.php

/* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = "PROFILE: Thinking with Muscle and Tongue - The Poetry of Donald Hall";var pageType = "";var pageValue = "0";var product = ""; /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; JANUARY 2008 MASTHEAD STORE SUBMISSIONS PRESS ... CONTACT Join our mailing list and receive WRR Monthly Please enter your email address below. NEW IN WILD RIVER REVIEW UP THE CREEK: A Wild Vision SPOTLIGHT: Babe in the Woods: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unlikely Summer in Montana By Landon Y. Jones COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Charles Dickens Speaks by Joseph Glantz REVIEW: Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal by Bill Gaston ... WRR 4.4 Your contributions help ensure that the Wild River Review continues to support emerging and established voices, encouraging them to cover new ground and discover uncharted territory. The Wild River Review is a nonprofit 501 (c)3 organization. Click below to make a tax-deductible contribution. Thinking with Muscle and Tongue: The Poetry of Donald Hall by Marylou Kelly Streznewski Donald Hall Donald Hall decided to become a poet at the age of fourteen. Change and growth have been hallmarks of both the life he has lived and the work he has produced. Product of a prosperous Connecticut childhood, prep school, Harvard, Oxford, and a European stint as among other things, Poetry Editor of the

54. Orbital Air donald hall had given his word that the Spirit of St. Louis would be finished and delivered my April 28th, 1927. He intended this new design to be the http://www.orbitalair.com/

In February of 1927, Donald A. Hall and Charles A. Lindbergh set forth on a "...sixty-day experiment that opened a new chapter in aviation and the lifelong friendship between two men who had faith in the sky and insubstantial air." "...Pencil lines curve and angel delicately over the face of his drafting board's white sheet. A fuselage is taking outline form. He's been sitting on that stool since early morning, with no break except for quick meals and a few trips down stairs to talk to Bowlus and the workmen. It was the same yesterday, and the day before." -Charles Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis In 60-days, Donald A. Hall worked an average of 90 hours per week, with few breaks. He worked for 36 hours strait and at another point 26 hours. Donald Hall had given his word that the Spirit of St. Louis would be finished and delivered my April 28th, 1927. He intended this new design to be the safest he had yet designed, for a young Charles Lindbergh he had just met. On May 21st, 1927 the world noticed. It was a time like no other, when machines had just begun to fly and the dark Atlantic awaited a slender silver ship named Spirit of St. Louis.

55. Book Search Biography donald hall is the author of numerous prizewinning volumes of poetry, Also by donald hall. You are on page 1 showing results 1 to 3 out of 3 http://www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1441

56. The Spirit's Designer: Donald A. Hall, Sr. (1898-1968) In sixty days in 1927, donald hall and Charles Lindbergh designed the Spirit of St. Louis and planned a flight to Paris. donald A. hall worked an average of http://www.charleslindbergh.com/hall/index.asp

The Flight Flight Timeline Spirit of St. Louis Spirit Designer ... Home You are here: Home The Spirit's Designer: Donald A. Hall, Sr. Charles Lindbergh and Donald Hall (right) In sixty days in 1927, Donald Hall and Charles Lindbergh designed the Spirit of St. Louis and planned a flight to Paris. Donald A. Hall worked an average of 90 hours per week, with few breaks. Once he worked for 36 hours strait and at another point over 20 hours. In 60-days they made history... The CharlesLindbergh.com Web site has partnered with Orbital Air, Inc. to offer the following online resources dedicated to the memory of Donald A. Hall, Sr. and to document the history of his work with Charles Lindbergh. Select One: This extensive collection contains hundreds of rare photographs and documents from Donald Hall's personal collection. Many of the photographs and documents related to the Spirit of St. Louis design plus the collection includes letters from Charles Lindbergh to Donald Hall. Donald Hall and Charles Lindbergh Donald A. Hall Biography Highlights Secrets of the Spirit: Charles Lindbergh, Donald Hall, and the Plane That Made History By Nick T. Spark The Spirit of St. Louis Story ... Technical preparation of the Spirit of St. Louis: View individual pages or download PDF file. Order Now!

57. Phillips Exeter Academy | Harkness Fellow U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall '47, T Exeter, NH (March 28, 2007)—Phillips Exeter Academy proudly welcomes U.S. Poet Laureate and Harkness Fellow donald hall ’47, to give a public reading from http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_6100.aspx

Home Harkness Fellow U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall '47, to give public reading SMALLER TEXT LARGER TEXT PRINT THIS PAGE Harkness Fellow U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall '47, to give public reading Monday, April 9, 2007 - Monday, April 9, 2007 7 p.m. Assembly Hall U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. Photo: Steve Lewis Exeter, NH (March 28, 2007)—Phillips Exeter Academy proudly welcomes U.S. Poet Laureate and Harkness Fellow Donald Hall ’47, to give a public reading from his works as part of its yearlong celebration of Harkness on Monday, April 9, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall. The Assembly Hall is located on the second floor of the Academy Building on Front Street. The event, which is sponsored by The Friends of the Academy Library, the English Department and the Harkness Program, is free and open to the public. Described as “…one of America’s greatest and most-admired men of letters,” Hall is this year’s 13th Harkness Fellow to visit the campus. For more than 50 years, the poet from New Hampshire has authored more than 15 books of beautiful poetry on an array of what is often referred to as “distinctly American” subjects. His poetry is described as plainspoken, simple, lyrical and conveyed with passion; his verse about life’s sorrows and celebrations. Hall’s poems are rich with New Hampshire’s rural landscape—in particular, Eagle Pond Farm, where Hall’s grandmother and mother were born, and where he spent his boyhood summers before moving there permanently 30 years ago.

58. “Affirmation” By Donald Hall « View From A New Vrindaban Ridge 2 Responses to ““Affirmation” by donald hall”. Mudakari dasi Says January 14, 2008 at 636 pm. The Way It Is. There’s a thread you follow. It goes among http://walkingthefenceline.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/affirmation-by-donald-hall/

@import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/connections/style.css?m=1198091327 ); Home Poetry Index View From a New Vrindaban Ridge An unofficial, eclectic, mostly tangential, view of aspiring devotee life. Best viewed with Sense of Humor 8.0 or higher. The cows may come, the cows may go, but the bull is always here. January 12, 2008 Posted by Madhava Gosh under Poetry To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage, that began without harm, scatters into debris on the shore, and a friend from school drops cold on a rocky strand. If a new love carries us past middle age, our wife will die at her strongest and most beautiful. New women come and go. All go. The pretty lover who announces that she is temporary is temporary. The bold woman, middle-aged against our old age, sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand. Another friend of decades estranges himself in words that pollute thirty years.

59. Donald R. Hall - Our Attorneys - Kaplan Fox donald hall has been associated with Kaplan Fox since 1998, and became a partner in the firm in 2005. He practices in the areas of antitrust, securities, http://www.kaplanfox.com/kaplanfox4.php?pcode=47&pp=28

60. Donald Hall On Ambition: Poet Laureate On Poetry Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in donald hall s collection Poetry and Ambition Essays 198288. http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/donald_hall_on_ambition

GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-7332027313721357", "com_readingandliterature_top_ATF_468x060"); GA_googleAddAttr("language", "com"); GA_googleAddAttr("section", "readingand"); GA_googleAddAttr("topic", "Poetry"); GA_googleAddAttr("category", "american-p"); GA_googleAddAttr("writer", "388085"); hiring freelance writers today's articles sign in Home ... American Poetry Donald Hall on Ambition Donald Hall on Ambition Poet Laureate on Poetry Linda Sue Grimes Oct 31, 2006 Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in Donald Hall's collection Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88. Iowa delenda est! He stresses Horace’s advice from “Ars Poetica”: "but let them not come forth / Till the ninth ripening year mature their worth. / You may correct what in your closet lies: / If published, it irrevocably flies." Or that poets should not publish their poems until they have worked on them for ten years. Then he refers to Alexander Pope, writing seventeen centuries later, who pared the time down to five years. Hall wishes now that poets would wait eighteen months before publishing. His point is that too much stuff gets published before anyone has actually vetted properly it value. Hall quotes Robert Frost to support the idea that poets need to pay more attention to their poems than to their number of publications: "It's only when you get far enough away from your work to begin to be critical of it yourself that anyone else's criticism can be tolerable.” Frost said a student should bring to class only his old stuff that had lost the glow that blinds to would-be poet to his creation’s flaws. And according to Hall, this fact of writing is what makes “workshopping impossible.”

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