#Naomi Simone Borwein

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“Free Fall in the Nth Extinction” by Naomi Simone Borwein

Please welcome Naomi Simone Borwein into the Poetry Spotlight reading “Free Fall in the Nth Extinction.”

Black out and you’re falling hardthrough the asphalt-skywind razor-sharp cuttingbody corporeal howlinghovering limbs star-fished, pancaked paragliding, mind tearingage [eroding] around you. Your descent, increasing exponentially, the patchwork landscape glistening Faberge tissue,a quivering phosphorescent arc offlickering blue copper chloride,tracking, this bird’s eye view of thefinal…

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Happy Publication Day! My translation of Isis Aquino's story "The Train" is out in 'Extrasensory Overload: An anthology of Speculative Excess' from Angry Gable Press! This is my 2nd published collaboration with Isis, and my 1st time sharing a TOC with so many writing buddies! :D

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The HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. IX Virtual Book Tour

The HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. IX Virtual Book Tour

Horror, Poetry Date Published: 11.07.2022 The Horror Writers Associations presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, this year’s featured poets are Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn, and Naomi Simone Borwein, plus dozens of poems from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association.   This volume…

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic, edited by Clive Bloom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Cover image by Angela Waye / Alamy Stock Photo, info: palgrave.com.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst anticipating the future. From demons and monsters to post- apocalyptic fears and ecological fantasies, Gothic is thriving as never before in the arts and in popular culture. This volume is made up of 62 comprehensive chapters with notes and extended bibliographies contributed by scholars from around the world. The chapters are written not only for those engaged in academic research but also to be accessible to students and dedicated followers of the genre. Each chapter is packed with analysis of the Gothic in both theory and practice, as the genre has mutated and spread over the last hundred years. Starting in 1918 with the impact of film on the genre's development, and moving through its many and varied international incarnations, each chapter chronicles the history of the gothic milieu from the movies to gaming platforms and internet memes, television and theatre. The volume also looks at how Gothic intersects with fashion, music and popular culture: a multi-layered, multi-ethnic, even a trans-gendered experience as we move into the twenty first century.

Contents: Introduction to the Gothic Handbook Series:​ Welcome to Hell – Clive Bloom     Global Gothics Latin American Horror – Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and Inés Ordiz Dark Tourism – Joan Passey Two Twentieth-Century Mexican Writers – Antonio Alcalá González Dark Urbanity – Tijana Parezanović and Marko Lukić Contemporary Australian Trauma – Jessica Gildersleeve Postcolonialisms​ – Gina Wisker Strains of the South – Naomi Simone Borwein Indigenous Alterations – Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson Hillbilly Horror – Tosha R. Taylor Southern Agrarianism and Exploitation – Gerardo Del Guercio     Hostile Environments British ‘Hoodie’ Horror – Lauren Stephenson Green Trends in Euro-Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s – David Annwn Jones Ecocriticism and the Genre – Emily Alder and  Jenny Bavidge The Wilderness – Kaja Franck ‘Queer’ Representations of Rural and Urban Locations – Paulina Palmer James Herbert’s Working-Class Horror – Simon Brown Re-defining the Genre with Mo Hayder – Sian MacArthur Stephen King – Brian Jarvis     Occult Gothic Aleister Crowley and Occult Meaning – James Machin Aleister Crowley and the Black Magic Story – Timothy Jones     Gothic Romance The Gothic Romance – Holly Hirst Georgette Heyer – Holly Hirst The Body in Pieces Abjection and Body Horror – Xavier Aldana Reyes Torture Porn – Tosha R. Taylor Clive Barker’s Hellraiser – Mark Richard Adams     Psychological Gothic The Asylum – Laura R. Kremmel Psychopaths, Sociopaths and the Psychotic Mind – Lauren Ellis Christie Beyond the Unfeeling Narcissus to Patrick Bateman – Robert K. Shepherd     Zombie Gothic Zombie Folklore to Existential Protagonists – Kelly Gardner The Sentient Zombie – Kelly Gardner     New Vampire Gothic Transmedia Vampires – Simon Bacon The Post-human Vampire – Simon Bacon Monstrosity, Performativity, and Performance – Laura Davidel     Young Gothic Encounters with the ‘Hidden’ World in Modern Children’s Fiction – Chloé Germaine Buckley Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction – Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi Horror Hosts in British Girls’ Comics – Julia Round Lemony Snicket – Valeria Iglesias-Plester     Gothic Film Ghostly Gimmicks:​ Spectral Special Effects in Haunted House Films – Laura Sedgwick Universal Horror – Brian Jarvis Arthouse Cinema – Stacey Abbott The Horror Genre in Balkan Cinema – Tanja Jurković Slavic Cinema – Agnieszka Kotwasińska Gender Politics in a High-Camp, Lowbrow Musical – Joana Rita Ramalho Roger Corman – Murray Leeder David Lynch – Brian Jarvis     Gothic Television Doctor Who:​ Identity, Time and Terror – J.S. Mackley Nigel Kneale and Quatermass – J.S. Mackley Dark Costume in Contemporary Television – Stephanie Mulholland Wildlings, White Walkers, and Watchers on the Wall of Northumberland’s Borderland – Chelsea Eddy Grand Guignol, Inside Showtime’s Penny Dreadful Demimonde – Tanja Jurković     Gothic Music The Blasphemous Grotesqueries of The Tiger Lillies – Joana Rita Ramalho The Return of the Past in the Lyrics of Black Metal – Antonio Alcalá González     Interactive Gothic Interactive and Movable Books in the Tradition – Jen Baker The Evolving Genre of the Vampire Games – Jon Garrad The Digital Haunted House – Erika Kvistad Anxiety in the Digital Age – David Langdon Horror Memes and Digital Culture – Tosha R. Taylor Virtual Desert Horrors – Alison Bainbridge Immersive and Pervasive Performance – Madelon Hoedt     Gothic Lifestyle Fashion Gothwear – Victoria Amador Walking with the Lancashire Witches – Alex Bevan The Influence of the Genre in High Fashion – Jennifer Richards The Geisha Ghost – Jenevieve Van-Veda     Theoretical Gothic Three French Modernists – Giles Whiteley Dark Modernisms – Matt Foley     Post Modern Gothic The Postmodern Genre – Joakim Wrethed Heterotopian Horrors – Marko Lukić and Tijana Parezanović The New Batman – Michail-Chrysovalantis Markodimitrakis     Post Human Gothic Global War from Tokyo to Barcelona – Naomi Simone Borwein Posthuman Interstellar Gothic – Holly-Gale Millette Degeneration in H.​P.​ Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson – Antonio Alcalá González Lovecraft, Decadence, and Aestheticism – James Machin List of Contributors   Index

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The Horror Writer's Association Poetry Showcase Vol. IX

The Horror Writer’s Association Poetry Showcase Vol. IX

Horror, Poetry Date Published: 11.07.2022 The Horror Writers Associations presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, this year’s featured poets are Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn, and Naomi Simone Borwein, plus dozens of poems from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association.   This volume…

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Release Blitz: The HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume IX

Release Blitz: The HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume IX

Horror, Poetry Date Published: 11.07.2022 The Horror Writers Associations presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, this year’s featured poets are Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn, and Naomi Simone Borwein, plus dozens of poems from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association.   This volume…

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It's here! The Horror Writer's Association Poetry Showcase Number 9. My poem, "Strike a Match" shares a table of contents with some of the most talented horror poets thw HWA has to offer. Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Showcase-Angela-Yuriko-Smith/dp/B0BJNDCGT3 Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BJP81ZDB Blurb: HWA Poetry Showcase Volume IX, edited by Angela Yuriko Smith The Horror Writers Association presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, sharing the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith with judges Lee Murray, Maxwell I. Gold and Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, this year features the poetry of Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn and Naomi Simone Borwein along with other poems from Mary A. Turzillo, Christina Sng, Alessandro Manzetti, Victoria Nations, K. H. Vaughan and many more works of merit from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association. Cover artwork by Kyra Starr. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-aNZXrsTi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Horror Writers Association Releases its Ninth Poetry Showcase Featuring the Best Original Dark Poetry on November 7, 2022

Horror Writers Association Releases its Ninth Poetry Showcase Featuring the Best Original Dark Poetry on November 7, 2022

This Year’s Showcase Includes Poets Such as Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn and Naomi Simone Borwein. Los Angeles, CA – On November 7, 2022, Horror Writers Association (HWA) will be releasing its ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best original dark poetry from the past year. This year’s showcase includes poets such as Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Glynn, Naomi Simone Borwein, and…

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The HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume IX Blitz

The HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume IX Blitz

Horror, Poetry Date Published: 11.07.2022 The Horror Writers Associations presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, this year’s featured poets are Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn, and Naomi Simone Borwein, plus dozens of poems from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association.   This volume…

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The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy), edited by Cait Coker, afterword by Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo, McFarland, 2020. Cover image by Ruta Production/Shutterstock, info: mcfarlandbooks.com.

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire’s evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

Contents: Acknowledgments Preface (and In Memoriam) Introduction—Texts and Contexts: The Global Vampire in Popular Culture – Cait Coker     The Americas and Canada Biting, Sex and Blood: The New American Vampire Narrative – Candace R. Benefiel “I’ll give you blood to drink”: The New Vampire in Novels About the Salem Witch Trials – Marta María Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Wes Craven’s Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative – Kendra R. Parker The Transmediated Lesbian Vampire: LGBTQ Representation in a Contemporary Adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s – Carmilla Natalie Krikowa Éternelle Colonization: The Figure of the Vampire as Colonizing Factor in 21st-Century Québec – Maureen-C. LaPerrière and Julien Drainville     Europe and the Mediterranean “The creatures of the night, what bad jokes they make!”: Racism, “True” Humor and the Nationalistic Vampire on Film – Simon Bacon Amid and Beyond Gender(s): The Vampire as a Locus of Gender Neutrality in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In – Marie Levesque The Economic Miracle and the Italian Undead in Tempi duri per i vampiri – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns “Time is an abyss”: The Role of History in Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979) – Thomas Prasch There’s Water Here: Cities, Safety and the Global Environment in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive – Karen E. Viars     Asia and Australia From Sunnydale to Seoul: The Vampire “Fan” in Korean Dramas – Cait Coker “Don’t adjust your life to mine”: Moon Child, Homoeroticism and the Vampire as Multifaceted Other – Miranda Ruth Larsen Aboriginal Australian Vampires and the Politics of Transmediality – Naomi Simone Borwein “In need of vitamin sea”: The Emergence of Australian Identity Through the Eyes and Thirst of Kirsty Eager’s Vampires – Phil Fitzsimmons     Globalism: Real and Virtual Worlds? The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change as a Holocaust – Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad “Set to drain”: Vampirism as Mechanic and Metaphor in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Trevor Dodge Afterword – Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo About the Contributors Works Cited Index

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Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays, edited by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak, McFarland, 2020. Cover image by Shutterstock, info: mcfarlandbooks.com.

From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe’s Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks’ World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.

Contents: Acknowledgments Foreword: The Truth of Horror: A Brief History of the Genre’s Nonfiction Works… and Why We Need Them – Lisa Morton Introduction – Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak     Section One: Horror Writers Who Forged New Ground “The mist of death is on me”: Ann Radcliffe’s Unexplained Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville – Elizabeth Bobbitt Jekyll and Hyde Everywhere: Inconsistency and Disparity in the Real World – Erica McCrystal ScatterGories: Class Upheaval, Social Chaos and the Horrors of Category Crisis in World War Z – J. Rocky Colavito     Section Two: Spotlighting Horror Writers Marjorie Bowen and the Third Fury – John C. Tibbetts “When the cage came up there was something crouched ­a-top of it”: The Haunted Tales of L.T.C. Rolt – Danny Rhodes Richard Laymon’s Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense and Negative Space – Gavin F. Hurley Four Quadrants of Success: The Metalinguistics of Author Protagonists in the Fiction of Stephen King – James Arthur Anderson     Section Three: Exploring Literary Theory in Horror “The symptoms of possession”: Gender, Power and Trauma in Late 20th Century Horror Novels – Bridget E. Keown “Not a Bedtime Story”: Investigating Textual Interactions Between the Horror Genre and Children’s Picture Books – Emily Anctil Synchronic Horror and the Dreaming: A Theory of Aboriginal Australian Horror and Monstrosity – Naomi Simone Borwein “Gelatinous green immensity”: Weird Fiction and the Grotesque Sublime – Johnny Murray     Section Four: Disease, Viruses and Death in Horror Night of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and Zombies (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Koji Suzuki’s Ring: A World Literary Perspective (Frazer Lee Mapping Digital ­Dis-Ease: Representations of Movement and Technology in Jim Sonzero’s Pulse and Stephen King’s Cell – Rahel Sixta Schmitz Afterword: Guardians of the Damned: Horror Scholarship and the Library – Becky Spratford About the Contributors Index

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The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature, edited by Kevin Corstorphine and Laura R. Kremmel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Cover design by Katrina Brown/Alamy Stock Photo, info: palgrave.com.

Offers a refreshing update on the genre of Horror Literature, particularly in light of timely theoretical discussions such as queer theory, feminist theory, and animal studies. Traverses time periods and geographical areas, covering topics ranging from medieval European horror to zombie fiction. Establishes the importance of the horror genre within the academy, which has been grossly overlooked and downplayed until recently. This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.

Contents: Foreword – Dawn Keetley Acknowledgments 1 Introduction – Kevin Corstorphine   Part I The Origins and Evolution of Literary Horror 2 Bhayānaka (Horror and the Horrific) in Indian Aesthetics – Dhananjay Singh 3 Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll – Ármann Jakobsson 4 The Horror Genre and Aspects of Native American Indian Literature – Joy Porter 5 Vampires, Shape-Shifters, and Sinister Light: Mistranslating Australian Aboriginal Horror in Theory and Literary Practice – Naomi Simone Borwein 6 Men, Women, and Landscape in American Horror Fiction – Dara Downey 7 Blood Flows Freely: The Horror of Classic Fairy Tales – Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8 Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents’ Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts – Phil Fitzsimmons 9 Horror and Damnation in Medieval Literature – Andrew J. Power 10 The Jacobean Theater of Horror – Tony Perrello 11 “A Mass of Unnatural and Repulsive Horrors”: Staging Horror in Nineteenth-Century English Theater – Sarah A. Winter 12 Horror in Gothic Chapbooks – Franz J. Potter 13 “We Stare and Tremble”: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Horror Novels – Natalie Neill 14 “The Horror! The Horror!”: Tracing Horror in Modernism from Conrad to Eliot – Matthias Stephan 15 Global Horror: Pale Horse, Pale Rider – David Punter   Part II Themes of Literary Horror 16 Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror – Wendy Fall 17 Zombie Fictions – Anya Heise-von der Lippe 18 “You Don’t Think I’m Like Any Other Boy. That’s Why You’re Afraid”: Haunted/Haunting Children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror – Chloé Germaine Buckley 19 Discussing Dolls: Horror and the Human Double – Sandra Mills 20 “They Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again”: Animals in Horror Literature – Bernice M. Murphy 21 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?: Deep Dark Forests and Literary Horror – Elizabeth Parker 22 Disability and Horror – Alan Gregory 23 Monstrous Machines and Devilish Devices – Gwyneth Peaty 24 “And Send Her Well-Dos’d to the Grave”: Literary Medical Horror – Laura R. Kremmel 25 Imperial Horror and Terrorism – Johan Höglund 26 Postmodern Literary Labyrinths: Spaces of Horror Reimagined – Katharine Cox   Part III Approaches to Literary Horror 27 Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature – Mathias Clasen 28 Transgressive Horror and Politics: The Splatterpunks and Extreme Horror – Aalya Ahmad 29 Boundary Crossing and Cultural Creation: Transgressive Horror and Politics of the 1990s – Coco d’Hont 30 “Maggot Maladies”: Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment – Sarah Cleary 31 The Mother of All Horrors: Medea’s Infanticide in African American Literature – Christina Dokou 32 Horror, Race, and Reality – Ordner W. Taylor III 33 Postcolonial Horror – Tabish Khair 34 Conceptualizing Varieties of Space in Horror Fiction – Andrew Hock Soon Ng 35 Toward an Acoustics of Literary Horror – Matt Foley 36 Hesitation Marks: The Fantastic and the Satirical in Postmodern Horror – Laura Findlay 37 “It’s Alive!” New Materialism and Literary Horror – Susan Yi Sencindiver 38 Horror “After Theory” – Lyle Enright Index

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Here is the cover reveal for the HWA Poetry Showcase that I've been honored to be a part of. Along with a list of other talented poets, the article also gives credit to those who were the judges and the editor of the anthology: Angela Yuriko Smith. The Horror Writers Association presents their ninth annual poetry showcase featuring a selection of the best original dark poetry from the past year. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith with judges Lee Murray, Maxwell I. Gold and Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, this year features Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn and Naomi Simone Borwein as our featured poets. Cover artwork by Kyra Starr. Appreciation to HWA President John Palisano for doubling the payment to poets and awarding poets both payment and a contributor copy instead of poets choosing between two options. The artwork for this year’s cover pays tribute to Peter Adam Salomon, the founder of both the HWA Showcase and National Dark Poetry Day, celebrated every year on November 7. The following poets have also been selected to have their work included in this year’s showcase: Mary A. Turzillo, Christina Sng, Alessandro Manzetti, Victoria Nations, K. H. Vaughan, Cassondra Windwalker, Jacqueline West, Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, Lucy A. Snyder, Colleen Anderson, E. F. Schraeder, Sara Tantlinger, Ann K. Schwader, Corinne Hughes, Monica S. Kuebler, Janine Cross, Kathryn Ptacek, Holly Lyn Walrath, Gary Robbe, Marge Simon, Stephanie Ellis, R. Leigh Hennig, Austin Gragg, M. Lopes da Silva, Denise Dumars, Gordon Linzner, Saytchyn Maddux-Creech, Ross E. Lockhart, Meghan Arcuri, Teel James Glenn, Bruce Boston, John Claude Smith, Roni Stinger, Dan B. Fierce, Madison McSweeney, Steven Clapp, Rook Riley, Timothy P. Flynn, Dianthe West, Lori R. Lopez, Terrie Leigh Relf, Lisa Becker, Donna K. Fitch, Ai Jiang, J.E. Erickson, and Gerri Leen. https://horror.org/the-horror-writers-association-hwa-announces-the-release-of-its-next-publication-the-hwa-poetry-showcase-volume-ix/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CgZD62fOUeI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=