#harold cohen

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Harold Cohen (British, 1928-2016), Landscape Remembered, 1966. Acrylic on canvas, 33 x 33 in.

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Harold Cohen: AARON KCAT, 2001, developed with the computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil, constantly builds colorful interior scenes by following exhaustive sets of rules for human anatomy and plant structure

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Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), 

Computer-generated drawing in ink on paper, hand embellished with colored pencil, 21 x 17 inches,

Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation,

Photo: Justin Manley / Hyperallergic

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Drawing Machines #8

Harold Cohen

Harold Cohen foi um artista britânico mais conhecido por criar o projeto AARON na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego, em 1968, um novo tipo de robot com um sistema computacional que produzia arte de forma autónoma. Harold Cohen, ao longo de mais de 30 anos de investigação no Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial da Universidade de Stanford, desenvolveu e “ensinou” , desde 1973, o AARON a desenhar e, posteriormente, a pintar.

O AARON expôs na Tate Gallery (Londres), no Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdão), no Brooklyn Museum em Nova York, no Museu de Arte Moderna de São Francisco e em diversas partes do mundo. Harold Cohen tem uma exposição permanente dedicada ao seu trabalho no Boston Computer Museum

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AARON one of the first ai-driven art making system

created by harold cohen, artist and computer scientist

1970s

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Stephanie & Friend by Harold Cohen

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How an AI drawing program shook the art world in the 1970s In 1971, artist Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) became a visiting scholar at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, he created a computer program called Aaron to answer the question, "What are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?" — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/04/05/how-an-ai-drawing-program-shook-the-art-world-in-the-1970s.html

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Yk who he lowkey reminds me of? Harold and Paul Rudd combined. (Just a little idk)

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Harold E. Edgerton Rising Dove 1934

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I saw the dove come down, the dove with the green twig, the childish dove out of the storm and flood. It came toward me in the style of the Holy Spirit descending. I had been sitting in a cafe for twenty-five years waiting for this vision. It hovered over the great quarrel. I surrendered to the iron laws of the moral universe which make a boredom out of everything desired. Do not surrender, said the dove. I have come to make a nest in your shoe. I want your step to be light.

— Leonard Cohen

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THE SCREEN: “Mae West Reveals Herself as a Circus Queen in “I’m No Angel” at the Paramount—Saturday's Millions”

I'M NO ANGEL, based on a story by Mae West and supported by Lowell Brentano; music and lyrics by Harvey Brooks, Gladys Du Bois and Ben Ellison; directed by Wesley Ruggles; a Paramount production. At the Times Square and Brooklyn Paramounts.

Tira .... Mae West Jack Clayton .... Cary Grant Bill Barton .... Edward Arnold Slick .... Ralf Harolde Alicia Hatton .... Gertrude Michael Kirk .... Kent Taylor Thelma .... Dorothy Peterson Benny Pinkowitz .... Russell Hopton Beulah .... Gertrud Michael The Chump .... William Davidson Rajah .... Nigel de Bruller Bob .... Irving Pichel Omnes.... George Bruggeman Harry .... Nat Pendleton Chauffeur .... Morrie Cohen Judge .... Walter Walker

by MORDAUNT HALL.

Arrayed in a variety of costumes which set off her sinuous form, Mae West is appearing at the Paramount in her latest screen vehicle, "I'm No Angel," a title which, as might be surmised, fits the leading character. Here Miss West, who wrote the story herself from “suggestions contributed" by Lowell Brentano, is beheld as a circus beauty named Tira, who wins applause and admiration by risking her blond head in a lion's mouth twice daily.

It is a rapid-fire entertainment, with shameless but thoroughly contagious humor, and one in which Tira is always the mistress of the situation, whether it be in the cage with wild beasts, in her boudoir with admirers or in a court of law.

Tira is ever ready with & flip double entendre and' she permits no skeleton to be found behind her cupboard doors. She has an emphatic personality, which proves a magnet for even social lights with millions. She receives costly presents, Including diamond necklaces, but she is hardly a gold-digger. She refrains from posing, preferring to keep to her natural slangy speech in her journey through the story from a tent to a penthouse.

She admits that she has thrown discretion to the winds, and she sometimes finds herself in an awkward predicament, but through a wily lawyer she succeeds in proving that she is guiltless. The feeble parts of this picture are those in which a criminal known as Slick is introduced. The less one sees of him the better one feels, for the production is interesting only as long as it proceeds on its merry route.

The glimpses of Tira making her impressive entry to the circus arena and then proceeding to the big cage with the roaring lions are depicted shrewdly. Tira does not actually stick her whole head in the lion's mouth, but contents herself by putting her face between the beast's jaws, which is quite enough.

Even this is set forth with a certain degree of fun, and one feels that Tira probably has a pistol ready for an emergency and that other circus employees are ready to shoot in the event that the beast starts to close its mouth. But one is apt to wonder whether they could possibly be quick enough. Society among the spectators is thrilled, all except one snobbish girl, who is furious because her fiancé is very enthusiastic over the performer's courage-and her beauty.

Later there comes the time when Tira puts her fair head into a court of law as the plaintiff in a breach-of-promise case. She sues Jack Clayton, whom she really loves, for $1,000,000, and it is not Tira's artful counsel who wins the case, but the circus queen herself. She cross-examines the defendant's witnesses and turns their testimony in her own favor, the unusual proceeding being countenanced by a judge whose sympathy Tira wins with the utmost ease.

Miss West plays her part with the same brightness and naturalness that attended her second film role. There is no lack of spontaneity in her actions or in the utterance of her lines. She is a remarkable wit, after her fashion. Cary Grant is pleasing as Clayton and Walter Walker is excellent as the considerate old judge. Gregory Ratoff does well as Tara’s lawyer. Wesley Ruggles has directed the film with his usual intelligence.

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Books On Books Collection - Alan Robinson

A Fowl Alphabet (1986) A Fowl Alphabet (1986) Alan James Robinson (etchings), Suzanne Moore (calligraphy) Casebound. Marbled paper over boards. Doublures and flyleaves. H218 x W145 mm. 26 Folios untrimmed at head. Four-page prospectus loose. Acquired from Bromers Bookseller, 16 August 2022. Photos: Books On Books Collection. Displayed with permission of the artists. Under his Cheloniidae Press…

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do you have any names similar to these? it doesnt have to be all of them, but mainly Edgar, Pierce, Rigorre and Grimm. ive been looking around for some and this'll be great help :)!

Edgar, Grimm, Rigorre, Cain(e), Ozzy/Ozul, Onyx, Dice, Throne, Viper, Vesper, Heron, Nyx, Spector, Harker, Talyn, Dorian, Pierce

EDGAR︰ adler. albert. alexander. alfred. alice. archibald. arthur. atlas. august. barnabas. beatrice. benjamin. charles. charlotte. clarence. dior. eddie. eder. edmund. eduard. edward. edwin. edyn. eleanor. elijah. elmer. ember. emerson. emmett. ernest. esther. eugene. evelyn. everett. ezra. felix. ferdinand. finn. franklin. gilbert. harold. harper. hector. henry. humphrey. iris. irving. isaac. jack. jagger. james. jasper. leo. leonard. leopold. noah. oliver. oscar. penelope. rowan. rupert. sebastian. silas. theo. theodore. tiger. vincent. violet. walter. william.

GRIM(M)︰ august. axel. brennon. charlie. dax. dean. declan. delilah. demetri. enver. evangeline. ezra. felicity. finn. foster. fox. gaerwn. garan. garima. garin. garran. garren. garron. geranium. gereon. gerianne. germain. germaine. german. geronimo. gerwin. gianni. giovanni. gordon. goren. graeme. graham. grainne. gram. grannia. granny. green. greyden. grian. griffin. grina. gurnam. gwern. iris. joaquin. jude. kevin. kyra. leah. loki. millie. parker. rain. rogue. sage. silas. spencer. tristan. viktor.

CAINE(E)︰ abel. aidan. aiden. aleks. amelia. amory. andreas. aries. asher. aurora. ava. axel. azriel. bane. bartholomew. bonanza. cade. caden. cael. caiden. cain. caine. cale. caleb. cam. camden. cameo. cammie. camo. cana. canaan. canan. cane. cannan. cano. canyon. carter. case. casey. cash. cassim. cato. cawny. cayden. cayman. ceanna. ceona. chahna. chaim. chan. chana. chance. chaniya. charlotte. chase. chayan. chazmyne. chen. chesmu. chesna. cheyenne. cheyne. chiazam. chima. chimene. chin. china. chione. chosen. chukwuma. chumani. chyna. chynna. cian. cinna. cinnamon. cluny. cohen. cole. conn. connie. conway. cosmo. coyne. craig. cuan. cuno. cwen. côme. d'arcy. dane. dash. declan. dewitt. duran. edelynn. elijah. enoch. evelyn. gabriel. gage. gardeenia. genevieve. grayson. gwendelyn. gyles. hadrian. hesh. iain. icarus. jane. jermyn. kace. kade. kaelynn. kaidan. kaiden. kailyn. kain. kaine. kale. kane. kate. kaydin. kaydon. kayne. kedar. ken. knox. koen. lane. layne. liam. liliela. loch. lucifer. lucy. mattheo. nicollette. raiden. rayne. roddy. romilda. ryder. sawyl. scarlett. shane. thane. tyre. violet. wayne. zain. zaine. zane. zayne.

OZZY / ONYX︰ adi. archie. aria. arlo. asher. aspen. atlas. aurora. autumn. avi. axel. beck. bijoux. blade. bodie. bowie. caelum. cora. cy. daisy. davi. declan. draco. dune. echo. elton. elvis. ember. ezra. ezri. falcon. finn. fleet. garnet. gavin. genevieve. harper. hazel. imre. indigo. ivy. jade. jagger. jasper. jem. jet. jinx. johnny. joplin. josiah. joziah. kai. kaiya. kano. karter. kavi. khari. knox. lennox. leo. luca. luna. lynx. mac. maddox. mazi. mercury. millie. milo. morrissey. neptune. night. nirvana. nixie. nova. nyx. oak. oakes. ocean. ocheckka. ochoa. ohanzee. ojai. ojas. oke. oki. oliver. omega. onika. onix. onnika. onnix. onyekachukwu. onyx. ooko. oonagh. opal. opaline. orion. oscar. oscosh. oshae. osias. osiris. ossie. otto. owen. oyku. oz. ozzie. penelope. penny. peridot. phoenix. quinn. quint. rami. raven. ravi. remi. reno. river. rocky. roux. rowan. sage. salem. santana. sebastian. silas. sophie. storm. sunny. theo. topaz. uziel. violet. willow. wren. wyatt. zaki. zephyr. zeppelin. ziggy.

VESPER / VIPER︰ ace. aeron. akiva. antares. apollo. arcana. archer. asher. atlas. atticus. aurora. calista. callaway. cardin. cash. cason. chai. chancellor. charlotte. cora. cordovan. coriander. corisande. cruz. denarius. draven. elaina. elixir. elowen. elyse. ember. enfys. evangeline. felix. ferelith. finn. genesis. glade. hadley. halcyon. harbor. hazel. ivy. jaguar. journey. kaemon. kailo. kanon. katia. koa. kobe. kodiak. lainey. lazare. legacy. luna. lyra. magic. majesty. mystique. nora. obsidian. ocasio. oceane. oliver. opaline. ophelia. pax. peregrine. phaedra. phoenix. piper. quinn. rasmus. regulus. reverie. rohmer. rowyn. royce. rule. sage. salome. scarlett. sebastian. shyla. silas. sorcha. summer. tatiana. thorin. titan. vale. vallis. vance. varro. vega. velvette. vera. verity. vesper. vespera. violet. viper. von. vyra. wren. xavier. yvaine. zander. zephyr.

DORIAN︰ adrian. adrien. ambrose. amelia. andrea. appoline. arian. armani. asher. audrey. aurora. basil. benno. bloom. cassius. charlotte. cornelius. damian. damien. dante. darcy. darena. darian. dariana. darien. darin. darina. darion. darius. darren. darrin. darrion. darwin. daryan. datherine. davian. davion. dawson. dayaram. declan. derion. deron. derron. derwyn. dharma. dhiren. dominic. doreen. dorin. dorona. dorsey. dreama. dren. drian. duran. durham. durin. emrys. ethan. evander. evelyn. evleen. ezra. florian. gabriel. gilda. gordon. hadrian. heidy. jackie. jordan. julian. korbin. leander. liam. lorcan. lowri. lucian. lysander. marian. marion. mars. morgan. muse. naoma. oberon. oliver. orion. pallas. penelope. peregrine. quianna. rian. sebastian. shawnee. soren. theodore. tori. umber. violet. warren.

PIERCE︰ asher. audrey. ava. beckett. bennett. brooks. callan. charlotte. claire. cole. colton. dean. emerson. emmett. eros. everett. finn. fisher. fitz. flint. foster. gavin. grant. grayson. harper. harrison. hawk. hazel. heath. henry. hiro. hudson. ivy. jack. james. kane. kyra. landon. leo. liam. mason. miles. miller. mira. noah. oliver. olivia. owen. pace. paprika. paras. paresh. paricia. paris. parish. park. parker. parks. pauric. pearce. pearson. peers. percy. perez. perga. perris. perry. perseus. persia. persis. piers. pierson. piroj. porsche. powers. prakash. prayaksh. precia. preciosa. precious. price. prince. prisca. prissy. pryce. pyrrhus. quinn. reese. reeve. reid. rhett. ridge. rowan. sawyer. scarlett. sirius. slater. spencer. theo. theodore. vince. violet. wren. wyatt.

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Harold Cohen: AARON

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The number of Jewish actors playing Nazis in Hogan’s Heroes is perpetually a delight. These men must have had so much fun making the Nazis as pathetic and ridiculous as possible. The three Nazis here are all Jewish actors.

(Klemperer’s condition for remaining as Klink was that if Klink were every to be allowed to win, he would quit and never look back.)

And then I remember why they portrayed these characters with such viciousness:

The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink),[16] John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Major Hochstetter)—were all Jewish. In fact, Klemperer, Banner, and Askin had all fled the Nazis during World War II (Caine, whose birth name was Cohen, was an American). Robert Clary, a French Jew who played LeBeau, spent three years in a concentration camp (with an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm, "A-5714"); his parents and other family members were killed there. Likewise, Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was killed during the war. Askin was also in a pre-war French internment camp and his parents were killed at Treblinka. Other Jewish actors, including Harold Gould and Harold J. Stone, made multiple appearances playing German generals.

As a teenager, Klemperer, the son of conductor Otto Klemperer, fled Hitler's Germany with his family in 1933. During the show's production, he insisted that Hogan always win against his Nazi captors, or else he would not take the part of Klink. He defended his role by claiming, "I am an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi." Banner attempted to sum up the paradox of his role by saying, "Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?" Klemperer, Banner, Caine, Gould, and Askin had all spent the real Second World War serving in the U.S. Armed Forces—Banner[17] and Askin in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Caine in the U.S. Navy, Gould with the U.S. Army, and Klemperer in a U.S. Army Entertainment Unit. Klemperer had previously played a Nazi: in 1961 he played captured Nazi Emil Hahn in Judgment at Nuremberg, and also in 1961 starred as the title character in the serious drama Operation Eichmann, which also featured Banner in a supporting role.

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Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight (1957) Alan Block / Donn Hecht from: "Walkin' After Midnight" / "A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)"

Country | Nashville Sound

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Personnel: Patsy Cline: Vocals Don Helms: Steel Guitar Grady Martin: Electric Guitar Harold Bradley: Acoustic Guitar Owen Bradley: Piano Tommy Jackson: Fiddle Bob Moore: Acoustic Bass Farris Coursey: Drums

Owen Bradley: Band Leader Produced by Paul Cohen / Owen Bradley

Recorded: @ The Bradley Film and Recording Studios (AKA The Quonset Hut Studio) (AKA Columbia Studio B ) in Nashville, Tennessee USA on November 8, 1956

Released: on February 11, 1957 Decca Records

"… often included on authoritative lists of the all-time greatest songs in country music." - Wikipedia

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Leonard Cohen: Ένας ποιητής που έγινε μουσικός, παραμένοντας ποιητής

Οκτώ χρόνια χωρίς την ποίηση του Leonard Cohen. Ελάχιστες σκέψεις για την ποιητική πλευρά ενός μεγάλου τραγουδοποιού, που έφυγε στις 7 Νοεμβρίου του 2016

Ξεκίνησε για πεζογράφος, αλλά, διαβάζοντας τους «Υπέροχους απόκληρους» (εκδ. Κέδρος, μετ. Αλέξης Καλοφωλιάς), καταλαβαίνεις ότι πιθανότατα δεν το έχει. Ίσως να ήταν πολύ νωρίς για μεγάλη φόρμα. Η ποίηση του Leonard Cohen έδειχνε από την πρώτη στιγμή ενδιαφέρουσα, αλλά την ποίηση τη διαβάζουν λίγοι, ενώ με το τραγούδι μπορείς να μοιραστείς όσα νιώθεις με πολύ περισσότερους ανθρώπους. Άσε που, αν ψάξεις τραγουδοποιούς με σοβαρή ποιητική φλέβα, θα βρεις λιγότερους από δέκα.

Το πρώτο τραγούδι του Leonard Cohen που άκουσα ποτέ, ήταν το «Famous Blue Raincoat», όταν τον Σεπτέμβρη του 1982 το είχε διαλέξει ο Nick Cave ως ένα από τα τραγούδια που τον είχαν επηρεάσει, σε συνέντευξη που είχε δώσει στο «Ροκ Κλαμπ» του Γιάννη Πετρίδη. Κι αν η πρώτη φορά του Cave με τους Birthday Party, στο Σπόρτινγκ, έφερε περισσότερο punk παρά ποιητική διάθεση, η σχέση του Cave με την ποιητική γραφή του Cohen φάνηκε αργότερα. Η διασκευή του «Avalanche» ήρθε μόλις στο πρώτο solo album του Cave, «From Her To Eternity» όμως ακολούθησαν πολλές αναφορές σε στίχους αλλά και διασκευές, ανάμεσα στις οποίες ήταν το «Suzanne» και το «I’m Your Man». Ο Cave είχε πει για τον Cohen: «Ανακάλυψα τον Leonard Cohen με το “Songs of Love and Hate”. Άκουγα αυτόν τον δίσκο για ώρες στο σπίτι ενός φίλου. Ήμουν πολύ νέος και πιστεύω ότι αυτός ήταν ο πρώτος δίσκος που με επηρέασε πραγματικά. Στο παρελθόν, άκουγα μόνο τους δίσκους του αδελφού μου. Μου άρεσε ό,τι του άρεσε, τον ακολουθούσα σαν πρόβατο. Ο Leonard Cohen ήταν ο πρώτος που ανακάλυψα μόνoς μου. Είναι το σύμβολο της μουσικής μου ανεξαρτησίας. Θυμάμαι αυτά τα άλλα παιδιά που ήρθαν στο σπίτι του φίλου μου και θεωρούσαν ότι το “Songs of Love and Hate” ήταν πολύ καταθλιπτικό. Συνειδητοποίησα ότι αυτή η θεωρία περί “κατάθλι��ης” ήταν γελοία».

Η σχέση που ανέπτυξε ο Nick Cave με τον Leonard Cohen –μια σχέση θαυμασμού του νεότερου ποιητή προς τον μεγαλύτερο, όπως θα το έθετε ενδεχομένως ο Harold Bloom στην «Αγωνία της επίδρασης» (εκδ. Άγρα, μετ. Δημήτρης Δημηρούλης)– είναι απόλυτα αντίστοιχη με τη σχέση που είχε αναπτύξει ο Cohen με τον Federico Garcia Lorca. Ίσως η κορυφαία στιγμή που ο Cohen αποδίδει στον Lorca όσα του οφείλει να είναι το «Take This Waltz». Οι στίχοι αποτελούν ελεύθερη μετάφραση του ποιήματος του Lorca «Pequeño vals vienés» (Μικρό βιεννέζικο βαλς) και θα μπορούσαν να έχουν γραφτεί από τον Cohen. Τόσο πολύ ταιριάζουν στη γραφή που έχει αναπτύξει μέχρι το 1986, που το τραγούδι συμπεριλαμβάνεται στη συλλογή «Poets In New York».

Το «Βιβλίο του πόθου» (εκδ. Ιανός, μετ. Ιωάννα Αβραμίδου) πρωτοεκδόθηκε το 2006 και περιλαμβάνει 167 ποιήματα του Cohen, τα οποία γράφτηκαν σε ένα διάστημα 20 περίπου ετών. Προσωπικά, ακόμη κι αν ο Philip Glass δεν είχε μελοποιήσει 22 από αυτά, μου αρκεί αυτό το απόσπασμα: «Ένας άλλος ποιητής θα πρέπει να σου πει / πόσο πολύ σε αγαπώ / είμαι πολύ απασχολημένος τώρα / με τη θάλασσα της Αραβίας / και τις διεστραμμένες της επαναλήψεις / του άσπρου και του γκρι. Να, παραιτήθηκα από πολλά / τα τελευταία λίγα λεπτά / και από τη μεγάλη τιμή να λέω σ’ αγαπώ / αδυνάτισα κι ομόρφυνα ξανά / ξύρισα το μούσι του παππού / τα ρούχα μου φαρδαίνουν / και δεν έχω πια προγούλι».

Κι όσον αφορά τα τραγούδια, ίσως να αρκεί εκείνος ο στίχος που υπάρχει στο «Chelsea Hotel #2» – τραγούδι γραμμένο για την Janis Joplin. Εκείνο το «We are ugly, but we have the music». Ή ο άλλος, στο «Take This Longing»: «And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me». Ή ολόκληρο το «Hallelujah». Ή… ή… ή…

Θα μπορούσαν να γραφτούν –κι έχουν ήδη γραφτεί– πολλά για την ποίηση του Leonard Cohen. Αυτό εδώ το σύντομο κείμενο δεν είχε σκοπό να εξαντλήσει ένα τέτοιο τεράστιο θέμα. Ο μόνος στόχος του ήταν να κάνει τον ακροατή του Cohen, πέρα από την εξαιρετική φωνή αλλά και τη μουσική των τραγουδιών του, να διαβάσει λίγο πιο προσεκτικά τους στίχους του. Άλλωστε δεν ξέρω κανέναν τραγουδοποιό που θα τολμούσε, σ’ ένα από τα τελευταία τραγούδια του, εκείνο το συγκλονιστικό «I’m ready, my Lord».

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