I always try to avoid talking about certain topics like religion or politics. This is so, because I think it's quite difficult not getting involved in argumments that may possibly develop into fights. Discussing about politics, in my opinion, is something that anybody dares to do. I understand that, but I can't bear those who firmily discus something without having any background information about it. I, for sure, do not know about every topic in the world; but I do realized when somebody is a perfect ignorant about something, and discuses the topic eventhough. With only just a little information, picked up from the newspapers, the radio or the television, anyone can become a perfect conversationalist of something, for example politics, as this situation would make the theme a current topic of discussion. But, for me, you are only allowed to start talking about any topic, if you , in fact, have that little information.
As regarding religion, the whole thing can go beyond. Because it is more common that all of us have a religion orientation than a political one. And that makes this topic more likely to be discuss by anyone, than politics. Another issue related to religion discussions has to do with the preference for certain denominations and no other.This can make people end up looking as real fanatics. I really hate when I meet with people like that. When I realize that any discussion is at the point of develop, with a religion fan, I prefer to shut up and avoid doing any sort of commets. The fact is, that you don't need to go to any church to find yourself with those characters. You can find them in your house, within your relatives and friends, among the neighbours, it can be the taxi driver, anyone!. It is really tedious to talk with this sort of people because they always try to dominate the conversation. And, this is why I avoid discussing trivial topics. Because I always find myself unnable to speak up and to express my point of view as I am not allowed to. And those chats, always turn aimlessly, the conversation generally goes nowhere and people end up fighting instead of sharing thoughts and opinions.
Anyway, politics and religion seem to be perfect conversation pieces. These issues always attract people's attention and they make people start talking about them. When this occurs to me, I tend to give neutral opinions. If I am asked something related to those topics, I try to answer only yes or no, without giving longer opinions. I find this attitude a safe one that helps me to avoid talking about something that is not interesting to me.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
My blue finger.
Some days ago, I was going with my classmates to have classes and I had an accident. We had taken a cab which left us two blocks from the institute. At the moment of getting down of it, unintentionally, one of my friends shut the door of the car in my hand. A few seconds passed until she openned the door again and I pulled out my fingers. But for me, those seconds seemend to last forever. You have no idea of the things that crossed my mind while I was looking at my hand, half out, half inside the groove of the door. I prepared myself for what was comming next because I was suer that I had a serious injury. Although I didn't panic, I really wonder if I still had all my fingers, if I was going to see my bones appearing from my skin, or if I was going to die bleeding. All this questions had their answers when I took my hand out. First of all I counted 1,2,3,4 and 5, and assured myself that I still had my five fingers. I could feel pain even though there was no blood not even a cut. I finally realize were the pain was coming from: my little finger was blown up double size! And it was starting to turn blue! Despite this facts I knew that this was not a serious accident as I had thought, and just then I came back to reality. My classmates were sill there and made all kind of diagnosis and assumptions of what I should do next. We continued our way to the institute. Already there, I decided to ask for my accidente insurance, I mean for the insurance that all the students have. But making my right to exercise was not so easy. The administratives from the institute didin't denay to let me have the insurance, but they hesistated until they did it and I received no medical assistance at the moment. I was given a paper in which my accident was told (not exactly as it did really happen) and with which I was supposed to see the doctor that worked for my accident insurance. I was not going to see any doctor at all if my finger didn't get worse, but I wanted to have the formalities of the insurance done, just in case! The situation with the administratives made me feel very angry and put me really nervous. I wonder what would had happened if the accident had been a serious one.
After all, I assited to my classes, did my task and returned back home where I finally cried. Yes, I saved all my tears for the last. Days have passed. Although the blue colour of my finger has no completely gone away yet, it recovered its original size and I can move it without feeling any pain.
After all, I assited to my classes, did my task and returned back home where I finally cried. Yes, I saved all my tears for the last. Days have passed. Although the blue colour of my finger has no completely gone away yet, it recovered its original size and I can move it without feeling any pain.
The top ten experiences of my life. Part II.
6)The Rock Festival:I have a family of rockers. Having had the influence of a professional background knowledge in that field as heritage from my parents, my siblings and I grew up with a great preference for the rock music style. On february 2004, my brother and I had the opportunity to attending the most important festival of rock, of those that are held in Argentina: The Cosquin Rock Festival. For 3 nights we enjoyed the greatest groups among several amateur performers from the country, along with 2 or 3 international rock bands. Our budget for the trip was quite reduced, we didn't eat well nor slept in comfortable palces, and the rain felt intensely during the 3 nights, but we had an unforgetable and wonderful experience that will always persist in our minds.
7)Feelings of growing up:I spent my first 3 years of university attending to the National University with the idea of becoming a teacher of english. Due to several reasons I found lots of difficulties in following the career. And I had to quit. I felt disappointed and disappointing in front of others. Anguish invaded me. Fourtunatelly, that situation lasted for no longuer that three months. Finally, I decided to look for the opportunity of not beeing defeat by external circumstances and so, I started to assit to the Lola Mora institute. Having took such important decision in my life made me aware of my position in front of everything. I felt that I was another person.
8)Family unity:Yeasr ago, my father had a labour accident while he was in Buenos Aires working in a factory. He had an electric shock of serious voltage while he was on top of a five meters high platform. He fainted and felt down. The next time he openned his eyes, he was in a hospital. My family and I were at Tucuman. My mother answered the phone called that informed her that my father had been electrocuted. She travelled inmediatly, not knowing the exact medical condition of him. We waited at home for news. My father had several complications in the spine, many contusions and burns because of the electricity. He had long days of medical care until he was in condition of affoarding a trip back home. We finally met all together 6 months later from the day of the accident. The reunion was a moment of relief for us.
9)Stargazing: Have you ever seen a star through a telescope? I did! and believe me, it's amaizing. Everything happened in the Astronomic Observatory of Ampimpa which I visited this summer. The view was fantastic. I learnt a lot about the Universe and I appreciatted the sky from a quite different point of view. I understood it. I reflected on my diminutive position in the Galaxy. I perceived the distances and the magnitud of everything. I learnt about the celestial objects that lay outside the Earth's atmosphere. Among them, I saw Saturn and it's rings, Jupiter, the Moon and many stars constellations. The cream of the crop was the comet called MacNaught which crossed the sky near the Earth and which was seen for 10 days. The appreciation of it was breathtaking. If you ever find the chance to experience something like this, you must do it. I can garante that you would not regret it.
10)A future project: One of the most recents experiences of my life that I can place among the ten most important that ocurred to me, is the achievemnet of a project that I planned with my boyfriend. Since I haven't finished my career yet, the project is not completely achieved. But the countdown to it began when he moved to Buenos Aires. We had always dreamt of living there, having our home together there and starting our lives as an established couple there. Nowadays, I feel closer to that than ever before. And so does he. We are living happy times of fulfillment. We are seeing our future becoming a real fact. This is an experience that I was willing to have and it is what keeps me full of life.
7)Feelings of growing up:I spent my first 3 years of university attending to the National University with the idea of becoming a teacher of english. Due to several reasons I found lots of difficulties in following the career. And I had to quit. I felt disappointed and disappointing in front of others. Anguish invaded me. Fourtunatelly, that situation lasted for no longuer that three months. Finally, I decided to look for the opportunity of not beeing defeat by external circumstances and so, I started to assit to the Lola Mora institute. Having took such important decision in my life made me aware of my position in front of everything. I felt that I was another person.
8)Family unity:Yeasr ago, my father had a labour accident while he was in Buenos Aires working in a factory. He had an electric shock of serious voltage while he was on top of a five meters high platform. He fainted and felt down. The next time he openned his eyes, he was in a hospital. My family and I were at Tucuman. My mother answered the phone called that informed her that my father had been electrocuted. She travelled inmediatly, not knowing the exact medical condition of him. We waited at home for news. My father had several complications in the spine, many contusions and burns because of the electricity. He had long days of medical care until he was in condition of affoarding a trip back home. We finally met all together 6 months later from the day of the accident. The reunion was a moment of relief for us.
9)Stargazing: Have you ever seen a star through a telescope? I did! and believe me, it's amaizing. Everything happened in the Astronomic Observatory of Ampimpa which I visited this summer. The view was fantastic. I learnt a lot about the Universe and I appreciatted the sky from a quite different point of view. I understood it. I reflected on my diminutive position in the Galaxy. I perceived the distances and the magnitud of everything. I learnt about the celestial objects that lay outside the Earth's atmosphere. Among them, I saw Saturn and it's rings, Jupiter, the Moon and many stars constellations. The cream of the crop was the comet called MacNaught which crossed the sky near the Earth and which was seen for 10 days. The appreciation of it was breathtaking. If you ever find the chance to experience something like this, you must do it. I can garante that you would not regret it.
10)A future project: One of the most recents experiences of my life that I can place among the ten most important that ocurred to me, is the achievemnet of a project that I planned with my boyfriend. Since I haven't finished my career yet, the project is not completely achieved. But the countdown to it began when he moved to Buenos Aires. We had always dreamt of living there, having our home together there and starting our lives as an established couple there. Nowadays, I feel closer to that than ever before. And so does he. We are living happy times of fulfillment. We are seeing our future becoming a real fact. This is an experience that I was willing to have and it is what keeps me full of life.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Journal: The Top ten experiences of my life. Part I.
1)Holidays in Cafayate: During my life, I spent most of my holidays with my family in Cafayate. And when I say "my family", I'm not just referring to the ones who live in the same house than I, but to all my relatives, friends of the family, pets and whoever who wanted to join us in our trips. We usually stayed on a cammping site with at least 6 or 8 tents as if we were gipsies. As our journeis used to last several weeks, we assured to bring with us all the home facilities that would possibly make our stay more agreable. We brought our pillows and mattresses, tables and chairs, fans, boxes and boxes with food, bicicles and toys, tapes recorders, cards, checkers and guessing games. You may wonder how did we trvell with all these stuffs...we travell by truck!
2)Sleeping with natives'spirits: One summer, while my family and I were visiting the valleys as we usually did, we decided to take a look around to "Las Ruinas de Quilmes. As normal people does, we arrived to that magnificent place near midday in order to take the walk with the tour guide. After he shown us the ruins, the evenning came and tourists started to leave. So did the guide. But, as we are not normmal, we decided to stay. The important fact was that by those days, "Las Ruinas de Quilmes" included just the ruins and nothing else. There was no hotel where to spend the night, no bathroom, not even a light around there. But, we had took precautions. So, we took out our tents and had a wonderful night, sleeping with natives'spirits in the middle of nowhere.
3)Travelling abroad: I had the chance to travel to many different places of my country but I have been abroad only once. Tha journey arose as a Christmas' gift that my father did to us in 1995. The objective was a beautiful island in the North part of Brazil called "Guaruyá". The trip included visiting many other places nearby. The greatest thing of those holidays was that we travelled on a Swizz Airline Jumbo, in first class!! We had chicken with mushrooms for lunch in the plane. And I will never forget how much my siblings and I cried because we wantwd the menu of the third class: just rice!
4)My fifteen birthday party: It is well known that the fifteen birthday party is very important for every girl. Mine, was unforgetable. It is like a taddition to have a church sermon in your honour and to give a big party after that with all your relatives abd friends. But in my economical situation it was impossible for my family to affoard a party like that. Finally, when the magic day arrived, I only planned a little meeting with my closest classmates. After leaving the church, my parents took me back home, but nobody was there. I started to feel very dissapointed and I wonder how that happened to occur. Minutes later, my parents took me to a rent saloon, and surprise! I had the big birthday party that I didn't even expected to have. My sister had arranged everything for me and some friends of mine helped her to give me the surprise.
5)The most important person of my life: I met my boyfriend five years ago. I was very young at those times and at the beginning I didn't expect our relationship to grow and became what it actually did. He was a friend of my brother and that's how I saw him for the first time. At first, we were just friends until one day he asked me for a date. Five years have past, and I feel like if I have just felt in love with him. Unfourtunately, he doesn't live in Tucuman anymore. An important job opportunity arose to his life last year. After finishing my career I will go and join him where he is. My boyfriend brought a lot of happiness to my life and having met him is one of the Top ten experiences that I had.
2)Sleeping with natives'spirits: One summer, while my family and I were visiting the valleys as we usually did, we decided to take a look around to "Las Ruinas de Quilmes. As normal people does, we arrived to that magnificent place near midday in order to take the walk with the tour guide. After he shown us the ruins, the evenning came and tourists started to leave. So did the guide. But, as we are not normmal, we decided to stay. The important fact was that by those days, "Las Ruinas de Quilmes" included just the ruins and nothing else. There was no hotel where to spend the night, no bathroom, not even a light around there. But, we had took precautions. So, we took out our tents and had a wonderful night, sleeping with natives'spirits in the middle of nowhere.
3)Travelling abroad: I had the chance to travel to many different places of my country but I have been abroad only once. Tha journey arose as a Christmas' gift that my father did to us in 1995. The objective was a beautiful island in the North part of Brazil called "Guaruyá". The trip included visiting many other places nearby. The greatest thing of those holidays was that we travelled on a Swizz Airline Jumbo, in first class!! We had chicken with mushrooms for lunch in the plane. And I will never forget how much my siblings and I cried because we wantwd the menu of the third class: just rice!
4)My fifteen birthday party: It is well known that the fifteen birthday party is very important for every girl. Mine, was unforgetable. It is like a taddition to have a church sermon in your honour and to give a big party after that with all your relatives abd friends. But in my economical situation it was impossible for my family to affoard a party like that. Finally, when the magic day arrived, I only planned a little meeting with my closest classmates. After leaving the church, my parents took me back home, but nobody was there. I started to feel very dissapointed and I wonder how that happened to occur. Minutes later, my parents took me to a rent saloon, and surprise! I had the big birthday party that I didn't even expected to have. My sister had arranged everything for me and some friends of mine helped her to give me the surprise.
5)The most important person of my life: I met my boyfriend five years ago. I was very young at those times and at the beginning I didn't expect our relationship to grow and became what it actually did. He was a friend of my brother and that's how I saw him for the first time. At first, we were just friends until one day he asked me for a date. Five years have past, and I feel like if I have just felt in love with him. Unfourtunately, he doesn't live in Tucuman anymore. An important job opportunity arose to his life last year. After finishing my career I will go and join him where he is. My boyfriend brought a lot of happiness to my life and having met him is one of the Top ten experiences that I had.
Journal: Description of myself as if someone else were describing me to a third party.
Gabriela is a quite agreable person. She is loyal, honest and a very good friend. You can always rely on her and ask her for help. If you give her back what she offers you, Gabriela would never let you down. She has a sense of humanity that makes her seems like an alturistic sort of person sometimes. And it is just this solidarity side of her that brings problems in many occations to Gabriela's life. This occurs when she tends to care about the needs and feelings of other people more than she thinks about herself; for what she ends up giving up her tasks in order to help and rescue the others.
Gabriela will always fight for her rights. This usually makes her find herself involve in argumments of which the outdoor is not easily seen. The reason for this, is the fact that it is difficult for Gabriela to recognize when she is wrong about something. And this is the main cause of her relationships' problems. Anyway, if you find the way to mantain her feet on the ground you will always get on well with her.
Gabriela is a loving girlfriend, devoted and dedicated. Lucky has the man who has her by him side.
Her drastic changes of mood is probably, Gabriela's most unbeareable characteristic. If you know her well you will notice that she can go from laugh to cry in a minute. This is generally the result of what the ones around her called: her "histerical personality", which degrees go really high when her childishness arises. In these moments, my description of her is that of a spoilt girl.
Returning to the nice features of this young lady I would describe her as a hard working person. In peace with what she has but always looking forward for more. Ambiscious? Yes. A little of that!.
She has a very good sense of stetics and style, she is femenine and always trying to look fine.
Gabriela is very lazzy with sports but just with the connventional ones, because she likes risks and adventure. So, if you are planning to climb up The Everest don't hesistate in inviting her for she will, with any doubt, say: YES!.
Not very religious but really sure of her values scale, she has a well built morality and ethic side. Her position in front of life is the result of her close-knit family heritage, for whom the motto "support one to each other" has always been the main principle.
Gabriela will always fight for her rights. This usually makes her find herself involve in argumments of which the outdoor is not easily seen. The reason for this, is the fact that it is difficult for Gabriela to recognize when she is wrong about something. And this is the main cause of her relationships' problems. Anyway, if you find the way to mantain her feet on the ground you will always get on well with her.
Gabriela is a loving girlfriend, devoted and dedicated. Lucky has the man who has her by him side.
Her drastic changes of mood is probably, Gabriela's most unbeareable characteristic. If you know her well you will notice that she can go from laugh to cry in a minute. This is generally the result of what the ones around her called: her "histerical personality", which degrees go really high when her childishness arises. In these moments, my description of her is that of a spoilt girl.
Returning to the nice features of this young lady I would describe her as a hard working person. In peace with what she has but always looking forward for more. Ambiscious? Yes. A little of that!.
She has a very good sense of stetics and style, she is femenine and always trying to look fine.
Gabriela is very lazzy with sports but just with the connventional ones, because she likes risks and adventure. So, if you are planning to climb up The Everest don't hesistate in inviting her for she will, with any doubt, say: YES!.
Not very religious but really sure of her values scale, she has a well built morality and ethic side. Her position in front of life is the result of her close-knit family heritage, for whom the motto "support one to each other" has always been the main principle.
Friday, April 20, 2007
An Urban Lifestyle (revision)
Some weeks ago, I been visiting the city of Buenos Aires. Although I have not heard good opinions about it, in my journey, I discovered that there are a lot of things that attract me to that place. Living in a big city like Buenos Aires seems something that few people like. And it is a paradox the way in which you can feel soley and comfortable at the same time when you are there.
Buenos Aires is for me, very elegible as home and you can have my same opinion if you let this city works its magic on you. It has all the facilities that any capital city can offer you, like jobs opportunities, several educational options, a well developed public health system and different accessible ways of recreation.
Even though Buenos Aires is a huge city, there are many ways of transportation, some of which are really cheap. The Subway, for example, cost only $0.60 but it does not reach very long distances. The bus, on the other hand, is also cheap ($0.80) and there are at least 130 lines that can take you anywhere. Sometimes, combinations are necessary with the urban train. Specially if you want to visit the towns nearby the capital. Cabs are also available, but the price for them is quite expensive.
While for many people the only things that seem to stand out in Buenos Aires are the traffic jams, the noise, the concrete jungle and the polluted air, for others you cannot miss this city many treasures nad tourist attractions. La Boca, for example, is a typical one. In it, you will have the opportunity to appreciate the connventional area of a port mixed with one of Buenos Aires traditional features: the music style called "tango". Inside La Boca, Caminito will offer you street shows of tango dancers and all sort of stores and eateries.
Buenos aires also has beautiful public green spaces for relaxation, walks and picnicks, like the imposing "Bosques de Palermo" and the "Jardin Botanico". In addition, you can find that this is a city with a busy cultural and entertaining side. Museums like "Malba" are always a good option for a Saturdays afternoon. As regarding theatres, most of them are situatted in "Corrientes" Avenue. Spectacles goes from quite fantastic amateur performances to high professional Broadway shows made into Argentinian versions.
Finally, Buenos Aires night life is nutured by a lively atmosphere procedeing from a set of reknown places where you can spend a good time. The ones that catch my attetion the most are the vast variety of pubs and music clubs where all kind of rythms are played.
Buenos Aires is for me, very elegible as home and you can have my same opinion if you let this city works its magic on you. It has all the facilities that any capital city can offer you, like jobs opportunities, several educational options, a well developed public health system and different accessible ways of recreation.
Even though Buenos Aires is a huge city, there are many ways of transportation, some of which are really cheap. The Subway, for example, cost only $0.60 but it does not reach very long distances. The bus, on the other hand, is also cheap ($0.80) and there are at least 130 lines that can take you anywhere. Sometimes, combinations are necessary with the urban train. Specially if you want to visit the towns nearby the capital. Cabs are also available, but the price for them is quite expensive.
While for many people the only things that seem to stand out in Buenos Aires are the traffic jams, the noise, the concrete jungle and the polluted air, for others you cannot miss this city many treasures nad tourist attractions. La Boca, for example, is a typical one. In it, you will have the opportunity to appreciate the connventional area of a port mixed with one of Buenos Aires traditional features: the music style called "tango". Inside La Boca, Caminito will offer you street shows of tango dancers and all sort of stores and eateries.
Buenos aires also has beautiful public green spaces for relaxation, walks and picnicks, like the imposing "Bosques de Palermo" and the "Jardin Botanico". In addition, you can find that this is a city with a busy cultural and entertaining side. Museums like "Malba" are always a good option for a Saturdays afternoon. As regarding theatres, most of them are situatted in "Corrientes" Avenue. Spectacles goes from quite fantastic amateur performances to high professional Broadway shows made into Argentinian versions.
Finally, Buenos Aires night life is nutured by a lively atmosphere procedeing from a set of reknown places where you can spend a good time. The ones that catch my attetion the most are the vast variety of pubs and music clubs where all kind of rythms are played.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Journal: Conmemorative Stamps.
On 2006, Argentine Rock and Roll celebrated its 40th anniversary. For that reason, the Argentinian Post Office chose four of our legendary and most admired rock and roll members whose potographs where made into conmemorative stamps. I was surprised to see how much popularity had the celebration gained. The stamps had the pictures of Pappo, Miguel Abuelo, Tanguito and Luca Prodan who are said to be the pioneers of Argentine Rock and Roll music. These four artists were the ones who started the distintive musical style that developed later in the popular Argentine Rock Movement.
Journal: A Urban Lifestyle
Living in a big city like Buenos Aires seems something that a few people like. It´s a paradox the way in which you can feel soley but comfortable at the same time in places like that.
Buenos Aires is, in my opinion, very elegible as home and you can have my same feeling if you let this city works its magic on you.It has all the facilities that any capital city have to offer you.
While for many people the only things that seems to stand out are the noise, the traffic jams, the concrete jungle and the polluted air, for others, you cannot miss Buenos Aires many treasures. For example, its tourist attarctions, its public green spaces and its busy cultural and entertaining side. This last one is nutured by a lively night life and a set of reknown places to spend a good time. The ones that most catch my attention are Buenos Aires´vast variety of pubs and music clubs where all tipes of rythms are played.
Buenos Aires is, in my opinion, very elegible as home and you can have my same feeling if you let this city works its magic on you.It has all the facilities that any capital city have to offer you.
While for many people the only things that seems to stand out are the noise, the traffic jams, the concrete jungle and the polluted air, for others, you cannot miss Buenos Aires many treasures. For example, its tourist attarctions, its public green spaces and its busy cultural and entertaining side. This last one is nutured by a lively night life and a set of reknown places to spend a good time. The ones that most catch my attention are Buenos Aires´vast variety of pubs and music clubs where all tipes of rythms are played.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Journal: My favourite rock band.
Next Sunday, the legendary rock band "Aerosmith" is going to give a concert in Buenos Aires. I like this rock band since I was fifteen years old. The idea of having the chance of being in a live performance of Aerosmith has never crossed my mind. Just because, the last time they came to our country was many many years before I even heard of them.I am now participating on a ticket auction on the internet in order to get one of them. I could have bought it on a ticket official store, but there is no one left!!. This is my last shot in my attemp to enjoy Aerosmith on a live show. I am willing to know the final results of the auction.
Jounal: About 2007
I have the feeling that last year, for some reasons, I lost the control of my life. But this year I have a quite different sensation. Like if I´m back in the saddle again ( Is this expression too informal? ).
Since the beginnig of 2007 every single event has shown me that things are going to be different. I discovered that succeding in certain things depends entirely of me, that I had shut myself away in a negative thought that nothing nice was going to happen. But now I realise how wrong I was.
Since the beginnig of 2007 every single event has shown me that things are going to be different. I discovered that succeding in certain things depends entirely of me, that I had shut myself away in a negative thought that nothing nice was going to happen. But now I realise how wrong I was.
Journal: My last holidays
I spent my last holidays visiting the valleys of the north of Argentina. I stayed there for a month enjoying those awe-inspairing mountains and receiving the peace that nature can give to us. I checked in with my family at a very cosy hotel, locatted in Ampimpa, which atmosphere was very homely and agreeable. I visited many toursits attractions nearby Amaicha Del Valle including the museum "La Pachamama" and Las Ruinas de Quilmes" . This last one, is an important portrait of the North Argentinian Native Culture. Near the end of the trip, I went for a beautiful stargazing to the Astronomic Observatory of Ampimpa where the view of the valley was also amaizing. I have no regret about going to the valleys because I had this wondeful holidays.
Journal: 50-words piece
I am Gabriela. During primary school I had my first approach with English. I had little contact with it when I was an adolescent. I decided to make of this language my career when I found the chance to. So I have been studying it since I finished secondary school.
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