The blog of author Dennis Cooper

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icommentonvideos1: I wish i was as cool as you hardcore, rebelious satan hailing fucks. ** Redpougers: dude….you seriously look tight as fuck… ** Ameerz14: u guys are the biggest losers ive ever met…wow why do people like you exist like its a waste… ** XtremeHDz: shut the fuck up you fucking gothic fucks u fuckin steal them from ur mom ur mom should of had a abortion u look like a fuckin gothic girl fag 2012 is not goin to happen ur a fuckin cunt. ** officialbhw: U r fucking right about eveyything I just smoked I’m 13 and I stole ciggerate and it was weeeelllll worth it we are all gonna die someday face it. So fuck all u hhaatteerrss.

 

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[TechB] is using his mind to control fire. Well, what he’s really doing is using a Mindflex to control a lighter. He’s using the Arduino Brain Library to read data from the head-mounted EEG and sending commands to his own fire control system. Said system is composed of a cigarette lighter and a servo motor. The motor connects to the gas regulator on the lighter, opening it up when you concentrate and closing it when your mind wanders. The result is a higher flame to show more organized brain function. The only problem with the prototype is the burns you’ll get on your thumb from depressing the lighter’s valve while trying to get your thoughts in order.

 

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スライドすれば電熱線に火が点るJii

 

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This is a cigarette lighter that’s shaped like a cigarette. That’s like a bread knife that’s shaped like bread. Or a space shuttle that’s shaped like space. Judging by its size, I think it’s butane will be used up in 3 days.

 

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A Michigan motorist stopped at a gas station and used a lighter to kill a spider on his gas tank, which resulted in a blaze that quickly engulfed the gas pump and the man’s car. The damage to the gas station was contained to one pump, which was destroyed.

 

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This Godzilla butane lighter is a nice solid piece of metal from the late 80’s. Pull his arm down and watch out as the big guy spits out a tounge of hot flame. Not only that but his ruby eyes shine and he makes a weird noise. He stands a full 2.5″ high.

 

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This is the shocking moment a car and two of its passengers go up in a ball of flames after a young man flicks a lighter. Taken from a camera mounted on the dashboard, the footage shows how one of the men sits in the front, seemingly at the wheel, while a second sits in the back. The passenger in the back appears to flick a lighter, at which point a loud noise of something igniting is heard, as flames rip through the whole car. One of the men is seen with flames covering his entire head, while the other appears to leap out of the car just moments after his hair is lit. At this point, the camera is knocked down.

 

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Bruno ramps up the pressure as Guy starts to lose it more and more and Granger plays it well – not as overboard as his turn in ‘Rope’ and believable throughout. It’s a great series of scenes, Bruno appears tennis courtside and is the only non moving head in the crowd, his tiepin then giving him away to Anne. When Bruno sees Barbara, Hitchcock pulls out a wonderful superimposition of Guy’s lighter in her Miriam-like glasses (the fairground music fading in), cutting to a telling profile shot of the murderer, his expression noted by Anne. This is top drawer stuff, absolutely gripping and inventive – beautifully performed and shot and executed.

 

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Dangers involved with using this laser cigarette lighter to start off your smoking session include shooting your eyes out. [Masterjoa3000] shows you how it was built in the video.

 

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One of most horrifying fires I’ve ever been to was started by a child playing with a lighter that looked like a toy underneath his brother’s bed. The boys, who were 8 and 2, I believe, were playing under the bed. It was dark, so the older boy lit a lighter so they could see better. The bed caught on fire, and the older boy backed up from underneath the bed and ran. He was scared- he’d started a fire! He knew he’d get in trouble… so he didn’t tell. When his brother’s screams got their 8-month-pregnant mother’s attention, the bed was fully engulfed in flames. Without regard to her own safety, the mother rushed into the room, dove under the bed, and pulled his burning body out of the fire. She herself was on fire too. I met this family in the burn unit at two different hospitals. The 2 year old was at Children’s Hospital, and the mother at neighboring University Hospital. The 2 year old somehow survived; the mother, and the unborn baby, eventually died. Fires like that are why I started teaching fire safety classes for Red Cross. It was a tragic experience, but not unique. It happens every day, all over the country. Next time you go to a convenient store, take the time to notice what is being sold at child’s-eye level at the register, and you’ll find candy… and novelty lighters. I guarantee it. And yes… every picture featured below is a lighter.

 

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A 14-year-old boy was killed instantly after stepping on to an electrified rail line to pick up a cigarette lighter. Elliott Ives, who was wearing wet clothes, stepped off the platform at a railway station and onto the live rail. An inquest heard the boy and his friends, Jack Lindsay and Jordon Hunt, had just been swimming in a nearby marina. There were more than 20 lighters on the track and Elliott, of Southsea, Hants, and Jack decided to grab one. Police investigating his death could not explain why there were so many lighters strewn across the track at Emsworth train station, West Sussex. Elliott’s mother Michaela Nichols, 38, said her son could not understand dangers. “You could tell him something and two minutes later he would do it again,” she said. “He was a typical boy, he never kept still and was full of life.”

 

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It looks like the classic match and yet works like a normal lighter. The flame even comes out at the red bulb so you get the full match experience without any of the struggle of trying to get a match to light perfectly.

 

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This is the shocking moment a young arson suspect is caught on camera setting fire to newspapers on a bus – which then bursts into flames. Police have released CCTV of the moment the young man sets light to the paper on a double decker bus in a bid to trace him. The lad appears to use a lighter to set a corner of the paper alight before calmly getting up and leaving at the next stop.

 

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A geek took some disposable lighters, took the things apart, and used the pieces to make tiny motorcycles. You use the lighter function to fuel the motorcycles, which then can sped along at 30 plus miles per hour for approximately 25 seconds.


 

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Stranger relighting the Olympic Torch in Russia with a cigarette lighter.

 

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VINTAGE 1950’S BARRE NOS UNUSED 1870 REPLICA NAPOLEON EMPEREUR III BRASS KEY CHAIN FOB COIN SHAPED CIGARETTE LIGHTER.

 

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Hi, I’m Angelo. This video depicts a cigarette lighter I made in my cell while I was serving a 15 year prison sentence in California. I made it from two D batteries, masking tape, heating element, and a scavenged wire.

 

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Exceptional example of the wonderful items which came from the Ronson factories circa 1929. In this case a young looking nude girl is tastefully rendered holding a tray which contains the removable New Yorker Lighter.

 

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You are looking at a Maruman T7 Vintage Lighter Fully Working Rare 12420. As you can see it is in good solid condition with no damage. The brass plate on top is however marked. It works great, has a good spark but shall need refuelling by buyer.

 

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Rare Zippo Lighter Fires Bullets, Not Fire: Roll the flint wheel on this lighter but make sure your face is a safe distance away from the barrel unless you want a mini bullet to hit you straight in the face. This miniature gun encased in a lighter’s body was sold at an auction in 2006 for around $6,810 to an unnamed buyer. Aside from the gun/lighter, the lot included eight 6mm copper-cased cartridges mounted in a yellow Ronson flint dispenser.


 

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Chocolate Bar Shaped Butane Gas Cigarette Lighter

 

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This toe-curling footage shows a cigarette lighter being removed from a man’s stomach after he swallowed it whole. The man – who has not been named – arrived at hospital after ingesting the object. He is believed to have been on drugs at the time. Eye-watering medical footage shows the inside of the stomach and throat as the doctor pulls the lighter out with a special clamp. It’s very fiddly work and it appears as though he may drop it a couple of times, but he manages to retrieve the item. Medical staff can be heard in the background breathing an audible sigh of relief as the yellow lighter is removed.

 

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TheAvalon33333 dude this fucking guy is a heroine addict, he looks like hes been smoking a crack pipe * splityourheart OK dude you have to speak louder. I can’t hear a thing you’re saying with my volume turned up all the way. Just for future reference, speak louder. * Jupiter Is this dude on meth? * Riahbear Lynn Hi you’re attractive. * gsmaster42 burn your hair * Gary Anderson why don’t you cut your fucking head off you cunt

 

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A woman’s car catches fire in shocking footage after she lit a cigarette while driving. She can be heard screaming and seems to have smoke coming off her back, but otherwise appears to be uninjured.

 

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A Chinese man, who set a fire inside a packed passenger bus in east China last week injuring himself and 31 others, did it to gain fame, state media reported on Tuesday. Bao Laixu, the 34-year-old male suspect was lonely and had a pessimistic view of life, Chinese police said. He visited Hangzhou on Saturday and got into a bus packed with tourists near Lingyin Temple. Video footage shown by CCTV showed him pouring flammable liquid and set it on fire. Bao is from the northwestern province of Gansu and has worked part-time in other cities, including Lanzhou and Guangzhou. He has had almost no contact with his family in his home village, villagers told police.

 

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My grandpa’s lighter from his work.

 

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My taser lighter thing. It seems to light cigarettes fine. But I wouldn’t use it to smoke a bowl. What a time to be alive.

 

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Because a smoker often has a cigarette but no lighter with which to light it, an inventor has developed a self-lighting cigarette that eliminates the use of lighters. The device consists of a container and its pack of specially prepared cigarettes. Each cigarette has an oxidized fiber ring added to the tip that ignites immediately, like an ordinary match, when the cigarette is rubbed on the side.

 

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Get ready to Rock-n-Roll with our light show guitar lighters. Each lighter is designed to look like an accurate replica of a Classic Guitar. These lighters have REAL steel strings hooked up to replica tuning machines and features chrome “humbuckers” and contrast pick guard. Each lighter features a powerful, fully adjustable flame and electronic ignition which lights the lights and activates the light when pushed.

 

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Penis Refillable Vibrating Cigar Cigarette Lighter

 

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JERUSALEM, Israel – Police said a woman at a gas station asked a man for a cigarette and when he refused, she lit up his car instead. According to KTLA, the woman was arrested Wednesday after setting fire to the man’s gas pump. And the fiery exchange was all caught on video. The woman has been sent for a physiological evaluation.

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Nasir, Hi. Sure. I saw an email from you this morning, and I’ll get to it later today. Take care. ** Corey Heiferman, Hi. Yeah, the blog’s commenting arena is really fucked up right now, sorry. I’m doing what I can, which isn’t much. Time Out (NYC) asked me if I wanted to interview Brad Renfro for them, and of course I agreed. Prepare? Depends on the person and situation. Usually just see/hear/read as much of their stuff as I can, check out other interviews they’ve done, think about what I personally would like to know … basic stuff. Not a ton new here. Galleries are reopening. Today they’ll start dismantling the Olympics infrastructures. We’ll see. For me, mostly trying to rescue our film. You know I’m big on early rising, and not just because doing the p.s. kind of requires me to. Good that you’re back into your work. And any guest posts would be a boon, thank you. Never been Poland. Always have wanted to. Hope to maybe next year. Lucky you, exciting! ** jay, Hi. Brad Renfro is kind of the epitome of the child actor who ended up going off the rails. I think you mean Bjorn Andresen? There’s a documentary about him — ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ — that’s quite interesting. I’ve never liked VR so far. It kind of makes me nauseous, but hopefully the tech is improving. Ouch, hearing about those injections made my nose itch. So sorry you have to deal with the pain and scariness. I’ll do a Guro post, yeah. I collect Guro, so I have tons. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, B. ‘Muscle’, sounds interesting. Mr. Best is a fan of the bleak, that’s for sure. Hence ‘Flunker’, I suppose. ** Bill, Thanks a lot, B. What’s your gig? I envy you the chance to see the DeSana/Paul P show. Curious combo. You sound you’re maxing the place out. Great. ** kier, Howdy. I used to interview a lot of people in my journalism phase, and Brad Renfro was by far the most obviously troubled person I ever interviewed. He’d recently been busted for drugs, and he wanted to talk about that and his general troubles, and he was really open and sympathetic. But literally as I was leaving the building where I interviewed him, his agent called me and started screaming at me that I couldn’t publish what he said about drugs and his problems or they would sue me. The agent even called the magazine and threatened them. So there was a lot of very fascinating, moving stuff in the interview that I couldn’t print. Ouch. The injections. Ouch. Paris only got up to, oh, 31 this year. Comparatively, we got off very easy this summer. Holy fuck, obviously I hope the physical therapist can take care of your back. As a lifelong back pain sufferer, I so feel for you. Oh, man, that really sucks. I love ‘Resident Evil’ games. That most recent one was really great. No, the weekend just brought ever more horrible shit from the producer, but we’re hoping to start getting things calmed down today. Wish us luck. We really need it. Bisous quadrupled. ** Dominik, Hi!!! I wondered if you got caught in the Captcha hell. The fact that you got through is hopefully a big breakthrough. It’s so frustrating, this obnoxious problem that I can’t seem to do anything about. The days/weeks have been kind of rough because of horrible film-related problems, but hopefully this week things will improve. How have you been? At the moment I think I need love to be my nervous system. Love making everything in your apartment double as a cigarette lighter, G. ** Lucas, Hi. Oh, I just told kier up above. It was kind of fascinating and sad. He was a very messed up person but very nice and polite. My weekend was consumed by film problem hell. The less said about that the better. It is honestly massively, massively unfair what we’re being put through. It’s shocking. So sorry about school bringing up shit and making you discombobulated. I really hope somehow that that part of the experience will move way, way into the background. Let me know how the Wednesday meeting goes. This week is so far all about trying to stop the film related madness and save our film. And hopefully see some friends and stuff. I hope your Monday gives you really good vibes. ** Charalampos, Hey. My memory of Castaneda is that his books are pretty ludicrous and must surely seem very, very dated now. Thanks so much about ‘Face Eraser’. I do like that thing. I think I’m going to read it at my reading because I think it could pop when enunciated. Thank for wishing away our troubles. Soggy, chilly love from up here. ** HaRpEr, Hi. I’m managing to stay sane, but I am an infuriated nervous wreck. My today is all about changing things too, so let’s be a mutual force for change at least until Tuesday pops up. Great that you’re working on the video. Intriguing premise. Cool, that’s exciting! ‘No bad place to start’: truer words hath ne’er been spake. ** Right. Today’s post doesn’t need any captioning help from me. Hope it suits. See you tomorrow.

8 Comments

  1. jay

    Haha, that pro-smoking funeral home lighter got a belly laugh out of me, that’s so fucked up. That video of the Olympic flame being lit by a random passer-by too, that’s pretty incredible.

    Yes, you’re right, Bjorn Andresen is who I mean. I think I vaguely remember him (rightfully) causing a stink over the release of that documentary, I think he didn’t agree to the narrative they were telling about his life. I think they were sort of presenting him as nonfunctional as an adult, when in reality he’s quite well adjusted. Anyway, I’ll give that a watch later.

    Oh, when did you try VR? I think if your machine can’t run it super well, it makes you really sick, because the footage is choppy. Maybe that could be it?

    Ummm, other than that, I haven’t done much. Oh, Mysterious Skin was amazing, it was a really lovely showing. I normally get a bit awkward about crying in cinemas, because I’m often a loud sobber, but most people in the audience were in tears by the end. I don’t think I’ve ever actually been in a cinema where so many people were upset, it was a really nice audience.

    Anyway, please don’t feel toooo bad about the injections, haha, it’s a minor annoyance every few hours, in the grand scheme of things that’s about as minor as you can get. I’d love to see a guro post from you, please, please!

  2. Dominik

    Hi!!

    I’d been trying various methods to post comments, and, for whatever reason, it finally allowed me to do so in incognito mode yesterday. I hope the same will work today, too – or that the whole problem just disappears finally. It must really be so fucking frustrating on your end as well.

    Ah, no. I’m so sorry you’re dealing with yet another round of film-related horrors. Are they connected to your producer again?

    I’m fine. I’m reading Irvine Welsh’s “Resolution” and working on the new issue of SCAB, which I’ll publish this Sunday. We also watched this film “Fall” that’s about two girls who get stuck at the top of a TV tower – have you seen it? It’s not a disaster movie, but I tend to watch films like this for the same reason – because they make me fucking glad I’m not there, haha. (I have an intense fear of heights.)

    That’d be pretty useful, actually! Love teaching you the Hungarian word for lighter, which is “öngyújtó” – literally “self-lighter,” Od.

    • jay

      Thank you so much, haha, that incognito fix totally worked for me! P.S., if you liked that movie, I really recommend looking at the behind the scenes filming – there’s very very little special effects work, the movie really was filmed from that high up.

  3. _Black_Acrylic

    Japanese Telecom – Cigarette Lighter: LINK

    Back when I was in Chicago circa 2002, my good friend Maiko later moved back to Japan to work in her father’s cigarette lighter business. I think she’s still on Instagram and posts pics of these products, which even as a non-smoker I do find look pretty cool. I did send her a link to that JT track (made by Gerald Donald, one of the guys from Drexciya) years ago and of course she digs it!

    The Paralympic closing ceremony was last night and I think Your collaborator Gisele Vienne’s good friend Miss Kittin was DJing at the event. Team GB are bringing home a record haul of medals so good for them.

  4. Måns BT

    DENNIS!!!
    Sorry again for being so bad at replying on here, lots of life stuff right now but I’ll try harder from now on, I really like writing with you on here! How’ve you been? Any positive news regarding the film and its debt? And how was the program of experimental films you told me about? I really love going to those types of things. Last Christmas me and my best friend went to some strange program in Stockholm called “Trashy X-Mas” and every room was like a different decade of strange and queer short films. There was a Todd Verow room too! It was held in one of the floors of this huge building in Sweden called DN-Skrapan and it was a very strange night. I loved it!
    I’ve had this in mind for quite some time, but I finally decided that I will write a literary piece for ‘Papaya’! I don’t know if it will turn into a novel or a novella but I’m really excited about it. I think I’m better at writing than making films to be honest, at least as of now, since filmmaking is really hard when you’re one amateur behind the camera with a lot of amateurs in front of it. I remember this one novella that I wrote a year or two ago for school that I was really proud of. It was my attempt at making something very dark and gritty while feeling poignant and not exploitative of the subject. I don’t know how good it really was, but my teacher was really impressed by it and called it something along the lines of “dark and macabre but truly heartfelt”. I think that’s one of the greatest compliments I’ve ever gotten hahaha, I’ve taken it to heart, truly. I wrote it a little while before I read my first book of yours, and I just remember feeling like you did what I was trying to do but in a much more skillful way! I’ve recommended your books to literally everyone since then (I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this but my copy of ‘the sluts’ is literally loaned out to my old P.E teacher right now hahahahaha). So we’ll see how the ‘Papaya’ book turns out! I’m working on the whole structure of it right now, I really want it to stand on its own and not just being a literary repetition of what I’ve already done, and I think I’m getting close to figuring it out.
    And amen on the thing you said about sobriety being cool! I’ve only drank myself drunk a handful of times and I’ve never done any drugs, except for smoking pot once. I didn’t like it that much though. I think the main appeal of drinking for me is that I get a little bit more social, and I’m so shy and introverted in my normal life that it feels refreshing to be able to talk to people for once. But a sober mind is always the best!
    I watched ‘Inland Empire’ recently in a theatre btw! I think I recall you mentioning somewhere that it’s one of your favorite lynch films? It was so surreal seeing it on 35 mm in a packed cinema of like 300-400 people, truly magical. I watched ‘Suspiria’ the following day and competed in a horror movie quiz the cinema hosted. I got almost all the questions right, and I won this beautiful suspiria poster, some films and some cinema tickets which I’m really happy about! You a big Argento fan? I really love him but most his films are completely brain dead, I’d love to hear your thoughts on him!
    I hope your week is looking bright and well!
    XO, Måns

  5. Lucas

    hey. yeah, I found his answers about god and such very sad but I guess it’s common for someone to find in comfort in that when they aren’t well. that must be fucking awful an frustrating with the never-ending film hell, I hope you can keep your spirit up somehow. yeah, thank you, school is kind of impossible for me currently but in a way it’s good that all this shit is coming up because I finally can like talk about it with people since it’s now urgent. and I can actually deal with it in that way. oh, also I have a random question: I know you are (were?) super into video games but did you play pokémon? do you like it? it’s funny I was kind of a hardcore fan when I was a little kid and I kind of feel like returning to it recently, probably the new games though I don’t think they’re that great, but I haven’t finished my playthrough of them so. I really generally suck at video games but I always loved the list/categorizing aspect of pokémon. my monday vibes were pretty good all in all, I’m sending the rest back to you doubled in positivity.

  6. Dom Lyne

    Hey Dennis,

    I don’t know how many lighters I went through during my years as a smoker… I’d always end up treating myself to some fancy Zippo or something, but then it would vanish into the aether and I’d be back to some basic disposable.

    As for disposable lighters, there was a guy in Camden Town, just up the road from me outside a butchers who sold them for like 5 for £1… during my heroin days I think I kept him in a steady trade for years. Jacking them up and lending them to unsuspecting normal smokers… ooops.

    September again!! How did it get this time of year again? Means time to take the doggo to the vet for her jabs… I came home the other day to find she had decided to pull from my bookcase the scriptbook of “Human Traffic” and have a good ol’ chomp on it. She’s a weird animal sometimes.

    Love and hugs

    Dom

  7. HaRpEr

    Hey. I once owned that lighter that looks like a cigarette, I loved that thing. It stopped working one day and I tried to refill it and it just wouldn’t work. I used to collect old novelty lighters and stuff but they all broke so easily that I reluctantly gave up. I really like those old Japanese lighters by a company called ‘WIN’ that are really slim and minimalist. One day I’d really like a table lighter the size of a brick that you see in movies from the 40s.

    I hope our mutual force for change is going strong on both ends. I really don’t like to jinx things because I can sometimes be superstitious like that and don’t want to take the risk of bad things happening. But whilst the start of my day was not great, I am not not feeling hopeful (knocks on wood). Anyway, I hope you make it through your woes quickly and seamlessly.

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