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American love poems to appear in Persian

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TEHRAN – Love poems from Richard Brautigan’s collection “It’s Raining in Love” and Langston Hughes’ “Love Is a Bright Star” have been translated into Persian by Alireza Behnam.
 
Nashr-e Ahuraii will publish the collection in two volumes for the 27th Tehran International Book Fair, which will be held at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla from April 30 to May 10.

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“Fateless” to hit Iranian bookstores

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TEHRAN – A Persian translation of the Hungarian author Imre Kertész’s “Fateless” will be published in Iran in the near future.
 
Translated by Alireza Keyvaninejad, the book will be released by Mahi Publications.
 
The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew’s experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. 
 
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Musician donates antique Russian violin to Tehran museum

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TEHRAN -- The veteran Iranian violinist Bozorg Lashgari has donated an antique Russian violin to the Music Museum of Iran.
 
He presented the violin on his 90th birthday, which was celebrated Thursday at the museum in Tehran.
 
Lashgari’s Russian teacher of music had given the instrument to him, he said and added, “I learned and performed all my works on this violin.
 
Several musicians and officials including Saman Ehteshami, Milad Kiaii, Hassan Riahi and Fazel Jamshidi attended the celebration.
 
At the ceremony, the Music Museum of Iran Director Ali Moradkhani made a short speech about Lashgari, calling him one of the luminaries of Iranian music.
 
“A society would not be lively or happy without music. We owe these people who compose songs for us,” Iran’s National Orchestra conductor Farhad Fakhreddini said during the event.
 
Lashgari, 91, was a disciple of the renowned Iranian musicians like Hossein Yahaqqi, Ebrahim Mansuri, Ruhollah Khaleqi and Rouben Gregorian.
 
He performed pieces for a nationwide radio broadcast in 1945. Afterwards, he was hired by orchestras led by renowned musicians like Reza Mahjubi and Abolhassan Saba.
 
“Hymn”, “Storm”, “Call Me”, “Drizzle” and “Alas! Alas!” are some of his popular compositions.
 
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Cannes Jury Prize-winner “A Screaming Man” reviewed in Tehran

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TEHRAN – The Jury Prize winner of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, “A Screaming Man”, was reviewed Thursday during a session at the Iranian House of Cinema (IHC) in Tehran.
 
The Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the Iranian screenwriter Farhad Tohidi, IHC Managing Director Mohammad-Mehdi Asgarpur and several other filmmakers attended the session after a screening of the film, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Friday.
 
“A Screaming Man” revolves around the current civil war in Chad, and tells the story of a man who sends his son to war in order to regain his position at an upscale hotel. Themes of fatherhood and the culture of war are explored in this movie.
 
Speaking at the session, Tohidi said that Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a filmmaker from Chad who lives in France, and was invited to this program organized by IHC and the cultural office of the Embassy of France in Iran.
 
Haroun expressed his happiness to see such a large audience of interested people in the theater of the house and said that he is familiar with the cinema of Iran and has been impressed by some of the Iranian filmmakers including Abbas Kiarostami.  
 
Chad has faced war for 40 years and what you see in the film reflects part of the fact, he said.
 
He added that the story of the film is real, and is about a father who asks his son to join the army to support his position, but that leads to the son’s death.
 
Haroun next pointed to the prize the film received in Cannes and said that there was no theater in Chad before this movie, however a new theater was established after the film was made.
 
He added that the public sector has also offered him to establish a school of cinema in his country.
 
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Entezami Museum to feature 150 years of Iranian theater

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TEHRAN -- One hundred and fifty years of Iranian theater will be put on display at the Entezami Museum, which is scheduled to open in Tehran on May 17, designer Behruz Gharibpur said on Thursday.
 
“Due to the arrangement of the collections the museum houses, it will take a visitor an hour and a half to tour the museum,” he told the Persian service of MNA.
 
The museum was originally the house of the 89-year-old actor of stage and screen Ezzatollah Entezami. He donated the house to the Tehran Municipality in January 2012 to convert it into a theater museum.
 
The museum contains a large collection of theatrical documents, posters and photos. 
 
In addition, busts of a number of figures who were influential in shaping Iranian theater including actress Jamileh Sheikhi, and actors Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Jafar Vali, Davud Rashidi and Jamshid Mashayekhi have been put on display at the museum.
 
Due to the special design of the museum, the courtyard can host open-air exhibitions and events, Gharibpur said.
 
“The roof of the museum has been designed in the manner of Dowlat Tekyeh (a Qajar era building, which was used for tazieh, Iranian passion play, and seasonal religious ceremonies in Tehran) in order to host meetings on theatrical issues,” he added.
 
“The museum has been designed to make a visitor feel at home… I have tried to create agreement between tradition and modernism in designing the museum. Thus, the facade of the building has architectural elements from the Qajar period (1783-1924) and the interior space has minimalist decorations,” he stated.
 
Located in Qeitarieh neighborhood in northeastern Tehran, the building of the museum dates back about 50 years.
 
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Iranian people, literati to celebrate National Sadi Day

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TEHRAN – Groups of Iranian people and literati are scheduled to come together at Fars National Library and Archives in Shiraz to commemorate Sadi, the creator of the classical Persian masterpieces Gulistan and Bustan, on Monday, which is National Sadi Day.
 
The meeting has been organized by the Center for the Study of Sadi based in Shiraz, which is Sadi’s birthplace and also home to his tomb.
 
The focus of this year’s meeting is on the tradition and innovation in Sadi’s works and several scholars will read their articles on this issue during the meeting, the director of the center, Kurosh Kamali Sarvestani, said in press release on Friday.
 
Scholars Asghar Dadbeh, Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi, Sirus Shamisa, Gholamreza Khaki and the Spanish translator of the Gulistan, Joaquin Rodríguez Vargas, will deliver speeches.
 
Sadi (c. 1213-1291) is known for his works the Bustan (The Orchard) and the Gulistan (The Rose Garden), which have been translated into almost every major language.
 
Andre du Ryer was the first European to present Sadi to the West by means of a partial French translation of the Gulistan in 1634. Adam Olearius followed soon with a complete translation of the Bustan and the Gulistan into German in 1654.
 
British orientalists Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883) Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) and several other Western translators rendered the Gulistan and the Bustan into English.
 
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Iranian short film to go on screen at Cannes festival

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian movie “The Night the Earth Stopped” will go on screen at the Short Film Corner of the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25.
 
Directed by Puya Nabbi, the film tells the story of a family, whose members are waiting for the apocalypse in a poetic atmosphere.
 
Misaq Zare’, Bahareh Riahi and Sana Alavian are the main members of the cast for the film.
 
Since 2004, short film producers and directors have chosen the Short Film Corner as the place to present their films, arrange meetings and take decisive steps for the future of their careers.
 
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German poetry discussed at Tehran meeting

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TEHRAN – German poetry was discussed at a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday evening.
 
The meeting entitled the German Poetry Night was organized by the Persian literary monthly Bokhara at the Mahmud Afshar Foundation, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Saturday.
 
Iranian literati Mahmud Dowlatabadi, Saeid Firuzabadi, Yunes Nurbaksh, Bokhara Managing Director Ali Dehbashi, and the chairman of the cultural section of the German Embassy Otto Graf attended the meeting.
 
“German Poetry from the Beginning to the Present”, an anthology of German poems selected and translated by Ali Ghazanfari, was also introduced at the ceremony.
 
The book covers German poetry from the “Merseburg Incantations”, which were composed in the 9th or 10th century, to works by contemporary German poets.
 
Speaking at the ceremony, Dowlatabadi regarded the book as an important source, since it informs readers about when German language was formed and what efforts were made to make this language flourish and grow.
 
“I believe the book acts as an educational text for those who want to become familiar with German culture and literature,” he added.
 
Poetry enjoys a special position in Persian culture and language, higher than its position in the German language, Otto Graf next said at the ceremony.
 
He mentioned that the book is a selection of German poetry which helps readers better to become familiar with German culture and literature.
 
Dehbashi next talked about the recent activities of Ghazanfari and said that several of Ghazanfari’s translations, including selections of poetry by the Persian poets Hafez, Sadi and Rumi, have been published in Germany, while he has published several books in Iran as well.
 
Ghazanfari was the last to speak and said that what was important for him was the selection of the poetry.
 
“I selected 130 poets out of 170 individuals, some of whom are no longer living, and I contacted their publishers. I also directly asked for permission from those who are still alive,” he concluded.
 
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Paris Museum of Modern Art to showcase Persian works

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TEHRAN – Works by Iranian artists will be put on display in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (Musée d’Art Moderne) in Paris in May.
 
The exhibition entitled Unedited History reflects the art and visual culture of Iran from the 1960s to the present.
 
Over 200 posters, paintings and photographs will be shown in the exhibit, which will open on May 16, the organizers have announced.
 
Twenty artists from the years 1960–1970 and a group of representatives from the new generation will be presenting their works in the exhibit.
 
Morteza Avini, Kazem Chalipa, Kaveh Golestan, Bahman Jalali, Ardeshir Mohasses, Morteza Momayyez, Kamran Shirdel and Kurosh Shishegaran are among the artists whose works have been selected for the exhibit.
 
Moreover, a book with the same title as the exhibit will be offered on the sidelines of the exhibit, which will be running until August 24.
 
The book contains details of the works with essays and historical material, bringing a fresh perspective to local-global interaction in the Iranian art context. 
 
Vali Mahluji, Bavand Behpur, Hamed Yusef and Morad Montazami are among the authors of the book. 
 
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Dubai gallery to explore rose and nightingale in contemporary Iranian art

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TEHRAN -- The Jamm Gallery in Dubai plans to spotlight the rose and the nightingale in contemporary Iranian art during an exhibition, which will run from April 24 to May 29.
 
Works by Navid Azimi-Sajjadi, Masumeh Bakhtiari, Ladan Borujerdi, Dariush Hosseini, Farid Jafari Samarqandi, Farideh Lashaii and Farshid Mesqali will be showcased at the exhibit entitled “The Rose and the Nightingale: A Persian Iconography”.
 
In addition, works by Hooman Mortazavi, Tarlan Rafiei, Amin Roshan, Yashar Samimi-Mofakham, Rozita Sharafjahan, Rasul Soltani and Gizella Varga Sinai have been selected for the art show, which will be curated by Maneli Keykavusi.
 
“The rose and the nightingale have been used in Persian literature and visual imagery for many centuries,” Jamm wrote about the history of the rose and the nightingale in Iranian culture. 
 
“In literature, the rose and the nightingale have symbolized both earthly and spiritual love: the rose as a metaphor for perfection, beauty and the beloved, sometimes self-absorbed and cruel, and the nightingale representing the lover or the poet who endlessly sings his passion and devotion for the rose.
 
“The rose has symbolized God, the Prophet or the earthly beloved, the nightingale has represented transcendence of the soul yearning to become one with the beloved.”
 
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Iran to be guest of honor at Florence handicraft fair

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TEHRAN – Iran will be the guest of honor at the 78th International Handicrafts Trade Fair, which will be held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy from April 24 to May 1.
 
Iran will present the charm of ancient Persia, with its millenary culture and its exquisite handicrafts, the website of the fair announced.
 
The exhibition of Iranian handicraft and tourist attractions will be held on the lower floor of the Spadolini Pavilion.
 
Persian carpets and kilims, textile printing artworks   as well as silver, bronze and ceramic handicrafts, miniatures and special hand blown glass products will go on display during the event.
 
Delicious dates, pistachios, saffron and typical Iranian sweets will also be featured in this special area.
 
“We are extremely honored and pleased with the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran as Special Guest Country of the 78th edition of the exhibition, and we believe this is a valuable opportunity to get to know better the cradle of one of the most ancient human civilizations,” the Iranian ambassador to Rome, Jahanbakhsh Mozaffari, said in a statement.
 
A masterpiece of military Renaissance architecture, the Fortezza da Basso has always been the main venue of the exhibition center in Florence since 1967.
 
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“Shadows Roam Wherever They Want” heading to Bangkok filmfest

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TEHRAN – The Iranian documentary “Shadows Roam Wherever They Want” is scheduled to be screened at the 12th Annual World Film Festival of Bangkok, which will be held from October 17 to 26.
 
Directed by Milad and Sajad Sotudeh, the documentary is about shadows.

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Plays by Václav Havel appear in Persian

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TEHRAN – Persian versions of several plays by Czech dramatist Václav Havel have recently been published in Iran. 
 
“Protest and Four Other Plays”, “Mountain Hotel”, “Guardian Angel”, “Motomorphosis”, “Unveiling” and “Mistake” have been put out by Jahan-e Ketab Publications.

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Iranian films line up for Berlin festival

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TEHRAN – Six Iranian films will compete in the 29th Black International Cinema Berlin, which will be held from May 7 to 11.
 
The films are “End of Season 3” directed by Soran Fahim, “Almond” by Mokhtar Masumyan, “The Next Morning” by Ali Hashemi, “They” by Morteza Sabzeqaba, “Cockroaches Hate Light” by Hamid Sadeqpur, and “From Minus One” by Marjan Ashrafizadeh.
 
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Iran seeks registration of five books on UNESCO list

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TEHRAN -- Iran has recently applied for registration of five rare books on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list.
 
The five books have been proposed by the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) Director Reza Salahi-Amiri said in the first press conference after the Noruz holiday on Sunday.
 
The Bustan (The Orchard) and the Gulistan (The Rose Garden) of Persian poet Sadi (c. 1213-1291), inscribed by the 14th century calligrapher Ahmad Shirazi and preserved in the National Library and Archives of Iran, (NLAI) is one of the books submitted, NLAI Deputy Director Gholamreza Amirkhani explained.
 
A copy of Masnavi-ye Manavi, the magnum opus of the Persian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) is the second document, he added.
 
The third document is Abu Is’haq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri’s “Kitab al-masalik wa-al-mamalik” (Book of Roads and Kingdoms) dating back to the 10th century, he said, adding that the Persian translation of the book is being preserved in the National Museum of Iran.
 
However, the original text is being kept in a library in Germany and the book has been jointly proposed by Iran and Germany to UNESCO, Amirkhani said.
 
A rare copy of “Al-abnia ‘an haqaeq al-adwia” written by the 12th century writer Abu Mansur Mowaffaq Heravi is the fourth book.
 
The fifth document is Safarnama (travelogue) by the 11th century Persian poet Nasir Khusraw, he concluded.
 
UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register is a list of library collections and archive holdings of world significance.
 
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Leader asks eulogists to avoid highlighting differences among Muslims

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TEHRAN -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has asked eulogists and religious poets to avoid highlighting the differences among Muslims.
 
Speaking at a meeting with a group of eulogists and religious poets on Sunday, the Leader said, “I have repeatedly said that today, religious differences among Muslims are like swords in the hands of the enemy.”
 
The meeting was organized to commemorate the birthday of Hazrat Fatima (SA), the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (S). 
 
“If the eulogist community accomplishes their given task well, a positive development will occur nationwide. Sometimes a eulogy session achieves better results than a two-hour lecture,” the Leader stated.
 
He went on to say that eulogists can make use of modern media like the Internet “to fight against the enemy’s efforts to destroy people’s faith,” and added, “However, holding eulogy sessions is the single best way” to struggle against their nefarious schemes. 
 
A number of eulogists made recitations about Hazrat Fatima (SA) before the Leader’s speech.
 
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Tehran Book City Institute to host weeklong commemoration of Tolstoy

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TEHRAN -- The Russian novelist and social critic Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) will be commemorated during a weeklong program at Tehran’s Book City Institute next week.
 
The program entitled “One Week with Tolstoy” has been organized with the help of the Leo Tolstoy Foundation in Moscow and Iran’s Islamic Cultural Relations Organization (ICRO), Book City Institute Deputy Director Ali-Asghar Mohammadkhani said in a press release on Sunday.
 
Tolstoy’s great-great-grandson, Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy, his wife and a group of producers from Russian state TV are scheduled to attend the program, which will begin on April 27 with a meeting entitled “What Have I Learned from Tolstoy?”.
 
Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy will bring a collection of Tolstoy’s portraits created by various artists over the past decades to be showcased at an exhibition, which will open on the first day of the program, Mohammadkhani said.
 
The Iranian authors Reza Amirkhani, Nahid Tabatabaii, Mohammadreza Bairami, Mohammad-Hassan Shahsavari, Belqeys Soleimani and Maham Miqani will share what they have learned from Tolstoy’s works and life at the meeting.
 
“War and Peace”, a movie adaption of Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”, directed by the U.S. filmmaker King Vidor will be screened and reviewed in a session on the second day of the week.
 
The next two days have been dedicated to a seminar on Tolstoy’s opinions and thoughts, which will begin with speeches by Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy and ICRO Director Abuzar Ebrahimi.
 
Iranian experts on philosophy Reza Davari and Karim Mojtahedi, and scholars Zahra Mohammadi, Mahnaz Sadri, Gholamreza Khaki, Masumeh Motamednia and Fatemeh Qasemi will also deliver speeches at the seminar.
 
“One Week with Tolstoy” will go on with another meeting on May 1, during which a number of Iranian cineastes and thespians including Reza Kianian, Hassan Fat’hi, Mohammad Charmshir, Esmaeil Shafiei and Sorush Sehat will give lectures on what they have learned from Tolstoy.
 
A lineup of movies and documentaries are also scheduled to be screened during the program.
 
“Tolstoy not only was a writer, but also was a philosopher and an ideological leader, who was considered a critic of modern civilization,” Mohammadkhani said.
 
“Tolstoy’s opinions and teachings about education, religion, individual and social behavior, and art have great significance to all so they should be discussed and analyzed,” he added.
 
“His life can be deemed a mirror, which reflects remarkably all hopes and concerns of Russia. More than one hundred Persian versions of his works have been published over the past fifty years. Undoubtedly, he ranks among the top world writers and is really the standard-bearer and pioneer of the world literature Goethe had predicted,” he stated.
 
Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy, who is the director of the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum and cofounder of the Leo Tolstoy Foundation, has been invited by the 27th Tehran International Book Fair, which will be held from April 30 to May 10.
 
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Artists to express ‘what’s on their minds’ in video art project

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TEHRAN – Seven artists will be holding a series of video installations entitled “What’s on Your Mind?” at Tehran’s Aryana Gallery from April 25 to May 1. 
 
Reza Kianian, Amir Esbati, Samira Alikhanzadeh, Hesam Nuraii, Hamed Safaii, Abtin Mozaffari are the artists collaborating in this project, curator Golzar Hasanzadeh, who is also among the participating artists, told the Persian service of ISNA on Sunday.
 
The artists have been asked to express their attitudes about the phrase “What’s on your mind” through their video art projects, he added.
 
A good video art project must make the best use of space and light in a gallery, and that is why I wanted to cooperate with the artists who were already familiar with video art projects, he added.
 
A graduate of cinema from Toronto, Hasanzadeh said that he has decided to concentrate more on video arts projects and hold different exhibits to introduce this art more appropriately.
 
The gallery is located in Nakhl Shopping Center, in the Mahallati neighborhood.
 
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ECO Cultural Institute to host exhibition of Iranian handicrafts

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TEHRAN – A collection of exquisite Iranian handicrafts will go on display in an exhibition at the Economic Cooperation Organization’s Cultural Institute in Tehran.
 
Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization Director Masud Soltanifar and groups of foreign diplomats will attend the opening ceremony of the exhibit today.
 
The show will run until April 29 at the institute located on Naz St., off Movahhed Danesh Ave. in the Aqdasieh neighborhood.

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Iranian Quran reciter, memorizer to compete in Tunisian contest

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TEHRAN – Iranian reciter Mohammad Noruzi and memorizer Peyman Ayazi will participate in the 4th Tunis International Quran Memorization and Recitation Competition.
 
The contest will be held in the Tunisian capital from May 3 to 8.
 
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