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1925 – Gore Vidal (d.2012) was an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist . His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. He also ran for political office twice and has been a longtime political critic.

Vidal, whom a Newsweek critic called "the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson," began his writing career at nineteen, with the publication of the military novel Williwaw, based upon his Alaskan Harbor Detachment duty. The novel was successful and the first novel about World War II. A few years later, The City and the Pillar caused a furor for its dispassionate presentation of homosexuality. The novel was dedicated to "J.T." Decades later, after a magazine published rumors about J.T.'s identity, Vidal confirmed they were the initials of his St. Albans-era love, James "Jimmy" Trimble III, killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 29, 1945; Vidal later said that Trimble was the only person he had ever loved.

Orville Prescott, the book critic for the New York Times, found The City and the Pillar so objectionable that he refused to review or allow the Times to review Vidal's next five books. In response, Vidal wrote several mystery novels the early 1950s under the pseudonym "Edgar Box". Featuring public relations man Peter Cutler Sargeant II, their success financed Vidal for more than a decade.

He wrote plays, films, and television series. Two plays, The Best Man (1960) and Visit to a Small Planet (1955), were both Broadway and film successes.

In 1956, Vidal was hired as a contract screenwriter for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. In 1959, director William Wyler needed script doctors to re-write the script for Ben-Hur, originally written by Karl Tunberg. Vidal collaborated with Christopher Fry, reworking the screenplay on condition that MGM release him from the last two years of his contract. Producer Sam Zimbalist's death complicated the screenwriting credit. The Screen Writers Guild resolved the matter by listing Tunberg as sole screenwriter, denying credit to both Vidal and Fry. This decision was based on the WGA screenwriting credit system which favors original authors. Vidal later claimed in the documentary film The Celluloid Closet that in order to explain the animosity between Ben-Hur and Messala, he had inserted a gay subtext suggesting that the two had had a prior relationship, but that actor Charlton Heston was oblivious. Heston denied that Vidal contributed significantly to the script.

He also wrote the original draft for the controversial film Caligula, but later had his name removed when director Tinto Brass and actor Malcolm McDowell rewrote the script, changing the tone and themes significantly. The producers later made an attempt to salvage some of Vidal's vision in the film's post-production.

Because of his matter-of-fact treatment of same-sex relations in such books as The City and The Pillar, Vidal is often seen as an early champion of sexual liberation. In the September 1969 edition of Esquire, for example, Vidal wrote, "We are all bisexual to begin with. That is a fact of our condition. And we are all responsive to sexual stimuli from our own as well as from the opposite sex. Certain societies at certain times, usually in the interest of maintaining the baby supply, have discouraged homosexuality. Other societies, particularly militaristic ones, have exalted it. But regardless of tribal taboos, homosexuality is a constant fact of the human condition and it is not a sickness, not a sin, not a crime . . . despite the best efforts of our puritan tribe to make it all three. Homosexuality is as natural as heterosexuality. Notice I use the word 'natural,' not normal."

Vidal was strongly critical of the George W. Bush administration, listing it among administrations he considered to have either an explicit or implicit expansionist agenda. He has described George W. Bush as "the stupidest man in the United States".

Vidal has had affairs with both men and women. The novelist Anaïs Nin claimed an involvement with Vidal in her memoir The Diary of Anaïs Nin but Vidal denied it in his memoir Palimpsest. Vidal has also discussed having dalliances with people such as actress Diana Lynn, and has alluded to the possibility that he may have a daughter. He was briefly engaged to Joanne Woodward, before she married Paul Newman; after eloping, the couple shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time. In 1950, he met his long-term partner Howard Austen.

During the latter part of the twentieth century Vidal divided his time between Italy and California. In 2003, he sold his 5,000-square-foot Italian Villa, La Rondinaia (The Swallow's Nest), and moved to Los Angeles. Austen died in November 2003 and, in February 2005, was buried in a plot for himself and Vidal at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

1944 – Roy Horn (d.2020) was better known as the Roy of Siegfried and Roy. They both were born and grew up in Germany. They emigrated to the United States and became naturalized citizens. Siegfried Fischbacher was a traditional magician (illusionist), while Roy grew up among exotic animals.

They met in 1959 when they both found work on a German ocean liner. Siegfried was a cabin steward and Roy a waiter. Siegfried began performing magic for some of the passengers, eventually being allowed to have his own show, with Roy as his assistant. Unknown to the crew, Roy had smuggled a cheetah named Chico aboard the vessel (Penn Jillette suggested on his radio show that it was an ocelot). Roy had come to know Chico from his frequent visits to the Bremer Zoo in Germany.

After developing their show they were given an engagement in Las Vegas. In 1972 they received an award for the best show of the year. In 1990 they were hired by Steve Wynn, the manager of The Mirage, for an annual guarantee of $57.5 million. In 2001, they signed a lifetime contract with the hotel. The duo has appeared in around 5,750 shows together, mostly at The Mirage. Their long-running illusion and magic act closed October 3, 2003 (Roy's birthday) after Roy was severely injured by Montecore, one of the act's tigers, during a performance.

On October 3, 2003, during a show at The Mirage, Roy Horn was bitten on the neck by a seven-year-old male tiger named Montecore. Crew members separated Horn from the tiger and rushed him to the only Level I trauma center in Nevada, University Medical Center. Horn was critically injured and sustained severe blood loss. While being taken to the hospital, Horn said, "Montecore is a great cat. Make sure no harm comes to Montecore.

Michael Jackson wrote and performed a song called "Mind is the Magic", which is about Siegfried and Roy. The song is used in the television series Father of the Pride as Siegfried and Roy's theme tune.

Roy succumbed to COVID-19 in 2020.

1978 – Jake Shears (born Jason F. Sellards, in Mesa, Arizona) is the lead male vocalist for the American music group Scissor Sisters.

Shears was born in Arizona but grew up north of Seattle, on San Juan Island the son of a father that was an entrepreneur and a Baptist mother. While living on San Juan he went to school at Friday Harbor High School. When he was 18, he moved into the dorm at The Northwest School in Seattle and finished high school there. Shears attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. When Shears was 19, he traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to visit a classmate, who introduced him to Scott Hoffman (Babydaddy). Shears and Hoffman hit it off immediately and, a year later, both moved to New York.

Shears came out to his parents at the urging of Dan Savage, who later called his advice "the worst I've ever given." In 2010 he participated in Savage's It Gets Better Project.

In New York, Shears attended The New School university's Eugene Lang College, where he studied fiction writing and was classmates with Travis Jeppesen, and wrote pieces for the gay magazine HX. For a while, Shears, who is openly gay, was a fixture on the New York gay and electroclash scene. During his early years while he was struggling to make it in New York, he would often earn extra money as a Go-Go dancer and male erotic dancer at Gay-oriented strip clubs. In concert, Shears is known for provocative dancing, flamboyant outfits, and near-nudity.

Shears and Hoffman formed the Scissor Sisters in 2001 as a kind of performance art lark, playing outrageous shows in clubs like Luxx, the heart of the electroclash scene in Brooklyn, where Shears lived. After a couple years struggling in New York (working with record label A Touch of Class, who produced "Comfortably Numb" and "Filthy/Gorgeous"), the Sisters finally found success in the UK and Ireland—ending 2004 with the biggest-selling album of the year in the UK.

He, along with his band, has become especially popular in the queer community. The Scissor Sisters video for Filthy/Gorgeous was directed by John Cameron Mitchell after Shears met him at a gathering of the Radical Faeries. Shears attended Sir Elton John's "stag" party before John's civil partnership ceremony with David Furnish in 2005.

Shears has been in a relationship with Chris Moukarbel since 2004.

Jake sucks!

1980 – US Representative Robert Bauman was arrested in Washington DC for soliciting sex from a male prostitute. Bauman was a supporter of the Moral Majority and a founding member of the American Conservative Union.

1961 – In Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) announces a revision of its production code. "In keeping with the culture, the mores and the values of our time," the revision advises, "homosexuality and other sexual aberrations may now be treated with care, discretion and restraint." The new ruling paves the way for the release of films like The Children's Hour and Advise and Consent, but the MPPDA later amends the revision to specify that "sexual aberration" may be "suggested but not actually spelled out."

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Gore Vidal was an writer, a political pundit and one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th Century. He was also a self described bisexual or pansexual.

Vidal’s lifelong opponent William F Buckley once said to him on National TV:

"Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered."

Buckley later regretted using “queer” but still disliked that Vidal was an "evangelist for bisexuality”.

Buckley was not his only literary opponent. Vidal famously had feuds with Truman Capote and Norman Mailer as well.

In “The City and the Pillar” (1948), one of Vidal’s earliest novels, he wrote about a young man coming to accept he was homosexual. At the time, some critics were so offended by the subject, they refused to read the book, let alone review it. The book made Vidal an early champion for sexual liberation.

A later satirical novel “Myra Breckenridge” (1968) described the exploits of Myron who undergoes sexual reassignment, and becomes Myra. She tries to take down the macho patriarchy of Hollywood. It was made into the 1970 film starring Raquel Welch and Mae West.

Vidal set a goal to make his life as “promiscuous as I could make it.” He wrote in his diary that by age twenty-five, he had had more than a thousand sexual encounters.

On the straight side of the fence, Vidal had an affair with French author Anaïs Nin. He was also engaged to actress Joanne Woodward before she married Paul Newman. For a time, all three shared a house together in Los Angeles.

Regarding men… he preferred masculine young men and paid them because the cash transaction limited messy emotional entanglements.

Vidal once said:

“The difference between Italian boys and American boys, is Italian boys have dirty feet and clean assholes, while American boys have clean feet and dirty assholes.”

Vidal’s one true love was Jimmie Trimble, who he met in 1937 when they were students. Trimble died during World War II. Vidal dedicated the novel “The City and the Pillar” to Trimble.

Among his sexual conquests Vidal claimed to have slept with Fred Astaire when he first moved to Hollywood; and also with a young Dennis Hopper. One verifiable lover was Harold Lang, a dancer-actor who starred on Broadway in “Kiss Me Kate” and “Pal Joey”. Lang’s muscular butt was also cherished by Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Levante.

Vidal’s life long relationship was with Howard Austen who he met in 1950. He described their Union as “two men who decided to spend their lives together". Furthermore, Vidal said the secret to their long relationship was they did not have sex with each other.

Austen managed the their financial affairs, travel arrangements and housing needs. They were eventually buried together in a joint grave in Washington DC.

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Não gosto da cusquice.Gosto de amigos e da camaradagem, não gosto das” amizades “que se perdem por coisas que no final das contas não significam nada... Gosto de palavras e de conversas sem fim... Gosto de pessoas originais, com humor,com ideias próprias... e com classe. Não gosto de carinho quando estou nervoso.Gosto do campo. Não gosto de seguir a onda.Gosto de coisas pouco claras, mas bem esclarecidas. Gosto de dominar. Não gosto de brincar com os sentimentos dos outros.Gosto de toques e de trocas de olhar, de demonstrações de carinho e de cenas sensuais. Não gosto de ficar bêbado até dizer a verdade. Gosto da grandeza das coisas simples, e gosto de coisas complicadas mas não gosto de complicações... O comum não me atrai, gosto normalmente de coisas que passam despercebidas... Gosto de gostar e de não gostar de tudo isto e muito mais...

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Debbie Harry doesn’t believe in harbouring regrets. “I have made many, many errors, but nobody leads a perfect life,” she reflects down the telephone from New York. “So, should I regret anything? No. It is a waste of time. It really is a waste of time.”

Dial back to the turn of the 70s and the life that Harry led before fronting Blondie – prior to her image being burned onto the retina of popular culture – was colourful to say the least. “I was so desperate to live life,” she says of her time spent hanging with the outcasts and artists of downtown New York. “I was jamming in as much experience as I possibly could and I don’t know if I could have done anything differently. I learned a lot.”

The old Bowery music venue CBGBs has long passed into music folklore as the place that called the likes of Television, Patti Smith, and the Ramones their house bands. It was also where punk and new wave progenitors Blondie cut their teeth before they sashayed into the wider world with the protean panache that would make them a household name. Classic singles such as “Heart of Glass”, “Call Me”, “Atomic”, and “Rapture” have been responsible for more worldwide rug-cutting than an industrial carpet tool. To imply that they were merely a solid singles band is to do them a cardinal disservice, however.

And although they’ve always cocked their attention to the things ahead of them, Harry and her Blondie cohorts have spent a lot of time looking back just lately. Harry’s long-awaited autobiography, Face It, hit the shelves last year, and Blondie co-founder and one-time partner Chris Stein published Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene, a photography book featuring personal snaps taken during the band’s pomp in the 70s and early 80s. “We can’t keep on touring and doing club dates the way that we used to. It would be physically impossible,” Harry concedes. “Living through this pandemic has certainly made us take a long look at the value of what we’ve got with our body of work.” Asked if it is a process of attempting to frame their legacy, she admits it’s something that they “have to do”.

This deep-dive into their canon has culminated in a mouth-watering archive set, Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982, slated for release next year. Coming in four formats, it promises to include extensive liner notes, “track by track” commentary by the entire band, a photographic history plus rare and unreleased bonus material. The group will also go out on the road – coronavirus permitting – for an autumn Against the Odds UK tour with Garbage.

The artist born Angela Trimble was put up for adoption only a few months after she was ushered into the world in the summer of 1945. A loving New Jersey couple took her in, rechristened her Deborah Harry, and raised her as their own. She grew up in a suburb that she “never left”, was voted best-looking girl in her high school yearbook, and oscillated within a social circle that consisted of “many of the same people” throughout her childhood. “I was somehow shy within that,” she recalls, “(but) somebody once said to me that being shy was an ego trip and a light went on in my head. I thought, ‘Oh, uh-huh, let’s have none of that!’”

Harry travelled by bus as a curious teen to nearby Greenwich Village, imbibing the febrile inner-city atmosphere. In 1965, she graduated from junior college with an associate of arts degree and New York’s allure became too enticing to resist. She decamped to the bright lights of the city and made ends meet with a succession of odd jobs, including secretarial work for the BBC, waiting tables and an infamous nine-month stint as a Playboy Bunny.

The period was a traumatic one, too, with Harry enduring an ex-lover-turned-violent-stalker and a near-miss with serial killer Ted Bundy (although Bundy’s identity is contested by others). In her memoir, she writes candidly of the time she was raped by a man wielding a knife while on her way home from a concert with Stein. Music offered a vessel for her creativity, and she spent time as part of girl group The Stilettoes and folk ensemble Wind in the Willows before her meeting with guitarist Stein which set the foundations for Blondie. Their classic lineup was completed by Gary Valentine (bass), Jimmy Destri (keys), and Clem Burke (drums).

“Somebody once said to me that being shy was an ego trip and a light went on in my head. I thought, ‘Oh, uh-huh, let’s have none of that’” – Debbie Harry

Although they self-identified as punks, the parochial and nihilistic mandate as promulgated by the genre’s militant diehards never fit Blondie comfortably. The group looked outwards from the moment they started, drawing inspiration from their cosmopolitan city. Their sound was a melting pot pulling at the seams of culture’s fabric, and they would weave their own patterns from it.

Harry agrees that their eclecticism was down to good fortune in coming from the “metropolitan area of New York” where they ingested “a lot of musical influences”. Taken as a whole, their catalogue bears this out. Blondie never stood still musically – yet never sounded like anyone else – and they loaded their songs with more hooks than a fisherman’s trawler. 1976’s punchy, eponymous debut married surf-rock textures with 50s girl-group sensibilities, and their palette had expanded exponentially by the time of seminal third album, Parallel Lines (1978). Eat to the Beat and Autoamerican followed, by which point they could boast flirtations with disco, rocksteady, funk, hip hop, and more within their enviable output.

When asked to pick one track that encapsulates the essence of Blondie, Harry opts for their 1981 US number one single “Rapture”. “What happens in ‘Rapture’ is very comprehensive,” she says. “It took a form of music that was, or still is, very modern and can be very political. Rap and hip-hop songs back then didn’t have their own songs. Rappers would just rap on somebody else’s music. (‘Rapture’) was crafted specifically for that rap. Until then that hadn’t been done. It was a breath of fresh air.” It stands as one of the things in her career that she feels “very good about”.

Blessed with the sort of features that could sell sand to the Saharans, Harry’s appearance caused a stir from the band’s earliest days. “That’s part of showbiz,” she says to me, trying to downplay it. “We always had an eye for that, the entire band. We always had an idea of making a look that represented our sensibilities and links to British pop and mod.” Maybe so, but it was Harry alone who was immortalised by Andy Warhol in one of his iconic silkscreen prints, and who posed for era-defining photographers including Robert Mapplethorpe and Anne Leibowitz.

Did the disproportionate attention she attracted ruffle feathers within the Blondie camp at the time? “Yes and no,” Harry remembers. “We were all happy that it was working. I suppose there was a certain amount of competition or jealousy but ultimately, no. I think that’s a better question for Clem or one of the other members in the band. Of course my relationship with Chris was so close that he was very happy about everything.”

The band’s wheels eventually came off after their muddy and unfocused sixth album, The Hunter, dashed against the commercial rocks in 1982. They had to abandon their subsequent tour after Stein became gravely ill with a rare autoimmune disorder, pemphigus vulgaris, that proved extremely difficult to diagnose. Blondie had no option but to bow out of the public eye, and they broke up quietly.

15 years later, with Stein fully recovered, the group reconvened and released a critically acclaimed and commercially successful comeback album, No Exit. They even topped the UK charts with lead single “Maria”, but faced tussles with erstwhile members at the time too. Former bassist and co-writer on “One Way or Another”, Nigel Harrison, and guitarist Frank Infante attempted to sue the rest of the band over their omission from the reformed lineup. And when Blondie were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Infante grabbed the microphone to express his ire publicly.

Fast-forward to 2020 and the settled iteration of the band are working on a new album with John Congleton, who produced 2017’s Pollinator. Does Harry have a formula when it comes to songwriting these days? No, as it happens. “When a phrase or a sentiment makes me respond emotionally or physically, I write it down and I save it,” she explains. “At a certain point, I’ll sort of review things. A lot of times I like to just work with a rhythm track. Just a drumbeat or some kind of drone-y rhythm, a groove. Other times people will give me a rough sketch of some chord changes – an idea that they’ve got. I seem to work in a lot of different ways.”

Thanks to her effortless chic and timeless looks, Harry’s relationship with the fashion industry has been a mutual love-in since forever, and she recently announced a revival of her partnership with ethical fashion designers Vin + Omi – the duo responsible for her profane ‘STOP FUCKING THE PLANET’ cape worn at the Q Awards in 2016 and throughout Blondie’s Pollinator tour. They have teamed up for a new sustainable clothing line entitled HOPE, and her enthusiasm for the project is palpable. “I love Vin + Omi,” she says. “They are so creative and adventurous. They have this desire to prevail and do things that are smart and modern in terms of recycling and making energy count. I think that is brilliant.”

As a fledgling bee-keeper, the plight of the bees is also something close to Harry’s heart. It was one of the reasons why 2017’s Pollinator was, well, named exactly that. “You’re either being stung by a bee or you’re going to eat its honey,” she chuckles softly, marvelling at the absurdity of the contrast. “But bees and water are two issues we cannot escape from. We should be concerned with finding better ways of living, using our resources in the best way possible.”

Help is coming, she hopes, through the election of Joe Biden, who is “firmly attached” to the idea of helping the environmental cause – and she believes his ideas can help the economy, too. “I’ve been saying for quite a long time that solar and wind power are renewable (energies) that can create jobs,” she says. It’s a far cry from her feelings towards outgoing President Trump and his “daily infusion of bullshit” and “thunderstorm of endless diatribes”.

“One of the most exciting things about rock’n’roll was that it was about breaking the rules, and (‘WAP”) is certainly a part of that. It’s titillating and aggressive and it is part of what is exciting about popular music. The nature of what we try to do is to shock and entertain at the same time” – Debbie Harry

What strikes you when you speak to Harry for an extended period is not only her warmth, but her unexpected humility for someone so staggeringly famous. I reference a Bob Dylan BBC interview from the 80s in which he observed with sadness how his fame had the ability to change a room’s energy and how he missed seeing people act naturally around him. She paws the comparison away, saying she’s nowhere near famous “to the degree of Bob Dylan”, whom she calls “such a megastar”. This could sound like false modesty coming second-hand, but in person it feels like a sincere statement, even if it is a little bewildering coming from an international icon. She will concede, however, that she has “definitely noticed and felt something like that” and has often wished she could simply be “a fly on the wall”.

There is also an inquisitiveness that makes the conversation a more two-way affair than your quote-unquote typical ‘interview’. She fires questions back at you, not as a deflection tactic, but to expand and explore a topic further. This happens when conversation turns to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ubiquitous “WAP”. A recent interview had her fangirling over the track, but Harry’s feelings no longer appear to be as clear-cut and she wishes to discuss the song further. “I love it and hate it at the same time,” she now shares. “One of the most exciting things about rock’n’roll was that it was about breaking the rules, and (‘WAP’) is certainly a part of that. It’s titillating and aggressive and it is part of what is exciting about popular music. The nature of what we try to do is to shock and entertain at the same time.” She pauses. “I don’t know. Everything is revealed and maybe sexual explicitness has come of age.”

Pushed about what she dislikes about “WAP”, she says she would “hate it” if any young girl or woman was hurt by the song’s message. “I think that, in a way, men have to know that women think like this, and that there is this component,” she says, “but I would hate it to mean that everyone should be treated like this. I don’t think anybody should be hurt by sex”.

Harry has long championed the LGBTQ+ communities. When she refers to her dearly departed friend and Hairspray co-star Divine as a ‘drag queen’ in Face It, she acknowledges the term in some instances is no longer accurate or politically correct. I suggest that it can often seem as though the evolution of our language is speeding up in the digital age – by necessity, of course – and ask her if online culture fills her with concern when it comes to using the right terms. “Yeah, (because) in many cases it can be a slip of the tongue, especially for an old dog like me! Things do move so very, very quickly. It is hard to keep up,” she observes. “Fortunately, I have a lot of godchildren!”

Speaking of younger generations, Harry likes to think she’d have coped with social media if she were coming up today, but is thankful that she had her “dark cocoon” in which to “bloom out of”, a place where she was able to “ripen”. “When you’re under the harsh glare of constantly being analysed, that shapes you whether you want it to or not,” she says. “It’s a germ or a seed that’s planted in your mind. It can take surprising turns and it can affect your growth. For good or for worse, who knows?”

“When you’re under the harsh glare of constantly being analysed, that shapes you whether you want it to or not. It’s a germ or a seed that’s planted in your mind. It can take surprising turns and it can affect your growth” – Debbie Harry

One thing that remains is her fierce level of self-criticism. “I always want to do better,” she declares matter-of-factly. “I’ve always been very critical of everything. I hear things or look at them and say, ‘Oh God, it should have been that (instead).” Maybe this hypercritical inclination is what still drives her forward. “I honestly don’t like resting on my laurels. I like working and I like creating. I always beat myself up about not being more creative or more prolific.”

When looking at the bounty of projects she has lined up, no one in their right mind could put Debbie Harry and laurel-resting in the same sentence. Aside from the new album, archival set and fashion project, the paperback edition of her autobiography will be released with a brand-new epilogue in April of next year. (Just don’t ask her what’s in it – “I don’t remember what I wrote. I’ll have to look it up!” she says with a laugh.)

The signs are that the musician is done looking into the rear-view mirror, though. Time may be passing, the tide may be higher, but Debbie Harry is doing more than merely holding on. Her eyes are locked to the future and she’s positively thriving.

Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982 will be released next year; Face It is out now via Harper Collins

#debbie harry #blondie #Vin + Omi #ethical fashion #explicitness #music blog

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elcinelateleymickyandonie · 4 years

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Filmografía

Hombres del mañana (1932)

El diamante envenenado (1933) como Jack Dane

Corazones irlandeses (1934) como Pip Fitzgerald

Royal Cavalcade (1935) como oficial del ejército

La chica de la multitud (1935) como Tom Burrows

El romance del estudiante (1935) como Max Brandt

Honors Easy (1935) como Harry Markham

Abdul el Maldito (1935) como Omar - Agregado de Hilmi

The Guv'nor (1935) como Paul

Grupo de bodas (1936) como Robert Smith

Two's Company (1936) como Lord Jerry Wendower

Fair Exchange (1936) como Tony Meredith

La billetera marrón (1936) como John Gillespie

Crown contra Stevens (1936) como Chris Jensen

Dame tu corazón (1936) como Robert Melford

La carga de la brigada ligera (1936) como el capitán Perry Vickers

Irish for Luck (1936) como Terry O'Ryan

Lo que busco es el amor (1937) como Henry Grant

Maridos caros (1937) como el príncipe Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau

El paciente en la habitación 18 (1938) como Lance O'Leary

Las aventuras de Robin Hood (1938) como Will Scarlett

Cuatro es una multitud (1938) como Patterson Buckley

Las hermanas (1938) como francés normando

Tormenta sobre Bengala (1938) como el capitán Jeffrey Allison

Corazón del norte (1938) como el cabo Jim Montgomery

Torchy Blane en Chinatown (1939) como el Capitán Condon

Belleza para pedir (1939) como Denny Williams

Five Came Back (1939) como Judson Ellis

The Spellbinder (1939) como Tom Dixon

Otro hombre delgado (1939) como Dudley Horn

Se acabó la luna de miel (1939) como Pat Shields

Casado y enamorado (1940) como Paul Wilding

A Bill of Divorcement (1940) como John Storm

Mujeres en la guerra (1940) como el teniente Larry Hall

Ana de los álamos del viento (1940) como Gilbert Blythe

Qué verde era mi valle (1941) como Ivor

El hombre lobo (1941) como Frank Andrews

El extraño caso del doctor Rx (1942) como Jerry Church

El misterio de Marie Roget (1942) como Dr. Paul Dupin

Dama en un atasco (1942) como Doctor Enright

Sin Town (1942) como Wade Crowell

¿Quien lo hizo? (1942) como Jimmy Turner

Para siempre y un día (1943) como Trimble-Pomfret Son

Frankenstein conoce al hombre lobo (1943) como el Dr. Mannering

Hit the Ice (1943) como Dr. Bill Elliot (Créditos) / Dr. William 'Bill' Burns.

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blog-malala · 5 years

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Sobre o prêmio Nobel da Paz

Em que ano o prêmio Nobel da Paz foi criado?

O prêmio Nobel da Paz foi criado no ano de 1895

Os ganhadores foram :

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Denis Mukwege

Nádia Murad

Campanha Internacional para a Abolição de

Armas Nucleares

Juan Manuel Santos

Quarteto para o Diálogo Nacional da Tunísia

Kailash Satyarthi

Malala Yousafzai

Organização para a Proibição das Armas Químicas (Opaq)

União Europeia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Leymah Gbowee

Tawakkol Karman

Liu Xiaobo

Barack H. Obama

Martti Ahtisaari

Painel Intergovernamental sobre Mudanças Climáticas

Albert Arnold

Gore Jr

Muhammad Yunus

Agência Internacional de Energia Atômica

Wangari Muta Maathai

Shirin Ebadi

Jimmy Carter

ONU

Kofi Annan

Kim Dae-jung

Organização Médicos Sem Fronteiras

John Hume

Partido Social Democrata e Trabalhista

David Trimble

Jody Williams

Bispo Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Timor Leste

Joseph Rotblat

organização Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Yasser Arafat

Simone Peres

Yitzhak Rabin

Nelson Mandela

Frederik Willem de klerk

Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Aung San Suu Kyi

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Tenzin Gyatso

Forças de manutenção da paz das Nações Unidas

Óscar Arias

Elie Wiesel

Médicos Internacionais para a Prevenção da Guerra Nuclear

Desmond Tutu

Porque Malala ganhou o prêmio Nobel da Paz?

Malala ganhou o prêmio Nobel da Paz pela sua luta contra a supressão das crianças e jovens e pelo direito de todos à educação.

#malala #malala yousafzai #i am malala #ganhadores do prêmio nobel da paz #nobel da paz

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nick-trimble-blog · 5 years

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Nick Trimble - About the most enjoyable interpreters of song are Jazz singers. The abilities of the human voice is phenomenal in the truth that one could imitate another person or instrument, or sing several octaves on the piano. The human voice can also interpret emotion in a way only a person can. Jazz instruments can show emotion, but the natural gift from inside the human voice is conveyed in a variety of ways. To Illustrate, each singer has his or her own style they have. Some of them may not be the best singers that Simon Cowell would compliment. Still, the're many Jazz legends and people like them who have their own individual unique style. The je ne sias quoi x factor of a voice that is distinct, yet pleasing to the ears. The Jazz singers who have this quality have been heard in many clubs, and recordings a long time ago. These Jazz Legends have helped make Jazz music popular especially with the use of the voice. There are four various types of Jazz singers that made it internationally of Jazz music. One style is the well-known crooner noise from singers like Ivie Anderson, Harry Connick Jr., Mel Torme` Michael Buble`, Tony Bennett, Billy Eckstine, Mildred Bailey, Michael Kaczurak, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Johnny Hartman, Bing Crosby, and Nat King Cole. The signature element of the crooner reasonable is a voice with a smooth and sophisticated resonance manufactured for the microphone as clear as a radio announcers speaking voice. Another style of Vocal Jazz Singers is the soulful bluesy seem with Singers such as Diane Schuur, Nina Simone, Bessie Smith, Etta James, Della Reese, and more. The soulful sound of voice is the skill of ornamentation of the voice running up and down the scale with ease. Bluesy and soulful is also a depth in the range of the voice that appear as if it comes direction from the soul. The're Jazz music Virtuoso's who have the skills to do anything from vocalese to scat to ballad to fast and complex in perfection. The Jazz singers of this category are Ella Fitzgerald, Phoebe Snow, Eva Cassidy, Ernestine Anderson, Betty Carter, Taxicab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr., Eddie Jefferson, Bobby McFerrin Jr., Jon Hendricks, Slim Gaillard, Rachelle Ferrell, Annie Ross, Etta Jones, Dame Cleo Laine, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen Mercedes McRae, Mabel Mercer, Nikoletta Szoke, and Nancy Wilson. The Virtuoso can croon a ballad and articulate it in a unique way. The virtuoso Jazz singer can also be strong and sassy and scat in great complexity without any problem. There is undoubtedly that the virtuoso Jazz singer is the entire embodiment of what Jazz is about. The last type of vocalist has an ethereal appeal that seems to come out of another place with uniqueness in noise, and acceptable to the world of Jazz. The unique style of Jazz singers is a sound that one doesn't typically hear. For example, the uniqueness can originate from the seem quality of the voice or by doing something that sets the Jazz singer on an unusual plane than its competitors. Singers of this category are Amos Leon Thomas, Billy Holiday, Lee Wiley, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horne, Rita Reys, Eartha Kitt, Anita O'Day, Ray Reach, Ethel Waters, Monica Zetterlund, Jimmy Rushing, Louis Armstrong, Cassandra Wilson, Al Jarreau, and Dennis Rowland. Each one has a particular good of raspy, lush, high pitched, yodeling, vibrato, or gift of humor. There are also the typical Jazz singers who deserve to be in the spotlight also for having what it takes to make it successfully in Jazz.

#NIcholas Trimble #Nick Trimble #NickTrimble #singer #Jazz singers #The Magic of Jazz Singers | Nick Trimble

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karinyosa · 8 months

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(10:32) Well that was schoolboy stuff, in a boys’ school, where such things happen. That’s long, long, long ago.

gore vidal on jimmie trimble, united states of amnesia / john knowles, a separate peace / michael daly, gore vidal's great love, baseball prodigy james trimble with quotations from vidal (probably from palimpsest)

id in alt.

#the parallels between gore and jimmy and gene and finny make me crazy #it’s just such a weird coincidence #even though i understand that this was like. probably a notable dynamic in boys school type settings #gore was eugene before he changed his name #again like. i desperately need to mind meld with john knowles from beyond the grave #this is the last web weave for now. enjoy!#web weaving #gv #gore vidal #a separate peace #id in alt #jimmie trimble #john knowles

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softersalt · 6 months

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@karinyosa yes, I do want to do this. Of course I do. Thank you.

Three ships: Just from... anything? Alright then, Louis/Lestat, Kaz/Inej, Reich/Toffler. Not necessarily favorites, just ones that are decidedly there.

First ship: I know I was faintly supportive of the canon ships in the Harry Potter series, but I mostly regarded them as decidedly there and debatedly relevant to the actual plot. The first one I got into with any real intensity was Grindelwald/Dumbledore. I was decidedly into the power dynamics inherent in liking someone more than anyone but still wanting something other than just their self from them, particuarly when the two of you form your own world that doesn't allow anyone else to enter it.

Last song: A House In Nebraska by Ethel Cain

Currently reading: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut. I read it when I was younger and thought I didn't get it very well, though in hindsight I probably had a better handle on it than I thought I did. Still decidedly worth reading again.

Currently watching: I mean. I guess. Jeopardy! That is the only TV show I actually follow at all, and I don't follow it all that closely.

Consuming: Lemon sorbet blended with Sprite.

Currently craving: Shrimp and cheese grits.

Current obsession: Gore Vidal. Though it has particularly taken the form of trying very hard to find information on Jimmie Trimble lately.

Currently up to: At this moment, listening to my playlist for my girlfriend in bed.

Tags: @sneverussape (no obligation or anything obviously)

#ask game #answered

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jazzfunkdid · 7 years

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzndrMwlyo)

MAM ‎– MAM-1‎ – Released in 1971. Jeff Sturges ‎– Jeff Sturges And Universe. Bass – Don Baldwin. Bass Guitar – Dennis Kelly. Drums – Jimmy Manone. French Horn – Art Maebe, Aubrey Bouck, Ralph Pollock, Dick Perissi. Guitar – Dean Parks. Organ, Electric Piano – Hal Stesch. Percussion – Roger Rampton. Saxophone – Archie Wheeler, Burt Esterman, Don Menza, Gary Freyman, John Phillips. Trombone – Jim Trimble, Dan Trinter, Bill Booth. Bass Trombone – Stan Nishamura. Trumpet – Bobby Shew, Derek Watkins, Jon Murakami, Rich Cooper, Tommy Porrello.

#Jeff Sturges ‎– Rice Pudding

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biofunmy · 4 years

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As Joe Burrow Spoke of Hunger, His Hometown Felt the Lift

THE PLAINS, Ohio — Athens High School is perched atop a hill. As the hill slopes toward flat lands to the west, a terraced parking lot and a tidy football stadium have been carved out. At the bottom are trailer homes stacked side by side.

To the students whose parents work at nearby Ohio University, or who might otherwise enjoy the fruits of a comfortable existence in a tight-knit community, those homes at the bottom of the hill are a persistent reminder of the cycle of poverty, the scourge of drug addiction and the fading light of hope that has long enveloped Appalachia.

Joe Burrow has been gone from Athens High School for five years now, off to climb other mountains. But when he jotted down a few bullet points on a hotel notepad and walked up six steps of a Midtown Manhattan stage last month to accept the Heisman Trophy, he had not forgotten what it was like at the bottom of the hill.

“I’m up here for all those kids in Athens and Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school,” Burrow said that night, pausing at times for effect. “You guys can be up here, too.”

Burrow spoke for six minutes, thanking his family, his teammates and his coaches at Louisiana State University — which he, as the team’s quarterback, has led to Monday night’s national championship game, against Clemson. He also thanked the coaches at Ohio State, where he began his college career. Several times, he stopped to wipe away tears.

But it was those 30 seconds that he spoke, with clarity and authority, about the troubles of his hometown, where he arrived in the third grade as a son of a football coach and stayed put, that carried the greatest resonance.

Ask any of the people from this rural region, from Athens up to Buchtel and down to Tuppers Plains, what they thought of Burrow’s speech, and chances are they will admit — not at all grudgingly — that it brought tears to their eyes. One of them was Will Drabold, who graduated from Athens High School three years ahead of Burrow.

A communications consultant who worked in Washington after graduating from Ohio University, he is the rare young person migrating back to Athens. Burrow’s speech “was like being struck by lightning,” he said. The next morning, Drabold was determined to do something: He put up a Facebook page asking for donations to the Athens County Food Pantry. The goal was $1,000, which he started with a $50 pledge.

Within 24 hours, the drive had raised $80,000. By Sunday, nearly a month later, it had raised more than $503,000 — more than five times the all-volunteer organization’s annual budget. Similarly, a food pantry in Baton Rouge, La., has raised more than $60,000. Other charitable groups in southern Ohio have received a modest bump.

Karin Bright, the board president of the Athens County Food Pantry, said that the board would be deliberate in how it used the windfall, but that a primary objective would be expanding the reach of the organization, which provides food for about 400 families per month. That could mean adding commercial freezer space so that more meat, as well as frozen fruit and vegetables, can be distributed. Also on the table: further connecting with the area’s social workers.

“The financial impact is going to be enormous,” Bright said. “We want to make sure this money is used wisely.”

On Thursday, dozens of paper grocery bags stocked with beef stew, chicken, tuna, canned fruit and vegetables, rice, pasta, sauce and bread stood ready on a broad table at the Athens County Job and Family Services offices, where volunteers from the pantry logged arrivals, asked families how much they needed and distributed a corresponding amount of food.

One man came for a household of 10. A young woman with scabbed skin toting a young boy arrived. Another man came for an older neighbor who was ill. By midafternoon, 42 families had been served.

“There’s a lot of research, and you hear ‘food insecurity,’ but you don’t know it until you live it,” said Nicolette Dioguardi, a retired lawyer who volunteers. “Until you’ve eaten chicken back soup and popcorn for dinner, you don’t know what food insecurity is.”

Cheryl, a neatly dressed woman who did not want to give her surname, never expected to be stopping by. It is one of three places where she receives food each month. She said that she retired from the county health department after 15 years and that her husband, a diabetic, retired from a supermarket chain with plans to spend winters in Florida. But a mudslide badly damaged their home and wiped out their savings. Their pension checks leave them $200 a month for food and gas.

“I’m embarrassed to be here,” she said. “It’s a lifestyle I never planned on.”

There are few better places in southeast Ohio to get a window into poverty and hunger than at its schools, many of which draw from large, sparsely populated districts set among the wooded hills and valleys. Teachers are attuned to spot backpacks with a broken strap, shoes with a flapping sole. At Meigs High School in Pomeroy, Ohio, teachers stocked a closet with winter jackets, mittens and socks for any student in need.

“We’re trying to help them survive,” said Courtney Irvin, a teacher at the school, which is in Meigs County, one of the state’s poorest.

Thus, the conditions for canceling school in Meigs County for cold weather are extreme: below 20 degrees for multiple hours during bus times. The reality is that for some children, they will be safer at school, where they can be assured of being warm and getting one substantial meal.

That concern is so pervasive that many teachers keep food supplies in their desk. So, too, does Robin Burrow, the principal at Eastern Elementary School in Meigs County. She is also Joe’s mother.

Her office is bright and cheery, a welcoming place for “kiddos,” as she calls them, from kindergarten through fourth grade. The office is dotted with photos of her husband, Jimmy, and Joe; there is a bookcase filled with stuffed animal tigers and teddy bears, bracelets and candles; and the accent colors are purple and gold.

Below her desk is a box of macaroni-and-cheese dinners.

How often does she give them out?

“Every day,” she said.

The poverty rate at the school — or those eligible for free or reduced lunch — is 36 percent. Every other Friday, bags of food are sent home with 100 children, about 20 percent of the school’s enrollment. One of Robin Burrow’s biggest concerns is what happens during the two weeks that schools are closed over winter break.

“Honestly, some kiddos we could go do home visits and electricity is an extension cord down the street to run a refrigerator,” she said. “I guess my umbrella statement would be that when our kiddos are in our building, they know 100 percent that they are taken care of, that we’ll do everything for them to be safe, happy and healthy. Until a child’s basic needs are met, they can’t even begin to be educated.”

The Burrows have lived a comfortable life on Jimmy’s salary as an assistant coach at Ohio University, where he retired last year, and Robin’s as an educator. They tried to cushion Joe from the poverty in the area, but sheltering him from it would never have been possible the way it is in areas where private schools and exclusive communities can build moats between the haves and the have-nots.

“I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you’re driving through it and you see these low-income homes that I hadn’t really seen before,” said Joe Burrow, who was born in Ames, Iowa, and lived in Fargo, N.D., before arriving in The Plains when he was 8. “I’d lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods before we moved to Athens and The Plains. You understand, but you don’t really understand the magnitude until you get older.”

Joe’s father was thinking of selling their house last year and moving to Baton Rouge, but Joe Burrow didn’t want to lose his connection to the place.

He said he mentioned poverty and hunger in his speech not because he hoped for an outpouring of support, but because he wanted to acknowledge where he was from and how growing up in southeast Ohio had shaped him. “I just mentioned it because that was in my heart at the time,” he said on Saturday.

Nathan White, who is Athens High School’s football coach and was the offensive coordinator when Burrow played there, traveled to New York last month. He watched the speech at a hotel before joining the Burrows’ party.

“That’s the first moment I didn’t feel like his former football coach,” White said. “I just felt like a guy from Athens.”

Joseph D. Kittle Jr., back home at a bar in Athens, was another who watched the speech as if Burrow were speaking only to him. Kittle grew up dirt poor in Trimble, Ohio, at a time when the brick plants, iron works and coal mines were flickering out, the hills were stripped bare of timber and the rivers were dying from chemicals. He graduated from Ohio University, went to Harvard for graduate school and was gone until later in life, returning to care for his parents and then marrying a childhood friend, Beverly Drake.

“We haven’t been in charge of our destiny for a long time,” Kittle said. “We weren’t really taught to brag a lot, and in fact we were taught not to draw attention to ourselves. Here’s someone who has every reason in the world to brag, and he’s not doing that.”

Kittle noted how Burrow, after being announced as the Heisman winner, went over to hug two of his former coaches from Ohio State, who had two of their own players as finalists.

“If you think about it, nothing was about him,” Kittle added. “The speech itself had this flow to it and a cadence — the way it was delivered was so powerful, and then what he had to say was very simple and very elegant. It was really written in a style that reflects how people think here. He wasn’t trying to have an impact on the food bank, but the humility spoke for itself and it tore at people’s heartstrings.”

When school let out on Thursday, Athens High looked like any other campus — students scrambled down to the parking lot, eager to jump in their cars and get to wherever they were going. It was easy to imagine young Joey Burrow being among them — and how on some days he might take note of the trailers at the bottom of the hill.

In one of them now lives one of his old classmates, home with her three children. A block away, Amanda Cochran lives with her young child in a trailer, trying to make ends meet as a home health care worker. She would sit in the stands at the football games when Burrow was in high school, cheering for the team. It was nice, she said, that he remained just as she remembered him, down to earth.

“You know, we’re a pretty poor county,” she said. “For him to come from this community and to show it, you can really tell where his heart is.”

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México acogerá Cumbre Mundial de Laureados con el Nobel de la Paz

Yucatán se está preparando para recibir 26 invitados de honor en su ciudad capital para la 17ª Cumbre Mundial de Premios Nobel de la Paz. Entre los galardonados con el Premio de la Paz, los ex presidentes Frederik Willem de Klerk de Sudáfrica; Juan Manuel Santos de Colombia, José Ramos Horta de Timor Oriental; Lech Walesa de Polonia y Lord David Trimble, primer ministro de Irlanda del Norte. Shirin Ebadi, primera jurista en Irán; Leymah Gbowee, el activista por la paz de Liberia que ayudó a poner fin a una guerra civil; y Tawakkol Karman, activista de derechos humanos yemení y fundadora de Mujeres Periodistas sin Cadenas, también vendrán. Rigoberta Menchú Túm, conocida por dedicar su vida a promover los derechos de los pueblos indígenas; Kailash Satyarthi, activista de los derechos del niño de la India que ha liberado a más de 85.000 niños esclavos; y también se espera la participación de Jody Williams, una activista estadounidense conocida por su trabajo para prohibir las minas terrestres antipersonal. Además de los 11 galardonados individuales, confirmaron otros 15 representantes de organizaciones galardonadas con el Premio Nobel de la Paz: el Comité de Servicio de Amigos Americanos; el Cuarteto de Diálogo Nacional de Túnez; la Oficina Internacional de la Paz; las Conferencias de Pugwash sobre Ciencia y Asuntos Mundiales; el Instituto Albert Schweitzer; la Campaña internacional para prohibir las minas terrestres; Amnistía Internacional; el Instituto de Derecho Internacional; la Biblioteca y Museo Presidencial Kim Dae-Jung; Médicos internacionales para la prevención de la guerra nuclear; el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para los Niños; el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados; la Organización Internacional del Trabajo; el Centro Martin Luther King; y la Fundación Nelson Mandela. El lema y el hashtag para la cumbre serán "Deja tu huella por la paz" y "LeaveYourMarkForPeace", "MiHuellaPorLaPaz". El evento se celebrará del 19 al 22 de septiembre en el Centro Internacional de Convenciones. Los coorganizadores del evento son la secretaría permanente de la cumbre y el departamento de turismo del estado de Yucatán. La Cumbre Mundial de Premios Nobel de la Paz ha sido, durante 20 años, un punto de encuentro para líderes sociales, empresariales y políticos, así como para todos los miembros de la sociedad civil. Los asistentes discuten las herramientas para poner fin a las guerras y promover el desarme y la reconciliación mundial. Este año, el programa se centrará tanto en el legado mexicano como en la participación de la nación en el proceso de construcción de la paz mundial. Yucatán fue elegido para organizar este evento reconocido internacionalmente por su cultura rica y vibrante y sus profundas raíces históricas. Mérida es un gran ejemplo de la sociedad civil que trabaja junto con sus gobiernos para crear un ambiente seguro que permita a todos alcanzar su potencial, afirmó la secretaría permanente. La cumbre, fundada por el ex presidente soviético Mikhail Gorbachev, anteriormente dio la bienvenida al Dalai Lama y a los presidentes Shimon Peres y Jimmy Carter en ciudades que incluyen Roma, París y Barcelona. El Comité Nobel noruego otorga cada año el Premio Nobel de la Paz "a la persona que haya hecho el mayor o mejor trabajo por la fraternidad entre las naciones, por la abolición o reducción de los ejércitos permanentes y por la celebración y promoción de congresos de paz".

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