Sunday, June 30, 2019

Algol: Just saw composer Leif Segerstam's hair for 1st time & Googled if he's a hippy:) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 Sinfónica de Galicia * * * Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether Scottish Country Dancing music, Scottish Drumming … jamming, or classical chamber music in group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add * * * Principal of the National Piping Centre, Roddy MacLeod in Glasgow, Scotland, Piping lessons at National Piping Centre with Finlay MacDonald, head of Piping Studies there * * * NEW RECORDINGS for learning the Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A from the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1) ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL


College of Piping's Highland Bagpipe Green Tutor (Vol 1)
https://images.app.goo.gl/mn42xrQLfhkB6Ssi9 … NEW RECORDINGS for learning Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using this Tutor ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos … - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html … by @scottmacleod  @WorldUnivAndSch ~


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Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether jamming with Grateful Dead https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead … or classical chamber music https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School … & group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add them





https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1143888654290448384


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Just saw composer Leif Segerstam's hair for 1st time & Googled if he's a hippy:) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 Sinfónica de Galicia https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ  "The listener is a musical satellite docking to a mother ship, & then you are online, kind of! Laughs" http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html ~




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144620851381149696




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1144620539584999424


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Do you know any of Leif Segerstam's 327 symphonies - https://youtu.be/2v7Ht2W8Z6E ? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Music_Composition … - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam … He has a diploma from Juilliard in the '60s :)
See, too https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2011/nov/17/leif-segerstam-prolific-finnish-composer … Is he a /Hippies? http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html  ~
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144620851381149696 … ~



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144623803005190145


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Finnish composer Leif Segerstam
http://www.auroramusic.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/leif.jpg …
https://youtu.be/2v7Ht2W8Z6E
He's composed 327 symphonies & explores the NOW of music
http://www.kcstudio.com/segerstam.html
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hippies )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam …
@TheOpenBand @sgkmacleod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Music_Composition … @WorldUnivAndSch ~




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1144631772962947077



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Thoughts about online music-making excellence, whether Scottish Country Dancing music, Scottish Drumming
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Drumming … jamming, or classical chamber music https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School … & group video conferencing software for music-making & re best STEM & Arts CC-4 OCW-centric @WorldUnivAndSch? Wiki-add




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1143889679948763136



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Greetings, Bagpipe Facts, how about various bagpipe Wikipedia articles (since this is for sharing, and are also updated by all of us often) in various languages too for further bagpipe information & facts? I hope these help too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials … &
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe … ~




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1144589723068817409






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Just emailed yesterday evening the Principal of the National Piping Centre, Roddy MacLeod in Glasgow, to inquire about lessons with him. See too - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1142668818130468864. Am curious almost with regard too to Roddy (or someone there) to become somehow a producer for my "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small piping CD next year in addition to lessons.  (https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1142668500667785222 too). See my email to Roddy below.

L, Scott



Dear Mr. Roddy MacLeod, and the National Piping Centre,


Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area! I'm writing to inquire whether it might be possible please to study with you (or possibly Finlay MacDonald) on Scottish Small Pipes, if I were to sign up for Skype lessons?

I've played the Great Highland Bagpipe, and now the SSP for about 5 years, (giving up the GHB due to an ear condition) for more than 40 years, and also have specific tunes I'd like to develop. Thank you. And I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Scott MacLeod
SF Bay Area
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


Bagpipe Tutorials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Great Highland Bagpipe: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes



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Would like too to get a faculty position at Stanford, and then explore becoming president of CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), based on my growing experience as President at World University and School, and even with regards to online World Univ and Sch in Google Hangouts for bringing excellent teachers and music in mind. (I could see Scot Alasdair Tait's extraordinary Stanford Masterclass in chamber music working remarkably in Hangouts for example. (It was also very much like a conversation, somehow transposed from psychodynamic psychotherapy into teaching excellent chamber music groups and musicians). Heading toward further excellence thanks to the Web with World Univ & Sch - in music and in academic subjects is something to grow, and potentially re CMU. How best to lead for the excellence I experience at Stanford, as well as potentially at CMU - and online too (re WUaS)? - and re John Hennessy's book "Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey" -
https://books.google.com/books/about/Leading_Matters.html?id=BQJtDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
- and re further communication with him. In what way could World University and School take (talk too) this in remarkable new directions, I wonder?

The Scottish Country Dancing music we played last night at Open Band is more complex than previously: interesting opportunity re flow experiences - 'challenge at the right level re enjoyment' and Czikszentmihalyi's "Flow" book,  and re playing beforehand too.

Piping lessons at National Piping Centre with Finlay MacDonald, head of Piping Studies there (https://youtu.be/SHLabexNS-Y -
https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/learn/teaching-staff -
http://elearning.thepipingcentre.co.uk/teachers/finlay-macdonald/ -
https://rghardiebagpipes.com/finlay-macdonald/), poetry book and World Univ and Sch ahead this summer and autumn .... I think ... Finlay's a pretty solid Glaswegian, and smart/canny - and may know Lorne MacDougall whom I enjoyed a benefitted from taking lessons with fairly recently. May be recording a lot to Youtube in preparation for 10 lessons which would be great (out on my porch even) re my upcoming CD.

Thoughts about excellence, group video conferencing software for music-making (in an online classical music school at World Uni) and CMU, for example, - and re MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch?

Heard a very great talk today at noon by someone from West Bengal, with a Berkeley Ph.D., who is now a Stanford Post Doc (see below)) ... with so much relevance for studying meditation in the Harbin warm pool re oximetry with flexible sensors. More about this soon, and very nice to talk ...

Talk with you soon, Ma! And have a great week :)

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Made a foray into recording again here -
https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod

Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng

Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q

I have in mind learners of The Scottish Small Pipes, and hope to record all of the Green Tutors' tunes + some to get started ... and then the tunes I have in mind for the Scottish Small Pipes' CD in 2020 ...

Finlay has a music degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Glasgow, is the head of piping studies at NPC, and plays with bellows' small pipes and similar which are all big pluses. I enjoyed his playing here too - https://finlaymacdonaldmusic.co.uk ... Time to sign up for lessons with NPC and see if I can study with him in Skype. Lessons are an opportunity to think about the music too via conversation.


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Hi M,

Apple MacBook's microphone leaves something to be desired

Seeing these Walsh small pipe recordings

Marches on Walsh Smallpipes in A (Delrin)
https://youtu.be/418Bq2kNdwQ

Jigs on Walsh Blackwood Smallpipes
https://youtu.be/DYGSNmkGdhM (like The Glasgow Police Pipers tune at the close of this set, which I've played before)

... gives me some ideas for mic-ing anew as well as an appreciation of my non-Blackwood smallpipes, with a fuller rounder more harmonic sound I feel. (Yet perhaps they're somehow clearer I got a sense of at the end).



I made two more recordings today ...

The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw

The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74

I'm also not using my 3rd middle drone to create newly a chord, and which means I think that I have to choose piping tunes on sheet music in A, when they're not all in A actually.

How was your week? How are you?

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Wanted to clarify how to tell what a key a piece of piping sheet music is in in College of Piping Tutor + (since piping music can be in 3 or 4 different keys I think, and is often not marked with sharps or flats). Found, to begin -

"To find the name of a key signature with sharps, look at the sharp farthest to the right. The key signature is the note a half step above that last sharp. Key signatures can specify major or minor keys. To determine the name of a minor key, find the name of the key in major and then count backwards three half steps."
The Method Behind the Music › ...
Scales and Key Signatures - The Method Behind the Music
https://method-behind-the-music.com/theory/scalesandkeys/#sigs

I found these videos particularly helpful -

Key Signatures Made Easy -
https://youtu.be/G20foMzvczc

The Circle of Fifths - How to Actually Use It -
https://youtu.be/d1aJ6HixSe0

Check them out ... :)

Now how to learn to play games with Circle of Fifths? :)

How's your weekend going?

L, Scott



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Afternoon, M,

Recorded 2 further tunes ...

The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ

The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA


Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ

May replay Highland Laddie ... am observing my perfectionism coming up ... yet on the other hand, I may seek to relax in these regards ... https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod ... Good to build gradually toward my "Piping Honey in the Bag" CD ... and will look into lessons probably tomorrow ...



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Hi M, 

Recorded 2 tunes + further in the College of Piping's Green Tutor - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos (& see below). I've recorded 6 of the 14 tunes in the CoP tutor so far, and will finish recording the rest as a kind of tune tutorial for the Scottish Small Pipes with an A chanter. Time to sign up for piping lessons I think with the National Piping Centre. 

Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)


The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air

The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air


The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March

How was your day? And how are you? 

L, Scott






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From February 2019 


Hi Ma,

Burns' night continued ... re piping

I learned from Julia or Juliet I think her name is - the Scot who recited Tam O"Shanter which mentions the word cuttysark, in the poem, that 'cutty' means 'short' and 'sark' means 'skirt' ... makes me wonder too further about other origins for Cuttyhunk (beyond as a derivative from the Wampanoag word for lands' end, something like Pocutohunconoh ) ...

Here's the video and some photos:

video of the end of Tam O’Shanter:
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090322435604238336

Jamie Tanner, the MC: 2nd from right:
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090321023382126592
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1090325142926852096
Jamie and his wife have a creative eye / minds with regard to Scots' garb ...


Ellen Lovell, standing taking photos
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1090324576645505024
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1090321244266713088

Got home late, woke up early ... seeking to pipe some today (and how to grow this online interactively? ... eg I could and may record the College of Piping Green Tutor's tunes to Youtube playing them on the small pipes in A, so that other pipers could play with them digitally when learning, and then build from there to playing other tunes I enjoy a lot ... and then build interactively from there ... sun's shining, why not now? ... out on the porch, with the nice ridge in the background? ... may do so ... :) ...

How's your day going? And how are you?


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I think I emailed this to you before - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/northern-carmine-bee-eater-glad-to-have.html ... Nice to hear from Marilyn & Bill Stocker about Burns' Night last night. Marilyn repaired my kilt a few years ago, and did an excellent job. She's originally from Canada, and Bill is a retired anesthesiologist:

Dear Friends,
Thank you very much for the great Robert Burns’ party last night. We had such a good time. Marianna, the haggis was delicious as was all the food. Jamie( with Star’s  helpful humorous translation) gave a great dramatic recitation. Juliet, you made Tam O’Shanter come alive. Scott, your piping added just the right touch of atmosphere. Kathy, thanks to you and all the band for the music during the dance and for Auld Lang Syne too. Star, your “ Afton Water” was beautifully sung. Dilip, thanks for the very enjoyable dances and excellent teaching.
It was a delightful evening.
Marilyn and Bill

Not so clear how to seek, circulate and then connect with a partner ... (George A could be an interesting problem-solver / thinker in questions like this, interestingly). Waiting to begin to generate resources myself may be only part of the question, and circulating another ... but actually connecting in a natural way ... thinking I'm seeking a kind of same-ness somehow ... Hmm :)

At this Bobby Burns' night celebration I played the first tune in the little procession well, but not so much the second tune "Honey in the Bag" - and I'm thinking of naming my debut CD "Honey in the Bag" ... SEE BELOW too ...

How was your day?

L, Scott



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Posted some about seeking National Piping Centre lessons possibly with Finlay plus Stanford Music + here  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/scottish-cairn-terriers-would-like-too.html ... Am thinking to get back into both lessons, and recording, for a Scottish Small Piping CD in 2020, to begin by recording on my SSP chanter in A (different from GHB practice chanter in B flat - http://www.themacleods.net/qanda/skmqa019.htm) all the tunes in the Green College of Piping tutor for other students  who might be learning both SSP and using this CoP Green Tutor. (Both in Glasgow, the College of Piping and the National Piping Centre merged into the NPC in 2018 after decades - https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/glasgow-college-and-piping-centre-merge/). I may explore recording these same tunes with may new D chanter, and transposing the music where needed with MuseScore - and to get more of a feel for the D chanter played with sheet music (something to explore, maybe with Finlay).

Here's my S.G.K. MacLeod video channel -
https://www.youtube.com/sgkmacleod (much for bagpiping, now going back some years)

and accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm (what do you think of these page, when you read through it)?


Glad to write that:
From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany: Germany @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/German_language … in German. WUaS is proceeding with licensing for free Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, first in English, then Law, MD & IB degrees. German language in some years.


- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1143988658476732416

L, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping



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New recordings of tunes on Scottish Small Pipes in the College of Piping's Green Tutor - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos. I've recorded the 10 tunes in the lessons out of 14 tunes in the CoP tutor so far - as a kind of tune tutorial for the Scottish Small Pipes with an A chanter.


Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng

Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q



The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw

The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A (chanter)
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74



The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ

The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA



Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ



Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
https://youtu.be/6c4JRHzfGOg

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
https://youtu.be/P9DjYPcjngw



The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
https://youtu.be/0yj7tjOQG5g

The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
https://youtu.be/Rk9UTrqSwcc



The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/VZHoE-L8rB8

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/FBAd2MzU2CM

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fLUnYL3baDA

The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/BE6fYa8j9Bs



The Earl of Mansfield - First Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/vExepuv9XwY

The Earl of Mansfield - Second Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/AoeVorO2Drg

The Earl of Mansfield - Third Measure - 2/4 March
https://youtu.be/fqKqdoxC3HI



Inverness Rant - First Measure - Strathspey
https://youtu.be/QmutM1URIrM

Inverness Rant - Second Measure - Strathspey
https://youtu.be/X9NFuJfzOPI



The Piper of Drummond - First Measure - 4/4 Reel
https://youtu.be/sb3e7ulbrFg

The Piper of Drummond - Second Measure - 4/4 Reel
https://youtu.be/sSKm7MIAhdc



The Green Hills of Tyrol - First Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
https://youtu.be/xPmZZHnk3uA

The Green Hills of Tyrol - Second Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
https://youtu.be/oQucLhRH1bQ



Green Hills of Tyrol is the last tune among the lessons in the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1), and with the preceding 10 tunes in this series, played on Scottish Small Pipes on an A Chanter, you could now newly study and learn from the Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

- https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos



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NEW RECORDINGS for learning the Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using the College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1) ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html by @scottmacleod (@sgkmacleod) > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials & @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1145523090606026752

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1145522478577418240

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College of Piping's Highland Bagpipe Green Tutor (Vol 1)
https://images.app.goo.gl/mn42xrQLfhkB6Ssi9 … NEW RECORDINGS for learning Scottish Small Pipes in the key of A using this Tutor ... a kind of TUNE TUTORIAL - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos … - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html … by @scottmacleod  @WorldUnivAndSch ~



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For the 4 tunes at the Back of the Book (College of Piping Tutor Vol. 1), and all 14 tunes, see:

Blue-spotted jawfish: College of Piping's Green Tutor (Vol. 1), and with the preceding 10 tunes in this series, played on Scottish Small Pipes on an A Chanter, you could now newly study and learn from the Green Tutor on the Scottish Small Pipes, Bagpipe Tutorials - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes Great Highland Bagpipe - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/blue-spotted-jawfish-college-of-pipings.html




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