Jatuh Cinta Dimualai dari Otak

Jatuh Cinta Dimualai dari Otak Jatuh cinta berjuta rasanya. Jantung berdegup kencang, perasaan seperti dipermainkan, merasa bahagia di satu menit kemudian gelisah di menit-menit berikutnya. Penelitian terbaru mengungkap bahwa perasaan bungah atau bahagia maupun gelisah saat jatuh cinta berasal dari otak.

Dalam sebuah studi kecil, peneliti mengobservasi otak 10 perempuan dan 7 laki-laki yang mengaku sedang gila karena cinta. Semua sukarelawan memiliki hubungan asmara yang berumur antara 1 bulan hingga 2 tahun.

Observasi dilakukan dengan teknik Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Peneliti menunjukkan foto pria atau wanita yang dicintai oleh sukarelawan kemudian menganalisis otak sukarelawan saat melihat foto itu.

Peneliti menemukan bahwa setiap sukarelawan bereaksi ketika melihat foto pasangannya, tercetus perasaan emosional karena aktivitas bagian otak yang biasa bertanggungjawab dalam soal motivasi dan penghargaan.

"Cinta yang begitu menggebu berpengaruh pada bagian tertentu pada otak. Bagian ini juga aktif ketika seseorang ketagihan obat terlarang," kata Arthur Aron, peneliti yang juga seorang psikolog di State University of New York.

Dengan kata lain, ketika jatuh cinta, setiap orang bisa memburu orang yang dicintai, menjadi stalker di jejaring sosialnya serta mengais informasi apapun seperti sedang menggunakan kokain.

Peneliti mengungkapkan bahwa cinta adalah emosi terkuat dalam diri manusia. Otak manusia telah diprogram untuk memilih dan memenangkan pasangan, kadang dengan cara yang sangat ekstrim untuk menarik perhatian.

"Anda bisa merasa bahagia saat jatuh cinta, tapi juga bisa merasa gelisah. Orang lain menjadi target dalam hidup kita," tambah Lucy Brwon dari Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York yang juga terlibat studi.

Brown mengatakan, bagian otak yang terkait dengan penghargaan, disebut pusat kesenangan, menjadi bagian terpenting bagi manusia untuk survive.

"Ini membantu kita untuk merasakan bahagia," cetus Brown, seperti dikutip Livescience, Minggu (12/2/2012).

Lalu bagaimana setelah berhubungan lama? Apakah perasaan cinta bisa memudar dan memengaruhi respon otak? Hasil studi lain yang dilakukan Aron pada 10 wanita dan 7 pria yang sudah menikah selama 21 tahun menunjukkan bahwa mereka masih mencintai pasangannya. Peneliti menemukan bahwa pada pasangan yang sudah lama berhubungan, bagian otak tetap teraktivasi jika melihat foto pasangannya.

"Untuk kebanyakan orang, formula standar adalah penurunan secara gradual pada cinta yang sekedar nafsu, tetapi ada peningkatan pada ikatan," jelas Aron.

Tumbuhnya ikatan memungkinkan pasangan bersama dalam jangka waktu lama untuk membesarkan keturunannya. "Kebanyakan mamalia tidak membesarkan anak-anaknya bersama, tetapi manusia melakukannya," ungkap Aron.

Meski demikian, Aron mengakui bahwa perasaan cinta bisa berkurang. "Selama cinta masih ada, kita terbiasa dalam hubungan dan tidak takut pasangan meninggalkan kita. Jadi, kita tidak sefokus saat kita jatuh cinta," jelasnya.

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Nokia Vendor Windows Phone

Vendor ponsel asal Finlandia, Nokia sejak Oktober 2011 lalu resmi menjadi salah satu vendor untuk perangkat Windows Phone, dengan meluncurkan Lumia 710 dan Lumia 800.

Meski terbilang paling belakangan menggunakan sistem operasi mobile besutan Microsoft, namun Nokia berhasil menjadi vendor Windows Phone teratas di dunia. Dengan mengandalkan 2 produk Lumia dan hanya dalam waktu sekitar 3 bulan, Nokia telah merajai penjualan smartphone berbasis Windows Phone.

Hasil penelitian lembaga riset Strategy Analytics, Jumat (24/2/2012), melaporkan bahwa Nokia menjadi vendor yang berhasil menjual smartphone Windows Phone terbanyak pada kuartal terakhir 2011, yakni sebesar 900 ribu unit.

Analis Strategy Analytics Alex Spektor mengatakan, pengiriman smartphone Windows Phone tetap kecil, tetapi mulai menunjukkan tanda-tanda pertumbuhan yang tentatif. Menurutnya, pengiriman smartphone Windows Phone secara global tumbuh 36 persen mencapai 2,7 juta unit pada kuartal empat 2011,

"Nokia menyalip HTC dan yang lainnya untuk menjadi vendor Windows Phone terbesar dengan pangsa pasar 33 persen. Pengiriman Windows Phone dari Nokia secara global mencapai 0,9 juta unit, yang merupakan distribusi smartphone Lumia ke berbagai negara dan operator," jelas Alex.

Keunggulan Nokia sebagai vendor Windows Phone, di sisi lain dipicu oleh melesunya keinginan vendor lain mengadopsi sistem operasi Windows Phone. HTC misalnya, kini sedang terkonsentrasi pada Android.

Saat ini, Android dan iOS dari Apple masih mendominasi pangsa pasar smartphone. Apple dan Samsung menyerap sebagian besar keuntungan smartphone.

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Pamor Windows Phone

Survei pasar versi dari NetMarketShare (NMS) terhadap perangkat mobile menunjukkan data kenaikan pada pangsa pasar Windows Phone.

Menurut data NMS, pangsa pasar Windows Phone relatif stabil di 0,2 persen sejak April 2011 hingga Januari 2012.

Namun pada Februari 2012, pangsa pasarnya melonjak ke angka 0,41 persen di Februari 2012. Artinya, ada kenaikan sebesar 41,38 persen.

Memang, pertumbuhannya relatif kecil dibandingkan dengan iOS dan Android. Namun adanya lonjakan ini menimbulkan pertanyaan, apa yang jadi penyebab?

Diduga, lonjakan ini adalah efek dari Nokia yang makin gencar menjual Lumia, jajaran ponsel berbasis Windows Phone mereka.

Nokia memang nampak cukup agresif dengan Lumia, meski di pasaran baru ada dua jenis: Lumia 800 dan Lumia 710.

Namun TheNextWeb mengatakan data ini masih perlu diperhatikan lebih lanjut. Lonjakan terjadi diduga karena pasar Windows Phone yang masih kecil.

Karena pasarnya masih kecil, setiap pertambahan akan terlihat signifikan. Namun jika dibandingkan sistem lain, mungkin sebenarnya tak seberapa.

Data NMS menempatkan iOS sebagai sistem dengan pangsa pasar terbesar (54 persen), disusul oleh Java ME (20 persen) dan Android (16 persen).

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Mercedes-Benz Mobil Mewah Terbaik Indonesia

Mercedes-Benz Mobil Mewah Terbaik Indonesia
Mercedes-Benz Mobil Mewah Terbaik Indonesia adalah Julukan/ Slogan Yang cocok dan patut di Berikan Untuk Alat transfortasi Mobil yang sehebat, Termewah, dan Ternyaman, Terbaik serta berteknologi handal siapa lagi yang memilik Julukan /Slogan tersebut selain hanya Mercedes-Bend.

Mercedes-Benz

Sejarah Butut Mobil Mewah Terbaik Indonesia :
Disini Komputerbutut akan mempaparkan mengenai history, Sejarah dan Pengalaman dari Kepala Negara Indonesia yang Menggunakan Alat transportasi Kebanggan nya dan juga kebanggan bangsa Indonesia yang tidak boleh dilupakan menggunakan Mobil Mewah Mercedes-Benz Terbaik Indonesia.

• Presiden Presiden Soekarno diketahui memiliki satu Mercedes-Benz 600 limousine di antara berbagai merk mobil-mobil dinasnya. Namun, selama ia berkuasa (1945-1967), tidak ada foto atau berita di media massa yang memperlihatkan atau menyebutkan bahwa Presiden Soekarno pernah menggunakan mobil tersebut.

Sukarno Mercedes-Benz

Satu-satunya cerita yang mengisahkan bahwa Presiden Soekarno menggunakan Crown Imperial Limousine diperoleh dari tulisan drg. Oei Hong Kian, yang sempat merawat gigi Presiden Soekarno selama beberapa bulan, menjelang dan sesudah kekuasaannya berakhir.
Dalam tulisannya yang dimuat di majalah Intisari bulan Oktober 1988, drg Oei Hong Kian mengisahkan, awal September 1967, tepat pukul 09.00 WIB, Soekarno, yang kekuasaannya berakhir pada awal Maret 1967, datang ke rumahnya untuk berobat dengan menggunakan Mercedes-Benz 600, diiringi lima jip penuh dengan tentara, yang menjaganya dengan ketat.

• Presiden Soeharto (1967-1998), pertama kali menggunakan Mercedes-Benz 600 limousine pada waktu dia menerima kunjungan Ratu Belanda Juliana ke Jakarta pada 26 Agustus 1971.

suharto Mercedes-Benz 600 limousine

Foto Mercedes-Benz 600 itu terpampang ,Selama memegang kekuasaan sebagai Presiden, Soeharto menggunakan Mercedes-Benz S-Class sebagai kendaraan resminya. Tipenya berganti-ganti dari waktu ke waktu.
Dan, dalam perjalanannya yang terakhir dari Istana Merdeka menuju ke kediamannya di Jalan Cendana 8-10, Jakarta Pusat, setelah mengundurkan diri dari jabatannya sebagai Presiden, ia menggunakan Mercedes-Benz S600 V12. Setelah Soeharto mengundurkan diri,

• Dan sampai sekarang Hampir Semua Kepala Pemerintahan RI dari Sukarno sampai Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menggunakan Menggunakan Alat transforrasi menggunaka Mercedes-Benz. Mobil Mercedes-Benz Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono adalah Mercedes-Benz tipe S600L model W221. Dengan lisensi plat RI 1, yang mempunyai Banyak Kehebatannya antar lain

S600L model W221

Mobil ini merupakan kendaraan lapis baja dengan tingkat resistensi Eropa B6/B7. Mercedes-Benz ini tahan terhadap senjata militer standar dan memberikan perlindungan terhadap fragmen yang muncul dari granat tangan, serta bahan peledak lainnya.

Fitur keamanan tambahan termasuk ban run-flat, tanki bahan bakar 90L dan sistem pemadam kebakaran otomatis. Selain itu, mobil ini juga menggunakan ban Michelin PAX 245-700 R470 AC, sistem pengaturan udara segar darurat, sistem kontrol pneumatik darurat untuk membuka jendela (beroperasi secara tersendiri dari sistem elektronik), serta Panic Alarm System tambahan.

Selain itu, ada pula kamera belakang, kaca depan dan jendela depan yang tahan panas, sistem adjutable doorhold yang digunakan di keempat pintu, di pintu belakang yang dapat ditarik dan menutup secara otomatis, serta tirai belakang listrik.

Kendaraan ini memiliki kecepatan puncak 210 kilometer / jam dengan GVW 4.200 kilogram.

Mobil Presiden SBY ini juga memiliki pengatur komponen suspensi dan tubuh mobil, sebuah penjepit tambahan (strut tower brace) antara suspensi depan dan dua bahan tambahan di bagian belakang untuk melengkapi suspensi udara yang lebih besar

Ayoo Mau Pilih apa lagi Alat transfortasi yang Termewah,Terhandal,Ternyaman, berteknologi Terhebat di dunia dan terbaik diantara yang baik hanya Mercedes-Benz Mobil Mewah Terbaik Indonesia . Orang no 1 di Indonesia saja pilih Mercede-Benz, masa kita pake yang lain. Apa kata dunia (bangsa yang Bijak Adalah Bangsa yang Menghargai Sejarah)

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Take Good Photos with your Camera Phone

Digital cameras bundled with mobile phones are getting better and better with more megapixels, better quality lenses, storage space, resolution, focusing, video capabilities, facial recognition and flash.


That said, you don’t really need an high-end smartphone with a 8-megapixel camera to take good pictures. A decent camera phone with a 3-megapixel sensor is good enough for that everyday candid, lifestyle shots one tends to take.



The best camera is the one that’s with you

I cannot carry my DSLR everywhere and I am often find myself in such a situation where I see a frame and I do not have my camera with me. As a photographer I am more fearful of losing the moment than fearful of the quality of images that the camera will produce.


I don’t find it embarrassing to take out my Blackberry 8900, equipped with a 3.2MP camera and 2X digital zoom, for clicking a street scene. A good photograph is not always dependent on the device it is shot with. My camera doesn’t make my images, I do. To quote a very popular new media photographer Chase Jarvis - “The best camera is the one that’s with you.”



While one cannot argue that smaller censor of the camera makes it difficult to produce sharp, noise free images, there are a few tricks one should learn while shooting with his/her phone camera phone.

Tips for Taking Good Pictures with your Camera Phone

#1. Settings - As a photographer, I do not like shooting in the Auto mode of my DSLR as I do not want the camera to make decisions regarding how my picture should come out. Similarly for a camera phone if you have options of changing the settings try to change them as per your needs.

Turn off the flash when it is not required. I feel the bad quality of the flash ruins the photos most times and hence I do not like shooting with it and try to get additional light sources in and around the subject I am shooting. If you are shooting indoors and your camera phone has a setting for that then experiment with the setting first. Many camera phones have the option of changing the resolution of the pictures. Always shoot in the maximum resolution so you can capture the maximum details.

#2. Lights - Photography is all about Light, the one that lights up your heart. What is photography but play of light? Even while shooting with the camera, one needs to know how to read the available light looking at the conditions around. The best phone camera pictures are taken in plenty of light. Typically that is when one can try and reduce the noise levels and getter better results.

Different lights impact the color in your images in different manner. If your phone camera has the basic white balance features then experiment with them to get the near possible match. Be aware that your phone camera may not have the advanced features of a high end DSLR but a lot can also be fixed with touching up the images late. Most of the photos shot by the Blackberry have used light to its advantage; a couple were shot as backlits in extreme sunlight to bring out the translucent textures of the objects.

#3. Hold it steady - Do you often complain of blurry images while shooting with your phone camera? There is a possibility it has a slow shutter speed and is prone to blurs with a little shake here and there. Often there is a delay between the release of the shutter and the actual click of the phone. That is the moment when a little movement will create bad blurs.

Holding the camera really steady and even after the shutter is released, keep it steady for a few seconds more just to be sure. You could also try supporting the phone on a few books, table, against the table vase and get sharper images. Having said that, take advantage of the slow shutter speed and capture a couple of good motion blurs images. I usually make use of my HTC Tattoo’s slow shutter speed, which is a nuisance otherwise to create abstracts.

#4. Avoid zooming in - The built-in zoom in most phone cameras are not optical but digital. Hence, it is advisable to not zoom in to compose a picture because you are not really zooming.

Fill up your frame by moving closer to the subject. This is to take care of the issue of subjects looking smaller than usual when shot on the phone which is due to the smaller resolution which is typical of phone cameras. Cropping could be a good solution to that but it can lead to pixilation.

#5. Experiment - Phone cameras allow greater flexibility in shooting. With their compact sizes, they can easily be tucked into that shirt pocket or that tiny clutch. Easy shots at any fashionable get-together or a wedding without carry a big DSLR and appearing clumsy. Experimenting with different angles, compositions is more possible since the device will fit* into any nook or cranny and since a few camera phones have timers it makes it so much easier to get that elusive shot with a little planning.

[*] I have sneaked in my phone when my DSLR wasn’t allowed at the Ajmer Dargah and captured an image sneakily.

Regardless of where I use it I do not miss, ‘missing the moment’ anymore since both my phone cameras given near perfect images whenever I want and depending on how I use them in those light/temperature conditions . These pictures can also be printed on an A4 size paper after proper post processing for optimum output.

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Use Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book

Your contacts are often scattered across multiple email accounts and social sites.

For instance, you may have switched to Gmail but some of your contacts may still be stored in the old address books of Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. Then there are places like Facebook and LinkedIn that store personal and professional details of your contacts (including profile pictures) but fetching this information into your main address book is often a tricky thing.
One Place for all your Contacts


If you find it a hassle to maintain multiple address books, a possible solution is that you consolidate them all into a single cloud-based service like Google Contacts.

Here are some ideas on how you may go about doing this:

Step 1: Bring all address books into Google Contacts

Import into Google Contacts

Go to Gmail Settings and click the “Import Mail and Contacts” button to bring all the existing contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Google Apps, and your other email accounts into Google Contacts.

Next download your address books from LinkedIn, Facebook, Outlook, Orkut, and other accounts as CSV files and import them all into Google Contacts one-by-one.

Step 2: Clean-up the duplicates

When you import contacts from multiple places, it is obvious that some of the entries would be duplicates of each other. Google Contacts however makes it quite easy for you to manage these duplicates.

duplicates

Choose “Find Duplicates” under “My Contacts” and the tool will group all the entries that share the same name. Do remember to review all the default suggestions one-by-one as sometimes two people in your contact list can have similar names and you don’t want to combine them into one.

Once you’re ready, just hit the Merge button.

Google Contacts Manager mostly relies on the person’s name to detect duplicate entries. If it fails to recognize all your duplicate contacts, you can merge them manually as shown in the next screenshot.

merge duplicate contacts

Step 3: Enrich your contacts data

Google Contacts now has basic details of all your contacts including their names, email addresses and, in some cases, phone numbers and birthdays. We are however still missing profile pictures, website URLs, social profiles, etc.

There’s a useful online service called Gist that may help bring lot of such additional profile details into our Google Contacts. Here’s how:

3a. Go to gist.com and open a free account.

3b. Once your account is activated, go to “Other Contacts” and connect Google Contacts with Gist. Type your Gmail username and click “Authorize and Upload” - this uses OAuth so you can upload your entire Google address book into Gist without sharing your credentials.

upload gist contacts

The process of importing contacts from Google into Gist may take a while to complete depending on how you large your address book is. Take a coffee break here!

3c. Now that all your contacts have been imported (see the progress bar at the top), go to gist.com/people and you’ll find that Gist has discovered tons of extra information about your contacts that weren’t available in your original address book. This includes their blog addresses, social URLs and more.

Let’s now bring this new information back into Google Contacts. Select all the contacts, click Export and Gist will send you a single vCard file in your Inbox.

enhanced google contacts

Download this v-Card file and import it into your Google Contacts. Don't worry, it will only merge the new details and won't create any duplicate contacts.

The next thing that we are missing in Google Contacts are profile pictures. There's a utility called Google Contacts Sync that takes your Gmail (or Google Apps) credentials, finds the matching entries in your Facebook network and accordingly updates their profile pictures and birthdays in Google Contact.

If you are not connected with all your Google contacts on Facebook, you can still bring their profile pictures through RainMaker. This is an excellent service that can populate your Google Contacts entries with photos and social details pulled from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The free account will however limit you to 25 contacts.

profile_pictures

To summarize, we first imported all our address books into Google Contacts, merged the duplicates and then added profile pictures and social details of our contacts.

What next? If you have a smartphone like the iPhone, Nokia (Symbian), BlackBerry or Windows Mobile, you can use Google Mobile Sync to keep your Google Contacts synchronized with the built-in address book application. Android mobile phones have this built-in so your phone’s address book will always be in sync with Google Contacts.

Microsoft Office users may try GContactSync to keep their Outlook address book in sync with Google Contacts (it works both ways). Another alternative is Cyncz – it will first pull all your Google Contacts into the cloud and them synchronizes them with Outlook on the desktop through a plug-in. See the other synchronization tools for Outlook.

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How to Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends

Search the Facebook Apps directory for something like “export contacts” and you’ll come across quite a few applications that sound as if they can transfer your friends contact information out of Facebook.


There’s an app called “Export Friends” that will save you friends names, city, birthday and their current location in a CSV (text) file that you then import into Excel, Gmail or any other web email program.


Then there are social plug-ins that can sync photos and status updates of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Outlook.


The problem is that none of these apps can download what you are looking – the phone numbers and email addresses of your Facebook friends. There are Greasemonkey scripts and other hacks that can pull this information from Facebook through “web scraping” but don’t ever take that route as Zuckerberg’s army might ban your account forever.
Export Email Addresses of your Facebook Contacts

Facebook APIs don’t expose email addresses of users and hence none of the Facebook apps can provide you with the actual contact data of your friends. There’s however a simple (and perfectly legal) workaround that can help you easily download all your friends email addresses from Facebook’s walled garden.

The trick, as you can see in the video, is actually quite simple.

Go to address.yahoo.com and click the Facebook icon. A login dialog should pop-up, just sign-in with your Facebook credentials and within seconds, you entire Facebook address book will be available inside your Yahoo Mail Account. Once the import is done, click this link to download a CSV file with the email addresses of all your Facebook contacts to your desktop.


You can then import the CSV file into Gmail Contacts, LinkedIn, your phone address book or any of the social sites where you want to connect with your existing Facebook circle.


Update: If Yahoo! is unable to import your Facebook Address book, open your Facebook page and choose “Application Settings” under Account. Next remove the “Yahoo! Contact Importer” application from your Facebook profile and try the steps mentioned in the video again.

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Facebook & Skype Back Talk Discourse Video Chat?

Up was allegedly back in talks with Skype Technologies in order to realize the discourse of video chat to the users of the world's largest social networking.

Discourse integration of communication services was first covered up and Skype, a year ago. Later, Facebook users can send each other text messages, voice chat and video chat with their friends using Skype.

Unfortunately, like last year, Facebook and Skype is still reluctant to issue a comment on the rumors.

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Beware, Attack Ads Impersonate Acai Fruit on Twitter!

A cyber attack disguised ad for the acai fruit 'invade' Twitter user. Reportedly, a thousand Twitter account has been compromised and turned into a spammer.

Mashable reported on Saturday (04/05/2011), the attack was spreading very fast. Just over one minute, 10 thousand tweets related attacks came in from San Francisco micro-blogging site. Tweet it included a link that contains news about the harm Acai.

Based on recent information summarized from the creators Mashable TweetStats / TweeoSearch / RowFeeder Damon Cortesi, the attack came from an account that has been touched and malicious code instead of links about the news acai.

Other sources said the attack could be linked to cyber attacks against the destructive Gawker approximately 1.3 million accounts a comment. Reportedly, found many similarities between the attacks that damage the database Gawker with an attack on a Twitter account.

Furthermore, as an act of anticipation, Mashable recommends that Twitter users change their passwords.

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LG Urges Investigation Over Sony Patent Violation

South Korean electronics company, LG, urged the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate patent infringement in Sony's PlayStation and some Bravia TV.

LG request immediately responded by ITC, which immediately formed a team to investigate the initial court charges. This investigation does not necessarily imply that the ITC will prove Sony's guilt or take legal action. Similarly, as reported by Yahoonews, Saturday (03/05/2011).

Last February, LG filed a complaint with the ITC that Sony has used their Blu-ray technology in the PlayStation and some Bravia TV.

Bloomberg rate, this issue further exacerbate the 'war' law between LG and Sony, which is the second TV producer and third largest in the world. Earlier this week, customs officials in the European Union reportedly confiscated tens of thousands of PS3 consoles, following a dispute between Sony and LG-related patents.

Last December, Sony was the one who demanded the LG because it claimed had violated patents owned by a Japanese company in a number of devices: LG Quantum, Cosmos, Accolade, Encore, env Touch, Fathom, Glance, GU295, Lotus Elite, LX370, Neon, Remarq, Rumors Touch, VL600, Vu Plus and Xenon.

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