Tuesday, September 22, 2009
'O' Level Art CourseworkY
Finally, after months of struggling, a final boost during the September break and burning midnight-till-dawn oil last night, I'm done with my coursework!!!
I'm pretty satisfied with my works. Most importantly, through this entire journey creating Art from scratch, I learnt to take charge of my character and show it in my work, especially for my supporting studies and development. I sincerely thank Mrs Tan for her guidance and for teaching me so many different ways to create art and to help me out whenever I was stuck.
I found out that many things can be done within my abilities; it's just that I do not have the confidence to just do it. My eldest bro motivated me much to being life to the 8 flat pieces of supporting studies. At the very last resort, due to time constraint, I forced myself to do pen sketches directly on to the board, which means no error can be allowed at all, once a stroke was drawn, there was no turning back. It turned out awesome!
I even did an entire board showing the layout using pen sketching. Initially, I wanted to give up pen sketching after completing the "Singapore part" because the "China part" was intimidating to me. I had the idea to resize and print the "China part" and then trace on tracing paper. After which, using an ink-less pen, sort of engrave the lines on to the board and shade them lightly with pencil. Then I realised that I didn't have the softcopied China landmarks. Hence, I was stuck. Ultimately, out of desperation, I compelled myself to just hold the pen and draw. And miracles happened; I managed to complete my work! It was simply stunning.
Like what the TK Team of Youth Congress 2007-2008 used to say, "Simplicity is the key to success." Simple sketching is classic art - pure beauty. That piece of board was one of my favourite ones.
So, today is the deadline. 60% of the most time-consuming subject is down... what a relieve. Just when you think I'm done with art, guess what? Art Prelims is just 2days away and I haven't even started doing anything.
I'm not a reTARD; I'm an ARTard =D
I'm pretty satisfied with my works. Most importantly, through this entire journey creating Art from scratch, I learnt to take charge of my character and show it in my work, especially for my supporting studies and development. I sincerely thank Mrs Tan for her guidance and for teaching me so many different ways to create art and to help me out whenever I was stuck.
I found out that many things can be done within my abilities; it's just that I do not have the confidence to just do it. My eldest bro motivated me much to being life to the 8 flat pieces of supporting studies. At the very last resort, due to time constraint, I forced myself to do pen sketches directly on to the board, which means no error can be allowed at all, once a stroke was drawn, there was no turning back. It turned out awesome!
I even did an entire board showing the layout using pen sketching. Initially, I wanted to give up pen sketching after completing the "Singapore part" because the "China part" was intimidating to me. I had the idea to resize and print the "China part" and then trace on tracing paper. After which, using an ink-less pen, sort of engrave the lines on to the board and shade them lightly with pencil. Then I realised that I didn't have the softcopied China landmarks. Hence, I was stuck. Ultimately, out of desperation, I compelled myself to just hold the pen and draw. And miracles happened; I managed to complete my work! It was simply stunning.
Like what the TK Team of Youth Congress 2007-2008 used to say, "Simplicity is the key to success." Simple sketching is classic art - pure beauty. That piece of board was one of my favourite ones.
So, today is the deadline. 60% of the most time-consuming subject is down... what a relieve. Just when you think I'm done with art, guess what? Art Prelims is just 2days away and I haven't even started doing anything.
I'm not a reTARD; I'm an ARTard =D
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
'O' Level English OralY
To be exact, this is my 2nd Os paper ( the first is Art coursework ). The assurance given from how the examiners reacted to my response and I didn't need much prompting, I'm quite sure it's a distinction, or not that lucky, slightly below the dividing line.
With this, I shall be more optimistic about my other subjects. Next up is the completion of my coursework, of course. A B3 is something I expect, but definitely, I hope to push that up to a distinction score with my Paper 2.
Moving on!
With this, I shall be more optimistic about my other subjects. Next up is the completion of my coursework, of course. A B3 is something I expect, but definitely, I hope to push that up to a distinction score with my Paper 2.
Moving on!
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Food PoisoningY
It's probably the worst illness I have ever experienced. Having to endure the stomachaches and frequent the toilet was already enough to torture my lifestyle, I cannot even eat like a normal person.
This is horrible!!!
Food has always been an important part of my life, not only to give me energy and keep my body functioning, it is utmost important that it brings me joy!
This food poisoning THING made me skipped dinners and cause me to have fear towards my favourite past-time, eating!
Apart from food, the tummy discomfort is the worst of all. Imagine that you feel like going to the loo every 10 minutes just to ease the contraction in your tummy... LS-ing has never been this crazy.I'm lucky for the LS is controllable, not the type that flows out without warning.
The LS symtom came first, but subsided once the headache and fever took over. That's when I seek medical aid from Dr Tan. So he gave me 1 week worth of headache + fever pills that can last within a week, but only 2 sachets of LS medicine that finished in a day...
Now, my headaches and fever is gone, but I'm still LS-ing. I want to get over with LS!!! Save me, will someone?!
This is horrible!!!
Food has always been an important part of my life, not only to give me energy and keep my body functioning, it is utmost important that it brings me joy!
This food poisoning THING made me skipped dinners and cause me to have fear towards my favourite past-time, eating!
Apart from food, the tummy discomfort is the worst of all. Imagine that you feel like going to the loo every 10 minutes just to ease the contraction in your tummy... LS-ing has never been this crazy.I'm lucky for the LS is controllable, not the type that flows out without warning.
The LS symtom came first, but subsided once the headache and fever took over. That's when I seek medical aid from Dr Tan. So he gave me 1 week worth of headache + fever pills that can last within a week, but only 2 sachets of LS medicine that finished in a day...
Now, my headaches and fever is gone, but I'm still LS-ing. I want to get over with LS!!! Save me, will someone?!
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Documentary: Life After PeopleY
Sometimes, I feel that human beings shouldn't have existed to cause so much change to mother nature. This change is irreversible, unless we disappear, unless we vanish, unless we leave nature alone.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Air New Zealand AdvertisementY
Take a closer look... do you see it?
It took my quite long to realise it.. i think probably after half the video played then I was like," Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! These people are super daring!"
So, open your eyes and take a good look at this advertisement.
You will never expect to see Singapore Airlines to have such an advertisement =]
It took my quite long to realise it.. i think probably after half the video played then I was like," Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! These people are super daring!"
So, open your eyes and take a good look at this advertisement.
You will never expect to see Singapore Airlines to have such an advertisement =]
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Friday, July 17, 2009
"Our Story - Class of 2009"Y
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Solar StormY
We're introduced to Magnetism during Physics lesson today when Mrs Goh shared about the Solar Storm.
Curious to know more about it, I went to check it out at NASA's website.
You can click on the page at
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/
10mar_stormwarning.html
or simply read the report pasted here...
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Researchers say a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.
It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
Recently researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.
Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima--and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.
The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.
We have something similar here on Earth--the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.
The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.
Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields."
Enter the conveyor belt.
"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto--new sunspots!
All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)."
When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011."
Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.
"History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007--and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."
Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.
Researchers say a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.
It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
Like the quiet before a storm.
Recently researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.
Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima--and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.
The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.
We have something similar here on Earth--the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.
The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.
Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields."
Enter the conveyor belt.
"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto--new sunspots!
All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)."
When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011."
Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.
"History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007--and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."
Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.
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The knowledge required in order to understand all these is quite a bit. I tried to look up on more information at Wikipedia.
Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm
Hope I'll get a better insight of the solar storm after studying on magnetism. The thing is that I (and probably you, who are reading this) will live long enough to experience the up and coming Solar Maximum, thus there is a need to know what to expect and how to react when it comes.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
English Vocab- the integrated wayY
This kindergarten best friend of mine is one passionate blogger. Not that I aspire to be like him, but blogging has never been a priority in my life and definitely not during this stage of my life.
You may have heard of or witnessed the Flash Mob at Orchard Road on 13 June. This pal of mine was one of those crazy-looking people dancing on the street in pyjamas! What gave him that oppourtunity to be part of it was actually one post on his blog regarding the fashion sense of dear oh Singaporeans.
You can check it out right here:
http://joelthelegendary.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-singaporeans-dress-badly.html
What I like about such blogs is the language used. Most people's blogs are filled with short-forms and vulgarities and whatever nonsensical language errors you can think of. Well, Joel the Legendary has truly shown that teenagers can produce quality compositions. He can absolutely treat his blog as a new platform to replace magazines!
Anyway, my point is... I'm trying to learn vocabulary from his super long composition.
1. alter-ego : a second side to somebody's personality, different fromt he one that most people know
2. pun : a humorous use of words that involves a word or phrase that has more than one possible meaning
3. sentiment : a feeling or opinion prevailing among a group of people
4. galvanization : the stimulation of something into a great activity
5. avant-garde : writers, artists, filmmakers or musicians whose work is innovative, experimental, or unconventional, considered as a group
6: beacon : somebody or something that is a source of inspiration
7. self-immolation : suicide, usually as burning, as an act of sacrifice
8. disheveled : with messed-up hair or clothes
9. fedora : those nice hats... stop calling them hats... let me get a picture of it
9 new words! ... ... ... and hopefully I can store them in my word bank =]
You may have heard of or witnessed the Flash Mob at Orchard Road on 13 June. This pal of mine was one of those crazy-looking people dancing on the street in pyjamas! What gave him that oppourtunity to be part of it was actually one post on his blog regarding the fashion sense of dear oh Singaporeans.
You can check it out right here:
http://joelthelegendary.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-singaporeans-dress-badly.html
What I like about such blogs is the language used. Most people's blogs are filled with short-forms and vulgarities and whatever nonsensical language errors you can think of. Well, Joel the Legendary has truly shown that teenagers can produce quality compositions. He can absolutely treat his blog as a new platform to replace magazines!
Anyway, my point is... I'm trying to learn vocabulary from his super long composition.
1. alter-ego : a second side to somebody's personality, different fromt he one that most people know
2. pun : a humorous use of words that involves a word or phrase that has more than one possible meaning
3. sentiment : a feeling or opinion prevailing among a group of people
4. galvanization : the stimulation of something into a great activity
5. avant-garde : writers, artists, filmmakers or musicians whose work is innovative, experimental, or unconventional, considered as a group
6: beacon : somebody or something that is a source of inspiration
7. self-immolation : suicide, usually as burning, as an act of sacrifice
8. disheveled : with messed-up hair or clothes
9. fedora : those nice hats... stop calling them hats... let me get a picture of it
9 new words! ... ... ... and hopefully I can store them in my word bank =]
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know me
littlest of the Pang Family
people call me ChiawMIN or ZhaoMIN
was from Maha Bodhi School
Prefect, Guzheng P1-P4, Bhangra
currently in TanjongKatongSEC
StudentCouncillor, GirlGuide
I'm kind of like the oldest around with my friends (people call me Ah Ma, Marmie, Da Jie, etc.)... I'll lend my listening ears and heart and share my experiences with them, hoping to help them with their personal problems and talk some sense into them when necessary. Hey, c'mon, I'm trying to make a difference in people's life! I believe in leading and serving; if just by doing this little can make someone's day, why not?
I give my trust and respect to people and that's what I get back from them. Like what Mrs Ang always say "Life is just like a mirror, I'll treat you the way you treat me". However, for some special cases, I'll still give in 'cause people sometimes react harshly or react in those manner due to poor influence around them, so I can't blame them for that, just have to be more understanding.
And so, if you're a friend of mine, feel free to approach me when you're troubled. And if you approach me, it just MINs that you've taken your first step in believing in yourself, because I'll show you what's that SUPER HERO POWER in you that you never knew you had!
People nicknamed me
`炒面 (fried noodles) Many people told me that's the first thing that comes to thier mind
`Marmie The 2007 batch China Exchange to Shenyang girls should understand
`Motherly In Nature (realise the acronyms spells MIN) Kenny, Joel, Soo Han and I came up with nicknames using acronyms
`Ah Boy Vivian called me that because my chests looked flat in that over-sized windbreaker which I wore, plus a cap on my head... everyone started laughing
`Oh Boy Mother It's actually a combination of the above 2. Thanks Olivia, for this.
`炸馒头 Because Clarissa is the original 馒头, she said my face is always so oily.
`CMI⁴ Guides Camp 2008 Patrol Barney get kudos for that. acronyms again: Chiaw Min's Intelligence Cannot Make It, Chiaw Min's Idiocy Can Make It. Super pro girls
`cha cha Youth Congress 2007-08 TKteam realised that Soo Han and I don't have an English name, so they called me chacha.
'Pang There's nothing wrong calling me by my surname, but Edwin Peter calls me that because according to dictionary.msn.com, pang either means a short sharp pain or a sudden intense and usually distressing feeling.
I confess
敏!I think too much that my teacher asked me to stop leading a complex life.
敏!I know I can be over-ambitious at times.
敏!I don't really have much self-confidence, really.
敏!I can be wild and crazy ok?! Once you see it you'll understnad.
敏!I know that I'm average at most things, though I'm quite a perfectionist.
敏!I know I like to be "in-charge".
敏!I like to share my joy, not my sorrows, so I hide my emotions.
敏!A best friend indeed has yet to appear in my life.
敏!I enjoy performing arts and visual arts. Some may not believe, but I practise both.
敏!Cooking is an enjoyment to me.
敏!I'm not a techie and I'm not into those I.T. stuff.
敏!I'm not a "PINKIE ROCKS MY SOUL" kind of girl.
what's she up to?
1.Former Student Council Main Exco
2.Studying on Visual Arts, stepping out of performing arts.
3.Wanna organise and make my own campfire someday.
4.Do long-distance walk more often. Kind of missing it...
5.Cook more often.
6.Sell my beaded accessories and hand-painted shoes(any buyers?)
7.Interested in becoming an events planner/show choreographer (but I still have a designer's dream)
8.Looking into more books
wants; I know these are NOT NEEDS
1. more shorts/bermudas (I ACTUALLY have more skirts than pants?!)
2. MP3 to kill boredom 3. a new spectacles frame(black is save but something more funky, anybody?)
4. Sims 3 (out in stores already)
5. Watch the scoutty boy movie "Up"
6. Air-con in my room please!!!
BOOKS
1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arther Golden
3. Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
4. Art books on M.C. Escher
5. Art books on Yue Minjun
2. MP3 to kill boredom 3. a new spectacles frame(black is save but something more funky, anybody?)
4. Sims 3 (out in stores already)
5. Watch the scoutty boy movie "Up"
6. Air-con in my room please!!!
BOOKS
1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arther Golden
3. Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
4. Art books on M.C. Escher
5. Art books on Yue Minjun
Ambitious me MINs...
`to walk home from downtown at night, not alone
`to learn Chinese Calligraphy from a Master
`to go fishing at least 2x in my life
`to get a kayaking/ canoeing license
`to have a library of my own at home
`to be successful in my upcoming Blogshop
`to go trekking/backpaking/hiking at least 5x in my life
`to run at least a half-marathon once in my life
`to make my own bag
`to paint a pair of heels for myself
`to play Sims 3 like mad for 1 month!
`to take a year break and do everything I like
hey, what do you MIN by that?!?!
It's counting...
know these PUNKsters
大哥
二哥
know littlest PUNK even better
know these HANrelated
MeiFen
know these MAHA BODHIANS
Alwin
Dennis
JingYi
June
LiXin
Madeline
Michelle
Moyra
PohKing
SiYuan
TzeChong
YingTing
YingXin
know these TKsians
Amelia
Ariel
Arynah
Asha
Astrid
Atiqah
BoonYee
Celine
Charmaine
Clarissa
Dean
Desiree
Eileen
Erina
EstherTay
EugeneKay
EvelynChan
Farhan NomborSatu
FarisFarizuan
Hafiz
Hasif
HuiMin
HuiJun
HuiXun
James
Janice
JasmineKok
JasminePoh
JiaJun
JinFei
Jolene
Josephine
JovanYo
JunHui
Kane
Kenneth
Mark
Michelle
MingJie
Nazri
NicholasAw
Nigel
Nikki
Novia
PohKing
Rifat
Rohaida
Ryan
SandyLikitdachavongs
Sara
Sharmane
Sharon
SiHui
SiYan
SiYuan
SooHan
Stefan
WeiLin
WeiYing
YinShuang
YongJia
Xenia
Yuyi
ZhangXin
NgeeAnnSec
ChinaExchange'07
Pamela
SherylChia
Shimei
TzeChong
ZhongHuaSec
ChinaExchange'07
ChiehLing
Grace
Stella
know them too
TK3J'08cum4J'09
Crystal
KelvinPang
WeiYing
YanYing aka YY
YeeJia
YuJia
know these STUDENT LEADERS
JonothanSeng/HwaChongInsttn
JoelLim/MarisStella
ShaunSeah/MarisStella
Jesmine/TKGS
CherylSeah/PLMGSS
EleanorNeo/PLMGSS
Hannah/PLMGSS
Joanne/PLMGSS
WeiKee/PLMGSS
ZiQi/PLMGSS
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