World at odds (WAO)

Hi,

Thanks a lot Saurabh, your view kept me thinking whole day. You are absolutely right it should not sound like utube or any other such site. So most important for us is to get it differentiated as a talent portal and for that we need needles to be pricked into cube by potential talent hunters.

Well as we originated this idea around entertainment or such fields where it get difficult to showcase the talent and get noticed. I think what Saurabh’s point here is our major concern should be how we make the talent hunters ( channels, agencies, theater groups, who so ever they may be) took interest in this project.
Well I see three approach to this :-

Direct one, where channels come up as partner of portal and use this concept of hunting across. For e.g. out of the 25 contestant at Indian Idol, 5 of them are thru the portal. Or they are advertise or are sponsor on the site. May be if they are smart a good part of their live program footage come thru online venture; something on line the most funny video’s etc.

Indirect path, as highlighted by Saurabh, we had a fire storm between the talents and whatever is brewed from music to story we have takers for them from industry.

A mixed approach, where all this forms a part, where the development happening on portal is directly reflected on the TV channel. Little complex but it is what we would love the most to develop.

My concerns are more here to the whole concept now , we need to make a cube which is spelled as KUBE. Video is the best form to showcase talent but it should not be the only form. We may need to encourage all form of creativity and best attempt from our side should be to get them categorized. Talent and certain skills cannot be raised in IIT’s and IIM’s they are inherent and some time even rare. Video is one of the windows into the Kube and we should look for more than videos and rooms, as I had reservation for video and its adaptability if we are not able to get results instantaneously.

Yes, the bandwidth offered to Indians do not encourage heavy uploads in India so far. But only thing that make us believe is when we see long queue outside talent show auditions , we see contestant cry when they do not get a chance even to perform once in front of judges. And worst of all is when after getting a chance they are not able to perform because it was one of that bad days. We are really concerned about such people.

First thing we learned in college was about diversification, I think here is the time to use it (not exactly in management term but literal term). We need to think about what else a talent HUNTING portal should have and what all form of sharing your talent and concept can be there. Most of imperative we may build the jungle and had all animals there but no hunters.

I think, if I stick to the last post of mine, we need to know the edges and video is one of the interface here. It will be the most popular one but it has certain limitations too. Videos or something is already uploaded in there, people watching it, but no one is seriously making business out of it. We can have edge if we do things in a controlled environment than in a free environment on sites like utube or other. At end of the day we will be serving to the hunters and it should be in a format they can consume. May be if we are talking about video’s they should not be more than 3 min and be direct acts than spoofs.

I stop here because I need more feed else it won’t have the focus which we desire for.

Hey, what you say we start the site with the first contest on it “ Sabsa bada Ashuiq kaun?”. We have a sub idea which is a winner itself, so we should not be apprehensive about the content drawing part only thing is getting hunters too in the game.

Ehoo!!!!

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Hi all,
I read some basic of business planning and the most important point I drew out of it, is sharing your idea with every one for scrutiny. Well I was waiting for some inputs before I had drawn the cube, but somehow I had to go ahead.

From our last post we know what the cube is made up of and what is inside the cube. Now we have to paint the 6 faces to the cube, distinctively and with a purpose. I try to draw some faces and request to come with more faces as I mentioned the razor sharp edges are also important and there sharpness depend now on the 6 faces chosen from the list.

Face 1 :- I call it the Enter the dragon( hahaha old habits). Yes, it implies direct entry, most of our traffic will be routed through this face. You do not have to have a login from this face it is the direct path. You can get the feel of the portal, you can serach and explore all the stuff here which by contributor has been made visible for all. You cannot upload stuff till you are a login member and can not comment. It is a window kind of tour.

Face 2:- To left of face 1 is the face 2. From here you can login and get to those parts of cube which may have been restricted from face 1. You have to comply with the cubes policy and adhere to the norms. You can have your space and you can upload info, stuff about yourself under the different sub’s like music, dance, comic, etc mentined there. It is left to you how well you can present yourself. We can facilitate.

Face 3:- Yes this is the rich boy entry to the club, sorry cubes. Here you gotcha pay premium for our services. We enhance your presentation and get you a chance to showcase yourself better. We can only promise to do best for you but if you do not have in you, even we can not help.
Face 4:- It is opposite to face 2, hence it is not much different than that here the user are trying to judge fellow among themselves, Cube master moderate from time to time draw rules and it is a battle of its own. If you think you are the best dancer in India, let us judge you here and we get that across. Entry here is easy may be free and sponsored prize. It will be run by the masters and even the cube master be bought here in this face.

Face 5:- It is the window of creativity. It is the collaborative room. Here you can share talent. Write a script/ play online and get it reviewed online. It will be again sponsored. There will be blue, red, green room depending upon the credibility you draw over the room. If you do well may be the next Ghajni you will be writing.

Face 6:- It is owned and run by outside cube master. Here they ask what they want? So we do not have much to say.

Face 7, 8,9:- Ya from IPL franchise to live jam room ideas are abundance to be uploaded. Right now we are trying to refine the cube shape.

Hey guys, edges are next and then we will paint the cube. Haha, ya got it right, Anuj is not realistic man, but I dare to dream, It may not work, may not take off. Who care, I dared to dream and that make me happy!!!!!!!!

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Hi guys,
I am able to put sporadic effort to the cause. It is not even the work pressure; it is the infamous mood swing of mine. Well before it gets too late, I shall come to the forum with something pleasant.
I am continuing the do teen pone teen story. I will try to identify the soul or the central idea. On a an average a person like me ( a young man in age group of 15 to 30) will click across number of websites in a day out of which gmail, orkut, facebook, job portal, news, entertainment portal will be some of the common ones. Few websites related to interest or some specific purposes are browsed. Our idea is having a commercial theme, so it has to have the features of one such website.
If someone ask what do teen pone teen is all about, I should have a one liner answer and that is what today I am looking for in this post. I would like to answer it to be a youth oriented web cube with six sides to it. Hmm ya guy, I make it complex to be simple in the larger frame, so bear with me. The user here ( mostly youth) can infiltrate into the box from six faces. Six different faces with 12 sides. So we have dissimilar combination from the permutation of sides. Yes the model here will be mathematical, hahaha my love for it is immense. Now it is simple we have to figure it out four simple things:-
1) What is inside the box?
2) What will form the six faces?
3) What are the 12 different sides?
4) What colors you like to have different face?

I like to answer the first question first, the box is empty. That’s why it is unique, we going to fill it gradually with sand which does not settle inside the box, when the cube is rolled it moves from side to side. It will be filled from faces by the users with content, information, ideas thoughts, anything as of now no barrier.

Sticking to the theme, we would like the box be filled by people who have some set of skills and talent which they struggle to show case. (Our job is that some who can patronize such skills and talents puts his hand into this cube from time to time and keep on drawing bunnies). We know with good marketing mix it will surely start off. Our conviction is based upon the great success of talent shows and the kind of response garnered by the them. May be some techno talent show will like to get talent for its show through our medium; we will have a big set with a online showcase. Most importantly it will give a fair chance to all than the big queue tamaasha where a few lucky got a chance to audition. It will be build up in such a way that even if you are not getting highlighted and are genuine talent, you will be recognized by your fellow talents , who will rate you to climb up the ladder and if you for sure a good dancer, singer or magician we will forward your cause on basis of your recognition up here in the cube.

[Note:- Sides to this cube will be video uploading, profile uploading, chat room, communities and may more for at least 12…identify them with me]
Well it will be collaborative effort not seen ever before in web Indian world. We like to nurture screenwriters/ story teller and for that we will have a face where we will run few running story, they all work in that room and keep turning live episode form day to day. Each voted and adopted by live community. Well such things are difficult to explain in written English. A demo for time being is a distance away.

I have given a fair idea about the box. Now most important is the faces to be developed through which user will enter the cube. I will keep it on hold as I think I need to keep this cube as a crystal one. Edges and sides are too sharp for the time being only can be identified after the faces are identified.

I close this post but I am relieved for time being. We discussed on Monday to do an Ishikawa kind of fish bone diagram but I think we have done it better by now.

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Who is there coming towards me?
Nothing is towards me,
It is evil in her eye that is coming.
Look at her, she is mean,
It is not love, it is all about her.
Stop chasing, coming towards me.
I ask your mama why you hell raisin,
People of the lie you are,
I may be crazy but not a fool,
Stop faking, I know even he is around,
Keep away, stop coming towards me,
Nothing is towards me,

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I am in and out of the white tavern,

What takes me there is my love,

I am in love, romancing with a stone,

She talks sweet in day and bitters me in night,

Every night spent thereafter in tavern keeps my love alive,

I drink every bitterness with black rum,

I keep sweetness from day, so I drink all night,

Reign my love, till sun shines in east, sunsets in west,

It is not all about love,

One love is too complex for other to realize,

Be in love, you will get reason to be in white,

I am in and out of the white tavern.

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Hi All,

Lately I have not got enough time to post. Well being rusty is sometime good. I was reading Khalil Gibran in the afternoon and I have been left touched and mesmerized forever. The poems and his parables are at some different level of intellect. I am not a voracious reader as I once was, but something likes this I can confirm is special.Will try to read out more of Khalil Gibran in coming months.

What else, music is back in life and these days I am just listening to REM. Somebody hurts and Losing my religion are two of the songs I am concentrating on. After watching the movie I had also picked up on the music of Slumdog Millionaire. And hey , if you guys have not watched out Chandni Chowk to China, I suggest to avoid it. A insane person can recommend such a bore to a friend to watch it. Lucky me I was saved by my roommate, he warned me on time.

Do teen pone teen for the time being is in cold. I would have written the draft today, but was too tired. I have worked on some logics but need some more inputs and facts to make it sound more authenticate. Die hard Billu too is back in India and he is been bitten by the London bug. We Indians love onsite hates offshore, I wonder why? May be I have to travel abroad to solve my query.

Well this post is a generic post to keep you all informed I am still alive and kicking. I will get back with some scintillating posts soon.

Ehoo!! Till den.

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In next few days / weeks I have set up the goals for myself. I may or may not achieve but I will give up a try.
1) Technology if any and which one required.
2) Contacts that can be helpful in breaking.
3) Time frames as like the Gantt charts.
4) Capital required.
5) Planning it before thinking of execution.
Thing is flexible, but somehow I am convinced to be cashing on web2.0. It is small check post. I will return to you know with some concrete updates.

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Hi guys,
Was waiting for some response, but that is hard to garner these days. Anyhow I will continue with my hoop hula. Saurabh I wrote it in continuation to our discussion.

Conviction is the most important thing to have at an early stage of any plan or story. If you do not believe in it yourself you will fail to make other believe. Other thing that is important is backing with lots of facts and figures. Fiction is sweet and facts are bitter. In the meantime one can start to pull a great team with expertise in his or her field. It is tricky to get people do something out of ordinary when they are happy in the routine work. Risk taking is like a gene not common to all but some amount of risk mitigation is essential. Well these are some ingredients that I would like to have in this story but for time being I will try to make the story more believable.
Coming back to where I left it. I still feel the story is in its fancy stage. Today itself I read in a newspaper a gal found people of like interest on a music social networking site. So what I can say my Idea is not original but the way I want to build it up will be different. Only thing that I require is number of iteration and that got difficult when you start off alone ( as for the time I have not pulled up team). I would like to reiterate the importance of flexibility and scalability of an idea. It may start as a toy train and we end up making a boat ( vese that is not goning to happen here ).
Let me put some goals that are achievable and can be worked up in next few months.
1) A strong team that want to do something for themselves with strong entrepreneurship keeda (Insect inside brain that gets a chemical loocha of right sort).
2) An idea that is bankable. I am not looking for 5% or 10 % of market share. I think a 1% is what is realistic for a small team with weekend kind of commitment.
3) Working to strength with lots of common sense. Technology and marketing is something the team can be good at.
4) Making contacts.
5) Meeting deadlines is important. No excuse attitude. If I have to sleep 3 hours I am ready but will like that form others too. I will come hard at you. HAHA kidding Rome was not build like this.
6) Observation and giving a trial run is important. It’s from mistake you learn. Ghajini to Hanibal all made great conquers after making mistakes and coming back.
7) EYE OF THE TIGER. Anyone who knows rocky will know this line. Either I don’t wear gloves or if I do I am not scared to die in ring.

I think a prototype of any idea we will work on has to be made. Paper work and those financial statements are not catchy enough. Let me put it simple, after putting work on it I am not looking for a refined idea but a product or service that is tangible and people can feel it. We may win or lose but the experience will last for lifetime.

Those who believe in themselves are those who rule this planet.

I will be doing some homework on side of all this and try to work do teen pone teen. You all are most welcomed to be part of it. I have limitation and I want to be dependent on those I trust that’s why I am coming to you all.

Never mind even if you read this I will full of gratitude to you folks.

And somehow I come to know from Abhishek that a big portal is coming on the same line soon. Man it has happened again but as I say Ghajini was not Memento and Sholay was not Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Two ideas can never be same.

Please refer to business.govt.in this is a wonderfull url, you all will love it.

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To
White Tiger,
Australia, US,Chennai,
You wrote a booker wining book, accolade for that. Being honest I did not like it at all. Like your letter to the Chinese Dude did not make any sense, my letter to you also is not going to have any Impact. In both cases concerned party will not read it.
One question why you wrote to Chinese Premier is he your Mama. Balram you are an illiterate, by killing and running a cab business you cannot become literate. Forget that, what the idea of crying about darkness in front of a person who has more darkness in his own country.
You tried to write as you lived inside the body of Balram, man it is easy observing people and putting in elements of real life to make your story authenticate but a real Indian will tell you tiger sighting is rare, white tiger to kuch jayda ho gaya.
White tiger what it symbolize? I am too confused. You want to say we Indians even if born in darkness are so wicked with our ambitions that can do anything to achieve them. Here that guy for sure must have got killed whole of his family for that amount of money.
You in authentic is the Mr. Ashok in real life who has not seen it at all. Wearing tuxedo to Booker does not confirm you are aware of factual India.
I did not like anything about your book because for being an average Indian I knew everything you wrote , just those firangi find it amusing. People like you still want to play the snake charmer card.
And mind you people of Gurgaon are not Panjabi farmer and do not try to taint my north. It ends at Delhi rest of India is south for us, even your land of darkness.
Try to earn a one day wage then you will learn to write the real stuff and do not make a mess of the whole matter.
Vesse it is not that bad, you wrote good part of it with sincerity and continuity but still shame on you, write next time not thinking about the prize you can won.
Your next work is eagerly awaited to be butchered.
Kidding Yaar, lassi thanda lao saab ke lye.
Chal take care.
Man who loves to be hated,
Aj alias west urf pantha

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Dusty roads and flashy lights,
Strange combinations I have for the season,
Got to feel the winds,
Dust and rays are coming together,
Mid day light is what I am looking for,
Dust settle and ray are pure for the moment,
Wind and I will talk, it is silence in,
We conspire in this silence to rule,
To rule not with power not with money,
To rule with chaos and confusion,
Mid day last for minutes, it is all back,
Dusty roads and flashy lights,
Strange combinations I have for the season,
We had conspired in,
But doesn’t know on whose side we are,
Wind has his own game,
She cheats me, dust and light,
For minutes she flew backward and then stops,
Who cares now?
We too have taken to silence,
Dusty roads and flashy lights and silent me,
Strange combinations I have for the season,

………………………………………………………………..this is neither poetry nor internal it is a full end blank, it is abstract………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Hi guys.

I will be a story teller in today’s post. Chika and Tuga best pals of mine were pulling my leg that I am an MBA and must know about business. So at least to prove to them I worked my brain to tell you some stories. These stories are as I imagine and I will try to put up on real story board sooner or later.

One basic rule before your start a Business story, you must know inside out of the area you are talking about and it should be in your grasp all the time. Salt of imagination is always helpful in all such cases. Bollywood, cricket, movies, TV, dreaming, internet these are the few things I know a bit. So I talk around them in my first business story post.

Note: [Business story is quite different than a business plan. Please read this post to understand the concept better]

This is a story I told Saurabh first and then to Tuga and Chika dears. What’s the hottest thing on TV and internet? No guessing you all should know it. Reality TV and social networking sites are the new rage. Well we are drawing some elements from these facts to cook up a story my friends.

Some of the observations, I would like to put them as points here:-

1) Reality shows have an audience for sure.
2) Who are the audience? Young people, old people, it is a distributed demography, thus making it more interesting preposition.
3) What is the content? Well bollywood and music as talent show form the main chunk, with standup comedy too being people favorite. Few adventure and useless show like Roadies too having a niche segment.
4) Saturation being observed in content. (We may help in that regards too / not sure in the beginning of the story).
5) Use of social networking site and net is on increase in general among urban India.
6) We too observed that sites like naukri.com and shadi.com, travel.com doing very well. These portals have a purpose and they are here to stay.
7) On TV and Movies production we have observed the evolution of corporate culture. Talent scarcity too is observed. Potential for new things to happen in abundance.

All the points mentioned above are independent of each other but somewhere they form the conviction behind the success of the story I want to narrate now.

We are looking to make a portal on the line of naukri.com and shadi.com which draws some features and business acumen form them.

We too draw some elements from the above mentioned points to construct this new portal. Coming to the point, proposing you doteenponeteen.com. What it is? It is a talent portal for our own Bollywood and TV industry.

Hmm, I can hear you say it is interesting, want to know more. We do not want you to queue up for those long lines. You can make a five minute of gig and upload on this portal. You won’t miss out those auditions. We bring you to those you seek. We are not just for singers, musicians, actors, we are for all type of talents / skills from script writing to editing to painting to magicians, all those who do not get chance to showcase their talent.

We will maintain the databank in a unique way not been done around the world before. You think to form a band and looking for a drummer, don’t have to go anywhere socialize on our portal. Looking for lyrics we get you the poet. Want to screen your story, we get you the feedbacks. Wanna star in a movie, we get your CV across to the concerned. Aspiring model we get your profile viewed by them. Don’t have to be in Bombay to struggle. You can now fight for your chance from Rai Barely itself.

It is just the curtain raiser, equivalent of your idea screening stage of a business plan. 98 % of the story is left to be unfolded. I will make it holle holle.

Jai Ram Ji ki.

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Satyam was in news for days now but what happened today was an absolute shocker. Saurabh messaged me telling Satyam promoter has accepted for fraud. It is another Enron kind of story. I too got curious and spend the day tracking logs across the net.

I read Raju’s letter to shareholder, his confession just tell how murky the whole affair would have been. I doubt what he has disclosed is what all he knows or what he want us to know. A share falling from Rs 180 to Rs 30 in one trading day. Indian IT industry was rocked like never before. Mr. Murthy even comes out with a statement to take strong action against Satyam as this is tarnishing India’s image. Government will set up inquires that what it knows to do. I would love to know who the auditors are.

Quote of the day “I was riding a tiger but did not know how to get off without being eaten up.” Mr. Raju now you can tell lots of story. You were into money making business not into philanthropy so now why complain. Your net worth in satyam is just 8 % and I am assured you would have amassed more in this fraud. Wonder if you would have been able to buy Maytas for Rs 6400 crores, there would have been parties at your farm till turn of next century.

I heard and read such cases too happened in corporate Japan and Korea. Daewoo was such kind of story. Some of these corporate took so many honors that they resort to suicide as the only way to get rid of guilt. No I am not asking for hara-kiri from Mr. Raju. He spoke coz he has to save lots of skins. It was not fictional number he added up, there are people responsible for corporate governance who should be held accountable. Everybody knowing about this sorry state should be barred from doing business, holding any office of importance and send packing bag home.

I am sure Satyam will bounce back under new Management. Raju will fade away. It is us who will learn a lesson. 52,000 employee and thousands of investors will have sleepless nights.

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I hope you remember the HARI SADU ad of naukri.com. Yes the one where one insults his boss when he has found a new job. May be he was lucky got a chance to take out his frustration are you so lucky. Not really something stops you to give it back. There is boiling anger inside you for lots of things from wife to job to peers but somehow you cannot get it out. Your wife nags, your boss shouts and peers back stab, your life is doomed. I tell you a nice therapy; yes it helps to unleash the black forces which you are suppressing. Welcome to insult club, it is like the FIGHT CLUB, yes you are given a chance to get at your opponent and be what you can never be coz of your social honors. Nothing physical here it is a place of verbal abuse, shout scream but no touching to the other person.

Well friends you are right I am up to something this time. There are few Insult clubs running across the world and they are doing very well. I was more convinced about the need of its existence in a bigger way when I say Indian youngster queuing up in huge number for ROADIES audition. Mr. Raghu insults them, some cry some fakes but all in all they are being judged on the degree of insult taken. Raghu open challenges to you mate any day and offline comment real roadies don’t care for such childish affairs; they ride on their bike to sunset.

Coming up to how an insult club works and does it hold a commercial implication or not. I deal it one on one. Insult club is not a physical entity. It’s amorphous in nature and got some fine rules. You don’t talk about Insult Club. You are silently part of it. You can have insult bouts arranged with any person across the club. Rule 2, you don’t enquire about the personnel details of the person with whom you have a bout. You can hurl any type of insult from personnel, family, appearance to voice, without having any grudges against you opponent. Rule 3, in no case you get physical even if your opponent claims to be your dad. Rule 4, all decision of MASTERS (level 3 insult patron) in any bout will be final.

You must be asking what the needs to join a club where you hurl insults or get insulted. I tell you one day coming back to home you had a fight with rickshawala but somehow you hold your anger back. The whole thing is eating you and you have become little prickly. Time to log on to insult club and take your frustration out. Keep you day to day life normal. Do not let the anger or frustration affect you life, you had an insult club membership.

Commercially it has lots of scope; people can have different communities inside the club. There can be people who want to be face to face to some online tussles. People can have rankings too and move up the ladder. Insult Club weekend where random bouts can also be arranged. People who are not able to hurl insult can be given special sessions. Role play insult session for those who are really bad at it. I do not think people will mind if they are charged for such premium service. Who gives you a chance in real life to scream or shout at them? May be you can have more positive energy at work and home while you take out most of negative energy at the club.

Ok, Bhai log I know you not buying into my idea but I would have founded one such club over the weekend if I was not working. But hey this post will remain a testimonial I was the first man to think of making it a profitable venture and spin money from insult. Vesse right now customer care executive are the simplest target of hurled abused. They will be the first to take our cause and help in getting loads of member into such clubs.

I will be clubbing it into fiction. I am convinced it will work; now it’s up to you guys to vote.

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Well friend this is the first post of 2009 season. We have observed diminishing number of readers recently and reason for that is global meltdown. How you should ask, people are finding difficult to log in to www, it is not as affordable as it was 2 months ago. Technology penetration is following a negative S curve. People are now relying on primitive means for communication and WEB2.0 is for the time being put into hibernation.

Cutting short the crap, I will like to quote one of my favorite lines I picked up while in school

Men may come Men may go, but Brooks goes on forever.

Let me put it in simpler form to you all with an example, In Merra naam Joker, RAJ KAPUR says this eternal line “the show must go on” or from Anand this quote “hum sum rang manch ke katputliya haen……”

Where can we create the difference with the rest of the world is by show casing our endless commitment for perseverance. Things are not easy but endless persuasiveness can lead to turn hesitation into commitment.

Well friends my wavering thoughts have poll up in abundance over the last week, some of them I would definitely like to share with you over this week. Interesting of them all is my conviction like that Insult Club is a Business idea that needs to be commercialized and the best way to get it done is WEB. Yes, business is something I was thinking up and it may be good platform to make a note with you all guys.

This post is generic in nature. And last not the least please listen to Metallica “nothing last forever”. Is it Metallica for sure, hope so?

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