Educators and The Change of Period

BENEFITS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO THE WORLD OF EDUCATION
New recent conversation with a professor who teaches communications. He said that he used the computer for typing purposes, make presentations, and listening to songs on youtube. Educators and Change Period
He's not much use social media such as twitter and others. Although I am not an expert on communication, I think there are a lot of new communication patterns are evolving. After the outbreak of social media communication theory that long may have been updated by a new communication theories. Times change, and science is also constantly evolving. An educator needs to realize this, at least to be a motivation to continue learning.


My conversation with the professor reminds me of the encounter with a teacher, about a year ago. In a training organized by the Indonesian Teachers Association (IGI), I met with a female teacher. He was probably more than 50 years. Her hair is white. His eyes were a little glazed. He told me that he was not actively teaching. Now difficult for him to find work.

"What are you teach?" Asked me.

The woman said that her expertise is teaching shorthand. Shorthand is a way of writing concise and fast, usually used to copy the conversation (www.wikipedia.org). Once students learn vocational department secretary. Also journalists. Now they have not learned it again. Now it appears that the role of stenography replaced by a voice recorder, video, or the ability to type quickly. So, maybe not so many users stenography.

"Can you use a computer?" I asked, curious.

The woman said that she could not use a computer. Typing could not. His expertise is stenography.

"If there are vacancies for teaching stenography please let me know yah!" He hoped.

I do not doubt the capabilities of both educators. They are experts in their respective fields. Eager to learn they were still high. The communications lecturer had asked me to write some website addresses that could be used as a reference for learning while the teacher steografi still eager to follow the various teacher training. However, times are changing so fast. What they have learned over the years and make them "successful" in the past apparently no longer valued as it once was.

My second encounter with the educator leaves a lot of questions in my mind. How about the first science we learn now is not useful anymore? What if the work once we consider important now begin to disappear? Is sciences that we consider important indeed be as important in the future? What do our students learn in school really will they need? The times have changed, so how educators should deal with it?

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BENEFITS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO THE WORLD OF EDUCATION

Computer technology in this day and age is already so advanced. Computers are often used to facilitate human work in order to get it over with. Can not be denied, that the computer is already a matter of public importance on this earth. Here I will discuss a bit about the role of computer technology, especially in the field of education.

I'm here to directly address the role or benefits of computer technology in education that include e-learning. As we know that the concept should be applied at the present time is to be developed in order to avoid saturation in the learning process. Nowadays e-learning is the solution. E-learning is a learning system that uses computer technology and the Internet. E-learning is an acronym of the Elektronic Learning, a new way of teaching and learning that uses electronic media especially the internet as a learning system. E-learning is a basic and logical consequence of the development of information and communication technology.
E learning benefits include:

1. It's easier to get the material or info
If we use a learning system based on e-learning, we will be much easier to find and obtain material or information. Just type in what we are looking for, wait a minute, we can direct the material.

2. Can get more material
We can get a lot of material, not only from within the country, even we can find materials from overseas which would add insight for us and also to improve the results of our study.

3. Learning is more effective and efficient time and labor
If there is a task, we can find the ingredients we need quickly. Should not thither to get the materials we need. Just sit in front of a computer or laptop, then look for what we need. After that, stacking task and finish.

4. Can interact directly with anyone
A student could have asked his friend what material is taught today or what a given task, if that day he could not leave for a reason. He can also ask directly what the professor had taught the material or what tasks it provides. In the interaction, he can use the medium of writing. He typed what to talk about or ask then sent to the addressee. He can also interact directly, can be face to face and talk directly with the person to talk to. Due to advances in technology, now it could happen with a tool called a webcam.

5. Can know the material or assignments early
Students can view the schedule or assignments given by lecturers who are already uploaded. So, the students already know what will be done today and can prepare early.

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Learning anywhere and anytime is OK

An activity can be said to "learn" when to change behavior in a person. Changes in behavior it is usually temporary as the knowledge it receives. Whether learning can only be done in a formal environment???? unfair if this is the case. Learning can happen anywhere as long as it can induce behavioral changes in a person. A trader can be much faster in comparison to undergraduate mathematical counting for example, why is that? because traders learn from what they do and learning was done continuously. This is in accordance with the laws of learning connectionism theory exercises, which reads "the more often a lesson is repeated, the more it will mastered the lesson." Although not done in a formal environment, a trader said it was able to learn because he has done a study that is between him and buyers. The more buyers, the more often he learned (count). It is sufficient to prove that learning is not only done in the formal environment. Learning is very influential in the learning process. How someone can be said to do the learning? a person can be said to have done a case study two-way communication between students and teachers using the principles of education and learning theory, as well as traders who had been using the theory of connectionism.

Quite another to learn in a formal environment involving teachers, students and the learning environment and have to go through certain stages of kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, to university. This learning is much more regular and organized since been adapted to the ability level of students both in the physical and life. Teachers as teachers have a very important role in supporting student success,. Teachers should be able to create a conducive learning so that students can be said to have learned. Discourse is the spirit that inspires the teachers to continue to strive to create meaningful learning for students. Perhaps many students who often complain of the presence of many of the tasks that the teacher "this task, a task that, many baget task.", But it was nothing but an attempt of teachers to make students want to learn and optimize the potential of the students themselves to enable the objectives of the study itself is the change in behavior. This should be a challenge for students and raises confidence and motivation that "I can do it, I had to force myself to learn, when will I learn? yes from now this, well I have to be "forced Allohuma, that's called. During coercion was good for us, why do not we do? And learning that can be done anywhere and anytime as long as we want. Is not the experience is the best teacher? So, let's learn!!!!!! Are You Ready??????

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Let's Learn to Read and proceed in the Writing

Before we write, the habit of reading is a major step and the first to do a writing activity, so for that I am quoting what is meant by reading like the one below:

Reading is a reciprocal relationship with the individual totally symbolic information. Read something is usually a visual aspect of learning, this is step by step:

1. introduction

2. assimilation

3. intra-integration

4. akstra integration

5. storage

6. remember

7. communication

(Toni Buzan, Use Your Head)

Iqro (Intellectual NEED, QUALITY OF LIFE, UNIVERSE OF RECOVERY, OF HUMAN Organitation)

That reading can meet the needs of the intellectual aspects, the need to improve the quality of life of the universe, and have the ability to organize life.

Awaluddin MADJID (Intellectual PERSONAL MANAGEMENT)

That is definition reading generally. But I will not go into more detail, I just want to inform a course outline before I discuss about how to writing simple.

Reading is an activity of the heart and thought, before reading do this step:

1. Do a job that you like, such as cooking, gardening or anything what is related to your hobby.

2. Choose a time and place that is fun to read

3. Use enough lighting for reading

4. See the sitting position for reading

5. Select the book that you love to reading

6. Prepare notes for things that interesting, or it could also do the coloring on sentence or interesting words or put a bunch of highlighter on the section

7. note and note interesting things, and then develop the theory of 5 W (what, when, why, who, where and how) and continue to remember it and repeat constantly.

The human brain is 64.8 km in length intercept is in the brain, then the act of reading, which sendor eyes read the letter symbols will extend our brain which weighs less than 1.5 Kg, where the active cell is no more than 100 billion in the brain, compared to a monkey which has 10 billion, while the mice five million 100 thousand flies. Then the reading will affect the right brain is usually to increase creativity, left brain as brain structural and midbrain as the alignment between the right and left brain.

For simplicity I will give a very simple example, like the one below after we perform readings:

there are words: one, the queen and shoes (suffix tu behind the words to facilitate the learning of writing after doing readings). Let us learn to weave words - these words into a sentence like the one below.

1. Every day of the queen using her shoes. After that continue with the following sentence:

2. Every one of the queen to use always use shoes as a sense of joy, because every one of the queen always remember that shoe as the date of the special items of her beloved husband.

Above example there is a very simple example, I hope that it can be used as study materials for all of us. Good luck.

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5 Reasons That Make Learning While Playing Important

"The world of child is a world of play while learning," wrote Hedy Lim, one of the teachers who have been certified professional teacher of Teacher Education and Professional Training (PLPG), in his article in Kompasiana. Read a quote that as teachers we certainly agree, it's just a lot of consideration to start applying it in the classroom. Starting from the consideration of the seriousness of the time it takes students to follow lessons.

Apart from the above assumptions, playing while learning remains the most effective method of learning. With this method the students to be more creative and active, they also become more fun to follow the lessons and not easily bored in class. In addition, students can also acquire some additional skills beyond the material being taught.

On this subject Rebekah Stathakis gives five reasons why it is important to learn as you play to be applied in the classroom. "Over the years, I have made a list of five reasons that I believe makes the game as the most powerful educational tool," he wrote in an article published on the site educationworld. The fifth reason that he put forward based on his experience teaching a foreign language in a primary, secondary and college. He always uses the game as a means of delivering learning material. Here are five reasons that:

First, students can learn through the running game. Rebekah said that the game the students can learn to understand concepts and new ideas in learning. They also can see what is being taught from the perspective that they have not known before, so they will start experimenting with the possibilities and new variables.

He pointed to a card game that is often used with students in the first week of lessons. In that game, the students were divided into groups consisting of 4 to 5 people, they play according to the instructions on the card they get. Each group gets a different game rules. The game was running with full solemnity in each group. After the first round, the winners of each group had the opportunity to move to another group.

In the other group, they get different rules with the previous game, so it must adapt to the new rules. There are many who do not accept and say "bermainmu wrong way," to other students at his new group. Rebekah It is used as the starting point in explaining about the transfer of a person from one area to another. He had to immediately adjust to the new situation in the region. "I tell you my personal experience when moving from Spain to Venezuela and then to the United States. At first, I felt that the people there speak the language wrong, "he continued.

The game continued, but with tolerance to discuss new rules to the players who had just moved from another group. In the final game, they begin to understand that the purpose of the game is to explain the importance of learning a new language. Until there was one of them said "I know, it turns out you are trying to show us why we need to learn another language. So that we can learn from each other. "

Secondly, the game can become an intermediary to engage students in the learning process. Some subjects require activeness of students in it. Like learning a foreign language that requires insight into how the pronunciation and vocabulary mastery sufficient. With the game, more teachers may invite them to say a few words or sentences, so indirectly they have practice saying the words and sentences. This method was more effective than what is in the textbooks that many foreign language vocabulary lists.

"I used to take the students to play 'charades', so they are compelled to pronounce the answer of the puzzle that I gave to the vocabulary and sentence structure are correct. Repeatedly they get the exercise they need, "said Rebekah.

Third, the passing game students can learn some important skills. There are so many skills that can be learned by students through games, such as critical thinking skills, creativity, team work, and sportsmanship. For example there are some lessons in basic skills is important, such as skill in the use of the word too much. "To practice, I used to take the students to play 'charades', after the game finished, I felt a rapid increase in the students' skills in using the word in large quantities," he said.

Fourth, the game may be one factor memory booster. During play, without realizing the many students interact with the material being taught, this may be one factor that makes them easy to remember the material. In the game, many students pass through difficult moments they forget, in this case Rebekah his experience "moments that I liked for teaching is when it comes time to play. I will never forget when Miguel, one of my students, ran around the class to tell his classmates the meaning of the word 'mono' (monkey), I'm sure his friends will not be able to forget the funny moments. "

By varying the type of game that we give, the stimulus received by students will vary. Some children with memperagakannya remember something, the other with the given clues that lead to something, there is also remembered having heard his friend screaming to answer the riddle. "Positive feelings that can support learning expressive" Rebekah said.

Fifth, the game can absorb the attention of students and engage them in the learning process actively. Because the students really liked the game, it can be a good way to concentrate focus while absorbing their attention. Some phenomena may be able to explain this. After passing through the long vacation, the students usually look very energetic and easily bored sitting. At times like this the game that takes a lot of energy to immediately restore their minds to the lessons, so that they can come back ready to receive a new lesson. "The game can quickly engage them in the lesson and restore their mind to the material we are teaching" wrote Rebekah.

Children grow and develop through play activities. The more they enjoy the learning process, the more material is absorbed and understood by children. The process of teaching material by the teacher to the students own more than just the transfer of information. Students need to understand the concept of the material being taught in order to master it well. Well, to make learning fun, students will be able to more easily understand what is being taught.

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Music education helps kids learn to read — study

Arts educators have for years been telling school reformers obsessed with reading and math that the arts teach valuable skills and ways of thinking that can help academics. Here cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about a study that shows a link between music training and reading. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” His latest book is “When Can You Trust The Experts? How to tell good science from bad in education.” This appeared on his Science and Education blog.

By Daniel Willingham

One sometimes hears the inclusion of music in the curriculum justified by the claim that it improves mathematics or reading.

I’ve never cared for this justification because I think students should study music for its own sake, whether or not it boosts other skills. And it seems a chancy argument; if it turns out that music doesn’t help other academic work, does that mean it should be dumped?

Setting that argument aside, it’s certainly of interest from a cognitive point of view to know whether musical training has an impact on reading or math. There are a good number of correlational studies showing a positive effect, but few experimental data.

Now a new experimental study (Rautenberg, in press) shows that music training does have some positive effect for reading.

In this study 159 German first graders participated. The music training lasted eight months and focused on three areas: rhythmic skills training, tonal/melodic skills training and auditory discrimination of timbre and sound intensity. There were two control groups: one received no training. The other was an active control receiving  training in art.

The results were fairly robust, as shown in the graph of single word reading accuracy at the beginning and end of the year.


What’s behind the benefit? Language does have a musical aspect to it, referred to as prosody. And indeed, children’s ability to appreciate the rhythmic aspect of speech is correlated with the ease with which they learn to read, even when controlling for phonemic awareness. In German (and in English), certain letter combinations signal certain stress patterns, so there is a signal in the written language that children can learn. The idea is that children are less likely to learn the association of certain written letter patterns and their corresponding rhythms in speech if they don’t perceive the rhythms of speech very well.

That’s the argument. More fine-grained analyses of the data partially support it.

The argument predicts that it is rhythm that’s important, not tonality, and the data do show significant correlations of reading with ability in the former, but not the latter.

The argument further predicts that the training ought to reduce a particular type of error: one in which a child reads the phonetic sounds correctly but gets the rhythm wrong; they segment the word into syllables incorrectly, or they accent the wrong syllable. This prediction was not supported.

All in all, this study seems to be an important addition–although certainly not a conclusive one–to the argument that some types of music training aids children’s learning to read, at least in certain languages.

Reference
Rautenberg, I. (in press). The effects of musical training on the decoding skills of German-speaking primary school children. Journal of Research in Reading.

source : www.washingtonpost.com

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Benefits of Educational Games for Kids

Currently a lot of toys for kids in the market. As a parent, you should be wise in choosing toys for your child. Kids educational games are now an o
ption many parents. This is because the benefits of educational games for your child very much.
  
One of the benefits of educational games is to practice fine and gross motor skills of children. When your child take the toy, then grab and hold it, then fine motor working. When she started to play, gross motor participated stimulated.

When children play educational games, your child will be focusing his mind to learn how to play the game. That's when the child's ability will be explored. He will focus on toys and it is very good to train your child concentration.

When children play educational games relating to the design, children are indirectly taught the concept of cause and effect. Where he would understand if he accumulates his toys as a way, he will get a building A. But if it does so by way of B, then the resulting structure would be different from the previous.

No wonder kids educational games will help your child to add his insights. As he began to speak, he will try to tell you how she plays her toys or how he composed the beams to form a beautiful building.

Children on educational games is usually served many colors and shapes. It is very good for the little guy because through this game, he will learn about shapes and colors. Benefits of educational games will be able to support the future growth of your child.

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Importance of Foreign Language Study From Child

Lesson start from child will give better result than start when grow up to adult or even elderly. This This is because the memory of an early age children are still very sharp so they're easy to remember what they learned. In addition, if learning begins at an early age, learning time span will be very long. So, there is plenty of time to continue to repeat and explore what is learned.

Likewise with language learning. As known, the mastery of foreign languages ​​is now one of the keys to success in life. Therefore, in this digital age, the majority of the tutorials use technology products made ​​in a foreign language (English). So, those who master the English language have a greater opportunity to be able to master the technology products.

In addition, the digital era is also characterized by ease of access to information from various sources and the opportunity to build a career in a variety of countries, especially freelance career. To gain access to valuable information foreign language course, one must master the language. Likewise, when someone wants a career abroad or become self-employed by taking a job from abroad, he was obliged to master the language of the country where he would take the job.

As with all types of learning, language learning will provide optimal results if started early and immediately put it into practice. That is why, today many excellent schools in the delivery of the subject matter that made ​​use of two languages, Indonesian and English. So, in addition to studying the subject matter, the students also learn foreign languages ​​as well.

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Benefits of Studying History

This question is a classic question, but it is always disturbing and evocative of the first human heart until today. Since the time of Socrates, Herodotos (484-425 BC), and Thucydides (456-396) people view history as an exemplary life. This theory is referred to as the examplar theory of history. History can provide values ​​or norms that can be used as guidelines for everyday life. For the Chinese history is a mirror of life. The tradition of writing history for the people of China are very old. King or the ruling dynasty obliged to write a history of the king or dynasty it replaces. Such phrases in the ancient Romans expressed in the adage: historia vitae magistra, which means that history is the teacher of life.

In order to live a better life to the people must be studied history.

History is the record of accumulated human experience. Learn the history of studying any form of peak experiences and the changes that have been achieved humans throughout the centuries. Of past human history obtaining supplies and point of departure for building a new history. Human life should always be in dialogue with the history of the past to be able to build a history in the present, and projecting a view into the history in the future. Historical dimension of human demands for reforms, and always strive for progress.

According to Robert Jones Shafer (1974) historical benefits are as follows:

1. Expanding human experiences.

Learning history is tantamount to dialogue with the community and the nation at any time and at any time. From historical experience that one can draw from the experiences in dealing with and solving the problems of life in all its aspects such as political, economic, social and cultural. Basically the problems of human life is almost the same, the different is the detail and intensity. How to cope with and respond to the issues, both intellectually and emotionally, is not too different. By studying history, therefore, the attitude and personality of a person will be more mature.

2. By studying history will allow a person to be able to look at something as a whole (to see things whole).

History offers so many and varied (the multiplicity or variety) condition and the human experience. There is no discipline that is able to present the record of human experience is so thorough, in addition to history. Religion, philosophy, and other social sciences to contribute the same, but only to the extent and in the manner of science itself. The overall dimensions of history are expected to be able to build the integrity of the human personality.

3. History has an important role in the formation of identity and personality of the nation.

A society or a nation may not know who they are and how they became what it is today without knowing the history. History of the identity of the nation has a reciprocal relationship. Deep roots and a long history will reinforce the existence and the identity and personality of a nation. The nation, therefore, be proud and love of history and culture.

Nugent in his book Creative Huistory (1967) answered the question of why we need to study the history of the two terms,.

1. How can history help us make a living?


2. How can history help us Become a better person?

History as a human experience providing various alternatives to choose so much a way of life (a multitude of ways).

To answer these questions Nugent (1967) state unequivocally that:

    '' Know of other peoples, know yourself.''

Every person is a product of society and society is the product of the past, is a product of history. By studying history we will be able to avoid many mistakes and the shortcomings of the past to improve the future then.

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Compulsory Education

the compulsory attendance act of 1852 enacted by your state of massachusetts was the very first general law proceeding to management the conditions of youngsters. the law included mandatory attendance for kids involving the ages of eight and fourteen for at the very least 3 months out just concerning every one of them year, of such twelve weeks at the very least six needed out to be consecutive.

the exception of this attendance with a public school included : the childs attendance at another school for a similar number of time, proof that the kid had already learned the subjects, poverty, as well as physical or mental ability on your kid to attend.

the penalty for not sending your kid to school was a fine not larger than $20. 00 and therefore the violators were as being prosecuted by your town. the native school committee didn't have the authority to enforce the law and though the law was ineffective, it did keep the importance of school just before the public and helped to type public opinion in favor of education.

in 1873 the compulsory attendance law was revised. the age limit was reduced to twelve however the annual attendance was increased to twenty weeks per year. additionally, a semblance of enforcement was established by forming jurisdictions for prosecution and therefore the hiring of truant officers to examine absences.

the state of connecticut enacted a law in 1842 that stated that no kid under fifteen can be employed in any business within the whole state while not proof of attendance in school for at the very least 3 months from twelve. the penalty was $25. 00 and therefore the business was made financially chargeable for the fine. through this system of fines businesses were forced as being socially chargeable for kids additionally. additionally, kids couldn't work more often ten hours daily. this fine was $7. 00 per day. by 1918 all states had passed a compulsory attendance law.

a number of our current laws have grabbed root from these early laws and has expanded on them. as an example, the exceptions to compulsory attendance are addressed by your states in varied ways. presently kids are needed to undertake a physical before getting into school and once more before enrolling in highschool. they will should even have a regulated variety of immunizations in an effort to management disease and attain the most beneficial level of health for every kid, so serving to in order to firmly make them physical able to attend school.

the states have conjointly restricted operating conditions of school age kids. a baby should obtain an intent to hire type direct from business they will intend to labor for and bring it in the school as being approved. there will be currently restrictions upon the style of work additionally as the amount of hours worked and therefore the lateness on your hours a baby will work.

since the very first law in 1852 the goals of education stay a similar and has been gradually improving the conditions of youngsters by supporting these restrictions on kid labor. compulsory education laws and kid labor laws have worked hand in hand to advance childrens rights.

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The most valuable science is humility

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Humbled heart, is a science doors. Because science like water, flows only at a lower level. The heart is the controlling mind and body. When hearts humbled, thought and body to follow it. When the liver is elevated, thought and body shut down.

At the heart humbled, science though it comes from an unexpected direction extensible. Because science is not favoritism. He sometimes tucked on the things that humans underestimated. So obviously right vanity miss, although he lit in front of the eyes.

Heart despised it so sensitive. Not hard to find pieces of him scattered science. Because for him, diamond is still a diamond, even in a pile of garbage.

Then the most valuable science is the science that teach humility. Without it, science can not go to you, even though he was in line at the front door. With him, right after you with passionate knowledge. A teacher would be boring, though he was cool, without humility heart. A teacher would be awesome, even though he was not cool, armed with a humble heart.

Indeed, there are losses wallowing in self-conceit.
The most valuable science is humility."

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Importance of Education

Education is the most important thing in our lives, this means that every human being deserves and hope to always evolve in education. Education in general has meant a life in self-development process of each individual to live and sustain life. Thus becoming an educated is very important. Education is the first time we get in the family, school and community environments.

A child who be loved will be love his family, so the child will feel that a child needs in the family. Because the family was a source of strength who built it. Thus there will be a situation of mutual help, mutual respect, which strongly supports the development of the child. In families that give maximum opportunity growth, and development are the parents. In a family environment for developing self-esteem appreciated, accepted, loved, and respected as a human being. Such is the importance why we become educated on the environment family. Parents teach us start from childhood to respect others.

While in the school environment to be second educational and if the parents have enough money then can proceed to a higher level and will continue to university and then become a well-educated. How important is education. Teachers as media educators provide knowledge in accordance with the capabilities. The role of the teacher as an educator is to give support and encouragement role, as well as tasks related to disciplining children so that children can have a sense of responsibility with what he did. Teachers should also strive to be the lesson is always enough to attract children.

In addition, the role of the community is also important for students. This means providing an overview of how we live in a society. Thus when we interact with people, they will judge us, that knows where people are educated, and uneducated. In an age of Globalisation Era youth are expected to develop the knowledge acquired so do not be left behind in the times. That's the importance of being a well-educated in the Family, School, and Community.

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