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December 2011 Volume 68, Issue 6 Special points of interest:

“Where do I put the

film?” Film???

Route 66, photos to

look for - send some

our way.

Does new photogra-

p h y t e c h n o l o g y

change the rules of

the game?

Christmas - photo ops!

Inside this Issue:

The Woes of Well

Intentioned Gifts,

Lorraine Caddy

1,

3, 4

Meetings, Workshop

Schedule, Visitors &

Announcements

2

Off the Beaten Path,

Driving Route 66 -

Photos to Look For

5

Competition Photos 6-9

ZooFriends

Membership Op

10

Competition Results 11,

12

When is a photograph

a photograph?

N. Sukumar

13,

14

Remembering

Halloween

15

1930’s PSA Collec-

tion, Photo Ops

16

Oklahoma Camera

Club, Inc.

Founded 1931

The Woes of Well Intentioned Gifts by

Lorraine Caddy

Cont’d Page 3 . . .

Ah, it’s Christmas and all those present

buying people are shoving and hoping

they will find just the right gift. There

it is – they think to themselves, I have

an older Auntie who should get with

the current digital age. I’ll get her a

digital camera. You know it’s so easy –

great photos you can transfer to your

PC, email to your friends – it will be

fun for her. Want to bet!!!

Come Christmas morning aging Auntie

opens her new camera. Looks at it

and says ―what is this‖?? Younger

family members begin to explain, and

even provide a book – why it’s

wonderful – welcome to the digital

world. Auntie looks more than a bit

confused. It’s a beautiful camera but

where do I put the film??? And the fun

begins.

Weeks later, the camera is still in the

box. The book has been scanned by

eyes that have no idea what its saying.

It says it will ―walk me through the

puzzling, anxiety-producing world of

digital photography.‖ Sure it will!!!!

I glance at the table of contents and

don’t even know what the titles of the

chapter’s mean in most instances.

It starts out by telling me this camera

takes pictures without film – it uses

something called a memory card.

Tells me how much money I’m going

save and that I can be sure I got the

picture by looking in the LCD

(whatever that is) —

Merry Christmas Aloma Anderson

HypoCheck Schedule & Announcements Oklahoma Camera

Club

Inc.

Meetings: 7:30 pm

2nd and 4th Tuesdays

50th and N. May Ave.

Central Presbyterian

Church

For club information

Contact

[email protected]

405.751.8179

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Board of Directors

President Derrell Dover

1st VP Lee Donlon

2nd VP Randy Carr

Treasure Brad Smith

Secretary Wally Lee

APSA

Directors:

1yr. Jaci Finch APSA

1yr. Jan Lee APSA,

PPSA

2yr. Diane Hogue

2yr. Aloma Anderson

Visitors: We had one visitor this month dur-

ing our November 8 meeting, Paul Gilchrist

[email protected]. Paul visited us from Norman

having found the club on the website. Paul has an

interest in Nature Photography and will fit right in.

Thanks for coming by Paul and we certainly hope

you enjoyed our holiday celebration and will

return soon. But we do need to

warn you, we don’t eat that well at

every meeting.

Workshops

Photography 101 Workshop: This workshop has

been discontinued due to lack of interest, i.e., no

participation. For information please contact

Ed Lamb at 721-4714 or [email protected].

Beginning Imaging Workshop: We will be

holding the workshop on Wednesday,

December 14 at 7:30 pm. Bring the pictures

you would like to discuss, or other

photography question or problems. We’ll also do

some very basic Elements. For additional

information call Wally or Jan Lee at 751-8179.

Meetings

December 13, 2011: Competition: Projected Images - Open A & B,

Creative, Nature, Monochrome & Photojournalism

Judges: Doug Finch APSA, Jack Melton &

Vickie Jenkins

Program: Jan Lee APSA, PPSA & Wally Lee

APSA will present a program on Judging, taking a

look at what changes in an image would raise the

score from a 3 to a 4 or 5. The first image would

be a 3, cleaned up to a 4 and then WOWed to a 5.

Refreshments: Jan & Wally Lee

Board Meeting

Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, December 20.

Location: 6021 Glencove Pl, Oklahoma City.

Subject: We will finalize the agenda at the Board

Meeting.

If interested I thought we would meet for dinner

at Billy Simms Barbeque, 6401 NW Expressway,

for all the Sooner Fans, 6:00 PM. Derrell Dover

December 27, 2011: NO MEETING

Photoshop/Elements Workshop: Tom and

Carol McCreary will hold the workshop on

Friday, December 16 at 7:30 pm. This will be

an open assignment, bring something to share or

ask questions about. Please contact Tom or

Carol [email protected] . with any

questions. Club Website - Our webmaster, Jaci

Finch APSA , would appreciate

members sending her some images to

use on the Website. Please send them

to her at [email protected]. Thank you.

Christmas Love

Vickie Jenkins

mailto:[email protected]

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Club Dues

Individual $30

Family or Joint $40

(other rates available as

well as partial for less

than year)

Make Checks Payable To

Oklahoma Camera Club

Mail To

Club Treasurer

Brad Smith

1008 NW 18th,

Oklahoma City, OK

73106-6417

Contact

[email protected]

when I finally find it on the

camera I burst out laughing – they

must be kidding that my old eyes can

be sure of anything in that LCD

picture. But, I decided to give it a try.

I open the book to the page titled ―all

about your camera features‖. There is

the list again – mode controls, built-in

flash (that one I understand), optical

viewfinder (front) – OK – hot shoe for

external flash – now they are talking

my language – optical viewfinder

(back) – OK I’m with ya – then the

LCD display (figured out that was that

little screen I’m supposed to use – yea

right), then it mentions a zoom feature

(they are back to speaking my

language), setting dial and a shutter

release – words I can relate to.

As I read further it talks about

playback, panorama mode, movie

mode, false color mode and . . . now I

have to read again. Then it gives me a

lesson in various lenses which I

already know, I’m not stupid you

know. Now they tell me about the

various memory cards (film) on the

market. Next page tells me my

camera is like a computer – Oh

goodie, I’ve just figured out how to

send an email. Well, I decided to put

the dumb card in and see what would

happen.

The book says, press the shutter

release gently to check your focus and

exposure settings – I guess I have a

lead finger like some people have a

lead foot . . . once I touch it I’ve got a

picture – or at least I hope so. I read

about how to save and view my pho-

tos – and it says if you have a problem

it won’t be the memory card probably


The Night Before

Christmas . . .

Aloma Anderson

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The Woes of Well Intentioned Gifts . . . Cont’d from page 3

because it’s a tough little dude – they

haven’t seen me crash a computer!!!

However, after I do what it says, sure

enough, there is an image.

This masterful book of knowledge goes

on to tell me that what I learned about

35mm photography still applies to

taking photos digitally. Finally admitting

I do have some knowledge of

photography. Now it says, join a

camera club – it’s like I never did

before? Well folks let me tell you

those camera club people are with it –

but it will take me a while to catch up.

The next chapter in the book is how

to move pictures to the PC. Anybody

want to bet I mess that up!

Well, that wasn’t as hard as I thought it

would be. And I must admit storage

and editing is much easier on the

computer than with a dark room

image.

Surely do miss all those wonderful

smells – but guess with time I’ll enter

the new age of digital photography. All

I ask is patience and a great deal of

help. There is a whole chapter on

―cool accessories‖ – are they kidding.

I haven’t learned how to take and

handle simple photos in the computer

as well as printing them on the ―proper

paper‖ with authentic colors.

Oh well, I wonder what the ―kids‖ will

think of for my next torment. They

are sweet and lovable but haven’t a

clue about Auntie’s limitations. Guess

that’s a good thing. Back to the

book!!!!!!!!!

Lorraine Caddy

Joy!!!

Jack Melton

Club Members

PSA

Positions:

Doug Finch APSA

Jaci Finch APSA

PSA Region 24

Co-Directors

Jan Lee APSA, PPSA

Wally Lee APSA

CPID Star Ratings

Co-Directors

PPD Chairmen

2012 PSA International

Exhibition

Randy Carr

PJD Exhibitions

Standards Director

Club Members

GSCCC

Positions:

Ed Lamb

GSCCC Director

Carol McCreary

APSA, PPSA

Editor, GSCCC News

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It's good to

have money

and the things

that money can

buy,

but it's good,

too, to check

up once in a

while and make

sure you

haven't lost the

things that

money can't

buy.

~ George

Horace

Lorimer

Off The Beaten Path, Driving Route 66 - Photos to Look For

Route 66’s early history is revealed by its early paths. Tank Farm Loop

This 1.7-mile stretch of the original Route 66 between Kellyville and Bristow is so named

because several oil storage tanks stand along the roadway. This curvy alignment, built without

shoulders, carried the Mother Road from 1926 to 1938. The Tank Farm Loop is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places.

Directions: To enter the loop from the east, go a half-mile west of where Oklahoma 66 goes

over I-44 and turn north. From the west, go four miles east of the intersection of Oklahoma 66

and Oklahoma 48. The entrance to the loop is at the top of a hill.

Ozark Trail Obelisk

On a gravel road near Stroud stands a rare obelisk that marked an intersection with the Ozark

Trail. This primitive road was Route 66 from 1926 to 1930. The 15-foot-tall stone obelisk on a

triangular patch of land is marked with graffiti but still impresses.

Directions: Go about two miles west on Oklahoma 66 from the intersection of Oklahoma 99

and turn south at 3540 Road. The obelisk is 1.4 miles south.

Key Bridge Ruins

At Bridgeport, a suspension bridge spanned the South Canadian River beginning in 1921. This

structure, called the Key Bridge, carried Route 66 until 1933, when the Pony Bridge was built to

the southeast. Only the pillars of the bridge remain on the river bank. Getting to the ruins

requires traveling a 4.3-mile dirt or gravel road that shouldn’t be attempted after a rain unless

you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. This road that carried Route 66 was never paved – and still

isn’t.

Directions: Slightly west of a prominent intersection of U.S. 281 and Old U.S. Highway 66 is a

gravel road. Go north onto the gravel road for a half-mile and veer west at a fork, away from a

sign that says ―private property.‖ The bridge’s remains are another 3.8 miles west; you’re close

when you see the river near the road to the left.

Ghost Road

Route 66 between Erick and Sayre was four lanes from 1956 to 1975. But east of Interstate 40’s

Exit 11, this stretch of the Mother Road was reduced to the southern two lanes. Portions of the

abandoned two lanes remain accessible. Nature is reclaiming this road; you’ll often find yourself

driving through a tunnel of brush and trees.

Directions: The ghost road begins less than a quarter-mile east of Exit 11. Be aware that the

abandoned road’s accessibility can change because of fallen tree limbs and other debris.

Fortunately, there are frequent turnouts on these stretches. More to come later . . .

http://www.travelok.com/stroud

http://www.travelok.com/sayre

Around the Bend

Eva Ryan

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When you

dream, you

dialogue with

aspects of

yourself that

normally are

not with you in

the daytime

and you

discover that

you know a

great deal more

than you

thought you

did.

~ Toni Cade

Bambara

November Competition Cont’d next page . . .

Revolutionary War Cannon Man

Carol McCreary APSA

Beautiful Lilly

Joe Spence

Ship’s Bow

Carol McCreary APSA

Ely Steam Train

Tom McCreary EPSA

Gut Feeling

Joe Spence

Seaside Sunset

Jack Melton

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Let us not look

back in anger,

nor forward in

fear,

but around in

awareness.

~ James

Thurber


Pointing the Way for the Little Runner

Carol McCreary APSA

Bee’s Wings

Eva Ryan

Fruita Utah Truck

Tom McCreary EPSA Infrared Nevada Church

Carol McCreary APSA

Scramble

Randy Carr

Rock N’ Roll

Eva Ryan

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One of the

sanest, surest,

and most

generous joys

of life comes

from being

happy over the

good fortune

of others.

~ Archibald

Rutledge


Six Stamen

Joe Spence

This Old House

Eva Ryan

You’re Home Now

Eva Ryan

St.. Elmo

Randy Carr

Focus on Me

Randy Carr

A Pair

Jaci Finch APSA

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They can be

like sun, words.

They can do

for the heart

what light can

for a field.

~St. John of

the Cross

November Competition

Chevy Apache

Eva Ryan

Spreading Monarch

Joe Spence

Berlin Old Truck

Carol McCreary APSA

Goalie Leaning to the Left

Carol McCreary APSA

Skull Mountain

Eva Ryan

Morning After

Jaci Finch APSA

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And while I

stood there I

saw more than

I can tell and I

understood

more than I

saw;

for I was

seeing in a

sacred manner

the shapes of

all things in the

spirit, and the

shape of all

shapes as

they must live

together like

one being.

~Black Elk

Have you ever wondered where a lot of the club members images

come from, in particular, the great animal photos? OK, some came

from Africa but a greater number of them came from the wonderful

OKC Zoo. That is why you receive emails inviting you to meet to go

to the zoo on Saturday mornings. If you are going frequently, it is a

lot cheaper to have a ZooFriends Membership and now is the time

to buy. What a great Christmas Gift!!!

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Competition Results - Prints

November 8, 2011

Page 1 of 2

Name Entry No. 1 Place Entry No. 2 Place

Monochrome - Class B

Eva Ryan This Old House 1 Chevy Apache 2

Vickie Jenkins Blowing a Bubble for the First Time 1 Leaning House on the Prairie 3

Monochrome - Class A

Jack Melton Storm at Marland Mansion HM Established 2012 HM

Randy Carr St. Elm 1 Scramble HM

Joe Spence Six 3 3 Tulips 2

Carol McCreary Infrared Nevada Church 1 Revolutionary War Cannon Man 3

Color Prints - Class B

Eva Ryan Around the Bend 3 Time of the Orange 3

Jaci Finch The Dawn of a New Day 1 A Pair 1

Vicki Jenkins Oklahoma Windmill HM Petals in Bloom 2

Color Prints - Class A

Joe Spence Beautiful Lily 1 On the Rocks 3

Randy Carr Frontier Cabin HM Donnie Vigil 3

Jack Melton Living on the Edge — Seaside Sunset 2

Tom McCreary Fruita Utah Truck 2 Ely Steam Train 292 1

Carol McCreary Berlin Old Truck 1 Ship’s Bow 2

Nature

Eva Ryan Skull Mountain HM Bee’s Wings 3

Vickie Jenkins Lookin’ Good 3 A Bit of Nature HM

Randy Carr Old Bird 2 Stand Out in Crowd 2

Joe Spence Rocky Mtn. Falls 3 Spread Monarch 1

Randy Carr Fast Buck 2 Scoop it Up 3

Vickie Jenkins Calm and Carefree — Tranquility HM

Eva Ryan You’re Home Now 3 Rock N’ Roll HM

Joe Spence Splish Splash 3 A Gut Feeling 1

Carol McCreary Pointing the Way for the Little Runner 2 Goalie Leaning to the Left 2

Name Entry No. 1 Place Entry No. 2 Place

Competition Results - Prints

November 8, 2011

Page 2 of 2

Photojournalism

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Santa

Vickie Jenkins

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True

forgiveness

includes total

acceptance.

~ Catherine

Marshall

When is a photograph a photograph? N. Sukumar

While this question is posed nowadays in the context of the film/digital conflict, it is worth bearing

in mind that the earliest cameras used neither lenses nor film. The camera obscura has been in use

since ancient times, to form images through a pinhole on the walls of a darkened room. Due to the

non-permanent nature of the image, I doubt that we would call these photographs today. Lenses

became prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries. Silver entered the picture (again no pun intended)

in 1727, when Prof. Schulze created the first photosensitive compound by mixing chalk, nitric acid

and silver in a flask and noticed darkening on the side of the flask exposed to sunlight. In 1816

Nicéphore Niépce combined the camera obscura with photosensitive paper and in 1822 he made a

contact print (of a portrait of Pope Pius VII) on a glass plate. In 1825 Niépce etched his images on

copper, then on tin in 1826. In 1834 Henry Fox Talbot created permanent (negative) images using

paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. In 1837 Louis Daguerre created

images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and developed in warm mercury and

patented the daguerrotype process. Talbot patented his process under the name calotype in 1841.

Glass plates, gum bichromate and paper negatives continue in use to this day, but are now definitely

considered ―alternative process.‖ George Eastman set up the Eastman Dry Plate Company in

Rochester in 1880 and it was only in 1889 that improved Kodak cameras came out with roll film

instead of paper. Film is thus a relatively recent development (no pun intended) on the

photographic scene, but it was this critical technical innovation that enabled photography to move

out beyond the realm of artists and photographers and to capture the mass consumer market. Just

such a technical advance has taken place with the digital revolution and, while I doubt that silver

gelatin film will ever truly disappear in our lifetimes, it is very likely that it will soon become

―alternative process.‖ Every other day some other old-time photographer discovers these market

realities and declares with great pomp and finality that ―film is dead!‖

Most photographers, publishers and camera clubs have now, sometimes grudgingly, conceded the

point that digital prints and digitally-captured images are legitimate photographs. But there is still

considerable resistance to digitally-manipulated images. So when is a digitally-manipulated image a

photograph? It is possible to create photograph like images entirely in the computer using programs

like Bryce® with sometimes very realistic-looking (and at other times very surreal) landscapes;

obviously these cannot be considered photographs. At the other end are images that obviously

started out as photographs, but have been tweaked digitally in much the same way that a

photographer would in the darkroom: namely, by burning and dodging, cropping, using contrast

filters or adjusting color balance and spotting out specks and scratches. Do these negate the

photographic content of the image? Before you answer, consider that if you are using an

auto-anything film camera, there is a silicon chip in there that automatically performs some

manipulations before the photons even strike the film surface. Furthermore, if you hand your film

over to a drugstore or mail it in to Kodak, the concentrations and temperature of the chemicals and

processing times are computer-controlled. You can even opt to forego chemical prints altogether

and to have your film scanned onto CD. Then you can send those files (with or without digital

manipulations) to a lab to be printed chemically on real photographic paper. Where does that leave

us? Talk about complicating the issue!


We’re on the web!

www.Oklahomacameraclub.com

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My first

thought is

always of

light.

~ Galen

Rowell

When is a photograph a photograph? Cont’d from Page 13 . . .

Many digital shooters are content to stay with kinds of digital manipulations we just discussed.

Others choose to use the digital process to exercise their creativity. But just as photography is not

the exclusive domain of the film shooter, neither is creative manipulation the exclusive domain of

the digital artist. The images of Jerry Uelsmann, Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, to name just

a few, are instances in point. In one case the composites or montages are created in the darkroom,

in the other case, they are done in the camera. Since I want to learn to take (not just make) better

pictures, I personally try to resist the temptation to use Photoshop® to simply correct flaws in my

photos. But then should all digital manipulations of photographs be acceptable as photographs? I

feel that this needs to be answered on a case-by-case basis. The intent of the image is, to me, a

prime consideration. Most newspapers and news agencies have policies that strictly forbid all but the

most innocuous manipulation of journalistic photographs. And remember, people have been

―doctoring‖ photos long before the computer. The PSA Nature Division has a similar policy

forbidding manipulation of images for nature competitions. For a creative competition, this stricture

obviously does not apply. The operative principle in either case seems to be one of honesty: of not

altering the content of the image with intent to deceive.

Then there is the question of fairness for the purpose of competition. Do digital manipulations

make things easier for the digital artist? You bet they do! At least for many kinds of manipulation, if

you know what you are doing and how to go about it. But then an experienced printer will find

many things easier in the wet darkroom. It still takes me less test prints to get a good monochrome

chemical print in the darkroom than to calibrate my monitor, software, printer, paper and inks and

get a decent inkjet print. And does getting your film processed and/or printed at a custom lab not

give you an advantage over the photographers who process and print their own images? Perhaps

so, for ―straight shooters‖, but probably not for creative printers. Ultimately photography is all

about what you want your images to say and choosing the right tools for the task, be that a fish-eye

lens or a Photoshop® filter. And for every purist who sees the film/digital divide in terms of ―real

photography‖ versus digital, there are ten new converts every day who see the same issue as one of

photography versus ―alternative process‖ (yes, read: film!)

[Schenectady Photographic Society FOCUS, February 2004]

Editor: While this article is a little dated, it is so well written I thought everyone would enjoy reviewing what

an impact technology has had on photography. The next digital photo revolution may very well be the Lytro

Light-Field Camera. With this new technology you will be able to focus your image after tripping the shutter.

Check it out at http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/290 or Google “Lytro.”

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We do not see

Nature with

our eyes,

but with our

understandings

and our heart.

~ William

Hazlit

Remembering Halloween . . .

Halloween Front Yard

Derrell McClanahan

Derrell is convinced, with more of this - you will have fewer of

these and do away with handouts!!!

Beware! Mwaah Hah Hah!! (It was a very dark and noisy porch.)

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Photo Ops: (From: Oklahoma Today)

Editors:

Doug Finch APSA

Jaci Finch APSA

[email protected]

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Nov 19 - Dec 31: Christmas in the Park - colorful light displays across three city parks,

classic holiday music, wagon rides and photo ops - Yukon, cityofyukonok.gov.

Nov 23 - Dec 31: Rhema Christmas Lights - the Rhema Bible Church Campus comes

alive as millions of the diodes are put to work dancing to Christmas music - Broken

Arrow, rhemabiblechurch.com. (Drive or park and walk around.)

Nov 25 - Dec 23: A Territorial Christmas Collection - where visitors watch the history of

Christmas in real time with trolley tours, live music and a parade - Guthrie,

gutherieok.com.

Dec 18: Fort Reno Christmas Guns Celebration - war re-enactors fire cannons, powder

guns, rifles and pistols to ward off any evil spirits that might be lurking, clearing the way

for punch, cookies and a visit from Saint Nick - El Reno, fortreno.org.

Decade by Decade: The 1930's

From the PSA Collection

On view in our west gallery through January 7, 2012

This exhibition represents the second in a five part series – the 1920’s through the

1960’s – that will draw upon works from the collection of the Photographic Society

of America (PSA) [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd Street, OKC

Nov 19 - Dec 31: Christmas in the Park - colorful light displays across three city parks,

classic holiday music, wagon rides and photo ops - Yukon, cityofyukonok.gov.

Nov 23 - Dec 31: Rhema Christmas Lights - the Rhema Bible Church Campus comes

alive as millions of the diodes are put to work dancing to Christmas music - Broken

Arrow, rhemabiblechurch.com. (Drive or park and walk around.)

Nov 25 - Dec 23: A Territorial Christmas Collection - where visitors watch the history of

Christmas in real time with trolley tours, live music and a parade - Guthrie,

gutherieok.com.

Dec 18: Fort Reno Christmas Guns Celebration - war re-enactors fire cannons, powder

guns, rifles and pistols to ward off any evil spirits that might be lurking, clearing the way

for punch, cookies and a visit from Saint Nick - El Reno, fortreno.org.

This exhibition represents the second in a five part series – the 1920’s through the

1960’s – that will draw upon works from the collection of the Photographic Society

of America (PSA) [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd Street, OKC

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