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Minerva Navasca’s Bio:
Minerva Navasca is a Filipina-Canadian filmmaker exploring narratives of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity. Stating, “I want to make films about subjects that make me uncomfortable,” Minerva delves into perspectives steeped in anxiety and internalized shame, using the medium to interrogate the socio-political roots of these beliefs. She is a 2022 & 2024 TIFF Next Wave Alumni, and the winner of the 2024 BFI Future Film Festival Best Documentary Award. She collaborated with NBC Universal and Canada Walk of Fame as part of the Future Storytellers Program.
A conversation with Minerva @minervanavasca, a conversation about being Filipino-Canadian, being a female POC filmmaker and the filmmaking industry, and creating film and art that explores and digs into one’s experiences that are often uncomfortable and hard to process.
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List of Available Screenings for Minerva’s work:October 15-19 2024 - Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival, Ahmedabad, India
October 17 2024 - Bushwick Film Festival, New York City NY
October 19 - Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton ON
October 22 & 26 2024 - Forest City Film Festival, London ON
October 26 2024 - Micheaux Film Festival, Los Angeles CA
October 26 2024 - Durham Region International Film Festival, Oshawa ON
October 28 2024 - SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah GA
October 31 to November 8 - Singapore Youth Film Festival, Singapore
November 6-10 2024 - Yellowknife Film Festival, Yellowknife NWT
November 8 2024 - Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, Ottawa ON
November 9 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA
November 7-10 2024 - Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver BC (exact date TBC)
November 7-16 2024 - San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego CA (exact date TBC)
November 8-11 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA (exact date TBC)
November 13-17 2024 - Mighty Niagara Film Festival, St Catharines ON (exact date TBC)
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SEASON FIVE FINALE!
Our guest today, Johnathan Gibbs known as Jonahsahn and formerly blasianFMA.
He’s 100% Black 100% Filipino and according to him the OG Blasian of the internet. He has been creating content on the internet since 2008 and is one with many hats. He’s a content creator, activist, gamer, chorister and Gayasian.
In our conversation, he shared his Blasian upbringing, being an activist for Black and Asian issues, Blasian representation, and Black and Asian unity. We also touched on whot’s the final boss in America (listen to the end to find out what that is).
Thank you for tuning in and supporting this podcast. We would not be four years deep in this podcast game without all of your support. We hope to continue to bring you the conversations of the Asian diaspora that y’all want to tune into. We will take a short break and be back later to continue spotlighting the Asian diaspora and making sure our voices get heard.
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Today's episode features Aydin Quach(he/they).
MA student in History @UBC and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity @USC
We talked about:
1. What does being "CHINESE" mean in the Diaspora?
2. Aydin's upbringing as a Chinese Canadian growing up/living in Vancouver, Canada
3. Harmonizing Chinese/Asian identity with Queerness
4. Asian Joy and our right as immigrants/descendants of immigrants to have that without guilt
His BioI was raised in what is now known as Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations. I am an uninvited settler on their land. I come from a family of immigrants to Canada who themselves were immigrants to Southeast Asia, having lived in Southeast Asia for generations. My mother’s family is part of the Stateless Chinese population in Brunei Darussalam and my father is Chinese-Vietnamese from Vietnam. Drawing from my own identity as part of the Sinophone diaspora, I became interested in understanding how those who have complex migration histories understand their own identity. This is how I first got into the discipline of History and considered it as a prism through which I could develop and magnify my research questions. Questions around what is “Chinese” across the Sinophone diaspora are of particular interest to me. This extends of course as well to other intersections of my identity as well such as my position as a Queer Asian individual in academia.
Research Areas
- Sex, Gender, the Body, and Sexuality
- Modern East and Southeast Asian History
- Migration Studies
-Queer Theory
- Sensory Studies
- Musicology
- Music History
- Cultural Studies
My research primarily pertains to the research of culture, sex, gender, and sexuality both in a historical lens as well as a contemporary sense. I am interested in how culture develops and how culture shapes our perceptions of self. I bounce back and forth in my research between the historical past and the present as part of an ongoing effort to research how identity and culture are intertwined. Below you will find a briefing about my current projects.CURRENT PROJECTS
Hardening Men: Masculinity, Nationalism, and Leadership in Post Colonial Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia)I am interested in how manhood and masculinity are constructed through military service. Moreover, how is masculinity co-opted into being an issue of national security for newly created countries in Southeast Asia?
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In support of AAPI heritage month and mental health awareness month, we are happy to bring you a conversation about Asian mental health and therapy.
Our guest for today’s episode is Vera Cheng.
Things covered on today’s episode:
Vera’s background
Asian mental health
Trauma and therapy
Blossom mental health fundVera’s bio:
Vera Cheng is a registered social worker, psychotherapist, seasoned speaker, and the founder of Talk Therapy with Vera. With over 15 years of devoted work in mental health and racialized communities, She is a leading expert in mental health and anti-Asian racism, featured in renowned media outlets such as CBC NEWS, CP24 and CTV NEWS. In addition, she partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association and featured in a provincial mental health campaign.
Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Make sure to follow Vera and also stay tuned into our podcast this month for more conversations with awesome AAPI talking about topics that we in the diaspora care about.
As a Chinese-Canadian immigrant, she has honed her practice beyond therapy sessions into community engagement, advocacy and fighting against Asian hate. She is passionate about mental health awareness, primarily through anxiety, which she has struggled with. Sharing her journey helps reduce mental health stigma in the hopes of helping others overcome their struggles, too.
Talk Therapy with Vera is deeply rooted in the "Healing Lens," with the anti-oppressive framework addressing anti-Asian racism through attachment, client-centred, self-compassionate and trauma-informed approaches. She engages with my clients collaboratively and empathically to improve their self-awareness and make positive, goal-directed life changes.
Vera Cheng, BSW, MSW, RSW (she/her)
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Your Toronto Asian Mental Health Advocate & Public Speaker
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WE are back from a long break! We finally pulled it together and this would be the first of the final 6 episodes for our fifth season. Thank you for your continued support and I hope you will continue to support us and listen to the rest of our season to be released weekly until we finish probably in February.
Today, we have Amy Yip joining us for a conversation about:
-Being Chinese American in America, trying to fit in while trying to rebel against her family but still staying inside the box for the longest time
-Working in corporate America, from consulting to marketing for Google
-Her Breaking point and how that led her to become a somatic life transformation and mental fitness coach
-Mental Fitness and how Amy gained clarity in her life after feeling lost, burnt out and hitting rocking bottom
-Talking to your immigrant parents about the deep topics to understand them
-Her book, Unfinished Business: Breaking Down the Great Wall Between Adult Child and Immigrant Parents
About Our Guest:
Amy Yip is a Somatic Life Transformation and Mental Fitness coach, keynote speaker, author, and self-confidence trainer. She works with women of color leaders to strengthen their mental fitness, heal intergenerational wounds, find their voice and the courage to speak up, and have agency to let go of all the ‘shoulds’ so that they can be the authors of their own life stories. Her mission is to empower AAPI women to be seen, to be heard, and to f-ing rock the boat.Amy is an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach, a Certified Hudson Institute Coach, a Certified Strozzi Institute Somatic Coach, and a pioneer Mental Fitness Coach certified through Positive Intelligence.
Amy received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and her BS in computer science and BA in communications from the University of Maryland.
Amy resides in Maryland with Greg, her best friend and husband, and her son Logan, the cutest kid ever.
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WEBSITEhttps://amyyipcoaching.com
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You know how sometimes you would meet someone and be blown away by the stories and experiences of their lives and how you think their stories should be in a book or a movie? Well, that's how I feel about our guest today, Curtis Chin. Curtis is a writer, filmmaker, director, and activist with a brand new memoir out now called, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant".
Our conversation went in-depth into Curtis's upbringing at a Chinese restaurant growing up in Detroit, his family's long and rich Asian American diaspora history, being Asian American diaspora, the publishing industry and of course his memoir and the journey to getting to where he is now, a published writer with his own memoir out now that y'all should get a copy right now!
Curtis' Bio:
A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" will be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.
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WE ARE BACK!
A conversation with a new friend, Daniela Hornskov Sun, writer, musician, producer, and all-around creative. I came upon Daniela through the community she is a part of, THIIIRD. THIIIRD and their team asked us if we are able to help spread the word on their new podcast series, All My Half East Asian BFF that they just released (all episodes are out now so check it out!). If you have been following our feed, we spotlighted an episode of the podcast series here and now we are going to interview Daniela who is the producer for the podcast series and the one who had the idea for the podcast series. Listen to our conversation where we dived into Daniela's Mixed Asian upbringing/background, living in Europe, dealing with microaggressions, her work with THIIIRD and the podcast series.
Please support THIIIRD and their work as they are doing great things amplifying underrepresented voices, something we here at the podcast feel strongly about.
Biography of Daniela:
Daniela is mixed Chinese 🇨🇳 and Danish 🇩🇰, grew up in China 🇨🇳 and England 🏴. Daniela’s pronouns are she/they and is a producer, writer, and musician, who is obsessed with food, and currently obsessed with swimming. 🏊🏻♂️
About the SeriesThrough raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half white friends connect more deeply with each other and explore new ways to live their identities.
About the Podcast
Exploring the intersections between culture and activism, THIIIRD Waves spotlights guests whose expertise and lived experience provide insights on topical issues through the lens of representation, access and privilege. The show is hosted by the women of THIIIRD magazine - producer Daniela Hornskov Sun, DJ Tryb, and founder Rhona Ezuma who bring to the table perspectives from their Danish Chinese and Black British Nigerian backgrounds.
About Thiiird
Thiiird Waves is the podcast offering from Thiiird Magazine, a platform bringing you cultural insight through amplification of underrepresented voices.
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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT
Today's not your regular What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast episode. This is spotlighting a podcast episode from our new podcast friend, THIIRD WAVES's new podcast series, ALL MY HALF EAST ASIAN BFFS. This is their Sex and Dating episode. Listen to it and check out the rest of their podcast series now live on their page. Make sure to follow them and support what they are doing!
About the SeriesThrough raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half white friends connect more deeply with each other and explore new ways to live their identities.
About the Podcast
Exploring the intersections between culture and activism, THIIIRD Waves spotlights guests whose expertise and lived experience provide insights on topical issues through the lens of representation, access and privilege. The show is hosted by the women of THIIIRD magazine - producer Daniela Hornskov Sun, DJ Tryb, and founder Rhona Ezuma who bring to the table perspectives from their Danish Chinese and Black British Nigerian backgrounds.
About Thiiird
Thiiird Waves is the podcast offering from Thiiird Magazine, a platform bringing you cultural insight through amplification of underrepresented voices.
About the Episode
We dissect our personal histories and desires on this episode. Unflinching looking at how mainstream beauty standards affect our choice of romantic and sexual partners, and discussions around how as mixed raced bodies we have experienced both sides of being othered/exoticised.
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INTRODUCING:
A new podcast series, All My Half Asian East Asian Bffs!
About the SeriesThrough raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half white friends connect more deeply with each other and explore new ways to live their identities.
About the Podcast
Exploring the intersections between culture and activism, THIIIRD Waves spotlights guests whose expertise and lived experience provide insights on topical issues through the lens of representation, access and privilege. The show is hosted by the women of THIIIRD magazine - producer Daniela Hornskov Sun, DJ Tryb, and founder Rhona Ezuma who bring to the table perspectives from their Danish Chinese and Black British Nigerian backgrounds.
About Thiiird
Thiiird Waves is the podcast offering from Thiiird Magazine, a platform bringing you cultural insight through amplification of underrepresented voices.
We will also be spotlighting one episode of the podcast series here and also featuring a conversation with the podcast producer, Daniela Hornskov Sun. Stay tuned and check out THIIIRD and ALL MY HALF EAST ASIAN BFFS podcast series in the meantime after hearing the teaser now.
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Today's episode features Tiffany Ran, Taiwanese American chef of Ba Ba Lio (886), BB6 Taiwanese Pop Up out in Seattle.
We talked all about Tiffany's journey in the culinary world, being a chef, her Taiwanese-American upbringing, and of course, food specifically Taiwanese food and why you need to check out more than just Boba (Bubble Tea) and soup dumplings because Taiwanese food is soo good! Plus, we talked about her pop-up, Ba Ba Lio!
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What is Ba Ba Lio (According to Tiffany):
During my first few years of cooking in Seattle restaurants, I'd wrap up my shifts late at night just as the sun was rising in Taiwan. I would call home after finishing my shifts, dialling 011+886...waiting for the connection...closing my eyes as the phone rings. I'd picture that the King County bus I'm riding on would magically complete its route in front of Taipei's Nanmen Market."What are you making today?"
"What does the market have?"
After asking these questions, my mother on the other line would fill me in on the produce at the morning wet markets and on dishes bound for the dinner table.
"Ba ba lio," or 8-8-6 in Chinese, is the international calling code to Taiwan, a string of numbers that tethers me to one home as I struggled to build another in a new city. BB6 Taiwanese Pop Up was born from homesickness and driven by discoveries. While our dishes are born of old Taiwan flavours, they're also peppered with new Pacific Northwest elements.
I hope, from our meals, you'll discover new flavours and recall familiar ones. Please follow us and share your feelings, favourite dishes, and cravings with me. Taiwanese cuisine is, in part, about my experiences, but it's also yours. I am fortunate and so is Taiwan, to have your support!
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Conversation with Wuxia author, JF Lee
A conversation on growing up as an Asian Diaspora (Singaporean Chinese Canadian) in Vancouver, Canada, studying in the States, being an accountant, living in the Cayman Islands, becoming a Wuxia author, and an introduction to the Wuxia genre along with recommendations.
What is Wuxia?
Wuxia is a genre of Chinese fiction that features itinerant warriors of extreme (almost supernatural) martial arts skill in ancient China. These aren’t your average heroes. We’re talking people that can fly through the trees, cross vast distances in a single leap, reverse the flow of blood in the body with internal qi, and other amazing, superhuman feats. They travel around righting wrongs, helping people, and being good guys.
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Today's episode is with a very talented designer, Grace Chen.
Our conversation covers her story of being born in China, growing up in the Bay, her work in design, her love of Hip-hop (especially Mandarin and Cantonese hip-hop) and being a creator.
Her bio:
Design:
Grace Chen is a Product Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a bilingual graphic design freelancer who has collaborated with musicians and creatives in the United States and abroad. Grace has provided design support for independent musicians and companies such as Baidu, Number Four Music, and LoomUp.She is also now working at a cybersecurity startup as a UX designer.
Hip-hop:
Grace has been a Hip-hop fanatic listening and rooting for Mandarin and Cantonese Hiphop for 10 years.
Make sure to check out her work! Follow her on Instagram and contact her if you need any design work done for your projects!
Grace Chen:
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To finish Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Month/Asian Heritage Month strong, we talked with Anika Chabra & Jennifer Siripong Mandel of Root & Seed.
Root & Seed is a podcast that explores culture and family heritage. Hosted by Anika Chabra, host Kyle appeared on an episode talking about his story being Asian diaspora and using the podcast to document Asian diaspora stories. That was how we became aware of Root & Seed and all they do. Check out the episode!
In addition to the podcast, Root & Seed also produces a conversation tool (digital and physical) to make capturing family stories easier. The overall mission of Root & Seed is to bring together fellow tradition-seekers to claim, honor, document and celebrate their culture and let it live on in their words, thoughts, actions and experiences for generations to come. They have a great mission and this is why we needed to have a conversation with the founders, Anika and Jennifer about it.
Our conversation was about who they are, their Asian diaspora upbringing, how they met and started Root & Seed, their podcast, their conversation tool, and the reasons why they are doing what they are doing now.
If you enjoyed our conversation, please go follow them on social media, support them and their conversation tool (get yourself one), listen to their podcast and introduce them to friends and family.
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Happy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month!
Today's conversation is with Sheena Yap Chan. It was an honour to have a conversation with such an amazing and inspiring individual that does so much for the community she is part of helping Asian women build self-confidence and helping with Asian representation in media.
In our conversation, we touched on topics like her background, her experience with working corporate as an Asian woman, self-confidence, how to build it, how to get better, Asian representation in media and her book!
Sheena's Profile:Sheena Yap Chan is a Keynote Speaker, consultant, podcaster and author on building self-confidence. She is also the founder and host of the award-winning podcast called The Tao of Self-Confidence where she interviews Asian women about their inner journey to self-confidence.
Sheena is also the bestselling author of 2 books called Asian Women Who BossUp and International Women of Color Who BossUp. She will also release her upcoming book with Wiley called The Tao of Self-Confidence. Pre-order her upcoming book now on Amazon!
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Happy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month!
Today's episode is with Harry Au (he/him), licensed therapist and registered social worker, 1.5 gen Hong Hong Han Chinese Canadian in Toronto, Canada.
Harry is all about helping Asians go from feeling trapped to becoming self-liberated.
Our conversation is all about Asian mental health. We touch on the common mental health issues Asians in the diaspora face, working on our Asian mental health, therapy, and much more!
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On today's episode, we have TJ Wey, Ze is an entrepreneur and host of a podcast, called "The Asian Detox" Podcast. Our conversation will cover what TJ does and TJ's podcast. Our conversation touches on topics of being and growing up Asian American, immigrant mindset mentality, hustle culture, and re-evaluating your mindset on what is the right way to live and start being and living your most authentic self.
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Conversation with Paji & Iasmin, super popular Tik Tokers and podcasters.
Paji & Iasmin are Third Culture Kids from Macau now based in the US. They are Cantonese-English bilinguals with Paji being Sri Lankan+Filipino and Isamin being Brazillian+Filipino (not what you expected right?). They got a super entertaining podcast, "Outcasts the Podcast" that documents their hilarious journey as 2 half-Filipinos in America all while speaking some Cantonese. In addition to that, they are also on Tik Tok with funny videos and memes showcasing Cantonese culture and the language while teaching you important Cantonese phrases without you realizing it.
In our conversation, we went into their background, growing up in Macau as outcasts as they aren't Han Chinese (the majority population of Macau), their third culture identity, being outcasts in America, their relationship with Cantonese (language and culture) and their content-creating journey creating content about their experience being third culture kids and sharing Cantonese culture and language through funny tik toks and memes.
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Guest Bio:
Hon Hoang is a Vietnamese-American photographer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but grew up in Los Angeles. He began studying Photography shortly after graduating from UCLA where he studied Psychology. He sees Photography as a medium that answers questions, satisfies curiosity, and showcases the things that are often left unseen.
Hon believes that most of us feel a level of existential uncertainty, wondering who we’ll be because of who we were. His works explore this sensation and eventually come to hopeful conclusions, acting as a sliver of light that guides us out of the darkness.
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In our conversation, we talked about growing up in Roland Heights, living/abroad in South Korea, transitioning and figuring out what one truly wants to do, filmmaking and creativity.
Hon got a lot of thoughts and opinions on creativity, passion, filmmaking and art that are definitely worth considering and thinking about.
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Season 5 is now here! Thank you for all of your patience. We have taken a long but well-needed break, but we are back and looking forward to giving you all the great conversations about being Asians with the cool Asians that you yourself would want to have conversations with as well.
This fast food stall offers over 200 items — even at a time when menus are being scaled down. Here’s how the owners make it happen
To start season 5 with a bang, we had a conversation with Karon Liu, a food reporter for the Toronto Star who is based in the Greater Toronto Area. He is a super-talented writer and reporter telling stories about food and the people/restaurants that are behind the food you love.
In our conversation, we covered:
-Greater Toronto Area Chinese community history since the 1980s
-His experience growing up in the Greater Toronto Area in the 90s and his thoughts on identity/third culture-ness
-His career in food reporting and also his thoughts on food media
-His favourite foods and his relationship with food
-His journey on reconnecting with his Cantonese heritage through cooking and learning Cantonese and Chinese.
Karon Liu Biography: Karon is a Hong Kong Chinese Canadian that immigrated with his family to the Greater Toronto Area when he was 1 in the last 1980s. He is now a reporter for the Toronto Star mainly on topics related to food, restaurants, culture, and how all those intertwine. Outside of his work in media, he is also on his journey to getting back in touch with his heritage/culture specifically Cantonese through learning Chinese and learning/cooking more Cantonese recipes.
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*RE-RELEASE EPISODE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BACK ON DECEMBER 28 2020*
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1. It's not a new episode! It's a re-release of one of our favourite conversations that we have had on this podcast. We hope that new listeners of ours would give it a listen if they haven't already.
2. If you are already a fan of Randy and his family (who isn't?) and want to learn about Randy and how he started Made With Lau, this would be a good episode to listen to as this was recorded back when they were still only at about 10000+subscribers till now where they are over 1 million strong!
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