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Simon Cowell has given a self-pitying interview to the Mirror, where he tries to justify why he sacked Cheryl Cole the way he did. Here's the crucial quote:Cowell explained he and TV bosses had previously decided Cheryl was “uncomfortable” on the US show and felt offering her the chance to return to the UK X Factor would be the best option.In other words, it was all about trying to get Cheryl to

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So this year's X Factor kicked off, minus Dannii who is on maternity leave, and with Geri Halliwell filling in for her.It wasn't as much as a stormer of an episode as the last year's opener, but there was plenty of interest. I've got a favourite to win already - Katie Waisal, the early Madonna look-alike. She was charming and quirky and her voice was great. She was a bit nervous, but all of that

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ITV 2 have been running a three-part series on Dannii Minogue, in the run up to this year's X-Factor. if you've missed the episodes, you can catch them on the ITV Player for the next 30 days.The series follows Dannii in the months after last year's X-Factor when she decides to launch her own fashion label (and fragrance, which will be available in Sept to co-incide with X-Factor :-)), her

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ITV1 launched a new reality TV show called PopStar to OperaStar, where popstars are given the chance to sing opera, and the weakest singers are eliminated week by week by the viewing public and the judges.Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazon, who are both opera singers, acted as both mentors and judges. The judging panel was beefed up with Meatloaf and Lawrence Llewellyn-bowen.Of the singers in

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So Cheryl Cole won again! Not surprising - see my previous posts for an explanation of why she's the best mentor (though in terms of pure judging, Dannii Minogue offers the best feedback).The highlight of the results show for me was the duet between Alexandra Burke and JLS. It was edgy and cool and I very much hope that they do further collaborations.I'm already suffering X-Factor withdrawal

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So Danyl Johnson got the least votes and left the show. I was a little surprised, I thought it would be Olly who left.Danyl should console himself that leaving is probably for the best. Looking back on his first audition, when he was uninhibitedly enjoying performing, he's clearly got something, and that something got crushed when the dead hand of Simon Cowell was applied to him. So he's probably

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So John and Edward finally exited the competition.Dannii Minogue was the last judge to give her verdict on the bottom two, and I thought she was brilliant the way she asked rhetorically, "Is this a singing competition or a popularity competition, I need to know before I can make my decision". Simon was squirming at the far end, he must have thought she'd take it to deadlock out of revenge - and

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So Jamie left and LLoyd survived another round in the bottom two.For all the controversy (Lucie leaving in the previous week and John and Edward surviving), this programme just goes to show just how much popularity and having a fan base helps you in the music business (not just on TV shows like X-Factor).Because here we are, more than half-way through the series, and the two judges with the

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I was struck how much this season's X-Factor is about the judges, not the contestants. It's not just about the Cheryl Cole Fashion Show, complete with eye-catching "CD" dresses. It's also about how the judges are reacting to each other, and in particular the way Simon has started picking on Cheryl. Something is going on, as evidenced by the body-language. Take a look at this screen-shot taken

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I was really nervous Sunday evening waiting for Cheryl's performance. I couldn't help wondering if her vocals were strong enough to pull it off.But Cheryl Cole is a professional and rose to the occasion. There are still some on the net who are trying to insist that she mimed - their arguments usually involve camera angles etc. I would say to them to listen to the live performance and then listen

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Kandy Rain were voted off X-factor on Sunday - by the general public, not the judges. But the group persist in blaming Cheryl Cole and Danni Minogue for their exit.Actually, if the judges had that much power, the twins would have been voted off - the twins got harsh comments from the judges too. The reason Kandy Rain left was because the public just didn't identify with them - and Cheryl and

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Well! What a fractious show!First of all Louis and Simon ganged up against Cheryl and Dannii over the style of the girl group Candy Rain (the girls thought they should have toned down the we're-strippers thing). Then Cheryl and Simon sniped at each other continually.At the end of the show, Louis, Dannii and Cheryl were a bit weird about Danyl Johnson's performance. Danyl gave one of the best

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X factor goes to the judges houses tomorrow, to choose the final 12 for the live shows. I predict we shall see Louis in Dublin, and Danni and Simon in either Spain or the Carribean. Last year Cheryl tastefully chose the South of France, and I'm hoping she's just as upmarket this time.Of course we shall also be looking to see what the female judges are wearing in the laid-back atmosphere of the

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I know this is a TV blog not a music blog, but I couldn't resist writing about the Sugababes saga where Keisha was forced out (indeed it's such a soap opera it's just calling out for a TV series to be made out of it).Ever since Mutya left the Sugababes in 2006, the fans have been unhappy and Sugababes albums and singles haven't been selling that well. I think with Keisha leaving, it will get

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X Factor 2009 kicked off on ITV this evening. We've now got used to the show being a bit of a fashion special too, with both Cheryl and Danni wowing us with their clothes. In particular we are seeing the emergence of Cheryl Cole, Style Icon.They changed the format slightly, so that the auditions took place in front of an audience, and the person auditioning did so with a mike and backing music (

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In the final, Kate Walsh was facing off against Yasmina Siadatan. The task was to make a brand of chocolates and market it. As always in these tasks the former candidates were brought back to help the two final contestants.It was a joy to see Ben Clarke and Philip Taylor back, one in each team. Each with their own quirky take one things. Ben as always had some good ideas, but then always tried to

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This week's episode was the interview episode where the candidates were all grilled about their CVs.Lorraine predictably got roasted for her intuition and eccentric style and James McQuillan got taken apart for the jokes he put on his CV. Kate Walsh fairly sailed through hers, not putting a foot wrong.For me, the surprises were Debra Barr and Yasmina Siadatan. Debra was brilliant in the

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This week the task was to sell on a TV shopping channel. Yasmina Siadatan led one team constisting of Debra Barr and James Mcquillan and Howard Ebison led the other team consisting of Lorraine Tighe and Kate Walsh.Each team had to choose products to sell and then present them. Yasmina's team went for fairly low priced products hoping to get volume. Yasmina shrewdly put Debra on her own to sell,

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This week the task was to pick two products and sell them at a baby show. James McQuillan and Lorraine Tighe were team leaders, picked by Sir Alan because they were parents.James had the bigger team and split them in two, with himself and Yasmina in one sub-team and Ben Clarke and Debra Barr in the other. James picked a birthing poll to sell, and Debra and Ben were adamant that a very expensive

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The task this week was to re-brand Margate, the faded Kent seaside town. The teams were led by Debra Barr and Yasmina Siadatan.Debra's team decided to go for a gay theme, reasoning that the gay community had more to spend, and set about obtaining photographs and producing posters and leaflets. Mona Lewis and James McQuillan were despatched to obtain photos and Howard Ebison and Debra Barr stayed

teatreebergamotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751435969489967145.post-35469600244758557142009-05-06T22:41:00.005+01:002009-05-06T23:05:19.456+01:00

In each series of the Apprentice thus far, there is one episode that takes place "abroad" - in the past teams have gone to Marrakesh or France. Ben Clarke was feeling so hopeful he packed his flipflops and sunglasses. But they were sent "oop north" to Manchester and Liverpool instead (this is the recession series after all).The task this week was to choose some products from budding investors

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The task this week was to value items correctly and sell them. Two teams headed by Philip Taylor and Ben Clarke were given an identical set of items and among them some items of real value.Philip as usual steamrolls his team. He decides straight away that the rug, which is expensive, is just a cheap nylon thing, and carps constantly when Lorraine says she thinks it might be worth more. He divides

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I haven't really been following Britain's Got Talent, because it's not really my type of television, but of course I watched the clip of Susan Boyle's audition.It's not hard to see why it was a sensation. The poor thing was clearly nervous (going blank and forgetting she came from a village while on stage) and trying hard to engage and pass it off. But the audiences and judges were cruel, asking

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This week the teams had to come up with an advertising campaign for cereal and Kate Walsh and Kimberley Davis were the leaders of their respective teams.Kate's team got off to a good start. They had a treasure hunt idea, which evolved into a having a "Parrot pirate" cartoon character on their box. Early on when Ben wasn't so keen on the parrot bit, Kate very decisively went with it and closed off

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This week the teams were tasked to make cosmetics, and both teams went for soap and bubble bath.Noorul Choudhury and Paula Jones were team leaders.Noorul's team looked like a disaster from the get-go. He was a lame project manager, and the product they produced wasn't very good. And he couldn't sell and made the mistake of pulling Mona and Lorraine away from a good selling space, where they were

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This week's task was to produce a piece of exercise equipment that people would buy for home use.The teams were swapped around a little. Philip Taylor and Noorul Choudhury joined the girls' team Ignite, and Kimberly Davis and Kate Walsh joined the boys' team Empire. Debra Barr was team leader for Ignite, and James McQuillan was team leader for Empire.To start with, Ignite were struggling - they

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The task this week was catering, and the two team leaders had experience in this field. Yasmina Siadatan leading the girls runs a restaurant, and Rocky Andrews for the boys owns a string of 15 sandwich shops.Yasmina was a very assertive team leader. She knew what she wanted from the get-go, and simply wouldn't brook any argument, and despite some big characters in her team, they surprisingly

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The first task of the show was a cleaning task. The candidates were split into two teams, the girls and the boys, and given £200 to spend on cleaning products and told to set up cleaning businesses. Mona Lewis stepped up to be girls team leader and Howard Ebison was leader for the boys.The girls seemed to be doing well at first. Mona's team managed to secure some business, and she then had the

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A new series of The Apprentice starts on Wednesday 25th March on BBC1 at 9 p.m. Sir Alan is said to be concentrating on how business can beat the recession in this series, so it should be interesting viewing.As The Apprentice is my favourite of all the reality TV shows, naturally I shall be blogging this one!

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Moving Wallpaper has returned for a second series, being broadcast on ITV1 on Fridays at 9 p.m. For those who missed the first series, here's a brief recap of what it's all about.Moving Wallpaper is a comic series about a broadcast television team that is writing and filming a TV series. In the first series, the team were producing a soap called "Echo Beach" and in an eccentric bit of programming

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Evan Davis, the BBC's economics editor has been exporing finance and risk in this series, which looks at why and how the banks have managed to bring down our economic system. He goes through the complications of baning and insurance and has a fair stab at explaining the derivatives losses that have brought the world's financial system to their knees.It's broadcast every Tueday at 9 p.m. on BBC

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It was Big Band Night, which was a big improvement on Michael Jackson night (which has bombed because contestants sang Jackson's mawkish ballads rather than his the uptemp stuff that his fame is really based on).Ruth Lorenzo is proving to be the best ambassador Spain has ever had. She's gutsy, charming, she can sing, and Simon Cowell clearly fancies her like mad. I'm going off Diana - she's too

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Lost in Austen is the new ITV series, airing on Wednesdays. They've shown two episodes so far, and this is must view stuff for Jane Austen fans.Amanda Price is a Jane Austen fan. She reads the books over and over. She re-watchs the old BBC series of Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth. Even the ring-tone on her mobile phone has the music from the series (and the title music for Lost in

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Another series of X factor got underway, this time with Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole as one of the judges.I think this series is promising - some of the acts that went through in the first episode were way better than in the last series.Cheryl got a shock when a former contestant of Pop Stars The Rivals turned up (Pop Stars the Rivals is the show that created Girls Aloud). It was clear

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Series 5 of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? opened with the actress Patsy Kensit tracing her ancestors. Patsy's story was compelling. Her father had been involved in crime, and she was hoping that this wasn't a family trait. So you see her face fall when she discovers that her grandfather forfeits his medal of honour from WW1 because he later went to prison for robbery. Poor Patsy gets more

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Series Six of Dragons Den has just started, and episode 1 was a cracker, with a pop group looking for funding as well as a very unusual events company. If you haven't seen the episode, you can view it on BBC iPlayer. It will be available for another six days. The BBC website also has a video interview with Duncan Bannatyne, and I definitely recommend viewing it after you've viewed the episode. He

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Mamma Mia The Movie has just been released in cinemas around the country, and ITV have produced a documentary about it. It starts off with Abba in the early days, and then goes on to tell the story of how the stage musical came about. The musical has been going for nine years now and has been made into a movie starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. The documentary has all sorts of

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Bill Gates steps down next week from Microsoft, and the BBC has done a facinating documentary with exclusive interview footage with Bill Gates on how he made his money.It's utterly fascinating. Staff talk about how Bill argues and shouts at programmers, the ruthless drive to succeed and how marriage to Melinda French in 1994 made him switch focus to philanthrophy. You can see clearly from the

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This was a 90 minute BBC Four drama about the young Margaret Thatcher before she became an MP. It was hard to get into this drama to start with because the actress playing Mrs Thatcher (Andrea Riseborough) didn't resemble her, and neither did the men playing Dennie Thatcher or Ted Heath. I suppose Mrs Thatcher is such a familiar face, it is difficult for anyone to play her, and this is made more

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So Lee McQueen won. Not a huge surprise really. Alex and Helene were dreadful in their task (though they came up with a nice perfume bottle). Once it was clear that it was between Lee and Claire, it was certain that Lee would get it. As predicted in my previous post, when it comes to hiring, Sir Alan stays away from "brash" women. Previous brash women like Saira Khan, The Badger and Kristina

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The Apprentice - Why I Fired Them was a look back over the series by Sir Alan Sugar, explaining his reasons for firing the people he did through the series.One surprise - he admitted that he got it wrong with Michael Sophocoles and should have fired him earlier! And the reason he hadn't fired him was because Michael reminded him of himself as a young man, and it took weeks and weeks to get

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The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, being screened on ITV2, is a series based on the blog and then best-selling book of a prostitute who called herself Belle de Jour (a reference to the famous 1967 movie about a call-girl starring Catherine Deneuve).The ITV series stars Billie Piper, who manages to glam up the call-girl profession. Some of the episodes are a little seedy, but they are soft-focus

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This was the interview episode.Lucinda Ledgerwood got fired - because she was "too zany" for Sir Alan. Fair enough. She's clearly very talented, especially when she's in charge, and she's decent, but she is definitely not your stereotype businesswoman. And you could see how she would drive Sir Alan mad if she worked with him.The interviews were eye-opening. Alex came across as dull - but when

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ITV have put some of their best loved shows online to view via their player. You can choose from a whole host of series such as the 1980's classic Brideshead Revisited, or teh 1990's series Cold Feet.Here's a list of shows you might want to watch again. Once you've clicked through to the website, simply click on the episode you want to watch and the show will start playing on the player on the

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Fans of Pushing Daisies, screened on ITV, will be aware that though ITV bought all nine episodes, they only broadcast eight of them. The missing episode - which was episode two - is now available online on the ITV catchup service. You can see it by clicking here. It's available for viewing for another 24 days.

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Michael Sophocles got fired at last. In a way you could see it coming. He was tired and not really up for the task (which was hiring out flash cars). Sir Alan had asked him to be leader - an ominous sign. Michael did manage to make sales (unlike Helene), but once his team had lost, his time had clearly run out.Lucinda was in the other team, and this was her first sales attempt and she was

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I really enjoyed the latest episode of Doctor Who entitled "The Unicorn and The Wasp". It was set in 1926 and featured Agatha Christie.Of course being Dr Who they had to have some extra-terrestrial in the story - but the real joy of the episode was trying to spot how many tiles of Agatha Christie's books they managed to drop into the dialogue. Loads came up - "Appointment with Death", "Taken at

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Lawrence of A-raef-ia got fired! The team task was to make a commercial for tissues and Raef and Michael got carried away with "artistry". Perhaps they don't view many commercials and don't really understand the user experience. When you are viewing a movie or TV drama, you have a captive audience who are watching frame by frame. Unless your show is really bad, the viewer will watch closely for

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Oh no! Sweet lovely Sara got fired. I suppose it was on the cards because she was in a team with people who didn't like her. But for the record Michael should have got fired - only Sir Alan gave him a pass again. Something about him reminds Sir Alan of his younger self.The winning team was led by Lucinda, who proved once again that she's really good at being the boss. I think Lucinda, Lee and

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Sir Alan sent the teams to French-speaking Marrakesh to bargain and buy goods. It seems like Sir Alan is on a mission to make business people learn French as there was a French task last series too. Raef lived up to his Lawrence of A-Raef-ia billing when he suggested they all dress in native dress so people didn't realise they were tourists - fortunately the other team members gave him a funny

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Kevin got fired - and serves him right for not bringing Jenny Celerier (the one with ginger hair and the long chin) into the boardroom. To recap, Jenny came up with the dumb idea that people would want to send greetings cards exhorting someone to be environmentally friendly - never mind that cutting down a tree to make the card and wasting fuel to deliver it is environmentaly unfriendly.Yet Jenny

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Pretty much everyone has now heard of the BBC's innovative iPlayer, not least because loads of ISPs have been complaining that the service is too popular and is taking up too much bandwidth. The BBC iPlayer allows you to watch any BBC show for seven days after it has been broadcast, free, no matter where on earth you are. [Edit: I understand from a comment left on this blog that you can only

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When Sir Alan announced that the two team leaders would be Claire and Lucinda (left), I thought Lucinda would be gone by the end of the episode. She tends to be prettyish, feminine and gentle and in the previous episodes has tended to get bullied by the other women (Jenny with the red hair and long chin, and Helene).As the episode progressed, amazingly, Lucinda was doing pretty well, with a calm

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Poor Simon Smith had to go - despite being a likeable bloke and stitched up by Claire (who had tried to stitch up Sara the week before, only Sara won handily). In the end, in my opinion what did Simon in was his indoctrination in the army to follow "the officers". You saw this in the task that Rafe led, where Simon confessed that "it was like the old days" where Rafe was his officer and he was

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Sir Alan Surgar got it wrong! Shazia should not have been fired. She hadn't actually done anything wrong - the mix-up with the laundry took place after she had left (on the orders of the boss Jenny) and happened when Jenny brushed aside Lucinda and pushed a whole bunch of clothes higgledy-piggledy into a sack.It's true that Shazia was too nice to defend herself in the boardroom - but surely Sir

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Kimberley is a fan of Les Miserables (which she had acted in as a child) and her "passion" was to try to get a part in the show - she tried out to do a solo for the part of Eponine. The directors of Les Mis cast her as one of the chorus street girls, and let her sing her solo after the end of the show (which I thought was a bit mean as there would be a direct comparison with the actual star

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Gossip Girl is a US drama shown on ITV2. It's ostensibly a high school drama about a group of rich young New Yorkers, and follows the machinations of the way they all interact and fall in love.However, it's not like most high school dramas, where you get rebellious youth who dress differently from their parents and experience first love and experiment with sex. It's not even like high school

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Girls Aloud fans will be eagerly watching The Passions of Girls Aloud on ITV 2, where Cheryl, Sarah, Kimberley and Nicola get the chance to explore their "passions" in just two weeks. So far we've had two episodes, featuring Cheryl and Sarah, with Kimberley's episode being aired this Friday.Cheryl's passion was dancing and while she's done ballet, she wanted the chance to do hip-hop street

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The new season of The Apprentice got underway yesterday, and it was absolutely great television. You couldn't find a more unappealing bunch of people, which only enhances the pleasure of seeing them in the boardroom being grilled and humiliated by Sir Alan.A fair few of this years contestants are privately educated - so Sir Alan kindly made them sell fish in a market. What a botch they made of

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