The New Paper, 28 August 2005

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    • 1095 6  -  Her home is as big as 177 HDB five-room flats It has a movie theatre, swimming pool, gym, spa, sauna Esther Au Yong estheray<§> sph.com.sg A FLEET of luxury cars is at her disposal a Mercedes, a Lexus and
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    • 299 7 The fresh graduate became a talking point on the Internet early last week when her on-line diary was discovered and publicised on tomorrow.sg, a portal for bloggers. Readers and fellow bloggers labelled her "Singapore's luckiest girl". Some used unkind words like "atas" (Malay slang
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    • 1006 8  -  STUNNING BUKIT BATOK CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS Many parishioners unaware of lap pool Some think ifs extravagant Priest admits decision to build it was 'highly contentious', but went ahead due to 'very low cosf i o M 1.0 i i» > 4 I l>;l J Skye Tan
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    • 320 8 THE Church of St Mary Of The Angels is not the only religious institution that has raised eyebrows with its beautiful, expensive facade. Charismatic church City Harvest received both brickbats and bouquets when it unveiled its new church building in Jurong in 2002.
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    • 932 9 Bali is known for its breathtaking BEACHES AND FRIENDLY FACES. BUT THERE IS A DARKER SIDE TO THE ISLAND PARADISE# AS THE RECENT DRUG ARRESTS SHOW IF you are in a dance club in Belli and someone passes you a glass of colourless
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    • 411 10 THE Bali clubs say they do not "protect" suspected drug users from the police. "That's their responsibility," said Miss Mary Marianti, executive secretary of the Double Six Entertainment Group, which owns Double Six, Paparazzi bar and M-Bar-Go three popular clubs situated around Kuta and
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    • 245 10 WHEN Australian journalist Mark Forbes went to Bali this week to gauge how prevalent drugs were in the party scene there, he got his answer almost immediately. Just walking past Club 66, where the Ecstasy tablets allegedly found in arrested Aussie model
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    • 767 11  -  Doctors say the killer disease is striking more young female non-smokers here and worldwide IN STORE Ng Wan Ching tnp@sph.com.sg AT the age of 42, the bubbly and active sales executive had hardly been sick in her life. When
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    • 325 12 THE number of young women non-smokers coming down with lung cancer in Singapore and elsewhere is on the rise. It is already the deadliest cancer in Singapore, with 1,100 new cases diagnosed here yearly, killing almost 1,000 people. Said Dr Karmen
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    • 384 12 Stricken with lung cancer, nonsmoking wife of Christopher Reeve vows to carry on fighting IN US SINGER-actress Dana Reeve has it tough. She is the widow of Christopher Reeve (right), the once handsome and energetic actor who played the comic book hero Superman in the movie series. He
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    • 886 13 Crime bosses fly from China to attend the 'mob wedding of the year' and are taken for a ride... ...to jail THE eight wealthy and influential guests had flown into Atlantic City, New Jersey in the US from as far away as China to attend
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      129 14 JL Microsoft is becoming IBM, and Google is becoming Microsoft. Tedinopreneur Joe Kraus quoted in a New York Times artide, which said that in the 1990s IBM was widely seen as a gentle giant easy to work with, and Microsoft as a fearsome fighter trying to control everything,
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    • 83 14 SCDF rescuers climbed on to the cat ladder of a tower crane from the 20th storey of a building to rescue an injured construction worker, at 12.40pm yesterday. The worker, who had fractured his lower left leg while servicing the crane at the Kim Tian Road site,
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    • 107 14 HE has been executive vice-president of corporate business at Sing Tel, and before that was with Hewlett-Packard for 20 years. Now Mr Lucas Chow, 52, will be joining MediaCorp as group chief executive officer, succeeding Mr Ernest Wong who had announced his resignation earlier this year.
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    • 208 14 MM LEE TELLS MALAYS: YOU HAVE ACHIEVED MUCH IN SOLVMG DRUG PROBLEM, NOW.. MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew believes the Malay community should make an effort to reduce the number of young girls getting married. About 18 per cent of Malay brides
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    • 179 14 -A TOP Sunni negotiator said no agreement has been reached on Iraq's draft constitution and called on Iraqis to reject it in a 15 Oct referendum. Mr Saleh Al-Mutlaq made the statement on the Al-lazeera TV channel after the Sunnis studied compromise proposals offered
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    • 53 14 The mayor of one Budapest district wants female staff to wear miniskirts only if they hpve "completely perfect legs" and the skirts are AO shorter than 2-3cm above the knee. The conservative mayor also wants male employees to wew blazers in pununer* saying he had seen staff dressed like
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    • 622 16  -  Entertainment for the dead? Some die-hard S'poreans say getai shows Joyce Lim ****joycel@sph.com.sg MADAM Tan thinks nothing of shuttling from one end of the island to another to catch a getai show. The grandmother of 15 kids claims never to have missed her favourite shows. During
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    • 377 16 LIKE all hardcore fans, Madam Shirley Wee, 53, would do things for her favourite idol Chen Jin Lang, like brewing a tonic drink for him. "I would also 'da bao' dinner for him before every show. His favourite food is duck
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    • 495 17 Haunted by lack of BUDGET AND A POOR ECONOMY, GETAI SHOWS THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN FEWER AND QUIETER THIS year's getai scene is quieter than last year's, said veteran getai organiser Peter Loh, 54. "The market has been slow in recovering and people are not contributing
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    • 520 18  -  Auntie, today where got opera wayang? COMMENT Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com. sg Think of it as a wild ghost chase. I hop in the back of a taxi and direct the cabby; "Take me to Lorong 14. I'm looking for the getai, for the
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    • 277 19 "V ROP everything and dive in" little S 1 did the MTV Video Music Awards 1 -J realise how literally fans would have to take the top line of its posters to get t9 the show today. A hurricane slammed into host city Miami
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  • 549 35  -  Guide Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg FAT or skinny, women just can't, and won't, stop beating themselves and each other up over it. The latest trend setting feminism back 50 years is the new local reality TV series Villa Wellness, where 12 women who
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    • 249 37  -  $100,000 Shin Min Cup Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg IT'S either Diamond Dust or Shaggadelic for the $100,000 Shin-Min Cup in Race 9 today. If not for his top impost of 57kg, I would have no hesitation throwing my all for the Hideyuki Takaoka-trained Diamond
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    • 451 37  -  $100,000 The New Paper Trophy TanThaan Loon loon@sph.com.sg C' LASS should prevail in the third edition of The New Paper Trophy (Race 7) at Kranji this afternoon. Yes, I am referring to the mighty Ninetyfive Emperor, the local circuit's highest-rated galloper. While there are
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    • 431 38 MUDLARKS RACE 1: Trust 'N' Triumph, King Kaap, Sunshine Touch, Zinniah, Transcend, Double Tap, Royal Pacific, Magical Bell. RACE 3: Flawless Diamond, Max Gift, World Victory, Good Businessman, Starring, Mr Strategiser, In the Limelight, Havityourway, Diamond N Ace. RACE 4:
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      111 38 FOREST GOLD (Race 11 No. 3) He's as consistent as they come having notched four wins, all with jockey Sam Subian (above) as his partner, and three thirds from only seven outings. His successes were over 1,200 m on rain-affected tracks, two of them at Kranji. He might
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      315 38 1 6 Double Tap 2 King Kaap 3 Sunshine Touch 6 Double Tap 4 Zinniah 7 Royal Pacific 4 Zinniah 7 Royal Pacific 5 Transcend 2 1 Billy-O 10 Tiznado 4 Lucky Star 10 Tiznado 4 Lucky Star 1 Billy-0 10 Tiznado 1 Billy-0 4 Lucky Star
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    • 1584 39 Showing plenty of Are and desire: Mark du Plessis (left) narrows the gap on leader Saimee Jumaat with a superb treble yesterday. Q3QI miimpMUkM) »Hlrir|^2 ai- g iifwtAr im f% |,|i-, i HMMI m I > no* Ldsi d runs
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    • 1350 40 Yesterday's Kranji round-up, stipes' report and results vc *1 a v r- v <• > o o o V V < Pleasant day at the office: Trainer Don Baertschiger (right) takes his tally to 24 with a double yesterday, courtesy
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    • 947 41 RACE 1: INFINITY lost ground when crowded on jumping between RARFOLD HERO and MYKANOS who, in turn, had been carried out by CALDECOTT HILL, who jumped awkwardly out. Near the 900 m, MYKANOS commenced to pull hard and had to steady off the
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    • 435 41  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg THE trainer Patrick Shaw-jockey Mark du Plessis combination fired a juicy treble at Kranji yesterday and missed grabbing a fourth winner in the last of 10 events. The in-form pair appeared headed for victory with Senor John leading into
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    • 257 41 Reuters. THE connections of Australia's greatest racehorse Makybe Diva may bow to public pressure by running her in this year's Melbourne Cup. Makybe Diva rewrote the record books last November when she became only the fifth horse and the first mare
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    • 1944 42 1 KISaflET 59 c 57.5 (121 -33) Kellady (10)11 7 1 (491) 4 BARFOU) HERO 56.5 (35-11) A Spiteri (5) 13 13 2 (470) 2L 2 ROW TO THE MOON 58 c 55.5 (69-19) *V Kumar
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    • 218 42  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg MALAYSIAN apprentice Nizam Abdul Jah ah made the trip to Singapore just to ride Quick Fire at Kranji yesterday. Even then, the second-season rookie had to wait until the last of 10 events to be legged aboard the Mohd
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  • sports
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      • 514 44  -  Godfrey Robert npsports @sph.com.sg WHO will represent the Singapore men's team for the South-east Asia Games? That is the big talking point, now that the Singapore National Olympic Council have given the initial nod for the golf team to go to Manila in November. The
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      • 259 44 THE Singapore Open golf organisers would do well to link Choo Tze Huang with a big-name pro in next month's event at Sentosa's Serapong course. In the past, local amateurs who qualified for the Singapore Open have been grouped with relative unknowns
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      • 782 45 AP. MICHELLE Wie, who turns 16 in about six weeks, could be turning pro before then. Although her father, BJ Wie, said on Friday that a final decision had not been made, there were growing indications that the golfing phenomenon was close
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      • 365 46 AFP. ENGLAND'S Justin Rose shot a bogey-free 7-under-par 63 to take a four-shot lead after Friday's second round of the US$4.4 million ($7.4 m) Buick Championship in Connecticut. After carding an opening-round 65 in which he sizzled on the back nine, Rose carried the momentum
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      • 355 46 AP. KANG Soo-Yun had a simple explanation for the low scores in the Wendy's Championship for Children in Dublin, Ohio. "The greens are so soft, you can make perfect shots," the South Korean player said. Kang hit plenty of perfect shots despite a triple bogey
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    • 405 47 If sport is the new rock 'n' roll, as the new coffee table book The Stadium (below) suggests, that would make stadiums the centre of life in the 21st Century. Here are some of the modern sporting venues featured in the book, which traces the history
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    • 665 48  -  CALLING all spovty bosses, do you have an active sporting lifestyle away from your busy schedule in the office? Do you play one or more non-traditional sports? Or do you know of such a boss? Please e-mail details to npsports@sphxom.sg Gary Lim nps ports® sph.com.
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    • 454 48 HE wanted to lend a hand to a worthy cause. So, 2Vi years ago, along with Angelina Ong, the general manager of the Breast Cancer Foundation in Singapore and Irene Taylor of Canada, John Edwards formal Paddlers in the Pink a group of dragon-boaters made
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    • 532 49 SUPER CUP: LIVERPOOL 3 Djibril Cisse (82nd min, 103), Luis Garcia (109) CSKA 1 Daniel Carvalho (28) (1-1 Full-time) Wires Services. DJIBRIL Cisse came off the substitute's bench yesterday to lead Liverpool to a 3-1 European Super Cup win over CSKA Moscow in Monaco. The
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    • 114 49 THE president of Bolton Wanderers' Uefia Cup opponents Lokomotiv Plovdiv has been murdered. The Bulgarian club's owner Georgi Diev, 39, was shot dead by a sniper at a Black Sea resort just 40 minutes after his team qualified for the Uefa Cup by beating OFK Belgrade of
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    • 650 51  -  ESPN STARSPORTS SURVEY FINDINGS: Ernest LUIS npsports @sph.com.sg MORE Singapore football fans are watching live telecasts of the English Premier League (EPL) from the comfort of their own homes. To give you an idea, this group amounts to one quarter of Singapore's population. That's 1.1 million
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    • 299 52 MORE women have a preference to watch Champions League football than the English Premier League. The Champions League is Europe's top club competition, featuring the best clubs from England, Spain, Italy and the rest of Europe. A projected estimate group of 249,000 women between the ages of
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    • 352 52 if you gat woman watching football for quality alona, than tha Champions Laagua is tha obvious choica. If you gat woman looking for good-looking playars alona, than tha Champions Laagua is tha obvious choica. Thara ara tha Rauls, tha Maldinis, tha Dal Piaros,
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    • 172 52 What other sports got viewers'attention? Golf has mora of an appeal among PMEBs, but more PMEBs watch tennis than golf, interest in Formula One is also rising (All percentages against projected PMEB group of 195,000) So far this year (Jan Jun 2005),
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    • 123 52 (All percentages against projected PMEB group of 195,000) More PMEBs watched Venus Williams and Roger Federer win their respective Wimbledon finals than Tiger Woods win golfs British Open. Indeed, the figures don't lie. When Williams beat Lindsay Davenport after the tournament's longest-ever women's
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    • 118 52 Ratings have been increasing since 2003, despite the previous dominance of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher. But this year's more unpredictable title race, with more diverse winners, has seen a marked jump in ratings. The first race in Australia on 6 Mar garnered a rating
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    • 130 52 Football draws a good percentage of the PMEB target group. But there's a jfjKWore natural profile for PMEBs and golf. More PMEBs are watching golf because they may be new to the game, and learning how to play it at Bthe same time. So the
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      • 217 53 TEAM UPDATE: Chariton will be hampered by suspensions to Darren Ambrose and Gonzalo Sorondo. However, the silver lining says Jonathan Spector, Talal El Karkouri and Kevin Lisbie could be used. So too, midfielder Matt Holland. Emanuel Pogatetz is included in the Middlesbrough squad for the first time.
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      • 228 53 TEAM UPDATE: Newcastle will be hoping that their new boy, Albert Luque, will do them some favours tonight. I reckon that may be difficult. Anyway, there is a likelihood that the 27-year-old Spaniard will link up with midfielders Kieron Dyer and Emre, who have both recovered
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      • 329 53 Jonathan Turner and Daw Tindall PA Sport MIDDLESBROUGH v CHARLTON Middlesbrough picked up their first win of the season against Birmingham last Tuesday. And as long as Mark Viduka stays fit, they will be a match for most sides at the top. The striker's
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      • 449 54 MIDDLESBROUGH v CHARLTON PA Sport. Middlesbrough manager Steve McGaren has pinpointed a healthy Mark Viduka (right) as the key to the club's fortunes this season. Viduka started only his second match of the year against Birmingham on Tuesday after sustaining a hamstring
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      • 542 55 RONALDO WARNS MAN UNITED: PA Sport. CRISTIANO Ronaldo has warned his Manchester United team-mates they must maintain their fast start to the campaign if they are to stand any chance of challenging Chelsea this season. Sir Alex Ferguson hauled his players back early for
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      • 446 55 NEWCASTLE BOSS SOUNESS' PLEA TO HIS MEN: PA Sport. Newcastle boss Graeme Souness has called for a united front as his side attempts to dig its way out of a dreadful start to the new Premiership season. New striker Albert Luque will hope to inspire a change
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      • 199 55 PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson has hailed the impact of veteran Manchester United new boy Edwin van der Sar. The giant Dutchman has yet to concede a goal in four senior appearances since his £2 million (s6m) move from Fulham, and will be looking
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    • 895 56 Four wins—two in the Premiership and two in the Champions League qualifiers. Are Man U back? There is no doubt that the Red Devils are back. You can really see the hunger in the players after going through a campaign empty-handed last season. They
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      • 725 57 WESTBROM 2 (Horsfield 12th min, 64) BIRMINGHAM 3 (Heskey 10,33, Jarosik 26) PA Sport. EMILE Heskey* s two-goal blast earned Birmingham their first win of the season as they survived a second-half fightback by Bryan Robson'sside. The England striker had missed the two home defeats against
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      • 654 58  -  M« 1 Everton 0 Fulham: McBnde<56) Kkfc-flfl [UK t>Me) Fulham: Warner, Volz, Knight. Bocanegra. N Jensen, Malbranque. C Jensen. D»op, Boa Mode, McBrtde, Radzinski Subs (not used): Hetguson, John. Batista. Elrich, Rehman. Booked: Malbranque. Everton: Martyn, Hibbert. Weir. Yobo, Neville. Davies (Vaughan 77), Arteta, Cahill. Kilbane (Ferguson
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      • 766 59  -  Aston Villa ......................1 Blackburn ........................0 Aston VWa: Baros (11) Kkfc-«ff 3ya (UK ta>| Aston Villa: Sorenseo, Hughes. Mellberg. Ridgewell. Samuel, Barry, Davis. McCann, Whittingham (Berger 69). Baros. Phillips Subs (not used): Angel, Taylor, Cahill. Moore. Booked: Baros. Mellberg Blackburn: Fnedel, Todd. Nelsen. Matteo (Gresko 57), Flitcroft
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      • 327 59  -  ROIfNIHIPBYI Ben Owen SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport MANCHESTER CITY climbed above Spurs into second as they came from behind to beat Portsmouth 2-1 at Eastlands. Pompey had been under pressure for most of the game but scored against the run of play as
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      • 738 60 It was right to send Mido off TOTTENHAM 0 CHELSEA 2 (Del Horno 39th min, Duff 71) Tottenham Hotspur came out firing on all cylinders at White Hart Lane last night. They took the game right up to champions Chelsea. But two blasts of the whistle
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      • 624 60  -  TV VIEW Ernest Luis npsports@ sph.com.sg PERHAPS referee Rob Styles should be called "Robber Styles" instead. All because of his two controversial decisions that went against Tottenham Hotspur before Chelsea scored a 2-0 win last night away at White Hart Lane. The first
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