The New Paper, 7 January 2012

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1 64 The New Paper
  • 18 1 the new paper SATURDAY JAN ***** j A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION CENTS 70 090/01/2012 (P) MICA
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    • 57 1 Mum calls police over son’s ‘bad’ haircut in school Page 12 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 THE FEVER IS BACK! Fans queue for hours to buy tickets for LionsXII’s first M-League match TNP PICTURE: YAP NING Page 4 They made a fool out of me What is convicted kelong
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    • 36 1 3 DAYS TO M-LEAGUE KICK-OFF For free tickets, see page 56 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70 I feel cheated, yet vindicated What is PN Sivaji, coach of our 1993 Malaysia Cup team, talking about? Page 62
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous




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    • Article, Illustration
      1207 24 / 25  -  Close encounters with cancer led three celebrity friends to make a special video for cancer fighters REPORT GERALD GOH ggerald@sph.com.sg WHEN cancer strikes, it can strike very close to home. Actress and voice-over artist Julie Wee had a close call with the dreaded disease, while actors Jerry
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    • Gadgets & Games
      • 346 26  -  Gadget G R£ REVIEW TAN MAE LYNN maelynn@sph.com.sg IF there such a thing as a mature mobile phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro would be it. Not that this device has been on the market a long time. The Xperia Pro is one of Sony
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      • 407 26  -  JjetGUY REVIEW GREGORY LOO gregloo@sph.com.sg Xperia Mini Pro PRICE: $598 WHEN we reviewed the Xperia Mini Pro a few months back, I absolutely enjoyed having the physical feedback that came while clacking away at a keyboard. On the flip side, the Mini Pro was a
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      • 88 26 Nakamichi My Mini Plus PRICE: $69.90 About the size of a plum, the My Mini Plus is a portable speaker that can pump out up to five hours of tunes on a single charge when plugged into your portable music player. It will even work
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      • 80 26 HP Omni PC PRICE: To be announced. This all-in-one PC features a 27-inch HD screen that can tilt up to 25 degrees, letting you find the optimum viewing angle. It also sports HP’s Magic Canvas interface, which allows the desktop to expand horizontally
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      • 72 26 Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime PRICE: $899 The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is essentially a tablet PC on steroids it’s the first tablet to run the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. This means it packs up to twice the processing power of mainstream dual-core tablets.
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    • Net Noise
      • 189 27 We round up the Internet sites or videos that people are talking about What’s the noise The rising buzz surrounding the hotly anticipated end of The Dark Knight trilogy just took a satirical twist. It’s a welcome change, though, seeing as how parodies and spoofs
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      • 187 27  -  Gerald Goh What’s the noise THE Chicago Sun-Times reported how seniors Charlotte Runzel and Jesse Chatz at Evanston Township High School in the US came up with a novel way to raise funds. They played Justin Bieber’s Baby over and over again at the
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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    • 130 34 Jobs Class Guide Accounting/ Bookkeeping Administrative/ Clerical Agents/ Brokers/Traders Art/Creative Building/ Construction Call Centres/ Telemarketing Cleaners Counter/ Receptionists Customer Service Dispatch/ Delivery Drivers/ Chauffeurs Engineers Finance Fitness/Spa Food Stalls General Production/ Operators Hair/ Beauty Hotel/ Restaurant/ Lounge Human Resources IT/Infocomm Marketing/ Communications Nursing/ Health Care Other Positions Part-Time/ Temporary Positions
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    • 40 34 URGENT: CLEANERS NEEDED From Toa Payoh to Ang Mo Kio. Only local/ PR. Pls Call Patrick *****831 Warehouse Block Cleaner wanted Genting Lane @8am-5pm @$900 *****472 Office Building Toilet Cleaner wanted Anson Rd 7.30am-5.30pm $1100. 5½ days. Call 9174 5506
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    • 81 34 MOBILE FLOATERS required Salary $1100 Call 8488-5000 Cleaner Orchard 12 hrs work daily $80 working period: 13th-26th Jan 2012 Call: 8182 8998 Rite Pizza Upper Serangoon Rd RIDERS ù Company bike provided ù Part Time:10am to 6pm 6pm to 10pm OPERATORS Interested pls call: 9631 1277 Fast Food Chain requires
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    • 122 34 Full-Time Driver With valid Class 3 licence Familar with S’pore roads Able to work on weekends Able to work late/ overtime Vehicle provided but cannot be driven home S’poreans SPRs Only Location: Thomson Road Call 9446 8397 Walk in Mon to Fri 4-6pm 565 Thomson Road (Inside Goodwood Florist) Senoko
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    • 95 34 As our business continues to expand, we seek enthusiastic, service-oriented passionate individuals to join our team and grow with us. We offer competitive benefits and excellent career prospects. We have immed full-time opportunities avail island-wide including our new outlet in the Yio Chu Kang area so if you enjoy dealing
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  • Racing
    • 3122 38 / 39 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING TAN THEAN LOON’S IPOH TIPS RACE 1 :8 Vibrant Spirit 11 Twoeighto 6 No Time To Wait 4 Western Conqueror RACE 2: 2 Princess Sarah 5 Joyful 1 My Diamond 9 Full Power RACE 3: 9 Penang Dolly 2 Heart By Heart 3
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    • 401 38 / 39  -  The champ lands quick double on first day back TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg CHAMPION jockey Joao Moreira was back doing what he knows best yesterday, his first day back after a five-week absence. However, the 28-year-old, whose break included a six-day suspension for careless riding, had
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    • 1065 40 RACE 1 UPSET: The John O’Hara-trained Smitten Kitten (M Suhaimi astride) flashing home to beat Charly B (obscured) to pay $92 for a win. Race 1 C4 D1 (SC) 1200m 13 SMITTEN KITTEN 50 c 49 (92-21) M Suhaimi (9) 12 11 1 (477)
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    • 264 40 KRANJI&IPOH TRACKWORK TRAINER David Hill’s AGENAIS looked fit and fresh after a spell when he showed up for trackwork at Kranji yesterday morning. The four-year-old chestnut South African-bred worked well over 600m in 39sec. The going was good. Agenais has not raced since finishing fourth behind
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    • 1458 41 AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS KUMARA/ASCOT/TOOWOOMBA RACE 1 Kumara (1,810m) 5 KIWI HUSSLER: Just caught last time and peaking at right time. Good jockey on and has pace. 4 WAITUI MUSIC: Just cuffed by Titch in this last year and set for one better. All tracks
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    • 446 41 RACE 1 (Sunshine Coast) 1st 3 Diamond Ace ($31 -$9) 2nd 7 Bittermagic ($12) 3rd 2 Triumphant One ($5.10) 4th 4 Painted Grey. Forecast $51. Place forecast $8 (2-3), $8 (2-7), $15 (3-7). Tierce $313. Trio $51. Quartet No winner ($476 jackpot carried forward
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    • 1980 42 / 43 AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WARWICK FARM/CAULFIELD RACE 1 Warwick Farm (1,300m) 1 TIGER TEES (Joseph Pride) 4g (8:6-2-0): Beaten in debut at Gosford. Then strung five wins together before going down narrowly to G1 winner in1/2hd 2nd (54.0) Atomic Force 1,100m C’bury Wltr heavy trkNov
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    • 213 42 / 43 12:10 Race 1 WARWICK FARM 1300M WARWICK FARM 1300M 1 TIGER TEES CREITH (4) 59 2 YOUTHFUL JACK R THOMPSON 12:30 Race 2 CAULFIELD 1200M 58 3 DYSTOPIA J BOWMAN (3) 56 4 SIKKA G SCHOFIELD (8) 12:50 Race 3 WARWICK FARM 1600M 5 TINDAL
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    • 436 42 / 43 TODAY’S NEW ZEALAND (KUMARA) AUSTRALIA (ASCOT/TOOWOOMBA) RACE CARD 12:06 Race 1 KUMARA 1810M KUMARA 1810M 1 TITCH JILLIAN MORRIS (3) 59 2 BORNINTHESTATES CHRIS JOHNSON (17) 57.5 3 FELLINI TERRY MOSELEY (5) 56.5 4 WAITUI MUSIC LANCE ROBINSON 12:46 Race 2 KUMARA 1150M 56 5 KIWI HUSSLER DAVID WALSH (4)
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  • Sports
    • Mad About Golf
      • 465 44  -  LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg LOOK out for a new and improved Karrie Webb when the US$1.4 million ($1.8 million) HSBC Women’s Champions tees off next month. In a tele-conference yesterday, the 37-year-old defending champion said she had been working on some changes to her
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      • 388 44 BASKETBALL AFP ATLANTA109 MIAMI 116 CHRIS Bosh scored 33 points and Mario Chalmers added 29 to lead Miami Heat to a 116-109 win over Atlanta Hawks in triple over-time yesterday morning (Singapore time) despite playing without two injured stars. LeBron James was sidelined with
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    • Tennis
      • 517 45 QATAR OPEN AFP ROGER Federer’s hopes of a fourth successive title came to a premature end when he withdrew from the Qatar Open with a bad back last night. The back spasms Federer felt during matches with Greg Zemlja and Andreas Seppi have not gone away
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      • 451 45 AFP FRENCH Open champion Li Na will face a stern test of her early-season form when she defends her Sydney International title from a high-class field from tomorrow, with the Australian Open just a week away. China’s Li shocked Kim Clijsters in
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      • 327 45 Reuters TOP SEED Andy Murray looked far sharper than his earlier matches at the Brisbane International and romped into the semi-finals yesterday with a 6-2, 6-2 thrashing of Marcos Baghdatis. The world No. 4, bidding to break his Grand Slam drought at the Australian Open in
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    • Boxing
      • 404 46 Mayweather to serve 90 days in jail in Vegas after domestic violence charge AP BOXER Floyd Mayweather Jr is due to begin serving 90 days in a county jail in Las Vegas today for his guilty plea in a domestic violence case involving an attack on
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      • 309 46 FORMULA ONE Reuters KIMI Raikkonen made himself comfortable again in a Formula One car on Thursday and looked forward to getting back up to speed in his comeback season with Lotus. The 2007 world champion (right), who is returning to F1 after two seasons
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      • 281 46 FOOTBALL Reuters A COMMEMORATIVE coin issued for this year’s London Olympics with a diagram explaining soccer’s tricky offside rule has fallen foul of referees who say the explanation is out of date and confusing. The shiny 50 pence coin, one of a set of 29
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    • Serie A
      • 519 47 DUTCH EREDIVISIE PA Sport STEVE McClaren has been appointed FC Twente coach for a second time. McClaren (right) quickly emerged as the favourite to succeed Co Adriaanse, who was sacked on Tuesday by the Enschede club, and the appointment was confirmed on Thursday. The former England boss
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      • 698 47 ATALANTA v AC MI LAN AC MILAN may be facing a tug-of-war with neighbours Inter Milan over Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez, but it is with Juventus that the champions are battling for Serie A supremacy. Milan managed to finish 2011 on top, thanks
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    • La Liga
      • 439 48  -  Real boss calls for focus ahead of title challenge BY DAN HUGHES Special Correspondent REAL MADRID boss Jose Mourinho offered an olive branch to his players and vowed to give them a chance at redemption in their home match against Granada. The Portuguese was critical of his
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      • 316 48  -  BY ANDY HAMPSON Special Correspondent ATLETICO MADRID winger Salvio has described the trip to Malaga as a “litmus test” as the Rojiblancos aim to open the reign of new boss Diego Simeone with a win. Simeone returned to the Vicente Calderon over
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      • 450 48 BARCELONA’S Sergio Busquets has called for coach Pep Guardiola to take a leaf out of Sir Alex Ferguson’s book and commit his long-term future to the reigning Spanish and European champions ahead of a return to Primera Division action at rivals Espanyol. Guardiola has presided
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    • FA Cup
      • 562 50 / 51 AFP THIRD ROUND TOTTENHAM v CHELTENHAM TOTTENHAM supporters traditionally view the FA Cup as the trophy they have the best chance of winning, and only Manchester United and Arsenal have celebrated more victories in the final over the decades. This season however the famous
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      • 542 50 / 51  -  THE G-WORD GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg ANOTHER barren outing, another night to forget. It sure isn’t easy being Andy Carroll. His performance on Tuesday wasn’t that easy on the eye either. As Carroll (below) lumbered in and out of the penalty box in almost pathetic contrast to
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      • 430 50 / 51 THEYhave had enough, it seems. Liverpool will seek peace talks with Manchester United to defuse the simmering tensions between the clubs, ahead of their trip to Old Trafford on Feb 11. The match will be the first meeting between English football’s fiercest rivals since
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      • 586 52 / 53 PA Sport THEY will not go away anytime soon. Sir Alex Ferguson has warned Manchester United fans they will have to get used to scrapping for honours with their “noisy neighbours”. Ferguson famously used that description to assess Manchester City two years ago, at the
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      • 394 52 / 53 PA Sport ROBERTO Mancini has warned Manchester City’s owners they “must do everything” to ensure the Blues win the Premier League title this season. Mancini is concerned his side’s battle to win the championship could be badly hampered by an acute shortage of
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      • 795 54  -  YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg THIRD ROUND NEWCASTLE UNITED v BLACKBURN ROVERS BLACKBURN Rovers enjoyed a rare burst of form over the Christmas period, but it has done little to appease their enraged fans. Steve Kean took his beleaguered side to Anfield and secured
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    • S-League
      • 711 55  -  Lim Chin, Johan unveiled as Etoile consider pull-out DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg ON THEIR first day on the job, the new management team for S-League 2.0 faced their first potential crisis. Football Association of Singapore (FAS) president Zainudin Nordin unveiled new S-League CEO Lim Chin
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      • 179 55 BOWLING KEGLER Cherie Tan was named the Bowler of the Year at the Singapore Bowling Federation’s (SBF) annual new year dinner at the Chef Daniel’s Kitchen at Iluma shopping mall last night. Tan, 23, had a bountiful season last year, becoming the first
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    • BACK IN M-LEAGUE & M'SIA CUP
      • 489 56  -  SOCCER FEVER RISING RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg Gallery seats sold out. A total of 4,500 tickets snapped up on day one. Worried you won’t be able to get your tickets to the LionsXII historic clash against Kelantan on Tuesday? Fret not. Loyal readers of The
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      • 357 56  -  RONALD LOH THE OLD National Stadium may be gone, but memories of it live on in a film. For the first time in public tomorow, fans will be able to catch Kwa Giu, a 30-minute short film by Jacen Tan, at The New Paper
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      • 962 58 / 59  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg SO MANY times in his football career he has conjured surprise after surprise, especially on unsuspecting defenders. Forced into a corner, Khairul Amri would drop a shoulder, execute a cheeky flick to escape like Houdini out of a
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      • 768 58 / 59  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg HE MAY still be seen as a diamond in the rough, but Khairul Nizam wants to make sure this is the year he becomes the polished final product. And after stamping his mark on the team in pre-sea-son the 20-year-old
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      • 235 58 / 59  -  DAVID LEE IT IS an open secret, yet few outside the local football fraternity know that there is another set of brothers within the LionsXII besides defensive duo Shahir and Shakir Hamzah. Described at various points as the next V Sundramoorthy and the next Fandi Ahmad, Khairul
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      • 638 60  -  LionsXII coach Sundram: ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg LIONS XII3 (Fazli Ayob 28, Khairul Nizam 48, Sufian Anuar 54) COURTS YOUNG LIONS 0 *Match was 30 minutes each half HARDLY any coach would be dissatisfied with a3-0 victory. But LionsXII coach V Sundramoorthy did not
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      • 547 61  -  The New Paper catches up with ex-Lions who were household names during the Malaysia t Cup. Today, we speak to V KHANISEN WHERE ARE THEY NOW? CHUA SIANG YEE WHY HE IS FAMOUS VKHANISEN was Singapore’s midfield maestro back in the 1970s. He starred for the Lions
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      • 849 62 / 63  -  Kelong claims leave Sivaji feeling fixed DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg CHEATED and vindicated. Those were the contrasting emotions former national coach PN Sivaji had, when he first read notorious match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal’s claims that the 1993 Malaysia Cup final involving Singapore’s “Dream Team” had been fixed.
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      • 318 62 / 63  -  DILENJIT SINGH AS SlNGAPORE’S return to the Malaysia Cup fold on Tuesday draws ever closer, the Football Association of Singapore rolled out its new direction for its domestic competition, S-League 2.0, yesterday. With the LionsXII’s return to Malaysian competition after a 17-year absence hogging the
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      • ON TV
        • 147 62 / 63 LIVE TELECASTS CHARITY SHIELD MALAYSIA Tonight: I KELANTAN v NEGERI SEMBILAN StarHub Ch 112 and 201 (SuperSports Arena), 7.30pm FACUP 3RD ROUND Tonight: I BIRMINGHAM v WOLVES SingTel mioTV Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 8.25pm I MACCLESFIELD v BOLTON SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 10.55pm Tomorrow: I BRISTOL
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        • 53 62 / 63 Today: I OKLAHOMA CITY v HOUSTON ROCKETS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 9am I ORLANDO MAGIC v CHICAGO BULLS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 9am Tomorrow: I SAN ANTONIO v DENVER NUGGETS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 9.30am I ATLANTA HAWKS v CHICAGO BULLS StarHub TV Ch
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        • 19 62 / 63 QATAR EXXONMOBIL OPEN Today: I FINAL StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), 9.30pm Ch 215 (Sports HD), 10pm
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        • 35 62 / 63 AFRICA OPEN Today: I DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 7.30pm PGA TOUR: HYUNDAI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS Tomorrow: I DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel) Ch 215 (Sports HD), 6.30am
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  • Page 45 Miscellaneous
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