Per-Erik Burud, Norwegian businessman, died from a boating accident he was , 48.

Per-Erik Burud was a Norwegian billionaire and head of the grocery chain Kiwi died from a boating accident he was , 48.. He joined Kiwi in 1991, and by 2007 he was Norway's 134th richest man with a fortune of NOK 1.1 billion.
(15 October 1962 – 13 July 2011^[1])

Early life

As a five-year-old, Burud worked in his father's shop in Drammen, sorting bottles and wrapping clementines.^[3] He later went to business school, and was also an active gymnast.

Kiwi

Burud bought a share post in Kiwi in 1991, when the chain had eight stores. During Burud's time in charge of the grocery chain it has expanded, and by 2008 had almost quadrupled the number of employees and stores, and increased revenues six-fold.^[4] In 2007 the chain had 413 stores.^[3] In 2011 the chain had 450 stores, 8,000 employees and the company had a turnover of NOK 20 billion.
Burud was known for his use of inventive marketing campaigns. In 2000, Burud started a campaign in which the chain gave away every fifth pack of diapers for free. The agreement was the start of a fierce price competition in the Norwegian market for diapers. At the same time a campaign started in which the stores promised the customer the item for free if they discovered items that had reached their expiration date. In 2007, Burud launched a campaign against the value added tax on fruit and vegetables, in which the group covered the VAT on 14 percent of all fresh fruits and vegetables, and he challenged the authorities to make the tax cut permanent.^[3]

Boating accident

On 13 July 2011, Burud was reported missing after a boating accident outside Tjøme, where his wife was confirmed dead.^[5] The police declared on the evening of 13 July that they assumed Burud was dead.^[6] After several days of intensive search, on 21 July the body of a man was found in the area where Burud went missing.^[7] The next day the man was identified as Burud.^[8]

 

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Al Debbo, South African comedian died he was , 87.

Al Debbo was a South African comedian and actor died he was , 87.
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(June 22, 1924 – July 13, 2011)

Debbo made his film debut in Die Kaskenades van Dokter Kwakin 1949.^[1] He appeared in over twenty films in a movie career that spanned more than 60 years.^[1] His last film role was in the 2004 movie, Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol, which was directed by Leon Schuster.^[1]
Debbo was known for recorded comedic pieces, including Bolandse Nooientjie and Die Tantes van Nantes.^[1] He released his last album, Pieringoog Potpourri, in 2000, which contained some of his best known comedic work.^[1]
In 2011, Al Debbo was awarded the Comics Choice Awards' lifetime achievement honor for his contributions to South Africa's entertainment industry.^[1]
Debbo was admitted to the Bloemfontein Medi-Clinic in June 2011 for treatment of a lung infection and a heart condition.^[2] He died three weeks later at the hospital in Bloemfontein on July 13, 2011, at the age of 87.^[1]

 

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Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach, died from pulmonary fibrosis he was , 77.

Allan Jeans was an Australian rules football coach and police sergeant  died from pulmonary fibrosis he was , 77.. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame at its inception in 1996.^[1] Jeans was known for his oral motivation skills as a coach and led St Kilda and Hawthorn to a total of four premierships.
(21 September 1933 – 13 July 2011)

Football

After a modest 77-game playing career with the St Kilda Football Club (1955–1959), Jeans, known as "Yabby", took the reins of the Saints in 1961 for a remarkable 16-year career as senior coach. He coached St Kilda to successive grand finals, in 1965 and 1966, including the Saints' first (and only) VFL premiership in 1966. He took the Saints to another grand final appearance in 1971. Claiming "burn-out" he retired from coaching the team at the end of 1976.^[2]
In 1981 Jeans revived his coaching career when he was appointed coach for the Hawthorn Football Club. He coached them until 1990 (excepting a year off in 1988 due to brain injury) establishing them as the dominant VFL team of the 1980s with premierships in 1983, 1986, 1988 and 1989 from seven consecutive grand finals.
Finally, he had a short-lived one year stint at Richmond in 1992, winning only five out of 22 games.

Later life

Jeans, following his retirement, became an avid social lawn bowls player at Cheltenham Lawn Bowls Club. His most recent public appearance was during the post-match presentations at the 2006 AFL Grand Final. He died following years of ill-health on 12 July 2011.^[3][4]

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John Mosca, American restaurateur (Mosca's), died from prostate cancer he was , 86.

John Mosca (pronounced "Mohsca")was an American restauranteur and owner (and co-founder) of the famed Mosca's, a Louisiana Creole and Italian restaurant located in Avondale, Louisiana, near New Orleans died from prostate cancer he was , 86.

(May 6, 1925 Chicago Heights, Illinois - July 13, 2011, Harahan, Louisiana)

Mosca was born, raised and attended high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois.^[1][3] He worked for his parents, Provino and Lisa Mosca, at their local restaurant, which was also named Mosca's.^[3]
Mosca enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and served in the European Theater as an infantryman.^[1] He was wounded in action by shrapnel during battle in Italy.^[3] Mosca was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for his service.^[2] He was transferred to the British military forces, who assigned him as a waiter for officers and visiting dignitaries due to his restaurant experience prior to the war.^[1][3] He served British Prime Minister Winston Churchill future Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito in 1944 when they eat together at the Villa Rivalta in Naples, Italy.^[3]
Mosca's parents and brother, Nick, moved to New Orleans during World War II because their daughter, Mary Mosca, had married a New Orleans resident named Vincent Marconi.^[3] John Mosca also moved to New Orleans following the end of the war and his honorable discharge from the United States Army.^[3]
In 1946, Mosca and his parents opened a new restaurant, called Mosca's, in an Avondale, Louisiana, building that was once a tavern.^[1][3] Mosca decided to offer a menu similar to his parents former restaurant in Illinois, specializing in family-style platters.^[1][3] However, they decided to include local Louisiana ingredients and cuisine, including seafood, such as oysters and crabs.^[3] Among the newer entrees added by Mosca were marinated crab salad, barbecued shrimp and baked oysters.^[3] The menu has remained virtually unchanged since the restaurant's founding, as of 2011.^[3] Mosca's was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but rebuilt and reopened just ten months later.^[1]
Mosca would wake-up at 5 a.m. to shop for ingredients and make the pasta by hand.^[3] He worked at Mosca's consistently until approximately a month before his death in 2011.^[1]
John Mosca died from prostate cancer at his home in Harahan, Louisiana, on July 13, 2011, at the age 86.^[1][3] He was survived by his wife, Mary Jo, and daughter, Lisa Mosca.^[1] His wife still runs Mosca's, including the kitchen.^[1]

 

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Jerry Ragovoy, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), died from a stroke he was , 80.

Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy an American songwriter and record producer  died from a stroke he was , 80..

(September 4, 1930 – July 13, 2011)

His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" (written under the pseudonym of Norman Meade) was made famous by The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas. Ragovoy also wrote "Stay With Me", which was originally recorded by Lorraine Ellison, and was performed by Mary J. Blige at the 49th Grammy Awards.
An important behind-the-scenes force of East Coast soul music, Ragovoy wrote or co-wrote several classic New York and Philadelphia soul records in the 1960s, often distinguished by a conspicuous gospel feel.^[3] The best of these included Garnet Mimms' "Cry Baby," Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart," Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can," all later covered by Janis Joplin, plus "Time Is on My Side" and "Stay With Me."^[3] Ragovoy also contributed to first-class soul records as a producer and arranger.^[3]

Career

Ragovoy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a Hungarian-born Jewish optometrist.^[4] He entered record production in 1953 with "My Girl Awaits Me" by The Castelles.^[3]
He worked at Philadelphia's Chancellor Records (where Fabian and Frankie Avalon had hits) and wrote The Majors' vocal group single "A Wonderful Dream," which made #22 in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.^[3] Around this time he began writing songs with another white soul songwriter-producer, Bert Berns, including "Cry Baby" by Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, which made #4 in 1963.^[3]
Another well-known song by Ragovoy is "Piece of My Heart", co-written with Berns and recorded originally by Erma Franklin, and later famously covered by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. Between 1966 and 1968, Ragovoy was employed as producer and songwriter for the Warner Bros subsidiary, Loma Records. He also co-wrote several songs in Janis Joplin's solo career, including "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (originally by Lorraine Ellison on Loma Records), "Cry Baby" (originally by Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, "Get it While You Can" (originally by Howard Tate, covered by Joplin) and "My Baby". Prior to Joplin's death, Ragovoy wrote a song especially for her next album, titled "I'm Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven." The song was never recorded or performed until shortly before Ragovoy's death in July 2011, when it was included in the theatrical production, "One Night with Janis Joplin," written and directed by Randy Johnson with arrangements and musical direction by Len Rhodes. Ragovoy was in attendance on opening night when the show premiered at Portland Center Stage on May 27, 2011.
Ragovoy also produced recorded work by Bonnie Raitt and Milkwood.^[3] However, his involvement in the music industry was less prolific from the 1970s onwards.^[3]
In 1973, he won a Grammy Award as producer on Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album, for Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.
In 2003, Ragovoy worked again with Howard Tate. The pair returned with an acclaimed CD, Howard Tate Rediscovered, written, arranged and produced by Ragovoy.^[5]
In 2008, Ace Records released a compilation album entitled, The Jerry Ragovoy Story: Time Is on My Side.
Ragovoy died, following a stroke, on July 13, 2011, at the age of 80.^[2]

Notable compositions

Song title	Artist	Others
"About This Thing Called Love"	Fabian
"Ain't Nobody Home"	Howard Tate	B. B. King, Bonnie Raitt
"All I Know is The Way I Feel"	Irma Thomas	Howard Tate, The Pointer Sisters
"A Wonderful Dream"	The Majors
"Cloudy with a Chance of Tears"	The Manhattans
"Cry Baby"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters	Janis Joplin
"Eight Days on the Road"	Howard Tate	Aretha Franklin, Foghat
"Either Side of the Same Town"	Howard Tate	Elvis Costello
"Get It While You Can"	Howard Tate	Janis Joplin
"Heart Be Still"	Lorraine Ellison
"I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face"	Baby Washington	Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, Madeline Bell, Pat Thomas
"I'll Make It Up to You"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters	Manfred Mann
"I'll Take Good Care of You"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters
"It's Been Such a Long Way Home"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters
"It Was Easier to Hurt Her"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters	Chris Farlowe, Dusty Springfield
"Looking for You"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters	Chris Farlowe
"Love Makin' Music"	Barry White
"Morning Light" (co-writer with Don Benoliel)	Louis Jordan	Royal Crown Revue
"Move Me No Mountain"	Dionne Warwick	Hank Crawford, Chaka Khan, Soul II Soul, Love Unlimited
"My Baby"	Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters	Janis Joplin, The Yardbirds
"My Girl Awaits Me"	The Castelles
"One Way Love"	The Drifters	Bryan Ferry
"Pata Pata"	Miriam Makeba	Osibisa, Percy Faith
"Piece of My Heart"	Erma Franklin	Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dusty Springfield, The Move, Bonnie Tyler, Faith Hill
"Ring Bell"	Miriam Makeba
"Stay with Me"	Lorraine Ellison	The Walker Brothers, Bette Midler, Terry Reid, Phil Seymour,Michael Grimm
"Stop"	Howard Tate	James Gang, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, Super Session
"Sure Thing"	Dionne Warwick
"Time Is on My Side"	Kai Winding	Irma Thomas, The Rolling Stones, The Moody Blues, Tracy Nelson
"Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)"	Lorraine Ellison	Janis Joplin
"What's It Gonna Be"	Dusty Springfield	Barbara Acklin
"Where Did My Baby Go"	Butterfield Blues Band
"You Better Believe It"	Small Faces
"You Don't Know Nothing About Love"	Carl Hall	Lorraine Ellison, Renée Geyer
"You Got It"	Diana Ross

 

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Aftab Ahmad Khan, Pakistani military officer, died from a heart attack he was , 87.

Lieutenant-General Aftab Ahmad Khan was a retired Pakistan Army Infantry Officer, born in Batala, Gurdaspur District, British India on Oct. 22, 1923 to the illustrious family of Khan Bahadur Mian Altaf Hussain Khan (1874-1946) and Mehndi Begum died from a heart attack he was , 87..

Biography

Early life, Military Education and honors

After his initial education, at the Municipal Board (MB) High School Batala, Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from the Government College, Lahore, and joined the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
During his tenure in the Army, Lieutenant General Aftab Ahmad Khan graduated from Staff College, Quetta - 1952; the United States Army Command and Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, USA, 1961-62; the Army War Course, Command and Staff College Quetta - 1967; and Royal College of Defence Studies (formerly known the Imperial Defence College), London - 1971.
He was Mentioned in Despatches during the 1965 India-Pakistan War, where he commanded a brigade defending the city of Lahore, Pakistan.
He was a recipient of 2 gallantry awards for his work as Pakistan's Ambassador in Philippines in 1984-86: Rank of Datu in the Order of Sikatuna, Government of Philippines, 8 April, 1986, awarded by Corazon Aquino, President of the Republic of Philippines; and Das Großes Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of his exceptional services to the State and People of Germany, 9 May 1986. Both awards were awarded in recognition of the two respective governments to have facilitated the rescue of two hostages held by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Military Career

He was commissioned in the Indian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant on 21 June 1942 and soon, thereafter, joined the 1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment in the British Middle East Command.
As a young officer, he served in various regimental appointments for the following two years in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
In March 1944, his Battalion the 1st Battalion of 2nd Punjab, as part of the 10th Indian Division sailed for Italy and fought against the Germans in World War II as part of the British 8th Army. Major Aftab Ahmad Khan, then a company commander, returned back home in December 1945.
His Battalion joined the 1st Indian Parachute Division where he trained as a paratrooper and became Company Commander.
In 1947, when the Government of India created the Punjab Boundary Force during partition, in the position of Major served in it till it was disbanded.
Having overseen the safe evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs from areas lying between the Sutlej and Ravi rivers to India, and was responsible to safely escort back hundreds of thousands of Muslims stranded in southern eastern Punjab province of India.
In January 1948, he was seconded from the Pakistan Army as a Major to Zhob Militia (formally known as Fort Sandeman), Quetta, Baluchistan part of the Frontier Corps for 3 ½ years and also commanded Pishin Scouts. During this time, he saw action in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
In 1951, on posting back to the Army, he was posted first as a company commander and then a Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade in Peshawar.
After attending the Command and Staff College, Quetta in 1952, he took command of the 14th Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment (Pakistan) for the next 3 years.
In 1956 to 1959, he was posted as General Staff Officer-1 (GSO-I) in Murree serving there for 3 ½ years. He received command of the 1st Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment in Lahore and paraded the Regiment on its 200th raising day. The parade was commanded by Lt. Col. Aftab Ahmad Khan and led by Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck former Commander-in-Chief. The 1/1 (or commonly known as the first/first) is the senior most Battalion of the Pakistan Army.
Field Marshall M. Ayub Khan at that time the (President of Pakistan) and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army took the salute at the march past.
After having been posted as Colonel Staff of a Division, Colonel Aftab Ahmad Khan was promoted to command a Brigade and fought in defense of Lahore on the Wagah border, extremely successfully in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
After various staff appointments in General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, including as Vice Chief of General Staff, Director General Military Training, Research and Development, he commanded a division in Chamb Sector in 1972 followed by taking command of a newly raised X Corps with the rank of Lieutenant General from where he retired after 34 years of service.

X Corps (Pakistan)

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As an ode to the Lt.General Aftab Ahmad Khan for raising the X Corps (Pakistan), the Pakistan Army selected the insignia of the Corps reflecting a Rising Sun (Urdu for Aftab) with ten rays extruding from it.

Military offices
Preceded by Post created	Commander X Corps (Pakistan) 1974 – 1976	Succeeded by Lt. Gen. Faiz Ali Chishti
Preceded by	GOC 23rd Infantry Division	Succeeded by
Preceded by Posted created	DG Military Training, Research & Development	Succeeded by
Preceded by	Vice Chief of General Staff	Succeeded by

Post Military Career

After retirement, Lt. Gen. Aftab Ahmad Khan was sent as Ambassador of Pakistan to Libya between 1976 to 1980 and later appointed as Ambassador of Pakistan to the Philippines 1984-1986.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Lt. Gen. Rakhman Gul	Ambassador of Pakistan Libya 1976 - 1980	Succeeded by ??
Preceded by ??	Ambassador of Pakistan Philippines 1984 - 1986	Succeeded by ??

Family

Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan was married to Nasreen Hayat Khan in 1960 and had a daughter Umbereen A. Khan and a son Shahbaz A. Khan.
Mrs. Nasreen Aftab Khan died of a protracted illness in 2001.
He had an elder brother Professor Namdar Khan (late - died 2002), a renowned educationalist, who taught Comparative Education at University of California's School of Education (Tollman Hall) from 1972 to 1976,a younger brother Air Marshall Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, (HI)M & (SBt) Sitara-e-Basalat and two sisters Mrs. Ismat Akhtar and Mrs. Najma Chaudhury.

Death

Lt. General Aftab Ahmad Khan died of a sudden Heart Attack on July 12, 2011 at the age of 88, and was laid to rest with Pakistan Army's traditional Military Honors for retired commanders.
He is survived by his daughter Umbereen Fahim Inaam and son Shahbaz Aftab Khan and three grandchildren, Syeda Sharmeen Inaam, Aly Shahbaz Khan and Kamila Shahbaz Khan.

 

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William Crozier, Irish artist died he was , 81.

William Crozier was an Irish-Scots still-life and landscape artist based in Hampshire, England and West Cork in Ireland died he was , 81. He was a member of Aosdana. 

 (5 May 1930 – 12 July 2011)

Life and works

Crozier was born in Glasgow to Irish parents and educated at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953. On graduating he spent time in Paris and Dublin before settling in London where he quickly gained a reputation as the 1950s equivalent of a Young British Artist through the early success and notoriety of his exhibitions of assemblages and paintings at the ICA, Drian and the Arthur Tooth galleries, with whom he had a long association.[1]
Profoundly affected by post-war existential philosophy, Crozier allied himself and his work consciously with contemporary European art throughout the 1950s and 1960s, rather than with the New York abstractionists, who were more fashionable in the UK at the time. He was also part of the artistic and literary world of 1950s Soho, a close associate of ‘the Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde, John Minton and William Scott, and part of the expatriate middle-European and Irish intellectual circles in London of the time. Crozier spent 1963 in southern Spain with the Irish poet Anthony Cronin; this proved pivotal to Crozier's development as an artist. On his return to the UK, he began a series of skeletal paintings which anticipated the ‘New Expressionist’ German painters of the 1980s, and which were influenced by Crozier's visits to Auschwitz and Belsen
Based in London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Crozier exhibited his works in London, Glasgow, Dublin and all over Europe. As many artists of the 1960s did, Crozier combined painting with teaching, first at Bath Academy of Art, (with Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres and Terry Frost), then at the Central School of Art (with William Turnbull and Cecil Collins), at the Studio School in New York and finally at Winchester School of Art where he led a strong centre for painting based on the European tradition. When he ceased teaching in the 1980s, Crozier’s painting blossomed with a new freedom and confidence. His abstract landscapes and still life painting useD sumptuous colour to convey an emotional intensity and he was endlessly concerned with the challenge of creating a new language in figurative painting.
Crozier’s paintings are now in demand at exhibition and at auction. He represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and has been awarded the Premio Lissone in Milan and the Oireachtas Gold medal for Painting in Dublin in 1994. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a retrospective of his work. He was elected to Aosdana in 1992 and is an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. In 2005 Crozier celebrated his 75th birthday with a major exhibition in Cork to celebrate the European Capital of Culture. Here Crozier exhibited a selection of his drawing work, providing the first opportunity to see that the master of colour was also an inventive artist in black and white.
He died peacefully aged 81 at home on 12 July 2011. His funeral service is to be held in Wickham on 19 July 2011.^[2]

Films

Several films have been made about Crozier and his work, such as Gordon Smith’s ‘William Crozier’ for Scottish TV (1970) and ‘The Truth About a Painter’ directed by Cian O hEigertaigh for RTÉ (1993). Crozier himself made films: ‘’Charlston’ and ‘Meon Shore’ for Meridian TV UK in 1996, and later ‘The Frame: Jane Bown photographs William Crozier’, also for Meridian in 2000. Crozier contributed his hostile view of Dalí's painting "Christ of Saint John of the Cross" to an episode of the BBC documentary series, The Private Life of a Masterpiece, which analysed the painting in 2005.

Exhibitions

Examples of the artist’s work can be seen in most major public and private collections in the British Isles, and in the National Galleries of Canada, Poland and Australia among many other national collections. He is strongly represented in the corporate collections of Allied Irish Banks, BNP Paribas and British Petroleum Plc. William Crozier’s work features in all current reference works on 20th century Irish and Scottish Art.
Work by Crozier can be seen in the following public collections: City Art Gallery (Aberdeen), Peter Styvesant Collection, The Ulster Museum, City Art Gallery (Birmingham), The European Commission (Brussels), Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Crawford Municipal Gallery (Cork), Museum of Modern Art (Dallas), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Office of Public Works (Dublin), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), City Art Gallery (Gdansk), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), National Gallery of Australia (Melbourne), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), and the National Museum (Warsaw).

Work in Collections

• Dublin City University:
• Autumn Fields

Bibliography

• 'William Crozier' ed Crouan, K, with essays by Kennedy, SB and Vann, Philip. Lund Humphries, London 2007. ISBN 978-0-85331-970-2
• 'William Crozier Early Work' Laffan, W, Pyms Gallery, London 2010. ISBN 978-0-9541489-4-2

 

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