Newsletter from 12/07/2011
Focus on BRIC - Now with Working Links
It should be noted that of the four countries, Brazil remains the only nation that has the capacity to continue all elements, meaning manufacturing, services, and resource supplying simultaneously. Cooperation is thus hypothesized to be a logical next step among the BRICs because Brazil and Russia together form the logical commodity suppliers to India and China. Thus, the BRICs have the potential to form a powerful economic bloc to the exclusion of the modern-day states currently of "Group of Eight" status. Brazil is dominant in soy and iron ore while Russia has enormous supplies of oil and natural gas. Goldman Sachs' thesis thus documents how commodities, work, technology, and companies have diffused outward from the United States across the world. Following the end of the Cold War or even before, the governments comprising BRIC all initiated economic or political reforms to allow their countries to enter the world economy. In order to compete, these countries have simultaneously stressed education, foreign investment, domestic consumption, and domestic entrepreneurship.
This already had and will have a strong influence on the build-up of a powerfull broadcast and information infrastucture to accomplish international events like 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2010 World EXPO in China; the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India; the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia; the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brasil.
Brazil
The Vitec Group opening its South America Regional Office in Brazil
“Broadcasters in Brazil, and throughout South America, are exceptionally knowledgeable about the art and science of broadcasting – from content creation through capture and transmission. Our brands constitute the state of the art in various aspects including lighting, camera support, batteries, equipment bags and transmission equipment, and have been used extensively in Brazil for years. While we have enjoyed tremendous success with our products throughout South America, we recognize the benefits of being geographically closer to our distributors, customers and clients. Opening an office in Brazil gives us the ability to immediately respond to our partners’ and customers’ needs and requirements in the most timely manner possible”, said Joop Janssen, Divisional CEO of the Videocom Division of The Vitec Group plc.
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Outside Broadcast goes HD in Brazil with Soundfield
Globo began their plans for switching to 1080P HD broadcast in 2007, and sent managers to the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam that year to gather information about the equipment they would need for mobile HD broadcast with accompanying audio in 5.1 surround. According to Anderson da Silva Viana, TV Systems Project Engineer at Globo TV, SoundField was one of the first companies Globo had discussions with, even at this early stage. "Before we had even listened to the SoundField system, we were impressed by some of the comments other broadcasters had made," he explains. "The principal point for us was that we have to have a good downmixed product from 5.1. In Brazil, most TV sets are still mono and stereo. We wanted to produce a 5.1 signal with a good image and quality, but without affecting the quality of the mono and stereo audio, and we felt that SoundField's products gave us that."
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Brick House Video Gains Sterling Representation in Brazil
“Brazil is a very important market to Brick House Video, and we are very pleased to be working with STERLING, a company that has extensive experience in the region,” Hiorns commented. “STERLING’s excellent reputation was earned by evaluating customers’ needs and supplying the most appropriate products and highest level of service; an approach that mirrors Brick House’s own standards.” STERLING will market and sell Brick House Video’s entire line that includes rack-mount and portable analogue and digital vision mixers, and rate/standards and format converters. The company specializes in providing products with a footprint small enough to accommodate any fixed or mobile application where space is an important consideration.
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Brick House Video Gains Sterling Representation in Brazil
“Brazil is a very important market to Brick House Video, and we are very pleased to be working with STERLING, a company that has extensive experience in the region,” Hiorns commented. “STERLING’s excellent reputation was earned by evaluating customers’ needs and supplying the most appropriate products and highest level of service; an approach that mirrors Brick House’s own standards.” STERLING will market and sell Brick House Video’s entire line that includes rack-mount and portable analogue and digital vision mixers, and rate/standards and format converters. The company specializes in providing products with a footprint small enough to accommodate any fixed or mobile application where space is an important consideration.
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Brick House Video Gains Sterling Representation in Brazil
“Brazil is a very important market to Brick House Video, and we are very pleased to be working with STERLING, a company that has extensive experience in the region,” Hiorns commented. “STERLING’s excellent reputation was earned by evaluating customers’ needs and supplying the most appropriate products and highest level of service; an approach that mirrors Brick House’s own standards.” STERLING will market and sell Brick House Video’s entire line that includes rack-mount and portable analogue and digital vision mixers, and rate/standards and format converters. The company specializes in providing products with a footprint small enough to accommodate any fixed or mobile application where space is an important consideration.
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A 1,5 Million HD Tapeless Project Awarded to VSN in Brazil
TV Canção Nova, a Catholic TV Channel managed by the Juan Pablo II Foundation, will be starting one of the most ambitious broadcast projects in Brazil. The channel, created in 1989, has consolidated as Brazil's largest Catholic broadcast station and for being the first featuring such a high level of complexity and integration in the country. After a detailed technical specifications sheet and a rigorous process of selection for the best manufacturers in broadcast environments, VSN has been selected as the provider to guarantee a complete HD production and playout workflow, from ingest to archiving. As Mauricio Belonio and Danilo Gesualdo, Technical manager and IT manager of TV Canção Nova, said: "during the decision-making process, VSN stood out for their understanding of our project. We personally visited other installations with other clients from different countries. Also, they offered to us all the adaptations and customization needed to comply with the compulsory requisites of TV Canção Nova, which reinforced our final decision to make VSN the provider for our project."
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Loudness Sonorizacao Provides JBL VERTEC® Line Arrays For Rush Concert In Brazil
Loudness Sonorizacao of Sao Paulo, Brazil, one of Brazil’s leading concert audio suppliers, recently provided a large, multi-array JBL VERTEC® line array system for legendary rock band Rush at an outdoor show in Rio de Janeiro. The concert was part of Rush’s “Time Machine Tour” and was held at the Praca de Apoteose (Apotheosis Square) venue, famous as a staging site for Rio’s legendary Carnival. he main PA system deployed for Rush by Loudness featured a total of 60 VERTEC VT4889 fullsize line array elements. The main left and right arrays each consisted of 18 VT4889 loudspeakers, each accompanied by an array of 12 VT4880A ultra-long excursion arrayable subwoofers. For outfill, Loudness provided arrays of 12 VT4889 loudspeakers per side. The system also included 36 SRX728 floor-stacked subwoofers. Crown I-Tech 8000 amplifiers powered the system.
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Broad TV UM03-HD
A 16 camera HD OBVan is available for rent in Rio de Janeiro via Broadcasting TV Ltda. The 13m expandable truck features a Sony MVS-8000 vision mixer, EVS XT2 LSMs, HDCAM and XDCAM recorders, Harris router, Studer audio mixer and a ClearCom intercom system. The general contact is Salvatore De Luca, Broadcasting TV Ltda., Rua Assunção, 461 Botafogo, BR-CEP 22251 030 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; e-mail: [email protected]; +55 21 2178 0650 (work); +55 21 2226 3501 (fax).
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Russia
Studer Vista 9 and Soundcraft Vi1 at the Conservatory Great Hall in Moscow
The Moscow Conservatory purchased a 42-fader Vista 9 console that will be utilized for recording, post-production and direct transmissions. It will also have a connection position for OB vans. Building on the successful Vista platform, the Vista 9 takes the operator experience to a higher level, supplementing the popular Vistonics™ interface with radical and innovative TFT-based metering, FaderGlow™ and numerous other innovations. The new metering gives precision feedback on signal status, displaying mono — right through to 7.1 — signals in the upper section of the screen, while the lower portion can show bus assignment or for surround channels an image of the surround composite, providing a clear and easily understandable display of the surround signal and an innovative History mode where each channel’s recent behaviour can be displayed for up to 30 seconds.
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Russian State Television Relies on RTS/TELEX
"RTS/TELEX enjoys an outstanding reputation in Russia, not least in state broadcasting circles," reports Nico Lewis, RTS/TELEX Senior Sales Manager responsible for Russia. "For years, RTR has been successfully using matrices and keypanels from RTS/TELEX, including a multi-frame ADAM matrix in the company's Moscow headquarters. Furthermore, the company's experience with RTS/TELEX equipment has been uniformly positive, so the use of anything else for the current round of installations was out of the question." Cronus digital matrices and KP-32 keypanels are among the RTS products used copyrighted by liveProduction.tv Cronus digital matrices and KP-32 keypanels are among the RTS products used It is not only the outstanding reputation of the brand, however, but also the technological advantages of the RTS/TELEX systems that are driving sales in Russia. "The fundamental concept of the RTR installation, for example, is a Russia-wide Ethernet trunked (RVON) IP network," explains Lewis, "so all the new systems have to be capable of being integrated into the network using trunking technology. Only RTS/TELEX offers this possibility."
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Blackmagic Design Expands Reseller Network in Russia
With the introduction of HD broadcasting and an estimated 30 million Internet users in Russia, the demand for video across a wide range of mediums is growing at an incredible rate. To help meet this growth, broadcasters and filmmakers are increasingly turning to broadcast, post, AV and IP-based service providers that can integrate Blackmagic Design’s portfolio of products into any broadcast or post production workflow. “The demand for cutting-edge, high-tech products is continuing to grow throughout Russia and the technology has begun to push boundaries with huge progressions in broadcast, web and telecoms over the last five years,” said Tim Siddons, Sales Manager EMEA of Blackmagic Design. “The addition of these new resellers will help meet this growth and give additional support to our Russian customers, and it is a pleasure for us to expand the number of quality partners authorized to supply Blackmagic Design products.”
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Harris Corporation Contracts with Russia’s Svyaz Engineering
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has contracted with Svyaz Engineering to begin local manufacturing of Harris digital television transmitters to support the Russian Federation’s transition to digital over-the-air television. This regional manufacturing presence will enable Harris to offer localized support for broadcasters migrating to the DVB-T/T2 digital format as Russia continues its move toward an analog switch-off date in 2015. Local manufacturing will allow Harris customers in the region to benefit from competitive pricing, improved lead-time and immediate access to post-sales support. “We look forward to working with Svyaz to support the Russian Federation in its digital transition,” said Richard Scott, senior vice president, global sales and service, Harris Broadcast Communications. “Svyaz is a solid engineering and manufacturing company, boasting unrivalled technical capabilities and world-class manufacturing services. In addition, Svyaz provides Harris with direct access to Russian broadcast business opportunities.”
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RTR HD OBVans
Russian state broadcaster RTR currently has five HD OBVans in operation: one 8-Camera van, three 12-Camera vans and one 16-Camera van. The 16-Camera truck feaatures a Sony MVS-8000 vision switcher, a Harris Platinum video router, EVS XT2 LSMs, HDCAM and XDCAM recorders, Studer audio mixer and a RTS/Telex intercom system. General contact at the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company is Igor Orlov, First Deputy Head of Production and Technology Department, 22, 5-th Yamskogo Polya St., RUS-125040 Moscow, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]; +7 495 225 6890 (work); +7 499 257 3394 (fax).
Other HD OBVan providers in Russia are Century, Eurasia, Mariinsky and Telecenter. All of them are featured in the Live-Production.TV online catalogues.
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ART Polymedia LED Screens
ART Polymedia is a leading supplier of complex solutions for exhibitions, forums, conferences, sport events, and corporate parties technique. Realizing rapid growth of AV-industry, the company aggressively enlarges and updates its rental equipment park. ART Polymedia partners are the world famous manufactures, like BARCO, CHRISTIE, MITSUBISHI, PANASONIC, Sony, etc. Among ART Polymedia customers are the famous domestic and foreign companies: 1С, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, L'Oreal, Ernst & Young, RBC; TV stations: "СТС", "MTV"; exhibition centers: "Expocentr", "Crocus Expo", "Sokolniki", All-Russian Exhibition Center; International Aviation and Space Salon; automobile salons; institutions, etc.
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India
Harman Professional Strengthens India Sales Team To Support Emerging Market Strategy
In a move that further strengthens its India sales and support infrastructure with over 40 years of combined A/V sales experience, Harman Professional today announced the creation of three new sales teams positions and the appointments of Kaushal Garg, Robin Ghose, and Vibhor Khanna to fill the roles. The new additions will serve as the national sales manager and the regional sales managers for North and West India, respectively, and will be directed by Harman Professional’s Senior Director of Sales for Asia, David McKinney. “Everyone at Harman Professional is very excited to welcome Kaushal, Robin and Vibhor to the team in India,” said David McKinney, Senior Director of Sales for Asia, Harman Professional. “They will all be working closely with our marketing & communications, technical support and service teams to develop new strategies and initiatives that will ultimately bring a greater level of support to dealers, customers and channel partners throughout all of India, and we are confident that each member will make a different but equally important contribution to that goal.”
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Ross Video Appoints Aniket Rangnekar as Regional Sales Manager – India & Pakistan
Ross Video announces the appointment of Aniket Rangnekar as Regional Sales Manager for India and Pakistan. Mr. Rangnekar will report to Sharon Quigley, Director of Sales for EAIME. He will be responsible for managing Ross Video sales in India and Pakistan, and work from Mumbai and Singapore. Mr. Rangnekar joins the Ross sales team after working at Echolab as Regional Sales Manager and Support Manager for Asia. Prior to Echolab, Mr. Rangnekar worked as Creative Application Engineer/Demonstration Artist and Trainer at Benchmark Systems Singapore.
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Light Illusion Selects SGO's Mistika for Annapurna Studios
The investment in Mistika, which follows after an increasing interest in digital cinematography, stereo 3D and a growing demand for quality-driven digital intermediate (DI) workflow in the Southern Indian film industry, enables Annapurna Studios to service high-end mainstream digital film projects, both at home and abroad. With Mistika's real-time 4K, stereo 3D, and DI capabilities, the world-class operation can now provide film services that are technically and creatively unrivalled in India and comparable with the highest international standards. “I am delighted that Annapurna Studios has chosen a SGO Mistika 4K system to be at the heart of their new DI operation in Hyderabad. SGO, together, with our partner, Light Illusion, are fully committed to providing the best possible creative film and television systems, and view India as a major international market. This exciting new 4K installation shows the seriousness with which Annapurna is approaching Digital Film and Digital Cinematography, and we are delighted to be partnering with them, in bringing the best possible creative tools to market.” Geoff Mills, Director of SGO Global Sales & Operations stated.
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Indian Premier League Broadcast from Cameras to Web with EVS Technology
Since the 2008 launch of the Indian Premier League, every cricket match relies on EVS technology for live coverage. To cover all 74 matches of the 2011 season, an extensive EVS infrastructure been deployed offering world class production to worldwide cricket fans. For each match coverage, the set up consists of eight XT2+ 6-channel production servers under the control of MulticamLSM to record with all cameras, including super motion cameras, for advanced live slow motion replays and on the fly edits. In addition, the IPL TV rights holder for the local Indian market, Sony Entertainment Television, operates two EVS XT series 6-channel servers with IPDirector for IPL studio shows. IPL online and mobile media rights represent over one billion potential Times of India viewers. The challenge for the new rights holder was to provide high quality rapid streaming capabilities while allowing advertisers to insert commercials on live video feeds aiming at target audiences or local markets.
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Sony Media Technology Centre Inaugurated at Whistling Woods International
Sony has collaborated with WWI, which is a leader in the media and entertainment education sector to establish the facility at the Mumbai campus of WWI. India's motion picture industry is flourishing with over 1,000 annual releases, which is the highest in the world. However, while movies have widely become the accepted form of entertainment, most Indian movies are still produced using celluloid. Through SMTC, Sony will provide its expertise in High Definition (HD) and 3D film and broadcast technologies as well as focus on the proliferation and development of these technologies in India's entertainment industry. Sony has installed top-of-the-line HD and 3D content creation and digital cinema projection equipment in WWI. In addition, it will provide its knowhow in HD content creation from acquisition to post-production of content. It will also teach the entire pipeline of 3D filmmaking and methodology and provide training for high quality 3D content creation.
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Projecting a World Class Commonwealth Games
Despite massive negative media coverage in the immediate run up to the Games, the critics were once again proved wrong and the event went ahead as planned. In the speeches at the Closing Ceremony the Games were declared a success not least due to the host nations impressive performance in the medal tables. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies are the first and last opportunity for the organisers to show off their venues and set the stage for the Games themselves, providing the ideal opportunity for the host country to showcase its culture, history and civilization. The centrepiece of both the shows featured a huge helium balloon, believed to be the largest of its kind, rising from the centre of the stadium, the underbelly of which provided a 360-degree projection surface. Images depicting the numerous facets of Indian history were projected on to the aerostat with many strands of this diverse country characterised in the aerostat visuals.
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China
Clear-Com Opens New Office in China
This investment demonstrates the company’s long-term commitment to the Greater China and Asia-Pacific market. Clear-Com relocated from the Vitec China office to its new location effective January 1, 2011. With the addition of this site, the company looks to strengthen its international presence as a global voice communication company with innovative professional intercom products and unparalleled customer support. “Clear-Com has been serving the greater China region for more than 30 years, and it’s clear to us that the demand for higher quality, better performing and more reliable intercom products from Broadcast and Live Event customers is growing,” says Matt Danilowicz, President and Managing Director of Clear-Com. “The opening of a dedicated Clear-Com office location and strategic hiring of new personnel will further our company’s mission to be the global first choice for professional voice communication solutions.”
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Jünger Audio Opens A New Office In China
China now the world’s second-largest economy – and with an economic growth rate of around 9% a year - it makes sense for European companies to have a dedicated office in the country so that they are better placed to tap into this lucrative market. German manufacturer Jünger Audio came to this conclusion some months ago and after careful research into the viability of a Chinese office it has announced the opening of Jünger Audio China. Based in Beijing, this new office is headed by Miss Jian Gao, a Chinese national with extensive experience in the broadcast and professional audio industry. Jian Gao joins Jünger Audio from Loud Tech Inc. China where, as Marketing Director, she was responsible for establishing and implementing marketing strategy and product management for the Chinese market. She also took charge of building up relations with customers and government agencies in the broadcast and pro audio fields.
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Lawo Zirkon Makes TV Debut in China
Shanxi TV is the leading local TV station for Shanxi province, running 8 channels, broadcasting over 100 hours every day, and covering 220 million people all over China via satellite output. At the heart of the operation in Taiyuan city is the News Centre Studio, which is used by four of Shanxi TV’s most important live news programmes, including the evening news for the satellite channel and dedicated News Channel. Last year, Shanxi TV commenced an upgrade programme for its news operation, bringing HD capability to the News Centre Studio. A 16-fader Lawo zirkon digital audio mixing console with 48 inputs and 40 outputs was chosen by Mr Jian Jingyuan, technical director of the news centre. Lawo’s representative in China Francis He confirms that the Shanxi TV team has been very impressed with the transparency of the zirkon’s high-frequency performance. “This console has superb audio performance coupled with high reliability, a programmable interface and easy, intuitive operation. In the daily on-air broadcast environment, these qualities add up to efficiency and safety.”
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130 EVS Servers Deployed for Live Replay Operations at the 2010 Asian Games
Guangzhou Asian Games Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (GAB), the 2010 Asian Games host broadcaster used EVS systems for its live operations, including multi-camera recording, live replays and highlight editing at various venues of the event. Production teams, including 22 Chinese TV stations, used a total of 130 EVS SD/HD servers and their live production controllers to cover the Games, which were held in Guangzhou, China, from November 12 to 27, 2010. Over 50 venues were equipped with the most advanced broadcast technology infrastructures during the two weeks of multi-sport competition in Guangzhou. For the 2010 edition, a total of 476 events in 46 different sports disciplines were contested by over 10,000 athletes from 45 Asian countries. The host broadcaster, Guangzhou Games Broadcasting Co. Ltd. (GAB) appointed a number of broadcast specialists, among them 22 Chinese broadcasters, to provide teams and equipment to manage the production of the international TV and radio feed at the different venues. Operations included live replays and live editing with EVS systems.
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Fujian TV with two SSL C100 HDS
Fujian TV, a part of the Fujian Radio, Film and TV Group in China, recently moved into a brand new production facility complex as part of its transition into HD production and an all-digital workflow. To handle the audio operations for three of its hit variety/game shows, Fujian TV has installed two 40-fader, 96-DSP channel Solid State Logic C100 HDS Digital Broadcast Consoles. Fujian TV (FJTV) is the biggest television station in East China's Fujian Province, delivering nearly 140 hours of programming each week over two channels to 30 million viewers. The C100 is used for the live-to-air production of Happy Choir, a nationwide chorus competition based on The Last Choir Standing program presented by the BBC; the Chinese version of the BBC program, Friends Like These, where male and female teams compete for prizes; and This Time Tomorrow, an educational quiz show where contestants play for prizes.
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CETV HD OBVan
CETV is working with a 16-camera HD OBVan. The truck is 13m long and has two expandable sides. The truck was built by Sony Professional Solutions Group in Beijing. It features a the MVS-8000 vision mixer from Sony, a Sony IXS-6700 router, EVS XT2 LSMs, HDCAM recorders, a Stagetec Auratus audio mixer and a ClearCom intercom System. Also available in China is a 8-camera HD OBVan from CDTV, a 8-camera HD OBVan from MZTV, a 14-camera HDOBVan from TVS and another 8-camera HD OBVan from XTTV.
3D OBVan Directory now on Sale
20 3D OBVans are described in detail in our 3D OBVan Directory 2011:
Alfacam OB43-3D – AMP CAR8 – Cinevideogroup OB14 and OB15 – Game Creek Video Dynasty – Global Television HD1 – HD Broadcast HD1 – Lyon Video Unit-11 –NEP SS31-3D and SS32-3D – NHK-MT 3DHD OBVan – Outside Broadcast Unit 14 – PACE Fusion 3D – Pulsar Freedom – SIS LIVE OB3 – Telegenic T16, T18 and T19 –TopVision Ü5 3D – TV Skyline HD Ü5
You also will find the following reports:
· OB Trucks for 2D and 3D Production
· The Power of Partnership
· 3D Rigs – An Overview
· 3D Broadcasters – An Overview
· CAN Communicate
· 3ality Digital Provides Cool Viewing
· 3D Graphics for the Hockey Night in Canada
· Ryder Cup 2010 – Live and in 3D
· Broadcast Milestones – Audio for 3D
· 3D Cinemas – Two Examples
· 3D Productions – Sports, Concerts, Shows
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