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RoadLovers.com presents
Havana Now
November 2012
Creative Commons
Photos by JK McCrea
An Eyes on Series Book
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Copyright 2013 by JK McCreaISBN-13: 978-1482509243ISBN-10: 1482509245
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What is Havana like?
Many of us have seen the photos showinghow Havana looked in the 1950s.
Many of us saw the National GeographicMagazines article on Cuba in November2012.
What is Havena like now?
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Current U.S. policy toward the island nation allows family visits forCuban-Americans, but restricts the travel of other U.S. citizens. Theonly way I might get on the island is to pay $3000 for a week on a
group tour.
My husband was made godfather of his Havana friends child. Thatshow I got an opportunity to spend a week in Havana.
I wanted to capture photos that showed more than the typical travelposter. Four billion people will never visit this city. This book is for you.
This is Havana in November 2012.
JK McCrea
Habana me! The private restaurant invited us to have the fullHavana experience We got it.
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These photos will preserve in our minds how Havana looked inNovember 2012.
The red A shows Hotel Ambos Mundos on Obispo Street in HavanaVieja. Creative Commons
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Old Havana
Several guidebooks list this location: Carriages for hire by tourists.
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A map of Old Havana (Wikipedia, Creative Commons).
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The snack bar offers guarapo, sugar cane juice.
A vehicle museum on Obispo Street.
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Located on Obispo street, tropicalstyle Hotel Florida has a quiettwo-story atrium with palms andlarge wicker chairs.It's about a block west of AmbosMundos hotel.
This is the symbol for an approved"room for rent" in a private home.Rates are generally one-third or lessthan hotels.
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She shouted, This is my job. Nophotos!
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Delicate pastries in the Francesa
Look closely at the instrument held by the guy in the straw hat. Thatsthe lower jaw of a large animal.
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Their music cascaded down Obispo Street.
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A market on Obispo Street
The best chocolate in Old Havana.
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The Committees to Defend the Revolution (CDR)system was formed by FidelCastro on September 28, 1960.
This is a mass-market cafeteria with fastfood service. Not the best icecream. Not for gringos.
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Gastronomic commercial complex
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The five who are in prison in the USA
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The vigorous and victorious revolution Go ahead! (street banner)
Books for sale in the plaza.
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The voice of the Cuban Patrimony.
Lots of areas under construction (work, obra)
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A volunteer, viewed from Obispo Street.
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Looking west down Obispo Street, 4 p.m., headed for the Capitulo.
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The Plan of the City
Heres a description by russian_yaz on virtualtourist.com
QUESTION: About traffic. Is traffic in Havana and other big cities very heavyall day or maybe in the morning only?
The traffic is not so heavy. At least if U compare it with othercountries. The street with heavier traffic in Vedado, Havanafo example, is 23rd. But don't worry, U can drive without
problems, many tourist do it. I used to go usually in bicycle
everywhere in Havana without problems. The worst time isoff course at morning and in the afternon between 3 and6pm. In the pic U'll see the streets U asked for.
Also the naming of the streets in various neighborhoods ofHavana like Vedado, Miramar and Playa is easy. Startingfrom 23, the parallel streets going in the sea directionsdecrease the number and are only odd numbers. In theother direction they increase. The perpendicular streets are
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named by the letters of the alphabet so starting from Ggoing to the sea the next letter is H and the next one is Iwhere the casa U choose is located. In the other directionthe previous street of G is F. The letters start from Paseo
street, where I used to live. Away from Paseo the naming ofthe streets change to even numbers....is really easy ;)
For example, the National Hotel is located near O Street and 21 Avenue.Below, you can see Parque Lennon is between 6 and 8 (NE to SW) 15 and 17(NW to SE). You can give directions of Calle 8 y 15 and people will know thatthere is an intersection of an odd and an even number.
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People
One of them is the Gentleman of Paris.
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Quincineros at Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Sweet sixteen appears to take placea year earlier in Hispanic culture. We imagine that dresses are rented andthe photos are taken as part of the day's celebration.
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We hired Ivan to take us to see the apartment where the author of the songGuantanamera lived. These girls wanted to sit in the Coco!
Near the Victor Hugo park.
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Hotels
Meli Havana (located in Miramar). U.S. style business hotel, good forconventions and conferences. Large open spaces, destination restaurantsand a view of the ocean. There's a place to walk into the water just west ofthe property (we saw a visitor walk in with water shoes).
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Hotel Nacional de Cuba
The main entrance. The historic plaque is just behind the grey car.The entrance faces southwest.
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The main lobby with four grandfather clocks on the right side. The exit to thestreet is on the left with the emblem over the door. Exit to the right goes tothe patio.
A calmer moment, shooting the western half of the lobby. The former casinois down the corridor and to the right. The Parisien cabaret hall is straightahead. The 24-hour caf and the dining room are down the stairs to the left.
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Near the elevators (east end of the lobby).
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The hallways are stark. Photos andarticles are reproduced from thehotels construction in 1930.
Imagine staying here in the 1940s No TV in the room. The entertainmentwas on the patio, in the lobby and at the Parisien.
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View of the Malecon from the fourth floor.
Annie Betancourt was leading a group with the Florida League of women voters.
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The west wing of the hotel (on the
level of the lobby) offers "the bestnight in Havana" at CabaretParisien.
Ah, the fresh fruit.
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The breakfast buffet. Oh, the fresh papaya and guava juice
Not boiled, not scrambled, not friedwhat kind of eggs are these?
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The fancy dining room in the east wing.
Art in the lobby.
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Hes no longer with us, but one of the faces of the Buena Vista Social Club isstill the face of Salon 1930.
A typical sign in the hotel.
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Around the hotel
Eighteen dollars a day to use the pool.
Waiting for currency exchange at the hotel
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From here, you can almost see the memorial to the victims of the U.S.S.
Maine, just beyond the right edge of the photo.
The view of the Malecon is straight ahead.
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Mint for mojitos.
Lets sit on the patio
Oh, those calm breezes from the NorthMust study must learn moremust zzzz
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The original pool. The breakfast room ison the left. We met a British lady whoenjoyed swimming in the morning before
breakfast.
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Dawn looking east along the Malecon.
Live music plays throughout the day andevening.
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The hotel at night
View from the corner of O and 21 (the main entrance)
The caf in the basement. Tasty eggs for dinner.
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The west wing of the patio, with the former casino on the right.
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The east wing, with a music group. The mens restroom is right behind theband. The east and west wings have signs indicating Smoking section, andtheres no sign in the central part of the patio.
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View at night with our back to the Malecon.
A statue on the east side of the garden infront of the patio.
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If we walked any farther, wed spend $30 a head to hear the music of thenight.
The best mojitos in Havanaare made here (we wereassured).
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An all-female vocal and rhythm group plays on Saturday evening next to thefountain in front of the patio of HNC.
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Tour of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba(HNC)
2012 minus 50 years The fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisiswas on display during our visit to the hotel. A small case under glass in oneof the tunnels north of the hotel displayed a uniform donated by the guideEstela.
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The second floor retains the original lookfrom the 1930s.
The Frank Sinatra room,
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A display at the entrance of the underground trenches.
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Tour of the museum (and bar)
The hotel's tour guide Estela claimed that she heard that Steven Spielbergsaid in an interview that he had been in "the Bahamas" when shown a photofrom his visit to the Hotel Nacional.
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More than photos A rock star left a guitar here.
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The chessmaster Capablanca was here.
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Bola de Nieve (Snowball) played piano in the restaurant across the streetfrom the HNC.
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A detail from the history walls (1960s)features the Russian cosmonaut.
View from above.
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The former casino is behind the bar.
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We went for a walk across La Rampa (23 Avenue)and wandered east for several blocks after sunset.
A friendly passerby asked what wewere looking for. We said, Batidosand she suggested a smallrestaurant around the corner anddown two blocks and then rightand another two blocks, then a rightturn
After giving us the tour, the friendly son gave us his email address.
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We found a pastry shop.
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Maracas, a quiet restaurant.
It looked scary, but it wasnt.
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Cuban rhythms coming from a terrace one floor above street level.
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Theyre really working on that car.
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The car up on cinder blocks is just to the right, down the street 100 meters.
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Transportation
Cocos look like oversized helmets. Another model has a squared-off rear.
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"Gold Black" (oro negro)
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We heard that some gasoline is sold with lead.
White smoke in the exhaustoften means that you are burning antifreeze.http://wiki.answers.com/
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Ivan ("Your Amigo in Havana," according to his sign-off in our journal) gave usa slower tour around Vedado and Central Havana, finishing with a brief stopat the Miranda statue at the western side of the entrance to the main harbor.
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Famous Buildings
In the background is the FOCSA opened in 1957. The penthouse is open atnoon. We passed it twice on foot in the morning so we didn't get around toseeing the view.
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China gate.
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Theres a large statue inside the main hall of the Capitulo.
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The John Lennon statue is in Vedado, between 8 and 10 streets.
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Turn around and youll see the view (top photo) of the Granma boat.
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Ches outline appears near a similar
A stadium east of the city, on the road to Santa Maria beach.
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The Victor Hugo monument, about ten blocks southwest of the HNC.
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Street scenes
The other side of the China Gate.
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Where are the cars? It appears to be Puerto Rico without the heavytraffic.
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Another walking street
An artist painted the facades of several blocks, creating a tourist attraction.
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Architecture
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Malecon
The Malecn, looking north. For several days the high winds created wavesthat splashed over the wall, soaking the sidewalk..
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The grand sea wall protects the north boundary of La Habana. The west endof the wall starts at this two-story fort, popular for drinks at dusk.
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Shopping
Stores
A hardware store near the FOCSA building.
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Street Vendors
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Selling mani (peanuts rolled in a tall narrow cone).
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Open Markets
Theres an open market about eight blocks southeast from the HotelNacional on 19 Avenue.
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A bakery near the open market.
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It's a great place to get acoco fro (with or withoutrum).
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After The Bacard family's factories were nationalized and the governmentstarted a new label: Havana Club. The logo appears on t-shirts, too.
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Restaurants
La Roca.
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The little rabbit English pub
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Near the HNC. Bola de Nieve played piano here.
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A private restaurant in the apartment building at O and 21.
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Breakfast for dinner in the basement caf (HNC).
A pizza at Nardos (across from the Capitol building in Old Havana).
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Entrance to Nardos.
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Palenque, a complex of six restaurants in Miramar.
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A nightclub on La Rampa (23 Avenue) two blocks from the HNC.
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Areas Outside Central Havana
Miramar and Inside Homes
These are photos to preserve in our minds what Havana looked like inNovember 2012.
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Necropolis
What is that white block in the lower left?
The goal: The resting place of the Grandmaster Capablanca.
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Beach
It took about 25 minutes to get to the Santa Maria beach area, drivingthrough the tunnel uner the harbor entrance and then going east alongthe coast road, past Cojimar.
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The Fort
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Cojimar, the Hemingway Harbor
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Hemingway's Finca Vigia
On the road heading southeast out of Havana.
The A marks FincaVigia, about 12 kmfrom Central Havana.
The B marks SimonBolivar Avenue.
The Pink spot is the
Hotel Nacional.
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At the gatehouse of the museum.
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Guaraporecommended sin hielo.
The guest house (on the right) with the main house farther on.
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The view looking north (from the Cat Tower).
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Who walked up these stairs?
Front entrance.
Greeting us on the right side of the entrance.
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A view from the front entrance toward the dining room.
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The Living Room
The Writing Room
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Some of his texts in translation.
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The Bath Room
A view through to the Writing Room.
The courageous lizard. Hemingway thought the lizard had foughtbravely when attacked by his cat. To commemorate the lizards laststand, he put it on display.
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The dining room on the left, the main sitting room in the middle.
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The study, located between the dining room and the bedroom.
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Detail of a screenprint in the study.
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Lots of journals in the bedroom. We hope those books have beenscanned.
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Dressing table in the bedroom.
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The jacket reads War Correspondent.
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More than ten years of watching his weight, ending in 1959.
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Getting heavier
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His fighting weight (around 198 pounds).
A painting in the dining room.
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The dining room. The door at the far end of the hall is the main entrance,which faces south.
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The Pilar (Hemingways fishingboat)
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End Note
Thank you for taking time to visit the island through my photos.
The cost
It costs $350 each to fly 227 miles from Miami to Havana (more than atrip to New York, which is four times farther), we stayed in a privateapartment ($40 a night with breakfast), our friend rented a car for $50a day and spent about $20 for fuel, and we each paid $25 at theairport as a departure tax. We spent $40 a day on food, so the entire
trip was just under $1200.
Room 280Food 280Car 370Airplane 700Overweight 141**Airport tax 50------------------------------------
$1821 for the two of us.
Quotes by tour groups: $2400 to $3200 per person
**We brought more than 60 pounds of medicines, baby food and pens.
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The Future
I hope change comes to Cuba at a pace that the islanders can copewith. I hope they dont get ripped off by the con artists. Cuba is whereI was when I was in my 20s. I was open, nave and inexperienced. Ididnt question things. I didnt have enough experience to questionthings.
Its like going to a doctor and he says, Im going to take somethingout of you. I would say, Okay, and I wouldnt know to get a secondopinion. Youre a doctor, you must know. Well, when Cuba opens up,some people are going to come and tell them that they need surgerywhen they dont.
Someone will tell them to raze many of the old buildings. I hope thatdoesnt happen.
Wikipedia, Creative Commons.
I look forward to sharing more photos with you at JKMcCrea.net
Blog: RoadloversInternational.com.
JK McCrea
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