ICAT Newsletter - Jul-Sep 2017

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The Leadership Ladder for CA’s
Jul – Sep 2017
WISDOMnewsletter
"To be seen as a leader, you need to move people with your words."
“A person who is able to skillfully express himself or herself as an orator,
especially early in life, is more likely to foster better friendships and
relationships and build a larger network of collaborators”
"If you can stand up and deliver a well-thought out speech that resonates,"
he says, "you achieve instant recognition and add momentum to further
your purpose and help others achieve theirs."
Manoj Vasudevan
2017 World Champion of Public Speaking

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We provide a supportive and positive learning
experience in which members are empowered
to develop communication and leadership
skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and
personal growth.
Mission of ICAT Toastmasters Club
DearValued Readers,
Welcome to ﬁrst the edition of WISDOM
for the year 2017- 18. This issue of
Wisdom is dedicated to all members who
have started their journey in their project
speech and to the new members who will
start their journey in Toastmasters this
year.
During last one year that I have been with toastmasters, I have not
only improved my script writing, communication and leadership
skill but also made close friends and mentors to whom I can share
my personal and professional challenges.
This year, we have launched facebook page “CA Toastmasters”.
Would request to have your likes and be connected on facebook.
We are also working to keep ICAT Webpage updated about the
past meetings and upcoming events.
I take this opportunity to thank ICAT PresidentTMAravindakshan,
ICAI Dubai chapter immediate past ChairmanTM Pankaj Mundra,
Division Director DTM Wilson Lewis, mentors of the club DTM
Velu Armugum & DTM Dharmajan Patteri, who came forward
with their contributions inspite of their busy schedule.
Finally I thank our sponsors for giving contribution toward
publishing of the newsletter. I also thankTM Ravoof, web designer
who worked to make newsletter in printable format.
Wishing you all a very happy festive season ahead.
YoursTruly,
TM Dharmendra Gupta
VP – PR, ICATToastmasters Club
Editorial
4 From the President’s Desk
5 Inspiration from Chairman, ICAI
UAE(Dubai) Chapter(2016-17)
6 My Journey….My Reward,VP Education
7 & 8 Motivation by Club Mentors
9 Discipline - Our Division Director
10- 15 Themes and Highlights of the Meetings,
July-Sept 2017
16 Membership drive
17 Achievements and Awards
18-19 Action Plan 2017-18
20 Salute to ICAT Past Presidents
21 Excom Members
Welcome our New Members at ICAT
Toastmasters
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Jul – Sep 2017
TM Aravindakshan Edayillam
AchievedTriple Crown for completing:
1. Advanced Communicator Silver
2. Advanced leader Silver &
3. Competent Leader
TM Aravindakshan Edayillam receiving
Triple Crown Award from
2017 World Champion ManojVasudeven
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ICAT President – TM Aravindakshan Edayillam
Learning to Lead and Influence
Flowers blossom on meeting the sunlight. Same way, the hidden
talents in us take its birth through the leadership and communication
programme in toastmasters.The continuing success of ICAT for the last
13 years is the glittering testimony of this leadership wisdom. Salute to
all our current and past leaders for creating and running a vibrant club
for Indian Chartered Accountants in Dubai.
First of all, I am thankful to Toastmaster Dharmendra Gupta, our Vice
President Public Relation, for taking up the leadership and ownership
for the task of issuing wisdom newsletter. I am also very much grateful
to all our ExCom leaders, Club mentors and members for leading ICAT club from good to great.
Several leaders are playing important role and working hard behind the screen for the success of our club.
Our meetings are full house thanks to the innovative leadership and public relation strategies of Ashit
Dugar and Dharmedra Gupta. We made significant progress in membership renewal and adding new
members, grateful to the effort of Jayshree Bhat and Mahesh Agarwal. We are very professional on
circulating valuable record of our meeting, Arun Saxena is very creative and careful in issuing minutes
promptly. Our dear leader Ramakrishnan is the right example of how to be a true leader by helping in all
the logistic arrangements of our club. The club mentors DTM Velu Arumugham and DTM Dharmajan
Patteri are very focused to make ICAT a club of excellence for our fellow professionals.
We are making rapid progress in toastmasters’ learning with a flying result of achieving distinguished
club status within 3 months of this new toastmasters’ year.We are the proud recipient of “Lead andWin”
and “Smedly” awards this year. By ensuring quality meetings and member’s excellence, we are on our
target to become President’s Distinguished club as early as possible.
With the loving support of the leadership of ICAI Dubai Chapter, we successfully conducted two
membership campaigns and that has helped many new members to get the benefit of toastmasters.
It is a truth that nowhere in the world we can get this much valuable opportunity to learn the real skill
required in our life to blossom and become successful. I got the valuable opportunity to receive triple
crown award from world champion of Public Speaking, Manoj Vasudevan. I request all our leaders to
target triple crown in this year in your path to become empowered communicators and leaders. Manoj
Vasudevan’s message to the world is very clear. We can fix all our problem by mastering skill to
communicate, connect, network, lead and influence.Together we are strong and let us improve our skill
in leading and influencing through toastmasters.
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Chairman, ICAI UAE (Dubai chapter) 2016-17 - TM Pankaj Mundra
MyToastmaster Journey
I had the privilege to do mentoring with Robert Kiyosaki team on how to
start Business and on becoming an entrepreneur, the renowned author
of Rich Dad Poor Dad. His team suggested that communication is the
key for an entrepreneurship and hence I joinedToastmaster.This is how
I also came to know aboutToastmasters International.
I googled and got to know about Toastmasters at Al Futtaim Learning
Centre Rashidiya. I went there and attended the first session of
Toastmasters. Later, I came to know about ICAT toastmasters.
I came and first attended ICAT as a guest in the last quarter of 2008. I interacted with Mr. Rajack Aslam,
the then President of ICAT.This is how my journey with ICATToastmasters started.
I have learned a lot with ICATToastmasters. I did a couple of roles in sub-committee ofToastmasters, one
of them was the fee collection. We did also a first-time campaign where we ensured that members of
ICATToastmasters are also the member of ICAI.
The mentoring and grooming which I got from senior members like Jayant Jain, Ramesh Taparia,
Surender Jain and Ramesh Mahalingam helped me a lot. Toastmaster gave me the confidence and
courage to become a public speaker. My first experience to deliver a speech to a large audience was in
ICAI where I delivered my election speech. Rest is history. I have delivered more than 8 lectures in 7
countries. Of course, you all have also seen my journey with ICAI Dubai Chapter.
I have firm belief that to become an entrepreneur and to go to a higher level of leadership,
communication skills plays a key factor in becoming a successful leader. We can see example of Barak
Obama whose effective communication has taken him to great heights.
I thank ICATToastmasters for grooming my communication skills. I will urge every member ofChartered
Accountants to come and joinToastmasters. Even if you are not to make it to the 10 speeches, if you are
able to attend the session once in quarter, it could help you in your journey in becoming a better
communicator.
Once again,Thank you all for guiding me and it’s a privilege to be part of ICATToastmasters.
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VP Education - TM Ashit Dugar
My Journey….My Reward
It was ICAI election day in Aug 2015 when my dear friend Abhishek
Gattani invited me to attend one of the ICAT toastmasters meeting.
Without expecting much I reached the venue and sat in the last row
enjoying the meeting proceedings. It was time for impromptu
speeches and the table topic master Shailesh Shenoy pointed at me
and asked me to come and speak. I froze for few seconds and
suddenly my heart started pounding as if I had just completed a 42km
marathon. I collected myself and reached the podium to speak on my
experience in Las Vegas international conference. I was shivering
while speaking and my legs were trembling. But once I finished and
returned to my seat, I had a very strong sense of achievement which lingered on till the time I went to
bed that night. I learnt a big lesson in my first toastmasters meeting - the fear of speaking which lasts
for a few minutes is nothing when compared to the feeling of victory which lasts for a much longer
duration.
Toastmasters has not only given me the platform to speak but has given me a wonderful opportunity
to connect with lot of members and guests. As current VP-Education, it has also taught me to take
everything in stride and keep moving on.There will be rejections and disappointments in our way but
that only makes the final result even more sweeter and satisfying.
I cannot thankToastmasters organization enough because I feel giving the people the power to speak
is the best gift that can be given to them. If we can spread this gift to every person we know, we would
do a great service to the society. I once again thank Abhishek Gattani and Shailesh Shenoy for giving
me the chance to come and speak and making me what I am today.
Jai Hind.
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Club Mentor - DTM Velu Arumugam
Dear ICAT members,
AsClub Mentor, it gives me a great pleasure to write this message.Ours
is a potent club that provides a platform for CAs to grow experientially
and emerge into become successful servant leaders. As rightly said by
one of our members, ICAT is a Leadership Ladder for CAs.Year after
year it has been producing many leaders and communicators whose
presence in ICAI Dubai Chapter is quite evident. In my 13 years of
Toastmasters Journey, I have had the pleasure of witnessing numerous
such ICAT members who went on to hold different leadership positions
of ICAI Dubai Chapter.
ICAT itself could be seen as a solid proof that amazing leaders can be made and not necessarily they have
to be born.Currently our club has executive officers with full of energy, wisdom, care and dedication who
are so passionately working for the club and its members.They are continuously striving to make every
meeting, a memorable experience for members by maintaining its friendliness and a very high quality
meeting sessions.
The beauty of ICAT, is that it empowers its members to achieve their full potential and realize their
dreams through its well proven Leadership & Communication programs. I began my Toastmasters
Journey in 2005, which has brought a great value to both my professional and personal life.The personal
growth I have experienced both as aToastmaster and as an individual amazes me.The friendships I have
formed are priceless.As a Leader my dream is to help & create strong leaders who will stay strong against
any odds that they may encounter. In short only thing that makes me happy, which I am always striving
to achieve in my life is to make a difference in others life, to transform people from nobody to somebody,
from ordinary to extraordinary. Rest all my activities are, only the means to this end.As part of this vision
only I have formed Achievers Gavel Club for children between the age group of 10 to 18 years.
Among all the attributes of a leader, the two fundamental and universal qualities are confidence and
communication for which, the right place for CAs is Toastmasters. With our current dedicated,
enthusiastic, energetic and supportive Leaders, led by our dynamic President TM Aravindakshan, I am
sure that ICAT cub will have another great year ahead, full of growth and excitement.With the efforts of
such passionate team, surely our club would become a reference point for all the Toastmasters clubs of
ICAI chapters for being the best.
My sincere appreciation to all the club officers and the VP PR team, in bringing out such beautiful and
enriching newsletters. And wish all ICAT members a Great and RewardingToastmastering journey.
DTMVelu Arumugam
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Mentoring Matters - DTM Dharmajan Patteri
Dear ICATians,
Mentoring is the hallmark of success in the Toastmasters program.
Members excel when helped by a more advanced member and
accomplish goals they might not otherwise reach on their own.
Mentors get a chance to give back to their club by nurturing another
member’s growth. This leads to self-reflection and benefits both
mentor and mentee.
Mentoring is not the same as managing or coaching. A mentor is
simply somebody who has knowledge and experience mentee don’t
have. As a mentor you can refine your skills, learn new skills and
receive recognition.
Mentee benefits significantly when mentor pass on their unique
brand of knowledge, insight, perspective and wisdom where they
can develop confidence, enhance speaking skills and leadership
abilities.
To me, if you are a leader in business or
community, you have an undeniable
responsibility to make yourself available for less
experienced individuals to tap into your wisdom
and experience. In the spirit of mentoring, I hope
you will step in to effective mentoring soon.
When you apply Toastmasters skills as you
mentor others, please keep the big picture in
mind and do it in a fun and friendly way.
Sometimes it is okay to not know an answer.
In this journey, you have an opportunity to help
someone else become a competent leader and
communicator. Are you ready to discover
mentoring possibilities in you?
Best wishes for an excellent year ahead! Let us
make this best year yet for ICAT and its members.
YoursTruly,
Dharmajan Patteri DTM
Past Area Governor, District 20
During our CA course training, there were many who
guided us from time to time, I am sure that you must have
helped many budding CAs to achieve their goals.
YOU LEARN
25% from teacher, 25% from practice,
25% when youTEACH and 25% from life.
Embrace the Power of Mentoring to improve
your skills and accelerate the growth.
I regard the opportunity
to become a Mentor
- ATrusted Advisor - as a
gift and a responsibility
not to be taken lightly.
For a transition from
manager to a true leader,
you need good
mentoring.
‘Before you are a leader,
SUCCESS is all about
growing yourself.
When you become a
LEADER, success is all
about growing others.’
- JACKWELCH
Club Mentor
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“There is no better place to inspire, nurture and support positive growth
in yourself and in others than in the Toastmasters pay-it-forward culture,”

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Division Director - DTM Wilson Lewis
Discipline - Ladder to Success
You must be wondering what discipline has to do with toastmasters. Let us first
understand what is discipline.
Discipline is defined as a field of study or is training to fix incorrect behavior or create
better skills.
Discipline is the foundation of successful and happy life.
Many believe that discipline takes away the freedom. In fact discipline gives the freedom. Some of the scenarios would
clarify this point.
Children love chocolates. What will happen if you give a box full of chocolate to your child, child will eat and fall sick. But if
you discipline your child to eat one or two chocolates a day, it is good for the health and child will enjoy chocolate.
Similarly, if you are in a traffic jam and in order to reach early you break the traffic rules and regulations, you might end up
in an accident or caught by the police with fines. Do you think you will reach on time? I don’t think so.
If you take off your hands from the car steering wheel, where will the car go?
Discipline is very important in every day’s life. In order to teach a discipline to your children sometimes parents have to be
unkind to be kind. When mama giraffe gives birth to a baby giraffe, mama giraffe gives once kick to the baby giraffe, baby
giraffe fly and falls down, mama giraffe continue kicking the giraffe until it stands on its own feet and run. It is the love of
the mama giraffe to the baby. If it does not mean that mama does not like the baby but to helping it to escape from the
predators who would devour the baby.This is not the act of hatred but it is an act of love.
Preparing the speeches:
Speeches are not just to complete the projects from basic manual or advance manuals.One has to go through the
objectives very carefully and prepare the speeches. One should satisfy himself to the contents of the speech.
Mentoring:
it is not what you write and get satisfied, the speech has to be mentored by the senior toastmasters, who can add some
value to your speech. Make changes to your speech to become more interesting and logical.
Rehearse:
Rehearse your speech several times until you are comfortable with the content. Body language and voice modulation can
be developed once you are thorough with the speech. Take the help of the mentors ask them to watch you delivering the
speech during rehearsal.
Delivery:
if you follow all the previous steps above, the delivery will go smooth. Do your best to project your speech. Winning is not
in your hand. But if you do these steps with discipline Your level of success determined by your level of discipline and
perseverance.
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THEME AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEETING
July 1st – Historic roll out of GST in india, CA Day and induction of New ICAT Leadership team
July 1st , 2017. 290th meeting, Division Director, DTMWilson Lewis with hisTheme “Transformation”
brought new EX –COM Induction and ﬁrst meeting under the able leadership of our recently elected
PresidentTM Aravindakshan
Outgoing Executive committee Incoming Executive committee – 2017-18
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July 15th -TMOD –TM Ashit Dugar, “Forgive and Forget” – reason being, I have a good heart but a very
bad memory.
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August 3th –To enjoy “Jab Harry met Sejal” release
ICAT toastmasters Club meets CMA Dubai
Toastmasters Club,TMOD –TM Kamlesh Manek
Aug 19th , 2017–TMOD of the meeting, Our own
VP-Membership –TM Mahesh Agarwal, brought
theme "Married or Happy" with advanced
toastmasters speeches.
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Advanced is always better than junior. Recognizing this, ICAT decided to go ahead and showcase to
members what advanced toastmasters speeches are.
Sept 9th , 2017
Starting of the School season - What better way to
welcome it than having a “Back to School” themed
toastmasters meeting by our VP-Education – TM Ashit
Dugar - TMOD of the meeting. Everyone was asked to
come in school dress with their school bags, Tiﬃn and
water bottles. The whole area was decorated with
school posters to give the “back to school” feel.
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Sept 16th
OurVP-PRTM Dharmendra, decided to host a “Story telling” themed meeting.
All role players, except SAA, President and TMOD, are female role players – this is a ﬁrst of its kind
achievement for ICAT club
Awardees
Group Pictures of the meeting
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August 12th and September 5th at ICAI meetings.
Membership Drive
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Education sessions during July to September, 2017
- “How to create the Best Club Climate”,TM NagarajanVenkatesh
- “How to increase membership of aToastmaster club”,TM Matthew Joseph
- “TallTales”,TM Surendran Chokkalingam
Achievement by Members – Awards during the meetings
Best Speaker Best Evaluator BestTable topics
July 1st TM Ashit Dugar DTM Velu Arumugam
July 15th TM Gopal Bang TM Sanjay Gagarani TM Venkataraman &
Raj Mehta(Guest)
Aug 3rd
Aug 19th TM Shahjahan Beyabani
TM Nanda Kumar
TM Lakshmi
TM Pankaj Daya
DTM Velu Arumugam
Sept 9th TM Sonali Lokhanwala TM Sanjay Gagarani TM Shahjahan Beyabani
TM Manoj Joseph(Runner) TM Velu Arumugam (Runner)
Sept 16th TM Jayshree Bhatt TM Sangeetha Nahar DTM Revathi
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Let us congratulate our Leader TM Mahesh
Agarwal for leading ICAT, to get the
prestigious Smedly Award conferred by
Toastmasters International
Let us also congratulate our Leader TM Jayashree Bhat
for leading ICAT to get “Lead and Win” award for
renewing highest number of members.
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ACTION PLAN 2017 -18
Action Item Target / Goal Brief Description
President’s Distinguished Club Achieve 10 DCP points
The Distinguished Club Program
(also known as the “DCP”) is a set
of goals developed by
Toastmasters International that
helps clubs in achieving education,
membership and administrative
objectives.
Districts Award
Maximum possible awards
including 7 triple crown
Triple Crown is awarded to a
Toastmaster who earn at least
three educational awards in the
current year. It can be a
combination of CC, CL, AC,AL or
DTM in a single program year.
ICAT tall tale contest – 21 Oct
2017
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A Tall Tale is a humorous,
exaggerated and make-believe
story. It is an opportunity where
speakers get to practice their
detailed story development and
presentation skills.
Division F tall tale contest 27 Oct
2017
ICAT participation
2nd
Club Officers Training Participation of all club officers
Training will be held on 8th
Dec
2017.
Membership Campaign for ICAT
Campaign in Sep -17, Nov-17 &
Jan 18
In co-ordination with ICAI Dubai
office bearers.
Publish News letter Every Quarter
ICAT newsletter will list out
activities done in quarter along-
with some inspirational /
motivational stories.
Speech craft Programme
Q4 -2017 – Minimum 15
Candidates
The Speechcraft program allows
experienced Toastmasters to
present the fundamentals of public
speaking to non-members.
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Action Item Target / Goal Brief Description
ICAT Club Contest Jan-18
Range of activities including speech
contests, evaluation contest ,
educational sessions, etc.
Mentorship programme Minimum 12 mentors
Taking the help and support from
mentor is very important part of
Toastmaster self learning curriculum.
The club is trying to ensure that every
speaker is properly mentored. A
district 105 officer will launch mentor
induction plan and induct mentors.
Speaking time for family
members
At least 5 minutes in each
meeting
This will help in enhancing public
speaking skill of family members.
Club Mentors
Two of our esteemed colleagues
DTM – Velu Arumugam & DTM
Dharamajan Patteri have accepted
to become club mentor.
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With the help of membership
campaign, speechcraft and
conversion of guests into members.
Area Contest on Feb 23 2018
Participation of all our
contestants
Exco. to extend all help from club.
Division F contest 23 March
2018
Participation of all our
contestants
Excom to extend all help from club.
Annual Family Event Q2 -2018 To celebrate the success of ICAT.
Public relations Ongoing
Publish meeting flyers, meeting
pictures and club success stories in
social media
Minutes of the meeting Ongoing
To have a record of proceeding at the
meting.
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SALUTE TO ICAT PAST PRESIDENTS
TM Ramesh Mahalingam
ICAT Founder President
(2006-07)
TM Tanuja Rao
ICAT Past President
(2007-08)
TM Razack Aslam
ICAT Past President
(2008-09)
TM Surendra Jain
ICAT Past President
(2009-10)
TM Ganpat Khumbhat
ICAT Past President
(2010-11)
TM Naveen Sharma
ICAT Past President
(2011-12)
TM Mahesh Prabhu
ICAT Past President
(2014-15)
TM Surinder Sareem
ICAT Past President
(2015-16)
TM Wilson Lewis
ICAT Past President
(2012-13)
TM Shaju Perinchery
ICAT Past President
(2013-14)
TM Mohan Lalla
ICAT Past President
(2016-17)
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ICATTOASTMASTERS CLUB - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
President
TM Aravindakshan, ACB, ALB
+ 971 50 274 7206
aravindfca@gmail.com
Vice President Membership
TM Mahesh Agarwal
+ 971 50 454 4571
mahesh@sharafshipping.com
Vice President Education
TM Ashit Dugar
+ 971 55 976 6790
ashitdugar@yahoo.co.in
Secretary
TM Arun Saxena
+ 971 55 504 5485
arunsaxena28@yahoo.com
Vice President Public Relations
TM Dharmendra Gupta
+ 971 56 417 4667
guptadharm@yahoo.com
Sergeant-at-arms
TM Ramakrishnan Subramanian
+ 971 50 340 9091
ramapsa@hotmail.com
Treasurer
TM Jayshree Bhatt
+ 971 52 821 1963
jayshree.bhatt@crowehorwath.ae
Mentor
DTM Dharmajan Patteri
+ 971 52 843 4080
dharmajan.patteri@gmail.com
Mentor
DTMVelu Arumugam
+ 971 50 827 6692
arumugam.velu@gmail.com
Immediate Past President
TM Mohan Nalla, CC, ALB
+ 971 50 349 6745
mohannalla@gmail.comz
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TM Benish Unni
TM Satish
TM Praveen Jain
TM Anurag Chaturvedi
TM Sundeep Vanjara
Welcome our new members at ICAT
ICAT Toastmasters club is a part of the
Toastmasters movement that helps in
developing the art of communication and
leadership qualities amongst Indian
Chartered Accountants.
We meet on 1st & 3rd Saturday of every
month at 6 pm, at Dubai Public library,
Mankhool Road, Bur Dubai.

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