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Anger as top dating site admits setting up ‘unsuitable’ couples as experiment

A DATING website has admitted ‘experimenting’ on unsuspecting love-seekers by setting them up with ‘bad matches’ to test its technology.

New York-based site OkCupid, which has 30million worldwide users, including Irish subscribers, made the admission on its OkTrends blog.

It provoked a backlash online and comes after Facebook conducted simi-lar psychological experiments along with two US universities.

In the blog, OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder claimed experiments

were necessary to test the site’s ability to match potential partners.

He said: ‘Guess what, everybody – if you use the internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments on every site. That’s how websites work.’

The site, which is free to join, asks users to answer a series of questions and uses algorithms to match them to others, providing the result as a percentage.

In one experiment, users who were a

bad match at 30 per cent were told they would be good for each other – a 90 per cent match – and resulted in those couples making contact more often.

Mr Rudder said: ‘When we tell peo-ple they are a good match, they act as if they are even when they should be wrong for each other.’

In the comment section on the blog, Jeff Trigger said: ‘People signed up expecting you all to be truthful.

You weren’t. It’s not funny. If you want to perform science experiments, go to school.’

Sheri Young added: ‘Guess you’ve lost some credibility.’

Bernie Hogan, chairman of the eth-ics review board at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, said: ‘Some users are being exploited.’

OkCupid, which launched in 2004, also owns dating site Match.com and the Tinder mobile app.

‘Wake up to threat of ebola’ A DOCTOR returning from an ebola danger zone has urged the world to wake up to the growing threat after risking his life working 24-hour hospital shifts trying to save pregnant women struck down by the disease.

Benjamin Black, who gave up his public service job to volunteer in Sierra Leone, said doctors were struggling to cope with the overwhelm-ing pressure.

Mr Black, pictured above in his protective suit, said one of his first patients was a pregnant woman complaining of severe bleeding and fever after helping prepare bodies of ebola victims for a funeral.

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How to turn lonely holidaysnaps intoones to cherish

TAKING SNAPS on holiday with a loved one means either lugging along a tripod and figuring out the self-timer, or asking someone else to take them for you.

And we’re all familiar with the rigmarole involved in that – trying to show someone who normally doesn’t speak your lan-guage how the shutter works and then laughing gamely along as they accidentally take a picture of themselves before giving up and thanking them profusely. And, of course, any photos they do manage to take will have your heads cut off.

One honeymooning couple, whose vacations, according to the newlywed bride, ‘always looked very lonely’ because

they are ‘too awkward’ to ask strangers to take pictures, came home with two sets of photos – ones of her taken by him and ones of him taken by her – at historic landmarks, as if they had both gone on honeymoon alone.

But they were pleasantly surprised after posting their snaps on image-sharing website Imgur when its community of talented photo manipulators jumped to the rescue, Photoshopping the socially clumsy pair into photos as they visited Lisbon and Porto in Portugal together.

As a result, the couple have photos they can look back on, but now they’re of the lovebirds enjoying their trip together.

Two become one: The honeymooners’ shots looked very lonely but after posting after posting

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them on Imgur, they can now enjoy seeing themselves on holiday together

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Celeb haunt: The Cipriani restaurant

Bloom v Bieber in fight ‘for Miranda’s honour’

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH MODEL Miranda Kerr really is worth fighting for, it seems, with Orlando Bloom and Justin Bieber the latest suitors to get into a scrap over her.

Video footage shows Bloom, 37, being restrained after he allegedly threw a punch at the pop brat outside Ibiza’s exclusive Cipriani restaurant earlier this week.

The Lord Of The Rings star blew a fuse

after Bieber was heard asking, ‘What’s up, b****?’ before adding: ‘She was good.’

It is thought he was referring to Bloom’s ex-wife Kerr, with whom Biebs allegedly hooked up in 2012, a year before the Aus-sie’s marriage broke down.

In another complicated twist, Bloom went on a date with Bieber’s ex, Selena Gomez, 22, this year.

But a friend of the singer said: ‘Jus-tin didn’t start it. He never said, “She was good” – he said, “Say hi to Mi-randa”.’ However, the 20-year-old was happy to taunt the actor later, posting an image of a bikini-clad Kerr, 31, on Instagram.

It’s not the first time grown men have gone gaga over the model – billionaires James Packer and Kerr’s friend David Gyngell were caught brawl-ing in a Sydney driveway earlier this year.

Kerr-pow!: Orlando Bloom, right, is held back as he squares up to Justin Bieberpictures: splash/Vantagenews

James Packer fought with rival millionaire David Gyngell, 48, over

his relationship with Kerr

Bloom has been linked to Gomez and Erica Packer

Kerr, 31, is rumoured to have enjoyed a datewith Bieber in 2012

Selena Gomez, 22, and Justin Bieber, 20, used to date

Erica Packer, 37 split from Aussie media mogul James Packer, 46, last year

Orlando Bloom, 37, and Miranda Kerr divorced in 2013

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Shatter brings case to High Court over GuerinFORMER minister for justice Alan Shatter has initiated High Court proceedings which aim to quash findings in the Guerin Report.

Mr Shatter resigned as minister following the publication of the report in May, which criticised his handling of allegations by Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.

He claims the report shows objective bias and has alleged absence of fair procedures and ‘indecent haste’ on the part of senior counsel Sean Guerin.

The Fine Gael TD said Mr Guerin did not interview him prior to reaching conclusions which have negatively impacted on his career and reputation.

AIB reaches target of profitability in 2014AlliED irish Banks (AiB) has returned to profitability with a €1.3billion turnaround in its business.

The bank, which is 99 per cent owned by the irish State, said it had pre-tax profits of €437million for the first half of the year.

Chief executive David Duffy said: ‘Our half-year results reflect strong improvements in margins, funding position and capital ratios.’

AiB said it has lent out €4.6billion in the irish economy in the first half of the year, up 33 per cent.

The value of its total impaired loans decreased by €2.9billion since December.

Drama as gardaí chase car thief through train stationby jOAnnE AHERn

COMMUTERS travelling from Heuston Station in Dublin on Tuesday night had a bit more drama to their journey after a garda chase ended in the station.

The incident began at around 7.15pm when a car was stolen on Castle Street in Roscommon town.

Gardaí, who spotted the car two hours later on the N4 near Palmerstown, gave chase when the car failed to stop and it was intercepted a short time later on St John’s Road West.

A 21-year-old man then took off on foot, racing through Heuston Station while being pursued by officers.

He then ran on to the tracks before eventually being arrested.

Meanwhile, gardaí are searching for witnesses to an assault on a taxi driver in the city centre last month.

The driver, in a black Volkswagen Pas-sat, was involved in an altercation with two males, who were joined by a gang of youths at the taxi rank on Lower Sheriff Street at about 10pm on June 8.

The taxi driver and another man who tried to intervene required hospital treat-ment as a result of their injuries and two taxis were extensively damaged.

WHAT A CROC: Reptile Village Zoo director and creator James Hennessy dived into a water tank to greet some new arrivals at his Kilkenny facility. Six juvenile saltwater crocodiles were finally flown across the globe from Butterfly Creek Zoo in New Zealand to set up residence at Reptile Villageacross the globe from Butterfly Creek Zoo in New Zealand to set up residence at Reptile Villagegr y f ility. Six juv y flogreet some new arrivals at his Kilkenny facility. Six juvenile saltwater crocodiles were finally flown

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Renting ‘most significant’ of student costs

by AiLEEn DOnEgAnSTUDENTS may have to fork out up to €4,000 for the privilege of mov-ing out of the family home, new data has found.

Dublin Institute of Technology’s Cost Of Living Guide survey found that while a student’s average budget, in-cluding accommodation, is €10,976, those who opt to stay in the family home will need €7,083 – a saving of €3,893.

Students can expect to pay €372 on average for a single room per month in Dublin. Nationwide, this cost is €307.

The survey of new students found that the high cost of rents in Dublin is leav-ing up to 18 per cent in ‘serious finan-cial difficulty’.

DIT’s Campus Life manager Brian Gormley is urging students to book ac-commodation ‘as soon as possible’.

‘Due to the shortage in accommoda-tion, many students are commuting longer distances, and the increase in transport costs has not helped,’ he said.

The figures also revealed that raised

public transport costs are contributing to financial woes. Based on data from the Higher Education Authority’s Eu-rostudent survey, the numbers show this year’s rent increases of up to 11 per cent make renting the ‘most significant’ cost burden for students attending college.

The student annual contribution charge is €2,750 for this year, with edu-cation costs having risen by 4.6 per cent, as opposed to 4.5 per cent in 2013, according to the March Consumer Price Index. This is a sharp increase on the €900 student charge of 2008.

While the data found that, on average, up to 40 per cent of students are in receipt of the Higher Education grant, students pay for some social and miscellaneous costs (€132 per month) themselves.

However, as Friday’s deadline for stu-dent grant applicants looms, it is most likely parents will bear the financial brunt of the university experience.

Unemployeddown by 8.5%DOLE numbers have dropped more than 37,000 since this time last year, the latest figures show.

There were 404,515 claiming benefits last month, down 8.5 per cent, but 11.5 per cent of the workforce is still out of work.

The Central Statistics Office said four times more men are coming off the dole than women.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said the Government wants to help create 7,000 jobs a year until 2020 by attracting multinational companies, and Ireland’s 12.5 per cent corpora-tion tax is a central part of this.

A KERRY man will attempt to break the world record for driving a tractor and trailer in reverse – the current record is 15km.

This Saturday, Eamonn Hickson will begin at Dingle Mart at 2.30pm, head towards Garfinny and reverse up to Annascaul for 5.30pm.

All times are ‘estimates’ according to Eamonn, who said: ‘It’s difficult to predict how fast/slow I’ll be.’

After sharing his initial idea with Guinness World Records, they said: ‘If the above record is broken before your attempt date, GWR will not be able to inform you that a new record has been set.’So no one try to do this before our man Eamonn gets his shot! Let’s hope there’s no traffic on the day.

Kerryman to try for tractor record

INTERNET connectivity may mean your household devices are more connected but less safe, an electronics manufacturer has warned.

Hewlett Packard found that six out of ten devices that connect to the internet and are remotely controllable (like fridges and TVs) are vulnerable to security problems.

The firm’s report showed 80 per cent of devices didn’t require passwords of sufficient complexity and 90 per cent collected at least one piece of personal information – through the device itself, its connected app, or the cloud.

A HP spokesperson said: ‘Users are one network misconfiguration away from exposing data to the world.’

‘Internet of things’ open to hackers

Driverless cars for road testsDRIVERLESS cars are set to take to roads in Britain from next year.

The cars, which are guided by a system of sensors and cameras, will be driven on public roads in trials lasting 18 to 36 months.

Tests will include vehicles with a qualified driver who can opt to take control and fully autonomous cars that will have no driver.

British transport minister Claire Perry said the cars ‘could improve safety, reduce congestion and lower CO2 emissions’.

Four in ten AA drivers surveyed do not agree with the trials.

VICTIMS of crime are being asked to come forward to claim jewellery stolen from them after a successful Garda search operation yielded numerous precious possessions.

Gardaí from the Organised Crime Unit searched a car as part of Operation Fiacla in Rathcoole earlier this week and found jewellery, including watches, rings, chains, bracelets, and pendants.

Four men were arrested at the scene. Three men, two in their 20s and one in his 50s, appeared in court yesterday in connection with the inquiry. The pieces of jewellery can be viewed on garda.ie.

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Woman upfor €27k rent fraud spent €50k on nag

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A WOMAN who was under in-vestigation for defrauding her eld-erly landlady out of €27,750 in rent decided to invest €50,000 in a racehorse, a court has heard.

Elizabeth Stouffer, 40, has been jailed for nine months for the de-ception of her former landlady Eva Trayers.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring said a custodial sentence was the only option after she noted Stouffer hadn’t even brought ‘a modest sum to offer as a token’.

The court heard the racehorse was injured after some months of training and the money was lost.

Judge Ring said while she rec-ognised Stouffer had mental health issues, some of her prob-lems were of her own making.

The court heard Stouffer, for-merly of Barnaboy, Ballaghader-een, Co Roscommon, and now at Tubbercurry, Co Sligo, and her former partner, Nicholas Mans-field, rented a house from Ms

Trayers at St Kevin’s Park, Dartry, Dublin 6, from February 2009.

The couple agreed Mr Mansfield would pay the bills and they would split the rent.

Mr Mansfield gave Stouffer €400 a month towards rent, but she never lodged the money to Ms Trayer’s account. The couple later broke up, and in 2010 a letter was sent to her about the rent arrears.

Stouffer told gardaí she had lodged the money to the wrong account, but later admitted she spent it.

In 2012, Stouffer won a sum of money in a claim award, and spent €50,000 ‘going halves’ on a racehorse with a stud farm owner.

Call for crime victims to claim stolen jewels

RTÉ rolls out audio description on TVRTÉ has rolled out ‘audio description’ on television for viewers who are visually impaired.

The narrated commentary over a show gives a blind or visually impaired viewer a verbal description of what is happening at any given moment.

The State broadcaster aired its first episode of soap Eastenders with audio narration last Thursday and the second will air this evening on RTÉ1 at 7.30pm. There are plans to expand the service over the next 12 months, an RTÉ spokesperson said.


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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Lady Gaga dressed as an ostrich. The experimental 28-year-old never fails to pull out an elaborate outfit from her ever-expanding wardrobe and she certainly didn’t disappoint on Tuesday. Gaga, below, pulled out her best feathered bronze and gold ensemble for her stint on the Today Show in New York. The Bad Romance singer opted for a matching coat and dress and added a severe blunt fringe.

Stephen Dorff proved he’s like a fine wine that only

gets cooler with age.the US actor made a big effort in the wardrobe stakes

when he bowled up to celeb haunt of the moment

Chiltern firehouse in jeans and a t, complete with bed-

head.the Backbeat star looked like he enjoyed his 41st

birthday celebrations at the Marylebone, London, eatery

when he ‘staggered’ back to his car.

DORFF PLAYS IT COOL

AT BIRTHDAY PARTY Life was all about the drugs, says clean EfronActor needed a ‘social lubricant’

Zac Efron feared he was ‘going crazy’ before he checked himself in rehab.

The 26-year-old screen pin-up blames teen fame for derail-

ing him and leaving him a housebound recluse.

He said his life consisted of binge-ing on the weekend before suffering a two-day comedown.

‘You know it was just so quick, it’s shocking, you know what I mean,’ said the actor, who sought rehab treat-ment twice last year for an alleged co-caine addiction and MDMa use.

‘The challenging part was never the work, it was sort of the in between work, the so-cial aspects outside of it.’

Explaining how fame quickly turned to pain, he opened up to 40-year-old adventurer Bear Grylls on their run-ning Wild TV stint.

‘You spend a lot of time in your house going crazy, you know pretty soon you need a social lubricant,’

he explained. once I needed that, it be-came to go anywhere. It was getting to the point where I was caring less about the work and waiting more for the week-end, where I couldn’t wait to go out and

sort of let loose and have fun. ‘But then when Monday and Tuesday were too difficult to get through, then I was like, “oh, this is bad”.’

after detoxing, the hottie has now sworn off drugs for

life as he builds his self-es-teem back up.

He added: ‘I just really never again want to

have to take any-thing from the out-side in to me to feel good about my outside, [I want] to be comfortable in my present skin, and that takes a lot of work.

‘It’s just medita-tion and stopping,

slowing down your brain.’

A ‘very drunk’ Kate Moss pulled out the ‘do you know I am?’ line to blag her way on to an easyJet flight home without a ticket.

the supermodel strolled into Bodrum airport in turkey after taking a break at a nearby detox centre and held up a long line of passengers in a bid to fly to Gatwick.

the 40-year-old spent a significant amount of time talking to the duty manager, before being ushered on to the plane, said witnesses.

one traveller said: ‘the general consensus was that she didn’t have a ticket but after chatting to the manager for some time she was whisked on to a flight.

‘It was pretty obvious Kate had had a bit to drink as she was talking loudly and didn’t seem worried about being seen,’ the

eyewitness claimed. If I had showed up that drunk there’s no way I’d be let on the plane but she is

Kate Moss.’once on board, Moss was

reportedly happy to chat to other passengers and did not throw a diva strop when the flight was delayed by two hours. one star-struck passenger tweeted: ‘Just got off my flight with a very drunk Kate Moss,’ while another added: ‘Kate Moss was on the same plane as me yesterday and she was out of it.’

An easyJet spokesman said data protection laws prevented him from speaking about Moss’s actions but added: ‘We can say every passenger on that flight had to pay for and had a ticket.’

the model’s camp would not comment on Monday’s incident.

‘Sloshed’ Kate Moss hic-hikes on EasyJet

frequent flyer: Kate Moss at check-in Pictures: PAPArAzzle.com

Lady Gaga definitely for-the-birds with this feathered outfit


Damon Albarn says Blur fans may never

hear 15 brand new songs because of

soaring temperatures in Hong Kong. The

band gathered at a Hong Kong recording

studio last year to record their first album

since 2003’s Think Tank but the sessions

were aborted. Albarn said: ‘I think in

Hong Kong it might have just been a bit

too hot. There was too much commuting

between where we were staying and

where we were recording, and it was a

bit too hot.’ Albarn said the 15 tracks were

‘great tunes...but it may just be one of

those records that never comes out.’

Blur tracks too hot to hear

LIAm NeesoN said he and hiswife Natasha Richardson made a

deal to turn off each other’s life support machines if they ever ended up in a

vegetative state.The 62-year-old Taken star told

how he was then faced with that exact reality after the actress wasleft brain dead five years agofollowing a skiing accident at theage of 45.

‘I went in to her and I just toldher I loved her. I said, “sweetie,you’re not coming back fromthis”,’ the actor told Loaded

magazine.‘she and I had made a pact. If

any of us got into a vegetative state we’d pull the plug.’

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MiLEy’s fEELing A BiT Ruff in BED...

mILey CyRus proved she can let sleeping dogs lie even when she is rolling around in bed next to them taking selfies. The 21-year-old showed how close her bond is with her pooches when she shared a photo of herself panting with that famous tongue out with four pets.

Paws for thought: miley and her dogs Picture: instagram

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Bouncy ball: Liam covers Miley’s Wrecking Ball

Sensitive soul: Liam copies RiRi’s tattooed hand and dress

Busting out: Liam uses sunhats to copy Bey’s cleavage

Pout: Liam bares his teeth as the Starships singer Pictures: Mercury Press

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WITH his A-list pout, star-like poise and fake ‘assets’ – Liam Martin looks every inch the celebrity.

The 17-year-old’s mock-ups are an in-ternet smash and have attracted 1.5million fans – including the real Tyra Banks, Cara Delevingne and Ari-ana Grande.

For the past eight months, he has posed for pictures taken by his mother Karen and posted on his Instagram account under the name ‘wa-verider’.

‘I wanted to do something different. It’s not the most usual thing for a 17-year-old lad, but I wanted to make people laugh,’ the New Zealander said.

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Flying high? You’d better flush your drugs away

by DAniEL binnsDRUG smuggling festival-goers made a class-B-line for the toilets after a flight attendant tipped them off about sniffer dogs at arrivals.

The Jetstar flight to Sydney was carry-ing a throng of music fans home from Splendour in the Grass when the helpful steward sparked a rush for the toilets.

‘We have been told there are sniffer dogs and quarantine officers waiting in the domestic terminal,’ the airline staff-er was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph in Sydney.

‘If you need to dispose of anything you shouldn’t have, we suggest you flush it now.’

Jetstar has since weeded out the offending employee and apologised.

A statement said: ‘The crew member’s words were poorly chosen and are

plainly at odds with the professional standards we’d expect from our team.’

Despite the rebuke, many Facebook users have praised the attendant for flagging up the search threat.

‘What a good Samaritan, Jetstar Aus-tralia this guy deserves a promotion,’ Rohit Dwivedi posted on the airline’s official page.

Jebediah Cole added: ‘Of course you should warn your passengers to help avoid them being humiliated, locked in a cage or fined.’

However, one traveller who witnessed several people dashing for the toilets asked: ‘Why would you tip people off about this? If they have got something illegal, let them get caught.’

Sniffer tip-off:

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Geyser: Water is sprayed into the air on Sunset Boulevard, while some students, below, seized on the chance to have a laughPICTURE: REUTERs/aP

A BURST main flooded a US college campus with 30million litres of water yesterday – during a record drought during which homeowners are being fined for wastage. The 93-year-old pipe sent water 9m into the air on Sunset Boulevard and left a 4.5m hole as it flooded UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Some people pulled out body boards to ride down the flowing water. Firefighters in inflatable boats saved at least five people who were stranded. No injuries were reported.


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BRiTAin: Onlookers watch as Eastbourne’s 144-year-old pier was in flames yesterday with 60 firefighters trying to control the blaze

and finally...cHinA: A tycoon issuing the makers ofa Sex And The City-style film because hisphone number wasattributed to one ofthe characters. JiangMange, of Shanghai,wants €25,000 forlost business after thousands of callsfrom fans of themovie forced him to change his number.

GERMAny: A father died and five of his friends were hurt when a digger fell on them as they took part in a dare. They filled the shovel with water, to be poured over them, but it toppled over and hit them as they sat in a field in Isselburg. The ‘cold water challenge’ has spread on Facebook.

Facebook dare kills father

nORTH KOREA: Four short-range missiles were fired towards the ocean in a series of artillery tests yesterday, officials in South Korea said. They were released in two bursts from Mount Myohyang, north-east of Pyongyang. Some may have fallen short of the sea and landed on N Korean soil.

Four missiles fired in test

inDiA: Ten people were killed and more than 150 trapped when a landslide buried a village yesterday. At least 30 homes were badly damaged in monsoon rains in Ambegaon, near Pune. A rescue team arrived but bad weather hampered their efforts in the remote western region.

Landslip buries villagers

inDiA: Online retailer Amazon is to invest a further €1.5billion in boosting operations in the lucrative market. Its plan comes after Indian rival Flipkart revealed €750million in fresh funding. ‘India is on track to be our fastest country ever to $1billion in gross sales,’ said Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

Amazon’s €1.5bn battle

Shelled: A child wounded in the attack on the Jabalya school pictures: getty

Thirty die in israelis’ ‘shameful’ onslaught

by DAniEL BinnS

OMG, I think I’m being kidnappedA TEXT reading ‘OMG... I think I’m being kidnapped’ was sent from a teenager’s phone on the day she was killed, it has emerged. The message was sent to April Millsap’s boyfriend hours before she was found dead in a drainage ditch in Armada, Michigan, last Thursday. It’s understood the boyfriend took no action because he thought the 14-year-old was joking. ‘He might have thought of it as being a prank,’ said April’s grandfather Dennis Levans. No arrests have been made but US police are searching for a suspect.

MORE than 30 Palestinians were killed yesterday in a series of attacks on civilian sites in Gaza including a school and a market.

At least 15 people, many of them chil-dren, died as Israeli forces shelled the Jabalya girls’ school – despite 17 UN warnings that the site was being used to shelter thousands of families. In one of the strongest UN statements since the conflict began, official Pierre Krähen-bühl said he was confident Israeli forces were responsible for the school attack and that it was a ‘serious vio-lation of international law’.

He added: ‘This is an affront to all of us, a source of univer-sal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.’

Witness Abdel-Karim al-Ma-samha, 27, said his family had come to the school after flee-ing fighting near their home in the northern Gaza Strip. He said: ‘We did not find safety here. People were mar-tyred before our eyes.

They were dismembered.’The Israeli army said militants near-

by had fired mortar rounds and its forc-es had shot back.

Further deaths were recorded in the shopping district of Shijaiyah where at least 17 were killed and 160 injured when shells rained down on the area as

hundreds of residents crowded the streets assuming a ceasefire was in place.

Earlier in the day, Israel an-nounced a four-hour ‘humani-tarian’ truce but not in the mar-ket area, according to reports.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian baby born in the rubble after an air strike has died. The girl – named

Shimah after her mother – was delivered by Caesarean section in the town of Deir al-Balah and died on Tuesday. Her

mother, 23, was killed on Sun-day. Her birth had been called a symbol of hope by doctors.Tears: An injured girl

‘Health officials unable to cope’

another suspected sufferer, Mr Black said: ‘I couldn’t believe this was my first shift, on my first mission. As I operated, I kept thinking I was going to drown in the pressure.’

The virus has killed more than 670 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria and yesterday British ministers held an emergency summit to agree plans should the disease arrive there.

Obstetrician Mr Black, 32, from Manchester, who works in a clinic in the city of Bo has called for more help for agencies like Médecins Sans Frontières as ‘health authorities here just don’t have the infrastructure to cope.’

In a statement, the Department of Health said there is a ‘very low’ risk of the disease reaching Ireland.

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More than

1,200people have been

infected

It takes between

2 and 21days

between infection and the onsetof symptoms

The virus can be The virus can be spread when spread when

grieving relativestouch

the bodies of ebola victims

Liberia129

deaths

Sierra Leone224

deaths

Guinea319

deaths

The currentebola outbreak in

Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea has killed

at least

672people so far

Ebolasymptoms

include a sudden fever, muscle pain, headache and a sore throat. This is often

followed by vomiting, diarrhoea and internal

and external bleeding

In anebola outbreak,the death rate

is between

60% and 90%

The virus istransmitted

to humans from wild animals. It spreads through

direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of

infected people

Source: World Health OrganizationSource: World Health Organization

More than

2,200people have died from the

ebola virus since 1976 There isno curefor Ebola

Fruit batsare the natural

host of the ebola virus and are a

delicacy in Guinea,where the current

outbreakstarted

Member of Medecins Sans Frontieres with protective gear in Conakry, Guinea

Member of Medecins Sans Frontieres with protective gear in Conakry, Guinea

Medecins Sans Frontieres

in Bundibugyo, UgandaMedecins Sans Frontieres

in Bundibugyo, Uganda

A street vendor in Liberia wears protective glovesA street vendor in Liberia wears protective gloves

Kailahun, Sierra Leone

The ebola virus

Prof Peter Piot

first discovered the

virus 38 years agoProf Peter Piot

first discovered the

virus 38 years ago

Medical personnel in Kailahun, Sierra Leone

The ebola virus

How safe are we from the ebola outbreak?

With the British government yester-day acknowledging the ebola virus posed a real threat

to its citizens, it makes you sit up and take notice and wonder exactly how safe we are from the killer virus here in ireland?

So far, the deadliest ebola outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976 has been contained in three west African countries – Guinea, Li-beria and Sierra Leone.

At least 672 people have died in the current outbreak, which began in March. Experts suspect the virus was transmitted from a fruit bat in Guinea to one person.

there is no cure for ebola, which causes a virulent disease called hemorrhagic fever. this is often fa-tal and causes internal and external bleeding. it spreads through humans

from direct contact with the blood and other bodily fluids of the infected person.

When the victim has died, the virus is often spread to relatives tending the body in funeral rituals.

‘this is undoubtedly the largest outbreak in terms of number of people infected and the number of deaths,’ said Prof Peter Piot, who first discovered the virus in a vil-lage in the Democratic Re-public of Congo almost 40 years ago. the Belgian micro-

biologist, now director of the Lon-don School of hygiene & tropical Medicine, added: ‘this is unprece-dented. it is the first one that in-volves multiple countries.

‘in Guinea, it’s slowly going down but in Liberia and Sierra Leone we’re definitely not seeing the end yet – it’s a very active epidemic there.’

Even though no cases have been reported in Britain, or indeed ire-land, Prof Piot said governments were correct to be vigilant but em-phasised there was no need to panic. ‘the risk of an outbreak of ebola in London, for example, is extremely

low if non-existent,’ he said, a view shared with relation to ireland by our Department of health.

‘the biggest risk if a patient arrived would be for hospital workers,’ add-ed Prof Piot. ‘But our standards of hospital hygiene are so much better. We would be prepared for that.

‘Every doctor and nurse should ask someone who comes with fever: “Where have you been”? And if it’s from west Africa that would mean these patients would have to be treated with special care and there are special units to protect the nurs-es and doctors and also the public.’

he added: ‘Ebola is transmitted through really close contact. You really need to have contact with someone who is bleeding or vomit-ing. it’s not just sitting next to some-one on the train – that’s not a prob-

lem. here, the risk is absolutely minimal for us, fortunately.

‘With Sars [severe acute respira-tory syndrome] it is airborne and is something you can catch by breath-ing next to someone but that’s not the case with ebola. if it was we would be in big trouble.’

Prof Piot said he never thought he would still be talking about the virus 38 years after he discovered it.

he travelled to what was then Zaire to trace the virus after a blood sample from a Belgian nun, who had died from a mysterious illness, was sent to his lab in Antwerp.

he said the latest outbreak was not down to the virus itself, but human behaviour.

‘this is a disease of poverty but also of badly functioning health services.’

Hundreds of people have died in west Africa in what is now the deadliest outbreak of the ebola virus in history. But are we at risk here in Ireland and do we really need to take precautions?

ROSS McGUINNESS reports

Ebola wasdiscovered in

1976in the

Democratic Republic of Congo. It is

named after the Ebola River near a village where it

was identified

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Will someone ever put me into Yeh Big Ride? i look every day and i’m never there. i’m

not a terrible catch – i’m female, loyal, easy-going, true to myself, and i shave the hairs on my big toe, so they don’t look unbecoming.

i’m making the natural transition to grey, so my hair colour is blonde with grey streaks. it’s nice. i’m nice. i’m a Dub, but live outside Dublin and happily travel on the train to Heuston from Monday to Friday.

i mention these snippets so one of you single people has something to go on.

i dare ya, throw me into the sec-tion and make my day.

PS: Mention my friends Dolores,

George and Carol while you’re at it, because if this is printed they’ll see it, know it’s me, and because they already think i’m a bit bats and maybe worry a tad, i want to see us all smiling while i bag someone to shave my toes for me.

Hairy toes

To DC, when the boss bites, when the tax stings, when i’m feel-ing mad.

i simply remember your most hated things, and then i don’t feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel SO baaaaaaaaaad. J Andrews

To lisa who had to be told by another passenger that her dress was inside-out before she made it to work – where did you change!?

Alain, Killiney

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Can any readers give me advice on what to do about a bully-boy in a Range Rover who keeps parking in my space within a private car park in town despite me leaving notes on the car window. What should i do?

Cheesed off

i can no longer complete the Challenging Metroku. Has it be-come more difficult, or have i start-ed on the road to senility? Jen

Does anyone else jump out of bed in the morning happy to start a brand new day? My flatmates and workmates are always complain-ing about my jovial spirit in the AM. is absolutely everyone else a morning grouch, or are there any other larks out there?

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TOES SHOWCASE: Monika Sobczak sent in this photo of her foot covered in plaster (or is it paint?) which she took at her art workshop

Quick pic

Send your photos to [email protected] with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

Fair play to the bloke in Eason’s at lunchtime Wednesday who resisted the urge to punch the guy who verbally abused your girlfriend. How he could get so angry in a bookshop is beyond me, but good on ya for keeping it to words, and not using force. Keith

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gOOD On yATo the gorgeous blonde on the Drogheda

train on Tuesday evening, you were in a black leather jacket, ripped black jeans, gold shoes and had a blue handbag, you were standing across from me and got off at Skerries. You combined beauty, elegance and sexiness with effortless ease. Coffee sometime? Karl

To the hot girl wearing Converse on the #15 into town on Monday around 8am. How about a drink sometime? Guy who sat beside you

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in the know, on the go

Protests often make for strange bedfellows, and sometimes they make for strange beds. last week i was lying on the road of

Stephen’s Green at the ‘die-in’ for Gaza. in my good pants too.

i won’t pretend i had planned on lying down, but if i’d stayed standing it would have been like protesting the protest, so down i got. The alternative was slinking off with my tail between my legs, and that would have meant stepping over ‘bodies’ who had the conviction to lie down, so i was shamed into staying.

Yes, that’s correct, i chickened out of being a coward. Such is peer pressure.

Protesting can be an uncomfort-able experience if you’re not a professional activist, or sporting some camera that makes it look like you’ve ‘got a job to do’. i steal into this category by being a journalist, which is sneaky, because you’ve got a reason – or more accurately an excuse – for being there beyond principle or outrage. You’re a parasitic passen-ger along for the ride.

And you can still feel the stress of sticking your head above the parapet a touch. You know you’re being paranoid, but what if they pull you in one day at US immigra-tion? Or into your local Garda station?

The imagination runs riot, and your jitters are an embarrassment because there’s a girl called Caoimhe organising this gig who was shot by the israelis in 2002. This just makes you feel even more pathetic.

And worse, i’m not even espe-cially moved by this issue over any other – which is damn near unsayable given how many children have been maimed and killed, but it’s true. if i’m honest, i find the degree of irish outrage a bit hypocritical, like we’re cherry picking injustices. What about Syria or Darfur?

No, what really got me down to the protest was the Gaza-led content on my Facebook feed coming from all quarters – lefties, mummies, doctors – the lot. Why are we so hot on this issue?

it’s not much of an intuitive stretch to equate Palestine with ireland and israel with Britain, and

it turns out this is actually irish policy. in the 1920s and 1930s we supported Zionists as they strug-gled with the British, but that changed when they agreed to partition. This made israel the Ulster of the Middle East, and it took us until 1963 to even officially recognise israel as a country.

in the 1980s we were the first EU member to call for a Palestinian state, and we were also the last EU country to let israel open an embassy (1993).

Ten years on, Brian Cowen snubbed israel by visiting Yasser Arafat, and in 2010 we expelled an israeli diplomat when fake irish passports were used in the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai.

This won’t satisfy protesters, but in the Ferrero Rocher world of diplomacy it’s fairly frosty stuff, and for once it seems policy makers and people are on the same page, albeit not to the same degree. As far as the people of ireland appear to

be concerned, israel is on the wrong end of a

moral absolute usually reserved for, well, the Nazis.

And this starts to get a little uncomfortable,

because if you’re calling people Nazis,

in my view, you’re starting to act like one

yourself. But what, you may say, about the

remorselessly trigger-happy israeli elephant in the room?

You’re right of course, it’s indefensible. Not an hour goes by without new reports of shelled schools or hospitals and more dead civilians. But other wars or causes can only dream of the attention Palestine gets. if PR was guns, israel would have lost this war decades ago.

But PR is not guns, and israel’s shield against negative opinion surpasses even that iron Dome missile system for the rockets. From behind those defences they seem happy to look the world squarely in the eye and raise that middle finger.

i wonder if it’s this that has us all so incensed. Not the ferocity, or barbarity – which are common to all conflict zones – but the impu-nity.

Either way, they get a rise out of us like no one else.

@kenrogan

kEn ROgAn is not only a bit uncomfortable with what is going on in Gaza, but also with the moral absolutes on which we base our response

whollythursday

Other wars dream of the attention Palestine gets. If PR was guns,

Israel would have lost decades ago

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Hat’s entertainment!It’s Ladies’ Day at the Galway Races, so we get hat advice from milliner Laura Kinsella and look at other sartorial options to wow the judges and the crowds


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Laura Kinsella is a relative newcomer to the millinery game, but she’s already making a big name for herself on the racing scene. Fresh from winning the award for Image Magazine Breakthrough Designer of the Year at Kerry Fashion Week, she gives Orna Cunningham her lowdown on her rise to the top and her take on designing that outfit-making-or-breaking staple of the racing season.

YOU might have plenty ofdash, but you’re stillwaiting for your horse to come in before you can gosplurging on any bigpurchases.

Never fear – a winningoutfit doesn’t have to mean pricey designerlabels, and classic vintagefinds are often a judgefavourite.

So whether you canafford to go all out oryou’re happy to nailhorsey-set glamour with asmaller price tag, there’s alook to suit everyone.

IN 2010, there were ‘no jobs’ says Kinsella. Coming home from a stint travelling the world, and with a background in womenswear design, she was presented with two internship

options – one in knitwear and another in millinery. Lucky for us, she chose millinery.

‘I’ve always liked hats,’ she explains. ‘I trained as an apprentice for nine months, then worked briefly with a few other milliners – then went to intern in London with Philip Treacy.’ (Who is ‘lovely’, she adds.)

‘I have been working for Beads And Bling on Dublin’s Wellington Quay as a freelance milliner since 2012 but started my own range in 2013.’

Millinery differs from traditional fashion design, she says. ‘Coming from a fashion background, I am used to designing from inspiration for two seasons every year, but it varies dramatically from season to season.

‘I have a look at trend reports as I feel many clients will be buying outfits from current

trend colours and styles, so it is important that I know what will go with them.’

But she’s not constrained, she adds. ‘It can be anything, once I let my mind wander. Last spring/summer I was inspired by Japanese horror films and this spring/summer was engineering – mainly bridges – so it never stays the same.’

Hoping to expand into other accessories and sell internationally, the pretty 31-year-old’s personal style is evident in her hats. ‘I love

texture, which comes out in all of my

pieces,’ she says. ‘[I like anything] clean, strong and modern with a bit of print thrown in.’And there are

exciting times afoot for the young designer, who will admit she’s sent pieces to a stylist working for a megastar singer, but won’t be drawn on who it might be. ‘I can’t say just yet!’ she laughs.

For those looking to make their mark at ladies’ day, her advice is to ‘stay true to your own style and stand out from

the crowd’. She adds: ‘We’ve had a huge variation of winners this year. Be bold and strong without trying too hard.’

And as regards a winning hat, there’s no real formula, she says – what works at one festival might fall flat at another.

‘It completely depends on the festival,’ Kinsella explains. ‘Galway ladies’ day usually tends to be more about big hats, although last year was hugely vintage-inspired. This year, the trend moved away from big and showy and all the hats that won through varying ladies’ days were modern and elegant. Even a trilby won this year, steering completely away from the usual hat or fascinator type.’

THE hat isn’t necessarily the most important part of the outfit, says Kinsella – ‘the hat should complement the outfit. Whether you want it to be the focal point or

not they should all complement each other, every accessory with the clothing’ – and that outfit doesn’t need to be all designer duds either.

‘Judges may certainly notice certain pieces over others from recognition but it definitely doesn’t mean winning best dressed,’ she says.

And if you’ve never worn a hat to ladies’ day before, it’s time to take the plunge, she says. ‘The biggest thing I would say [about wearing a hat] is comfort. Regardless of shape or size you have to be really comfortable in it. If you aren’t comfortable in it, it will show on the day.’

When picking your hat, there are a few things to consider, she explains. ‘It would really depend on the person. It isn’t just about face shape,’ she says, ‘it can also have to do with a person’s height and body shape. What might look beautiful against the face might

drown out a shorter or smaller person so there is a lot to consider.

‘I think the key is to find a shape or style that suits you... try on lots, and stick to a formula until you are more comfortable branching out.’

Adding that we’re likely to see corals and pinks today, she says there are, sadly, no insider tips on what judges want to see.

‘No,’ she laughs, ‘If I knew those I’d be sorted! Be comfortable and stylish. Be unique.’

Good advice – from someone as unique as the hats she creates. To order, go to laurakinsella.com or email [email protected]. All commissions made by appointment.

Kinsella (right) with one of her creations and on previous page a new design

PIcture creDIt: JohnnY McMIllan

Alberta Ferretti Open Toe Mules,yoox.com, €RRP€450

Beaded ZipAcrossClutch inPale Gold,Reiss, €145

Michael KorsBrilliance Gold-PlatedWhite Crystal Stud

Earrings, Fields,€79

PhilipTreacy SS/2014piece,price onrequest at philip treacy.co.uk

Roland Mouret, Maniola One-Shoulder Stretch-

jersey Dress,€1,685 net-a-porter.com

Accessorize Camilla FeltBow DiscFascinators, €54

Penneys Beaded Clutch€11

TwistedFaux StoneStuds,Forever 21,€2.45

ASOSSurvivor Heels,

€35.21, asos.com

Red BardotDrop HemDress,River Island,€45

fIvE Of THE bEsT: lipSTickS

COsT COMPARIsONs

You have your fascinator, you’ve done themental toss-up as to which shoes will look

beautiful and cripple you least, andyou’ve decided on your colourpalette. An easy and cheap way to tie the look together is with astatement lipstick – somethingfresh and stark that stands out(and hopefully catches a judge’seye), or a nod to classicglamour with a deep, rich red.

MAC Sheen Supreme, (here inphosphorescent, (€20 Brown Thomas) combines the colour

impact of a lippie with the shine ofone of the brand’s lipglasses. it’slightweight and non-sticky, anddoesn’t require constant re-application.

Nars semi-matte (€25, Brown Thomas) is a velvety colour that won’t dry out your lips over thecourse of the day, and will lastany number of sips ofchampagne. Highly pigmented and long-wearing, its blend ofconditioners nourish the lipsduring wear.

Artdeco’s Perfect Colour lipstick’s creamy texture is a little touch of luxury andprovides even coverage, withlong durability. it also containsVitamin E and its unique metalsleeve prevents melting in theheat of a handbag. From €11.90to €12.80 at Debenhams.

Urban Decay RevolutionLipstick (available in House of Fraser, RRp €20) truly has an ‘insane colourpayoff’ as the brandpromises, and is a brilliant choice if you’re going fora slightly darker, more gothic

feel in your get-up. Deep, buttery andcolour-rich.

Sisley’s Hydrating LongLasting Lipstick is a littlepricier at around €42from sisley-paris.com,but it delivers on itspromise of longevity andthere are few lipsticks which match it for itshydrating properties.Available in a hugerange of colours andtextures – pearly, satiny and iridescent – itglides on like a dream.


Are you tired of the usual weekend lie-ins?

The nights out and the mornings after?

Maybe your day-to-day work life isn’tmaking the most of the valuable life skillsyou have developed over the years?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, now could bethe time to try something new and be more productive with yourfree time.

Aware can provide you with the opportunity to use your skills and- with some training - make a real difference both in your own lifeand in the lives of others.

We need people who are reliable, empathic and committed, tovolunteer for a three-hour slot once a week on our Support Lineservice. Full training and ongoing support is provided.

This could be a great opportunity for you to develop a new focusin life, and make use of the many talents and qualities that youhave. We’re particularly keen to hear from you if you are availablefor weekend slots, but we also have weekday options too.

Information and application for this and voluntary opportunitieson all of Aware’s support services, is available on aware.ie now.

We would love to hear from you.

Thank you.facebook.com/Aware aware.ietwitter.com/Aware

AHEAD of Castlepalooza and Vodafone’s Centre Stage fancy dress festival day this weekend we asked some of Dublin’s up-and-coming student designers to add a touch of street style to the Kings and Queens theme.

Known for those famous red-soled shoes, Christian Louboutin now turns to make up. Christian Louboutin Beauté will include 31 shades of nail colour, which will launch at Brown Thomas on August 7. The first shade to drop in store will be Rouge encased in a moulded glass bottle, inspired by classical architecture, specifically balustrades found in 18th century buildings in Europe.

trend tracker with Lorna Weightman @styleisleIRL

BEAUTY ON THE LUAS LINEJust a short walk fromthe Dundrum Luas stopis a new emporium ofmanicures andpedicures. Renownednail technician MicheleBurke has opened a setof rooms to cater for hergrowing business andoffers a range of services

including the ever-popular Gelish. Nail trends are dominatingbeauty pages and Michele says nails are the perfect complement to your style. ‘I think nails are the best accessory to any outfit and each season we definitely should work withwhat’s in fashion and the hot colour of the moment, but alsotake into consideration the client’s skin tone and personality.’Check out micheleburkenails.ie for details.

H&M STUDIOAutumnWinter isstarting to take over magazinepages andthe latestretailer to show off itswares isH&M. TheStudiocollection (instores from September) which waslaunched at Paris Fashion Week is adark and elegant range, includingexceptional outerwear and winterytextures like leather and velvet. ThePremium range, which will launchlater in October is equally impressive with a focus on easy to style separates. The colour paletteis sophisticated with navy, cream and black dominating. And not to forget, H&M’s 2014 collaborationwith Alexander Wang in November;start your wish list now.

ALL ABOUT THE PREPPYEver since my time at London Menswear

Collections, I have become slightly obsessed with

Tommy Hilfiger’s summer offering. We might be

hitting autumn, but the transitional nature of

the Hilfiger ranges are what make it so

appealing to me. Shirts, jeans, skirts and

blazers are the signature look with navy,

naturally, underpinning the brand’s

identity. My favourite pieces are the checked

blouses and tapered jeans that make for a

perfect look towards the end of summer.

Check out the full range at tommyhilfiger.ie

I’m wearing Jeans, €137; Shirt, €119

DETHRONE!After an epic victory at the O2 last week, UFC superstar Conor McGregor has also added designer to his CV. His Dethronerange has gained huge popularity, andhaving styled looks for Ireland AM priorto the UFC Fight Night, I am really takenwith the t-shirts. Now they might be forthe boys, but who says we girls can’twear them too? The range is availableonline at dethrone.com

LOUBOUTIN TAKES TO MAKE-UP

FESTIVAL FASHION NCAD’s Kyle Cheldon Barnett, 27, has chosen Asian Dynasty with a sci-fi twist: Jacket – Something I designed myself; NCAD

student Nino Sanaia, 20, is going with genie vibes: Dress, Cos €89; Shoes, Zara €19.99; Necklace, Vintage €30; Headpiece, Topshop €18.25; Watch, Michael Kors €210

Griffith College student Eunsun Ban, 22, has chosen royal gold statement pieces:Top, H&M €29.99; Leather Cape, Own Collection €220; Trousers, Cos €89.99; Shoes, Birkenstocks €59.99; Necklace, H&M €24.99; Watch, Casio €70; Sunglasses, ASOS €16.99; Earrings, Vintage €19.99

UCD student Yousif Saleh, 21, takes inspiration from Arab royalty, opulence and glamour:

Top, Zara €19.99; Shorts, Vintage/Oxfam €15; Boots, Doc Martins €100; Body Chain, River Island €13; Torc Necklace, H&M €9.95; Sunglasses, George’s Street Arcade €12; Backpack, Penneys €10; Nose Ring, Topman €3

The Castlepalooza Music and Arts festival is on this weekend at Charleville Castle in The Castlepalooza Music and Arts festival is on this weekend at Charleville Castle in The Castlepalooza Music and Arts festival is on this weekend at Charleville Castle in Tullamore. Members of the Vodafone royal court will be around the site on Sunday handing out bespoke regal crowns designed by Irish milliner Martha Lynn, You can pop into the Dress-up Room to buy a costume and be in with a chance of winning Vodafone and Castlepalooza goodies. Visit CastlePalooza.ie for further details.

T-shirt, H&M €9.99; Vest, H&M €6.99; Shorts, Zara €35; Sandals, H&M €39.95; Sunglasses, & Other Stories €50; Crown, Vintage/Oxfam €20


★Must seetelevision

the good wife RTÉ1, 11.20pm

The trials and tribulations of Alicia Florrick have reached its 100th episode and our protagonist is in for a shock, a former client has died and left her rolling in it. But the wife is contesting the will – so it’s back to court. Meanwhile, Eli freaks out when drug dealer client Lemond Bishop shows up at the Florrick/Agos holiday party, just as Peter is due to make his entrance.

ghghghghgh EMAnD▲D▲NEw oNcheap thrillsBlack comedy inwhich unemployedand put-upon family man Craig (PatHealy) tries to drown his sorrows in a baronly to bump into anold pal (EthanEmbry, right withHealy) and amysterious couple.On hearing theirwoes, the coupleoffer the friendscash to perform anincreasingly disturbing set of dares.

about last nightLoosely based on Sexual Perversity In Chicago, which then became

About Last Night in the 1980s –although thisversion is playedfor laughs. KevinHart and ReginaHall (left) play afeisty couple,while Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant are a more lovey-dovey pairing.Laughs andemotionalquandaries result.

Available to rent/buy now

pet island RTÉ1, 7PMPampered pooches and coddled cats are in the spotlight as this fly-on-the-wall documentary meets Ireland’s most besotted pet owners and their four-legged companions. Tonight, we meet Martin Bailey and his fiancée Jennifer Duggan (right), who live with six Maltese and an old English sheepdog called Guapo, who is up against Vicky (with owner and groomer Colm) for Best in Show. Meanwhile, a group of crazy cat ladies trial a loo trainer with their moggies.

noel fielding’sluxury comedy

E4, 10pmIf you stumbled across this on YouTube you might wonder which demented bedroom produced this surreal mix of finger puppets, Pot Noodle monologues and Andy warhol dancing to something that sounds like a Bee Gees parody. welcome to the cheerily strange mind of Noel Fielding and his cast of curious characters, all perched perilously atop a volcano in Hawaii in a coffee shop. Just roll with it.

beavers behaving badly: natural

worldBBC2, 8pm

This is in the fun category, but the residents of Jackson Hole, wyoming, who are under siege by a colony of beavers, are not laughing. Each beaver can fell about 200 trees a year and as the critters are more than capable of bringing down a tree large enough to damage a property and their dam building can result in flooded homes and back yards, it would seem slaughtering the pesky creatures is the only option. But conservationist and ‘beaver buster’ Drew Reed has other ideas.

enron: the smartest guys in

the room RTÉ1, 12.20am

Alex Gibney tells the inside story of one of the biggest business scandals, in which top executives of energy giant and America’s seventh largest company walked away with more than $1billion, while investors and employees lost everything.

striking distance TV3, 9pm

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Catch Sarah Jessica Parker, inher pre-SATC days, as aPittsburgh cop and Bruce willis (with hair) as herpartner in this fairly decent thriller. It centres on TomHardy’s (willis, above withParker) hunt for a serial killer, who he believes is a memberof the force. After publicly sharing his theory Hardy isdemoted to river rescue duty. Expect lots of action, and theodd speed boat chase.

the shelbourne RTÉ1, 8.30pm

The behind-the-scenes documentary follows staff at the five-star hotel as they gear up for St Patrick’s Day and the start of the tourist season. Every detail is agonised over, from the exact shade of green for staff ties to the position of the shamrocks on lapels, as head concierge Dennis o’Brien is inundated with requests.

the honourable woman BBC2, 9pm

we’ve been dancing it around it from the beginning of Hugo Blick’s elusive political thriller, but tonight we finally learn the dark secret that bound the fates of Nessa and Atika together when they met in Gaza.

scandal Sky Living, 9pm

As season three opens, crisis manager olivia Pope is at the centre of the storm as she’s rumoured to be the mystery woman who’s been having an affair with the President… Kerry washington is superb in this mix of soapy melodrama and political thriller, with Pope’s creepy father providing a potentially grittier subplot.

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Barking: John Cazale and Al Pacino, playing Wojtowicz, in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon

The Dog has his dayINTERVIEW: Ahead of its screening as part of Dublin’s Gaze LGBT film festival, The Dog directors tell Pavel Barter about the colourful character who inspired Sidney Lumet’s classic film Dog Day Afternoon

Doggy style: Wojtowicz outside the Chase Manhattan bank in Brooklyn he robbed in Manhattan bank in Brooklyn he robbed in Doggy style: WojDoggy style: Wojtowicz outside the Chase

1972 and (below) the film’s directors

In making a film about a bank robber, Allison Berg never thought she would be involved in a heist of her own. John Wojtowicz, otherwise known as The Dog, asked the director to break his

elderly mother out of hospital. Like Wojtowicz, who spent seven years in a penitentiary for his crimes, his mother hated being locked up. Berg had no intention of proceeding with the plan, but when she went to meet his mother, events spun out of control.

‘I walked into Terry’s hospital room and she immediately began to pull the IV out of her arm,’ recalls Berg. ‘I was completely freaked out but she was insistent on leaving. She started grabbing her things and telling me “let’s go, let’s go”. She was still in her gown and she had her coat on over it… I was helping Terry walk. nobody stopped us. nobody questioned us. I wish they did because I had to get her into a cab, and once we got to the apartment building, I had to carry her up four flights of stairs.’

Berg and her co-director Frank Keraudren never knew what they were getting into when they decided to tell the true story behind Sidney Lumet’s classic film Dog Day Afternoon. In 1972, Wojtowicz achieved notoriety when he tried to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover’s sex change operation.

The Dog, played by Al Pacino in the 1975 movie, was a force of nature who consumed their lives. When the film-makers first met him, he talked for an entire day. ‘We realised there was a lot more to the story than the bank robbery. His personality took over as a subject,’ says Keraudren.

Wojtowicz and his cohorts were inept outlaws. One of them lost his nerve on the steps of the bank and fled the scene, another was shot and killed. The build up to the robbery was a comedy of errors, as the bandits crashed their car and went to see The Godfather at a cinema for inspiration. The heist turned into a police stand-off and a public spectacle. ‘In bank robbery movies, you’ve only got one minute. now you know why,’ says The Dog in the documentary. During the siege, he ordered pizzas for the hostages and demanded to see his lover, Liz Eden, who had been committed to a psychiatric hospital.

The real life Dog does not disappoint. ‘The film starts very abruptly with him being very in your face,’ says Keraudren. ‘We were trying to replicate what it was like when we met him. He was instantly like that.’ Berg

fought in Vietnam, for example, and held the first gay wedding on record in new York with Eden, who died in 1987. ‘He’s never been ashamed of who he was, which is part of what we thought was so amazing about his story,’ says Keraudren. ‘It’s in the early 1970s and he is telling a reporter in the middle of the bank robbery that he’s gay. It’s incredible for that time period.’

Many gay rights advocates wanted to distance themselves from Wojtowicz. Here was a short guy with a shorter fuse. His actions arguably turned their movement into a freak show - although in his mind he was taking the appropriate action for someone he loved. ‘What he did was bad press,’ contends Keraudren.’He more or less just had a meltdown.’

MAKInG The Dog took its toll on the directors. They started filming Wojtowicz in 2002 and the documentary is only getting a release this year. In

the meantime, they made a project about West African superstition, Witches In Exile. Why did The Dog take so long to complete? ‘We self-financed the film,’ says Keraudren. ‘It ended up being in our spare time. If we had done this in a year, I don’t think we would have got under the surface. We got a lot deeper.’

Berg says they did not want to make a film with a message: ‘There isn’t a moral but there is something to appreciate about an unusual, flawed, complicated person and someone who has zero problem saying things like he sees them, and doing exactly what he wants to do. This is not something we can or should do in our own lives, but he’s one in a million.’

The Dog even offered to rob a bank to help the directors pay for their movie. ‘I think he meant it too’, says Berg. She politely declined. The Dog was many things, but he was never a successful bank robber.The Dog plays as part of Gaze International Festival, Lighthouse Cinema, Sun, 6.30pm. www.gaze.ie

adds: ‘He’s just the most unfiltered person.’The directors describe their documentary as

a subversive Forrest Gump story. Wojtowicz, a self-confessed sex addict, lived through seminal moments in American history: he


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Nadal a doubt for US Open defenceTEnnis Rafael Nadal’s US Open participation has been called into question by an injury which will force him to wear a cast on his right wrist for up to three weeks. The world number two won the event last year, beating Novak Djokovic in the final for his 13th major title, to which he has since added this year’s French Open. But he faces a tight schedule to be fit for this year’s event, which starts on August 25, after suffering an injury which will also prevent him defending his Rogers Cup and Western and Southern Open titles earlier in the month. Nadal’s representatives B1PR said in a statement tests found a minor detachment of the posterior cubital tunnel of his right wrist.

Suir Valley event on this weekendcycLing It’s a big weekend ahead on the Irish cycling calendar. The Suir Valley 3 Day is more or less the biggie for senior riders. They’ll all be looking for a chance to emulate Carrick-on-Suir rider Sam Bennett, who turned pro with NetApp-Endura and was formerly of the An Post-Sean Kelly-Chain Reaction Team who won the event last year. Definitely one to watch will be Bryan McChristle of Aqua Blue. Also over the Bank Holiday Weekend is the Youth Tour in Letterkenny, Donegal, where Mark Cavendish the ‘Manx Missile’ made his entrance into the sport of cycling.

Wolff: I’m ok with Hamilton’s actionsfORMuLA OnE Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff insists the team are fine with Lewis Hamilton’s decision to ignore team orders on his way to third place in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Having started from the pit lane following an engine fire in qualifying, Hamilton stormed through to finish on the podium, one place ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg. The German, who leads the drivers’ championship by 11 points at the season’s halfway point, had been on pole but found himself behind Hamilton after a split in strategies. Hamilton said afterwards he was ‘very, very shocked’ at the call to move over.

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Grace chairs LionsRugby Former England captain John Spencer has been appointed as British and Irish Lions tour manager for the trip to New Zealand in 2017 and ex-Ireland wing Tom Grace has being appointed chairman of the British and Irish Lions board, replacing Welshman Gerald Davies. Grace, who won 25 caps for Ireland, eight as skipper, said: ‘The Lions represent the core values of our sport, and I am grateful for the opportunity to represent them as chairman.’

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Mcilroy not wild about senior Ryder options

Double up:Shortallrides RoadTo Riches onhis way to victory,giving thejockey asecond winin one day

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Champion: Shortall with the Galway Plate after the race

SHANE Shortall enjoyed a day to remember as he partnered Road To Riches to a wide-margin win in thetote.com Galway Plate at the Ballybrit track.

The 7lb-claimer had earlier enjoyed a win aboard Greatness, but that was merely the warm-up as he stole all the plaudits with a prominent ride in the feature event of the day.

Lord Ben kept Road ToRiches (14-1) company for most of the race, but lost his pitch at the business end as

the Noel Meade-trained seven-year-old, owned by Gigginstown House Stud, pulled away.

Burn And Turn (16-1) made solid late progress to take second place, with Balnaslow (9-1), also owned by Gigginstown, third. Spring Heeled (10-1) was fourth.

Shortall said: ‘I wasn’t getting out of bed this morning expecting to ride a double. It might never happen again, so I’ll make the most of it.’

RoRy McIlRoy has never minced his words when it comes to the Ryder cup and the newly-crowned open champion shows no signs of changing now.

In May 2009, the Northern Irish-man caused controversy when he labelled the biennial contest an ex-hibition, saying: ‘The Ryder cup is a great spectacle but an exhibition at the end of the day and it should be there to be enjoyed. In the big scheme of things it’s not that im-portant to me.’

He admitted ahead of his debut the following September that he re-gretted those comments and was a swift convert to the event after help-ing Europe win the trophy at celtic Manor.

‘I would not have said this a year ago, but this is the best event in golf by far,’ he said after gaining a cru-cial half point in the singles against former open champion Stewart cink.

Now the 25-year-old has weighed in on the debate over whether Bern-hard langer or colin Montgomerie

should be considered as wild cards for Europe’s team to defend the tro-phy at Gleneagles in Septem-ber.

Montgomerie, 51, has won two Senior major ti-tles this year and 56-year-old langer claimed the Senior British open by a record 13 shots at Royal Porthcawl recently, but McIl-roy is not in favour of having either former captain as a team-mate.

‘I think the team dy-namic is pretty good at the minute with the mix that we’ve got and to bring someone in that hasn’t spent much time around us mightn’t be the best,’ he said.

‘He (langer) is not playing against the regular guys week in and week out but he’s playing great golf and what he’s done this year, and Monty as well, has been fantastic. If they were to be involved as vice-captains or something then I’d be all for that, but I don’t think they should be on the team.’

It was interesting to hear McIlroy use the ‘team dynam-

ic’ argument rather than strictly a golfing criteria for not considering

langer and Montgomerie, es-pecially when the argument

can easily be made that their achievements – however noteworthy –

came on easier courses and against only a handful of players who can still compete on the main tours in America and Europe.

And it is not as if Europe are like-ly to be short of candidates worthy of a wild card when McGinley an-nounces his three selections on

September 2.As things stand,

Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter and lee Westwood

are all outside the qualifying places, while luke Donald is vul-nerable to losing the final auto-matic place over the next few weeks.

Westwood’s poor recent form means his ever-present record since making his debut in 1997 is under threat, while McGinley also has the option of the likes of Miguel Angel Jimenez – also over 50 but a winner on

the regular European Tour this year – and Holland’s Joost luiten, who im-pressed McGinley in

the EurAsia cup in March.Whether McGinley fol-

lows McIlroy’s suggestion and fills his two vacancies for vice-captains with langer and Montgomerie remains to be seen.

‘The team dynamic is pretty good now’

Outspoken: McIlroy is not afraid to speak his mind about the

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Carvalho put up for saleArsenAl are clear to sign William Carvalho(pictured) after the

midfielder’s club sportinglisbon reportedly puthim up for sale.

u FABIO BORINI’S on-off £14million move from Liverpool to Sunderland could be back in theoffing after productive talks between the two clubs.u Burnley defender Ben Meehas signed a new three-yearcontract ahead of the club’s return to the Premier league.u BARceLONA’S chances ofsigning Fiorentina’s JuanGuillermo cuadrado have beendealt a blow, after negotiationsstalled. Thecolombianwinger isreportedly also atarget forArsenalandManchesterUnited.u CrystAl PAlACe are ready to make a£1.2m bid for lazio defenderMichael Ciani.u JOSe cALLeJON has reiterated his desire to stay at Napolithrough the summer transferwindow, despite interest fromchelsea and Manchester city. Thewinger said: ‘I can say that I amgood at Napoli and I am happy.’

vidal aims to force through United move

Out of favour: Hernandez could be leaving united PICTURE: Man UnITEd vIa gETTy

by NicK METcALFEManchester United’s move for arturo Vidal appears to be back on again, with the Juventus midfielder ready to hand in a trans-fer request to force his exit.

the turin giants had said Vidal was not for sale, insisting the situation would not change unless the player asked to leave.

But Vidal, 27, has now instructed his agent to make the deal happen, according to reports in Italy.

Meanwhile, United may help to fund the £45million deal by letting their out-of-favour striker Javier

hernandez join atletico Madrid.atletico boss Diego simeone is a big fan of the Mexican.

‘he’s a vertical player, great in one-on-one situations and someone who could be useful to any team,’ simeone said.

‘We are speaking to the sporting directors about the type of player we want. With Javier hernandez and lots of other great players, any-thing is possible. We can’t close any door until the window shuts.’

reAl Madrid are reportedly still keen to sell sami

Khedira to Arsenal despite Bayern

Munich making a move for the

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59 Goals Hernandez has scored for united since joining the club in July 2010

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Ambrose sent off as Deila suffers a Euro nightmare

ceLtIc’s champions League hopes are hanging by a thread after a dispirit-ing 4-1 defeat by Legia Warsaw in the third qualifying round first leg in which the scottish champions were lucky to escape without further pun-ishment.

callum McGregor gave the visitors the lead in the seventh minute with a strike from outside the penalty area, the 21-year-old midfielder’s second european goal in three games.

however, Legia striker Miroslav ra-dovic levelled three minutes later after highly-coveted midfielder Zyro played him in.

celtic quickly reasserted themselves and looked equally as threatening as the Polish side, with midfielder Kris commons coming close with an effort from 18 yards midway through the first half.

But the slackness prevalent in the hoops defence would have been giv-

ing new coach ronny Deila palpita-tions and in the 36th minute, just after teemu Pukki had missed a decent chance, the home side forged ahead all too easily.

Zyro’s cross was headed down at the back post by Kucharczyk and, with the celtic defence slow to react and am-brose slipping, radovic fired in from close range.

to make matters worse, Parkhead defender efe ambrose was red-carded a minute from the interval for a last-man challenge on Michal Kucharc-zyk.

In the second half, ten-man celtic were let off the hook when Legia cap-tain Ivica Vrdoljak missed the target with a penalty, after captain charlie Mulgrew was adjudged to have fouled Ondrej Duda inside the box.

But in the 84th minute Michal Zyro headed in number three before Mul-grew conceded another penalty with a trip on substitute Jakub Kosecki, this time Forster saving Vrdoljak’s spot-kick.

But there was another sting in the last seconds when Kosecki slotted in a pass from Lukasz Broz to stretch Le-gia’s lead ahead of next week’s return game, with celtic left with it all to do.


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It’s a crime to see Mike so animatedFormer boxer and notoriousear biter mike Tyson is now thestar of his own cartoon series.The former heavyweight champion plays himself in themike Tyson mysteries, where heattempts to solve crimes Scooby Doo stylie. Iron mike (or cartoonmike), is joined in his escapadesby fellow crime fighters, theghost of the marquess ofQueensberry – after whom therules of boxing are named – analcoholic, sex-obsessed pigeonand cartoon mike’s 18-year-oldadopted Korean daughter YungHee, who was left on hisdoorstep as a baby. Theanimation which, in case youwere wondering, is not aimed at a young audience, is to appearon the Cartoon Network’s AdultSwim channel in the Autumn.

Gaff-ic: United’s line-up

Who’s Roo? Don’t MataManchesTer United’s in-housetelevision station MUTV suffereda meltdown yesterday ahead ofthe pre-season friendly with Inter Milan. a graphic showing theline-up managed to mismatch allbut two of the United side’snames and photos. Goalkeeperanders Lindegaard was givenDavid de Gea’s picture while JuanMata and Wayne rooney were given each other’s.The graphical gaffes didn’t endthere, with Fedex Field – thegame’s venue – flashing upUnited’s ground as ‘Old Traddord’.

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Sam hoping Morrison won’t un-Ravel againSAM ALLARDYCE appears to have bowed to pressure from West Ham’s board by backing Ravel Morrison to make an impact this season.

Co-chairman David Sullivan last week publicly disagreed with Allardyce’s suggestion that the 21-year-old midfielder would not be part of his plans last season.

Now the manager seems to have changed his tune about Morrison, who struggled to maintain his form last season, suffering a niggling groin

injury before going out on loan. ‘We thought we’d brought Ravel to the forefront of his abilities this time last

season,’ said Allardyce. ‘He had a fantastic pre-season and started the season very well.

‘That drifted away a bit and he ended up at QPR, helping them get promoted. If he gets back to knuckling down, and getting used to the discipline side of the game, then his talents are outstanding.’

Allardyce saw Enner Valencia become his fifth summer signing earlier this week after the Ecuador forward was granted a work permit.

‘We only got back from New Zealand on monday, which was probably a trip too far.’

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Luke Shaw admits he was surprised how hard stepping up to the challenge of being at Manchester united has been and that he made a mistake thinking his current fitness levels would be sufficient.

The 19-year-old, who signed from Southampton for £28milion this sum-er, played in Tuesday night’s penalty

shoot-out win over Inter Milan, but before the match manager Louis van Gaal had criticised his lack of fitness.

Shaw, who agreed with the criti-cism, conceded he misjudged how demanding it would be to become united’s first-choice left-back.

‘It was a surprise. I didn’t come into united thinking it would be much harder,’ Shaw said. ‘That’s something that I think I made a mistake on. I

shaw determined to prove he can fit in under Van Gaal

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thought it was just going to be the same but it’s the biggest club in the world and there are world-class play-ers in training.

‘That is something that is going to push me on.’

Van Gaal said on Monday he has put Shaw on a special training programme after he turned up for pre-season out

of shape after three weeks off. Shaw thinks the extra training sessions are already paying dividends.

‘I wasn’t meant to play [against In-ter] so I trained on Tuesday,’ he said.

‘But I came on and played 45 min-utes. I felt great. I could have played another 45 so that shows there’s a progression after the last game.’

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Liverpool ‘won’t doa Spurs’LIVERPOOL’S new arrivals will not flop like Tottenham’s did last season, insists Brendan Rodgers.

The Reds boss has spent £90million on six players since Luis Suarez’s move to Barcelona. It’s reminiscent of Spurs’ splurge when they tried, with little

success, to fill the void left by Gareth Bale’s Real Madrid move. ‘It’s a

different club and different vision,’ said Rodgers. ‘There’s a strategy behind what we are doing.’

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Kagawa netted in the shoot-out against Inter

‘I didn’t think it would be much harder here’

Let us sprayTHE vanishing spray World Cup referees used to mark ten yards at free-kicks will be used in the Premier League this season, it was announced yesterday.

a staggering 109,000 fans will see United play real Madrid at Michigan stadium in ann arbor near Detroit on saturday

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POLE POSITION: CELTIC are on the verge of elimination at the Champions League qualifying stage after beingthrashed 4-1 by Legia Warsaw in Poland. Efe Ambrose wassent off and it could have been even worse for Hoops boss Ronny Deila as thehosts missed two penalties.

£28mEVERTON continued to signal their top-four in-tentions by smashing their transfer record to sign Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea.

Two days after coveted England star Ross Bar-kley signed a new Toffees contract, Lukaku, 21, was unveiled in a £28million five-year deal.

Boss Roberto Martinez described Lukaku’s per-manent signing as a ‘significant moment in the history of the club’.

Lukaku, who scored 16 goals on loan at Everton last term, was coy on whether Chelsea’s deci-sion to resign veteran Di-dier Drogba (right) – a player he has often been compared to – had has-tened his decision to leave but said: ‘I needed to be in a place that felt right. I de-cided very quickly I wanted to come back.’

Lukaku’s Stamford Bridge exit indicates the oft-maligned Fernando Torres will remain in west London to play second-fiddle, along with Drogba, to £32m summer acquisition Diego Costa.

Torres and Costa started a friendly at Vitesse Arnhem last night as Mohamed Salah, Cesc Fab-regas and Nemanja Matic scored in a 3-1 win.

Meanwhile, Blues left-back Ryan Bertrand has been loaned to Southampton for the season.

Toffees wrap up Rom deal

Lukaku off as Jose reckons there’s life in old Drogby jAMEs bOyLAn

Transfer Talk – page 22«

Deal: Lukaku

signs for Everton

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maTCH reporT p-22

New Bhoy: Celtic’s Inge Jo Celtic’s Inge Jo Berget (left) and Berget (left) and Legia Warsaw’s Legia Warsaw’s Legia Warsaw’s Lukasz Broz battle for possession.

metro herald, thursday, july 31, 2014

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