page 3 page 5 JAMMIN’ GUITARS FOR GRADES HOMEOWNER GRANT RULES CHANGED LAKERS REBOUND FROM ’BELLIES UPSET www.burnabynewsleader.com WEDNESDAY JULY 2 2014 Sentenced reduced in Amanda Zhao murder Wanda Chow [email protected]A man convicted of murdering his girlfriend in Burnaby a dozen years ago has had his sentence reduced by China’s highest court. Amanda Zhao, 20, was an exchange student from China living in a North Burnaby basement suite with her boyfriend Ang Li when she was killed in October 2002. Li, who has since changed his name to Jia-ming Li, fled to China two days after her body was found stuffed in a suitcase near Mission. It wasn’t until 2009 that he was arrested and September 2012 that a Chinese court found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. But Li appealed and this week the conviction was reduced to manslaughter and the sentence cut to seven years. As he’s been in prison since 2009, he would be freed in two years. While the first court ruling made Zhao’s family feel the law was “fair and just,” the latest judgment by the Beijing High Peoples Court is “unacceptable,” said Bao-ying Yang, Zhao’s mother, in a statement Monday. Thelma Finlayson’s empathy set thousands of students on right path Mario Bartel [email protected]Thelma Finlayson’s failing grade in scientific German was the best thing that could have happened to thousands of students. Finlayson didn’t let that setback deter her from becoming a distinguished biologist and instructor at Simon Fraser University. But it did colour her job as an academic advisor to troubled students after she retired from the classroom. On Sunday, friends, family and former colleagues celebrated Finlayson’s 100th birthday at a special party held at the Diamond Alumni Centre. It seemed like a lot of fuss for someone who just wanted to be a biologist, said Finlayson. Which is pretty much the same argument she used with the professor of her scientific German class when she appealed her substandard grade. “I’m not interested in German,” she said. “I’m a biologist.” The prof let Finlayson carry on with her studies. In 1937, Finlayson became one of the first female scientists at the federal Department of Agriculture’s Belleville Research Institute. Thirty years later she blazed a new trail as the first female faculty member in SFU’s Department of Biological Sciences. But she never forgot her humbling brush with academic failure, and when she became an academic advisor four years after she retired from the classroom, her empathy set thousands of students on the right path. “That definitely influenced me,” said Finlayson. “Most of the students I saw were in trouble, but I enjoyed their ideas. I tried to find something good in their transcripts to give them encouragement.” She also listened. Often students’ academic woes are just the symptom of bigger issues elsewhere in their lives, said Finlayson. Like the male student who told her the next time he’d see her, he’d be a she. Beloved SFU prof, advisor turns 100 MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER Thelma Finlayson is a retired biology instructor from Simon Fraser University who still likes to keep up to date on developments in her field even as she turns 100 years old. She was honoured with a special birthday party at the university on Sunday. Please see ‘GRATEFUL’ A3 Please see PARENTS, A4 The Burnaby Open tennis tournament is serving up lots of action this week. Page A9 page 9 Don Ellam Your Concierge Realtor - First Class Marketing, Service and Results! 604-518-3538 ReMax Advantage Realty • www.donellam.com NEW WESTMINSTER #101-1015 Columbia Street 604-549-8880 Open 11am to 11pm { free yogurt GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION JULY 5 TH • 12-6PM NOW OPEN
A man convicted of murdering his girlfriend in Burnaby a dozen years ago has had his sentence reduced by China’s highest court.
Amanda Zhao, 20, was an exchange student from China living in a North Burnaby basement suite with her boyfriend Ang Li when she was killed in October 2002.
Li, who has since changed his name to Jia-ming Li, fled to China two days after her body was found stuffed in a suitcase near Mission.
It wasn’t until 2009 that he was arrested and September 2012 that a Chinese court found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison.
But Li appealed and this week the conviction was reduced to manslaughter and the sentence cut to seven years. As he’s been in prison since 2009, he would be freed in two years.
While the first court ruling made Zhao’s family feel the law was “fair and just,” the latest judgment by the Beijing High Peoples Court is “unacceptable,” said Bao-ying Yang, Zhao’s mother, in a statement Monday.
Thelma Finlayson’s empathy set thousands of students on right pathMario [email protected]
Thelma Finlayson’s failing grade in scientific German was the best thing that could have happened to thousands of students.
Finlayson didn’t let that setback deter her from becoming a distinguished biologist and instructor at Simon Fraser University. But it did colour her job as an academic advisor to troubled
students after she retired from the classroom.
On Sunday, friends, family and former colleagues celebrated Finlayson’s 100th birthday at a special party held at the Diamond Alumni Centre.
It seemed like a lot of fuss for someone who just wanted to be a biologist, said Finlayson.
Which is pretty much the same argument she used with the professor of her scientific German class when she appealed her substandard grade.
“I’m not interested in German,”
she said. “I’m a biologist.”The prof let Finlayson carry on
with her studies.In 1937, Finlayson became one
of the first female scientists at the federal Department of Agriculture’s Belleville Research Institute. Thirty years later she blazed a new trail as the first female faculty member in SFU’s Department of Biological Sciences.
But she never forgot her humbling brush with academic failure, and when she became an academic advisor four years after she retired from the classroom, her empathy set
thousands of students on the right path.
“That definitely influenced me,” said Finlayson. “Most of the students I saw were in trouble, but I enjoyed their ideas. I tried to find something good in their transcripts to give them encouragement.”
She also listened.Often students’ academic woes
are just the symptom of bigger issues elsewhere in their lives, said Finlayson. Like the male student who told her the next time he’d see her, he’d be a she.
Thelma Finlayson is a retired biology instructor from Simon Fraser University who still likes to keep up to date on developments in her field even as she turns 100 years old. She was honoured with a special birthday party at the university on Sunday.
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There aren’t many courses at BCIT that offer students the chance to jam on guitars as their graduating project.
But that’s part of the curriculum envisioned by Don Shortt for the new luthier program he’ll be teaching at the school in September.
The 12-week custom guitar building program will take students through the entire process of designing and crafting their own electric axe, from selecting the type of wood that will create the sound they seek, to installing frets and pickups, to the jamming finale.
For Shortt, a cabinet-making instructor at BCIT for the past 18 years, it’s a chance to pass on his passion to a new generation of musicians.
Shortt was playing in a variety of blues and rock bands in Ontario 35 years ago when he and his wife decided to sell everything and move to Arizona so he could take a seven-month course in guitar building.
After he completed the
program, the couple moved to Vancouver where Shortt started working in various music shops doing repairs. That work put him in contact with big-time musicians like Bryan Adams, Randy Bachman, k.d. lang and Colin James, who appreciated his intimate knowledge of wood and his precise attention to their
instruments’ electronics.When he started teaching
cabinet making at BCIT, his guitar building became more of a hobby. But he often brought samples of his work into the joinery workshop at the school to show his students the fine characteristics and possibilities of various woods.
Every year a handful of those students would suggest he teach a course on guitar building, said Shortt. “I realized there is a desire.”
With the go-ahead to launch the program, Shortt figures most of his students will already be musicians with the desire to take their avocation to the next level
by building their own dream guitar.
“The idea of the course is more for a guitar player who has that special guitar he wants to build,” said Shortt, who’s constructed 12 of his own instruments over the years.
It can be an arduous and exacting craft, Shortt says.
Wood for the instrument not only determines how it will look, but also the quality of sound it creates.
“Every tree is different,” said Shortt.
And the electronic components have to be installed precisely. There’s no room for error.
“It’s very finicky work,” he said.But when the strings are
tightened, the light glistens off the polished finish and that first chord resonates through a room, the expense, time and sweat pay off, Shortt says.
“It’s magical. There’s no other way to describe it.”
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MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERDon Shortt works on one of his own handcrafted guitars in the joinery building at BCIT. He’s a cabinet-making instructor who will be teaching guitar building in September.
Students jam for grades in guitar program
“They just needed somebody to talk to,” said Finlayson, who continued to advise students until she was over 95 years old.
In fact, Finalyson was so beloved by the students she counseled, two years ago the school established the Thelma Finlayson Centre for Student Engagement to create a welcoming space for students seeking guidance.
Finlayson’s academic specialty was entomology. She researched the larval
stages of various forest and agricultural pests and the use of parasites to control them.
And while she hadn’t taught in the classroom for decades, she continues to stay abreast of developments in her field. Last year she co-authored a paper that was published in a New Zealand journal.
“I never expected to live as long as I have,” said Finlayson. “But I’m grateful for having such a fulfilling life.”
‘Grateful for having such a fulfilling life’ Wanda Chow
When it comes to Burnaby city hall’s official opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion proposal, 70 per cent of residents support the stance.
That’s according to an online Insights West poll commissioned by the city that surveyed 501 Burnaby residents. Of those polled, 54 per cent are opposed to the proposal to almost triple capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline between Edmonton and Burnaby. If only those that expressed an opinion are counted, that opposition rises to 61 per cent.
While a large majority, 92 per cent, of those surveyed are aware of the
pipeline project, only 64 per cent knew that city hall opposes it.
“It also makes it clear that there are still people who don’t know yet about
some of the most concerning aspects of the new pipeline–that it would mean seven times more tankers in Burrard Inlet and that 90 per cent of the pipeline would follow an entirely new route through our city–that this is not the pipeline ‘twinning’ Kinder Morgan
says it is,” said Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan in a press release.
The pipeline is meant to export oil sands crude to overseas markets (35 per cent were unaware). It would carry unrefined bitumen, not the refined products the existing pipeline carries
now (52 per cent were unaware). Of those who opposed the project,
93 per cent cited concern about the risk of oil spills as a reason. The increase in oil tanker ships in Burrard Inlet was cited by 84 per cent and 74 per cent don’t want to see expansion of the company’s oil storage tank farm on Burnaby Mountain.
Men surveyed tended to be more supportive of the project, with 63 per cent saying they believe it will lead to long term jobs. But Burnaby doesn’t believe that will be the case.
“We also need to debunk the myth that any new jobs will be created by the massive amount of oil pumping through our city. In fact, once construction is completed, we expect no job increase,” said Corrigan.
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“We neither understand nor accept the ruling. The ruling changes our opinion about the fairness of the law. The ruling abundantly represents that the law can be bought with power or money in China.”
She thanked NDP MLAs Jenny Kwan and Mike Farnworth as well as advocate Gabriel Yiu, for their lobbying efforts.
Kwan said the high court ruled there was insufficient evidence to support a first-degree murder conviction, citing the fact Zhao and Li were a couple and Li’s contention they were having a pillow fight that somehow led to her strangulation death.
It did, however, uphold the earlier ruling that Li owed Zhao’s family the equivalent of $194,875 in compensation for her death.
It’s not known whether he has the means to pay it, Kwan said.
She noted while the court proceedings were closed to the public, Zhao’s family noticed
that a high-ranking Chinese military official was present. He was identified as the superior officer of Li’s father, who is in the military.
The high court’s decisions are also usually made one to two months after hearings, but in this case the decision took almost two years. As time passed, Zhao’s family became “increasingly worried about the outcome,” said Kwan.
Zhao’s mother also said in her statement, “We have no choice but to question the law in China. We will not stand by waiting for them to undermine the law in China. We will continue our very long and arduous journey of pursuing justice.”
But Kwan isn’t sure there’s anything else the family can
do to achieve closure on their daughter’s death.
They live on a low income, elderly and not in the best of health. A relative told Kwan “she feared that the trauma of this final outcome would also impact their health even further.”
Kwan said she was “quite taken aback” by the latest verdict. “As a mom, I’ve got to tell you, gosh I don’t know what
I would have done if it was my daughter who was murdered in such a manner.”
There were times over the years when Zhao’s parents felt complete hopelessness at ever achieving justice.
“I really empathize with them,” she said. “To say that it’s devastating I think doesn’t even describe it accurately for the family.”
When Kwan started her lobbying efforts six years ago, “my goal was to make sure the family had their day in court … And I think we achieved that.”
So while the second decision is “absolutely disappointing,”
the Canadian officials’ work has set a precedent for how similar cases could be handled in future, Kwan noted.
Li, like Zhao, was an exchange student. He reported Zhao missing to police, claiming she didn’t return from a trip to the grocery store. Her body was found 11 days later.
While he soon became a suspect, RCMP didn’t have enough evidence to detain him before he fled the country. China has no extradition treaty with Canada. That led to several years of federal and provincial officials meeting with Chinese officials before an agreement was struck. China would waive the death penalty if Li was convicted, and the RCMP would share its evidence to allow the prosecution to take place in that country.
“I think in this instance Ang Li thought he got away with murder, that he was never going to be tried,” said Kwan. “But he was tried.”
Parents vow to continue to pursue justice
Amanda Zhao’s mother We have no choice but to question the law in China. We will not stand by waiting for them to undermine the law in China. We will continue our very long and arduous journey of pursuing justice.
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Fewer city property owners to receive annual grantWanda [email protected]
Almost 3,000 Burnaby residents will see their homeowner grants cut or eliminated altogether.
This comes after the provincial government lowered the threshold to qualify for the full homeowner grant from $1.295 million in 2013 to $1.1 million this year.
The full basic grant of $570 will reduce the property taxes of homes assessed at $1.1 million or less. The grant is cut by $5 for every $1,000 over that figure.
Properties assessed at $1.214 million or more will receive no grant at all. That’s far less than in 2013, when the grant was eliminated after assessments reached $1.409 million.
The grant only applies to principle residences. In Burnaby, the average assessment of residential properties is $669,435, says city finance director Denise Jorgenson in a report.
But while 92 per cent of eligible homeowners in the city could claim the full grant amount last year, in 2014 that’s dropped to 88 per cent.
This year, 2,962 residential properties in Burnaby will not qualify for any of the basic grant.
For people who meet certain criteria—they’re over 65 years old, receive a disability allowance, permanently disabled or are veterans—that will also mean a loss of the additional $275-grant.
The provincial finance ministry reduced the grant threshold to save $11 million, ministry spokesman Jamie Edwardson told Black Press last month.
He said the change reduces or eliminates the grant for 18,000 property owners across the province, or about 1.5 per cent of the ones previously eligible.
Just over 93 per cent of B.C. home owners now qualify for the grant, down from about 95 per cent last year.
Assessed property values decreased in many parts of the Lower Mainland over the past year, although not by anywhere near as much as the 15 per cent cut in the threshold for the home owner grant.
Edwardson said the reduced threshold “means we are able to direct approximately $11 million to other priority programs.”
He noted the province has low-interest loan programs that allow many home owners–including those over 55, people with disabilities and families with children–to defer some or all of their property taxes until they sell their home or it becomes part of an estate.
Burnaby city manager Bob Moncur told council last week the province’s decision “came as a bit of a surprise.”
Coun. Paul McDonell was blunt in his assessment. “To me it’s just another stealth tax.”
Mayor Derek Corrigan noted that with property values significantly higher in the Lower Mainland, the change in the grant threshold will have little effect on homeowners in the rest
of British Columbia. And with school taxes
included in that tax bill, the result is Lower Mainland homeowners will be subsidizing education in the rest of the province, he said.
“It seems to me it’s patently unfair that we don’t have an even distribution of that benefit.”
It’s also a reminder, Corrigan said, that property taxation is a “regressive tax” that hits people’s finances the same whether they’re wealthy or a pensioner on limited income.
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VICTORIA – The Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision on aboriginal title held by the Tsilhqot’in Nation leaves many questions to be answered.
Perhaps the biggest is this: Will British Columbia exist as we know it today by the end of this century? Or will it devolve into dozens of semi-autonomous regions, through treaties or similar court actions, as the only Canadian province that never completed historic treaties?
The Tsilhqot’in decision appears to uphold the key finding of the 2007 trial, that 1,700 square kilometres of the Nemiah Valley west of Williams Lake are essentially owned by the people who occupied it hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
It’s not quite ownership. Federal and provincial jurisdiction still applies, and their authority varies with the strength of the aboriginal title claim.
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin ruled that the province overstepped its authority by issuing logging permits in the valley in 1983.
McLachlin noted that lawyers for B.C. first argued that the logging was to control mountain pine beetle, then dropped that argument in its first appeal. She also upheld the decision of the trial judge, one-time NDP leadership contender David Vickers, who rejected B.C.’s position that the economic value of the timber to the province overrode the then-vaguely defined aboriginal title.
Here’s McLachlin’s definition:“The nature of aboriginal title
is that it confers on the group that holds it the exclusive right to decide how land is used and the right to benefit from those uses, subject to the restriction that the uses must be consistent with the group nature of the interest and the enjoyment of the land by future generations.”
That’s not land ownership in the fee-simple sense of the term. It locks in communal ownership, which I and many others have argued is at the root of the poverty seen in many aboriginal communities.
Another big question: Is there any future for B.C.’s 20-year-old treaty process, or will this precedent-setting case send more First Nations to court, or to the barricades as the Tsilhqot’in did on a logging road in 1983?
One of the unique advantages that have emerged from the handful of modern treaties in B.C. is that aboriginal communities have more options in land ownership. By voluntary agreement, they can convert land to fee-simple ownership, making it available for mortgage or sale. Modern treaty holders also get out from under the federal Indian Act, which remains in force despite this latest decision.
One of the big questions asked in the days after the Tsilhqot’in decision was this: Is the Northern Gateway pipeline project dead?
None of the aboriginal
communities along the pipeline route has this kind of declared aboriginal title. Few if any would have a similar strength of claim as the Tsilhqot’in, who fought a small war to defend their territory from a wave of gold seekers in the 1860s.
One that does is the Haida Nation, whose occupation of a beautiful group of islands was long defended militarily, and never challenged by any other aboriginal group.
Among others, the Haida Nation was represented in the Tsilhqot’in case as interveners. Council of the Haida Nation president Peter Lantin said after the decision that his team is preparing its own aboriginal title case for trial.
Few doubt that this assertion of title will be successful, either by negotiation or court ruling. But there is a unique aspect to the Haida claim that would set another precedent.
They claim title to the ocean around Haida Gwaii, a challenge to anyone wishing to sail tankers through.
Life after the Tsilhqot’in decision
Few can argue that mental illness touches everyone.
There are, of course, those who have been diagnosed. Then there are their children, siblings, parents, friends and co-workers.
Even complete strangers are often hit with the ripples, as society bears the burden of missed work days, medical visits, inadequate treatment options, etc.
It doesn’t matter that research has led to many strategies and treatments that can help sufferers live productive, even normal, lives.
Perhaps if it felt easier to talk openly about mental illness, things would be different.
For those directly affected, it can feel simpler to try to ignore the reality.
While there have been great strides in the realm of mental illness, society still has a hard time accepting it as a disease.
‘Mental illness’ is still a phrase that doesn’t dare get said in polite company.
But slowly that shroud is lifting.Some people are becoming
more brave to step into the spotlight, to talk about their own struggles.
Clara Hughes, for instance. The former Canadian Olympic cyclist and speedskater shared the story of her own family’s battles with mental illness as she cycled 12,000 kms across Canada. Clara’s “Big Ride” concluded on July 1 in Ottawa and connected with more than 23,000 young people in 105 communities.
People like Hughes, and those enduring their challenges less publicly, know the difference that acceptance—both of the conditions and the person trying to live with them—makes, and we can all learn from them.
But there is still a long way to go.
No one should feel the need to hide something they cannot control.
The reality is, many of us share the blame for the fact so many people do just that.
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COMMENT
Once again, public school teachers are donating their time, passion and money for kids.
Some of you complain that teachers are lazy and greedy.
Far from it. We are working hard to
direct the public’s attention toward an important part of our future—the need for a great public education system that empowers every student to be a competent, contributing citizen.
But teachers can’t do it on their own.
We need each and every one of you to support every student. Students need class sizes small enough to get individual attention from their teachers, as well as access to specially trained teachers to address their needs.
Your contribution is simple. Support public education at
every opportunity, with your voice, your pen, with your political will.
We can make sure that every child gets the top-class education they deserve.
Jennie BoulangerBurnaby public school teacher
WHAT IS THE LIBERALS’ GOAL?To the MLA of Burnaby North, Mr. Richard Lee:
I have lived most of my life as a constituent in your riding and am proud to say it has made me who I am.
Growing up in North Burnaby has given me a multicultural perspective,
an ethic of caring for my community and a belief that British Columbians work towards a greater good.
For this reason, I write to you to express my concerns about the recent actions of our current elected government. In 2011 and again in 2014 the B.C. Supreme Court ruled the Liberal government should reinstate the class size and composition agreement reached between them and the BCTF.
Twice this ruling was dismissed and defied by the Liberals; and as a result, there are half a million students out of school, thousands of families burdened with alternative daycares and thousands of teachers along with CUPE workers forfeiting their pay to protest this unlawful act. Your government is directly responsible for this strike.
The question is what is the Liberals’ goal?
Attending school in the ’80s and ’90s, my education was better funded than it is now for my children.
Because of systematic cuts since 2001, B.C. now has the second to lowest funding per child in Canada.
Teachers tell us there are too many needs to be met, PACs struggle with low funds for vital things like breakfast clubs, parents complain of having to pay privately for speech language therapy, psychological education assessments and counselling.
Worst of all, our children and
our youth are suffering.Is this the goal?Since 2005, the Liberals have
increased independent school funding by 45.6 per cent, while only increasing public school funding by 16.9 per cent.
This is creating an even greater divide between the wealthy and the poor in this province.
Is this the Liberals’ goal? Throughout this bargaining
process with the BCTF, the government has bent facts and has used nonsensical tactics.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender and Peter Cameron both agreed to use a mediator to end our dispute, and then 48 hours later Christie Clark claims that no suitable mediator can be found.
The Liberals have used taxpayers’ money to pay for smear campaign advertising in newspapers and on Facebook.
These poor negotiation strategies have shown this government to be insincere and to be propaganda mongers.
Is this the Liberals’ goal? As an MLA, I am hoping Mr.
Lee, that you will use your voice to end this downward spiral of our public education.
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The New Westminster Jr. Salmonbellies extended their win streak to 13 games by beating the Burnaby Lakers 12-5 at Copeland on Sunday.
Matt Shields had two goals for Burnaby with singles going to Cody Clark, Peter Mahony and Ryan Vogrig.
Burnaby (4-14-1) ended a four-game losing streak on Friday by defeating the Port Coquitlam Saints 8-4. Tyler Vogrig, who did not play Sunday, had three goals and two assists while Peyton Lupul collected six helpers. Justin Appels, Corey Wong, Evan Hunt, Ryan Vogrig and Shields scored one each.
The Lakers complete their season with a visit to Victoria on Saturday and at home against the Nanaimo Timbermen (7-11-1) on Sunday. They are two points out of the final playoff spot currently held by the Langley Thunder (5-14-1). Burnaby won two and tied one against Langley, which faces Delta (11-9-0) in its final game.
The New Westminster Salmonbellies ended a six-game losing streak by upsetting the hometown Burnaby Lakers 10-8 Friday.
But Burnaby got back on the winning track by taking a trip to Nanaimo the next night to defeat the Timbermen 8-2. The Lakers (6-4-0) are tied for third with
Langley (6-5-0) and just one point behind Maple Ridge
(6-5-1) with two games in hand.
Robert Church notched four goals and
an assist to lead Burnaby. Jason Jones scored twice with singles going to
Jackson Decker and Dane Stevens.
In Nanaimo, the Lakers held the T-Men off the scoreboard until the third period when it was already 8-0. Church had another four-goal game while Scott Jones had two goals and an assist. Alex Gajic and Justin Salt also scored for Burnaby.
New West and Burnaby will battle again at Copeland on Friday, 7:45 p.m.
Junior squad ends losing streak before ’Bellies beat them
MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADERAjit Krishnaswamy, of the Burnaby Tennis Club, fires a backhand return in his men’s 3.5 singles match against Vancouver’s Makoto Suyama in the first round of the Burnaby Open. The tournament concludes this weekend.
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