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[ 2 ] NORTHERN WEEKLY – YOUR COMMUNITY VOICE June 18, 2013

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HUNDREDS of City of Whittlesea residents will lose their jobs through the closure of Ford’s Broadmeadows plant and its impact on associ-ated businesses, according to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

A union offi cial said at least 40 per cent of the 650 Ford workers fac-ing redundancies in 2016 came from postcodes in the City of Whittlesea.

Paul Difelice, the union’s vehicle

division regional secretary, said 264 of its members at Broadmeadows Ford came from the City of Whittlesea, but other unions might have other Whittlesea residents affected.

He said hundreds of jobs in asso-ciated industries, such as component supplies, would disappear in the northern suburbs.

“It could be 700, we’re still trying to work it out,” he said.

“The people left at Ford are the ones who wanted a job for life and had never put their hand up for a redundancy package (in the past).”

He said 100 Ford Broadmeadows workers met Industry Minister Greg Combet last week to talk about retraining and other help.

A chain of suppliers would be affected, said Mick Butera, the executive offi cer of NORTH Link, a regional economic develop-ment advocacy group that includes Whittlesea council representatives.

He said fi rst-tier suppliers pro-vided Ford with components such as dashboards. These businesses were in turn supplied by second-tier suppliers which, for example, might provide

them with plastic to make compo-nents, he said. Second-tier suppliers were supported by third-tier suppliers that might provide materials to make plastic.

Mr Butera said businesses in the supply chain might rely on Ford for only part of their income but still had to diversify into non-automotive work.

He said one plastic manufacturer had foreseen a “black future” in the car industry and had diversifi ed to make casino gaming chips and baby bottle teats.

Hundreds more to lose jobs: union

THE $11.4 million South Morang super clinic, which brings doctors and other health professionals together, is open.

Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek, who launched the Plenty Valley Community Health GP Super Clinic in Civic Drive last Thursday, said it gave fami-lies comprehensive and conveni-ent health care close to home.

“It brings together GPs , nurses, visiting medical specialists, allied health professionals and other health care services in a single location to work as a team to provide patients with the best care possible,” Ms Plibersek said.

Doreen Power, head of Plenty Valley Community Health, which runs the clinic, said it provided $7.5 million, the federal gov-ernment $3.7 million and other sources $225,000 to build the bulk-billing clinic.

“The super clinic supports the delivery of integrated, multidis-ciplinary primary health care services and the training, educa-tion needs of the future primary health care workforce,” she said.

Scullin MHR Harry Jenkins said the clinic also offered ser-vices such as speech therapy and podiatry. McEwen MHR Rob Mitchell said the clinic would cater for the fast-growing region.

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NUMBER 23 / 2013 / VOLUME 6

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A free concert will bring Plenty River and Riverstone estate residents

together on Saturday, June 22. Melbourne ’s Jazz Tree (pictured) will perform

in the Doreen event organised by Hive, which specialises in developing

the social capital of communities, particularly in new developments.

Hive founder Bec Jolly says: “There are residents who have been in the

community for three years and still don’t know other people in the area.”

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On the Cover Nicole Mahar and

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Surplus takes a diveat ‘leading TAFE’

BY BRIDGET FITZGERALDbfi [email protected]

NORTHERN Melbourne Institute of TAFE recorded a 63 per cent drop in surplus from 2011 to 2012, accord-ing to an auditor-general’s report on tertiary education.

NMIT generated a $5.1 million surplus in 2012 compared with $13.7 million in 2011.

The report found that funding changes, increased employee costs and structured redundancy programs have meant Victorian TAFEs gen-erated 39.1 per cent less surplus in 2012 than in the previous year.

In September 2012 the Victorian state government cut about $290 mil-lion from the TAFE sector, causing widespread protests by TAFE staff.

NMIT’s fi nancial sustainability risk was classifi ed as medium in 2012, along with nine Victorian TAFEs.

Opposition skills spokesman Steve Herbert said the report “showed a declining fi nancial viability for

Victorian TAFEs”. He said the state government was driving TAFE insti-tutions to the wall.

But Higher Education and Skills Minister Peter Hall said TAFEs were in a strong fi nancial position.

“[We] have put the system back on track to be sustainable and to actu-ally deliver courses that lead to jobs,” he said.

NMIT spokesman James Gardener said NMIT “continues to be the lead-ing TAFE in Melbourne’s north” despite the reduced surplus.

He hinted at a 2013 defi cit, but said NMIT was working on a busi-ness transition plan and anticipated returning to surplus in 2014-15.

“ It represents a positive way for-ward for NMIT and seeks to turn challenges into opportunities.”

The plan will work towards a new teaching and learning facility at the Preston campus, a bid to acquire the former Swinburne Prahran campus, and an attempt to achieve polytech-nic university status.

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LATIN dance could be used to ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, according to a La Trobe University study.

Researchers from the university’s Bundoora campus are working with the University of Limerick in Ireland and St John of God Hospital in Venice to observe the effects of danc-ing in Parkinson’s sufferers.

Their collaboration, Dancing for Parkinson’s, began two years ago.

Project lead researcher Meg Morris started a trial on May 23 to look at the effects of Argentine tango classes on people with Parkinson’s who are otherwise healthy.

The trial will run for eight weeks on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Professor Morris said tango dancing allowed people with Parkinson’s to exercise without injury. “Parkinson’s patients respond to the rhythmic music,” she said. “Following trials in Melbourne last

year we found Parkinson’s disease sufferers are unlocked by dance, and are able to move more freely.”

Anne Atkin, who has Parkinson’s disease, decided to take part in the trial to try a new form of exercise.

She said the tango dancing was “starting to make her feel normal”.

“I feel fi tter,” she said. “When you

do 2200 steps in an hour, you have to feel fi tter.”

Ms Atkin said she tried to incor-porate exercise into her daily rou-tine – including lifting weights while watching television.

Researchers test the participants for balance, walking speed and gen-eral quality of life after each lesson.

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MILL Park police station is at breaking point, with offi cers being taken off the road and used as “jailers”, according to a police source.

Every day three sergeants and three offi cers, with another three offi cers in a support role, are ros-tered over three shifts to guard prisoners in the station’s 10 hold-ing cells, the source said.

Whittlesea and Epping police sta-tions, which do not have cells, are being called on to supply offi cers to Mill Park to cover the members on guard duty, they said. “There will come a day when the station can-not send out a divvy van because it does not have enough offi cers for proactive policing and responding to calls ,” the source said.

Mill Park has 10 sergeants, com-pared with Sunshine’s 19 and 15 at Broadmeadows, and the “jail house drain” was reaching a “tip-ping point”, they said. “Regardless whether there is one prisoner or

10, police staff must be rostered on for prisoner guard duty.”

The source said Chief Commissioner Ken Lay came to an agreement with the Offi ce of Corrections last year to use police station cells for prisoners await-ing sentence or those already sen-tenced but appearing in court on other matters, but no additional police were provided.

Police Association assistant sec-retary Bruce McKenzie said Mill Park was the state’s “hot spot” and the union was “surprised” and “shocked” at the problem.

He said police command had been supportive, but the problem of police cells being used as quasi jails was “long term”.

Inspector Bob Dykstra said: “There is a statewide review of custody management, and staff-ing levels do fl uctuate, but we are experiencing signifi cant rostering issues.” He declined to elaborate.

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A disability service provider will team up with a larger statewide group

to streamline operations ahead of national disability insurance scheme

reforms. Early learning disability provider Education Program for Infants

and Children (EPIC), located at RMIT University’s Bundoora campus, will

join forces with advocacy group Annecto to make use of its scope across

metropolitan Melbourne, the Loddon Mallee, the Grampians and other

areas of regional Victoria, Northern Tasmania and New South Wales. EPIC

chief Nicole Mahar (pictured with Annecto head Adam Carrozza) says both

organisations were “looking to share resources and expertise”. The federal

government’s DisabilityCare Australia will support most of EPIC’s services.

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A NORTHERN suburbs disability campaigner claims higher rents for supported accommodation for the disabled will push them into poverty.

State government-managed facili-ties will increase rent to 75 per cent of the disability support pension from December 1.

Campaigner Margaret Ruff said the amount left over, calculated at less than $5000 a year, would not meet the needs of the disabled.

She said her son Raymond, 37, did not have enough money to cover his needs even before the rent rise.

“He can’t walk and needed a spe-cially built wheel chair that cost $9100 and a $4200 walker to prevent his muscles from further deteriorating, so we had to pay for that last year,” Mrs Ruff said.

“The government says that when

they take 75 per cent of his $19,000 pension for rent, he will have just under $5000 left a year.

“But it is not disposable income.“It costs him $4800 a year for taxis

to day activity centres and $1100 for placement there, so straight away his pension won’t cover that.’’

Mrs Ruff said the $5000 left over also had to pay for $700 a year in med-icine, $1550 in incontinence pads, and clothing, dental care and other costs.

Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability (VALID) spokesman Kevin Stone said the rent rise meant disabled pensioners were eligible for rental assistance.

But he said that in a “cynical” move, the government had announced

that it would take that as well. “While the Department of Human

Services (DHS) has advised us that there will be a fi nancial hardship pro-vision to review individual circum-stances, VALID has no confi dence that government’s view of what might be deemed ‘reasonable and necessary’ expenses will match the real life needs of people with a disability,” he said.

A government spokesman said the average cost of housing a resident in state-managed accommodation was $128,000 a year.

“If a resident is unable to meet their basic daily living expenses, the DHS hardship policy will apply,” he said.

Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green said no one could afford to pay 75 per cent of their income on rent, least of all severely disabled people.

“Families of people with disability aspire to them having a good quality of life, not a subsistence existence or poverty,” she said.

Rents will push disabled into poverty: advocate

‘He will have just under $5000 left a year, but it is not disposable income.’


PROFILE

When year 12 St Monica’s College student Rachael Fenech leaves school, she plans to dedicate

herself to others through a career in nursing and midwifery.

The Epping teenager has been so keen to get a head start in the healthcare industry that she began volunteering as a St John Ambulance cadet two years ago.

Fenech says she enjoys getting out and using her skills – she often attends major sporting events and concerts with the St John crew.

“I’ve held back a bit this year while I am in year 12, but I still keep up my fi rst aid,” she says.

“I wanted to work to get prior knowledge.”

The 17-year-old is also a school council representative and an Australian Red Cross Blood Service ambassador.

Fenech’s most recent accomplishment is becoming a state representative,

having been announced as one of 19 members of the Victorian government’s youth advisory committee, Involve.

The committee is made up of eight 12-17-year-olds and eight aged 18 to 25. They will liaise with Youth Affairs Minister Ryan Smith and “use their skills to benefi t the community”.

Fenech is passionate about raising awareness of bullying and obesity, which she hopes to bring into focus in the committee.

She wants to address bullying “in schools and the community” and says it is important to ensure people are aware of the scope of the issue.

“I don’t think people know the simplest thing can be classifi ed as bullying, and the effect it can have,” she says.

Fenech also lists road safety and transport as some of her key areas of concern.

She has had many fellow students

coming to her with complaints about the availability of Myki. This is just one of the things she plans to take to Minister Smith.

To focus her attention on “fi xing the bigger issues”, Fenech will highlight the importance of taking care of the environment.

She will push for “simple things” such as saving water and electricity.

Having met the other committee members at earlier interviews, Fenech says she is looking forward to the committee getting started and meeting government representatives.

“Everyone is excited and proud,” she says.

“We are all interested to fi nd out what we can do together.”

The state government youth advisory committee will meet at the end of July. �

Details: visit youthcentral.vic.gov.au.

Student takes the leadBudding nurse has landed a spot in state advisory team, writes Bridget Fitzgerald

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After fi nishing year 12, she enrolled in an arts degree at Monash University. When she had an extra elective to fi ll, Kate Fitz-Gibbon chose criminology.

“My parents remember that I always read true crime books in my teens – the

‘depressing stories’ as my mum referred to them,” she says. “I think those books fascinated me because they were so removed from my safe, comfortable life – it was that fascination for ‘the other’. So criminology seemed a perfect choice for that extra elective.”

Fast forward eight years and criminology has become Fitz-Gibbon’s full-time job. It has taken her from Deakin University’s Geelong campus to the Old Bailey, to the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the law of provocation and to Alabama to witness the acquittal of accused honeymoon killer Gabe Watson.

“When I started my degree, I was doing a lot of theatre studies, fi lm studies and drama,” says Fitz-Gibbon. “But by the start of the third year, criminology was taking over and I was dropping the acting units – my parents were very relieved.”

Fitz-Gibbon says her switch from cameras to crime was partly prompted by her growing fascination with the workings of the law and with major criminal cases.

She refers to the killing of Julie Ramage by her husband, James – the case played out in Melbourne’s courts about the time she started university. In 2003, businessman Ramage killed his estranged wife at their Balwyn home. He successfully used the defence of provocation – the last person in Victoria to do so before it was replaced with defensive homicide. Ramage served eight years of an 11-year sentence for manslaughter and was released from prison last year.

“I remember thinking that the stories in the media about the case were all about Julie and what she’d done and the fact she had a boyfriend. It was so skewed. Julie was put on trial and I didn’t understand why.’’

Fitz-Gibbon’s honours in criminology examined provocation in Australia and Britain. Her PhD, completed early last year, analysed provocation and defensive homicide in NSW, Victoria and Britain.

Fitz-Gibbon interviewed judges, defence lawyers, prosecutors and key people involved in policy-making. She believes defensive homicide as an alternative to provocation isn’t working as effectively as was hoped. “It was primarily brought in for women, but the main benefi ciaries of defensive homicide so far have been men who kill other men. We have more to do to get it right,” she says. “But I felt very lucky to be able to do my research and to go into judges’ chambers in the Supreme Court of Victoria and to the Old Bailey. I went to the Royal Courts of Justice in England and interviewed the Lord Justice – the English accent made everything sound so offi cial.”

While doing her research, Fitz-Gibbon also became

interested in the Watson case. In 2009, six years after Tina Watson died while scuba diving with her husband, Gabe, he faced a Queensland court charged with her murder. As part of a deal, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter by criminal negligence and served 18 months of a four-year sentence. On his release from jail, Watson was deported to the US. There he was again charged with murder, and was acquitted early last year.

Fitz-Gibbon and Melbourne criminologist Dr Asher Flynn were in the Alabama courtroom throughout the trial. “Gabe Watson has never put a defence forward and we think it would have been in the public’s interest – and in Gabe’s interest – for that defence to have been shown,” says Fitz-Gibbon. “There are still a lot of lingering questions and a public perception that he’s guilty, even though he has been acquitted by a judge. I don’t think either side – neither Gabe Watson nor Tina’s family – got justice.”

A week after arriving back from Alabama, Fitz-Gibbon was offered a lecturing position at Deakin University, where she lectures to fi rst- and second-year crime and psychology students. She is also continuing her research on the pros and pitfalls of provocation. “All the cases are tragedies and some hit harder than others. It is sometimes hard to leave work, to shut the door and to forget about what you hear and read,” she says. “You can get angry and worked up.”

For many years her escape has been rowing, a sport she fell in love with at high school. “I only stopped rowing recently,” she says. “I did row six or seven days a week – I was a cox – and I loved the regattas on the weekends. It was a different focus, something completely removed from crime.”

Fitz-Gibbon is also planning her wedding, although she admits there is a certain irony in choosing fl owers and bridal gowns in her spare time and returning her focus to violent crime during the working week. “Sometimes while I’ve been organising aspects of the wedding, people naturally chat and ask me what I do for a living and about my research, and then I have to say that I research men who kill their wives,” she says. “But I feel very fortunate ... when I dreamed

of acting, the appeal for me was that it would be a job that I was passionate about, and instead I am now passionate about criminology. So there are parallels with acting for me. I feel pretty lucky that I’m able to follow my interests and to research questions that I feel need to be asked.” �

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Two boys on the fringes of society find a new purpose in the wilderness.

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Melburnian David Bridie seems to be an angry man, although his latest album

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Victoria’s Pyrenees wine region turns 50 this year. Well, sort of. The fi elds of the Pyrenees were fi rst planted with vines in

the 1880s, but for one reason or another – no one is really sure – the vines were removed for pasture around the turn of the century.

The region’s revival started in 1963 when French cognac house Remy Martin chose Avoca over WA’s Pemberton to produce brandy. Remy Martin was looking for alluvial soil similar to its own in France and knew to target regions that had experienced a gold rush. It is said the Pyrenees got the nod because there was no shortage of forested land that could supply fuel for the wood-fi red stills.

They originally planted grapes better suited to brandy than table wine – such as trebbiano and doradillo – but government alcohol tariffs changed and it wasn’t long before Chateau Remy realised table wine was its future. Remy grafted its vines over to staples such as cabernet sauvignon, shiraz and merlot. Remy Martin sold the vineyard to local interests in 2002 and the name changed to Blue Pyrenees.

Winemaker Neill Robb, whose father helped set up Chateau Remy, worked there, too, and planted his own vines up the road at Redbank in 1973. He’s an integral part of the Pyrenees’ story. Robb’s Redbank winery, famous for its blend of red grapes, Sally’s Paddock, turns 40 this year. His daughter Sasha, after a stint in California’s Sonoma County, is back home and the Pyrenees’ fi rst third-generation winemaker.

While the Pyrenees is rich in winemaking history, there’s also a number of boutique producers that started in the past few years.

DogRock, Mitchell Harris, Quartz Hill, Pyren Vineyard and Amherst are producing outstanding wines. The recent arrival of one of France’s biggest wine producers, the Rhone Valley’s Michel Chapoutier, gives the impression that the volume of exciting wines from the Pyrenees will only grow.

The Pyrenees is deservedly best known as a red region – Blue Pyrenees’ vigneron Sean Howe says cabernet sauvignon is the grape that is most suited to the soils and climate – but the region is capable of much more.

Fabulous wines are being made from grenache, sauvignon blanc, riesling and viognier. Taltarni, another French family-owned winery, and Blue Pyrenees produce some of Victoria’s better sparkling wines, too.

If you’re a lover of the traditional reds of the Pyrenees, its winemakers have started to pull back from the overblown wines of the 2000s to integrate more elegance. But if big wines are your thing, you will still fi nd them. �

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Porsche made its fi rst sports car, the 356,

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You’d be considered lucky to have a property with direct park frontage. But to live somewhere with two parks – one at

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The next owners to call this property home may have to contend with some envious neighbours. While the Aurora estate has several parks and gardens, few of its residents would be as well placed as this.

In the park across the street, kids rule the roost on the play equipment. Much like a village green, the park is surrounded by houses.

At the side of the house, it’s soaring old river gums instead of slides and monkey bars. You could easily settle into a shady spot with a

good book on a pleasant, sunny day.The house block is modest in size, but why

would you need any more with so much open space just over the fence?

Befi tting its park-side address, this property was built to high standards. The fi nal lick of paint was applied just a year ago – and the house has that brand new look and feel. It is also still under builder’s warranty.

The vendors engaged Burbank Homes to build the house, and clearly opted for plenty of upgrades and additions.

Instead of tiles or faux timber boards, this property is lined in jarrah. The rich colour and warmth of the timber fl oors give the house an instantly inviting appeal as you step in .

The ceilings are that extra bit high and the central hallway that extra bit wide. Together they give the interiors a light, airy atmosphere.

There are elegant, black stone fi nishes in the

bathrooms and in the kitchen, which also has tile splashbacks and Technika stainless steel appliances.

Being only a year old, the property has the latest mod cons. It has refrigerated cooling, zoned heating and a full CCTV and surveillance system that you can monitor remotely via iPhone. It also has fi bre to the home. Like all properties in Aurora, the house has a six-star energy effi ciency rating.

Thanks to solar panels on the roof, a recycled water system for the yard and other sustainability features throughout, bills are no longer the headache they once were.

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The main living hub has a dining area by the breakfast bar and a sitting area.

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The outdoor space has a concrete fl oor, which the next owners could easily cover with timber decking to match the jarrah inside.

The new owners will also be able to put their stamp on the garden, which is still young.

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UNRESERVED AUCTION –CLEARING SALE (PROP. SOLD)

Sunday 23rd June 2013 at 10amTwentieth Ave, Eden Park 3757

(north west of Whittlesea)

Sunday 23rd June 2013 at 10amTwentieth Ave, Eden Park 3757

(north west of Whittlesea)

Imported 1971 Cutlass S, motorbikes (2 & 4 wheelers),ride on mower, tandem trailer, slasher, VW Bug,

vehicles, workshop, cube container, crush and farmcollectables

VEHICLES, MOTOR BIKES- VW 1500 Super Bug, Cortina, 1996 JeepReg to Sept, 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass S (imported) V8 3spd col autoLHD, reg tandem trailer 12x6 tow pack steel checker plate, 1000lt tank on trailer, Suzuki Quad Runner, Suzuki Quad Sport, YamahaDT175 motorbike.

MOWERS, FARM, WORKSHOP – Cattle crush, John Deere LT155ride on mower, trailer, Deutscher slasher, Victa Mustang mower,Stihl MS800 & 025 chainsaws, hand held petrol post hole auger,garden shredder, fork lift tyres, compressor with hoses and inflator,cut off wheel, welding gear, oxy kit, drills, large record vice, d/egrinder, heaps of spanners, sockets, hand tools, axes, shovels,rakes, wood splitters, pitch forks, wheel barrows, plumbing fittings,steel door cupboard, jockey wheel, electric leads, ropes, chains,approx 20 wool bales, wire crates, jerry cans, workshop trolley,alumimium ladder, airport cargo box, drysabone coats – full, 3⁄4 &short, quantity of gal. fence panel, electric fence gear, tree stakes& guards, yabby nets, fishing tackle & gear, paint sundries, filingcabinet, bird feeder, chook pen, poly pipe, steel troughs, compostbin, 20pr gloves, bird cage, rabbit hutch, poison sprayer, truckbrake drums, Bell South incubator and spear gun accessories.

HOUSEHOLD, COLLECTABLES, OUTDOOR- Roll top desk, 7 x 3.6ftslate billiard table, cues, balls and all accessories, 2 three seaterChesterfield lounge suites, pink leather lounge suite, large leathercurved suite, pine table with 6 chairs, kitchen dresser, carpetsquares, tv’s & units, stereo units, desks, dressing table, Fisher &Paykel s/s upside down fridge, telescope, Jensen Jarrah 12 seatertable, c/iron park benches, meat mincers, horse drawn singlefurrow, plough & scarifer, W&T Avery clock face platform scales,golf clubs, BBQ, Gym set, other good quality household items.

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Inspection day of sale from 8.30AM... Strictly paymenton day of sale only by cash, eftpos or cc (cc fee 1.5%)

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