Streats, 8 March 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 8 March 2001 Another quality publication of sJ|jf Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Fund to help ailing retailers $l6m shopping spree
    536 1  -  by ADELINE WOON SHOPPER'S paradise lost? It is beginning to seem that way, especially among neighbourhood shops. In its place, a nation of shop-hoppers. Singapore shop-hoppers splurged $7.3 billion shopping overseas in 1997 about half of what they spent in Singapore. That’s
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      125 1 ti w In a survey of over a hundred women in Britain, respondents said they wore high heels to please their boyfriends, husbands and bosses, and to look good. All fine and well, but the downside is that looking good this way can give you severe foot and back problems.
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  • Streatsmart Parliament
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      Lock icon More help for needy, elderly please: MPs
      579 2  -  by'. SARAH NG THE government should be more generous to our low income earners and elderly who missed out on last year’s economic growth. During the second day of the debate on Budget 2001 yesterday, more than 10 Members of Parliament (MPs) and
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      Lock icon Rules for work
      88 2 morningsmile. To my supervisor: 1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4pm and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing. 2. If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Singapore shoppers would rather... Hop till they drop
      590 3  -  by I KAREN CHEN MOST Singaporeans are shopaholics. Guess you wouldn’t need us to tell you that. But did you know that many of your compatriots actually globe-hop to shop? That’s right. They basically go all over the world to buy merchandise,
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      Lock icon New watchdog for Net shopping
      299 3 PEOPLE have to feel safe when using the Internet to do business, Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. So, his ministry has formed an e-business watchdog, the National Trust Council, to look into areas of concern such as trust marks, fraud
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      Lock icon How the day came about
      143 5 TODAY is International Women’s Day. It is marked by women’s groups around the world. Women celebrate a day dedicated to them, but also look back to a tradition where they have struggled for equality, justice, peace and development. It emerged from the social upheaval in
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      Lock icon Yes ma'am, she's the chief
      547 5  -  by YVONNE KWOK THIS damsel makes it her job to help those in distress. She’s petite at 1.64 m tall and weighs only 52kg. And not only has she barged into the man’s world of firefighting, she’s showing them the way as commanding officer. Don’t
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      90 5 If you're going out in the afternoon, watch out for showers over many areas across the island. It's like playing Russian roulette with the clouds. You'll never know if the one above your head is set to shoot a load of rain at you. Temperatures will
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    • Just a minute
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        67 5 If you have any questions or complaints about the travel industry, call the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) on 463 1811 from noon to spm on Saturdays. The hotline is part of a campaign by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) to raise public awareness
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        Lock icon Remember...
        70 5 Remember Don't forget to file your tax returns before April 15! Failure to do so is an offence that carries a fine of up to 1,000. The Inland Revenue Authority is encouraging taxpayers to file their returns via the telephone or Internet. If you file your tax returns electronically before
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        68 5 Check this out Do you know that many Singaporeans may be walking around with impaired vision that has not been detected? Enter the world of the visually handicapped with an k exhibition called Understanding Visual Disabilities and I learn about i various blinding conditions such Ros macular degeneration and retinitis
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      Lock icon Jail for stealing food worth $2.70
      254 7  -  Reports by KHUSHWANT SINGH FOR stealing a loaf of bread and some vegetables, an unemployed man will serve a 12-month jail term. The total value of the stolen items: $2.70. Cheong Meng Lam, 44, said he was supporting his mentally unstable wife and his
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      Lock icon Man threatens hospital worker: If I had a gun, I'd shoot you
      284 7 LEE Teck 800, 53, was yesterday sentenced to five weeks in jail for abusing and threatening a medical social worker. The part-time security officer was, for the last three years, part of the Public Assistance Scheme and was
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      Lock icon A long way to go, so dig in your heels
      435 6 WHEN a lingerie show last week reportedly raised $lO,OOO for a woman’s group, you know that Singapore feminists aren’t the bra-burning variety. After all, $lO,OOO shouldn’t be sneezed at. It will take 250 years before my annual membership fee to
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Speeding road safety minister loses licence, keeps job
      143 8 -API PERTH Talk about not practising what you are supposed to preach. Western Australia’s minister responsible for road safety and transport has lost her driver’s licence for speeding. And the disqualification isn’t her first she had been caught driving under the influence
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      Lock icon Loud Aussies annoy Asian troops in Timor
      237 8 -A* CANBERRA Australian soldiers in East Timor annoyed troops from other nations by being too aggressive, talking too loudly and wearing sunglasses. A report, released yesterday by noted defence analyst Alan Ryan of the Land Warfare Studies Centre, said there was a perception
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      Lock icon Men prefer women bosses, says poll
      121 8 -AP But outside the office, the guys still want to be on top SYDNEY- Australian men would rather work for a female boss, but most like to take charge in romance, according to a survey published yesterday. And 20 per cent of the 1,000
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      Lock icon Nintendo set to get ahead of the game
      254 9 Game Boy Advance due to hit stores in Japan soon Reuters TOKYO Nintendo unveiled plans yesterday to develop a new gaming system for the successor to Game Boy. Nintendo announced it will join forces with camera maker Olympus Optical to develop a
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      Lock icon Court keeps Ezam in jail
      224 9 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court yesterday decided to keep a leading opposition activist locked up until tomorrow to give police more time to investigate allegations he was planning street demonstrations to topple the government. Mr Ezam Mohd Noor, leader of the youth wing of
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      Lock icon 41 die in China as school collapses
      341 10 Wire services Officials deny fireworks caused disaster SHANGHAI The cause of the collapse of a Chinese school which killed at least 41 people is still unknown after contradictory reports from officials yesterday. The toll was expected to rise after the blast which erupted
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        Lock icon Dotcom spoofs
        61 10 When the dotcom bubble burst, one of the things that got going was gallows humour. Satirewire.com, which bills itself as New Satire For The New Economy, offers comic relief from the bad news and spoofs the dotcom experience. But for those who who wish to share their woes,
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        Lock icon Dotcom death knell
        27 10 Kick'em when they're down. That's the motto at Dotcomfailures.com, where the people track dotcom deaths every month to add on to their dead list.
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      Lock icon Mori has no plans to quit
      159 10 Reuters TOKYO Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori yesterday dismissed media reports that he had decided to quit. “I have absolutely no such intention,” he told a parliamentary panel when asked about a media report which said he would announce his intention to resign
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        Lock icon Fiji's interim govt quits
        60 10 Reuters SUVA Fiji’s interim government, led by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, resigned yesterday. The military-backed administration was declared illegal last week by the country’s highest court. “We have agreed and we have tendered in our resignation after the meeting today and it has been taken up
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        Lock icon KL censors news mags
        88 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian censors have delayed the release of two Hongkong-based news magazines for the second week in a row. No official explanation has been given, but both Asiaweek and the Far Eastern Economic Review have carried reports in recent issues that Prime Minister Mahathir
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        Lock icon HK GDP up 10.5%
        78 10 Reuters HONGKONG Hongkong’s economy grew by an average 10.5 per cent last year against a forecast of 10 per cent, compared to a provisional 3.1 per cent rise in 1999, Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said in his final 2001/2002 budget speech yesterday. Exports led the way
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        Lock icon 3,000 fake degrees
        50 10 AP HANOI Officials discovered 3,197 state employees and students using fake degrees or certificates during an inspection of 530,105 state employees and students. Authorities have dismissed 193 state employees and 1,240 students for using counterfeit documentation, said an official with the Ministry of Education and Training. -ap
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Welsh up in arms over BBC star's 'racist remarks'
      175 13 Reuters LONDON From singer Tom Jones to actress Catherine Zeta Jones, the Welsh have always been fiercely proud of their heritage and nothing riles them more than the English mocking a land famed for its valleys, choirs and leeks. Now sharp-tongued
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        Lock icon Hispanics in US surging
        60 13 Reuters WASHINGTON The Hispanic population in the US has grown much faster than expected and is almost equal to that of blacks, the 2000 census shows. The number of Hispanic Americans grew by nearly 60 per cent and now totals 35.3 million, roughly three million more
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        Lock icon Breathless over Ricky
        62 13 Reuters STOCKHOLM Dozens of young Swedish girls had to be given oxygen by first aid crews on Tuesday when around 1,200 fans turned up at a department store in central Stockholm to see pop star Ricky Martin. Many of those caught up in the throng were so
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        Lock icon Norway royals 'must go'
        45 13 Reuters OSLO A republican group launched a drive on Tuesday to scrap the Norwegian monarchy, saying kings and queens were irrelevant now. The Republic in Norway group hopes to abolish the monarchy and replace it with a republic by 2014. -Reuters
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        Lock icon Jumping to the rescue
        51 13 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced moves to protect the California red-legged frog, made famous by Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. The service has designated 1.6 million hectares as a “critical habitat” for the frog.
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        Lock icon Queen 'stamped out'
        56 13 Reuters LONDON -The English monarch’s profile has dominated stamps since 1840, when Queen Victoria adorned the Penny Black, but from next month the reigning queen will be relegated to the top right-hand corner. The Post Office said on Tuesday that traditional symbols will replace Queen Elizabeth’s silhouette,
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        Lock icon 'Sexist' Moi under fire
        55 13 Reuters NAIROBI Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi is coming under fire for a remark he made about women’s minds. “You can achieve more, can get more, but because of your little minds, you cannot get what you expect to get,” Moi told the East African Women’s
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      Lock icon Mysterious invention... is a scooter
      201 15 AP MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Inventor Dean Kamen’s mystery invention, dubbed IT or Ginger, is a hydrogen-powered scooter The print publication of lnside.com says it used corporate surveillance experts to uncover the details on the invention. “Ginger represents the first generation of a new mode of
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      286 15 Curtin University cuntin of Technology University of Technology University of Technology Western Australia “Ranked Australia’s No. 1 University of Technology in the Asia Pacific region” Asia Week Magazine 2000 BCom in Information Technology Specialized Degree course for candidates interested in the design of Information Systems and the Application An up-to-date
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Please let me come home, says Vietnam protester
      339 16 -AP STOCKHOLM He did wrong. He fled his country. And now, he can’t wait to return home. When Michael Bransome broke the law by protesting against the Vietnam War, he figured the harshest penalty would be a few years in jail, not
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      Lock icon Please sit tight
      286 16 0 f-T IgĔ&Bi )fj $i .ff m m M AuSSie r- L. t itf iJr V .1 r Aj'l j nfi\T 'l m M l l Reuters CANBERRA Labor opposition leader Kim Beazley seems to need only one thing to become the next Australian Prime Minister patience.
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      Lock icon Please read to your kids at bedtime. Sob!
      238 16 Reuters OXFORD, England Michael Jackson (left) made a tearful appeal to the world to introduce a children’s Bill of Rights that would ensure parents read bedtime stories to their kids, and make them feel loved. The King of Pop hobbled on crutches
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon BoA is big in japan
      517 17  -  by JAY MING THE year 2000 marked a historic moment in Japanese pop culture. To the relief of J-pop savvy fans in South Korea, their government relaxed restrictions on Japanese music. Previously, Japan’s brutal occupation of Korea from 1910-45 was the reason for the embargo
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      Lock icon Coco Lee 'not a perfect fit for Coco Chanel'
      227 18 COCO Chanel and Coco Lee may share a first name. But Hongkong tai-tais who favour the former don’t share the same enthusiasm for the latter. They say the hip-gyrating Coco Lee doesn’t measure up to Chanel’s sophisticated highfashion image. So when
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        Lock icon YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
        73 18 9pm, Channel 8 Celest Chong is hot property. And you can find out why by watching her starring role in this drama about a bunch of social workers and their Jk roles. Tonight, Celest’s character, Yang Fan i faces pressure from 1 her mum to
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        Lock icon GIGI
        68 18 9pm, TCM (SCVI7) Leslie Caron stars as a waifish girl who is being raised to become a mistress to wealthy Louis Jourdan. Jourdan, who has known her since childhood, cannot at first see her as a lover, while Caron finds her feelings for Jourdan too profound that she does
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        Lock icon BUBBLEGUM CRISIS TOKYO 2040
        69 18 7.30 pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) A sci-fi series set in 2040 Tokyo. Boumas, the artificially intelligent cybernetic beings, turn against their creators and start striking at humans, causing havoc in the city. In an attempt to combat these violent humanoids and restore peace once again
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        Lock icon LA BAMBA
        60 18 spm, Cinemax (SCV 59) Fans of vintage 50s music will want to catch this biopic about Ritchie Valens, the talented young k performer whose life- long fear of flying k foreshadowed his 1 tragic death in a 1 plane crash with m Buddy Holly. Lou f Diamond Phillips
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        Lock icon THE MASK OF ZORRO
        120 18 11 pm, HBO (SCV 60) Zorro is the people’s champion, a masked Robin Hood with an eye for the ladies and a tendency to dispatch his enemies with more than the usual amount of flamboyant flair. At the film’s beginning, Hopkins is the ageing but still
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      Lock icon The Art of Noise
      396 19  -  by' CARA van MIRIAH PUNK, and proud of it. Punk group Opposition Party is sticking to its guns, and pretty loud ones they are too. WHO are these guys? They are loud really LOUD. They scare audiences away. They have been around for 15 years but
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      Lock icon Ruby: I want to be fat
      255 20 JUST when almost every female celebrity is trying to keep herself slim, Taiwanese Ruby Lin is doing the exact opposite. The actress-singer, who weighs a mere 40kg, has been trying hard to put on weight. Apparently, she had been ordered to do so by
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      Lock icon Karen's bunch of sisters
      132 20 LOOKS like Hongkong i singer-actress M Karen Mok J§| likes to have |j| a big family. I|§ The sexy gal was recently asked a question about her ex-boy- friends and rumoured boyfriends, namely: comedian Stephen Chow, Taiwanese singer Richie Ren, Hongkong actors Leo Ku and Stephen
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      Lock icon Is there life at the end of the catwalk?
      404 22  -  personality, r speaking by Junita Simon MODELLING can be a double-edged sword. The same standards that catapult models into fame can be turned against them later in life. If beauty is a state of the mind, then fas- hion can be
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      Lock icon Do you think that WWF matches should be banned from prime time TV?
      337 25 According to a recent news report, a 13-year-old boy from Florida beat a six-year-old girl to death trying to imitate WWF wrestlers. In response to this, letters were written to Straits Times'Forum page about WWF matches on
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      Lock icon Breaking down IT barriers: I could learn to get used to this
      418 28 THIRTY minutes was all it took for 61-year-old Albert Kwok to learn how to trace his family roots, shop for groceries online, set up an email account with Yahoo!, and post digital pictures on the Internet. All this
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Time for Barca, Liverpool to make amends
        237 29 -AFP UEFA CUP PARIS Barcelona and Liverpool will attempt to put weekend nightmares behind them when they resume their quest for European club football glory in the Uefa Cup quarter-finals today (tomorrow, Singapore time). Spanish giant Barca and English Premiership outfit Liverpool both
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        Lock icon Bulls beats Cavaliers
        88 29 Basketball CHICAGO The Chicago Bulls, which owns the worst record in the league, took the lead in the first quarter and never looked back in an 87-74 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA championships on Tuesday. Other results: Minnesota Timberwolves 95 Charlotte Hornets 89, New
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        Lock icon Barthez cleared
        35 29 •Soccer -AFP LONDON Manchester United goalkeeper Fabien Barthez will not face any disciplinary action from the Football Association for his weekend clash with Leeds defender lan Harte, it was confirmed on Tuesday. -afp
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        Lock icon Luck and merit for Arsenal
        324 30 Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Arsenal 7 Spartak Moscow 0 Group C (other match) Lyon 3 (Govou 13,20,Laigle 71) Bayern Munich 0 LONDON Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger paid tribute to his team’s crucial 1-0 Champions League win over Spartak Moscow on Tuesday, but admitted it had also
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        Lock icon O'Leary rues bad luck
        267 30 Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Real Madrid 3 Leeds United 2 MADRID David O’Leary said he was proud Leeds United was going into the Champions League quarter-final as runner-up in Group D after its 2-3 defeat at Real Madrid on Tuesday. But the English team’s manager was left
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        Lock icon champions league
        125 30 Standings and remaining fixtures Croup C P W D L F A Pts Bayern Munich S 3 1 1 7 5 10 Arsenal 5 2 2 1 6 7 8 Olympique Lyon 5 2 1 2 7 3 7 Spartak Moscow 5 1 0 4 4 9 3
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        Lock icon Why Warriors will conquer all
        441 31  -  by Peter Siow No prizes for guessing the 5-League winner this season HERE we go again. Who will lift the S-League crown this year? Singapore Armed Forces FC. There’s no need for a crystal ball when it comes to predicting the winner of the competition,
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        Lock icon SAFFC gets our vote
        117 31 win the league again. It has the best and the broadest materials, which will prepare it well for the long season ahead. Most importantly, it has the experience to defend the title. Jorgen Nielsen, Gombak United manager SAFFC gets my vote. Apart from two proven goal-scor-ers
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