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By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star If the past year can be summed up in a mere acronym it would have to be LRT. No issue dominated the local headlines in 2019 than Ottawa’s highly anticipated and much maligned light rail transit system. In fact, the year ended with the headline, “LRT outage slows travel for New Year’s Eve party crowds”. During the first half of the year, much of the news about LRT centered around the ongoing delays. Deadlines came and went seemingly every other month. When the system finally became operational on Sept. 14, hundreds of people lined up for hours to be among the first riders on the train. During the first few days, the LRT ran relatively trouble-free, thanks in large part to OC Transpo’s decision to continue
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ORLÉANS – The Council on Aging of Ottawa launched its 2019 Snow Mole program on Nov. 29. This year, Orléans is one of the parts of Ottawa that was chosen to be covered by the program that aims to evaluate walkability winter conditions in Ottawa. Snow Moles are volunteers who report on what it’s like to walk outside on any given day. The information they gather is then relayed to the City of Ottawa and The Council on Aging who pass it on to members of the public. Anyone can be a Snow Mole, but we are particularly looking for seniors and children to participate, as well as people who use mobility devices (e.g. canes, walkers and wheelchairs).
Members of the Knights of Columbus Council 9005 Good Shepherd Parish were joined by Innes Ward councillor Laura Dudas on Christmas Eve to help deliver Christmas hampers to area families in financial distress. The hampers were filled with food items donated by members of the Good Shepherd Parish. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHEL BAILLOT
CECCE unveils alternative site for proposed dome By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star The French Catholic school board has released an alternative site for a proposed inflatable sports dome at Garneau high school on Carriere Street. The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Center-Est had originally proposed to erect the dome behind the MIFO cultural centre between Garneau and École élémentaire Saint-Joseph d’Orléans where it would come as close as 14 metres to people living on Champneuf Drive. In an effort to address the concerns of their future neighbours, the board released an alternate plan to erect the dome over the existing football field beside Garneau High School next to Orléans Blvd. While the change has addressed the immediate concerns of those people living on Champneuf Drive, Chateauneuf Community Association president Pat Teolis says it just shifted the problem to a new set of potential neighbours. It also doesn’t address the concerns area residents have over the impact the dome will have on local traffic. The dome itself will be roughly 23.5 metres tall, 144 metres long and 76 metres
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2019 highlighted by tornado, flooding and federal election Continued from page 1 Stage 2 of the LRT will run down the middle of Hwy. 417 from the Gloucester Centre to the Trim Road park and ride with stations at Montréal Road, Jeanne d’Arc Blvd., Orléans Blvd., Place d’Orléans and Trim Road. Construction is expected to take four to five years to complete. Besides the LRT, the biggest newsmaker in 2019 was the weather. For the second time in four years, the Ottawa River crested its banks, flooding areas up and down its length. The main areas impacted in the National Capital region were Fitzroy Harbour, Constance Bay and Britannia. Several homes on Léo Lane, Morin Street and Boisé Lane in Cumberland were also affected; however, thanks to the efforts of dozens of volunteers, including members of the Armed Forces, the flooding was kept to a minimum. Several homes on Léo Lane were also protected by a cofferdam which they purchased after the last flood in 2017. A cofferdam is a long polyurethane tube that is filled with water to form a dam or breakwater. As in 2017, the 2019 flood was caused by a late spring thaw and heavy rains. Residents are now left wondering when the next “100-Year Flood” will occur. On June 2, a tornado touched down in Chatelaine Village just east of Champlain Street and then hopped over Tenth Line Road before causing severe damage to trees and home on Wincanton Drive and Lawler Crescent in the Riverwalk community. The hardest hit areas were Marsha Park and Big Bird Park in Chatelaine Village where dozens of trees that had stood for decades were either uprooted or snapped in two like twigs. Politics also dominated the news in 2019. Former Liberal supporter and one time Liberal leadership candidate David Bertschi rocked the local political scene when he announced on Jan. 24 that he
would be seeking the local Conservative nomination for the 2019 General Election. At the time it was assumed that he would run against Liberal incumbent Andrew Leslie who was elected in 2015 after the Liberal hierarchy disqualified Bertschi’s bid for the nomination. As it turned out, Leslie had a surprise of his own. On May 1, he announced that he would not be running for reelection, paving the way for Orléans MPP MarieFrance Lalonde to seek the job. After beating two other challengers at the Liberal nomination meeting on Sept. 19, Lalonde won the local seat by more than 21,000 votes. The ink on Lalonde’s nomination papers barely had a chance to dry before Cumberland Ward councillor Stephen Blais announced his intention to seek the Liberal nomination to replace Lalonde at Queen’s Park which he won on Nov. 9. As the New Year dawned residents in Orléans were still waiting for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to call a byelection. In other news in 2019, Orléans native Michelle Treacy won the second season of CTV’s The Launch in March. Her first single Emotional was released on Amazon Music, Apple Music and iTunes with moderate success. Also in March, J.T. Bradley’s County Convenience Store in Navan celebrated its 120th anniversary. The store was founded in 1899 by John Thomas Bradley and is currently owned and operated by his great grandson John Bradley. In April, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Cardinal Creek Village to announce the federal government’s First Time Homebuyers Program. In May, Trinity Anglican Church in Bearbrook got a new bell to replace the one that was stolen by thieves in the middle of the night on May 21, 2018. The new bell was a gift from St. Mary Magdalene Church in Chesterville. Sticking to May, the staff and students at St. Peter High School in Fallingbrook
Residents living on Wincanton Drive in Riverwalk survey the damage left after a tornado ripped through their neighbourhood on June 2. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO collected more than 42,000 non-perishable food items for the Orléans-Cumberland food bank as part of their annual Canley Cup food drive and the students at Cairine Wilson Secondary School in Convent Glen raised more than $76,000 for the Ottawa-Carleton Cancer Society during their annual Relay for Life event. The groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Orléans Health Hub was held on Aug. 6. The $60 million facility at the corner of Mer Bleue Road and Brian Coburn Blvd. is expected to open in 2021. In the fall, three controversial development projects in Orléans were raising the ire of hundreds of residents. The first consists of nine medium and high rise apartments planned near Innes and Pagé Road. The second is a 16-storey high rise apartment building planned for the corner of Jeanne d’Arc Blvd. and Duford Avenue. The third is an inflatable sports dome that the French Catholic school board wants to erect behind Garneau high school on Carriere Street.
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2019 also saw the passing of three prominent community members. Eric Smith passed away on March 30 at the age of 98. The Navan resident was one of a select few pilots who flew 30 missions in both WWII and the Korean War. After leaving the RCAF in 1968, he went on to have a successful career in real estate before retiring in 1991. He is survived by his wife Dinah, daughter Erin, son in-law Robert Zintel and granddaughters Sarah and Kristen. Navan village historian Verna Cotton passed away on June 4 at the age of 92. Verna had been the keeper of the Navan Tweedsmuir History books since 1984. The third community leader who passed away in 2019 was Avalon resident Hunsdeep Singh Rangar, 43, who suffered a heart attack in his sleep on June 7. Hunsdeep was a leading member of Ottawa’s South Asian community and the lead organizer of the South Asian Festival held every summer. He is survived by his wife Oshima and their daughter Neela.
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Flu bugged Well, the guy who, “never gets the flu”, finally got the flu. And apparently I’m not alone. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the country is seeing an unusually high number of influenza cases this season. Mostly because a strain of influenza B has been particularly active. South of the border, the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases is predicting this will be the worst season in the United States in “decades”. I’m noting this partially because it’s worth noting and partially to alleviate my own sense of stupidity for not getting a flu shot. In fact, I’ve never had a flu shot and for the past 20-plus years I’ve never gotten the flu. I’ve had the odd cold, but never a full-blown flu. Not even in 2004, when a certain strain of influenza A made the rounds that wasn’t covered by the flu vaccine that year. A special vaccine had to be produced and distributed across Canada. A special vaccination centre was set up at the old Cumberland Town Hall on Centrum Blvd. and folks lined up for nearly an hour to get vaccinated. Now I consider myself to be a fairly hardy individual, but as I write this I’ve been confined to my bed for three of the past four days. And when I say confined, I mean during the first two days it was all I could do to get out of bed and walk the six feet to the bathroom. On day three, I thought I was well enough to get out of bed and go see some clients. Big mistake. By the time I got home and crawled back into bed my symptoms were back with a vengeance. Now, I normally don’t do sick well. Just ask my ex-wife who, God Bless, brought me a Care package of ginger ale, chicken noodle soup and Tylenol flu medication, or my kids. According to them, I have a tendency to overreact. But is it really overreacting when the first two days felt like I was a drug addict going through detox. And if you ask how would I know? I know because I’ve been binge-watching reruns of House., M.D. Or at least I was. The combination of a high fever and a show about a doctor who diagnoses rare diseases, usually at the last minute, can cause one to become... shall I say... delusional. At various times over the past four days I thought I had malaria, Dengue fever, SARS and bacterial meningitis. Turns out I just have the flu. So the moral of story is A) don’t watch House, M.D. when you’re deathly ill with the flu and possess an overactive imagination; and B) get your flu shot. I know I will from now on, if for no other reason than to avoid a repeat of the last four. Also it’s the neighbourly thing to do. For anyone who I may have passed it on to last week, I’m sorry, but you should have gotten your flu shot too. Unfortunately, Ottawa Public Health’s last free flu shot clinic was held last month. That doesn’t mean you are out of luck. You can get a flu shot without an appointment at any Shopper’s Drug Mart, or you can visit a walk-in clinic. Either way – just do it. – Fred Sherwin, editor
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2020 Summer Leadership program is now open Welcome to 2020! I hope all of you had a young people from our community of Orléans to wonderful holiday season spent amongst friends join our team for the summer months. I encourage and family, and an enjoyable celebration to bring those interested to send us an email so we can let in the New Year! you know how to apply to this Bonne et heureuse année great program. 2020! J’espère que vous avez The application deadline is passé une belle période des Feb. 10, 2020. The Summer fêtes avec votre famille et vos Leadership Program 2020 amis et que vous vous êtes begins on May 4, 2020 for a reposés. duration of four months. It’s a pleasure to enter the Mark the date. On Monday Marie-France Lalonde year 2020 as your Federal Feb. 17 I will once again be Member of Parliament and to continue to be the hosting my annual Family Day bowling event. voice for Orléans. 2019 was a year filled with great As the tradition continues, I would like to invite challenges, opportunities and accomplishments, you to join us for a morning of free bowling for and I look forward to everything that this new year the entire family! The event is a great way to spent will bring to our community and country. time with your family and your friends. Hope you The 2020 Summer Leadership Program applica- can come and bowl a game with us! tion process is now open. Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. In 2019, over 150 young Canadians from coast Location: Orléans Bowling – 885 Taylor Creek to coast to coast spent their summer working in Drive Ottawa and in Constituency Offices across the Hope to see you there! There is no need to country. This leadership program gives an oppor- RSVP. Guests are encouraged to bring non-perishtunity for outstanding young Canadians to work as able food items for our local food banks. interns with a Member of Parliament in their difAs always, my staff and I are available to ferent responsibilities. Selected interns may have answer any questions you may have, or to assist the ability to split their internship by serving two you with any federal matters and services. months in Ottawa (Hill office) and two months Our constituency office is open Monday to in the constituency office or to work the full four Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. We can be reached months in the Member’s riding. via e-mail, at marie-france.lalonde@parl.gc.ca or It would be an honour to welcome talented by phone at 613-834-1800.
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It’s 2020 – what will the next 20 years have in store? Is it really 2020? It seemed like only yesterday that everyone had their knickers in a knot over the dreaded Y2K. For anyone under the age of 35 who may be reading this column, the dawn of a new millennium was supposed to harbour everything from the end of the world to a total and complete cyber meltdown. The dire predictions were entirely overblown, of course. There were a few minor hiccups here and there, but by and large midnight Dec. 31, 1999 came and went without any issues whatsoever. The end-of-the-world types began saying they actually meant midnight Dec. 31, 2001, which set the whole debate on when a millennium ends and a new one starts. Sound familiar? We’re hearing much of the same debate now on when a decade ends and a new decade starts. My own position is that the 21st century began on Jan. 1, 2000 and the new decade began on Jan. 1, 2020. But I digress. For those of us who grew up during the late 60s and early 70s watching shows like Star Trek, The Jetsons and Here Comes the 70s, and reading magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science, we were supposed to be flying around with jetpacks on our backs and staying in hotels that orbited the earth.
Up Front Fred Sherwin So why is it that it’s the year 2020 and we are still driving around in cars with combustible engines and relying on wooden telephone poles to carry utilities just as they did 100 years ago? Sure, we’ve made all kinds of advances in information technology. Who would have guessed even 20 years ago how fast cell phone and personal computer technology would grow? I still remember graduating from floppy disks to a zip drive; and the first memory card I bought for my digital camera could store a whopping 34 MB. I still remember the day when they came out with a 512 MB capacity memory card. I thought to myself – who the heck needs all that memory? Now you have memory cards with up to 512 GB capacity. It’s mind-boggling. And the same can be said for advances in smart devices and social media.
As a bit of an aside, the most recent Dr. Who episode was based on an alien race taking over the world by accessing all of our smart devices and personal computers. It was actually quite believable. But the one area where we seem to be stuck in the past is our dependency on fossil fuels combined with our inability to take global warming and climate change seriously. If someone had told me back in high school – or even the late 80s – that in 2020 95 per cent of the cars in North America would still be running on gasoline, I would have thought you were nuts. How is it that information technology has advanced so far and not car engine technology? Common sense tells me there are alternative energy sources out there and we seem to be on the brink of a major surge in electric vehicles. Volkswagen plans to roll out an entire line of electric vehicles in North America, starting with the ID.4 sometime this year. Hopefully, we will see the end of gasdriven cars in the next 20 years. And who knows, maybe in 2040 we will all be driving autonomous electric vehicles around town. Now wouldn’t that be progress? Although we won’t actually be driving them if their autonomous, we would just be going along
for the ride. If there are two advances I’d like to see in the next 20 years, they would be in medical research and combating global warming by producing less expensive fuel sources than what we are currently using. When it comes to the latter, I don’t think there will be any choice. Governments and industries will either have to start developing alternative fuel sources, or the rest of us will have to start building bunkers to protect us from tornadoes, firestorms, hurricanes, drought, or massive flooding – take your pick. The one area where I think we will see the biggest advances over the next 20 years is in medical research, and in particular the eradication of diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancer. I’m still waiting for a presidential candidate who will put finding a cure for cancer in the same vein that John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the moon. That endeavour took just eight years. I’m giving them 20. If all the researchers in the world joined together in one common cause, it can be done and then they can move on to the next disease. I know it sounds fantastical, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility. To reach a goal, you first have to set a target.
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Members of the Gloucester Rangers Minor Peewee A team pose together with their hardware after winning the Minor Peewee AA division at the Bell Capital Cup tournament on Dec. 31. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star The Gloucester Rangers rang out 2019 and rang in the New Year by winning a pair of banners at the Bell Capital Cup and very nearly a third one. The Major Peewee AA team was on the ice at the Canadian Tire Centre first as they faced the New Jersey Devils in what turned out to be the most exciting and nerveracking finals of this year’s tournament. The Devils got on the board first with a goal from Ethan Dixon at the 7:12 mark of the opening period. The young American side was threatening to take a two goal lead on the power play midway through the second period when the puck bounced over the stick of the New Jersey defenceman at the Rangers’ blueline, allowing Keegan Hagar to sprint down the ice on a clear breakaway. A perfect deke and backhand shot beat the New Jersey goalie high to the glove side to tie the score at a goal apiece. The score remained tied until the opening minute of the third when New
Jersey’s Keegan Sears scored to put the Devils back in front. The lead didn’t last long, however, thanks to Niam McArthur who tied the game just 19 seconds later. The score remained tied through the remainder of the third period and five minutes of 3-on-3 hockey in overtime which meant the contest would have to be decided in the dreaded shootout. Both teams scored on their first attempts and then traded saves on their second and third attempts to set up a sudden death situation. When Colby Hunter scored for the Rangers on the team’s fourth attempt, it put all the pressure on the Devils’ shooter who had to score to keep his team’s hopes alive. As he bore down on Rangers’ goalie Luca Carlucci, he briefly lost control of the puck twice and had to double back after going too far down the ice. Although he did manage to get the puck past Carlucci, the goal was disallowed and the Rangers had won the game and the championship. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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2019 was a banner year for athletes from Orléans By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star 2019 truly was a stellar year for area athletes. It began with speed skater Isabelle Weidemann being named Ottawa’s Sportswoman of the Year and it ended with her teammate and fellow Orléans native Ivanie Blondin as the odds-on favourite to inherit the honour after she managed to rack up four individual gold medals in four World Cup events. With two events left on the World Cup schedule, she leads the mass start standings by 112 points and is only nine points out of first place in the 3000/5000-metre standings. It appears the Garneau alum is finally coming into her prime at the ripe old age of 29. Two other former Orléans athletes also made the headlines in 2019. Former St. Matthew Tiger and Orléans Bengal, Michael O’Connor, was drafted by the Toronto Argonauts in Michael May and worked his O’Connor way on to the regular
season roster. As a rookie Canadian quarterback, O’Connor played in two games and completed 15 of 23 passes for 173 yards and a touchdown. In Ottawa, former Sir Wilfrid Laurier Lancer Brendan Gillanders played in 16 games and rushed for 94 yards on 23 carries playing in his fourth season for the Redblacks. South of the border, former Cumberland Panther standouts Fabrice Mukendi, Scott Fulton, Dominik Ostrowski and Christian Veilleux were turning heads at prep schools in Connecticut and Maryland, while former Bengal Jonathan Sutherland got to display his abundant talent in his junior season playing safety for the Penn State Nitany Lions. Our local high school track stars did themselves and their respective schools proud by winning two gold and four silver medals at the OFSAA provincial championships in June. Gisèle-Lalonde hurdler Leewinchell Jean won gold in the senior boys 400-metre event and Gloucester Gator Wariso Dullo took home the gold medal in the senior boys javelin. In other individual sports, 16-year-old Nalia Mohamed won a gold medal in
Ivanie Blondin (top middle) began her speed skating season and ended 2019 with four individual gold medals in four World Cup events. (Left) GisèleLalonde hurdler Leewinchell Jean won a gold medal at the OFSAA pro-vincial championships in June. FILE PHOTOS. taekwondo at the Junior Pan Am Games in Costa Rica and Emily MacDougall, 26, and Sabrina Groleau, 19, won the Pro Fitness and Open Fitness titles respectively at the Fitness America event in Las Vegas.
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Ottawa TFC U17 girls named ‘Team of the Year’ By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star For the third year in a row, a team affiliated with the Cumberland United Soccer Club has been named Team of the Year by the Orléans Star. Playing under the Ottawa TFC banner for the first time since Cumberland United joined forces with the Toronto FC Academy program last spring, the Ottawa TFC U17 girls team won the third Ontario Cup in the past three years for the club and went on to win the Toyota National Championship – a first for a National Capital area team. But the girls’ unprecedented season was almost over before it barely started. After winning their first two games in the opening round of the Ontario Cup in July, they needed a win or tie against West Ottawa FC to advance to the playoffs. They ended up battling their west end rivals to a 0-0 draw and advanced to the quarterfinals thanks to a +2 goal differential. They needed a late goal in the 87th minute to avoid a shootout in the Ontario Cup semi-finals, and the difference in the final against the Vaughan Azzuri was an own goal by the Azzuri in the 82nd minute. Their path to a National Championship title was a little less dramatic. After winning
their first three games by a combined score of 13-0, the held St. John’s SC to a 1-1 and advanced to the final where they held a 2-0 lead through the latter stages of the game before allowing a goal in injury time to make final score 2-1. The team is made up of 15-, 16- and 17-year-old girls who were put together under the direction of Ottawa TFC general manager and head coach Pavel Cancura. The three 15-year-old girls on the team – Flavie Dubé, Riley Bonadie and Jessica Boyle – were also on the past two Cumberland United teams that were named Team of the Year in 2017 and 2018 after winning the Ontario Cup. But the U17 Ottawa TFC side wasn’t the only team that had a banner year in 2019. The Starlight cheer team from the Flyers All-Starz Cheer Gym in Orléans won the gold medal in the Youth Level 2 division at the Canadian Cheer Championships in April and the Gloucester Wolverines U17 Elite basketball team went undefeated in defending their provincial title in Toronto in June. In high school sports, the St. Peter Knights won their first ever AAA city championship in senior girls soccer last spring and the Béatrice-Desloges Bulldogs won the senior girls AA basketball championship and the senior boys Tier 1
The Ottawa TFC team is made up of Chanelle Chaput, Riley Bonadie, Lauren Curran, Flavie Dubé, Emily Smith, Paige Robert, Kylen Grant, Kylie Laframboise, Jessica Boyle, Melina Cane, Véronique Bolduc, Joelle Chackal, Rachel Vermaire, Devon Vermaire, Amelia Thompson and Katelyn Brzozowski. The head coach is Pavel Cancura and the assistants coaches are Duane Bonadie and Patrick Boyle. soccer title his past fall. Not to be outdone by their peers, the Louis-Riel Rebelles boys and girls soccer teams both won bronze at the OFSAA ‘A’ championships last June.
Last but by no means least, the Orléans Raftsmen midget football team won the Quebec Midget Football League championship in their first year of operation in 2019.
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Major, minor peewee NO TINTS. teams win BCC titles NO PERMS. JUST A GOOD HAIRCUT. Continued from page 11 The Rangers’ Bell Capital Cup story quickly went from shootout to blowout as the organization’s Minor Peewee A team made short work of the Ashburn Xtreme, scoring in the opening seconds of all three periods of the Minor Peewee AA final on their way to a 6-2 win in the very next game on the Canadian Tire Centre ice. Lexie Hartoun broke the ice with a goal just 45 seconds into the game. The Xtreme bounced back with a air of goals to take a 2-1 lead, but it was all Rangers after that. Caleb Hamilton’s goal at with 4:13 left in the first period would tie the game and then Ty Thomas scored what would turn out to be the game winner just 11 seconds into the second stanza. Thomas then set up a power play marker by Connor Bain at the 6:37 mark of the second period to give the Rangers a two goal lead. Hartoun’s second of the game on a beautiful breakaway just 43 seconds into the third period extended Gloucester’s
lead to 5-2. Sidney Belfoy provided the icing on the cake with a goal at the 6:01 mark of the third to make the final score 6-2. The Gloucester Rangers Major Atom AA team very nearly gave the organization a third Bell Capital Cup banner in the AAA division, but they ultimately lost 4-3 in overtime to the Nepean Raiders. Trailing 3-1 after the second stanza, the Rangers battled back to tie the game with a pair of third period goals from Quinn Young and Carter Beauchesne to force an extra session. The game winner was scored by the Raiders’ Brayden Bennett. In other action involving a Gloucester Rangers team, the Minor Peewee AA squad lost 5-1 to the Central Ontario Wolves in the Minor Peewee AAA final after going 5-0 in the round robin and semi-finals. For those keeping track at home that’s three Gloucester Rangers teams in three of the four Major and Minor AA and AAA Peewee finals.
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