Economic growth in Apec ‘better than expected, but uncertainty remains’
New economic data from across the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) region shows a softer economic contraction of 1.9 per cent in 2020, with continued fiscal measures leading to a rise in government consumption and improved investment and household consumption, the Apec Policy Support Unit said in a press release from Singapore on Thursday.
According to the latest Apec Regional Trends Analysis, household consumption, the bloc’s main driver of growth improved to -3.9 per cent in the second half of 2020 on a year-on-year basis, compared to -7.0 per cent in the first half of last year. Investment followed the same trend, recording a smaller decline of -6.1 per cent in the second half of 2020 compared to -10.5 per cent in the first half.
The report notes that governments across the region have learned effective ways to manage the pandemic and people have learned to adapt to new ways of earning a living. This has resulted in a gradual reopening and resumption of economic activities, which boosted consumption.
The region’s economy is estimated to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2021, with an expected strong increase in domestic and global activity as pent-up demand is unleashed. The development and production of multiple vaccines also boost optimism for a more durable economic recovery.
“The worst fears from last year did not come to pass as we saw a stronger economic rebound in the second half of last year, and this will likely continue throughout 2021,” said Apec Policy Support Unit director Denis Hew.
“However, the region continues to face significant uncertainties, largely linked to how the pandemic is evolving, while job losses due to the pandemic and expectations of higher inflation this year could suppress consumer spending,” he said.
The weakness in investments, which is projected to extend to 2021, could also affect growth, according to the report. “The start-stop economic reopening scenario as economies navigate through a resurgence of infections could hold back investment activity,” Hew added.
The report warns that the uneven recovery in the region is largely related to differences in vaccine access and availability.
The majority of Apec member economies could achieve widespread immunisation by mid-2022 or after, with some anticipated to do so earlier, by the end of 2021.
The disproportionate impact of the pandemic is also highlighted in the report. The pandemic affected everyone everywhere.
Meanwhile, most micro, small and medium enterprises lack the capital and technological expertise to make their shift to online, translating into losses and closures and adding to rising livelihood fragility and poverty.
“People with insufficient digital skills and equipment or those living in areas where access to the internet is unreliable or expensive are denied the chance to reconnect, unable to continue their work and study,” noted Rhea C Hernando, a macroeconomist with Apec’s Policy Support Unit.
Unequal access to vaccines also aggravated the divergence in speed and strength of economic recovery in the region. Lower-income economies that rely largely on the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) facility for their supply of vaccines are in for a longer battle, making the effort to economic recovery very fragile amid a higher risk of virus resurgence.
“The pandemic has exposed the underlying gaps and inequality that have posed significant challenges to policymakers and societies,” Hernando said.
“We need to ensure that no one is left behind in our recovery journey by working together to contain the pandemic, implement structural reforms to boost human capital development and protect the environment,” she added.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 3.89 million, with 21,229 new cases reported on Wednesday – higher than Tuesday’s tally of 20,683 – and 406 more deaths, increasing from Tuesday’s 298.
Total Covid-19 deaths in Asean are now 76,733.
Malaysia reported new highs of 7,478 infections and 63 deaths on Wednesday, bringing the cumulative cases in that nation to 533,367 patients and 2,432 deaths.
The neighbouring country’s Public Health Ministry has urged people to remain in self-lockdown to stop the virus from spreading at the community level.
Vietnam meanwhile reported 235 new cases and one new death on Wednesday, bringing the cumulative cases in the country to 6,086 patients and 45 deaths. So far, 2,853 people have been cured and discharged. The prime minister has ordered urgent vaccinations for workers in industrial estates in the northern provinces, where the infection rate is climbing.
Biden administration proposes protections for threatened bird species out West, setting up clash with oil and gas industry
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration called for new protections under the Endangered Species Act for an iconic bird of the Great Plains on Wednesday, a move with major consequences for the oil and gas industry.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials proposed listing as endangered a portion of the lesser prairie chicken’s population living in Texas and New Mexico, whose range overlaps with the oil and gas-rich Permian Basin. The agency stopped short of awarding the same protections to the birds’ northern population, in Oklahoma and Kansas, on the grounds that their numbers had declined less drastically.
Voluntary conservation efforts “have not kept pace with the threats facing [the] lesser prairie chicken, and [there] remain challenges conserving the species for the long term,” Amy Lueders, a regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, told reporters on Wednesday.
The decision, one of nearly two dozen new conservation measures the administration has adopted in the last four months, underscores Biden’s push to unravel his predecessor’s environmental policies. In a separate move Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency abolished a rule restricting what sort of studies the agency can use in crafting public health rules.
Biden has targeted one of Trump’s energy and environmental policies or proposed one of his own at the rate of about one a day, according to a Washington Post analysis.
While administration officials have emphasized the need to heed scientific findings on climate change and other pressing environmental threats, Wednesday’s actions highlight the difficult terrain they must navigate on these issues. In the case of the lesser prairie chicken, for example, the small bird plays an outsized role in national politics.
It has roamed millions of acres over several states in the Great Plains, grasslands that have been carved up over the years to make way for corn and soybean fields, sprawling cities, and the Midwestern drilling rigs used to suck oil and gas out of the ground. The chickens have now lost about 90% of their historic population, Fish and Wildlife Service officials said.
As its numbers have dwindled, conflicts over whether to protect the bird – and potentially hamper energy development in conservative-leaning states – have only intensified. Its range overlaps with part of the Permian Basin, one of the most important regions in the country for oil and gas development.
The federal government is now proposing two separate designations to try to prevent the species’ demise. The southern population of some 5,000 birds living along the New Mexico-Texas border would be considered endangered, while a northern group would be listed as threatened, a less restrictive designation. After taking input from the public, the agency will make a final decision on these listings within a year.
An endangered listing would likely impose restrictions on new development such as oil and gas drilling, as well as renewable energy projects, across a swath of the birds’ range.
Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Clay Nichols told reporters that the “things that would be prohibited” may include actions that lead to the “take” – or killing – of prairie chickens, or loss or fragmentation of their habitat.
Landowners or businesses “would likely want to come work with the Fish and Wildlife Service to talk about getting some sort of permit or mechanism in place” to comply with the Endangered Species Act, he said.
The proposed threatened designation for the northern group of birds would allow for more exceptions for landowners when the death of the birds results from normal agricultural activities or preparations for wildfires, officials said.
Energy development is a particular threat, environmentalists say, because drilling structures provide a perch for hawks who hunt the ground-dwelling birds, forcing the prairie chickens to move elsewhere. Environmentalists also see climate change as a serious threat to the species, as the landscape dries out further and wildfires intensify.
Earlier this month Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and other Republican senators, including those from Kansas and Texas, urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland not to list the bird under the Endangered Species Act given ongoing conservation efforts.
“We strongly believe it would be imprudent and harmful to ongoing and unprecedented conservation efforts in our states for the [Fish and Wildlife] Service to issue what would amount to a premature [Endangered Species Act] listing proposal,” they wrote.
The fate of the lesser prairie chicken has been a contentious issue for years. Seven years ago the Fish and Wildlife Service named the lesser prairie chicken a threatened species, but that decision was overturned in court. The Trump administration didn’t take action, despite being sued by environmental groups. A 2019 settlement required the Service to make a new listing decision by this month.
Jon Hayes, the vice president and executive director of Audubon Southwest, said the Biden administration’s decision to divide the prairie chicken’s populations “makes a lot of sense” because they are “geographically distinct” and recovery efforts in the southern population “hasn’t shown any real observable impact on those birds yet.”
“I commend the science folks at the Service and this administration for taking on what’s really a challenging issue and having the courage to make the right choice and the science-based choice where the last administration wasn’t interested in making any choice really,” Hayes said.
The lesser prairie chicken – as well as other types of prairie grouse such as the greater prairie chicken and the sage grouse – have lost habitat over generations as agriculture has expanded into native grasslands and cattle grazing has replaced buffalo on the landscape. There are an estimated 27,000 lesser prairie chickens remaining, down from millions.
Published : May 27, 2021
By : The Washington Post · Joshua Partlow, Juliet Eilperin
Howard University renames College of Fine Arts after alum, actor Chadwick Boseman
Howard University is renaming its College of Fine Arts after one of its most acclaimed alums: actor Chadwick Boseman.
On Wednesday, Howard renamed its performing and visual arts school after the “Black Panther” star, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in last year’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Boseman, who graduated from Howard in 2000 with a bachelor of arts degree in directing, died in August at the age of 43 from colon cancer.
The renaming unites Howard and Walt Disney Co.’s executive chairman, Bob Iger, who will spearhead fundraising for an endowment named after Boseman, as well as help raise money for the construction of a state-of-the-art building on the campus. The new building will house the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, its TV station, WHUT and its radio station, WHUR 96.3 FM.
In the days following his death, Howard students circulated a petition to have the fine arts college renamed for Boseman. Unbeknownst to the students, Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick said he, too, was thinking of a way to honor him. Before his death, Boseman had agreed to serve on the board of the fine arts college and was developing a Master’s Class series for students, Frederick said.
“We are very excited. This is the right thing to do,” Frederick said. “Chadwick’s love for Howard University was sincere, and although he did not live to see those plans through to fruition, it is my honor to ensure his legacy lives on.”
The 2018 film “Black Panther,” produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, catapulted Boseman to international acclaim as the movie’s lead character King T’Challa. The film brought in more than $1.33 billion in revenue, with $700 million in U.S. box office alone, according to the movie financial tracking website the-numbers.com.
Frederick said he was aware that Iger and Boseman had bonded following the film’s opening. After Boseman’s death, he approached Iger with the idea of honoring the late actor who in films also played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall.
Iger, Frederick said, “wanted to ensure” he helped “memorializing” Boseman’s work and the university’s efforts in “diversifying the entertainment industry.” Frederick said Iger made a personal donation, but declined to elaborate.
In a statement, Iger called Boseman an “extraordinary gifted, charismatic and kindhearted person” noting his “iconic” performances in a string of films along with his “tireless commitment” to helping others.
“Through his tremendous example, he inspired millions to overcome adversity, dream big and reach beyond the status quo, and this college named in his honor at his beloved Howard University will provide opportunities for future generations of artists to follow in his footsteps and pursue their dreams,” Iger said.
The renaming of the College of Fine Arts comes just weeks after Howard named award winning “The Cosby Show” actress and Howard alumna Phylicia Rashad as the college’s dean. When Boseman was a student, Rashad befriended Boseman and became one of his mentors.It was also Rashad who helped Boseman secure funding to pay for him to attend a summer acting program at Oxford University while at Howard.
“Unrelenting in his pursuit of excellence, Chadwick was possessed with a passion for inquiry and a determination to tell stories, through acting, writing, and directing, that revealed the beauty and complexity of our human spirit,” Rashad said.
In 1997, when Boseman was a student, he led a protest of the then administration when officials decided to consolidate the College of Fine Arts into the larger College of Arts & Sciences. In 2018, Boseman received an honorary doctorate from Howard and was the commencement speaker, inspiring graduates and their families with stories about his student days. It was then when Frederick announced the fine artscollege would return to its independent status.
Frederick said due to economic challenges due to the pandemic, no date has been identified to break ground on the building. “This may take some time, but we’re moving with haste,” he said. The new building, he said, will be located in the existing parking lot directly behind the current College of Fine Arts building.
Boseman’s parents said their son “would be overjoyed by this development.” “His time at Howard University helped shape both the man and the artist that he became, committed to truth, integrity, and a determination to transform the world through the power of storytelling,” Caroline and Leroy Boseman said in a statement.
Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward-Boseman, also celebrated the renaming. “Chad was a very proud Bison,” she said referring to the university’s mascot. “… The reestablishment of the College of Fine Arts brings this part of his story full-circle and ensures that his legacy will continue to inspire young storytellers for years to come.”
EU demands AstraZeneca court order to supply vaccine doses
The European Union attacked AstraZenecas Covid-19 vaccine supply “failure” and demanded millions of euros in penalties if the company cant meet an urgent order for more doses in the latest round of a bitter legal dispute over alleged broken promises by the drugmaker.
At a hearing that kicked off on Wednesday, a Belgian court is weighing EU claims that there’s an emergency situation that merits an order for the drug maker to deliver 20 million more shots than it has promised so far by the end of June.
The company should pay a fine of 10 euros ($12) a day for overdue vaccines if it can’t comply, a lawyer for the European Commission said in the Brussels Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
The delay in supplying vaccines jeopardizes the health of millions of EU citizens, Fanny Laune, a lawyer representing the EU’s executive, said. “We have to vaccinate quickly and widely to bring the mortality rate down, without the AstraZeneca vaccines we cannot.”
Astra’s supply contract with the EU came into focus after it delivered just 30 million doses in the first quarter, compared with an original target of 120 million. The company blamed the shortfall on difficulties producing the vaccine at European plants. The EU has insisted the company should have relied on British facilities, raising questions over Astra’s separate deal with the U.K.
The same court will examine later this year whether Astra violated the terms of its contract. Another lawyer for the EU, Rafael Jafferali told judges earlier that the company hadn’t tried to use all its production facilities to meet the EU order and the company’s record so far is “obviously a failure.” It was “flagrant” that the company had exported some 50 million doses outside of the EU, mostly to the U.K. and Japan, at the same time.
U.K. Deal
The EU wants the court to demand Astra to deliver a further 90 million doses by the end of June, 20 million more than it currently plans to hand over by that date, to reach the 120 million target. The EU is also asking for 180 million doses by the end of September, to fulfill the full contract of 300 million doses ordered last year.
Europe had a slow start in vaccinating its 448 million population, partly due to uncertainties over vaccine supplies, hampering efforts to reopen economic activity after the coronavirus pandemic forced the region into an unprecedented downturn last year.
Aside from the dispute over deliveries, Astra’s vaccine has been mired in controversy in Europe over alleged clotting side effects, which have led some EU members to limit its use to specific age groups. The European Medicines Agency has warned doctors to check on patients who may be vulnerable to clots.
The EU has been turning to Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE for an additional 1.8 billion vaccines.
AstraZeneca’s lawyer, Hakim Boularbah, argued that the company made it clear to the EU that manufacturing a new vaccine was fraught with uncertainties. The contract includes a provision that the company would not be liable for any delay, he said.
The drugmaker doesn’t sell its shot for profit, but the prospect of a long legal battle with 27 governments raises the risk of litigation costs and damage payments.
The Brussels Court of First Instance could decide within a month on the EU’s request for order to supply the contested vaccines.
Nearly half of EU adults have now received at least one shot of a vaccine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Published : May 27, 2021
By : Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Aoife White
Doctors on 48-hour shifts as Indias hospitals pushed to brink
It is the silent toll of Indias deadly second wave. After a terrifying month that saw Covid-19 overwhelm the countrys run down health system, doctors and nurses on the pandemic frontlines say they were pushed into physical and mental exhaustion as they fought to keep their patients alive.
Mousimi Das had to treat her own mother in her Kolkata hospital as countless patients including a colleague’s father died around her, working 48 hours in one stretch without a break. She has one message for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“We are exhausted, frustrated, and depressed,” Das said over phone, her voice breaking with fatigue. “Please see us. Please hear us. If you don’t listen to doctors, nurses and staff working on the ground, you will never be able to improve the health infrastructure.”
Das is not alone. Bloomberg spoke to a dozen doctors who described a nightmare scenario: continued high-risk exposure to the virus, a never-ending flow of patients and deaths and long hours in sweat-drenched PPE kits that made even washroom breaks difficult. It’s leading to burnout, anxiety and insomnia among a large number of India’s 1.3 million doctors and complicates the fight to contain the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak.
More than 1,200 doctors have lost their lives so far in a country that’s reported nearly 27 million Covid-19 cases, according to a toll maintained by the Indian Medical Association.
Even before the pandemic hit India, its health sector was ranked 110 out of 141 countries, behind Bangladesh, Indonesia and Chile, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2019 found. The South Asian nation’s rural towns and villages, home to nearly 70% of India’s 1.4 billion population, have only a skeletal health infrastructure.
The number of doctors for every 10,000 people in India has fallen to around nine in 2019 from 12 in 1991, according to data on World Health Organization’s website, while the country’s health expenditure was just 3.54% of GDP, lower than countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, China and Kenya.
India must now strengthen its health system by investing in hard infrastructure and human resources and making its data transparent, said Yamini Aiyar, the president of the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research. These advances are also vital for the country’s economic growth, Aiyar said. “You must have the world’s confidence that you as a country are able to provided the basics to all citizens so that the world will then want to invest in India.”
Instead, state and federal governments had missed the opportunity to improve health care and governance during the lull between the pandemic’s first and second wave. “We are fighting pandemic on the back of an extremely creaky and broken system,” Aiyar said. “That is one of the crucial reasons why health workers are under deep strain.”
For doctors like Anita Gadgil, the head of surgery at a hospital in Mumbai, it is the sheer volume of death that is hard to bear. “Personal losses combined with the uncertain and distant seeming end of this pandemic is leading to helplessness and frustration among the doctors,” she said. “We are just living day-to-day and duty-by-duty.”
There is little support for those suffering burnout. Several doctors Bloomberg spoke to said they and their colleagues had increasingly turned to smoking and alcohol to numb their minds after long work shifts.
Bureaucratic red tape only adds to their difficulties.
Nurses in New Delhi went on strike in December to force the government-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences to pay three months worth of salaries they were owed. The industrial action only ended after a high court intervention forced the federal government to guarantee their wages would be paid.
In India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, 16 doctors resigned en-masse last month from their roles in government health facilities after they were blamed by officials for the worsening virus situation, while resident doctors at four government hospitals in Mumbai threatened a hunger strike because they hadn’t received a mandated increase in their Covid duty payment. That increase has since been cleared.
Citing surveys and expenditure trackers maintained by the Centre for Policy Research, Aiyar said “poor quality public finance management” meant it was common practice for salaries to be bundled into six-month payouts rather than regular monthly wages, adding to an already stressful situation.
A good health care plan, better salaries, decent quarantine facilities and safety equipment are essential to ensure medical staff are properly cared for, said Monali Mohan, a doctor who has worked with international non-government organizations on improving state-run health facilities.
“Delayed salaries or lack of monetary incentivization makes you think authorities don’t even think about the work they are doing,” Mohan said.
There are also safety concerns, with angry relatives often taking their frustration and grief out on health workers. Deaths due to shortages of medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds have made the situation worse.
In the last year, Das has faced death threats, rape threats, and has even had shoes thrown at her and her colleagues in the hospital. Talking of better insurance plans is far-fetched at this point, she said. “A little respect and staying safe would be enough.”
Published : May 27, 2021
By : Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Upmanyu Trivedi
Hong Kong debates what to do with pile of unused covid shots
Hong Kong is studying options including donation for unused Covid-19 vaccine doses, some of which are set to expire as soon as August, amid struggles to boost a lackluster local inoculation rate despite high demand for shots around the world.
Authorities will estimate how many excess vaccines they have on hand and discuss how to handle its mRNA shots stockpile with drug manufacturers, including postponing or canceling the delivery of certain batches, the government said in a statement.
Officials are also considering giving doses away to places that are more in need via channels like the World Health Organization’s Covax as local demand for BioNTech’s shots has “become sluggish,” it said.
Some 840,000 doses of BioNTech’s vaccines now in storage will expire in mid-August, it said, and another 1.05 million from Chinese maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd. remain unused.
Only a quarter of the daily availability of BioNTech shots are currently being administered, with some 10,000 people making bookings at community centers on a daily average, the government said, compared with a capacity of more than 40,000 doses.
The stockpile is the latest challenge facing Hong Kong’s slower-than-expected vaccine rollout, which has been impeded by a lack of trust in the Beijing-backed government and concerns about rare side effects. The public’s widespread reluctance to get inoculated is making the city a global outlier in the race to achieve herd immunity and be able to fully reopen.
The government has been working to encourage residents to get their shots by providing incentives like reopening bars and shortening the quarantine period for vaccinated people.
Read more: Unused Shots Pile Up as Mistrust Mars Hong Kong Vaccinations
Despite being one of a few places in the world to make vaccines available to all adults, just 12.3% of its population of 7.5 million has been fully inoculated, according to Bloomberg’s Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker — far behind other finance centers including London, at 26.3%, and Singapore, at 25.3%.
The vaccine surplus could hurt Hong Kong’s chances at getting more shots going forward, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan wrote in a response to a lawmaker on Wednesday.
“In the next round of procurement negotiations with the drug manufacturers, we may not be able to get an outcome as desirable as that in the present round,” Chan said. “We do not know if we will be able to procure vaccine doses sufficient for the entire Hong Kong population in the next round.”
Published : May 27, 2021
By : Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Felix Tam
India evacuated more than 2 million people as a powerful storm hit the east coast on Wednesday, causing extensive damage at a time when the nation is battling the worlds worst outbreak of Covid-19.
Cyclone Yaas destroyed more than 300,000 houses in West Bengal and affected 10 million people, the state’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told reporters. River embankments have been breached, damaging some crops and fisheries and livestock farms, she said. The state has evacuated about 1.5 million people to safer areas.
Neighboring Odisha has moved more than 500,000 people to relief centers where authorities have asked people to maintain social distancing to check the spread of the coronavirus. News agencies reported that several boats, shops and houses were damaged in the state and scores of trees were uprooted.
The second severe storm to batter India in 10 days is posing several challenges to already stressed authorities in the country, which is battling a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The infections have strained India’s health system and overwhelmed crematoriums and hospitals. They have also spread to rural areas, where about 70% of the nation’s 1.3 billion people live.
Federal Home Minister Amit Shah has asked the state governments to ensure adequate power backup for hospitals, laboratories, cold stores for vaccines and other medical facilities.
The India Meteorological Department said the cyclone, which made a landfall on Wednesday morning, has weakened. The wind speed surged as high as 155 kilometers (96 miles) in some areas, while sea levels of more than 2 meters above regular tides inundated low-lying areas, it said in a statement.
India regularly witnesses severe storms. A super cyclone in Odisha in 1999 killed about 10,000 people. Yaas follows a category 3 cyclone that reached the opposite coast last week — the worst in over two decades in the western state of Gujarat — killing dozens after a barge sank in the sea. The eastern region was also hit by a severe cyclone in May 2020, while another one in 2019 prompted authorities to evacuate millions of people.
In neighboring Bangladesh, river transport has been suspended. As a precautionary measure, the country has readied 15,000 storm shelters that could accommodate as many as 2.5 million people.
The storm has impacted several flights in the affected states as airports in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Rourkela and Durgapur will remain shut on Wednesday.
Ports, refineries and plants were on alert. Indian Oil Corp., the biggest refiner, has stopped unloading crude oil at Paradip in Odisha, according to a spokesman.
Ongoing construction activities by oil and gas companies in the region have been temporarily suspended, according to Indian Oil. All ships carrying crude oil and other related products have been asked to keep a safe distance from the cyclone’s path, it said in a statement, adding that efforts are underway to ensure smooth supply of liquid medical oxygen from the eastern parts to the rest of the country.
More than 20 relief columns of the Indian Army have been deployed and another nine are on standby. Heavy and medium transport aircraft of the Air Force have flown in over 200 personnel and equipment for the National Disaster Response Force.
Tata Power Co. has mobilized nearly 10,000 people, including engineers and contract workers, to take up restoration work in the affected region, said Praveer Sinha, chief executive officer of the company, which manages power distribution operations in Odisha.
Published : May 27, 2021
By : Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Pradipta Mukherjee, Pratik Parija
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