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March 2015
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Contents Elizabeth Gaskell’s open house
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Credit where it’s due
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Linsey Parkinson
Discover Didsbury
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On the cover
Editor
Didsbury map launch Photograph by Tom Biddle
Lesley Swann
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Geoff Garnett Deborah Grace Linsey Parkinson Andrew Simpson Katherine Watson
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Didsbury People by Deborah Grace
Tony Howell Tony Howell, Professor of Medical Oncology in the University of Manchester at The Christie and Research Director at the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre (Wythenshawe Hospital). Professor Howell and his colleague, Dr Michelle Harvie, are also co-authors of The 2-Day Diet (Vermillion 2013). What’s the current focus of your work?
Thomas Adam, a 17th century physician, said, ‘Prevention is better than healing because it saves the labour of being sick!’ This aphorism has become the motto for our team. Some years back we built the Genesis Prevention Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital for women who wish to help in our research. We’ve been very fortunate in having large numbers of women who volunteer to help in our trials to prevent breast cancer. I work closely with Professor Gareth Evans, a clinical genetics expert and Dr Michelle Harvie, our research dietician at the Genesis Centre. Our laboratory research into new methods for prevention is performed in the Breakthrough Unit at The Christie Campus and led by Professor Michael Lisanti.
With one in nine women in the UK currently at risk of developing breast cancer, how confident are you about reducing that figure?
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such as tamoxifen, raloxifene and anastrozole, to halve their risk. We have research programmes under way to identify those women likely to benefit from the treatment and a very active research programme to develop new treatments to prevent the disease. We also know that reducing weight and maintaining weight loss will reduce risk by about a quarter. The importance of keeping a healthy weight led Dr Michelle Harvie and I to develop the 5:2 Diet, to make dieting easier! If all these measures were introduced an estimated third of breast cancer could be prevented, but we still have a long way to go. We’re fortunate that our research is supported by the Genesis Charity, Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough, although we’re always looking for new funding.
How do you keep fit?
I love running; it gets me out into the fresh air. I do one 10k per week and two or three 5ks. You’ll think me mad, but I just run round and round Marie Louise Gardens early in the morning. I think about
experiments and the papers we have to write, so hardly notice the distance. This works well for me! Please be careful if you are there, since my head is always down. It’s a bit dangerous and I may bump into you!
You’re 73 now. Any plans to retire?
I’m not at all keen on retirement! I am tremendously lucky; I cannot think of any other job I would rather do. I’m also fortunate in having had fantastic support from the NHS and Manchester University over the years.
Apart from work, what are your interests?
Theatre, cinema, gardening, reading. I’ve just read Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Jim AlKhalili and Johnjoe McFadden. Seriously interesting! It’s the basis of everything!
Complete the sentence, ‘I love Didsbury because … ‘ … it has tremendous character, is full of interesting people and close to my workplaces at The Christie and Wythenshawe Hospital.’
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A woman of substance • By Linsey Parkinson
It’s time to celebrate the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Not simply because March is when we mark International Women’s Day, nor because her beautifully restored home opened last year – not even because this year is the 150th anniversary of her death. We should celebrate her as a courageous and inspiring modern woman, who played as significant a role in Manchester’s radical past as many of her more famous male contemporaries. Middle-class Victorian ladies Isabella Beeton being a notable example - felt it their duty to visit the houses of the poor (literally ‘slumming it’), to dispense advice on how to feed a family on a budget. Sound familiar? Gaskell, on the other hand, looked beyond the surface and sought to highlight deeper causes of social injustice. Her novels, especially Mary Barton and Ruth were highly controversial, dealing as they did with subjects of urban poverty and illegitimacy. Her husband William was a writer, teacher and Unitarian minister at Cross Street Chapel, as well as Chairman of the Portico Library. He too worked tirelessly to alleviate poverty and educate the children of the poor. Together, the Gaskells were a respectable, high-profile couple, difficult for the patriarchal establishment to ignore.
Open House
Elizabeth was also mother to four daughters and ran a bustling household. She did all her writing at a small table in the dining room, so that maternal and domestic comings and goings ran alongside her professional work. As well as her fiction, Gaskell was a prolific writer of letters, which reveal her
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to be a woman of wit and down-to-earth charm, who regularly faced that all-toofamiliar modern struggle to attain a worklife balance. That’s the beauty of the restoration at Plymouth Grove: it’s charming, homely and elegant without being grandiose: a house to enjoy and feel welcome in, just as Elizabeth would have wanted. While William taught pupils in his study, she received visitors including Charles Dickens, John Ruskin and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the drawing room. Sir Charles Hallé taught piano there, and a painfully shy Charlotte Brontë once hid behind the curtains, to avoid meeting fellow guests. The Gaskells’ house is filled with
stories and run almost entirely by friendly and informed volunteers, passionate about sharing them with visitors. From gardeners to conservators, room stewards to tea shop staff it’s a small, but committed team that keeps the doors open. If you’re inspired, do call in – Elizabeth loved having visitors!
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is at 84 Plymouth Grove. It’s open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, 11am – 4.30pm (last entry at 4pm). Tickets – valid for twelve months - are £4.95, (£3.95) and accompanied under 16s go free. Find out more about volunteering at www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk. Already a fan? Join the Gaskell Society at www.gaskellsociety.co.uk
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Book Reviews To mark International Women’s Day, Deborah Grace chooses two classic stories, both inspired by personal memoirs. While very different, both depict the strength and courage of two inspirational women.
Frost in May Antonia White
Nanda Gray is just nine when her father, a devout Catholic convert, enrols her at the Convent of Five Wounds in Lippington village. Fiercely intelligent and eager to please, Nanda works hard to conform to the strict school discipline and strange, closed world where, as one of the girls puts it, ‘Catholicism isn’t a religion, it’s a nationality.’ At Lippington, close friendships are frowned upon; the nuns warn their charges against spiritual pride
Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
In 1914, as war was declared, Vera Brittain was eighteen and about to study English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford. The daughter of well-heeled family living in Buxton, Brittain, self-taught, had won her Oxford place despite parental opposition and prevailing societal attitudes regarding the merits (or otherwise) of educating women. Her hardwon struggle, however, was to give way to a more terrible conflict. Four years later, her life
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and subject their every move to constant scrutiny.
In her introduction to Frost in May, Elizabeth Bowen describes the book as a school ‘novel’ written for adult readers, and she adds: ‘It is not the only school story to be a classic; but I can think of no other that is a work of art.’ The first of a quartet of novels, based on the often painful life experiences of its author, Frost In May is both beautifully written and profoundly disturbing.
had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil, prewar era.
and her fiancé, the poet Roland Leighton, were killed. And when it was all over, Brittain, in common with a generation of stunned survivors, had to find a way to live again.
During her four years at the school, Nanda manages to make friends and even acquires the coveted green ribbon which marks academic achievement. Despite her many successes, however, Nanda remains painfully conscious of the difference between her own background and that of her friends, the daughters of the old, great, Catholic families of aristocratic Europe. Although aware that her status as middle-class convert makes her the object of the nuns’ suspicion, Nanda is nevertheless unprepared when the inevitable catastrophe strikes.
To describe Vera Brittain as the voice of a lost generation may seem clichéd, but her searing wartime memoir achieves the dual aim of preserving the memory of loved ones while drawing wisdom from painful experience. Initially ‘deceived by the shining figure of patriotism’, Brittain encouraged her beloved brother, Edward, to enlist, but was quickly disillusioned. Leaving Oxford in 1915 to nurse wounded soldiers, Brittian saw at first hand the wicked slaughter that was to set her on the path to lifelong pacifism. One by one, her closest friends, including Edward
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Credit where it’s due • By Linsey Parkinson The banking sector’s been getting a bad press: irresponsible lending, lack of help for small business, tax avoidance schemes and fat cat bonuses are just some of the reasons that more and more of us are looking for ethical ways to borrow and save. The good news is that there is an alternative. South Manchester Credit Union, open for business since 2000, is run on a co-operative basis, by and for over 3,100 members. It’s currently lending £1.3m to the people of South Manchester and holding £1.7m in savings accounts, all protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
This is a safe and empowering way to save: your money works to make a difference to the lives of individuals, rather than line the pockets of corporate shareholders. Just like money spent locally, money saved and lent locally tends to stay in the area and we all see its benefits. Savers can earn a dividend too, when members consider that results are strong enough: last year, it was a respectable 1.25%. Fair lending can make an enormous difference to people’s lives, helping them clear expensive debts, pay for essential items or invest in their future. Debt arrears aren’t just about financial hardship,
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The South Manchester Credit Union team with Sheenagh (centre) and president of the Board of Directors, Jeff Seneviratne (right) but can also damage health, selfesteem and general wellbeing. And when you’re on a low income, credit tends to be much more expensive. South Manchester Credit Union, however, lends responsibly to all sections of the community at reasonable interest rates and talks face-to-face with loan applicants. Sheenagh Young, the manager at South Manchester Credit Union says: “We take the time to listen to people and to understand their individual circumstances. When we lend money, we’re acting on behalf of all our members and so we take that responsibility very seriously. It’s in nobody’s interest for a loan to be defaulted, so we reach an arrangement that suits borrowers
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and minimises the risk to them.” Helping people avoid a destructive spiral of expensive debt is another aspect of the credit union team’s work. They offer free financial guidance on how to budget, borrow and save. They’re about to start a pilot project in Fallowfield, working with those in receipt of Universal Credit for the first time. It’s not about promoting particular financial products and there’s no commission or hidden charges: it’s simply about giving people solid guidance on managing their own money. South Manchester Credit Union’s AGM takes place on March 16 at The Place on Platt Lane (formerly Fallowfield Library). All members welcome to attend. “We love seeing people’s faces when they realise they’ve managed to save more than they expected”, says Sheenagh. “Some of our members may never have been able to save before: others have significant account balances. Whatever money they deposit with us makes a real difference: they’re investing in their own community.”
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It’s simply photography that documents the birth of a child – it’s very popular in North America, but almost unheard of here. My job is usually to portray everything: from active labour to birth and beyond, including skin-to-skin contact and first meetings with siblings and family.
I’m there. Birth partners can focus completely on supporting mothers: they are a part of the picture in all senses and shouldn’t be spending their time behind a camera. These are challenging circumstances: there’s lots going on, light levels are low and those key moments simply can’t be recreated. A professional photographer doesn’t miss a thing. And the results?
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March In Your Garden By Katherine Watson I have just received an order from the Beth Chatto garden nursery in Essex. The garden is famous for spearheading techniques to deal with climactic change and there are really useful books accompanying the different gardens that Chatto has created - the gravel garden; the damp garden etc.
I’ve received two rather unusual forms of Gunnera: G. Hamiltonii and G. Magellanica. I also ordered two Darmera peltata, part of the saxifrage family but on steroids. When I first moved to my current house in Old Trafford, I bunged in a random collection of plants bought as presents and purchased without any real scheme in mind. One of these plants was a Gunnera manicata - commonly called the giant rhubarb because it looks exactly like you’d expect a giant rhubarb to look - albeit a giant rhubarb with a 20 Senior Service-a-day habit. I loved it but it was way too big and didn’t sit comfortably with anything else at the time, so it had to go. I went through a few perennial phases but just recently, I’ve been tinkering again and am being drawn to foliage and oddity; spiky yuccas and trachycarpus and even Phormium, which I went
right off for a while. Christopher Lloyd maintained that it was essential to have spiky and unusual plants in an English garden to counteract the ‘softness’ - ‘...They give an immediate lift (much like the first glass of champagne on a Sunday morning)’ So when I came to think about how to give parts of the garden this lift I started looking at smaller alternatives to G. Manicata. The Darmera peltata have arrived as thick tubers with bright green bulbous heads and lots of leggy roots clinging horizontally underneath - something from the Mesozoic era surely - it will produce similar foliage to G. Manicata but on a smaller scale. The other two varieties of Gunnera - Hamiltonii and Magellanica are much smaller leaved and will, hopefully, act as ground cover around the trachycarpus. All need a moisture retentive soil to do well but in Manchester we definitely have one over on Essex when it comes to wet soil.
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The aim is to celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of life, and to raise money for women’s charities including Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis. This was a great event last year, which is all down to hard work and commitment by a team of volunteers working with Councillor Bridie Adams. Sue Thurston from Didsbury Good Neighbours and Jean Bridson are two local women who tirelessly give their time and have each been nominated for awards for serving the local community. Sue will be guest of honour on the day.
The event’s free, there’s free tea and coffee and everyone is welcome. There will also be speakers from Women’s Aid on the issue of domestic violence.
Didsbury celebrates International Women’s Day For updates, follow Didsbury Traders on Twitter @didsburytraders 30,000 maps have been printed, but they’ll be snapped up fast, so be sure to pick up yours from shops, libraries and other places over the coming weeks. We guarantee you’ll learn something new about where you live. benefits businesses and residents alike.” Y He gave thanks to all the map’s supporters, especially the Didsbury House Hotel; the Didsbury Traders Co-chairs, Carol Thompson and Irene Bayliss; and the map’s designer and illustrator, Tom Biddle of Tom Biddle Design & Photography. He also announced that work on the 2016 map would start in August!
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109, Lapwing Lane, 0161 438 0404 www.fusiondeli.co.uk @fusiondeli
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6, Albert Hill Street, 0161 448 9999 www.nestinteriorsdidsbu ry.com @nestdidsb ury
724 Wilmslow Road, 0161 434 5841 www.cashpointdidsbury.c om
47 Barlow Moor Road, 0161 438 @web_master_dave 0211
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M J Leeming Opticians 06 Maclure Didsbu ry Barbers 07 John Yates Hair & Beauty Salon M20
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THE AIRPORT
On behalf of Didsbury Traders Associatio second, and much n, welcome to extended edition our of the Didsbury map. With more members Hotel, our map and the very generous Councillor Andrewhas been self-funding this support of Didsbury House year. Simcock Special thanks to co-ordinator to for the project doing for all the time he has volunteere Didsbury businesses, the Tom Biddle our legwork and visiting hundredsd as Carol talented of Thompson designer (Didsbury TAG! and Loyalty Scheme) Co- Chairs Irene Bayliss (Harriet and and Dee) All those featured on the map are members and committed in partnership representatives network of Didsbury Communit with a and Mancheste y groups, local Didsbury a vibrant, r City attractive, modern Council, we aim together to make friendly northern urban village extending a warm and welcome to all. We love Didsbury choice of brands, for our unique range of independen cherished green t businesses, good wide gramme of events and sports, our open spaces to enjoy, lively pr
655-657 Wilmslow Road, 0161 448 www.thestokersarmsdid sbury.co.uk 7941 @stokersarms
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04 Art of Tea 05 Bourbon & Black 06 Chalk Bar and Grill Croma
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We have a gorgeous vintage Cake Boutique Here you’ll find at our cupcakes, cakes, cakepops the Airyfairy HQ. offer the best Afternoon Tea, freshly ground and brownies.We coffee, and milkshakes. 24 School Lane,
ALBERTS DIDSBURY
Busy West Didsbury restaurant & in a contemporar y environment. bar serving modern british just a drink in our buzzing bar. Join us for something to eat food or
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Councillor Andrew Simcock, a driving force behind the project, said: “This map, which is bigger than ever before, is entirely selffinancing. It’s a fantastic example of how the City Council and local businesses can work together to produce something excellent that
The 2015 Didsbury Traders Map was officially launched at the Fletcher Moss in February. 125 businesses from across the Village and West Didsbury - what they offer, as well as how and where to find them - are listed. Some you’ll know, others you may not. Eating and drinking; shopping; finance and property; health and beauty; community, culture and online services: you’ll find almost everything you need is already in Didsbury – and it’s on the map. There’ll also be a series of competitions through the year, so keep hold of the map for the chance to win some great prizes.
Discover Didsbury 741 Wilmslow Road, 0161 4 ww
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Local groups and useful numbers Clubs, Societies & Groups
Acting For Fun 431 4794
Didsbury Civic Society didsburycivicsociety.org.uk Didsbury Cricket Club didsburyccsports.co.uk
Didsbury Good Neighbours Tues 10-11.45am coffee morning. Holt Pavilion, Didsbury Park 07749 504298 www. didsburygoodneighbours.org.uk Didsbury Ladies’ Probus Club Alternate Monday afternoons in East Didsbury. Joan Woodall 434 2532 Didsbury Men’s Probus Club Alternate Thursday mornings in East Didsbury. Bill Woodall 434 2532
Didsbury Lawn Tennis Club Bob Peel 445 0465 didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Players celestaplayers.co.uk
Didsbury Village East Residents Association dvera.co.uk Didsbury Village WI www.didsburywi.co.uk
Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd Monday of each month, 8-10pm, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285 Eat Green free cookery school, food bank, garden tool libraries and community growing activities. info@eatgreen.co.uk www.eatgreen.co.uk
Ford Bank Residents Association fordbankresidents.org.uk Frets community guitar and singing, Fridays 10am 07759 598973
Friends of Didsbury Park friendsofdidsburypark.co.uk
Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 215 0971 awhill@globalnet.co.uk
Friends of Marie Louise Gardens marielouisegardens.org.uk
Lipreading and Communication Skills classes Free to deaf people and their families and friends. Wednesdays 1-3pm at Mauldeth House 0161 832 0444 enquiries@ manchesterdeafstudies.org Manchester JKF Karate Club Didsbury MMU Sports Centre, Tuesdays 8.30pm Ben Pollock 07894 108944
Oneness Deeksha Meditation Saturdays 11am-midday Didsbury Parsonage. Donation £2 Christine 07734 072040 Social Circle UK’s biggest Social & activity network dedicated to providing free events. social-circle.co.uk
Social & Support Groups Manchester Diabetes Support Network 860 5688 diabetesinmanchestersouth@ gmail.com
New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial. org.uk email: nwdevelopment@ newfamilysocial.co.uk
Rethink Manchester Carers in Action www.rmcia.blogspot.co.uk 07757 082976
Useful Numbers
Didsbury Library 227 3755
Environment on Call 954 9000 Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service 905 1100 Manchester City Council 234 5000
Didsbury East Councillors Andrew Simcock cllr.a.simcock@ manchester.gov.uk James Wilson cllr.j.wilson@ manchester.gov.uk
Bridie Adams cllr.b.adams@ manchester.gov.uk
South Manchester Camera Club Mondays 8-10pm, Didsbury Methodist Church smcc.org.uk
Didsbury West Councillors
South Manchester U3A 1st Tuesday of the month 2pm, Emmanuel Church. Edna 434 2509
David Ellison cllr.d.ellison@ manchester.gov.uk
Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323
West Didsbury Bookgroup Meets every four weeks at 7.30pm. Lively mixed group of all ages. Call 445 4483 leaving your name, address & landline
Josie Teubler cllr.j.teubler@ manchester.gov.uk
Carl Ollerhead cllr.c.ollerhead@ manchester.gov.uk
Local MP
John Leech - MP
8 Gawsworth Avenue M20 5NF 434 3334 johnleechmp@parliament.uk
West Didsbury Residents Association westdidsburyresidentsassoc@ gmail.com westdidsbury.org.uk Withington Civic Society Roger Smith 445 1473 withingtoncivicsociety.org.uk
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Didsbury Through Time
When Didsbury lit up the night in a little bit of Chorlton by Andrew Simpson Now it is very easy to become parochial about where you live, which is a shame because the history of South Manchester knows no geographical divisions.
So, in the summer of 1847, a radical journalist looking for evidence of potato blight in Chorlton was intrigued by stories he was told of the’radical potato’ and the farmer, Joseph Johnson of Northenden. Mr Johnson had been imprisoned for his part in organising the meeting at St Peter’s Field in the August of 1819, which was broken up by the authorities and became known as Peterloo. On his release he settled down to a quiet life as a market gardener and the type of potatoes he grew became known locally as ‘radicals.’ Just sixty years later in 1918 James Butterworth, who was a young student at the Didsbury Ministerial Training College, happened to be cycling through Chorlton and passed the old Wesleyan chapel on Beech Road. He was caught by the appearance of the dark and closed building next to a brightly lit and lively public house. It struck him as wrong and he determined that the chapel should become as warm and inviting as the pub. Within a few years he had established a successful boys club in the old chapel and, when preaching re-commenced in 1921, the boys’ and girls’ club provided a youthful choir. This was followed by other activities
including concerts every Saturday night. There are still many people in Chorlton who remember the impact of that young student from Didsbury and many more in London, for with the success of the project in the old Beech Road chapel, the Reverend James Butterworth went on to found ‘Clubland’ in the East End of London. Pictures: the former Didsbury College courtesy of Pierre grace, and the Wesleyan Bazaar Souvenir Hand book, 1908 from the collection of Philip Lloyd
Read more on the history of Didsbury in Andrew Simpson & Peter Topping’s book Didsbury Through Time.
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Sport in Didsbury By Geoff Garnett
Golf: Shirley celebrates in style Shirley Leak is a legend in Didsbury ladies golf and the other Mersey Valley clubs, having been a member of the club for 43 years, including being Lady Captain, winning numerous competitions along the way. She recently reached a special landmark as she celebrated her 90th birthday in style with the ladies of the club. Shirley still plays regularly each week and in 2014 she was the club’s representative in the Coronation Foursomes having won the club qualifier with Clair Canning to make it through to the regional finals of the national competition.
But golf isn’t the only string to her bow. In the 1990s she competed in Mexico to become the world over 70 years’ ladies triathalon champion!
Jean present Shirley with her birthday card along with a group of fellow members
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