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HUNSINGOREHUNSINGOREHUNSINGOREHUNSINGORE Churchwardens Churchwardens Churchwardens Churchwardens

Maggie Hunt (358167)

Clive Billenness

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Honorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary Treasurer Clive Billenness

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Caroline Fenwicke-Clennell (331016) Harry Short ((((339948) Barbara Taylor (330593) Churchwarden EmeritusChurchwarden EmeritusChurchwarden EmeritusChurchwarden Emeritus

Dorothy Lumley

Honorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary Treasurer Les Hornby

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Honorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary TreasurerHonorary Treasurer Jennifer Throup

PCC SecretaryPCC SecretaryPCC SecretaryPCC Secretary Harry Short PCC Treasurer PCC Treasurer PCC Treasurer PCC Treasurer Graham Scott Organist to All ParishesOrganist to All ParishesOrganist to All ParishesOrganist to All Parishes Ian De Courcey Bayley (886601)

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EditorEditorEditorEditor Clive Billenness (358078) e-mail: [email protected]

Parish CorrespondentsParish CorrespondentsParish CorrespondentsParish Correspondents HunsingoreHunsingoreHunsingoreHunsingore Maureen Long (359051) e-mail: [email protected] Kirk HammertonKirk HammertonKirk HammertonKirk Hammerton Caroline Fenwicke-Clennell (331016)e-mail: [email protected] Nun MonktonNun MonktonNun MonktonNun Monkton Jennifer Oxtoby (331867) e-mail: [email protected]

WHO’S WHO IN LOWER NIDDERDALEWHO’S WHO IN LOWER NIDDERDALEWHO’S WHO IN LOWER NIDDERDALEWHO’S WHO IN LOWER NIDDERDALE Rector:Rector:Rector:Rector: Reverend Paul Spurgeon (01423-331142) Lower Nidderdale Rectory, Old Church Green, Kirk Hammerton, York YO26 8DL e-mail: [email protected]

Methodist Minister:Methodist Minister:Methodist Minister:Methodist Minister: Reverend Gail Hunt e-mail: [email protected]

FRONT PAGE: This statue of a mad March hare in bronze resin was created by sculptor Libby FRONT PAGE: This statue of a mad March hare in bronze resin was created by sculptor Libby FRONT PAGE: This statue of a mad March hare in bronze resin was created by sculptor Libby FRONT PAGE: This statue of a mad March hare in bronze resin was created by sculptor Libby Edmondson and was displayed in the Himalayan Gardens near Ripon.Edmondson and was displayed in the Himalayan Gardens near Ripon.Edmondson and was displayed in the Himalayan Gardens near Ripon.Edmondson and was displayed in the Himalayan Gardens near Ripon.

(photo: Clive Billenness)

Dear Friends, The other day I was talking to the children in school about New Year Resolutions; they had some really bright ideas about what they should change in their lives. When I saw them it was almost two weeks into the New Year, some of them were keeping to their resolutions, whilst some were struggling. I tried to get over to them that in life we don’t have to wait until the next New Year in order to ‘sort our lives out’, but having a significant moment can be helpful. In all our lives we face ‘crucial moments’ when we have to choose in which direction(s) we need to address something. Those crucial moments in which we choose directions for our lives aren’t usually marked with caution signs, bright red flags, or even the feeling that we are about to make a big decision. Some of the decisions that matter most slip by without our even noticing. Some of the choices that seem small are bigger than the ones that appear big. Because the sacred is present in the ordinary, we can’t be sure that any decision is unimportant. Because life is holy, every moment matters. Every day and hour is crucial. One afternoon, Jesus was walking beside a lake when he sees two men in a rowing boat waiting for unsuspecting fish to wander into their nets.

It’s hard to believe what happens next. Jesus offers them a job with no pay, and they accept: ‘Follow me, and I will make you fish for people’. Had the sales pitch been, ‘Come and make more money than you could ever make fishing,’ then it might make sense. But this invitation and response seem unlikely. Four fishermen drop what they are doing and head off to God-knows-where, to live lives they can’t imagine. People always try to explain away ‘big-fish’ stories, and this one is no exception. They say it sounds more unlikely to us than it would have to people in the first century. The disciples’ instant acceptance of Jesus’ peculiar invitation is as dramatic as any moment we will ever encounter. On occasion, we face big decisions about family, jobs, and faith. We stand at a fork in the road and have to choose. We have moments when we feel that we have to act in a particular way for reasons that we cannot completely explain. We feel the need to sacrifice something we would rather keep in order to allow change to happen. We have taken a few big risks. But most of the time, it isn’t that dramatic. We don’t drop everything to start a new life very often. We tend to forget the importance of details in our journey of life, our journey of faith. We focus on dramatic conversions, overwhelming encounters

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with God, and powerful moments of prayer. We search for peak experiences and end up assuming that some people are born with a spiritual talent that we just don’t have. Slowly but surely our priorities change. On the day they first followed Jesus, the disciples were brash, impulsive, stubborn, and they smelled of fish. They had to learn day by day how to be the followers of Jesus, how to be the church. We grow in faith, not only in memorable, never-to-be-forgotten moments, but also in forgettable moments when we decide to have some quiet time instead of Pau

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turning on the headphones, to do better with the next hour than we did with the last, and to give something that we would rather keep. We become faithful as we confess a misspent hour, an unnecessary word, or a wasted opportunity. We start to follow again and again. We take a step in the right direction, to begin anew to live with purpose, hope, and love; and to do that, we don’t have to wait for the New Year.

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FIRST ANGLICAN WOMEN FIRST ANGLICAN WOMEN FIRST ANGLICAN WOMEN FIRST ANGLICAN WOMEN BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THIS BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THIS BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THIS BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THIS CHRISTMAS ?CHRISTMAS ?CHRISTMAS ?CHRISTMAS ?

Mr William Fittall, the General Secretary of the Church of England’s General Synod - the law-making body of the Church of England - has said at a Press Conference that is is “entirely conceivable” that the first woman bishop in the Church of England could be appointed by Christmas 2014.

Mr Fittall, in a press briefing about the agenda for the next meeting of the General Synod in February, said that this timescale was possible, although, he cautioned, not certain by any means.

Last November, the Synod voted by 378 votes to 8 to welcome new proposals for the appointment of women bishops.

This February, the next meeting of the Synod will consider the draft legislation in

a fast-tracked procedure. If this is approved, each diocese have up to 3 months (Synod is being asked to reduce this period from the normal 6 months) to consider the legislation. This will enable final approval to be given at the General Synod meeting due to be held in York in July.

Any legislation to appoint women bishops still has to be formally approved in Parliament by the Ecclesiastical Committee, but the proposed timescales will enable this to start as soon as the York meeting of Synod has taken place. This will lead to Royal Assent, and final, formal approval by the meeting of the General Synod in November.

As soon as this has happened, it would be legally possible to appoint a woman as a Bishop.

And “there is no shortage of vacancies coming up” said Mr Fittall.

Lent Group 2014

Do come and join us for this preparation time for Easter. We shall be having talk and discussion, time for

reflection, and prayer. Everyone is welcome.

The meetings will be held in the Methodist Chapel

in Kirk Hammerton as follows:

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Dates For Your DiaryDates For Your DiaryDates For Your DiaryDates For Your Diary 14 February14 February14 February14 February - enjoy a Valentine's Day celebration in Hunsingore village hall. Details from Nigel(358516) or Paul (358640).

28 February28 February28 February28 February - At 7.45pm in Hunsingore village hall,a production of some of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" monologues. Food will be served from 7pm. Please let Nigel or Paul know if you would like to attend.

There will be another theatre production in February, details yet to be finalised. Keep an eye on the village notice board.

Abandoned GiletAbandoned GiletAbandoned GiletAbandoned Gilet A black fleece gilet, size L, Gill label, was found on a pew in Hunsingore Church some long time ago and has been hanging in the vestry of Hunsingore church since then. Would the owner like to claim it, please (phone Maureen Long 359051)?

Rumours, Rumours.......Rumours, Rumours.......Rumours, Rumours.......Rumours, Rumours....... Rumours are circulating that there are plans to close the church of St John the Baptist, Hunsingore.

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However, at a date yet to be decided there will be a public meeting to discuss the future of the Church in our district and it is hoped that anyone who has an interest in this will be able to attend.

We will give good notice of this in Niddside News

WelcomeWelcomeWelcomeWelcome Welcome to anyone who has moved into this area during the last few months. We hope you will soon feel at home here and we hope to see you at some of the events that are planned for the next few weeks.

See also Cowthorpe Report on Page 13

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The Mice Who Ate ChristmasThe Mice Who Ate ChristmasThe Mice Who Ate ChristmasThe Mice Who Ate Christmas Maureen Long Performed in Hunsingore on 13 December, this new play by Kate Bramley got off to a slightly slow start, but quickly accelerated thanks to the cast of two’s boundless energy.

In brief, one Christmas Eve a granny mouse told her grandchildren a story about two of her ancestors, Edna and Wilbur, who, in 1818, tried to make their way to Switzerland, a land where the streets were known to be paved with cheese (and the mountains made of Toblerone)

Wilbur was hoping that Swiss inventors would help him to patent his design for an eternal churn which would mean that no mouse would ever go hungry again.

Zoë Land and John Mulleany played out the story with the help of mouse puppets who peeped out appealingly from behind the scenery.

There were hazards along the way for the intrepid mice and they narrowly avoided being eaten by a villainous Captain Cat-Sparrow (who was roundly booed by the discerning audience).

Eventually Wilbur and Edna were swept by an avalanche to Austria where they took shelter in a cold church. (Cold church inhabited by mice! Sure it wasn't Hunsingore?)

Wilbur noticed a structure that looked remarkably like the churn he had designed, thought there might be cheese in it and took a bite, not realising he had bitten through the bellows of the church organ!

This disaster was discovered by the parish priest and the cleaning lady (who bore a striking resemblance to Julie Walters’ character in Acorn Antiques - Mrs Overall!)

Then the priest overheard one of the mice plucking the strings of his guitar, Edna admitted that the mice were to blame for the silent organ and the stage was set for a hearty rendering of "Silent Night" before we were all wished a Merry Christmouse.

All credit must go to the cast who played all the parts between them, sang, danced played the guitar and were never offstage for more than a moment or two. Such energy and versatility, all just what we have come to expect from a Badapple production.

It was a full house, and Jane and her team of helpers coped magnificently serving delicious food to such a large number - and there was even apple pie and cream for dessert! We all appreciate the work they do on these theatre evenings.

We had also been promised a short dance routine by the only two children in the audience, but, apparently overcome by stage fright, they fled! However, their talents were put to good use when they helped Paul to draw the raffle, always a highlight of these events.

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February 11th Brown & BlondFebruary 11th Brown & BlondFebruary 11th Brown & BlondFebruary 11th Brown & Blond

We will be welcoming local artisan chef George Welton, who launched his own business Brown and Blond from his home in Cattal in 2010.

George has been selling thousands of brownies every week at farmers markets and numerous independent shops.

His topic will be ‘Cupcakes’, which makes this meeting of the YCA appetisingly irresistible !

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Angela Henson will be joining us to share her deep knowledge of the history and routes that dalesfolk and others have used for over 2000 years to traverse a sometimes difficult terrain for commercial and social reasons.

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All meetings continue to be arranged to be held in School, starting at 7.30 pm, but please note that the YCA are looking to move over the road into the Alice Hawthorn pub.

All ladies please note that we have a very interesting programme of events for 2014, and with annual subscriptions of only £15, this is very good value.

For more details about these events, or about the YCA in general, please contact the Chairperson, Mrs A Greenwood on 01423-330443

Finally, many thanks to everyone who has supported the YCA during 2013 - we look forward to seeing you again in 2014.

CHURCH NEWSCHURCH NEWSCHURCH NEWSCHURCH NEWS Many thanks to everyone who gave their time and energy to decorating the Church and making it look so beautiful over Christmas.

It was lovely to be able to welcome the BadApple Theatre Company to St Mary’s with their current production “The Mice Who Ate Christmas” (see Maureen Long’s review on page 7)

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We have already taken our first journey of the term by catching the train from Kirk Hammerton and travelling to York Station, where we walked to the Castle Museum.

The KS1 and KS2 children took part in two different workshops – Bread and Butter and The Swinging 60s and had the opportunity to follow trails around the museum. This proved to be a fantastic day with the children learning promoted by this experiential approach which as our definition of learning is 'when you know, can do or can explain something you couldn't

before'.

As part of the Wider Opportunity Programme ran by North Yorkshire, we are continuing on to becoming brilliant musicians by all learning to play the ukulele. The children have had their second lesson and have progressed to knowing three chords.

We are also in the process of working towards our Eco-schools award which is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.

More news will follow as we continue on our journey.

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Sue Fernyhough reports

This year’s Christmas performance of ‘Stable Manners’ has received great reviews from parents and friends.

Back in Bethlehem, the animals are all keen to inherit Neddy’s stable, only for the angles Gabriel and Luke to decide that Neddy’s place is the ideal location for Jesus’ birth.

As preparations continue against a backdrop of animal bickering, Mary and Joseph arrive for the great day and at last, the animals see sense and decide to live in harmony. All the children had speaking parts and everybody sang with gusto and commitment. It was commented this was the best Christmas play they had seen at Nun Monkton School.

We ended the term with our version of the Nativity in St. Mary's Church. There was a fantastic turnout and everyone joined in with the carols. Parents stated they were very impressed by the confidence shown by the children who spoke with clear intonation.

Everyone has returned to school rested and ready to learn in what will prove to be an exciting term.

The whole school is now taking swimming lessons every week this term at Tadcaster Pool. It has already been recognised by instructors how confidently the children can already swim and they are only on the first week.

Our school topic this term is Journeys. Journeys. Journeys. Journeys.

FILM CLUBFILM CLUBFILM CLUBFILM CLUB

Our next films will be

24 February: “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”

And March 24: “A Beautiful Mind”

Performances begin at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.

Non-members are welcome to join us for £3 each.

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The club will next meet on:

25 February - “Sweet Peas” - a talk by David Matthewman of Matthewman’s Sweet Peas and

25 March - Starbeck in Bloom - a talk by Christine Stewart about this lovely event which has been taking place for more than 10 years.

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SPONSORED CHURCH SPONSORED CHURCH SPONSORED CHURCH SPONSORED CHURCH FLOODLIGHTINGFLOODLIGHTINGFLOODLIGHTINGFLOODLIGHTING

Kirk Hammerton readers may have noticed that St John the Baptist has been floodlit at night since Christmas. This will continue until the beginning of Lent, and is thanks to the generous sponsorship of

Sheila Hornby Bill & Betty Bracey Mike & Margaret Kessel John & Phyllis Pick Caroline Fenwicke-Clennell Harry & Brenda Short and Paul & Liz Pickburn

If any reader would like to sponsor the Church floodlighting after Lent is over, please contact any of the Churchwardens.

PAINTING GROUPPAINTING GROUPPAINTING GROUPPAINTING GROUP

We will next meet on Mondays 10 February and 10 March between 10 am and noon. We are a friendly and supportive group who always welcome new members.

Contact Kath Flintoff on 330598

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Mr Joe Cooper reports: We've had a fun-packed start back to 2014 at Kirk Hammerton CE Primary School. After a typically busy Christmas we are still counting up the funds we raised for Martin House's Goodnight's Sleep Appeal from sales of our charity CD (over £300 we think!).

Along with our partnership school, Staveley Community Primary, we recorded a re-written version of The Pogues (and Kirsty MacColl)'s 'Fairytale of New York': 'Fairytale of Yorkshire' (lyrics below). After the song was played on Stray FM we were visited by Adam Tomlinson from the Radio York breakfast show,. His interviews with children and staff allowed us to see what goes into a radio interview - very interesting!

This term the whole school has a international and multicultural focus to their topic as we look at different people and places around the world. We look forward to the visit of Dee Spice, who will show us flavours and share experiences from Sri Lanka, and a visitor from Paraguay who can help us with our Spanish pronunciation. The younger children are taking a wonderful ride on Miranda the Explorer's balloon as it travels around different locations, while the older children will compare locations and learn about the culture of Africa and India.

This week we have also been lucky enough to have a sports-focused day. The reception children had a fitness, nutrition and sports day in school with our excellent sports specialist, Edd Mason,

while the older children visited the English Sports Institute in Sheffield. Our tiring day included taster sessions of boxing, badminton and athletics on the 200m international-standard track. We briefly met paralympians from the British table tennis team but missed gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams as she was opening a new facility elsewhere.

If you are interested in coming to look round our school please get in contact with Emma Miller, our Executive Headteacher, on 01423 330460, or visit our website and blog to see what we have been up to:

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Fairytale of Yorkshire - lyrics by Joe Cooper It’s nearly Christmas Day, And Yorkshire leads the way, There’s plenty to celebrate, Twenty fourteen will be great. Let’s make it Yorkshire’s year, Le Tour’ll soon be here, And everyone’s queuing up, To pay a visit here. We’ve got rhubarb and ale, Yorkshire tea is on sale, Yorkshire puddings and pikelets, Served best in the dales. From mountain to coast, Though we don’t like to boast, It’s flippin’ fantastic, The place we love most. We’ve got Knaresborough Castle, Once ruled by King John, York Minster’s amazing, And so is Ripon, There’s Harewood and Brodsworth, Sledmere and Ripley, Harlow Carr, Fountains Abbey, Lightwater Valley. And the Kirk and Staveley children’s choirs,And the Kirk and Staveley children’s choirs,And the Kirk and Staveley children’s choirs,And the Kirk and Staveley children’s choirs, Will be singing all the way,Will be singing all the way,Will be singing all the way,Will be singing all the way, And the Yorkshire bells will ring for Christmas And the Yorkshire bells will ring for Christmas And the Yorkshire bells will ring for Christmas And the Yorkshire bells will ring for Christmas Day.Day.Day.Day.

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staff to get away with taking a ‘duvet day’.” The Bible offers a better solution than staying under the duvet: ‘Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.’ (Psalm 42:11)

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COWTHORPE COMMUNITY COWTHORPE COMMUNITY COWTHORPE COMMUNITY COWTHORPE COMMUNITY FORUM ADOPT A LOGOFORUM ADOPT A LOGOFORUM ADOPT A LOGOFORUM ADOPT A LOGO Shortly after Niddside News’ last edition went to press, a Design Awards Supper, kindly hosted by Roger and Jacqui Marsden, was held to announce the winner of a competition held among the young people of Cowthorpe to find a logo for the Community Forum.

Jacqui writes:

The event was to celebrate the skill and effort of our youngsters who had participated in the competition. The first prize was sponsored by Goosemoor Organics which included a gift token and the development of the winning idea by a graphic designer into a digital logo for use by the Forum.

Such was the generosity of many households within Cowthorpe that we were able to award prizes or gifts to all who entered.

The award supper of homemade steak pie with vegetables with alternatives of pizza or red onion & goat’s cheese tartlets was followed by delicious fruit crumbles and enjoyed by all of the 28 who sat down to

eat. Over 30 people attended.

The MC for the Award presentation was BBC presenter Tanya Arnold and the prizes were presented by Arnold Warneken (Goosemoor Organics). The overall winner of the CCF Logo Design Competition was Matt Livesey.

The funds raised from the Logo Awards event was used as a basis for another event at Highfield Villa on 11th December. The fund was supplemented by further donations of cash and from some residents within the village to provide a traditional 3 course Christmas Lunch for the senior and in some cases less mobile members of our community.

The meal was supplemented by a fantastic cheeseboard with port, mince pies, tea & coffee with mints and liqueurs. Wine had flowed throughout the meal.

Twenty three of our village community fully enjoyed this event together with two wonderful younger helpers who did a fantastic job.

Already we have been asked if the event will be repeated next year.

Winner Matt Livesy with Tania Arnold and Arnold Warneken

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HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF

THE FRENCH TOWN OF

LOURDES ?

Lourdes is a little town near the border

of France with Spain which became

famous in 1858 when mother a teenage

girl called Bernadette, went out to

collect wood to keep her family. She

came running back and told her amazed

parents that St Mary, the mother of

Jesus had appeared to her in a nearby

cave, dressed in blue and white

St Mary appeared a total of 18 times to

Bernadette, and instructed her to tell

the local priests to make a procession to

the cave (a ‘grotto’) and build a chapel

there.

At first, the priests refused to believe

Bernadette’s story because she was just

a young, uneducated girl and forbade her

from going back to the cave. But

Bernadette did anyway, and on one visit

St Mary told her to dig a hole in the

floor. Water began to flow from it and

although it was very muddy at first, it got

clearer and cleaner.

People who were ill and bathed in the

water in the cave reported that they got

better, and many miraculous cures were

reported.

In 1860, the Roman Catholic Church

reported that St Mary had truly appeared

to Bernadette.

Bernadette herself went on to become a

nun and was declared a Saint by the Pope

in 1933. Today thousands of people visit

Lourdes every year praying for a cure.

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10.30 am10.30 am10.30 am10.30 am Family Service

6.30 pm6.30 pm6.30 pm6.30 pm Evening Worship

9.00 am9.00 am9.00 am9.00 am Sung Communion


8.00 am8.00 am8.00 am8.00 am Holy Communion


10.00 am10.00 am10.00 am10.00 am (Methodist Chapel) Holy Communion



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5 March5 March5 March5 March




10.00 am10.00 am10.00 am10.00 am (Methodist Chapel) Holy Communion


10.30 am10.30 am10.30 am10.30 am Family Communion






10:00 am10:00 am10:00 am10:00 am Family Service

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30 March30 March30 March30 March

Kirk Hammerton Kirk Hammerton Kirk Hammerton Kirk Hammerton ---- 10.OO am10.OO am10.OO am10.OO am Special Benefice Communion Service

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Said Communion with Imposition of Ashes

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