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TECH TIME: Lanor Junior School in south Etobicoke hosted a Robotics Games Day for a number of local schools. The students made the robots and programmed them with computers so they could complete simple tasks. Here, Lanor students Cameron (left) and Ethan work to get their robot ready for the contest held last Thursday.
A community centre, a bridge art project, programs for youth employment and a new downtown hub for Etobicoke were some of the ideas brought forward by politicians at a forum last week on how to improve life in the community. The Rotary Etobicoke Forum held at the Crooked Cue gave Etobicoke politicians the chance to talk about the needs in the community and how they’d meet them. “We have over $250,000 to spend every year after Toronto Ribfest within the community,” said Rotary Etobicoke past president Hugh Williams about the annual festival which takes place June 27 this year. “The forum was to help identify areas of need or high interest.” City councillors John Campbell (Ward 4 Etobicoke Centre), Stephen Holyday (Ward >>>JOB, page 5
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Etobicoke family participates in Pan Am Games torch relay Guardian carrier Anthony Hebbes, mom Patty, dad Tom carry the flame on the same day
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CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com For 13-year-old Etobicoke Guardian carrier Anthony Hebbes and his parents Tom and Patty, the Pan Am Games Torch Relay proved a family affair this month. All three members of the Markland Woods area family were chosen by random draw to carry the Toronto 2015 Pan Am flame on Wednesday, June 10 – Day 12 of the flame’s 41-day journey in advance of the July 10-26 Games. The torch returns to Toronto on June 28 for the PRIDE parade, and then again on July 4 for a big celebration at the Bloor Street Viaduct before travelling through the city for several more days of activities. “It was really fun. I was a little nervous at first...but it was exciting,” Anthony, a Grade 7 student at St. Clement Catholic School, said of being a torchbearer. “I told some of my friends at school and they thought it was pretty cool.” 3,000 torchbearers In total, an estimated 3,000 torchbearers like Anthony and his parents are expected to help share the Pan Am spirit over the course of the relay’s 5,000-kilometre trek across more than 130 communities, before making its final stop on July 10 at the Opening Ceremony of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. For Tom, the highlight of that leg of the relay was watching on as Anthony lit Patty’s torch with his own in Port McNicoll, Ont. “It was kind of neat for
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me, because I saw Patty a random draw and all three of us got picked,” she said. and Anthony handing the flame off to each other,” he “I’m not sure how many told The Guardian in a phone mother-son torchbearers interview on the drive back to there will be, but what a proud moment for us,” she Toronto from Midland, where he carried the torch. added. “I won’t say I got choked The Hebbes family’s relay up, but it was one of those experience, Patty said, was moments I know I’m going bolstered by the fact that the to remember for the rest of event was so well organized my life.” by the Pan Am team. Patty, who used to From I’m not sure how their arrival work for Pan Am, said the many mother-son a t V i c t o r i a opportunity torchbearers there will Harbour to participate Elementary be, but what a proud S c h o o l a t in the Pan Am Torch Relay as moment for us. 9:30 a.m. to a torchbearer pick up their – Patty Hebbes marked the uniforms, get fulfillment their instructions, and board the Torch of a long-time dream. “I always thought it would Relay shuttle bus, to the be a really cool thing to do, end-of-day celebrations in but we couldn’t enter before,” Midland, the day ran like she said, explaining that, as a “clockwork”, Patty said – even Pan Am employee in the past, despite a tornado warning neither she nor any member that threatened to put a of her family were eligible to damper on the day. participate. “Luckily, when we were “So we were absolutely running, it wasn’t even rainthrilled (to be chosen). We ing and the sun actually came really chalk it up to being a out, so it was pretty amazonce-in-a-lifetime experiing,” she said. ence – especially since it was “We really had a fabulous
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time – and like I said, it was really impeccable the way they ran the torch relay. I was really impressed.” cheer on team canada Now that their relay responsibilities are behind them, the Hebbes family said they’re looking forward to cheering on Team Canada at next month’s Pan Am Games here in Toronto. While Anthony’s keen to get out to watch some of the boxing action, Patty said the family is also considering buying tickets to some of the table tennis, badminton and track and field events. “We are very excited about going and we think it’s going to be a fantastic event,” she said. Added Tom: “It showcases Toronto and it really gives us the opportunity for people see the city front and centre,” he said. “And as proud Canadians, everyone’s gotta cheer on Canada.” For more stories on the Pan Am Games go to: www. insidetoronto.com/torontopan-am-games/
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Stonegate Farmers’ Market kicked off its 10th season with special opening day celebrations this Tuesday. This year’s market, which will run every Tuesday evening until Oct. 6, will be located in the parking lot of Christ Church St. James Anglican Church, 194 Park Lawn Rd. In addition to vendors selling fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables and other products, Stonegate Farmers’ Market will also feature the following activities and attractions: n June 30 - Healthy Cooking Demo n July 7 - Bike Clinic
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just like dad Kindergarten students at St . George’s Junior School held a Donuts For Dads F a t h e r ’s D a y event last Thursday with food and games. Taking after his dad Olympium M a r k M c K o y, (left) young Logan goes over the hurdles. Staff photo/ IAN KELSO
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Father Serra soccer fundraiser supports SickKids research Team James Soccer Tournament raises $10K this year TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com His young peers took to their school’s soccer fields just as little James McKeddie loved to do. Father Serra Catholic School staff and students held their second annual Team James Soccer Tournament mid-June in memory of the late eight-year-old who loved Thomas the Train. This year’s Team James tournament had raised nearly $10,000 as of Guardian deadline. In 2011, SickKids doctors diagnosed James with disseminated low-grade glioma, or multiple brain and spinal cord tumours. James received multiple brain surgeries and months of chemotherapy. He died in April 2013. “He never complained,” recalled his mom, Christina Brodie McKeddie of her young son’s battle, during which he lost the ability to walk. “He always had a ‘thank you for helping me,’ a smile and a high five for his entire medical team. In his tender eight years, he touched and inspired so many.” The Islington and Eglinton avenues area school’s nearly 500 students took to the soccer fields on June 10 for 45-minute games, each class representing a different country, a nod to the upcoming Pan Am Games, said principal Beverly Pavan. That day’s thunderstorms dampened the fields, but not students’ enthusiasm. They returned to the soccer pitches Thursday. “James was very happy, always smiling and upbeat,” his mom said. “He loved Father Serra. He loved his friends. He was a bit of a ladies’ man. I had to leave the house 10 minutes early to
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walk him to school because all the girls would come up to him and hug him.” Brodie McKeddie told students their tournament support and donations will help children battling brain tumours at SickKids: “Know James is sending you all a big hug from heaven.” Te a m Ja m e s S o c c e r Tournament donations benefit the James Gordon Brodie McKeddie Fund for Paediatric Brain Tumour Research at SickKids and b.r.a.i.n.child family fund at the hospital. To date, James’ fund has raised more than $41,000. Remarkably, Father Serra students and their families donated $17,000 of that total during last year’s inaugural Team James Soccer Tournament. Dr. Uri Tabori, one of James’ SickKids’ neurooncologists, and one of a five-member doctor research team, shared with students a recent research breakthrough, made possible through James’ fund. Last year, 10 children across Canada with James’
type of tumour, were enrolled in a clinical trial. Children received a pill, rather than chemotherapy or radiation treatments. “This is one of the first years we as physicians have hope,” Tabori told students. “Kids all over Canada can get a drug to get rid of this horrible tumour.” Teacher Gerri Lucia remembered James as “a very quiet little boy. He was very, very sweet and loving.” Lucia lauded students for their generosity. Grade 5 students Olivia Madden and Ethan Tutt, both 11, remembered their friend and classmate’s sense of humour. Both spoke of the soccer tournament’s importance in funding critical paediatric brain tumour research at SickKids. “Me and my friends would always play with James at recess,” Olivia recalled. “He always brought a car or a little train to school. He was a great friend. He was really funny.”
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Job mentoring for youth needed >>>from page 1 3 Etobicoke Centre) and Justin Di Ciano (Ward 5 EtobicokeLakeshore) attended the forum June 17 along with Etobicoke Centre MPP Yvan Baker. Campbell opened the floor with his idea of a community centre near Martin Grove Road and The Westway. “I started talking about it to city staff,” he said. “There is no centre for people to go for activities or a drop-in centre in that area.” “It’s just an idea, but all it requires is $15 to 25 million,” he added. Baker highlighted that his riding was home to many unemployed and underemployed university-educated youth, an issue that resonates province-wide. Citing both a 17 per cent youth unemployment rate and a 30 per cent underemployment rate in the province, Baker wanted to see part of Ontario’s $3.5-billion university funding to be tied to helping students find work after graduation, through mentorships and internships.
Resident Mary Bratko, who’s been self-employed for six years after graduation, mentioned that “there’s red tape all over the place” when working with universities and colleges. “What sort of functions exist within the community that would mentor young people to create your own job if you can’t find one?” she asked. Baker said mentoring groups that focus on professions and various alumni associations could help recent graduates get a job.. Rotarian Lynda Ryder suggested businesses should seek more young applicants to hire, even giving them priority so they have a better chance at gaining employment. Ideas to tackle youth unemployment in Etobicoke were also accompanied by ideas to promote engagement between youth on opposite sides of Hwy. 427. Holyday noted that the highway acted as a “great dividing line” of Etobicoke, adding that it was “a river that can’t be crossed.”
A suggestion he offered was to start an art project to transform the “brutally ugly bridge” at Rathburn Road and Hwy. 427 to serve as an example of co-operation between the east and the west and to encourage and promote positive engagement of the two sides. “It’s not a lot of money, but it’ll involve getting people to work together,” he said. With regards to development ideas in Etobicoke, Di Ciano pointed to the 15-acre site of the former Westwood Theatre and suggested making the area the new downtown hub for Etobicoke, instead of packing it with condominiums. “We will announce in the next couple of weeks an international design competition for the lands,” he said. Through the competition, Di Ciano said the city would be able to offer its residents a nice space with a community focus including a three to fouracre park.
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Travelling arts studio to engage newcomers in Cultural Hotspot signature project LAURA DASILVA ldasilva@insidetoronto.com A seafoam green 1974 Sprite camper trailer sits in the middle of Mabelle Park. A single drum begins to beat. A woman in a green and pink gown spinning a white parasol slowly emerges. The drum beats faster. A little girl steps up onto a tree stump and holds out her hands in silence. She is presented with a watermelon. She holds it over her head. The drum beats faster. She takes a deep breath. She heaves it to the ground with all her might. The crowd goes wild. Welcome to the annual Mabelle Park watermelon smash. This explosion of fruit and joy marked the beginning of the summer season earlier this month and the launch of an exciting project that will bring the fellowship and whimsy of the MABELLEarts community to other neighborhoods in Etobicoke. The City of Toronto’s Cultural Hotspot initiative has partnered with MABELLEarts for a signature project called Mobile Mabelle. The iconic retrofitted trailer, which has been transformed into a mobile arts studio, will be hitting the road and travelling across Etobicoke this summer as staff and youth collect stories and art from residents of all ages and backgrounds. As the Mabelle community is made up predominantly of newcomers to Canada, the focus will be on migration, arrival and belonging. “We’ll be asking people
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to share stories with us. Our hope is by the end of the project, the trailer is like a mobile museum that houses all of the artifacts from the places we’ve been,” said Leah Houston, artistic director of MABELLEarts. The idea was spawned after touring the trailer around the Muskoka region a couple years ago. Houston noticed it brought a sense of community to an area lacking transit infrastructure and a central gathering place. “After that we imagined it working here. Etobicoke has similar issues and communities often feel isolated,” she said. “We’re really interested in finding out where Etobicoke neighbours are
rubbing shoulders with each other, what the hidden gems are and where people go to get support.” Mobile Mabelle will be making pit stops at places like Swansea Mews, Montgomery’s Inn, and Stonegate Health
Centre. Houston has been cultivating a community-based arts practice for more than 10 years, and has transformed the once-neglected green space at Mabelle Park into a thriving home base for artists
and residents from a wide range of ages and cultures. Dances to ancient Arabic music, folk sing-a-longs and a feast of freshly baked bread and pakoras filled the event launch on June 6 with life and creativity, and showcased the vibrant spirit of MABELLEarts. Ten-year-old Amnah took a break from dancing to reflect on what challenges people like her parents, who immigrated from Eritrea and Saudi Arabia, face as newcomers. “It’s sad. You have to make new friends and you’re not going to know anyone in your neighborhood. It’s hard and scary for the first time,” she said. Her friend, 10-year-old
Salma whose parents hail from Somalia, called the Mabelle community her ‘family’. “Mabelle is our family. No matter what culture you come from, you can be artistic. You can be anything you want and you’ll still fit in,” she said. These girls and the rest of the eager youth corps, known as the ‘Mabelle Kids,’ will help facilitate activities during the Mobile Mabelle journey and show others the types of bonds that can be created through art and storytelling. “Back home you miss your family. Like me, I miss my grandma and my uncle. When they created MABELLEarts Somalians came, Eritreans came, every kind of culture came and it’s like a family reunion. It’s really nice,” Salma said. Alfredo Lopez, who came to Canada from Mexico 17 years ago, attended the launch and was introduced to the MABELLEarts community for the first time. “Often the creativity of people around the city is dormant. Events like these awaken it in others and myself,” he said. A toast of traditional Arabic sage tea was raised to Nadira Pattison, manager of arts services at the City of Toronto, for helping bring Mobile Mabelle to fruition. She said she is thrilled about the project, and thinks the roving piece of Canadiana will bring back memories similar to the ones she has of camping trips to Orillia she took with her family soon after arriving to Canada from Guyana. “It will be community members going to other communities, neighbors going to neighbors,” Pattison said. “That’s what the Hotspot is all about. People getting to know each other and the strength, beauty and diversity of this whole city.”
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Brentwood Teen Writers’ Group WHEN: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Brentwood library, 36 Brentwood Rd. N. CONTACT: Ana, 416-394-5240, amalespin@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Do you love write stories, poems, novels or plays? Come share your writing with other like minded teens. New writers welcomed! Drop-in. For teens ages 13-19.
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keep or lose weight. Drop-in. No registration required. Strawberry Tea and Bake Sale WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Atonement, 256 Sheldon Ave. CONTACT: 416-251-6292 COST: $5 Everyone is invited to this annual event featuring home baking, a gift basket raffle and delicious strawberry shortcake. Toronto Ribfest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Centennial Park, 256 Centennial Park Rd. CONTACT: Hugh Williams, 416-738-9583, www.torontoribfest. com, hugh@dynamicplanet.com COST: Free Kick off summer at Toronto Ribfest. From today until July 1. For complete details go online.
w Sunday, June 28
The Lincoln: Pop-Up Market @ Placebo Space WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE:
Placebo Space, 2877 Lake Shore Blvd. W. CONTACT: Melissa Fawcett, www.placebospace.ca, popupmarket@thelincoln.ca COST: Free The Lincoln: Pop-Up Market at Placebo Space: Aims to bring the best of independent local art, design, fashion, vintage and more in a dynamic marketplace setting open on the fourth Sunday of each month.
w Monday, June 29
Summer Camps WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: John G Althouse Community School, 130 Lloyd Manor Rd. CONTACT: Kim Smith, 416-394-8709, COST: Free John G Althouse Community School has a variety of summer camps to choose from for children five-14 years. Camps such as: arts and crafts, boys ball hockey, cooking, dance, drama, drawing and sketching, gymnastics, girls health and wellness, musical theatre, nature, sports, science, boys soccer, boys sports, girls sports, swim, tennis visual arts,
w Thursday, July 2
Beginner Dragon Boat Team WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Humber Bay Dragon Boat Club, 100 Humber Valley Rd. CONTACT: Mike O’Reilly, 416-354-2330, www.humberbaydbc. com, humberbaydbc@gmail.com COST: $300 (incl. Jersey, three regattas, equipment, coaching) New to paddling? Want to try something new? Looking to meet new people and have fun while staying fit? Then you should give dragon boat a try! Open to all ages and abilities. Participants will learn the basics of the dragon boat stroke and paddling, improve their fitness level, and experience racing at festival regattas. Euchre Night WHEN: 7 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE:
Moose Lodge Etobicoke, 3753 Lake Shore Blvd. W. CONTACT: Nelson, 416-255-8375, nelsom41@yahoo.ca COST: $5 Come on out and join us in Euchre Night. Everyone welcome. End time will be when all players have finished their hands
w Saturday, July 4
Walk For Change WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: LAMP Community Health Centre, 185 Fifth St. CONTACT: 416-251-8666 COST: Free Join LAMP Community Health Centre on a 2km or 5km walk along the Lakeshore.This event is being held in order to raise awareness about mental illness; reduce the stigma of mental illness in our community through education; and to raise funds for local mental health support programs such as Among Friends and Harm Reduction.
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Etabbey architect says site can accommodate the condo >>>from page 1 s o u t h o f t h e Ga rd i n e r Expressway. City planners called the large-scale development proposal “not appropriate,” stating the development is “out of scale and character with the planned and existing built form context of the ‘Mystic Pointe’ community.” Planners further called it an “over-intensification of development” on the site. Residents agreed. Fourteen residents shared concerns about the project’s proposed density, and its impact on already trafficclogged neighbourhood streets at rush hours. An existing lack of available parking — both in existing Mystic Pointe condos and on local streets — would only be exacerbated by the project, which proposes less than one parking spot per unit, resident James Phillips argued. Etabbey’s application proposes to redevelop 251 Manitoba St. with a 48-storey, mixed-use building with 548 apartment units and 108 square metres of groundfloor retail space, and 640 underground parking spaces. Architect Craig Hunter, agent for developer Etabbey, told councillors his client “believes the amount of development can be accommodated.” Etabbey appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) because of council’s absence of a decision on the file within the prescribed 120
days. “The appeals were filed one year and two months later after fulsome community consultations and discussion with condominium boards,” Hunter said. “We’re uncertain if residents would appeal (to the OMB). No developer likes uncertainty.” ‘fulsome’ consultation Residents took issue with Hunter’s characterization of community consultation as “fulsome”. Hunter said the developer is “flexible at looking at a reduction of height,” but noted not to the 18-storey height limit prescribed by the city. “To do an 18-storey building, developers would not develop the land,” he said. A c i t y Si t e a n d A re a Specific Policy (SASP) limits the height built on the land to 18 storeys. The SASP states up to 1,800 housing units may be developed in the entire area. Only 44 units remain available to be built in the nearly built-out Mystic Pointe community, as prescribed by the policy. Nine Mystic Pointe condo associations had initially signed a letter noting a “general level of support for redevelopment of the site,” Hunter said. Then approximately 250 residents attended a May 2014 community consultation followed by one working group meeting the following month.
One Manitoba Street condo president said his residents strongly opposed the letter condo presidents wrote in support of Etabbey’s redevelopment of the site. “Residents were against it. ‘What did you do? You made a deal with the devil.’ They lambasted us,” he said. Werner Schwarz, Mystic Pointe and Area Residents Association co-chair, spoke about “broken promises” related to the site. In 2007, former owner Ca m r o s t h a d re c e i v e d committee of adjustment approval to build a modest community of stacked townhomes there. “We believed there would be 152, four-storey stacked townhouses,” said Schwarz, showing councillors a 2007 city document. “Imagine how disgruntled we were when we learned it would be (a condo of ) 18 storeys.” Yo r k S o u t h - We s t o n Councillor Frances Nunziata, and Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette urged residents to attend en masse the OMB pre-hearing, and later hearing. “If you get a lot of residents to attend, the OMB chair really looks at that,” Nunziata said. A fiery York West Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti urged council to go in-camera to confidentially talk with city staff about the city’s OMB strategy where Hunter could not hear the discussions.
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A coalition of media outlets, associations, unions and journalism schools are banding together in a marketing campaign to spread the message that professional journalism just can’t be beat. Pegged ‘JournalismIS’, the campaign is backed by Metroland Media Group and will feature newspaper, television and online advocacy ads touting the value of professional journalism. “Our starting point for this, was a general worry that journalists weren’t doing enough to tell their own stories,” said campaign spokesperson Mary Agnes Welch at the launch Friday, June 12 at the Ryerson School of Journalism in Toronto. The former president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press said: “We’re not talking enough about the contribution we make nationally, but also on the local level to Canadian public life. We’re not talking about the value of an independent, reliable, ethical, impartial journalistic culture in Canada.” T h e a d ve r t i s e m e n t s, which began to appear across news outlets earlier this month and continue into the fall, aim to rally the journalism community to increase awareness, recognition and support for professional journalism. Ian Oliver, president of Metroland Media Group, agreed the media does a great job telling other people’s stories, but not so
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chain. He was so impressed went into business instead. that he immediately booked The sisters retired in 1937, them to perform in Buffalo, coming full circle with a final where they received rave performance at Shea’s Theatre in Buffalo. reviews. In 1912, Kathleen However, they and Vera joined to ...they became continued the group and sing close to The Six Singing home for prithey became The Six Singing O’Connor Sisters, v a t e p a r t i e s O’Connor and war time the only authentic benefits. Their Sisters, the only authentic six sister group ever last appearance six sister group stage was in in show business. on ever in show 1973 when they business. were honoured They would by t h e C B C . travel throughout North In 1989, the last surviving America by train and bus, sister, Geraldine, moved but always returned home out of the house, and it in summer to help on the was sold and demolished. farm. They performed with In 2009, a heritage plaque many other stars of the day, about the O’Connor family including Jimmie Durante, was installed in front of a Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker and new house that now sits at Eddie Cantor. By 1925, Ada, 12 Connorvale Ave. Annie and Nellie had marDenise Harris is the Heritage Officer of the Etobicoke ried, so Madeleine joined the Historical Society. She can be group to form a quartet. Sister reached at denise.harris@sympaGeraldine, while a talented tico.ca. Her column appears every singer herself, declined to second week in The Etobicoke Guardian. make singing her career and
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Home of John Jr. and Ellen O’Connor and their nine children at 12 Connorvale Ave. which was demolished in 1989.
hipped roof, deep eaves, and tall windows. John Jr. and Ellen had one son and eight daughters who all grew up in this house. Ellen had been a profes-
sional singer and John played the violin, so the home was always filled with music. Harmony singing came naturally to the girls, and the older ones sang at local ban-
quets and concerts. In 1910, a relative arranged for the four eldest girls – Anna, Ada, Mary and Nellie – to audition in Buffalo for Michael Shea, owner of the Shea Theatre
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