WETHERAL
WETHERALD
WETHERELL
WETMORE
WETTLAUFER
WETZEL
WETZLER
WETHERAL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-02-01 published
PARLIAMENT,
Donald
Edward "
Ted"
At the Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay on Tuesday, January 31,
2006. Ted PARLIAMENT of Beaverton, was the beloved husband of
Beatrice M.
(SHEEHEY)
PARLIAMENT. Dear brother of Ken (Winnifred)
of Cannington, Bruce (Helen) of Kanata, Eric (Eleanor) of Beaverton,
Enid (Tom)
WETHERAL of Cannington and Verla predeceased. The
family will receive Friends at the Mangan Funeral Home, Beaverton
(705-426-5777) on Thursday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
service will be held at the Community Pentecostal Church (south
junction Highway 12 and 48), Beaverton on Friday at 1: 30 p.m.
Interment Stone Church Cemetery, Beaverton. The family would
appreciate memorial donations to the charity of your choice.
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WETHERAL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-16 published
WETHERAL,
Marion
Audrey
(PHILP)
Entered into rest at the BonAir Nursing Home in Cannington, on
Wednesday,
March 15th, 2006. Marion Audrey
PHILP, in her 102nd
year, was the beloved wife of the late Thomas Edward
WETHERAL
(1970.) Predeceased by two sisters Doreen
ROSS and Madeline
MARSHALL
and two brothers Mel and Ivan
PHILP.
Dearly remembered by several
nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the Thorne
Funeral Home in Cannington on Saturday, March 18th, 2006 from
1: 00 p.m. until time of Funeral Service at 2:00 p.m. Interment
Necropolis Cemetery in Brock Township. As a remembrance, donations
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or Wilfrid United Church,
would be appreciated by the family.
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WETHERALD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-04 published
AVERY,
Edna
B. (née
HOLMES)
On Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at age 88. Dear wife of Edward
AVERY
(1992.) Cherished mother of Irene and George
PURVIS,
Gore
Bay
Keith and Bette
AVERY, St. Catharines; Ken and Joy
AVERY, Dresden
Norma ISAACS
(Robert 1995,) Kingsville. Dearly loved by her 10 grandchildren
and 9 great-grandchildren: Drew and Patti
PURVIS
(Austin,
Nicholas,)
Denise and Paul
SHEPPARD (Avery, Lindsay, Garrett); Erin and
James McNEILL, Christa
AVERY, Catherine
AVERY, William
AVERY
Holly and Kevin
BALL (Michael, Mitchell, Jillian); Mark and Cathy
AVERY (Edwin); Ian and Julie
AVERY; Matthew
ISAACS. She will
be missed by her siblings Leato
WETHERALD,
Thelma
CRYSDALE, Allen
and Ida HOLMES,
Gerald and Wilda
HOLMES, Jean
LAW. Predeceased
by brothers-in-law Murray
WETHERALD,
Rev.
Stewart
CRYSDALE, Allan
LAW.
Edna was valedictorian of the 1939 nursing class of the
Public General Hospital, Chatham. She upheld the Holmes family's
love of God and of music in her work as choir director for many
years at Dawn Mills United Church. The
AVERY
Family will receive
Friends at the Badder Visitation and Reception Centre, 679 North
Street, Dresden (683-4444) on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The
funeral service will be held at the Dresden Community Church
on Friday, May 5, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Linda
McFADDEN
and Rev. Colin
PATERSON officiating. Donations may be made at
the visitation centre by cheque to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
or the Dresden Community Church. On-line Condolences may be left
at www.badderfuneralhome.com. Funeral Arrangements entrusted
to the John C. Badder Funeral Home 72 Victoria Street, Thamesvillle.
(692-4222.) "A tree will be planted in Memory of Edna
AVERY in
the Badder and Robinson Memorial Forest, Mosa Twp."
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WETHERELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-18 published
WETHERELL,
Magaret
Joyce
(BAKER)
Born in Bristol, England in 1913, Joyce finally found her wings
and went to join her beloved Alf on July 16, 2006 after a lengthy
illness which she fought with customary spirit and hope at Leisureworld
Caregiving Centre in Brantford. Joyce leaves behind her two daughters,
Gillian BIRSE and her husband David of Mississauga and Elizabeth
SMELLIE and her husband William of Picton, grandchildren Elizabeth
BERRY and her husband Vincent, Andrew
BIRSE and his partner Tara
BURK/BURKE, George
SMELLIE and his partner Jamie
BURTON, Robert
SMELLIE
and his partner Slava
NIEWADA, and great-grandchildren Joseph,
Sam and Rosalie
BERRY and Dorothy Abry
ASHFORD-
SMITH.
Also survived
by family in England and Wales. Joyce was a longtime member of
St. Andrew's United Church, the Dufferin Lawn Bowling Club and
the Brant Curling Club. The family expresses thanks for all the
loving care for our dear Mum at Charlotte Villa and Leisureworld.
Special thanks to her closest Friends who loved her and continued
to visit until the end. Friends will be received at McCleister
Funeral Home, 495 Park Rd. N., Brantford on Thursday from 2 p.m.
until 4 p.m. So that her many Friends will be able to remember
the fullness of her life, a Memorial Service will be held September
at McCleister Funeral Home, time and date to be announced later.
If wished, memorial donations to the Home of Hope in Malawi,
Africa, Soup For the Soul c/o St. Andrew's United Church, the
C.N.I.B. or the Alzheimers Society would be greatfully appreciated.
McCleister 519-758-1553 mccleisterfuneralhome@rogers.com
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WETMORE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-21 published
WETMORE,
Laurina▼
Passed away peacefully on April 15, 2006 at King Gardens Place.
Mum passed away one week short of her 95th birthday and 22 years
to the day of her loving husband Leslie. Mourning her loss are
her children Jim, David, Don and Nancy, also her grandchildren
Joel, Erin, Mary, Meghan and Meghan's mother Linda, also nephew
Bob. Mum's wish was to be cremated with a private family service
and interment together with Dad.
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WETMORE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-22 published
WETMORE,
Laurina▲
Passed away peacefully on April 15, 2006 at King Gardens Place.
Mum passed away one week short of her 95th birthday and 22 years
to the day of her loving husband Leslie. Mourning her loss are
her children Jim, David, Don (Gayle) and Nancy, also her grandchildren
Joel, Erin, Mary, Meghan and Meghan's mother Linda, also nephew
Bob. Mum's wish was to be cremated with a private family service
and interment together with Dad.
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WETMORE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-29 published
COOK,
Harold
Peacefully at Alexander Place, Waterdown on Tuesday, March 28,
2006, in his 95th year. Beloved husband of the late Margueritte
COOK
(BRIGGS.)
Loving father of Betty and her husband Don
WETMORE
of Brampton, Maurice of Toronto, and Patricia and her husband
Bruce POWELL of Barrie. Grandfather of Brent and his wife
Erin,
Todd, Mark and his wife Tamar, and Adam. Great-grandfather of
Lindsay and Drew. Harold retired as principal of Mary Hopkins
School, Waterdown after a long career in teaching. His active
involvement in the Waterdown community included: elder in Knox
Presbyterian Church, member of the Waterdown Masonic Lodge and
of the Hamilton Scottish Rite, volunteer for the A.C.L.D. and
lifetime member of the Waterdown Lion's Club where he was a Melvin
Jones
Fellow.
His family wish to thank Doctor R.
CROSS and the staff
at Alexander Place for the caring support they gave Harold over
the last few years. Friends may call at Knox Presbyterian Church,
80 Mill Street North, Waterdown on Friday, March 31, 2006 from
12 noon until the time of the Funeral Service at 1 p.m. Reception
to follow in the church hall. Private interment service at Burlington
Memorial Gardens. If desired, donations to Knox Presbyterian
Church or a charity of your choice would be appreciated. Please
sign the book of condolence at www.kitchingsteepeandludwig.com
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WETMORE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-29 published
WETMORE,
Ludlow
Allen
Entered into rest at Ross Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, March 28,
2006 in his 84th year. Allen was the beloved husband of Muriel
(née FULTON.)
Loving father of Patty and her husband Stuart
BUTTS
of Toronto, Lee and her husband Bert
BLACKWOOD of Connecticut,
U.S.A. Cherished grandfather of five grandchildren and great-grandfather
of one great-grandchild. Brother of Peggy and her husband Ed
GROVES of Port Perry. In keeping with Allen's wishes, cremation
has taken place. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Mackey
Funeral Home, 33 Peel Street, Lindsay (705-328-2721). Memorial
donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated
by the family.
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WETTLAUFER o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-06-19 published
WETTLAUFER,
Wendy (née
McDONALD)
Of Hanover, passed away at Hanover and District Hospital, on
Sunday,
June 18, 2006. She was 49. Survived by husband Greg
WETTLAUFER,
daughter Janelle
WETTLAUFER of Kitchener, father Jack (Carma)
McDONALD of Woodstock, mother Lauretta (Harry)
WRIGHT of Chatsworth,
brothers Terry (Sherill)
McDONALD of Hanover, Douglas (Shelley)
CRAWFORD of Keswick, sisters Katherine (Mike)
CRAWFORED-
REID
of Owen Sound, Sandra (Dave)
ELDRIDGE of Woodstock, mother-in-law
Esther WETTLAUFER of Hanover. Predeceased by father-in-law Ivan
WETTLAUFER.
Visitation at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Monday
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, june
20, 2006 at 10 a.m. at St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church, Hanover.
Interment in Hanover Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
Further information and register book available at www.mightonfuneralhome.ca
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WETTLAUFER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-29 published
YECK,
Aaron
James
Suddenly on Wednesday December 27, 2006, Aaron James
YECK of
Woodstock in his 34th year. Beloved husband of Kerry
YECK (nee
BROWN.)
Much loved father of Nathan and Joel. Cherished son of
Jim and Heather (née
BROWN)
YECK of Bright and son-in-law of
Jim BROWN and his late wife
Linda (née
CORKE) of Woodstock. Dear
brother of Susan
RICHARDSON and her husband Dean of Woodstock
and their family Brandon, Austin and Olivia, Tricia
WETTLAUFER
and her husband Jason of Woodstock and their family Emily and
Kaitlyn, Kristen
YECK
(Adam
LEARN) of Bright and brother-in-law
of Greg BROWN and his wife
Tracey of Hamilton and their family
Zachaury, Rhylin and Morgan. Loved grand_son of Bill and the late
Betty YECK of Innerkip, Jean and the late Bill
BROWN of Plattsville,
Arnold and the late Grace
BROWN of Owen Sound and Violet and
the late Alan
CORKE of Stratford. Predeceased by his sister Sarah
Lynn YECK.
Aaron loved spending time with his family and Friends
and enjoyed his time spent playing sports and involving himself
with minor sports such as hockey and softball. Friends may call
at the R.D. Longworth Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock,
519-539-0004 on Friday December 29, 2006 from 2: 30-4:30 and 7-9 p.m.
where the funeral service will be held in the chapel on Saturday
at 1: 30 p.m. Interment in the Anglican Cemetery. In memory of
Aaron, contributions to the Canadian Cancer Society -- Leukemia
Research or Embro Minor Hockey would be appreciated. Online condolences
at www.longworthfuneralhome.com
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WETZEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-13 published
ORCHARD,
F.
Ilene (née
GILBERT)
Of Shedden, passed away at Extendicare, Port Stanley on Monday,
September 11, 2006, in her 96th year. Loved wife of the late
Sydney
C.
Orchard (1971.) Loved mother of Mary (Perry)
CLUTTERBUCK,
Hugh (Dorothy), Glenn (Jo Ann), Keith (Sandy), Rev. Neil (Judy),
Roy (Anette,) and Dana
WETZEL. Cherished grandmother of 24, Brent
(Lori), Beth (Chris), John (Pam), Michele (Steve), Alison (Rob),
Kim (Scott), Karan (Pat), Michael (Jasminka), David, Anita (Gord),
Sherri (Glenn), Don (Beth), Kerri Lynn (Chad), Danielle (Damon),
Merrily, Shareen, Scott (Kara), Steven (Sandi), Amy, Blake, Aaron,
Rachel (Johnathan), Kevin, and Sarah. Loved great grandmother
of 44. Also survived by sister-in-law, Marjorie
GILBERT and a
number of nieces and nephews. Predeceased by daughter-in-law,
Sandra ORCHARD, 2 great-grandchildren and four brothers, Eldon,
Bernie, Bruce and Douglas
GILBERT.
Ilene was born in Paynes Mills,
Ontario, May 25, 1911, the daughter of the late Ernest and Fannie
(McALPINE)
GILBERT.
She was a life member of Wabuna Rebekah Lodge #143,
Shedden and the Shedden Women's Institute and a member of the
Southwold Golden Age Club. Ilene was devoted to her family. Friends
will be received at the Sifton Funeral Home, 118 Wellington Street,
Saint Thomas on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service
will be held at Eastwood Fellowship Baptist Church, 400 Wellington
Street, Saint Thomas on Saturday at 11: 00 a.m. Private family interment
in Shedden Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation or The Arthritis Society gratefully acknowledged.
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WETZLER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-08 published
Rudolf VRBA,
Scientist And Professor (1924-2006)
He was the man who beat Auschwitz, writes Sandra
MARTIN. In 1944,
he escaped the death camp to warn the world and save the lives
of 150,000 Hungarian Jews, but remained bitter that 400,000 were
sacrificed
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
Yesterday was the 62nd anniversary of Walter
ROSENBERG's escape
from Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious Nazi concentration camp
in Poland, where more than a million people were killed during
the Second World War. Auschwitz irrevocably changed Mr.
ROSENBERG,
who was only 19 when he escaped. For the rest of his life he
lived under the name Rudolf
VRBA, the nom de guerre, as he called
it, that he adopted after his escape.
Independent, prickly and uncompromising, Mr.
VRBA, who had a
successful academic career as a biochemist at the University
of British Columbia and was the author of more than 50 scientific
papers, hated being thought of as a victim or a survivor -- and
with good reason. Nobody had rescued him -- he had beaten Auschwitz.
A tough guy who tended to be a moral absolutist, he was also
warm, funny and a generous and loyal friend. "He struck a very
fine sartorial note," said his colleague Professor Michael
WALKER.
"He was always well dressed and he had a presence and a style
about him."
Mr. VRBA was not the only person to flee the extermination camp,
but he and his friend Alfred
WETZLER were the most important
of the five escapees from that hellhole of depravity. They bore
detailed and accurate witness to the layout and function of the
gas chambers and crematoria and they spread the alarm about the
diabolical extermination plans in store for Hungarian Jews. And
that is another way that the Holocaust changed Mr.
VRBA:
Instead
of rejoicing that the Auschwitz Protocol (as his detailed report
was called) saved at least 150,000 Hungarian Jews, he remained
bitter that more lives hadn't been saved, believing to the end
of his life that the Hungarian Jewish leaders knowingly sacrificed
more than 400,000 of their countrymen in order to save themselves
and their families.
The past is not a simple place, especially for those who disinter
the myths that spread like moss over the moral complexities of
horrific events to make them more palatable for the living. Mr.
VRBA
was a troubling character to many because he threatened the solidarity
of the post-Holocaust Jewish community with his accusations of
complicity in his memoir I Can't Forgive. (First published in
London in 1963, the book was revised and expanded by Mr.
VRBA
several times during his lifetime.) As a result, it was easier
for many to ignore Mr.
VRBA's heroism than to honour it.
Ruth Linn, dean of education at Haifa University, and a native-born
Israeli, had never heard about anybody escaping from Auschwitz
and neither had her students -- until she watched French director
Claude Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah. How was it possible,
she asked herself, that Mr.
VRBA's memoirs had never been translated
into Hebrew. Why had he never been recognized by Yad Vashem (the
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority)? She was
a key player in having Mr.
VRBA's book translated, in seeing
him awarded an honorary doctorate at Haifa University in 1998,
and in accounting for his absence in popular accounts of the
Holocaust in her 2004 book, Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of
Forgetting.
By then, Mr.
VRBA had lived in Canada for nearly three decades.
Over the years, he had made crucial depositions against Nazis
trying to escape retribution, whether it was the Final Solution
leadership at the Nuremberg Trials, Adolf Eichmann after his
capture in Argentina in 1960, or former concentration guards
living undercover in Germany. He was also a principal witness
in trials of Holocaust deniers such as Ernst
ZUNDEL in Canada.
"What drove him forward was his understanding of the extent to
which the Nazi apparatus used Jewish wealth and Jewish labour
to fuel and maintain the German war effort," said Holocaust historian
Sir Martin Gilbert. "He had seen it when he was in Kanada [the
warehouses that stored confiscated Jewish goods] in Auschwitz
when he'd seen this vast amount of material being recycled, and
the use made of slave labour."
Sir
Martin was so impressed with Mr.
VRBA's heroism that he supported
a campaign to nominate Mr.
VRBA for the Order of Canada and solicited
letters from well known Canadians including then law professor
Irwin COTLER (more recently minister of justice.) "I fully concur
with you that
VRBA is a 'real hero.' Indeed, there are few more
deserving of the Order of Canada than
VRBA, and few, anywhere,
who have exhibited his moral courage," Prof.
COTLER wrote in
a handwritten letter to Sir Martin on February 18, 1992. "Canada
will honour itself -- and redeem itself somewhat -- by awarding
him the Order of Canada."
It didn't happen.
Walter ROSENBERG was born between the First and Second World
Wars in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia. He was one of five children
of Elias ROSENBERG, a steam saw-mill owner and Helena Grunfeldova.
He was 15 when the Germans began their murderous march through
Europe. After he was expelled from high school in Bratislava
under the local version of the Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws, he
worked as a labourer until he was arrested in March of 1942.
Two months later, he was deported to Maidanek and transferred
to Auschwitz on June 30.
He survived as prisoner No. 44070 for almost two years, using
his formidable memory and analytical powers to compute the numbers
of people arriving on the transports and to calculate how many
were used as slave labour or were sent to be gassed at adjacent
Birkenau. Early in 1944, after the Germans invaded Hungary, he
observed how the camp was ramping up to prepare for the arrival
of huge deportations of Hungarian Jews.
On April 7, he and an older schoolmate, Alfred
WETZLER, escaped
from Auschwitz and made their way to Zilina, Slovakia where,
on April 24, they told their harrowing tale to the local Jewish
council. Mr.
ROSENBERG and Mr.
WETZLER were put in separate rooms
as they wrote out their reports, which were then compared, checked
for accuracy against available records and compiled. The 32-page
report testifying to the atrocities at Auschwitz-Birkenau was
sent to the Allies, the Vatican, the International Red Cross
and the Jewish leadership in Hungary -- the next victims on Hitler's
extermination list.
The
Jewish council gave Mr.
ROSENBERG identity papers and he
became Rudolf
VRBA, a name he later adopted legally. The Auschwitz
Protocol reached the Hungarian Jewish leadership in early May
of 1944, but they didn't raise the alarm. Instead, they negotiated
with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to exchange Jews for trucks
and other goods needed by the depleted Nazi war effort.
"Basically, Eichmann deceived them," says Sir Martin in promising
the Hungarian Jewish leadership that the trains would take the
Jews to holding camps where they would be transferred to the
trucks which would convey them to safety in Spain. That's why
they kept silent. Between mid-May and early July 1944, nearly
440,000 Hungarian Jews (including Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie
Wiesel) boarded "resettlement trains" in good faith and ended
up in Auschwitz where most were immediately gassed. Mr.
VRBA
always felt that if the Jewish leaders had announced what Auschwitz
was about these people would have rebelled.
By June of 1944, the Allies had received the Auschwitz Protocol.
They took it very, very seriously, according to Sir Martin. "It
had such a massive impact that the Germans were forced to halt
the deportations." Coincidentally there was an American air raid
on Budapest on July 2, 1944. Hungarian Regent Admiral Miklos
Horthy believed the attack was the beginning of the threatened
Allied retribution for the Auschwitz Protocol and insisted the
deportations stop -- which they did on July 9, 1944. "About 150,000 Jews
were saved as a result of
VRBA's efforts. "He was totally and
extraordinarily successful."
Mr. VRBA warned his own relatives to flee before they, too, were
taken. After that, he joined the Czechoslovak Partisan Units
in September 1944 and fought with them until the end of the war.
He was decorated for bravery. After Czechoslovakia was liberated,
he went back to school and did a series of degrees in chemistry,
receiving his doctorate in 1951 and a post-graduate degree from
the Academy of Science in 1956. He undertook biochemical research
at Charles University in Prague from 1953 to 1958. By then, he
had married a childhood friend, a medical doctor in Prague named
Gerta VERBOVA.
They had two daughters, Helena (who has died)
and Zuza. Mr.
VRBA and his wife separated in 1958, when she defected
to the West and he went to a conference in Israel and never returned.
He worked as a biochemist in Israel for two years and then joined
the British Medical Research Council in London in 1960. Seven
years later he was appointed to the Canadian Medical Research
Council and, from there, began teaching in the pharmacology department
in the Faculty of Medicine at University of British Columbia.
In the mid-1970s, he went on sabbatical to Harvard Medical School
in Cambridge, Massachusetts., where he met his second wife, Robin,
who became a successful real-estate dealer in Vancouver.
"As a scientist, he started out very well and was well respected
for his work in proteins and chemistry," said colleague Prof. Michael
WALKER. "He was very independent and he had his own view of what
was important," and that often meant he "butted heads with the
granting authorities."
Towards the end of his career Prof.
VRBA wasn't getting many
grants. "I don't think he was treated appropriately by the Canadian
scientific community," said Prof.
WALKER. "He was prescient in
his understanding of his area, which is proteins, and how their
function may be changed if they have glucose attached to them."
Instead of complaining about his lack of research money, he "put
more effort into teaching," according to Prof.
WALKER. "
The students
loved him, especially in the last few years."
Rudolf VRBA was born Walter
ROSENBERG in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia
on September 11, 1924. He died of cancer in Vancouver on March 27,
2006. He was 81. He is survived by his second wife Robin, a daughter
from his first marriage, two grandchildren and two nephews.
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