The Great Sheffield Tree War

thought she did. The church gave her a choir because she sang like a bird and looked like a bird, and Brenda was a bird. She owed us so many poems. The funeral will be held in nineteen seventy seven at Heaven in lieu of flowers. Send Brenda more.

mid century America. It isn't a deep dive into the nineteen seventies or nineteen eighties and like either a weird religious culture or some drug thing. No, okay, this isn't a hinge of history story about the sixties. Nor is it a turn of the last century where we look back at the way we once were and how we are still the same. No, Elizabeth, No, miss Dunton. This time this is pure twenty first century lunacy. It's happening now pretty much. Oh wow, Yeah, exactly what it says

on the tin. It's a war over trees, Yes, the Great Sheffield Tree War.

been there for like I don't know forever. In a day anyway, doing research for this one, I found out that my favorite football club started as an offshoot of a cricket club known as the Wednesday Cricket Club.

Wednesday Football Club. Why did they do this? Because they wanted to stay in shape for cricket over the winter months. Okay, right, so yeah, the Owls become a club boom. Nineteen twenty nine they become the Wednesday Football Club aka Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. The rest is history, joyous Sheffield Wednesday history. But that's not why I'm here today. Because soccer matches, that's typically what we think of. We thought about, Oh, this is where we're gonna find people mixing it up

with the police and private security. Actually, no, no, this wasn't Hooligan's in this story putting security guards on blast, Elizabeth. This was tree loving seniors. Yes, So let's get to these trees.

Some would have said Sheffield had too many trees. Coincidentally, those are the same people with the authority to decide how many of Sheffield's trees should be and would be chopped down. Now, you see, the trees were being blamed for all the potholes in Sheffield. The streets were just littered with them. Apparently they started calling the town Pothole City and they're like, no, we prefer Steel City. Oh no, this is terrible. Pothole City is a terrible nickname. We

must do something. So something was done. Elizabeth, the city council met, and then they met, and they met, and they met some more, and they met a bunch right. This took years, but eventually studies were commissioned, reports, and then they met some more more years of planning. Finally a general plan of action is announced and it's funded. So the city council they were proud to announce a new one point two billion pound road improvement project. They called it Streets Ahead or Streets Ahead.

They never expected their infrastructure improvement project would actually become the start of a year's long war. No one anticipated that, right, But as far as the city council saw it is all simple. Old trees would be cut down, new trees would be planted. Boom boom boom. What's the big problem? But Elizabeth saplings, baby trees. They are not the same as full grown trees.

like it just feels good. So they're like, well, we need numbers. So it's to them the problem was we need we need to remove the trees and replace them upgrade great. Right, So the project of mass tree removal, the streets Ahead project, it gets managed by this group called the Highways Team. Right. They're put in charge of this project. As names go, rather unimaginative, the Highways Team. Right, it's also kind of vaguely bureaucratic. I don't really like.

gonna do, how we're going to solve this problem? And how bottom line thinkers that they are mass destruction seem like and I quote the easiest and cheapest option, right, But this is not what the experts and their own

report had told them. Because the City of Council Sheffield, they had commissioned to report on the tree population for these four point five million trees, they determined thirty six thousand of these street trees, the ones that actually would you know, be problems for the street or lined the streets, they were the ones that they focused on. Thirty six thousand of the four point five million. Highway teams like, okay,

here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna replace them. Now, we need to replace a percentage and they're like, okay, how many a large proportion And so the reports gave an actual hardcore number of this thirty six thousand trees, they said three percent. You should probably replace about three percent. That's how many are dead, dying or diseased. Okay, the rest can be uh, you know, managed, but these need to be immediately felled. That's what the Brits would say,

we would say chopped down. But anyway, the trees had to go. So three percent, that's about one thousand and eighty.

Now you see, Elizabeth. In the original report, the experts they'd use the term mature trees and over mature trees. You're a gardener, You got a green thumb. You know what that means. It means they're of fruit bearing or flowering age. They got child bearing. Now, seventy four percent of the street trees were termed mature or over mature. Yeah, exactly. Now, the city councilors of Sheffield. They misunderstood this. They read this as aged or as like old biddies, and they

they wanted some some younger, sexier trees. So they're like, how do we get some saplings on these streets?

they'd ignored the most obvious math of trees, Elizabeth. People don't care, oh what a tree is in years, they just love trees and mature trees they love the most. Everyone loves them, haven't they read the giving tree? But a mature tree joined the behold it for animals humans alike. We all love it. And this is England. If anybody's gonna love some old stuff, you would think it would be English people. I mean, am I wrong about this? Okay?

So like whatever. So the Sheffield City Council they ignore all of that, and they just said they tell the Highways team go out there, give us some younger, sexier trees, and we need them now. So when the people of the city find out about this plant, what did they do, Elizabeth? They revolted. This was the start of the Great Tree War of Sheffield. Yeah, okay, so I let's simmer down, take all a break, and then we'll dive into this great tree war. Excellent, all right, Elizabeth?

they did not think that. And they're from there, Elizabeth anyway. Yeah, so mass tree slaughter that they get it started, right, people start to fight back. So one early dynamic in this fight is the city councilor as I said, they assumed their opponents were, you know, Sheffield people that they could manage. They thought they knew these people, and that's

one problem. They also thought they knew who they were, so they assumed that their opponents were bored, wealthy white people who were complaining about nothing, right, because apparently Sheffield has a really stark economic divide from what I was reading, the south west side it both some of the greatest wealth in the UK, like some of the twenty percent

of the wealth is there, right, it's insane. Conversely, the Northeast is an embarrassment to the Crown apparently, like some of the most economically disadvantaged people in the whole aisle. So from one end to the other, there's this bus line that you can take and the life expectancy on this bus line improvesed by ten years. Wow, just across town.

I don't know why. The Highways team, they're convinced they just need to go in there chop down a large proportion of the mature tree. As a Sheffield The Experts Commission reports suggest once again, as I said, only a small percentage streets ahead decides to heck with it, we're going forward. So trouble's brewing. Right off the bat. Seventeen thousand trees would be removed and cut down. That was

a plan. Seventeen thousand of the thirty six thousand. Now, if you do the math, that's forty eight point six percent. Seventeen thousand, five hundred of thirty six thousand is forty eight point six percent, almost half of the tree they plan on cutting down. Original number seventy four percent gets down to about fifty percent. They're like, oh that's reasonable, right, Yeah, not reasonable enough. So this is also when dogma and

a bunker mentality entered the chat the Highways team. They suggest that they need to fast track the tree removals before anyone gets an idea and they can get a resistance organized. So they plan to cut down five thousand, five hundred trees right off the bat. Just get out there and get the choppers go. And now the plan there's a estimate they'll take five years overall. In the city council, they're please just punge to hear them getting

right into it. So they're like, yeah, get going, guys, and the highway teams and already the resistance is organizing, though faster than anyone.

you know, they're in South Yorkshire. And then inside of Sheffield is this place called nether Edge I assume is a neighborhood. Yeah, but it may have been a village that just got consumed. I don't know. Yeah, Anyway, I love these British like town and village names. I was looking around that you've lived there. Do you have any favorites from your time abroad? Like, for example, the ones I liked there was Devil's Lap Full in Northumberland.

and time. They go out and confront the tree surgeon hire to remove the trees of a certain age. Now when their demands that the chainsaws fall silent or ignore, the elders took it to the next level. We got time, we got money. So they put first their bodies in harms. Way. Yeah, they went down and they stood under the tree so that no work could be done. They'd be like, oh,

you'll hit us with falling wood. Right, So I thought that you would like this because like Mario Savia immediately thought of him, like and him on the steps of Sprow hall Uc Berkeley there at sixty four, leading like a sit in protest. Yeah, you know the speech, can I do it?

even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop, and you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

feel right now, all right? But they were so real, Elizabeth, They were so real and they were so ready to fight. So but not on just the like we're gonna put down our bodies. They also put their money on the line. They went out and commissioned to their own report. Oh yes, the local tree defender campaigns. They hire this team of experts. They drop an independent report to convince the city council in their own language of paperwork and reports. Right, they

know how this stuff works. They're rich, so they're like, like, look the independent report. It points out the storm drainage benefits of trees and air quality improvements and the and these are like hard to measure intangibles, but they tried to convey them as economic value of the trees. Right, These rich folks they speak in city councils, they're like, oh, yes they have rather than like you know, a tax to be cut or better yet like some you know,

tax free way to improve the society. They look with these trees are an economic boon, right, city of council. They listen and then they're like, no, they just blow them off, right, So back to action, you don't wally computer says no. So the city council wouldn't listen to paperwork reports, and they did listen to protests and fiery shouting voices that came next in public places, and it

all started amiably, right. They're old Brits, as I said, right, Originally they were quite friendly with the tree surgeons that they would find. They would of course lay down on the ground, but they would also like out there and offer them a spot of tea. You know. It was all very cordial, open and communicative. And then they only take on the democratic engagement path, right because they started they tried to do things according to the mechanisms of

their culture. They tried to use the channels of communication they should. They wrote letters to the City Council, they filed freedom of information X. But the City Council was bogged down by so many letters and so many freedom of information X. And also they had the whole problem with the years of austerity. They no longer had the staff to deal with all these requests. So it becomes

a paperwork war and they get ground down. Right. So now next action teams formed action teams Elizabeth men and women. They put words to down, they put their pens down, and they picked up their arms and defended the trees. Entered Dave Dilner, he formed the Sheffield Tree Action Group aka stag Kil there he's one of those old British cats who fought in the war, pick whatever war you want. Being a military man, he still treated yeah, exactly, treated

everything like part of the war effort. Right. So Dave Dilaner, he lives in that well to do southwest, but he lives near the heavy equipment depot that the arborous and tree surgeons are launching out of each morning. So he goes down there every morning and he wakes up and he steps on a step ladder and with his binoculars, his field goggles, he peers in and he watches the tree surgeons leaving. Then he gets on his action group chat, his WhatsApp group chat, and he starts giving out from

his surveillance outpost updates. Right, Yes, Chip and barrio wagon heading leaving depot now heading southwest. Right, and somebody else will get on the later. We're on a Dave, And then they would all go and they would they report where they had sightings until they could triangulate where the tree surgeons would stop to work. Then they would all descend there. So he would start the like sightings and the rest would say, oh, yeah, here it is.

So this war had not yet become violent. This was still early in the autumn of twenty sixteen, but the signs of violence to come they were already there, Elizabeth. They were in there. If you knew what to look for. The tree surgeon certainly felt it, of course they did. They were there on the front lines. They didn't want to be, but they were there on the front line. So this company, I should tell them, they're called amy ame E y Okay. They'd been contracted by the streets

Ahead program. The streets Ahead they worked for the Highways team in the City Council, right, So they asked their bosses if they consider some repairs that would minimize the number of trees that they needed to remove. The tree surgeons were saying, Hey, here's the thought. What if we don't do what we do for a living and instead you paid us to I don't know, do what the people want that would fix things right, And so the tree surgeons they're asking not to do their own jobs.

And the fat of course doesn't fly with the city council. They're like, we paid you to cut down trees, cut down trees. Streets Ahead and the Highways team they felt that the protesters were out of touch and not representative of quote, the real residents of Sheffield. So they were just a small, loud minority and they should ignore them and they should get back to cutting down trees.

my man, Buzz Killington. He decides we need to have an early morning raid, something to break the morale the Tree Defenders also apparently Buzz Killington's. He wanted them to have the police assist them, to really let them know they had the state beyond their side. So an in house lawyer for the Streets Ahead project he gets word of this proposed so this raid that's designed to break the hearts and the will of the Tree Defenders, and

he's like, well, what's my advice? Well, personally, I don't believe what is being proposed could in any way be considered reasonable. Right, So that was him, but it wasn't just him. A communications director also in house had a similar reaction when he heard about this planned morning raid to break the hearts and minds. He said, my professional view is that this is crackers.

so you've wandered over to the supermarket. You're currently in an alley that runs beyond the store, checking the milk bottles, hoping to find some milk that's just passed its expiry date. You tip over one bottle, no milk spills out. That's when you hear it sound of heavy equipment. You cat prants over to see what all the noise is about. You climb up a chain lake fence and hop onto the stone rooftop of the store. As you draw near

to the edge, you spy a cordon of cups. They're shutting down both ends of a quiet, leafy, well treed street. The cops are setting up a safety zone for tree surgeons from amy. This is a well coordinated early morning ray. The target eight mature trees. You walk along the length of the roof to get a better view. From the corner, you can see the police pounding on front doors. When the doors swing open, the bobbies and form the residence. They must move their cars. It's five am now at

this point. At the same time, there's a chorus of chainsaws starting to sing delight. You hate all the noise that the soap there is. The tree surgeons are going at it with a martial energy. They strike early, they strike hard. They come in with cherry picker trucks, heavy sauce. The terrible buzzing and tearing of tree flesh. It friends the quiet of the early morning. If you residents are bumbling around on the sidewalk beneath you, here and there, a cars starts to life and then drives off as

the police have struck them where to go. You scratch at the gravel of the rooftop bricks, Your tail flicks at the receiving darkness. This morning is taking hold. You hear a new commotion. A young man and his two comrades, two women in their seventies charge the police guard in safety zone. The bobbies push back against them as the tree defenders try to position themselves beneath the tree surgeons. You jump across a high space above the action and land on a tree limb above the tree slated for

the chop. You prance along the rough barked limb and walk up to the tree surgeon, armed with his heavy industrial chainsaw. Standing in the cherry picker box twenty feet above the fray. You stare into the eyes of the tree surgeon. He stares back at you. You are disgusting with what he's doing, but for your own reasons, that's a kay. He looks back at you. The gilt crows in his eyes. Beneath you, the chopped up chunks of seven mature trees. The tree leaves rustle from a small breeze.

Beneath you can hear the shouting of the tree defenders and the cops fighting back. They're going at it somehow, the noise all the way slightly as you lock eyes with the tree surgeon. Then you see it. The single tear runs down his cheek. Handcuffs get slapped onto the tree defender's wrist. Cops toss them in the back of a police lordy and off they go to be booked at the closest jail. You run down the trunk of the tree and set up to find some breakfast or

maybe some danger. You cat prance through the carnage, the police tape and the fallen bodies of the trees. Elizabeth, can you imagine that early morning scene?

campaign instead their morning rate. It became a symbol for the tree exactly. Raid was as I said, it was never about the health of the trees or even about the solving the ostensible problem. Remember this all started with fixing the unsafe streets right right now. The police assisted raid purely an emotional message composed in the symbolic language of a fell tree, chopped up section left, lying in the streets ready for the wood shopper, right, an old

lady on the ground next to it in an agony face. Right. This image was meant to break the spirits of the tree defenders. Instead galvanizes people country the UK is like, what is going on in Sheffield? Right, So they'd moved beyond the borders of southwest Sheffield. Now suddenly it was no longer rich people trying to save their quiet, leafy shaded streets. Now it was the people fighting for the green future of Britain. Yeah, yeah, Elizabeth entered the Flying Squad.

So we'll take a little break because I just wanted to tease you with your flying and it's not the one you think it is, all right, Elizabeth.

They chased tree surgeons to the job sites and then they stood beneath the trees like everybody else to stop the work. But they were unafraid to confront tree surgeons or the police. Soon enough, these tree surgeons from Amy, right, they feel they have to protect themselves from all these bad as. They called them chipper chasers. So some of these these tree surgeons would compare it the streets were turning into the wild West. They did not feel safe

in these streets. They're just now they've got these newly drafted soldiers in the fight because it's gone nationals. So now people are flooding in from other cities and towns, and the fight becomes this group, this fighting force I few will become so effective that in June twenty seventeen, in just one month, the tree shoppers, they were scheduled to cut down four hundred and seventy two trees. You know how many times they had to stop? Three hundred

and twenty nine times. Flying Squad was on it. One tree surgeon from Amy, he said, of the protesters, it's incredibly frustrating. I wanted to do the job I was paid to do, not to be the face of a controversial policy. I had the colleagues who didn't agree with what the council was doing, who were almost believed if the protesters turned up for me. I just felt caught in the middle and started to dread getting up in the morning. I was eventually signed off for stress. He

had to leave his job. So and we still haven't gotten to the worst of the war. So yeah, summer twenty seventeen, it gets hot. Sheffield City Council receives a final report from the commissioned independent tree Panel, the one the.

do this. So the City Council's decision to continue chopping down trees because they decided, you know what, that's a great report and no we're not doing that.

cut down trees, they're wrong. Basically, at this point, they'd also forsaken the moral high ground because they're just going with policy. They're not listening to anybody. So this guarantees that violence will now be the next response because they're not listening anymore. They're ignoring experts, they're ignoring the process, they won't talk to anyone. The people are desperate, The people are willing to put their own bodies in danger.

What's next, They're gonna put your body in danger. So this is when the authorities opt to pursue a policy that normally is reserved for gang members in southern California, they sought an injunction against the protesters, making it illegal for them to gather and oppose the tree fellings in the mass removal. The new injunctions raimed at specifically sixteen of the lead protesters. They were all given letters that told them that they would face prison time, they'd be

financially liable for delays, court costs. It's estimated to run into the hundreds of thousands of pounds, as obviously was meant to be a scare tactic. Interestingly, the tree surgeons from Amy, who would be essentially protected by this injunction, they opposed it. They're like, don't do this, this is dumb. Instead, they offered to carry the costs themselves of finding alternative solutions to fix the streets without removing trees. They're now

willing to become street fixers. The Highways team they hear about this plan to concede to the protesters, and they take a hard line stance. So enter the sunken cost fallacy. Now it's the user to them bunker mentality and the sunken cost fallacy teaming up the executive buzz Killington or the Billington He writes an email that's speaks directly to this when he says, and I quote, given we spent one hundred and fifty thousand pounds to get this far, we don't really have a choice. Oh yeah, okay, we

spent that much. Gotta go through with.

twenty seventeen. You are losing the battle. The council is very frustrated at the current policy of turn up and pack up. So what do they do. They were so incensive they start not paying Amy. They withheld two point five million pounds of the promised contract. They're like the over five month period, they're just not paying them. They're like, unless you start doing stuff, we're not gonna pay you. And they keep complaining and saying like it's because you're

not you turn up and pack up. Yeah, but they can't do anything, so they're now putting the pressure on them their own like associates. Yeah yeah, anyway, seeing which way the wind blow. That same November, Amy hired private security to protect their tree surgeons from the anger and the ire of the protesters, and they they are given the right to manhandle the protesters because in accords with the injunction, this works, you have to get out of

the way of the tree removal. So at this point the Great Tree War becomes an endurance fight who could outlast the other. Amy and his tree surgeons also begin to track and document all the protesters. So now the protesters start donning masks, disguises, they adopt out rageous accents. They're speaking in Glasswegian accents for no reason. It's just amazing, right. So this is also when the bunnies, the geckos, and the squirrels enter the picture. Well, you may be wondering,

did I just have like a snow white moment? What do you mean? The bunny, the geckos, so that the protesters they self sorted into three animal forms bunnies, geckos, and squirrels. Elizabeth, see the bunnies, they they're bounders, so they are responsible for hopping and bounding over the garden walls and all the erected metal barriers, and then they would help to keep the protesters away from the safe zones beneath the trees is to be cut down. So they top over these barriers and then go hey and

they hop a hug up against the trees. That's the bunnies. The geckos, they would thrust themselves against walls, you know, like how they stick to a wall, and they would make it to the barrier couldn't be closed and other people could prush through or whatever. That's the goes. Then we have the squirrels, as you can might imagine, they would bravely climb the trees and perch in the branches, making it impossible to cut the tree down. They were

the bravest of the freedom fighters in the green tree. Yeah. So their success has been set up the stage for the violence to come, because now we're getting actual engagement and tactics and strategies and groups and you got commandos. So this leads to the Battle of Meares Brook Park

Road January fifteen, twenty eighteen. The city Council has been putting pressure on Amy to stand tall right, to do the right thing, and to do this, they've authorized the use of reasonable force, so the private security are now basically unofficially deputized by the city council to rough up the protesters. This means they can grab the bunnies and toss them out of the safe zones. They can they

can pull geckos off the wall. They can grab squirrels out of the tree, which is not gonna go good right. This is also they don't have to worry about legal consequence. They're like, we got you, you just rough them up. This all comes to a head in the Battle of Mirrors, Brook Park Road. The crowd that day big, angry, loud, raucous. They were energized by recent successes. The private security equally

energize conflicts guaranteed. One bunny, an older married woman in her sixties, hopped over a barricade entered the safe zone. She's grabbed by private security. In response, she flops on the ground right. Her husband sees this, but he only sees his wife on the ground. He misses that she throw us up on the ground, and he just sees the menacing private security or like you know, standing over

her like a husband. He charges the barricade, knocks it down, and then twenty other protesters like basically poured like like you know, sheep through a gate with him. They all rush in there. Now the elder husband gets to his wife's side. He helps her up to her feet, but they have to pretend not to know each other, because if they know each other and their husband and wife will be identified and then the injunction will put them in jail. So they got on the go. Are you

all right, whoever you are? So they're having this like fake exactly. It's a really sweet anyway. News media is there on hand. They're snapping photos of this confrontation. They're seeing all this. The photos are amazing, the elders on the ground, the menacing boots of private security above them, the UK, the whole country, the United Kingdom. Rather, they are outraged as this story becomes national news. Now it's just green Britain and they're beating up the elders. This

is terrible. Sheffield City Council, the Highways team, they have to lick their wounds and regroup for the next front in the ongoing tree war. Right, so the tree surgeons at Amy, they announced that they plan to pause the tree removals. They say, Okay, we're gonna just pause and like, let's think about this for a month. The Highways team they go, no, we're not doing that. I'm thinking about anything.

So the executive of Old Buzz Killington, he sends an email to the in house council, a lawyer for the Streets Ahead program, going like what are we gonna do about this subject line? Please print and then delete.

It's basically it's like cutting its throat. So he puts in his email quote the tree is killed and dies over a number of months, it would move all trees into the dying category. It means that stag can no longer claim that they were defending healthy trees. The in House Council Elizabeth ruled this out as an extreme taxic. Yeah. Yeah, like we can't start killing no anyway. So we're in February. Now we have claims of sabotage on the part of

the protesters. Allegedly an elderly couple they offered some of the tree surgeons some hot tea, and the tea was loaded with laxatives, so the tree surgeons would have to rushing to the porta potty that couldn't work. Now the elderly couple says this is not true.

the hospital for medical treatment. By March twenty eighteen, Shiftfield's head of communication writes another email, put simply, there is no good picture of older residents being arrested. There is no good way to photograph a tree lying in the street. He's like, we are losing the great war. We are losing the public, we are losing the information war.

Now this is the end of March. The tree surgeons at Amy they announced they would pause all tree removals. At this point, five thousand, six hundred trees have been chopped down. That was fifteen percent of the total. That's five times more than the three percent that was recommended anyway, the Great Tree War is now over. Time to win the peace, Elizabeth. In May there were local elections. The City Council suffered stunning losses. Oh new leadership put new

people in charge of the Streets Ahead program. They open up peace talks with the Tree defenders. Their first meeting takes place in September. Months later, the peace talks require a mediator because things are still so hot. The mediator is the Bishop of Sheffield. Stop it, yeah, Son. More months passes did peace talks go on and on. By December twenty eighteen, the two groups released a joint statement. Going forward, the city Council would work with residents to

create a reasonable solution for the remaining trees. The next year, a new team of experts they convene. They select twelve trees at random, and they inspect them. And the team finds that the streets could be repaired without removing any of the trees. You See, they'd always assume that the trees were the problem and it was the roots, but

no one had actually tested that theory. Oh, when they did check it, when someone actually did look, the problem was the streets themselves, because prior repairs had always just poured more asphalt on top of a broken asphalt, and then more asphalts. Some of the areas they checked were a foot thick the road surface.

know about it, some younger trees. So Elizabeth, what's a ridiculous takeaway here?

And then if we can get to that, we can figure out what the obstacle is. And sometimes it's not so much about my side your side, but what do we both have to do to get there? And then you don't think of it as compromised. As I've told you. I try to stand shoulder to shoulder somebody and we both look at the problem as opposed to across the table where it seems like only one side of the table can win. That's all they had to do is just look at the problem standing shoulder to shoulder, and

boom done. They would have seen like, oh, it's the roads.

That's all we got, catch you next crime. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaron Burnett's produced and edited by our Man in Flesh, Shank Northumberlin, Dave Kusti. Research is by Marissa Trees, are Life Brown and Andrea Have they never read the Giving Tree Song? Sharpened Her? Our theme song is by Thomas the Tree Doctor Lee

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