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armour.... Behind the dining room stretched a passageway that led to a number of rooms. The drawing-room above the dining room, was full of curios and museum pieces... The parlour was at the back of a spacious hall which reached up to the top of the house. The three parlour windows went down to the floor... the far windows opened on to a balcony...and steps led down into the garden where "Nero" the large great dane lived, also numerous fantailed pigeons. Along one side of the garden was a range of greenhouses with temperatures from medium to warm. Grannie used to spend a lot of time tending to her hothouse flowers – we children often got into trouble when Thomas – the gardener coachman – reported doors left open. A large weeping willow with wooden seat around the trunk grew in the middle of the lawn and here we used to have strawberry feasts in season."

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of Edinburgh), the Principal Williams and some of the staff and students were at odds as to the college's direction under the Council's trustees. This resulted in the former principal William Williams to form a new college The New Veterinary College in the same year. The New Veterinary College, Edinburgh 1873–1904; C.M. Warwick and A.A.MacDonald, The Veterinary Record, 27 September 2003.

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After William Dick's death in 1866, William Williams was appointed the third principal of the Dick Veterinary College, where he had originally qualified, a position he held until July 1873. Owing to differing views with the Trustees (William Dick on his death had left the College to the Burgh Council

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because of their rule, in spite of having fostered the academic involvement of women in other spheres (such as his pupil Aleen Cust who was to become the first veterinary surgeon in Britain against great odds). These two King's College, London professors of chemistry may have circumvented the college

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After emigrating to Australia he became a teacher at Wickliffe, Gisborne and Flemington. He was appointed headmaster of schools at Avoca in 1866 and then at Malvern in 1884. He retired to "Clyde", 11 Irving Street, Malvern, Australia and died there on 16 September 1918 aged 81. He was buried in Avoca

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and his family lived at 169 East George Street, Glasgow, Scotland. and Stevenson's mother was his father's second wife Helen Stevenson (1803–1857). Helen Stevenson was born 24 August 1803. The wedding took place on 3 January 1825 at Clackmannan. She was the second child of William Stevenson and Helen

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2008. While Elison worked in the chemical laboratory for Professor A.K. Huntington, Professor of Metallurgy at King's, she met Cecil Desch. She was engaged in the accurate analyses of metal samples, which were then examined metallographically by Cecil Desch. According to a biography of Cecil Desch,

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William born about 1814, died sometime after September 1877, when his letters to his nephew Charlie (C T Macadam) cease, he having written about his illness at that time:source John Macadam: Earthwords Archives, Bodmin, Cornwall (copies supplied to Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton, Norfolk) quoted by

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John's Weaver's Burgess ticket dated 19 October 1789 (he was installed as a Weaver Burgess that day contemporaneously with his three younger brothers, James, Thomas and Walter McAdam and brother-in-law John Smellie, who married their sister Elizabeth).. There are two further Burgesses in the family

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businessman who owned a mill and textile printing works at Greenholme, Kilmarnock. He and his fellow industrialists in the craft around Glasgow had developed the expertise in chemistry processes for the large scale industrial printing of fabrics for which these plants in the area became well known,

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It seems likely that the various types of complex chemical processes involved in their father's factory in his calico printing and manufacturing business was what got William's sons interested in the field of chemistry, in which they were to play such a pioneering role in their later lives. Of the

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Originally burgesses were inhabitants of the city who held land there and contributed to Town and taxation and other burdens. It was later restricted to Merchants and Craftsmen. Only burgesses could enjoy the privileges of trading or practising a craft in the city (in his case he belonged to the

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Stevenson Macadam's granddaughter remembers Brighton House, Portebello as: "a large one built with a semi basement in the front and a full storey basement at the back. The dining room was a long room with three windows looking out to the front and an impressive fireplace guarded by "Knights" in

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Elison Macadam later married Professor Dr. Cecil Henry Desch in 1909. Cecil Henry Desch (1874–1958) became a prominent Professor of Metallurgy. He had gained his PhD at Wurtzburg University in 1902 and subsequently, in the same year, his D.Sc at University College, London. He then obtained the

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He was a third generation Burgess of a family of at least ten Burgesses and Guild brothers of Glasgow. William was the eldest son of John McAdam, John in turn was the eldest son of Alexander McAdam. Alexander was in turn the eldest son of an earlier John McAdam, Tanner, of Glasgow.

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At that time the rooms at Surgeons' Hall were held in lease by the individual lecturers and George Wilson, although now lecturing at Edinburgh University, retained his rooms at Surgeon’s Hall and it was not until a few years later that adequate laboratories were available there:

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Weaver's Guild) or could vote in Municipal or Parliamentary elections. Their political privileges were removed by the Reform Act in 1832 and their ancient exclusive trading rights were abolished in 1846. Thereafter admission as a burgess became a social and charitable function.

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There was a different and subsequent book of the same name published by his son Stevenson (J.G.C.) Macadam Jun. FIC FCS by Darien Press Edinburgh in 1895 as perhaps a Revision guide"...prepared with special reference to the requirements of the different examining

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The Firs standing above Leithen Water on Horsbrugh Terrace, Innerleithen. A long clock from the house by the clockmaker in Innerleithen (Wm. Ruickbie who was making clocks there at the time) is still in possession of Christopher Taylor, a great-great

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Jessie Margaret Mary Macadam, born 4 May 1862 at 25 Brighton Place, Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland and died 20 Jan 1943, 2 Strathearn Road, Edinburgh. (She married Alexander William Gordon Price on 5 July 1913, St Mark's Episcopal Church,

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was appointed Regis Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University (from 1855 until his death in 1859) although Dr. Wilson retained his rooms at Surgeons Hall. During that time Dr. Macadam conducted his large classes in Adam Square at the

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Designed by John Baxter of Portobello circa 1823–27. This house is a very fine example of John Baxter's work in Portobello and has an important position in the local history of the area. It is now a Category B Listed building. See:

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He was the last in the family to spell his name as both MacAdam and Macadam before the latter spelling was settled on. John Macadam: Earthwords Archives, Bodmin, Cornwall (copies also supplied Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton,

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Constance Elizabeth Louise Macadam, born 6 September 1867 at Brighton House, 11 Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland and died on 28 August 1871 at Brighton House, Portobello (at less than five years

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through John McAdam's wife, Margaret, who was the daughter of William Findlay (Wright Burgess ticket 28 August 1754), who was the eldest son of John Findlay, Burgess, a Maltman : The Trades House of Glasgow.

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They had five children: George S. Macadam (1867–1933), John Melnotte Macadam(1869–1874), Charles William Macadam (died in 1947), Robert Robertson Macadam (died in 1956) and Mary S. King (died May 1956).

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William's father John McAdam is given as 'deceased' on his son William's Burgess ticket at the time of his induction: copy John Macadam, Earthwords, Bodmin, Cornwall supplied to Ivison Macadam Archives,

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made an exception in Elison Macadam's case. It may have been, in addition to her determination, that her father Professor W. Ivison Macadam did not feel he could make an exception for his daughter at

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Odams was later acquired by Fisons (and then by ICI, and subsequently Akko Nobel): John Macadam: Earthwords Archives, Bodmin, Cornwall (copies supplied to Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton, Norfolk)

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key to the tomb and letter sent by John St.Clair Boyd September 1955 to D.L.D. Macadam referencing this. Copy from John Macadam – Earthwords – in Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton Old Hall, Norfolk

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and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and William Ivison Macadam's daughter, Elison Macadam (later Desch). Seven in all (if one includes Charles Thomas Macadam's involvement in chemical fertilisers)l.

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Stevenson John Charles George Macadam FIC FCS, born 30 January 1866 at 25 Brighton Place, Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland. He died 26 Jan 1939 at Kevock Tower, Lasswade, Scotland (a bachelor).

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position at King's. Elison and Cecil were married in Jan. 1909 and moved to Glasgow University, where Cecil had obtained a lectureship in metallurgical chemistry, under Professor John Ferguson

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Dr. Macadam remained on the staff of the New Veterinary College until it moved to its newly built campus at Elm Row, Edinburgh in 1883 when he resigned in favour of his son Professor

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Helen Ann Cochran Macadam born 23 Jan 1859 at 11 Brandon Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian. (She married Dr John St Clair Boyd of Belfast, 1 November 1887 at Duddingston Parish Church).

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Charles Thomas Macadam a younger brother became senior partner in Odams, a fertiliser company, and was to hold the Royal Warrant as Purveyor of Chemical Manures to Queen Victoria.

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Grindlay. She died on 20 January 1857 at 6 Kelvinhaugh Street, Glasgow, and was buried with her husband in Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo's) Old Burial Ground in the Macadam tomb.

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on 27 April 1829, one of four sons and four daughters (the eldest being a half brother). He married Jessie Andrew Ivison on 23 April 1855 in Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland.

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Stevenson John Charles George Macadam (born 30 January 1866 at 25 Brighton Place, Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland. Died 26 Jan 1939, Kevock Tower, Lasswade, Scotland).

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and "had wished to continue study for a degree in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh but at that time women were excluded. Curiously, despite the formal ban from

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Born: 11 January 1831 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Died: 1 August 1865 at Innerleithen, Peebles-shire, having been ill with cancer for the last 16 months.: Edwin Macadam:

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Born: 9 September 1835 at 169 East George Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Died spinster: 21 July 1889, and buried at Farnham, Surrey.: Edwin Macadam:

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Born 25 August 1765 at Dunlop in Ayrshire. Died 27 July 1839 at his home, Park Farm, Clackmannan and buried in the Churchyard at Clackmannan on 2 August 1839

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marriage certificate a copy from John Macadam: Earthwords Archives, Bodmin, Cornwall (copies supplied to Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton Old Hall, Norfolk)

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born 27 May 1781 probably at Seabegs; died 8 November 1844 at Blindwells Cottage, Tranent and buried in the Churchyard at Clackmannan with her husband.

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Dr. Macadam was a successful lecturer and his classes were very well attended and "were a standing memorial" to his power of teaching in the view of

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The Edinburgh Citizen and Portebello Advertiser, 25 January 1901. John Macadam – Earhwords Archives – copy in Ivison Macadam Archives, East Runton

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His brother-in-law William Stevenson who had married his sister Ann, daughter of John McAdam, was also Burgess (merchant, ticket 26, May 1808)

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is now situated. The house backed onto St. David's "Ramshorn", Kirkyard or churchyard. Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton Old Hall, Norfolk, UK

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In 1855 he also began lecturing in Chemistry for pharmaceutical students on his own. He did this from quarters on Princes Street, Edinburgh

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was then as now one of the world's preeminent medical centres of learning and from then on preeminent in the field of chemistry. Afterwards

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He was the author of many papers on scientific subjects such as water supply, drainage and on chemistry to the arts and manufacturing.

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Subsequently, from 1873, Dr. Macadam lectured at the "New Veterinary College" housed in Gayfield House, following its foundation by

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He was the first Professor of Chemistry University of Melbourne, member of the Legislature for Castlemaine and Postmaster-General:

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four sons three took to chemical science as a profession. Subsequently, two more generations were involved: Stevenson's two sons

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On Dr. Macadam's retirement in 1900 he had completed fifty years as a lecturer, forty-five of which had been as an independent.

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He was part of a small dynasty of Scottish chemical scientists including his elder half-brother William Macadam, brother Dr.

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written after his death in 1958, Professor Huntington remarked regretfully that Cecil had robbed him of his best assistant.

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and died 24 June 1902, Surgeon's Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. (He married Sarah McConnichie MacDonald, 28 Mar 1879).

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William Macadam', the eldest child, was the first chemical scientist in the family, and a half brother to Stevenson.

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rule of male only students out of respect for her father to make this groundbreaking exception. Her younger brother

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John Macadam: Earthwords Archives, Bodmin, Cornwall (copies supplied to Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton, Norfolk)

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returned to Glasgow for further medical studies(before emigrating to Australia in 1855 where he died aged 38).

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and sit the Chemistry examinations and was then hired by Professor Huntingdon about 1902 in his Laboratory".

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and research on children's dates by John Macadam – Earthwords – Bodmin, Cornwall from the Australian sources.

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He also had a large analytical chemical consulting practice and was sought after for expertise in his field.

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George Robert Macadam, his youngest brother, followed his older brother John and emigrated to Australia.

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and the Edinburgh veterinary colleges. He also had a large analytical chemical consulting practise.

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Later after Professor Wilson's death this was changed to Regis Professor of Engineering (Edinburgh)

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Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 26th. Meeting, Cheltenham, 1856

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Born: 5 November 1832, at 169 East George Street, Glasgow. Died 22 April 1906. : Edwin Macadam:

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Stevenson Macadam and wife Jessie Andrew Ivison's grave Portebello Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Supported by John Mackay, the founder of the firm John Mackay & Sons, wholesale chemists:

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Alexander's Weaver's Burgess ticket dated 5 September 1755 : The Trades House of Glasgow,

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Stevenson studied at the Glasgow Mechanics Institution; College of Science and Arts (now the

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In 1904 the New Veterinary College moved to Liverpool, England, forming the basis of the

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Stevenson Macadam House Brighton House, 11 E. Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh

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He was active in outdoor and country sports while leading a busy professional life.

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Stevenson then became Dr. George Wilson's assistant, in his brother's stead, at the

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Dr. Macadam had been a member of the Liberal Party but later became a Unionist.

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and became a professor there (and ultimately held that position for 50 years).

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He had married Elizabeth Standen (1848–1919) at Amherst on 30 November 1866.

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Baptised 31 August 1803, in the Parish Church at Cumbernauld. Edwin Macadam:

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He lived from the late 1860s at Brighton House, 11 East Brighton Crescent in

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she was able to study chemistry under Professor F.C. Thompson and Professor

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Born. 29 Aug 1825, Glasgow and believed to have died aged 14: Edwin Macadam

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Elison A. Macadam FIC become the first woman to graduate in Chemistry from

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was Helen Stevenson (1803–1857) with whom he had a further seven children:

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It appears to have been a large enterprise and occupied some ten acres.:

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A keen fly fisherman for both trout and salmon. He was President of the

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Records of Glasgow Mechanics' Institution / College of Science and Arts

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He also lectured at both Edinburgh's veterinary colleges. First at The

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George Robert Macadam (born 22 July 1837 – died 16 September 1918).

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He was a member of The Church of Scotland and was a church elder at

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and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and granddaughter Elison A. Macadam.

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Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880–1949

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University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

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University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

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Stevenson Macadam, the subject of this entry, was the third son.

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In 1855, Dr. Macadam was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the

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