Ode to JLWE 2006 - Kapunda Blanchetown, South Australia, Australia
By JLWEvent on 07-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7QXEC

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Found with uni and sxc on a lads day out. Thanks for the cache

Found with Uni and Shonky on a boys day out caching.TFTCCheers and Happy Hunting Southern Cross Caching

No problems

I was in South Australia for the Adelaide Leap Year Mega and spending further time after other caches before eventually moving on to the Mega in Canberra. Today was the drive from Gawler to Barmera collecting caches on the way. Having solved the problems and acquired the coordinates for the Ridders Roonka Rampage Series prior to leaving home these were targeted today. As the Ode to JLWE Series were inter-spaced with the Riddlers these were also on my to get list. Caches were quickly fund and in good condition unless otherwise stated in the logs.

I obviously hadn't done my homework properly as I didn't expect to arrive in Morgan as early as I did this morning. However, this enabled me to do a lot more caching, and this was one of the ones that I found but hadn't expected to get to until tomorrow.All caches were found quickly thanks to good coordinates. TFTC SL

Stamped as PUZZLDTeam consists of Ronice88, Weirdobiker, Contesta, DeJavu, Search 4, Kbucky & myself Bounty Trackers. On a 5day (maybe more) caching expedition with On Ya Bike series as the main objective then on to the Paddle steamer series we are all staying in Nildotte for 3 nights then moving up to Loxton for another 2 nights. With events at either end. And hopefully a few caches placed before 2010 will also be on our hit list. Lots of fun & laughs had along the way and lots of car doors opened & closed. Thanks for placing and maintaining the series.

Find # 10343Day 4 caching friends to complete our epic On Your Bike series adventure. Picking up some counties, oldies, and other specials along the route to add to my tally and to stretch the legs. This was a quick and easy find and here as PUZZLD! at Ode to JLWE 2006 - Kapunda today with Ronice88, kbucky, De Ja Vu, Bounty Trackers, Search4, and weirdobiker. Thanks so much for the many caches JLWEvent and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light

An epic and memorable trip with new friends - Ronice88, Weirdobiker, de ja vu, Bounty Trackers, Contesta and Search4 - signed as PUZZLD. Picking up solved puzzles, and others in the area here while completing the main aim of our trip - OYB Series. Thanks to JLWEvent for your many cachesRegardskbucky

How fabulous and mind boggling is the monumental scale of geoart in SA. On a multi project in the true sense of the word far from home base which is at higher altitude. The project idea to embark on the OYB series with a group of likeminded geobuddies AKA PUZZLD had its mad genesis a few months ago and of course theres plenty more along with this. Travelling with contesta, kbucky, dj vu, search4, bounty trackers and weirdo biker over a few days mixing and matching skills with good humour and camaraderie. Thanks a zillion to the COs for the variety of caches and challenges. Im imagining a recovery session after this epic exhausting marathon to say nothing of Collingwood winning the 2023 AFL Premiership GO PIES!

Another enjoyable day exploring around the Murray and grabbing great caches and geoart caches before the heat of the day.We had a great day searching and signing logbooks with our Pzzld group friends.Thanks for the cache.

We are in SA with a group of like minded people to do this series as team Puzzld which consists of myself, Ronice88, contesta, de ja vu, search4, kbucky and Bounty Trackers. Lots of caching fun over the next few days

All good here, thanks JLWE event for this series tftc

Great Hide

Thanks JLWEvent for the cache

James0116
Sunday,9 Jul 2023
12:22:28 pm ACST
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Southern Autumn adventure Day 22. Blackwood SA trip Day 3. Now that I am caching by myself, I can work to the goals I have. This means that for the rest of April and most of May there are not too many days I need lots of caches. Before I left town for the day, I went out onto the Murraylands road to visit some of the Riddlers Roonka Rampage caches and th Ode trads in between. Once that was done I went and hooked up the van and drove to Blackwood via Truo for morning tea.

Thanks for the cache JLWEvent

42123.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & December 2022 Mistletoe Kisses A#509

**Albida**

We all get up early until night. Weather is awesome sunrise and sunset. Great country and road. Perfect coordinates every caches. We all have awesome time and lot of laughs. .Beautiful drive and great teamwork
Thank you
6ACDEP = 63Roos All7 Crank1 DeafPhantom Everlasting Pwala

Accompanied with all7 crank1 pwala Deafphathom everlasting, great enjoyed day for around of caches for geoart series, challenging, TFTC

Accompany with 63Roos, ALL7, Crank1, DeafPhantom, Pwala and Everlasting.. tks

The Epic Road Trip with OzHockeyChick has now entered its New Year phase with today being Day 11. After setting up at Roonkas last night we are in for a more relaxed day of caching today. Having solved the Roonka puzzle geoart without realising how close we were to it, we are collecting this along with some tail ends of the Swan Reach side of On Ya Bike.

Back for an afternoon relax at camp by the water (water that is not normally anywhere near that close to the campground). An impressive sight to see this area in flood, despite the devastation it is causing many.

All caches were found in good order unless otherwise indicated.

Thanks JLWEvent for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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RoamingHowie and OzHockeyChick’s Epic Road Trip - Day Eleven: Blanchetown.
Found an awesome spot to camp. Great facilities!
Starting off the day with the Riddlers Roonka Rampage series before finishing off a few more OYBs on the east side of the Murray and paying a visit to Swan Reach.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, JLWEvent
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We have now moved to Swan Reach staying in the caravan park.
Day5 We have met up with Tassie Trekkers to do cache together.
This was a long day as we left early to find as many bike caches as possible.
Such a big variety of caches of caches found today.
After lunch we visited Blancehetown to find a few local caches.
Thanks for placing this cache.

While staying at Swan Reach we teamed up with DiMorgan to do the "Riddlers Roonka Rampage" series.

We enjoyed the variety of hides and how well they were made! A nice drive through the area.

Thanks JLWEvent for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

We had found a number of JLWE caches some time ago but more have been published since our last visit. So we looked for them remainder while we were in Blanchetown today. Accurate coordinates and an obvious hide location led to a quick find. The old container had succumbed to the ravages of sunlight but a new container was keeping the logbook in good condition. Thanks JLWEvent for the cache.

On the way to Adelaide this morning we decided to start our caching fun with this road.

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Georode

We enjoyed another hearty bacon and egg brekky at our bnb in Waikerie before heading to Blanchetown to complete this series on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning. Thanks for the cache

Having a productive geocaching weekend in SA in the good company of Beardman75 and Georode.
Left our airbnb early and arrived here about sunrise time.
Made quick find on the caches in the series while heading South.

Thank you for the hiding, this is what makes the game work!
Happy caching
R

Day seven of our short South Australian trip with BettyBoo3747 and the geo-doggies.
Another traveling day - Loxton to Blanchetown. Overcast but mild day.
Picked up a few caches on the way, and the completed the JLWE and Riddlers series.

I didn't realise that this event has been going for so long.
I am yet to get ot one of them.
Thanks for this quick summary, and all these caches.
Several are suffering from sun damage, but all the logs are fine.
Thanks, Robmc.

#19001. Day 7 of our Vic/SA trip with Robmc the geodogs and our bicycles. A travelling day today between Loxton and Blanchetown. Quite a few caches collected along the way and after lunch we did a quick run of the Riddlers Rooka Rampage and JLWE Series. A total of 50 finds for the day.

Another interesting little series interspersed along this road. Nice to pay tribute to this long-standing annual event. Some of these containers certainly haven't weathered well and are in dire straights.

Thanks JLWEvent

Another cache found on our 2022 South Australian Adventure.

After settling into the local caravan park at Swan Reach, we headed off to complete another leg of the 'On Your Bike' series with richlink. We continued on afterwards to find these caches that richlink had previously found. Thanks for the cache.

Feeling refreshed from our o/n stay at Roomba Scout Club we set out to tackle the Riddlers Roonka Rampage series with the trads as bonuses inbetween.

Thanks JLWEvent for the placement.

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - JLW Event [^]

We found this cache on our Morning After the On Your Bike series in company of Maccamob and Pprass. A great pick me up after the more intense last three days. Thanks from D B-A

Found by Mary and David, in company with pprass and Rabbitto, during a morning of caching around Blanchetown, at 10:43. We were at this JLWE. Our thanks to JLWEvent

Found at 10:44 AM in the company of maccamob & rabbitto.
The last morning of our visit to this wonderful area to do the OYB series and we made an arrangement to go and do some more caches as our respective wives went off to do some shopping.
I think we had the better bargain!
Thanks JLWEvent.

Suscoe was in Blanchetown with our great friends Phetlern this afternoon.
We had sorted out the Riddlers Roonka Rampage puzzles and headed out to find them. along with the JLWE traditionals.
It was a hot afternoon with loads of sunshine.
Thanks to JLWEvent for this trail

After setting up camp in Blanchetown and a bite to eat for lunch, we ventured out in the company of the suscoe duo as a practice for the next few days.
Over the years we have heard many tales about the JLWE.

Thanks JLWEvent for placing the ode caches on the gameboard.
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After completing the small number of bike wherigoes that I have solved, I’ve moved to Blanchetown to make a start on the Ode to JLWE/Roonka Riddler caches. There’s a fair bit of truck traffic on this road. It’s a bit sad to see all the great SA towns that have hosted JLWE in the years before I have joined the community.

Thanks to everyone for the hides and the maintenance.

We’re out for a day of geocaching with HansandLinda. A paddle on the Murray, a delicious lunch and lots of finds make for a great day!

Thanks for find #2939
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Thanks JLWEventfor a great series of caches along. The Murraylands Road toward the Roonka Water Activities Centre from Blanchetown. We had teamed with MeandDe to do the kayak caches After that adventure we headed to town for lunch before tackling these caches. The Puzzle series containers all seemed in good order whereas the Ode to JLWE2009 look as if they could do with some TLC. Many of these have perished. We were not carrying any containers with us today.
Cache number 12910

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Out and about caching around the Swan Reach area, targeting the On Your Bike Wherigos and any other odd cache along the way. This cache was one of those found today.
Find #3547 on 29 Dec 2021 at 4:46:45 pm.
TFTC JLWEvent!

On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird, Liz & Bruce. Another great day for caching. TFTC JLWEvent
Find #6522 at 17:01.

Out on caching adventures on the ‘On Your Bike’ trail with Wollaston and HRH Liz&Bruce.

New container added.

Thanks to the many hands and minds taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us your special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot in logbook with group stamp

TFTC JLWEvent

Find # 4149

Enjoying the trail and this was one we got. Caching with Wollaston and SeasonedBird. Thanks

Today we looked for the caches along this road. We found all of them very easily.
The lid of the plastic container is broken away.
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This was a fun cache but the lid is very broken. TFTC

Cache is broken. There was about 200 white birds on the electricity wires close by. Thanks JLWEvent for the cache

Today I headed out for a day of caching around Blanchetown. I didn’t believe Mrs Google when she said it was going to be 26 degrees. I am not sure it was that wallet but it was quite a contrast to previous days.
Was happy to come away with around 50 finds and only a few dnf.
I mainly focused on the Ronka JLWE series the puzzles were all found in great condition but unfortunately the trads were a little worse for wear, alas I didn’t have any ‘large’ containers to replace with. Was good to finally get this series ticked off.
There were a lot of sleepy lizards out and dragon flies obviously as confused as me with the change in temperature.
Enjoyed a nice picnic down by the river and even managed to fit in some cache maintenance on the way home.
My thanks to all the CO for their awesome efforts.
Smashed lid TFTC

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TFTC, the cache is damaged

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA.
With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.

The group grew from two to six quickly after having a chat to GoodLook about our plans.
Our team “The Mob” now consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers and ourselves and feathertop joined us on day 4. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book.
All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.

Day 6 After finishing the On Your Bike and Around the World in 81 caches today we were heading further West to Ode to JLWE and Riddlers Roonka Rampage. No issues finding any of the caches along this trail.

Thanks for the hide and trail JLWEvent and thanks for the fun "The Mob"

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

Onto day 6 and back out onto the On Your Bike series we go to finish it off. Once we had finished that, we made our way to some Around the World multis, Riddlers Roonka/Ode to JLWE Series, the TdU series and even managed to do the TdF series! It was a big day. We picked up a few caches along the way, travelling along the way was GoodLook, The Drovers, LiB, FurfacesLL, FeatherTop and myself.

Time to make our way along the Riddlers Roonka Rampage series and the JLWE series. All caches found without issues and stamped accordingly.

Thanks for the hides JLWEvent And thanks to "The Mob" for a trip to remember [^].

Day 3 of the trip and we were targeting a number of moderate sized power trails.
This series intersperced with the rampage puzzles was quite a quick experience with roadside caches and just some prickly vegetation to watch out for.
We stamped the log as 'The Mob'
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, the Drovers and myself
Thanks

Day 3 in the area, and after completing the bike series, we then moved on to the following series:-
Around the World in 81 caches
Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge
Ode to JLWE
TdU series
and a few of the new ones in the TdF series.

We stamped the log as 'The Mob' to save space and time.
'The Mob' this time included:- GoodLook, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop & ourselves.
Many thanks for placing this series, JLWEvent, for us and others to find.

Solved these puzzles ages ago, so it was nice grabbing them whilst in the area with friends.

Most of the caches are stamped as The Mob (consisting of The Drovers, LíB, FurfacesLL, Rapidlywild, feathertop and myself), however a handful contain our own caching names or initials.

The series that we tackled during this trip included The Paddle Steamer, The Turtle, On Your Bike, Around the World, The TdU, The TdF and some Roonka puzzles put out for a June Long Weekend some time ago. Plus many random caches that we passed. So pleased we had a group of experienced cachers including tree and ladder climbers, AND a 7.5m ladder AND a 12m telescopic pole!

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip was spontaneously planned and I was able to pull together a number of my caching friends who hadn't cached together before to form "The Mob".

LíB and I started in SA, drove to Victoria and ended our trip in SA; FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild came from Canberra and The Drovers began their journey from NSW; and then a few days later, feathertop from Victoria, joined us to complete the On Your Bike Series and other caches in SA.

We filled our days with piling in cars, hard core caching, Adventure Labs, crazy funny CB radio chatter, some laughter, some tense moments (OMG some of the ladder and tree climbs on this trip were crazy!), lots of lovely meals and even live music from a band called "Kung Fu Jesus" - nope, that is no joke.

We had hot weather each day (well into 30s), so I am thrilled that I now own a car fridge to keep the drinks icy cold (loving them at about 1 degree celcius).

A sincere thanks to JLWEvent for placing this cache.

I had a day in the Barrossa and then up to Blanchetown

One of a run on the road north of Blanchetown.

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Cached around Blanchtown today with no dnf’s.
Thanks to all the owners for the caches.TFTC

Found on a photography trip to Blanchetown. TFTC

Last full day of caching before we head home tomorrow.

fitzy_1965, the geo-kids & I decided to head over to Blanchetown to do the Riddler series, JLWE series and whatever else we could find in the area. Today was the hottest by far and, with no working air-con in the car, it made for a hard day of caching. I did manage to get to 10,000 finds so that was a nice highlight.

All caches were found quickly and in good condition unless otherwise stated.

23,262. Found with minniek during our Post-Christmas escape to South Australia.

This trip to South Australia was on again off again due to the changing circumstances in the various states we had to travel through. Finally getting a green light from all 3 states we headed off early boxing day. Day 14 of our adventures took us around the Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge series, the Ode to June Long Weekend series, the Tour de France series, plus cherry picking some other caches along the way. All caches were found quickly and in good order unless otherwise stated. Next find of the day. A nice quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, and then headed off to the next one.

Thanks JLWEvent !!

Nice corner find.tftc

Today, it was an epic day out targeting various series around Blanchetown, Waikerie and Swan Reach. After making a few miscellaneous stops in the Barossa and Truro towards Blanchetown, my first series were the *Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge* and *Ode to JLWE*, and those were found reasonably quickly.
After lunch, the late plan was completing the *Around the World in 81 caches* series, and they were certainly a challenge whilst solo. As light began to fade, I made a stop in Swan Reach Conservation Park, where I found various geocaches and completed the *On This Day (OTD) August* series.
With limited time remaining in Adelaide, I think it was FOMO that prolonged my motivation for such a long day.

Commencing at 11:10 hr, I managed to complete this series and *Riddlers Roonka Rampage Challenge* along this road in about 1-1/4 hr, which wasn't too bad. Unfortunately I haven't attended many of the JLWE events in my time as a Geocacher, with my first and only attendance at 2019's Quorn event. However, I have visited many of the towns and areas to where they have been held, and this series is a nicely themed historical record of the mini-mega events.

Whilst driving along this road, I made a stop here, and it wasn't too long until I had a reasonably quick cache find. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks JLWEvent (June Long Weekend committee?) for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Came to Blanchtown to do most of the 2 types of power series on the road to Morgan. This one is an illumination for me. Unfortunately I haven't attended any of the events as I always had been to the 4WD events on the June long weekends. It looks like they have been great fun. Thanks to JLWEvent.

Day 6 of our holidays and we started off out at Blanchtown down sealed roads, then back onto the dirt roads around the Kingsford property(McLeod's Daughters country), through smaller towns in the area and of course a cemetery or two. TFTC

Smaller size but full of treasures!
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found with chelsea and max 10/10/20

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quick find, tftc.

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A glorious day weather wise to be out and about - a Nice quick find! TFTC

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this is our last cache for the day but we will be back to finish off the series!
Both cache & log are in excellent condition, took nothing, left a little something, WE WILL BE BACK

TFTC nice find quick drive by out and about with geo wife LynSteNet

A quick find while caching around Blanchtown.TFTC

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TDTC
Do not look in the obvious position

Nice quick find while driving to Blanchetown with the B*DS.
TNLNSL
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TTFN
Beaker

Nice Boxing Day for some caches with beaker tftc

A quick find for today SL TFTC

Well, the Mega was over, my geobuddies headed back home and now I was off to SA to continue my geotrip solo

Staying at Loxton and today's target was to grab the On Your Bike series and after that, I went on to nab the Riddlers and JLWE series, and several other randoms along the way. All were quick finds and I enjoyed the different types and sizes of containers!

Thanks for the hide and for the series, JLWEvent

"Remember, remember the 5th of November..." well we didn't ?? and now we're late logging this whole series on Proclamation Day (28th December) 2020 ?? . Two years have past since we hosted the JLWE "Riddlers Roonka Rampage – GC7HRNX" Event and in 2019 we were at Roonka as the substitute Caretakers for a week instead of weekend Wardens, while Caretaker, Mark had a little holiday. We did these on a slow drive to Blanchetown, with either Paul or Fab jumping out to find them.
TFTC ?? & if these caches need maintenance, please let us know. Cheers ????

#29. Spending the day out caching with Crane2. TFTC

Cache #3094.

Heading back out in the direction of Swan Reach and Blanchetown to find a few of the caches I could not get to the other day. With the amount of caches found, logs will be a bit generic. All caches were found in good condition, unless otherwise stated, on an enjoyable afternoon,

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Dangerous spot for hiding

Found it!

After attending an early CITO in the city Doctor Owl, sushilord and myself headed towards Blanchetown with the target caches being the JLWE series as well as others that we came across on our travels. We had a great day with perfect weather for caching, saw kangaroos, emus, sleepy lizards, lots of pretty birds, pelicans and even a wombat so we were very happy with our wildlife experience along with the caching. Had a successful day with all caches found and a couple of containers replaced. [^]

I had solved and found all but 3 of the puzzles on the way home from Barmera on the June LWE when they were published and now that the trads were here too I was keen to get them along with the 3 remaining puzzles...mission accomplished.

Thanks for the cache JLWEvent.

Found while out for a day of really good caching with Dr Owl and JJ52.

Thanks for the cache JLWEvent.

Travelling around Australia, after spending the best part of a week solving the Roonka puzzles today we planned to head out and find them and some nearby caches. Beautiful weather to be by the river.

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Another find

The cache hunt today with ilook4geo had a few different aspects. We selected a few along the road to get us going in the right direction, then we followed a couple of trails that were of particular interest. Finally we started the first few of another series which we will need to finish later on. All logs had two lots of initials recorded on them, each cache was put back as it had been found and we continued with the hunt. This was one of the caches we found. Thanks go to JLWEvent for placing this cache.

Out for a caching adventure with goingplaces2. The day included puzzle caches as well as traditionals. Each was an easy find, all logs were signed and replaced. It was a productive day, gaining lots of smileys. Found this one. TFTC.

Cool find

Out on a caching run with blingg
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Staying at the caravan park in Blanchetown for a few days Robbo56 and I decided that we would get the JWLE and Riddler trails along the Morgan Rd , quick find and very good co-ords at all locations

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