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No. I came up with a great idea to save gas. When there was a water shortage we learned that one way of saving water was to put a few bricks or large stones in the toilet tank.
So taking a hint from that, to save gas I put a bunch of stones (well washed) in my gas tank. They had to be small to fit down the pipe so it took a lot, but now my tank only takes half the gas it used to. It was such a great idea I sent it to Heloise.
Very interesting! Does this improve your mileage? How does it help?
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Lots of guests today too!
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I don't remember which cache we were doing, but this one's pretty.
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How about this for a rule: you aren't allowed to find any caches until you've hidden 100. That would result in some truly interesting caches, I bet.
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Alright, FINE...this is the THIRD THREAD I've posted this link to.
When do I get a little sympathy for my stupidity??!?!?!?!
Bret
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What not to do with a GPS! http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/pseidler1.html
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Don't.
LOL yah, nice way to get on their good side for future placements.
Nothing funny. He blew it by asking permission, they didn't know what it was and it was easier to say no. There is no good or bad side to be on. If there is no prohibition, then you have adequate permission.
For more information, read this.
Thanks for the link to this thread, we are getting geared up to hide a few and I was struggling over this issue.
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Wow, is this thread still going? Huh.
18 pages and growing strong, you guys are passionate!
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Yesterday we did a virtual cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...31-ee6ecad15a5a
in my hometown. I knew where this was because my father had donated to the building of this monument, and had a brick with his name on it on site. I was going to set a marker on our GPS as to where his brick was, but couldn't find it anywhere. There were just some blank bricks where his name should have been. Dan finally came to see what was taking me so long. Once I had explained to him and showed him where my dad's brick ought to be, he started flipping over the blank bricks. And there it was! Some random vandal must have flipped it over; or my dad has enemies (I don't think so though.) It was the only brick with a name on it that was flipped over. I thought this was a pretty good coincidence, and a most excellent Father's Day tale too!
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I would rather do a cache that takes me somewhere I would have never found on my own, and I prefer a swag filled cache, but micros are also great for us because we work midnights and don't always cache when you "normal" folks do. "Microspews" are mostly always available, whereas lots of places are closed to us during our nocturnal ventures. I would be sad if there were no more of them! Dan is so fascinated by the fact we can locate such a tiny thing, he does not care where it takes us. It's all good, Geocaching=fun!
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I come here _for_ the drama.
The incredible leaps of logic, the angst, the petty squabbling over mundane details, the occasional brilliant riposte.
I don't watch soaps, so I come here instead.
Sure, occasionally it gets a little repetitive, when someone's illegimate adopted Korean teenager goes into a coma for the 3rd time while the smart but troubled doctor searches for the cure in darkest Africa, but the forums always drag me back.
I say carry on with the snide remarks, the veiled insults, the flashes of inspiration.
If it all stopped, then I might actually have to go outside, and that just can't happen.
-ajb
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2)Pocket cache-"You get location and log information about individual caches from the "details" link on Geocaching.com. To take this information with you, you can print it out on a piece of paper or cut-and-paste it into a Word document and sync that with your Pocket PC. Premium members of Geocaching.com can also use a program called GpxView (http://strandberg.org/gpxview) to download information about sites to their Pocket PC. A "Pocket Query" feature on Geocaching.com lets Premium members search for caches by specific criteria (date created, type of cache, etc.) and download the results of the query to their Pocket PC. GpxView lets you view these downloaded queries on the Pocket PC."
That's more like "paperless caching".
Pocket cache was recently coined in order to describe the idea of bringing a "geocache" (usually just its logbook or a supplemental logbook) to a meeting of geocachers in order to have everyone sign the logbook even though the cache is supposed to be at its original location according to the website and the "finders" never actually searched for the geocache.
For example: I place GCZZTOP (Rock on you Crazy Bearded Guys! Cache) at 42,33.333/102,44.444. At the next event cache I attend, word gets around that if anyone wants to log GCZZTOP, all they have to do is come up to me wearing a pair of cheap sunglasses and I'll hand them the logbook and a pen. They go home and log GCZZTOP as a find.
Indeed! I stand corrected
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I've been back on the site regularly for about a week or so now.
The latest forum threads seem to start telling a significant difference from what I saw a year ago when I last haunted the forums relentlessly. There are quite a few "cheater", "new numbers", "omg", "what do i do abou this" kind of threads recently. I know some of them are directly related to the significant influx of what I'll dub the Hungry Hungry Hippo (HHH) effect from GW4. But honestly, even that is an interesting corollary to the other more common themes coming from other geographic areas.
It seems that as the number of geocaches continues to expand at a seriously rapid rate, finders (particularly those in less rural areas) are frequently deluged with more than they know what to do with. They start consuming geocache experiences at such an astounding rate that they're quickly able to pass by the kinds of numbers we're used to seeing even a year ago within their first months playing with a GPSr. The result of this quick binge of caching for the user is that it completely depersonalizes the other end of the hunt...the hide and the hider. It seems people start to treat any geocache as just any geocache. The person that hid the geocache isn't given any consideration throughout the entire process from the finder's perspective because there are so many to do that they see it more as offerings from the database and just another cache to find.
This is not to say that every new person partakes of the activity in this way. This isn't even a particularly new conclusion. But it is something that's degraded quite a bit from even a "TNLNSL" to "i saw where it probably is located" and "sign the logbook, it's in my backpocket right now" (that's even *further* downhill to the point that the hider isn't respecting their own hide).
It would appear that you would only treat the game in this manner if you felt little affection for each geocache as an interesting experience and each hider as a person worth thanking for the adventure or even just thanking for the smilie if that's what you play for. This kind of disconnect from the other half of the game reminds me of the way some people also treat fast-food employees and other off-ramp business employees. The establishments are so ubiquitous that the locations blur together and the people themselves aren't seen as individuals; if you offend one of them, you can always go very nearby to somewhere else (and be offensive).
Unfortunately, I'm not offering solutions. I am only offering what I can glean to be the source of this downhill path with which the community seems to be struggling with greater frequency.
You have, I think, hit upon something interesting! While I do not agree that geocaching is necessarily on a downward path, I do believe that the rapid growth of the sport/game has perhaps led to a lessening of gratitude and appreciation for the basics of the sport. For me, this has been most obvious in the recent proliferation of threads -- as well as log entries (finds, DNFs and notes) for caches -- wherein cachers actually complain about encountering bears, ticks, snakes, spiders, insects and even mud and dirt on their way to find a cache, as if these things were somehow unexpected or unnatural, or a perversion of nature. Wow!
Now, let me say here that my wife grew up in Australia, and has done a lot of hiking and adventuring throughout her life, and I have been a lifelong hiker, rock climber, spelunker, SCUBA diver, cave diver and explorer; I spent my childhood exploring forests, ponds and streams, and often came home at the end of the day covered with mud, ticks and leeches. This latest phenomenon (i.e., the complaints about encountering ticks, snakes, spiders, bears, mud, dirt, trash, etc.) which is emergent in the geo world has caught both my wife and me by total surprise, and, in fact, shocked us, and we finally realized that the sport is now comprised more and more largely of people who had never spent much, if any, time outdoors in their life prior to discovering geocaching, and who perhaps had never previously gotten much exercise either. In other words, it appears strongly that the discovery of geocaching is now leading many previously sedentary people who had never spent time in the outdoors, and who had perhaps never even exercised, to go outside and to hike and walk and even enter forests and woods.
I can, I believe, even go a step further, and speculate that many of these previously-inactive non-outdoorsy people have largely been accustomed to passive activities and passive forms of entertainment, such as playing video games, waching TV, and watching movies. Suddenly, a goody number of these people who had grown accustomed to passive entertainment are now venturing outdoors to seek geocaches. This can undestandably lead to some surprises for these newcomers to the outdoors. Now, all this news about increased levels of exercise for people who had previously never ventured outdoors is likely very heartening to public health educators, public health specialists, longevity experts and physical fitness promoters, as that has long been their goal for the more underactive members of the population, and it is also good news for many managers of state parks, whose major challenges had often been under-utilization of trails and backwoods areas in their parks, and I am sure that many people are becoming healthier as a result of their higher levels of exercise. However, I must admit that this same demographic trend -- desirable as it may be -- is massively changing the face of geocaching, particularly as we are hearing more and more whines (please note that I am not using this term pejoratively, but rather simply as the most appropriate descriptive; it is not my intent to offend anyone) and complaints about everyday aspects of nature such as ticks, sunlight, snakes, bears, rocks, creeks, mud, water, spiders and insects, all of which I have always taken for granted, and about which I would never think of complaining.
Anyway, I wonder if a good part what you have been witnessing, and some of what you trying to describe, particuarly the lack of appreciation, the complaining, the "disconnect", and the sense of rushing, is simply due to the rapidly-changing demographics of this sport, as people who had been accustomed to passive entertainment become more active and start to seek geocaches.
You are spot on Vinny, I am a previous member of the sedentary club. Watching TV, playing on the computer, VG's etc. used to be my main form of entertainment. I only discovered geocaching because there was a link on google. However, as a noob I do not want to be lumped into a category "ungrateful." My husband and I are thoroughly enjoying this hobby, and all the hard work that goes along with it. We very much appreciate all of the great spots we are finding due to the hides and the hider. There are so many cool parks and trails near us that we never would have found if not for geocache.com. I am not trying to speak for anyone but myself-but please don't confuse my suprise over nature as being a complaint. It's more of a discovery (see sentence one!
) The biggest spider I'm used to encountering are the ones that find their way into my bathtub! Go ahead and laugh, I know my dad would be if he were reading this. He took me camping to a very rustic location once when I was a young teen. It was at the pinnacle of my teenage vanity, and I swear I was traumatized by the lack of shower and all of the bugs. Anyways, I have not returned to the woods until now, 20 yrs later. There was a point to this... Oh, if I am being an a-hole I humbly apologize to all the veteran geocachers! Bear with us and have a sense of humor, please enjoy our photos-even if you have seen them all before! "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Been reading lots, but I just can't figure out a definition of the following:
1)Micro-Spew
2)Pocket Caches
Thanks for helping the n00b. It's going to make reading other threads way more meaningful. I really am trying
1)Microspew=A thoughtlessly placed micro cache which could have been a regular or large cache.
A micro cache that has been placed in a lame spot, such as a lampost at your local walmart etc.
2)Pocket cache-"You get location and log information about individual caches from the "details" link on Geocaching.com. To take this information with you, you can print it out on a piece of paper or cut-and-paste it into a Word document and sync that with your Pocket PC. Premium members of Geocaching.com can also use a program called GpxView (http://strandberg.org/gpxview) to download information about sites to their Pocket PC. A "Pocket Query" feature on Geocaching.com lets Premium members search for caches by specific criteria (date created, type of cache, etc.) and download the results of the query to their Pocket PC. GpxView lets you view these downloaded queries on the Pocket PC."
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I found this one instead of the cache last fall. It was waiting on the back side of the guardrail.
Argiope Aurantia, Garden Spider. (which is, indeed, an orb weaver).
Opened the front door to my apartment a few years ago, overnight one of these had built a web in the door frame. I was talking to my wife when I opened the door and turned just in time to keep from getting a face full of him. Closest I have ever come to having a heart attack.
We used to have one of these living in the bushes outside of my childhood home. It freaked me out, summer after summer there was always one in that bush.
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Hmmm.... As I look at the photos again, in light of your comments, I must agree with Ju66L3r that the abdomen looks a bit funny for it to be a fishing spider, unless it is pregnant. So, it may well be a wolf spider of some type. In general, fishing spiders have flatter and more circular (in the horizontal dimension) abdomens, rather than the fatter and more oval abdomen shown in the photo.
I did notice when I discovered it that it's abdomen was twisted into one of the groves of the bark and as it crawled out, it was almost laboring to move. As it crawled closer, the abdomen stayed almost twisted as opposed to lining up with the body. It moved like it was full. I wouldn't be suprised if "she" was pregnant. She also paid no attention to the plethora of food scurring around her, but that was probaly because I disturbed her. There was no running water close by, but the area was soggy all around, with deep mud, almost swamp like, just without the water on top of the ground.
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We were out caching and I flipped over what I surely thought to be the camo covering of the cache, and boy was I wrong! This is what I found lurking beneath the bark lying on the ground. Does anyone know what kind of spider this is? We are in Michigan and we have never witnessed one this big here. And yes, I did need a stick to retrieve my quarter. Sorry the pics are sooo huge, but we wanted a good close up with detail. Our main goal is to identify this particular spider, but if you have some of your own we'd love to see them. Kinda...
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Does no news=bad news?
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Anyone interested in making a new avatar for me? I like the smileys but was thinking of something different for now. Maybe something involving trap shooting or a girl holding a shotgun. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I couldn't find any girl shotgun images without copyrights, here's a couple handguns though
Here's one that may or may not include a copyrighted image.
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Well, Jeremy’s question appears -- to the untrained eye and the impatient and ever-restless mind -- to be simple on the surface, but yet in reality it is fraught with deep meaning, and any serious and sincere response consonant with integrity and with full immersion in the relativistic amanuensis, as, of course, as it bisects the muse, must emerge forth organically from the psyche and the soul, modulated by the heart, will demand a soulful memory-tolerance of anamnesis, indeed, it will require a deftly-guided extended meditation on focus, style, remembrance, soul-mission, time, and technology, yielding a rich and organic and nearly orgasmic but yet stable and remarkable and yet dynamic fruition of the dialectic. Indeed, any serious discourse would almost unerringly read much like the musings of Jacques Derrida in his classic work Archive Fever 10, and yet must deftly wend through at decontextualized archetypal but post-colonial
immersive protocol, yielding perhaps, nay, surely, an immersive stance, one which does not neglect Mogenson's archetypal psychology, else the discourse become moribund and even fecund. And so, allow me to make perhaps a feeble effort at answering this seemingly solid and sound but truly intangible and apocryphal question, one which I am sure wrenched itself from the heart and soul of its author with an audible rending tear, and to which any serious repartee by any other than a dilettante or a poseur would demand that we would invoke the soulful memory-tolerance of anamnesis, suppression into unspeakables and hyponmesis, the latter of which I posit is only possible within a theology of absolute-others and in the sublime and yet at-times horrific company of technology, much as referenced by Derrida in Archive Fever 9 Further, any such serious endeavor will suggest that an immersive, rather than controlled, dialectic may well be an inherently self-negating anti-structure of psychological experience, dialogical rather than dialectical, that avoids domestication of otherness, moves through tragic incommensurability and, most importantly, allows moments of embodied convergence between the decontextual/ahistorical and the contextual/post-colonial venue.
And so, proceeding with my inquiry, which is transcendentally and concomitantly a comprehensive cognitive and soulful response to the question posed to our intimate linguistic community by Jeremy about none other than the soul of our passion, the nectar of our addiction, the ripened and lusty frit of our endeavors and yearnings, I am moved to observe that we must of necessity here stray into the realms of archetype and archives, simultaneously treading somewhat lightly and yet with cognizance in the realms of the unconscious, the formative ethos, the etheric influences perhaps best cited by the German mystic Rudolf Steiner and yet not ignored -- nor belittled -- by the theologian Teilhard de Chardin in his musings on Cyberspace and the Dream, all the while under the baleful and knowing gaze of Karl Rahner, who would, of course, realize in an instant that this dialectic imbues and expresses – and also, strangely negates in negative space and Kantian spherical geometrics -- none other than the tension of the foundations of faith squared off
against the pacification offered by technology, all the while mindful of the decontextual and historical post-colonial dialogical – and yet incommensurable – tragic thesis that the anti-tragic fear of destruction is intrinsically connected with the concept of the archive coupled with the notion of the outside, which, represents – in a limited closed universe and also in Hegellian space -- the demand created by geocaching as it established itself as the archon, the exterior place where the archives need to be placed and conceptualized according to an ineffable and yet inviolable and intrinsic Law. Without this projection of an exterior image, an object, if it were, a cache, so to speak, there would be no archive, and thus there would be no geocache for the geocacher to seek and in intimate linguistic community of geocachers to contextualize the experience and allow projection beyond self-negating anti-structure onto the broader canvas of experiential and God-driven paradoxical immerssive hyponmesis which is simultaneously dynamic and dymanic, yet strangely manic when considered in the light of the third evolution of the second instance of the fourteenth iteration of benevolent universe hypothesis of the Christian mystic Father Theophane.And so, the above-referenced dialectic neatly leads to the summa of my thesis, namely that there is nothing outside the cache, there is nothing but logging a find or a DNF or a log, preferentially in both the object world and in the projected image world of online community and discourse, wherein we witness the employment and yet the exigesis of writing as supplement and also as a capstone watershed for the soul and psyche in establishing a synthesis based on analysis and on the search, wherein an endless chain of substitutive signification with differential references is nearly and neatly forced, in the psyche of the geocacher in the field, to question the relation of technological tool – namely a GPS receiver -- to the supplement, to this need to fill the void, and so I would like to address the question to our innermost psyche, to our innermost Consciousness, and the answer that shouts forth from the silence and stillness is simply that "Geocaching Is”.
And, with that final synthesis and exposition, I must wind my discourse and my reply to a close.
WHOA, That's heavy man!
Yes, I guess it is! However, I have no clue as to what I wrote! As you likely guessed, I wrote it as a spoof.
In this case, I wrote it as a spoof of the way that so many people in "advanced" academic fields tend to write. When I was in grad school, my on-campus job was to review the dissertation papers written by doctoral candidates for scientific soundness and sanity, and I would regularly encounter such gibberish in the papers!... Anyway, it was fun writing that essay!
You so funny!
Your college job sounds delightful -
Could you make one for me Perferbly with a assorment of candys THanks!
How about these?
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You look at everything as a potential hidey-hole!
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Well, Jeremy’s question appears -- to the untrained eye and the impatient and ever-restless mind -- to be simple on the surface, but yet in reality it is fraught with deep meaning, and any serious and sincere response consonant with integrity and with full immersion in the relativistic amanuensis, as, of course, as it bisects the muse, must emerge forth organically from the psyche and the soul, modulated by the heart, will demand a soulful memory-tolerance of anamnesis, indeed, it will require a deftly-guided extended meditation on focus, style, remembrance, soul-mission, time, and technology, yielding a rich and organic and nearly orgasmic but yet stable and remarkable and yet dynamic fruition of the dialectic. Indeed, any serious discourse would almost unerringly read much like the musings of Jacques Derrida in his classic work Archive Fever 10, and yet must deftly wend through at decontextualized archetypal but post-colonial immersive protocol, yielding perhaps, nay, surely, an immersive stance, one which does not neglect Mogenson's archetypal psychology, else the discourse become moribund and even fecund.
And so, allow me to make perhaps a feeble effort at answering this seemingly solid and sound but truly intangible and apocryphal question, one which I am sure wrenched itself from the heart and soul of its author with an audible rending tear, and to which any serious repartee by any other than a dilettante or a poseur would demand that we would invoke the soulful memory-tolerance of anamnesis, suppression into unspeakables and hyponmesis, the latter of which I posit is only possible within a theology of absolute-others and in the sublime and yet at-times horrific company of technology, much as referenced by Derrida in Archive Fever 9 Further, any such serious endeavor will suggest that an immersive, rather than controlled, dialectic may well be an inherently self-negating anti-structure of psychological experience, dialogical rather than dialectical, that avoids domestication of otherness, moves through tragic incommensurability and, most importantly, allows moments of embodied convergence between the decontextual/ahistorical and the contextual/post-colonial venue.
And so, proceeding with my inquiry, which is transcendentally and concomitantly a comprehensive cognitive and soulful response to the question posed to our intimate linguistic community by Jeremy about none other than the soul of our passion, the nectar of our addiction, the ripened and lusty frit of our endeavors and yearnings, I am moved to observe that we must of necessity here stray into the realms of archetype and archives, simultaneously treading somewhat lightly and yet with cognizance in the realms of the unconscious, the formative ethos, the etheric influences perhaps best cited by the German mystic Rudolf Steiner and yet not ignored -- nor belittled -- by the theologian Teilhard de Chardin in his musings on Cyberspace and the Dream, all the while under the baleful and knowing gaze of Karl Rahner, who would, of course, realize in an instant that this dialectic imbues and expresses – and also, strangely negates in negative space and Kantian spherical geometrics -- none other than the tension of the foundations of faith squared off against the pacification offered by technology, all the while mindful of the decontextual and historical post-colonial dialogical – and yet incommensurable – tragic thesis that the anti-tragic fear of destruction is intrinsically connected with the concept of the archive coupled with the notion of the outside, which, represents – in a limited closed universe and also in Hegellian space -- the demand created by geocaching as it established itself as the archon, the exterior place where the archives need to be placed and conceptualized according to an ineffable and yet inviolable and intrinsic Law. Without this projection of an exterior image, an object, if it were, a cache, so to speak, there would be no archive, and thus there would be no geocache for the geocacher to seek and in intimate linguistic community of geocachers to contextualize the experience and allow projection beyond self-negating anti-structure onto the broader canvas of experiential and God-driven paradoxical immerssive hyponmesis which is simultaneously dynamic and dymanic, yet strangely manic when considered in the light of the third evolution of the second instance of the fourteenth iteration of benevolent universe hypothesis of the Christian mystic Father Theophane.
And so, the above-referenced dialectic neatly leads to the summa of my thesis, namely that there is nothing outside the cache, there is nothing but logging a find or a DNF or a log, preferentially in both the object world and in the projected image world of online community and discourse, wherein we witness the employment and yet the exigesis of writing as supplement and also as a capstone watershed for the soul and psyche in establishing a synthesis based on analysis and on the search, wherein an endless chain of substitutive signification with differential references is nearly and neatly forced, in the psyche of the geocacher in the field, to question the relation of technological tool – namely a GPS receiver -- to the supplement, to this need to fill the void, and so I would like to address the question to our innermost psyche, to our innermost Consciousness, and the answer that shouts forth from the silence and stillness is simply that “Geocaching Is”.
And, with that final synthesis and exposition, I must wind my discourse and my reply to a close.
WHOA, That's heavy man!
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No wonder why newbie cachers come to the forums read and never return. I post a nice congrats topic only to have the first 10 posters to use it as a way of bashing another person.
Have a little respect for others...
Well I'm pretty new and I can't quit trolling. The bickering amongst veteran cachers and hilarious posts from Sue & Vinnie just keep me coming back! It's almost as good as
immersive protocol, yielding perhaps, nay, surely, an immersive stance, one which does not neglect Mogenson's archetypal psychology, else the discourse become moribund and even fecund. 
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