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April 28th, 2017 at 2:38:50 AM permalink
Well that was the day from hell. I just got to Deadwood after leaving Salt Lake City this morning early. Update tomorrow, must sleep now!
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April 28th, 2017 at 8:59:39 AM permalink
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Well that was the day from hell. I just got to Deadwood after leaving Salt Lake City this morning early. Update tomorrow, must sleep now!



Wow, it's supposed to be 9 - 10 hours from Salt Lake to Deadwood. At least you're out of Utah. hehe
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April 28th, 2017 at 5:22:06 PM permalink
I'm leaving Deadwood soon to head home let's just say I drove about 900 miles yesterday. I started by driving through a blizzard for a hour to reach Shoshone Rose Casino. (After 4.5 hours of clear driving) Then I drove towards Deadwood for almost 4 hours. I got to within 2.5 hours of Deadwood when I find out that a semi tipped over and is blocking the only road through the mountains. I now have to go back and retrace my steps for the last 2 hours of driving. I get pulled over for going 77 in a 70 and let off with a warning after giving the European cop my Canadian charm (basically I just apologized a lot). For some reason it took her a half hour to print out a warning. I then drove 1.5 hours through a snowstorm going 50 mph because the roads were so covered in snow. The snow clears up and I then drove 3.5 hours in a torrential downpour because that seemed like fun. I finally arrived at the hotel around 330 AM after leaving Salt Lake City around 10 AM the previous day. Yes I was mildly exausted. I think I need to avoid Wyoming like the plague because last time I drove through that state I got caught in a nasty storm too.

Well that is my story and I'm sticking to it!
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April 29th, 2017 at 4:40:14 AM permalink
Back in Canada! At least until Friday that is.
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April 29th, 2017 at 7:36:44 AM permalink
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Back in Canada! At least until Friday that is.



Re-qualifying for those Canadian Health benefits ;)

Can you tell us how the CBSA treated you coming back with so many $1 chips in the car?


Guess the live poker winnings will be heading towards the down payment on the new car.....that ones gotta have a whole lot of K's on in now

thanks for the great road trip reports
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April 29th, 2017 at 8:55:59 AM permalink
Finally got a chance to read this start to finish and just wanted say "Thank You" for putting this out there. You hit some places that are on my wish list including Tonopah. I know some guys that own the brewery in town there and have to find the time to drive there.

Thanks again! Boz
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April 30th, 2017 at 7:49:03 PM permalink
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Re-qualifying for those Canadian Health benefits ;)

Can you tell us how the CBSA treated you coming back with so many $1 chips in the car?


Guess the live poker winnings will be heading towards the down payment on the new car.....that ones gotta have a whole lot of K's on in now

thanks for the great road trip reports


They didn't ask about the chips this time but I got questioned pretty heavily at the Detroit-Windsor border a few years ago. I handed him the rack of chips to prove to him that my story was true.

My car now has 213,000 kms on it after just over 6 years.
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April 30th, 2017 at 7:49:31 PM permalink
Quote: Boz

Finally got a chance to read this start to finish and just wanted say "Thank You" for putting this out there. You hit some places that are on my wish list including Tonopah. I know some guys that own the brewery in town there and have to find the time to drive there.

Thanks again! Boz



I think I had lunch there. Is it also a BBQ restaurant?
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April 30th, 2017 at 8:47:26 PM permalink
Well after my insane drive from Salt Lake City to Deadwood which covered 877 miles I had a much easier drive home. The drive home covered 706 miles but luckily I didn't hit any precipitation. I enjoyed my day in Deadwood as I have the previous two times that I've been there. It really is a cool little town that I would suggest everyone check out at some point.

I did some gambling and was up almost $200 which is a nice way to end the trip. I bought some homemade fudge for family and a giant poop emoji pillow for a friend. I always get her poop emoji things when I travel, I am weird what can I say? I was also able to find snow globes for my little cousins. I've been buying them for them when I travel for the last 5 years or so. I also got a dream catcher made by Navajo Indians for my smallest cousin.

Feel free to judge me on this one but I thought it was a good idea. I collect $1 chips unless they have coins as their $1 chips and then I collect a $5 chip. I started replacing my $1 tokens I had previously collected a couple years ago since I hate the coins so much. Two of the last ones that I wanted to replace were from Deadwood. One problem is neither have $5 chips to collect either. Celebrity Casino uses massive coaster size coins for their $5 chips and First Gold Casino uses a mixture of generic $5 chips that just say Blackjack on them and a few from a Horseshoe Casino that I believe are from the Horseshoe Casino that closed in 1994 in Deadwood. I decided I would keep a $25 chip from both, these are easily the highest denomination chips in my collection.

After crunching the numbers the trip cost me about $600 of which $200 were chips and I will get half of that back later from friends.


Chips collected - 160 (42 for my collection)
Total miles - 6265
Gas - $559.35
Hotel - $382.75
Food - $612.80
Shopping - 31.95
Arcade - $2.00 (very cheap for how many arcades I usually visit)
Gambling +$954.90
Poker +$7 woot 😂
FP - $307 FP = $271.20
Match play - $160 = $65
$50 promo chips = $125
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April 30th, 2017 at 9:33:47 PM permalink
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I'm leaving Deadwood soon to head home let's just say I drove about 900 miles yesterday. I started by driving through a blizzard for a hour to reach Shoshone Rose Casino. (After 4.5 hours of clear driving) Then I drove towards Deadwood for almost 4 hours. I got to within 2.5 hours of Deadwood when I find out that a semi tipped over and is blocking the only road through the mountains. I now have to go back and retrace my steps for the last 2 hours of driving. I get pulled over for going 77 in a 70 and let off with a warning after giving the European cop my Canadian charm (basically I just apologized a lot). For some reason it took her a half hour to print out a warning. I then drove 1.5 hours through a snowstorm going 50 mph because the roads were so covered in snow. The snow clears up and I then drove 3.5 hours in a torrential downpour because that seemed like fun. I finally arrived at the hotel around 330 AM after leaving Salt Lake City around 10 AM the previous day. Yes I was mildly exausted. I think I need to avoid Wyoming like the plague because last time I drove through that state I got caught in a nasty storm too.

Well that is my story and I'm sticking to it!


Any warnings I've gotten were verbal warnings I guess you'd call them. Never anything printed out. Are you sure the "warning" wasn't a ticket that says you owe some amount?

BTW, as far as I've heard at least, cops don't like to give foreigners tickets because it requires more paperwork and such.

I'm sure saying "sowry" every other word helped out, too.



Why do you collect only $1 chips? You should be collecting $100 chips. That'd be impressive....not them wimpy $1 or $5 chips. ;)
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April 30th, 2017 at 9:47:51 PM permalink
Well I have roughly 600 chips so that would be $60,000 in chips. I'm not that baller.

This was definitely a warning not a ticket. I don't think I've ever gotten a print out for a warning before and I've had a few.
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May 1st, 2017 at 7:45:58 AM permalink
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I think I had lunch there. Is it also a BBQ restaurant?



Yes it is. They are the only guys in town brewing.
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May 1st, 2017 at 10:07:33 AM permalink
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Yes it is. They are the only guys in town brewing.


I had an average meal there but didn't try the beer cause I was driving. The establishment had an odor, was that from the brewing?
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May 1st, 2017 at 10:53:09 AM permalink
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I had an average meal there but didn't try the beer cause I was driving. The establishment had an odor, was that from the brewing?

I noticed an odor at the 777 restaurant, Binions, Lotus of siam and the cue club, now this place. I'm detecting a pattern. (-;
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May 1st, 2017 at 11:09:39 AM permalink
You caught me! I'm on that once a month shower schedule so the end of the month can be rough :P
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May 1st, 2017 at 2:49:18 PM permalink
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I had an average meal there but didn't try the beer cause I was driving. The establishment had an odor, was that from the brewing?



Probably is the spent malt from the brewing process. It's common at most breweries with open air to the tasting or dining room.
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May 1st, 2017 at 10:34:57 PM permalink
6200 MILES basically 10,000 km

or Drive from White Horse to Halifax and back to Winnipeg ...... oh to be young again
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May 1st, 2017 at 11:44:15 PM permalink
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Well I have roughly 600 chips so that would be $60,000 in chips. I'm not that baller.

This was definitely a warning not a ticket. I don't think I've ever gotten a print out for a warning before and I've had a few.



You're baller enough to post in MILES instead of KILOMILES. Nothin' like good ol' fashion freedom units.

Yes, I know it's kilometers and not kilomiles.
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I do that so you silly Americans can understand what I'm posting 😂
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May 1st, 2017 at 11:59:38 PM permalink
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I do that so you silly Americans can understand what I'm posting 😂


Oh how I pity the weak.



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May 2nd, 2017 at 12:38:47 AM permalink
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Today was a very long day. I didn't have a whole lot planned except driving for 12 hours from Winnipeg, MB to Billings, MT covering 769 miles. I was planning on leaving around 5 or 6 am but I couldn't sleep so I left home around 2 am.

Yesterday I stopped at Bulk Barn and bought raw almonds and chocolate covered pretzels for the trip. I also bought two cases of diet Mountain Dew. I know it's unhealthy but it's my favourite source of caffeine for long drives.

So I snacked and drank a ton of caffeine which meant that I stopped about 8 times to go to the bathroom. The drive wasn't too bad other than the fact that I was working on a hour of sleep. I got to Billings around 2:30 in the afternoon and took a nap for about 90 minutes.

I then went to Queen of Hearts Card Club and played 3/6 limit until the game broke a hour later. I lost $65, the players were really passive and basically calling stations but I couldn't make a hand to save my life. Oh well. I then went to The Poker Parlor and played for about a hour. Again I lost, this time $59. They served Shepards pie for dinner which was really tasty. I remember why I don't play limit poker... it's really boring!

Tomorrow I'm driving to Elko, NV.

Chips collected - 5 (2 for my collection)
Total miles - 769
Gas - $46.05
Hotel - $0
Food - $25.40
Shopping - N/A
Gambling - N/A
Poker -$124
FP - N/A
Match play - N/A



You had all those empty Mountain Dew containers and you still stopped to use a bathroom? Wat a wuss.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 12:43:51 AM permalink
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Any warnings I've gotten were verbal warnings I guess you'd call them. Never anything printed out. Are you sure the "warning" wasn't a ticket that says you owe some amount?

BTW, as far as I've heard at least, cops don't like to give foreigners tickets because it requires more paperwork and such.

I'm sure saying "sowry" every other word helped out, too.



Why do you collect only $1 chips? You should be collecting $100 chips. That'd be impressive....not them wimpy $1 or $5 chips. ;)



In Vermont, they give printed warning tickets that turn into real tickets if you get two more tickets in a year.
Coming out here from NY, I got a printed warning ticket just east of the Oklahoma border by a local Texas cop who crossed over the highway to stop me.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 7:29:37 AM permalink
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You had all those empty Mountain Dew containers and you still stopped to use a bathroom? Wat a wuss.



They were cans, not the easiest to urinate into while driving.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 9:11:28 AM permalink
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They were cans, not the easiest to urinate into while driving.

......annnnnnd the next WoV challenge has been figured out.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 9:42:08 AM permalink
I'm out lol. I try and not put my penis near sharp objects. I know I'm odd.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 9:50:06 AM permalink
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......annnnnnd the next WoV challenge has been figured out.



How do you compensate for the varying size of the err... equipment? I don't know about you guys, but I'll need something about this size...

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May 2nd, 2017 at 10:14:47 AM permalink
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They were cans, not the easiest to urinate into while driving.



Depends.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 11:14:17 AM permalink
On what lol?
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May 2nd, 2017 at 11:58:49 AM permalink
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On what lol?

Stop at a gas station and get a funnel... See, I've already given away the winning strategy for the WoV Challenge.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 1:15:48 PM permalink
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Stop at a gas station and get a funnel... See, I've already given away the winning strategy for the WoV Challenge.



funnel and something soft. splashback is a biatch.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 1:34:52 PM permalink
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Stop at a gas station and get a funnel... See, I've already given away the winning strategy for the WoV Challenge.

From what a few guys have told me, you wouldn't need a funnel.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 1:49:59 PM permalink
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From what a few guys have told me, you wouldn't need a funnel.



Hehe... This might be close:
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May 2nd, 2017 at 1:52:09 PM permalink
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From what a few guys have told me, you wouldn't need a funnel.



Hey you weren't supposed to make that public.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 2:10:36 PM permalink
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funnel and something soft. splashback is a biatch.

This is where the skill of "aiming" comes in to play.

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From what a few guys have told me, you wouldn't need a funnel.

Cute to know you've been asking around about me... Seems like I'm always on your mind.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 2:16:49 PM permalink
Don't be as bad as the guy at 2:20 of this video.

https://youtu.be/VhnZ3wzrwik
DUHHIIIIIIIII HEARD THAT!
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May 2nd, 2017 at 3:50:44 PM permalink
This thread took an odd turn.
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May 2nd, 2017 at 3:51:27 PM permalink
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This thread took an odd turn.



hehe... right down the pisser...
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May 4th, 2017 at 7:40:26 PM permalink
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This is where the skill of "aiming" comes in to play.

Cute to know you've been asking around about me... Seems like I'm always on your mind.

Leave it to you to use the word cute when talking to another male.

No need to ask around when the "rumor" is on all the lips of your special guy friends.
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May 10th, 2017 at 4:16:06 PM permalink
Well I've got my next major trip planned. This one centers around one of the juiciest poker series I have ever seen. Eric (friend I went to Asia with) and I will be travelling to Dawson City, Yukon for a poker series. If there are 5 grinders at the entire series including us I would be surprised. It's just too far off the beaten path for normal people to bother. Eric and I however love to go to new places and there is definitely a lot of money to be made at this series. The guarantee is solid. We will be doing some collecting on the way including poker at most stops. I am then going to head to Vancouver island to visit family before driving around Washington collecting chips.
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May 11th, 2017 at 9:54:09 AM permalink
We are also going to be stopping at Boomtown Casino in Ft McMurray Alberta. They have legendary cash games so we will probably stay there for at least a few days. The games are so good because all the oil workers have way too much money and nowhere to spend it so they drink, gamble, partake in coke (not the stuff GWAE is trying to kick) and ladies of the night. I'm looking forward to the games that I've heard about for years.
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May 11th, 2017 at 10:31:14 AM permalink
Looking forward to reading about your adventures PG! Good luck to you both!
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May 11th, 2017 at 10:40:32 AM permalink
The tournament series isn't until September 8 so we won't be leaving until late august/early September. I will be sure to do a TR though.

And thanks for the gl.
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May 11th, 2017 at 10:50:22 AM permalink
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Well I've got my next major trip planned. This one centers around one of the juiciest poker series I have ever seen. Eric (friend I went to Asia with) and I will be travelling to Dawson City, Yukon for a poker series. If there are 5 grinders at the entire series including us I would be surprised. It's just too far off the beaten path for normal people to bother. Eric and I however love to go to new places and there is definitely a lot of money to be made at this series. The guarantee is solid. We will be doing some collecting on the way including poker at most stops. I am then going to head to Vancouver island to visit family before driving around Washington collecting chips.

Will you be going anywhere near the Bellingham area?
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May 11th, 2017 at 12:05:29 PM permalink
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Will you be going anywhere near the Bellingham area?


Yes I will.
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May 11th, 2017 at 12:09:13 PM permalink
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Yes I will.

You can stop in and say hello to my Mom.
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May 11th, 2017 at 12:13:14 PM permalink
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You can stop in and say hello to my Mom.


Lmao that is definitely not why I thought you were asking.
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May 11th, 2017 at 12:21:26 PM permalink
Perhaps she still has some arts and crafts from his younger years. That would be worth the trip. A macaroni sculpture by Mr Wolf, anyone?
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May 11th, 2017 at 12:26:48 PM permalink
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Perhaps she still has some arts and crafts from his younger years. That would be worth the trip. A macaroni sculpture by Mr Wolf, anyone?

She would, in fact, she still has something like this hanging on the wall to this day. http://weefolkart.com/wp-content/uploads/pictures/puppet-head1.jpg
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May 11th, 2017 at 10:07:22 PM permalink
FORT MAC.... are there even any hotel rooms available there?

something like 2600 houses burned down just over 1 yr ago and ONLY 600 or so new building permits have been issued since

oil is under $50 a bbl ....thousands of people lost their jobs up there ....those lucky enough to still be working took paycuts..... but maybe the casino is still full of poor poker players trying to score the rent money who knows

highway 63 from Edmonton to Fort Mac

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/suicide-63-the-deadly-route-into-fort-mcmurray-finally-set-to-befixed/article28627352/

but that might be good practice for the drive around Dawson City area


1. Yukon

Statistically, the most dangerous place to drive appears to be Klondike country. Yukon’s overall death rate per 100,000 is 20.8, more than five times as high as Ontario, with an injury rate of 517.1. Some of this may be due to the small proportionate population – less than 35,000. The rate per billion kilometres driven is much lower at 13.7/341, but for licensed drivers it’s a national high of 27.6/685.6.


Trans Canada to Calgary north on 93 for the most amazing drive in all of Canada !!! and remember park fees are FREE this year
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