January 2015 - Canterbury Volkswagen Enthusiast Club

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Club Presidents Note
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Editors Note
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Upcoming Events
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Governors Bay Trip
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Orton Bradley Park
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North Canterbury Classic Tour
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Ray Drury’s Museum
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5 Campfire Cooking Tips
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Ashburton Wheels week
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Operation Kombi Pick up
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Kids colour In Picture
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Westfalia company
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Secrets of the original Volkswagen Beetle
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Well with 2014 half way gone, one would ask where has this year gone.
Since our last newsletter we have had a very busy time with visits to Orton Bradley
Park, North Canterbury Classic car run, VW Nationals in Timaru, Durys car museum, Ashburton wheels week and a temporary change of venue and night (Thursday)
for club night which is at RayKs Cafe 107 Sawyer Arms Road Papanui.
With the 2014 VW Nationals behind us ,and with this being a combined effort
with the Central South VW Club it turned out to be a great success thanks to the
very good organizing committee and all the people who took part.
With another successful AGM meeting over, we have many new committee members and a lot of new ideas for the rest of the year.
This year we have increased our Subs to $20.00 and can be paid direct to bank
please put your name on deposit so we can keep track.
Canterbury Volkswagen Enthusiasts Club 010811 0041308 00
Will keep you all informed with up coming events and hope to see you there.
Happy Motoring
Ivan Ashby.
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Hi Guys
The year is trucking along now rather quickly before you know is we will be at the Belworthys
again for Christmas.
Have you sean the new Vw advert celebrating 60 Years of the vw keep your eye out its very cool
but blink and you will miss half the footage here is a link to the advert on the internet
www.thepeoplesfilm.co.nz
I am still looking for old photos and story's I know there are loads out there new or old photos
story's ect.
Also if you have any People you deal with for your VW that may be of help to others please let us
know and I will put them in the next news letter
My email is Kombishack@live.com
Or Call me on 033541082
If you are having problems with the news letter please don’t hesitate to
contact me
Happy Dubbing
Regards
Craig Munro
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· 31st July Thursday night,
Club night at RayK’s Café at 7pm onwards.
· 17th August Sunday
Cruise up to the Pukeko Junction for lunch then back to Waikuku to
view Bain’s car collection.
· 28th August Thursday night
Club night RayK’s Café
· 14th Sept Sunday
Mystery Car Rally including prizes
· 19th 20th 21st Sept
Kaikoura Beach Hop
· 25th Sept Thurs night
Club night to be a social night of Ten Pin bowling.
· 5th October Sunday
Spring into Oxford, run up to Oxford to display car to support men’s
shed.
· 10th 11th 12th Oct
McLean’s Island Swap meet to display cars
· 25th 26th 27th October
Labour Wkd Octoberfest at Dave and Penny’s place at Oamaru
· 30th October Thurs night
Club night at RayK’s café at 7pm
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· 14th 15th 16th November
Show Weekend trip to Hokitika West Coast
· 27th November Thurs night
Club night at RayK’s Café
· 29th 30th November
Weekend camp over and Xmas party at Belworthys at Cust
· 18th January 15 Sunday
Trip to a Beach for fish n chips
· 29th January Thurs night
Club night at RayK’s café 7pm
· 6th 7th 8th February Waitangi Wkd
Das Alpine trip to Hanmer Springs
· 22nd February Sun
visit to a car collection
· 26th February Thurs Night
Club night at RayK’s café 7pm
· 15th March
trip to Orana Park
· 26th March Thurs Night
Club night at RayK’s café 7pm
· 2nd 3rd 4th 5th April Easter Wkd
VW Nationals in Taupo
· 30th April Thurs Night
Club night at RayK’s café 7pm
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We all meet up at the Palette Pavilion in the CBD 7 in total Dubs made the venture . We Travelled over Dyers Pass in convoy quite a steep climb for the old
dubs and tight on the corners with plenty of licra bandits on the road .
Great Views of the city and mountains to be had if you are not the driver.
We stopped off at the Governors Bay Pub for a beer and feed it took a while to
arrive but was well worth the wait.
While catching up with other the weather had other things in mind for us so we
decided after our meal to head across the road to a Chocolate Café what a busy
place .
From there we where to go to the Chinese lantern display but as the weather had
turned bad, we decided to disembark home . All in all a nice afternoon highly recommend a trip over there if you have a Lazy Sunday wanting to do a wee trip
Great Views and food overlooking the Bay at the Pub / Café
Craig Munro
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I had a good run over the Orton Bradley Park on the Saturday, a little windy travelling over via Gebbies Pass, but on arrival up the valley it was so sheltered, very sunny
and calm all day.
Arrived at 12.30 in time to cook up my lunch on the cooker. Very surprised to see the
camping amenities included a large kitchen with power, fridge, oven, stoves, microwave, jugs, toasters, etc. not to mention the showers and toilets etc all very clean.
I would highly recommend an overnight stay, maybe as a regular VW club event?
Left for home after a relaxed day at 6pm, thought I might have come across some
other VW campers on the way over to stay the night?
Attached photo of Saturday, maybe Sunday more turned up?
Ralph Roden
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We hope you all paid the $2 entry fee at Country Miniatures Olde English Gardens at
Waddington. What a lovely spot.
The museum at Gentunnel received lots of donations, so thanks to all who contributed. At our lunch venue, Neil Struthers (Canterbury Christian Services) added a touch
of color and entertainment to the day, when he walked among the picnicker’s playing
Mull-of-Kintyre on his bagpipes, receiving applause on conclusion.
How many of us would like a workshop-garage like that of Bruce McIlroy’s? All of
us men, I suspect. What an immaculate place! Those of you who did not come to the
final finish point, the Hororata Café, missed a great climax to the day. John Grenell
(ex Hore) entertained us outside in the sun, in his usual relaxed Country and Western
style way. Great, great end to the day.
Have you looked up North Canterbury Classic Tour on Facebook yet? Photos taken
on Sunday at Glentunnel Motor camp during lunch break by our granddaughter, Sophie, are to be posted up by her soon. Check later, as your classic may be there.
Kind regards
Trevor
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What better to have spent an damp old winters day when the V W club met at
“Knightsbank “ Ray Drury’s Museum of Collectible old classic cars and vintage musical
instruments.
Everyone there had a great time so enjoyable but especially for Brian and Betty Hazeldine it was like a reunion as Brian has known Ray since their early school days.
They were neighbors both keen car enthusiasts of every make and model and were able to
recall back together on many in 1950’ s/1960’ s they owned between each other .
Ray and Brian were discussing an X K 120 Jaguar Sports an Austin Healey and many
many others.
Wonderful times to look back on to see Ray’s car collection today you would truly
think you were back in time.
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There is terrific range of old classic cars on display and Ray could explain the history on each, where they came from and what he had done to restore each one of
them . Just amazing to hear the history in such detail years later.
Each car was kept so clean and were given regular runs registrations and warrants
kept up to date.
The other side of the Museum feature were the organs and like the cars Ray was
able to portray each one’s history and each were in excellent condition.
An old collection of Bicycles were there a few other interesting items including piano accordions and pianos and pianolas again the history was known.
Charity Concerts are held quite often on
Sunday evenings at this wonderful Museum and the complete atmosphere here
brought us all back in time
We were all made so very welcome and
are grateful for the opportunity to see
and hear such a great display and appreciated the Hospitality of Ray and Nancy and thank also their son Richard for it all.
For Brian and I though we were also grateful for that catch up he and Ray had it
was so wonderful.
Following our visit to “ Knightsbank “ we headed off in convoy of V W’s to the
‘Old Vicarage “ for light refreshments .
A lovely way to end our V W day in the country and here we chatted about our
next adventure to come
Thank you Ray , Nancy and Richard for making this a superb day for Canterbury V
W club members.
Best wishes
Brian and Betty Hazeldine
and all V W members .
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You may con-sider your-self a pretty good cook at home, but you have to resort to dif-ferent tac-tics when you’re camp-ing. While it’s always easy to throw your food on a grate
over a fire or use a roast-ing stick, there are some tricks you can keep in your back pocket
that are bound to make your friends go “oooooh”.
Here are 5 handy tips for cook-ing over a camp-fire that we’ve pulled out of the hat in the
past, and they’re sure to impress your friends.
1)
Wrap meat, cheese, or freshly caught fish in wild leaves
This is a pretty nifty lit-tle thing that can impart a fresh flavour to your food, but that can
also sub-tly impart a unique char-ac-ter-is-tic to your food. I love cook-ing fresh-caught
fish wrapped in ramps, or wrapped like a spi-ral with long cat-tail leaves, which taste
earthy and bright at the same time. Trout in wal-nut leaves is espe-cially good. Sim-ply
over-lap the leaves around the fish and tie some wet twine around the whole she-bang to
hold it together (alter-na-tively: if the leaves are long or big enough, sim-ply fold them
under and place them folded-side down) and put it right above the coals, or right next to
the fire. The leaves will help the meat steam, and pro-tect its skin from burning.
There are tons of edi-ble leaves you can use to wrap your food in. Of course there are the
peren-nial favourites like palm leaves, banana leaves, reed leaves, corn husks, and grape
leaves but you can use the leaves from wild gar-lic, sor-rel, lin-den trees, hibis-cus, nettle, lotus, com-mon mal-low, ramps, cat-tails, potato beans, hoja san-tas, wal-nut trees,
sycamore trees, chest-nut trees, oak trees, maple trees, cherry trees, and many more (anyone else just think of For-rest Gump?).
2. Boil water in a paper cup
Yep, I said it. Here’s the thing about water–it’s a fan-tas-tic ther-mal con-duc-tor, and as
long as it’s under nor-mal atmos-pheric pres-sure (15 psi or so), it will not get hot-ter than
212 degrees in its liq-uid form. Since paper doesn’t burn until 451 degrees, you can lit-er
-ally take a cheap paper cup, fill it with water, and put it directly on the coals of a fire.
You may have to exper-i-ment with the right brand of cup, but basi-cally the water will
pre-vent the paper from burn-ing. Next time you’re out camp-ing, whip out the old Dixie,
fill it with water from the local stream, put it right on the coals, and when it’s done,
CAREFULLY pick it up, throw in some hot cocoa, and look at your friends like, “Yeah,
that’s right, I boil water in paper. Who wants to touch me?” This tech-nique will work
with other mate-ri-als like plas-tic as well (Les Stroud boiled water in his Camelback!),
but bear in mind any mate-r-ial that is not directly in con-tact with the water WILL burn,
so watch out for extended seams or irreg-u-lar surfaces.
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3. Cook an egg in an orange peel
This process uses the same con-cept as the above tip, but uti-lizes it for a sweet break-fast
idea. Grab that orange you brought with you, and cut it in half. Carve out the flesh from
both sides, being care-ful not to cut through the skin. While you’re enjoy-ing your yummy
fruit, crack an egg or two into each of the two orange peel “cups”, and drop them into a bed
of loose coals. When you see the albu-men (that’s fancy talk for the whites) set up, grab the
cups out of the coal and have your-self a tasty treat. You can do this with whisked eggs,
cheese, and veg-gies as well for a lit-tle omelette. Obvi-ously if you like the yolk hard,
leave it in until you get to your desired level of done-ness. It tastes pretty damn good, with
a hint of smoke and cit-rus. Very cool.
4) Use a Fris­bee as a chop­ping board
Obvi-ously you’ll want to clean it when you’re done, but every-one in camp will think
you’re clever as hell when you whip out the ‘bee and start cut-ting up wild veg-gies with
your swiss army knife! There’s not a lot of instruc-tion needed on this one, just, you know,
do it.
5) Learn the art of the ven­er­a­ble hobo meal
Way back in the day you may have learned this tech-nique as a Scout, and may have heard
this tech-nique referred to as a “hobo’s din-ner” or “tin-foil din-ner”, but I think the sheer
per-for-mance and ver-sa-til-ity of this method of cook-ing deserves bet-ter nomen-clature. If you were at home using a sim-i-lar tech-nique in your oven with parch-ment paper,
snooty chefs would say you’re cook-ing “en papil-lote” because every-thing sounds bet-ter
in French. (Seri-ously, look up the French word for baby seals). I say if we’re gonna be
snooty, let’s call this tech-nique “cuis-son dans une feuille d’étain” and start ele-vat-ing it
to the level it deserves. This is basi-cally a wet-cooking method that mod-er-ates the heat
of the coals, and all you need is to com-bine some aro-matic veg-eta-bles (cel-ery, onions,
gar-lic, mush-rooms, car-rots, leeks, cele-riac, etc.) with your favourite starch (pota-toes,
yams, turnips,), some other yummy veg-gies (Brussel sprouts, green beans), a pro-tein of
your choice, some herbs or spices, some fat or oil, and a small amount of cook-ing liq-uid
or some-thing that will release liq-uid (water, broth, wine, fruits, cit-rus slices). Sim-ply
fold it all up in a double-layer of aluminium foil, roll the edges up tight so noth-ing can get
out, and drop the whole thing on the coals. How long you leave it in depends on what
you’re cooking–my trick is to cut up the pieces so that every-thing comes out at the same
done-ness. Meat, for exam-ple, should stay in large pieces, whereas long-cooking items
like pota-toes should be cut into smaller pieces or thin-ner slices. This no-clean up method
of cook-ing can pro-duce any-thing from steamed salmon with lemon, but-ter and dill, to a
bouef bour-guignon, to a chicken pot pie, or a Moroc-can lamb stew. It’s awesome!
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Sunday, 18th May, Beautiful day for an outing to the Ashburton street parade and lunch at
Lake Hood.
We were all supposed to meet at the Templeton hotel for a convoy but some people didn’t
turn up. After waiting as long as we could, we set off
only to discover a group of cars waiting for us just before the start of the first passing lanes at Templeton. A
total of 22 vehicles were expected and virtually all
turned up.
We met the Ashburton contingent at the Robbies’ car
park; they were driving some magnificent vehicles as
you see by the pictures. Check out the surfboard table!
After a bit of a conflab and vehicle admiration we set of to join the street parade. Unfortunately I was driving and have no pics of this event but Ivan might know someone else
who has taken some.
There was, however, everything to see: Trucks, vintage and not so vintage cars, tractors,
motorcycles etc. It seemed that all of Ashburton turned out for the event; enthusiastically
waving out among the cacophony of engines and blaring horns. There was even a veteran
trike being ridden around by Peter Lynn, a local vintage engine legend.
There was a bit of waiting before joining the parade as we had to take our turn to be directed by the marshals. All in all it was very well
organized.
Then it was off to, what many of us were looking forward to, lunch at the Lake side restaurant
at Lake Hood, This is a beautiful spot consisting
of a man-made lake of huge proportions that, apparently, is not big enough yet and is being extended further. The Lake is bounded on one side
by magnificent homes. There is even a pedestrian swing bridge crossing a small stream leading to
houses on the other side.
My only criticism is a general lack of trees and
shrubs, but I imagine time will improve that issue.
The Restaurant was first rate good food and excellent
service, and very popular.
All in all a very pleasant day catching up with old
friends and meeting new VW enthusiasts.
By Mark Smith
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Colour Me in Kids
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1844:
The beginning of the Westfalia company. On 1 October 1844, Johann Bernhard Knöbel started a forge, thus laying the foundation stone for a long-lasting history. He originally built
heavy horse-drawn carts to transport goods arriving at the new train station.
1950s:
The history of Westfalia conversions began in 1951 with one customer’s special wish. When
Westfalia in Wiedenbrück created the so-called “Camping Box”, especially designed for an
officer in the British Forces stationed in Germany, he had a simple request: equip a VW transit van as a home. This had to be neatly built into the vehicle and at the same time had to be
suitable as a room for sleeping, living and working. So the people at Westfalia took a VW
bus, installed a double door between the B and C columns and built in multi-purpose furniture
and decoration behind the front seats. For example pretty ruffled curtains which matched the
checked pattern of the furniture. A real zeitgeist combination. A studio couch, folding table,
seat bench, roll-front cabinet and sideboard completed the interior ensemble. The result was
such a success that the Camping Box soon went into series production and the converted VW
Bus became the dream car of the 50s, because it was multifunctional and could be used as a
hotel on wheels.
1960s:
In 1962 Westfalia built the first motorhome with furniture surfaces made of light plastic material, and gave its name to the VW bus-based Westfalia SO 34. The Westfalia SO 34 was
shipped across the pond in large numbers, and was the first vehicle with camping furniture
with white and grey plastic surfaces instead of wood veneer surfaces. The SO 42 was also
very successful in the USA. This vehicle already had insulation but it didn’t yet have the folding roof which became typical for the Westfalia later on. The equipment comprised interior
panelling, roof storage compartment, cool box with water tank, manual pump and folding table on the side, wardrobe with mirror, storage compartment with upholstery and folding table.
A little bit later the innovative folding roofs became standard, offering a lot of room in this
jack of all trades’ “kitchen”, resulting in a comfortable standing height and more space to
work in. The vehicles converted by Westfalia created a feeling of freedom and independence
that had been unthinkable until then. After all, you’re at home where you feel at home.
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1970s:
In 1976 Westfalia created the first designs for a pioneering motorhome. It was going to be
named after the 18th century’s greatest explorer, James Cook. One year later the moment finally arrived: the presentation of the first Mercedes-Benz “James Cook”. This combined safety and comfort and was furthermore equipped with a wet cell. The “James Cook” became a
best seller and was very soon the symbol of comfortable travel. The “Sven Hedin”, also built
in 1977, was the first motorhome with a shower, hot water system and a specially designed
high roof on the basis of the new VW LT. These two successful models marked the beginning
of Westfalia’s breakthrough. The Joker’s success story began in 1978. Many campers used
this as a multifunctional vehicle, also to do their shopping or to drive to work. As a result,
they no longer needed an additional passenger car, which made acquiring such a vehicle financially possible for many households for the first time. This vehicle lived up to its
name: 70,000 were sold in one decade. This was Westfalia’s real trump card.
1980s:
The success story of those years was clearly the Joker from Volkswagen
, with various versions on the basis of the VW T3 – probably one of the most successful converted transit vans ever made. In 1981 the VW Joker was manufactured for the first time with
an aerodynamic high plastic roof and a front panoramic window. After winning the Ford
Company as another partner in 1985, Westfalia now also offered the “Nugget”. This was a
complete compact camping van which offered mobility and agility for your leisure time and
which even qualified as a passenger car with its spirit stove for registration purposes. Still this
cooperation with Ford was nothing new for Westfalia: as early as the 1970s converted transit
vans with the Ford emblem on the radiator grille had been sold under the names “Chiemsee”
and “Wannsee”.
1990s:
Production of the VW California, Vito Marco Polo, Vito F, BMW Multi Trailer and the Columbus 2 caravan began in the years 1990-1998. This series of new vehicles guaranteed exciting holiday trips in the 1990s. In 1994 there was a reason for festivities: Westfalia celebrated
its 150th anniversary. Westfalia offered the special edition Highway with added CaliforniaCoach equipment to its customers to celebrate the anniversary. This model was limited to 500
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vehicles. In 1996 the first Marco Polo on a Mercedes base left the assembly line, followed
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the first Vito F in 1997. Shortly before the turn of
the millennium, Westfalia was split into three business areas: Westfalia Van Conversion remained responsible for manufacturing and distributing leisure time vehicles, and Daimer
Chrysler acquired 49 per cent of the new company. Westfalia Automotive would deal with
towing attachments and the Westfalia Trailer Group would manufacture trailers for passenger
cars and horse trailers. The 1990s, however, were characterised by economic ups and downs
caused by disputes among the company’s owners and difficult economic conditions
2000 – until today:
All is well with the leisure time vehicles and a
new production record
was set in 2001, when
leisure vehicle number
500,000 left Westfalia’s
assembly line. DaimlerChrysler AG massively increased its stake in
Westfalia, and Westfalia
Van Conversion became
a 100 per cent subsidiary
of the Stuttgart-based
company. But Westfalia’s
basic business policy still
remains the same. And
there was another success
story: Westfalia won
Opel-Werke as a fourth
partner for its Van Conversion activities. thus
completing its range of
well-known partners and
so opening up new possibilities. In 2003 the
“Marco Polo” series was
extended with vehicles
based on the Mercedes
“Viano”. Opening up the
American market began
in 2004 with the delivery
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The original classic Beetle didn’t leave production until 2003: Although it was last sold in
the U.S. in 1979 (by which time the water-cooled Rabbit had replaced it), the original aircooled Beetle was produced in Puebla, Mexico, until 2003. It’s essentially identical to the
cars produced in Germany for export to the U.S. in the 1970s, but it is illegal to try to import
a Mexican Beetle into the U.S. because they don’t comply with recent emissions and safety
laws.
It was conceived by an infamous dictator: The original Beetle was the brainchild of Adolf
Hitler. Keen to put ordinary Germans on the newly constructed autobahn superhighways in their
own cars, a subsidized savings plan involving a coupon booklet was devised. When a family
filled their booklet, they were supposed to get their car. WWII intervened and all pre-war Beetle
deliveries were limited to Nazi party officials. Private owners didn’t get their hands on a Beetle
until after the war.
Germans don’t remember it as fondly as we do: The connection with the dictator who
brought ruin to their country as well as the fact that it serves as a reminder of the lean times before the West German economic miracle took hold means that post-war Germans don’t have the
same warm and fuzzy feelings about the Beetle that American ex-hippies do.
The Beetle will float: The Beetle may have been inexpensive, but it was never cheap. Gaps
were tight and doors sealed well. Additionally, it was a unibody car with a very flat floor with
few openings. All of this meant that the car would actually float for at least several minutes after
hitting the water before turning into a small U-boat.
Subject of ground-breaking ad campaign: The Beetle was the subject of one of the most influential ad campaigns of the 20th century. Most recently lampooned on the TV show “Mad
Men,” it was among the first national campaigns to utilize irony and self-deprecating wit. A tiny
black-and-white photo of a Beetle in a sea of white space with only the headline “Think Small”
was the first of the ads introduced in 1959 by the agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.
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