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Caddihoe
Chase 1st/2nd October 2016. Final Details
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Sunday
10th July - Hardy Relays & Informal Event Results
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Poole
Town Race - Part of the SEOUL series - Saturday 4th
June Results
& Lost Property
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Wessex Kings & Queens Park Club
Night - 9th May 2016 - Results
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Wessex
Night League - Brownsea Island - Monday 29th February Results
Lost
Property: A grey, digital sports watch was
left on the table at the event; for further
information
please contact Eric Whapples at whapples@fsmail.net
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Bisterne
Close Galoppen - Sunday 14th February Results
Unfortunately, control 6 (107) on the brown course had
been moved, presumably by a member of the public.
This happened after the control had been checked in the
morning before the starts and by the time the 1st brown
competitor reached the control.
Subsequent brown competitors were notified at the start
about the missing control.
It was then found next to control 8 (121) of the Blue
course, some 150m away.
The control was then moved back to the correct location,
only to have it moved again back to the same place as
before.
Consequently, some competitors will have correctly punched
this control and others will have ignored it.
It was therefore decided to void control 6 of the Brown
course and to void the leg each side of it.
Ian Peirce Controller
Lost
Property. A pair of half moon glasses were left
behind in one of the tents on Sunday.
If they are yours please contact Ian Sayer (ian.sayer68@ntlworld.com)
to arrange their safe return.
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Wessex
Night League and Informal on new / extended Upton
Country Park - Sat 13th February Results
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Wessex
Night League - Poole Town on Monday 4th January Results
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Wessex Night
League at Boscombe Chine & Gardens on Monday
7th December Results
Well done and thank you to all those who came to the
first use of the Boscombe Chine and Gardens map. The
weather was kind to us and we had 40 people turn up which
is very encouraging.
My sincere apologies for forgetting to put out Control
129 and for the wrong placement of 117. There is no-one
more annoyed about that than myself.
At the end of the evening we were handed a torch which
had been left behind. It is a black hand torch with zoom
facility.
If this belongs to anyone please contact me to arrange
it’s safe return.
Ian Sayer (ian.sayer68@ntlworld.com)
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Dorset
Delight - Wareham Forest, 25th October 2015 Results
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Wessex
Night League - Kings & Queens Parks, Monday
5th October 2015 Results
Planner's
Notes
It was good to finally see all of the dedicated orienteers
walking in our venue with anticipation and to set you
off on a course with a map that was the fruit of many
hours of mapping and planning. I was really hoping to
be able to showcase it to more people, but alas, the
weather deterred quite a few people (even though I did
promise that the rain will stop in time for the Night
League - and it just about did), and some have had the
misfortune of getting caught up in the queues caused
by the accident near Ringwood. Still, it looked like
those who came did enjoy the event.
Let me share some of the thoughts behind the planning
process.
The original intention was simply to use a two-sided
map - Queens Park on one side and the existing Kings
Park on the other. I was actually keen to link the two,
and extend the area to be able to include both underpasses
- this increased the options and route choices for runners
massively. It also gave us a large enough area that allows
for the full hours score course to be ran without having
to use odds/evens and so you all wouldn't have to double
back or run in the same area twice. I think it was a
good choice - but it also brought along with it a large
number of mapping challenges, hugely updating the Queens
Park map based on the experiences from the previous score
event, updating outdated areas from Kings Park, of course
mapping the whole new areas including the cricket grounds,
the school and hospital areas, and starting to harmonise
what were all legitimate but differing mapping decisions
in 3 previously separate maps so it makes sense on a
single map. There were also a lot of compromises we had
to take because of the unique mixed nature of the area
- in a lot of places using the sprint symbol set would
have made more sense, but then again in the golf course
areas it would not have worked that well. We may revisit
that decision in the future based on the experiences
we just had. In any case, based on the feedback we ended
up with a decent map that provided you with much more
enjoyment than to allow the few niggles to detract.
In terms of the score course, I designed it to be on
the limit, and from your scores I believe I have achieved
it. I think it would have been just about possible to
collect all controls if we had a spotless run from a
top runner from the nearby clubs (Gavin, by his own admission,
could have gotten all but 1 if there weren't some hick-ups
in his run). I wanted to make sure the most of you had
to make a choice though - and you could choose to collect
a lot of points by pure running (hence high value points
at the edges) or go for the more intricate and mind exercises
of the control clusters that were relatively closer.
It was always expected that the winner would have to
try and master both of those aspects - as it proved to
be the case in the end. You all seemed to have liked
the idea of the control clusters, it seemed to have generated
a lot of discussions in the end, with many of you making
mistakes! Part of the purpose was to help you practice
control description reading for the big events, and I
think most of you now are more confident in your ability
to do so. This is a good result that goes beyond this
one event. I do need to explain that 126, which was the
NW side of the northernmost knoll was probably not as
distinct as originally planned - this is because the
knoll (or heap of dirt) I originally planned to use was
removed less than a week prior to the event, when the
maps and control descriptions were all printed. This
backup location still matched the description, but was
perhaps more enticingly close to the other (penalty point
bearing) control than I originally wanted.
Congratulations to everyone who came and competed, I
hope you all enjoyed it!
As a final note, some of you have left a pair of VJ Falcon
O-Shoes, and an orange reflective vest - let us know
if it is yours.
Peter
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Launch
event for new Holton Lee POC Saturday 19th September Results
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Free
Adventure Running Challenge - POCNAV
For various reasons we have not been able to
complete the POCNAV Challenge this year for which we
apologise. Some of our areas have not been finalised
in time to use and we are only now on the point of installing
the last course at Queens Park. This, together with the
departure of our scorer to snowier climates, has meant
that we haven’t been able to have a full set of
results.
But next Spring we will be relaunching the initiative as we believe (and
numbers competing bear this out) that this is a great idea to make best
use of our Permanent Orienteering Courses. It is hoped that we can add
Highcliffe as well next year to give even more variety.
So for the moment at least we are shelving the Challenge but watch this
space next spring.
Many thanks to those who have taken part and submitted their times.
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Wessex
Night League - 2015/2016 Programme available here...
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Dorset Coast Path Relay
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Saturday
28th June 2014 saw a dozen club members play their
part in the last Dorset Coast Path Relay, along
with about
40 other runners from WIM, SOC, BOK, Sarum and the South
West Junior Squad. It was an excellent day, especially
as we had time in between our contributions to have a
leisurely late-morning drink and a snack at the wonderful
Egg Cup
Cafe, near the village of Swyre in West Dorset. The weather
was perfect as well - not too hot, and with a gentle
breeze blowing most of the time. Unfortunately, we failed
to complete
the run in under 8 hours, but everyone
played their part magnificently and the day ended,
as per tradition, at the Bankes Arms, Studland where
Jon Brooke joined us for a pint - it was great to
see him out of hospital, if only for a short while.
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A
big thank
you goes to Chris Branford for co-ordinating the teams
and for Gavin to get our team sorted in the right places
at the right times!
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News:
23/04/2014: A number of members
had a great weekend in South Wales at the weekend
and, in spite of some awful weather on Sunday,
and some very complex moorland terrain, put in
some creditable results. The most notable of these
was Richard Arman who won M85, with our old friend
Andrew Beldowski coming third. These two also came
2nd and 1st respectively in the Sprint event at
Swansea University on Friday.
Gavin Clegg also came 5th/125 in M55.
Note
must also be made of Yvette Paget who competed on
3 days on complex Orange courses, with very few linear
features or footpaths. Well
done to all those who competed - photos will be on
the website in due course.
JK
Relays Monday 21 April – Gavin Clegg (below)
waiting in the changeover pen for Ian Sayer to arrive
and clearly he was going to be coming from a completely
different direction to everyone else! Photo by Andrew
Beldowski.
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News:
15/04/2014: M55 John Cook (pictured
right) did a fantastic time of 03:05:02 in the
London Marathon on Sunday. His time placing him
23rd over 55 in the country! Well done John.
And
while John was pounding the streets of London, some
club members went to the BOK Trot in the Forest of
Dean. The going was a bit rough, apparently, but
that didn't stop Gavin coming 4th/70 on the Blue,
and Jason 6th/30 on the Brown.
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News:
05/03/2014: The Long Disance walkers
association ran a marathon on Sunday 2nd March
in which three Wessex club members and some SOC
orienteers took part. The venue was our own lovely
back garden of the New Forest. Click here for
Jason's account of the event.
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News:
11/02/2014
Another
lovely day Sunday saw a few of us at TVOC’s
Chiltern Challenge, near Nettlebed. Red Kite country
and plenty of these magnificent birds around. It
was a beautiful, runnable, Beech Forest area. Terrain
of this type contains large areas of open forest
with tall mature trees, which means sites used for
controls are often earth features, pits, valleys,
banks and lend a technical navigation challenge for
competitors, as it should be for a regional (South
Central) championship event. The outstanding result
of the day was that of Jason Falconer who came first
on the Blue course with a storming run. He was on
a 'high' all the way home in the car!
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03/02/2014
A
good turnout on Thursday 30th January at Marchwood
for the 9th instalment of this winter’s Night
League. Jason 6th, Gavin 10th, Ian 15th, Rob 16th,
Julie 23rd and Kay 30th. For all the results and
current league standings click on the Night League
tab. No one from Wessex made it to the Quantock Galoppen
possibly put off by the floods (photo shows Burrow
Bridge on the Somerset Levels at high tide yesterday).
Four hardy souls went to Blackheath and Farley: On
the Blue Ian was 42nd out of 95. On the Green, Julie
17th and Joff 27th out of 70 and on the Short Green
Kay 31st.
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News:
28/01/2014
A
somewhat soggy event at Star Posts near Bracknell
on Sunday for the Southern Championships. Good
courses and a runnable forest, lots of rhododendron
bushes, some of which were not particularly well
mapped which didn’t help. Podium places
for Richard Arman 1st and Southern Champion in
M85, 2nd for Gavin Clegg and Chris Brown in M55
and W70s and 3rd for Julie Astin in W60. If the
rain doesn’t stop soon we will have to
consider, Canoe O or Swim O! Photo show Bill
Brown and Gavin Avey-Hebditch both looking rather
damp.
Also
*Stop Press* the date for this years Coast Path Relay
is Saturday 28 June. Please ensure you are available
for what is a great day out. Rumour has it Daniel
Whapples will be co-ordinating the team this year.
Six teams have already expressed an interest in competing:
SW Junior Squad, Sarum, Axe Valley Runners, BOK,
SOC and Wessex. Details can be found on the DCPR website.
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20/01/2014 - Plenty
to keep you amused over the weekend with WIM putting
on their 3 in 1 at Hurn on Saturday and a South West
League race near Marlborough on Sunday. Some hardy
bikers turned up the MTBO Saturday morning and a
good turnout for the afternoons Informal saw 14 Wessex
runners brave the elements, with Sheila Gold 2nd
on the Orange. 6 of us competed in the Night League
and although rain threatened it never materialised.
It was wet underfoot though. Check the night league
tab for the results. 10 of us attended the South
West Galoppen at West Woods near Marlborough on a
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13/01/2014 - Excellent
club turnout at Ocknells with 16 out of the 200+
runners. Best result of the day being Tim Houlder
in 3rd place on Green. Gavin and Jason had a real
tussle on the Blue with Gavin 3 seconds behind at
the last control. But with the absolute fastest split
of the day on the run in ended up beating Jason by
2 seconds. Yet another example of 'seconds count'!
They ended up 4th and 5th respectively out of the
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News:
07/01/2014 - An
excellent turnout at the Poole Town Urban. Somewhat
breezy but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
Thanks to all those that made the effort on what
could have been a very nasty night and I hope your
journeys home were safe. Thanks also to the fantastic
band of Guys and Girls from Wessex OC who helped
out on the night. Without these ‘volunteers’ our
events wouldn’t take place.
No
change at the very top of the order, but the ladies
are making a move with Lyn Branford, Jane Morgan
and Julie Astin all moving up. Jason Falconer and
Andy Snell have moved up into the top 10. Tim Morgan
had a fantastic run on the night to take the win,
taking a unique route – was this the optimum
route? Apologies for control 21 (61) which was on
the edge of the circle. If you feel you lost time
on this control and it has affected your points then
let me know and I will make an adjustment.
Gavin. (Photos
of the Twin Sails Bridge by courtesy Chris Branford,
WIM.)
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30/12/2013 - The
OK Nuts Trophy and Blood Races, Hankley Common and
Elstead Heath. On
a bright and frosty Sunday morning Jason Falconer
and Gavin Clegg ventured forth for the OK Nuts Blood
races near Liphook. Both opting for the 11.4k ‘Half
Blood’ race (as opposed to the 15k ‘Full
Blood’ or 6.9k ‘Almost an Armful’).
Jason was 11th overall in 69.40 and 1st M40, Gavin
19th in 73.41 and 2nd M55. The event attracted over
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News:
17/12/2013 - Saturday
14th December saw the annual WSX/WIM/Sarum minibus
trip to Brighton for the City Race. A chance for
sightseeing or retail in the afternoon with the
mass start race at 6.30pm. There were some great
results amongst the minibus passengers:
1st Sue
Hands (WIM) Womens Ultra Vets, Gavin
Clegg Mens Super Vets, 2nd Chris
Branford (WIM) Mens Ultra Vet, 3rd Charlotte
Thornton (Sarum) Womens Ultra Vets, Julie
Astin Womens Super Vets, Dale
Paget Mens Vets, 4th Carolyn Dent (Sarum)
Womens Vets, Ian Sayer Mens Super
vets, 5th Becca Ellis (WIM) Womens
Open, Kay Sayer Womens Ultra Vets.
   
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Full
results and Photos available on the Southdowns
Orienteers web site.
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09/12/2013 - Julie Astin became
W60 Southern Night Champion with a great run at Gore
Heath over the weekend. Guillaume Paget won
the Lt Green at Busketts Lawn on Sunday and rumour
has it Gavin has a broken toe and
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New
Permanent Course at Slades Farm Launched
Saturday
30th November saw the launch of the new Permanent
Course at Slades Farm, near Bournemouth University.
All those who attended had a great time, the weather
was good as well! (Results)
The Permanent Course is open to everyone so do have
a go. Click the link for further details.
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L-R
Jason Falconer, who produced the permanent course, Nicola & Arthur
Brooke starting their course and Roger Crickmore & Rob
Hick having just completed their runs.
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Rempstone
Roast Duathlon
With
no local orienteering this weekend, Tina Stratford,
Helen Dyke and Gavin Clegg took part in the Rempstone
Roast duathlon. Based at Burnbake the assembly, start
and transition were very familiar. The race consisted
of a 2 mile run, 10 mile bike and the 2 mile run
again to finish, all off road. Tina came 56th overall
in 1.25.20, being 10th lady and 4th FV40. Helen came
11th overall and first female, in 1.01.22, in the
process breaking the female record. Gavin was 13th
overall and 1st MV55 in 1.02.33, breaking the MV55
record.
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National
Rankings
As
expected following the successful Dorset Delight
at Agglestone & Newton Heath 17th November, big
movements on the National Ranking list for some:
Tim Houlder up 124 places, Roy Morgan +224, Sarah Houlder +256,
Peter Keene +347, Laura Wilcox +354, Fran Biggin +578 & Roger
Crickmore +730. Best movement though was Frida Forshallen up
1212 places, overtaking Tim Houlder. She now has Rob Hick in
her sights!
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Agglestone
photographs supplied by Jon Brooke (Click pic for full
version)
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WSX
Club Championship at the November Classic - November
3rd - New Copse & Perrywood
Another
bright day saw many of us at the SOC November Classic
in the New Forest (and what a contrast with last
year's event!) Most missed the rain, I think. The
most outstanding result was for Bill Brown who won
the M75 class. Well done Bill. Gavin was 2nd in his
(M55) and John Cook also had a cracking run, finishing
only 2 minutes behind Gavin. Arthur Brooke also had
a very good run, coming 4th in the M10 class.
As
this was also our Club Championship event, there
was a lot at stake! I was sure I had blown my chances
of retaining the Ladies Championship, having made
a real mess of one control - but was gobsmacked to
hear later that evening that I HAD in fact won it
again, my near rivals having also made an error or
two. Kay Sayer came a close second, with Zoe Paget
third.
Gavin also retained the Men's Championship, with John Cook coming
a close 2nd and Bill Brown third. The full results will be
going in the next newsletter. Well done everyone.
Julie
Astin
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The
Summer League results table has now been updated following
the Sturminster Newton event on 1st July and is available here.
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Clean
sweep for Wessex
With
success at the Devon Relay 21st July, Wessex O. C.
completed a clean sweep of all relay trophies in
the SWOA Chairman's summer relay series. Winning
team below, (L-R) Dale Paget, John Cook and Gavin
Clegg.
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NWO
Relay Success
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The
winning Wessex Raiders Team at the NWO relays held on
29th June at Coate Park Swindon.
L to R Dale Paget, Ken Stimson (Chairman of NWO), Gavin Clegg,
John Cook.
Wessex also had the second team home of Ian Sayer and Roger & James
Crickmore.
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The
Wessex juggernaut keeps rolling along...
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Raiders won the Furrow Hoppers Relay, the second race
in the summer series. They were ably assisted by Wessex
Marauders who pushed other teams down the order. So all
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Pictured
left, Andy French, Wimborne Chairman presented the Furrow
Hoppers Trophy to the Wessex Raiders; Kay Sayer, Gavin
Clegg, Ian Sayer and Dale Paget. John Cook (not pictured)
was unable to attend the prize giving. Pictured right,
Wessex Marauders; Rob Hick, Tina Stratford, Tim Houlder,
Julie Astin and Eric Whapples.
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More
Wessex success at Adams Avery Relays
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The
winning Wessex Raiders team at the Adams Avery Relays,
the first in the summer relay series, on Sunday 16 June.
(l-r) Frida Forshallen, Gavin Clegg and Dale Paget. Having won
the last 5 relays last year, it means Wessex are in the unique
position of having all six trophies in their possession.
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Wessex
success at Southern Championships
Julie
Astin took first place and the W60 Trophy at the Southern
Championships held on a damp and windy Penhale yesterday
(Sunday 14th April). For those of you who haven’t
experienced Penhale, it is one of the jewels in the
South Wests crown, being amazingly technical and pretty
fast. Check out the maps at the next Club night. Julie
has been coming along to the Tuesday sessions at Bournmouth
Uni, they are obviously paying dividends! So very well
done Julie.
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Wessex
at JK 2013 - The Chilterns, March 29th - April
1st
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Well, we had
a great weekend at the JKs in spite of the cold. Our
most notable results were:
Gavin Clegg 1st M55 Sprint
Gavin Clegg 9th M55L
Ian Sayer 18th M60L
Richard Arman 4th M80
Bill Brown actually came 4th on Day 3, but hadn't entered Day
2, so it didn't count overall.
Regarding the relays, our top men's team (Dale Paget, Gavin and
Jon Brooke) came a creditable 14th, out of 57 teams.
Note must also be made of our Mini Relay Team - Agnes and Arthur
Brooke and Yvette Paget - who ran well and came 13th. A top team
of the future?!
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Click
On images to see full version.
All
images by courtesy of
Mark Lockett
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Also
at JK 2013, Julie Astin grabs the opportunity to
catch up with Charlotte Thornton (SARUM) and present
her with the Wessex Night League Ladies Trophy.
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Kings
Garn Gutter
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Well
done to all those who turned out on Sunday (17th
March) in the horrible weather to compete at Kings
Garn Gutter for our 2012 Club Championships.
Ian Sayer has already circulated the results to
most people. However, congratulations go to Gavin Clegg for
winning the Men's Captain's Trophy and to Julie Astin for
winning the Lady's Sheila Beldowska Trophy!
Presentations
for these trophies will be made after the Poole Town
Race on June 1st when we are having a Club Social
in the Blue Boar. More details to follow in due course.
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Gavin
Clegg receives the Men's Wessex Night League Trophy,
presented by Andy French (WIM Chairman) at the recent
annual WSX/WIM Dinner.
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