Contrail Thread Volume IV
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September 29, 2018 at 9:15 pm #299312Hans StockerParticipant
As in former Volumes I want to start with bringing back in memory the Contrail Count Game. We are really stuck at number 17 and then I see this great capture on the gallery by Nienke Lantman.
This one seems to have 19 (or maybe more?) contrails. The more contrails the more difficult it is to count them. I keep looking for new high numbers but I think it is too difficult to find each one consecutive. So everything higher than 17 must be a next step disregarding the consecutiveness. It will be difficult enough that way. No one did succeed to find a capture with a higher number until now, but Nienke Lantman finally did and posted it on the gallery. Very nice.
Volume III ended with a nice visit of mr. Crow to Arizona. Thank you Michael for ending Volume III this way. More to follow in Volume IV?
This one kicks off Volume IV.
Dancing On The Top Of The Trees
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September 29, 2018 at 10:37 pm #299325Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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September 30, 2018 at 2:06 am #299352Michael LerchParticipant
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September 30, 2018 at 6:07 pm #299444Hans StockerParticipant
Into The Great Unknown is such a challenging picture Keelin with already the presence of the playful influence of winds you look forward to. I see in The Great Unknown – in my own pareidolic way – this welcoming gesture of the cirrus cloud to all what yet has to come.
I also hope for more Cow from you Michael, but I can imagine Arizona Contrail #50 is a favorite of yours. Fine cirrocumulus with a hint of iridescence caught between two parallel lines of contrail make a great composition.
Straight And Narrow
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October 5, 2018 at 2:15 am #300993Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Michael, your Arizona Contrail #50 is a gem. Love the almost audible vibrations emanating from that gentle squeeze.
And Hans, Straight And Narrow it is! And with subtle shadow adding a fine dimensional effect. I like this one very much. Below is one that is perfectly horizontal only if one’s noggin is atilt.
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October 7, 2018 at 11:46 am #301369Hans StockerParticipant
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October 18, 2018 at 9:57 am #303521Hans StockerParticipant
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October 31, 2018 at 2:37 am #305982Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Wow, Hans, that is a beauty!
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November 4, 2018 at 5:29 pm #306826Hans StockerParticipant
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November 6, 2018 at 10:57 am #307118Hans StockerParticipant
Wagging the tail of he Contrail Count Game? At the start of this volume, I mentioned the picture on the gallery by Nienke Lantman. I recounted the number of contrails on this picture and now I got 22 in stead of the 19 I thought there were. The last picture with the highest number posted in one of the first Volumes of the Contrail topics was #17. It took some time to spot more contrails and – as I stated at the start of this Volume – it turns out to be too difficult to proceed exactly with a step of 1 contrail more. So at last I captured a next step in the game.
Contrail Count #26
Do you want to recount? Here is a edited version to help with a short line for each counted contrail.
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November 6, 2018 at 7:01 pm #307206Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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November 8, 2018 at 9:59 am #307431Hans StockerParticipant
Nice capture Keelin. I should say this is the Lower Tangent Contrail :)
Here are two pics (really easy to count) taken on the same day on different times.
A plane flying from left to right trying to catch up with its shadow.
A plane flying from right to left trying to shake off his shadow.
Both didn’t succeed obviously.
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December 8, 2018 at 10:54 pm #317094Don HatfieldParticipant
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December 9, 2018 at 11:39 pm #317327George PreoteasaParticipant
Texas, right? The lone star state.
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December 9, 2018 at 10:15 am #317157Hans StockerParticipant
Can’t beat that one Don! It is not only the numbers that count.
I wonder how the star was made. Do you have any idea? The plane (or any other flying thing) must have been small I think, to make such a pattern with sharp angles. I’d love to know more about it.
Hans
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December 11, 2018 at 3:38 am #317640Don HatfieldParticipant
To George – Yes, that’s where I spotted this. However, the timing coincided (more or less) with our Independence Day celebrations.
To Hans – As the 1806 nursery rhyme says : “Twinkle twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are”
In other words, I have no clue. I never saw a biplane, blimp, giant hand, or anything else. No noise, no other contrails, Just the Dallas typical BBS (Boring Blue Skies). -
December 11, 2018 at 10:15 pm #317896Hans StockerParticipant
Yes Don, I wondered about your little star. At the moment the best guess I have is that the star is the result of some skywriting. I’d love to reply with a picture but there is some glitch preventing me to do so. Only the tablet does not seem to suffer from this glitch but that’s not the place where I keep my archive. I know they are working hard to solve it, so I will be patient.
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December 12, 2018 at 2:04 am #317933George PreoteasaParticipant
On the mysterious star subject, google “skywriting” and click images to see possibilities. I did not see a star, like Don’s, but I have seen other pretty complicated designs.
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December 11, 2018 at 11:59 pm #317909Don HatfieldParticipant
Hans – There’s a lot of threads in this CAS Forum, with your name and photos plastered all over them. If this skywriting photo is only half as good as the others of yours that I have seen, then it will definitely be worth waiting for. Not only your photos, but also your commentary, have re-inspired me. This is not to say that Keelin, George, Michael, Laurence, and all the others who have made this so much richer.
Thanks to you all!
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December 12, 2018 at 9:08 am #318000Hans StockerParticipant
Thank you too Don, for kind words. This forum is the place to exchange also some thoughts or comments and that makes it the more interesting and lively I think. So welcome again Don!
And now I am happy today to see that I am able again to post pictures so I did not have to wait very long to “pick up the threads”.
From the archives a B&W close up from what started as contrail.
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December 12, 2018 at 7:24 pm #318151Patricia L KeelinParticipant
WOW!!, Hans! That is one spectacular contrail turned bridal veil. What a fantastic transformation.
And I couldn’t agree more about the CAS forum. The opportunity to share images and ideas here is such a gift (Thank you, Gavin!). It continues to amaze, amuse, inspire and delight on a daily basis. My gratitude to all here is bigger than the sky.
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December 13, 2018 at 12:38 am #318215Don HatfieldParticipant
Excellent artwork, Hans, Well worth the (fortunately short) wait. What grabs me is that the photo is both hard and soft at the same time. As Keelin says – a veil.
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December 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm #318341Hans StockerParticipant
Thank you both!. And I like to emphasize again what Don and Keelin said about this site: it is so much fun and inspiring to exchange pictures and thoughts on this forum. It is now “only” two years ago Michael grandfather of abstract B&W’s started the Black and White Thread and now there are several threads for about five or more extra specific themes. Let’s go on amazing each other.
Shadow On The Wall
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December 19, 2018 at 10:56 am #320584Hans StockerParticipant
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January 5, 2019 at 4:21 am #323877Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Hans, Shadow On The Wall is simply extraordinary — every aspect of it. And you’ve followed this with another electric shot of CVI and clever title in On The Flying Trapeze. As usual, I begin to smile when I read your titles in the email messages before clicking on the links. The anticipation of knowing the images will be remarkable is part of the joy. Astonishing, I think, how does he do it?
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January 6, 2019 at 6:01 pm #324110Hans StockerParticipant
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January 17, 2019 at 10:45 am #325848Hans StockerParticipant
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January 21, 2019 at 2:09 am #326481George PreoteasaParticipant
A distrail is the opposite of a contrail, still I thought this is the best thread to post this. I was taking a time lapse of clouds passing in front of the moon, when this happened. The time lapse is too fast, so I had to create a slowed down version. That slowed down version is not much faster than real time. Interesting how quickly these things happen.
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January 21, 2019 at 12:48 pm #326536Hans StockerParticipant
That was quite a great occasion to catch this in your time lapse in moonlight George. Thanks for sharing!
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January 29, 2019 at 12:06 pm #327771Hans StockerParticipant
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February 17, 2019 at 2:07 pm #330672Hans StockerParticipant
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February 21, 2019 at 12:06 am #331183Howard BrownParticipant
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March 18, 2019 at 1:53 am #334753Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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April 16, 2019 at 2:56 pm #340563Hans StockerParticipant
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May 18, 2019 at 5:17 am #347096Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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June 15, 2019 at 7:51 pm #351653Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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June 29, 2019 at 5:58 pm #354101Hans StockerParticipant
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July 1, 2019 at 1:35 am #354316Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Ha! Hans, you had to be quick to have caught Faster Than Its Shadow! A dramatic composition with the cirrus audience watching the race.
Below, a contrail must have taken a moment to make sure this T was perfectly crossed. While I’ve only recently begun to capture alphabet clouds, I suspect other cloudspotters may have seen A-Z hovering above their noggins.
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July 10, 2019 at 1:57 pm #355882Hans StockerParticipant
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July 11, 2019 at 3:21 pm #356029Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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July 18, 2019 at 11:39 am #357139Hans StockerParticipant
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August 1, 2019 at 2:32 am #359710Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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August 2, 2019 at 4:21 pm #359982Hans StockerParticipant
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August 8, 2019 at 12:14 am #360964George PreoteasaParticipant
All these pictures, Keelin and Hans, are incredible. I wish I could take some like that.
Nevertheless, this one from Earth and Sky caught my eye. Can’t help but also notice that the lobes point up.
https://en.es-static.us/upl/gravity_forms/6-d184048789a60d766a02a8e43117298b/2019/08/Angle-Choir.jpg
Hope the link works, please let me know if it does not.
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August 9, 2019 at 12:38 pm #361216Hans StockerParticipant
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August 10, 2019 at 2:52 am #361332Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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August 12, 2019 at 9:43 pm #361772Hans StockerParticipant
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October 29, 2019 at 11:22 am #377300Hans StockerParticipant
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October 30, 2019 at 1:45 am #377434Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Love that Wiggly loop in your image above the above, Hans. As for the one immediately above, what a timely capture!
In the image below (unfortunately quite grainy due to far distance), I liked the way the cloud seemed to curl over and press gently upon the jet trail. I suppose it’s one way to make an impression.
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December 19, 2019 at 9:33 am #393634Hans StockerParticipant
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January 6, 2020 at 2:59 am #399667Donatella LombardiniParticipant
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January 6, 2020 at 5:03 am #399688Patricia L KeelinParticipant
A warm welcome, Donatella, to the cool Contrail topics Volume IV! Isn’t it fascinating how some homogenitus can hold their original form while others morph or contort in only moments? Thank you for the clear reminder of how they usually begin, before wild winds have their whimsical way with them.
Just yesterday, a single dissolving contrail caught my eye simply because the shape looked interesting. When I downloaded the photo onto my computer, curiosity got the best of me and I played around with it a bit in PhotoShop (rotation/contrast/slight color adjustment). The resulting image below is more an artistic interpretation than what we usually post here, but I offer it as an example of how clouds, even in their simplest of forms, can inspire creativity and wonder. While the original contrail has been maintained, the image now brings to mind an icicle in the Land of Aurora Borealis (thanks to a bit of lens flare caught by the camera) and represents a dream of something I hope to see in reality someday.
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January 8, 2020 at 11:55 am #400127Hans StockerParticipant
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January 25, 2020 at 11:54 am #418487Catherine MorrisParticipant
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January 31, 2020 at 11:23 pm #419366Hans StockerParticipant
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February 1, 2020 at 10:41 pm #419418Catherine MorrisParticipant
Hans, yes. Looks like the games are similar.
Clouds that Look Like Nothing At All – or hieroglyphs of the sky ?
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February 2, 2020 at 2:10 am #419429Donatella LombardiniParticipant
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February 8, 2020 at 3:53 pm #420316Hans StockerParticipant
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February 16, 2020 at 5:05 pm #421783Hans StockerParticipant
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March 13, 2020 at 4:57 am #424906Gregory VenarskyParticipant
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March 14, 2020 at 3:21 pm #425098Steven strickModerator
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March 14, 2020 at 11:41 pm #425131Hans StockerParticipant
Great contrails Gregory and Steven. Hope to see more of you both on this thread. Contrails weren’t my favorites from the beginning but once they got my attention I also got surprised by the variaty and great spectacle they can offer.
Gregory you asked how many we see. I count 4 of them. Right? Did you both notice the contrail count game I mentioned at the start of this volume? Just scroll through this Volume from the start and find out where we are at now. It is a fun challenge to capture more!This one was made with the cloudspotter app.
Just Nearby An Airport And Very Dutch
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March 15, 2020 at 4:43 pm #425166Steven strickModerator
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March 15, 2020 at 11:05 pm #425180Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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April 29, 2020 at 11:20 pm #430485Hans StockerParticipant
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May 1, 2020 at 5:16 am #430639Michael LerchParticipant
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May 1, 2020 at 4:08 pm #430728Don HatfieldParticipant
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May 21, 2020 at 6:25 pm #433057Hans StockerParticipant
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May 22, 2020 at 8:31 pm #433238Ruth QuistParticipant
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May 25, 2020 at 12:34 am #433444Jocelyn NortheyParticipant
Great images Michael, Don, Hans and Ruth. No chance of contrails here until the travel restrictions ease. Even then we only average about 3 per week. The dis/advantages of living in a remote location
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May 25, 2020 at 3:06 am #433450Patricia L KeelinParticipant
Fun to see these new skylines here!
And pilot or non, Hans, I can imagine Mondrian being inspired by seeing a couple of such streaks crossing a big blue canvas of sky. While the image below holds only a single, rather distorted contrail, it reminds me of one you posted to the Clouds-That-Look-Like-Things topic (Dec 20, 2018) with a grateful nod to René. Merci encore, Monsieur Magritte.
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May 26, 2020 at 12:27 am #433553Michael LerchParticipant
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May 26, 2020 at 12:42 am #433555Jocelyn NortheyParticipant
Wow Michael, what a wonderful capture. One of the very best images I have seen.
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May 30, 2020 at 4:47 am #434117Steven strickModerator
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May 30, 2020 at 8:37 am #434126Hans StockerParticipant
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June 8, 2020 at 9:58 pm #435061Ruth QuistParticipant
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July 4, 2020 at 6:06 pm #439079Hans StockerParticipant
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July 10, 2020 at 11:34 pm #439878Ruth QuistParticipant
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July 12, 2020 at 12:47 am #439956Patricia L KeelinParticipant
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July 15, 2020 at 10:44 pm #440377Hans StockerParticipant
Great capture Keelin. I may be not really fond of contrails in general but when they don’t disturb a nice cloudscape I agree with you about their variation. Then they add their own enchantment to the sky. When the Crow started the first thread with contrails I could not imagine the fun with them yet. Now I do and your Minimally Tethered is a marvelous example.
A Kite?
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July 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm #440857Ruth QuistParticipant
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July 29, 2020 at 1:27 pm #442018Hans StockerParticipant
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August 7, 2020 at 2:40 am #443006Ruth QuistParticipant
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September 9, 2020 at 9:27 pm #446365Ruth QuistParticipant
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October 1, 2020 at 8:45 am #447964Hans StockerParticipant
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October 2, 2020 at 8:12 pm #448136Ruth QuistParticipant
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October 6, 2020 at 9:58 pm #448454Ruth QuistParticipant
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October 19, 2020 at 4:22 pm #450002Ruth QuistParticipant
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November 5, 2020 at 5:03 pm #451479Ruth QuistParticipant
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November 22, 2020 at 5:50 pm #453840Gregory VenarskyParticipant
My friends! I am back! And with a good shot too. I was watching in an incoming front and saw that a plane had just flown through a cloud and left a nice streak. Hans your last two photos are wonderful, especially the one comparing an old trail to a new one. And Ruth, your last set of photos were spectacular a brought light to my day. Hope you enjoy!
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November 24, 2020 at 8:36 pm #454322Ruth QuistParticipant
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November 25, 2020 at 10:47 am #454403Hans StockerParticipant
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November 25, 2020 at 11:18 pm #454492Ruth QuistParticipant
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November 29, 2020 at 11:33 pm #455116Ruth QuistParticipant
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December 5, 2020 at 7:39 pm #456172Gregory VenarskyParticipant
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December 6, 2020 at 6:58 pm #456304Ruth QuistParticipant
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December 18, 2020 at 1:17 am #460167Gregory VenarskyParticipant
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December 18, 2020 at 6:17 pm #460406Ruth QuistParticipant
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December 21, 2020 at 10:20 pm #461041Gregory VenarskyParticipant
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December 23, 2020 at 9:30 am #461369Hans StockerParticipant
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