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- ↑ The Beermat Entrepreneur.
- ↑ Mike Fab-Gere.
- ↑ "The Oxcentrics". Internet Archive. 27 June 2006. Archived from the original on 1 December 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2011.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ↑ Yoodoo.