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From: Marvin.Rush@f10.n3817.z1.fidonet.org (Marvin Rush)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: MUZZLES
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:55:20 GMT
Reply-To: Marvin.Rush@f10.n3817.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3817/10 - InSight BBS, Leesville La
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 26767

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I have a verry funny story about muzzles. I was on my way home on a
cross country bus and a man got on and demanded that I put a muzzle
on Becky dog even though she hadn't even looked at him. The driver
told the man "you better sit down and shut the hell up.". The man
kept grumbling until the driver stopped the bus out in the middle
of no where and physically threw him off. Every one on the bus had
a good laugh out of that one. c u l Marvin

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From: dsfs_jpm@lewis.umt.edu (Jim Marks)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ADA and technology
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:16:50 GMT
Reply-To: dsfs_jpm@lewis.umt.edu (Jim Marks)
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26730

 [Note from Bill McGarry - forwarded from the PACS-L mailing
  list by Patt Bromberger]

The contact at the Recordings for the Blind E-Text
Research and Development is George Kerscher.  He
can be reached by telephone at (406) 728-7201.  I
don't have his mail addresses handy, but I believe
his E-mail address is RID_GWK@LEWIS.UMT.EDU.  He
may not check in on his E-mail very often, so a
phone call would be a better bet.  One may also
call RFB directly through their regular telephone
number, 800 221-4792.  Unlike the RFB tape library,
institutions can subscribe to E-Text from RFB.
There is an initial sign up fee and fees for each
book.  A complete catalog of existing E-text books
can be mailed to you.

Insofar as the relationship between the University
of Montana and RFB goes, we are now just beginning.
 RFB has an editing laboratory next to my office,
and my office supervises the editing of books for
RFB.  RFB is located off campus in downtown
Missoula.  My office prioritizes books that our
students need.  When we finish with immediate
demand, we edit RFB books.  Any book we edit goes
to RFB placement in their library.  By the way, my
office does scan materials, but we often have RFB
scan more difficult materials.  We do this purely
out of convenience.

One last thing that may be helpful is that George's
program originally started at UM.  As a graduate
computer science student who is blind, he found
very little accessible materials.  So he started
Computerized Books for the Blind.  CBFB was later
picked up by RFB.

Please feel free to ask anything else.  Hope this
helps.

Jim
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From: Bill.Koppelmann@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Koppelmann)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Dogs And Escalators
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:14:26 GMT
Reply-To: Bill.Koppelmann@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/809.0 - Fantasy Mountain, Golden CO
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 26779

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 CA> Did they teach her that at Seeing Eye, or did you just go ahead and do
 CA> it?
No, my trainer showed me how to do it when I told her I was going to
do it anyway and if she knew the technique then she might as well
teach me.
 Do you pick her up bodily, or by the harness?
Just by the harness.  It doesn't take long at all before the dog
figures out what's expected.  I just stood by the escalator for a
minute so she could get used to what was happening.

                        Mr. snow bird

... Excuse me, I think my luggage just ATE someone.

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From: Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Tandy Way)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: The new nls machine
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:33:18 GMT
Reply-To: Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:377/6 - T.A.B.B., Tampa Fl
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26815

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

does any one have the new nls disk player with built in speech
compression? how do you like it? tandy

 * OLX 2.2 * MSI HQ! BBS - Home of Off-Line Xpress 805-395-0650

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From: Carol.Ashland@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Ashland)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Mobility
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: Carol.Ashland@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/56 - The Overworked Drag, Portland OR
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26801

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

DR>  Carol, I've never been labeled a clinical depressive, but we might as
DR>  well say I've had my share of problems in this life.  I have another
DR>  friend, (and her physical problems relating to her blindness would be
DR>  enough to make anyone depressed)). Her blindness is related to

I'm not going to quote your whole message.  I've often thought about
depression, and other mental illnesses, and blind people, myself.  I doubt
there has ever been any statistics, but it does seem that there are more
terribly unhappy blind people than there are in the general population,
percentage-wise.  I don't know though.  I don't know if mobility and
depression are relat4ed, except that depression lowers a person's
self-esteem, and it takes self-esteem to get out there and mobilize, that's
for sure.  I did read a statistic a log time ago that around 90 percent of
blind women remain single.  I don't know how true that is now.  This might
be a fertile field for some aspiring sociologist, if we could ever find one
that didn't have the typical stereotypical ideas about blindness in the
first place.

Carol

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From: Debbie.Hazelton@f66.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Debbie Hazelton)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Editorial Feelings
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:53:13 GMT
Reply-To: Debbie.Hazelton@f66.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/66 - Serendipity, Deerfield Beach FL
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26750

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 CA>  training.  I heard that Pilot trains some of its guides as protection
 CA>  dogs, but I am not sure it's true.

I've not heard that before.

 CA>  Frankly, I cannot actually understand why more schools don't use
 CA>  cross-breed dogs.  It seems like they're generally healthier than
 CA>  pure-breeds, or is that just a myth?

I think it's a myth.  It may be in part true, but if breeding's
done real carefully the dogs should be healthy.  I know
SouthEastern breeds their shepherds through a German line, and
that's better than some of the  close breeding that sometimes goes
on.  I think SouthEastern, and maybe some of the other schools do
experiment with cross-breeds, either in breeding, or just in trying
out some donated dogs.

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From: Greg.Wick@f45.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Wick)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Synex
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:22:29 GMT
Reply-To: Greg.Wick@f45.n343.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:343/45 - The French Connecti, Edmonds Wa
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26848

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

AH>ever heard of it?  What's the scoop on it?  *adh*

I heard it is supposed to stop or try and control the damage from
swelling. I read today, he has gotten "some" volontary movement
back in his leggs. Good for him... I hope it helps...

===
 * SLMR 2.1 * There is no gravity, the earth just sucks...

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From: broedel@GEOMAG.GLY.FSU.EDU (Bob Broedel)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: ALS & e-mail
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:44:42 GMT
Reply-To: broedel@GEOMAG.GLY.FSU.EDU (Bob Broedel)
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26866

[Note from Bill McGarry - this is from the RESEARCH mailing
 list]

RE: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), "Lou Gehrig's Disease"

Recently my best friend was diagnosed as having ALS so I am
trying to locate people with "Internet-compatible" e-mail
addresses who have an interest in communicating about ALS.

This would include ALS patients, patient supporters, physicians,
support groups, research centers, etc.

If I get enough responses I will create directory of contact
people, computerized bulletin board systems, BITNET/Internet
discussion groups, etc. that will be freely available to all
interested people.

If there is enough support for the idea, I can set up kind
of an on-line discussion group on the subject of ALS ... or I
can refer all interested people to others that already exist
(but that I do not presently know about).

So if you are set up for e-mail, and if you have an interest
in exchanging information about ALS, please send me a message.

Sincerely, Bob Broedel

=======================
Bob Broedel, Engineer
Meteorology Department
Love Bldg, Room 404, B-161
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-3034  USA
======================================================================
Telephone, 904-576-4906 (home), 904-644-6840 (work, answering machine)
Internet..broedel@geomag.gly.fsu.edu             MCI Mail..298-0782
San Francisco-Moscow Teleport (SFMT)..bro        EasyLink..62930541
TELEX (AT&T EasyLink).5106014520 (TALLY-KRAS FL) PeaceNet..bbroedel
TELEX (MCI/WUI)..6502980782 (6502980782MCI UW)   BITNET..BROEDEL@FSU
FAX 904-644-9642  ATTN: BROEDEL               CompuServe..71107,1710
IASNET (Moscow) "Russian Express" .. X.25 (250299000036)..BROEDEL
IASNET (Moscow) "Mini-Mail" ...... X.25 (25029900005400)..BROEDEL
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From: Carol.Ashland@p0.f319.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Ashland)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Mobility
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:34:18 GMT
Reply-To: Carol.Ashland@p0.f319.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/319.0 - Mostly Mail, Aloha OR
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26823

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 -=> Quoting Deana Roberts to William Wilson <=-

 DR> Carol is right.  Canes are stupid.  A cane can't think. My dog once
 DR> threw her whole body weight sideways with her legs spread out for
 DR> balance to keep me from blundering into the street where a car was
 DR> running the red light.  She pulled me out away from a bus turning
 DR> right on top of me.

 Wow!  I've never had any really close calls.  Frosty did stop us from
 walking in back of a car rolling out of an alley silently once though.
 Come to think of it, that *was* a close call; had he not stopped us, I
 certainly would have walked in back of the car and probably been hit.
 Vanessa once pulled me out of the way of a car backing out of a
 driveway, too.  It was running as we came up to the edge of the
 driveway, but I went ahead and started across, as the car had just
 barely started running.  Vanessa started pulling to the street side and
 hurrying.  I thought she was being unruly, and didn't follow her very
 well, though her pulling did make me hurry.  Suddenly I was hit by the
 car, not enough to knock me down, but enough to make me have to catch
 my balance.  The car thudded into me, and I guess the owner heard or
 felt it, or maybe saw me at that point, cause he stopped and opened his
 door.  I was so embarrassed that I just took off at a dead run -
 feeling it was *my* fault.  He couldn't have looked at all behind his
 vehicle before starting to back out though.

 Come to think of it, my statement about no close calls really isn't
 true, is it.  Had I not been pulled faster and to the left, I probably
 would have been knocked down by the car.

 However, my comment about "stupid canes" was just an expression of my
 frustration at the whole waiting game before I got sony.

 Incidentally, you adopted a tag line that I originated.  Unless someone
 else wrote the exact same thing.  It was in a different message.

 Carol

... Have you hugged your modem today?

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From: Debbie.Hazelton@f66.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Debbie Hazelton)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Dogs and Escalators
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:53:06 GMT
Reply-To: Debbie.Hazelton@f66.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/66 - Serendipity, Deerfield Beach FL
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26749

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 CA> How do they teach them to handle the escalators then?  I know that Pilot
 CA> teaches them to do that too.  Some people tell me I should go ahead and
 CA> teach Sony that myself, but I'd feel simply terrible, and never forgive
 CA> myself, if he got hurt.  So how do you manage it?

I wouldn't recommend trying it without some training.  I know that
at SouthEastern, the director worked it out all with careful timing
and technique.  I thought I heard that San Rafael teaches it.
There may be some others now that also do.  I've never had a
problem with it,thankfully.

 CA> I just added your dog's name to my speller's dictionary <grin>.

 CA> Carol

 CA> ... "Debbie, follow your dog!"

<hahahahahaha>  I am! I am!  Well she's glad to be among all those
listed in your dictionary.  Is that anything like your "little
black book?" <hehehehe>

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From: miusa@igc.apc.org (Susan Sygall)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: International Educational Exchanges
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: miusa@igc.apc.org (Susan Sygall)
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26868

                   MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA
                               IS
         RECRUITING PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES
                   FOR TWO OUTBOUND EXCHANGES!

Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is a non-profit organization
which promotes international travel for people with disabilities.
MIUSA is offering international educational exchange opportunities
to people with and without disabilities for the summer of 1993. One
exchange will be to the countries of the Former Soviet Union, and
the other to Bulgaria.

MIUSA is recruiting 18 people to participate in an environmental
educational exchange to the Former Soviet Union during July of
1993. While in the host countries, participants will live with host
families, camp and learn about environmental issues and disability
issues people and organizations are facing and the dynamic changes
which are taking place. The delegation will spend time in Moscow,
Ryazan, and Baku (Azerbaijan). This is MIUSA's fourth youth
exchange with the Former Soviet Union.

In August, MIUSA will be sending an 11 person delegation to
Bulgaria.  We are currently recruiting applicants for this
exchange. While in Bulgaria, Participants will learn about
Bulgarian culture, the environment, disability issues, and the
language. Participants will live with host families in Sofia,
Bulgaria, the capital of Bulgaria. This will be MIUSA's second
exchange with Bulgaria.

Criteria:       applicants should be between the ages of 16-25.
	have an interest in the host country and environmental and
	 disability issues.
	may or may not have a physical disability.

Scholarships are available.
Interviews will begin in January. Call now for information.

For an application or more information write to Mobility International USA,
P.O. Box 3551, Eugene, OR  97403  (503) 343-1284 (V/TDD), (503) 343-6812 (Fax)
or E-Mail: Peacenet, miusa.

Thank you!

Cara Galbraith           Denise Fallon
From: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Doggie Disasters
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:53:25 GMT
Reply-To: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.0 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 26752

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DR> yes you've guessed it, a seeing eye dog and it's new owner.

 DR> the trainer right there. I have always gotten dogs at Guide
 DR> Dogs of San Raphael.  And I can tell you this sort of behavior
 DR> would not have been tolerated there.

Deana,
     Yes, and I can tell you a story of how I was at the ACB convention
in Richmond VA a few years back, signing in at the registration desk, my
perfect Seeing Eye bred companion at my side, when this passerby's guide
dog decides to mount and hump away on him, much to his and my dismay!

     Now then, need I tell you which school the humpster came from?  I
don't know what you out there on the west coast consider aggresion, but
here in the east some of us consider uninvited sex to fit the category!
<grin>
                                        Willie

... Have you smooched your pooch today?

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From: Barbara.Akin@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Barbara Akin)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Handicap
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:33:52 GMT
Reply-To: Barbara.Akin@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.0 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 26820

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Is DateAble a national service, or just for the Washington area?
-!-
 ~ SLMR 2.0 ~ My reality check just bounced.

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From: Robert.Gilchrist@f715.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Gilchrist)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Braille N Speak Comp
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:34:48 GMT
Reply-To: Robert.Gilchrist@f715.n153.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/715 - The BandMaster, Vancouver BC
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 26827

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 On 08-29-92 William Wilson wrote to Robert Gilchrist...

 WW>  RG> Let's not forget the BrailleMate. It does everything that the
 WW>  RG> Braiile 'n Speak does. I am sure you already knew that, however
 WW>
 WW> Robert,

Willie from Rob
Thanks for the message. My purpose was to remind people that Braillemate
Exists. I would also point out that Braillemate is a much more
inexpensive way to gain portable brtaille access in a school setting
where the student may not be able to always get access to a computer.

I am a proficient user of a navigator, and do I am not discounting the
usefulness of that system.
Rob

... OFFLINE 1.35 * I like my QWK OFFLINE reader!

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From: Charles.Crawford@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Charles Crawford)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Checks 58 upgrade
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:53:39 GMT
Reply-To: Charles.Crawford@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:101/460.0 - VI/BUG, Holbrook MA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26754

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Debbie,

  good news! I've upgraded Version 5.8 to include a duplication
check after entering a check, also has memory report, also ability
to save or re-enter a deposit check or withdrawal immediately after
entering it and some fixes to boot! The file is is TC58UP3P.zip on
my BBS (617)-451-5327 or Blink Link in Pittsburgh or the NFB bbs. I
am sure it will make it to a board near you if it's not convenient
to call the others.

  The next big challenge is Version 5.9 with preauthrized checking,
improved printer functions and maybe multi-accounts, but the last
is not likely for awhile.

  Enjoy! Makes a nice Christmas present.

See you.

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From: VFOAO073@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Harry Murphy)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: VR and Disability
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:43:43 GMT
Reply-To: VFOAO073@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Harry Murphy)
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26862

                      Advisory Board Meets
                      for June 17-18, 1993
                          Conference on
                "Virtual Reality and Disability"

(California State University, Northridge (CSUN).  December 15,
1992).   On December 11, twenty-five (25) leaders came together
from the fields of virtual reality and rehabilitation and assistive
technology to plan the June 17-18, 1993 meeting, "Virtual Reality
and Disability," to be held at the Westin Hotel near the San
Francisco Airport.

Greenleaf Medical Systems, CyberEdge Journal, Pacific Bell, and
the California Department of Rehabilitation agreed to co-sponsor
the conference.  Dr. Walter Greenleaf has agreed to Chair the
Advisory Board.

A Call for Papers has been issued. Papers are solicited which deal
with applications in the field of disability, access issues, and
the potential of VR to assist persons with disabilities.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together three groups:
the Virtual Reality community, the disability community, and the
rehabilitation/assistive technology community in order to stimulate
new applications of VR, insure that persons with disabilities have
access to VR technologies, and the integrate VR into the
rehabilitation/assistive technology field.

For a "Call for Papers" brochure, or other information, please
contact:

Dr. Harry Murphy
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
18111 Nordhoff Street - DVSS
Northridge, CA 91330
Phone:  818 885 2578
FAX:    818 885 4929
EMAIL:  VR@VAX.CSUN.EDU
From: 34AEJ7D@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu (Bill Gorman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Minorities with disabilities information needed
Date: 12 Dec 92 12:30:28 GMT
Reply-To: 34AEJ7D@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu (Bill Gorman)
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26707

In article <26261@handicap.news>, PMWOR@canal.crc.uno.edu (Pat Walsh) says:
>
>[This is from the EASI mailing list]
>
>We are looking for anyone who might have information about
>minorities with disabilities who are not using existing services

The disABLED are ALREADY a MINORITY, thank you very much!

W. K. Gorman
From: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Little Big Horn
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:23:21 GMT
Reply-To: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:150/175.1 - Busted Flush BBS, New Castle DE
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 26855

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

In a message to Joe Chamberlain <27 Nov 92 16:26> Tim Syfert wrote:

 TS> Did you ever have problems with pressure sores sitting up that long?

Not then.  Back then I had great skin and seldom got a sore.  If I
got any abrasion, it healed almost overnight.  Now, if I sit more
than an hour I can be in trouble.  Now, I got old skin.  My skin no
longer produces the healing oils that it did when I was young.
This is a chronic problem of the elderly, only with me it is
hitting at 50.

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