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Dear Readers,

I am writing to you again from another packed copy of RBLI’s Equip Magazine which holds contributions from our partners, suppliers and colleagues.

This is the final edition of Equip for 2013, with a particular focus on the support of customers with dyslexia and learn-ing difficulties.

I have a very keen interest in dyslexia especially as some-one who was himself diagnosed late in life. I’m always looking out for any new information, advice and guidance to support dyslexia and learning difficulties in the work-place as well as any new and innovative technology, and I’m pleased to note that you will find some fantastic in-formation around products and services within this latest edition of RBLI Equip.

As the trend for new employment and retention into work rises we have also focused on other areas of our delivery. I am absolutely thrilled at the quality and content of the contributions we have had from our suppliers of products and services; they have put forward some fantastic infor-mation.

All of these contributors share one common goal - the support of customers needs to the highest standard pos-sible, and I think the passion of delivering this comes out in their offerings.

To close, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all those who read and contribute to a Equip Magazine every success in 2014.

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NEWSNEW STARTERSSTUART BUCKMINSTER

First JobApprentice Tool MakerPrevious Positions HeldTechnical Product Sales,ServicingSpare TimeAssistant Scout LeaderKeen mountaineer

RBLI WINS 2 AWARDS

1,329In 2013, Hands Free have sup-ported 1329 customers who have Neuro Diversity, includ-ing dyslexia, by providing a combination of Assistive Soft-ware, training and workplace

coaching.

DYSLEXIA FACT

RBLI claimed the top prize at the 2013 Charity Times Awards, by winning Charity of the Year with over £10 mil-lion income. RBLI would like to thank those that have supported the charity.

Instead of sending Christmas cards, Hands Free Computing

are donating money to twocharities :

1. CCHF - All about Kids 2. MS Trust

MERRY CHRISTMASFROM HANDS FREE COMPUTING

RBLI won the 1st & 2nd place in the Social Firms UK photo competition, for photographs depicitng the values of Social Enterprise - employment,enterprise & empowerment.

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RBLI Holistic Assessor

EMMA KNIGHT

Emma is a qualified Osteopath and holisticassessor with more then 3 years assessment

delivery experience under her belt.

Both Emma and Stuart are fantastic additions to the team and will be permanent members of

RBLI’s staff.

RBLI Holistic Assessor

SITTINGCOMFORTABLY?Mesh Office Seating is the sole authorised UK distributor of the widelyacclaimed and globally recognised ERGOHUMAN range of officechairs. We help create better working environments by providing theultimate in comfort and posture control with our comprehensive rangeof ergonomic chairs. Mesh are passionate about quality, style, serviceand value, and with our products boasting up to 98% recyclability, ouraim is to contribute to the perfect eco-friendly working enironment.

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MESHOFFICE SEATINGStarted 2008 | Newmilns, AyrshireOffice chairs | quality, affordableManaging Director, Alisdair McGready

Mesh Office Seating (UK) Ltd, a distributor of ergonomic office chairs, started life in March 2008 and was initially run by one person, Gareth Gillespie from his home! Having worked in the office furniture industry, and with experience in web building and sales, Gareth’s entrepreneurial vi-sion saw a niche in the market for qual-ity, affordable, er-gonomic office seating. The Enjoy office chair ticked all the boxes and he formed a

strong liaison and friendship with the designer. These days Mesh is no longer a one-man-show working from a spare bedroom. A productive team now runs the Company from a former Victorian lace mill in New-milns, Ayrshire.

Gareth saw an opportunity to bring an old disused build-ing back to life! As the build-ing was falling into disrepair it was the perfect choice to help sustain local industry. “Recycling” a disused build-ing satisfies the Mesh envi-ronmental ethos to work with the environment.

Gareth continues to have a strong vested interest as the Owner. Alisdair

McGready, the longest serv-ing employee, has now tak-en over as Managing Direc-tor and Jamie Hood slipped neatly into Alisdair’s previous role as Sales Director.

Mesh is the sole authorised distributor of a range of office chairs throughout the UK and Ireland. The range includes Enjoy, Ergohuman, Ergohu-man Plus, Nefil and Mirus of-fice chairs, all of which have a simple single lever control to operate the main functions of seat height, seat depth and back tilt.

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The staff chose their own office wall mural,

furniture and colour schemes.

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FEATURESimon HamiltonInternational Director of the British Institute of Interior Design

As a creatively driven Interior De-signer, International Director for the British Institute of Interior

Design, author, tutor, mentor, present-er and International Property Awards judge, Simon Hamilton is a very active member of the design community. With the ability to combine beautiful mate-rials, textures and colours, he and his team at Simon Hamilton & Associates in London have created luxury interiors for a wide range of discerning clients.

f u n c t i o n a l i s m aesthet ic ismSimon em-phasised that whilst hiring a p ro fess iona l

interior designer may be beyond the financial reach of most people, there is a lot individuals can do for themselves in ensuring their home environment is suitable for their work. The main challenge fac-ing the interior design for someone with a disabili-ty is the fine balance be-tween aestheticism and

functionalism. More em-phasis has to be made on functionalism in this con-text, hopefully with as little compromise as possible on the aesthetic desires of the individual involved.

Ergonomics is a good ex-ample of the functional as-pect that needs to be con-sidered. “We find many people working from home just use a dining room chair or a second hand chair they bought from a used office

equipment store as the desk chair in their homes”, he observes. “Inadequate seating can bring on or ex-acerbate serious back is-sues.” Another key function-al area is accessibility, as in the case of wheelchairs and walking aids, furnish-ings and the use of space. Dividing the living and working space is also crit-ical, even if it is just a psy-chological division. This can even be done in the

Equip asked Simon for his professional views on the importance ofinterior design for people with a disability working from home.

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same space through the use of relevant décor and furnishings. Improving accessibility can be partly addressed by simply re-arranging furni-ture, and of course de-clut-tering. Space saving solu-tions are often crucial. Attention to detail is also vital, as it can be the differ-ence between enablement and disablement. Some-times sentimental pieces might have to be removed from centre-stage, or as a last resort replaced.

Lighting is an-other impor-tant area espe-cially in the case

of the visually impaired, as it has both aesthetic and practical aspects. People often relegate the use of lighting, but it can have a major effect on mood, can be used aesthetically to

enhance important piec-es, hangings and physical areas and is also necessary from a practical perspec-tive to help with eye-strain when viewing computer and TV screens. Simon acknowledges that

colour is a personal choice but when choosing and us-ing colour it is important to remember colour affects mood. Simon points out that sometimes one’s fa-vourite colour is not the appropriate choice when the primary use of that space needs to be consid-ered. Simon also cautions that the degree of light in an area will affect the cho-sen shade. Employers also have a le-gal Health & Safety obliga-

tion to ensure their home workers are not at risk. As an employer with this re-sponsibility, you should determine exactly what your design challenges are, and use a service like the RBLI for ergonomical assessments and to help define the technical side.“Attention to

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JOHN ANDREWSTHE PEOPLE CHANGING THEWORKPLACE FOR THE BETTERPROFILE

Having worked in the mechanical engineering sector for over 20 years. I decided in 2009 to put all my energies into designing ergonomic office solutions and launched my company the Ergonomic Cafe.

I have always enjoyed de-sign and development, and I didn’t understand why oth-ers would need to work for hours on paper and comput-er screens in order to create solutions, whilst I had always done it in my head. It was only when I was 39 years old that I realised I am dyslexic, and although I had slight-ly struggled through school with teachers telling me to ‘try harder’, and ‘I must read more at home’, I still left school with above average results and qualifications. But fortunately for me my dyslexia had given me a gift which allowed me visually

manipulate and construct in my minds eye, and thus aided me in the one area I

really enjoy….design and in-novation. As a small company based on Anglesey in North Wales we work hard with UK com-panies to deliver British products to our British cus-

tomers. On the 20th of No-vember I had the pleasure of demonstrating a selec-tion of our document hold-ers, laptop stands and tablet stands to the assessment team at RBLI. And I was very impressed with their knowl-edge and enthusiasm in sourcing solutions for the clients they assist. My mission now is to con-tinue to be the markets in-novator, and to increase our products awareness to com-panies like the RBLI as I know our products can help make peoples daily duties easier, more comfortable and more productive.

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What’s a typical day like for an Access Technology (AT) Co-or-dinator?In a typical day, we have enquir-ies from people with sight loss, their support workers and pro-fessionals working with them. The enquiry could be anything from “how do I use my phone as I cannot see it anymore?” to “I am an accountant and losing

my sight and cannot use SAGE on my computer”. On the other hand, we might visit a service user to carry out an assessment in order to look at technology solutions to en-able the individual to carry on doing their job. Each assess-ment is different and tailored to the needs of that particular individual.

What has been the highlight of your job in the past year? I have seen technology move on so much with mainstream products being designed with an inclusive approach to meet-ing needs of disabled people. A prime example; Apple products and how the visually impaired world has taken them on! They are revolutionary in

making a big impact to the lives of people with sight loss. They have changed how a vis-ually impaired person uses a mobile phone with no buttons, for example, to do their gro-cery shopping on a computer straight out of the box. With this new technology in mind, I organised two events to explore the potential of Ap-ple products on the lives of people with sight problems. The first, called ‘Slicing the Ap-ple’, was attended by over 60 delegates; the second, ‘Eating the Apple’ had 80 delegates.

Can you explain how much the role matters to you personally?As a visually impaired person myself, I am always keen to be an inspiration to employers, showing how I have used tech-nology to overcome barriers experienced by people with a sight loss in the workplace. I like to help employers be-come more aware of services,

products and training. This will allow them to assist blind and partially sighted people, such as producing information in accessible formats, or using lighting and tactile surfaces to improve the office envi-ronment. I always advocate a workplace assessment though, because an employer might think I am a good example, but there are so many eye con-ditions, so what works well for me might not be the right solu-tion for someone else!

QA PARESH JOTANGIAACTION FOR BLIND PEOPLEACCESS TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR

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27,000visually impaired people helped by AFBP 2012 -2013

 

0303 123 9999 | actionforblindpeople.org.uk | @actionforblind

“I am alwayskeen to be aninspiration toemployers”

80delegates attended‘Eating the Apple’

TYPICAL DAY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEARHOW MUCH DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?

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TECHNOLOGYCOMPANIES

PEOPLE

CHANGING LIVES INTHE WORKPLACE

Assistive Technology 11

Life Experiences 12

Strategy Coaching 13

British Dyslexia Association 14-15

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LexAble develops assistive software for people with dyslexia and literacy

issues. Founded in 2007 and based in Cardiff, LexAble originated from

one person’s desire to reach his potential. Today their products are used

in universities, schools and workplaces in the UK.

Neil Cottrell, Managing Di-rector of LexA-ble, is severely dyslexic. Identi-

fied at the age of 10, he be-came highly dependent on

assistive software, so really understands its value. Whilst growing up he had various coping strategies, which in-cluded using the AutoCor-rect feature in his word pro-cessor. This helped greatly, but had its limits. When he wanted to write an email, fill in forms, or draw mind maps he found himself back at square one. At the age of 15 he had become confused and frustrated as it was so

difficult to write, plus his spelling wasn’t improving. Being used to using assistive software and developing his own coping strategies, he decided to create his own software tool – Global Auto-Correct.

Global AutoCorrect started out as a very basic tool, au-

tomatically correcting Neil’s spelling as he typed in any program. It meant that his ideas could flow, as he was no longer worrying about spelling. Neil realised that the software could help many other people with dys-lexia, and, after years of hard work and development, be-came regularly recommend-

ed through the DSA and ATW. Neil has since been named the British Dyslexia Associ-ation’s Young Achiever of the Year 2010, and LexAble received AbilityNet’s Tech-nology4Good Accessibility Award in 2012. LexAble has continued developing, ex-panding and improving its software, and has expanded to 8 team members in the past year.

N “The next chapter in our

story will be our Macrelease in February.

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LEXABLE ORIGINATED FROM ONE PERSON’SDESIRE TO REACH HIS POTENTIAL

0800 458 1922 | lexable.com | @LexAbleSoftware

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LIFE EXPERIENCESTyping with dyslexia made simple, quick and error free

by Jilly Goddard

CHALLENGESCommunicating via email – a critical aspect in Jilly’s day-to-day role at the school, was becoming increasingly challenging with Jilly’s acute dyslexia and difficulty typing. “At 66 years old, I’m not as quick as I used to be with my fingers, especially when typ-ing, which has never been very good due to my dyslexia” Jilly explains. “With the number

of typing errors I was making, the spell checker function was becoming inadequate, reading from the computer screen was becoming a struggle, and my main method of communica-tion at the school via email was becoming less effective. Also, studying for an MA in Special Educational Needs meant that I would need assistance to write the required assignments andreports.” Jilly decided to seek a solution, which is when she came into contact with Sight and Sound Technology.

Through Sight and Sound Technology, Jilly was intro-duced to and provided with assistive typing and reading software solutions; Dragon Naturally Speaking and Cla-roRead. To ensure Jilly was able to seamlessly make the transition to using the soft-ware solutions in her role at the school, training, funded by the Disability Students Allowance, was provided by

Sight and Sound Technol-ogy. “At first, I was very un-sure about whether I would be able to use this new tech-nology, however the support I received from Sight and Sound Technology quickly increased my confidence” says Jilly.

“The training I received was very flexible to my working ar-rangements.”

After only six training ses-sions, Jilly is now completely proficient and confident us-ing Dragon Naturally Speak-ing and ClaroRead at a high-er level of proficiency.“Being an educational consultant, I am responsible for pro-ducing advisory reports for schools.” Explains Jilly. “Be-fore, this meant that I would either have to slowly type out the documents myself or ask someone to assist me. Now,I am able to effortlessly dic-tate what I want to type using

Dragon Naturally Speaking, and then use ClaroRead to playback what I have typed”“Using ClaroRead, I can have documents that my colleagues have sent me in-stantly read aloud at a speed and accent that I require. Dragon Naturally Speaking has given me the ability to type easily and independent-ly again. My colleagues have noticed that my emails have gone from being brief with typos, to being more coher-ent and error free!”

SOLUTION

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01604 798070 | sightandsound.uk | info@sightandsound.co.uk

SIGHT & SOUNDTECHNOLOGY

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Strategy Coaching is a frequent reasonable adjustment brought in by em-ployers to support people with dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD(H)D, ASD and oth-er types of neuro-differences. Research published by the British Psycho-logical Society in 2013 demonstrated how often the following topics were

requested by clients and managers:

This reflect-ed what we at Genius With-in had sus-

pected for a while – that professional skills can be more important than liter-acy. We decided to take a review of how we worked with this broad range. After noticing the lack of benchmarked stand-ards for these skills, we have condensed it into a comprehensive, modular programme, endorsed by the Institute of Lead-

ership and Management (ILM). Clients chose their own modules to suit their needs from a list of core and optional topics.

It means that our coaching programmes have been quality benchmarked and externally verified, by the

market leaders in profes-sional training. This suports ALL our clients.Additionally, for just £75 plus VAT it means that the ILM will certify each coaching programme, confirming that the learn-er has met required grade of performance improve-ment in the workplace. The best thing is that our current methods and the report writing that we al-ready do is sufficient, and no extra work is required for our clients.

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STANDARDS

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BRITISH DYSLEXIA

During Dyslexia Awareness Week in October the BDA pro-duced a range of downloadable resources for both education and the workplace environments (available at www.bdadys-lexia.org.uk) these attracted over 2,500 downloads, our web-pages also achieved a record number of views 41,985 during this week, this over 300% more than in 2012, indicating that the dyslexia awareness is improving. The BDA also held an Art Exhibition of images from dyslexic artists.

41,985record number of web-site views during Disa-bility awareness week

300%more visits to the web-

site during the week than in 2012

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK

The involvement in the Access to Work scheme is seen by the BDA as not only contributing to the support of the dyslexic community and helping pro-mote awareness of the support available but also as a banner to identify that we are actively involved in the promotion of supporting disabilities as a nation-al agenda. BDA are working in conjunction with 2 leading financial companies in London by conducting di-agnostic assessment to enable suitable access ar-rangements to be put in place for their professional exams.

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY

The BDA run a wide range of training courses specifically targeted at those who are supporting dyslexics and also those who have a general interest in finding out more. During the period of August to October 2013 these course attracted 988 delegates. These courses are run throughout the country but we are also able to tailor the content to an organisations specific need.

TRAINING AUG 13 - NOV 13

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run

452Total no. of del-egates on open

courses

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onsite courses run

988Approx no. of dele-gates on bespoke/onsite courses run

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The BDA Team

VISION A dyslexic friendly society enabling all dyslexicpeople to reach their potential.

ASSOCIATIONYouth Offending Teams

Training staff, helping them to change their practice to a DF way, use a checklist and then screening tool (if necessary) to identify dyslexia in young people and then hope-fully get them the help they need. From our point of view we hope that ultimately the YOT will want to go for Quality Mark at the end of the process. We also try to support staff at the YOT who also have dyslexia.

PROJECTS

AIM To spread dyslexia awareness to as many different YOTs as possible.

The BDA is involved in a number of projects, three of which are detailed below.

Children Will ShineA project offering specialist dyslexia intervention at an affordable price for children. The Project currently offers teaching for children with dyslexia in the UK and works with teachers, teaching assistants and parents to support the areas of literacy, numer-acy, personal organization and self-esteem, as well as giving advice on how to maxi-mize their dyslexic strengths.

Dyslang (Dyslexia & Additional Academic Language Learning)

Training staff, helping them to change their practice to a DF way, use a checklist and then screening tool (if necessary) to identify dyslexia in young people and then hope-fully get them the help they need. From our point of view we hope that ultimately the YOT will want to go for Quality Mark at the end of the process. We also try to support staff at the YOT who also have dyslexia.

AIM To spread dyslexia awareness to as many different YOTs as possible.

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The website that helps businesses to recruit people with disabilities

We know that there are many businesses out there who gen-uinely want to employ people with disabilities, but at the same time, feel they lack the confi-

dence and support to get started. Feedback from employers tells us that it can be difficult to understand the range of help on offer. “We’d like to get involved, but don’t know where to start”, is the common refrain

from employers, large and small. That problem may just have been solved however, by www.accessability.info: a new website set up by RBLI and the other lead-ing providers of both Access to Work and Work Choice – the governAc Work and Work Choice – the government’s principal disability employability programmes.

The interactive site directs employers to the expert organisations in their area, who can:• provide them with the information and guidance they need,• support them – at no cost to the employer – through every step of the process,• provide employers with access to a pool of job-ready candidates, and • give them the confidence to realise their as

piration to improve their business by employ ing people with disabilities.

Kenny Boyle, a spokesman for Access Abil-ity, told Equip that the aim of the new site is simple: “Employers have been clear and consistent when describing what it is that they need – expert, local assistance to help them to become ‘Disability Confident’. The aim of the Access Ability site therefore equal-ly single-minded: to provide any and every employer with easy access to the right infor-mation, from the right people, right on their doorstep”.

Aim...To provide any & every employer with easy access to the right infor-mation, from the right people, right on their doorstep.

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ACCESSABILITY

“We’d like to get involved, but don’t know where to start”, is the common refrain from employers.”

www.accessability.info | discover how you can employ people with disabilities

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For more information:Tel: 07725 790 776Email: info@rbli-ess.com

The Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Assess-ment is part of a company’s legal require-ment to its employees, to ensure that they are working comfortably and safely within the workplace.

RBLI can provide a fast and efficient service that covers your legal requirements and gives you peace of mind, knowing that your employees are being looked after to a very high standard.

SINGLE & MULTIPLE IMPAIRMENTRBLI provide both single needs assessments and multi-needs assessments to support er-gonomic, physical and/or sensory needs or those arising from a learning difficulty within the workplace.

Each report has clear justification as to why the particular recommendations have been put forward, allowing an employer and em-ployee to make a clear, informed decision of support going forward. Our assessments are carried out by qualified healthcare professionals including physio-therapists, occupational therapists and oste-opaths to ensure that our team fully under-stand the body’s needs in the workplace. This delivery is complemented by our technical assessor’s who have years of experience sup-porting both sensory and technical needs.

ASSESSMENTS DELIVEREDBY RBLI

A safe and happy workforce inspires

confidence &productivity.

DSE & WORKPLACE

RBLI reports include:• Relevant medical history

• Identification of current

and future work-related

needs

• Clear solutions to over

come those needs along

with information of

where to obtain the

support and how much

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MICROLINKUNIVERSAL INCLUSIVITY

2012 AWARDS

Business Disability ForumBest SME

Disability Champion

Disability Standard Award

Disability Matters Europe

Microlink is Europe’s largest multi-award winning supplier of Assistive Technology and inclusivity solutions. Since 1992 they have been pioneers of the inclusivity industry, with their multi-award winning ser-vices supporting businesses and individuals in education and work environments.

Microlink began as a result of the experiences of own-ers Dr Nasser Siabi OBE and Vee Gangavian had working with their disabilities, in a time where disabilities and learn-ing difficulties were not always understood, and products and services not easily avail-able. The past 20 years has seen their efforts develop to make Microlink the leader in the Assistive Technology mar-ket, bringing affordable and effective products and servic-es to a more mainstream envi-ronment.

Microlink’s pioneering work has been recognised through awards including, most re-cently, the Business Disability Forum’s best SME 2012, Dis-ability Champion 2012 and the Disability Standard award 2012, where we were valued amongst FTSE 100 organisa-tions. They were also awarded first place in the Springboard Consulting Groups Disability Matters Europe Award 2012. Microlink has grown to pro-vide bespoke solutions to support over 2000,000 individ-uals in higher education and the workplace to achieve their true potential. They continue to provide their multi-award winning end-to-end Reasona-ble Adjustment solutions to a growing number of the largest Public and Private sector em-ployers in the world, allowing them to become confident in supporting their existing and future employees who work

with disabilities.

As well as extensive work with the Business Disability Forum in promoting action for em-ployers to actively engage with disabled people, Mi-crolink has worked alongside organisations including Mis-sion Motorsport, Help for He-roes and Thundercat Racing, promoting action and aware-ness for injured service men and women.

2,000,000people in higher edu-cation supported by bespoke solutions

OWNERSDr Nasser Siabi OBE

Vee Gangavian

EUROPE’S LARGEST supplier of Assistive

Technology &inclusivity solutions

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