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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who
click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2009/02/24/some-links-217/>
25 jQuery Plugins for Navigation
<http://designm.ag/resources/jquery-navigation-plugins/>
17 usability tips to make your CMS rock | Pat's Point of View
<http://www.gurtle.com/ppov/2009/02/10/17-usability-tips-to-make-your-cms-ro
ck>
Mapping with Isotype
<http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/mapping-with-isotype/>
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way
<http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup>
Website evaluation survey
<http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1133286>
Improving Accessibility Through Focus Management
<http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/02/23/managing-focus/>
What's So Bad About CSS Frameworks?
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/02/17/whats-so-bad-about-css-frameworks
/>
Sketching Alternative and Social Activities
<http://wireframes.linowski.ca/?p=405>
JavaScript Function Call Profiling
<http://ejohn.org/blog/function-call-profiling/>
jQuery 1.3.2 and beyond
<http://ajaxian.com/archives/jquery-132-and-beyond>
Best practices against hacking
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-practices-against-h
acking.html>
The 'Least Assistance' Principle
<http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=768>
CSS Layouts: A collection of 224 Grid and CSS Layouts
<http://layouts.ironmyers.com/>
Jawter: Twitter from Jaws with no software in the middle
<http://randylaptop.com/2009/02/08/jawter-2/>
Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design - Boxes and Arrows: The design
behind the design
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/bringing-holistic>
Plex - Release 0.7.8
<http://elan.plexapp.com/2009/02/21/release-078-brave-new-world/>
9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/18/9-common-usability-blunders/>
Filling Your Dance Card in Hard Economic Times
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fillingyourdancecard>
CSS3 Feedback: Layout
<http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2009/02/16/css3-feedback-layout/>
In Defense of Readers
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofreaders>
CSS background position
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-background-position-limitations>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Demystifying Web Accessibility Training Course
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Date: Monday 16th February 2009 (1 Day)
City: London, England
Description: This course is designed to introduce website owners,
commissioners, marketing or project managers and designers to the reasons
for making websites accessible, including the principles and practices that
make this possible.
<http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_
introtrain.hcsp>
Web Accessibility - Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 Training
Course
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Date: Tuesday 17th February 2009 (1/2 Day - AM)
City: London, England
Description: A practical course to introduce the newly released guidelines
for web accessibility, the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG
2.0). It will enable and inform web managers, designers and developers, who
have been working with WCAG 1.0 to start using WCAG 2.0.
<http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_
transitioning.hcsp>
Hidden Barriers to Web Accessibility Training Course
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Date: Tuesday 17th February 2009 (1/2 Day - PM)
City: London, England
Description: A technical course, designed to enable website designers,
developers and programmers to identify and cure some common, but less
obvious accessibility problems on their web sites.
<http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_
hiddenbarriersworkshop.hcsp>
Web Accessibility - Beyond The Basics Training Course
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Date: Wednesday 18th February 2009 (1 Day)
City: London, England
Description: This is a technical course designed to enable website
designers, developers and programmers, to make informed best practice
choices with some of the more advanced techniques of accessible web design
by looking at forms, structure, JavaScript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
<http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_
technicaltrain.hcsp>
Web Accessibility Testing Training Course
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Date: Thursday 19th February 2009 (1 Day)
City: London, England
Description: This practical workshop guides you through web accessibility
testing techniques, introducing tools and providing tangible examples. It
focuses on testing carried out using dedicated testing tools, simple browser
tests and some widely used assistive technology software, such as screen
readers. The workshop illustrates both automated and manual testing and
explains the differences between them.
<http://www.rnib.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_tes
tingworkshop.hcsp>
Future of Web Apps Miami 2009
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Date: 23-Feb-09 to 24-Feb-09
City: Miami, Florida (USA)
FOWA brings you a full two days of sessions on the most successful web
technologies and business trends of the future along with a chance to be up
close and personal with industry pioneers at the workshops, and not
forgetting the FOWA parties! Confirmed speakers so far include:
* Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
* Daniel Burka (Digg/Pownce)
* Jason Fried (37signals)
* Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software)
* Gary Vaynerchuk (WinelibraryTV)
* Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic)
* Chris Messina (Citizen Agency)
* David Recordon (SixApart)
* Francisco Tolmasky (280 North)
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/miami>
February WSG meeting (Brisbane)
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Date: 26-Feb-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
Teale Shapcott on Agile Usability Damian Hickey on Jentla, Enterprise Joomla
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/163>
Future of Web Apps Dublin 2009
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Date: 06-Mar-09
City: Dublin (Ireland)
Future of Web Apps is coming to Dublin and they're bringing along some of
the most talented and expert speakers in the industry with them! Some of you
may remember the FOWA Road trip where Carsonified visited some major cities
including Dublin. We received such a great reception from the Irish web
community that we decided to launch FOWA Dublin. Confirmed speakers so far
include:
* Blaine Cooke (ex Developer at Twitter)
* David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals & Ruby on Rails)
* Mike Butcher (TechCrunch UK)
* Simon Willison (Co-creator of the Django web framework)
* Ryan Carson (Carsonified)
* Emma Persky (Trampoline Systems)
* Eoghan McCabe & Des Traynor (Contrast)
* Matthew Ogle (Last.fm)
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/dublin>
March WSG meeting (Sydney)
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Date: 11-Mar-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: Raphaël JavaScript Vector Library, Dmitry Baranovskiy
Presentation 2: Wireframes considered harmful, Tom Voirol
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/165>
SXSW Interactive 2009
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Date: 13-Mar-09 to 17-Mar-09
he SXSW INTERACTIVE FESTIVAL celebrates the creativity and passion behind
the coolest new media technologies. In addition to panel sessions that cover
everything from web design to bootstrapping to social networks, attendees
make new business connections at the three-day Trade Show & Exhibition.
<http://www.sxsw.com/>
March WSG meeting (Canberra)
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Date: 18-Mar-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Presentation 1: Public engagement. Public empowerment, Stephen Collins
Presentation 2: Stories: An unlikely way to find out what's really going on,
Mark Schenk
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/166>
MIX 09
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Date: 18-Mar-09 to 20-Mar-09
If you're a designer or developer who builds on the web, MIX09 is the place
to learn about products and technologies that help you plan for the future
while addressing today's economic challenges. Hear about advances in
technologies like Silverlight, Expression, ASP.NET, Windows 7, and Windows
Azure, and discuss topics like design, user experience, web standards, data
visualization, workflow, and social networks. Learn how to use technology to
increase customer satisfaction and impact the bottom line.
<http://2009.visitmix.com/>
XML Prague 2009
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Date: 21-Mar-09
XML Prague is a conference on XML for developers, markup geeks, information
managers, and students. In its 4th year, XML Prague focuses on emerging
trends in core XML technologies and their application in the real world. XML
Prague conference will take place 21-22 March 2009 at Charles University in
the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic.
<http://www.xmlprague.cz/index.html>
3d European eAccessibility Forum
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Date: 30-Mar-09
This 3d European eAccessibility Forum will focus on the application of these
technologies for a better inclusion of people with disabilities at the
workplace. Various situations will be considered, covering different needs
related to training, mobility, access to information, communication.
Concrete cases will be discussed. Solutions will be presented, ranging from
commercial products to research prototypes.
<http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/mobtel/Description/index_e
n.php>
Internet User Experience 2009
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Date: 30-Mar-09 - 03-Apr-09
City: Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
The Internet User Experience conference is back for its fifth year! It
features keynotes, technical presentations, and training tutorials designed
for web professionals and stakeholders of all skill levels. Over 24 top
speakers and trainers in web site design and strategy, usability, content
development, search engine marketing, and social media will fill this
program. Also included will be special demonstrations, exhibitors, and a
bookseller.
<http://www.iue2009.com/>
SMX Search Analytics
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Date: 31-Mar-09 to 01-Apr-09
City: Toronto (Canada)
Join us in Toronto for the first SMX Search Analytics conference! This event
is for search engine marketers who want to dive deep on the techniques for
improving ROI of both paid and organic search marketing campaigns. SMX
Search Analytics focuses on the processes and tools that help you maximize
campaign effectiveness.
<http://searchmarketingexpo.com/analytics>
Search Marketing Expo - Sydney
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Date: 02-Apr-09 to 03-Apr-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Search Marketing Expo returns to Sydney in April 2009 with an action packed
two day event, SMX Sydney's 2009 programming will include sessions designed
for all skill levels, from beginners all the way to advanced.
<http://www.searchmarketingexpo.com.au/>
UIE Web App Summit 2009
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Date: 19-Apr-09 to 22 -Apr-09
City: Newport Beach, California (USA)
At the UIE Web App Summit, you'll meet the innovators and world-class
designers behind today's most successful web apps. We've carefully crafted
this four-day Summit to include two days of intensive full-day workshops on
form design, Ajax, RIAs, design deliverables, wireframes, accessibility,
design patterns, and web standards. We round out the conference with two
more days of featured presentations from world-renown experts, to give you
fresh perspectives and new insights on today's web app design challenges.
<http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_summit/2009/>
Future of Web Design London 2009
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Date: 30-Apr-09 - 01-May-09
City: London (UK)
FOWD London is back for 2009! Join the industry's leading and most talented
designers, developers and artists for some inspiration and practical advice.
The goal of this show is to unite, inspire and equip web designers around
the world. We want you to walk away from FOWD knowing that you're not alone
in your battle to create beautiful, usable and accessible websites and apps.
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowd/2009/london>
Carson Workshops
How to Build Great Web Sites in HTML5 and CSS3 - Eric Meyer
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Date: 09-Mar-09
City: London (UK)
This a special one-day workshop where we'll take a quick look at how to set
up your own full-featured web development environment for free. Then we'll
delve into the nuances of selectors, with an eye toward advanced CSS
selectors and how they can make your CSS leaner and meaner than ever. This
will be a look not only at the present state of selector support, but also
its future and how you can jump right into the future today!
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ericmeyer/index.html>
V21: The New Business of Media Conference
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Date: 18-Mar-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
V21 is designed for Victoria's vibrant media sector, and is destined to
become the pivotal annual event for those involved in the creation,
monetisation and distribution of digital media. The program includes
sessions which explore how the past can influence the future of digital
media; the do's and don'ts of IP; how to capitalise on the fusion of
advertising and entertainment; and new broadcasting environments. The event
features speakers from businesses across diverse media sectors, including:
Hyro, Sensis, IBM, RedTxt, Naked Communications, CafeScreen, Publicis
Digital,, Michi Girl, Infinite Interactive, Hippo, Holding Redlich and the
Nous Group.
<http://www.v21.com.au/>
Carson Workshops
How to design amazing web app user interfaces - Ryan Singer
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Date: 27-Apr-09
City: London (UK)
In this workshop you will gain insight into all aspects of web UI design
including: coding style, visual factors like color and weight, movement
between screens, and the role of copywriting in interface design. It will
also go outside of interface design to the broader development process, from
feature conception to sketches to implementation.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ryansinger/index.html>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 18-May-09 and 19-May-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 21-May-09 and 22 May-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 25-May-09 and 26 May-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 28-May-09 and 29 May-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
UX London 2009
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Date: 15-Jun-09 to 17 -Jun-09
City: London, England
UX London is Britain's first major user experience conference, comprising
two days of practical, hands-on workshops, and a day of inspirational
speakers. We have some of the industry's best people on board, including Don
Norman, Peter Merholz, Dan Saffer, LukeW and Jared Spool, so it's abound to
be an amazing event!
<http://uxlondon.com/>
Carson Workshops
The Whuffie Factor - Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your
Business - Tara Hunt
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Date: 22-June-09
City: London (UK)
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer
base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and interactive. But what
does this mean? And more to the point, how do you do it?
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/tarahunt/index.html>
UX Australia 2009
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Dates: 25-Aug-09 to 27-Aug-09
City: Canvberra (Australia)
UX Australia 2009 is Australia's premier user experience design conference,
with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a range of topics about
how to design great experiences for people.
<http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009>
Carson Workshops
Design Secrets of digg.com's User Interface - Daniel Burka
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Date: 08-Sept-09
City: London (UK)
Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote interaction
on your site? As designers and product people, our focus is on developing
wonderful user experiences where people can come together to participate in
meaningful and useful ways. With social sites, this is doubly critical as
our sites are fundamentally powered by users interacting with one another.
This workshop will focus on design strategies for lowering the barriers to
participation, adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors,
managing scale, and creating intuitive user experiences.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
24th March Melbourne (Australia)
7th April Sydney (Australia)
5th May Brisbane (Australia)
18th August Adelaide (Australia)
20th Oct Canberra (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one day course. From internet banking, online learning,
government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects
increasingly include elements of web application design. This course will
explore the value and limitations of building a web application and
introduce a range of tools, approaches and interface design principles to
ensure that you understand your audience and design intuitive and usable web
applications. Includes usability of Rich Internet Applications and AJAX.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
25th March Melbourne (Australia)
8th April Sydney (Australia)
6th May Brisbane (Australia)
20th May Perth (Australia)
19th August Adelaide (Australia)
21st Oct Canberra (Australia)
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever wonder why
users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found
usability issues but didn't know how to fix them? This course will provide
an insight into human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest
research and hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage
of usability test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of
interaction design.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date & city:
10th March Sydney (Australia)
1st April Brisbane (Australia)
19th May Perth (Australia)
16th June Melbourne (Australia)
28th July Adelaide (Australia)
1st Dec Canberra (Australia)
Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a result of
attending this one day course, participants will have a good understanding
of the value and importance of user centred design and have the basic
skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred design approach to
developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or web applications within
their own organisation.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html>
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date & city:
11th March Sydney (Australia)
2nd April Brisbane (Australia)
21st May Perth (Australia)
17th June Melbourne (Australia)
29th July Adelaide (Australia)
2nd Dec Canberra (Australia)
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests. In this
one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability evaluation and
testing methods that you can use to evaluate your organisation's Internet
and Intranet site, web applications and software. This course will explore
the difference between expert reviews and usability testing and which is
better to use and when. We will cover when to usability test, what to test
and how to test.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Lateral Systems is an award winning Sydney based internet business solution
provider. We are looking for a talented web developer to join our team. A
good mix of front-end (XHTML / CSS / Javascript) and back-end (ASP / ASP.NET
/ XSLT / SQL) skills are essential, as is a passion for usability and web
standards.
The position is primarily in our support and maintenance group, and would
suit someone who enjoys managing short, discreet pieces of work as opposed
to long running projects. You will also need to enjoy and be good at problem
solving. Essential Skills
* XHTML / CSS adhering to published standards
* ASP.NET (C#) and Classic ASP
* XML / XSLT
* Javascript (including jQuery)
* Microsoft SQL Server, IIS
* Microsoft Visual Studio & Source Control Systems (Sourcesafe, Vault)
* Good Communication, both verbal and written
* Minimum 2 years experience
Useful Skills
* Experience with Content Management Systems
* FLASH / Action Script / FLV
* A passion for the user interface layer
* Graphic Design & Production (Photoshop)
Do you have a passion for the web and enjoy providing valuable solutions to
real world business problems? Then we look forward to receiving your
application. Please email your resume to the Manager:
[email protected]
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Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an event,
resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me
know - [email protected]
Thanks
Russ
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