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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure if this was forwarded to the list earlier, but in the event that it has not been sent to the list here it is. Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Riccobono [mailto:JerniganInstitute@nfb.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 06, 2014 1:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> Melanie Peskoe<br><b>Subject:</b> NFB Jernigan Institute Newsletter - January Beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in'><tr><td width=700 style='width:525.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=450 style='width:337.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin-right:15.0pt'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/NFB_JI_logo.jpg" alt="Graphic: NFBJI logo"><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Imagineering Our Future</span></strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.5pt'><td width="30%" style='width:30.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:4.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=500 style='width:375.0pt;background:#FFA12D'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Issue 60</span> </strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p align=right style='text-align:right'><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>January 2014</span> </strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In this issue:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Executive" target=executive title="Link to Message from Executive Director" id="#executive">Message from the Executive Director</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#news" target=news title="What's News at the NFB" id=news><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What's News at the NFB</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#profiles" target=profiles title=profiles id=profiles>Profiles</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#education" target=education title=education id=education>Education</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#BrailleInitiative" title="Braille Initiative">Braille Initiative</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Advocacy" title=Advocacy>Advocacy</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Technology" title="Access technology">Product and Access Technology Talk</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Library" title="Jacobus tenBroek Library">From the tenBroek Library</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Market">Independence Market</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#calendar" title=Events>NFB Calendar</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="#Citation">Citation</a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><h3><a name=Executive></a><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Message from the Executive Director</span><o:p></o:p></h3><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Friends,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The year of 2014 has arrived with a celebration of Braille at the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Jernigan Institute. Our members did not take much time to ring in the New Year before jumping on planes and trains to come for our 2014 NFB Braille Enrichment through Literacy and Learning (BELL) Program seminar which began on January 2.</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=25 style='width:18.75pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=128 height=80 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/braille-celebration.jpg" alt="Louis Braille birthday party"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As we celebrated Louis Braille's birthday during our seminar this past weekend, I could not help but recall how important Braille has been in my own growing appreciation of poetry. Poetry can be quite enjoyable when read artfully by a human, but I never gained an appreciation for poetry read by synthesized speech. When I finally had the opportunity to learn Braille, I found poetry to be a different experience. This led me to reflect on the fact that the number fourteen has the significance of being the number of lines in a sonnet. In a sonnet the first eight lines present the problem or question to be pondered, while the final six give the answer.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thus, maybe 2014 is the year for the solution to the Braille literacy problem in our country to be realized. Maybe this year will be the time when our NFB BELL Program comes to be known all across this country. We need more work on the solution--and it seems poetic to make fourteen our year. During our seminar this past weekend, you could feel the hope and inspiration as Federation members from twenty-four of our affiliates planned and imagined how local communities would be different once the NFB BELL Program was complete in 2014.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maybe I will make a New Year's resolution to write a sonnet in honor of the tremendous code that Louis Braille created and that we are now teaching through our NFB BELL Program. Most certainly I will require the use of Braille to complete my task and I think the exercise will help focus my imagination on the innovative solutions that we will forge for the blind in the coming year. I hope your resolutions for this year include a pledge of support to work closely with the NFB to ensure that all blind people can live that the life they want.</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=25 style='width:18.75pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Poetically yours,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><img border=0 width=160 height=40 id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/MAR_signature.jpg" alt="Graphic: Signature of Mark Riccobono"><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark A. Riccobono, Executive Director</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFB Jernigan Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>P.S. Check out the video from the Quest for the Salt on the <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2924&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Quest for the Salt video">NFB page on YouTube</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2><a name=news></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>What's News at the NFB</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2013 Onkyo Braille Essay Contest Winners</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Onkyo Braille Literacy Essay Contest is administered in the U.S. by the NFB on behalf of the North American/Caribbean Region of the World Blind Union. The essay contest, which is sponsored by the Onkyo Corporation and the <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Braille Mainichi</span></em>, was created to promote Braille literacy and to encourage the sharing of social and cultural information among blind and visually impaired persons. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The essays were required to be written in Braille, and to pertain either to how the individual gains knowledge or independence through Braille, or to an individual concept about world peace from the viewpoint of persons with disabilities. There were two groups of competitors: a junior category for persons up to age twenty-five and a senior category for persons over age twenty-six. Each winner received a substantial cash prize, a plaque, and other gifts from the Onkyo Corporation.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The seven winners from the North America/Caribbean Region were as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ootsuki Prize</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jerry McKee, Alabama</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Excellent Work Award, Senior</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Lynn Spittle, South Carolina</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Excellent Work Award, Junior</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Anna Avramenko, Kansas </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fine Work Award, Senior</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Jeremiah Rogers, North Carolina<br> Carolyn Fish, Virginia</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fine Work Award, Junior</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Aspen Poole, New York<br> Tamer Zaid, Texas </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFB Bid for Equality</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you to everyone who supported our Bid for Equality online auction. We are grateful for our members that helped with this effort, including those that spread the word about the auction. And we especially appreciate those that made a "bid for equality." The package with the highest leading bid was Texas’s two music badges to the South by Southwest Music Festival, including hotel accommodations, which was followed by Indiana’s pearl necklace and earring set and New York’s weekend getaway.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are excited to report that we received more than $10,000 in bids to support our programs. We are already looking forward to next year’s auction. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TEACH Act Collaboration</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The National Association of Blind Students (NABS)<span style='background:white'> is collaborating</span> with the <span style='background:white'>NFB advocacy and policy department in their</span> efforts to advocate for the Technology, Education, and Accessibility in College and Higher Education (TEACH) Act. They are collecting stories about blind students' experiences with higher education, with a goal of collecting stories from constituents living in every congressional district in the United States.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>They need stories from current and recent students who are, and have been, affected by the lack of accessibility in the classroom, whether it was through inaccessible instructional materials or a lack of, late, or inadequate accessible materials. Instructional materials could be any form of curricular content, from digital books, to Web content, to PDF, to online digital databases. If you have information to share, compose your paragraph-long story and send it to Cindy Bennett at <a href="Mailto:clb5590@gmail.com" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Cindy Bennett">clb5590@gmail.com</a>. Be sure to include a sentence of how accessibility guidelines would have prevented or solved your problem. Please include the school you attend or attended, and any congressional districts that you live in. For example, if your permanent address is in a different congressional district from the district in which you go to school, list both. If you do not know this information, you can use your ZIP code to look it up at <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2885&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to find representative">http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The second way that you can help is by reinforcing the appointments<span style='background:white'> the NFB ha</span>s with Congress. If someone has an appointment with your congressperson, Cindy will contact you with the date of the appointment, and you can call your congressperson's office and tell your story. This will show your congressperson that one of their constituents is directly affected by inadequate accessibility and needs the TEACH Act. This part is very important as members of Congress work for their constituents.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you have any questions, contact Cindy Bennett at <a href="Mailto:clb5590@gmail.com" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Cindy Bennett">clb5590@gmail.com</a> or Lauren McLarney at <a href="Mailto:LMcLarney@nfb.org" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Lauren McLarney">LMcLarney@nfb.org</a>. For more information about the TEACH Act, please read the fact sheet found at <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2886&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to TEACH Act fact sheet">https://nfb.org/images/nfb/documents/word/2013%20teach%20fact%20sheet.doc</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><h2> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1030" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></h2><h2><a name=profiles></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Profiles</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chelsea Cook</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chelsea Cook, who was a student in NFB STEM programs and is now a mentor and instructor in those programs, recently gave a presentation at the Virginia Tech TEDX event. The link to the video is <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2925&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Chelsea Cook TedEx video">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2wFIFft2w</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1031" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=education></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Education</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The NFB BELL Program</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At the NFB Jernigan Institute, we celebrated Louis Braille’s birthday with a planning meeting for our summer Braille program—the NFB BELL program. Members of the NFB, educators, and other leaders in the field of blindness gathered to share information and resources related to hosting engaging and authentic Braille instruction for blind youth across the country. In the summer of 2014,<span style='color:black;background:white'> twenty-four stat</span>es will host NFB BELL programs. <span style='color:black;background:white'>Seven of those</span><span style='background:white'> affilia</span>tes—Arizona, the District of Columbia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and Oregon—will host the program for the first time!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stay tuned for more information about the 2014 NFB BELL programs in the coming months to ensure that the blind children in your life don’t miss out on this exciting learning opportunity. To learn about the NFB BELL programs hosted in the summer of 2013, read the November issue of the <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2887&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Braille Monitor - November issue"><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Braille Monitor</span></em></a>, which contains several articles about the programs that took place throughout the country. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1032" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=BrailleInitiative></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Braille Initiative</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Braille Certification Training Program</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Under a contract with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress (NLS), the NFB administers the courses leading to NLS certification of Braille transcribers and proofreaders. Successful completion of these rigorous courses requires a great deal of time and effort on the part of the students. We congratulate the following individuals who earned certification during the month of October 2013:</span><o:p></o:p></p><h2><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Literary Braille Transcribing</span></em><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alabama</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bobby Alan Nunn, Talladega </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>California</span></strong><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Jocelyne Cardenas, Pico Rivera <br> Martin Albert Zahorik, Camarillo </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Connecticut</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Sean Patrick Murphy, Cheshire</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indiana</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Nola Marie Zimmerman, Richmond</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Iowa</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Kim David Archer, Anamosa</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Minnesota</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Carol Jean Rubin, Minneapolis</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New York</span></strong><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Kathy Marie Holden, Hilton</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>North Carolina</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Curtis R. Fields, Laurinburg <br> Anthony Darrell Long, Laurinburg <br> Jason DeMartrice Marriner, Laurinburg <br> Allen Curtis Mayes, Laurinburg <br> William Jared Rose, Laurinburg <br> Scott Stephens, Laurinburg </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oklahoma</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Robert James Loomis, Taft</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Texas</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Ceyma Rena' Bina, Gatesville <br> Jennifer Jean Blaschke, Gatesville <br> Lisa Marie Ortiz, Gatesville <br> Barbara Leanne Price, Gatesville <br> Sandra Leilani Reyna, Gatesville <br> Larissa Ann Saucedo, Gatesville </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Washington</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Therese Beem, Vancouver <br> Sean Adam Southworth, Vancouver</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wisconsin </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <br> Traci Lynn McDonald, Cottage Grove<br> </span><o:p></o:p></p><h2><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Music Braille Transcribing</span></em><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Missouri</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kevin Dyal, Jefferson City </span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1033" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=advocacy></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Advocacy</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCSS-Aligned Field Tests Begin in Spring 2014: Will Your Child Have Access to Accommodations?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Beginning in March 2014, over one million students nationwide will participate in field tests aligned to the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) will validate test questions and computer-based delivery platforms with students ranging from grades three through twelve when schools administer its Performance-Based Assessment and End-of-Year Assessment.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The NFB is currently investigating the accessibility features available for the impending PARCC field tests, including the availability of Braille and screen access software. Your feedback on this matter is critical. School districts were notified in the fall of 2013 whether or not they would be included in the testing. If your child is scheduled to participate in either the PARCC Performance-Based Assessment or End-of-Year Assessment, NFB needs to hear from you. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please call Valerie Yingling, paralegal, at 410-659-9314, extension 2440, if your child will participate in the testing. If you are unsure whether or not your child will be involved, ask your school’s principal. If your child will not be included in the testing because his or her accommodations will not be available, please call Valerie Yingling.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PARCC field tests may be conducted in the following states and district: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Tennessee. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1034" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=Technology></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Product and Access Technology Talk</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is 2014, which means that the access technology team is starting to ready itself for the 29th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, known to its friends as CSUN. We will be presenting at the conference in San Diego, as we usually do. The topics this year are varied: Phones for Low Vision and Blind Seniors, 3D Printing and 3D Creation for Tactile Graphics, Communication Technologies for Those Who are Deaf-Blind, Non-Visual Access to Cloud Productivity Suites on Mobile Devices, and Non-Visual Access to Cloud Productivity Suites on Desktop Computers.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Prior to that in March, Anne Taylor and John Baker, CEO of longstanding ally Desire2Learn, will be on a panel with the title "Education for All - Accessibility Innovations" at legendary tech, music, film, and more festival, South by Southwest, in Austin, Texas. They will be joined by Kel Smith from Anikto LLC and David Rose from CAST. You can find more information on this panel here:<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2922&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Education for All--Accessibility Innovations panel"> http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/21192</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Finally, keep an eye on this space for information about technology day at the 2014 NFB National Convention in Orlando this summer; we expect to be announcing those sessions very soon.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1035" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><p><a name=Library></a><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>From the tenBroek Library</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Are you interested in conducting research at the tenBroek Library? </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are pleased to welcome researchers interested in many of the aspects of blindness, with the exception of its treatment and prevention. Our collections focus on the organized blind movement, the education of blind children, disability law and policy, the history of attitudes toward blind people, and literary works by blind authors. We work hard to preserve the history of blind people in a variety of ways, including collecting NFB literature, maintaining the Federation's archives, and building our collections of archival papers and published works. We also document the life experiences of blind people in the United States in interviews collected through our oral history program.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our collections are open for use by all and the holdings of the tenBroek Library can be accessed in three ways:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2888&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to The Blind Cat">The Blind Cat</a>: Our online public access catalog (OPAC) where researchers can search our collection of published materials. The scope of our published materials, which extends to all facets of blindness except the medical treatment or prevention of blindness, includes print, talking book, Braille, and digital formats. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2889&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to The Cane Tip">The Cane Tip</a>: Our online finding aid database describes the manuscript and archival collections held by the library, including the personal and professional papers of NFB <span style='background:white'>Founder J</span>acobus tenBroek, the papers of past NFB President Kenneth Jernigan, and the NFB Institutional Archives, as well as several smaller collections.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>E-mail: Send your reference questions to <a href="Mailto:jtblibrary@nfb.org" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Jacobus tenBroek Library">jtblibrary@nfb.org</a> and we’ll contact you to discuss your project!</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To learn more about the holdings of the Jacobus tenBroek Library, please visit the Blind Cat, the Cane Tip, or contact us by e-mail at <a href="Mailto:jtblibrary@nfb.org" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Jacobus tenBroek Library">jtblibrary@nfb.org</a> to schedule a visit! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1036" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=Market></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Independence Market</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you have left it to the last minute to get a Braille or large-print 2014 calendar, the NFB Independence Market can help. The following 2014 calendars and planners are available for ordering.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2890&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to 2014 American Action Fund Calendar">2014 American Action Fund Braille Calendar </a><br>This comb-bound, pocket-sized Braille calendar measures 6 x 6 1/2 inches. Each calendar page includes the days of the month and lists major holidays. A page for personal notes is in the back. The calendar is available free of charge.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2891&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to 2014 Large-Print Calendar">2014 Large-Print Calendar</a><br>This spiral-bound, large-print appointment calendar measures 8 1/2 x 11 inches with inside pockets. Each month is displayed on two facing pages and features two-inch blocks for each day of the month. The months are tabbed and include a section for monthly notes as well as a three-month calendar overview. The calendar costs $10.00, plus shipping and handling. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2891&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to 2014 Large-Print Planner">2014 Large-Print Planner</a><br>This organizer, designed with low-vision professionals in mind, features easy-to-read large print. The spiral-bound, 144-page planner, with a black leatherette cover, measures 8 1/2 x 11 inches. All calendar views are spread over two pages and include current and upcoming year-at-a-glance views, as well as twelve monthly and fifty-three weekly views. Pages for names and addresses, notes, and personal information are also included. The calendar costs $20.00, plus shipping and handling. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New!</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2891&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to 2014 Large-Print Wall Calendar">2014 Large-Print Wall Calendar</a><br>When fully opened, this monthly wall calendar measures 22 x 17 inches. The daily boxes are 2-1/4-inch squares and the numbers marking the date are 3/4 inch tall. The date markers are in the top right corner. At the bottom, there are four lines for notes between small versions of the previous- and next-month calendars. The calendar also includes an overview for the previous and next years. The calendar costs $10.00, plus shipping and handling.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Products, including the items listed above, can be ordered from the NFB Independence Market online or by phone. For more information, contact us via e-mail at <a href="mailto:independencemarket@nfb.org" target="_blank" title="E-mail to Independence Market">IndependenceMarket@nfb.org</a>,or by phone at 410-659-9314, extension 2216. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1037" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=calendar></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>NFB Calendar</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Upcoming Events</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2919&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Washington Seminar">Washington Seminar</a> – Great Gathering-In – January 27, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2892&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Law Symposium">Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium</a>, "Disability Rights in the 21st Century: Creative Solutions for Achieving the Right to Live in the World" – April 24-25, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2920&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to NFB Convention">NFB National Convention</a> at the Rosen Center - July 1-6, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Start of the NFB's 75th year – November 16, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;azimuth: center'> <img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1038" src="https://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2><a name=Citation></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Citation</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More and more the words (and therefore, the thoughts and the deeds) of the work place and the home, the school and the church, the street and the playground reflect this new mood. And underlying it all, fueling the change and focusing the progress, is (as it has been for the past half century) the National Federation of the Blind. With all of the problems and all of the work we still have to do, we come to this meeting tonight with a feeling of hope and a mood of gladness. We come with a joy and a certainty of triumph. At long last we know who we are and what we must do. We are organized, confident, and prepared for what lies ahead—and no force on earth can turn us back. Our words, our thoughts, and our dreams reach for a tomorrow which is bright with promise, and the heart of that promise is the individual determination of each of us and the unshakable power of our vehicle for collective action—the National Federation of the Blind. The past has belonged to others, but the future belongs to us. Let us speak, think, and act in support of each other—and we will make it all come true!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>--Marc Maurer. "<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2921&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Language and the Future">Language and the Future of the Blind</a>." Banquet speech, 1989 NFB National Convention, Denver, Colorado, July 8, 1989.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><img border=0 width=243 height=2 id="_x0000_i1039" src="http://nfb.org/sites/nfb.org/files/images/Divider.gif" alt="Graphic: section divider"><o:p></o:p></p><h2 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you for reading the NFB Jernigan Institute’s <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Imagineering Our Future</span></em>.</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Help make a significant difference in the lives of blind people across the country.</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 style='float:right'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=55 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.75pt .75pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-spacing: 2px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:63.75pt'><td style='border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;height:63.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <img border=0 width=100 height=67 id="_x0000_i1041" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/youth-slam.jpg" alt="Photo: Youth Slam"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2884&qid=330452" title="Make a gift to the NFB">Make a Gift Today</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To donate a vehicle to the NFB, call toll-free <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkorange'>1-855-659-9314</span></strong><b><span style='color:darkorange'><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>or visit our </span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2894&qid=330452" title="Link to Vehicle Donations">vehicle donation</a> </span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>page.</span></strong></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="10%" style='width:10.0%;border-spacing: 2px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:63.75pt'><td width=109 style='width:81.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt;height:63.75pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=98 height=127 id="_x0000_i1042" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/father-and-child.jpg" alt="Photo: Father and Child"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If this issue was forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe, please e-mail <a href="mailto:JerniganInstitute@nfb.org." target="_blank" title="E-mail to Jernigan Institute">JerniganInstitute@nfb.org.</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="10%" style='width:10.0%;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:58.5pt'><td width=105 style='width:78.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:58.5pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=128 height=94 id="_x0000_i1043" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/white-water-rafting.jpg" alt="Photo: White Water Rafting"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please check with your company to see if it offers a matching program that will match your gift.</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="10%" style='width:10.0%;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:81.75pt'><td width=80 style='width:60.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:81.75pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=100 height=139 id="_x0000_i1044" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/musician.jpg" alt="Photo: Girl Playing Flute"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Interesting links:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2895&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Straight Talk About Vision Loss">Archive of Straight Talk About Vision Loss videos</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2896&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to National Center for Blind Youth">National Center for Blind Youth in Science</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2897&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Access Tech tips">Access Technology Tips</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2898&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to teachblindstudents.org site">TeachBlindStudents.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="10%" style='width:10.0%;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:63.75pt'><td width=85 style='width:63.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:63.75pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=80 height=80 id="_x0000_i1045" src="http://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/image/jinewsletter/martial-arts.jpg" alt="Photo: Martial Arts"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Blogs:</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2899&qid=330452" target="_blank" title="Link to Access Tech blog">Access Technology</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2900&qid=330452" title="Link to Voice of the Nation's Blind blog">Voice of the Nation's Blind</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="10%" style='width:10.0%;border-spacing: 2px;azimuth: center'><tr style='height:60.75pt'><td width=85 style='width:63.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:60.75pt;border-spacing: 1px;azimuth: center'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1046" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/jinewsletter/famengdaymark.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p> 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