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<p>I have done similar things to deal with intensity, but I used a
slightly different encoding mechanism which can be used to get
higher precision in intensity levels and had a couple other
advantages, so it might be of interest here.</p>
<p>My approach was to encode the intensity value to a binary number,
then represent that binary number as a cell. For example, a
six-dot cell can have 64 different combinations, so if they are
all used, you can see 64 different levels of intensity. In my
testing, I found that the order of the dots made a major
difference in how easy it was to detect the differences. I used
the top row, dots 1 and 4, for the first two levels of intensity.
That made it easy to scan the image at different levels of
precision. When looking for the bright areas versus the dark areas
of the image, you only have to check each cell for the presence of
dot 1. Once you've found an area of interest, you can do the same
by looking for dot 4, drilling down until you have the fine detail
with dot 6 representing the smallest change in intensity. The
reason I chose that order is that I often identify the presence of
dot 1 and 4 quickly when scanning, which means that if it changes,
I notice quickly. The default, numeric ordering of the dots would
be just as capable of this, but I found it more difficult to read
quickly.<br>
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<p>There are two other advantages of this approach. If you needed
all 256 levels, you could do the same thing with an eight-dot cell
and encode all of them. The main downside of all these approaches
is that you can't represent a large intensity graph or heat map
without a massive sheet of paper, but the benefit of binary
encoding is that you can compress your graph at the cost of
precision much more flexibly. You could use only one vertical side
of a cell per point, get eight levels of precision, and represent
two times as much data horizontally. For embossers where you don't
have to use standard-sized cells, you could use two-by-two cells,
get 16 levels of precision, and fit a square map onto a square
sheet of Braille paper. That approach could also work on the
Monarch or possibly the Graphiti.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-hansi-font-family:Aptos;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Have
you done much studies on the amount of information that can
be done with grey scale.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What
I am meaning is how many patterns actually work depending on
distances between dots.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-hansi-font-family:Aptos;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
Tactile-Talk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tactile-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org"><tactile-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org></a> <b>On
Behalf Of </b>John Miller via Tactile-Talk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 8, 2025 2:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Engebretson via Tactile-Talk
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tactile-talk@nfbnet.org"><tactile-talk@nfbnet.org></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> John Miller <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:johnmillerphd@hotmail.com"><johnmillerphd@hotmail.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Tactile-Talk] Tactile Talk Grayscale
braille versus position<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
have a new idea to share with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
thought this list was going to be used primarily for how to
use a Graphiti or a Monarch or a multi-line braille display
to look at tactile position information. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">It
is true that looking at the output of a 3D printer or
looking at a tactile image generated by a traditional
braille embosser or reviewing a text file sent to a
traditional braille embosser all have merit for showing
tactile information versus position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
use the method described below at my work to look at
intensity versus position images. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Sighted
engineers look at intensity vs position images from time to
time and find them quite useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Intensity
vs position often shows up as a rainbow of colors from Red
to Blue, or also can be different levels of gray when
reviewed visually.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
wanted to share with you an example of grayscale braille.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">It
sometimes is the case that a blind person wishes to review
an analytical 3-D function.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Visually
these functions are often displayed in grayscale with
different locations in a 2-D region having a gray level
ranging from black to white.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For
visual consumption the grayscale level will often range from
0 through 255.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Using
letters of the alphabet results in coarser intensity
resolution than 256 levels but allows for one braille symbol
to be placed in one braille cell position rather than having
to use 3 braille cells for a 3-digit number.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">With
a refreshable braille display or a braille embosser it can
be useful to indicate different amplitudes of the image with
different letters of the alphabet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For
example, the letters "a" through "t" can be used to indicate
level 0 through level 19. This leaves letters "u" through
"z" for special emphasis such as using "u" to mark the
locations of a route through a topology map showing various
altitudes of the land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">With
8-dot braille it is possible to use "a" through "z" followed
by "A" followed by "Z" to display 52 levels. Additional
symbols such as "1" through "0" can be extended to give 62
different levels of change but in this example only the
symbols "a" through "t" are assigned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
wish to look at the height of a sphere versus position for a
sphere that is centered at the origin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">In
this case the radius of the sphere is 1.5 and I examine the
grid of x ranging from -1.6 through 1.6 and y ranging from
-1.6 to 1.6 both with steps of 0.1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For
each (x, y) pair I evaluate the expression z equals the
square root of the quantity r squared minus the sum of x
squared plus y squared end quantity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For
z in the range of 0 less than or equal to z less than 0.1,
assign "a"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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z in the range of 0.1 less than or equal to z less than 0.2,
assign "b"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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z in the range of 1.4 less than or equal to z less than 1.5
assign "o"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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z in the range of 1.5 less than or equal to z less than 1.6
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I
form a 33 row by 33 column grid of letters ranging from "a"
to "o".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
plot shows the top hemisphere of the sphere. Note that for
the equation of the sphere for each (x, y) there is both a
positive z value and a negative z value with the same
amplitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">By
observation the edges of the plot all evaluate to the "a"
symbol or to zero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Each
row starts at zero and ends at zero and may visit a nonzero
value in the middle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
same is true for each column.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
letters in each row start with "a" and ascend with some
jumps and some duplicates to a high letter and then descend
in similar fashion back to "a".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
image appears to have radial symmetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
center of the image evaluates to the "o" symbol or to 1.4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">There
are about 6 rows with at most 6 columns in each showing the
"o" symbol.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Surrounding
the "o" region is the "n" region evaluating to 1.3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">There
are about 3 "n" symbols adjacent to each other in any row.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Surrounding
the "n" region is the "m" region evaluating to 1.2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">You
can trace a ring through the "n" region, "m" region, and
other regions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Returning
your attention to the "n" region you can see that the band
is at most 3 symbols wide or that the band has a width of at
most 0.2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
"g" region evaluating to 0.6 is only 1 symbol wide and on
some rows has to be inferred by following the boundary
between a letter earlier in the alphabet than "g" such as
"f" followed by a letter later in the alphabet than "g" such
as "h".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">About
half way down the image you can examine a row of letters
that includes the peak amplitude letter "o".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">At
the middle of the row of letters the gradient from a "o" to
a "j" is very gradual taking about 11 symbols to go from one
to the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">At
the beginning and the end of the row it takes about 5
symbols to go from "a" to "j".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">This
means that an object with some decent traction placed near
the middle of this row on the sphere would stay put but if
it was placed on the left or the right edge of the sphere it
would slide off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">In
other words, the left and right sections of this row have a
large change in altitude for a small change in horizontal
position whereas the middle of the row has a small change in
altitude for a small change in horizontal position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">These
are observations that are not immediately apparent by just
examining a comma delimited CSV file of the data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">On
the other hand, these observations can be made directly by
using the grayscale braille image.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The
grayscale image of a sphere follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaaaabcdddccaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaadefgggggggffdbaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaabcefghhhhhhhggfdcbaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaabefghiijjjjjjjiihggedbaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaabefhhijjkkkkkkkjjiihgfbaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaefhiijkkkllllllkkjjihgecaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaabfhijjkkllllllllllkjjihfdbaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaacghijjklllmmmmmmllkkjjigecaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aadehijkkllmmmmmmmmmmlkkjihfeaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaefijkkllmmnnnnnnnmmmllkjigfbaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aafgijkllmmnnnnnnnnnnmllkkihgcaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">abghjkkllmnnnnnnnnnnnmmllkjhhdbaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">acghjkllmmnnnnooonnnnmmmlkjhhecaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">adghjkllmmnnnoooooonnnmmlkjihedaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">adghjkllmmnnnoooooonnnmmlkjihedaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">adghjkllmmnnnoooooonnnmmlkjihedaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">acghjkllmmnnnnoooonnnmmmlkjihecaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">acghjkllmmnnnnooonnnnmmmlkjhhecaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aafgijkllmmnnnnnnnnnnmmllkihgdaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aafgijkllmmnnnnnnnnnmmllkjihgcaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aadfhijkklmmmmnnnmmmmllkkjhgfbaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aabdgijjkkllmmmmmmmmllkkjigedbaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaacghijjklllmmmmmmllkkjjigecaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaabeghijjkkllllllllkkjjihecbaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaadfghiijkkkkkkkkkjjiihfdaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaabbefghiijjjjjjjiihggedbaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaacdefghhhiiiihhhgeecaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaabcefghhhhhhhggfdcbaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaabcdeeeeeedcbaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaaaabcdddccaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Very
best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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