DISABILITY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
SEPTEMBER 2022
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The poster is rectangular in shape with a black colored chalkboard background overlaid with mathematical equations. In the center of the poster, on a diagonal, is a black rectangle bordered by small teal, yellow and red rectangles. It features the 2022 NDEAM theme, “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation,” along with an equation composed of several graphics: a circular photo of a woman in a wheelchair working at a computer with colleagues, followed by a plus sign, followed by a square image of a woman who uses crutches viewing a document with a colleague, followed by an equal sign, followed by a light bulb icon. Across the top of the rectangle in small, white letters are the words National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Along the bottom in small white letters is the hashtag “NDEAM” followed by ODEP’s website address, dol.gov/ODEP. In the lower right corner in white lettering is the DOL seal followed by the words “Office of Disability Employment Policy United States Department of Labor.”
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NDEAM IS NEXT MONTH
The 2022 NDEAM theme is “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation”
In recognition of the important role people with disabilities play in a diverse and inclusive American workforce, the theme for National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) 2022 will be “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation.” Observed annually in October, NDEAM celebrates the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities past and present and showcases supportive, inclusive employment policies and practices. The annual theme is announced early to facilitate advance planning of events. The official 2022 NDEAM poster will be released soon!
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Disability 101 E-Learning Now Available!
Free to Paid DC Metro Members
Purchase Options Available
C5’s Disability Inclusion IQ "Disability 101" module includes:
- Appropriate language: Terminology, Person-First, Identity-First, Neurodivergent
- Disability etiquette: Appropriate Interactions
- Accessible, short, self-paced, and cloud-based.
- Annual license
- Unlimited virtual seats per organization each year.
- Tracking and reporting capabilities for the organization.
- Designed for the entire workforce.
- May be taken in any order at any time and repeated as often as desired.
Within the Module:
- Transcript and Voice Over
- Short Quiz
- Resources
- Glossary of Terms
Additional Modules will be available soon!
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Wealth of Webinars
Check out our 2022 offerings by signing up at
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Integrating Disability-Owned Business Enterprises into your Supply Chain
September 22, 2022
12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Supplier Diversity is Inclusion!
Join us to learn how you can increase your supplier diversity. Connect with certified Disability-Owned Business Enterprises (DOBE®s)!
Procurement Professionals
&
Disability-owned Businesses Invited!
Agenda
12:30 – 12:35 pm Welcome from Disability:IN DC Metro
12:35 – 12:45 pm The Benefits of Doing Business with Certified DOBE®s–Philip DeVliegher, Disability:IN, Vice President of Supplier Diversity
12:45 – 1:30 pm Meet Disability:IN Certified DOBE®s from Chicagoland, DC Metro, MN and WI
1:30 – 1:50 pm Breakout Q&A Time with Certified DOBE®s
1:50 – 2:00 pm Wrap Up
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September 28th
HYBRID Event
Returning to The Office Post COVID 19
3:30pm - 5:30pm
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When the pandemic began over two years ago, it catapulted many organizations into the future, rapidly accelerating their digital transformation. Work environments changed overnight as remote work became commonplace and market demands evolved.
As organizations transition from the urgent, crisis-driven reaction of recent times to a more stabilized and purposeful roadmap for the foreseeable future, the year ahead holds significant promise for the technology industry with an exciting agenda. Tech players will be seen bringing predictability to the future of work, by serving up innovative technological models, meshing dispersed elements of tech infrastructure and informing and enhancing customer experience while securing the systems and information to drive it. That being said, it will be important for tech leaders to keep a pulse on the industry landscape and evolving trends, to deploy alignment or mitigation strategies and stay ahead.
This Fall Deloitte’s People with Disabilities and Allies (PwD&A) Community will
co-host an event with Disability:IN DC Metro. The event will be focused on corporate strategy for return to office post-COVID and considerations for people with disabilities.
AGENDA
Welcome: The Hon. Katherine McCary
Keynote: Shawn Morris, Deloitte GPS COO
Focus Topics:
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Topic 1-Future of Work: Jacqui Winters
- Topic 2- Proximity Bias: Karen Weisz
Industry Panel:
- Emily Yee, Deloitte (Moderator)
- Jacqui Winters, Deloitte
- Erica Brody, Google
- John Annand, Marriott International
Q&A & Closing Remarks
It will be a hybrid event with an in-person footprint in Deloitte’s Rosslyn, Virginia office and an online footprint through Zoom.
Address: 1919 N Lynn St Suite 1500, Arlington, VA 22209
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Stephanie Cadieux, Chief Accessibility Officer |
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Helen Henriques, Chief Customer Officer, eSSENTIAL Accessibility |
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The Value of Chief Accessibility Officers: Conversation with Stephanie Cadiuex, Canada's First Chief Accessibility Officer.
October 4, 2022
12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Moderator: Helen Henriques, eSSENTIAL Accessibility.
Featured Guests will include Jeff Wissell, CAO, Disability:IN. Neil Milikin, CAO, ATOS and Craig Leen, K&L Gates.
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Language Matters: The Importance of Disability Inclusion
October 12, 2022
Noon - 1 pm
Fireside Chat with
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Lori Golden, EY
Abilities Strategy Leader
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Kia Silver-Hodge, Enterprise Community Partners
Sr. Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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The Honorable Katherine McCary, C5 Consulting
President
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Creating Inroads for Veterans in the Workforce
November 9, 2022
12:00- 1:15 pm
REGISTER
Join DC Metro Board Member, Tom Downs, Booz Allen Hamilton in a discussion with other veteran recruiters from The Collaborative below.
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Understanding Non-Apparent Disabilities
Registration opening soon.
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Thank you to all our WOW HOST MEMBERS! |
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IN THE NEWS - ARTICLES OF INTEREST |
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Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to Inclusive
by John D. Kemp, Lakeshore Foundation President/CEO
According to a report from the Return On Disability Group, while 90% of organizations claim to prioritize diversity, only 4% consider disability in their DEI initiatives.
Lakeshore President & CEO John Kemp has written a book addressing this topic. "Disability Friendly: How to Move from Clueless to Inclusive," tackles how employers can harness the untapped potential of disabled employees, make reasonable accommodations, and create cultures of dignity, respect, pride, and inclusion. Learn more about John Kemp's book
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One billion people worldwide live with some form of disability (around 15 percent of the global population). Estimates suggest that persons with disabilities constitute an emerging market of almost USD two trillion in annual disposable income and a potential market of more than 3.4 billion people when family members and caregivers are included. However, as a group, persons with disabilities have a diverse range of experiences and impairments, yet they often face many complex obstacles in accessing employment, finance, and services, including banking services.
Persons with disabilities are critical to building stronger economies, and there is a business case for their inclusion. Discrimination on the grounds of disability—including failure to ensure equal access to employment and financial services—violates universal human rights, but also harms business performance and economic growth. Failure to address discrimination and exclusion may cost some economies as much as seven percent of GDP.
Given the pressing need for financial inclusion, the banking industry is well-positioned to lead the way on increasing access to employment opportunities and financial services and products for persons with disabilities. IFC is working with banks, companies, and investors to advance the economic inclusion of persons with disability as corporate leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, consumers, and stakeholders.
This note is one of the first by IFC in a series that highlight the private sector business case and emerging practices that foster economic inclusion for marginalized communities. It features first-hand information shared by 12 of IFC’s Treasury underwriter banks on how they are advancing economic inclusion for employees and customers with disabilities.
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Leader to Leader 2022
#PurpleLightUp
As employees with disabilities, it’s often our own lack of personal disability confidence combined with having to manage disability ‘alone’ at work that frequently hampers our careers and risks damaging our mental and physical wellbeing.
Lack of inner confidence can cause us to feel hesitant in requesting the adjustments/accommodations that would enhance our productivity; reluctant to share personal information or stories at work; and unable to bring our authentic selves to work.
This is why in 2022 as a part of #PurpleLightUp, PurpleSpace will be inviting disability ERG / Network Leaders to have a ‘Leader To Leader’ conversation with their CEO/C-suite leaders to discuss the role of personal and professional development in supporting inner confidence.
#PurpleLightUp is a game-changing global movement led by PurpleSpace. It is designed to celebrate the economic contribution of employees with disabilities and is a mark of respect to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities every 3rd December.
PurpleSpace now routinely hears form its members how #PurpleLightUp enables disability Employee Resource Groups (ERG) / Networks and their employers to accelerate culture change around the world.
In 2021, PurpleSpace introduced the concept of “Leader to Leader” conversations as part of #PurpleLightUp. Organisations around the world were invited to publish conversations between disability ERGs / Network Leaders and their CEOs about the characteristics of purposeful leadership.
‘Leader to Leader’ provided organisations from across the public, private and NGO sectors with the perfect platform to celebrate the economic contribution of employees with disabilities and shine a light on the work of those who are making the most extraordinary contribution to cultural change: the disability ERG / Network leaders.
Over 50 organisations – including Unilever, Microsoft, Accenture – participated in ‘Leader to Leader’ conversations. This resulted in over 70 videos which had over 186,000 combined views.
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Jeff Wissel, Disability:IN Chief Accessibility Officer is proud to share the latest work with Disability:IN- the #ProcureAccess initiative is a business-to-business initiative that drives access for individuals with disabilities in business.
For close to two years now, I’ve had the honor to spend an hour every Thursday meeting with a group of accessibility leaders. As one colleague described, together we created a “safe space,” to share experiences and dream about the future of accessibility in business. It is out of this dreaming, that the Procure Access Initiative was born.
Procure Access is a business-to-business initiative facilitated by Disability:IN that brings together companies that recognize the importance of buying and selling technology that is accessible to people with disabilities. As we launch the Initiative, 20 companies have signed the Procure Access Statement and committed to making accessibility and disability inclusion essential components of today’s procurement processes.
I have been losing my vision over the course of my life. I have been a user of assistive technology- primarily a screen reader- for the last 20 years. I am dependent upon my screen reader to stay gainfully employed, effective, efficient, and competitive. When software programs are accessible, I can fully participate. That shouldn’t be impacted by societal barriers simply because accessibility wasn’t prioritized.
As the Chief Accessibility Officer of Disability:IN, I know that digital accessibility is integral to every aspect of inclusion. The Procure Access Initiative leverages the global corporate buying power to move the needle on accessibility. It creates systemic change with human impact.
Together, we can work collaboratively to drive access and create a global economy where all are empowered to participate meaningfully and fully. #AreYouIN?
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Month-to-Month nTIDE Numbers (comparing July 2022 to August 2022)
In the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Jobs Report released today, the employment-to-population ratio for people with disabilities (ages 16-64) increased slightly from 34.4 percent in July to 34.6 percent in August (up 0.6 percent or 0.2 percentage points). For people without disabilities (ages 16-64), the employment-to-population ratio decreased slightly from 75.0 percent in July to 74.6 percent in August (down 0.5 percent or 0.4 percentage points). The employment-to-population ratio, a key indicator, reflects the percentage of people who are working relative to the total population (the number of people working divided by the number of people in the total population multiplied by 100).
“The employment-to-population ratio for people with disabilities has remained steadily above historic highs for the past twelve months,” said John O’Neill, PhD, director of the Center for Employment and Disability Research at Kessler Foundation. “This is encouraging for now,” he added, “considering the growing concerns about recession.”
Findings were similar for August’s labor force participation rate. For people with disabilities (ages 16-64), the labor force participation rate increased slightly from 37.3 percent in July to 37.6 percent in August (up 0.8 percent or 0.3 percentage points). For people without disabilities (ages 16-64), the labor force participation rate decreased slightly from 77.8 percent in July to 77.5 percent in August (down 0.4 percent or 0.3 percentage points). The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the population that is working, not working, and on temporary layoff, or not working and actively looking for work.
"The lack of movement in these labor market indicators may be an early sign of the impact of anti-inflationary measures taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve to slow the economy," remarked Andrew Houtenville, PhD, professor of economics and the research director of the UNH-IOD. "Historically, impacts on the labor market lag behind movements in economic growth such as movement in gross domestic product (GDP). We would not expect to see large changes in employment and labor force participation until after we see declines in economic growth," explained Dr. Houtenville.
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Events In The DC Metro Area and Beyond |
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National Organization on Disability at 40
Honoring the Past; Innovating the Future
2022 Leadership Council Annual Forum
September 29, 2022
101 Constitution Avenue, Washington D.C.
2:30 - 3:30 PM ET | Sponsor Reception
3:30 - 6:00 PM ET | Annual Forum
6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | Rooftop Reception and Awards
On September 29, when we'll celebrate 40 years of NOD and the accomplishments of the disability rights movement; explore the future being built by ADA Generation innovators; and celebrate our longtime chairman Governor Tom Ridge.
Emcee: Michael A. Smerconish, CNN and SiriusXM host.
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Save the date for the
2022 NTID Career Fair
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
The NTID Co-op and Career Center will be bringing back the annual fall NTID Career Fair in-person this year!
Information on the event and steps to register will be shared in the coming months. Please visit our Career Fair webpage for further updates.
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Global Business Services Conference
October 27 - 28, 2022
New York City
We are excited to announce updates to our agenda for the Global Business Services Conference being held October 27 - 28, 2022 in New York City. Join us to hear from GBS leaders on the what’s, why’s, and how’s for delivering true business value. Walk away with actionable ideas and insights for transforming delivery capabilities to support rapidly changing business and competitive requirements.
Moving Mountains: Navigating HR Shared Services
For many GBS organizations, incorporating HR is the next frontier. Learn how three major organizations navigated the rough waters of harmonizing and standardizing HR shared services.
- Nadia Hutchinson, Global Director, HR Services and Operation, Cabot Corporation
- Tom Nesteruk, SVP/Associate Chief People Officer, AdventHealth
- Michele Cefola, Global Vice President, Talent Acquisition, Mars Incorporated
- Moderator: Janet Ramey, Senior Fellow, The Conference Board
Around the World and Back Again: When to Move Work Back in House
Business process outsourcing has been enthusiastically embraced, but over time enterprises have found that some work is uniquely suited to outsourcing while other work is not. In some cases, organizations are looking at repatriating work in-house for reasons such as control, talent acquisition, branding, and supply chain. This panel will explore the processes behind three leaders’ decisions to change their delivery model.
- Brenda Morris, Vice President, Global Business Services, Boston Scientific
- Michael Smith, General Manager - GBS Cork, Kuala Lumpur & Mexico City, Eli Lilly
- Moderator: Deborah Kops, Program Director, Global Business Services Council, The Conference Board
The Metrics Journey: From Tracking Transactions to Improving Business Outcomes
Learn how Chubb’s metrics around finance shared services have evolved, expanding from tracking transactions and efficiency to producing data that go to core business outcomes. Understand how this metrics evolution has allowed for continuous improvement with impacts on customer experience and the bottom line; and has allowed shared services to serve as accounting advisers to the enterprise.
- Sameer Shah, SVP, Global Head of Finance Shared Services, Chubb
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Mid-Atlantic ADA Conference 2022
TransCen and the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, in collaboration with the Great Plains ADA Center, will host ADAcon, the 29th Annual Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Americans with Disabilities Act!
Tuesday, October 11, Wednesday, October 12, and Thursday, October 13, 2022
- Call for presentation proposals will be issued in early 2022.
- Registration will open late spring, 2022.
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JOIN BroadFutures for a night on the waterfront
October 22
5:30–8pm EDT
Cocktails & Light Fare
The District Wharf
Rooftop Penthouse and Terrace
1000 Maine Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024
BroadFutures' mission is to celebrate neurodiversity by creating access, cultivating skills and revolutionizing the workplace for all, through an innovative training, mentoring and paid internship program.
Since our incorporation in 2013, we have served close to 270 young people directly and hundreds more through our community outreach. We have partnered with over 60 employers, working side by side with them to ensure successful internships.
We are expanding our programs, serving more young people and employers, and developing new pilot programs. We are also hiring staff to increase our capacity, and, as always, ensuring we have a growing amount of funds to ensure our programs are accessible for ALL.
PLEASE JOIN BroadFutures & BECOME a SPONSOR for our
New Opportunities, New Impact Fall Gala
by September 15 to be included on our Invitation
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Digital Inclusion:
Strategies for Equal Opportunities
Attracting leading advocates, corporate executives and accessibility professionals involved in digital inclusion, the M-Enabling Summit is an all-inclusive conference and showcase offering rich networking opportunities, fostering innovative technology that benefits more than one-billion Persons with Disabilities and an expanding population of aging adults globally.
With its theme of “Digital Inclusion: Strategies for Equal Opportunities,” the 2022 M-Enabling Summit, in celebration of its 10th anniversary, will explore the latest innovations and major trends in business, government and education that are accelerating the pursuit of universal accessibility for digital products, contents, and services. Convened annually in Washington, D.C., the M-Enabling Summit brings together key decision makers from all sectors facilitating unique exchanges, collaborations, solutions-sharing and thought leadership activities.
The 2022 M-Enabling Summit features panel discussions, open conversations with disrupters in digital inclusion, instant polls, networking meetups, brainstorming and live debates among advocacy leaders, business executives, and technology providers. M-Enabling Summit registered participants will have on-demand access to key session recordings, research reports, and other materials post-Summit.
On day three of the Summit, the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) will host a thought leadership Expert Forum on strategies to scale up digital accessibility implementations.
The M-Enabling Summit is committed to working with the venue, service providers, and vendors to a “health safety first” approach throughout all phases of event production and onsite execution. Health safety protocols will be updated periodically, based on applicable CDC and local authorities’ recommendations for public meetings.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
International Ballroom at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner
You’re invited to walk the red carpet, pose for paparazzi, and immerse yourself in the fun of the Art Deco and Great Gatsby era.
This year, The Arc of Northern Virginia’s fall fundraising gala celebrates 60 years of service!
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Our focus is on Culture Change!
Our organization, formerly the DC Metro Business Leadership Network, is the largest regional member network of a variety of industry employers advocating for inclusion of individuals with disabilities in today's workforce, marketplace and supply chain. A non-profit business-led network established in 2006, our purpose is to bring the business community together in a dialog through education, training and resources with a focus on removing attitudinal and organizational barriers by exchanging best practices to ensure that the inclusion of individuals with disabilities as smart business.
Our Members and Guests have access to resources, programs and partners to strengthen the disability inclusion efforts and outcomes.
- Thought leadership
- Business to business networking
- Introductions to community partners
- Access to talent
- Hot topic programming led by Subject Matter Experts
- Webinars
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Our Board
Board Members:
- John Annand, Marriott International
- Jennifer Bassett, Chair, JBG SMITH Companies
- Tashi Carper, Leidos
- Michelle Crabtree, Town of Vienna
- Ellen de Bremond, Treasurer
- Anjali Desai-Margolin, Gallaudet University
- Tom Downs, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Andrea Hall, Past Chair, General Dynamics Mission Systems
- Sylvia Henri-Wonasue, Secretary, Lockheed Martin
- Sophie Howard, Immediate Past Chair, General Dynamics IT
- Eduardo Meza-Etienne, eSSENTIAL Accessibility
- Mary Sauder, Northrop Grumman
- Ryan Walters, Vice-Chair, Deloitte
- Myra Wilder, BAE Systems
Advisory Board Members:
- Jessica Lee Aiello, iYellow Group
- Meghan Cadigan, KPMG
- Crosby Cromwell, The Valuable 500
- Lori Daly, Diversifi Consulting Group and Chair, Community Outreach
- Ron Drach, Drach Consulting, LLC
- Rikki Epstein, The Arc of Northern VA
- Melody Goodspeed, The American Foundation for the Blind
- Karen Herson, Concepts, Inc.
- Carolyn Jeppsen, BroadFutures
- Craig Leen, K&L Gates, Former OFCCP Director
- Carrie Martin, MAXAR Technologies
- Rick Rodgers, The Resource Network and Chair, Disability Supplier Diversity
Our Staff
The Hon. Katherine McCary, President, C5 Consulting, LLC serves as CEO and Executive Director. Katherine served as founding chair of the USBLN (now Disability:IN) for nine years, the founding chair of the VA BLN (Now Virginia Ability) for 13 years and has launched more than 11 chapters. She received the USBLN Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
C5 is a global disability inclusion strategy consultancy comprised exclusively of private sector disability leaders, experienced disability from a variety of areas; as individuals, as caregivers, and as parents of individuals with disabilities. With more than 50 years combined expertise and a deep knowledge of culture change developed through customized business strategies. C5 is the pioneer of disability inclusion "for business by business" with just in time training Disability Inclusion IQ designed for enterprise wide learning, now a DC Metro chapter member benefit!
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Our Mission
“Building the Business Network for Disability Inclusion.”
Our Vision
“Cultivate workforces and workplaces where talent with disabilities are recruited, included, promoted, retained and valued as both internal talent and innovative vendors.”
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