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Welcome to the second of three installments in our series on building a small business app from scratch. This tutorial will teach you how to implement an AQGridView within your project in order to achieve a stunning design. Read on!

Tutorial Overview

In this tutorial, I will go about designing the screen you see in the image below. The screen you see below has a grid of tabs that can be used to show a company?s services. We are going to use an Open Source component called AQGridView to implement the Grid you see below.

AQGrid views behave similarly to the UITableViewController, so if you are familiar with using Table Views, you are in good company. If not, I will show you how. No worries!

Adding the Grid Cell

So, the first step is to download AQGrid view from GitHub and then add the AQGridView folder to your project. We also need to add the QuartzCore library to our project because the AQGrid view needs it. We don?t need anything else for now.

Now we can add the class that will hold the details for each tab. Add a new file to the project. Choose the Cocoa Touch->Objective -C Class->NSObject template. Call it GridViewCell.

Change the inherited object to AQGridViewCell in the GridViewCell header file. This is the equivalent of a UITableViewCell for the Grid view component. Also, add an Image View and a Label to the the same header file.

 #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import "AQGridView.h"  @interface GridViewCell : AQGridViewCell  @property (nonatomic, retain) UIImageView * imageView;  @property (nonatomic, retain) UILabel * captionLabel;  @end 

In the GridViewCell.m implementation file, we will write an initialization method that will create the Views, Image Views, and Label that will make up a single tab.

 - (id) initWithFrame: (CGRect) frame reuseIdentifier: (NSString *) aReuseIdentifier {     self = [super initWithFrame: frame reuseIdentifier: aReuseIdentifier];     if ( self)     {          UIView* mainView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 160, 123)];         [mainView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];          UIImageView *frameImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(9, 4, 142, 117)];         [frameImageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tab-mask.png"]];          self.imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(13, 8, 135, 84)];          self.captionLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(13, 92, 127, 21)];         [captionLabel setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14]];          [mainView addSubview:imageView];         [mainView addSubview:frameImageView];         [mainView addSubview:captionLabel];          [self.contentView addSubview:mainView];      }      return self; } 

This function looks similar to the init function of a standard UITableViewCell. The difference in this case is we are doing some basic layout for the views involved in the cell. There are two ImageViews, one for the white frame around the service image and another for the picture depicting the service itself. Please refer to the final image to understand what we are trying to achieve.

There is also a label which will be used as the caption of the tab.

After the views have been created, they are added to a UIView (just for organization) and then that UIView is added to the cell itself.

Creating the Grid Controller

The next step is to create the View controller that will act as the delegate and datasource of the Grid. Add a new file and use the Cocoa Touch->Objective -C Class->NSObject template. Call it GridViewController. Change the GridViewController.h file and make it a subclass of AQGidViewController. Also add a couple of fields that will hold the GridView itself and the list of services that will be in the Grid.

 #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import "AQGridView.h"  @interface GridViewController : UIViewController <AQGridViewDelegate, AQGridViewDataSource>  @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet AQGridView * gridView;  @property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray * services;  @end 

Add a viewDidLoad method. This is where we shall configure our Views and data. But first, let?s configure the GridView.

 @synthesize gridView, services;  - (void) viewDidLoad {     [super viewDidLoad];      self.gridView = [[AQGridView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];     self.gridView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight; 	self.gridView.autoresizesSubviews = YES; 	self.gridView.delegate = self; 	self.gridView.dataSource = self;      [self.view addSubview:gridView];      [self.gridView reloadData]; } 

The mandatory synthesizer is added then the Grid is initialized and configured. We also make sure that the current class GridViewController is assigned as the delegate and datasource of the GridView. The Grid is added to the current view and the data is reloaded just to make sure we are starting from scratch.

Now we need to implements the methods that are expected to be in a class that inherits from AQGridViewDatasource and AQGridViewDelegate protocols.

The first one is the number of items in the Grid. We simply return a random number for now. Later, when we implement an array of services, this number will change.

 - (NSUInteger) numberOfItemsInGridView: (AQGridView *) aGridView {     return 6; } 

The next method to implement is called cellForItemAtIndex. This method dequeues a cell using the CellIdentifier string if it can find one. If it doesn?t, it will create a new version of our GridViewCell that we previously implemented.

 - (AQGridViewCell *) gridView: (AQGridView *) aGridView cellForItemAtIndex: (NSUInteger) index {     static NSString * PlainCellIdentifier = @"PlainCellIdentifier";      GridViewCell * cell = (GridViewCell *)[aGridView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"PlainCellIdentifier"];      if ( cell == nil )     {         cell = [[GridViewCell alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 160, 123)                                    reuseIdentifier: PlainCellIdentifier];     }      [cell.imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-2.jpg"]];     [cell.captionLabel setText:@"Sample service"];      return cell;  } 

You can also see that each cell is configured with some dummy data.

So far, we have been implementing a lot of code without seeing the result of the implementation. Let?s do a quick run to see how things turn out.

To be able to see this view in the simulator, we will need to let our Storyboard know about this new ViewController.

Select the MainStoryboard_iPhone file and change the Class of the SecondViewController nib to GridViewController. Also delete both labels in the View.

Now we are ready to run our little app in the simulator. We should see the following screen.

Disappointed? Doesn?t look like what you expected, right? Okay let?s fix that.

Implementing the Grid Layout

The first step is to change the background color. For that, we are going to use a fabric texture which is included in the sample project.

Open up the GridViewController.m file and add these two lines to the viewDidLoad method:

     UIImage * backgroundPattern = [UIImage imageNamed:@"bg-app.png"];      [self.view setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:backgroundPattern]]; 

Next, we need to implement the AQGridViewDataSource protocol method:

 - (CGSize) portraitGridCellSizeForGridView: (AQGridView *) aGridView {     return ( CGSizeMake(160.0, 123) ); } 

This method tells the Grid view how large each cell should be. The size is taken from the size of the GridViewCell we created previously.

If you now run the application in the simulator, you should see the screen below:

Now that?s more like it!

Implementing a Data Model

Our cells could do with a bit more diversity. Let?s add a data model to it so the services can come from some sample data. This will ideally be the list of services of the business that owns the app. You could connect to a website CMS and pull its categories as well. However, that is out of the scope of this tutorial series.

Add a new Cocoa Touch->NSObject file to the application and call it BusinessService. Open up the BusinessService.h file and add the following code:

 #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>  @interface BusinessService : NSObject  @property (nonatomic, copy) NSString* caption;  @property (nonatomic, retain) UIImage* image;  -(id)initWithCaption:(NSString*)theCaption andImage:(UIImage*)theImage;  +(NSArray*)getSampleData;  @end 

This is going to be a very simple class with just a caption and an image. It is also defined by two methods that I will explain shortly.

Open up the BusinessService.m file and add the following piece of code

 @synthesize caption, image;  -(id)initWithCaption:(NSString*)theCaption andImage:(UIImage*)theImage {     self = [super init];      if(self)     {         self.caption = theCaption;         self.image = theImage;     }      return self; }  +(NSArray*)getSampleData {      BusinessService* service1 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Litigation" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-1.jpg"]];      BusinessService* service2 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Family Law" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-2.jpg"]];      BusinessService* service3 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Conveyancing" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-3.jpg"]];      BusinessService* service4 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Corporate Law" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-4.jpg"]];      BusinessService* service5 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Solicitors" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-5.jpg"]];      BusinessService* service6 = [[BusinessService alloc] initWithCaption:@"Tax Law" andImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"service-6.jpg"]];      return [NSArray arrayWithObjects:service1, service2, service3, service4, service5, service6, nil]; } 

The code above implements an init method where both the caption and the image are initialized using the parameters passed into the function. The getSampleData method just calls the init function 6 times with different captions and images.

We now need to hook up our model to the Grid View. Open up the GridViewController.m file and add this to the viewDidLoad method (don?t forget to include the ?BusinessService.h? file in the #import section).

     self.services = [BusinessService getSampleData]; 

This will load the sample data into our array of services.

Also modify the numberOfItemsInGridView to return the actual number of services there are:

 - (NSUInteger) numberOfItemsInGridView: (AQGridView *) aGridView {     return [services count]; } 

And lastly, change the cellForItemAtIndex method to use the service at the specified index. This means the 6th cell will use the info (caption and image) for the 6th service.

 - (AQGridViewCell *) gridView: (AQGridView *) aGridView cellForItemAtIndex: (NSUInteger) index {     static NSString * PlainCellIdentifier = @"PlainCellIdentifier";      GridViewCell * cell = (GridViewCell *)[aGridView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"PlainCellIdentifier"];      if ( cell == nil )     {         cell = [[GridViewCell alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 160, 123)                                    reuseIdentifier: PlainCellIdentifier];      }      BusinessService* service = [services objectAtIndex:index];      [cell.imageView setImage:service.image];     [cell.captionLabel setText:service.caption];      return cell;  } 

Let?s run the application to see what we get.

That is looking snazzy . The last bit left is to add the blue Navigation Bar at the top.

Customizing the Navigation Bar

To show the Navigation Bar, we need to embed it in a Navigation controller. Open the MainStoryboard_iPhone file and select the GridViewController on the stage. Open the Editor Menu Option and Select Embed In>Navigation Controller.

If we run the app, we will get the basic default Navigation bar. We still need to customize it. To do so, we shall use the iOS 5 Appearance SDK. This allows you to set the global appearance of UI Elements in your app.

Open up the AppDelegate.m file and change the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions to the following.

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {     UIImage *navBarImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"menubar.png"];      [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:navBarImage                                        forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];      // Override point for customization after application launch.     return YES; } 

What this does is to change the background image of all UINavigationBar?s in the application to the specified UIImage (menubar.png).

To add the ?Services? title in the Navigation Bar, double click it in the Storyboard to edit it.

The last step is to add a gradient at the top of the Grid so that the Navigation Bar looks like it is hovering.

To do that, we will add a Gradient CALayer to the GridViewController.m file.

Include the QuartzCore header file:

 #import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> 

And add this to the bottom of the viewDidLoad method:

      UIView* gradientView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 4)];     CAGradientLayer *gradient = [CAGradientLayer layer];     gradient.frame = gradientView.bounds;      UIColor* lightColor = [[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.0];     UIColor* darkColor = [[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.5];      gradient.colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:(id)darkColor.CGColor, (id)lightColor.CGColor, nil];     [gradientView.layer insertSublayer:gradient atIndex:0];      [self.view addSubview:gradientView]; 

Now for a final run of our application.

Wrap Up

We have come to the end of Part 2. Look out for Part 3 where I will show you how to design the detail view for each service. When a service tab is tapped on, it will push a new ViewController to the screen and we will start the process of designing that also. Be sure to check back soon!

If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments.

Source: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/iphone/design-build-a-small-business-app-aqgridview/

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With all the child-abuse indictments appearing in the news these days (in Boy Scouts, churches, schools, football teams), the question is – are we and our organizational leaders failing them? Without saying, these crimes are subtle and difficult to handle to start with. They are cleverly camouflaged and done in secret. Also, major backlash can occur if people are accused falsely.

Such organizational issues also require legal protection from fraudulent lawsuits merely seeking money from them. Also, any unfounded accusations of suspects can become liabilities and lawsuits themselves. Thus, our leaders must carefully find valid evidence to fix them.

A real indictment

Recently, a Kansas City Star Newspaper editorial explained how a conscientious diocesan priest pursued a child-abuse allegation of a clergyman in 2004. Within days the suspect clergyman was confronted by his bishop, and was subsequently suspended from his duties at two parishes.

Less than a month later, however, an independent review by the diocese and local authorities concluded these allegations were unfounded – no real evidence. The suspect priest was then reassigned. Such investigations can bite back when done without enough evidence.

Seven years later (2011), the same investigative priest (now a much higher-ranking one) was indicted by the county prosecutor for not reporting suspected child abuse to the authorities as soon as required by law. The initial evidence in this case came from a computer repair technician who found a pornographic child photograph on the suspect clergyman’s laptop. Yet, this slower investigation did turn up the needed evidence to prosecute the suspect. But the investigative priest was still indicted. Is this situational paradoxical?

Four factors considered in such situations

1. To investigate internally or from the outside. Organizational administrators probably should not be investigating their own administrators. Inherently, they could be too lenient. Also, if an investigation from the outside gets carried away, anyone inside could be prosecuted under flimsy charges. Still, the outside investigations do offset a common tendency for organizations to coverup abuse crimes.

2. Hard proof. To start an investigation, the administrative authorities need more proof than anonymous phone tips or inconsistent verbal evidence. Within many organizations, competitive attempts to defame people occur all the time. Thus, if a real investigation is warranted, it can move forward quietly with the simultaneous goals of getting the real proof while protecting the innocent. It can also prevent unnecessary entrapment.

A short abstract at the link below says 77% of the successful child-abuse prosecutions from a select study were done without physical evidence. Thus, the basic proof needed for such prosecutions include detailed affidavits, consistent verbal witnesses, diaries/journals, photographs on cameras/computers, recordings, and valid confessions.

3. Damage from scandal. Will the resultant charges affect the organization negatively? Will it cause scandal, damaged imagery, employment issues, membership and budget losses, or general destruction. Or, will it merely puncture its so-called image slightly, and then bring about a much better system thereafter?

4. Strong civil law. Certain organizations have strict guidelines for dealing and interacting with children. As a result, proven child-abuse criminals must be turned over to the authorities. Any internal notions of correcting child abusers through 1) scoldings/warnings and punishments, 2) rehabilitating them with medication and counseling, or 3) reassigning them where they can do no harm are no longer valid. Criminal acts do not correct themselves informally.

Conclusion. Too much systematic corruption and criminal coverup from child sex abuse has already occurred in organizations, leaving the victimized children and their families in the lurch. In the future, the top leaders of these organizations must prevent or stop these abuse crimes early. The proven child abusers must be immobilized and criminally tried in public view.

Legal Proof of Abuse – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1881730

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This week we?re going to take you on a walking tour of our vendors who offer meat, poultry, eggs, dairy products and seafood at the market.? As with all of our food vendors, the Audubon Park Community strives to offer products that are humanely produced to the most sustainable standards possible.? You will find a large variety of these products at the market every week.? Here?s a little walking tour of what?s available now:

As you come through the main entrance, head straight past the Big Wheel food truck and look for Bear Wolf Ranch on your right.? Jodi Anderson raises chickens ?the old fashioned way,? in a pasture where they are free to forage and ?behave like real chickens.?? You?ll find cornish-cross and heritage breed chickens at her booth, and Jodi will be able to tell you all about them.? If you love the product, you might be interested in joining the 12-week chicken CSA that Bear Wolf has begun to offer.

After you visit Jodi, continue down the same row and stop by the Heart of Christmas Farms booth at the corner.? Here you?ll find raw goat?s milk and cheeses (for pet use) straight from the farm.? Heart of Christmas is also an authorized seller for Deep Creek Ranch in DeLeon Springs and Nines Mine Ranch in St. Cloud, FL.? Both farms are part of? Growing Synergy, a sustainable food and agriculture distributor here in Florida, and have been carefully vetted by management at the Audubon Park Community Market.? Offerings include grass-fed beef and lamb.? Richard from Heart of Christmas can tell you all about any of the products he is carrying.

Fresh seafood from Wild Ocean

Right next to Heart of Christmas to your left), you?ll find the Wild Ocean Seafood booth.? Wild Ocean is a family-owned market that specializes in local, wild-caught seafood.? They are our local shrimp experts and their staff can probably answer any question you can think of about local seafood and how to properly prepare it.? Wild Ocean is a supporter of Slow Food?s Slow Fish campaign, which encourages seafood eaters to diversify their palates and buy from small-scale fisherman, in order to protect the ocean and its populations.? With that in mind, the selection at Wild Ocean is constantly changing with the seasons, so you?ll never get bored with the selection.

Take a left from the Wild Ocean booth and head down the aisle to the Big Wheel Provisions Tent (on your right).? Chef Tony Adams works with local farmers to sell cuts of meat, charcuterie products, cheeses, and eggs.? He carries heritage breed, cruelty-free, antibiotic and hormone-free pork from Palmetto Creek Farm in Avon Park and from Pasture Prime in Ocala.? In addition to the cuts of meat, Tony makes his own charcuterie, including sausages, bacon, pastrami, and other products.? Big Wheel is also an authorized seller for Winter Park Dairy and Lake Meadow Naturals.? Winter Park Dairy is a local dairy in ? you guessed it ? Winter Park that produces premium cheeses.? Ask Tony about what the current selection is.? Lake Meadow Naturals is an egg and poultry farm in Ocoee.? Their heritage birds are fed a vegetarian diet, are not given hormones or antibiotics, and are raised in a stress-free environment.? At the Big Wheel booth, you will find fresh eggs (picked up at the farm each Monday morning) and poultry for sale.? Be sure to stop by and ask Tony about all the offerings at Big Wheel ? they?re changing all the time!

That concludes this week?s tour.? Next week, we?ll talk about dessert!

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Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced its collaboration with REACH Health, a technology company specializing in developing and providing interactive physician-to-patient access. ?REACH Health has integrated Vidyo technology into its proprietary software platform that offers multidiscipline acute care telemedicine?capabilities such as workflow, enhanced diagnostic assistance and automated documentation capabilities, in addition to video. Vidyo offers the industry?s richest and most versatile video collaboration platform with APIs that allow companies such as REACH to provide high-quality video communications to medical practitioners.? The Vidyo-enabled REACH Health solution will be demonstrated at this week?s HIMSS 2012 conference from February 20 ? 24, 2012 in Las Vegas, in Metro-Emerson?s Booth # 1329.

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?We needed to enable multi-party synchronized audio/video within our platform and Vidyo was able to meet critical requirements? ?? exceptional quality of video, reliability of connection, cost and ability to integrate via APIs with the other applications in our platform,? said Cory Hall, Executive VP of Medical Informatics at REACH Health.? ?Our platform is unique in that it was developed by physicians and we are committed to leveraging new and evolving technologies, such as Vidyo?s, to provide the best access to medical care.?

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?Telehealth is a critically important, rapidly growing field for which Vidyo?s capabilities are uniquely suited, ?said Dr. Amnon Gavish, Vidyo?s Senior VP, Vertical Solutions. ??No other video communication solution is able to offer the level of quality and ease-of-integration that Vidyo can provide with its APIs.? Since REACH Health services many environments that have limited network bandwidth and communications capabilities, they needed to integrate a video communication solution that would connect with smaller, rural facilities with limited connection capabilities.? Only Vidyo was able to meet this requirement.?

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The Vidyo Difference

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The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The patented VidyoRouter? architecture introduces Adaptive Video Layering?, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo?s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks. The platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005.

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About REACH Health

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REACH Health is a healthcare technology company with a specialized focus on telemedicine solutions. Our technology overcomes traditional obstacles of time and distance to connect specialty physicians and patients for live consultations using comprehensive patient data in tandem with real-time audio/video interaction. REACH?s multidiscipline solutions benefit numerous clinical environments including emergency rooms, ICUs and patient rooms for pulmonology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry and stroke applications.

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REACH technology is expanding patient care options by extending hospitals? REACH to specialist expertise while simultaneously enabling a better way to manage limited specialty resources intelligently and efficiently.

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About Vidyo for Healthcare

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Vidyo for Healthcare focuses the power of the versatile, high-quality Vidyo solution on telemedicine, patient care, research and other health-related programs. Vidyo for Healthcare eliminates the access, performance and cost issues of traditional systems that require expensive MCU equipment and dedicated QoS.? With its amazing quality, unmatched accessibility and market-shifting cost-efficiency,

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Vidyo for Healthcare provides hospitals, specialized medical centers and physician clinics with low latency telepresence-quality video conferencing from any mobile, desktop or room-based endpoint over the Internet, WiFi, LTE, and 4G networks.? Vidyo delivers end-to-end encryption, provides HIPAA-compliant security, and easily integrates into existing healthcare environments with support for a variety of medical devices and interoperability with existing conferencing infrastructure. The Vidyo for Healthcare solution includes the industry?s richest and most versatile video collaboration platform with an Application Programming Interface (API) to video-enable third party medical applications and for easy integration into the medical workflow.

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About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions. ?Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

Source: http://your-story.org/reach-health-adopts-vidyo-platform-vidyo-apis-allow-video-integration-into-robust-telemedicine-infrastructure-platform-311066/

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