Profile of Companies Presenting at the LISA Global Strategies Summit

AILIA

In this age of the Internet and market globalization, the language industry is experiencing sustained growth around the world. Canada is a leader in this burgeoning sector, and its language industry is now proudly represented by AILIA (Association de l'industrie de la langue/Language Industry Association), the number-one point of contact with the stakeholders of the Canadian language community.

AILIA is a not-for-profit trade association created in 2003 under the umbrella of the Government of Canada's Action Plan for Official languages. Its mission: To join forces and be the voice of the Canadian Language industry in the key areas: translation (which also includes localization, interpretation, terminology, dubbing), language training and technologies (i.e. multilingual text processing, speech processing, multilingual text information management and training tools).

AILIA is building on an alliance of the key stakeholders to drive lasting, profitable development of this rapidly growing industry. Its members are working together with energy and vision to ensure Canada benefits fully from the remarkable expansion being witnessed in the global language technologies and services market.
www.ailia.ca

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Association of Support Professionals

The Association of Support Professionals is an international membership organization for customer support managers and professionals. In addition to its annual "Ten Best Web Support" awards, the ASP publishes research reports on a wide range of support topics, including services marketing, support compensation, call center operations, and fee-based support.
www.asponline.com

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Avaya Inc.

Avaya Inc. is a provider of communications systems, applications and services for enterprises, including businesses, government agencies and other organizations. The Company's product and solution offerings include Internet protocol (IP) telephony systems that converge voice, data and other traffic across a single unified network; traditional voice communications systems; contact center infrastructure and applications support of customer relationship management, and unified communications applications, which include voice and multimedia messaging and structured cabling products.
www.avaya.com

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Basis Technology

Basis Technology provides products and services for software globalization and multilingual information processing. Its Rosette Linguistics Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world's languages. The company also provides rapid deployment engineering services covering all aspects of globalization, including source code audits, project management, software re-engineering, and global quality assurance.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology's solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, and transliteration. Clients include industry leaders Amazon.com, America Online, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Inktomi, L.L Bean, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Terra Lycos.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; and Tokyo, Japan.
www.basistech.com

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BMC Software, Inc.

BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC] is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management.

BMC Software is focused on serving the Global 2000 companies who are confronted with the task of managing a highly complex, heterogeneous and decentralized IT environment in a world that is constantly changing around them. To meet these demands and gain competitive advantage, these customers are utilizing BMC Software solutions to better meet the challenges and to enhance their return on investment.

Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion.
www.bmc.com

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COMSYS

COMSYS is based in Houston, TX with 40 national offices and an international presence in the UK and Canada. COMSYS is the largest pure play IT Staffing and Managed Solutions firm in North America with over $600M in revenue. The Managed Solutions Practice includes Globalization, SAS, Business Intelligence, Application Engineering, ERP and Vendor Management Services.

COSMSYS has a strong presence in the IT, government, financial and life science industries. COMSYS national database has more than 250,000 consultants. The Application engineering team has 200 plus IT engineers with resources worldwide.

The COMSYS Globalization Practice has 4000 plus Globalization consultants worldwide. These industry professionals are available both as consultants and on-site employees. They include qualified bilingual Project Managers, translators, voice talent, desktop publishers, QA engineers and internationalization and localization engineers.
www.comsys.com

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California State University, Chico

California State University in Chico is a residential campus in Northern California. It is ranked as one of the top 4 public regional universities in the West, offering more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors and a vibrant graduate program. Our Business school is on the fore front of integrating information technology with the curriculum. A unique feature of our MBA program is that we incorporate Enterprise resource Planning software from SAP as the basis of integration of various functional areas of business. A new addition is the development of an entrepreneurship curriculum for students who desire to start their own business ventures or use their knowledge of entrepreneurship to advance their career working for others.
www.csuchico.edu

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Canadian Government Translation Bureau

The Canadian Translation Bureau is charged with supporting the Government of Canada in its efforts to provide services to, and communicate with, Canadians in the official language of their choice. Since its inception in 1934, the Translation Bureau has been meeting the translation needs of the Canadian Parliament, the Judiciary and federal departments and agencies in English, French and foreign languages. Its mandate was broadened in 1987 to include vocal interpretation, sign-language interpretation and terminology standardization. Today, the Translation Bureau also offers technolinguistic services including localization, website design and graphics services as well as multimedia products.
www.translationbureau.gc.ca

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EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks, and services and the only company 100% dedicated to automated networked storage.

EMC Automated Networked Storage combines SAN, NAS, and CAS environments into an integrated networked storage infrastructure. It unifies networked storage technologies, storage platforms, software, and services to enable organizations to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect and share information.

As a result, customers are able to reduce costs through consolidation of storage and server resources, centralize and automate manual storage management tasks, and improve overall business continuity and flexibility.

EMC. Where information lives.
www.emc.com

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ENLASO

ENLASO Corporation, an ISO 9001 company with three decades of experience and five offices worldwide, provides clients with enterprise language solutions. ENLASO delivers multilingual solutions to the information technology, life sciences, legal, financial, aerospace, automotive, advertising and telecommunications industries. Services include localization of software, websites, marketing communications, technical documentation, localization testing and cultural consulting. Services are supported by the development of language technologies designed to assist in localization processes and projects.
www.translate.com

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ES Ltd.

ES is established in 1994 as a software localization company in Istanbul/Turkey. Initially starting as a rather modest size company, ES has now grown into a medium size company of 40 permanent employees, providing services for all stages of localization and translation process in its own office building. ES recently rated 4th in "software support revenues" category among top 500 IT companies with %3.88 market share in Turkey. In spite of its relatively short history, ES has successfully managed to complete many sizable prestigious projects for clients such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM/Lotus, HP and Xerox.

The hallmark of ES services is professionalism and timely delivery. Having a 2Mbit ADSL for Internet access (256K backup line), over seventy PCs, and dedicated personnel of whose majority have undergraduate and graduate degrees, particularly in engineering, ES has been awarded many letters of commendation from its worldwide known clients. ES is the only Turkish approved vendor of Microsoft (since 1994), Oracle (since 1996) and Lotus/IBM (since 1997).

ES is a member of LISA organization and employs Quality Assurance procedures by internal linguists and technical specialists based on LISA QA model that ensures full customer satisfaction.

Beginning August 2002, ES has become a part of GALA organisation and is eager in helping GALA grow along with the member companies. Beginning with 2002, the company has started serving its customers in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Farsi and Turkic languages (Azerbaijani, Kazakh) from and into English.

ES is also an ATA member since 2003.
www.estr.com

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Hewlett Packard Company

HP is a leading provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing.

Our $4 billion (U.S.) annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies, so that we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers.
www.hp.com

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i18N Inc.

Web sites? Shrink-wrap software? Embedded systems? Our consultants are proven experts that will help your developers, testers and managers understand globalisation requirements. Standard and custom workshops (1-3 days) are offered on-site, along with any extra consulting you may require.
www.i18N.ca

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IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of the on demand era.
www.ibm.com

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Idiom Technologies

Idiom Technologies, Inc. is the only enterprise software company to deliver advanced XML-based publishing and content globalization solutions to accelerate authoring, managing and distributing high quality content across multiple formats and languages. Based on its proven WorldServer(tm) technology platform, customers can take advantage of a range of electronic publishing, website deployment and software engineering applications to streamline costs and speed time-to-market.

Idiom WorldServer solutions are currently deployed at large global organizations including Adobe, Caterpillar, eBay, Medtronic, Motorola and Oracle. Idiom is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with offices throughout North America and in Europe.
www.idiominc.com

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Innodata Isogen

Innodata Isogen optimizes content supply chains, helping clients realize significant cost savings and productivity gains from content-related operations, achieve better outcomes and compete more effectively in demanding global markets.

Our solutions encompass virtually every activity necessary to create, use and distribute information products. Clients can choose from an array of integrated point solutions or simply outsource their entire content supply chain to us.

The company, based in metro New York, has seven content solution centers and satellites in North America and Europe, seven certified content production facilities and a dedicated tools and technology center in Asia, altogether employing more than 7,000 content specialists worldwide.

Among our extensive roster of blue-chip clients are the world's leading commercial publishers, Global 2000 enterprises, government agencies, and major archives, libraries and museums.
www.innodata-isogen.com

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Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Founded in 1994, Jonckers Translation & Engineering specializes in software and multimedia localization for enterprise, desktop and eLearning applications and content. Headquartered in Brussels, the company maintains operations in Europe, Asia and the U.S. With industry-leading customers in IT, finance and consumer electronics, Jonckers is renowned for its quality, scalability and capacity in all business languages.
www.jonckers.com

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Kinetic

Kinetic is a technology agency that is driving the future of managing the marketing communications process with its unique online tools. Founded in 1968 by G. Raymond Schuhmann, Kinetic is located in historic Distillery Commons in Louisville, Kentucky.

What we do
We design global marketing productivity tools that allow you to grant access - yet keep control - over everyone who touches your marketing communications.

KBAM! The marketing communications process, simplified.
KBAM! makes it possible to:

• Lower your marketing communications costs
• Increase the quality and consistency of your brand's image
• Easily share every digital aspect of your brand - cross-platform to across continents
• Electronically translate, personalize, customize and localize any brand communication you create
• Prepare your work for multi-channel applications
• Plus, attain a higher level of control than you've ever had before

Our approach
Our business style is distinct and visible - it sets us apart. Our diverse team uses an approach that allows the simple elegance of our solutions to radiate beyond the visual. Form and function fuse together to empower users. We believe technology should be both powerful and invisible.
www.TheTechnologyAgency.com

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Kronos

Kronos is the most trusted name in workforce management. Organizations turn to Kronos for help managing every phase of the employee relationship including staffing, developing, deploying, tracking, and rewarding the workforce. The end result is reduced costs, increased productivity, better decision-making, improved employee satisfaction, and alignment with organizational objectives.

Unlike traditional HRMS vendors who primarily deliver value to HR and payroll managers, or niche workforce management vendors who cater to specific groups of employees, Kronos delivers value to the entire workforce. By managing salaried, hourly, remote, mobile, and contingent workers through one comprehensive system, everyone from the CEO to the frontline manager can make better decisions and work more effectively. Whether our customers choose to apply Kronos solutions on an enterprise scale, or leverage them as point solutions to address key business objectives, they all use Kronos to improve the performance of their people and their business.

Kronos became the most trusted name in workforce management by delivering value through our time-tested and people-proven service approach to 20 million people within some of the world's most recognized organizations. Kronos offers solutions to a diverse array of industries, including education, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail.
www.kronos.com

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Language Technology Centre

The Language Technology Centre is a limited company based in the UK. The company was formed in 1992 by Dr. Rinsche with a view to providing language technology solutions to a wide variety of potential application areas.

At the Language Technology Centre, we are dedicated to working with companies with multilingual requirements. Our software and services encompass all aspects of multilingual support, from management of the localization process, to translation and localization of marketing material and software, to supporting a worldwide base of customers via the web and over the telephone in multiple languages.

The management of localization projects is achieved using the LTC Organiser. This system covers and integrates all aspects related to multilingual business process management such as resource scheduling, assignment, workflow, finance and reporting within one unified software environment. Our business management solution is available in 4 versions, supporting freelance translators, translation agencies and corporate customers.

The LTC localization department can become part of your localization workflow in providing project management and multilingual services for all your localization needs. LTC offers the development of multilingual websites, computer-assisted translation services and language technology consulting.

LTC Communicator combines established language technologies to provide a flexible solution for multilingual support requirements. It is a multilingual eCommunication tool, allowing international companies to operate one centralized contact point without training or equipment in each market.

LTC Communicator is used in many multilingual contexts: current application areas comprise email support, helpdesk facilities, access to eLearning material and access to location based services for tourists.
www.langtech.co.uk

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Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) is a provider of globalization and testing services. Lionbridge combines global onshore, near-shore and offshore resources with proven program management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a client's product and content lifecycle - from development to globalization, testing and maintenance. Global organizations in all industries rely on Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains 20 solution centers in 9 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and VeriTest brands.
www.lionbridge.com

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Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)

Since 1990, the Localization Industry Standards Association has been helping companies enable global business. LISA is the premier not-for-profit organization in the world for individuals, businesses, associations, and standards organizations involved in language and language technology worldwide. LISA brings together IT manufacturers, translation and localization solutions providers, and internationalization professionals, as well as increasing numbers of vertical market corporations with an international business focus in finance, banking, manufacturing, health care, energy and communications.

Together, these entities help LISA establish best practice guidelines and language technology standards for enterprise globalization. LISA offers other services in the form of standards initiatives, Special Interest Groups, conferences and training programs which help companies implement efficient international business models to provide a return on investment for their Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation (GILT) efforts.
www.lisa.org

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Macromedia

Macromedia is motivated by the belief that great experiences build great businesses. Our software empowers millions of business users, developers, and designers to create and deliver effective, compelling, and memorable experiences-on the Internet, on fixed media, on wireless, and on digital devices.
www.macromedia.com

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Novell

Novell is a leading provider of infrastructure software and services to over 52,000 enterprises in 43 countries around the globe. With over twenty years of experience in data center, workgroup and desktop solutions, Novell's 6,000 employees, 5,000 partners and global support teams are meeting customer requirements for identity-driven solutions and a full range of Linux products and services. By providing enterprise-class solutions and support for commercial and open source software, Novell delivers increased operating flexibility at a lower total cost of ownership.
www.novell.com

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One Planet Corporation

One Planet helps bridge language and cultural gaps for multinational corporations seeking to effectively communicate and compete in the global marketplace. Our suite of services includes technical translation, software localization, interpretation, and cross-cultural consulting. The company delivers significant value to clients through technological expertise, comprehensive methodologies, and a highly experienced staff.
www.one-planet.net

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Scriptware

Founded in 1984 as a one-man translation agency, Scriptware has developed into a multilingual service provider. We started using TRADOS in 1994, and were one of the first licensees to recognize the strength of technology both in translation software and the possibilities of FrameMaker in this regard. Ever since, increasing the efficiency of the multilingual translation workflow has been the driving force for Scriptware. Currently a team of project managers, DTP specialists, software engineers, language engineers as well as a strong focus on XML in a CMS environment have resulted in further growth for the company.
www.scriptware.nl

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SDL International

SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is the world's leading provider of translation services and technology solutions. Employing over 1300 staff worldwide, its comprehensive and integrated offerings include translation memory, adaptive machine translation, a full range of localization services and the world's first knowledge-based translation system.

Whether insourcing or outsourcing, organizations benefit from enhanced translation productivity through SDL's commitment to continuous innovation in software and service delivery. Its customers span consumer, SME and enterprise markets, including global industry leaders Adobe, Bayer, Bosch, Canon, DAF, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP. SDL International is headquartered in the UK and has more than 40 offices across North America, Asia and Europe.
www.sdl.com

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Skrivanek Translation Services, Ltd.

Since its creation in 1994 Skrivanek Translation Services has delivered one of the fastest growth rates in the localization industry.

With over 300 experienced full time employees and an office network in 13 countries, including our recently opened New York branch we are well positioned to handle the most demanding multiple language projects incorporating translation, DTP and software engineering.

Our commitment to quality is demonstrated by our stringent maintenance of the ISO 9001 program which ensures our clients receive industry leading levels of performance.

The European Union and the worlds leading corporations benefit from Skrivanek solutions that provide the optimal balance between speed, quality and cost.
www.skrivanek.com

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Software Business

Software Business is the only trade magazine focused exclusively on the software industry. Content includes news and feature articles covering all aspects of business and technology for software and IT companies including industry news, market trends, strategy, finance, sales & marketing, customer support, development and distribution.
www.softwarebusinessonline.com

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TechTeam Global, Inc.

TechTeam Global, Inc. is a worldwide provider of information technology and business process outsourcing support services to Fortune 1000 corporations, multinational companies, product providers, small and mid-sized companies, and government entities. TechTeam's ability to integrate computer services into a flexible, total single-point-of-contact (SPOC) solution is a key element of its success. Partnerships with some of the world's "best-in-class" corporations provide TechTeam with unique expertise and experience in providing information technology support solutions, including diversified IT outsourcing services, government technology services, IT consulting and systems integration, technical staffing, and learning services. TechTeam's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "TEAM."
www.techteam.com

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thebigword

Formerly Link-up Mitaka, thebigword has been in the translation business since 1980 and has become Europe's leading translation services company. With a database of over 4,500 certified translators, and interpreters, thebigword delivers certified translations in 140 languages for the Life-Sciences, Automotive, Financial Services, Travel, Software and Manufacturing industries. thebigword currently works with more than 3,000 clients in over 70 countries.
www.thebigword.com

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TRADOS Inc.

Our mission at TRADOS is to accelerate the way global business works.

TRADOS products and services enable our customers to get their products to international markets faster, with higher quality, and at lower cost. Our solutions intelligently manage the localization of products and content for global markets. We accelerate global initiatives throughout an entire organization: sales, marketing, support, finance, manufacturing, legal.

With TRADOS, globalization becomes THE competitive advantage in worldwide business. Our industry-leading solutions help organizations reduce operational and marketing costs by millions of dollars, while increasing the number of markets they reach. TRADOS customers also have accelerated time-to-market by six months while slashing translation costs by 70%.
www.trados.com

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Vasont Systems

Headquartered in Emigsville, Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a leading provider of content management software and data services backed by more than 50 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its flagship Vasont® content management system enables organizations of all sizes to create, manage and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM and Web formats.
www.vasont.com

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Welocalize

Welocalize was founded in 1995, and is a privately held venture backed company. Our headquarters is in Frederick, MD and our European headquarters is in Saarbrucken, Germany. For the past two years, Deloitte and Touche has ranked Welocalize as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America in their annual Fast 500 ranking.

Welocalize offers Integrated Globalization Services for faster international time-to-market and specializes in eLearning, Data Storage, Supply Chain Management, Life Sciences and Data Security applications and content. Our services include globalization consulting, internationalization, localization, translation and testing solutions.

We work with our clients to create a framework and methodology for expanding globally that produces scaleable, predictable results and with the integration of our product and service family into the development environment our clients are able to achieve much faster international time-to-market.

Our framework combines globalization consulting and internationalization with a well organized, localization methodology required to translate software, eBusiness applications, web sites, documentation and other electronic content and business systems into foreign languages.

Through our unique team of experienced, multicultural staff, our XCED Globalization Institute and our enterprise-wide XTEND Globalization Management Suite, we deploy and maintain an integrated and collaborative globalization environment with our clients that offers predictable and scaleable internationalization, localization and testing solutions.
www.welocalize.com

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World Bank Group

Founded in 1944, the World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. The Bank, which provided US$19.5 billion in loans to its client countries in fiscal year 2002, is now working in more than 100 developing economies, bringing a mix of finance and ideas to improve living standards and eliminate the worst forms of poverty. For each of its clients, the Bank works with government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to formulate assistance strategies. Its country offices worldwide deliver the Bank's program in countries, liaise with government and civil society, and work to increase understanding of development issues.
www.worldbank.org

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XML-Intl Ltd.

Xml-Intl provides software solutions and consultancy services to organisations wishing to lower the cost and improve the quality of authoring and translating XML based documents.

Previously known as AZ Data Products the company has been providing consultancy to leading companies in the fields of document image processing, translation, SGML and XML processing and object oriented methodologies for over 20 years.
www.xml-intl.com

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