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13/04/2022

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When working with riders I like to start from the very beginning..

the breath.

Without oxygen our body cannot function, and while that seems comically simple, maintaining good breathwork while interacting with horses is rare.

More than 90% of clients I work with are unable to maintain awareness of their breath and more than 50% are in a state of chronic tension leading to hyperventilation, or rapid breathing.

Bringing awareness to how we breathe and building a relationship with our body through inspiration and expiration gives us a solid place to discuss when and what takes our breath away and how it changes, leading to clues about emotional states and physical/emotional ties within our musculature.

My basic exericise to begin with ten breaths.

In through the nose, out through the mouth.

Once you feel solid begin to work on drawing in your belly button on the exhale, this connects our breath to our transverse abdominis, an important core muscle.

Take a mental break after ten breaths and then begin again on another set of ten.

In through the nose, out through the mouth, drawing in the belly button towards the spine on the exhale. Take a deep enough inhale to actually stretch the ribcage.

Finally, if all is feeling good, count how long it takes you to breath in and how long it takes you to breathe out.

Do this breathwork check in as often as feels good to you, but particular while grooming and tacking up, and warming up under saddle, and after any strenuous activities.

Happy New Year!  Equine resolutions? Let’s work together. Experience better connection, and not just in dressage terms. ...
01/01/2022

Happy New Year! Equine resolutions? Let’s work together. Experience better connection, and not just in dressage terms. ✨

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15/12/2021

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From now until 12/31/2021, weekly in person or online coaching session packages are on special!

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Tack fit, rider’s posture/equitation, imbalances in the hooves…all very common things that cause spinal asymmetry and po...
08/12/2021

Tack fit, rider’s posture/equitation, imbalances in the hooves…all very common things that cause spinal asymmetry and postural dysfunction; these are also all things we can work with for improvement.

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🤍 Spinal Asymmetry & Saddle Fit 🤍

This horse is stood square in both photos and the green photo is taken after approx. 1 hour of treatment. Definitely not the finished product, but a step in the right direction!

This horse had previously been ridden in a saddle that was completely asymmetrical in both flocking and how the saddle has been made. With a very intuitive owner, she felt she wasn’t sitting straight or evenly and went with her gut that something wasn’t quite right.

On observation, we had increased loading of the thoracic sling muscles particularly to the left as she was struggling to maintain correct postural core engagement due to ribcage and spinal rotation. The right scapula felt suctioned onto the side of her body, and there was a negative pain reaction to a shoulder lift mobilisation. The right scapula was positioned more cranially and dorsally. The left tuber coxae was located more cranially and ventrally than the right, with lumbar paraspinal hypertonicity that decreased the distance between the tuber coxae and last rib. This horse found it very difficult to maintain a square position and straight head carriage, which was seen through the dynamic assessment with a right hip drop and limited forelimb range of motion.

In cases like these, the treatment is multi-faceted and contains some of the following:
▪️ INDIBA Radiofrequency - deep muscle relaxation at a cellular and biochemical level, “dismantling” of fibrotic tissue, tissue repair, pain relief, decreased inflammation, improved psychological acceptance of release.
▪️Massage and Myofascial release - resetting tonicity, improving muscle extensibility, mobilising fascia and relieving restrictions to improve symmetry and function.
▪️Mobilisations (spinal, rib, scapula, pelvic) - improve symmetry, joint ROM
▪️Passive stretches - re-educating stretch receptors to increase joint and muscle ROM
▪️Postural re-education exercise prescription - conducted in-hand, involving lateral movements, rein back and pole work to reinforce suppleness and symmetry principles.

Ha! Made my day! 😆👏🏻😆 get that lateral flexion going! Need help? One more weekly opening available for partial training ...
02/12/2021

Ha! Made my day! 😆👏🏻😆 get that lateral flexion going!
Need help? One more weekly opening available for partial training and a few lesson slots.

A few spots are still open and need filling! 🤍✨School horse in Tumwater and Enumclaw if needed, beginners welcome. ✨New ...
29/11/2021

A few spots are still open and need filling! 🤍

✨School horse in Tumwater and Enumclaw if needed, beginners welcome.
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Thank you to friends, clients and all who have supported IEA over the years. 🧡🍁✨
27/11/2021

Thank you to friends, clients and all who have supported IEA over the years. 🧡🍁✨

20/11/2021

Control is only an 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 of safety 👀⁣

And a destroyer of horse-human relationships.⁣

I don’t try to control horses. When I’m training, I’m not controlling her feet, her energy, her body, her mind 🧠 ⁣

Horses are massive prey animals with reactions that can cause us serious damage from a simple spook.⁣

Horses have this power that, to the untrained eye, can seem wildly unpredictable.⁣

And what do we tend to do with something that we fear & appears unpredictable?⁣

Attempt to 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 the potential threat.⁣

We believe that if we can control her, we will stay safe.⁣

And so, we tell the horse to control her emotions, suppress & internalize her fear, therefor invalidating her experience.⁣

This is most often done through “flooding” in training. Introduce a fear inducing stimulus with no option for escape or relief — until the horse appears to accept it. Using this kind of force *feels* like control, especially when the horse gives up fighting & fleeing.⁣

But she’s not accepting. More than likely, she is shutting down. In freeze mode, the oft-forgotten fear response.⁣

And when she comes out of freeze mode, she will explode, releasing all the energy that she tried to internalize when there was no escape. This is one of the most dangerous things that can happen during training, and it’s common place in the horse world. If you’ve ever witnessed a traditionally trained first ride, you’ll be able to picture what I’m talking about.⁣

Now, she may eventually stop exploding. At which point, she appears to be “dead broke” and “bomb proof.”⁣

And now… The light has left her eyes. She has no connection, no love, no trust with the humans around her. Her eyes glaze over, blocking out the pain and fear.⁣

She is under control, and this is the cost.⁣

I’ve chosen a different path 🐾⁣

Instead of insisting that the horse suppress her feelings, I ask her to communicate them.⁣

Instead of flooding, I use careful shaping, and I give the horse control.⁣

I attune to her needs, her emotions.⁣

THIS is how I stay safe & create relationship ♥️⁣

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12/11/2021

Have you ever wondered whether a teacher was tough in the good sense… or just toxic? There’s a very fine line between teaching to push and teaching to conquer.

Students can find themselves in an unhealthy learning program just as easily as they can find themselves in a toxic personal relationship. If the student is a talented youth rider, they are all the more vulnerable.

Often, the student has been accepted by a coach who is powerful in the industry, who, from the outside, is successful and a winner. The student may have applied to ride under this person with little hope of being accepted. There’s a ‘try-out’ aspect to riding in this program, an oft-spoken reminder that unless orders are followed, there are others less fortunate who are waiting to fill the spot. Those who 'want it more'.

There is always the underlying threat of being replaced.

In this case, more lessons are ended with the student feeling hopeless, than feeling good. There is a strong element of shame running through the training program, often including how the horses are schooled. The barn help has a high turnover rate. Indeed, the barn staff is markedly unhappy.

In a toxic program, students are kept needy.

Seldom given the confidence or permission to work alone, they are not encouraged to grow in their horsemanship. Whereas a healthy teacher can teach a student to a certain point, then say, “I’m proud of your progress. Go on, it’s time for you to have a change, I’ve taken you as far as I’m able.” This teacher's students may move on but will part as friends.

A toxic teacher will consider such a move on the part of a student as the highest form of treachery. There will be no going back.

Healthy teachers do not speak ill of others in the industry. They have relationships with other professionals in the horse business that are longstanding and precious.

Toxic teachers tend to be people who haven’t done the necessary work to heal themselves. Like dysfunctional families, teaching barns can pass unwell thinking from one generation to the next.

Anytime a coaching program gives the impression that something sour is ‘our little secret’, that we'll 'keep it in the family', it’s a red flag of warning. An example of this is the regular 'tuning up' of competition horses that so often goes on behind closed doors. Staff and clients tip-toe around the violence, with pits in their stomachs and eyes to the ground.

This issue of the toxic teacher is all-too-common in the ranks of upper competition, indeed any sort of higher horsemanship, that glamorous place so many of us have long wanted to go. Too many of today’s rock gods among clinicians have an appalling, bullying way of imparting knowledge and yet, we continue to pay for their abuse!

We must learn to discern in our quest for greater knowledge. Are high-functioning teachers able to teach and push their students onto greater things without damaging them, the horses or all the people who support their program? Of course. But when we enter that world, we must always be aware that there’s an underlying difference between a demanding teacher and one who is actually poisonous.

In the past, I have ridden with celebrated teachers who were corrupted by their own power. What they taught me, most of all, was that learning in such an environment comes at a very high price.

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Hey, if you’d like to buy me a virtual coffee, that’d be lovely. Here’s the link:
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13/10/2021

We aspire to connect equine professionals from all over the world to the art of Osteopathy by providing a venue and resource for communication and collaboration among all those who study, practice and teach.

A good laugh for all of us in the northern regions…winter is coming…
06/10/2021

A good laugh for all of us in the northern regions…winter is coming…

Hello from the GLORIOUS Florida Swamp where there's NO SUCH THING as 'Winter' and sNOw isn't a thing! 😅

Pardon my gloating; I just made the 3,300+ mile odyssey from Reno, NV back to Ocala, FL (shout out to my sister, Taylor, for flying all the way out and basically chauffeuring me back to the swamp). We had some adventures, including a 160lb dog who refused to p**p on a leash ( ) and some questionable stops in the backwoods of LA, but we made it relatively unscathed.
I am now living outside of Ocala and thrilled to be avoiding wintermaggedon (if you're in Ocala for the season, look me up!). That said, this week's retread is dedicated to all my favorite people still stuck in places where snow and temps below 55 degrees exist. I love, but do not envy, you guys! 😘

02/10/2021

Last minute lesson opening tomorrow afternoon in the western Pierce/North Thurston area!

23/09/2021

Fascia plays a key role in your resilience. You nourish fascia and the vagus nerve with sensory awareness, conscious breathing, and movement.

It’s all about the angles…(and why I ask who your farrier is when meeting your horse).
17/09/2021

It’s all about the angles…(and why I ask who your farrier is when meeting your horse).

Ever had a “mystery” hind end lameness??? Keep reading…

Hind Hooves: What parts of the horse’s body are being negatively impacted when the hind hooves aren’t balanced???

Let’s recap the front hooves. When front hooves aren’t balanced and the horse is experiencing heel pain, the lameness will usually present in the hoof. Imbalances in the hind hooves are more complicated.

A negative plantar angle (hind under run heels) will present HIGHER in the horse’s body. Why? Let’s look at the biomechanics of what is happening in the hind end. The front leg is kind of like a swinging pendulum absorbing force. The hind leg is generating force.

When the hind foot is lifting off the ground (protraction), it starts with flexion of the hip, stifle, and hock. The hip joint is flexed by the iliopsoas muscle, the stifle is then flexed by the femoral bicep, and the hock flexes from the reciprocal apparatus. When the hind foot is going back towards the ground (retraction), the middle glute muscle contracts and pushes the whole leg backwards. The hamstring muscles are the second start in this phase of movement.

The imbalance of the hind hoof causes the hoof to stay on the ground longer. This means that all the muscles we talked about above are working REALLY hard. What happens when the body is working harder than it’s designed to? It tries to find a way to transfer the load somewhere else. Like the Sacroiliac Joint for example (which isn’t actually a joint, but that’s for another time) This is also causing excessive strain on the deep flexor tendon. Excessive strain on the deep flexor tendon can eventually lead to inflammation in the hocks.
All of this leads to the horse developing compensation patterns, which lead to postural changes involving fascia and body mapping, which lead to a very complex lameness presentation. In order to help your horse achieve balance again, it will take time and the right team.

What issues might you be experiencing/observing?

- Lack of willingness to go forward.
- Reluctance to back-up or stop on hind end.
- A change in postural stance when at rest or stopped. Your horse is bringing its hind end underneath themselves.
- Unusual anxiety or behavioral changes.
- Multiple areas of soreness of lameness in the hind end.

Ok, take a breath. I know. That’s a lot. If you believe your horse is experiencing this issue, you are not alone!

Where should you start as a horse owner if you’re having some hind end lameness?

- -Ask your vet to x-ray your horse’s hind feet to evaluate the plantar angle.

- Work with your hoof care professional to come up with a plan to help your horse become balanced.

- Find a certified equine body worker who can partner with your vet and farrier to determine the best rehabilitation plan for your horse. If you are in my service area, it would be my pleasure to be part of your wellness team! If not, consider a wellness consultation I offer to point you in the right direction.

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So excited to be participating in the fun and fundraising!
16/09/2021

So excited to be participating in the fun and fundraising!

So often, we forget that horses communicate by touch. So often, we rush our grooming routine. Your ride begins when you ...
14/09/2021

So often, we forget that horses communicate by touch.
So often, we rush our grooming routine.

Your ride begins when you walk to the barn. Create and honor rituals with your equine partner. It’s healthy for you both.
Science! ⬇️

12/09/2021

Fall can be a beautiful time of year for horseback riding; however, frost can negatively impact horse health. Frost damaged pastures can have higher concentrations of nonstructural carbohydrates, leading to an increase in the potential for founder and colic, especially in horses diagnosed with or prone to obesity, laminitis, Cushings, and Equine Metabolic Syndrome. To help prevent these health issues, wait up to a week before turning horses back onto a pasture after a killing frost. Subsequent frosts are not a concern as the pasture plants were killed during the first frost.

Why do nonstructural carbohydrates increase during the fall? During the day, plants carry out the process of photosynthesis. In this process, they make carbohydrates as an energy source for the plant. A second process, respiration, is carried out when the plants use up the carbohydrates they produce during the night for energy. Plant respiration slows down when temperatures are near freezing. As a result, the plants hold their carbohydrates overnight. Freezing can stop respiration and lock the carbohydrates in the plant for over a week. Thus, plants tend to contain more carbohydrates in colder temperatures or after a frost. Often, horses will prefer forages after a frost due to the higher carbohydrates levels.

10/09/2021

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Excellent! Looking forward to more education on this modality that is so beneficial!
31/08/2021

Excellent! Looking forward to more education on this modality that is so beneficial!

Love it! Yes! How often can your horse just stand, relaxed? Think on it.
29/08/2021

Love it! Yes!

How often can your horse just stand, relaxed?

Think on it.

28/08/2021

Got a minute? Pour yourself another coffee and come sit. Something's bothering me and I need to get it off my chest.

Once again, I've been sent a message by a delightful young mother who has bought a 'broke pony' for her kids. Problem is, despite paying a hefty price tag, it's not working out. The seller, quite a well-known person in her area, has refused to take the pony back, despite promising that it was safe enough for her four children and charging thousands for it. Unbelievably, the pony was only two years old.

I keep talking to parents who find themselves in this situation, over and over again. These are intelligent people who truly want what's best for their children. So, what's going wrong?

First, don't automatically believe what any seller is saying about their kids' horse or pony. Bottom line, you've got to see it, to believe it!

If the seller claims that kids can lope to the creek ba****ck, then you need to see that being done. If they say it was Champion ridden pony at Such 'n' Such Show, then you need to see the video to prove it. Before you buy, Google any winning performance claims. What this will tell you is that if the seller will lie about something won, he or she will lie about something else.

Next, we all know the individual animals that were saints at age two and where everyone grew up together, to live happily ever after. Do yourself a favour and forget about them. There is no way that a two-year-old pony has—or should ever have—enough time and mileage on it to be called a kid’s horse.

Instead, know that your new pony's and your child's ages should add up to around twenty, just to be on the safe side. This, because somebody has to have the brains in the outfit and two babies aren't generally going to be able to make good decisions together.

When you go shopping, the following should be standard equipment, not random options on a wish list:.

Ease of catching, tying, loading and unloading; walking, jogging, loping (preferably in a bit and not a halter, because wearing a bit well just helps prove that some time has been spent educating the animal); circling, riding in straight lines, going happily away from home, alone and in a group; neck reining, if the animal is to be ridden by a Western family; respectful ground manners and handling of feet; allowing jackets to be put on and taken off while mounted; safe riding around dogs, machinery and highway traffic; standing still for mounting and a healthy respect for the word whoa.

I am also of the unpopular opinion that small ponies working ONLY on leadlines, being led around with children on board, may be quiet but they aren't actually broke, or trained. There's a big difference.

Any hint of balkiness, herdboundness, crow-hopping, spookiness, rearing, nipping, halter-pulling while tied, or A LACK OF WILLINGNESS ON THE PART OF THE SELLER TO SHOW THE HORSE OR PONY GOING UNDER SADDLE are deal-breakers.

You don't have to be belligerent with sellers. There are good and trustworthy people out there... but it IS your job to find them. Remember, seeing is believing. If, for any reason, you cannot watch this stuff happening, please go home with an empty trailer. The safety of your kids demands it.

Shown here, the beautiful and famous Arthur, mentor to so many children who have gone on to become serious and aspiring horse(wo)men. Kids' horses come in all shapes and sizes... and Arthur, among the smallest of them, has perhaps the biggest heart.

19/08/2021

Horse “resisting?” Perhaps think Fatigue---

When we are sitting on top, unless we have lots of empathy, the ability and the willingness to consider what the horse down below might be feeling, it’s too easy to think that a tiring horse is being resistant “on purpose.”

See this sketch of the horse and rider headed home after a long day of hunting? Do we think that this quietly walking horse started the day like that? No, he was probably up and snorting and eager. But because physical effort creates tiredness, lack of spring, loss of balance and lift, deterioration in athletic ability, this horse is probably just plodding along.

So, we are schooling a horse, say, on the flat, and we feel the horse getting less “obedient,” less willing to perform what we feel to be simple tasks, circles, transitions, the building blocks of training, It’s easy to forget that THE MOMENT that we pick up the reins and establish contact, we are creating a push into a containment, and that asks the horse to step under itself and to add lifting to what, on a loose rein, would mainly involve pushing.

Lifting is vastly more rigorous than pushing, and unless a horse is used to it, has the strength to engage and carry, fatigue soon results. If we feel that fatigue as “I won’t,” and get grinding, it’s only going to get worse. Then maybe we get frustrated, ask harder, and it all starts to go downhill.

Now I am not saying that YOU do this, only that we so often see this downward spiral. If we could instead give the horse even six to eight more weeks of slowly building, think how we could avoid much of that slide from asking him to making him.

The next time he seems to be saying “no,” try considering that maybe he’s saying “I am tired. I would if I could, but I can’t.”

It can change how you train.

In my program, walk work is done for six months to a year and then becomes the foundation.
11/08/2021

In my program, walk work is done for six months to a year and then becomes the foundation.

Why is the walk so essential for the basic conditioning of horses?

Horses are creatures of movement. In the wild, often horses will be on the move for 10-19 hours per day browsing to sustain their forage diet. This is very different to domestic life; even with full turn out, horses often don't have access to the 100s acres of open plains available to them each day in the wild. Wild horses must roam these vast stretches of area to attain their daily intake of forage, whereas under domestication, we make this easier for them by bringing their forage to them.

The consistent movement throughout the day conditions the horse's body; which requires a certain number of cycles per day at certain strain rates, to promote the development and maintenance of various tissues. During the loading phase of the stride, when the hoof is in contact with the ground, forces are exerted on the tissues of the body which stimulates a process of conditioning and remodelling within the tissues. Without these loading patterns, tissues lose condition and strength. Muscles will atrophy and decrease in extensibility, articular cartilage has also been documented to atrophy and decrease in thickness and tendons and ligaments lose strength due to alterations in the balance of collagen synthesis and degradation.

In fact, movement has been documented to have a significant influence on the strength of bone as far back as 1892; described by Wolf’s Law “bone will adapt both architecturally and with respect to the composition to changes in mechanical loading”. Bones are living tissues and are in a constant state of remodelling (regeneration and repair) in relation to the stresses exerted from movement. As a consequence, a decrease in loading due immobilisation results in a decrease in the density and thickness of bone due to the lack of stimulus required for remodeling.

We all know that the way to get a horse fit is to make them move. The basic concept behind a fitness programme is conditioning the tissues of the body to cope with the demands of exercise, by exposing them to increasing forces and allowing this process of tissue remodelling.

Walk plays an integral role in the early stages of traditional fittening regimes for horses. Traditionally, hunters will always begin walk exercise for up to two hours per day for the first four weeks after they have been brought in from the field. After this point, from which a baseline fitness has been established, faster, discipline specific work can begin.

Walk is the gait which has the biggest influence on muscle building, which may seem counterintuitive as it is the slowest gait. However, due to the mechanics of the gait there is always one limb in contact with the ground at every point in the stride. Therefore, the body must always utilise muscular effort to carry the horse forwards, whereas at the faster gaits, such as trot, the horse can rely in part on momentum to help to carry them forwards. Other gaits will also utilise the energy saving mechanisms within the body, such as the energy recoil in the tendons of the distal limb which contribute to the forwards motion at gallop.

However, although exercise is of great importance for the health and maintenance of the tissues within the body, there are times where we must restrict exercise.

When our horses are injured, their tissues are damaged and weakened. And so the normal strain which is applied to the tissues during movement are beyond the current strength of the injured tissue. In fact, during the inflammation phase of healing (24 hours - 5 days after the initial injury) the normal tensile strength of tissues will decrease to 50%. And so, box rest and restricted exercise is often recommended to reduce forces associated with normal exercise in order to protect the tissues and allow them time to heal.

However, over time, the restriction of exercise and absence of the normal loading patterns will lead to deconditioning and weakening of the tissues. Albeit, it has been found that horses lose muscle condition at a much slower rate than humans.

Because of this, it is very important to remember that our horses are not as fit as they were pre-injury, when our horses are able to return to exercise. Not only do we have weaker tissues undergoing the stages of healing associated with the initial injury, but the horse's body as a whole has begun to decondition and is no longer as adapted to strain of exercise.

This is why rehabilitation plans begin with walk. While healing tissues are still immature in the early stages of healing, they cannot tolerate the same levels of strain as normal tissues. As the tissues mature and become stronger, they are able to withstand higher forces. This is when we can begin a controlled return to exercise, beginning with walking, because walk work provides the lowest forces of loading to the body.

At an appropriate stage of healing, rehabilitation at other gaits can begin as dictated by your veterinary professionals. Rushing the rehabilitation programme and beginning to introduce trot work too early on can have catastrophic effects on healing tissues; due to higher forces exerted on the tissues at faster gaits. At walk there are always three limbs in contact with the ground at any one time, whereas at trot this reduces to only two legs in contact with the ground and again at canter to just the one limb at times.

As a consequence, at faster gaits the horse must support their body weight on fewer limbs at certain stages of the stride, which results in increased forces being exerted on each limb at any one time. We must condition the tissues to an appropriate level of strength, so that the tissues can withstand these increased forces and avoid re-injury.

Furthermore, it is not just the healing tissues which we should think about. The horse's body as a whole will have undergone some degree of deconditioning following a period of box rest or restricted exercise. Therefore, not only is the walk work essential to promote the healing of the injured tissues but it will help to begin to recondition the horse's body globally. Much in the same way when we bring a horse back into fitness after a period of time off. Rushing this process, and skipping the walk work, will increase the risk of injury to other regions of the body, as the tissues will not have had the time to develop the same maximum tensile strength as before the period of rest.

In fact, many of my clients are familiar with the concept of building up to a baseline fitness of walking exercise when it comes to rehabilitation, before beginning any further conditioning work. My greatest successes can always be attributed to the dedication of my owners and their care for their horses.

So go and enjoy exercising your horses, and don’t forget to get your daily steps of walk in.

(This article has only scratched the surface of the benefits of walk, although further benefits can be found in our earlier article on the importance of a warm up…)

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