Has anyone had problems with the new Daniel voice? After my Mac reporting that
version 3.5 of the voice was available, I installed. nOW Daniel is silent. I
tried unchecking the voice in Voice over utility in the hope it would uninstall
in case it was corrupt. No joy there, so I went into the
If you have some corrupted system files or preferences somewhere, these might
get copied over in the normal upgrade process. If, however, you do a clean
install, you'll have a clean, pristine operating system free from those
corrupted files. This might resolve problems you were previously
You might also like the book Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks, which
explains in detail the process of upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard.
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According to vmware website, maverick requires fusion 6.
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Well, I am going to say. In the sentence.
Now, let me take a look and see what happened.
Well, you sort for yourselves. Whenever I said the word period , the dictation
actually put the punctuation in instead of putting the word period in.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full
In which case, might I suggest that we are not the best recipients of your
message. Try here writing to:
accessibil...@apple.com
And, might I also suggest that you catch more flies with honey?
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
Nope. Tom is still around.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Oct 24, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Chris Moore apple.geek.ch...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone had
Are the new voices only for 10.9 or can they be used with ML? If yes how do
you get to them?
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 05:17
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
Hello,
Apple have changed the way in which these installers work. A simple web search
will tell you this. If the USB stick is Untitled and been formatted in Mac's OS
X format then in a terminal type:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
Hello,
Have you used spotlight to search for Mavericks? If it isn't in your
/Applications folder the app store will allow you to download it.
Press cmd + space and type Mavericks.
HTH
Gena
On 24 Oct 2013, at 00:15, Cameron Strife came...@cameronstrife.com wrote:
Hi. Nope, there is nothing
Go up to www.apple.com and listen to the video on it.
On 10/24/2013 04:57, Krysti wrote:
What is the iPad air
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com
mailto:kawa...@me.com wrote:
So what did people think of the I Pad Air? Would people buy it if
My sighted husband tried with the physical mouse as well as the trackpad, and
it won’t budge. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to it, and I’m paying a lot
more attention to subject lines as a result. :) There’s one useful thing,
though. If you interact with the message info in the message list,
Hi,
I’m pretty sure their only for 10.9.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:32 AM, Jesus Garcia jesusga...@gmail.com wrote:
Are the new voices only for 10.9 or can they be used with ML? If yes how do
you get to
Hi,
before, and still now, VO command F brought you to pop up boxes and buttons
rather quickly.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote:
Ed -
Although I can sympathize
I am using voice dictation to reply to this message and using the word period
at the end of my sentences with no problem. I did have to edit manually to
insert that word in the middle of the sentence, however.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons
That is bizarre. This is still happening to me. I just tried it again. Is
anyone else experiencing this?
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using voice dictation to reply to this message and using the word period
at the end of my sentences with no
I’m not using Siri, just straight dictation.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using voice dictation to reply to this message and using the word period
at the end of my sentences with no problem. I did have to edit manually to
insert that word in the
When I said “period” in other contexts before this update, it would put the
symbol in, and I had to write in the word. Now it never puts in the symbol
unless I say “full stop”. Again, this is straight dictation, though, not Siri.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com
Are you using Siri or straight dictation? If straight dictation, why on earth
is this happening only to me — at least, I haven’t seen posts from anyone else
having this issue.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote:
Well, I am going to say. In the sentence.
Hello,
Could it be possible that your using the U.K. keyboard? To the left of the
space bar, do you have a next keyboard button?
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com
I was using my Mac, and therefore, straight dictation.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Christine Grassman
One other thing I have discovered is that for a read message, the date appears
before the subject. If the messages not read, but it appears after the subject.
It is not perfect, but it at least gives me an indication of red status.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Teresa Cochran
I keep getting emails from folks that they can't sign up for the mailing
list so I took a poke around in the settings. There was one called Join
the Group which was set to Only Invited Guests. Not sure exactly what
that means but it didn't seem right. I have now changed it to Anyone
can ask,
Wonderful, I will pass the news along. Thank you for your help.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote:
I keep getting emails from folks that they can't sign up for the mailing list
so I took a poke around in the settings. There was one called Join the
Group which
Please forward the email address of anyone you know who has tried and
failed to join the group to me. I'll get them set up. As I mentioned in
an earlier message it seems that one of the settings for joining got
changed to 'invite only' and I have now put this back. It's still not a
public
Dears,
When i receive a mail with attachment , i don’t know how to open and save it
using voiceover with Mavericks.
Is anybody know how to do it? do I need change some settings?
TKS
Arthur Minniti
arthurminn...@gmail.com
www.blogtecnovisao.com
Twitter : @ArthurMinniti
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On 10/24/13, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote:
Hello,
Have you used spotlight to search for Mavericks? If it isn't in your
/Applications folder the app store will allow you to
Hi list.
Can someone else duplicate this problem?
I am trying to hijack audio from safari, let’s say from youtube, but hijack pro
gives me an error message on some process that can not be found.
I am running mavericks.
Regards.
Nektarios.
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Hi,
There is problem with AHP and safari right now. Rogue Amoeba is working on a
fix, and it will be out as soon as possible. As long as you don’t highjack from
safari, Audio Highjack Pro will work correctly.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Nektarios Mallas nmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list.
Yes you will need a windows disc or a iso image but it has to be a
install disc not a upgrade disc or it will not work if I am wrong I am sorry
but I could not install from a upgrade disc but ms tech support sorted it
for me hope this helps
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From:
Hi there.
Ok, glad to hear that.
I know they care about these problems and they are trying.
I just wanted to make sure that I am not alone. smile
Later.
Nektarios.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Daniel Miller miller...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
There is problem with AHP and safari right now.
No; it’s on the US English keyboard. Good thought, though. :)
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Could it be possible that your using the U.K. keyboard? To the left of the
space bar, do you have a next keyboard button?
Ricardo Walker
Yes you need a full version of Windows. I'm installing Windows 8 this week end
so I hope it works well with NDVA once I've updated !Mavericks.
Kawal.
Sent from my I phone
On 24 Oct 2013, at 04:12 pm, wayne17a wayne...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes you will need a windows disc or a iso image but
Hello,
It’s actually a little more than just Safari. The instant on component needs
to be updated a long with audio hijack pro. so until they put out an update,
you can’t hijack sessions already open or, hijack system audio. The same holds
true for Nicecast.
hth
Ricardo Walker
A lot of the busy issues were fixed in mountain lion, you may want to
update your operating system.
Original message:
The new Safari 6.1 went on my Lion system today and now some voiceover
issues have developed.
1. Web Item rotor no longer shows all headers on a google search, or on
some
Hi,
Unfortunately, Eric can't upgrade to ML, but I think he can to Mavricks. Didn't
Tim cook say that its possible even on Snow leopard?
Matt Dierckens
matt.dierck...@gmail.com
Assistive Technology Trainer
IOS and Macintosh User support
Windsor area
On 2013-10-24, at 11:24 AM, Mike Arrigo
Hello Matt,
If Eric's computer is too old to take Mountain Lion, it won't take Mavericks.
It isn't a question of the existing OS but the hardware of the machine.
Cheers,
Anne
On 24 Oct 2013, at 17:28, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately, Eric can't upgrade to
Hi Anne.
Thanks for clarifying. :)
Matt Dierckens
matt.dierck...@gmail.com
Assistive Technology Trainer
IOS and Macintosh User support
Windsor area
On 2013-10-24, at 11:39 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Matt,
If Eric's computer is too old to take Mountain Lion, it
Hello all:
I saw or read somewhere that now VoiceOver had language support, to read words
in their own language. Is this true? Where can we fid it?
Thanks!
Daniela Rubio T
iPhone: +34662328507
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Hi all,
In OS10.9’s Mail app, you can finally use option-up to jump to the start of a
message list, and option-down to jump to the end! This is something I’ve been
waiting for for a long time, and I figured out about an hour ago that it works
in Maverix. Enjoy.
Have a great day,
Alex (msg
Someone brought up Gmail issues yesterday. There are definite snafus with Gmail
and Mail. basically, the “all mail” folder gets placed in the archive folder,
and it’s necessary to have it enabled in Gmail settings on the website.
Depending on how much you use Gmail, this may or may not be a
Funny, I thought that they were all ready for 10.9. I also thought I saw
earlier this year that they are working on a new killer version of Audio Hijack
Pro which is supposed to be really revolutionary with respect to the interfase
and so on.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full
I must be doing something wrong as it's not working for me with regard to
jumping to the top or bottom of the list of messages.
.
Option up or down doesn't seem to do anything for me.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
In OS10.9’s Mail app, you can finally
Just approved one join request so at least one person has figured it out
now :)
CB
On 10/24/13 10:44 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
Wonderful, I will pass the news along. Thank you for your help.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote:
I keep getting emails from folks that
Hi,
No, some apps only have parcial compatibility with 10.9 at this time. They’ve
set up a status page on www.rogueamoeba.com that details the status of all
their apps and 10.9.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote:
Funny, I thought that they were all ready
Hi
If you do a clean install, can you post your findings here? If it is any
difference in boot time of Apps.
Is the OSX Maverick boot time from power off to entering desktop also slower
compared to the boot time in Mountain Lion?
Take care
24. okt. 2013 kl. 02:04 skrev Geoff Stephens
Hi everyone,
I updated to mavericks yesterday and am happy with it mostly (mail especially
works better).
I tried ibooks and although i can find some books in the store (by entering a
search keyword) buy them and open them reading the actual book still seems a
bit difficult.
I can do it with
I find that the time it takes to awaken from sleep has drastically increased. I
talked to Apple Support today and they confirmed the problem, so Apple does
know about it. I’m really, really looking forward to the incremental update to
10.9.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Terje Strømberg
Hi all,
I have been having trouble saving attachments on my Mack when people send me
items. How do I go about saving attachments on my Mack any help would be
good.
Thanks
Becky Sabo
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Okay, when I am reading email and more comes in VO is interupted to say ‘three
rows added’ or however much mail I got, and focus is taking away from the body
of my email. I get a lot of long mail, and this is a huge problem. Also having
the issue where vo-J doesn’t focus the email on text, and
No matter what I search for, Spotlight is telling me “no items”. How do I fix
this, or did it change somehow with Mavericks?
Christine
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I've found that if you have your trackpad turned on, and you have it set up so
that it works with voiceover instead of having it like a normal mouse, if you
swipe down on the track pad with two fingers, it'll read one whole chapter of
an ibook at a time. Then to go to the next chapter, you
It’s working as it always did here.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding
Sent from my Mac Book Pro
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On Oct 24, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote:
No matter what I search for, Spotlight is telling me
That is exactly what I am doing. Very strange.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com
wrote:
I’m not using Siri, just straight dictation.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using voice dictation
Thanks a lot that helps!
I do have a macbook air with trackpad.
I mostly use a braille display so will defenitely look into the interacting
with epub to se eif that will get me different pages.
Greetings, Anouk,
On 24 Oct 2013, at 20:12, Helena Fehr helena.torch.li...@gmail.com wrote:
I've
How do they work? And does iTunes charge tax?
Sent from my iPad
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Hi Alia,
Go into System Preferences, interact with the preference pains scroll area,
choose Notification Centre, interact with the table and choose mail.
Then set the alert style to none by clicking on the relevant radio button.
This should fix it.
Cheers,
Ed
On 24 Oct 2013, at 19:02, alia
The accessibility part is interesting.
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
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thats not physically possible for me. my mac is 1 revision too old to support
mountain lion. I have looked into doing a mod or 2 in order to shoehorn ML on
here. It would be nice to have some extra money to buy a newer mac, but that is
not in the cards at present.
-eric
On Oct 24, 2013, at
Hi Anouk. I don’t think you have to turn pages, as with the book I’m reading it
looks like the entire chapter is on the screen. To go to a chapter, press
Command+Shift+Left and right arrow keys. HTH.
Shawn
Sent From My White Mac Book
On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:54 PM,
Hi Becky,
If you definitely want to save them, go into the file menu and choose save
attachments.
If you just need to access them from the message, command y may be enough for
you.
Cheers,
Ed
On 24 Oct 2013, at 19:01, Becky Sabo beckyas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris. Sounds like a restart is in order for you. I ran into the same
problem as you did and I found that a simple reboot did the trick. Hope that
solves your problem, and talking about Daniel, I wasn’t impressed with his HQ
voice sample. It sounds like he made him more robotic than ever.
Hi,
I created a boot disk with Disk maker x for OSx 10.9, and for some reason, the
disk doesn't show up under startup disk.
It gave no errors or anything, yet it says the disk creation was successful.
Any ideas as to this?
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Hey,
thanks for the suggestion, but I already have it off in notifications. It’s not
a notification thing; it’s from the apple mail itsself telling me I’m getting
mail It has always said “two rows added” or whatever it says, but never when I
had focus on text reading it. I have my mail set to
Hello all:
I am playing with GB 10 and, doe’s anybody know how to edit sounds or place
effects? (reverb, compressors, etc)? I just can’t go over it.
Also, do smart controls work somehow with VO?
thank you for your ideas.
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Hi Alia,
Sorry it didn’t work, Turning it off in Notification Centre solved it for me.
If you’re running Mountain Lion or higher, the other thing you could try is to
go into Mail, Preferences, General, and limit notifications to VIPs (it’s set
to Inbox only by default). You could then simply
Hi folks,
Is anybody having an error message when trying to download a voice which says
“voices cannot be downloaded at this time, try again later”.
I’ve had this for about a day now which seems a little long for a server error.
Thanks.
Lisette
On 25/10/2013, at 8:29 am, BBS
To add to this…
You can now use option-shift up or down arrow to select multiple messages from
the top or bottom. Thank goodness! I’ve been wanting this as well for a long
time. Lol!
Traci
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
In OS10.9’s Mail app, you
I am using the braille edge via bluetooth on mavericks with so far no problem
that I can tell. It was already paired before the upgrade in case that makes a
difference.
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May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
I may have to try mavericks to see what its like. from what I hear though, the
email subsystem might cause me problems with gmail.
anyway, I will DL it and see what I can see.
-eric
On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately, Eric can't upgrade to ML, but I think
Yup.
It was something that was broke in Lion. I’m happy to see this functionality
return.
Ricardo Walker
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On Oct 24, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote:
To add to this…
You can now use
Hi all,
Here are the articles on Mavericks that I mentioned earlier. With all this, I
think I’m going to hold off for a while.
http://lifehacker.com/should-i-upgrade-to-os-x-mavericks-1449627553
and
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-os-x-mavericks-biggest-annoyances-1450220339
Best,
Hello Cameron,
Really, where did you read that? Have you looked to see what the command does?
All it does is to call a program within the installer itself, called create
install media and passes it some parameters. Such as where the USB stick is
located and no interaction? Does SL not mount
Option up and down doesn’t work for me, but option shift up and down does. Are
you using classic view or standard view?
Lisette
On 25/10/2013, at 10:38 am, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote:
Yup.
It was something that was broke in Lion. I’m happy to see this functionality
return.
Hi all.
I do a lot of reading and writing of .brf’s directly from the display, either
music or my own brand of literary Braille which is at about grade seven these
days. The dot 456 combination is always tricky since it gets represented in
computer Braille for embossing as an underscore, but
Hi guys
I had so many problems I had to go back to mountain kitty. They weren't just
with my braille display, which I reported is doing fine yesterday. However,
today I couldn't even navigate properly in TextEdit. I couldn't even tell what
I'd selected to the end of the text didn't tell me. I
Hi, for me to jump to the top or bottom of the in box I use option+command,
the option key just takes me to the beginning or end of a message row. quick
nab is off, and I am in classic mode.
hth
Angelo
a.rock...@gmail.com
On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys. Have any of you noticed that Voiceover automatically interacts with
the toolbar when you launch the Mac App Store rather than automatically
interacting with the HTML content? I know there’s probably nothing we can do
about it, but just thought I’d ask to see if it’s not just me.
Shawn
Sure thing. When i go to check for updates, this is exactly what happens to me.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
On Oct 24, 2013, at 7:38 PM, BBS
Yes, I am aware of what the command does. And regarding it not working
in sl, it was noted in the mac world series covering OSX Mavericks.
Cameron.
On 10/24/13, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote:
Hello Cameron,
Really, where did you read that? Have you looked to see what the command
Wow, ben. So this means that you could edit a braille table for any keystroke
you wish to modify?
Teresa
On the other hand, there are different fingers.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Ben van Poppel benvanpop...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all.
I do a lot of reading and writing of .brf’s directly
Hi all,
I have always heard of people using Soundflower or Audio Hijack plus
microphones through the magic of aggregate audio devices. I have never been
able to get them to work, however. For now, I just want my USB microphone and
my line-in port to act as one device, so I can record both
Up to a point Teresa. If you’re viewing in contracted Braille, or viewing in
uncontracted and 8-dot isn’t switched on, then the grade one and two rules seem
to come from the Duxbury tables, and I’ve never figured out if it’s possible to
play with those. But yeah, it’s possible to change the
Hi,
The easiest approach to make a bootable USB for 10.9 is in your terminal.
Open up a terminal prompt and do something like the following.
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume
/Volumes/USB --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\
Hi there
I was doing okay with my braille Edge?, in fact I told HIMS that it was doing
just fine. Then I had serious issues with text edit this morning, and thought
maybe my braille display was the culprit. Then I took the braille display off,
thinking it might help. Smart me! I tried to put
Already tried that. Maybe I'm wondering if it's better i upgrade to the new OS,
then try and create a boot disk from there.
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well, I am writing this on my Apex. All seems to be working normally for now,
though I do not often use braille with os10. The other nice thing is that you
can have the same grade 2 translation routine on the Mac that you have in iOS7.
That is where the Mac will not translate what you type
Thanks, Teresa, it's great that you're pointing that out for folks. Some of it
isn't quite 100% accurate, however. From what I've read, for instance, All Mail
doesn't get placed in your Archive folder exactly. In fact, Mail kind of gets
rid of folders all together for gmail. Instead, just like
Does it have something to do with your language setting? The VoiceOver
language, the global iPhone language or the Siri language? Do you have all
three set to US English?
On 25/10/2013, at 5:23 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:
That is exactly what I am doing. Very strange.
Sent
Hmm, guess I’m lucky. I’m not having any problems with gmail and mavericks, but
this is definitely an email I’ll keep in case something changes and I need this
at a future date.
Thanks.
May and Prince Noah
www.canadianlynx.ca
On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:53 AM, Nicholas Parsons
I don't think it's a notification thing at all. What if you press command O on
the messages you want to read? This way it opens in a new window and so
VoiceOver shouldn't announce any new rows added.
On 25/10/2013, at 7:03 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alia,
Sorry it didn’t
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