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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Sorry Thomas, but it doesn’t re-project. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>That method you used simply re-defines
the projection unless they’ve changed it in Version 9x (which is highly doubtful).
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If you want to change the geometry,
you’ll need to use <span class=SpellE>ArcToolbox</span>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It’s simply isn’t good
practice to assign incorrect projection files to spatial data.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>I hope that clears things up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Thomas, Jim
[mailto:jim_thomas@golder.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
11:33 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Hughes, Ronald<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It's not simply re-defining. It's
re-projecting. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>When you use the 'Export Data...' tool
from ArcMap you can select the export coordinate system (see attached
jpg). It will re-project the data to what you define.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>The Shruggers can use whatever method
works best for them.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Hughes,
Ronald [mailto:Ronald.Hughes@dep.state.fl.us] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
11:23 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Thomas, Jim;
shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Actually Thomas, the problem with that is that the NEW shapefile
will still be in STATEPLANE projection.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>In other words, the geometry or “physical condition” remains
as STATEPLANE.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>All you’ve
done is re-define the projection file.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Defining a projection and actually RE-PROJECTING a shapefile are two
separate things.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Re-projecting a
shapefile involves changing its geometry and topology while re-defining the
projection only changes a text file.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>You never want to assign an incorrect projection file to a shapefile
because it tends to lead to trouble if you send that file to somebody else and
then they try to re-project that shapefile using incorrect projection
information.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>The reason that it appears to work for you is because of the
ArcGIS “projection on the fly” capability.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If you were to use a GIS product that
doesn’t project “on-the-fly” you would see that re-defining
the projection file hasn’t changed the geometry of the shapefile:
it’s still in STATEPLANE.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>As far as datum transformation is concerned, when switching
between certain coordinate systems, you may wind up using different datum and
need to transform from one datum to the next.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>For example when I was using ArcGIS
version 8x and projected from STATEPLANE NAD83 datum to Geographic North
American 1983 HARN datum I would get the following error message:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><img width=480 height=410 id="_x0000_i1026" src=""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>I would then have to set the transformation from NAD_1983 to
HARN_Florida:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><img width=422 height=301 id="_x0000_i1027" src=""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Many people think that redefining the projection of a shapefile
is the same and projecting a shapefile but it is not.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I hope that I’ve contributed to
clearing this up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Ron<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Thomas, Jim
[mailto:jim_thomas@golder.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
10:52 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Hughes, Ronald;
shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>The steps I listed will work too.
You can export a NEW shapefile from ArcMap in the spatial reference of the data
frame (which can be different than the original shapefile). As long as
everything is defined correctly, you'll have no problem. I do it all the
time.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>As far as the datum transformation list...
that's a good question. I always wondered that.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Hughes, Ronald<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
10:32 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Actually, you need to use ArcToolbox to reproject the
shapefile.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>All the steps mention
below do is re-define the projection file.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>It would be analogous to assigning a new mailing address to you home
without physically moving it from its current location.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In other words, if your house sits at <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">800 Main Street</st1:address></st1:Street> and
you change the address to <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">21 Jump
Street</st1:address></st1:Street>, the house still remains at <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">800 Main Street</st1:address></st1:Street>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>The Present version of ArcToolbox that I have (ArcGIS 9.1) is
different from that what I’d previously had but it appears to work the
same way.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Open up ArcToolbox and select Data Management Tools </span></font><font
size=2 color=maroon face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Helvetica;mso-hansi-font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:
Wingdings'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>à</span></span></font><font
size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'> Projections and
Transformations </span></font><font size=2 color=maroon face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Helvetica;
mso-hansi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon;
mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-char-type:
symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>à</span></span></font><font
size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'> Project. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Click on Project and a menu should come up that asks for your imput
feature and output (in ArcGIS 9.1 it automatically assigns a ‘P’ at
the end of the name of the input and places it in the output.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Select the projection that you want for
the output by clicking on the button to the right of the input window.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>That will bring up a menu called
“Spatial Reference Properties”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>1.) Click the button labeled “Select”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>2.) Click the Geographic Coordinate Systems folder<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>3.) Click the <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>
folder and select the coordinate system that you want (probably North American
1983 HARN.prj).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>4.) Click the “Add” button and select
“OK”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>If you have any other questions just ask.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Thomas, Jim<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
9:34 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> tdarsey@hsa.cc;
shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>1. Define your shapefile's spatial
reference in ArcCatalog</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>2. Load the shapefile into ArcMap</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>3. Change the data frame spatial reference
to Lat/Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>4. Export the new shapefile using the data
frame's spatial reference (during export)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>5. That's it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tony Darsey<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
9:30 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> shrug-l: Lat-Long</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can anyone tell me how to convert a shape file from State
Plane to Lat/Long?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Thanks,</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Tony Darsey</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>HSA Consulting Group, Inc.</span></b> <br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>1311
Executive Center Drive, Suite 255</span></b></st1:Street> <br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Tallahassee</span></b></st1:City><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>, <st1:State w:st="on">FL</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">32301</st1:PostalCode></span></b></st1:address> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Phone (850) 309-7510</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Fax (850) 309-7510</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cell (850) 508-6477</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>email tdarsey@hsa.cc</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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