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Behind Gold Doors Five Easy Steps to Become a Wisdom Steward Are you a boaster, hoarder, poser, hesitator, or pontificator?
A wisdom steward embraces the value of wisdom and genuinely seeks and candidly shares wisdom with others. Read this engaging allegory about Rico and his magical journey where he meets a wisdom boaster, hoarder, poser, hesitator, and pontificator and how each grew to become a wisdom steward. What he learns changes not only him but those around him. Can it do the same for you? Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon See the entire Behind Gold Doors Series on Amazon See Lonnie's Amazon Author Page |
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Why Don't They Follow Me?: 12 Easy Lessons To Boost Your Leadership Skills
Want to be a leader others admire? Get the 12 simple leadership lessons the best leaders crush. Why Don't They Follow Me? is the defining leadership book for leaders who need quick wisdom on what it takes to be a great leader. Whether you're a pastor, nurse administrator, PTA president, non-profit leader, or first-line manager, Why Don't They Follow Me? gives you the essential leadership lessons to help you be a better leader fast! Why Don't They Follow Me? is great for New Leaders | Nurse Administrators | Project Managers | Program Managers |Pastors | New Supervisors | New Managers | Healthcare Administrators | Sales Managers Read a Sample |Get it on Amazon |
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Behind Gold Doors - Five Easy Steps to Become a Wisdom Steward
Are you a boaster, hoarder, poser, hesitator, or pontificator? A wisdom steward embraces the value of wisdom and genuinely seeks and candidly shares wisdom with others. Read this engaging allegory about Rico and his magical journey where he meets a wisdom boaster, hoarder, poser, hesitator, and pontificator and how each grew to become a wisdom steward. What he learns changes not only him but those around him. Can it do the same for you? Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon See the entire Behind Gold Doors Series on Amazon See Lonnie's Amazon Author Page |
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Behind Gold Doors - Nine Crucial Elements to Achieve Good-Enough Contentment
Struggling to find contentment? These nine crucial elements can help you focus on the most important things to be more content in life. Ty seemed to have it all. Great job, beautiful family, house with a white picket fence. Then one day it all changed. At the end of his rope, Ty had a chance encounter with a quirky old woman who brought him on a journey to discover the nine crucial elements of lifelong contentment and helped him put a plan in place to fill his contentment gaps. His outlook on life changed forever. Can it do the same for you? Get the Nine Crucial Elements to Achieve Good-Enough Contentment Assessment to help you get on the path to lifelong contentment! Behind Gold Doors-Nine Crucial Elements to Achieve Good-Enough Contentment is great for New Leaders | Seasoned Leaders | Nurse Administrators | Project Managers | Program Managers |Pastors | New Supervisors | New Managers | Healthcare Administrators | Sales Managers | Life Coaches Read a Sample |Get it on Amazon |
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Behind Gold Doors - Seven Steps to Create a Disability Inclusive Organization
15 million working age Americans have a disability. Only 4 million have jobs. Learn the 7 steps to create a workplace where people with disabilities can thrive. Jade was asked by her new boss to spearhead her organization's disability inclusion initiative. On her way home that evening she was in a horrific accident. While unconscious, she met 7 people who taught her how to create a disability inclusive organization. She had no idea how personal those lessons would be to her after she woke. Behind Gold Doors-Seven Steps to Create a Disability Inclusive Organization is a great resource for anyone needing to create a disability inclusive organization. It's most helpful for Senior Leaders | Executives | Project Managers | Program Managers |Human Resources Managers | Diversity Leaders | Inclusion Leaders | HR Professionals Read a Sample | Get it on on Amazon |
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Behind Gold Doors - Five Legends Offer the Keys to Empowering Leadership
Empowerment and delegation. Same thing right? Not even close. See the difference and get people to want to follow you. Sam was a young leader with great potential but didn’t know how to empower his team. His manager sent him to an extraordinary class where Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Harriet Tubman explain Intentional Empowerment. The experience forever changed Sam and transformed him into an Intentional Empowerment leader. Can it do the same for you? Behind Gold Doors-Five Legends Offer the Keys to Empowering Leadership is great for New Leaders | Nurse Administrators | Project Managers | Program Managers |Pastors | New Supervisors | New Managers | Healthcare Administrators | Sales Managers Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Lead Already!
Want to be the type of leader who people want to follow? Get 75 lessons the best leaders use to deliver results. Lead Already! breaks down leadership into three categories: planning leadership, process leadership, and people leadership. Each category contains compelling lessons to give leaders the tools they need to drive great results. Whether you're a pastor, nurse administrator, PTA president, non-profit leader, or first-line manager, Lead Already! gives you the 75 crucial leadership lessons to help you be the type of leader people will want to follow! Lead Already! is great for New Leaders | Nurse Administrators | Project Managers | Program Managers |Pastors | New Supervisors | New Managers | Healthcare Administrators | Sales Managers Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Lawless One and the End of Time
A tech titan, lawyer, professor, and scientist. One brings about the end of the world. Which one? The year is 2030. Four teenagers from Naples Italy attend an academy for exceptional students. Each grows up to be a world-renowned luminary. One discovers a cure for cancer, one gives millions affected by autism hope, one prosecutes thousands of abusive catholic clergy, and one creates a hologram social media network. What the world doesn't know is that one of them is the Antichrist. Who is it? The Lawless One and the End of Time is a great read for those who enjoy Dystopian Fiction | Christian Fiction | Christian Mystery & Suspense | Technothrillers | End Times | Religious Fiction | Antichrist | Rapture | Eschatology | Revelation | Tribulation Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Lawless One Series Novelette Bundle:
A Dad's Remorse | Hayley's Journal | The Hologram Society | End Times 101 Four novelette backstories from The Lawless One and the End of Time. Feel the remorse that Gene Carlotta felt in the final hour of his life in A Dad’s Remorse | See how the everlasting love between a mother and her autistic son shaped the world in Hayley’s Journal | Experience how hologram technology was used for both good and evil in The Hologram Society | Learn the biblical inspiration for The Lawless One Series in End Times 101. The Lawless One Novelettes is a great read for those who enjoy Dystopian Fiction | Christian Fiction | Christian Mystery & Suspense | Technothrillers | End Times | Religious Fiction | Antichrist | Rapture | Eschatology | Revelation | Tribulation Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids: 100 Lessons to Help Fathers and their Children Create Strong Bonds
Worried about how to parent a child with autism? Don't panic. Get 100 short and simple lessons you can read in under an hour. "Man-speak" lessons on raising a child with autism. Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives fathers 100 short, simple and practical lessons on how to create strong bonds with their children when autism is in the picture. Written by a father of an adult son with autism, Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives you straight-up advice that you can put to work right away. Whether it be about schooling, disciplining, seeking interests, or other topics, you'll get practical nuggets that will help you understand your autistic child without all the double-speak and help all of you cope with autism. Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids is a great resource for anyone wanting to learn more about Autism Spectrum Disorder. It's most helpful for Autism professionals | Parents of children with autism | Dads of children with autism | Loved ones affected by autism | People with autism | ASD professionals | Dads with special needs children |Parents with special needs children | Parents of children with Asperger Syndrome. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers: 100 Lessons to Make You a Better Project Manager
Great project managers constantly seek how to be better at managing projects that deliver great results Straight-up project management wisdom you can put to use immediately! Get 100 project management snackable wisdom nuggets with a practical explanation of how to apply each nugget in your day-to-day job as a project manager. Get helpful tips on risk and issue management, schedule management, testing, training, and many other topics. Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers gives snackable wisdom to you straight up - no strainer needed. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster: 100 Questions to Ask to Keep Your Project from Tanking
Great leaders know the questions to ask and who to ask to better secure success In Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster, you get 100 snackable wisdom reasons why projects fail with an added bonus: the right questions to ask your team leads to help your project stay on track. Meant for the novice as well as experienced project manager, Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster will help you ask the pointed snackable wisdom questions to keep you in the know, ensure your team leads focus on the right things, and put your project in the win column. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-Ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble Here's just some of what you'll learn...how to focus on the right problem, find and keep the right sponsors, realistically determine scope, uncover hidden risks, write more effective project plans...involve the right people, get your whole team on the same page...deal with vendors who don't deliver... manage and minimize cost overruns....communicate more effectively...test right, train right...streamline that last, endless 10% and finish strong...and more...a whole lot more. If you're a working project manager, consultant, or team leader, this book is your secret weapon. It's fast. Relevant. Practical. Easy to read. Easy to use. Above all: it works. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Truth About Getting Your Point Across: ...and Nothing But the Truth
Great leaders get their point across so there's no confusion on intent or outcome ~ Improving communication skills is the single most powerful step one can take to supercharge a career. What are the best, PROVEN ways to motivate action now, and gain lasting influence in any organization? The Truth About Getting Your Point Across reveals what really works: 59 principles and breakthrough communication techniques. Discover how to recognize an audience's unspoken expectations; run effective meetings; develop powerfully motivating presentations; give teams clear direction; brainstorm and problem-solve efficiently; successfully interview, listen, and give feedback; influence difficult colleagues; make the most of informal communication; and communicate more effectively with global colleagues. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Freud and the Small Business Owner
Are you an ID, EGO, or SUPER-EGO Entrepreneur? Freud and the Small Business Owner focuses on four crucial aspects of small business management: starting a small business, growing a small business, handling small business challenges, and exiting a small business. In Freud and the Small Business Owner you'll get practical, straightforward advice that has been time-tested by those who've been through it. Freud and the Small Business Owner is a great read for Small Business Owners | Entrepreneurs | Consultants | Business Coaches | Life Coaches | Small Business Advisors | Women Business Owners | Startups | Business Mentors | Career Change Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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12 Reasons Not To Start Your Own Small Business
Want to be your own boss? Master these 12 facts to avert small business disaster. 12 Reasons Not To Start Your Own Small Business is for anyone who is contemplating starting up a small business but needs to pass a litmus test of whether they have the intestinal fortitude to make it happen. If you're thinking about starting your own small business, 12 Reasons Not To Start Your Own Small Business will prove invaluable to help you think through the issues and take the plunge with greater confidence or help you avert the disaster of a failed business. 12 Reasons Not To Start Your Own Small Business is a great read for Small Business Owners | Entrepreneurs | Consultants | Business Coaches | Life Coaches | Small Business Advisors | Women Business Owners | Startups | Business Mentors | Career Change Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Leadership Made Simple Series: Planning, Process and People Leadership
Great leaders understand how planning, process, and people must work together to deliver great results ~ The Leadership Made Simple Series provides easy to understand, prescriptive advice for anyone who is put in a position to lead others. Whether you are a corporate manager, small business owner, PTA president, or non-profit manager, Leadership Made Simple has the helpful nuggets which will make a team want to follow you. Leadership Made Simple breaks down the leadership process into three distinct categories--Planning, Process, and People, all of which work together to support effective business leadership everyday. This strategy document, The Leadership Made Simple Series - Planning, Process and People Leadership, introduces the series and provides an in-depth discussion of the planning, process, and people attributes that every great leader must possess. Get a concise definition of what a well-rounded leader needs to succeed. Seen the entire series |
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Crush Those Risks and Issues!: Drive Project Success Through Effective Risk and Issue Management
Great leaders understand the difference between risks and issues and actively mitigate risks to avoid issues ~ Project risk and issue management is one of the most lethal but easily overlooked aspects of successful project management. Risks and issues derail your plan and cause you to divert focus away from project activities. But, there's simply no avoiding them. If you've got a project you're going to have risks and issues. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Set That Direction!: Create a Compelling Direction that Will Make Others Want to Follow You
Great leaders understand the importance of setting clear direction that draws a straight execution line for their team ~ So many times organizations get wrapped up in terminology and process that the resulting direction statement becomes a mass of gobbledygook which no one understands or follows. Direction statements need to clearly direct, inspire, and align a team to deliver, not get stuffed in a drawer only to be pulled out again the next time a direction statement needs to be developed. Get Set That Direction! to help you create a practical, useful and compelling direction statement that will make people want to follow you. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Team Didn’t Gel!: Getting Teams to Work Together and Deliver Results
Great leaders understand the importance of teams working together and invest the time to ensure they can do so effectively to deliver results ~ When project teams work in perfect harmony it's like music to the project manager's ears. Each project team member knows what they need to contribute to the project, knows when they have to perform, understands what other project team members are doing on the project, and knows what it takes to be successful. Get this ebook see how to get your project teams to gel and deliver results. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Be a Killer Sponsor!: Ten Attributes of a Best-in-Class Sponsor
Great leaders understand their role as project sponsors and do what's needed to help project teams succeed ~ Have you ever managed a project where the project sponsor was disengaged, unrealistic or overly demanding? Or have you ever tried to get by without a project sponsor only to have the project go down in flames? Most every experienced project manager has at some point in his or her career encountered an onerous project sponsor, which either made a project more difficult to execute or caused it to fail altogether. This ebook focuses on ten key attributes that a great project sponsor possesses and how the project manager can coach a project sponsor to better represent his or her project. The paper is based on real-life experiences of both great and not-so-great project sponsors and outlines tried-and true techniques used to help project sponsors be more effective at ensuring a project's success. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Seek First to Understand your Recipient: Strategies to Make you a Better Communicator
Great leaders understand the importance of crisp communication that eliminates any ambiguity on direction or intent ~ Think back to some great communicators like Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr., or John F. Kennedy. What made them great communicators? It wasn't that they were great orators, had flashy teeth, sported perfect hair, or demonstrated a flawless writing style. They had courage, conviction, wisdom, clarity, and credibility; five attributes that build the foundation of all great communicators. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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A Dad's Remorse: A Dystopian Pandemic Medical Thriller
An incurable disease kills millions around the world. A selfish father is about to be its next victim. See what he wishes for in his last hour. Gene Carlotta is on his deathbed and won’t live long enough to see the next sunrise. As his life flashes in his mind’s eye he comes to realize the one thing he never gave his son and the heartbreaking remorse that consumes his last moments. A Dad's Remorse: A Dystopian Pandemic Medical Thriller is a great read for those who enjoy Dystopian Fiction | Christian Fiction | Christian Mystery & Suspense | Technothrillers | End Times | Religious Fiction | Antichrist | Rapture | Eschatology | Revelation | Tribulation | Short Stories Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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Hayley's Journal-A Mom & Son's Autism Journey
A mother's love for her autistic son. A father left behind. See what he does after they're gone. After Ryan Winn loses his wife Hayley, he discovers the journal she kept about raising their son Bert. Hayley and Bert shared a special mother-son bond, with Hayley making it her life's purpose to learn all she could about Autism so she could help her son not just survive but thrive. Based on the author's real-life experiences raising a son with Autism. Hayley's Journal-A Mom & Son's Autism Journey is a great read for those who enjoy Dystopian Fiction | Christian Fiction | Christian Mystery & Suspense | End Times | Religious Fiction | Rapture | Eschatology | Revelation | Tribulation | Autism Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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End Times 101: 60 Bible Verses about the Antichrist, False Prophet, and End of Time
Wondering if the end times are near? See what the Bible has to say about the Antichrist, False Prophet, and the end of the world. Get scripture verses about the names and characteristics of the Antichrist, characteristics of the False Prophet, and what happens during the Tribulation period from the Rapture through Armageddon and Jesus' second coming. End Times 101 is a simple-to-digest view of what the books of Daniel, Psalms, Isaiah, Matthew, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 John, and Revelation have to say about the end of time. End Times 101: 60 Bible Verses about the Antichrist, False Prophet, and End of Time is a great read for those who enjoy topics about End Times | Antichrist | Rapture | Eschatology | Revelation | Tribulation Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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The Hologram Society: A Dystopian Action Technothriller
A world captivated with a hologram social media network. A city obsessed with being its showcase…at all costs. It's 2062 and Bellevue, Washington has become HoloMate's gold standard of a hologram society. On the surface it looks like the perfect utopia, but underneath lies the dirty secrets that HoloMate wants to keep from the world. The Hologram Society is a great read for those who enjoy Dystopian Fiction | Technothrillers| Paranormal Suspense | Holograms | End Times | Rapture | Psychological Thrillers Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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31 Tips to be a Best-in-Class Project Sponsor
Great leaders understand what they need to do as a project sponsor to help the project team deliver great results ~ Stop fighting with your project manager! In 31 Tips to be a Best-in-Class Project Sponsor you get 31 concise and easy to understand tips to help you become a best-in-class project sponsor who consistently drives projects to success. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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17 Tips to Help You Find True Work/Life Balance
Great leaders understand the importance of work life balance and truly walk the talk ~ In 17 Tips to Help You Find True Work/Life Balance you get 17 concise and easy to understand tips to help you achieve your quest to find true work/life balance. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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16 Tips to Become a Best-in-Class Mentor
Great leaders effectively mentor others to build great leaders ~ In 16 Tips to Become a Best-in-Class Mentor you get 16 concise and easy to understand tips to help you be a best-in-class mentor who grows great mentorees. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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15 Tips to Keep Your Business on Track
Great leaders know the importance of actively managing their business to continue delivering results ~ In 15 Tips to Keep Your Business on Track you get 15 concise and easy to understand tips to help you get and keep your business on track. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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27 Tips to Conquer the Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership
Great leaders understand bad leadership attributes and avoid them like the plague In 27 Tips to Conquer the Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership you get 27 concise and easy to understand tips to help you conquer the seven deadly sins of leadership. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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17 Tips for Better Team Building Offsites
Great leaders effectively leverage offsites to create high-functioning teams that deliver results ~ In 17 Tips for Better Team Building Offsites you get 17 concise and easy to understand tips to help you design and conduct more effective team building offsites. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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30 Tips to a More Fulfilling Dinner Time with your Family
Great leaders understand the importance of eating dinner together as a family ~ In 30 Tips to a More Fulfilling Dinner Time with your Family you get 30 tips to enhance your dinner time experience and use the dinner table as a place to connect with your family. Pick and choose the most impactful tips and improve your dinner time experience with your family. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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19 Tips for Leading those who Don’t have to Follow You
Great leaders get people to follow them because they want to, not because they have to ~ In 19 Tips for Leading those who Don't have to Follow You you get 19 concise and easy to understand tips to help you lead those who don't have to follow you. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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18 Tips to Jump from Self-Importance to Being Someone Who Matters
Great leaders don't need throngs of people chanting their name; they get satisfaction through doing things that matter ~ In 18 Tips to Jump from Self-Importance to Being Someone Who Matters you get 18 concise and easy to understand tips to help you make the leap from being self-important to being someone who matters. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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14 Tips to Unify Your Team to Drive Results
Great leaders know how to get everyone to work together to deliver on great ideas ~ In 14 Tips to Unify Your Team to Drive Results you get 14 concise and easy to understand tips to help you unify your teams to drive better results. Use the handy self-assessment questions to help you identify where you need to improve and put in place the change needed to be a more effective leader. Read a Sample | Get it on Amazon |
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