Ryan Ho's Entrepreneurship Blog

For the past few days,

I was writing my first e-book with intention to launch on 27th Jan 2011 for $27/-

With only 2-3 more chapters left, it should be an easy task even the customer support for a product is what comes after the sales which is where the real value of the product comes into play.

During the process, which i’m still in currently, it seems difficult at first, but when you actually settle down, have a peace of mind, empty your thoughts, than it will be easier than what you actually thought it would be..not as difficult as i initially thought to be..

There will still be some stumbling road blocks especially when writing the contents, but after so many years of mentally walking with some many stones..the time for change has come..and its a simple process..

Simply push all the problems aside, clear path way for a smooth journey, problems will always happen, the only way to move on is to execute and minimize problems from surfacing by preventing it from the start and not making detour or beating around the bush hoping the problem will KIA (killed in action = a unhappy client) itself when there’s no hope of solution which most small scale business employ such tactics  as a matter of fact.

Back to subject proper..I hope I can launch the product online by estimated 27th Jan 2011 if not earlier. Lets hope my cold will not affect my progress of completing the book.

The book which I’m writing will help people to cut down on their shopping budget and learn tricks to intelligent shopping trip with proper use of money by making the right choices.

This book will go a long way in helping everybody in saving money in the long run as i specifically wrote this book in a way that is applicable to assist in the sales decision of any and every product being sold without advertising for any product (for obvious reasons since they didn’t pay advertising fees). Plus with this book, it can help you to cut down of time spend on shopping trips in future if you know the tricks to it.

Hope this book can launch on time.

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Answer in dictionary terms has different meanings and it can be a reply to a question; a solution to a problem, a response to something or retaliation when faced with opposition or in defense of oneself.

Over the past few weeks of absence with full use of notebooks, time and thoughts set in with more rooms to think.

As I look back, I’m thankful for the natural life cycle of items, objects and even living beings inclusive of animals of all kinds.

During the absence of a own fully operational notebook, there are times whereby I wanted to continue to write out my thoughts via blogging, but is limited to my situation which I’m in with depleting resources inclusive of money, time and health.

Without money, time and health will not be possible. Without money, my path towards entrepreneurship will cease to exist and so I will remain just like another average joe on the streets.

Having ample time off from the notebook (electronic gadgets) has given me another answer which I would otherwise never will come to realize without the aging notebook due to the shelf life of items.

As I read books, thoughts started flying through my mind, at times floating  and even crawling pass my mind. While the ideas and thoughts are constantly changing, the one thing in particular which I was constantly thinking was how to get rich, and being both rich and right at the same time without compromising on my principles needed for my own personal branding..

As days passed..weeks…months..even while I’m working, being employed (though I once said the last time I wanted was to be employed) but I still got to face reality.

The harsh cruel truth of society, money is essential for almost everything. Without it, nothing is possible, but on the hind sight, money still has its limitations.

Searching for answers and the path (formula) required for success, with the advice and comments from my current boss, I learn quite a few helpful tips essential for success and getting rich.

Face the music is what I could sum it up of.

Face the truth, reality, and never ever live in my own desired world or some say fantasy. The right answer is that there is no model answer.

Here’s a food for thought for readers: How to get rich?

You might think there are numerous ways and different scales to doing it. That’s right, there’s no one definite answer to a question or problem.

What works for you might not necessary work for me so the key to success is to ask yourself what kind of parameters and environment do you want to be in and be ready to compromise on certain things which you might not like.

Flexibility is what makes all millionaires and billionaires rich. With the same goal and destination, you just need to search for a terrain suitable for you depending on your working style, preference and personality, work with supportive people and be in a team.

No matter how rich and successful a individual is, the wealth he/she now holds are a collective effort of all the other individuals who are helping those in the limelight contented with what they have

Ask yourself and find the different answers. The truth of the adulthood is that there is no such thing as good or bad, whatever brings in results is considered good. (A far cry from what’s taught in schools, but that’s a cruel fact of life)

Start asking yourself questions and try out different answers. Even if it’s wrong, it is also an answer which you have tried, you just need to identify those suitable answers and assemble them accordingly to make it function and together with a framework, it will than become a formula of your own.

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Change is the transformation of a something to another thing. What works in the past may not necessary work in the present.  It is the substitution and replacement as time pass.

Getting updated and following the trends and fads especially when doing business. Businesses are constantly evolving in order to stay ahead and above the competition to remain as the market leader for the more competitive industries.

Businesses that don’t come up with new products will be left behind in the dust before they even know it. Growing up, be it individual from being physically to as an entity of a company, all are constantly changing to meet the demand required of it.

Business owners especially in the fashion are exceptionally updated and must follow the trends else risked being outdated in less than a year as fashion trends become fads shedding its old appeal and living in a new skin like a snake crawling out of its old skin.

People also change every second as we grow; our body goes through the physical and mental changes in different situations we must adapt and blend into what is required of us in the environment to survive in the terrain.

Over the last few weeks of absence from blogging, there are quite a few lessons which I’ve learnt, the most important is change, don’t be resistant to change, and else there will be no new fresh ideas. Change rules and principles if there is a need, being inflexible will increase the frustration and unhappiness thus killing our brain cells and that kills our creativity needed for survival which leads to risking being outdated leading to poverty in worst case scenario.

In the past, I blog from home without work now I blog from office at work. I can say that I’m lucky to be hired and still able to continue doing what I like, internet marketing and more importantly getting paid to do what I like.

Success is guaranteed as long as you don’t give up, sure enough, it’s the truth and I tested it out on myself.

During the past few months, I was work from home, without income, entrepreneurship seems like an uphill task, but after sticking to what I believe in, accepting no other employment except internet marketing, I’ve found this current employment which allows me to use other people’s money and resources to continue whatever I’m doing. In fact, I’m learning new things with regards to internet marketing and learning the differences of internet marketers.

The crucial lesson which I’ve learnt over these past few months about entrepreneurship is that in order to succeed, there must be a continuous stream/source of financial means to support the starting up process so as to create a model which works for respective individuals, and that requires time, effort, creativity and money.

Ignore money, and nothing will be possible. But don’t look at money as extremely important; it is just part of the formula required for success. Have the right principles on money before you think about getting rich. Else should you start on the wrong footing, when you get rich than start learning about money management, it will be too late.

Should you be receiving high income, you will also have difficulty managing your finances, and with not much savings as reported by Straits Time recently as shown in  http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_529522.html That is another topic which I’ll write another day.

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Secrets are meant to be private and confidential, information, communication not mean to be known by competitors or by anybody outside the selected circle.

In “Water Colours Part 3 of 3” it showcased the last series of the wonders of marine life. It started with a new twist of colour introduction, fluorescent colour in the dark.

Under the elusive depths, where light is not within reach, creatures living in those depths also share the same language which marine animals in the shallow coral reef area uses, fluorescent light glowing from their skin, bones eyes etc.

Even more surprisingly was a shark card on record to be follow glowing with fluorescent light in the deep ocean with half a kilometer in depth.

To be able to glow in the dark is a colour language which being used in the marine life and are not limited to marine animals but also corals.

In different setting under different brightness and darkness, marine animals use colours to communicate. Other than colours, they also use touch and sounds for communication.

Beyond the fluorescent abilities, there are the UV rays of vision which only selected species of fishes and in particular smaller size of fishes and rays will have to be able to communicate. UV rays colour filters were used when recording the small coral reef fishes duck dive into the corals at the same time.

At that moment, all species of fishes recorded on camera were spotted to unanimously spot to have UV light flashing for a second before diving into the corals. That was a sign of danger when predators are approaching.

While I learn not as much knowledge from the previous two series, this last series tells me something about secrets, it is exclusive and only known to insiders within the circle sharing the common language, outsiders will never learn the secrets.

When I think and cross reference it to the super rich, its absolutely true, as the language they use at the top of the social class, is simple conversation language which poor people may already know, but it just gets more complex while super rich really uses simple communication tools. One of which I read from a book was casual chat in just one to two sentence that will seal the deal.

Another language which the super rich uses, I believe is network with cooperation for mutual benefit short, mid and long term in a single action which justifies why they are super rich, one single action reaping dual results as compared to the poor who benefit only once from that action.

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Power is the ability, capacity or authority to carry out an order, action or command to have any task completed either done legally or illegally.

It is the strength, force to influence to accomplish tasks via being in a authoritative position to order subordinates to complete their assignments/tasks on time.

It is a force not to be reckoned with, especially with nature especially with the forces of natural disasters, the power and impact is damaging.

It is what many people would dream of having, the power to control almost anything and everything by being in an authoritative position. Power struggle is usually the result of not having reached an agreement and both either sides are happy with the terms and conditions being proposed.

In the most recent example, Thailand, the red shirts peaceful riot that changed into partial violence. While it looks like the military has got the weapons, and are in the authority position to defend them but without the command from their leader, they cannot carry out anything.

The people participating in the riot on the other hand has the advantage, whatever steps the military and government do, they still win because they are taking away their rights, restricting their movements and forcing them into a corner by force.

By using force, such as bullets, water guns against the protestors who started with ladies and even children, military has no reasons to fire bullets against them, but they still did, thus they are in the wrong. For pushing them backwards, they are bullying the weak, thus the protestors return what they receive from the military.

One of which was throwing back a smoke grenade back to the military, thus they cannot say that it is the protestors who started the violence with they throwing grenade into the government protected places as reported in Channel News Asia.

There are lots of political Dos and Not Dos which we can learn by watching the news. If you want to succeed and win in the war of business or politics, you will like to switch your channel and get the latest insights to their progress.

Who is right or wrong, it is all based on personal perception and views. To win, we not only need to know business but also politics.

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Survival is skill. It is the process of surviving unusual circumstances, dangerous situation or even natural disasters.  It is the techniques to provide basic necessities like food, water and shelter to get help.

Under certain conditions either as mention above or when chased out for a community, a person or any living organism will try their very best to live, that is a genetic system build in most of the living organisms in particular man.

In the documentary show on Okto “Is It Real: Federal Children”, it highlights different previous cases of children who were left in the care of animals, learning their language and some eventually landed up in mental institutions as their caregivers give up.

To survive and live on means to find food, water and shelter, it is already being programmed in our mind. Inside the mom’s womb, in the case of a twins, they will fight for survival in food and space, thus sometimes, moms give birth to twins of different size and weight due to food and space competition.

After birth, the mind is fine tuning the brain wires to learn and accept whatever knowledge and education in the crucial few months to first few years of life.

Before and after birth, the first few years are critical in picking up new skills and knowledge, in this documentary case example, it is the ability to learn and master human language since the federal children are being bought up by dogs, wolfs or relatives from the money family.

Brain is a wonderful organ, which can also rewire itself to adapt to changes which explains why people either upgrade or downgrade themselves in terms in intellectual wisdom and behavior by mixing and learning from the group of people they hang around with.

A person who once experienced a accident, causing bones fracture and damage to the brain thus during the healing process, the body needs to relearn how to walk in road accidents cases. This is when the brain will retune and rewire itself to adapt to learn new things unless that particular learning section of the brain is damaged.

Before I side track too much, lets get back to the topic on survival, as it suggest, our brain are programmed to seek for necessity to give us food, water and shelter. In particular to shelter, this covers the area of attention, care and concern which is just being discussed briefly in the show which I will write more in depth about it.

Shelter to my understanding thanks to the documentary show is defined by care and concern being showered to a infant/child by showing love and attention. When this attention and love is missing from the equation, which maybe a result of abusive parents or lack of attention from both working parents, it will lead to more complications which we see in Singapore these days which is sexual related problems.

Sex itself covers a wide array of topics. The core fundamentals of sex boils down to love and attention, when people will start searching for love and attention from whatever source available which will give us what we seek thus the reason why these days, boys and girls often get into boy-girl relationship.

Reason is simple, to compensate for the lack of attention and love from their caregivers who are their parents, grandparents or relatives and adoptive parents.

Children are being neglected due to intensive global competition for money which converts to bread and bacon for the family thus parents as care-givers have no choice but to seek employment for income to bring the bread and bacon back home.

Looking at the perspective of adults and parents, they are not wrong, and it is their mind, the already programmed system to seek for food, which comes from work to get money thus sexual related problems which we have in Singapore and in other countries is a global problem and is not exclusively to a country.

It is the basis of survival, in order to tackle the problem of sexual related issues, we need to go back to the basics, provide attention and love to the children which are near impossible given the competition from both local and foreign talents for the same piece of pie.

There are many ways to go about and provide a solution to sexual related issues to cut the roots of the problem, but that I will keep it secret till the time for me to offer it as a business product and services for the solution.

If you who is reading this post is a parent, try your best not to neglect your children else problems will gradually crept up to you for your ignorance and those problems will only show up when your children grows up. So if you know the cause already from my post, start showing more attention and love to your children.

Work towards having a blissful family which will solve the root of the problem.

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Time is a measurement system of a unit. It is a measurement of a period or interval.

Everyone has the same amount of time twenty four hours a day seven days a week fifty two weeks a year and so on. Time is so unique that nobody can create extra time for anybody.

The poor can only have maximal twenty four hours per day, while the wealthy and successful businessmen have X numbers of twenty four hours, and it is based on the number of business partners, employees they have working on a project, repeating doing the same thing to produce products, services for sales and profit to the business.

With increase help and paying people in-exchange for their time, the businessmen thus can increase and better utilize his time on more profitable business to further increase his wealth accumulation process.

Businessmen thus in a way is buying time from people, leverage on business partners and employees which is mutually beneficial to all the parties involved with agreements to the terms and conditions attached.

While time can actually be bought, but nobody can buy back lost time, time which has passed can never ever be bought, which brings me to opportunity cost, when the timing is right, a business proposal is in front of you wanting to invest and be part of it, if you miss it that time, in future when they succeed, you cannot turn back time thus you live a life with regrets and nothing else.

We can buy time but we cannot buy lost time since we cannot turn back the clock. Instead of living with regrets, why not make the best use of time to do what we like, go after our dreams, passion or wealth.

If you are clueless about opportunity cost, there is a daily repeating event in the neighbourhood near you. Just start queuing up for free newspapers everyday, at time you may be in the front, but what happens if you are at the back of the queue without any free newspapers left. That is the lost of opportunity. You can choose to wake up early, take action by queuing or find shortcuts.

If you lose it, you cannot find it back, since the newspapers are all given out with no spare copies. It is identical to doing business. Just with the exception of business where money comes into the picture.

If you know Microsoft, Google and Facebook could be what it is today, if there is a opportunity for you to invest when they are still unknown, you have found the perfect opportunity that once lost, it is lost forever for good or bad depending on your perspective, time is important, so make sure you know how to look ahead and invest in visions, not dreams.

Today at this date, I have an opportunity for interested parties, I’m not sure how long or short this limited opportunity to work with successful businessmen will last, but if you understand the value of time, do not hesitate to contact me,

I’ll get back to you if you show interest in wealth accumulation, moreover whatever I am doing right now, it is tested, proven with time and results from seniors who have being there, done that. I’m learning from businessmen who plans on building companies, if you want to be part of it, why not now, ask me for more details.

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Laziness is the lack of desire to expand effort. It is to appear sluggish, slow moving, resistant to work.

It is a psychological problem that manifests itself in our own mind. By repeating telling ourselves that we are lazy, one day you will notice that you will tell others yourself and confirm yourself from your own mouth that you’re a lazy bone thus pushing and avoid any job or work which can be a hassle.

Laziness derives from the word lazy, but there’s a slight critical difference between these two words which dictionary and schools don’t talk about.

Laziness is a problem while being lazy is a catalyst to speed up productivity and efficiency at work for finding shortcuts. Once you start working, you will realize the difference. A shortcut is needed to reduce time, effort and to increase profits for minimal effort made.

People who practice laziness, will have a harder difficult lives and living in a environment filled with problems created by their own laziness.

People who are lazy are making lots of money. Look at your employment, do they do the work themselves or do they pass or divide their workload to the group to minimize the time spent on a project. Just do a simple comparison, is it easier for a group of people to complete a project or just a individual to complete a project? When workload is spread out, the workload decreases and thus profits are made in the process.

Another example will be for the sales people. Are the people bring in sales for companies and allow the business to profit earning more or is the employees doing the administrative work earning more? Ask and you will notice the difference. People who bring in the bacon and pass the job or work to others are earning more money, while the doers are making just average income doing not as productive things as compared to bringing in profits for the company. Nevertheless, administrative employees are just as important, if not the job or work will not get done if nobody takes up the job.

To be wealthy and successful, you first have to learn to become a lazy person finding shortcuts without reducing the profit margin or to increase any problems comprise safety at work.

Once you find or have created the blueprint, you have found yourself a winning formula which can bring you wealth and it all starts from the mind, put on your thinking cap. It is like selling a franchise business, you hold the master key, you just sell your franchise model to investors who want profits from the business, collecting royalties from every investor who is using your system.

To master the art of being lazy without having laziness in your mind is an art, a skill that must be learned and applied correctly and it all starts with your mind. So stop being a lazy bone and start thinking.

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Consideration is the evaluation of facts and benefits keeping in mind of something.

It is the process of weighing the difference effects and consequences to something before, during and after the decision has being made. Thinking about the results, if it will produce positive or negative impact, who are the affected parties, who will benefit, who is the main targeted market who directly benefit from the decision.

The poor, takes lots of time to come up with a decision, without first knowing what they want, how they will judge and access anything when the time calls for a decision to be made. First thing that comes to the mind of the poor is “let me go home and think” which not only isn’t productive, efficient and it will further delay the growth in all aspects. When poor people goes back to think, the people they talk to are people who knows nothing, and when a ignorant person ask another ignorant person, the answer after the decision is nothing thus hindering their own success and growth.

The wealthy and successful people have their own way of consideration and will set a date line for all decisions to be made with the exception of when the project/proposal will implicate the whole business, employees, than no time limit will be set. The general consideration factors typically hang around these few.

Projected return on investments, target market, strategy to penetrate into the market, what are the risk and rewards to themselves, the employees and the company/business. Will it be possible to expand business into a new area to increase profits and slowly build an empire, who is the partners they will be working with, do they have the clean past track record, their respective style of doing business, how they treat their partners after a successful project, if they turn their backs around them and run off.

Wealthy and successful individuals have their own respective consideration factors to think first before making any decision. The higher appointment you hold in the business, the deeper your consideration needs to go under to areas which will be overlooked.

When it comes to making a decision, they are fast, efficient in this aspect while the poor takes their time, drag this drag that, thinking the opportunity will wait for them living a their own made believe world.

People who go from rags to riches will understand this time, timing which is why all self-made millionaires and billionaires keep increasing their wealth as compared to businesses whereby it is handed down from generation to the next.

People who are already successful born in a silver spoon might not necessarily understand the essence of it because they have the power (money) to do things from the start.

If you don’t know what to consider, ask the person who introduce it to you, they can help and assist you in making an informed decisions with them knowing the differences among their competitors.

The more time you think without discussing and asking questions and keeping those questions to yourself, the higher your chances are of failure. Wealthy and successful people are not afraid to ask, it is only when they start asking, they learn something new and thus more windows of wealth accumulation will be opened up to them.

If you don’t know, start asking. Be humble, but never be modest. Give credits where it is due.

“The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know” – Donald J.Trump

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Relationship is an association of two or more people which is based on different purpose and bonding. It may be based on for business interactions, social commitments, interpersonal or intimate relationship.

Different purpose of relationship requires different methods of handling, and understanding how it works is the key to solving the root of the problems should it surface.

The root and basics of relationship management is to look at the difference between how a man and a woman handle relationship.

There is a common saying “Men can forget but they cannot forgive. Women can forgive but they cannot forget.”

During a courtship, there is both positive and negative behavior which we can learn from relationship. Relationship management is just like a business and it requires time, effort, commitment and collaboration from both parties to work.

In the process of the courtship, it is sweet, once the courtship is over and grow into a relationship before it evolve into a either a break-up or marriage followed by everlasting love if not separation followed by divorce.

The spectrum of transition of relationship is all about business transaction these days due to the change in culture and influences. Romance; love; commitment; responsibility; accountability ; management; operations; protection; expansion.  It is all about the cycle before it duplicates itself or it dies off.

Romance is sweet like an appetizer, a small dish to stimulate a desire for more.  It can be of in all flavors depending on the person’s character and personality. It is the selection of which appetizer is suitable for you like choosing a partner.

Once you take your pick, you start to taste it, the taste lingers in your mouth, either your taste buds accept it if not reject it. If you accept it, it starts to go inside, making you hungry wanting more increasing your appetite. It is the courtship whereby you want to consume it, but it just does not want you to know what the next dish is. With anticipation, the desire grows, like in a courtship, from hands to shoulders to waist, hips, kissing and other intimate actions translating romance into love.

Love is when you start to have the taste of the dish, and you ask for more, wanting the next dish to be served fast. Short light kiss becomes French-kissing and it proceeds further with hands into the picture. Like you start off with different breads, applying either butter or jam just simply hands and or with just a butter knife. As you progress, you start using tools to consume more and the tools get more, which is when intimacy increases and clothes start dropping piece by piece.

Commitment is when the main course get served, finally you see the dish in front of you, salivating, starts drooling and you can’t wait to consume the main dish. It is whereby clothes are completely removed; all you see in front of you is the naked body. Alluring, sexy with a sense of curiosity of how it will be like.

With a slice of cut on the meat, you put it into your mouth, its equivalent to making a commitment, a promise to your partner that you will stay by his/her side. Soon as you consume the main dish, you start to fell the slight fullness in your stomach. As foreplay moved into intercourse, the promise is made and commitment sets in.

Having finished the main course, the rest of the course can be predicted, with the delicious dish already served, whatever dish coming up next is just lighter in flavor then the main course which was just finished. Like after the intercourse, ejaculation sets in, satisfaction in both parties. The customer decides to stay till the end of the course, while the cook is happy that the customer enjoyed the main course.

With that, responsibility takes places. You will start discussing how nice the dish was previously, and perhaps next time your choice of dishes if you were to come back again. Similarly like how ladies like to hug their partners after it, lying on their partner’s chest or in the arms, looking into the eyes, smiling happily, chatting about the feelings during the intimate physical contact.

Accountability sets in soon after, like the dessert that’s coming up next, it can be of either hot or cold dessert to tantalize your taste buds usually ending with sweet desserts so the customer will come back for more. Like a happy couple resting in the comfort of each other, either one waking up slightly earlier to prepare breakfast for the other partner, leaving sweet memories and closing the chapter leaving wonderful and pleasant memories, allowing the couple to make plans for marriage.

Management is the bills of the whole set breakfast/lunch/dinner. Settling the bills, checking if the bill is right for any overcharging like a couple in bliss, planning for the next session with budgeting involved now.

Budgeting includes the promise and if the partner is responsible for his/her actions before a second and three set meal can be consumed together. Discussed wisely, the budget only gets sweet and larger with more commitments and responsibilities like choice of restaurant, if want to upgrade to a higher class restaurant paying for the service and ambiance similarly to discussion of settling down for a family.

Operations is how the restaurant runs the after sales service, the methods which they will offer to give you reasons to patronize the restaurant or their service again. It is when the partner shows his/her attention, care and concern for each other to make it work and have the relationship running smoothly without any food scraps getting stuck in between the teeth.

Protection is whereby restaurants come up with new dishes, promotions to attract and retain their valued customers. This is when business rivals surface allowing the customers to chance to taste other recipes and dishes. This will be when partners come up with new tricks such as new image, choice of clothes, some teasing, and new positions and change of environment to entice their own partners to stay faithful and loyal to each other.

Expansion is when the business is doing well; restaurant owner decides to open another outlet via franchise model duplicating their success. It is whereby both partners planting and wants seeds to be planted in the farmlands. For males, it’s to get the female pregnant, for females, it is to get married and the cycle continues, this time on the baby inside the womb.

Transactions are happening everyday, every second, how you run the business and how much you profit depends on you and nobody else. Learn management skills, it is the skill that is applicable to anything and everything.

Have a profitable business and a happy marriage. =)

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