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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports <!-- Remove -- Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact Fighter|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Some books seem determined to put you off. Unless it's literary fiction 'Going Mental' suggests something that I've gone to great lengths to avoid. The man on the cover is bald, bloodied and apparently screaming. I've been avoiding men like that too. '…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's a cage fighter I'm ready to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because that's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business and sports.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Kay|title=Obliquity: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Sometimes the shortest route to a destination isn't the quickest way to get there. Take crossing central America for example. Instinctively, you think that the best way to navigate your way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is to travel directly from east to west. It may seem counter intuitive but the designers of the Panama Canal realised that the easiest way to make the journey was in fact to use a thin strip of land and then go in seemingly the wrong direction from west to east. Architects and cartographers found that the obvious route wasn't the best way to solve the problem put in front of them. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successful. That in a nutshell is noted economist John Kay's concept of obliquity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>}}
<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Lewis0241636604|title=The Big Short|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, that went on and on and on. And the people who caused it all got rich during and after, very few felt any sort of consequences, and millions of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated the excesses of Wall Street in the 1980s, so does ''The Big Short'' perfectly tell the tale of Wall Street in the 2000s. In fact, given the extent of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Poker'' look positively mild by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrading Game: A Confession|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic ThinkingGary Stevenson
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|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=This littleIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, black book with its gold lettering on the front cover is beautifully presented. Truly pocket-sized you're unlikely to make it easy to refer to at any time, any placethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Divided into four neat sections dealing with ''A hoodie and jeans replaces the self'' pin-stripe suit and ''others'' (others in his background is the main being say business partnersEast End, where he was familiar with violence, colleagues or likepoverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -minded people) these fifty working models are designed but he had been to give the individual both selfLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -awareness and ammunitionhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, if you likeessentially, in order to cope a card game which got him an internship with various business/political and even social scenariosCitibank. Eventually, for examplethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683955</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stanley GibbonsFiona Parashar |title=Stamps of the World 2011A Beautiful Way to Coach
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|summary=In describing reference books the word ''bible'' has been used too frequently So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of latecuriosity. Slim booklets I was at an on a particular subject have -line launch for the word emblazoned on their cover, which makes it rather difficult when you encounter a book – or in this case a set and Fiona’s description of six books – which merits the wordher Vision Days appealed to me. Stanley Gibbons 'Stamps of the World 2011' is genuinely I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a bible – an essential tool full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a dealer Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and the serious collector. It's now available in six soft-bound volumes and is rightfully the company's flagship publicationback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852597894</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lambert and Eli Holzman303091657X|title=Undercover BossDisaster in the Boardroom: Inside the TV Phenomenon That is Changing Bosses Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Employees EverywhereRandall S Peterson|rating=3.5
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|summary=I guess I have to admit to a certain weakness for a certain type Boards must act in the best interests of reality TV – it's a long time since I watched Big Brother their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and I've not been sucked into watching talent contests – financially secure. This might seem obvious but I do quite like programmes a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in which death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the participants swap places and/boards were unaware of what was happening or step out of their normal lives they preferred toturn a blind eye, allegedlyleaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, see how someone else livesthe South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470916001</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business
|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Crafts
|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers
|author=Kim Staflund
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|genre=Reference
|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0008350388|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Over the years the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue has seen many changes. This To be a dark-skinned Black woman is the second edition since Gibbons compacted its listings to cover the era of poundsbe seen as less desirable, shillings and pence up to the end of 1970. (This is fair as the currency in Britain and various other territories goesless hireable, though Canada less intelligent and her territories went decimal in the midultimately less valuable than my light-nineteenth century)skinned counterparts. ..'' This boundary is extended in a few instances, such as the Barbuda British monarchs series, issued at regular intervals over an eighteen-month period spanning 1970-1, but ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597975</amazonuk>}}Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Heskethreed3|title=How to Persuade and Influence People: Powerful Techniques to Get Your Own Way More OftenWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Having just taken up a new management role in a completely new cultureSix years on from the original edition, on the book is being re-issued with a completely new continent, bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I'm well aware that it will be ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my soft skills, not just my supposed technical expertise, that life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'll be relying m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on for other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first few months at least. Thanks point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to this book, I will be better prepared for the taskhave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080423</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zarir Suntook3110706075|title=Learning AccountancyMaking a Difference: The Novel Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown
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|summary=If you're planning on learning how to prepare accounts the traditional method has what almost amounts to an initiation ceremony. 'You're introduced not there to double entry book-keeping, which is run the equivalent of being asked to learn HTML without ever having seen a web pageorganisation. Some people ''do'' take You are there to make sure that it like ducks to water – they're usually the people who think that Sudoku is ridiculously easy – but most people find that the concepts are difficult to grasp and this isn't helped by not really understanding why they need to master itrun properly. Zarir Suntook hasn't quite stood the methods of teaching on their heads but he's taken a more logical approach which is gentler on the brain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1443819484</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett3030513025|title=You Never Give Me Your MoneyThe Independent Director in Society: The Battle for the Soul Our current crisis of the Beatlesgovernance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Independent Director: 'Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead' sounds like a gimmick, doesnjob for which no one is qualified't it? Or, if not a gimmick, then the lessons that you learn when you see how it shouldn't be done. Over the past few years I('ve read quite a few marketing books and I've generally come away with the thought that they werenFinancial Times't aimed at a business like Bookbag and required far too much control. We're not that sort of people! We want to enjoy Bookbag and we want other people to do the same and we're definitely not in the business of trying to pull in every penny that we can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470900520</amazonuk>}})
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons0241453585|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2010Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden
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|summary=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain stamp catalogues come Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at basically three levelsAllied Irish Bank. At AIB was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one end of the scale is Collect British Stamps, a concise listing which excludes variations in shade, perforation, phosphor banding, watermarks et alfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. At AIB thought it was at the other is the multi-volume specialized editioncutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. This is the intermediate catalogueBoden took things a step further, which provides in one 354-page paperback realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the main variations of each issue. It also includes such extras as miniature sheets, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, and regional issues (Wales, Scotland, Northern Irelandold branch network, plus the Channel Islands and Isle employing thousands of Manpeople, the latter territories prior to postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectively)would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist3110641119|title=Style The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guideto Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Ihad no idea what 've always been fascinated by journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the use of book and acting on the English languagecontents. IYou've loved the way that precise use of words can make meaning absolutely clear – or obscure re going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it altogether. Some publications are a joy feels like to read whilst others leave you with a frownbe one of your own customers. Generally 'At this point, please don'The Economistt say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' comes into the first category and because this is mainly down going to the magazine's style guide – the rule book which guides writers towards clear writing. This is the tenth edition be fun and whilst it might sound rather dry ityou's the bible for people wishing re going to communicate with precision and style – and who appreciate the book's gentle humourbe surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681758</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Augar3110641291|title=RecklessThe Radical Innovation Playbook: The Rise A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Fall of the CityAllen Alexander|rating=45
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=The CitySo, 1997. Many major institutions are struggling why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in the City, with high profile scandals taking down Barings a slightly different form and severely damaging the reputation quite a bit of Morgan Grenfellmoney spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Kornberger 1472962044|title=Brand SocietyCreating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Brand Society I was once told that 'technology' is fundamentally anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a business management booktypewriter. This might come as some surprise given the title Times - thankfully - have moved on. Management books, at least Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn''how t have the time tokeep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven'' management books, tend to be simple and easy to followt delivered as expected. But, I suspect Kornberger would agree, that It's what limits their use. They are over-simplified to also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the point knowledge of uselessness. Ratherthe required technology, Brand Society takes an holistic approach to the subject of the prevailing nature of brands so they start off in todayconversations about technology feeling that they's world (re at least the Western world)a disadvantage. He suggests that today They need help, but they frequently don's brands exist without a prevailing theory to understand them or make sense of them. So t know what Kornberger does, after first looking at how brands transform management and organizations, is present a brand-centred conceptual map for thinking about things like politics, ethics and aestheticshelp they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521726905</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's Autographs1526362759|title=Collect AutographsDosh: An Illustrated Guide How to Collecting and Investing in AutographsEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph What a relief! A book or something about money, for children, with clear explanations of the kind as children and asked friendswhat it is, why it matters, relations or even celebrities how to 'acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do somethingwith it when you', written ve managed to celebrities in the hope get hold of obtaining it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a personally signed pictureclever shopper, or a saver (you might even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programmebecome an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, record or CD sleeve and pen ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in handthe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Do you want to improve your business? Make more profits? You probably need to look at '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the sector which makes 80% of purchasing decisionsworld''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the majority of impact on the talent local and represents 59% world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of graduates. Women.young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0470749504</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist0349424926|title=The World of BusinessLife's Work: From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play 12 Proven Ways to BailFast-Outs and Bad Boys Track Your Career|author=James Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=For years I've been Do you have a great fan guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of The Economistthose questions then you really ought to read ''Life's [[Pocket World Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in Figures 2010 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures]] series with all work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the unbiased statistics which the average person could wantbook you need. I was just a little nervous when I opened ''The World James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of BusinessREED, Britain'' – just s biggest and best-known name in case it was going the recruitment industry. Who better to be a disappointment – but I needn't have worried.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681588</amazonuk>give you the advice you need?
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{{adsense2}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE Anne Boden|title=Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - A thrilling story of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal developmentThe Money Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=One side of this book Money is completely alien to mechanging. It might not be in the ways you think. I We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have had no reason you ever even found a country that offers anything different to believe in any of the action learning1, self-actualisation etc2, that 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people in business sometimes deem necessary. If pressedapart from charity collectors and the homeless on the street, I'd guess but although this book has the subtitle that if people needed so much in-work training they might just be includes the wrong person for the jobword ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. ThereInstead, it's an anecdote here about a bright young thing fresh from business school, and faced with her first task at work, who panicked as the ''she did not know which theory to applymanagement''. The theory of common senseyour finances, I'd have suggestedand how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904312780</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Mintzberg1949395324|title=ManagingFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar|rating=54
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=''Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting paceFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know '' How true, though it always makes me wonder why, as gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a result, there's such a market for bulky management and leadership and general business books like this one. How does anyone who needs or wants company the knowledge to read one ever find understand the accounts which show how the time to do so? This title actually has an answer to this, by providing two books in one, and it company is such a simple yet effective solution that I have to start theredoing. You can read this The book in one of two ways. Option one is to read every word, chapter begins by chapterlooking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, cover then moves on to covergive an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the terms used. If you have We then look in detail at the time I would recommend this approach because balance sheet, the book is very readable, not too repetitive, income statement and quite thought-provokingthe statement of cash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alistair Milne1946383627|title=The Fall of the House of CreditCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=34.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=It now seems to be established as fact that so-called I'toxic assets' – mostly sub-prime mortgage investments m capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA were the cause of the current banking crisis, but Professor Alistair Milne of Cass Business School argues otherwise) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. ItThe accounts give me ''broadly's his contention that many of these 'toxic assetswhat I need: I know whether we' were (re making a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and still are) sound investments which will see what looks as though it could be repaid trimmed back in full without any problems and even the defaults will not be a large proportion of the wholefuture years. He argues My problem was that it was the initial loss of confidence accounts didn't really give me any help in these investment vehicles making decisions, which began a downward spiral was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and resulted in the collapse Management'', part of several BanksVibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521762146</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Mezrich 1072549271|title=The Accidental BillionairesSimple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of FacebookA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=As subtitles goI frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they'Sexve considered Kindle and the answer is, Moneyinevitably, Betrayal.that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and' is the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. Andonline, yet, thatI's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, a work of faction that claims m still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to tell hold my hand as I go through it for the inside story first time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of the founding of FacebookSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019550</amazonuk>
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