The Way Back to Mayberry: Lessons from a Simpler Time
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The Way Back to Mayberry: Lessons from a Simpler Time
Joey Fann
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ASIN: 0805424202

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The Andy Griffith Show continues to have a huge worldwide following. While many factors contribute to the show's ongoing popularity, many fans continue to point to the basic moral principles upheld by each and every episode. The Way Back to Mayberry takes an irresistible look at these moral themes and values promoted by the show and examines them in light of biblical truth. Each episode is described, and then the message of each show is looked at in detail, along with a biblical example of the theme, and an application for our lives today. This heart-warming book wanders back to a place where life seemed simpler and attention was paid to the little things.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars True Spirit of Mayberry.......2004-02-21

Heartwarming book on the wonderful lessons from Mayberry. Author presents many personal stories and reflections from the classic TV show - a very satisfying read. No Andy Griffith collection is complete without this volume!

5 out of 5 stars New Look at an Old Show.......2003-04-19

Being a huge Andy Griffith fan, I picked this book up the other day. Don't know what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised. Any Andy fan can tell you that the show was full of good, heart-warming stories, but I had never thought of the show in the terms presented by the author. To clarify, this book is not filled with epsisode trivia, or preachy sermon topics. However, it does present unique thoughts and observations regarding the timeless themes of Mayberry from a personal perspective. In almost every chapter, the author relates a personal story that will make you laugh, cry, or just reflect on simpler pace of life - kind of like The Andy Griffith Show used to do! If you have even a casual appreciation of the "Old Griffith Show", you will enjoy this book.

4 out of 5 stars Goober's the Best.......2002-02-02

If you're a fan of Goober and the Mayberrians you will like this book. It will have a special place in your bookshelves. When at University of Alabama I met George Lindsey, who went to school at UOA. To me, Goob made the show! Take it from Sharon a longtime Goober fan.

4 out of 5 stars The Gospel According To Andy.......2001-06-15

This is a feel-good approach to a TV phenomenon that is still delighting audiences thirty years later. Fann has hit on one of the reasons for the show's success: each episode contains moral truths and spiritual guidelines intricately woven into the storyline, and these are just as applicable to today's sophisticated, special effects-bombarded viewers as they were to the technicolor-challenged children of the sixties. Fann devotes a separate chapter to thirty of his favorite episodes. He gives a brief synopsis of the events, and then he presents parallel biblical principles that he feels are being showcased. He often peppers his writing with anecdotes from his own experience, and many of these have a "Chicken Soup" kind of approach. Because each chapter is self-sufficient, the book can be read incrementally--a chapter at a time, or it can be enjoyed in its entirety for those who have larger blocks of leisure time available. Each chapter begins with a correlating verse from scripture. For those teaching Andy Griffith Bible studies, this book is a wonderful companion for use in lesson preparation.
A Simpler Way
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  • Fluffy, repetitious
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A Simpler Way
Margaret J. Wheatley , and Myron Kellner-Rogers
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Strikingly different from most business books--it opens and closes with a pair of very powerful black-and-white photo essays, for example--A Simpler Way lays out a fascinating and productive reexamination of the traditional tenets of organizational behavior. Internationally known consultants Margaret J. Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science) and Myron Kellner-Rogers focus on the basic themes of play, organization, self, emergence, and notions of coherence to explore how people really systemize their existence. The authors draw upon science, poetry, philosophy, and other unconventional corporate resources to suggest a completely original method of working together. "There is a simpler way to organize human endeavor," they write. "It requires a new way of being in the world. It requires being in the world without fear. Being in the world with play and creativity. Seeking after what's possible. Being willing to learn and to be surprised."

While A Simpler Way may appear too New Age for some readers, this beautifully produced book hits the mark by bringing together an array of unexpected ideas as the authors look anew at established theories of human behavior to propose a decidedly unique way of promoting organization and achieving success. --Howard Rothman

Book Description

Margaret J. Wheatley and coauthor Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the question: "How could we organize human endeavor if we developed different understandings of how life organizes itself?" They draw on the work of scientists, philosophers, poets, novelists, spiritual teachers, colleagues, audiences, and their own experience in search of new ways of understanding life and how organizing activities occur. A Simpler Way presents a profoundly different world view that can change how we live our lives and how we can create organizations that thrive.

A Simpler Way explores fundamental new beliefs about organizations and life. Like Leadership and the New Science, this new book is rooted in science but breaks new ground by developing insights from literature, spiritual teachings, and direct experience. The authors challenge many assumptions about life, organizations, and change, while providing inspiration and guidance for readers on their own journey to a simpler way to organize their endeavors.

The authors describe a new paradigm of life as self-organizing and coevolving, drawing on sources that support modern science but predate its findings by thousands of years. They examine five major themes-play, organization, self, emergence, and coherence-each grounded in both the science and philosophy of a world that knows how to organize itself. Each theme is explored in depth, and then applied to how we think about human organizations.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Fluffy, repetitious.......2006-08-04

Not bad, but the material could have been covered in a magazine article. A few principles repeated until I felt like I was reading some sort of New Age meditative mantra.

5 out of 5 stars Simply wonderful.......2006-05-02

I could not put it down! Although an easy ready, it presses us to look at things differently, simply AND deeply. This book relates to all aspects of life and how we interact with each other and the world. How often and quickly we delve into issues without considering the impact of changes (or even suggestion of change). This is a "must read" for business leaders, teachers, politicians, churches and other organizations who so often try force square pegs into round holes in the name of progress and growth. I will read this book again, share with others and will read a lot more of Margaret Wheatley!

5 out of 5 stars Simpler way to absorb ideas from Leadership and the New Science.......2005-09-26


Margaret Wheatley is addictive. After reading "Leadership and the New Science" I have bought the rest of her books, and also those that she recommends by contributing a foreword.

This book has a great deal of white space, lots of photos, is double-spaced, but by no means is it simplistic. To play on the title, it is a "simpler way" to absorb the large deep ideas that are documented in "Leadership and the New Science." If her primary writing were a trilogy, this is the entry-level book, "Finding Our Way" is the intermediate volume, and "Leadership" is the graduate course. However, I recommend they be read in reverse order, because the simpler books are more clearly appreciated if one has the deeper background.

What I find most compelling about this book is the manner in which it captures core ideas from a wide variety of works that have been bubbling into human consciousness in the past 20 years. The bibliography is quite good although by no means all-inclusive (missing Kurzweil, E. O. Wilson, and Stephen Wolfham, as well as Tom Atlee and Bill Moyers, among others).

Among the core ideas in this book that are presented with elegance are the absurdity of thinking that life can have a boss--or that rigid ideas and identities will lead to anything other than rigid non-adjustable organizations. The author stresses the value of diversity, passion, connectedness, humanity and humanness, and tieing it all together, the role of information and of ethics as facilitators for "being."

There is a very useful discussion of bacteria and the manner in which human attempts to impose machine and medical solutions are ultimately defeated by bacteria. Although Howard Bloom's "Global Brain" is not in the bibliography, everything the authors discuss here is consistent with his concerns about bacteria winning the inter-species war with humanity.

Taking this a step further, I would contrast this book, and the varied books on collective intelligence, wisdom of the crowd, ecological economics (Herman Daly) and so on, with a book I recently reviewed about the National Security Council, aptly titled "Running the World." The stupidity and arrogance of that title reveals all that we need to know about why U.S. foreign policy is failing, and how desperately we need to take the ideas from this book and apply them to how we manage ourselves and our relationships with other nations, other tribes, other religions, other communities.

5 out of 5 stars penetrating philosophic work.......2005-05-14

In this sharply perceptive and penetrating philosophic work, the authors with unusual sensitivity and insight have been able to express life of human organizations in a beautiful way.

The authors in a poetic way express that life is creative and playful, contrary to Darwinist theory that life occurred out of an error and it is struggle for survival. The mechanistic image of the world doesn't help us any longer. We keep exploring what we can see when we look at life and organizations using different images.

Organizations are living systems. They are like people, intelligent, creative, adaptive, self-organizing and meaning-seeking. The simpler way to organize human endeavor requires a belief that the world is inherently orderly. The world seeks organization. It doesn't need humans to organize it.

The book is based around the following essential ideas: everything is in a constant process of discovery and creating; life uses mess to get to well-ordered solutions, it doesn't seem to share our desires for efficiency or neatness, it uses redundancy, fuzziness, dense webs of relationships, and unending trails and errors to find what works; life is intent on finding what works, not what's "right"; life creates more possibilities as it engages with opportunities; life is attracted to order; life organizes around identity; everything participates in the creation and evolution of its neighbors.

"A simpler way" is to a great extent influenced by Maturana and Varela, Kelly, Prigogine, Jacob, Lewontin, Kauffmann and other great thinkers.

Here is the quote from this book:

"In their work on human cognition, Maturana and Varela explain that, at any moment, what we see is most influenced by who we have decided to be. Our eyes do not simply pick up information from an outside world and relay it to our brains. Information relayed from the outside through the eye accounts for only 20 percent of what we use to create a perception. At least 80 percent of the information that the brain works with is information already in the brain.

We each create our own worlds by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinctions that makes sense to us. We then "see" the world through this self we have created. Information from the external world is a minor influence. We connect who we are with selected amounts of new information to enact our particular version of reality.

Because information from the outside plays such a small role in our perceptions, Maturana and Varela note something quite important for our activities with one another. We can never direct a living system. We can only disturb it. As external agents we provide only small impulses of information. We can nudge, titillate, or provoke one another into some new ways of seeing. But we can never give anyone an instruction and expect him or her to follow it precisely. We can never assume that anyone else sees the world as we do.

Their work on human cognition underscores the realization that we are all, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities."

I also recommend "Leadership and The New Science" in addition to this book.

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Simple Way to introduce the Complex(ity).......2003-06-30

This book is special for two reasons: #1 the book itself is beautiful in graphics, typography and shape, #2 the text pleasantly guides the novice into the realm of the subject of complexity.
This is the book I always advice to those who want to 'get into' the subject.
Perfect Blocks in Minutes-The Make It Simpler Way: Revolutionary Technique, One-Piece Paper Foundations to Fold and Sew, 60 Traditional Blocks (Make It Simpler)
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Following on the success of her first book, Make It Simpler Paper Piecing, Anita Grossman-Solomon is back with a new collection of 60 traditional 6" blocks that are easily assembled without using a single pin. Quilters will be amazed with the pinless, fold-and-sew technique and see-through vellum foundation paper that eliminate the need to cut units apart. Quilters will love seeing their blocks "unfold" with perfect points using this easy fold-and-sew technique.

Anita Grossman Solomon is an award-winning quilter and quilting instructor who invented "Make It Simpler" techniques to make quilting faster and easier. She lives in New York City.

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5 out of 5 stars Perfect Blocks in Minutes - Anita Grossman Solomon.......2007-07-18

Anita Grossman Solomon's instructions are terrific.

I'd given up on paper piecing until I saw her method on Simply Quilts. I'm anxious to put her technique into practice. She even responds to emails - - awesome!

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful.......2007-04-11

This is the best quilt book I have ever bought in my 20 years in quilting. I find the processes to be revolutionary. This is saving a ton of time and frustration.

5 out of 5 stars Perfect Blocks In Minutes.......2006-05-06

I love this book because it is so easy to understand and has so many different blocks to choose from. I wish I had found this book first.

3 out of 5 stars Perfect Blocks in Minutes.......2005-09-25

Have just started paper piecing quilting & find this book very down to earth and understandable & user friendly.

5 out of 5 stars Perfect Blocks in Minutes The Make It Simpler Way: Revolutionary Technique One-Piece Paper Foundations to Fold & Sew/60 Traditio.......2005-09-12

I love this book. It is so great for a beginner that has not done any paper piecing and great for anyone that has not done paper piecing by strips. The instructions are very clear; there are pictures to show "how to" for each step. THe patterns are clearly marked with strip cut sizes and even have arrows to show best direct to sew each strip. There are cutting instructions and multiple patterns. Would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know how to work with foundation/paper piecing.
Speed Lead: Faster, Simpler Ways to Manage People, Projects and Teams in Complex Companies
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Turning things on their heads
  • How to simplify, align, and focus to get fast results
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Speed Lead: Faster, Simpler Ways to Manage People, Projects and Teams in Complex Companies
Kevan Hall
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4 out of 5 stars Turning things on their heads.......2007-05-04

This week I did a speed read of Speed Lead. Sometimes it is important to turn things on their heads to see them better--it is much easier than doing handstands to get a different perspective--and this is exactly what Kevan Hall, CEO of Global Integration does. It astounds me how quickly new insights become boilerplate, that heavy stuff that keeps us grounded when we need to fly off in new directions. So it is refreshing when we are challenged by someone other than airport security about the baggage we carry with us.

Within less than a generation, concepts of teamwork, community, buy-in, and communication have become the dogma of contemporary management practice and panaceas for what ails us organizationally. The merit of Hall's essay is that he dares to ask when, how, and why these concepts are applicable and above all, when are they NOT! Hall clearly identifies when these best intended and highly valued work concepts not only do not work but cause hemorrhages of time, money and above all, motivation. In essence, he is telling us, "Take a closer look!"

The author writes in a simple and straightforward manner without excess jargon. This does not keep him from articulating significant concepts and distinctions with sound bites that give the book its power to influence our practice. Interspersed worksheets assist the reader to reflect on his or her organizational realities as the key concepts are introduced. Rather than listing the chapters, now that anyone can read a table of contents by googling up Amazon, I would like to highlight a few hotspots.

Take, for example, Hall's treatment of "community decay." This is in fact an examination of the cycle of motivation that is often unmanaged to the detriment of both projects and people. Hall tells us how to kick off a community involvement, how to sustain energies when people are working remotely, and, finally how to finish. "Unfinished business" is a psychological drain that is the bread and butter of therapists but hardly ever identified or dealt with as an energy drain in organizations.

Much of the book depends on the clear distinction between a "spaghetti team" (intense interdependency needed to achieve goals--hence many connections of each team member with each other) vs. a group or "star team" (independent efforts produce most of the results, so only central coordination is usually required). This distinction seriously affects both the functional size of the team and the amount and kind of communication that is necessary and NOT necessary.

Not all of Hall's suggestions are new, but it is the focus that he puts on them that adds value. For example, having people at a training program or meeting identify their wants and offers, i.e., what they are looking to have or to learn, and what they are willing to share or provide. My colleague and friend Walt Hopkins introduced me to this way of starting a session over 20 years ago. However, Hall's insight is that instead of having long boring presentations of what people see as their "best practices"--common in many meetings, they simple use wants and offers data to network with each other and come away what they hunger for rather than a carryout menu of seemingly good things to do.

The big middle of this book rightly deals with remote working and virtual teamwork, and rightly so. as most people I work with in large organizations confess that as much as 90% of their craft and communication are handled virtually. Here Hall goes into detail about how to trim out the unnecessary, build local capability, and manage distributed loyalties without paranoia.

A few gems from the pages of Speed Lead:
* "If there is no agenda, how do you know you need a meeting?"
* "A regular meeting is a bad meeting."
* "People are much more able and willing to adopt common practices than common values."
* "Loyalty is naturally local."

In the Cultural Detectivetm USA, my colleagues and I identified as core US values, "speed" and "speaking out." Clearly "speed" and "time is money" are the unexamined premises of Speed Lead. As Hall points out, "Values rarely change." However the exercise of values is highly relative to situations, circumstances and the Zeitgeist. Sometimes they are more ideal than real. So it is a challenge to become conscious of the shifts that occur in their relativity. For example, despite the US addiction to speed, I hear complaints from Asian managers that their US counterparts simply move too slowly! Despite the lip service paid to "speaking out" and "freedom of speech," fact is that in the US workplace "cover your backside" seems ascendant, while in the US public context "freedom of speech" is being severely limited by fear, invasion of privacy, and political correctness. Dealing with the cost of the intimidating legal and political climate in organizations as well as in the general US environment seems missing in these pages despite its growing impingement on global business.

While only the final chapter of Speed Lead is overtly about culture, the entire book is about the culture of organizations and, from the author's apparent experience as a practitioner around the world, what he speaks about is at the interface of culture and globalization. However, what starts out as practical forestry management deteriorates into clear cutting in its final moments. For a great majority of readers, I fear Hall essentially burns down the cultural rain forest with the assumption that, because what purport to be rule-oriented, individualistic, direct- and English-speaking meritocracies have succeeded in exploiting resources and marketplaces so successfully, they are de facto right or even know where they are going (other than after the next dollar). Capitalism has been good at creating a lot of wealth and very dodgy about where it comes from and where it goes.

Paradoxically the final chapter is titled, "Leave my cultural values alone," but suggests that this is done by ignoring values in favor of adopting common practices, unless the values involved turn out to be locally useful or cause trouble. This is frightening and suggests that the future of most cultures will belong to museum curators. While there may be a practical balance to be found here, this reviewer suspects that Chapter 8 will be, more often than not, understood as giving the reader all the expert permission he or she needs to ignore, if not flout the cultural values and practices of collaborators with different backgrounds or on other parts of the globe. Freedom of culture, like freedom of religion, is relegated to the ever diminishing area of private discourse as the unconscious and unexamined culture and religion of global business are given free reign. The rise of hackers and terrorists should not surprise us.

Bottom line: lots of challenging and useful ideas, many helpful applications, especially salient for virtual collaboration, but let your values give you the framework in which to achieve your Speed Lead.

4 out of 5 stars How to simplify, align, and focus to get fast results.......2007-03-10

This book is a little gem full of pragmatic, "how to" advice aimed at simplifying the way we work together to deliver greater results faster. Its laser focus on the "4C's": Cooperation, Communication, Control and Community cuts through organizational clutter to undo unnecessary complexity and create the high performance, high velocity organization we always hear about but rarely see in practice.

Great read for those working in large, global organizations or organizations on their way to becoming large and global, and really for anyone interested in improving the way they work and speeding up the delivery of results.

Highly recommended as a follow up to or in conjunction with Christopher Meyer's classic "Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for Speed"

5 out of 5 stars Speed Read.......2007-02-23

This book could easily be renamed, "Speed Read", as once I picked it up, it was impossible to put down. It's an easy book to read and the tips are so practical I was skipping ahead for the next ones. Having spent all my working life in and around complex companies, it was refreshing to have some of the assumptions around how businesses work challenged - they certainly resonated with my own frustrations as a line manager.
The focus on satisfaction worked well for me, as I have often seen very efficient businesses full of unhappy and dissatisfied people, often as a result of the complexity of the business or function they work in. The ideas and advice will help in the future.


5 out of 5 stars A Must Read for all who work in Large Companies.......2007-02-14

Anyone who works in a large(ish) company will enjoy and benefit from this book -- it is well worth reading. Its basic premise is that traditional management practices no longer work in the complex world that most business people inhabit.

The author points out various problems that I'm sure are common to many other companies especially in other major multinationals. Two that really caught my attention were too many bad meetings and too many pointless e-mails. Provocatively (but in my experience rightly) he says that in companies there is too much Co-operation, Communication, and Control (these are the first three sections of the book) but not enough "Community" (a sense of Trust and Team Spirit)which comprises the fourth section.

The book doesn't stop there but tells you what you can do about it. It is logical, easy to follow, and is full of simple practical insights, tips and tools to help you solve these issues. So there are lots of practical things to take away. Of course if you don't have these problems you won't need this book.
Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California
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  • Wonderful essays on the finest California architects
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This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture--California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of American society. Anti-commercial, anti-modern, Arts and Crafts practitioners drew on the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. And if only one word is used to describe virtually every Arts and Crafts house in California, that word is "woodsy": wood shingles outside, wood paneling inside, a wood fire burning in the homey, welcoming fireplace.
Most chapters in this impressive and very readable book focus on one building by a particular architect or designer and illustrate that person's development and influences. Familiar architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan are here, but so too are less well-known names who were a vibrant part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. These late Romantics designed houses to complement nature rather than contrast with it. Their eclecticism and historicism reflected a Romantic bent as well, no doubt cultivated by their familiarity with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where, in fact, Howard, Maybeck, and Morgan studied.
The book's contributors also give attention to the builders, contractors, and craftsmen whose skills contributed to the lasting impact of the California Arts and Crafts Movement. Superb illustrations provide examples of elevations, composition details, interior fixtures, and gardens, all designed to promote the "simple living and high thinking" of the Craftsman style, an esthetic that continues to influence architecture today.

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5 out of 5 stars Wonderful essays on the finest California architects.......1999-12-21

When I began studying architecture, many of my favorite architects were designers in the Arts & Crafts style. They were my favorites before I even heard of the Movement. This book is not only a must have for students of architecture and Arts & Crafts fans, but a valuable resource for history scholars in general who want to learn more about the people who shaped the region and the way we live here. The book is nicely photographed, showing buildings in their early surroundings, as they exist today, a variety of good close-up details, etc. All photos are black and white, some with an authentic sepia tone look. Some color photos would have been nice. I wish that a book like this existed for the architects of each state. Each essay is well written by a variety of different authors, many of which are familiar names to Arts & Crafts enthusiasts.

J. Wheeler

San Francisco Bay Area Arts & Crafts Movement

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Practical Golf (A simpler, sounder way to a better game with one of the most sucessful teachers in golf history)
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    Practical Golf (A simpler, sounder way to a better game with one of the most sucessful teachers in golf history)

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    ABOUT THE AUTHORS......JOHN JACOBS was a top tournament professional who later almost single-handedly created the present European golf tour. He is also a renowned telecaster on the game, but his greatest claim to fame is as a teacher. "Doctor Golf," as Jacobs is known around the world, is the number-one golf instructor in Europe, and is becoming ever more highly regarded in the U.S.A. where he operates a growing number of golf schools each year. Practical Golf-the all-time best selling golf instruction in Great Britian--is the distillation of this master teacher's knowledge, drawn from his work with all grades of golfer from Jack Nicklaus down to the raw beginner. KEN BOWDEN was the foundling editor of Golf World (U.K.) and editorial director of Golf Digest. A low-handicap player, since 1972 he has managed the communications activities of Jack Nicklaus, with whom he has written seven books. ANTHONY RAVIELLI is one of the finest artists ever to illustrate golf. A frequent contributor to Golf Digest, he has illustrated books by, among others, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Bryon Nelson. His ability to depict the key elements of golf technique in a way that no photographer can do adds mightily to the instructional value of this exceptional book.
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      Ted Trainer
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