Happy Thanksgiving 2009

By | November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving! While I’m aware that only about half of Eric’s Tips readers are in the USA, there’s no reason you can’t be thankful anywhere in the world 🙂

Today I’ve got a few things for you…

1) A Thanksgiving gift
2) A Thanksgiving CONTEST
3) Some stuff for you to check out

First, I want everyone who reads this newsletter to know that I’m thankful for YOU. Without you, Eric’s Tips wouldn’t exist.

Here’s a FREE small gift as a token of my appreciation. It’s a collection of WordPress Sales Letter themes. In other words, these themes enable you to easily create a sales letter on any WordPress site. This is a $27 product:

Click here to download… (14MB zip file)

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Next, this is the 2nd annual Eric’s Tips Thanksgiving contest!

We did it last year and it was fun so we’re doing it again…

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thank you to all who participated! We had approximately 675 comments during the contest.

How the winner was chosen: As stated at the beginning of the contest, it would be random this time (Last year I had such a hard time picking the best comments!). So I took the total # of comments before the deadline, and went to Random.org and generated a number between 1 and that number. Then I counted down from the top of the comments until I reached that number.

The winner will receive the website that I created in this demo video: Site Profit Bot demo

And the winner is…

Nadiya, who posted this comment:

“Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Eric. I have everything to be thankful for – with all the trials and tribulations that comes with life – I have family that is always there for me and we always find a way to try and make the best of it – always with the thought that there are people that have less than us and so the gratitude is always there. And Thank you for always sharing your knowledge and the free gift – Just what I needed!”

Congratulations Nadiya!

OK, lastly…

Here is some stuff for you to check out while you’re laying on the couch digesting turkey this afternoon…

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Have a great day and a happy Thanksgiving!

751 thoughts on “Happy Thanksgiving 2009

  1. Briz

    Eric,
    Thanks for putting together and making available the most up to date, logical and straight forward information on internet marketing. Being a newbie I am thankful for finding your site as it has made the whole process of starting online that much easier.
    Cheers.

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  2. Susan

    There are so many things to be thankful for, but right now I would like to acknowledge you, Eric, for being such a fine example of a human being and for obviously striving to live up to your own high standards of conduct. I also appreciate your making your excellent internet business training freely available on this blog. Many thanks.

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  3. Avita

    Thanks for all the great programs and advice you provide.
    I am a healthy, inquisitive, multilingual senior lady. I kind of suffer from info overload as I have been trying for about 5 years to make extra money on the internet and got scammed several times. Finally through friends, God bless them, I got introduced to a program, where, through participation with at least $50.00 you make 6% a week. No work involved. Principal stays in for 30 days,
    but is not blocked, if you withdraw before, you get no interest paid. This is the program that improves my financial situation. As a senior I do not have the years to build up a portfolio with all the risks involved or work at an internet business which is time consuming. This program is working since 3 years and I have recuperated my principal after about 14 weeks and my risk is now nil as I am reinvesting the profits.
    I would never have known about this program if not from internet savy friends. God bless them.
    I am thankful for all that life has given me and as an immigrant I have made the best of the opportunities given me.
    My your Thanksgiving be blessed

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  4. David Dana Singer

    Eric,

    I am most Thankful for being Agent Orange Cancer Free for 10 years, through the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom has removed it ALL, i.e. tumor size of a plum, restored bone of the skull whole without surgey, etc… All on file at VA records dept. Yes, we all have something to be thankful for… HIS servant
    David Dana Singer

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  5. Brian Rouley

    Hello, Eric –

    I’ve enjoyed learning from you over the past few years and truly admire your dedication to technology, marketing, and philanthropy in its purest form.

    Thank you very much for the inspiration and the fine example you set for all to see.

    BR

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  6. Sara Lees

    Happy thanksgiving America,
    I am grateful that people are willing to share expertise to benefit others , so that we all win if we do the work !
    thanks Sara Lees

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  7. Kimberlee

    Wow thanks Eric for this opportunity to reflect with gratitude! I am so happy and grateful to discover there is so much abundant creativity within and around us – just waiting to be unleashed. When things seem overwhelming, I just try to remember that our natural state of being is to shine – and then look for the glimmers!

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  8. Stewart

    Greetings Eric,

    As an Australian, I wish to thank the people of the U.S. for the election of Barak Obama and for the renewed hope he has brought to people throughout the world.

    Thanks for your advice, info and the opportunity to enter your contest.

    Reply
  9. Scott

    Thankful that I finally built my sight and decided to put in the time to make it successful> with thanks to all that have helped me learn the things that I needed to learn. One of those people being Eric. Thanks so much for all that you have done for me and many others. I’m quite sure many others are thankful for all that you have helped with.

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  10. Philip

    A simple Thanks,

    I am thankful that my loving family have all been in good health, and that although we have had our up and downs were happy and united.

    I thankful to have such good friends without them what would we do.

    I am thankful to the sun rise each and every day.
    I am thankful for our pets and what joy they bring.

    I am thankful the world has been at peace and the peace beliving brings.

    We have so much to thank god for, as he lives within our heart.

    Happy Thanksgiving.

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  11. Anonymous

    Hi Eric,
    Happy Thanksgiving!
    I am thankful for opening my e-mail today:)

    Reply
  12. Sharon

    Eric,

    Happy Thanksgiving!!!! I bought Site ProfitBot and have been working with it all day. I get all of it and have uploaded files to my sites- but I get nothing. Nothing shows up! I am getting really frustrated. I have Blue Host as a Web host – and they have Cpanel.I really like SiteProfitBot and I want to be able to be successful with it. I’ts not the software _ I am sure it is me.

    I have my main site= http://www.sharoncowles.com and an add on – http://www.shouldigetpetinsurance. I think I have the right files to upload to (public_html – but not sure and I am sure this is pretty basic stuff –

    If you could just give me clue as to was should be in File manager file maybe the light bulb will come on. Like a drill down.

    Thanks if you can answer this – I hope you know what I mean. I have read all the help guides and this is not mentioned because I assume you should already know this stuff. anyways thanks again for any help you can give me

    I am a senior citizen -turning 63 and would like to make some extra money with Adsense and Amazon.

    Sharon

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  13. Debbie

    Eric:

    I’m thankful for many things this year, but I would like to single you out for being one of the most helpful “gurus” on the Internet. You always overdeliver and never disappoint.

    We are fortunate to live in a country that allows us the freedom to succeed. I am ever grateful for my health, my family, my friends, and for living in this amazing country.

    God bless you and yours-today and always.

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  14. Ron Flex

    Eric,

    I’m thankful for 9 children and 5 grandchildren. Having them all over to enjoy food and fun is a great blessing.

    Reply
  15. Rachel

    HI Eric,

    Happy Thanksgiving, Wish we had it here in Australia!!!
    I am thankful for my beautiful new baby boy due in 7 weeks and now thanks to you and Eric’s Tips my partner and I have a plan for both of us to work from home and raise our child together. Very exciting!
    Cheers Rachel
    PS. We made our first ebook sale this week! Bring it on!

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  16. Abi. Akinsola

    Hi Eric,

    I’m giving thanks firstly for your life and God givme the grace to came across your emails/site at a particular time last year when I was down. Losing my job with no money etc. Tahnk God for your life because all your email tips and courses have helpedme to start my own online business.

    Happy Thanksgiving Eric.

    Abi. Akinsola.

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  17. Jim Christie

    Eric,
    I’m thankful to God for my amazing wife and the opportunity we have to move to Nairobi, Kenya in May 2010 to be co-directors of an orphanage. The name of the orphanage is Kings Kids Village (www.kingskidsvillage.net) if anyone would like to check it out.
    Thanks for all the lessons and the great info that you share, both personal and business. God bless you.

    Reply
  18. Barb

    I’m thankful for my family and that my husband and I had 11 good years together.
    Happy Thankgiving to all.

    Reply
  19. Joseph Obiso

    I am thankful for my wonderful family (My wife, Karen and my two boys Timothy and Nicholas). We enjoy good health and lots of great friends.

    Reply
  20. Marilyn Cooke

    Hi Eric
    I am very thankful for all our troops fighting for our freedom in Afghanistan and Irac. My daughter -in -law is there now and my son has done two tours so far in Afghanistan. I am thankful for their safe return. I saw a quote on a lisense plate last week that said ” If you don’t stand behind our troops, stand in front of them”. I am thankful for my family and friends including my mother who died two months ago. I am grateful for the one -on- one time I had with her over the last three years as her caregiver. We became exremely close and I gained a new appreciation and respect for the lean war years (1939-1945) she and my father went through. I am thankful for every day on this earth.

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  21. Demond

    Eric,
    I am thankful for My Friends and Family. I am also thankful for all of the information you have provided to help others. My you continue to be among the blessed and highly favored. Happy Thanks Giving.

    Reply
  22. Eric Post author

    It depends on your site strategy. If it’s a site like Eric’s Tips or if its a sales letter, you’re right… you wouldn’t want people to be leaving the site through all sorts of random links. But the dynamic content is a double edged sword because it can help with SEO and can bring in free traffic. And if you’re monetizing the site with Adsense, then you do want your visitors to be accustomed to clicking links all over your site.

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  23. Tor

    Hi, Eric!
    Thank you for a ecourse aboute ebuisseness (ebiz). This course has helped me a lot to come in at my way aboute online promotion biz.
    I`m have not finished my online biz yet, but your course has helped me to find solutions for problems thate I have worked on for weeks.
    I`m greetful for your course and youre knowledge aboute teknical stuff, marketing, online sales and solutions aboute online biz, you make it look much easier. I have followed youre course so far to letter 50++, and enjoy every sigle letter I read from you. Youre knowledge through email-course make it easier for me to develop my online promotion buisseness. I have bought some of youre offers aboute digital products and I`m happy with thoose products. I have not been able to use them all,just part of them. But I need to learn much more before I can be able to use all of youre products thate I got from you (This take time since it is a lot of readings to do) I use some parts of them and will probobly use more of them at the time when it is possible for me to work more with them. I have desided to use “WP-blog” as a default start point for my online biz, and eletter 35 has been useful to me. I have not been able to earn money yet, but I hope I will be able to earn some money when I know for sure how it works tecnickally about moneymaking with blogs when writing plain articles with and without links to promote other peoples digital products. I do know how to promote, write articles and publish them on my wp-blog, but I don`t know how to earn money from writing articles aboute different kind of stuff without link in them. I have written some but not published them sinse I need to know more aboute pure article-writing and income money earnings without promotion other people digital products. In thoose days I use my time to find google adsends frendly theme for my blog wheere seo and other things are taken care of, therefor I looking for wp-plugins thate automate different kind off stuff like WP Article Uploader from http://wparticleuploader.com/.
    I`m looking and learning aboute this kind of opportunities thate wp-blog can give me. In this year I have not been able to earn money since I have used all my time to find and learn aboute “how to”-earn money online. I hope to be able to write more articles and earn money from them next year or so. In the meantime I working and hopefully my dream come throug soon. Waiting for youre next email in this course. I reading books aboute the subject and surfing the Internet to find what I need to know aboute earning money online from home. I have just got my blog up and running, and working now with customizing this blog, when it is ready with niche them for promotions or affiliate, I hopefully got the knowledge I like to get before writing articles
    for making money with my working wrom home online promotion biz with some special offers from PLR produckts and hopefully some give-away electronic products thate can be helpful to others.

    Thank you, and

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Sincerely

    Tor

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  24. Eric Post author

    Thanks. The software is not made for setting up sales sites where you sell a product. Its made for setting up content sites, and populating unmonetized domains.

    No gift necessary, I appreciate the thought though 😉

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  25. Edward Hayes

    Happy Thanksgiving
    I am most thankful for a God that watches over all of us and shows his love and mercy everyday and does not give us what we deserve but meets our needs every day. Plus our freedom which our troops serve and protect with their lives.Happy Thanksgiving to all from Edward Hayes and Family.

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  26. Eric Post author

    You can create the sites around more complex keywords/phrases. I just used a single word for the demo.

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  27. Loran Able

    Hi Eric

    HAPPY THANKS GIVING!

    I am so grateful that I have had the courage, persistence and determination to take on the challenge of becoming a very successful internet marketer.

    I have in the past been to seminars, purchased programs and did nothing with them. Eventually I said Enough is Enough! Do the work, so I have been for 4 months now approximately 25 hours every week. I purchased an extremely expensive course including make your own websites, coaching etc and I have yet to make a cent. Poor technical support and bugs in the software has caused incredible frustration, loss of money earning time and increase in personal debt.

    Still I remain positive that I can do this! Create financial freedom so I can get on with my life’s vision.

    I will have 30 sites live by end of November, so time will tell whether I’m on the right track.

    YES I am proud of who I am and my courage 🙂

    I am grateful for all my friends who are supportive of my venture, they have been my saving grace on many occasions.

    I would love to be the winner of SiteBot as the auto population is amazing. I would love to be successful using this software. I want to give up the struggle and start enjoying life to the fullest.

    Your Supporter

    Loran

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  28. Tony Wakefield

    Message for Sharon sharoncowles.com.

    Sharon, I use Bluehost and have many addon domains you need to have a directory for each site/domain name otherwise you will overwrite each one. If you like to contact me I will try and help email me ‘webmaster’ {at} my website click on my name above to go to my website then extract the name of domain.

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  29. Joseph

    I am very thankful to GOD for being healthy and able to help as many people as I could with what GOD has given me. I have been working on my IM skills to be able to make a living doing it so I can have more time and resources to help more people. I am thankful that GOD has crossed our paths so I can learn from you and achieve my goals.
    Thanks for all that you do.
    GOD Bless.

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  30. Jason

    Hey Eric,

    I would have to say that the most thankful
    i am is #1 for my “Family” a wonderful wife of 16 years and two completely awesome sons-an 8 year old and 12 year old! My relationship with God ranks right at the top of what I am the most thankful for! There are many other things I am very thankful for here on this 2009 Thanksgiving Day and one of them is definetely Eric’s Tips! I have gained much insight and knowledge of internet/affiliate marketing from you Eric and I along with so many others really appreciate your contribution you make into this community of online money making peoples!

    I will have to say that I was very impressed with the quality of site that this software was able to produce and especially in the small amount of time it took to do it in!

    I would love to have a copy of this software-the price sounds very reasonable, but my funds are very tight right now!

    I would also be extremely thankful to win the jewelry website you created with this software, because it appeared to be a website that showed to have a lot of potential to make money-especially if the right traffic generation tactics were applied!

    Thanks for all you do Eric and All The Best,
    Jason Mcinturff

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  31. Urs

    Hey Eric,

    Happy Thanksgiving

    I am sitting here in Switzerland, married to a New Yorker who I managed to export over to the old country…

    Of course, we had our turkey and of course we had a nice wine to go with it.

    I guess I’m thankful, that people like you make a difference. You come across as upright honorable and caring and you have built a bit of a clan around you just by living your convictions.

    Thank you Eric.

    Urs

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  32. Paulo

    Hi Eric!
    August was the most thrilling month of 2009, to me. I launched the ugly duckling of portals w/ entertainment (a never ending daily work) which means that I began to pay less attention to politics, economics and so forth, and start doing something for me and others in a positive way. The feeling is overwhelming!
    I don’t know why you have “erased” your beard. Fine weather? If so, why are you a little cold?
    You should find a good solution to avoid it, like I did four years ago. Now, my friends keep reminding me of those guys that were so bad detectives that couldn’t catch even a common cold!
    Best wishes to you and Family,
    PT
    (The only one that doesn’t care about the prize, only the communication itself)

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  33. gary

    I am so thankful for my family and to live in a country that is free and allows so much opportunity.

    Thank you Eric for your help and wisdom.

    Blessings to you.

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  34. Anonymous

    Eric,
    I am an emigrant to this great country that I now call home. I have so much to be thankful for that I could write on and on for a long time.

    Christmas use to be my favorite holiday but the older I get, the more I appreciate the thanksgiving holiday when we as a nation have the opportunity to get together with friends and family to give thanks to God for His goodness to us. I love the thanksgiving holiday because it doesn’t have all the hype and commercialism that goes along with all the other holidays. So, like Troy, in his acrostic above, I have to say that I am most thankful for “God’s great goodness to our land.”

    It’s because of His goodness that we have folks like you and so many others online who truly want to help others, like myself, achieve success online. It’s because of this that I think that the site should be given to
    Jim, your “senior” fan who despite everything is pressing on and taking action.

    Thanks for the gift and the info on the awesome Site Profit Bot program

    Donovan

    Reply
  35. Douglas Arlt

    I am thankful, that I am able to wake up in the morings breathing and able to look forward to a great new day. I am thankful that everyday I live I am able to take a step further towards my goals in life.

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  36. Robert

    Thank you Eric
    You are such a cool guy. Thank you so much for my present to download, it looks really useful.
    I love watching your videos, I am up to about number 50 now. You HAVE TO BE the most GENUINE and honest and just downright GOOD internet marketer anywhere. You certainly are in my book.
    Thank you again.
    Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you and your family have a wonderful time.
    God Bless.
    Robert Wilkinson. England. UK

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  37. Tony Wakefield

    Sharon,
    Your website is located in it’s own directory that was created when you set up the add on domain you need to set siteprofitbot to or any other FTP program to: /public_html/shouldigetpetinsurance Hope that works for you, any way u can still contact me if you need any more help [see my post] above. I am retired as well (greynomad).
    Tony

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  38. NIgel Baker

    Hi Eric

    This year has been a year of enjoying a greater freedom and opportunity in God

    Kia Kaha

    Nigel NZ

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  39. sandy

    I am hoping that Thanksgiving will be practiced every day of the year instead of just on this day.

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  40. eddy

    Happy Thanksgiving.
    I’m thankful that I’m still alive, that I have family and friends who love me and whom I love, that I’m still healthy, that I can enjoy many great things in this world. For all of these, I am trully grateful.

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  41. Colin Scott

    Eric,

    I wanted to say thanks to God Almighty. Not for material things, friends and family, but for what we never say thanks for:
    1. – Jesus our Lord and Saviour
    “For giving us his only son so that that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”
    2. – The Freedom of Choice
    “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve”
    3. – Protection for us and our families
    “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day”

    Thats what I used my thanksgiving to thank God for Eric can I hear what you thanked him for today?

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  42. Deborah Long

    Eric,
    I am so thankful for your lessons on creating your own products to market. I am a newbie in internet marketing. I was so confused and frustated and was wondering which product to purchase for help. Then you said, Do not buy anything until you know what you are doing. That is the statement, I needed to hear. I needed someone like you to teach me step by step about this area of knowledge. I am learning so much and my mental confusion is beginning to clear. You have probably saved me from wasting money and time and making costly mistakes. Thank you so much and Happy Thanksgiving.

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  43. Nadiya

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Eric. I have everything to be thankful for – with all the trials and tribulations that comes with life – I have family that is always there for me and we always find a way to try and make the best of it – always with the thought that there are people that have less than us and so the gratitude is always there. And Thank you for always sharing your knowledge and the free gift – Just what I needed!

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  44. Anonymous

    I’m thankful for all the people that share there knowledge via the Net and also that for the first time in 4 years our services in support of AoD and Mental Health clients and their families have been acknowledged by a govt. agency….now we just need to wait for funding….lol
    Blessings to you Eric and to all
    Meg

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  45. Gaye WIlson, Productivity Blogger & Coach

    What I am most thankful for this year is that my mother is still alive.

    Almost one year ago exactly, she was told that she had three to six months to live if she didn’t start dialysis. She was also told, by the same uncaring doctor, that she was old and dialysis was probably a waste of time.

    She took him at his word and didn’t opt for dialysis. Everyone sat back and waited for her to die.

    Except me. I cared for her, advocated for her, and made sure she took her medication.

    She’s still here.

    The doctor said last week that she would have been dead by now if she had opted for the dialysis. He and all the other members of the medical “care” team are amazed that she’s still alive.

    She’s my mother and I love her and there’s nothing I won’t do to help and care for her.

    I am very very grateful that she is still alive.

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  46. Daryl

    Hi Eric,

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! I am greatful for God, family, friends, health and my country(good ole USA)

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  47. Rick Huerta

    Eric,

    I am thankful for people in the world like you who are willing to actually help the many, many people who are honest and maybe a little naive about what it really takes to succeed on the internet. You are honest and straight forward unlike anyone out there. Thanks for that and God Bless you and yours.

    Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!
    Rick Huerta

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