If you said public speaking, you would not be alone.

Most of us have seen the research that says we are more afraid of public speaking than dying.

Presentation Quotes provide inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you knock your next presentation out of the park.

Maybe you are thinking that you do not plan to give a presentation in the near future. But we all give presentations. Even speaking in small groups is a type of presentation.

Recently, I noticed that several students dropped out of my social media class and signed up for a more advanced computer science class.

I told them that it was fine that they had dropped the class and selected another class, but that I was curious as to why they dropped the fun social media class for a more demanding class. The students explained that they found out they were going to have to speak publicly on a Google Hangout. Their fear of speaking in public caused them to miss out on learning about social media.

Because of their fear of speaking in public, they were willing to do twice as much work during the summer semester!

This presentation is for my students and others who are afraid of speaking in public. I hope these quotes by famous people will inspire you as much as it does me. If you don’t have time to read all 101 quotes, I pulled out 10 quotes that mean the most to me — you can find them right below the SlideShare.

Enjoy!

My Top 10 Favorite Quotes (An Attempt to Narrow Down 101 Awesome Quotes)

1) “In order to succeed, your desire for success most be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby

2) “I think no one, or very few, are born good presenters. It’s a skill you learn.” ~ Guy Kawasaki

3) “Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.” ~ Dale Carnegie

4) “Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.” ~ Zig Ziglar

5) “Be interesting, be enthusiastic…..and don’t talk too much.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

6) “Courage is being scared to death & saddling up anyway.” ~ John Wayne

7) “You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure!” ~ Zig Ziglar

8) “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” ~ Harper Lee

9) “There are always three speeches: the one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” Dale Carnegie

10) “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt ~ long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” Winston Churchill

What was your favorite quote from the presentation? Which other quotes do you know that motivate you to be a better speaker?

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Infographics are a graphical way of getting your point across to your target audience.

People do not like to read.

We scan information to see if we want to know more about a subject.

An infographic helps to quickly catch the attention of your reader.

Infographic software such as Piktochart and Visual.ly are sophisticated programs that will help you design infographics.

But PowerPoint is an often overlooked design tool. You can quickly create an Infographic with PowerPoint.

If you already own and know how to use PowerPoint, it is an option you will want to consider.

Review the infographic below. Step-by-step instructions to create an infographic in PowerPoint are included below the infographic.

A video is also included below that demonstrates how to copy the PowerPoint slides into a free photo editor to create the infographic with PowerPoint slides.

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How to Create an Infographic with PowerPoint

Steps to Create an Infographic with PowerPoint

Step 1: Open PowerPoint and give your Infographic a title.

Step 2: Create your color scheme. Choose the background color and Theme colors. I used the Title Only layout for my slides. Choose the layout that will work best for your data.

Step 3: Begin building your slides.

Choose your images, SmartArt graphics, symbols, etc.

Don’t get too carried away.

You want your infographic to be colorful and graphical, but NOT too cluttered.

Be sure you research your topic and narrow down your information. Focus on one subject. Put your information on five or six slides at the most.

Remember:

• Keep it simple
• Use good design
• Tell a story

Be creative: Add shapes, maps, charts, and/or diagrams. Your data will determine the type of images you use.

Don’t forget to give credit where credit is due. Cite your sources.

And add a call to action. What do you want your audience to do as a result of viewing your infographic? Click on a link, signup for a newsletter, vote, etc.

Now you are ready to open your slides in an online editor.

1. Save each slide as a .png image. In PowerPoint, you select the slide and choose Save As. Change the file type to .png. You will be asked if you want to save all the slides or just the current slide. Save just the current slide. Now do the same for each slide.

2. Open http://pixlr.com/editor/.  Choose the option to open image from computer.

Pixlr – Open Image from Computer

Open the first slide. Now change the view to 20% (bottom left) and change the height of the image canvas by dragging the slider all the way across. The height will by 4,000 pixels.   You will delete any extra space on your canvas after adding your slides.

Insert First Slide

Change Canvas Size

2. Now open the second image [File, Open]. You now have the second image open on top of the first. Select the second image [Ctrl A] and copy the image [Ctrl C]. Now click on the first image and paste the second image on to the first [Ctrl P]. Repeat this process until you have copied each slide onto the Canvas. If this sounds confusing, watch the video below.

3. You can move the slides, if necessary, by choosing the move tool and dragging the slides. Crop any left over blank Canvas.

How to Create an Infographic with PowerPoint Video Tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HexiBkfmkFc

Other examples of popular infographics (some not created with PowerPoint, but could be)

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Customize the Photoshop Workspace.

Customize the Photoshop Workspace

In this tutorial we will learn how to customize the Photoshop Workspace. I am using Adobe Photoshop CS6.

If you are a beginner to Photoshop, you know that the Photoshop Workspace can be overwhelming! You may have been playing around with Photoshop on your own and likely have gotten your Workspace a little “out of wack.” Maybe you have accidentally rearranged some of your panels so that you cannot find them! It is easy to do!

This tutorial will help you to reset the workspace to the default settings.

The default Photoshop Workspace is Essentials. Essential displays the commonly used panels. I am going to show you how to select the Essentials Workspace and how to reset the Essentials to the default settings.

You can follow along with the text or scroll down to the bottom and watch my video.

Step 1: Select the Essential Workspace

On the Applications Bar, click the Windows Tab and point to Workspace on the Window menu.

Photoshop Application Bar

Make sure you have a check by Essentials (Default). If not, click on Essentials.

Essentials (Default) Command

Step 2: Reset Essentials

Click on Window again on the Application bar and point to Workspace. Click Reset Essentials on the Workspace submenu.

You may not notice any changes if you are using a new installation. This does not mean that you did something wrong.

Step 3: Select the Default Tool

The default tool for Photoshop is the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Let’s select that tool.

Rectangular Marque Tool (M)

Step 4. Reset the Options Bar

The options bar is content sensitive. This means it will change depending on the task you are performing.

So that it will be easy to follow my tutorials, you should reset your option bar.

Right-click the Rectangular Marquee Tool icon on the options bar at the top of your window.

Rectangular Marquee Tool on Options Bar

Click Reset All Tools on the Context Menu.

You will receive a confirmation dialog box. Click OK.

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Let me know in the Comment Section if you have any problems customizing your screen to the default. I want to make this as easy as possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pup-kqPQPhI

the Photoshop Workspace

You may also be interesting in reading these related tutorials

Learn Photoshop | Easy Tutorial (carolhbates)

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PhotoShop Beginners Tutorial #1 (JoeCox406)

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Get the attention of your audience within the first 8 seconds.

7 Presentation Tips to Get and Keep the Attention of Your Audience 

No matter how knowledgeable you are about you subject, you must be able to share your information in a way that is both informative and entertaining to your audience.

How do you get and keep the attention of your audience?

Most everyone would agree that you need to get the attention of your audience very early in the presentation. So you’ve only got one quick shot at this and then you are toast.

Studies suggest you only have about eight seconds to impress your audience to listen to what you have to say. If you don’t impress them in the first eight seconds, they have tuned you out.

Here are seven tips recommended by the experts to get and keep the attention of your audience.

• Mingle with your audience before the presentation begins

Put up your cell phone and resist the temptation to check Twitter or emails. Instead, talk to some of the people in your audience. If you find out something interesting about someone in the audience, you might use this information at the beginning of your talk to help develop rapport.

• Use fun and interesting words

Steve Jobs is our example here. Speak in a language that everyone can easily understand. Use shorter sentences and simpler words. Do not use jargon or you will miss the opportunity to engage with your audience. They will tune you out early in your presentation.

• Smile and be Enthusiastic

As simple as this sounds, a smile may have more to do with the success of your presentation than you realize. It has been said that a winning smile is more valuable than gold. As Terry Felber states in his book, Am I Making Myself Clear, “Wear success on your face.”

• Keep it short

If you don’t like to speak in public, you are probably liking this tip. Guy Kawasaki, the social media guru and Apple evangelist, recommends no more than ten slides which each slide lasting exactly ten seconds. This gives you a great goal to shoot for. Set the timer on your  slides and practice your presentation until you know it backwards and forwards. Practice until you are sick of it, as Guy says in his book Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.

• Visualize yourself being successful

Zig Ziglar suggests that you think of times when you were successful and replay that event over and over in your mind. Imagine yourself giving a great speech in front of a large audience. See yourself in your mind’s eye as being successful. Do not let self-doubt creep in to your thinking.

I had the privilege of hearing Mr. Ziglar, and he captivated the audience with his enthusiasm.

• Tell your story

Your audience will be more engaged if you tell your own story. Many will be able to relate with your story. They will feel your feelings and share in your frustrations. You will be believable and likable.

• Pique curiosity

Think of examples you can use to pique the curiosity of your audience. According to research by Carnegie Mellon’s George Loewenstein, curiosity is created when there is a gap between what we know and what we want to know. To keep their curiosity you have to slowly leak out information. (A content Marketeers Guide to Creating Curisoty, Hennebury)

One way to increase curiosity is with the title of your presentation. Your title should give enough information to pique the curiosity of your audience so that you can get and keep the attention of your audience.

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You may also be interested in reading:

8 Bad Public Speaking Habits to Break Now (Bruzzese)
Know Your Audience Before Speaking to a Group (Ron Kurtus)

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Presentation Tip: Never Share Too Much Personal Information

In several of my Presentation Tips, I have recommended that you engage with your audience by telling your story. This is good advice.

But there is a critical mistake that you need to avoid in your presentation.

Never Share Too Much Personal Information

Sharing too much personal information has kept employees from advancing on their jobs.

Farnoosh brings out this important tip so well in her article, Are You Committing These 7 Silent Career Killers at Your Job?

Sharing too much personal information whether in a presentation, to coworkers at the water cooler, or on social media such as Facebook or Twitter can be deadly to your career.

And too much personal information can be less than you think.

Too much personal information would include the following topics.

• Your health – best not to talk about how bad you feel. This is a mistake that I see often on social media. Of course, it would not have a place in your presentation even when telling your story. Your heath is your business.
• Negative information about the company you work for. Keep this information to yourself. Focus on the positive.
• Negative information about your boss or coworkers. Be positive. Don’t complain about your boss. Like your mother taught you, “If you can’t say anything nice….”
• Don’t bring up a disagreement with your boss or coworkers. Never talk about your boss in public. Period.

You may also be interested in reading:

Are you Committing These 7 Silent Career Killers at Your Job (Farnoosh)
30 Things You Should Not Share On Social Media (Jeff Bullas)
How to Design a Custom PowerPoint Theme (carolhbates)
Google Drive Upload: Edit, Share, and collaborate (carolhbates)

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Presentation Tip: Tailor Your Message

Presentation Tip: Tailor Your Message to Your Audience

As a parent or grandparent, you and I know that we do not talk to our children or grandchildren the same way that we talk to our co-workers. We probably talk differently to our parents or to friends at the baseball park or church than we do to co-workers.

What we say at work is clear to others because we use the same terminology in our conversations. For example, when talking to my parents this weekend, they asked a question. I said I didn’t know the answer, but that I would “Google It.” Now at my place of work, everyone would understand this type of dialogue. But my parents needed an explanation about what it meant to “Google It!”

Get to the Point

When giving a presentation, be sure to get to the point and clearly say what you mean. Most of the time the people listening to your presentation are “required” to be there. They may not be listening by choice. They will have little patience with you if they feel you are adding fluff to impress the big wheels.

4 W’s and H Model

A good presentation tip is to prepare by using the 4 W’s and H Model. It is a good idea when planning your presentation to take each of these in order and make it as concise as possible.

1. Who: Tell exactly who the presentation will benefit and mention to whom the presentation will not apply. For example, if your presentation will benefit faculty but will not apply to student services or college staff, it is best to say so right up front.

2. What: Describe your presentation clearly using “I” instead of “we.” Speak as much as possible from your own experience and not hearsay. Tell your story. Describe what you have experienced and what you would like to see happen in your company or college. Be enthusiastic and use a little humor.

3. When: Relate when the details of your presentation will become effective and for how long. If your presentation is on the new learning management system, tell them when they will be migrating to the new system and give an idea of how long it will be before they will be required to change again.

4. Where: Describe where the changed behavior will take place. Will everyone be migrating to the new system in the Fall or will you have a pilot group? Be clear. Be concise. Be honest.

5. How: Very important to cover in your presentation how everyone will put the new behavior into action. Will training be made available on campus? When and where? Will training videos be provided? Will support be available?

Don’t Use Jargon

In all of your communication be clear. Do not use jargon. Speak like you would to someone who has never heard of the idea. Don’t assume your listeners are familiar with the terminology. Your clarity will be refreshing.

Be Concise

It is important to cover the 4 W’s and H, but you do not be too lengthy.

Allow time for questions. Be ready to answer questions but don’t be guilty of TMI (too much information). Most all of us operate on a “need to know basis.” Don’t make your answers long and tell them more than they need or want to know.

Repeat & Restate

When giving your presentation, remember what all good teachers know – repetition is important. It takes repetition to remember and internalize. Repeat and restate your main points several times throughout your presentation.

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Presentation Tip: How to Find Creative Commons and License-Free Photos

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Presentation Tip: Finding Creative Commons and License-Free Material

One of the major time constraints in designing and developing a presentation is finding creative commons and license-free photos.

Presentation Tip | How to Find Creative Commons & License-Free Photos

What is Creative Commons?

A Creative Commons (CC) license is used with an author wants to give others the right to use and share and sometimes even build upon their material.

One way to find photos for your presentation that are free and legal is to go to the CreativeCommons.org web site. On this site, you can download photos that you can use and share and sometimes build upon.

CreativeCommons.org gives you the right to download and share material and even to build upon the work that others have created without fear of copyright infringement.

You are familiar with Wikipedia, but do you know about Wikimedia?  Wikimedia Commons is similar except it consists of creative commons (CC) images, videos, and sounds. Wikimedia’s mission is for everyone to share their knowledge freely (as a side note, have you checked out Wikiquote?).

Another option for finding license-free material is to use Google’s Advance Search feature. This tool allows you to narrow your search to only those photos that can be freely used and shared with others.

Google Advanced Image Search

This is how Google’s Advanced Search works:

Type http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search in the URL. Or you can click on the link and bookmark the site.

Type in your search terms and then narrow your results.

• Filter by size. For Facebook, your image cannot be over 15MB.
• Filter by aspect. Do you want your image to be tall, square, wide, or panoramic?
• Filter by type. Do you want a face, photo, clip art, line drawing, or animated photo?
• Filter by region. If you target audience is in a certain region, you may want to filter by that region.
• Filter by safe search. I filter so that I do not receive explicit results.
• Filter by the type of image. If you want to share on Facebook, your image should be .jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, and .tiff files.
• Filter by usage rights. Scroll to the bottom and change the usage rights to filter by free to use or share.

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Presentation Tip #1 – Don’t Read Your Presentation to Your Audience

Don’t Read Your Presentation

In this instance, I am using myself as an example of what NOT to do. Don’t read your slides from the computer screen! Look at and connect with your audience. (Actually, this picture was taken when I was trying to overcome a locked up computer.)

I know this should go without saying. But reading your presentation from your slides is the most common mistake people make when giving a presentation. So don’t overlook this important presentation tip.

One way to keep from reading your presentation is to limit the number of words per slide. I recommend the 20-20 rule. Use no more than twenty slides and each slide should last exactly 20 seconds. This takes practice!

You can set a timer in PowerPoint that will automatically advance your slides every twenty seconds, or you can use a manual timer to help keep you on track and advance the slides yourself.

Don’t Use PowerPoint as a Crutch.

PowerPoint can be a valuable tool, but don’t use it as a crutch. Nothing can take the place of your preparation. Remember, you NOT the PowerPoint should be the star of the show.

Never use your PowerPoint Slides as a Handout.

If the printout of your slides makes any sense without you, then you probably have too much information on the slide.

If the audience is reading your slide, they are not listening to you. Keep in mind, that your slides should support your presentation.

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You may also be interested in reading?

How to Design Custom PowerPoint Themes (carolhbates)
Delivering a PowerPoint? Your Audience Will Tune Out After Ten Minutes. (Gallo)

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If you want to add some pizazz to your slides in PowerPoint, complete this short PowerPoint Tutorial to learn how to insert WordArt into your presentation.

WordArt gives you nice decorative text effects such as skewing, stretching, and rotations.

Don’t get so carried away with the effects that your presentation is hard to read. Readability of PowerPoint slides is most important.

Make sure that your font size is large enough for your audience to see. According to Guy Kawasaki, no font should be smaller than 30 points.

You want your presentation to be entertaining. WordArt can help, but nothing will take the place of your preparation. If you read your presentation without any passion or humor, you will not keep the attention of your audience no matter how animated your PowerPoint presentation.

The 20-20 Rule says that you should have 20 slides lasting 20 seconds each. This will keep you from reading your slides and from putting your audience to sleep.

LifeHack offers 18 Tips for Killer Presentations.

PowerPoint Tutorial: How to Insert WordArt into a Presentation

Note: I am using Office 2010.

1. Click the Insert Tab and you will see the WordArt icon in the Text group.

WordArt on the Insert Tab

2. Mouse over the different WordArt options.

Mouse Over the WordArt Options

3. For this illustration, click Gradient Fill, Orange, Accent 6, Inner Shadow (Column 2, Row 4).

You will see a box that says, Type Text Here. Type Pizazz. You can also delete the Title and Subtitle Placeholders. These boxes would not show up on your presentation, but may bother you while you are working on the WordArt.

4. Right Click and Choose Format Text Effects.

Right Click and Choose Format Text Effects

5. Experiment with the different options. For this illustration, choose 3-D Format, Top Bevel, Slope.

Right Click and Choose Text Effects

You can then click on the WordArt  object sizing handles to resize.

Click on the Sizing Handles to Resize

I would love to know what your three biggest challenges are when you are preparing for a presentation. Please share in the comment section below.

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Custom PowerPoint Theme

Creating a theme in PowerPoint is the first step to an outstanding presentation.

It is Easy to Design a Custom PowerPoint Theme

The theme sets the tone of your presentation. The theme helps to dress up your presentation a bit and make your presentation visual and engaging.

The theme design provides consistency in color and layout. The theme helps to tie your slides together giving your presentation a professional look.

Death By PowerPoint

The saying “death by PowerPoint” has become common because we have all suffered through our share of terrible PowerPoint presentations.

We want to avoid death by PowerPoint. I hope you will signup for my weekly updates here. These updates will help you prevent death by PowerPoint!

We can design a custom PowerPoint theme that will help us to create visually aesthetic slides that will inspire our audience.

Keep in mind that the power of PowerPoint is the capability of using visuals to tell a story.

Follow the Pattern of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the master presenter, often included just photographs on his slides, and he insisted that slides should never include bullet points. That advice sounds kind of shocking to most PowerPoint users.

Following the pattern of Steve Jobs, keep words in your presentation to a minimum.

Jobs recommended using one word on a slide or no words at all. How revolutionary is that idea to a PowerPoint user?

Using fewer words will help you connect with your audience. Fewer words  keep you from falling into the trap of reading text from a PowerPoint slide leading to the death by PowerPoint syndrome.

Use Big Beautiful Images

• Images are key to the success of your presentation.
• Images need to be big, bright and colorful.
• Images need to be large.

It is important to use big, beautiful images on your slides. It helps if you are a photographer and can take your on photos. But if you are not a photographer, don’t despair, there are sites where you can get stunning images for free. Here are two sites mentioned by Ana Hoffman’s Traffic Generation Cafe that provide creative commons images:

• Compfight
• Creative Commons Search

Which catches your eye the quickest? The first or second photo.

Use big bright photos for PowerPoint.

Use Bright, Bold Photos for PowerPoint, Ex. 2

Consider Color Choices

Consider the colors that will best enhance your images. You have probably been at meetings when the presenter used a colored background that made the text hard to see.

Did you know that the colors you use can have an impact on the way people receive what you have to say?

This article by Microsoft will help you to understand the relationship between colors. Choose colors that will both be professional and attractive.

Also, remember that you color scheme may look different when your presentation is projected.

Practice, Practice, Practice

No matter how good your PowerPoint slides are, your PowerPoint cannot make up for being a bad presenter.

You should practice your presentation enough times that you can give the presentation using the visuals on your slides simply as a prompter. Do not read your slides! Having no words or a minimum number of words on your slides forces you to connect with your audience.

You may also be interested in reading, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, by Carmine Gallo.

Let’s Get Started

Now let’s get started creating our simple, visually appealing theme. And then if you want to go deeper in your knowledge of themes, download this .pdf tutorial from Office to build on your knowledge of PowerPoint themes.

The easiest way to design a custom theme is to start with one of PowerPoint’s built-in themes.

Let’s open PowerPoint and get started. I am using PowerPoint 2010.

1. Click on the design tab and hover your mouse over some of the preset themes. PowerPoint will give you a preview of the theme. Choose one of the basic preset themes. I chose the theme titled, Aspect.

Design Tab in PowerPoint

2. Next, we will change our colors. We want a color that will give an attractive background for our images. Click the drop down arrow and view the color options. PowerPoint provides many color schemes. Changing the color schemes, changes the appearance of the theme.

Change Theme Colors in PowerPoint

3. Switch to Slide Master View. Click on the View Tab. You will see Slide Master in the Master Views group.

Slide Master View

The font and bullet changes that you make to the Master Slide will change on all the slides in your presentation.

Drag the Title to the top of the Slide. The Title Placeholder is at the bottom in the Theme that we are currently using. But we don’t want it there. So drag it to the top and resize.

Reposition and Resize Title Placeholder.

Change the font size to 48. If you need to make it smaller on a slide, you can do so. But 48 with be the default using your customized template.

Change Font Size to 48

Next, let’s delete the bullets so that we want be tempted to use them.

If you want a logo to appear on every slide, insert a photo on the Master Slide. But keep in mind that the photo could be in the way of photos or text that you might want to appear on your slides.

To add a photo that you don’t want to appear on every slide, add it to that particular slide layout not to the Master Slide.

After you make all the changes that you want to make to your custom theme, be sure to save your theme.  Remember, REUSE is a powerful word. You want to reuse this custom theme over and over saving you time and effort.

Be sure to save your custom theme for REUSE. It is kind of tricky –  not hard but tricky.

On the Design Tab, click More button. Choose Save Current Theme. When you save your theme, it will be added to the themes in the Design Group. Be sure in the Where Pop Up Menu, you choose My Themes. The theme will have a .thmx file extension.

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You may also be interested in checking out:

How to Milk SlideShare Homepage for All the Traffic You Can Handle (Mauro D’Andrea, Guest Author for Traffic Generation Cafe).
Customize and Save a Theme in PowerPoint 2010
The Psychology of Color in PowerPoint Presentations (Kevin Lerner)

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