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Dialog with Executive Diamond Carrillo
Go to 1/31/01 letter
Gotta figure out a way to also make an entry into this "internet world"...
Funny how our experiences differ. You and your summation of Amway/Quixtar is 180 degrees opposite of what I have experienced; involved in 1982, free by 1986, six figures within four years, quit job after just a couple of levels (used to be a criminal investigator in Dade County, Florida.. Miami) Went from H&R Block to four CPA's and three tax attorneys, have income generating residuals out of four different countries, have traveled the world; all of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, all of Central and South America, all of the U.S.A., Canada. Have done this traveling with my wife and three children.
Went from a 1100 square foot home to owning a large ranch north of Orlando, drive a Mercedes today, instead of the 1975 Datsun B-210 Hatchback I owned when I went to see the plan. Am debt free except for a little left on my land mortgage. No balance on my Visa or Master Card... I guess overall I can say my life is no longer even remotely comparable to what it was when I started my business. So, I believe, that people like you and others like yourself, that can find nothing else to do with your time, other than to badmouth the opportunity that literally changed my life is that you just could not handle the business. Now, in total frustration, and without any other recourse you vent your poison in an attempt to destroy the enthusiasm and excitement of other people. You do tons of damage to others... and, if, that brings you some type of pleasure then you need help.
Louie R. Carrillo
Executive Diamond Associate (free for 15 years and counting)
Dear Mr. Carrillo,
Thank you so much for taking the time to write me. You are the first Diamond to write me and I am glad you did. It is an honor to write you back. I would like to share my thoughts with you as well. I hope you have the patience to hear me out.
Even though my site is "negative" it does not lack truth about the typical lies and falsehoods perpetuated in the AmQuix lines of sponsorship. It is interesting to note that you did not rebuttal any of them including the most important "negative sum game" concept of the current business model. No where in my site do I say that people like you won't exist. I only say they exist in very small proportions. Here is what I believe to be the important economic issues, which I believe hold other people back from experiencing the positive experiences you have in the business.
Certainly you have worked hard to achieve what you have and must be congratulated. I must differ with you on what actually brought your financial success. I would be willing to bet if you would show your businesses financials, that one could easily see that your financial success depends little on the income from Amway and more on the income from tools. I would also be willing to bet that the promotion required just to keep your existing Amway business in place, consumes most of your Amway Corporation paid income. Could you afford to promote Amway as heavily as you do, or to build a business, and at the same time earn no income from tools? It would make for an interesting page on my site. I have copies of the Sitcler income statement from his divorce filing on my site. He is an EDC and the numbers imply to me that he would in the most optimistic case just break even, assuming his expenses were legitimate. It would also be interesting to know if you still qualify as an EDC. His money and lifestyle are made off the system. This is of course is completely legal but the majority of your downline will never participate in the tools bonuses. More could participate, if the business was actually growing. But, with sales dropping 28% in two years, the trend doesn't point to a growing pool of people who will also experience your success. It would interesting to know how long the residuals will last and their rate of decrease when there is no promotion of the business.
Now with all of your people experience and time in this business you know the statistics of this business well. You know a large portion of the people will not show the plan or are afraid to show the plan. Most die hard IBOs say these people are lazy and get what they work for. In many cases I agree. In many cases I believe they also don't show the plan because they don't believe in the products or their competitiveness in the market place. This is where I personally drew the line after researching the opportunity, just like I would have a stock. In many cases the people who don't show the plan haven't figured out a networking only model, taught by many lines of sponsorship, is a negative sum game. The average distributors spend more in overhead than they earn. They know something is wrong but have not analyzed the numbers to know why. Amway is a great business concept because of the low total overhead, but is a poor business because of the low total sales per distributor. As a site visitor put so well in an analogy "Communism is a great idea, but it won't work either". I guess we must agree on what constitutes working? 98% of people making a profit, or 98% of people losing money.
Now to address whether my site does more harm than good as you imply in my letter. Certainly you know the statistics from your business. Almost 50% get out in any one year. I have seen the sheets from Amway that you have also seen on your downline Emeralds. Look for the renewal percentage. Somewhere between 47% and 55% for your groups, right? If you have time fax me your latest summaries at 801-327-3224. How many people have signed up to be in your downline in your 15 years and how many are still left? I certainly would not be proud of that number. I would be less proud of all the tools and function dollars I motivated my downline to spend on a proposition, which I knew has such poor overall results, as well as un-improving results. To me the current AmQuix business model is like selling whole life insurance to new college graduates. You can be successful and earn a lot of money but you also know 95% of those policies will not be renewed once the customer figures out what a crappy deal he got. I would not be proud to have such a business even though I could make a lot of money at it.
I have worked many years in manufacturing of automotive components. The customers in that market demand total quality and total satisfaction. The quality levels we deal in are 20 ppm or less range, or 20 parts in one million, or .002%. I have developed extensive problem solving skills as well as a hard core continuous improvement mind set. Whether it is a manufacturing process or people process the cause and effects can be analyzed rationally and logically. Improvements can always be made in any system.
If I were in your shoes I would be asking myself the following questions on how the business could be better for more people. Why does such a high percentage leave? Why, if the products were competitive, would so many still leave? How could I improve the businesses "first time yield" so that so many don't quit? How would I get to a 1000ppm (1%) defect rate instead of a near 500,000 ppm (50%) defect rate? What can I do to make sure those that leave do not leave with a bad taste to tell their friends about? What can I do to minimize the financial impact on someone that doesn't make/won't make it in the business? I can certainly tell you from site visitor feedback alone that there are serious problems in the AmQuix "system". Certainly you have noticed from your ticket sales to functions, tape sales and Amway product sales that the market is not responding well to AmQuix now that the "cat is out of the bag", so to say. It would seem problems and obvious lies that were unresolved for years and years are now coming back to haunt you guys. Amway is indeed reaping what has been sowed. This whole thing is blowing up in their faces when everyone knew there were problems all along. It is similar to the Firestone/Ford explorer problem. Don't continuously improve and ignore the data of a problem for years and see where it gets you. Maybe AmQuix should do a little benchmarking with other industries in the continuous improvement area.
I, like you, want to help other people. You believe you can help people by showing them the $200/month business model, which mathematically is destined to fail (be unprofitable) for 98% of the participants. I believe I can help more people not to fail (not be unprofitable) for 98% of the participants. Amway has the data, you have the data, but yet they do nothing to improve the profitability of IBOs or retention rates. Just put more people in the system and a few good ones might pop out and make money. Seems like this strategy leaves a lot of carcasses by the road. What is that line from Amway tapes? "If I keep doing what I'm doing, nothing will change" Sure they have gone to Quixtar but they haven't changed the inefficient business model. If you read my site that this is my beef with the business, besides the blatant deception and lies many tell. Their system shows a franchising model which encourages people to spend $1,200-$2,400 per year yet only sell goods to yield $675/year in gross margin with the $200 model.
Have you ever added up the total money spent in your lines on tapes and functions and compared it to the total Amway bonuses paid out to you and your group? I would bet the ratio is huge and about 50%. Will you give me these numbers? If you factor in mileage and travel costs, I would bet all expenses consume the Amway bonuses. Even if there is a small positive output, the compensation per hour would be terrible.
No wonder people will quit. There is no positive profit bias in the business. Why? Lack of retail sales! In the effort to make the business look sexy and new age, many lines discourage retail sales, and no one attempts to enforce it? Why? Selling would turn people off, and IBOs don't sell the very profitable tapes to retail customers. In the AQMOs effort to make the business more attractive to more people, they knowingly promote a business model where most will fail financially.
Maybe our ethics are different. I believe AmQuix should use the Hippocratic oath, "first do no harm". I can say with a very high probability that the current AmQuix systems do not live by this.
Just to show you my genuine interest in improving the situation and helping the business to improve their retention rates I have developed a "new plan", which was submitted to my '"pen pal" at Quixtar just yesterday. I am attaching it for you as well. He is forwarding a copy to Greg Duncan. Please read this over and give me your opinion. The plan I promote is geared to make a model profitable "sales" businesses based upon common business sense. The plan I present enforces specific "good business practices", which lack of enforcement and good sense on the part of the IBO today causes most IBOs to lose money today. The plan addresses the negative sum game issue, which in the end holds the businesses growth profit back. It also promotes some minimum level of training for people who are allowed to reproduce the business. Coming from a manufacturing environment, the training practices in AmQuix are truly laughable. I would be setting myself up for a $100 million recall if I put untrained operators on an assembly line. In order for Amway/Quixtar to protect their reputation they should enforce a minimum standard of training as administered by an exam from the corporation. Did you ever play that "telephone game" where you say one thing then tell another and so one? What happens to the message at the end? It is all distorted! The corporation must also learn not to hype things too much if it wishes to gain credibility. The "Microsoft/IBM" partnership" is a classic example of the Corporation setting itself up for problems with the high-speed rumor mill in AmQuix. The Corporation set the stage for people to take this all wrong. They should have learned by now how to handle and promote such situations in a conservative manner. The corporation wants to have the image of a Republican but hypes the business like Al Gore and the Democrats! Sure the "Microsoft partnership" has helped promote the business but I think it has once again hurt their credibility and reputation since the rumored version is so easy to disprove. The consequences of such wording were easy for me to see. I would guess Amway/Quixtar knew themselves as well. Maybe hype is the real thing and not true integrity and truth.
If the "market" views the AmQuix product line as not competitive and a better way to distribute goods and services it will surely reveal itself with my "new Plan" business model. Few will be able to sign up members and clients and few will advance to the Networking stage. If the product line is competitive and people really value the shopping experience there will be plenty of retail sales and 98% of the people will be making a profit as compared to 98% losing money today. Certainly fewer people will want to look at the opportunity once retail sales are mandatory to advance to recruiting, but then again why try to attract people who fail financially otherwise? This model will certainly help your retention rates by eliminating people who would normally otherwise quit.
This has been very interesting for me and I hope you as well. We both want to help people but given the AmQuix business model employed today I will help 98% of my site readers financially versus your 2% in the Yager line of sponsorship. You might help more mentally, but I know from site visitor feedback that the system also does harm. I have enclosed two examples, which are not published on my web site.
I hope to continue this dialog.
Best Regards,
I am afraid I do not "download" anything from anyone I do not
know, however, I would more than welcome your answer to my letter... I do not know who you
were involved with, nor do I know how you were treated during your experience in Amway
and/or Quixtar, however, I can tell you that it is sad to see a young person such as
yourself, with an entire life still to live (I am afraid I do not fall into the
"young" category anymore)... be so bitter about an experience that he/she is
willing to go out and create (or attempt) to create havoc for others which may have
enthusiasm (like I did many years ago) and disrupt the dreams they have. Too bad... I am
assuming your name is Scott so I'll call you that.. So long Scott.. Louie
Dear Louie,
You needn't download anything from my e-mail, any good virus scan software will confirm my text files I sent you to be virus free. Most computer people know text files are the safest of all files to open. The new plan web page is at:
I was in the Florence-Nettles-Connely line. I was treated ok except for the blatant lies I was told. But that came from Florence since everyone "reproduced him". He was head of the ethics committee!
It is rather amazing all you can focus on is "the havoc I am creating and bitterness" and not the issues I bring up. Did you not read my e-mail? It is truly a shame that the attitude of the high pins is to ignore the problems and hope they go away as I get is the impression from your letter. What are the dreams I am disrupting? Those of the high pins abusing their downlines and taking their money on a poor business model? I guess you would call me a dream stealer too if I was trying to stop child pornography and you were a kiddie porn king whose dream I was taking away!
Scott.... I am not concentrating on anything other than the overall negative attitude
of your entry on the internet board under the quixtar heading... by the way, as far as
"files" are concerned, I would not know the difference between a
"text" file and a "metal" file. I simply am not that computer
literate... however, I am going to figure out a way to also "make an entry" for
those that might choose to look at a different point of view and a different result from
someone that was not in the business for a handful of months, but in the business for
eighteen years and what that determination produced. Your comment about "child
pornography" is ridiculous and I will not give that any remark at all... your comment
about "poor business model" is rather weak and quite immature since you are
talking about a multi-billion dollar corporation that operates in 83 different countries
around the world... when you argue with a success story matched by few, your comments can
make you look silly and uninformed. Overall, somebody upset you, too bad... many people
(you are not the only one) are upset for whatever reason at the best opportunity on planet
earth and walk away in total frustration. The blame usually is not with the corporation,
but with "someone" that did not handle their responsibilities correctly. I hope
you are able to find some type of peace with yourself and with the company and move on...
Regards... Louie Carrillo
Dear Mr. Carrillo,
I'll be glad to post your "entry".
I won't be moving on for a while. Too many people are still being lied to about the business.
I'm sorry if you didn't understand the analogy I made. Let me put it this way with a less emotional subject. Would I be a dream stealer of the whole life insurance salesmen if I bad mouthed the poor value of whole life insurance policies, if I pointed out a better way for the public to get insurance?
It seems for some reason it is ok for IBOs to spread positive lies and deception while the truths on my site are bad mouthed as being negative. Well if that is the way of Amspeak, I love being negative and at the same truthful. You should see all the "positive" negative feedback I get about my site. It is too bad I didn't have the equal and opposite number of letters telling me how much money people were reporting as profit on their taxes and how they were signing up 1 new person a month because the products were just so competitive and the education about the products by the distributors was superior to what they have ever received before. How about that note I sent you from the retarded kid's mother. Do think the retarded kid will be charismatic enough to sponsor anyone just because he shows the plan 10-15 times a month? It doesn't really matter as long as his upline can sell him tapes and seminars right?
I guess my site is negative if you come from a Pro-AmQuix perspective of helping the 2% of the people become profitable and allowing you to reap the big money from tapes and seminars. It is actually positive from an anti-Amquix perspective in pointing out the business and economic fundamentals that allow 98% to be unprofitable and how the site visitor can have a less unprofitable business. You believe any body can make a poor business model work. You sell the motivational supplies to keep them pushing the poor model and make good money doing it. Hey you did it, why can't everyone else do it right? I believe it could work better for more people if it were more competitive and people actually had higher sales per IBO and it was an enforced policy.
I could have received the same enlightenment about the business from a first year IBO who just got back from his first motivational seminar. I can give you guys credit for all saying the same thing although it has little substance in regards to business competitiveness and rational business analysis. I can see how you all believe that chant "If you have a dream the facts don't matter".
The market will continue to reward the "multi billion dollar" corporation with the appropriate level of sales growth for whatever purpose it serves the economy. Considering the 28% drop in sales in two years despite opening in new markets we will see who is right in a few more years. We both know that even removing the sales drop from Asia that overall sales are falling. How is your business doing? Are sales up or are sales down? The market will be the judge of whose arguments are weak or immature.
Hey did you read about the Schmitz law suit? It is amazing someone could steal away a person's tool business. Gooch isn't your upline is he?
All businesses fluctuate... just look at the stock market. One day a company is worth
so much, the next day the same company drops 25% in value and so on and so forth. Louie is
fine... Mr. Carrillo makes me feel old.. for some reason you seem to enjoy keeping up with
all the garbage on the web.
Now, it's Charley and Kim Schmidt.... have known them for years. Strange fellow, rather "distant"... who knows the truth about what is going on? I certainly dont. You dont believe everything you read, do you?? Gooch?? Yep... he is up there somewhere in the line. Really dont know the man that well... but, I've never had any negative dealings with him. By the way... just out of curiosity, how long were you in the business before you decided this was not for you?? Take care..... Louie Carrillo
Hi Louie,
To answer your question. I was introduced to Amway and asked a lot of questions but to no avail I did not receive what I was looking for. So I bought a kit to get the prices and the rules. I went to one function. That was interesting to see all the glassy eyed people being led around like sheep.
I hadn't figured out the negative sum game at that time but I knew something was funny when everyone spent 1,000-$2,400 per year on overhead, no one was retailing and they just bought $2,400/year for themselves.
After I did my price study I did not want to show people how to spend more than what they would now spend. I was told it was more efficient at distribution and that made it a better system. I had played Wal-Mart stock and knew the power of a more efficient distribution system. By the way, they have never had a sales drop unlike Amway.
Total time studying it before I told them I wanted my BSMs refunded was about 3 months. There was no way I was going to show my friends this until I knew how and why it worked. I did not show the plan while I was studying. I guess my upline screwed up and didn't sign anyone up under me to make me "excited" and quit the logical and rational stuff! I got the run around on returning tools. So I saw how credible these great people were in a short period of time. That was before the BSMAA. The upline direct kept the sales tax I had paid but did pay back most everything since I was persistent.
All I can say I am here to help point out the weak spots in AmQuix. Many people over spend on tools before they know anything about the products. I would like to see the model improved like I suggested in the New Plan to minimize the losses. Have you ever surveyed your downline for profitability? Have you ever compared or tried to estimate how much they are spending in comparison to what they earned? Does it interest you at all if you downline is profitable? You know as well as I that the business is not growing fast enough to make all profitable in a reasonable time. Continuous improvement is always good.
Is the market for Amway and Quixtar not growing fast enough because all the IBOs or lazy or that they have a marginally competitive system?
What do you believe is the fundamental competitive advantage of AmQuix? The ability to network and sell a captive audience products? The products? The prices? The life improvement system? Is it a product distribution system or a small business brokerage?
To answer your question about the Schmitz suit, I did read the court filing. I believe it is a valid court filing. The court will have to figure out if it is true. In any case both are Diamonds, and if one is right the other must be wrong. There are tons of former distributors out there that were lied to about the tools profits for years. Many of them send me stuff when they come across it. So I don't go looking for it, it gets sent to me.
I estimate there must be 8-10 million former distributors out there factoring in even those that did it twice or three times. That is a lot of potential pissed off people out there. That is why I suggest they need to change the model to promote a more profitable business model. Hopefully the products get more competitive as well else they will always be niche player. The pyramid buying club mentality will not work anymore. The WEB is too powerful of a medium for disseminating information. The mathematical failure of the Amway pyramid buying club for the average IBO has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people and experienced by millions. The partner stores are a great idea, but the pay outs are too small for the IBOs to make serious money without having tons of members to bring in the extra margin to avoid the "negative sum game". What is the ratio of members to IBOs in your line?
Is Amquix going to change the model or go the way of the buggy whip? If you think AmQuix is great now just think how much better it would be with my suggestions to help more of the average IBOs make more money.
Scott...... I read your whole letter. Gotta tell you... I understand now why you had
such a falling out in the Florence organization. You evaluate, study, concentrate so much
on the fine print, argue every point of the plan, see every fault, look for every flaw,
rationalize every thought, twist every fact, etc etc ... that no wonder you are all
wrapped up in "proving" your point. Heck, there is no "perfect"
business model on the planet. But, once understood, this one can set you free. I did it
and have not regretted one moment on the decision I made over 18 years ago. It has been,
and will continue to be, the greatest business opportunity known on the planet with little
to no overhead, almost zip liability, on automatic in the accounting/delivery/inventory
control area, no employees (I have two secretaries to run a multi-million dollar
corporation), and I could just go on and on about how this company and it's concept
changed my whole life to
the better. I will eventually make an entry so that those that have a "need" to evaluate pros/cons can see another side of the issue. There is always a very small and vocal minority that makes the "most noise"... the silent majority needs to also express itself. In the 18 years I have done this, I have also had my handful that finds this is worthless and contributes nothing to their life. Usually those "with an attitude" have a deeper, underlying reason for such attitude. Too bad for you... you seem (online) as a very smart and intelligent young man with the ability to rationalize and come to a
conclusion (not everyoone can digest information) as to what you see or dont see with this plan. You'd be a terror for sure if YOU BELIEVED.. I'd say diamond material. But, then again, who knows. Take care Scott... it's been great talking with you. I wish you the best.
Louie R. Carrillo
Executive Diamond Distributor
Hey Scott... Great to hear from you. Please post this message on your message board so that all who may read it will have a "second opinion"...
Well, we just completed our first year in Quixtar (There is no such thing as AmQuix, this is one of your disrespectful brainstorms)... and here are the figures; $518 million in sales on our first year, which included $448 million at Quixtar. An additional $70 million at Quixtar Partner Stores. Not bad, considering that Amazon.com registered only approximately $147 million their first year and eBay sold just $32 million it's first year. $518 million is a long way from what the competition did. In September of last year, the National Retail Federation ranked Quixtar the 7th top e-commerce site based on their "low" estimate of our sales. Also, the same outfit, ranked Quixtar the Number 1 site in terms of potential for repeat sales. The Retail Federation of Canada and DeLoitte and Touche in Canada released a survey that ranked Quixtar the second top e-commerce company in Canada and tops in the Health and Beauty category. In October of last year, "Internet World" magazine ranked the top e-commerce companies. Quixtar was not included because it's not a publicly traded company. Yet, when comparing Quixtar sales of $518 million to the top 10 companies in the listing, Quixtar would be the 5th largest e-commerce company in the United States. Not bad
Scott for being in this type of business for only one year. Hey, here's something even more important.... the $518 million?? Those associated with Quixtar earned $143 million of the $518 million in bonuses. Now, don't mean to brag or nothing Scott, but..... the proof is in the "puddin" Personally I cant even imagine WHY you would attend a meeting, done by "who knows" to see something you dislike so much... this is a "people" business and neither the Quixtar company NOR the FTC can do much about what people do, say, project, lie about, confuse, distort, etc etc ... kinda like you
Scott... nobody can do much about what you say or do... personally I could care less about what you think or dont think, what that fellow said or didn't say, or what you may understand or dont understand. Here's what I do understand... after almost 20 years of building this business... as opposed to your ... (I think you told me you lasted a couple of months) .. I have yet to be disappointed with my association to Quixtar. Hey, you take care
Scott and don't forget to publish this entry in your website.
Louie R. Carrillo
Executive Diamond (Quixtar Company)
Great to hear from you too. I'll post your message.
The stat's are a little old, but thanks never the less. Geez, I thought you were going to give me some inside information or something. You know that $518 million would be impressive if you didn't have several hundred thousand IBOs stop shopping at Amway and start shopping at Quixtar at the drop of a hat. Amazon and the others had to start from scratch. Wal-Mart will be reporting about 18% sales growth for the year. What was Amway with the "amazing Quixtar launch" included? Sales were basically flat.. hoowha! You guys were kicking butt and taking names last year with that sales growth!
Let's play a little game since you guys love to compare yourselves to Amazon.com. We will change Amazon.com's name to Quixzon.com tomorrow and they will have $1.78 billion in sales their first year running! Ha, they just wiped out your record! They did to Quixtar, what Quixtar did to them.
$143 million in bonuses is quite a lot of money. Let's look at it a little deeper.
In 1998 Amway reported world wide estimated retail sales of $5.7 billion. Of this 30% was reported to be in the North American market of 750,000 distributors. Factoring for the 25% estimated retail sales markup this made estimated corporate sales of $1.28 billion. From this the following table is derived.
1976 Amway
1998 Amway
2000 Quixtar + Partner Store
Active IBO
Active IBO
Active IBO
|Wholesale sales/yr
Using Amway's old data that 41% of IBOs are active and using Quixtar's 400,000 IBOs as a base, the average active Quixtar IBO made about $872 or $72.66/month. This is less than $2.40/day. This is only 83% of the $88/month average reported by Amway as the income of an average active distributor.
Quixtar was profitable despite Ron Puryear saying on his tape "The goose that laid the golden egg" that Quixtar was to be run with no profit motive. Well we all know how much Amazon lost too. However, what we will never know is, how much in total all the IBOs lost promoting and reproducing the Quixtar business. I guess by your reply that you won't be filling out my "Challenge" form, hu? If you did fill it out, then we could compare the Quixtar IBO losses to Amazon.com's losses and see who lost more money promoting their WEB businesses. There is no need for IBOs to look at that, as it might be a scary number to look at. Geez, if you found out you taught your downline to spend several million dollars promoting their Quixtar businesses, and they only earned 80% of that back from Quixtar, it might destroy your belief that you are helping people make money and get free.
Aw, come on, I thought that the "AmQuix" name was very creative on my part. It takes the best part of both names to make an even better name. I'll have to work on a better one. How's AmQuixTor? You know, Amway is adding so many names these days it is tough to keep track of them all anymore.
Well, Louie, I got to wrap it up and go for a run. I'd only like to see fewer people lose money in the business. I suggest teaching more retailing, and screen prospects better before they commit to the system. If they aren't turning a profit in 4 years kick them out for their own good.
Have fun, enjoy life,
ps. How come you are supporting the "competition" with AOL? You should be on Quixnet.net and get a few points.
"If you give your money to the competition, it doesn't make any sense. Why would you want to give your money Sears or Penny when you have a company that provides you 5000 products and services? Does it make any sense to anybody that you wold give retail money to the competition? Of course not."Executive Diamond Louie Carrillo - tape: "Forks in the Road" DBR767
Site visitor feedback to the discussion:
Good dialogue with Louie Carrillo. I got good chuckle when he criticized you reading "all that fine print".
As for Louie Carillo, I'm sure he has his rough spots, like all of us, but he has helped us tremendously and doesn't even know it. I saw him speak at a seminar, and his comments about protecting family encouraged me to take action in my life, and directly impacted (positively) almost everything I do. Hopefully, I'll be able to return the favor someday.
I've just read Louis Carrello's commentary with a great deal of interest. I was pleased that you were able to generate a response from someone at his level of success in the business. I was hoping he was going to clear the air about some matters.
Sorry to say, Mr. Carrillo offered us very little insight into the workings of his business. He devoted considerable time to mentioning his material possessions, but gave us absolutely no clue as to what his actual earnings were. Before considering becoming an Amway distributor, I would like him to answer the following questions:
1) What was your NET income last year from your Amway endeavors?
2) How much in taxes did you pay to the IRS on your Amway income last year?
3) Please furnish us with a breakdown of how you Amway income was generated:
a) Personal sales of Amway products.
b) Sponsoring efforts
c) Tool income
4) What were your total overhead costs in Amway last year?
5) How many hours did you have to spend doing Amway last year to earn the income you did? In other words, how much do you earn an hour in Amway?
6) My last question is a personal one: Do you have any friends who are more successful than you who are NOT involved with Amway?
Hope Mr. Carrillo is willing to answer these questions. It would certainly clarify a lot of issues! I am waiting with baited breath!
Scott thought that your e-mail with Louie Carrillo was good reading. I find it interesting that he would not talk issues with you only your attitude. I would like to see some of the diamonds and emeralds sit down with some former distributors and find out how they can improve what they are doing. For a group of people to talk about integrity the way most IBO's do it is strange to me that when I got in the business that no one ever told me that there was money in the tools and that I needed to be selling products. During my 5 years in we had one 6 month period that we made money. thank you Scott.
One thing to think about (after reading Carrillo's replies to you) is if people were NOT losing money, at least three levels down, the business would have exploded and saturated the world years ago.He should just admit that investment loss is key to keeping it on the edge, and preventing runaway growth.
Read your dialog with Louis Carillo. Except for you child-porn comment, I think you did very well overall. I, too, was disappointed (thought not surprised) that he was not willing to debate facts or to provide evidence to the contrary, even in as much as sharing his own financial information to prove you otherwise
Your dialog with Loiue Carillo (Whom I am very familiar with, have listened to his tapes) was unbelievable... he is just skirting the real issues. Of course he's happy with the "system", for crying out loud, he's in that small percentile that made this work. Not me though, that is money made on deception. I wouldn't want it!!
Hey Scott,
Just saw your piece on Lou Carrillo. The pic is him. I knew him when I lived in Florida. He lived in Pembroke Pines/Cooper City which is just west of Fort Lauderdale. If you look in profiles of success book that is his home there. He was one of the air traffic controllers that got the ax in "81". Yes I was in his direct downlink and have been to his house. The letters sound like him. Always skirting around the TRUE Figures in that business. Yes he is a very motivating kind of person and all everyone is saying is true about that business. I too would like to see where his income comes from. I know that for sure if you get 100% into the system you have all the up line support you can handle. But don't get on tape of the week, book of the month or stay out of the "Tool" loop, miss a function and then where are they. That is why so many leave I think. they finally do their tax's and start to realize how much they are losing to "THE BUSINESS". It only supports the top 20% of the Amway business. The emeralds and diamonds. If these guys had to rely on making their income off selling product they would all be where the little guy is. Also the diamonds share in all the money these functions and rallies generate. I often time wondered who much of the cash was not accounted for. I can tell you from first hand experience that unless you plug 100% into" the system" you will be left out in the cold to try to peddle their over priced product.
Hi Scott, just read your web site and the conversation with Louie Carillo,,I was in Amway and met Louie and his wife Kathy, they are both as phony as they come. When I tried to pick his brain about how Amway worked he totally ignored me and literally walked away. I quit Amway after two months because the whole business to me is a scam, My wife refers it as " the cult "... The Carillo's turned my stomach. Mark
Scott: this was a classic line in the discussion.
"ps. How come you are supporting the "competition" with AOL? You should be on Quixnet.net and get a few points."
My upline was on Quixnet.net and switched to AOL after a few short months. When asked why he was supporting the competition he replied "Quixnet.net is way too expensive." Funny how these people can shop for value while telling you to "buy from your business." AmQuix is a big joke. It all boils down to three things in the end: 1) buy 200 PV every month; 2) buy the tapes, books, and events; 3) show the plan. It is all a big crock.
Congratulations for your analysis about the Amway-quixtar bussines.
I read the convesation with Louis Carrillo, it's great, everybody have a pesronal vision and always is important know the view points abaut the topics.
I'm an IBO in Mexico, and i can tell you this, every person whit a dream in their heart is only nesesary to be succesful in this bussines, I have seven years in this bussines, I saw many people become to liberty, I work and found that, in my view, mr. Carrillo is an example for the rest of the world in the Amway Bussines, and other activity, I know about economy, but the skills, the confidence, the courage, are most important than every economics analysis, econometrics projections,etc.
Scott: I have an idea of why my upline and others don't use this great "family friendly Internet Service". Here is what I think happened to my upline with it the first month after he bought his new Gateway computer.
First month on Quixnet was 9/1999
No local access number so he dialed the --1-800 number for ONLY $4.95 per hour.
150 total hours per month for only $24.95
I think he exceeded his hours by about 50 (he forgot to disconnect sometimes), so his first and only bill from Quixnet looked like this:
Monthly fee--$24.95
Connection charges @ 200 hours--$990.00
50 hours in excess of plan--$100.00
Total bill for one month's worth of Internet access was $1114.95--what a deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Unlimited troops Yes/No
shoud there be unlimited troops in the game and how big will that battlefields be?
anyone? ;)
The answer is obviously no they already stated they don't want thousands and thousands of units clashing at once that all units should play an important role and that its just not a sit there and hope your unit AI gives you the win.
Plus it would just make the game unmanagable.
No... only cause I like working with a unit cap. Makes me think more. :D
well how many troops will there be in one match then? Maximum that is
Prolly as much as your troopships and star destroyers can carry. :)
But there might be a limit to how many you can land, otherwise it would rack up in the thousands and thousands (even if you brought just a star destroyer :p )
Since that the empire is so huge, I would guess the unit cap for both sides (cause they have to be even) would have to be 750-1000.
i woud like to have more becouse you also have more then 5000 troops in a big ship
Rather little than many, and amount of units different for each map/campaign depending on strategy/map size.
No umlimited troops equels more deaths.
If they do land by the thousands and fight by the thousands, it would possibly be immpossible to play without dieing of frustration.
Yeah thats what Im Saying, If there was unlimited Troops then you would have ulimited dying.
I think it could be 1000 per planet not including your space fleet.
I mean, you do have to conquer(or liberate) the galaxy. A 1000 total for all of that seems rather small.
Well we never saw 1,000 Imperial forces fighting at once. The only time we saw the army fighting in full force was in AotC. Like Hoth was a few AT-AT and AT-ST with some ground troops.
I say heck yes to unlimited troops, as long as you have an economy to support them. I mean if you had a surplus of materials, you could overbuild and still have enough resources to maintain your army for a few months while you wage a particularly heavy campaign in one corner of the galaxy.
Yes I'm talking about maintenance costs.
I think maintenance cost is a far better alternative to having a max army limit. Admittedly there may be a limit on how many one Army can be, but not on how many armies you can have and how full they each are. (yep, this game sounds really close to Total War in my head)
It would be ok if they had about 1,000 but not unlimited! :D
Whats with you people and unlimited. It would never stop then you would die of frustration and boardom. ARG!:explode: :explode: :explode: :explode: :explode:
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well maby thay shoud make unlimited only make a setting to put a maximum on it :p
then evryone is happy
Aaah, I see what you mean by unlimited troops. :)
Yes, I agree.
The limit is going to be dictated by how well you can support them anyway, so that's a natural limiting force in-game.
I thought the author ment unlimited supply of troops which he could just pour into combat constantly. :D
That would be silly. :p
well yes i don't whant to yust poor troops in a map i whant to build them using minerals and stuf making nice deals on kamino to buy them 2 :p
Battle for Naboo had nothing to do with Rebels or Imperials.
Re: Unlimited troops Yes/No
When you have much commando points, you can take more soldiers!
Possibly easier if they couldn't produce 1000 troops comfortably or quickly enough thanks to their crippled economy.
I do think the individual battles will have to have a unit limit per army to comfortably render all the units. But I don't think you'll see a limit on the armies...Total War style.
Funny question...why...?
Were there unlimited troops in the movies or other games...? No.
That'd be SO unrealistic...
well it is a si-fi movie :p
I imagine if they did the "unlimited troops" it'd be done in a star craft manner, you can't have a ton of them out fighting but you can produce more fighters over time after gaining more resources and losing people. Only a limited amount on screen (or on a sector) at a time. When one squadron dies you can ship in (manifest) a new one, after gaining enough resources.
well thay can make it so that you need more sources evrytime you make more troopers then you will need mutch more stuf if you have super big army's
then if you yust have a small team
Indeed, and how you would limit your enemies troops would be by taking over their resources, allowing you to create more troops and suddenly you are victorious.
They said they don't want millions of units, like Rome Total war, just some, but have them look and act awesome. I think that's the quote, paraphrazing a bit.
Yes, but that's on the battlefield.
What is talked about here is troops and ships standing by around the galaxy, ready for action.
well, don't bet on it.
you DO realize the memory aspects that would be needed to run a game like this with UNLIMITED units???
like the more recent 3D games, units that are stronger will more likely take up more population space.
Re: well, don't bet on it.
So no. Maybe only about 750. Or like IS said. With the Starcraft thing.
It called "C&C strike back!"
C&C never have troops limit~ so do this game~
in C&C u can build as many as u want, of units and buildings.:o
This is NOT C&C, not in the traditional sense.
As I've said before, the way it's presented so far it reminds me more of Imperium Galactica games rather than C&C-series or the Dune-series.
Your force building will be out of combat mode, then you have to bring those combat units to the battlefield, be it ships to blockade a planet or defeat an enemy fleet, or ground units to destroy a certain building or to completelly take over a planet, which again is totally up to you to decide which planet to conqour or enemy fleet to defeat.
This means there will be "down-times" where you do not do combat, not like with Dune where you chose which area of Arakis you wanted to attack and then initiated combat immediatly.
Think a more advanced Rebellion. Wether it will feature 200 planets I don't know, but we can hope. :)
Anyway, this can eventually amount to a very large number of units (uncontrollable amount if it's just let loose), so it would be needed to be controlled somehow.
there cant be unlimited troops, y'know:D
Well im all up for unlimited troops, as long as its a cheat only;) But it might be hard to handle, like in down of war, playing orcs is just so teedious:jawa.
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Live team coverage of stage 4 at the 100th Tour de France, presented by Clif Bar
Simon Gerrans will pull on yellow.
What an ascent for Orica. In its first two seasons, the team has won Milano-Sanremo, weeklong stage races, grand tour stages, and will now take yellow.
Gerrans: "We were not the favorites for the stage, but we did a great work among the team. It's a great victory for the team today."
It doesn't get much closer than that. Orica edges Omega Pharma by three-quarters of a second.
Our updated top 10 on GC
For those (many folks) asking, Ted King should make the time cut, though that is unofficial at the moment.
"It doesn't get any better than this."
"Today was a really surprising victory."
"Everyone did their job to perfection."
"Especially for him, he lives 20km away from Monaco. So to have the jersey in his home away from home, it's special."
"We came here for a stage win. Now we have to and the yellow jersey."
—Orica director Matt White
"We had a great TTT today. We didn't think we'd be too far off the leaders, so we're feeling pretty good about it."
—Saxo-Tinkoff director Philippe Mauduit
I was close in my prediction of four different leaders in first four stages of racing. Without time bonuses, Gerro should keep yellow for a few days, perhaps all the way to Pyrenees
"It was a good day for us. The guys were really strong."
"I'm ok. It would be better if I were in the front of the general, but 5, 10 seconds is nothing over the next 2 weeks."
"The next two days, it's important to have complete attention to avoid the problems."
"Hopefully I'll be at 100 percent in the Pyrénées."
—Alberto Contador
Lotto slipped a pretty good effort in there for Jurgen Van Den Broeck's GC efforts. Just 17 seconds lost isn't bad for a team that's pretty committed to Greipel's chances in the sprints.
Its great for the sport when guys out of the peloton like Impey, Gerrans and Albasini step into the limelight.
"It was just a fantastic team effort."
"Everyone committed 100 percent today and it's great for everyone to get the payoff."
"We weren't a favorite, but everyone stuck to their role and it's amazing to see what you can do."
"It's the pinnacle of the sport. To get the yellow jersey, so few guys have had the opportunity."
—Simon Gerrans
Today we crossed over to Nice
With roads that had nary a crease.
It was flat and was fast.
They all gave it the gas.
But Orica came up with the grease.
Pierre Rolland lost well over a minute. That'll leave a mark.
"This is a dream come true, a dream for the team, and for Australia as well" - Gerrans
So, four days down, 17 to go. Tomorrow the 100th Tour de France heads southwest, from Cagnes-sur-Mer to France's second largest city to Paris, Marseilles. The 228km fifth stage features a hilly profile with four categorized climbs, but no major obstacles.
There's barely a moment of flat road on Tuesday, with three Cat. 4 climbs, a Cat. 3 ascent straight out of the blocks, and innumerable small ramps.
"We are happy about our ride, but we are disappointed to lose it" - Kwiatkowski
Whether it'll be a day for the breakaway, the strongmen like Peter Sagan and yellow jersey Simon Gerrans, or the pure sprinters, we'll have to see.
Nice day for 36-year-old Tour rookie Svein Tuft, eh?
Not bad at all. Those 20-mile snowshoe hikes paid off today.
Also, the base miles he used to get in, riding from Canada to California for training camp with his dog in a trailer.
Ted King not showing up on provisional GC
We've just gotten confirmation of Orica's average speed for the stage: an astonishing 57.8 kph.
With regret we have to confirm that @iamtedking is out of the #tdf due to the gap in today's TTTby Cannondale Pro via twitter 7/2/2013 3:41:53 PM
Ted's "30 and change" must have had a lot of change on the end. Terrible to hear for the Tour rookie.
@joelindsey Hard to imagine @letour time cutting @iamtedking considering it was ASO's mix up at stage 1 finish that caused the crashby Neal Rogers via twitter 7/2/2013 3:43:47 PM
Looks as if riders shouldn't expect too much mercy from the race jury on the time cut this year. The autobus will need to do its math carefully.
That's a good point, Neal. The fiasco with the Orica bus and the moving finish line led to confusion and many riders blamed that for the pile-up in the finale. King suffered a separated shoulder there and has fought through two tough days to stay in the race.
Big thanks to Jon Tarkington of FasCat Coaching for joining us today. We'll be back on Wednesday at our normal time of 8am EDT. Until then, follow all the stories that matter surrounding the Tour de France at VeloNews.com.
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What are the different game modes and how do I install them?
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How do I update Minetest?
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How do I get the multiplayer account?
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What is a mod?
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What is a mob?
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How do I set up a server?
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Why is there only stone in my world?
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On Tulane's slow start offensively
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"It was just a rough year," said the now-25-year-old, shaking his head. "I just kept smiling and kept having tunnel vision knowing that God has a plan and everything happens for a reason."
When the Ravens selected Arthur in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL draft, they knew they were getting a tough, selfless and competitive defensive lineman who struggled as a senior due to injury.
"(After) his junior year, Arthur was one of our top 20 rated players based off spring scouting," Ravens director of college scouting Joe Hortiz said. "(Northeast area scout) Andy Weidl had studied him and really thought highly of him, in terms of a fit in our defensive scheme. ... (He) would take on blocks, free guys up, but he also had the ability to make plays on his own."
Arthur said he loves it in Baltimore and he still believes that he made the right decision to stay at Syracuse instead of going pro early. When Chandler, 21, asked his oldest brother for career advice after recording 39 tackles and 4.5 sacks as a junior, Arthur told him to follow his heart.
"I saw what happened to Art after his junior year and how he got hurt," said Chandler, who is on track to graduate in May. "I would be lying to you if I told you that it didn't (play a part in my decision). ... He told me, 'Remember what happened to me.' But he didn't say to leave or stay."
Chandler said that the NFL's Draft Advisory Board has projected him to be a third-round pick.
Difficult days
Jon and Chandler had always looked up to their oldest brother for guidance and inspiration. But the Jones boys learned to rely on each other when their older sister, Carmen, was diagnosed with brain cancer and quickly grew seriously ill. She died at age 17 when Arthur was in eighth grade.
"She was an angel. You ask God, 'Why?' But I guess God had a better plan for her," Arthur said.
An adolescent, Arthur didn't really understand what cancer was. He figured Carmen would get better, just like that. She had to. He struggled to come to grips with her fading health as her motor skills declined and she was unable to do the things she loved, like playing the piano. But he got some comfort knowing they had grown closer than ever.
With his father, Arthur Jones Jr., who is a pastor in Binghamton, N.Y., and his mother, who used to work with the mentally handicapped before complications from diabetes caused her kidneys to fail, tending to Carmen during her two-year battle with cancer, the brothers survived the difficult and confusing time together. There were left at times to fend for themselves until Carmen was released from the hospital and spent the rest of her life in their home.
"We had to raise each other and look out for each other and cook for each other," Jon said. "Me, Arthur and Chandler, we had to keep each other strong. We really fed off each other's energy."
"It brought us all closer. It made that puzzle that much tighter," added Arthur.
Growing up, the brothers were nearly inseparable _ that's what happens when you cram three boys into one bedroom _ but being a year apart in age, Arthur and Jon were particularly tight. They went to the same schools. They ate lunch together every day. They had the same friends. The three brothers even made their own code language that they would prefer stays top-secret.
"We can talk about someone in the room with us," Jon said. "They have no clue we're talking about them and we're speaking perfectly clear English. But we can't really share it with anyone else."
They would stay up late playing the "NFL Blitz" video game with the sound off so their parents would think they were sleeping. And Jon desperately wanted to beat his big bro at anything.
"I was always the one who tried to make a competition out of things because Arthur was good at everything," Jon said. "Arthur is an awesome older brother to have. He's everything, man. ... No matter what's going on in my life, I'll always have Arthur there as my right-hand man."
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TC TO JEAN CARLYLE AITKEN; 19 January 1834; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18340119-TC-JCA-01; CL 7:68.
Craigenputtoch, 19th [? January 1834]
My dear Jean,
There is almost nothing to say this week; except that you are to pay yourself from the beginning of Rob's Pound.1 My account bears 10/9½—unless either you gave me, or I gave you, the pence in, to make even money of it? Or perhaps this is but a mere chimera of my own?
There is a little haddock of a white shelty (a great Beauty when in condition) coming down from Templand next wednesday for my Mother at Scotsbrig. The Boy will bring it to you; you can send it over to Garthwaite, and give him charges about it.
Jane rejoices to hear that the lost Letter has finally come back into your hands last Saturday! Unless Mrs Welsh (who only went off yesterday) send you some word about it, you had better blot out the "Andrew Watson,"2 and put it into the Post-office.
We got no Letters or Newspaper last week, till (by a new effort) on Sunday. Dame M'Adam and our Missus between them contrived to omit it. There was nothing of moment that suffered thereby.
If James has the old frame that my Mother's Picture (of me) stood in, and is not for putting some other piece into it, will he send it [torn] the queerest print3 ready to go [into it] here; which you shall see when you come up. When will that be? I have been talking to my Mother about the first or second week of April.
Nothing new here; nothing: for the Moors are as old as the subsidence of Noah's Flood; and we see nothing but them and Books.
Jane's best regards and wishes to you both.
Ever / My dear Sister / Your affectionate, /
T. Carlyle—


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Ahead: Week 13 of Increment 16.
CDR Whitson & FE-2 Tani started out with the daily reading of SLEEP (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight) experiment data accumulated during the night, for logging and filling in questionnaire entries in the SLEEP session file on the HRF-1 laptop for downlink. (To monitor the crewmembers' sleep/wake patterns and light exposure, Dan and Peggy wear a special Actiwatch device which measures the light levels encountered by him as well as his patterns of sleep and activity throughout the Expedition. The log entries are done within 15 minutes of final awakening for seven consecutive days, as part of the crew's discretionary 'job jar' task list.)
FE-1 Malenchenko prepared for today's last day of his five-day wearing test of the spring-loaded 'Penguin-3' antigravity pressure/stress suit with its load measuring system (SIN), donning the suit and its equipment, then going about his business and downloading performance measurements several times. (Each day, Yuri has selected higher symmetrical (shoulders) & asymmetrical (chest & back) loads (~20-30 kgf), after calibrating the system with no load on the suit's internal tension straps. Load data are then collected by the SIN electronics (via analog-to-digital converters) and downloaded to a A31p laptop three times daily, followed by downlink to the ground via BSR-TM.)
FE-2 Tani performed his daily status check on the BCAT-3 (Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-3) science payload, running by itself in Node-2 since 12/13/07 (briefly interrupted for EVA-13 photo support). (The status check, conducted on the last image taken by the DCS 760 digital still camera which is controlled by EarthKAM software on an A31p laptop, is to verify proper image focus and camera alignment. The SSC (Station Support Computer) is taking photography of the phase separation occurring in the BCAT Sample 3, with the photo flash going off every half hour.)
Malenchenko completed today's routine maintenance of the SOZh system (Environment Control & Life Support System, ECLSS) in the Service Module (SM), including ASU toilet facilities systems/replaceables, the weekly collection of the toilet flush (SP) counter and water supply (SVO) readings for calldown to TsUP.
The crewmembers performed their regular 2.5-hr physical workout program (about half of which is used for setup & post-exercise personal hygiene) on the CEVIS cycle ergometer (CDR, FE-2), TVIS treadmill (FE-1), RED (CDR, FE-2) and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer (FE-1).
The CDR and FE-2 each had their weekly PFC (Private Family Conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting application (which displays the uplinked ground video on the SSC-10 laptop), Dan at ~9:05am EST, Peggy at ~12:00pm.
Working off his discretionary 'time permitting' task list, Yuri conducted another session of the Russian "Uragan" (hurricane) earth-imaging program, using the Nikon D2X digital camera with 800 mm focal length lens. (Targets uplinked for today were Patagonia Glaciers and Icebergs in the Drake Passage.)
A second job item on the FE-1's voluntary list for today was another KPT-3 session to make observations and take aerial KPT-3 photography of environmental conditions for Russia's Environmental Safety Agency (ECON) using the Nikon D2X digital camera with SIGMA 300-800mm telephoto lens.
Task items on Peggy's and Dan's discretionary 'job jar' task list today were (1) a thorough review of uplinked draft material on the BMRRM (Bearing Motor Roll Ring Module) hardware and EVA-14 procedures for its upcoming R&R, (2) an audit of CTB (Cargo Transport Bags) and their contents, and (3) installation of a ground wire on the PFA (Portable Fan Assembly).
No CEO photo targets uplinked for today.


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Jul 22, 2009 9:40 AM
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