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Admin Posted - 05/24/2003 : 5:16:05 PM
The Structural Reorganization of AANR
as published by the American Association for Nude Recreation in Kissimmee, FL

This document provides information about the proposal for a reorganization of AANR.


AANR Tomorrow Overview
May 2003


Quoting from Pat Brown’s President’s Report to the AANR Board of Trustees Meeting of February, 2003, "For AANR to grow and survive, we must change our structure."

As organizations grow, develop and mature they must reexamine their structure. Newly developing organizations rely heavily on volunteers to manage operations. As they mature, they hire professional staff with expertise in the areas needed. AANR has begun that metamorphosis and has, in recent years, hired professionals in the areas of government affairs, public relations and marketing.

Based upon thoughts from a number of individuals, Pat formed the President’s Advisory Group on Reorganization made up of the following 17 people from various AANR constituencies: John Kinman, Horst Kraus, Bev Price, Don Sloan, Susan Weaver, Pat Brown, Bob Roche, Erich Schuttauf, Joe Lettelleir, Jim Miller, Raye Sorensen, George Morrison, Bill Williamson, Debra Peterson, Bob Migliore, Dean Hadley and B. Ball – Professional Facilitator

From the Strategic Planning process, John Kinman asked the question, "If we were creating AANR today, what kind of an organization would we create?" It was agreed that the present structure met the needs of the organization at a certain point in time and that changes made since were appropriate for their time as well. The charge was to start from scratch and recommend a new structure that meets the needs of both clubs of varying sizes and individual members, a structure that meets the needs of other "stakeholders" with whom AANR must interact, and a structure that is not based on tradition but is best designed to address the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats identified in our Strategic Plan.

Because the democratic participation of association members is a vital part of AANR, the Advisory Group carefully studied the voting system and options available through 21st century technology. Over the past several years, changes have been made in the way that individual members and clubs were represented in the election process. Traditionally, voting is done at the AANR level by clubs with votes based on club membership. Three years ago, the ratio was changed to give more weight to smaller clubs. Most clubs do not attend the convention but are represented by proxies. As the number of associate members grew, it was decided that they, too, should be represented in the voting process. The result of all of this "tinkering" is that there is still a relatively small number of people attending the convention each year to elect officers and pass legislation.

Despite many changes over the years, many people continue to express dissatisfaction with the process. We debate whether club delegates should be elected by club membership or selected by club owners. We question whether associates’ wishes are truly represented by other associates. We suspect that club interests may sometimes be different from member interests and we are not sure whom our trustees represent.

The regions each elect two trustees to manage AANR. Here too, over the years there has been some changing of the process, with one region moving to mail ballots of all members. Our largest region is fifteen times the size of our smallest region. The various regions have different dues structures, receiving between 19 and 32% of an individual’s cost to belong to AANR. The regions have their own corporate structures and operate sometimes in concert with AANR and sometimes in a different direction.

From this preamble, the following organizational structure is recommended:

Board of Trustee
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calmnude Posted - 08/16/2003 : 3:10:41 PM
good move for a change by the leadership. for once they listened to the membership. it is a very progressive move. i think before the committees spend time and effort coming up with proposals, they should spend some time on the beaches and at the campsites to develop a plan which is good for EVERYONE
Admin Posted - 08/16/2003 : 12:04:59 PM
AANR Tomorrow proposal withdrawn
From the SWSAnews@yahoogroups.com newsgroup

Subject: AANR Convention update - AANR Tomorrow proposal withdrawn

It is a good thing to learn from your critics. David Brinkley remarked that "a successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him".

Well we felt the bricks. We heard the member in the SWSA explain that her region was her "family", the member in Florida who was concerned about big club take-over, the member in Oregon who wanted to know if all the club trustees could come from the same region, the members in every region who thanked the committee for addressing important issues, the associate in Michigan who really liked the plan, especially the one member-one vote concept, the JMSA leader who wanted to know how this plan would effect their junior program, and members in every region who were concerned about the affect of AANR Tomorrow on their region's future.

We heard you when you said this was too fast and we listened. That is why John Kinman, Chairman of the President's Advisory Group and I have decided to withdraw the AANR Tomorrow proposal from legislation this year and return the concept to the committee for further study. The committee will be expanded to include all regional presidents and trustees to insure collaboration with every region and all members.

I can not thank the sixteen members of this committee enough for their dedication and perseverance. Bob Roche, Susan Weaver, Bill Williamson, Dean Hadley, Joe Lettelleir, Don Sloan, George Morrison, Raye Sorenson, Jim Miller, Bob Migliore, John Kinman, Bev Price, Horst Kraus, Erich Schuttauf, Debra Peterson Facilitator

They served on this committee at no expense to AANR and at times considerable expense to themselves.

However good our intent was, AANR Tomorrow did not meet the needs of all our members. Winston Churchill said, "If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will be no hope of improvement".

I really appreciated the support we received in every region and the recognition that these issues need to be looked at and that changes need to be made. With all of us working together we will improve this proposal to meet member needs, advance the promotion and protection of nude recreation and encourage maximum growth of AANR.

Pat Brown
AANR President


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Cheri Posted - 07/02/2003 : 09:36:59 AM
I still don't see the benefits for the members...that's what this organization is about! The entire proposal needs to go back and be re-worked to include the regions and the members.

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Mike Donahue Posted - 07/02/2003 : 12:24:53 AM




My second promised expansion on my, ‘AANR on the Brink, Can We Right Nudism’s Flagship?’ submission, concerning AANR Tomorrow: (I hold no position in AANR or its regions, although I was once a director of one of them, and had no part in the drafting of the proposal.)


REJUVENATION AT THE TOP—AND AT THE GRASS ROOTS

To implement the ‘AANR Tomorrow’ proposal to restructure its organization, we’ll need a two tiered system. Presently, we have a multilayered confusion of conflicting authorities and powers, pulling in too many directions.


I. AT THE TOP

AANR needs a neat and clean Board of dynamic professional level managers, thinkers, dreamers and planners to set the direction for the organization to suit its two main constituencies: average members, and resort and club managers and owners. The Board will need the best, brightest, boldest, boat rockers we have.

The Board needs to be capable of doing big ambitious things: 1) Preserving the organization as a valued asset for all concerned. 2) Accomplishing the goals of its members—that being the growth, acceptance and proliferation of nudISM. 3) Reconciling the two sides to our interdependence.

It must not have people with other agendas, who are there mainly for the prestige and social opportunities, and who do not want to put their heads together to work smarter than ever before. (The latter is why the position needs to be fairly compensated—prorated at the level of the CEO. This would also be the best way to attract members of sufficient quality to beat out the first two. If we don’t make the Board attractive enough to members who are already very busy, the first two will be what we will be left with, and we’ll be right back to where we are now.)

The Board must use modern management theory, and concentrate on strategy (the big picture), leaving the staff to work on tactics (operations). As we progress from a very small organization (where boards usually meddle in day to day operations), to a medium sized one where we can have aspects of small ones (still be entrepreneurial), and large ones (professional officers), it is important to not become too ‘big business corporate’. (We are still more of an ideology than a business—although I’m sure some disagree with that.)


Entrepreneurial Team

Being relatively unique and new to outsiders, the way to operate, strategically plan, and succeed is from within, relying on those we have, to form a successful ‘entrepreneurial team’. Rather than a corporate model as the proposal infers, we need the ‘entrepreneurial team approach’, with a group of twenty or so top people (fourteen on the board, one or two people leading the organization, and four or five department heads.). The latter must be all degreed in their specialties—but not necessarily ‘full time,’ or living in Kissimmee. Time to become an e-organization!

The trick to our rejuvenation would be this team—picking a complementary group of no-nonsense specialists and change agents who can work collegially, professionally and seriously toward common goals and objectives, strategies and tactics. This is different from the big corporate structure the proposal seems to infer, which is more appropriate for organizations where each department has several degreed professionals on staff, resources are much less limited than our own, and it sell goods and services rather and ideas. (I don’t plan to be a candidate.)

All the thinkers and workers in the organization need to be active ethical nudists. We can buy professional products from outside firms, but only if we do the thinking, planning, decision making, interpretation and implementation in-house—that way they are only vendors, not consultants, and we don’t have to worry whether they are of the handicapped unenlightened.


II. AT THE GRASS ROOTS

AANR Tomorrow presents both lower lever organizatio
calmnude Posted - 06/25/2003 : 10:16:42 AM
the discussion put the cards on the table. there are details which need to be spelled out,and the perception by some that this is another issue being forced down members throats should be addressed. otherwise, forum discussion
on this topic is great.
Mike Donahue Posted - 06/25/2003 : 08:03:18 AM




My first promised expansion on my, ‘AANR on the Brink, Can We Right Nudism’s Flagship?’ submission, concerning AANR Tomorrow: (I hold no position in AANR or its regions, although I was once a director of one of them, and had no part in the drafting of the proposal.)



SAD BUT TRUE:

AANR’s proposed restructuring brings out in the open the regrettable fact that at the top we have been working and playing together so poorly, that there now must be a line drawn down the middle of the sandbox!

On one side will be the owners of businesses and fiefdoms who are now running the show, either up front or behind the scenes. Unfortunately, they don’t trust average members to help them beyond paying their bills. But then average members don’t trust them to act in the best interests of us all, either.

‘AANR Tomorrow’, in essence, is an attempt to build trust and get the two sides to start working together, instead of separately.


DEMOCRACY?

There have been discussions that AANR Tomorrow will reduce democracy, taking half of the Board from its members and giving it to resort and club owners and managers. The reality is that the average members will be gaining seats at the table, not loosing them.

Presently, individual members who do not travel to conventions, own or manage resorts or clubs, or work their way into organizations, in more than one region, have no vote in the process. Some regions are now run by, and for, those who have the most influence, for their own interests.


THE OLD FICTION

Some will probably still try the spin that resort and club owners and managers can represent us all perfectly well, as they have all of our best interests at heart. The original idea way back when, apparently was that since clubs and resorts would be participatory, mutual organizations where their members would meet to choose candidates and cast votes, it made sense to allow votes to be cast by clubs, as they were assumed to be the direct conduits of the wishes of their members—some still are. Unfortunately, this was never written in stone, and many owners and managers decided to act on their own in their own interests, or not at all, leaving it up to the resorts and clubs who did.


ANTAGONISTIC, COMPETITIVE AND SELFISH

By dividing up the new board’s fourteen seats evenly between the two sides, we are admitting we have a dysfunctional corporate culture which is unnudistly antagonistic, competitive and selfish. AANR can either put a stop to it or, it may well put a stop to AANR! (Just as the Catholic Bishop in the news who hit and ran should have been the last person on earth to do so, the brand of nudism I think we all espouse to should never ever be associated with any of these three adjectives.)


OUR BIGGEST WEAKNESS

For those people doing their Strategic Planning, SWOT analyses, this is our biggest weakness. It deters participants, members and volunteers in quantity and quality; can hurt the positive image we’d like to project to the outside world; violates our benevolent principles; and does it’s best to take the fun out of something that is supposed to be so positive and superior.

If AANR Tomorrow works, ‘Antagonistic’ needs to be replaced with ‘benevolent’ and ‘friendly’; ‘competitive’ with ‘cooperative’ and ‘participative’; and ‘selfish’ with ‘altruistic’ and ‘generous’. ‘Collegial’ and ‘professional’ need to come even before that, however.


TIME TO STOP PRETENDING

My hope for an AANR Tomorrow is that by eliminating most of the convoluted bureaucracy that fostered these counter-productive motivations, and by forcing the two sides to work together on the new board at joint purposes, we can concentrate on capitalizing upon opportunities, building upon our strengths and facing our threats, rather than dwelling on our weaknesses.

The plan rec
Admin Posted - 06/20/2003 : 2:01:51 PM
John Kinman's response to Mike Donahue's article above.
Reprinted from the AANRGovernmentAffairs@yahoogroups.com newsgroup.
This information is provided for education and community discussion. Nudist-Resorts.Org is not affiliated with The American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR).


Subject: Response to Co-Digest "AANR at the Brink"

Mike, Your article is the best that I have read in response to the proposal.

Your posting titled "AANR at the Brink: Can We right Nudism's Flagship?" was shared with me and I wanted to respond as you invited.

I am John Kinman, Chairman of AANR's President's Advisory Group which authored the proposal. I am also president of the AANR West region.

Your article is the best that I have read in response to the proposal. You recognize the strategic restructuring that is needed for AANR to prosper. At the same time, you warn of possible problems if the new organization is not governed properly. I agree with both observations. I really like your comment that "the most successful non-profits...develop a consensus team and operate within it, led by its dreamers, thinkers, innovators and professional managers and marketers, all working together collegially...." This is exactly what we envision.

Today we have seven separately governed regions with separate bylaws and procedure manuals and programs, sometimes acting in concert with AANR and sometimes not. We are also confusing the public and our members with eight separate brand names. This is why we need a more centralized focus.

The governance of this organization, however, will not be driven by hired staff but by the 14 member board which is geographically diverse on the part of member trustees and also includes all levels of clubs. This elected board needs to focus on policy, objectives and oversight, not dealing with the minutia that they deal with today. As members and clubs, we have to elect the best. Today the votes are controlled by the relatively few club delegates who show up at a convention with proxies from other clubs. Under AANR Tomorrow we can all participate to elect the best leaders.

I agree that management cannot be outsiders. As far as I know, most if not all of AANR's staff are members. Even the leaders of our new PR firm turned in a check for membership. Yes, that was probably a show of support, not a person conversion to nudism, but it was an important gesture. We think we found the best firm to sell us to the public.

I hope that many members like you will see the overall need for this reorganization and still be able to sound warnings where needed. This is not a perfect plan and it would still not be a perfect plan if we spent the next four years on it with input from hundreds of people. But, it is so far better than our current organization. We need to move forward before AANR falls further behind. We need to trust that our fourteen elected trustees will respond to input from any of us and make alterations to the program as needed.

Again, thank you for your keen observations.

John Kinman



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Cheri Posted - 06/20/2003 : 09:48:35 AM
What are the benefits to members other than having the option to run for office?

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Mike Donahue Posted - 06/19/2003 : 10:34:35 PM
Greetings:

Preview for: AANR at the Brink, Can We Right Nudism’s Flagship

I am a former Director of and AANR region who has been warning of impending calamity in the Greater AANR organization for years and urging better and more professional management with little success.

When I read the ‘AANR Tomorrow’ proposal some time ago I was very pleased as it seemed a major step in the right direction! I then wrote the following article for CODigest and I have been asked to reprint in on other websites, including here by Kevin. I have also received positive replies from members of the group which wrote the proposal, although I was not a part of that effort.

I also am writing elaborations expanding on my analysis and discussion which I will post here and elsewhere FYI. One of my goals was to try to improve the plan with suggested revisions; however, I just learned today that the proposal is written in stone for this year, and while it is not perfect, it must either pass or fail this year as written. Consequently, my recommendations for change will either have to be for the new board if it passes, and if it does not, for next year should they rework it for another vote.

(This is the first time I have visited this site and am very impressed, as it will not be the last!) (I also give any ethical nudist media the right to reprint this article if proper authorship credit is given.)

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AANR at the Brink:

Can We Right Nudism’s Flagship?

By: Mike Donahue


AANR Tomorrow is an opportunity for nudism to get its act together. The six page proposal AANR sent me, which will be acted upon at their convention in August, uses words like, metamorphosis and streamlining. Having studied it, let me offer a summary and analysis for those who have not.

It surely deserves serious thought and consideration from us all! Management being my thing, I was first skeptical, but ultimately pleased—with a few reservations. (As a former director of one of the AANR regions who left warning of impending implosion; with expertise and degrees in for-profit, non-profit and public sector management; who has presented at both AANR and TNS events; I never though anything like this would ever come to pass—and it by no means has.)

(This is only about three printed pages, and I’ve taken the time to do four edits, so please bare with me:)

Centralization

AANR Tomorrow will probably get most attention for its timely movement toward democracy. However, equally significant is its centralizing of AANR’s structure.

The proposal is quite insightful in recognizing that our problem is systemic and can’t be patched up with a few tactical band-aids—as will undoubtedly be proposed: That low membership retention is only a symptom, not the problem, and that it can only be addressed from the top down with a strategic restructuring.

However, the proposal seems to overreact in turning from the convoluted decentralized structure we now have. While the proposal is correct in saying that we have outgrown our loosely aligned confederation, which does not provide the professional…expertise…needed, it goes too far, concluding that we need a standard top down business corporate structure with a Board and an appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Executive Director), who’d handle administration separate from us rank and file. Its authors apparently concluded that the expertise to manage and lead our organization does not lie within it, and we must look outside for the solutions to our problems. (If we don’t have what it takes ourselves, we don’t deserve to persevere—anything else would be artificial.)

There can be several reasons the proposals authors apparently concluded we don’t have what it takes: Past history may have turned them off to member participation—but I urge them to consider other participatory schem
Cheri Posted - 06/18/2003 : 6:55:43 PM
Regarding me using the $4 from memberships to supply the money....John doesn't understand that the membership dues are not paid by members at the same time. We can have 10 in June, 4 in July, etc.

I want to see what the Members get out of this proposal.


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Admin Posted - 06/17/2003 : 8:41:31 PM
Subject: Response to CO Digest posting by Cheri
From the AANRGovernmentAffairs@yahoogroups.com newsgroup as posted by John Kinman, AANR West President

The posting by "Cheri" with her thoughts on AANR Tomorrow was shared with me as chairman of AANR's President's Advisory Group and I wanted to respond. She is concerned that some clubs will take advantage of their members and get rich. We don't think that will be the case.

Today, our clubs operate in many ways. Some non landed clubs charge $10 for membership, others $100 and many somewhere in between. Our largest non-landed club advertises that club membership is "free" and collects the AANR associate dues rate from the member. Some large landed clubs "give away" the AANR and region membership and charge a set club dues rate. In most 100% clubs, members pay the total they are billed by the club and pay little attention to what goes to the club and what goes to AANR and the region. The member decides whether he is receiving value for his membership dollar.

Cheri's club, the Travelites, is in AANR East. Region dues are $10.00 per person, making a total cost to the member of $35.00/single and $62.50/couple. Under AANR Tomorrow, the dues rates will be $31/single or $54.50/couple. Since region dues are no longer collected by AANR this is a savings of $4.00 per member. As a business owner, Cheri may decide to pass on these savings to her members or keep their dues at the present level and use the $4.00 to pay for the club dues to AANR. With 100 members, this pays for a level 3 membership and the club advances to level 4 because it is a 100% club.

AANR has never been a good policeman in the past. We feel that most clubs will handle this program well to best meet the needs of the club and its members. If not, their members will leave.

We do not know what the seven regions will decide to do under AANR Tomorrow. Some may disband quickly, others may find that they can still provide needed benefits. As Cheri points out, regions that continue will have to justify the additional cost to the members.

I fail to understand Cheri's statement that "the proposed structure is still going to leave control of the organization in the hands of the large club owners..." Every club (including Cheri's) will have seven votes for club trustee. The large clubs (say levels 5 & 6) can never have more than four trustees out of fourteen.

There are many points in AANR Tomorrow that can be debated. Our seventeen member PAG certainly had its share of debates over several months. The structure will change over future years as we learn from it. Rather than picking on small parts of the proposal, I ask that people look at this as a total package and compare it to where we are today. We feel that it gives fairer representation to our diverse membership and clubs, gives better services for the membership dollar with reduced administrative expenses in the regions, and a more professional organization to promote, enhance and protect nude recreation in the Americas.

John Kinman
AANR West President
AANR Advisory Group Chair
jbjkinman@aol.com


Reprinted by permission of the author.

This information is provided for education and community discussion. Nudist-Resorts.Org is not affiliated with The American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR).
Admin Posted - 05/27/2003 : 5:08:48 PM
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Did the committee consider any other possible structure such as a bicameral model with an upper house (House of Lords) composed of club owners and a Lower House (Houses of Commons) composed of the general population?
Interesting question. It could be the lower house (Membership Trustees) will always have the upper house (Club Trustees) sitting at and influencing every discussion. How often will the membership trustees discuss membership issues without distraction? The club trustees, the "money power", would be there at every opportunity to table populist (membership) issues before they can be explored.

The allusion to the Bill Of Rights is appropriate. There is a need for responsive government again. This new reorganization for AANR is a step in the right direction, but perhaps not enough of a step?

Also, the new fee structure for club membership in AANR seems to reflect the maxim that only the money gets the vote. AANR will still be able to count all the clubs as member clubs, but only the ones willing to part with a portion of the club treasury will have the privilege of representation in AANR. (Or benefit of legal representation?) Many clubs will opt for the 'level one' membership, without any club dues owed to AANR, but also no representation.

It is a bit unclear what is to become of the volunteer regional officers and organizations, including FANR, ESA (now AANR-EAST), AANR-WEST, MSA, NWNA, SWSA, and WCANR. These voluntarily run organizations have always been previously described as "regions of AANR, to better serve the members". It is indicated these organizations can "disband" or "dissolve" without objection from AANR, since "regional government" is no longer needed. Doesn't this put the old regions in competition with AANR's new "regional government" in the sales of AANR memberships should they choose not to disband?

It will be interesting to see whether the dissolving regions donate their treasuries to AANR, as suggested, before they pack up and go home.

It could be that AANR's new tiered membership program only serves to undermine the service that member clubs have provided the system as "filters" of low quality members. In the old system, prospective members would attend clubs on a probationary status. After a few visits and good behavior a membership with the club, and usually AANR, would be offered. This ensured the new members were properly "screened" for those with the wrong intentions. In the new system, the memberships are sold online as well, and clubs might be expected to welcome anyone holding this easily obtained card. This changes the meaning of being an AANR cardholder, since the holder may have never visited a club or ever known a true nudist. An AANR card is perhaps no longer a badge of good behavior.

The clubs used to be the only recommended way to AANR, but there are other ways "in" now, so the clubs are no longer the guardians of our community. Hasn't this changed the nature of AANR membership?

However, in all fairness, the new plan offers future "professional services", including more media coverage and marketing research.

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Is it unethical for a club not to disclose the variable nature of AANR membership fees?
That's an interesting question. A few more opinions here would help.

Add your comments here by clicking Reply to Topic.
Cheri Posted - 05/26/2003 : 5:42:40 PM
The club will collect dues from members (using single for ease) up to $52. For each membership, they must remit $31 to AANR. There will thus be competition among clubs to offer the lowest dues. Many clubs will not tell members about the dues structure but will simply tell them, AANR dues are $52. If I offer membership in AANR at $42, I would accumulate $1,000 a year from those dues. That would compensate for what I get from the region for co-op rebates. The only other benefit I get from the region is sometimes reimbursement for my lecture mileage.

For-profit club or any club at which the owner/manager is paid a substantial salary, should pay dues from the club pocket pay based on club membership. Not-for-profit clubs should pay dues at a much smaller rate.

This is actually just competition for AANR membership.

IMHO, it appears to be a rich get richer scheme

Regarding the fact that many clubs will not tell members about the dues structure, do you have any comment on the ethics of such a practice?

What about the ethics of those clubs that require AANR membership through their club at the maximum rate. Allen suggests there might be some unfair trade practices here.

You may justify this proposal by stating that it is just competition, but it appears to me that it is a program that will greatly benefit large clubs but provide very little benefit to small clubs.

Another question I have, how do the dues paying members benefit out of the entire change in structure other than having the opportunity of being elected to the board?

Did the committee consider such things as "a bill of rights" for members mandating such things as full disclosure of the entire proposal?

It strikes me that the proposed structure is still going to leave control of the organization in the hands of the large club owners with a lot of room to take unfair advantage of the membership. Did the committee consider any other possible structure such as a bicameral model with an upper house (House of Lords) composed of club owners and a Lower House (Houses of Commons) composed of the general population?

Best regards,
Cheri


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