Step–by–Step Strategies
to Prepare for
and Pass
the IRS Competency Examination
By Norma Wahnon
Copyright 2011 Norma Wahnon
Smashwords Edition
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CONTENTS
Pages 5–8: PART I – YOUR DECISION
Strategy #1: Know exactly what you want and be passionate about It.
Strategy #2: Get clear on why you want what you want.
Strategy #3: Get lengthily informed and decide wisely.
Strategy # 4: Wanting is not enough, you must commit to your goal.
Strategy #5: Work your motivation and look for inspiration.
Pages 9–16: PART II – YOUR PREPARATION
Strategy # 6: Plan successful days with a holistic approach.
Strategy # 7: Take care of your body, mind, and spirit.
Strategy # 8: Work your energy everyday with breathing and stretching exercises.
Strategy # 9: Tell positive stories to yourself about yourself.
Strategy #10: Focus on your goal everyday.
Strategy #11: Maintain action with passion.
Strategy #12: Get supportive allies that keep you on track toward your goal
Strategy #13: Let your triggers drive you to thrive.
Strategy #14: Reward yourself often on your way to your big accomplishment.
Strategy #15: You don’t have to do it all at once, take one step at a time.
Strategy #16: Move forward every day, step–by–step of your action plan.
Strategy #17: Add personal value by improving personally, a little every day.
Strategy #18: Never, never, never give up, no matter what.
Pages 17–19: PART III – YOUR EXAMINATION DAY
Strategy #19: Prepare for a Happy Exam Day.
Strategy #20: Be in Control by Owning Your Own Power.
Page 20: Summary Checklist.
Page 21: Schedule and Action.
HOW
TO USE THIS EXAM–PLAN
The “Step–By–Step Strategies to Prepare and Pass the IRS Exam” mix together some of the best strategies to be adopted by anyone facing the challenge of preparing for a certification exam. These strategies can be applied by exam takers from any field of knowledge or profession. The strategies presented are built around the three stages candidates usually go through to prepare for an exam: decision, preparation and examination. All three stages are equally important to the candidate’s success.
The message from this plan is simple. To pass an exam it is smart for a candidate to adopt a strategy that enhances and balances the body, the mind and the spirit.
Some exam candidates resist investing appropriate time in planning and end up focusing their study effort on a schedule that requires them to sacrifice quality of life.
More often than not, such efforts lead to less than satisfactory results. Successful exam takers would agree that a balanced and enjoyable journey in preparing to take an exam will prove to be the key to satisfactory results.
It is, indeed, wise for exam candidates to allow time during their preparation phase for rest and relaxation and to give the mind a break from studying at regular intervals to give their creative solutions a chance to surface.
When exam takers are asked about their biggest challenge in facing their long journey toward completing any certification exam, the most common answers focus on two factors: time management and motivation.
Effectively managing available time and making that time as productive as possible are issues everyone faces in life. Motivation, however, is a more personal factor to manage during challenging times because it seems to be more controllable and manageable. When you are motivated to do something you are more productive because you use your time effectively and more efficiently.
Yet, seldom do people outline a plan for self–motivation when pursuing a long–term goal to the same extent that they draw a plan of action to reach an ephemeral objective. That is the reason why so many projects are abandoned and the pursuit of goals given–up on, in the wake of unsuccessful results.
The strategies presented in this document have been proven effective in maintaining motivation for extended periods when implemented by a candidate who successfully completed a battery of very challenging exams without ever experiencing any glimpse of failure in the long period of sustained preparation effort.
These strategies are a mix of behaviors, tactics, and attitudes exam takers purposely decide to implement in their life during the challenging time of their preparation toward an exam day. My wish is that this material inspires you to implement some of the strategies during your journey as a candidate to your professional certification exams and allows you to expand to a more positive and joyful lifetime experience.
SUGGESTION ON HOW TO USE THIS PLAN
I suggest that the strategies be put to practice one at a time to gradually help you develop the focused intention that will lead to a successful exam experience.
Become aware of each of these strategies while planning for your exam and before beginning the studying phase. You will find that applying each principle throughout the preparation phase is most advantageous. Find the way to implement each to better match your reality. You will soon master the principles and make them a part of your habits.
It is my fondest wish that you enjoy implementing these strategies as much as I did during the time I was preparing for my CPA exams. I offer them to you as a special reward for your decision to stand–out from the crowd!
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PART I: DECISION
Strategy #1: Know Exactly What You Want and Be Passionate About It
Nothing is more detrimental to any successful result than the lack of definition. There are other attributes indispensible to success such as consistency, authenticity and accountability, but none of them substitutes having a clear objective and knowing exactly what your desired end result is.
The more clearly defined your goal, the more powerful it is also. The details of the definition of your goal will separate what resonates with your deepest desire and what doesn’t.
Being clear about what you want will awaken your passion because a deep part of you is looking for its manifestation. The natural force of expansion and growing of the Universal Law of Attraction will conspire in your favor when you align clearly with what you really want. Add to that the vibration of transparency, authenticity, and responsibility, and apparently impossible results will become attainable by the simple presence of these attributes.
Strategy #2: Get Clear Why You Want What You Want
A clear vision of your objective, and written goals, are essential preconditions to success. As the saying goes, if you dream it, you should ink it. That is the number one recommendation of many authors, coaches and mentors. That is a formula for attainment of any goal.
By clearly articulating what you want on a sheet of paper, you point yourself in the direction of your deepest intent. At the same time, you are clearing away what you don’t want by jotting down knowingly what you know you want.
Knowing your clear wishes, desires, and dreams create a path and a direction to focus on and a relief from anxiety and indecision.
The best way to formulate your goals is by focusing on what you want and why you want it. What benefit do you expect to obtain from attaining what you want? What inspiration moves you toward attainment of your desire? How will you feel when you realize that desire? What positive changes will the realization of the desire bring to you?
Indeed, knowing your why always leads you to the end result or solution you desire to manifest. You motivation is your main inspiration.
Put simply, focus on your desired outcome and you will figure out a way to attain it.
Strategy #3: Get Lengthily Informed and Decide Wisely
Having the right information at the right time makes all the difference. And getting needed information is mostly a matter of planning.
Yet, in the information era, many decisions are still being made without pondering important factors because of lack of specific information at the right time.
Gathering the right information from the right source has become a valuable skill in almost every field. Proof of it is that research and benchmarking are well paid skills in the job market today.
Everyone is a potential information researcher in the World Wide Web. The challenge for you, as an exam candidate is to keep focused and steer clear of irrelevant information that does not align with your research objective, by applying a critical filtering strategy to test the reliability of information at hand.
Before deciding how to prepare for your certification exam, take time to ponder all factors involved in getting the result you want, to pass the exam. Explore each factor by asking yourself questions about it. Intentionally, research the answers to those questions. The results will bring you the control and help you need to manage the factors you find relevant to the outcome you seek. Time invested in becoming informed, before making a decision, is time used wisely and productively.
Most of the initial decisions you make will directly impact your performance and eventually, your final result. Therefore, it is wise for you to dedicate appropriate time to research the details that combine your preferences with your convenience, before engaging in the exam preparation process.
Wise decisions are also informed decisions and much of your informed decisions will depend on how much you know about yourself as a student, as an exam taker, and as a goal achiever. The point here is that you must know your preferences, as well as your weaknesses, strengths, and what makes you feel good or not so good.
Therefore, match what you know about yourself with your alternatives and options, timing, methods, and everything else that may impact the decisions you may have to make that affect your preparation and capacity to take an exam.
And keep in mind that, in this arena other people’s experiences are relatively irrelevant to you. Let the organizing power of knowing yourself guide you intuitively in the decisions you have to make. Decide as wisely as you possibly can.
Strategy # 4: Wanting Is not Enough, You Must Commit to Your Goal
Settling in the process of getting informed, planning, making decisions, and taking action toward reaching the objective of passing an exam will build in you a certain level of commitment. If you want to pass any exam, you must be willing to do what you need to do to attain that goal. And you will, unless you allow distractions to become so urgent or necessary that you decide to give them priority, thereby delaying your exam preparation process or scrap it altogether. Keep in mind that, wanting to pass the exam is not enough. You must absolutely commit yourself to passing it.
Commitment is stronger than merely wanting. Commit yourself to do all you need to do to pass your exam, in the first try, if possible. In your commitment, forego any chance for delaying or giving up, if you want a successful outcome. Erase from your mind and intention any other possibility that is not to joyfully prepare for and successfully pass your exam. Make that commitment even before you take the first step in the planning process, before you start studying for the exam.
Strategy #5: Work Your Motivation and Look for Inspiration
Look for both, motivation and inspiration, throughout your journey as an exam candidate.
Motivation is the fuel that keeps you going. It is needed during the entire journey to help you do what you must to reach your desired objective. Inspiration is a different vibration than motivation. Inspiration gives the sense that you are already where you want to be. Inspiration gives you the picture of the end result you are working for, like “the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow”.
Both, motivation and inspiration are stimulated when you are clear on your “WHY”, which is what defines what you are looking for. The changes, the improvement, the expansion, the sense of freedom, and the growth of your ambitions arise from the challenge you embrace and are the seeds of your motivation and inspiration to achieve a successful outcome.
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PART II: PREPARATION
Strategy # 6: Plan Holistically Successful Days
Planning holistically means making provisions for required mental work (i.e. acquiring knowledge), but also for your physical, emotional, and spiritual well–being.
During the preparation for exams, the energy you need for mental work comes from convenient habits and behaviors you incorporate in daily activities to keep you fresh, focused, motivated, positive, and confident.
Therefore, develop and maintain healthy and balanced habits with regard to food, fitness, sleep, and rest. Intentionally incorporate these habits in the study plan, and schedule and execute the plan faithfully during your waking hours throughout the examination preparation process.
Many exam candidates focus their attention on the study time they need to cover the material assigned in an outline. They fail to incorporate in their plan the time needed to take care of their physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Come time for the exams, their energy will be at low ebb and that rattles their confidence.
Remember however, once you have your plan, that goals are not achieved by dreaming or solely by writing down plans. Attaining desired success comes down to faithful execution of the plan, deciding wisely, and acquiring the habit of DOING what you say you are going to do. Do these long enough and you will reach your desired objective.
Strategy # 7: Take Care of Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
You have needs to satisfy and desires to fulfill in order to feel good in body, mind and spirit. Feeling good, energetic, and empowered for most of each daily journey increases your potentiality, which in turn, enhances your performance leading to better results for you. To the mix of physical fitness, proper nutrition, and regular sleep needed to keep the body fit you should add programmed rest periods to prevent excessive drainage of your energy. A few short breaks during the day for oxygenation and relaxation and short naps may prove to be like a natural elixir to restore the body’s cry for natural energy.
Refrain from the tendency to smother the need for rest with caffeine. From my point of view, sustaining empowering, positive and creative thoughts by being constantly aware of them is the healthiest approach to keeping the mind stimulated.
The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your feelings. Therefore, being aware of your thoughts and how they affect you is crucial. Positive thoughts make you feel good and help you resonate with your inner–self, making you more productive. On the other hand, negative thoughts will not resonate with your inner self. They may stifle your desires and render you less productive. The emotions that your thoughts generate in you will guide you as to the appropriateness of your thoughts. Positive emotions are good; negative emotions are bad.
By purposely choosing your thoughts and looking to feel good, you become more aware of the present moment and more focused in the now; this is the ultimate spiritual purpose.
Strategy # 8: Work Your Energy Everyday with Breathing and Stretching Exercises
You should have your own red flag or feedback system to alert you of when your personal energy is in need of adjustment or of a booster, to allow you to return to the feeling good state. When your energy level is off, you feel divided, frustrated, and uncomfortable in some way or other, and you lose your focus. You need, then, to redirect your thoughts, refocus your attention and strengthen your intention to return to a more positive state.
There are some good habits that, when acquired, will help you to refocus your attention and recover your energy. One of them is the regular practice of yoga. Not only does yoga strengthen your nervous system but it will also help you liberate toxic emotions from your body and mind.
Through a series of stretching and breathing exercises, you can relieve tension, strengthen your muscles, and drastically lower your stress level by working your body–mind–flexibility.
Another good habit to acquire is the practice of conscious allowance and inclusion. It works like this: Consciously choose to allow your inner feelings and what is happening around you to just flow, without resisting, without struggling or being judgmental, without criticism or any other mode of mental contraction. Just observe what is and allow it to flow. Choose expansion rather than contraction, growth rather than inertia. You may find this practice to be liberating of the stress generated by trying to control what is not controllable around you. The Universal Laws are all about inclusion; whatever is, is. Exclusion is a creation of the human mind resulting from the application of arbitrary rules of right and wrong. The choice of the practice of expansion over contraction will help you save an enormous amount of energy.
Strategy # 9: Tell Positive Stories to Yourself about Yourself
Incessant and uncontrolled thoughts flowing through your mind stimulate what you focus your attention on. Such thoughts can easily consume most of your time and energy, and in the long run, consume your entire life, if you do not direct them and purposefully manage and direct them toward your intended objectives.
The formula for manifestation of your desires requires a mental program that allows you to generate focused thoughts that, by repetition, turn into beliefs. By action, these beliefs generate desired results. A belief is nothing more than a thought repeated often. Therefore, you can purposely choose to think thoughts that produce the results you desire by repeating them until they convert into beliefs.
The thoughts you chose to convert into beliefs are stories of “what if” that you mentally repeat to yourself until you believe them and start living for their materialization. Isn’t that wonderful!! So, tell positive stories to yourself and purposely create the reality you desire to experience in your life.
Strategy #10: Focus on Your Goal Everyday
Humans are creatures of habits and habits are the result of actions routinely repeated after they are consciously or unconsciously acquired. It can safely be assumed that habits can also be intentionally and purposely acquired by chosen convenient actions faithfully repeated for 20 to 30 days.
One convenient habit to acquire during the process of preparing for an exam is to focus on the end goal on a daily basis. What is your intention? What do you want? That is your goal. Write it. Make a video of it. Record it and come back to it every day.
Reinforcing your intention frequently will create the momentum for the manifestation of what you are looking for. Magnetize the vibration of what you want by keeping focused on it. In that way, as you moves toward it, it will move toward you, as if attracted by a magnet.
Take advantage of the magic of this soup of energy that is this world in which all human are dancing to the tune of pursuing a dream, a wish, or a desire.
Strategy #11: Maintain Action with Passion
Be enthusiastic about every task you perform. That is what author Marshal Goldsmith calls “mojo”. He says that “mojo is that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside”.
Fortunately, human beings are adaptable, changeable, and customizable creatures. Adopting and cultivating an enthusiastic attitude is possible from any level of “mojo”.
What could make you feel prouder than beating discouragement and perform all your tasks, pleasant or unpleasant, in a good mood?
Knowing that you can fuel your journey with passion and enthusiasm just by deciding to do so makes a big difference. The power of decision and action is in your hands. Strive to maintain a sustained good mood!
Strategy #12: Get Supportive Allies That Keep You on Track Toward You Goal
Napoleon Hill defines power as “organized and intelligently directed knowledge”. Knowledge can be acquired from the most varied and unexpected sources. The important thing to be aware of is that one cannot know everything. Therefore, be willing to ask for help and to accept advice.
Strategy #13: Let Your Triggers Drive You to Thrive
Part of knowing yourself is in identifying your internal and external triggers. What makes you take action? What activates your willpower? What generates enthusiasm in you? What makes you take–on initiatives?
Knowing what elements of day–to–day activities influence your behavior the most may give you the power to intentionally use these activities in pursuit of your goals. Ask yourself these questions: Do I tend to be more competitive or cooperative? Do I prefer constancy or change? What do I prefer to receive as reward for my performance: sincere appreciation without a financial bonus, or a bonus without appreciation?
The answers to these questions are very personal and will vary along the span of your life. But they can give you clues on how to motivate yourself to pursue your goals.
Strategy #14: Reward Yourself Often In Your Way to Your Big Accomplishment.
Even though your motivation triggers are personal, chances are that rewarding yourself for exceptional performance still feels the drive for the “reward/punishment” formula going back to childhood: “If you do well, you get the prize”.
Keep in mind that just as big accomplishments are made of smaller day–to–day accomplishment, big prizes should be built–up from small rewards. Acknowledge and reward yourself during your journey for your smaller, day–to–day accomplishments.
Acknowledgment and rewards fuel the internal forces that mobilize you to take action toward your larger goal. So, make it a habit of rewarding yourself often, for your accomplishments.
Strategy #15: You Don’t Have to Do It All at Once, Take One Step at a Time
It is possible to accomplish anything when the big tasks involved can be divided into smaller tasks that make one feel in control of the situation. When a big task frightens you, break it down into smaller, more manageable tasks that do not frighten you.
Nothing seems impossible to accomplish when the tasks are broken into small and more manageable tasks.
Exam takers have three defined stages in their journey: decision, preparation and examination. The most challenging stage, without a doubt, is the preparation stage because the candidate must sort through a high volume of material that will be covered in the exam, and review or study that material in a relatively short period of time.
Do not let the amount of study material frighten you for a second. Break it down into small, more manageable parcels and distribute them over the available time. It will all seem easier to tackle.
Strategy #16: Move Forward Every Day, Step–By–Step Of Your Plan
Nourishing a constant sense of success and accomplishment allows you to move forward toward your goal, every day. Make constant inventory of what you already did and feel good about it.
When a long period is required to prepare for an exam, feeling good about the task of studying will make things flow easier and more enjoyable. Maintaining discipline in following your study plan becomes natural, and you will advance toward your desired goal of passing your exam by conquering concepts, gaining confidence and mastering the process better every day, one step at a time.
Strategy #17: Add Personal Value by Improving Personally Every Time
Any challenging goal one embraces in life is a potential opportunity for growth and expansion. During your journey to prepare for an exam you will have wonderful opportunities to free yourself from bad habits, negative thought patterns and toxic feelings, and push yourself beyond them. To succeed, expand, and become a better you is part of the challenge you embrace when you engage in a long–term preparation for an exam.
Commit yourself to continued personal improvement. Decide to add personal value during your journey as an exam candidate. You will need that attitude because under the pressure of time and the weight of tasks to complete, negativity creeps in and can expand easily with the potential to take control of all your moments.
Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love” has this inspirational paragraph on growing that offers a challenging for every reader. The passage says: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Strategy #18: Never, Never, Never Give Up, No Matter What
Willpower and persistence are a combination you will need to keep going. It is what makes you press on and never give–up. It may be even bigger than waves of faith, hope and inspiration you may choose to tap into when the going gets tough.
The ability or the attitude of believing in yourself and in what you are doing, regardless of circumstance, makes all the difference in the attainment of favorable results. This is especially true while taking an exam. It is so easy to feel insecure and overwhelmed in the middle of such a challenging journey. Your attitude and will power are the most important assets leading to your success. You will never give up once you begin to understand and realize that you are capable of passing your exam because you are putting forth all of your very best effort.
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PART III: YOUR EXAMINATION DAY
Strategy #19: Prepare For a Happy IRS Competency Exam Day
The happiest day of your entire examination experience is the exam day. It is a day of relief. A winning intention, a focused attention and a relaxed state of mind and body is what you want on your exam day. How to prepare for that day?
There is no better way to prepare for the exam day than through the powerful practice of autosuggestion, by using tools such as visualization and affirmations.
The mind is stimulated with imagination and thoughts, pictures and words. Humans are programming themselves continually with mental pictures and an inner dialogue. It is possible to program oneself consciously, intentionally and purposely by choosing the images and words that will bring the desired successful results.
Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich says about this matter “Autosuggestion is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind”.
Picture yourself, from now on, getting what you want for yourself in the future. Strategy #20: Be in Control of Your Exam by Owning Your Own Power.
Exam candidates need a unique mix of knowledge, study and exam strategies, self–confidence, stamina, and determination to be successful in the examination room. Passing the exams on the first attempt is possible for any candidate who learns to manage the preparation process and the exam day.
Your power to manage your exam preparation process and its result comes from managing weighted factors over which you have a relative level of control such as personal attitude, study and exam strategies, and the material you use in preparation.
Managing your attitude is key to your success because your attitude reveals how powerfully committed you are to the goal of passing your exams. You and you alone, own your power to “say yes” to what is meaningful to your goal or “say no” to what is not.
Strategy # 21: Never, Never, Never Give Up, No Matter What
During the hours you will spend in the testing room, one burning determination should be to do your very best and never giving–up. It doesn’t matter how easy or difficult the test is resulting for you. You won’t leave any question unanswered. You’ll fight until the very last question is answered. You owe that to yourself for the hours you spent studying and preparing for these hours in the testing room.
Willpower and persistence are a combination you will need to keep going during the exam in the testing room. It is what makes you press on and never give–up. It may be even bigger than waves of faith, hope and inspiration you may choose to tap into when the going gets tough.
The ability or the attitude of believing in yourself and in what you are doing, regardless of circumstance, makes all the difference in the attainment of favorable results. This is especially true while taking an exam. It is so easy to feel insecure and overwhelmed in the middle of such a challenging journey. Your attitude and will power are the most important assets leading to your success. You will never give up once you begin to understand and realize that you are capable of passing your exam because you are putting forth all of your very best effort.
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SUMMARY CHECKLIST
PART I – YOUR DECISION
_________ Strategy #1: Know exactly what you want and be passionate about it.
_________ Strategy #2: Get clear why you want what you want.
_________ Strategy #3: Get lengthily informed and decide wisely.
_________ Strategy # 4: Wanting is not enough, you must commit to your goal.
_________ Strategy #5: Work your motivation and look for inspiration.
Part II – YOUR PREPARATION
_________ Strategy # 6: Plan successful days with a holistic approach.
_________ Strategy # 7: Take care of your body, mind, and spirit.
_________ Strategy # 8: Work your energy everyday with breathing and stretching exercises.
_________ Strategy # 9: Tell positive stories to yourself about yourself.
_________ Strategy #10: Focus on your goal everyday.
_________ Strategy #11: Maintain action with passion.
_________ Strategy #12: Get supportive allies that keep you on track toward your goal.
_________ Strategy #13: Let your triggers drive you to thrive.
_________ Strategy #14: Reward yourself often on your way to your big accomplishment.
_________ Strategy #15: You don’t have to do it all at once, take one step at a time.
_________ Strategy #16: Move forward every day, step–by–step of your action plan.
_________ Strategy #17: Add personal value by improving personally, a little every day.
_________ Strategy #18: Never, never, never give up, no matter what.
PART III – YOUR EXAMINATION DAY
________ Strategy #19: Prepare for a happy IRS exam day.
________ Strategy #20: Be in control of your exam result by owning your own power.
________ Strategy #21: Never, never, never give up, no matter what.
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About the Author
Author Norma Wahnon integrated her accounting and taxation background and experience to produce the “1040 Exam Prep” e–Book Series to help tax return preparers pass the IRS competency exam and become Registered Tax Return Preparers. Wahnon was raised in Argentina and lived in the city of Posadas for more than thirty years. After graduating with an Accounting degree from National University of Misiones, in 1989, and running her accounting practice for 10 years she moved to the Canary Islands, Spain, for one year, to complete a MBA program. She became a resident of the United States in February 2006 and a citizen in June 2010. In November 2010 she successfully completed all sections of the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exams after just seven months of preparation. After working in the tax return preparation industry for several years, she created and owns TaxBiz Solution, an accounting and tax practice service located in Silver Spring, MD, USA.
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