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The Making of the Good Person

Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy

By: Nora Hämäläinen

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The Making of the Good Person

Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy

By: Nora Hämäläinen

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress, and profundity. Unlike other academic treatments of the topic of self-help, this book is not primarily concerned with providing a critique of popular self-help and self-transformative practices. Rather, it is concerned with how they work to shape contemporary forms and ideals of moral personhood and are conducive to moral renegotiation and change. The book consists of two parts with somewhat different argumentative strategies. Part 1 consists of an overview and reassessment of popular self-help literature and its sociological and journalistic critics, written from a moral philosophical perspective. Part 2 opens with discussion of the current attraction, among a range of philosophers, to self-transformative themes. The chapters assess the strand of self-transformative philosophy found in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot, Stanley Cavell, and Iris Murdoch. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the theme of social change and moral renegotiation in contemporary societies, which is a central but underestimated undercurrent in discussions on contemporary self-transformative practices. The book’s dual perspective—on both popular self-help and self-transformative currents in philosophy—enables a cultural and moral philosophical analysis of contemporary ethical ideals of personhood, as well as reflection on the literatures available for its development. The Making of the Good Person will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy, history of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literary studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000863220

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Megan's Mate

The Calhoun Women

By: Nora Roberts

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Megan's Mate

The Calhoun Women

By: Nora Roberts

Betrayed by love, a woman sets her sights on a new horizon, catching the eye of a man willing to win her heart in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s Megan’s Mate, a novel of The Calhoun Women. Megan O’Riley moved to Maine with her nine-year-old son to give them both a fresh start. As a cherished sister-in-law to the Calhoun family, she has been entrusted to help out with the restoration of their coastal mansion, the Towers. Although determined to put her unlucky love life behind her, Megan finds her compass thrown off course when the perfect storm known as boat captain Nate Fury helps guide her desires to true north.

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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1250775817

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9781250775818

Remember When

By: Nora Roberts,J. D. Robb

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Remember When

By: Nora Roberts,J. D. Robb

Featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas, Remember When blends present-day romance and futuristic suspense in a thrilling two-part novel that combines the incomparable talents of two #1 New York Times bestselling authors: Nora Roberts and her alter ego J. D. Robb. Antiques dealer Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. At least, that's what everyone in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, thinks. They have no idea that she used to be Elaine O'Hara, the daughter of a notorious con man... Laine's past catches up with her when one of Big Jack's associates turns up in her shop with a cryptic warning and is then run down in the street. Now the next target of a ruthless killer, Laine teams up with sexy PI Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her, and why. The answer lies in a hidden fortune that will change not only Laine's life, but also the lives of future generations—including New York City detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas. In a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, Eve is used to traveling in the shadowy corners outside the law. She will attempt to track down the treasure Laine and Max sought once and for all—and stop the danger and death that has surrounded it for decades...

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Penguin

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1101146516

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Hot Rocks

By: Nora Roberts

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Hot Rocks

By: Nora Roberts

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a thrilling contemporary romance that “burns with all the brilliance and fire of a finely cut diamond”(Publishers Weekly). Antiques dealer Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. At least, that's what everyone in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, thinks. They have no idea that she used to be Elaine O'Hara, the daughter of a notorious con man... Laine's past catches up with her when one of Big Jack's associates turns up in her shop with a cryptic warning and is then run down in the street. Now the next target of a ruthless killer, Laine teams up with sexy PI Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her, and why. The anwer lies in a hidden fortune that will change Laine's life forever... Don’t want the story to end? Look for Big Jack by #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb and continue the adventure with Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Hot Rocks was previously published in Remember When

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110117157X

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24 Hours in Charlottesville

An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy

By: Nora Neus

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24 Hours in Charlottesville

An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy

By: Nora Neus

A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder of counterprotestor Heather Heyer. In this book, Emmy-nominated journalist and former Charlottesville resident Nora Neus crafts an extraordinary account from the voices of the students, faith leaders, politicians, and community members who were there. Through a vivid collage of original interviews, new statements from Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, social media posts, court testimony, and government reports, this book portrays the arrival of white supremacist demonstrators, the interfaith service held in response, the tiki torch march on the university campus, the protests and counterprotests in downtown Charlottesville the next day, and the deadly car attack. 24 Hours in Charlottesville will also feature never-before-disclosed information from activists and city government leaders, including Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer.

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Beacon Press

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0807011924

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9780807011928

Making Space

The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning

By: Nora Newcombe,Janellen Huttenlocher

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Making Space

The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning

By: Nora Newcombe,Janellen Huttenlocher

Argues for an interactionist approach to spatial development that incorporates and integrates essential insights of the Piaget, Nativist, and Vygotskyan approaches.

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MIT Press

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0262640503

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Nora Roberts' Calhouns Collection

By: Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts' Calhouns Collection

By: Nora Roberts

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts takes readers on thrilling, passionate journey in this collection that includes all five novels in the Calhouns series. When the Calhoun sisters inherited the Towers, their family's crumbling mansion on the coast of Maine, they never imagined the passion and adventure their windfall would bring... COURTING CATHERINE As far as hotel magnate Trenton St. James is concerned, his dealings with Catherine "C.C." Calhoun should be strictly business—until her mix of fire and fury seduce his mind and his heart. A MAN FOR AMANDA Known as the responsible Calhoun sister, Amanda finds architect Sloan O’Riley’s easygoing attitude infuriating, but his irresistible smile just might change her mind. FOR THE LOVE OF LILAH Adrift in a storm, Professor Max Quartermain believes he hallucinated the beautiful mermaid who came to his rescue. But Lilah Calhoun is no mystical creature—she’s a flesh and blood woman. SUZANNA'S SURRENDER Searching for the missing Calhoun emeralds, Suzanna asks ex-cop Holt Bradford for help and finds herself distracted by the dangerous, alluring man who holds the key to everything she’s searching for. MEGAN'S MATE Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O’Riley has buried her passions deep. But when boat captain Nate Fury sails into her life, Megan seems destined to be swept away.

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0698138406

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9780698138407

Take Back The Fight

Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

By: Nora Loreto

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Take Back The Fight

Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

By: Nora Loreto

Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that an organized social movement can have in democratic society. They have never benefited from the knowledge, the debates, the actions, the mass mobilizations or the leadership that all accompany a social movement and instead organize in decentralized silos. As a result, government and corporate leaders have co-opted feminism to turn it into something that can be bought, sold, or used to attract voters. Campaigns like #BeenRapedNeverReported, #MeToo, the SlutWalks and the Canadian Women’s marches, while important, don’t yet have the organized power to bring the changes that activists seek to make in society. In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure its power. Furthermore, Loreto urges today’s activists to overcome the challenges that sank the movement decades ago, to stop centering whiteness as the quintessential woman’s experience, and to find ways to rebuild the communities that have been obliterated by neoliberal economic policies.

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Fernwood Publishing

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1773634275

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9781773634272

African Americans in Minnesota

Telling Our Own Stories

By: Nora Murphy,Mary Murphy-Gnatz

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African Americans in Minnesota

Telling Our Own Stories

By: Nora Murphy,Mary Murphy-Gnatz

Stories of the lives and times of nine African-American children and adults whose contributions to Minnesota's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day.

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873513800

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Cleavage

Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-made Breast

By: Nora Jacobson

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Cleavage

Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-made Breast

By: Nora Jacobson

Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants. Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813527155

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9780813527154

Bolivar's Dream Come True?

By: Nora Anton

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Bolivar's Dream Come True?

By: Nora Anton

Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Middle- and South America, grade: 1,3, University of M nster (Politikwissenschaft), 84 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Shortly after the treaties founding the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (EAC) and European Community (EC) were signed, there were efforts in other regions of the world as well to follow this example, notably in Latin America, where, among other Associations, the Andean Pact (now Andean Community or Comunidad Andina de Naciones, CAN) was established. In contrast to that on European integration, however, most political and academic discourse on the Andean Community agrees upon the fact that this integration process has, up to now, not been very "successful", and quite often it is called a complete failure. This thesis wants to contribute to the search of possible reasons for this.In order to explain the lack of "success" of Andean integration - especially in the period since the late 1980s - this thesis focuses on an element which, in most integration theories, is considered the most important prerequisite for regional integration: interdependence, and thus a demand for integration on the part of the region's citizens. It is argued that in principle, integration can create or at least reinforce its own demand, but that this has only happened in the Andean case to a relatively small extent and limited to few sectors of the highly unequal societies in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

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GRIN Verlag

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3638915549

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9783638915540

After Saddam

Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nora Bensahel,Olga Oliker,Keith Crane,Richard R. Jr. Brennan,Heather S. Gregg

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After Saddam

Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq

By: Nora Bensahel,Olga Oliker,Keith Crane,Richard R. Jr. Brennan,Heather S. Gregg

This monograph examines prewar planning efforts for the reconstruction of postwar Iraq. It then examines the role of U.S. military forces after major combat officially ended on May 1, 2003, through June 2004. Finally, it examines civilian efforts at reconstruction, focusing on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority and its efforts to rebuild structures of governance, security forces, economic policy, and essential services.

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Rand Corporation

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0833046381

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9780833046383

Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour

A Novel

By: Nora Nguyen

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Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour

A Novel

By: Nora Nguyen

A rollicking, unforgettable romance about two strangers finding love despite their best efforts as they embark on a sweeping matchmaking tour through Việt Nam, perfect for readers of Carley Fortune and Abby Jimenez. What’s a few weeks to a lifetime of promise? Evie Lang’s life is in shambles. On the heels of losing her beloved aunt, she's unceremoniously fired from her poetry professorship by her secret boyfriend. Lacking income and inspiration, she's stuck in Ohio with no idea how to move forward—until hope arrives in a surprising letter. Auntie Hảo left Evie the deed to her San Francisco row house, a place full of Evie’s happiest memories. The catch? To inherit, she must go on a pre-arranged matchmaking tour in Việt Nam. The last thing Evie wants is to spend time with a group of strangers looking for love. But she can't resist the chance to finally visit her family’s native home. A world away, Adam Quyền has a chip on his shoulder. He’s working around the clock as CMO for his sister’s elite matchmaking business, a job complicated by her insistence that he knows nothing about love. He’s desperate to prove himself, so when she challenges him to join the inaugural tour, he reluctantly agrees. Adam thinks Evie is chaotic and unpredictable. Evie thinks Adam is grumpy and uptight. But from the bustling streets of Hồ Chí Minh City to the soaring waterfalls in Đà Lạt, they keep getting thrown together, their animosity charged with attraction…and they discover that true love may be out there, if they are willing to take a leap. Two stubborn hearts, one whirlwind adventure, Adam & Evie’s Matchmaking Tour is a story of how loving (and living) bravely can lead you to the most unexpected places—and the most imperfectly perfect loves.

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HarperCollins

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0063381516

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9780063381513

Novel Palestine

Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah

By: Nora E.H. Parr

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Novel Palestine

Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah

By: Nora E.H. Parr

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine examines these imaginative structures so that we might move beyond the idea of an incomplete or fragmented reality and speak frankly about the nation that exists and the freedom it seeks. Engaging the writings of Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nora E. H. Parr traces a vocabulary through which Palestine can be discussed as a changing and flexible national network linking people across and within space, time, and community. Through an exploration of the Palestinian literary scene subsequent to its canonical writers, Parr makes the life and work of Nasrallah available to an English-language audience for the first time, offering an intervention in geography while bringing literary theory into conversation with politics and history.

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Univ of California Press

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0520394658

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9780520394650

Projecting History

German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

By: Nora M. Alter

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Projecting History

German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

By: Nora M. Alter

Between 1967 and 2000, film production in Germany underwent a number of significant transformations, including the birth and death of New German Cinema as well as the emergence of a new transnational cinematic practice. In Projecting History, Nora M. Alter explores the relationship between German cinematic practice and the student protests in both East and West Germany against the backdrop of the U.S. war in Vietnam in the sixties, the outbreak of terrorism in West Germany in the seventies, West Germany's rise as a significant global power in the eighties, and German reunification in the nineties. Although a central tendency of New German Cinema in the 1970s was to reduce the nation's history to the product of individuals, the films addressed in Projecting History focus not on individual protagonists, but on complex socioeconomic structures. The films, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harun Farocki, Alexander Kluge, Ulrike Ottinger, Wim Wenders and others, address basic problems of German history, including its overall "peculiarity" within the European context, and, in particular, the specific ways in which the National Socialist legacy continues to haunt Germans. Nora M. Alter is Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Florida. A specialist in twentieth-century film, comparative literature, and cultural studies, Alter has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. She is also the author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472022571

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9780472022571

Sixties Going on Seventies

By: Nora Sayre

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Sixties Going on Seventies

By: Nora Sayre

Richard Nixon, George Wallace, black anger in Watts, the media at work, policemen in college, off-off Broadway, the 1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions, and the rebirth of feminism. Sixties Going on Seventies, nominated for a 1974 National Book Award, is also a chronicle of the shattering of cities, the problems of the left, the momentum of the right - and above all, the authentic voices of the people concerned. Sayre recorded all of these events and personalities.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813521939

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9780813521930

So You Girls Remember That

Memories of a Haida Elder

By: Gaadgas Nora Bellis

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So You Girls Remember That

Memories of a Haida Elder

By: Gaadgas Nora Bellis

Collected wisdoms, reflections and stories from Indigenous Elder Naanii Nora of the Haida Nation. So You Girls Remember That is an oral history of a Haida Elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997. A collaborative effort, this project was initiated and guided by Charlie Bellis and Maureen McNamara and was years in the making. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora’s life and her family—from the young girl singing all day in the canoe, bossing her brothers around or crossing Hecate Strait on her dad’s schooner, to the young woman making her way in the new white settlers’ town up the inlet, with music always a refrain—these are stories of childhood; of people and place, seasons and change; life stages and transitions such as moving and marriage; and Haida songs and meanings. This book also contains the larger story of Nora’s times, a representation of changing political relationships between Canada and the Haida people and a personal part of the Haida tale. What ultimately shines through is Nora’s singular and dynamic voice speaking with the wisdom of years. For example, on giving advice she says: “I like to give anybody advice because when you’re young you don’t know nothing on this world. What’s coming; what’s going ... You have to remember it’s a steep hill; you’re right on the top. You slide down anytime if you don’t be careful.” This is a work of great generosity, expressing Nora’s spirit of living—her joy, humour, spirituality and resourcefulness; her love of children, music and social life; her kindness, strong will and creativity; and her spirit that has nurtured a community and endures to this day. Royalties will be donated to the Carl Hart Legacy Trust through the Haida Gwaii Community Foundation, to support the Rediscovery Camp at T'aalan Stl'ang.

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Harbour Publishing

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1550179780

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