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CE 123... A Guide to Understanding European Technical Regulations and CE Marking
David P., Ph.D. Hanson , Mary T., Ph.D. McKinney , and Nathaniel B. Beavers Manufacturer: Duquesne University Chrysler Corporation Small Business Development Center, CITRA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0972954309 |
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CE 123 , a training manual, provides a practical and systematic review of the CE mark through a step by step process. This comprehensive manual explains the fundamentals of each phase of CE marking, provides in-depth information on each element of the CE mark to assist you with making your product conformity decisions, and provides you with detailed strategic considerations and examples of real case studies regarding CE marking."CE 123 Manual" focuses on:
CE marking your goods for export to Europe in a rapid, cost-efficient manner.
The best practices in complying with CE marking requirements, including advice on how best to select and work with outside groups such as notified bodies, surveillance authorities and authorized representatives.
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Invest Like The Best, Book with Diskette
James P. O'Shaughnessy Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0079137547 |
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Now an investor doesn't have to be a top money manager to have an ace portfolio. This remarkable book and disk shows the more than 380,000 computerized investors how to use their personal computers to emulate Wall Street's wizards. Unlike other books that merely describe the general methods of top managers, Invest Like the Best actually reduces those strategies to their core successful variables that experts use to pinpoint and select the top stocks. And it includes step-by-step guidelines for building a computer model to emulate any money manager from John Templeton to Peter Lynch. Plus, O'Shaughnessy describes how to create a hybrid strategy that combines the best elements of different money manager's styles-and outperforms them all!Customer Reviews:
Change diskette to CD.......2006-02-01
Help!.......2003-07-02
I found the floppy disk accompanying the book unreadable. My local computor builder/dealer/consultant couldn't read it either. My computer kept calling for another disk, which did not come with the book I ordered or with its replacement. The disk seems to herald back to the days of DOS; whatever, I'm lost.
More on the downside, the valueline online survey is unmanageable for me (I got a masters in English and I've been studying and investing stocks for 25 plus years). Determining the average for numerous search fields (market cap., P/E ratio, Price/Book ratio, etc.) that O'Shaughnessy calls for cannot be done with the basic online service. A simple piece of data such as "dividend" or "yield" can be tough to pin down with 7-8 different kinds listed (estimated, quarterly, current, etc.).
The book, in spite of my moronic protests, is praiseworthy. The methods make sense. There is something beautiful about their simplicity - the step by step processes of narrowing down fields in order to determine the best bargains (value) or the best upside potential (growth).
A guiding principle of O'Shaughnessy's argument - the answer to the nagging question of why so many portfolio managers fail - is very simple: they either have no useable plan or they do, but they don't stick to it.
I'm convinced this book has the answer. It's just so damn grueling to apply the principles; a dozen calls and emails to valueline still leave me clueless.
Similar to his other books but still interesting.......2001-11-16
You can even improve on the performance of mutual funds because you can follow their strategy in a more consistent fashion and because you can reduce their strategy to its essential elements. Often even good fund managers are not entirely consistent.
An example of a strategy is: from the stocks with
12 month EPS gain >20% and
26 week % price change>20% and
Last Qtr EPS % chg > 20% and
Valueline Timeliness Rank
<=5
Pick the ten stocks with highest estimated EPS growth for next year .
He explains how to do all this in detail and derives some good looking strategies. Risk is taken into account and proves to be a very useful measure of the reliability of a strategy.
You can use the same techniques to evaluate your broker's recommendations, and the advice from books and newletters. Do they follow a strategy or is it just random tips and hunches?
He also showed how various fund managers changed strategy quite radically without announcing it eg Magellan in the early 1990s.
There are some good tips on how to avoid common traps when using quantitive strategies eg using single variable strategies.
He also explores combining various strategies and shows how to build your own.
He did not really prove his theory which is that noone really makes money by individual stock picks, it is all strategy.
As a final caveat, if you don't like numbers you will not like this book. But it seems you cannot succeed in investment without being very friendly with numbers.
Certainly worth the price for the mechanically inclined..........2000-10-02
shows you how to emulate the leading mutal funds.......1998-08-24
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Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
Kevin Danaher Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415946778 |
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Half of the world¹s 100 largest economies are not nations, they are corporations. A mere 500 companies control 70 percent of world trade. Such concentrations of wealth pose a clear and present danger to the health of our democracy. Corporate campaign cash elects our politicians. Corporate lobbyists write our laws.
But what corporations have gained in political power they have lost in legitimacy. A growing number of people--environmental activists, trade unionists, family farmers--are challenging the power of giant corporations, demanding that they be held accountable to someone other than their shareholders.
These efforts exploded to the surface of American politics in November 1999,when tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle. Not long after that, a BusinessWeek poll found that 77 percent of U.S. citizens feel that corporations have too much power and that was before the Enron scandal broke.
In Insurrection, Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark, twohigh-profile activists, present a series of stories chronicling the accomplishments of the budding corporate accountability movement: the uncovering of major retailers¹ links to sweatshop abuses; the revelation that big tobacco companies deceived the public about the health risks of smoking; the questioning of corporations¹ ties to repressive dictatorships; the shaming of food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna; and the battles against NAFTA and the WTO. Together, these struggles seek to fulfill the idea that in a democracy no institution is above the law.
Filled with compelling accounts that are both lively and informative, Insurrection is the definitive book on the burgeoning anti-corporate globalization movement.
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This book is worth reading!.......2004-02-08
Much space is devoted to the topic of Brands. In the chapter on sweatshops Nike gets lots of attention, primarily because everybody is familiar with them, but also because as a Global Brand they have a name to protect. The authors discuss how the activist goal was to put the company in a situation where "all they had to do to rehabilitate their Brand was stop using sweatshops for manufacturing." They acknowledge how it would be much harder to go after the no-name manufacturers with clothes on the same racks, even though their sleaze problems could easily be worse. After reading the book I had a better sense of what a Brand is all about.
Another topic that gets a lot of attention is how many of our consumer issues have global implications. In the tuna campaign the activists thought they had a great victory when they got Congress to pass a law against the practices that killed so many dolphins. Unfortunately, the tuna fishermen responded to the law by "offshoring", changing their boat registration so they could fly a foreign flag. Sometimes they didn't even move where they fished or docked, they just did their registration paperwork in Mexico or some more exotic Capital. The tobacco companies responded to the shrinking of the American cigarette market by developing markets overseas. Over and over the idea that we need a coordinated international response to this kind of stuff comes up.
The lesson is driven home in spades in the case of Burma. Activists worked to get local jurisdictions to vote to stop doing business with the totalitarian regime in power there, a strategy that had worked well in South Africa's case. They were undermined by international agreements that made such initiatives "illegal barriers to trade". Even so, a lot of companies were talked out of doing business there. The country was forced to hold elections, but the pressure was not great enough that the people elected were actually given power. I could almost see frustrated activists saying "well at least we made something happen".
The last case recounted is "The Battle In Seattle", where activists shut down the WTO in the full limelight of all kinds of press. They show how many lessons learned about using the Internet to get the word out in earlier campaigns like the Burma one kept the corporations from fully controlling the spin on the news the way they had in previous eras. The authors consider it a great victory that the previously quiet backwater of international trade negotiations was now promoted to the front page of political debate. Told from the activist point of view, the book does a good job of tying all these issues together.
People have the power to redeem the work of fools (P. Smith).......2003-12-06
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Glimpsing another mindset.(Book Review): An article from: Regulation
Neil Hrab Manufacturer: Cato Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082IHD2 Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Regulation, published by Cato Institute on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 743 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Insurrection: taking on corporate power.(Book Review): An article from: Multinational Monitor
Robert Weissman Manufacturer: Essential Information, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082DX4A Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1301 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Introduction to Managerial Accounting w/ Topic Tackler CD-ROM, NetTutor and PowerWeb Package
Jeannie M. Folk , Ray H Garrison , and Eric Noreen Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072468440 |
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Introduction to Managerial Accounting by Folk/Garrison/Noreen is based on the market-leading text, Managerial Accounting, by Garrison and Noreen. However, this is not simply a briefer book with chapters removed; it has been rethought and retooled to meet the needs demanded by the market: a more accessible, yet thorough student-friendly text that satisfies the basic needs of the managerial accounting student without unnecessary depth on advanced topics associated with the follow-up course, cost accounting/cost management. Faculty and students alike will find this new text has retained the hallmark features of the Garrison/Noreen text: author-written supplements; excellent readability; terrific examples; thorough, relevant, and balanced end of chapter material. In sum, this is a book instructors can count on!Customer Reviews:
Great book, almost the same as last edition. .......2007-06-22
Ok - not great.......2007-01-04
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Accountability and Radical Change in Public Organizations
Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1567201792 |
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Sims and the contributors to this challenging new volume maintain that public sector organizations must radically reinvent themselves, if they are to survive and succeed in their missions: to provide quality service to their clients at a cost taxpayers can afford (or are willing to pay). They offer a firsthand look at how change occurs at all levels of government, and from this and other experiences they lay out strategies and tools that others in government can use quickly and with good results in their own public organizations. However, Sims and his panel of experts also note that not everything in organizational change will produce positive benefits; some results will be negative, and these too must be understood and dealt with. By compiling the viewpoints, advice, experiences, recommendations of public managers themselves, plus consultants, academics, and citizens who benefit from government (and are often its harshest critics), Sims gives readers a solid, realistic insight into the problems of today's public agencies, and workable advice on how to solve them. Accountability and Radical Change in Public Organizations examines the current government and reinvention initiative occurring in public organizations at the local, county, state, federal and international levels. The book highlights the importance of understanding that change in government will continue to be a way of life for public managers, thus requiring an ongoing analysis of those forces driving change and the need to increase our understanding of why certain change efforts work and others fail miserably in government. The contributors to this volume emphasize that while reinvention, accountability, and change are serious initiatives that public managers must confront they must take caution and learn from each others' experiences.
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Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon
Byron E. Pearson Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0816520585 |
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Elvis Rebel Heart
Paul Lichter Manufacturer: Jesse Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0961602767 |
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Great book!.......2003-03-02
FROM AN ELVIS PRESLEY JIM MORRISON FANATIC.......1999-01-27
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Children of Nowhere: An Autobiographical Biography of an Era
Inez P. Exton Manufacturer: Ariadne Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0929497414 |
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Using Divorce Mediation: Save Your Money & Your Sanity (Using Divorce Mediation)
Katherine E. Stoner Manufacturer: Nolo.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873375114 |
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Using Divorce Mediation is the comprehensive manual you need to understand the entire divorce mediation processfrom finding the right mediator to writing your final settlement. Encouraging and straightforward, it answers all the questions people have about divorce mediation. Written by Attorney-Mediator Katherine Stoner, Using Divorce Mediation gives you a legitimate, increasingly popular alternative for resolving your divorce issues without spending a fortune.Download Description
"Using Divorce Mediation is the comprehensive manual you need to understand the entire divorce mediation process -- from finding the right mediator to writing your final settlement. By choosing to mediate your divorce, you can: steer clear of bitter court battles save money get through your divorce quickly soften the blow on kids Encouraging and straightforward, Using Divorce Mediation answers all the questions people have about divorce mediation, including: Why should I choose mediation? How does mediation fit into the divorce process? Will I still have to go to court? How do I propose mediation to my spouse? How do I locate the right mediator? How should I prepare for each session? How do I negotiate in mediation? How can I get answers to my legal questions? What can I do if we hit a brick wall during mediation? Can we mediate if issues come up after divorce? Written by Attorney-Mediator Katherine Stoner, Using Divorce Mediation gives you a legitimate, increasingly popular alternative for resolving your divorce issues without spending a fortune.Customer Reviews:
using divorce mediation.......2000-05-21
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Northern California Business Directory 1998 (Northern California Business Directory)
American Business Directories Manufacturer: Info USA Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0768700248 |
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Lieutenant General Carroll H. Dunn, U.S. Army
Carroll H. Dunn Manufacturer: United States Government Printing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9998650402 |
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Jean Laffite-Prince of Pirates
Jack C. Ramsay; Jr. Manufacturer: Eakin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1571686126 |
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No Other name is more associated with the Gulf Coast than that of this privateer. Laffite has been called everything from a blood thirsty pirate to a gentleman corsait. Tales of his adventures, fights, and buried treasure have been told, fictionalized, and made into movies. He smuggled slaves with Jim Bowie and fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.
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Jean Laffite: Prince of Pirates
Jack C., Jr. Ramsay Manufacturer: Eakin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1571680292 |
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Jean Laffite has been called everything from a blood thirsty pirate to a gentleman corsair. Tales of his adventures, fights, and buried treasure have been told, fictionalized and made into movies. He smuggled slaves with Jim Bowie and fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. The author traces Laffite's life from his birth to his days at Barataria and to his final years on Galveston and Mujeres Islands.Index and Endnotes. 209 pages. Eakin Press.
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New Mexico's Book World: A Resource Guide (New Mexico Book Association Series)
Manufacturer: Ocean Tree Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0943734339 |
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World Guide to Trade Associations: Chambers of Industry and Commerce
Manufacturer: K. G. Saur ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3598207271 |
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World Guide to Trade Associations: Chambers of Industry and Commerce (Handbook of International Documentation and Information)
Manufacturer: K. G. Saur ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3598207387 |
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World Guide to Trade Associations: Trade Associations (World Guide to Trade Associations (2 Vol.))
Manufacturer: K. G. Saur ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3598207263 |
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2003 buyers' guide: trade associations.: An article from: Ink World
Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008E5XQO Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3018 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Annual Buyers' Guide: Trade Associations; (International, National and Regional Organizations).: An article from: Ink World
Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FIIF6 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2649 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The buyers' guide: trade associations.(Directory): An article from: Ink World
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000BQGMK0 Release Date: 2005-10-11 |
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This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 963 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Trade associations.(The Buyers' Guide)(Directory): An article from: Ink World
Gale Reference Team Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000WQ0X5E Release Date: 2007-10-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1899 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Trade Associations.(The Buyers' Guide): An article from: Ink World
Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00084BF66 Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Ink World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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World Guide to Trade Associations/Internationales Verzeichnis Der Wirtschaftsverbande
Manufacturer: K G Saur ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3598205139 |
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A Fool's Guide to Landlording
Tony Midea , and Sandra Midea Manufacturer: AuthorHouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1418417289 |
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You have to be a cold hearted SOB to be a successful landlord. Find out what happens to a naïve, kind hearted couple that entered this shark den with all the right intentions, only to be bloodied and battered by manipulative, devious tenants. Written in a witty, comical tone, the book provides lots of practical, useful advice for people interested in entering this business. However, plenty of warnings are given, as are outright pleas for you to "stay away". Fully a quarter of the text is devoted to "laugh out loud", true horror stories that make for a great read, regardless of your interest in rental property. All the other books in this genre are generally positive on being a landlord, and many merely suffice to sell the author's ideas or training materials. This book is not trying to sell any such thing. Instead, this text seeks to entertain, inform, and tell the truth about managing rental property. And the truth is frightening.
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Creative expression outside of the metalcasting industry.(Shakeout: in case you didn't know)(Book Review): An article from: Modern Casting
Manufacturer: American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096Y5HE Release Date: 2005-04-19 |
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This digital document is an article from Modern Casting, published by American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 368 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Who's Who in Music: A Biographical Record of Contemporary Musicians
Henry Saxe Wyndham Manufacturer: Library Reprints ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0722252188 |
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One Jew's Power One Jew's Glory: The Life of Rav Yitzchak Shumuel Eliyahu Finkler the Rebbe of Radoschitz in the Ghetto and Concentration Camps
Yechiel Granatstein Manufacturer: Feldheim Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 087306559X |
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Extremely powerful and uplifting book on Jewish observance.......1998-06-08
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