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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mary Mcaleese, David Trimble, Baron Trimble, Nigel Dodds, Robert Mccartney, Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Brian Maginess, Louis Blom-Cooper, Knox Cunningham, Alban Maginness, Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan, Robert Porter, Peter Weir, Maurice Gibson, Duncan Shipley-Dalton, Sheelagh Murnaghan, Basil Mcivor, W. F. Mccoy, Thomas Leslie Teevan, George Hanna, Alan Kane, John Larkin, Ambrose Mcgonigal, Stanley Mcmaster, John Sheil. Excerpt:Alan Kane is a former Democratic Unionist Party politician, barrister and Queen's Counsel from Northern Ireland . Kane made his political debut in 1981, topping the council poll in Cookstown Town and was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly the following year for Mid Ulster . Kane was opposed to any form of compromise with Irish Nationalist parties, attacking the Social Democratic and Labour Party as "republicans and subversives" and stating that Catholics "support the IRA to a large extent." In 1985, he became involved in the controversy over re-routing of Orange Order marches through Nationalist areas in Cookstown, stating that one of the most senior Royal Ulster Constabulary officers, Leo Dolan, "as a Roman Catholic and former neighbour of Owen Carron 's family is no friend of the Protestant people." Kane quit the DUP in 1992 in protest at the party's decision to become involved in a talks process which also involved the Irish government , and stepped down from Cookstown council the following year. References (URLs online) Party political offices A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Alban Maginness MLA Alban Maginness (Irish : Ailbín Mag Aonghusa ; born 9 July 1950) is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland . Maginness was born in Holywood , County Down , Northern Ireland. He completed his secondary educa... ... Read more

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Chapters: Members of the Bar of Northern Ireland, Mary Mcaleese, David Trimble, Baron Trimble, Nigel Dodds, Robert Mccartney, Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Brian Maginess, Louis Blom-Cooper, Knox Cunningham, Alban Maginness, Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan, Robert Porter, Peter Weir, Maurice Gibson, Duncan Shipley-Dalton, Sheelagh Murnaghan, Basil Mcivor, W. F. Mccoy, Thomas Leslie Teevan, George Hanna, Alan Kane, John Larkin, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Ambrose Mcgonigal, Stanley Mcmaster, John Sheil. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Patricia McAleese (née Leneghan) (Irish: ; born 27 June 1951) is the eighth and current President of Ireland. Prior to becoming president she was a barrister, journalist and academic. McAleese is Ireland's second female president and the world's first woman to succeed another woman as an elected head of state. She was first elected president in 1997 and won a second term, without a contest, in 2004. Her birth in Belfast means she is the first President to have come from Northern Ireland. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders. McAleese was born Mary Patricia Leneghan (Irish: ) in Ardoyne, Belfast where she grew up. She is a Roman Catholic. Her family was forced to leave the area by loyalists when the Troubles broke out. She was educated at St Dominic's High School, she also spent some time when younger with the Poor Clares, the Queen's University of Belfast (from which she graduated in 1973), and Trinity College Dublin. She was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1974 and is today also a member of the Bar in the Republic of Ireland. In 1975 she was appointed Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology in Trinity College, succeeding Mary Robinson ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=146712 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 333 words.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.Home to a fifth of the world's population and the largest democracy in the world, India holds a prominent place in current events yet remains misunderstood.Encyclopedia of India provides an authoritative source for information on this important region, encompassing the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day. Across the four volumes of the Encyclopedia, readers are invited to explore India in a comprehensive reference work of more than 600 alphabetically arranged articles. As India's role in global politics and economics continues to grow, readers will find the historical and cultural information contained within this work an indispensable tool to gaining a greater appreciation of India and its place in our modern world. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Seamus Heaney, David Trimble, Catherine Clinton, Cahal Daly, Ciarán Carson, Paul Bew, Thomas Metscher, William Mccrea, Frederick Mccoy. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland), is a politician from Northern Ireland. He served as Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP; 1995-2005), was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998-2002), and was a Member of the British Parliament (1990-2005). He is currently a life peer for the Conservative Party. Trimble was awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize. While a professor of law at Queens University, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. He served as Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 until 2005. He resigned leadership of the UUP soon afterwards. In June 2006, he became a member of the House of Lords, as The Right Honourable William David Trimble by the name, style, and title of Baron Trimble, of Lisnagarvey in the County of Antrim. In April 2007 he left the UUP to join the Conservative Party. In June 2010, the Israeli government appointed Lord Trimble to be one of two international observers serving on an Israeli commission of inquiry looking into the events surrounding an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, along with Canadian former Judge Advocate General Ken Watkin. Trimble is the son of William and Ivy Trimble, and grew up in a lower-middle class Presbyterian home in Bangor on the County Down coast. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School in Bangor, County Down (1956-63). He then studied at Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) from 1964 through 1968, winning the McKane Medal for Jurisprudence. There he received a first class honours degree (the first at Queens in three years), becoming a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B). Trimble qualified as a barrister in Northern Ireland in 1969. He began that year as a Queens University of Belfast lecturer, su...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson, David Trimble, Baron Trimble, Reg Empey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MLA (born 6 April 1926) is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, he was elected First Minister with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness as deputy First Minister on 8 May 2007. In addition to co-founding the DUP and leading it from 1971 to 2008, he is a founding member and immediate past Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. Paisley was UK Member of Parliament for the constituency of North Antrim from 1970 until 2010, and is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency. He is regarded as having encouraged sectarianism with his anti-Catholicism. In 2005, Paisley's political party became the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland, displacing his long-term rivals, the Ulster Unionists (UUP), who had dominated Unionist politics in Northern Ireland since the partition of Ireland. Paisley is also an author and speaker. On 4 March 2008 he announced that he would step down as First Minister and leader of the DUP after the US-Northern Ireland Investment Conference in May 2008.. Peter Robinson duly took over as DUP leader on 31 May 2008, and replaced Paisley as First Minister on 5 June 2008. Ian Paisley was born in Armagh, County Armagh and brought up in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, where his father James Kyle Paisley was an Independent Baptist pastor. The senior Paisley had served in the Ulster Volunteers under Edward Carson. He married Eileen Cassells on 13 October 1956. They have five children, three daughters Sharon, Rhond...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=96495 ... Read more

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A stunning biography of the Nobel Peace Prize- winning politician. David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, is one of the unlikeliest and most complicated political leaders of our times. Long reviled by nationalist Ireland and much of mainland opinion as an awkward and flinty loyalist extremist, both his admirers and detractors agree that the Belfast Agreement could not have been made without him. This taciturn ex-Queen's University law lecturer and lover of opera has become the first Unionist leader to enjoy international recognition, being praised by the Nobel Peace Prize committee for his 'great political courage' and regularly visiting the White House. But in the process, he has been excoriated as a traitor by many of his one-time supporters. In this stunning new biography, Dean Godson has been given unique access to the politician and his papers. In addition to conducting over one hundred hours of interviews with Trimble and his wife, Godson has spoken to over three hundred friends, foes and colleagues of the Unionist leader -- including Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, Mo Mowlam, Peter Mandelson, John Hume, John Major and John Bruton. He has also enjoyed privileged access ... Read more

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Hostile, exhausting account of Irish Peace Process
During the negotiations which preceded the peaceful transition to majority rule in South Africa, the ANC leadership were continuously reminded that their struggle had not achieved victory, merely a place at the negotiating table, and therefore they needed to make compromises rather than speeches.The person doing this was Joe Slovo, the only white member of the ANC ruling counsel.As I read this book 800 page book about the Northern Ireland peace process, I felt they need a Joe Slovo or two.
The book centres around David Trimble, the leader of the largest Unionist party, who took great risks in reaching the compromise which became the Good Friday Agreement. He was constantly buffeted by his own community who felt he was being duped by Sinn Fein and bullied or flattered by the UK and Irish governments.His ability to (marginally) survive his parties chaotic decision making process was Houdini-like.This book seems to indicate, however, that the parties to the agreement rarely negotiated face-to-face, rather they stated positions to the governments, who try to broker and barter the deals - actually it has been a sequence of deals.The sheer physical and mental exhaustion of the process is very well conveyed.Whether your view is that Sinn Fein were duplicitous about decommissioning until it was too late to save the agreement or that the Unionists could never really stomach sharing power, it is clear that this process was allowed to continue on the glimmer of hope and beyond the point of any consistency or even logic.Sinn Fein do not emerge well from this account, The SDLP are completely ignored, the DUP are seen as partisan, hypocritical schemers, but perhaps the worst venom is directed at Tony Blair who is seen as claiming consistency and yet facilitates backsliding by Sinn Fein whenever he encounters it.This at a time when he was consciously joining George Bush's coalition of the willing against Terrorism.
I believe Godson's scepticism about Trimble's negotiations and his hostility to the process and players takes up too much of the book.I agree with his analysis of the defects of the prisoner releases,the Patton commission and of the Executive Council, however he sees no real distinction between the Irish Government, the SDLP and Sinn Fein.He cannot see any reason for the Irish hostility to the suspension of the Assembly and ultimately he sees both governments cringing and compromising lest there be a return to violence.He is no more forgiving about Trimble - he disparages his negotiating tactics as ineffective and/or overblown, he says that his lack of personal warmth verges on `political autism' and then claims that his lack of need for human interaction is what allowed him to survive as leader of a divided party for so long!
I started to wonder why Trimble allowed this author such access, when it was plain his views were so critical.I came to the conclusion that there was sometime quite amateurish about the Trimble approach - he is unafraid to be shown `warts and all', sure that he will be vindicated by History.While this may be commendable, I don't think it is effective leadership,you need to make your case consistently and authoritatively, you need to surround yourself with a strong team of committed operators - criticism will come in spades, without having to seek it out. Trimbles approach to party organisation and to influencing/propaganda were haphazard and ineffective, and I think this was to the detriment of his own cause and people.
I found Goodson's 800 pages very tough going.His style is journalistic and it is quite effective at reflecting contemporary moods.There are lapses, as you might expect in so long a work- eg. Brian Keenan, is mentioned first on p 601 without any reference to who he is;theparticipants who are known to be gay (Peter Mandelson and Stephen King) are both described as being `flamboyant'; eventually anyone who agrees with Trimble becomes called a `Trimbelista'.However I do think its length and seriousness did justice to the subject, but its point of view is sceptical/hostile (`Trimblecontra'?) and a better analysis would probably be obtained from Dr. Paul Bew ( a `Timbelista).
I believe History will judge Trimble kindly, I believe that any Unionist leader who negotiated a change of this magnitude risked the wrath of his followers( his predecessor, James Molyneaux , risked no negotiations and achieved nothing);I believe he made the case for `defanging' Sinn Fein and was the only person in the process who could make them decommission - which they did grudgingly and too late to save the Good Friday agreement. He showed that Unionists are capable to contemplating the grand compromise and taking the painful steps this necessitates.
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Widely viewed as a liberal, Dunstan Mitchell, bishop of the EpiscopalDiocese of Central Kentucky,has been aggressively pressing his agendafor the Episcopal Church, including ordination of openly gay clergy and theblessing of same-sex marriages. His actions have severely offended the moreconservative elements of the Diocese. Mitchell also has some personal habitsthat his allies in the Church find distasteful, and it soon becomes apparent thathe is a liability—one that the church may want to eliminate.

Six weeks later, the bishop’s desecrated body is found in the covered swimmingpool of one of his archenemies, crusty Circuit Judge James Chancellor. Anextensive police and forensic investigation leads to many possible suspects,noneof whom are in the least upset that Bishop Mitchell is gone, including his exwife,rival priests, and disgruntled former parishioners. Ambitious prosecutorRon Gaither soon gets his way, however, and indicts Judge Chancellor, aconviction that will ensure Gaither’s political future.The trial becomes a battleof wills between these formidable men that leads to a surprising and disturbingconclusion …

Set against the backdrop of the theological and political turmoil plaguing themodern Episcopal Church, Lest Ye Be Judged is a compelling page-turner thatescalates the tension all the way through the final page.

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Want respite from all the wrangling in the Anglican Communion?
I suggest you read LEST YE BE JUDGED (iUniverse, Inc., 2007) by David C. Trimble.

In it the gay bishop consecrated in 2003 becomes Rt. Rev. Thomas Becker, Bishop of Oregon.The Presiding Bishop becomes Most Rev. Dr. George Bryant, Becker's strong ally. The murder victim is the disgusting Rt. Rev. Dunstan Mitchell, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Kentucky.You'll join almost everyone else in being glad Mitchell is out of the picture soon.

One of the major suspects is a circuit court judge and right-wing curmudgeon who writes scurrilous threats regarding ECUSA on Midwest
Conservative Journal, Drell Descants, TitusOneNine, and StandFirm.The judge uses the moniker KingHenry2(as in "Who will rid me of this
meddlesome priest?")

Most of the other main characters have secrets too. Few smell like a rose.

If LEST YOU BE JUDGED overdraws a few of your friends, it returns the favor for some of your enemies.

Instead of railing at one another here on HoBD, read the book to consign high dudgeon to the strong lawyers for the dramatic trial in Breckenridge, Kentucky. Periodically an anonymous person from 815 will call to orchestrate major turns in the plot, right to the very end of the book.

In the introduction, Trimble speaks of his own bishop, Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, Bishop of Lexington:"I have had the honor and pleasure to work with Bishop Sauls on several matters within the church, and am very glad to report that he and my fictional creation, Bishop Dunstan Mitchell, have little or nothing in common."

Trimble is a lawyer.Fortunately he writes this novel with the clarity a jury requires, not with the opacity of a legislator.I delayed several other chores to read it non-stop. I enjoyed the fiction far more than Trimble's own volatile site in conservative blogosphere,
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I confess...... I didn't finish the book
I heard about the book and wanted to read it.I finally gave up on the library ever getting a copy and bought one myself, thinking I would share it.

The story is amazing.It gripped me from the first pages.But then there was the graphic autopsy.Okay, maybe that was needed that for the story.There are constant sexual (gutter language) references to women's bodies as men lust after them.Didn't like it, seemed out of place in a novel that didn't really need it.But when I hit the very very graphic, explicit sex scene just after the middle of the book, I quit.I don't need those images forever burned into my brain.

This book needs to carry an X rating.No wonder the library doesn't have it.

Promises more than it delivers
This novel starts out very strong, but the conclusion left me disappointed.On one level this is a terrific book -- indeed, a page turner -- a murder mystery & a searing satire on the Episcopal church.But there are problems with it, especially as a murder mystery.Yes, the revelation of the murderer was a (seeming) shock & yes, the clues were all there.So far, so good.But the murderer's identity was revealed, not through good police work but rather a drunken slip of the tongue.This seemed somewhat anticlimactic, almost incidental.In fact, the detective work seemed to go nowhere.There was a good team of policemen, a female state trooper, & a female medical examiner, & a little help from the NYPD -- but their part of the story just petered out & their efforts seemed ineffectual in the end.There were also a lot of loose ends never tied up.Why was the visit to ECUSA HQ ("815") never followed up on? The relationship between 815 & the murderer was also never explained, yet it was a crucial part of the story.And who assisted 815 in setting up the accused?The reader is just left baffled on so many key points.There is also a graphic gay sex scene that seemed to me totally gratuitous.I do hope this author writes another novel, though.He has lots of potential.

yuk!
This book needed an editor ("abject emergency"?) and a fact checker (Henry VIII did not designate himself Defender of the Faith). It is sadistic in tone and sloppy in execution.

Causes insomnia
Just got it from Amazon, and read it through in one sitting. It reminded me of Chris Johnson, Anglican Investigator, or perhaps Hayden Konig, but without the laugh track. Some deftly done characterizations, and interesting plot twists, made a lot of things come out as not quite what they seemed at first.As with "The Sixth Sense," when you get to the end, after the shock dissipates, you find yourself looking back to see if the author played fair with the reader.He did!
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Learn SQL basics quickly with this visual tutorial featuring over 125 graphics SQL (Structured Query Language) is the tool used to access nearly all databases, which means that most software professionals should understand at least the basics. This hands-on tutorial offers an accessible introduction to SQL using over 125 graphics to illustrate the lessons. The book's unique visual approach makes it much easier for the reader to learn SQL. This Second Edition has been updated with new graphics and covers such subjects as the SELECT statement, joins, subqueries, views, granting and revoking privileges, and creating and destroying tables. ... Read more

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A good primer on Structured Queries for SQL
This book has short chapters and a lot of examples.It is a good "second" book for an Introductory SQL course.

Attention Newbies to SQL - - This is your Book!!!
I am currently enrolled in a Database Management (Oracle/SQL) class at Boston College.Right off the bat, I knew I was in trouble when we were told the professor would be unavailable for help and most of students in class were computer science majors. (I was taking the class to broaden my computer skills above and beyond front-end web design.)

The textbook in class was the heinously monstrous 1200+ page Oracle 9i The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney.After struggling through many chapters and finding our professor's teaching style very unhelpful, I decided it was time for another resource.

I checked on Amazon ... and found Sam's Teach Yourself SQL in 10 minutes to be semi-helpful. Then at the Harvard Coop, I stumbled upon it - - A VISUAL INTRODUCTION TO SQL.The problem, I realized, was that I am a visual learner and need to see all the schema tables and step-by step actions to describe what happens as I develop queries.This books is key for any layman, like myself.It walks you through very basic (and more complex) problems in an easy-to-read visual approach. While using SQL on the PC, viewing the tables is difficult and this book helps you map out the problems to figure them out. I was especially impressed after emailing the author about a table question and getting a personalized response.

If you are in a bind to learn SQL on your own, this book is great and won't kill you lugging it around either.

P.S. A great addition I found to this book was a Mac client software (that can access Oracle Databases) called SQL Grinder.Like the book, this program is also very visual and the GUI (MAC) clearly reigns over any PC. Sorry Windows users! Thanks for your help, David Chappell! ;-)

All the Basics and More
This book doesn't assume that you are familiar with databases or the SQL programming language. It teaches you the programming language step-by-step using a graphic approach.A great way to learn SQL.

Excellent beginners book in SQL
I used this book when I needed to pick up SQL fast.I worked in an organization where I had to build Teradata Data Bases and used SQL to select and move the data.The illustrations really help visualize every aspect of assembling an SQL program and how it interfaces with the data base.I still use it today when I need to be reminded of a particular syntax.Don't loan this book out if you ever want to see it again.I did and now I'm buying another book!

The ONLY SQL book I recommend for beginners
This is a GREAT book for foundation skills in SQL.

I used this book toteach myself SQL when I was "elected" to implement an Oracledatabase system at a former job and have since gone on to become an Oracledeveloper and DBA.The concepts and techniques learned in this book haveserved me well along the way.I have taught Oracle development in atechnical school, and insisted that they use this book in the classroom. The diagrammatic approach to learning about tables, columns, joins and SQLfunctions seems to "click" with everyone who encounters it.

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Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, 1802-1888, was a West Point graduate, engineer, railroader, inventor, international traveler, leader in the Episcopal Church, and, most famously, a soldier. Trimble distinguished himself as a field commander in the fiercest fighting of the Civil War, including the battles at Cross Keys in the Valley Campaign, Second Manassas, and Gettysburg. He earned high praise from the enigmatic Stonewall Jackson, who described Trimble's battlefield leadership as the _most brilliant_ he had witnessed. ... Read more

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A very readable civil war biography
While no expert in this genre,'I've read enough of them to state that this is a very interesting story of quite a memorable character who managed to be in the thick of things throughout the war and it's aftermath.The author's research is impeccable without being tiresome and dense and allows the story to unfold in a very readable way.By using Trimble's own words in his letters,the author reveals a stubborn,passionate and brillant man who was born to lead other men.You wind up caring about this man not only as Confederate General in battle but as a human being,husband and father.A good ,true story well told for the first time ever.Well done! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on June 23, 2003. The length of the article is 6146 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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Title: Trimble wins in Ulster.(Editorials)(Editorial)
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Date: June 23, 2003
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on October 30, 2003. The length of the article is 524 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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Title: Trimble opens the door.(Editorials)(Power-sharing in Northern Ireland proposed)(Editorial)
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Date: October 30, 2003
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