New Keynesian Economics, Vol. 2: Coordination Failures and Real Rigidities (Readings in Economics)

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These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.

Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.

N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow. Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.

New Keynesian Economics, Vol. 2: Coordination Failures and Real Rigidities (Readings in Economics)

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New Keynesian Economics, Vol. 2: Coordination Failures and Real Rigidities (Readings in Economics)
N. Gregory; Romer, David Mankiw
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Syrian Arab Republic has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Transformations in Hungary: Essays in Economy and Society (Contributions to Economics)

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Transformations in Hungary: Essays in Economy and Society (Contributions to Economics)

Manufacturer: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
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ASIN: 3790814121

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During the first decade after the turn towards democracy and market economy, Hungary's society experienced profound changes. The book analyses related political, legal, institutional and socio-economic structures and processes in order to contribute to a further understanding of Hungary's ongoing transformation processes and its current situation as one of the leading candidates for EU membership. The topics include constitutive elements of a modern market economy as well as education, income structures, the poverty situation, post-communist voting behaviour, regional and urban development and Hungary's cross-border co-operations. The role of Budapest within the European city system and Hungary's economic situation within Europe are also discussed. Drawing together comprehensive empirical data and a geat variety of viewpoints, the book offers innovative examples of the application of different theoretical approaches to transformation studies and studies of economy and society in general.

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This book show how to produce powerful letters that lead to interviews and offers.

201 Dynamite Job Search Letters: Writing Right for Today's New Job Market (201 Dynamite Job Search Letters)

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201 Dynamite Job Search Letters: Writing Right for Today's New Job Market (201 Dynamite Job Search Letters)
Ron Krannich
Manufacturer: Impact Publications
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ASIN: 1570232326

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This book shows how to write powerful letters that open the doors to employers.

101 Quick Tips for a Dynamite Resume: Great Examples for Producing Powerful Results

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101 Quick Tips for a Dynamite Resume: Great Examples for Producing Powerful Results
Richard Fein
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This book's chapters follow several individuals in various job search situations, from a recent college graduate first entering the job market to a professional moving up in a career.

Nail the Resume: Great Tips for Creating Dynamite Resumes (Nail the Resume)

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Nail the Resume: Great Tips for Creating Dynamite Resumes (Nail the Resume)
Ron Krannich
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Nail the Cover Letter: Great Tips for Creating Dynamite Letters (Nail the Cover Letter)

ASIN: 1570232334

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This book helps users transform ordinary resumes into outstanding resumes that immediately grab attention of emploers.

Dynamite Cover Letters : And Other Great Job Search Letters (4th Edition) (Dynamite Cover Letters: And Other Great Job Search Letters)

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Dynamite Cover Letters : And Other Great Job Search Letters (4th Edition) (Dynamite Cover Letters: And Other Great Job Search Letters)
Ronald L. Krannich , and Caryl Rae Krannich
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The fourth edition of this best-selling guide shows how to produce powerful letters that lead to job interviews and offers. Focusing on the key principles of communication, the authors examine the six most important letters every job seeker needs to write.

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Blah Blah Blah.......2002-01-11

This book promised to explain how to write a good cover letter instead of just giving examples, but the explanations were simplistic and very repetitive. The examples were ok, and I think it did have some good points, but overall too simplistic to be worth buying. I got basically the same information on cover letters out of the one chapter on cover letters in Job Hunting for Dummies. However to be fair this book did have info on approach and thank you letters which I had not heard yet.

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101 Quick Tips For A Dynamite Resume -
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201 Dynamite Job Search Letters (3rd Edition)

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201 Dynamite Job Search Letters (3rd Edition)
Ronald L. Krannich , and Caryl Rae Krannich
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ASIN: 1570230722

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Shows how to write powerful letters that open employers' doors.

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The Book Lives Up to Its Title.......2003-03-01

I have recently checked out many job search related books. This one is by far the best I have seen on search letters. Why is it so goood you ask? Because it has so many different examples that are also well written.

This book does not just have examples of the traditinal cover letter, but also examples of letters to request information, letters that can help you lay the "essential groundwork" for requesting references, letters that you can use to contact someone "cold turkey" to develop job leads (which I found to be the most helpful), and many more.

The letters in the book also describe people with many different qualifications and in many different situations.

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The fourth edition of this best-selling guide shows how to transform an ordinary resume into a dynamite resume that grabs the attention of employers and results in job interviews. Dispelling numerous myths and mistakes, the book identifies 64 key principles for effective resume writing, production, distribution, and follow-up as well as includes numerous examples based upon those principles.

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Book offers mediocre selection of resumes.......1999-01-13

This book has a nice cover and title, but the resumes are pretty bland and unimaginative.

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Achieve Both Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency

Management Control and Reporting Systems: Harmonising Design and Implementation
Mohinder N. Kaura
Manufacturer: Sage Pubns
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ASIN: 0761996087

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This book provides practicing managers, consultants and advanced students of business with the design and implementation of sound management control and reporting systems in India.

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Achieve Both Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency.......2005-03-22

All organizations need management control systems (MCS) which vary only in their nature and extent. In this brilliant volume, Kaura explains HOW to design and then implement such systems. He carefully divides his material within five Parts:

First in Chapters 1-4, he identifies the requisites of designing and implementing MCS, then explains organizational segmentation by responsibility, measures of performance, and principles of transfer pricing.

Next in Chapters 5-9, he focuses on strategic planning and control, performance measurement by operating business units, performance measurement of service departments and coordinating units, task and operations control systems, and management control through innovative budgeting process.

Next in Chapters 10 and 11, Kaura shifts his attention to management reporting systems (MRS) and explains how to benchmark performance through reporting for interfirm comparison.

Then in Chapters 12 and 14, he examines how MCS can be of substantial benefit to financial institutions and export-oriented organizations; in Chapter 13, he suggests a performance planning and monitoring system for research and development.

As for Part Five, in Chapters 15, Kaura explains how to use a Balanced Scorecard system to translate long-term objectives into operational parameters; then in the final chapter, he presents what he calls a "Management Audit of Control and Reporting System."

Kaura agrees with R.J. Mockler's definition of management control as being "the systematic effort to set standards with planning objectives, to design an information feedback system, to measure actual performance, to note deviations of the actual performance from standards and their significance and to take control action for ensuring that all the resources of the organization are most efficiently and effectively used to achieve corporate goals." The ultimate objective of any MCS is to enable the given organization to be both effective and efficient. I agree with Kaura that effectiveness measures the extent of achievement of goals whereas efficiency is the relationship between input and output. "Even if two divisions/departments or organisations are able to deliver the same output at the same cost but consume different inputs, they can be regarded as equally effective but not equally efficient." Mockler's definition guides and informs Kaura's rigorous examination of the options and opportunities which can be created by an effective and efficient Management Control System.

Those who share my high regard for Kaura's book are urged to check out Carla O'Dell's If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice, Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management, Nancy M. Dixon's Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, and two authored by Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline and The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

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Three years of behind-the-scenes knowledge and two years of in-depth research has seen the much anticipated completion of this extraordinary guide to stopping Telemarketers, Junk Mail and understanding how to quickly Fix and Protect Your Credit. This is the first time that all three major subjects have been compiled to this extent all under one cover. The information within these pages will bring you to a new level of awareness as to how your personal information is being gathered, manipulated and exploited without your permission or knowledge and HOW TO STOP IT!

In this comprehensive new release your discoveries will include; The 3-word phrase that stops telemarketers from calling for 10 YEARS, the Top Ten things people do that attracts telemarketers and junk mail, how your information becomes available to marketers in the first place, how to file a complaint if you are being harassed by telemarketers, how to FIX your credit in simple terms using a step-by-step format, how to PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY, why you NEED a P.O. Box, and much, much more.

Also included are percentage reduction charts at the end of each applicable chapter so YOU can determine just how invisible you want to become to marketers. You also get a complete list of every Attorney General's Consumer Protection division from across the country and a quick reference guide so you can quickly find the important phone numbers, web sites and addresses you need for your protection.

Especially helpful are the official OPT-OUT letter and Telemarketers PHONE LOG inserted at the back of the book for your use. Simply tear them out and copy them as needed.

This book not only covers the obvious methods of getting off telemarketing or mailing lists but also shows you how to get your personal information off the little-known national data-compiler and personal profiler databases. These are the ones you should really be concerned with.

When it comes to safeguarding your personal information, understanding how your personal credit score will affect you and how to make it work in your favor, this one book is your answer.

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consumer beware.......2007-05-08

listed is an 888 telephone number to stop junk mail. be careful, as your social security number is asked for- don't give indentity!!!! this author has been on tv- shameful!

Anti-"junk advertising" projects that anyone can do, etc........2002-06-07

I most liked this book for its encouraging tone with step-by-step directions for confronting so much unwanted junk; and also for its clearly taught and very brief personal finance theory from the perspective of a "meet-the-customer" loaning professional. Additionally, he seems to remind us well of the connectedness between the mismanagement of credit and a lifetime risk of marital disaster. He then offers a better way for starting a smart credit history. Very kind humor has a portion in this book as well. I read this several months ago and applied the proportion most meeting my anti-junk needs (the book estimates the return on efforts). Other areas I've taken to heart, as was the author's sincere intent. Here are easy to do projects and ideas that pay-off personally.

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Protecting customers and the brand from credit card data losses: now is the time to implement a system-wide PCI program before there is an issue or damage ... RESCUE): An article from: Franchising World
Tom Epstein
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000WMIFWQ
Release Date: 2007-09-27

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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1667 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: Protecting customers and the brand from credit card data losses: now is the time to implement a system-wide PCI program before there is an issue or damage to the brand.(TECHNOLOGY TO THE RESCUE)
Author: Tom Epstein
Publication: Franchising World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
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Volume: 39 Issue: 8 Page: 26(4)

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What's in a score? Differences in consumers' credit knowledge using OLS and quantile regressions.(ordinary least squares): An article from: Journal of Consumer Affairs

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What's in a score? Differences in consumers' credit knowledge using OLS and quantile regressions.(ordinary least squares): An article from: Journal of Consumer Affairs
Angela C. Lyons , Mitchell Rachlis , and Erik Scherpf
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Release Date: 2007-10-11

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Consumer Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2007. The length of the article is 11417 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: What's in a score? Differences in consumers' credit knowledge using OLS and quantile regressions.(ordinary least squares)
Author: Angela C. Lyons
Publication: Journal of Consumer Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2007
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Volume: 41 Issue: 2 Page: 223(27)

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Credit Management Handbook

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Credit marketing and consumer protection

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Terence George Ison
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