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Mystics, Theologians & God-Botherers: Patricia Brennan
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2024 Conference: Lead Like a Woman
2024 Conference: Lead Like a Woman
All the information about out 2024 Conference, including links to book your place, are available at the link below. &...
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Mystics, Theologians & God-Botherers: Patricia Brennan
Mystics, Theologians & God-Botherers: Patricia Brennan
Dr Patricia Brennan – A prophet of our times Address by Dr Gwenneth Roberts, at St John's Cathedral in Brisba...
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The Rev’d Alison Cheek, 29 July 1974, and the day that changed the Anglican Church
The Rev’d Alison Cheek, 29 July 1974, and the day that changed the Anglican Church
“Imagine”, writes Maureen Fiedler, “a church service so controversial that police officers are stationed down the ...
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The Book of Common Prayer: A detailed analysis
The Book of Common Prayer: A detailed analysis
The Rev'd Dr Lesley McLean has completed a detaled analysis of the language of the Book of Common Prayer and its revisio...
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Celebrating The Rev Dr Florence Li Tim-Oi, Pioneering Priest
Celebrating The Rev Dr Florence Li Tim-Oi, Pioneering Priest
‘I can certainly see no theological argument against the ordination of women. We are all God’s children, male and fe...
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THE VENERABLE VAL GRAYDON
THE VENERABLE VAL GRAYDON
The Ven. Val Graydon, one of the first group of women to be ordained as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia, pass...
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MOW in Sydney: 40 Years of Activism
MOW in Sydney: 40 Years of Activism
Sydney MOW celebrated 40 years of activism on behalf of women’s ordination in the Diocese of Sydney on 17 September 20...
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HISTORY MADE AS THE DIOCESE OF THE MURRAY ORDAINS WOMEN PRIESTS
HISTORY MADE AS THE DIOCESE OF THE MURRAY ORDAINS WOMEN PRIESTS
The Diocese of the Murray made history on 12 August 2023 when the Bishop, the Right Reverend Keith Dalby, ordained three...
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Adelaide celebrates 30th anniversary of women priests
Adelaide celebrates 30th anniversary of women priests
The Diocese of Adelaide celebrated the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood at St Peter’s Cat...
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Caroline Pearce Memorial Lecture
Caroline Pearce Memorial Lecture
A lecture in honour of the life and legacy of pioneer the Reverend Caroline Pearce was hosted by St John's Chu...
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TWO ARCHBISHOPS
TWO ARCHBISHOPS
The Archbishop of Canterbury visits Australia Here he is with the Anglican Communion's first female archbishop, the M...
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Episcopal Church USA for Indigenous Rights
Episcopal Church USA for Indigenous Rights
Celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day gains momentum across Episcopal Church BY DAVID PAULSEN Posted Oct 7, 2022 ...
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National Conference for 30th Anniversary of Women Priests
National Conference for 30th Anniversary of Women Priests
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE WAS AN OUTSTANDING SUCCESS! Held at Christ Church St Laurence, 812 George Street, ...
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Some advice for members of Sydney Synod
Some advice for members of Sydney Synod
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MARY THE MOTHER OF THE LORD
MARY THE MOTHER OF THE LORD
Mary is honoured throughout Christendom on 15 August “The Church is a place of revolution without violence...
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ADELAIDE CELEBRATES 30 YEARS OF WOMEN PRIESTS
ADELAIDE CELEBRATES 30 YEARS OF WOMEN PRIESTS
When the bishops of Australia were meeting with the Primate prior to General Synod it was an ideal opportunity to begin ...
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MOW AT GENERAL SYNOD 2022
MOW AT GENERAL SYNOD 2022
MOW AT GENERAL SYNOD 2022 AND THE MOTION ON THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN’S ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD Four us trav...
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AN APPEAL – MOW = working for women
AN APPEAL – MOW = working for women
Dear MOW supporters and friends As you know, we are committed to challenging and transforming the Anglican ...
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Ordination of Women Watershed: 7 March 1992
Ordination of Women Watershed: 7 March 1992
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The Year of Our Lord 1992 – Women Priests – then and now
The Year of Our Lord 1992 – Women Priests – then and now
Thirty Years of Women Priests This year, 2022, is the 30th Anniversary of the ordination of the first wome...
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St Brigid of Ireland February 1
St Brigid of Ireland February 1
St Brigid of Kildare - a reflection on one woman and her ministry ...
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‘Biscuits to Bishop’ exhibition continues to grow
‘Biscuits to Bishop’ exhibition continues to grow
In 2021 one of MOW’s pioneers, Dr Gwenneth Roberts was the inspiration and principal researcher behind an exhibition a...
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Thirty Years Since 1992
Thirty Years Since 1992
It is hard to believe that 30 years have elapsed since the challenging days of 1992 when the Anglican Church's struggle ...
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Richard Hooker and the Via Media
Richard Hooker and the Via Media
I am preparing to preach on my hero, Richard Hooker tomorrow, Wednesday 4/11. There is a very inspiring piece in a book ...
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MOW AGM 2021 A Feast of theology conducted decently and in order
MOW AGM 2021 A Feast of theology conducted decently and in order
MOW Australia Ltd Annual General Meeting 9 October 2021 HIGHLIGHTS The 2021 AGM for MOW Australia Ltd w...
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Theological School student reflection
Theological School student reflection
Kirsty Beilharz reflects on her year of remote learning through Trinity’s Theological School. My experience...
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Dr Jacqueline Service – AGM Guest Speaker 2021
Dr Jacqueline Service – AGM Guest Speaker 2021
Jacqueline is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Charles Sturt University (St Mark’s National Theological Centre), Can...
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Sandra Montes on ‘Becoming REAL’
Sandra Montes on ‘Becoming REAL’
Q&A with Sandra Montes By Heather Beasley Doyle Posted Jul 29, 2021 &...
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First Female Anglican Bishop in East & Central Africa
First Female Anglican Bishop in East & Central Africa
Canon Emily Awino Onyango Posted on: January 18, 2021 4:10 PM The new Assistant Bishop of Bondo, the Rig...
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DOROTHY LEE IN CONVERSATION
DOROTHY LEE IN CONVERSATION
The Revd Canon Professor Dorothy A. Lee, FAHA is the Stewart Research Professor of New Testament at TRINITY COLLEGE THEO...
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International Anglican Women’s Network
International Anglican Women’s Network
The International Anglican Women's Network (IAWN) helps connect Anglican Women with each other. This came w...
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HEADSHIP AND UNDERBELLY
HEADSHIP AND UNDERBELLY
On Thursday 10 June, Julia Baird convened a discussion on domestic violence in the Anglican Church on The Drum.  ...
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MEDIA RELEASE 14 June 2021
MEDIA RELEASE 14 June 2021
DEMAND FOR CHURCH AUTHORITIES TO ADDRESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH The Movement for the Ordi...
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LADY DAY SERMON
LADY DAY SERMON
Sermon delivered by the Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral Adelaide, South Australia, the Very Rever...
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GENDER-BASED BELIEF: A New Ethic for Christianity
GENDER-BASED BELIEF: A New Ethic for Christianity
Gender-Balanced Belief: A New Ethic for Christianity: a new book by Mavis Rose Gender-Balanced Belief calls on the chu...
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Bishop Bruce Wilson
Bishop Bruce Wilson
Bishop Bruce Wilson's funeral was held at St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney at 10am on Monday 29 March 2021. &n...
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Muriel Gorrie
Muriel Gorrie
Muriel Gorrie was the third person to join the newly formed National Movement for the Ordination of Women in Adelaide in...
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From Biscuits to Bishop: Changing women, changing church
From Biscuits to Bishop: Changing women, changing church
A celebration of Anglican women’s history in Brisbane Diocese From Biscuits to Bishop is a multimedia exh...
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Bishop of Swaziland Ellinah Wamukoya
Bishop of Swaziland Ellinah Wamukoya
Bishop of Swaziland and global environment advocate Ellinah Wamukoya dies from Covid Bishop Ellinah Wamukoya ...
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St Brigid
St Brigid
Traditionally, Irish people regard today, 1 February, the feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare as the first day of Spring. T...
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Dr Rachelle Gilmour
Dr Rachelle Gilmour
TRINITY COLLEGE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL MELBOURNE, VICTORIA FACULTY Q&A NAME: Dr Rachelle Gilmour ...
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Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson
Trinity College alum profile: Elizabeth Thompson Elizabeth Thompson moved to Australia from the US and found fulfilli...
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Bp Barbara Harris: one year on
Bp Barbara Harris: one year on
The Anglican Communion’s first female bishop [caption id="attachment_1309" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo...
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Sister Frances Murphy CSC – Eulogy
Sister Frances Murphy CSC – Eulogy
Sr Helen CSC, writes the Eulogy for Sr Frances, who died in January. Sr Frances was the Sister-in-Charge...
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Remembering Patteson – Revd Sr Veronica CSC
Remembering Patteson – Revd Sr Veronica CSC
Patteson’s Cross, Nukapu ‘Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoev...
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Prayer at Christmas and beyond
Prayer at Christmas and beyond
Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassi...
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Pauli Murray inspires new generation of ‘firebrand’ Black, queer Episcopal leaders
Pauli Murray inspires new generation of ‘firebrand’ Black, queer Episcopal leaders
www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/12/09/pauli-murray-inspires-new-generation-of-firebrand-black-queer-episcopal-leaders/...
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The Rev’d Heather Sizer
The Rev’d Heather Sizer
Heather Sizer was ordained as a local priest to the church in Wirrabarra in the mid-north of South Australia by Bishop D...
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Victorian Anglicans Together
Victorian Anglicans Together
Preparing, educating, equipping You may be aware, the Appellate Tribunal has presented their determination regardin...
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Elizabeth Murray: her journey to priesthood
Elizabeth Murray: her journey to priesthood
Elizabeth Murray admits that many others saw her leadership potential before she did, and she’s now thankful tha...
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THESE OUR TURBULENT DAYS
THESE OUR TURBULENT DAYS
Psalm 93 A calm authority That with divine wisdom we may sufficiently contains the energies we have unl...
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Society of the Sacred Advent – 125 Years
Society of the Sacred Advent – 125 Years
Two Anglican schools in Australia have celebrated a century and a quarter of ministry by sisters of the Anglic...
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Society of the Sacred Advent – History
Society of the Sacred Advent – History
Known as Sister Caroline Amy and, later, Mother Caroline, Caroline Amy Balguy started her religious life at th...
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Simone Weil and the gift of inarticulacy
Simone Weil and the gift of inarticulacy
How not to live in lockdown Simone Weil (1909-1943) is a thinker of ‘asphasia’: the inability to speak ...
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Episcopal Priest Wins Election
Episcopal Priest Wins Election
becoming Georgia’s first LGBTQ state senator The Rev. Kim Jackson speaks du...
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Spiritual Imagination offers a new path to monastic life
Spiritual Imagination offers a new path to monastic life
Kathryn Ashworth’s quest for God led her from the Christianity of her upbringing to New Age spiritual practices to a d...
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New Priory at Whitby
New Priory at Whitby
Archbishop of York lays foundation stone for new Priory at Whitby There has been a monastic community in th...
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Precious in God’s eyes
Precious in God’s eyes
May the God of Eve teach you to dance. May the God of Hagar bring you comfort in the desert. May the God of Miriam bri...
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CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST
CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST
As I prepare on a Saturday for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, to preside at the Eucharist, I am someti...
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When I was conceived You knew me
When I was conceived You knew me
MOW 1987 song When I was conceived you knew me Click on the link above. Page 2 appears first. The song, with Lyric...
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As I travel with you today, my Lord,
As I travel with you today, my Lord,
As I travel with you today, my Lord, may my steps be light. May I glimpse you in all I meet. May my hands be fo...
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For girls and women in Christian life
For girls and women in Christian life
1 Hearing Good News, heaven-bound, setting foot on holy ground: chosen, gifted, born anew: Spirit, she belong...
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Four Rivers Bookshop
Four Rivers Bookshop
Established in 1977, Four Rivers Bookshop is located in Griffith New South Wales. The phrase ”Four Rivers...
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A Challenge to Complementarians
A Challenge to Complementarians
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to b...
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A prayer for all those affected by coronavirus
A prayer for all those affected by coronavirus
Keep us, good Lord, under the shadow of your mercy. Sustain and support the anxious, be with those who care for the s...
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Anglican spiritual care practitioners talk COVID-19
Anglican spiritual care practitioners talk COVID-19
Spiritual care practitioner Brenda Steward continues to visit patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, ...
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Prayers at AGM 2020
Prayers at AGM 2020
PSALM 124 A PILGRIM PSALM DELIVERANCE AND DESTRUCTION: WILL WE WEATHER THE STORM? For...
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Linda Nicholls Primate
Linda Nicholls Primate
New primate foresees time of change for national church The Anglican Church of Canada’s new primate says her top prio...
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President’s Report 2020
President’s Report 2020
PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 3 OCTOBER 2020 I’m not being positiv...
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The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women – Review
The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women – Review
Kevin Giles Author Penny Mulvey reviews his book It is profoundly sad to even think there is a need for the bo...
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Kevin Giles
Kevin Giles
Complementarians and Abuse of Women: Kevin Giles' Newest Book Giles explores two church bodies: SBC a...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, passed away Sept. 18, 2020 [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop ...
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The Rev’d Caroline Pearce
The Rev’d Caroline Pearce
The Rev’d Caroline Pearce died peacefully on Tuesday 15 September 2020 in Adelaide. Caroline grew up in Adelaide, w...
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The Reverend Sal Tatchell 1929-2020
The Reverend Sal Tatchell 1929-2020
The Reverend Sal Tatchell is believed to be the first Anglican woman ordained in South Australia who has died. [capti...
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Bishop Barbara Harris (1930-2020)
Bishop Barbara Harris (1930-2020)
Barbara Harris, the first woman in the Anglican communion to be consecrated a bishop, died in March 2020. Two articles a...
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QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 8 June 2020
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 8 June 2020
The Reverend Dr Elizabeth Joyce Smith, AM “for significant service to the Anglican Church of Australia, and to liturgi...
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Church of England appoints its first black female bishop
Church of England appoints its first black female bishop
The Church of England’s first black female bishop has been appointed by Downing Street. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the cha...
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Vale – Patricia Hayward (1953-2020)
Vale – Patricia Hayward (1953-2020)
MOW was saddened to learn of the passing of Patricia Hayward on 1 January 2020. Patricia was a committed supporter of...
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Telling Stories: Past, Present, Future, From Far and Wide
Telling Stories: Past, Present, Future, From Far and Wide
Telling Stories: Past, Presen...
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The women of Sydney are not silenced
The women of Sydney are not silenced
I love the word bonkers. My mum used to say it all the time, and I just don’t seem to hear it often enough anymore. Th...
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In praise of the oddities and outliers resisting bonkers fundamentalism in Sydney
In praise of the oddities and outliers resisting bonkers fundamentalism in Sydney
It can be awkward, sometimes, for men to stand alongside women in the fight against patriarchy. They are, after all, ben...
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Dear Archbishop Rowan
Dear Archbishop Rowan
Dear Archbishop Rowan, Even though I’m not sending Christmas cards this year – ran out of time – you are not go...
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20 years of women priests in the Australian Anglican church
20 years of women priests in the Australian Anglican church
Article by Julia Baird marking 20 years of women priests in the Australian Anglican church. Julia Baird argues in the...
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Women bishops: Jesus was happy with female apostles. What is the C of E’s problem?
Women bishops: Jesus was happy with female apostles. What is the C of E’s problem?
The following article by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch was published in the London Observer on 7 July 2012. At its Gener...
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