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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">HI all,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">A</span><span style=
"color:#FF0000 "><b>t 11:52 on 17/01/2012 Steve wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>I wonder how many actually remember Philip Khan.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">And his saxophone, and the impromptu "gigs" at Borland conferences in the very early days.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">His name is actually <b>Philippe Kahn</b>, and his Wikipedia page makes interesting reading. ( Get it before the blackout!! ) Born in France, and educated in Switzerland, he has a masters Degree in Mathematics & Musicology (Classical Flute), and is credited with creating the first camera phone integrated with the net, and creating the software for the MICRAL - the first microprocessor based PC.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Then there was his employment of Anders and his Turbo Pascal ... the rest is more current history.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 "> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 "><b>For the record: Philippe's 3 Rules of Software Craftsmanship</b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Rule #1 - "Start with a vision"</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Rule #2 - "Throwing more bodies at software projects only makes things worse"</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Rule #3 - "There are three vectors that drive software craftsmanship: quality, schedule, and features. The challenge is that you only get to pick two"</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 "><b>Philippe's Law on Software Development Productivity</b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">The law states that the productivity of a software developer in a team of N people is diminished by dividing it by the cube root of N</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">cheers</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Gary</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Steve</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>On Tuesday, 17 January 2012, Stefan Mueller <muellers@orcl-toolbox.com></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>wrote:</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Just found it on "The Register" today and thought it makes for an amusing</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>(but a bit longwinded) read:</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/verity_stob_sons_of_khan_2011/</span></span>
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"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> The woes of Techdom</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 1. And it came to pass that the seasons rose and fell, and financial</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>crisis waned while new financial crisis waxed, and the Kimjongilia flower</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>did wither and fade on the vine.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 2. But misfortune struck the code cutters of Java, who were still on</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>their never-ending pilgrimage to the land of Lambda, whence other pilgrims</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>had long since been and gone and shrunk the T-shirt.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 3. And they awakened one morning to discover that they no longer</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>worshipped the Sun god, but now did owe their allegiance unto the Mighty</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Beard. Bummer.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 4. But the Sharpers of Dotnet were also troubled, especially the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>cult of Silver Light. And they looked fearfully upon the antics of the high</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>priest of the Softies, saying: What the blazes doth Fester think he playeth</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>at?</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 5. However, the Sharpers were laughing compared with the fate of the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>tribe of Flashinites. For the departed god Steve had cursed them with</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>a great curse.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 6. And He had stationed a cherubim with a flaming sword which turned</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>every direction to guard the way to the store of apps, and banished them</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>from the sweet money orchards of Cupertino.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 7. Wherefore the king of the Flashinites, that is called Adobe, did</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>consider hard and long.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 8. Yeah, he considered for longer than it taketh a Dellish machine</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>to reboot with yet another Acrobat upgrade.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 9. Then, when he had finished thinking, Adobe did ungird his loins.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>And he did conceal the sword of resistance into the scabbard of abrupt</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>capitulation, and the shield of technicalleadership into the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>cupboard-under-the-stairs of user base abandonment.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 10. Yet even the Æsthetes, that art the disciples which loveth the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Jesus phone the most, were discontent.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 11. Wherefore the language of the Æsthetes was Æbjective C.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 12. And this Æbjective C is about as æsthetic as the secret mouldy side</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>of the last orange in the bowl, that one discovereth abruptly when one</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>taketh it up.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 13. Yet the Æsthetes admitted this not.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 14. And so it went on, among all the tribes and cults and sects in the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>land of developers, there flourished the stinking weed of discontent.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 15. And every geek that micturateth against the wall was baffled and</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>afraid.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Opportunity knocketh</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 1. And in those times the elders of the tribe of the Sons of Kahn</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>did live in the discotheque of Embarcadearohdearohdearyme. And they looked</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>out upon this chaos.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 2. And they saw that it was good.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 3. For one elder spake up in this manner: if we punt out a decent</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>version of Delphi now, we could be onto a fantastic hearts-and-minds win,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>and we will enjoy the Second Coming of Pascal.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 4. For all we need do is make it more modern than Java, and more</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>'native'-allowing-the-inference-but-certainly-not-actually-stating-faster</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>than C#, and more Apple-friendly than Flash, and less hideous than</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Æbjective C.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 5. And targetting not only on both 32- and 64-bit Windows, but</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>also Mac OS and iOS.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 6. So the blessed users of Delphi may loll around in the sweet money</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>orchards ofCupertino.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 7. And little children shall once more dangle their elses in the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>limpid brook, and weave repeat/until loops from honeysuckle blossoms, and</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>even declare local procedures.</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>-- </span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Steve Peacocke</span></span>
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"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Mobile: 0220 612-611</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>_______________________________________________</span></span>
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