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			<title><![CDATA[Battle of the Bands 2012]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/45/battle-of-the-bands-2012</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For the fifth year running, St Anselms returned to the Cavern Club. Brimful with talent, high expectations and a youthful grunge cool, the hopefuls took to the stage. Again the standard of musicianship was higher than ever before, and the evening became a wonderful celebration of rocknroll, with the appropriately shiny guitars, floppy hairstyles and era-specific fashion. This year the bands had been asked to play one song of their own, one Beatles cover and one other song.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Arkwright scholarship]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/44/arkwright-scholarship</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Huw Thomas, Matthew Westby, Connor Blanshard and Alex St John in Year 11 are hoping for success after completing the first two stages of the Arkwright scholarship. The four students are hoping to follow in the success of Alex Wilson and Alex Jackson. Alex Wilson secured his place at Oxford to study Engineering and Alex Jackson is going to attend an engineering themed workshop in the summer for a week.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Careers Convention 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/43/careers-convention-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the recent Careers Convention there was a wide selection of careers available. We visited an apprenticeship provider (TTE Engineering) and the RAF. We asked several questions ranging from salaries to promotion prospects and received lots of information. TTE provides apprenticeships sponsored by local industry, for example Shell and Tate &amp; Lyle. We learnt that Shell alone spends £1,000,000 on new apprenticeships per year.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Classroom Medics workshop]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/42/classroom-medics-workshop</link>
			<description><![CDATA[St Anselms College hosted the first ever Classroom Medics workshop on the Wirral. A Wolverhampton based educational company - Classroom Medics ventured over to Merseyside to promote their services. Alison Ravenscroft from St Anselms College was approached by Michelle Dow from Mersey Stem to host the free advertising event and help organise links with other schools. The workshops were demonstrating a wide range of medical equipment.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Football success]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/40/football-success</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Daniel McLoughlin of Year 11 is the first boy for over 20 years from St Anselms to be selected by Merseyside County Schools Football Association to represent them at Under 16s level. Daniel has made an excellent start with the squad featuring in every game so far and has assisted them in reaching the quarter finals of the National Cup competition. Well done and good luck!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Prize Giving 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/41/prize-giving-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The annual College Prize Giving was celebrated on Wednesday 14th December in the magnificent surroundings of the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Birkenhead. The achievements of students in each year group for the academic year 2010-11 were recognised, with senior prize winners returning from university to collect their prizes, including former Head Boy Ben Jones (Modern Languages, London), Deputy Head Boy Joseph Fennelly (Medicine, Leeds) and James McIntosh (Anglo-Saxon, Norse &amp; Celtic, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Starlab]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/38/starlab</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the last week of the Christmas term, the College played host to the &quot;Starlab&quot; - this is a mobile planetarium, and provided students in Year 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13 with an opportunity to improve their understanding of astronomy. Shows were hosted by Mr Davis and Mr Gott, and included a tour of the night sky and a &quot;full dome&quot; video exploring the planets of our Solar System.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Professional Drumming Workshop]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/37/professional-drumming-workshop</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wednesday December 12th was the date of our professional drumming workshop at the College. Jeff Rich (previously of Status Quo and Def Leopard) came into College to run a workshop for all students in Year 9 and the boys who have taken part in the last 4 years of the Battle of the Bands competition. The workshop was a historical journey through the development of drums from African wood tree drums to the modern rock and pop kits.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[8E Sponsored Row]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/36/8e-sponsored-row</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Six students in 8E completed a sponsored row on Friday 9th December and have raised nearly 250 pounds for charity. Each student completed a 10 kilometre row during lunchtime and periods 7 and 8, the equivalent of rowing for an hour. The six students involved were Jonathan Nelson, Alex Luxon-Kewley, Ronin Gibbins, Matthew McNamara, Josh Hurst and with 24 hours notice Ethan O'Dowd (Harry Jollie was injured). This is a fantastic achievement and I am sure that the charities involved with St Anselm's College will greatly appreciate it. Well Done!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Marian Year]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/35/the-marian-year</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Monday 21st November twenty-five students representing the Colleges SVP, Friday Club, Legion of Mary and Altar Servers, went on pilgrimage to Shrewsbury to celebrate the close of the Marian Year with Bishop Davies. The Solemn Mass marked the end of the period of spiritual growth in the College which had begun with Benediction in the College Hall on the 10th December last year. On that day over 500 miraculous medals were distributed and the College was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Economics Society]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/34/the-economics-society</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Formed in the 2011/2012 academic year, the society was co-founded by several students keen to further their economic knowledge and ability to debate. Students including Kieran Cassin, Sam Mackie, Damian Schumacker and Matthew Smith, who are hoping to pursue degrees in this subject, saw the formation of the society as pivotal to strengthening their skills in preparation for university. The members gather every month to discuss topical issues in the news, focusing specifically on the world economies, and also on relevant political events.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beginners Upwards Concert]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/33/beginners-upwards-concert</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Students, parents and teachers alike look forward to this twice yearly event.  On this occasion, pupils from Year 7 to 13 presented their audience with an eclectic mix of styles on a wide variety of instruments and rose to the challenge of performing in public with courage and panache. 

Four dramatic and expressive piano pieces were played by Louis Ttofa-Roberts, Robert Neilson-Scott, James Power and Aidan McCormack-Voller each of whom exploited the Bluthners powerful tone to the full.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Success for former pupil Sam Zdrenka]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/32/success-for-former-pupil-sam-zdrenka</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A 20-year-old recruit from the Wirral has successfully passed the first stage of his Royal Navy training at HMS Raleigh in Cornwall. 

Trainee Writer Sam Zdrenka joined the Royal Navy in July. He has now completed a 10 week intensive course designed to give them the basic skills they will rely upon throughout his career. It culminates in the passing-out-parade when Sam marched out alongside his fellow recruits in front of their families and friends.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pascal Esclapez Hockey success]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/31/pascal-esclapez-hockey-success</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pascal Esclapez from Year 11 has been selected to play hockey for the Futures Cup in Cannock in the Midlands over Half Term  from 27th to 30th October. He is the only U16s boy to be selected from Wirral and competed for this position against other players from Durham, Leeds and Manchester. The players were watched by the England selectors who chose only 18 boys from those three counties.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year 7 Barnstondale Visits]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/29/year-7-barnstondale-visits</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As part of our welcome activities for Year 7 each form group had the opportunity to spend the day together at Barnstondale with their form teacher. The focus of the day was to develop friendships within the form group in addition to various life skills such as confidence, leadership and working as part of a team. All students had a worthwhile day and were given the opportunity to take part in abseiling, archery, assault courses and the use of a zip wire over a river.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Golfing Success  Wirral Schools Golf Tournament at Royal Liverpool]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/30/golfing-success-wirral-schools-golf-tournament-at-royal-liverpool</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Friday 14th October 2011 five pupils from St Anselms College took part in the Wirral Schools Golf Tournament at the prestigious British Open course Royal Liverpool in Hoylake. Thirteen schools on the Wirral sent a team of 5 golfers to take part and compete in the Stableford competition. On an unusually warm and calm October day at the Links Adam Beattie, Liam Callaghan, James Beattie, John-Robert Button and Kieran McCann all represented the College marvellously and posted a team net score of 114 Stableford points, beating Calday Grange GS by 1 point.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wirral Youth Parliament]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/27/wirral-youth-parliament</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Three Year 12 students represented St. Anselm's College at the Wirral Youth Parliament event at Wallasey Town Hall on Tuesday 11th October. All students presented themselves very well, receiving a standing ovation for their presentation and going on to win the event . They were proud ambassadors of the College at such a prestgious event. Councillor George Davies commended each of the students to our Headmaster, Mr Simon Duggan, for their efforts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senior Strings visit to St. Catherine's Church, Hoylake]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/24/senior-strings-visit-to-st-catherines-church-hoylake</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Friday September 30th the Senior Strings performed in concert at St Catherines Church, Hoylake, to raise funds for the Christian Brothers School in Sierra Leone. The programme included the Mission Impossible music, Tchaikovskys Serenade for Strings and Eleanor Rigby. Solos by Mozart, Chopin and Monti Czardas were also played as well as Irish and Scottish jigs. The event, organised by Year 12 student, Ben Smith, raised £170.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year 8 Activity Weekend]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/28/year-8-activity-weekend</link>
			<description><![CDATA[After a long and hot journey on the bus from the College the staff at PGL couldnt have made us any more welcome. We were staying in good sized cabins with comfortable beds to sleep on.

The food was excellent and very well cooked and with lots of options - if you didnt want one thing you could simply choose another. The activities were very exciting and if you didnt want do to any of them the staff wouldnt push you to do it. Personally my favourite activity of them all was the zip-wire because you were high up and went really quick down the line.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HMS Albion Engineering Symposium]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/23/hms-albion-engineering-symposium</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the afternoon of Thursday 22nd September, a group of aspiring engineers from Year 9 attended an engineering symposium on board HMS Albion (an 18500 tonne Royal Navy assault vessel), at the Liverpool Cruise Liner Terminal by Pier Head.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Language Club 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/22/language-club-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Modern Languages Faculty proudly announce the re-start of our

LANGUAGE CLUB!
 
It meets every Wednesday lunchtime, between 1.30pm and 2.10pm in rooms 602 and 603 initially. However, the last Wednesday of every month, it will take place in the Library.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year 10 Art trip to Liverpool]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/25/year-10-art-trip-to-liverpool</link>
			<description><![CDATA[During summer 2011 Tate Liverpool presented the work of René Magritte, the first major exhibition of the Belgian surrealist in the UK in ten years. Magritte is one of the most revered and popular artists of the 20th century. In his work he creates improbable worlds which present a confusing concept of reality and is renowned for mysterious imagery which combines the ordinary with the strange to create a disturbing effect.  On 14th September Year 10 GCSE Artists, Mr Formela, Mrs Mills, Mr Swan and Mr McDonough took part in a day visit to Liverpool.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Duke of Edinburgh 2010 / 11]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/26/duke-of-edinburgh-2010-11</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Duke of Edinburgh scheme has grown at St. Anselms College over the last five years. The Silver Award group went out in October 2010 for their three day practice hike across the Clwydian Range. Year 11 and Year 12 students were required to walk for thirty miles over three days, camping for two nights and carrying all their own gear, cooking equipment and food. It was a very cold camp with students waking up to find their tents covered in ice. All 38 students completed the hike successfully.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GCSE success 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/16/gcse-success-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Year 11 students at St. Anselms College are celebrating the best GCSE results in the Colleges history this week! 98% of students gained 5 or more A*-C grades including English and Maths, the national benchmark. 42% of students gained 5+ grades A*&amp;A and 41% of all entries were graded at A* or A. 99% of students gained 5 GCSE grades A*-C or better. The average score of 10 grades A*-C per student, 506 GCSE points, confirmed that this was the Colleges highest-performing GCSE cohort]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Level Success 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/12/a-level-success-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Students at St. Anselms College are celebrating their A Level results after another year of impressive achievement! 50% of all entries gained the top grades (A*-B) with an overall 100% pass rate (grades A-E), a 1% improvement on the efforts of the 2010 cohort. All 90 students achieved 3 or more GCE (A level) passes. 6% of all entries achieved the A* grade, awarded to the highest-performing students.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Design &amp; Technology Dream Lab competition]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/19/design-technology-dream-lab-competition</link>
			<description><![CDATA[An article featured in the Wirral Globe (July 2011) Pupils at a local secondary school are in the running to win thousands of pounds as part of a major national design competition. Year 8 students at St Anselms College are entering The Dream Lab: a search for young inventors, which is looking for Britains next design superstars.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Arkwright Scholarship award]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/20/arkwright-scholarship-award</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Alexander Jackson has been selected to receive an Arkwright Scholarship after successfully passing the Arkwright Aptitude Paper demonstrating flair and originality in solving Engineering Design problems and presenting GCSE work to a panel of interviewers earlier in March and April.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New 6th Form Block project]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/8/new-6th-form-block-project</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announce that the Edmund Rice Trust has completed the purchase of Outwood, formerly the Christian Brothers House, on the College site. This will now be refurbished developed into our new 6th Form Block, with the support of Wirral Local Authority, and it is intended that it will be operational from September 2012.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[German Exchange July 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/18/german-exchange-july-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In July 2011, 12 pupils from St. Anselm's College took part in our annual German Exchange with the Peter Vischer School in Nuremberg. The exchange runs in partnership with Wirral Grammar School for Girls and involved visits to Munich (pictured), Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber and the Bayern Munich football stadium, the Allianz Arena.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brother Kerrigan Sponsored Walk 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/13/brother-kerrigan-sponsored-walk-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[St Anselms College has a long standing connection to Sierra Leone in West Africa following the death of Brother Edward Senan Kerrigan, who was Headmaster of the College from 1975 until 1981. He was shot dead by rebel forces on 10th April 1995 in Sierra Leone, during the brutal Civil War that ravaged the country.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year 5 Leadership Days 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/17/year-5-leadership-days-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[During June 2011 Year 5 pupils from across the Wirral arrived at the College to partake in various curriculum activities including Maths, Science, Games, Astronomy, Spanish and Food Technology. What made these activities unique is that they were planned and led by students from St Anselms.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year 12 ICT Conference review]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/21/year-12-ict-conference-review</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 5th July our College, St Anselms, successfully organised an ICT conference to which other schools had the opportunity to attend. The schools which attended the event were; St. Anselm's College, Upton Hall, Pensby Boys, Pensby Girls, Hilbre, Wirral Grammar School for Girls and West Kirby Grammar School.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Miss Ashton's Zambia Immersion 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/14/miss-ashtons-zambia-immersion-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[During April 2011 I was lucky enough to be part of a team who went on an Immersion visit to Zambia. It was a life changing experience. I have completely fallen in love with the people and the place.  Zambians have an amazing strength of spirit.  They have so little yet give so much to life and faith.  We could learn a lot from that.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[6th Form Sierra Leone Immersion 2011]]></title>
			<link>http://www.st-anselms.com/115/news/article/9/6th-form-sierra-leone-immersion-2011</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In February, a group of ten students and three teachers took part in the St Anselms College Immersion visit to Sierra Leone.
Until 2003, Sierra Leone was in the grip of a brutal civil war, which left many schools vandalised and stripped of their resources.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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