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Ryle, Jacqueline Lillian. "'My God, my land' : interwoven paths of Christianity and tradition in Fiji." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246970.

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Nandlal, Satya. "Selection for red body colouration in Fijian hybrid tilapias." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36982/1/36982_Nandlal_1998.pdf.

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Tilapias are cultured in many paiis of the world including Fiji where they are becoming an important alternative to marine fish as a protein source. A number of tilapia species are polymorhpic for body colour. While most cultured stocks are uniformly black, red strains are considered more attractive for commercial sale in many countries. Therefore breeding programs designed to optimise red body colour via selection and or hybridisation have been developed. No such program has been tried in Fiji, yet red coloured individuals attract better prices at the market. This study trialled a mass selection program to optimise red body colour in hybrid (Oreochromis niloticus x Oreochromis mossambicus) Fijian stocks. Potential indirect effects of intensity of selection for improved coloured fish on a correlated trait (growth performance) was also assessed to determine if improved lines grew at the same rate as Control fish. The intensity of selection imposed on the Low and High selection lines reduced the amount of black spotting on red fish significantly compared to a Control line in all generations. The mean percentage of black on fishes remained relatively constant in the Control line across generations. No significant differences in growth rate among treatments (C,L and H) were observed within generations. Thus while mass selection could improve colour significantly, it did not affect growth rate adversely. The results of the current study indicate that this approach to genetic improvement of cultured tilapias in Fiji (and possibly elsewhere) has great potential and will result in better quality red fish for culture without adversely affecting growth rates.

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Degei, Sekove Bigitibau. "The Challenge to Fijian Methodism - the vanua, identity, ethnicity and change." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2481.

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Christianity is the dominant religion in the Fiji islands today. However, this was not the case in the early eighteen hundreds. Back then, the Fijians had lived a life and culture of their own that was not known to the world. This all changed when different groups of Europeans started to arrive in the early eighteen hundreds. Of these, the group that had the most influence on the Fijians was the English Wesleyan missionaries. The result of their evangelism was the establishment of the Methodist church in 1835. This church is the dominant denomination in Christian Fiji and has been closely meshed with concepts of Fijian identity. However, the church's dominance is being challenged, partly because of the entwining of concepts of church and the vanua (land, people). Additionally the arrival of other, new denominations with their different ideologies has also affected the standing and influence of the Methodists. In this thesis the way in which the missionaries had introduced themselves to the Fijians and how they influenced and converted them to Christianity are outlined. This was not a one-way affair, where only the missionaries' ways of living and ideologies were involved. They first had to accept the structure and some of the customs of the vanua before their mission could proceed. It was found that the influence and ideologies brought by the missionaries was incorporated into the vanua ideologies and has formed the basis of what became the Fijian way of life. When Fiji became a colony of Britain in 1874, the incorporation of the vanua and Methodist Christian ideologies and structure was well established. However, all these views, and the previously accepted local views of Fijian culture, have changed in response to the challenges from the new denominations. The effect of these new approaches and ideologies on the vanua and the Methodists in Fiji is discussed. The outcome of this on-going situation is not yet clear.

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Ji, Jingyi. "Encounters between Chinese culture and christianity : a hermeneutical perspective /." Berlin : Lit, 2007. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783825807092.

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Jang, Ucheon. "Transcendental apologetics for the Asian context religious, philosophical, and historical arguments /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilkins, Frances. "The old ship of Zion singing in Evangelicalism in North-East and Northern Isles Scottish coastal communities, 1859-2009 /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25878.

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Obinna, Elijah Oko. "Negotiating culture : Christianity and the Ogo society in Amasiri, Nigeria." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5463.

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There have been two key difficulties concerning the study of indigenous rituals, religious conversion and change among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria, both before and after the missionary upsurge of the mid-nineteenth Century. First is the inadequate awareness or lack of reflexivity by some scholars regarding the resilience of the Igbo indigenous religions. Second is the neglect of oral sources and the overdependence on missionary archives. This thesis draws on field research on the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) and the Ogo society in Amasiri. The research method follows a triangulation research design which incorporates an ethnographic methodology. This involves participant observation and interviews, thus allowing for a set of guidelines that connect theoretical paradigms to strategies of inquiry and methods for collecting empirical data. Within the Amasiri clan it is expected that every male will be initiated into the Ogo society as a means of attaining manhood as well as incorporation into the adult group. Refusal to be initiated into the society amounts to ostracisation and a loss of social relevance. The thesis examines the establishment, growth and impact of Christianity among the Amasiri clan in its different phases (colonial and post-colonial eras) - 1927-2008. It demonstrates the interaction between Amasiri indigenous religions and Christianity, in order to show how and to what extent the Ogo society has endured over time. The thesis analyses specific beliefs and ritual practices of the Ogo society and Christianity, paying close attention to the resultant tensions as well as the dynamic of acquired and lived religious identities. In view of the complex patterns of interaction between Christianity and the Ogo society, the thesis explores the following questions: What makes the Ogo society an integral part of the socio-religious life of Amasiri and what powers and identity does it confer on initiates? How are these predominantly indigenous cultural features, expressed within Christian spirituality? What effect does the construction and negotiation of religious identities have on the interaction and co-existence of Christians and members of the Ogo society? Furthermore, three themes were central to this research: the first is the gender dynamic of initiation processes into the Ogo society. The second is the pattern of religious change, identity and politics of Christianity and indigenous cultures. The third is analysing the need for and limits on effective dialogue between Christians and members of the Ogo society. The thesis raises a crucial question, whether religious conversion is partial or total repudiation of indigenous cultures. These analyses propose a viable means of negotiation between Christianity and the Ogo society in Amasiri. It sets the stage for a dialogue between Christianity and the Ogo society, a dialogue that takes the indigenous context seriously.

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Bogs, Ronald A. "Developing and implementing a lifestyle evangelism culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0256.

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Cowan, Thomas. "Preaching biblical truth in a postmodern culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Stonestreet, John B. "A contemporary prolegomena for Christian worldview study." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1499.

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Premdas, Ralph R. "Religion and reconciliation in the multi-ethnic states of the Third World Fiji, Trinidad, and Guyana /." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26969958.html.

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Patterson, Gary C. "The validity of homogeneity in the Old Testament an exegetical and theological look of Biblical separation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Nichols, Michael W. "The danger of including contextualization in theological method." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1991. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Heacock, Clint. "Text and culture bringing the biblical worldview to bear on the world : a biblical-theological study of Acts 17:16-34 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Miller, J. M. "The eastern gate perceiving culture as a communication of worldviews in performance /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Owings, John Major. "Developing inclusiveness in a native American culture (Muskogee Creek) /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Brown, Ronald Neal. "Discipleship in a postmodern culture implementing a biblical and contextual strategy for discipling emerging leaders based on Paul's epistle to the Colossians /." Fort Worth, TX : Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.049-0500.

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Sakošová, Edita. "Spirituality among young Christians in post-communist Slovakia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Triebel, Bernhard. "Der japanische Mann und die Botschaft des Evangeliums : relevante Verkündigung des Evangeliums unter Berücksichtigung der kulturellen Wurzeln und der sozialen Strukturen : historisch-kulturelle Untersuchung der Mentalität des japanischen Mannes = Japanese men and the message of the Gospel /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Pruitt, Richard A. "The incultuartion of the Christian Gospel theory and theology with special reference to the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5061.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on month day year) Includes bibliographical references.

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Sytsma, Richard E. "The message of forgiveness of sin in the Japanese context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Balikyogerako, Ssonko P. "Inculturating Ganda Christian faith." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p033-0785.

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Marques, Jose Da Mota. "Christology and culture clash a study in the Christology of the Afro-Brazilian religions /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Leland, June E. "American cultural patterns in Christian education in the local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Fisher, David. "The socio-economic consequences of tourism in Levuka, Fiji." Lincoln University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1284.

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This thesis examines the proposition that the local population at a tourist destination copy the economic behaviour of tourists and learn to give economic value to the same objects and activities that are demonstrated by tourists. Levuka, the old capital of Fiji, served as the case study. It was found that decisions are based on the experiences and the cultural template of which those decisions are a part. There are many acculturating factors involved in the learning process as a subsistance-based economy becomes more monetised. The purchasing habits of tourists have little obvious effect. However, there is evidence that what is of value to tourists and what encourages them to visit the destination are not fully appreciated by many of the host population. Examples of these culturally dissimilar values are externalities such as the physical structures of the built environment and unquantifiable factors such as the ambience of the destination. It is argued that an understanding of the factors that have created cultural rules is necessary if a complete analysis of the effects of tourism is to be undertaken. This can be achieved by considering change as a process and tracing that process by examining the cultural history of the host community. Tourism should be seen as another aspect of change. The response to tourism will then be seen as a new challenge that will be met using the lessons previously learnt and incorporated into the cultural template.

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Compton, Joel D. "Christianity and contextualization toward a theological understanding of the encounter with unbelief /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p086-0046.

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Heart, Jeanette Sue. "The multi-sensory sermon-event." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Pollard, Wm F. Adrian. "Biblical images of community in a post Christian culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Magaya, Aldrin Tinashe. "Christianity, culture, and the African experiences in Bocha, Zimbabwe, c.1905 – 1960s." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6189.

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This dissertation examines the history of VaBocha experiences with Christianity. Historians have long assumed that Christian conversion was a static product. I show that conversion was an ongoing fluid process that churchgoers negotiated, contested, and appropriated to suit the Bocha social fabric. I demonstrate how existing social facts and sites of socialization shaped VaBocha understanding of Christianity. In doing so, I focus on the daily social practices to reveal how VaBocha reconciled the idioms of Christianity with their indigenous lifeways. VaBocha made use of existing sites of socialization to make Christianity useful to their everyday life. These sites were social spaces were VaBocha articulated familial and kinship relations and learned the values, behavior, and skills fitting to Bocha society. By probing the relations occurring at the familial and communal level, the dissertation illustrates that the domestication of Christianity started in familial domestic spaces. In the dissertation, I discuss the nuanced relationships that occurred between churchgoers and family members who were not churchgoers. The fact that Christianity never established hegemony over existing social facts and the ways of socialization which reproduced them meant that VaBocha churchgoers had to devise ways to balance the demands of Christianity against familial and communal obligations. I show why churchgoers became eclectic Christians who participated in both church and indigenous activities and beliefs, despite the fact that the churches condemned most of these indigenous practices. The dissertation shows that the pre-Christian ethics of tolerance of diversity allowed for Christian and indigenous practices to co-exist harmoniously.

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Kerber, Mary. "Towards a spirituality of mission for school sisters of Notre Dame in cross-cultural settings." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Carlson, Kenneth Paul. "Supracultural truth in the Bible." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Kuzuli, Kosse. "Teaching theology in the Ubangi." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Lu, Cindy Su-Chin. "The exegetical and theological foundation of the concept of perfection in Heb. 10:19-25 from a Chinese perspective." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Goebel, Udo. "Postmodernism in Germany a study of the cultural influences upon society and the church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Kennington, John C. "Biblical hermeneutics and ethnography methodologies bringing cross-cultural ministry closer to Scripture and to people /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Delgado, Valmir. "How important exorcism is toward an understanding of the relationship between culture and Christian faith in the context of the Brazilian church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Gaddis, Jason O'Neal. "Theological education in India balancing doctrinal soundness and cultural relevance /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Okochi, Chux Cornelius. "The rhetoric of collaborative ministry : a perspective on ministry based on Augustine's rhetorical theory with particular reference to Abakaliki Diocese /." Ann Arbor : UMI Dissertation Services, 2006. http://etd1.library.duq.edu/theses/available/etd-07242006-142408/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duquesne University, 2006.
This is an authorized facsimile, made from the microfilm master copy of the original dissertation or master thesis published by UMI. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.

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Oladipo, Caleb O. "The experience of the Holy Spirit in the indigenous African church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Cannuli, John Thomas. "Looking at the Scriptures with Chinese eyes." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Lee, Byung-Soo. "The Korean Revival, 1907-1910 a Korean missio-theological perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network, 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Johnson, Jim. "Toward a contextualized model of church leadership in Pakistan." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Dempsey, Danielle. "Envisioning Queer Culture: Toward a Theological Framework for Reimagining Sexuality and Sexual Orientation." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/140.

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In this thesis, I argue that the both the Church and the Queer Community will benefit from a reexamination of Church teachings on sexuality. I argue that Church’s current position on sexuality does not uphold its own teaching on the importance human dignity, because a sexual ethic that opposes homosexuality contributes to the marginalization of members of the Queer Community. I then argue that Michael Lawler’s and Todd Salzman’s The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology provides a revisionist theory on sexual ethics that is inclusive of same-sex couples while also paying deference to the fundamental elements of the Church’s teaching on sexual ethics. Having suggested that a revisionist sexual ethic such as Salzman’s and Lawler’s serves as a cohesive response to the Church’s existing position on sexuality, I appeal to Elizabeth Johnson’s framework in Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God. Johnson argues that individuals who experience marginalization are an asset to the Christian Church because they offer unique insights into God. I propose that instead of approaching homosexuality solely in terms of ethics, Johnson’s framework allows us to regard members of the Queer Community in terms of the contributions they have to offer the Church. Finally, I employ David Tracy’s methodology in Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology and propose that in light of postmodernity, we ought to use a pluralistic model when approaching a multiplicity of belief systems as well as when approaching the multi-faceted nature of sexuality. I conclude that in doing so both the Church and the Queer Community will benefit from the Queer Community’s full and open participation within the Catholic Church.

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Liao, Samuel. "A system approach to church administration in Chinese culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Sutherland, Philip. "Christ and Culture in America: Civil Religion and the American Catholic Church." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107479.

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Thesis advisor: Mark Massa
Thesis advisor: Dominic Doyle
Civil religion is a necessary unifying force in a religiously plural society such as the United States, but it can also usurp the place of Christianity in the believer’s life. This is always a danger for Christianity which can only be the “good news” if it is inculturated by drawing upon a society’s own symbols. But it must also transcend the culture if it is to speak a prophetic word to it
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Ravasco, Gerard G. "Towards a Christian pastoral approach to Cambodian culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p101-0002.

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Kim, Seong-Hun. "Sanctification in East Asian perspective a model of sanctification in light of yin/yang complementary dualism /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Cortez, Marc. "Models, metaphors, and multivalent contextualizations religious language and the nature of contextual theology /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Martinez, y. Alire Jerome J. "Cultural adaptation of the liturgy legal notion and competent authority /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Coon, George L. "A handbook of homiletics for the pastors of Myanmar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0566.

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