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DSM-V: What others say
I just wanted to draw your attention to a few other blog posts covering autogynephilia and the DSM-V manual (see my previous post).
Cheryl over at Cheryl's Mewsings makes a point similar to mine regarding the fact that crossdressing men are considered perverts, while crossdressing women are not:
"Let's backtrack a little to talk about Transvestic Fetishism. This is what we used to call Transvestism, and is used to be an 'illness' only if it caused distress. Under the draft of DSM-V it is now an illness regardless of whether the patient is distressed or not. It is also gender-specific. Only men can be diagnosed with it. So if a woman wears clothes that the psychiatrist deems appropriate to a man that's fine, but if a man wears clothes that the psychiatrist deems appropriate for a woman then he's automatically diagnosed as crazy, even if he exhibits no other symptoms."
The DSM-V does give transsexual autogynephiliacs the chance of having sex reassignment surgery, but the price is high. Cheryl puts it this way:
"I should note that Blanchard & Zucker are prepared to allow people that they diagnose with Autogynephilia to go forward for surgery. However, that is at the price of having been labeled a narcissistic sex pervert, and with no option for being declared 'cured' as there is with Gender Incongruity."
Over at Wrestling Emily Dickinson Adam Fish follows up on Chery's musings, discussing the "reality" of autogynephilia. He points out, correctly as I see it, that psychological disorders are not the same as illness caused by viruses and bacteria. Mental disorders are "nebulous collections of symptoms":
"But the labels we apply to these collections of symptoms are always subject to change, as are the symptoms which fall under a certain label. For example, schizophrenia as we know it has developed over a curious course of diagnostic evolution from its original classification as 'dementia praecox' to the clinical definition we know today. Currently, moves are afoot to eliminate Asperger's Syndrome as a separate condition and merge it with the other Autism Spectrum Disorders, on the grounds that it fits in better on that spectrum than as a separate entity. All this is as it should be: research modifies our understanding of a condition, which in turn modifies the way we categorise it, which in turn leads to improvements in the ways we treat or help people deal with these conditions. "
Exactly! Good science is always changing, challenging its own preconceptions. This requires humility in the face of complex phenomena like crossdressing and autogynephilia. As far as I am concerned Blanchard and his friends have the right to do the research they do and make the claims they do. But they and everybody else should keep in mind the following:
Blanchard and his friends have not presented the objective truth of anything. They have no real proof for their statements. That does not mean that theirs is bad science. It isn't. It just means that we have to read it for what it is: Another argument in a never ending scientific discussion.
Blanchard and his friends (as well as all scientists) are not disinterested observers of the world. They carry their own baggage and their own prejudices, and in this case it seems that what their mama told them ("Real men don't dress up in skirts, but women can wear trousers!") forces them to interpret their observations in one way only.
These ideas about what is normal and abnormal sex has been reinforced by their scientific training. Traditional evolutionary biology can only interpret hetero sex normal, as that is the only sex that can lead to offspring. This is why Blanchard & Co spends so much time on trying to explain homosexuality and why they cannot accept that heterosexual men would like to be women.
Fish again:
"I mentioned in my previous piece that, for a long time, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric 'disorder' because it was regarded as 'abnormal.' Thankfully, these days it is accepted that this isn't the case. But psychiatry persists in categorising some sexualities as normal and others as not so. The device used for this purpose is the idea of 'paraphilia' or, in layman's terms, sexual fetishism. "
But something doesn't have to be causing anyone harm to be considered a paraphilia. Fish argues gender incongruence becomes a disorder because it conflicts with the social expectations a society places on someone because of their birth gender, and failing to meet those expectations causes feelings of trauma and guilt:
"Most sexual fetishes only become disorders when the treatment of people who happen to enjoy such fetishes leads to their experiencing feelings of marginalisation and low self-worth. "
The purpose of medicine is to heal those who are hurting, without harming them further, Fish says.
"So, to return to Autogynephilia, here we have a definition of something which could easily be classed as Gender Incongruence, but isn't because some cis male psychologists have decided that the only real gender incongruence is heterosexual in nature. If you're a [male to female] trans woman and you want to fuck men, Roberta's your auntie. But if you're male assigned at birth, feel gender incongruence, but want to get it on with other ladies...that's not real Gender Incongruence. That's just a paraphilia. That's just sexual deviancy (don't worry if you're a [female to male] trans man who wants to fuck other fellas, though. Ray Blanchard doesn't consider gay trans men in his definition of Autogynephilia. Perhaps, like Queen Victoria on lesbians, he doesn't think they really exist)."
Fish's advice to the DSM is simple: Focus on gender incongruence and drop autogynephilia.
See also comments by
Kelly Winters
Aethelread
For a second opinion, see Alice Dreger's post over at the Bioethics Forum
Labels: Blanchard, cross-dressing, DSM, perversion, TG Typology
Just Chris March 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM
psychological disorders are not the same as illness caused by viruses and bacteria. Mental disorders are "nebulous collections of symptoms"
That's because psychological are pseudo-scientific explanations arrived at by post-hoc rationalization: they give a sense of understanding, but no ability to predict or control.
Virii and bacteria belong to the world of predictive *hard* science much like the work on determining the physical differences in female/male brains.
Post-hoc rationalization get introduced again into the male/female brain debate in trying to determine what differences in *behavior and cognition* the physical differences make.
Sorry I can't type today. The first sentence should read:
*because psychological explanations are often pseudo-scientific explanations arrived at by post-hoc rationalization*
tg_captioner March 7, 2010 at 3:53 PM
it's impossible to compare autogynephilia to schizophrenia. If your a schitzo, you can cause harm to others and yourself. If your a pedafile, you can cause harm to young children. There is no consequences or harm caused by autogynephilia, other than maybe some confusion and guilt.
Also gender re-assignment isn't always a cure, that'd be like telling someone that likes having sex with cars that they should replace their genitals with a piston rod. What we fantasize in our minds doesn't HAVE to reflect that way in the real world, we can separate the two.
Susanne March 8, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Jack, I know you don't like autogynephilia being part of the paraphilia group - and I get why. I really do. My, perhaps rhetorical, question as the spouse of an AGP is: behaviorally, what is the difference between exploring one's place on the gender spectrum and feeding an addiction? Is one just a way of justifying the other? And which way is it???
Jack Molay March 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM
To Susanne,
Oh, i guess there is addiction like behavior among people like me, and I am sure some are using the idea of exploring their gender identity to explain to themselves the distance they keep to their loved ones.You and William's story, as you tell it over at your blog, is maybe an an example of this?
But if it is an addiction, it is comparable to other forms of sex addictions, or alcoholism or gambling. You do not need a separate "transvestic disorder" category for that. As I understand it, you two got a lot of help from a group focusing on addictions in general.
However, before we jump to the conclusion that all obsessive AGPs are addicts, I would also argue that what seems obsessive in an AGP, may seem normal in your regular non-crossdressing man. "He has a strong sexual appetite, they say!" "A lot of libido in that one!" "He is at her every night!" Then it becomes something admirable.
The problem for people like me is the conflict of expected roles. That conflict leads some of us to focus more on our fantasy life (for some including crossdressing) than having sex with our spouses.
That is: Even if we find someone as understanding and flexible as you (or my girl friend) we still are not quite able to believe our luck. There is still a voice inside us that says that "No! She cannot really mean it. Maybe she despises me, after all!" That leads us to withdraw.
This is what a long life with a strong cultural conditioning does to you. The good thing is that persistent "deconditioning" is very pleasurable :-) it brings lovers much, much closer and makes their love even stronger.
I know for a fact that what you have written has given other crossdressers a lot of hope!
And for your final question. I believe it is the gender issue that feeds the behavior, and not the other way around.
New blog on crossdreaming and autogynephilia
The sissy and the dominatrix
Cosmo: The sex life of crossdreamers (autogynephiles)
Confessions of an Autogynephiliac
Radio show on Michael Bailey's book on transsexualism
Looking for a new name for the blog
DSM-V: What about autogynephilia?
What brain science says about MTF transsexuals

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Between 2007 and 2010 Virgo collected data in coincidence with the LIGO and GEO gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. These data have been searched for GWs emitted by cataclysmic phenomena in the universe, by non-axisymmetric rotating neutron stars or from a stochastic background in the frequency band of the detectors. The sensitivity of GW searches is limited by noise produced by the detector or its environment. It is therefore crucial to characterize the various noise sources in a GW detector. This paper reviews the Virgo detector noise sources, noise propagation, and conversion mechanisms which were identified in the three first Virgo observing runs. In many cases, these investigations allowed us to mitigate noise sources in the detector, or to selectively flag noise events and discard them from the data. We present examples from the joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo GW searches to show how well noise transients and narrow spectral lines have been identified and excluded from the Virgo data. We also discuss how detector characterization can improve the astrophysical reach of gravitational-wave searches.


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Le Glorious Twelfth (le Douze Glorieux) est une expression désignant le jour du 12 août qui est celui de l'ouverture de la saison de chasse du Lagopède d'Écosse au Royaume-Uni. C'est un des jours de chasse les plus importants de l'année, et de nombreux animaux sont tués ce jour. Cela contribue à accroître l'activité économique dans les zones rurales proches des landes. La date elle-même est traditionnelle et est fixée par le Game Act 1831 (et en Irlande du Nord, le Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985). Tous les gibiers n'ont pas les mêmes dates d'ouvertures - la plupart commençant le  septembre, et le  octobre pour le coq de bruyère et le faisan.

Depuis que la législation britannique a intégré le fait que la saison de chasse ne peut commencer un dimanche, la date est parfois repoussée au , comme en 2001. et 2007.
Les lagopèdes n'ont jamais été élevés pour la chasse et il n'y a donc jamais de lâchés, et c'est pourquoi leur nombre fluctue d'année en année. Récemment, le Glorious Twelfth a également été touché par des actions anti-chasse, la crise engendré par l'épidémie de fièvre aphteuse de 2001 (qui a conduit à repousser la date par endroits) et les effets du tique du mouton, un scarabée porteur d'un parasite, Trichostrongylus tenuis, ainsi que par les inondations et le mauvais temps de 2007. Parfois, certaines landes ont trop peu de lagopèdes et aucun n'est tué avant septembre.

Références

Événement lié à la chasse

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The Toledo to Chicago Canal. A Dream Never Dug.
Toledo's past and future could have changed dramatically.
Once upon a time in America, some dreamers and visionaries had a plan. A plan that would have dramatically changed Toledo's destiny. Be it for the better or for the worse may be a tough call in hindsight, but certainly our history of our city would have been profoundly rewritten had this ever become a reality.
The plan was pretty simple. To build a major shipping canal from Toledo to Chicago. Unlike the Miami-Erie-Wabash canal system that was created in the 1840's than ran parallel to the Maumee River, and laced itself through the Midwest, this one would have actually used much of the river itself as the canal channel and would have run across the landscape of Northern Indiana or southern Michigan. It would have been large enough to have allowed the passage of larger ships, hauling massive cargoes to back and forth between Toledo and Chicago. To those who advocated this dream, it was a no-brainer. The prevailing school of of thought was to eliminate the long journey for the thousands of Great Lakes cargo ships that had to travel around the state of Michigan, via the Detroit River, Lake Huron, the tricky Straights of Mackinaw, and southward down Lake Michigan to if they wanted to reach Chicago. With a navigable shortcut across Ohio and Indiana, more than 400 miles and a three to five days could be cut from the travel time, thus a savings of of time and money. Toledo, geographically, would have become the gateway to the West..and the busiest port on the Great Lakes.
It should be noted that this canal plan was not just some idle talk from wild-eyed dreamers without resource or reason. It had been a topic of serious merit for decades in the 19th Century, and by 1908, the plan had the eyes and ears of Congress and the Congressional Committee on Rail and Waterways was strongly recommending that the shipping canal become a reality. In that committee's report to congress in 1908, it said that such a Toledo to Chicago Canal, would..
"…open a waterway, which is certain to control freight rates between Chicago and Buffalo. It would occupy a territory that is populated by one fourth of the people of the United States and would be a connecting link by shortening the waterway from Toledo to Chicago by 400 miles."
The committee also believed that such a major shipping channel would open the door for revival of the canal system through the Midwest and more and larger shipping channels could be built between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. It was also the aim of many promoters to use these canals to compete with the railroad roads and keep their rates competitive.
Had this canal actually come to fruition, it would not stretch anyone imagination to think that Toledo could have easily rivaled Chicago, or Detroit, for size and economic power on the Great Lakes and the Midwest. Other towns along the route, may have actually had their futures changed, as they became "seaport" communities in the middle of a largely agricultural region. The 1908 committee also predicted.
" ……would give the impetus for the erection of large factories and a great diversity of enterprises, making it possible to get the raw materials along the waterway, making is possible for the purpose of manufacture at lowest possible costs"
The report goes on to estimate the cost of construction at about 100 million dollars, and that water generating stations could be built along its path capable of generating as much a 16 million dollars a year in power. More than enough to pay down the debt and the interest.
Scene from early canal days in Toledo.
As mentioned before, this idea of the Lake Erie to Lake Michigan canal was hardly new in 1908. The Erie Canal through New York State many decades before had ignited the fires of imagination around the country as others wonder if they too could pull off such an engineering feat. In 1837, some ambitious Michiganders got the canal fever and even started digging a big ditch from Clinton township north of Detroit that was to extend Westward to Lake Michigan. By 1840, however, with only 16 miles complete and deeply in debt, the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal became a footnote in history. But hope springs eternal and in 1857, the New York legislature voted to grant a charter to company to explore and pursue the concept again. The newspapers in both Buffalo and Detroit were especially warm to the idea, as these new plans would have placed the Eastern portal of the canal between Monroe and Toledo, routing most of the channel through southern Michigan. The Buffalo Advertiser even speculated on the dimensions of such a ditch, allowing that it could be 100 feet wide, 12 feet deep and 160 miles long. They also addressed the elevation change between the lakes, by proposing at least "two locks" that could lift the boats. The Buffalo newspaper estimated the cost of construction at $65,000 a mile, or about $12 million for construction overall in 1857. But while Buffalo, Detroit and Toledo talked in glowing terms of such a project, in Chicago, not so much. The editors at the Chicago Tribune were not impressed. Clearly not in favor of such a plan, they railed against it, and called the idea "impractical" while challenging the estimates of construction costs, the potential savings to shipping companies, and also questioned whether there was ample water supply to fill such a canal.
Six decades later, in 1917, as the U.S. was distracted with the war in Europe, the Army Corps of Engineers also did another study and they would would essentially come to the same conclusion as the Chicago Tribune did in 1857. Given the costs and time required to build it, they said, and because such a canal would not be able to accommodate large ships, but only smaller packet barges, they wrote: "It is not advisable to undertake the construction of an artificial waterway between Lake Erie and Lake Michigan." The Corps even recommended that the government not waste any more money and put a halt to more studies.
Dead in the water?
Not quite.
The Toledo to Chicago canal idea rose again from dormancy the in the 1920's. Some of the proponents once more began to talk optimistically about a Toledo to Chicago shipping highway. One of those voices was that of former Iowa Governor, William Harding, (not to be confused with Ohio Governor Warren Harding). When Iowa's Harding was President of the Great Lakes -Seaway Waterway Initiative in 1923, he visited Defiance Ohio on the Maumee. There he told a gathered audience that he believed the Maumee River to Chicago water link would someday become a reality. It was his belief that such a project would come about only after the St. Lawrence Seaway project was complete and the shipping industry would demand it within a few years. He even predicated that Toledo would be the greatest shipping port in the nation and a docking facility along the Maumee might well extend "all the way to Defiance". Well, Mr. Harding's hyperbole was perhaps as hyper as his crystal ball was cracked. The Seaway linkage to the Great Lakes did not open for another 35 years, not until 1958. Five decades later, still no canal. Albeit, over the years, plenty of talk about one. During the WW Two era, it crept back into the headlines again as the Army Corps re-considered it with "national defense" as a justification. This plan did gain some traction and even won the approval of President Roosevelt just weeks before his death. But in the summer of 1945, as hearings were held and the war drew to a close, the grand canal plan was again ditched as unfeasible and too expensive. But big dreams don't die quickly. They always linger of the deathbed of possibility for a long time. As late as 1968, hearings were underway to consider, a new network of canals and locks that would have linked Toledo and Chicago with other cities in Indiana and the Ohio River. A 450 mile system, requiring dozens of locks, and costing over a billion dollars that was primarily designed to improve the economies of rural Indiana. By then, however, the concept of the "big ditch" was viewed by many corners of the community as a big "folly". Opposition from conservation groups, an early environmentalists was loud and hard to ignore. No one seemed to be in favor of the proposal and so this too, like the first big canal dig in Michigan of 1838, was to be filled in and forgotten. Forever? Who know where and when future dreams arise?
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This occurred on the old Mt. Lindesay Hwy in 1972 on the Bonalbo side while we were heading North back to Queensland.
We used to have to pull off the road to let the trucks come past because it was a very narrow Highway. There was my husband, my brother and myself and we had pulled over to let a truck bye that was coming towards us and just as we went to take off after he was gone, we put the high beam back on and here's these three hairy things running across the road in front of us.
One was a huge male. He would had to have been 7 – 8ft tall. Then I'd say there was the female following and she was a bit shorter, and then there was the baby. They were all the colour of an Orana tan. I didn't see their faces, it was just a side on view. They were running. I think the trucks air brakes may have frightened them because he was going downhill and we were going uphill. They crossed from the left of the road to the right and the baby was at the back – not in the middle. There was a bit of a gap between them. He (large male), only took a couple of strides to get across and she was about 2 seconds behind him, and the baby about 2 seconds behind her.
They all had arms down past the knees. He was pretty solid, so was she, but the younger one was only about my size. I'm only about 8 or 9 stone (50-55) kg. He (large male) would have been 15 – 16 stone (100 – 110kg), or even bigger. He could have been 20 stone. He was big.
The hair was matted, like they've been living in the wild and never groomed their hair and they were hunched over with no necks. Like how a Gorilla's head is forward when it's walking on all fours, their heads were like that when they were running. They didn't have a neck. It was like their heads were sitting on their shoulders.
I said to my husband "What the bloody hell's THAT!." He said "It's Yowies." I said "What?" I'd never heard of them. I was very socked. They crossed right in front of us about 20ft away. It was like they weren't even afraid of us. Maybe they didn't see us, but you'd think they would have.
Their arms were down by their sides. They weren't swinging.


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Getting over al-Qaeda
Marc Lynch makes a good point about the Arab media not giving much coverage to the attempted plane bombing in Amreeka, and its possible al-Qaeda connections: people don't really care.
In most of the Arab newspapers which I follow on a daily basis, the failed airplane plot didn't even make the front page -- or, at best, got a small and vague story. Gaza dominates the headlines, as it often does. Yemen continues to command considerable attention because of the ongoing clashes between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi movement, something which has been of far more consistent interest to the Arab public than to the American. Iran's protests are covered heavily. Most of the better papers also focus on local political issues. One of the only papers to cover the story prominently is the deeply anti-AQ Saudi paper al-Sharq al-Awsat, which leads with "passengers save America from a terrorist catastrophe." It's the same on the major pan-Arab TV stations. On the al-Jazeera webpage, the story doesn't even appear on the Arab news page, while a bland story about the airplane incident is only the sixth story on the international page (the same place it held in the broadcast news roundup; yesterday it was the third story in the news roundup, with the killing of 6 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza the lead). It does not crack the top 6 stories on the al-Arabiya website today.
The Arab media's indifference to the story speaks to a vitally important trend. Al-Qaeda's attempted acts of terrorism simply no longer carry the kind of persuasive political force with mass Arab or Muslim publics which they may have commanded in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Even as the microscopically small radicalized and mobilized base continues to plot and even to thrive in its isolated pockets, it has largely lost its ability to break out into mainstream public appeal. I doubt this would have been any different even had the plot been successful -- more attention and coverage, to be sure, but not sympathy or translation into political support. It is just too far gone to resonate with Arab or Muslim publics at this point.
The downgrading of al-Qaeda and the "War on Terror" by the Obama administration helps this trend along, even if the dynamics which produced it were largely local and internal to the Arab and Muslim worlds. The failure of the failed plot to capture even a modicum of mainstream Arab public interest speaks volumes to the robustness of this trend... though the frankly disturbing enthusiasm for the story in some quarters in the U.S. suggests that not everybody is happy to see al-Qaeda recede.
I don't think there ever was much support for al-Qaeda among the Arab public, or any chance that al-Qaeda turning into a leading shaper of public opinion. That was even less likely as the Baader Meinhof gang and Red Brigades becoming leading shapers of European opinion. There may have been some misplaced and insensitive "chickens coming home to roost" reaction to 9/11, but I don't ever believe that a Bin Laden moment would be lasting. This is a crucial point missed by some in the West, partly because of the spin and focus the Arab reaction stories were given after 9/11, which represented shadenfreude as the leading Arab reaction. This in turn led to the moronic "why do they hate us" meme, which survives to this day largely through the efforts of Thomas Friedman and his wish for "an Arab civil war" (a notion that implicitly puts al-Qaeda as a serious contender in the "battle for Arab minds").
In other words, the Arabs have gotten over (never fell for?) the mystification and fetishization of al-Qaeda. Their governments now concentrate on its security element, which ultimately is partly a policing matter, partly about preventing failed states and lawless areas in the region, and in the case of Saudi Arabia about curbing tolerance for jihadism within the regime. When will the Americans follow suit? This is not to underplay the threat of al-Qaeda inspired terrorism (as the recent arrests suggests it is all too real), but rather to take the grand teleological meaning it is ascribed by so many.
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Theater 'Tweet Seats' Now Available for Twitter Addicts
By Marc Lallanilla 2012-12-28T18:50:57Z
Some theaters are now accommodating obsessive smartphone use with special "Tweet Seats."
The days of having a theater performance or concert interrupted by another patron's obsessive smartphone use could be ending: A growing number of theaters are now setting aside special sections of "Tweet Seats" for people who just can't get enough social media.
The renowned Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn., has roped off a special section of the balcony section for their performances of the classic 1743 comedy, The Servant of Two Masters, according to the Daily Mail. In that section's Tweet Seats, patrons are free to use Twitter, Facebook or other media to post their opinions of the play.
Perhaps fittingly, the fast-paced commedia dell'arte features a foolish servant with an insatiable appetite, Truffaldino, who tries so desperately to multitask while serving two masters that he develops a stutter, among other travails.
"If there were ever a Guthrie show to host Tweet Seats, it's The Servant of Two Masters," said Guthrie public relations director Trish Santini, as quoted in the Daily Mail.
The Guthrie joins other performance venues and companies, including The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Palm Beach Opera in Florida and New York's venerable Public Theater, in adopting their "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach to smartphone use during concerts and plays, the Daily Mail reports.
Some scientists have reported obsessive use of the Internet and social media may be linked to genetic abnormalities. Researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany found that so-called "Internet addicts" often had a mutation on the CHRNA4 gene, which is also associated with nicotine addiction.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Tweets Country Will Support Any Nation That Fights Israel
Iran's Supreme Leader announced on Wednesday his country would "support and assist any nation or any group anywhere" in its struggles against Israel. His... 20.05.2020, Sputnik International
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© AP Photo / Office of the Iranian Supreme LeaderSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with judiciary officials in Tehran, Iran
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Iran's Supreme Leader announced on Wednesday his country would "support and assist any nation or any group anywhere" in its struggles against Israel. His comments follow a Palestinian withdrawal from agreements with Israel over its proposed annexation of the West Bank.
"The Zionist regime has proven it won't abide by any treaty & understands no logic except force," Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wrote in a Wednesday statement posted on Twitter as a series of tweets. "The nature of the Zionist regime is incompatible with peace, because the Zionists seek to expand their territories & will certainly not be limited to what they have already occupied."
"Eliminating the Zionist regime doesn't mean eliminating Jews. We aren't against Jews. It means abolishing the imposed regime & Muslim, Christian & Jewish Palestinians choose their own govt & expel thugs like Netanyahu. This is 'Eliminating Israel' & it will happen," the Shiite religious leader explained. "A proposal for a referendum to choose the type of govt for the historical country of #Palestine was registered with the UN as offered by Iran. We say the true Palestinians with Palestinian roots of at least 100 years, and Palestinians living abroad, choose the govt of Palestine."
"Comprehensive struggles by the Palestinian nation - political, military & cultural - should continue till the usurpers submit to the referendum for the Palestinian nation. This nation should determine what political system should rule there; struggle must continue until then," Khamenei continued.
"We will support and assist any nation or any group anywhere who opposes and fights the Zionist regime, and we do not hesitate to say this."
Khamenei's comments follow an announcement by the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday that it would cease to abide by any of its agreements with either Israel or the United States - a move itself in response to an announcement by the newly formed Israeli government to begin annexing one-third of the West Bank as soon as July.
Here's the map of the territory of the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank, that Netanyahu vowed to annex if he wins next week's election (blue: will be annexed to Israel; orange: will remain under Palestinian control) pic.twitter.com/xMcsPeDLpt
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However, Tehran is far from the only government to come out against the move. In an interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel on May 15, King Abdullah II of Jordan, a country that borders the territory Israel seeks to annex, promised "massive conflict" if Israel seized the territory.
"Leaders who advocate a one-state solution do not understand what that would mean. What would happen if the Palestinian National Authority collapsed? There would be more chaos and extremism in the region. If Israel really annexes the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan," the monarch told Der Spiegel.
"I don't want to make threats and create a loggerheads atmosphere, but we are considering all options," Abdullah said. "We agree with many countries in Europe and the international community that the law of the strongest should not apply in the Middle East."
The area Tel Aviv seeks to annex is part of what is known as "Zone C" under the Second Oslo Accords in 1995, a part of the West Bank subjected to Israel military control. However, the area Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed annexing is roughly 30% of the West Bank and not all of Area C, but mostly the Jordan River valley. As Sputnik has reported, the Israel Defense Forces have used this control to systematically evict Palestinian villages from the fertile land along the River Jordan for decades, later turning the land over to Israeli settlers who now number close to 400,000 in the zone.


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I am also having trouble setting proper ids and classes for my elements, do you know of a way to make this code more DRY?
I am aware that this is far from professional quality and that I'm an idiot, but I'm having trouble writing clean code and I don't know which way is best to make a header like this. I've tried googling help, and looking at code from other websites, but I'm always perplexed by their examples.
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A: Stack overflow probably isn't the place for this for future reference but don't sweat it! Here's my take:

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*Never use ids with css. (Here is an explanation why)

*You should avoid nesting element selectors in css. Instead I recommend following BEM.

*When naming my variables I like to format them based on type. So call your colors $color-black instead of just $black etc.

*I would not use named css colors. Either use variables or write them out. Even with "safe" colors like black and white it just looks sloppy.

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SBI Bank ATMs now require OTP for withdrawal
SBI to launch OTP-based ATM cash withdrawal from January 1
With ATM-related frauds on the rise, banks are introducing ways to protect their customers from tricksters. The country's largest public sector lender, the State Bank of India (SBI), via a tweet on December 26, said that it will introduce a one-time password (OTP)-based cash withdrawal system for its ATMs. The bank said that this facility will be available for transactions above Rs 10,000 between 8 pm and 8 am.
According to the tweet, this facility will be applicable from January 1, 2020 across all SBI ATMs
How it will work
SBI cardholders will receive an OTP on their mobile number registered with SBI bank at the time of initiating the cash withdrawal process at the ATM, according to a post on the bank's official Facebook account. "The OTP is a system-generated numeric string of characters that authenticates the user for a single transaction. This additional factor of authentication will protect SBI card holders from unauthorized ATM cash withdrawals," it said.
In the process of making cash withdrawals, once the SBI cardholder enters the amount he/she wish to withdraw, the ATM screen will display the OTP screen. The SBI cardholder has to enter the OTP received on his/her mobile number registered with the bank in this screen for withdrawing the cash. "This will safeguard the customers against the risk of unauthorized transactions on account of skimmed /cloned cards, while withdrawing cash at SBI ATMs," the bank's Facebook post stated.
Do keep in mind that you cannot use another bank's card to avail of this facility at an SBI ATM " because this functionality has not been developed in National Financial Switch (NFS)."
Things you must know about SBI's OTP-based cash withdrawal system
The services will be active across all SBI ATMs with effect from January 1, 2020 between 8 pm and 8 am.
You will receive OTP on your registered mobile number only when you withdraw cash over and above Rs 10,000.
The facility will not require any major change in the present process to withdraw cash from SBI ATMs.
This facility will not be applicable for transactions, where a SBI cardholder withdraws cash from another bank's ATM.
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by Jacquie Kubin Aug 5, 2019
written by Jacquie Kubin Aug 5, 2019
CHICAGO: Visitors might not know that Chicago's origins lie in its three "Sides," defined by its namesake river — the North Side, anchored by the John Hancock building and Streeterville; the West Side, known for the Garfield Park Conservatory and Bucktown; and the South Side, considered by many as authentic Chicago for its architecture, music and food.
Those looking to explore the South Side first should take in the Museum of Science and Industry.
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Photo: Knarfol at de.wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_of_Science_and_Industry.jpg.
Known for its five-story domed movie theater, learning labs, U-505 German submarine, and more than 35,000 artifacts, the museum is housed in one of the only remaining structures from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
As part of White City, the nickname for the fairgrounds, the structures were designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham in a neo-classical style.
Chicago's architecture is defined by legends such as Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, David Adler, and Louis Sullivan. One can take in any of the many Chicago architecture tours, including free ones on foot.
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The city's three "sides" each provides uniquely Chicago experiences.
The North Side is anchored by the John Hancock and Streeterville, where the tony live. The West Side pushed out of the City along the banks of Lake Michigan, is where Chicago's immigrants lived when they moved up and out of South Side.
When you reach Lake Michigan, turn right to head into the South Side of Chicago. Blacks, Jews, Poles, Greeks, Italians, and Mexicans have all made indelible marks on the South Side of the City with their food, music, and neighborhoods: Corner taverns, music, hot dogs and Chicago beef served in paper boats over a counter.
When planning your visit, head to the South Side to find authentic Chicago.
Located in the near South Side is the Chicago Museum of Science. It remains as one of the only structures left from the Columbian World Fair of 1893. The White City, as it was called, was built in the neo-classical style. Chicago Architectural legend Daniel Burnham designed it.
Understanding the beauty of Chicago means appreciating its architectural history. That history is full of names like Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, David Adler, and Louis Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright worked under Louis Sullivan in the firm Adler and Sullivan. You can research on your own or take one of the many Chicago architectural tours, including free tours by foot.
New York may be considered the City of skyscrapers, but the first "skyscraper" building is the 11-story Rookery building, on the South Side of Chicago's Loop. (The Loop gets its name from the elevated train, or "L" that loops around the business district.) The Rookery Building is the work of architects Burnham and Root. It was finished in 1888. In 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned the two-story sky-lit lobby.
Today this historic building is LEED Gold Certified as part of the Retrofit Chicago, showing that Chicago, not New York City, is at the forefront of sustainability in city buildings.
While you are on the Loop's South Side, plan for lunch or dinner at The Berghoff Restaurant at 17 West Adams Street (312.427.3170). A Chicago institution, Berghoff's has been feeding Chicago's business class and workers since 1898.
The restaurant boasts four kitchens, meaning that nearly everything on the menu, from bread and strudels to class German dishes, are made in house. When you get there, you need to decide whether you wish to eat in the fine dining restaurant (reservations recommended), the historic bar, or the café.
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Chicagoans on a budget head downstairs for the café. The food is just as good as it is upstairs while being value-priced.
Visit the historic Berghoff Bar, the first bar in the City to get its liquor license following prohibition. They brew Adams Street beer, but a favorite has long been the Berghoff Root Beer.
Chicago Home to the Urban Blues revolution
During the Great Migration of the early 20th century, Chicago was a destination for thousands of African-Americans escaping the Jim Crow laws of the South. As they moved into the Maxwell Street area, one of Chicago's oldest neighborhoods, they brought Mississippi Delta Blues with them. Once in the "city," the music evolved into what is known as Urban Blues. And the music of Maxwell Street inspired the British Blues Band invasion.
Chicago Blues is unique as it brought in amplified sounds of electric guitar, harmonica, power drummers and electric bass players. The earliest bands played at Chicago's famous Maxwell Street Market, one of Chicago's oldest residential area, it is known as the birthplace of Chicago Blues. This former Chicago resident considers it the only place to find an authentic Maxwell Street Polish dog.
Unlike the Mississippi Blues, Urban Blues is not about life on the farm, but life in the City. Chicago's blues is known for inspiring groups like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and Rory Gallagher. Each of these bands displays the influence of Chicago blues musicians like Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
With the onslaught of musicians and music came record companies like Ora Nelle Records, Delmark and Chess Records. Alligator Records, formed in 1971 by Bruce Iglauer, remains one of the premier blues labels to this day.
The Rolling Stones homage to Chess Records and their South Side location led to the instrumental, 2120 South Michigan Avenue.
Take a moment to tour blues history at the Chess Studios location, now Willie Dixon's Blue Heaven Foundation, where tours are held daily.
Chicago's blues history can be found at the historic Whitehall Hotel played host to the Stones during their 1981 North American Tour, making this a must-stop for fans of the world's greatest rock and roll band.
The package includes two tickets to a photography exhibit celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first recording session at Chicago's iconic Chess Records studios. The exhibition is at Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation.
Other takeaways include a copy of the "Crossfire Hurricane" DVD. This is renowned filmmaker Brett Morgen's 2012 documentary that chronicles the history of the band from their London debut in 1962 to 1981, when they achieved status as the world's greatest rock and roll band.
Bring a bit of your personal Stone's history and receive a signature cocktail, like the Jumpin' Jack Splash (Jack Daniels & Ginger Ale) or the Thyme is on My Side (Absolut vodka, Thyme infused simple syrup, lemon juice).
Hilton Hotels has opened a hybrid of their Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites brands. Located in Chicago's Downtown South Loop, the property opened this late spring. Unique to the Homewood Suites are full kitchens in every room. Additionally, the property has an indoor-outdoor patio terrace with lounge seating. Views of Lake Michigan and Grant Park, where you will find the famous Buckingham Fountain, are available.
These newly refurbished and new hotels are part of the redevelopment of the South Loop district that includes residential, retail and new commercial developments.
Greek Town
The South Side was a gateway neighborhood for most early 20th Century immigrants. When Greeks came through the South Side, they eventually created Greektown, still a favorite place to find authentic Greek Tavernas, restaurants and, oh! the pastry shops along South Halsted Street.
While the Greek Islands is most likely the most popular of the Greek restaurants, try some of the smaller, family-operated restaurants. Athena Grill is the place to enjoy a Chicago summer evening and classic dishes including Souvlaki, Gyros, and lamb. If seafood is the goal, Santorini's muse is the island of Santorini and boasts the freshest of seafood in the City.
While not a fish from the Mediterranean, call ahead to Santorini's and ask if they have Canadian walleye pike. Mild but flavorful walleye, along with the Lake Superior whitefish, is the best cold-water fish you can find. Furthermore, walleye is hard to find outside the Northern Midwest. Traditional Greek dishes at Santorini's include meat Dolmades and vegetarian Moussaka. You can also find Lamb Kapama. This is made the original way: braised with cinnamon and served with macaroni with red sauce and grated cheese.
Chicago Trivia
What direction does the Chicago River flow?
On the surface the river flows East to West, taking water from Lake Michigan and moving it toward, eventually, the Mississippi River. This feat of engineering was designed to stop the flow of sewage into Lake Michigan.
However, the river also flows West to East simultaneously.
In 2005, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign created a simulation of the Chicago River. They proved that at the surface, the river flows east to west, away from Lake Michigan, as expected. However, deep below, near the riverbed, water seasonally travels west to east, toward the lake.
Why do they call Chicago the Windy City?
It would be an easy guess to say the winds off Lake Michigan, which are particularly brisk during the winter. The moniker Windy City refers to the hot air of the orators in Chicago's Bug House Square. https://www.newberry.org/bughouse-square-debates Bughouse Square has long been a place for boisterous free-speech, and it still is.
The first televised U.S. presidential candidates' debate was broadcast from Chicago's CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.
The game of 16-inch softball, played without gloves, was perfected in Chicago.
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Statement from Buffy Wicks Campaign on Jovanka Beckles and Outside Spending
Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Press Release
Berkeley, CA.– Today Jovanka Beckles issued a press release regarding contributions made on her behalf by the California African American PAC, an outside independent expenditure campaign. Chevron, Tesla, Disney, the California Prison Guards and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly all contributed to the PAC.
Filings show that the California African American PAC listed the contribution on October 25th. Yet, the Beckles campaign chose to make a statement denouncing this corporate money-funded independent expenditure a full week later, only after she had benefited from their spending on her behalf and only after it was called into question by Berkeleyside. Berkeleyside reported about the contributions here and sent out two text campaign updates, calling out the PAC, its funders and stating that "…It turns out that the same sorts of groups Wicks has been criticized for fund an IE…in support of Beckles." Screenshots of the texts can be found of the texts below.
"Jovanka Beckles has staked her candidacy on this issue, and her statement today is misleading and hypocritical," said Amelia Matier, campaign manager of Wicks' for AD 15. "Ms. Beckles had the opportunity do more than just talk the talk, and she failed. The residents of AD 15 deserve better."
"Buffy has said from day one that she would not accept corporate money, and she has not." Amelia said. "She has also said throughout this campaign that we urgently need campaign finance reform to get outside money out of politics and that IEs are problematic, corrosive and should not exist. She has been consistent and truthful with voters on this. She has run a positive and truthful campaign, and she has prioritized resources, time and strategy to a grassroots organization to engage and listen to voters. We believe that matters to voters in this District."
Recently, on the KQED Forum program, Jovanka said people must "follow the money." She also says candidates who receive money from corporate interests, officially or unofficially, will be influenced.
Wicks said in response (25.28 – – 27.08):
"My opponent has said at many forums, insinuating that I'm owned by the billionaires and that there is billionaire money coming into the race. But here is the truth of the matter. One, I've taken no corporate money. Two, I have almost 3,000 donations to my campaign and the median donation amount is $100. Eighty-five percent of my donors have given $500 or less, so the vast majority of the resources coming into my campaign are small-dollar donations. I have had people such as Tom Steyer, George Soros and others who have donated to my campaign the maximal amount allowed by law, which is $4400. Those are folks that fund the progressive movement across this country and support progressive candidates. All of my donors who have donated to my campaign have donated to people like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and other great Democrats up and down this state," she said.
"The truth of the matter of IEs, there are IEs that are supporting both of us. I don't like IEs. We need campaign finance reform. No candidate wants an independent expenditure out there communicating for or against them without the candidate having control of that. It is a very difficult thing. We saw it in this race in 2014…we've seen in races all across this country. To me it is one of the corrosive part of our politics. We have to get reforms around it. It is made difficult because of the Citizens United decision. I do not like them and I wish there were not involved in the race. It is the reality that we are in. What I can control are the resources that come to my campaign and what I should be judged on is my twenty years working in grassroots politics, working in the labor movement, working as an anti-war organizer, helping to elect the first Black president, working in progressive politics," said Buffy.
Progressive leaders endorsing Buffy include President Barack Obama, United States Senator Kamala Harris, California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, El Cerrito Mayor Gabriel Quinto, Albany Mayor Peggy McQuaid, Emeryville Mayor John Bauters, Piedmont Mayor Bob McBain, Hercules Mayor Chris Kelley, world renown labor leader Dolores Huerta, Bart Board member Lateefah Simon and many other elected and community leaders across the district. In addition, she is endorsed by the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, and East Bay newspapers and the West Contra Costa County and Berkeley Democratic Clubs. Labor organizations supporting Buffy include the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, Northern California Carpenters Regional Council, LIUNA Laborers Local 324 and Local 304, Sheet Metal Workers Local 104, Plumbers & Steamfitters UA Local 342, Construction & General Laborers Local Union 304, Sprinkler Fitters & Apprentices Local 483, Heat & Frost Insulators, Allied Workers Local Union 16 and UFCW Local 5.
More information on Buffy's platform and priorities can be found at www.buffywicks.com.
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Whether you are on a health kick, looking to replace an existing fryer or buying your first, the information I am going to provide you with today is comprehensive. As such, you can rest assured that this Tefal Actifry review will tick all your boxes and leave you armed and ready to buy.
However, before we get started let's have a look at the technology and work out what the difference is between a health fryer and a standard deep fat fryer.
With innovation going back to 1954 Tefal have created a solid brand. When Marc Gregoire (with his wifes advice) coated her cookware with teflon that he normally put on his fishing gear, the results were astounding. From there he developed a wide range of cooking concepts that bring Tefal to where they are now.
Not sure what the difference is between your typical everyday deep fat fryer and something like the Tefal Actifry?
It's oil, or more specifically the amount you need to use to produce crispy chips or a range of other food stuff. With a typical fryer, you place approximately 2-litres of vegetable or sunflower oil into its drum. After which you switch it on and wait for all that oil to reach cooking temperature.
Conversely, the Tefal and other low-fat fryer types use considerably less oil.
The model I am looking at today requires just 3% (or 1 spoonful) of that needed for a conventional cooker. Although chips still come out fluffy and crispy and not covered in what's not good for you.
Now, one small downside of a low-fat fryer is the time it takes to cook. Due to having less oil and relying on a spinning drum to circulate hot air means it takes longer.
Where it takes on average 11-minutes to cook chips, potatoes, etc. in a deep fat fryer it can take between 20-35 minutes to get a perfect chip, however, the health benefits of cooking this way certainly outweigh the time savings.
Tefal Actifry – What to cook?
Don't like chips? No problem, I can reveal in this fryer review that it's about as versatile as they come. Meaning, it can handle a whole lot more than just frozen and fresh potato products.
With it, you can cook casseroles, curries, stews, stir-frys and much more. In fact, I've read a user review in which he/she used it as a slow-cooker; yes the timings had to be regularly adjusted, but, it worked.
So, along with the obvious benefits a health fryer offers, such as lower cholesterol and calorie intake, there's versatility. All of which are provided and aided by a set of excellent features.
As one of the best Actifry health cookers on the market, this mid-range model is one of the more popular. Why? Because of its fair price when coupled with a fantastic array of features, which are as follows.
With internal non-stick removable components that are both dish washer safe and hand-washable cleaning is made easy. Although, because the use of oil is at a minimum, you can opt to wipe with a cloth and thoroughly wash intermittently.
Safety is paramount for all the family when high temperatures are used to cook food. As such the walls of the Tefal Actifry remain at a touchable temperature, which gives peace of mind especially for those with young children or elderly relatives.
With a 1.2kg load capacity, this low fat fryer can cater for between 4 – 5 hungry people. And unlike many deep fat fryers, there is no need to open up to shake periodically.
Why? Because combined within the device is a mixing paddle, which softly separates food stuff, not breaking it.
When in use the Actifry remains at approximately a temperature of 170 Celsius. This enables along with a pinch of oil and the circulating hot air, superior cooking results to be obtained.
Additionally, if you like to watch the cooking process, there is a viewing window which does not become clogged with steam.
If at any point during the cooking process you wish to open the Tefal Actifry you simply need to make a simple motion. At the push of the lid's button, cooking pauses and the device opens up; this allows you to add/remove ingredients safely, and continue when ready.
No fryer would be great without a timing feature, as such in this low fat fryer review, I can tell you to relax, this model has one. Meaning, you can set its manual timer to a max of 99 minutes, or whatever is required and go sit down safe in the knowledge that once the timing cycle is complete, you will be alerted by a warning sound.
Plus, you can be sure that your food will not be ruined, although do refer to the cooking times for each food in the manual.
Don't leave the amount of oil you use to chance, make use of the special measuring spoon included with the fryer. In some cases, however, you may find that no oil is needed at all. Which is where using a health fryer like this has many benefits over the standard fryer.
OK, so, we've come to the crunch point, that part when everything hinges on the answer to one question. And I can answer that with five words!
When compared to those regular fryers that use lots of oil and give off a real pong there isn't any.
In fact, there's also no hot sticky steam rising from the device too. And that's great if you have been turning on an extractor fan and leaving the room when cooking.
Thanks to this Actifry review, you now know that those sticky messy oil stains and smells are a thing of the past. Yes, there are many deep fat devices out there trying to make amends. But, with lots of oil in use, they just can't compare.
Whatever your reason for reading this review, you can be sure that it's no ordinary hot air/oil using cooking machine. No, thanks to years of work Tefal has managed to Patent its hot air, paddle combination to bring you hands-free cooking.
Additionally, there's no need to wait for the fryer to get up to temperature, just load your recipe, chips, etc. set the timer and leave it to do its job. It's perfect for the busy parent, home after work with hungry kids.
If you thought the ideas you already had where expansive, some of those inside may blow you away! They include Mediterranean Style Calamari, Chicken Tika Masala, vegetable stir fry and more. In fact how about a twist on the humble chip?
Tip: Place the required amount of frozen or fresh chips into the Tefal Actifry. Followed by adding the oil, sea salt, and a touch or (depends on your preference) a small amount of garlic powder. The results, after approximately 35-minutes will astound you as you will have the tastiest chips ever!!
The all important (not, so it's just for measuring oil) Actifry Spoon. However, Tefal within its documentation does advise to keep it safe or make a note of the amount of oil required.
An instruction booklet, providing you with operating instructions including what you should do before first use.
Finally, the before mentioned recipe booklet, keep it safe, it may be an inspiration.
Whether you're looking to buy new or refurbished, this device is available at a good price. Brand new, you can get your hands on one for around £145 with free UK delivery. As for refurbished, prices start from around £80 and come in various conditions such as good to very good.
Is an Actifry worth the money?
So there you have it, one Tefal Actifry review, and if you really do want healthier meals you have to factor in the fact that no oil is needed at all for some foods.
Great brand name. Superb reliability and plenty of recipe ideas make this a clear winner.
From what I've seen and read, people are preparing foods as varied as fish, meatballs, stew, and curry. My suggestion, should you buy one, is to experiment, and search for health fryer or Actifry healthy recipes online.
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