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Advocates work for improvements to Pennsylvania's long-term-care systems
David Griffith
Millions of Americans, including children, adults and seniors, need long-term-care services as a result of disabling conditions and chronic illnesses. These services range from institutional care, such as nursing homes, to community-based supports, such as having a home health aide. Long-term-care services are generally needed when daily tasks, such as eating, bathing and dressing, become difficult for someone to do on his or her own.
Structuring and maintaining a system that ensures that all older adults are able to age with maximum supports poses many challenges. Older adults encounter a wide array of physical, emotional and cognitive issues, requiring specialized care and highly trained staff. For many, the costs of long-term care are prohibitive. Funding sources for many long-term-care services are currently facing uncertainty, particularly with proposed cuts to Medicaid, the primary payer across the nation for long-term-care services. Additionally, the pay for direct-care workers remains low, making it difficult to recruit and retain a workforce requiring specialized training and skills.
Most older adults prefer to age in their own homes for as long as possible, rather than in institutional-care settings. LGBT people in particular often express fears of being discriminated against in long-term-care settings, or having to go back into the closet in order to access care. Improving the structure of the long-term-care system and the delivery of services to older adults will allow more people to successfully age in their own homes and ensure that those who do require a higher level of care will be able to access services that are welcoming and inclusive.
Fortunately, older Pennsylvanians are advocated for by a statewide advisory committee working to improve the long-term-care system in the commonwealth. The Pennsylvania Long-Term-Care Commission is an advisory body tasked with providing informed recommendations that improve the commonwealth's long-term services and supports system. Commissioners include state representatives, heads of statewide agencies, directors of aging-services organizations and community advocates. The commission is chaired by the Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging. All commissioners are appointed by the governor.
The commission is responsible for developing strategies that will improve access to services, quality of services and the cost-effectiveness of care. This requires looking not only at the needs of older Pennsylvanians, but also at the needs of long-term-care agencies and the direct-care workers providing these services.
Four subcommittees operate as part of the commission: Outreach, Access, Workforce and Quality. Each subcommittee develops strategies and recommendations relating to their given topic, focusing on ways to better inform older adults about long-term-care services, improve access to care for all Pennsylvanians, ensure that available services are effective and efficient and empower and support the workforce that delivers these services.
Given the great diversity of Pennsylvania's older-adult population, each subcommittee must consider the unique needs, challenges and concerns of Pennsylvanians of all religions, races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, abilities and geographic locations. The ability of the long-term-care system to meet the needs of diverse consumers is essential in providing effective person-centered care.
Improving the LGBT cultural competence of Pennsylvania's long-term-care services and supports is very much on the radar of the commission. In the fall of 2016, the LGBT Elder Initiative's Heshie Zinman was appointed by Gov. Tom Wolf to join the Long-Term Care Commission.
As a member of the outreach and workforce subcommittees, Zinman's goals include bringing greater sensitivity and understanding about the need for culturally competent services and supports. The outreach subcommittee has been developing strategies to ensure that outreach efforts are inclusive of the cultural values of all communities in Pennsylvania, including the LGBT communities. Meanwhile, the workforce subcommittee is looking to elevate the workforce to become more culturally competent and better able to serve these diverse populations experiencing unique needs and barriers to care.
Zinman believes that the theme of cultural competence, including for LGBT populations, will be evident in the work of all four subcommittees, stating, "We believe that there will be language on LGBT cultural competence in all of the recommendations. We need to make sure that all citizens of the commonwealth are recognized and have access to services that are welcoming and inclusive."
The recommendations should ultimately lead to LGBT older adults having better access to LGBT-friendly in-home supports, adult day centers, assisted-living facilities and nursing homes. For example, Zinman notes that the work of the commission will "mean that your home-health aide will be better trained, better supervised and better able to handle situations in a culturally competent manner."
Given the complexities of providing long-term-care services to older adults all across the commonwealth, the efforts of the Long-Term Care Commission are an important step in ensuring that older Pennsylvanians are able to age successfully at every age.
For more information about the LGBT Elder Initiative, visit www.lgbtelderinitiative.org.
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Ralf Seppelt and his co-authors from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig (Germany) recently published an interesting inquiry into how ecosystem service research is actually conducted (pdf available here). They draw conclusions on how it should be done.
They list key criteria on which to assess whether a particular ecosystem service study actually follows their suggested guidelines. Table 1 below is taken from their paper.
The authors mention biophysical realism as a necessary criteria for ecosystem services studies to provide a sound basis for decision making. It could be argued that the same could apply to "socio-political" or "socio-economic" realism. Stakeholder involvement does not necessarily guarantee such realism, especially when stakeholders have very heterogeneous needs and preferences and/or where there are important power asymmetries between stakeholders.


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Benjamin Netanyahu: UN General Assembly Speech Slams Iran Nuke Deal, Stares Silently At Attendees For 45 Seconds In Protest (VIDEO)
By Staff Reporter Oct 01, 2015 04:54 PM EDT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated the bulk of his United Nations General Assembly speech on Thursday to talking about the threat Iran poses to Israel. He berated the U.N. for supporting the nuclear deal, which he said "makes war more likely," and at one point, Netanyahu completely stopped talking for 45 seconds as he glared angrily at the assembled delegates, reported The Hill.
"After three days of listening to world leaders praising the deal with Iran, I begin my speech by saying, ladies and gentlemen, check your enthusiasm at the door," Netanyahu said in his speech, according to The Wall Street Journal. "This deal doesn't make peace more likely. By fueling Iran's aggressions by billions of dollars in sanctions relief, it makes war more likely."
"I know that preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons remains the official policy of the international community. But no one should question Israel's determination to defend itself against those who seek our destruction," he added.
The Iranian nuclear agreement – signed between Tehran and the U.S., U.K., China, Russia, France and Germany – will gradually lift U.S. and U.N. sanctions on Iran in return for temporary but strict limits on its nuclear program meant to prevent it from developing an atomic weapon.
The nuclear deal and the U.S. Congress' failure to prevent its implementation is one of the greatest stains on Netanyahu's record, according to Business Insider. Israeli interest groups reportedly spent between $20 million and $40 million to defeat the agreement, but it appears as if the deal will go into effect in early 2016.
Netanyahu continued on Thursday: "Seventy years after the murder of six million Jews, Iran's rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people. And the response from this body – the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here – has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence."
He then proceeded to stare silently at attendees for 45 seconds without saying a word.
"As someone who knows that history, I refuse to be silent," Netanyahu concluded. "The days when the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies – those days are over."
It was Netanyahu's first major address since the Iran deal survived Congress, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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package io.cloudslang.content.nutanix.prism.utils;

public class Constants {
    public static class Common {
        public static final String API = "/api/nutanix/";
        public static final String DEFAULT_API_VERSION = "v2.0";
        public static final String NEW_LINE = "\n";
        public static final String DEFAULT_PROXY_PORT = "8080";
        public static final String DEFAULT_NUTANIX_PORT = "9440";
        public static final String DEFAULT_TIMEZONE = "UTC";
        public static final String BOOLEAN_FALSE = "false";
        public static final String BOOLEAN_TRUE = "true";
        public static final String STRICT = "strict";
        public static final String EXCEPTION_NULL_EMPTY = "The %s can't be null or empty.";
        public static final String EXCEPTION_INVALID_PROXY = "The %s is not a valid proxy details.";
        public static final String EXCEPTION_INVALID_BOOLEAN = "The %s for %s input is not a valid boolean value.";
        public static final String EXCEPTION_INVALID_NUMBER = "The %s for %s input is not a valid number value.";
        public static final String EXCEPTION_INVALID_NAME = "The %s can only contain letters, numbers, underscores, " +
                "and hyphens";
        public static final String BASIC = "basic";
        public static final String GET = "GET";
        public static final String POST = "POST";
        public static final String PUT = "PUT";
        public static final String PATCH = "PATCH";
        public static final String DELETE = "DELETE";
        public static final String DEFAULT_JAVA_KEYSTORE = System.getProperty("java.home") + "/lib/security/cacerts";
        public static final String CHANGEIT = "changeit";
        public static final String ZERO = "0";
        public static final String CONNECT_TIMEOUT_CONST = "10000";
        public static final String CONNECTIONS_MAX_PER_ROUTE_CONST = "2";
        public static final String CONNECTIONS_MAX_TOTAL_CONST = "20";
        public static final String AUTHORIZATION = "Basic ";
        public static final String PATH_SEPARATOR = "/";
        public static final String AND = "&";
        public static final String QUERY = "?";
        public static final String ID = "id";
        public static final String HTTPS = "https";
        public static final String AFFINITY = "AFFINITY";
        public static final String STATUS_CODE = "statusCode";
        public static final String APPLICATION_API_JSON = "application/json";
        public static final String DELIMITER = ",";
        public static final String ERROR_MESSAGE_PATH = "message";
        public static final String ALLOWED_CYPHERS = "TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256," +
                "TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384," +
                "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256," +
                "TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256";
    }

    public static class CounterConstants {
        public static final String RESULT_STRING = "resultString";
        public static final String INCREMENT_BY_DEFAULT_VALUE = "1";
        public static final String RESULT = "result";
        public static final String HASMORE = "has more";
        public static final String NOMORE = "no more";
        public static final String FAILURE = "failure";
        public static final String EXCEPTION = "exception";
        public static final String COUNTER_OPERATION_NAME = "Counter";
        public static final String TO = "to";
        public static final String FROM = "from";
        public static final String INCREMENT_BY = "incrementBy";
        public static final String SESSION_COUNTER = "sessionCounter";
        public static final String RESET = "reset";
    }

    public static class GetVMDetailsConstants {
        public static final String GET_VM_DETAILS_OPERATION_NAME = "Get VM Details";
        public static final String INCLUDE_VM_DISK_CONFIG_INFO = "include_vm_disk_config=";
        public static final String INCLUDE_VM_NIC_CONFIG_INFO = "include_vm_nic_config=";
        public static final String VM_NAME_PATH = "name";
        public static final String IP_ADDRESS_PATH = "$.vm_nics[*].ip_address";
        public static final String MAC_ADDRESS_PATH = "$.vm_nics[*].mac_address";
        public static final String POWER_STATE_PATH = "power_state";
        public static final String VM_DISK_UUID_PATH = "$.vm_disk_info[*].disk_address.vmdisk_uuid";
        public static final String STORAGE_CONTAINER_UUID_PATH = "$.vm_disk_info[*].storage_container_uuid";
        public static final String VM_LOGICAL_TIMESTAMP_PATH = "$.vm_logical_timestamp";
        public static final String AFFINITY_PATH = "$.affinity";
        public static final String HOST_UUID_PATH = "$.affinity.host_uuids[*]";
        public static final String GET_VM_DETAILS_PATH = "/vms";
    }

    public static class DetachDisksConstants {
        public static final String DETACH_DISKS_OPERATION_NAME = "Detach Disks";
        public static final String DETACH_DISKS_PATH = "/disks/detach";
    }

    public static class AttachDisksConstants {
        public static final String ATTACH_DISKS_OPERATION_NAME = "Attach Disks";
        public static final String ATTACH_DISKS_PATH = "/disks/attach";
        public static final String TASK_UUID_PATH = "task_uuid";
    }

    public static class DeleteNICConstants {
        public static final String DELETE_NIC_OPERATION_NAME = "Delete NIC";
        public static final String DELETE_NIC_PATH = "/nics/";
        public static final String VM_LOGICAL_TIMESTAMP_QUERY_PARAM = "vm_logical_timestamp=";
    }

    public static class ListVMsConstants {
        public static final String LIST_VMS_OPERATION_NAME = "List VMs";
        public static final String FILTER = "filter=";
        public static final String OFFSET = "offset=";
        public static final String LENGTH = "length=";
        public static final String SORT_ORDER = "sortorder=";
        public static final String SORT_ATTRIBUTE = "sortattribute=";
        public static final String LIST_VM_JSON_PATH = "$.entities[*].name";
    }

    public static class CreateVMConstants {
        public static final String CREATE_VM_OPERATION_NAME = "Create VM";
        public static final String TASK_UUID_PATH = "task_uuid";
    }

    public static class UpdateVMConstants {
        public static final String UPDATE_VM_OPERATION_NAME = "Update VM";
        public static final String TASK_UUID_PATH = "task_uuid";

    }

    public static class DeleteVMConstants {
        public static final String DELETE_VM_OPERATION_NAME = "Delete VM";
        public static final String DELETE_SNAPSHOTS = "delete_snapshots=";
        public static final String LOGICAL_TIMESTAMP = "logical_timestamp=";
    }

    public static class SetVMPowerStateConstants {
        public static final String SET_VM_POWER_STATE_OPERATION_NAME = "Set VM Power State";
        public static final String SET_POWER_STATE_PATH = "set_power_state";
    }

    public static class GetTaskDetailsConstants {
        public static final String GET_TASK_DETAILS_OPERATION_NAME = "Get Task Details";
        public static final String INCLUDE_SUBTASKS_INFO = "include_subtasks_info=";
        public static final String GET_TASK_DETAILS_PATH = "/tasks";
        public static final String VM_UUID_PATH = "$.entity_list[*].entity_id";
        public static final String TASK_STATUS_PATH = "progress_status";
        public static final String SUCCEEDED = "Succeeded";
        public static final String FAILED = "Failed";
        public static final String TASK_FAILURE_PATH = "$.meta_response.error_detail";
    }

    public static class AddNICConstants {
        public static final String ADD_NIC_OPERATION_NAME = "Add NIC";
        public static final String ADD_NIC_PATH = "/nics";
        public static final String TASK_UUID_PATH = "task_uuid";
    }

}

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Mysteries Government What Uncle Sam Really Wants
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Catalog # SKU0201
Author Name Noam Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky
"Highly recommended." --Booklist
Noam Chomsky is one of America's most popular speakers, electrifying standing-room-only audiences all over the country as he dissects US foreign policy with insights like these:
Contrary to what virtually everyone--left or right--says, the United States achieved its major objectives in Indochina. Vietnam was demolished. There's no danger that successful development there will provide a model for other countries in the region.
At exactly the moment it invaded Panama...the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China [and] plans...to lift a ban on loans to Iraq...Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa.
Prospects are pretty dim for Eastern Europe. The West has a plan for it--they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitable part of the Third World.
"Noam Chomsky ruthlessly exposes the dark side of power. Everything politics is, Chomsky isn't. He takes you where few dare to tread." - Jerry Brown
"How adroitly he cuts through the crap and actually says something." - Village Voice
"Arguably the most important intellectual alive." - New York Times
"Over the last dozen years, Chomsky was the most often cited living author. Among intellectual luminaries of all eras, Chomsky placed eighth just behind Plato and Sigmund Freud." - Chicago Tribune
"One of the most respected and influential intellectuals in the world." - Rolling Stone
Paper, 111 pages, index
From India to the Planet Mars
Passaic Flood of 1903
Story of Joan of Arc (Lang)
Heavenly Bridegrooms : An Unintentional Contribution to the Erotogenetic Interpretation of Religion
Sacred Book of Death
Thoughts of a Freethinker


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Can Shakespeare Teach Us About Health and Wellness?
You know what April 23 is, don't you? That's right, it's Shakespeare Day! In honor of everyone's favorite playwright, we've put together a guide to the Bard's preoccupation with health and wellness.
There are more than 500 references to medical maladies in Shakespeare's work, with countless more around wellness-related topics like sport and sleep. Not to mention all the obscure Renaissance foods and weird ingredients that pepper the pages of his plays. So, what can the Bard's work tell us about health in Elizabethan times, as well as our modern approach to diet, fitness, and rest?
1. "Sleep, Nature's soft nurse" (Henry IV, Part 2)
Shakespeare makes frequent references to sleep, and many of his characters, from Macbeth to King Henry V, suffer from clinical sleep disorders like sleep apnea, somnambulism, and insomnia. And although references to "sweet, oblivious antidotes" and "drowsy syrups" illustrate that sleep disorder medicines have been around for awhile, Shakespeare implies that they rarely work, and that sleep disorders are largely caused by underlying psychological issues. Which isn't that far from where modern science is now. Centuries before these types of disorders were recognized by medical professionals, much less treated, they had been performed before thousands of audience members on the stages of Elizabethan London, which is pretty amazing when you think about it.
2. "Give them great meals of beef…" (Henry V)
"… and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils." Back in Shakespeare's time, beef wasn't just the quintessential English food. There was also a weirdly widespread belief that consuming this much-loved Renaissance food led to bravery or courage, making it the perfect food for a pre-battle supper. That being said, there was also a train of thought that eating beef caused stupidity. Well, perhaps this is just two halves of the same coin. As they say in This Is Spinal Tap, there's a such a fine line between stupid and clever.
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3. "Like a football you do spurn me thus" (The Comedy of Errors)
Shakespeare talks about "sport" throughout his plays, but he's not talking about sport in the way that you or I would understand it. Back in Elizabethan times, the word "sport" was used to mean a variety of different things, including gambling, sex, and war. Games like tennis were generally reserved for the elite, while soccer was considered to be an activity that the masses could enjoy. So, when Kent calls Oswald a "base football player" in King Lear, it's probably a reference to the wild, lower-class origins of that sport.
4. "The death of each day's life" (Macbeth)
Earlier, we gave Shakespeare his props for those eerily accurate portrayal of sleep disorders, but one area where the Bard might have got it wrong is his antipathy to diurnal (daytime) sleep. Shakespeare often depicts daytime slumber as a sign of bad character, most notably when he talks about Falstaff's distasteful habit for "sleeping upon benches after noon." We can't really hold it against him, though, as this was a common belief in Elizabethan times. Day sleeping was believed to lead to illnesses and fever, not just because it was abnormal, but because it was seen as undignified and even unnatural. These days, sleeping in the daytime doesn't attract nearly the same opprobrium. It's generally accepted that napping may have health benefits—be sure to check out our blog post for a bit more info—while for people who work nights, it's pretty much unavoidable anyway.
5. "As whole as a fish" (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Today, everybody talks about the great health benefits of eating fish, and they're right to do so, because it is legitimately awesome for your body. And while fish were considered inferior to meat back in Tudor times—possibly because this Renaissance food was a little too Catholic for the Protestants' liking—fish played a massive role in Elizabethan trade. Elizabeth I ordered weekly "fish days" to boost the domestic fishing industry and reduce the price of meat, which must have had a fantastic effect on the nation's health, regardless of whether that was the intention!
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6. "Can'st thou minister to a mind diseased?" (Macbeth)
Shakespeare wasn't just concerned with physical health, but mental health as well. He understood that extreme levels of stress could be unhealthy, as did many Elizabethans, who had a relatively enlightened approach to mental health. As it happens, Shakespeare's own son-in-law, John Hall, attempted to treat a girl suffering from mental health problems with laxatives and enemas. Okay, so by modern standards that sounds kind of wacky, but it's a far cry from the popular belief that people who suffered from psychiatric problems in Tudor times were "madmen" who needed to be ostracized from society.
As you can see, there are tons of references to health in Shakespeare's plays, and while he didn't always agree with the prevailing wisdom of the day, it's clear that many Elizabethans had sophisticated and thoughtful attitudes towards the concept of wellness. This Shakespeare Day, why not pay homage to the big man by cooking up a nice, healthy fish dish and enjoying a good night's rest?
Photo: Shakespeare statue at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
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US vows more weapons supply to Ukraine, aimed at 'prolonged attrition' to Russia
and Wan Hengyi Published: Apr 20, 2022 10:25 PM
House of Hegemony Illustration: Liu Rui/GT
While the Russia-Ukraine crisis enters a new phase as fighting in the Donbas region intensifies, the US and its Western allies pledged more military assistance to Kiev, ramping up efforts to pressure and consume the power of Russia.
As the world closely watches whether Moscow could quickly advance its military deployment and reach its objective of "completely liberating" Donetsk and Lugansk ahead of its planned military parade on May 9, some experts said the crisis appeared to turn into an attritional conflict that could last beyond months, on which US hegemony - the root cause of the conflict - continues fanning the flames so the US could gain more profits on geopolitical, military and economic aspects.
On the day Russia moved into the second phase of its military operation in Ukraine that has lasted two months, the US planned to supply Ukraine another $800 million in military assistance, according to media reports. The US has pledged more than $3 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since the military conflict began. Its major allies including the UK and Canada also vowed to send more weapons to Ukraine.
Such prepped up military assistance echoed the previous rounds of the US-led economic sanctions against Moscow, aiming to cause maximum pain on Russia President Vladimir Putin and to further isolate Russia.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the UN, said during the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday that the West only has their own interests in mind.
"The weapons producers in Western countries are eagerly rubbing their hands, calculating their profits from increased demand of military products," he was quoted as saying in a report by US media Newsweek.
Polyanskiy accused the US of pressuring other nations to follow its sanctions on Russia, while Washington "suffers the least" from the economic impact, and said the US wants other countries to be "addicted" to the US gas products, according to the media report.
"The US-led West's continuous military supply to Ukraine aims to drag on Russia, hoping that this military conflict won't end soon. Ukrainians are taken as proxies by the US to counter Russia," Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
However, it remains unknown whether the US truly provides that much quantity of weapons to Ukraine, as it could exaggerate the true value of the military assistance, and through its Lend-Lease Program, the US could probably provide more weapons. But once the conflict ends, Ukraine has to pay back, Song said.
"The US is playing political and economic cards. On the economic aspect, it hopes to bring down Russia and help its own military industry gain more profits," he said.
Observers also predict that the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine may involve huge amounts of money, and US companies, along with transnational corporations, could be the main beneficiaries of Ukraine's reconstruction.
As a major instigator and initiator of wars and turbulence, the US has gained dominance over the international order via the conflicts, and it's never absent in playing up its military force in conflicts. But some of its weapons ended up at the hands of terrorists, posing a rising danger for peace and stability.
While some Western media suspect whether Putin may be aiming to declare victory in the military conflict in Ukraine on May 9 - the date to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany - some experts hold a cautious view on whether Russian troops could soon achieve its goals in the Donbas region as the fighting in Mariupol is not an easy one.
"From the situation in Mariupol, the Ukrainians have been fighting resolutely in recent days. With more heavy weapons, they may hinder the Russian troops' next operations," Yang Jin, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
"To end the military operation before May 9, I think, is almost mission impossible," he said, noting that even if Russia declares victory, there would still be a long way to go before the crisis ends.
Putin said on Monday that the sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow over its military operations have failed.
The purpose of sanctions by the US-led West is not to bring down the Russian economy, but to divide the oligarchs around Putin, thus triggering a coup to disrupt the political situation in Russia, and even ultimately pull Putin out of office, Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
Some experts believe that no matter how hard the West continues its sanctions in pressuring Russia, the country will "counter the pressure" as the Ukraine crisis is related to its own survival and development, and from the perspective of history, Russia won't easily yield to Western pressure.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): The FBM KLCI is expected to pause further today in line with the weaker overnight close at most global markets.
Weak U.S. economic data and disappointing auto sales numbers drove Wall Street down on Tuesday, further dragging on global equity prices after the approval of a fiscal stimulus package by Japan's cabinet failed to cheer markets, according to Reuters.
Data showing muted U.S. inflation hit the U.S. dollar, which dropped to a six-week low against a basket of currencies, while persistent worries of a supply glut sent U.S. crude prices back below $40 a barrel, it said.
AllianceDBS Research in its evening edition Tuesday said despite the up close in the preceding day, the FBM KLCI had on Aug 2 traded within previous day's range to form an inside day bar after the opening bell as market participants decided not to stage an immediate follow through buying support.
It said in the absence of stronger buying interest, the benchmark index was in the red throughout the trading sessions before settling at 1,660.23 (down 5.00 points or 0.30%).
"In the broader market, losers outnumbered gainers with 491 stocks ending lower and 277 stocks finishing higher. That gave a market breadth of 0.56 indicating the bears were in control," it said.
AllianceDBS Research said the inside day bar indicated a breather in the game play with buyers and sellers seen in a balanced position.
"Given the low volatility environment and the absence of news flow, market participants were unwilling to commit themselves in a more aggressive manner for fear of market moving against them in an opposite direction after making a buy or a sell decision.
"So, buyers and sellers would continue to exchange their stock positions between 1,650 and 1,675 in the coming few days until we see a breakout.
"In other words, market participants basically were still waiting for more technical confirmation to trade the market," it said.
"The analysis of overall market action on Aug 2 revealed that buying power was weaker than selling pressure.
"As such, the FBM KLCI would likely trade below the 1,657.78 level on Aug 3," said AllianceDBS Research.
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Just a bit of painting on my Tangiers 1680 project, in 42 mm. Grenadiers of Kirke and Dumbarton's regiments, dismounted horsemen shooting.
The Tangiers Horse, shown in helmets.
I had no plans beyond something small to play on my kitchen table. I'd been collecting Chinese temples, as one does, so I thought we'd try some criminal activity in the mysterious East, with a sorcerer hiring bandits to steal an amulet from some peaceful monks.
So, that was me, and Dan the evil mage and his minions.
Who behave badly, but not that effectively, being bandits. Still, the monks were outnumbered.
The sorcerer sent in his daughter, a swordmistress, who did some efficient slicing and dicing.
Which makes for a great cliffhanger. Because I have no photos of what happened next.
It's been a couple of weeks, and I still haven't written this up. At Cold Wars I put on a ten player game of A Gentleman's War, set in the late American Disturbances, using the now famous comic book flat armies. It was based on no actual battle or OB, but featured far too much cavalry and too many native warriors, cardboard building from the 70s, flat wooden trees and an absurd Kelly green cloth.
The players were broken up into pairs, five Redcoats and five Rebels, each pair sharing a deck of cards for activation. It doesn't matter where other players are in their own turn sequence as long as the two matched players follow the fall of cards in their own deck. A couple of times in this game, one player found himself under attack by not merely his direct opponent, but the player next to him.
The British player in the centre rashly attacked at what must be regarded as uphill odds, which meant that, after this early failure, he spent the rest of the game desperately fending off an overwhelming number of irate colonial fellows. The Hessians to his right, despite gallant efforts, failed to clear away the American left flank, and mostly seem to have decided to desert in favour of farming in Pennsylvania.
On the far flank everything went very well for the forces of the Crown, the Americans falling back outnumbered. Gallant cavalry charged in ways that would surprise a student of the campaign.
After a couple of hours of conflict, it was clear that each side had won on one flank. A sudden rainstorm, courtesy of a random 'What Luck' card, was taken as reason to call the game, both sides write home of their great victory.
Few of the players had payed AGW before, but all seemed to pick it up quickly — it's fast and simple — and the multiple decks of cards meant the whole thing moved along at a fast clip.
I think everyone enjoyed it, which is all I can hope for.
Our shiny toy soldier game, 'A Gentleman's War' is now available. In a collaborative arrangement between Pulp Action Library (which is Roderick Robertson and myself) and Vince Rospond at Winged Hussar, we offer the rules as either paperback or pdf. The pdf includes the 'What Luck!' and Cameo Role cards, which are available separately, either pre printed or for downloading.
For the monthly game evening at our local game shop, Toy Wiz in Nanuet NY, Dan set up the battle of White Plains, just across the river from us. I suspect that the terrain no longer looks like 1776. Dan brought everything except for my test copy of 'A Gentleman's War' and some dice and counters.
He used a rather nice game mat and had everything set up by the time I arrived. I chose to be the Americans, on the grounds that they were mostly militia, and if I lost it would not be my fault. We did decide that there were two regular Continental units, from Connecticut and New York, who could at least be rated as vanilla average. Not really an elite force.
The cards ran Dan's way at first, and he advanced boldly. Okay, not too boldly. There was a lot of shooting, in a not very lethal way. Yet. I had three very good hold cards, but nowhere worth using them for now. Why waste a king?
The first of these photos shows the first volley of my 3rd NY regiment. Hoping for sixes. Do you see any sixes?
when Dan charged my militia unit at the fence line it did what you'd expect, and ran away. A second unit, advancing to fill the gap, also ran away when charged. In fairness, Dan had dropped the 'ate green apples' random card on it, and it didn't feel well at all. In fact, on a D6 roll, it scored a modified 0.
Things got better for a while. I plugged the gap and shot at Dan's lead units, whittling them away. A Hessian unit charged uphill against the 3rd NY, rolled terribly as the New Yorkers rolled well, and was destroyed. In a fit of excitement, however, the N.Y. unit charged downhill into the supporting Hessian grenadiers, and took almost 50% losses from a very effective volley. Then the melee went about as you'd expect. Oh.
… and that was it. Nine units a side, two hours, lots of chatting with friendly gamers who came to see what we were doing. Good game!
We are getting very close to releasing 'A Gentleman's War' as a set of hardcopy rules and a pdf. Right now Roderick is adjusting photos on the layout, and then we'll be ready to go. This is a game for gentlemanly gamers, not too long in play, not too complicated, not too abstract. It's a toy soldier game.
It's a deliberately old school game, using a standard card deck, handfuls (although not buckets) of dice, saving throws and removing casualties one by one. That said, we've avoided the mathiness of actual 1960s and earlier rules, because we didn't come here to play arithmetic.
Everyone is very brave. You don't take a morale test to charge, because we encourage that sort of thing. And a unit ignores casualties until it's taken one third casualties, and then one half.
You can play with any figures, really, but the mood is set for very traditional figures. Ours are 40-42mm shiny toy soldiers for the Victorian era, but my AWI collection is plastic flats in around 30mm.
I've been woefully neglectful in updating this blog lately, so here's a photographic tour of games I've played in the last few weeks.
So, first off, some pics of last week's game at Toy Wiz, largely to try out a melee system I've been playing with, based on the one in Flint and Feather, but fantasy, so more geared to heroes who slay minion after minion. Mostly they didn't, though, because Matt Thorenz managed to roll astonishingly bad dice. Come on, when you have a 7-1 advantage, a draw isn't a good result.
Next up, for the previous week, is more or less the same set up, but infested with cats. Maisie on the left, Eliza on the right, plus part of Elmore.
And, last up for now, is an American Revolution battle using my comic book flats armies and the AWI variant on A Gentleman's War. A tied battle, but a good one. My artillery hit nothing at all for several turns, but made up for it when, in time of crisis, it inflicted five or six casualties on the approaching Green Mountain Boys, who then failed morale badly and ran away when, frankly, I could have been in trouble. A lot of trouble.


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Q: How is LinkedIn able to send emails from my email address without getting flagged as spam? When linkedIn sends and email to you about adding someone to your network, the email appears to come from this person's individual email address (not something@linkedin.com). To me it doesn't seem like a 'reply-to' header either but perhaps i'm missing something.
Seems like it would be an immediate red flag to have their mail IPs sending out email from all sorts of addresses and domains. Is this because they have built up a lot of credibility with ISPs?

A: There is no verification process for specifying the "From" header if you have relay access to a SMTP server.  However, if you do not have relay access, you will be limited to sending e-Mail that the server receives mail for.
If you run an e-Mail server, you can specify most e-Mail headers freely, which includes the From header.
Put simply, the SMTP protocol does not prevent this from occurring.

A: It seems like you already know that the only thing limiting anyone sending as anyone else is the recipient spam filtering. For basic envelope filtering, the envelope sender actually does correspond with them (...@bounces.linkedin.com).
For the content filtering side (headers and body), mail from linkedin with non-linkedin From: headers also have a Sender: header, specifically messages-noreply@bounce.linkedin.com. Many clients (Outlook being a big exception) hide this so it's not often noticed. Both DKIM and SPF allow using Sender rather than From, and as a result modern filters don't seem to care much about the From: header provided the Sender: header is validated or meets whatever other fuzzy source matching is in place. Modern mailing list software also uses the Sender header approach (many years ago, most only set the envelope sender to the list).

A: Generally that type of thing is filtered at the smtp out end. Since they host their own mail server they just specify the from email address on their sendmail script.
This is a good example of how it is done - http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?t=265200

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FW: Ada-VHDL the Next Design Solution
"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:40:27 -0800
From: Bob Leif
I just sent the following letter to Electronic Design. At the bottom, I have
a quotation that demonstrates that the truth about C++ is slowly becoming
known. I believe that a letter should be published by Electronic Design and
hope that the rest of you will submit your own letters. The probability of
one Ada letter being published by Electronic Design significantly increases
with the number submitted.
From: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Ada-VHDL the Next Design Solution
Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Vice President & Research Director
Newport Instruments
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Cheryl Ajluni
Dear Ms. Ajluni, I read with great interest your article, "System-Level
Languages Fight to Take Over as The Next Design Solution, January 24, 2000.
I must applaud you and Gary Smith for pointing out the pitfalls of C++.  Mr.
Smith finally told the truth to the engineering community, "It seems that
C++ actually was a failure. That's why the standard language today is
actually C/C++. C++ adds a lot to C. But if you try to use it as a
standalone object-oriented design language, it doesn't work too well;
Quality is a major concern." Unfortunately, no mention was made of the one
language that really meets your requirements, Ada.  Ada is an ISO standard
(ISO/IEC 8652:1995) that includes: extensive concurrency constructs
including rate-monotonic scheduling, the ability to treat bit patterns as
standard data types, a superlative object model, and an unparalleled record
of reliability.
Ada and VHDL were initially supposed to be the same language. In fact, M.
Mills and G. Peterson have demonstrated in their paper, "Hardware/Software
Co-design: VHDL and Ada 95 Code Migration and Integrated Analysis,"
Proceedings ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference (SIGAda'98) ACM
Press, pages 18-27, a mapping of VHDL to Ada is reasonably straight forward.
The parts of VHDL that are not in Ada could be added as annexes to the Ada
standard.  In fact, since translators can be created between VHDL and Ada,
the two languages should be merged.
______________________________________-
This may be of use with some managers.
In a sidebar Gary Smith wrote:
Design teams would start with the Rosetta language and then hand it down to
C, ++, Verilog, VHDL, etc. As a result, designers could prove that, whatever
language is used, the resulting lower?level description will meet the
specification. That's a very comforting thought in an era of
multimillion?dollar design programs.
Today, though, designers translate the English specification directly into
C/C++ or actually a superset of C/C++. Hardware design is concurrent,
whereas soft?ware design and design languages like c are sequential. That's
what systems C and CynApps libraries are ail about. They're simply
standardizing a design practice that's been going on for 10 years. There are
dozens; if not hundreds, of proprietary C libraries used for systems
modeling. System C and CynApps offer concurrent C++ modeling library
standards??nothing more, nothing less. These are vital in hardware/software
codesign, as well as for use with the coverification tools presently on the
market. Like all design, it starts with the models.
So what about Java? It's basically the same thing. It seems that C++
actually was a failure. That's why the standard language today is actually
C/C++. C++ adds a lot to C. But if you try to use it as a standalone
object??oriented design language, it doesn't work too well; Quality is a
major concern. The pointer issue takes most of the blame. Also, one
designer's objects don't talk well with other designers' objects. This is
pretty familiar territory for a hardware designer: A growing number of
people believe that Java will replace C/C++ within four to six years: But
it's a sequential language and, as I pointed out before, we have a
concurrent design problem. From a system??level perspective, it seems that
for EDA tool vendors, the real dividing line in the design process may be
between concurrent and sequential design (see the sidebar figure):
70 ELECTRONIC DESIGN • January 24, 2000


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Since then, Joy has performed throughout Worcester County as a solo artist, particularly in the up and coming Canal District of Worcester, MA (home of the Worcester RedSox). She has also performed at several local festivals and events, including Make Music Worcester, Pow! Wow! Worcester!, Worcester Wine Festival, and Sofar Sounds, as well as with the Women of Worcester Productions. She has performed alongside several local favorites, including Cara Brindisi and Sam James.
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Guest post by author, Kristen Welch of Raising World Changers in a Changing World. Guest author, Kristen, has also written two other books: Rhinestone Jesus and Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World. It is an honor to host Kristen on the blog today.


My work is my hobby! I am a very active person and I have got a very creative job. I work with different people and create new ideas for their festive events. I like playing the piano and singing. I go in for sports a few times a week. I like to go to the countryside with my friends to spend the time close to the nature. I jog in the evenings.
To tell the truth, I am not sure that you will be able to find a woman which will be a better wife than I am going to be. I am a caring, loving, tender, sociable and passionate lady. I hate to be late and I always come to the meetings in time. So, you will not have to wait me on the dates. If you are interested to know more, write me.
Well, I cannot say that I have got an exact image of my future man. I just want to find a reliable man, who will be kind and tender with me. Honesty is a must! I want to be with a man who can trust me and whom I can trust. I hope that you are this man, my dear.


All membranes, no matter what brand or construction, will block water but can let water vapor through. But it will only do so under certain circumstances. Let's forget about the differences in specs and quality of the membranes for a while and concentrate on the principle.
The key word is difference. There will only be migration of vapors if there is a difference. On one side it should be more than the other. The gas or vapor will want to go there where the least vapor is, until it is the same everywhere. The membrane however has no idea about front and back, so it can go both ways.
Always keep in mind that there are circumstances and effects that could let the water go inside your gear instead of out. If it is more humid and warm outside, than inside your gear, vapor will be drawn in. This could also happen on your seat, where water remains, and temperature is higher. You might get the idea your gear is leaking, but in fact it is just your membrane doing its job.


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Senior Living in Cygnet, Ohio
Top zip codes in Cygnet, OH: 43413
Cygnet scores lower than the Ohio average of 76.
Cygnet scores higher than the national average of 72.
There is 1 hospital within close range of the city (Wood County Hospital).
There are 21 senior living facilities in close proximity to the city, including Briar Hill Health Campus, Heritage Corner Nursing Home, and Wood Haven Health Care.
There is a high number of home healthcare providers operating in the city.
There is a high number of fire stations serving the city.
The city has a low percentage of seniors in the population (23% of residents).
There are 41 golf courses in or around the city, including Briar Hill Country Club, Forrest Creason Golf Course, and Bowling Green Country Club.
There are 2 parks near the city center (Van Buren State Park and Fire Lake Camper Park).
There are 29 churches in or near the city, including Rudolph Christian Church, Holy Family Catholic Church, and St Luke\'s Lutheran Church.
There are 5 malls / shopping centers within close range of the city.
The property taxes average 3.24% of total income, which is significantly higher than the national average of 2.79%.
Ohio has an average state income tax of 2.51%, compared to the national average of 3.38%.
The city's per capita income is $23,111, which is lower than the national average of $25,611.
Home healthcare costs average $45,554 annually, which are average compared to national costs.
The overall cost of living is average compared to national averages.
Cygnet receives low levels of rainfall each year.
Cygnet has harsh mean temperatures, with cold winters and pleasant summers.
This city has average water quality.
Cygnet has a very sparse population density of 43.7 people per square mile.
Residents of Cygnet have a very short daily commute time.
The city has a very low public transportation ridership.
Cygnet has an average public school quality ranking.
This city has a very low graduation rate of 76.86%.
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Auguste Franchomme (pronounced "franc-OME") was the most renowned Parisian cellist of his time. He became a dear friend and frequent performance partner of Chopin, and the dedicatee of several Chopin compositions, including his final work, the Sonata for Piano and Cello. Their circle of friends included Liszt, Mendelssohn, George Sand, Charlotte Rothschild, and many other luminaries of 19th century Paris. Franchomme composed charming, virtuosic cello compositions, most of which are out of print and have never been recorded.
The Franchomme Project album was released on the Delos label in the US and Canada on September 11th, and became available to the rest of the world through Naxos in November. It has extensive liner notes written by Louise Dubin, based on her research in France, and contains previously unpublished information and photos. A French translation of her notes by a direct descendant of Franchomme is also included. CD orders placed through this website's shop include a bonus 24-bit cello duo track!
In addition, Ms. Dubin has transcribed Franchomme's unpublished cello quartet manuscripts, and her publication of these will be available in 2017 (please sign up for updates at www.blogdaysofauguste.com). She has given (generally premiere) performances of his compositions in New York City (earning praise in The New Yorker magazine and New York Concert Review), in the Salle Gaveau and the CRR (Paris), the Festival de Violoncelle de Beauvais (France), University of Connecticut, Grand Valley State University in Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas. For inquiries about a performance or lecture-recital on your concert series, or an interactive cello quartet presentation at your music school or cello conference, please get in touch through the CONTACT tab.
Ms. Dubin's research trip to France, funded by two Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research Awards from Indiana University in Bloomington, allowed her to visit the Music Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In large part due to the generous donations of Auguste Franchomme's direct descendants, the BnF houses the most complete collection of his works in the world, including copies of first editions of almost all of Franchomme's published works (most of which are out of print and impossible to find elsewhere) and many unpublished manuscripts. Dubin also met direct descendants of Franchomme, who gave her access to unpublished family anecdotes, letters, manuscripts, Franchomme's practice cello, and his library of cello music where she discovered forgotten compositions by the Baronesse Charlotte Nathaniel Rothschild (apparently plagiarizing Chopin works that had not yet been published!) Her discoveries inspired a paper which she presented at the International Women in French Biennial Conference at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2012 and at the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique Biennial Conference (SPFFA) biennial conference at NYU in 2013. Her accompanying article appeared in the conference proceedings of Women In French; please see WORDS tab for more information.
Trois Nocturnes Pour Le Violoncelle, Op. 14. One of the many original editions of Franchomme's out-of-print works housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale Francaise in Paris.
Reading room of the music division of BNF, Paris.
10 Rue la Bruyere, Paris. Franchomme spent his happiest years in this apartment, living here at least until 1850.
Louise with Denys (last name removed for privacy reasons), descendant of Auguste Franchomme, relaxing at dinner after a tour of Parisian sites connected to his ancestor. Denys' French translation of the liner notes for The Franchomme Project album will be included in the CD booklet.
Franchomme's gravestone, which has some lovely words he wrote about his wife, who predeceased him (as did his son and one of his two daughters).
Louise with Sophie Ruhlmann in Blois. Sophie is a renowned Chopin scholar who has also researched Franchomme.
Louise playing Franchomme's practice cello, at the house of Thierry (last name removed for privacy reasons), its owner.
Le Côteau is the since-enlarged house where Chopin and Franchomme spent a happy summer vacation in 1833. The house was owned by cellist/composer/lawyer Jules Forest, dedicatee of Franchomme's Adagio and Bolero. His daughter Adele was an accomplished pianist and the dedicatee of the Grand Duo Concertante on Robert le Diable. She began taking lessons from Chopin just before this vacation of his at her house. In September 1833, Chopin and Franchomme performed the piece in Tours (nine miles from Le Côteau), at a concert arranged by Jules Forest, in what may have been its first performance. Chopin remembered his vacation here fondly in several letters, and returned at least once more; Franchomme returned often. The son of Adele later bequeathed the house to Paul André, grandchild of Franchomme, and part of its surrounding forest to another grandchild, René Edouard André. Azay-sur-Cher, near Tours.
Franchomme's affection for Touraine began at Le Côteau and he returned to the region throughout his life. His daughter Louise later purchased this house with her husband Edouard André, in nearby La Croix en Touraine. Later in his life Franchomme would often stay there. In 2005, it was sold by Franchomme's descendants to the town, and is now the Town Hall.
Louise with 7 direct descendants of Franchomme, Paris 2011: Elisabeth, Claire, Thierry, me, Denys, Marie-Christine, Florence, and Beatrice. A lovely 19th century painting of Auguste's son René in the background. René was a prodigy cellist and budding composer who died at age 19.
Louise playing Auguste Franchomme's Forster cello at a party in Paris, 2011. Among the guests were the seven Franchomme descendants pictured above!
Elisabeth P.-L. (great-great granddaughter of Auguste Franchomme) wearing a prized 19th century cameo of René Franchomme, son of Auguste.
Here is a pencil drawing of Auguste Franchomme by Jean Massaud, 19th century. Click on it for a higher resolution downloadable PDF.


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First the potatoes are peeled and cooked in slightly salted water.
Eddie was already interested peeking over the edge of the table.
Now the sunflower seeds are put into a blender and finely pureed. This makes digestion easier and the nutrients can be well absorbed.
Cut the tofu into thin slices and sprinkle both sides with Kala Namak. Kala Namak is a salt that contains small amounts of sulphur compounds and gives the tofu an egglike taste and smell.
Now fry the tofu slices with some rapeseed oil in the pan on both sides until golden brown and then cool them on a plate.
Cook the spinach in a pan with a little water. Cool the spinach and chop finely. Mix with V-Complete and the sunflower seeds and arrange the potatoes and the tofu slices in the bowl.
Finally drizzle with the sesame oil.
Voilà, now you can serve the food.


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Calhoun's Prophecy
November 25, 2011 Hunter Wallace American South, BRA History, BRA Politics, BRA Race Relations, Dixie, Negroes, South Carolina, Southern Nationalism, Whiteness, Yankees 47
John C. Calhoun's prophetic vision of the rise of BRA
Editor's Note: I'm going to leave this tacked up for the rest of the weekend because it speaks volumes about how we got into this predicament. A year later, we have some yet another demonstration of Calhoun's Prophecy.
Did John C. Calhoun predict the rise of BRA in America? The following except comes from Calhoun's Southern Address:
"Very different would be the circumstances under which emancipation would take place with us. If it should ever be effected, it will be through the agency of the Federal Government, controlled by the dominant power of the Northern States of the Confederacy, against the resistance and struggle of the Southern.
It can then only be effected by the prostration of the white race; and that would necessarily engender the bitterest feelings of hostility between them and the North. But the reverse would be the case between the blacks of the South and the people of the North. Owing their emancipation to them, they would regard them as friends, guardians, and patrons, and centre, accordingly, all their sympathy in them. The people of the North would not fail to reciprocate and to favor them, instead of the whites.
Under the influence of such feelings, and impelled by fanaticism and love of power, they would not stop at emancipation. Another step would be taken – to raise them to a political and social equality with their former owners, by giving them the right of voting and holding public offices under the Federal Government. We see the first step toward it in the bill already alluded to – to vest the free blacks and slaves with the right to vote on the question of emancipation in this District.
But when once raised to an equality, they would become the fast political associates of the North, and acting and voting with them on all questions, and by this political union between them, holding the white race at the south in complete subjection. The blacks, and the profligate whites that might unite with them, would become the principal recipients of federal offices and patronage, and would, in consequence, be raised above the whites of the South in the political and social scale. We would, in a word, change conditions with them – a degradation greater than has ever yet fallen to the lot of a free and enlightened people, and one from which we could not escape, should emancipation take place, (which it certainly will if not prevented), but by fleeing the homes of ourselves and our ancestors, and by abandoning our country to our former slaves, to become the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery and wretchedness.
With such a prospect before us, the gravest and most solemn question that ever claimed the attention of a people is presented for your consideration: what is to be done to prevent it? It is a question belonging to you to decide."
The Southern Address of 1849 is signed by a "Who's Who List" of Antebellum Southerners including John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, and Robert Barnwell Rhett.
What Would It Take To Get You To Fight?
Who Is Uncle Sam?
Earlmundo Armand Pitts III
Sure, Calhoun and the others realized that the Blacks once free would be easy to manipulate for promises & bling—Reconstruction demonstrated that. So does the BRA.
Once again I'm going to suggest Avery Craven to you, and his well rounded look at The Coming of the Civil War. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_coming_of_the_Civil_War.html?id=DEWCKlYiocIC
There are lots of parts of Craven still to be explored, like his theory that the South was industrializing at a faster pace than the North.
Hunter Wallace
Watching the History Channel at the gym.
In 1659, the Yankees in Massachusetts banned Christmas. True story.
Easter has always been the major Christian holiday. What we think of as our modern Christmas has really only been in existence since Victorian times.
Yuletide is an inherently Germanic pagan holiday.
Fr. John
Hardly. The anti-popery faction of the radical right wing of the Protestants (unlike Luther, who enjoined – so they say- the first creche in a visible public display) hated anything that smacked of the Anglican/Royalist sentiment, and were also a bit Manichean to boot. So, celebration after the Advent fast seemed to them to be sacreligious, and they also banned all holy days, only considering 'The Lord's Day' to be valid as a 'holyday' for them. From that narrowmindedness (think Cromwell and the Roundheads vs. the Cavaliers) came the Sabbatarians, who (through a faulty calendrical and biblical reading) came to think that only SATURDAY was the valid 'Sabbath.' Again, mere 'Romeaphobia' and nothing more.
But it was [German] Queen Victoria and her husband Albert that finally broke that Puritan 'puritanical' streak in the English, and from it, we got all the great Christmas Carols written in the 19th Century from England.
But pagan? Please. St. Boniface chopped down the last Germanic symbol of paganism, in the (?) eighth century!
Not hardly. The most recent symbol of German paganism that got chopped down around here is the Christmas tree the city just put up in our towns main square! LOL
Old White Jim
Hunter: You failed to mention that Calhoun invented the first time travel machine.
Lots of current Christian holiday symbolism is borrowed, or rather subverted from original pagan celebrations. Was Jesus born on December 26th? No. Christmas was moved to that time to overlap with pagan yule to subvert it and cement Christian power. The christmas tree is leftover from the Yule log where pagans found a big-ass tree and burned it all night on the december solstice.
Mistletoe was a pagan sign of virility because the juice in the white berries of mistletoe looked like…."hair conditioner". Same thing with the easter bunny…the pagans wanted to breed like rabits.
Similar reason that a heart shape is used to symbolize love on St. Valentines day. The heart shape looks like….well…draw a little vertical line on a heart and put an asterisk (*) in the center, near the top and tell me what that reminds you of. If you're at a loss, ask a 16 year old.
To those opining on Christmas, please look up the history of the Feast of the Epiphany. You'll find that Christmas and Epiphany were celebrated starting VERY EARLY in the history of Christianity, and WAY BEFORE the Germanic tribes were converted. In certain Christian traditions, Christmas is relatively minor in comparison to the Feast of the Epiphany.
MICHAEL DEAN MILLER
Old White Jim says:
Mr. Calhoun's resemblance to Dr. Emmett Brown is purely coincidental.
LOL, I'm sure there will be a discovery channel special this February to claim it was actually a black man named John C Calhoun Carver..
Actually, the Advent of Christ was celebrated long before pagan Romans celebrated on that day– all things appear to point to the "Birth of the Son"-solar holy day being invented by the Romans as an attempt to supplant a day already held sacred by Christians.
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-10-012-v
PalmettoPatriot
Calhoun predicted it precisely, did he not? A prophetic man.
Dixiegirl
Calhoun's main point here was the character of WHITE Northeast people, though.
–Their "will to power only." He's saying the yankee is the source of what people call "ghetto think" or "might is right." For the Southerner, HOW ONE GETS IT is more important than WHAT is gotten. "Southern Honor."
Calhoun is saying the WHITE NORTHEAST person is a "ghetto thinker," their character, which is Usury, would harm Southerners (not the black people).
But Calhoun is saying a White Northereasterner is a user at heart, a taker, so Calhoun concludes "nothing will ever be enough for them." Once the yankee gets one thing, he will push (TO TAKE) MORE. (Thus he will be called a "progressive," but he won't be "progressing" toward more inventions he is making, or crops to sell, but progressing will mean "taking"… more of what is already there… of taxes, land, redistributions, etc….
Calhoun is pointing out that the end result of "leadership" coming merely from "might is right" and appropriation, rather than "honor" and "noblesse oblige" —is Genocide. The end result is always Genocide— or Flight by the vilified object, from who more and more must be taken.
Every new thing taken by the WHITE Northeasterner is a cue to take more. A cue he is "winning."
Creating fiction (like t.v. narratives to support their justifications, and using any usable facts that do this) they justify Taking things already in existence (rather than creating new things)—-
The main culture will then, logically, revolve around justifications for taking what's already there, scarcity, a devolution, rhetoric of revenge, etc.
For Calhoun, the logical conclusion of the Northeast mentality would be Genocide.
— Reminded me— Once I was in a job where I had to discuss, with a yankee, whether someone should get a raise. I said no, they didn't deserve it, because it was unearned, and showed what the person had been paid, versus what they delivered, versus the profit margin, etc…
The yankee just LIKED the person, and got really mad, and started trying to intimidate yelling, "People deserve whatever they can get."
That's a yankee, according to Calhoun.
It would lead (obviously) to endless haggling, defamation, degrading "opponents," seeing everything as a "competition." —All alien to the southern mind.
—You can hate Marx, but be honest: Yankees like this make you at least understand why "a labor theory of value" (trying to base value in something one could calculate in order to create a set price) might be welcome.
—sorry for the text walls— at any rate, Calhoun knew White Northern character was the trouble
—to be a "progressive" is to "progress" in taking (from others) what already exists.
Funny, Christianity was celebrated long before John the Baptist walked the Earth. It was called Zoroastrianism!
Zoroastrian priests were there on Christmas endorsing Jesus as their promised Saoshyant, (Matthew 2)
But WTF does that have to do with fighting white genocide and Partition besides reminding us that we don't want to go the way of the ancient Persians and that we would rather love in an all white society without Christianity than in a Christian multicult?
Stonelifter
Calhoun seems to define yankees like folks describe jews……,
sorry to go on, but—
Re Calhoun: one fascinating aspect of "southern white privilege" is how The Northeast Whites COMPLETELY ignore that there WAS a war, lol.
Supposedly, the "privilege" of southerners is still in play and must be crushed.
IN REALITY, much of the south was burned. The goods were taken and redistributed. The "carpetbaggers" bought it all up, pennies on the dollar. Many Southerners cannot trace their histories (genocide) because birth records were DESTROYED, etc…
Yet same narrative that had allowed White Yankees to take those things (saying they were morally justified due to slavery)— was USED AGAIN after Southerners (somehow) got on their feet, found non-planting ways to make a living (like becoming baby doctors, wage-base farming, etc.).
The Northern mind CAN NEVER redeem the Southerner. (Because vilification is the basis of their living).
Everything he predicted has come true.
I watched a documentary the other day on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War That was led by Puritans and ended in regicide and tyranny to establish utopia I would suggest those same treasonous egalitarians fled to New England to become treasonous utopian schemers here.
The worst mistake we ever made was creating the Union. There will be a sea change in consciousness in the South when it is admitted that the "Founding Fathers" struck a rotten deal.
1849. Amazing.
The only update is the favoritism they now show to the Hispanics of the Southwest and their support for open borders.
I suggest that Southern Nationalists not act on their (legitimate) hatred of NorthEast Yankees, racial Lib/Mins.
Talk, as they say, is cheap.
The time has come for men of the South to physically punish their "real" enemies in the NorthEast (sure some cases can be made for Whites in Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin).
Here are some suggestions:
1) Pull a Southern version of Castro's Cuban Mariel Boat Lift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boat_lift
Identify ~ 50,000 of the South's worst low life Blacks (convicted rapists, crack dealers, HIV + and TB infected homeless people, mau mauing community organizers etc – and simply dump them on the state of Vermont and also (sadly) the state of New Hampshire.
This (act of war) needs to be presented as some type of "humanitarian" program to give marginalized, Liberal minority groups new opportunities in "progressive" NorthEaster Lib Democrat states. Lots of (lying) propaganda efforts need to be made where rich (Southern nationalist) Southerners build new (crappy) housing for the refugees, work with Lib/Min community organizers in Vermont, sign them up for generous welfare benefits, do voter registration drives, job training (ha, ha) that sort of thing.
The whole Southern version of the Mariel Boat lift needs to be done under a "wink, wink" format, with idiot rock pop singers like Sting, Madonna and Bono supplying music video support.
Read Respail's Camp of the Saints and see if you can put something similar in a
South – to Northeast migration of the
Have nots
Progressive 3rd world people of color, trapped in Racist Southern Red States.
Accuse the type.
The last comment should read:
I suggest that Southern Nationalists NOW act on their (legitimate) hatred of NorthEast Yankees, racial Lib/Mins.
Dixiegirl says:
Dixie – have heart. The War of Northern Aggression is finally turning in out itself. Pay attentiom to what's happening, in the wake of Sandy. Staten Island, and the Joisey Shore. Yankess are juuuuuuuuust beginning to eat the feces they've dealt to the South. They don't like it. And the worst thing – they have NO idea of what's beng shoved down their throats.
Calhoun was a visionary who knew how they operate. His prescience is, as I said, amazing. I was working on something yesterday and had to refresh my memory on Huey P. Long. He was another Southerner who fought northern political and financial interests (FDR, his Wall Street allies and the Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil).
It is to be expected that Jewdel would be found arguing here about whether Christ's Mass equates to Yuletide or whether Dominica (Sunday) is the true Sabbath and so forth.
In BRA, the only relevant sign for the goyim will be the eight branched symbol of Victory – soon to be erected (in a few weeks actually) in every public square across the land. Or, if you will, the symbolic reminder of Calhoun's prospect of "the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery and wretchedness." To the mind of the anti-Christ, this trumps: Pascha, Dominica and Christ's Mass combined.
The Yuletide, Sabbath quibbler admits no solution to this spectacle except more of the same anti-Christ quibbles.
Only the holy faith of the European, Christ bearing people addresses Calhoun's prospect with the fortitude of sacred scripture:
"And Judas Machabees replied: "It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude or a small company." 1 Machabees 3:18.
Lucifer is defeated, Rudel / Jewdel. There is nothing you can do about it.
The only reason why European peoples are currently under the boot heel of Edom in Black Run America is because they are in apostasy from the holy faith of people like Judas Machabees, St Vincent Ferrer, Jan Sobieski, Don Juan of Lepanto and St Louis, King of France.
America's northeastern Whites are some true detectives and their historical leaders, the WASP elite, downright evil. The British elite too. They side with blacks, Jews, Hispanics, everyone but their own cousins.
Lew, wtf are you talking about? The Brits very nearly pitched in with the confederacy.
Hunter,
You're site is overrun with religious cranks today. Lew who advocated for O.
At least Chris is a respectably nasty realist. Respect to Chris.
Cromwell very nearly migrated to Mass.
Additionally, there were many many Yankees in the Puritan ranks. Downing Street is named after a New Englander. Many Captains and Generals were drawn from North America. It's possible that the English themselves caught the Puritan Republican ideal from New Rngland rather than the other way around. Recall the Mayflower crew and passengers were rejected by ordinary English people.
We're about to reach the breaking point with the Northeast. I can see it and hear it coming.
Bill Yancey
Good strategy, Jack. Unfortunately, it requires political power. If and when the deteriorating condition of the central government begins to devolve more power and some guts back to the states I'd love to see it advanced.
On a micro scale a favorite in Florida is to rent a bus, locate 20 or 30 yutes, give them some spending money and drop them off at the new mall nearest a wealthy gated community of transplants and snowbirds.
Per a previous post on the pros and cons of cut-and-run, Calhoun foresaw that too:
We would, in a word, change conditions with them – a degradation greater than has ever yet fallen to the lot of a free and enlightened people, and one from which we could not escape, should emancipation take place, (which it certainly will if not prevented), but by fleeing the homes of ourselves and our ancestors, and by abandoning our country to our former slaves, to become the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery and wretchedness.
Not that I necessarily recommend it but anyone who has ever been desperate knows that, however disillusioning it is and however many oaths to his neighbor have been taken, every man for himself can become the bottom line.
I don't want this to happen. I make note that, sadly, it will happen. Even Calhoun foresaw it.
Bill Yancey says:
Jack Ryan replies:
Not necessarily. I think the key here is to study lots of the very effective, underhanded tactics the Left has done in this country, without official political control. Tax exempt Leftist organizations like The Ford Foundation, Lutheran and Catholic refugee services manage to successfully implement very destructive, anti White policies (such as bringing in tens of thousands of diseased Muslim Somalians to places like Minneapolis) and they do this "under the radar".
What's to stop some racially conscious, rich White Southerners from starting their own tax exempt charities with all kinds of noble, liberal names and causes, with the practical result that these charities are flooding Lib NorthEastern Dem areas with the worst Black, 3rd world scum?
These Southerners could even (pay) some retired guy with a last name of "Kennedy" to be the official name of the charity. That way the "Kennedy Fresh Air Fund" could sponsor the most violent, destructive Blacks from Roxbury and Dorchester Mass, bus and boat the Black thugs/scum out to liberal playgrounds like Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and all the buses and T-Shirts would say "Kennedy Fresh Air Fund" so most everyone would assume it was the cursed Ted Kennedy family doing this @##*($ liberal *$(#, only for some strange reason the Kennedy's were doing the Liberal minority destruction policies in rich White/Jew liberal areas.
Other fun projects could include:
Instigating terrible divisions between the Obama Lib/Min coalitions. Just think of all the fun you/we can have stirring up trouble between Muslim immigrants and wealthy, Dem financial supporting Jews. Or pay people to dress up as "gays" at gay pride parades carrying signs suggesting that the Muslm prophet Mohammed was "gay", or just some Muslim guy named "Mohammed" was "gay", then word goes out to crazed Muslim Jihadists that Lib homosexual groups in places like Vermont and Chicago are insulting their prophet.
The key is to have some fun out there.
that is an awesome and diabolical idea Jack. Tip o the hat to you.
State up a new underground railroad and call these DWL's bluff. Ship nigs to Vermont and Maine. As many as possible. See their voting pattern change unstinting.
Currently New England prices blacks out of property. That be rayciss!
Set up a Parole system in Southern jails. You are released if you go to live in Vermont or Maine.
Jack – That is diabolical. Rather than starting an new organization, somebody could just buddy up to the existing Lutheran/Catholic refugee services and convince and/or guilt trip them over just how bad southern blacks have it. How they live under siege in an increasingly racist region, are underemployed and effectively disenfranchised, and should therefore be the first priority of any American refugee relocation efforts.
Stonelifter says:
Thanks – that's the kind of guy I am. These skills I've developed over living around/with evil, scheming, diabolical Libs/Jews for over half of my life. We need more of this on our side. One guy on our side that really had this gift was Russian, arch nationalist, racist extremists Vladimicr Zhironovsky. One thing he did was to name his racist, nationalist, extremist Russian party the Russian equivalent of:
"The Liberal Democrat Party"
So how could the Liberals in the lying press attack his party for just professing to be "Liberal Democrats"? Plus a fair percentage of stupid Liberal voters would vote for his party on just the name.
Hitler did something similar when he changed the name of his Racist German Nationalist party to:
"The German National Socialist Workers Party"
So lots of voters who might go for some Communist Workers Party, would instead go for his party with a very similar name and lots of propaganda in common.
Our side is way to straight, fair and honest.
Have some fun out there.
There are lots of unhappy folks here right now. My parents had some of their church friends over yesterday, it looked like a wake.
Don't confuse ethnic nationalism with religion (although I admit that they are related, race trumped religion in those conflicts.)
OD is at its best with historical posts such as this. I don't know if you've ever come across the opening speech of the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901, but it deserves to be similarly archived here for popular consumption.


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10 Bizarre Prisons From Around The World
If you watch a lot of film or TV, you probably have a pretty good idea of what prisons are like: Life is lived in an eight-by-ten cell – with a cellmate who may or may not make you his girlfriend; a cruel, power-mad warden; a constant need to be on guard for sucker punches in the cafeteria, the exercise yard, and especially the shower.
Of course, not all prisons are like the ones on screen. Here are ten that'll ruin your idea of what a prison looks like; they're some of the most bizarre prisons in the world.
Halden Prison
Some prisons are known for being violent and treating prisoners like animals, leading to inhumane and unethical tactics for keeping the peace. Leave it to the Scandinavians to go in the complete opposite direction, with Halden Prison. It has been referred to as the most humane prison in the world.
Located in Norway, Halden is often described as peaceful and relaxing. The prisoners are treated to good food, hot coffee, and cells that boast televisions, mini-fridges, private bathrooms, and scenic views of the surrounding forest. It must be a minimum security facility, right? Nope. Halden is home to some of the worst criminals in Norway. So if you're ever struggling to get by in that part of the world, maybe an armed robbery could get you a ticket straight to paradise.
Kresty Prison
And now from one of the most humane prisons in the world to one of the least: Kresty Prison, located in St. Petersburg, Russia. Built in the 1730s, Kresty looks like everything you'd expect from an old, foreboding Russian prison. It was dark and gloomy, and severely overpopulated. I say "was" because – thankfully for the prisoners – it was effectively shut down with plans to turn it into – what else? – an entertainment and hotel complex.
In the 1990s, it was estimated that 12,500 inmates were imprisoned in Kresty, a staggering figure when you take into account that it was designed to house just 1,150. Cells originally designed for solitary confinement were packed with up to twenty inmates at a time, forcing them to take turns for access to the bunk beds.
Canto Grande Prison
Also known as the "Shining Path" prison, Canto Grande Prison in Peru was a unique prison of a sort usually only seen in movies like The Dark Knight Rises or epic classics like No Escape. It was a prison run by the inmates.
Oh, there were guards there – but they quickly became obsolete as Shining Path took control of the prison and followed their own schedules and created their own rules, including work and study. The education and studying consisted of the works of Lenin, Marx, and Mao, so it makes sense that this Communist group would take the power back for themselves and rebel against the recognized authorities. This was truly a case of the inmates running the asylum.
Cebu Prison
Located in the Philippines, Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center is a prison you've probably seen without realizing it. That's because back in 2007, the inmates of Cebu became a worldwide phenomenon when they staged a choreographed version of the Thriller dance, which has since become one of the biggest viral videos of all-time.
What you may not have realized is that the Thriller video was not the only choreographed routine the more than 1,500 prisoners have worked on. Since 2005 the prison has actually become well known for this rather unusual method of rehabilitation-by-dancing – even though around 70% of inmates are supposedly violent offenders.
Squirrel Cage Jail
The Squirrel Cage Jail in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, has been closed since 1969 – but in its lifetime is has had one of the most unusual designs ever for a correctional facility. From the outside, it looks like a normal small-town jailhouse. But the inside is another story.
That's because it features revolving cells. These were designed with the intent of having "maximum security with minimum jailer attention" – meaning that a jailer could sit at the center of the circular structure and, without doing any rounds, keep an eye on all of the prisoners at once.
Maricopa County Jail
Maricopa County, Arizona has a sheriff named Joe Arpaio, a man who marches to the beat of a different drum when it comes to law enforcement. He's decided that the best way to treat prisoners is to keep them out in the 110 degree heat and humiliate them in his Tent City Jail.
Tent City is exactly what it sounds like, in case you were wondering. The prisoners of the Maricopa County Jail, both male and female, are kept in canvas tents outdoors in the Arizona heat. This has predictably led to numerous protests against this treatment, often described as inhumane.
Arpaio's response to all of this is to say that if the US armed forces can take the heat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoners of Tent City can, too.
Fortezza Medicea Prison
Italy is famous for many things, not the least of which is its fine food. So it should come as no surprise to find out that one of its prisons, Fortezza Medicea, boasts the type of cuisine you might find in a four star restaurant. What is probably a bit more surprising is that the meals are prepared by the inmates themselves – many of whom are serving life sentences for murder. Even more surprising? Regular, law-abiding citizens frequent Fortezza Medicea to sample the menu.
No, they aren't going and sitting down in some prison cafeteria and risking a shank from an imprisoned Mafioso. Rather, they are getting served by those same Mafiosi who are working in the restaurant that is open to the public on the grounds of Fortezza Medicea. While I'm sure the food is indeed excellent, I would advise against asking for ketchup.
Aranjuez Prison
Prison is no place for children. That is, of course, unless the prison in question is Aranjuez, located in the Spanish town of the same name. Aranjuez is home to real, hardened felons serving long sentences for various crimes – but it is also home to a rather unusual secondary group of inmates: their families.
Inside the walls of Aranjuez, the prisoners live with their families in an effort to allow small children to bond with their incarcerated parent, while going to school and living an otherwise pretty normal childhood. The children stay with their parents in the prison until age three, when they are sent to live with relatives.
The cells, as you'd expect, are very different from normal prison cells. They are up to 150 square feet and feature private bathrooms and are typically child oriented. On the plus side, when it's time for the kids to go to a real school, they'll already have more street cred than anyone else on the jungle gym.
San Pedro Prison
San Pedro Prison is a thriving community – and believe it or not, a bona fide tourist attraction.
The prison – located in Bolivia – is split up into sections and classes. The "rich" prisoners are able to buy what would pass for luxury: cells with a private bathroom, cable television, a kitchen, and sometimes even a Jacuzzi. It will cost a prisoner between $1,000 and $1,500 to buy one of these cells, which they'll "own" until their sentence is over. There are children in San Pedro, along with markets and shops, and – amazingly – absolutely no guards. The prisoners devised a system of rules and laws which they enforce themselves with minimal outside interference.
Justizzentrum Leoben Prison
I began the list taking about the most humane prison in the world, and I'll end it by talking about the most luxurious. Justizzentrum Leoben, or Justice Center Leoben, is located in Austria – and it's much nicer than where I live. It's often referred to as a five star prison, and is more like a resort than a detention facility.
It's a grand, beautiful, and ultra-chic building boasting a modern design and fantastic amenities and landscaping. It almost makes you forget about the razor wire adorning the tops of the walls – just about the only reminder that it's actually a prison. The cells are spacious and comfortable, more like upmarket dorm rooms than prison cells. Of course – if you ask most college students – they'll tell you that those two things are pretty much the same.
Jeff Kelly
Jeff is a freelance writer from Texas. He"s married and has one son, and spends most of his time obsessing just a little too much over movies, television, and sports.
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