As the shock of November's defeat and the reality of being in opposition finally sink in, Democrats are moving beyond denial and starting to think about how to win in 2018 and 2020. This month's DNC Chair election is providing an opportunity to discuss what went wrong and how to do better. Although I am not a Democrat, I thought my friends on the left could benefit from an outsider's viewpoint. And, please don't worry, I won't tell you to start acting like Republicans.
Clinton received 2.9 million more popular votes than Trump but lost the electoral college because her voters were concentrated in a few coastal states. Further, she would have won an electoral college majority had she been able to overcome an aggregate Trump margin of just 78,000 popular votes in three states. Trump's razor thin victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania could have been reversed if more Democratic-leaning voters had turned out, if fewer voters had selected a third party candidate or if fewer voters chose no Presidential candidate, voting only in down ballot races.
This last phenomenon – large number of voters declining to choose a Presidential candidate - was so unusual that it triggered demands for a recount. In Michigan, for example, 75,000 ballots did not include a Presidential preference, compared to a margin of just 11,000 votes separating the two major candidates. As far as we can tell, these blank votes weren't caused by errors or fraud: they were the result of voters who disliked both candidates so much that they couldn't bring themselves to vote for the lesser of two evils.
This is testimony to Clinton's unattractiveness as a candidate. Hundreds of thousands of voters across the country repelled by Trump and unwilling to vote third party still could not convince themselves to vote for Clinton, despite her depth of experience and centrist platform. These voters, along with others who didn't show up or voted for Jill Stein, could not accept Clinton's cozy relationship with corporate interests, the whiff of corruption surrounding her family's Foundation and her email controversies.
Post-election, Democratic insiders have blamed the Russians and FBI Director James Comey for Clinton's defeat. And I find that hard to argue: news arising from leaked DNC email messages could have easily cost Clinton 78,000 votes in three states, as could the last-minute reopening (and reclosing) of the FBI investigation.
But blaming external forces is not a solution for winning: all candidates risk running up against such headwinds, including Trump who managed to overcome a hot mic off-air recording that NBC should not have leaked. Between the 1930s and the 1980s, the Soviets intervened in US politics by supporting the Communist Party USA and beaming propaganda to us over short wave radio, so Putin's actions in 2016 are nothing new – rather just a higher tech version of the same old thing. Comey had been painted into a corner: he had sworn during Congressional testimony to promptly notify Committee members if new evidence turned up, and the cache of Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer counted as such evidence.
Rather than blaming these circumstances, Democrats should have chosen a candidate not vulnerable to the contents of a disgraced former Congressman's hard drive. And the DNC and Clinton Campaign should not have written email messages that could later be used against them. Remember that the Democratic National Convention last August was initially rocked by revelations that DNC staff were trying to figure out how to stop Bernie Sanders.
The DNC and Democratic leadership seemed bent on protecting Clinton from serious primary opposition. This turned out to be a gross misjudgment. While the Republican process consisting of 17 candidates hurling mud at one another seemed ugly, it ultimately served a purpose. Jeb Bush, a weak candidate with strong establishment support, was winnowed out as were others that seemed to check all the boxes but weren't ready for prime time. Trump emerged from this messy process by demonstrating that he had the will to win and the ability to motivate a large base of support.
By contrast, Hillary's support was a mile wide and an inch deep. And the warning signs of her potential downfall were with us from the beginning of her primary campaign. News of her email server and her clumsy, shifting explanations for it date back to mid-2015. The $225,000 Goldman Sachs speeches were also in the news long before the Iowa Caucus.
But instead of providing an opening for a stronger candidate to replace Clinton, Democratic Party leadership closed the doors to effective opposition. Compared to the Republicans, Democrats held fewer Presidential debates, sometimes scheduling them at low-viewership times. Donna Brazille even abused her post at CNN by feeding town hall questions to the Clinton campaign.
The fact that Bernie Sanders, who came from outside the party with a far left agenda was able to mount a major challenge to Clinton was another sign of her weakness as a candidate. But now that we have entered the post mortem period, Democrats are in danger of learning the wrong lessons from Sanders' success. On the unproven assumption that Sanders would have defeated Trump last November, they conclude that Democrats need more progressive candidates going forward to excite the base.
But for every base voter they motivate, hard left candidates may turn off more than one middle of the road voter. The Democrats last experience with a far left candidate – George McGovern in 1972– did not end well: he lost 49 states. The British Labour Party offers its own cautionary tales. The Tories remained in power from 1979 to 1997 largely because Labour did not move toward the middle. Only when Tony Blair proclaimed New Labour and ended the party's support for nationalizing the means of production, was the party able to defeat the Conservatives, Labour is now repeating this mistake under its far left leader Jeremy Corbyn, failing to capitalize on Tory disorder in the wake of the Brexit vote and David Cameron's resignation.
I do not believe Sanders would have defeated Trump, but I am pretty sure that Obama or Biden could have. Indeed, Martin O'Malley may have beaten Trump as well. The takeaway is that a center left candidate, advocating an approach similar to Clinton's, but with a cleaner record and better able to connect with voters would have won in 2016 and will be best positioned to defeat Trump in 2020.
This column was mistakenly posted under Mark Thoma's byline originally. The Fiscal Times regrets the error.


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Edouard Beaupré (nascido Joseph Edouard Beaupré Piché em 9 de janeiro de 1881) foi um gigante canadense do show de horrores, lutador, atleta de grande força e uma estrela no Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Beaupré visitou, com seu pai, Nova York e outras cidades. Ao retornar a Montreal, lutou contra o homem forte de Quebec, Louis Cyr, em Parc Sohmer, em 1901. Cyr o venceu facilmente, embora os partidários de Beaupré tenham alegado que ele estava enfraquecido pela tuberculose e era apenas uma sombra do atleta que havia sido.

Em 1902, Beaupré foi diagnosticado com tuberculose. Na época, ele estava com 2,52 metros e 170 Kg, sendo um dos cinco ou seis homens mais altos que a história registrou.

Ver também
 Atletismo de força

Ligações externas
 O Homem Mais Alto: Edouard Beaupre
 Biografia e história da família de Edouard Beaupré no Canada's Digital Collections

Artistas do Canadá
Artistas circenses
Lutadores do Canadá
Atletas de força do Canadá
Atletas de força

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Not to Live in Vain: Catherine Sedgwick Essay example
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Victoria Zegler
HST 326: Women in America
Not To Live in Vain:
Faith and Ideals of Catherine Sedgwick
Love, involuntary and mysterious, holds a tight grip on the imagination. As young women, we ponder questions of marriage, careers and the ideals of love in our future. Ideals, such as these, were vital to the nineteenth century moralities. The principles of love and marriage provided models for women's goals, as well as the opportunity to speak of their experience. Both of these ideals and the value of character represented the standards of perfection, which were essential to the sphere of life. Catharine Sedgwick, a fiction writer, subscribed to these high standards and refused to compromise. Her writings repeatedly emphasized the political and personal need for liberty and independence. The behavior of unmarried women in the nineteenth century provided an answer to their highly charged moral pursuit concerning duty, usefulness and love rather than the cultural elements concerning self-fulfillment.
In order to find out who we are, we must understand where we come from. The seventeenth century Puritans first declared the importance of affection in marriage believing that to love one's spouse was a duty. Young men and women were to choose someone they could learn to love but being in love was not necessary. It was companionship and respect, which shaped the solid foundations of a successful marriage. However, by the first decades of the nineteenth century, those stipulations were no longer seen as sufficient when it came to building a foundation. Matrimonies were now based on a strong and spiritual personal attraction. [1] Rather than marry someone they could learn to love, the men and women of this generation were now expected to marry someone they did love. [2] The evolution of human love can be associated with the exposure to revivalist Evangelicalism. It was Evangelicals who linked spontaneity of feeling with faith. [3] The Puritan view was reversed; it was now love that came first while sympathy and appreciation followed.
This new understanding of spiritualization linked love with marriage, which allowed couples to focus on their happiness. By the nineteenth century the ideal of marriage based on love was widely accepted. The notion that marriage was to be based on romance rather than rational love indicated the understanding of human feelings. Catharine Sedgwick's reasons for breaking off her first engagement show the changing understanding of love and marriage. She explains to her brother Robert that her fiancé "has been so generous as to relinquish the promise I then gave him and all is now ended forever. He is very unhappy...I am degraded in my own opinion but I cannot help it. It is strange but it is impossible for me to create a sentiment of tenderness by any process of reasoning, or any effort of gratitude." [4] Sedgwick refers to the earlier understanding of love as friendship. However, she already believes in the new standard of natural love. A later journal entry brings this new understanding into sight. Sedgwick pondered her feelings toward a former admirer confessing, "I liked him, and not knowing quite as much of the heart (or of my heart) as I do I fancied that liking might ripen into something warmer." [5] Once Sedgwick became familiar with the imaginable sensations her heart could create; she came to realize that love is not just an increase in liking but a separate emotion completely.
The new values of love and marriage came together with high standards of character allowing it to be both socially and personally acceptable not to marry if it risked one's moral standards. This lead to a new concept regarding women's love and responsibility allowing a clearer understanding of women's usefulness. Although every realization has its consequences, with the new developments of love and marriage it was single women and their image in society that were being

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U.S. sides with HSBC to block release of money laundering report
The U.S. government asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to block the release of a report detailing how HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) is working to improve its money laundering controls after the British bank was fined $1.92 billion.
In a brief filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Department of Justice sought to overturn an order issued earlier this year by U.S. District Judge John Gleeson to make public a report by the bank's outside monitor.
"Public disclosure of the monitor's report, even in redacted form, would hinder the monitor's ability to supervise HSBC," the government's court filing said, adding that bank employees would be less likely to cooperate with the monitor if they knew their interactions could be released.
HSBC concurred with the court's finding. "HSBC also argues that the Monitor's report should remain confidential, as have the Monitor, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the US Federal Reserve and other HSBC regulators," HSBC said in a statement. "The effectiveness of the monitorship is dependent on confidentiality."
A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment.
The filing comes a week after U.S. congressional investigators criticized senior officials at the Department of Justice for overruling internal recommendations to criminally prosecute HSBC for money-laundering violations.
Instead, the government in 2012 fined HSBC and entered into a five-year deferred prosecution agreement that stipulated all charges would be dropped if the bank agreed to install an independent monitor to help improve compliance.
In the 2012 settlement, HSBC admitted to violating U.S. sanctions laws and failing to stop Mexican and Colombian cartels from laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds through the bank.
HSBC agreed to monitoring by former New York prosecutor Michael Cherkasky, now the executive chairman of the compliance company Exiger. One of the bank's mortgage customers filed a motion to unseal Cherkasky's report to find out whether the bank continued to engage in what the customer claimed were unsafe business practices.
The Justice Department in its brief frequently cited a 2016 decision by a U.S. appeals court to uphold a deferred prosecution agreement with Fokker Services, a Dutch company accused of illegally shipping aircraft parts to Iran and other countries. The appeals court ruled that a Washington-based District Court judge lacked the authority to reject an agreement reached by U.S. prosecutors and the company.
In an earlier court filing, the government said that while HSBC has made significant progress since the agreement, it is still not doing enough to thwart money laundering.
The case is U.S. v. HSBC Bank USA NA et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 16-308
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Parklets Will Be Popping Up In Pittsfield
Cheryl Adams
North Adams Parklet Facebook photo
The Parklet idea that was first in North Adams and has been great, now they will be a part of the city of downtown Pittsfield. Pittsfield will be using money from its Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program to welcome more options for outdoor dining in the downtown.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation developed this program to provide grants as small as $5,000 and as large as $300,000 for cities and towns to quickly implement or expand improvements to sidewalks, curbs, streets, on-street parking spaces and off-street parking lots in support of public health, safe mobility, and renewed commerce in their communities.
During COVID-19, this grant is greatly being used to accommodate outdoor dining.
Enhanced mobility includes projects like the reduction of travel lanes on the first block of North Street from two to one lane and the addition of the protected bike lanes.
This also includes treatment to the Wahconah and North Street, Linder and North Street, Bradford and North Street intersections and the added bike lanes on Columbus Avenue and Melville Street.
Enhanced mobility also includes the changing direction on School Street and Allen Street into one-way and the work on Center Street and Goverment Drive that is scheduled for next week.
For the place making part of the grant, much of the funding went to the purchase of parklets to provide more outdoor dining space. The definition of a parklet is a publicly used space that is taking the space of a parking spot. The goal of a parklet is to be an extension of the sidewalk.
Planters to decorate parklets, barriers, and tables and chairs were also purchased through the grant.
The parklets will be an extension of the sidewalk for the pedestrian realm. Restaurants will benefit from additional space parklets will provide especially because of the conditions and regulations that restaurants are being subjected to during pandemic.
The city came into the money from the grant late, as this project was aimed to be completed in early fall. Regardless, the parklets will be installed and some may be used through the winter if businesses chose to provide heating.
The idea is to put the parklets up immediately and take them down in about three or four weeks, store them, and place them in the same or different locations in April.
There will be a total of eight parklets around downtown Pittsfield. Four of them will be medium-sized with raised decking, two will have ramps down to the asphalt, and two more larger ones with raised decking will be placed on Wendell Avenue extension and on McKay Street.
The parklets will be at these locations:
The parklets will be placed in the following areas:
The intersection of North and Depot Street
Near The Marketplace North
Near Methuselah Bar & Lounge on North
In front of Hotel on North
Near Mission Bar & Tapas on North
As part of placemaking, the city will also be creating non-parklet pedestrian spaces for use of additional outdoor dining.
They will be closing off one portion of Market Street between Berkshire General Store and Berkshire Bank and installing fencing to create a pedestrian plaza where people can dine.
The same thing will be done in front of Patrick's Pub, as the city will be pushing out parking spaces on Bank Row closer to the travel lane so that the paver area can be used for seating.
Additional pedestrian dining locations will be near Pancho's in paved area next to Barrington Stage and across from the Highland Restaurant on the Fenn Street side of the First Street parking lot.
Tables and chairs will be provided for these spaces under the grant. The idea is to have nearby restaurants care for these areas with an ownership style, being responsible for cleaning the areas and taking the chairs and tables in upon closing.
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US Soccer president says women's lawsuit a surprise
Posted by Maureen Ferrigno on April 8, 2019 at 12:00 am
By ANNE M. PETERSON – Associated Press – Friday, March 15, 2019
President says the governing body was surprised when women's national team players sued alleging gender discrimination.
said in a statement Friday the is reviewing suit. He has spoken with some of the players this week and said he hopes for continued conversation. He stressed the "believes that all female athletes deserve fair and equitable pay, and we strive to meet this core value at all times."
The and the team agreed in April 2017 to a collective bargaining agreement through 2021 that gave the players higher pay and better benefits. says the players had not expressed concerns with the labor contract since.
"Our mutual goal is a dialogue that will serve the best interests of the USWNT and U.S. , so that our collective focus is where it should be – winning the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup at a time when our team and in the U.S. has so much to gain and celebrate," he wrote in the open letter addressing the lawsuit.
The 28 members of the current women's player pool filed the lawsuit March 8 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging "institutionalized gender discrimination" that includes unequal pay with their counterparts on the men's national team. The answer is due by April 2.
"We believe that there has been discrimination against us," midfielder Megan Rapinoe said when the suit was filed. "And while we have fought very hard and for a long time, whether that be through our CBA or through our players association, putting ourselves in the best possible position that we can to get the best deal that we can, we still feel that we don't have what we're trying to achieve, which is equality in the workplace."
Lawyers and representatives for the players did not immediately respond to requests for comment on 's statement.
The U.S. women are the defending champions of the World Cup, to be played in France from June 7 to July 7.
The men's and women's U.S. national teams have separate collective bargaining agreements, and their pay is structured differently.
But the lawsuit cited several instances of alleged inequity. It claims the gave the men's roster a performance bonus of $5,375,000 after team reached the round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup. The women's team received a collective bonus of $1.72 million after winning its 2015 World Cup.
Additionally, the suit said when the U.S. men made the World Cup field for Brazil, players selected to the roster received a $55,000 bonus, while the women received $15,000 each for making the 2015 World Cup roster. Additionally, it said the men shared a $2 million bonus for qualifying, while the women shared $300,000.
The has maintained that any disparity is the result of separate collective bargaining agreements. Compensation for the women includes a guaranteed salary and also salaries paid by the for their time with clubs in the National Women's Soccer League. The men get paid based on roster selection for appearances for exhibitions and tournaments.
The lawsuit escalates a complaint that five members of the women's team filed in 2016 with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging wage discrimination by the . The lawsuit effectively ends that EEOC complaint, brought by Alex Morgan, Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, Carli Lloyd and former goalkeeper Hope Solo.
In his statement Friday, stressed that in recent years the has increased its investment in the women's national team. He pointed to additional staff, chartered flights for travel and the creation of two women's tournaments on U.S. soil, as well as youth development programs.
"I want to assure everyone in our family that U.S. and its women's national team players remain partners with shared goals and aspirations," 's letter said. "For that reason, we are very optimistic as to what is possible, and our commitment to reaching a common ground is absolute."
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ANTHEM –ProMusica Arizona Chorale and Orchestra (PMAZ) is pleased to announce that it has received a grant for $1,000 from the Scottsdale League for the Arts.
This grant will help support PMAZ's objective to expose young people to live music performances by providing free tickets for those 15 and under accompanied by an adult. Also, free rush tickets for students ages 16 to 22 years old that are available 15 minutes prior to concerts based on seating availability.
The Scottsdale League for the Arts raises funds to support the arts and arts education programs through its annual signature event, the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, among others. One hundred percent of the net proceeds of these activities support the League's grants program for a wide range of non-profit arts organizations in Maricopa County. These grants are awarded on a competitive basis for arts education and outreach including opportunities for children to experience the visual and performing arts.
"Since PMAZ's beginnings 16 years ago, one of our missions has been to give children and young adults a way to develop an appreciation for musical performances from an early age. This generous grant from the Scottsdale League for the Arts helps us fulfill that mission," PMAZ Board Chair, Jan Sandoz said.
PMAZ Chorale and Orchestra's 2018-19 season includes three concerts including the Arizona Premiere of "Mountain Days: The John Muir Musical" in Concert in March of 2019.
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The Goat River, a tributary of the Fraser River located 35 km west of McBride, is among British Columbia's top five endangered rivers according to a list released yesterday by the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC (ORC).
"We are drawing attention to those rivers where the need for action and an appropriate response from government is deemed most urgent," says Mark Angelo, Committee Chair with the Vancouver-based group, whose membership includes 38 recreation and conservation organizations across BC.
Since 1994, the fate of the upper Goat River has been highly contested. McBride Forest Industries has already started developing the 35,000-hectare area and plans to extract more than 12,000 truckloads of timber in the next few years. Current plans include building a logging road in the channel of the salmon-bearing Goat River itself, a river noted for it's pristine water quality.
The Fraser Headwaters Alliance (FHA), a grassroots conservation group based in the Robson Valley, is leading a campaign to gain protection for the upper Goat. Logging will negatively affect the watershed's wildlife populations and sever critical habitat connectivity between Kakwa and Bowron Lake Provincial Parks. The Goat is home to Chinook salmon, grizzly bears, and endangered mountain caribou—a species that has declined to less than 2,300 individuals.
FHA is also concerned about the impact of logging on the Historic Goat River Trail, an 1886 gold rush route that has tremendous potential to become a premier eco-tourism destination, partly because it connects with the renowned Bowron Lake Provincial Park.
"The Goat is one of the last remaining undeveloped watersheds in the headwaters of the Fraser," says FHA President, Cary Glenn, "and development in the headwaters affects the entire Fraser River system."
The Goat received special mention as part of the Fraser River, which was listed in fourth place. Also on the ORC's list are the Okanagan River and the steelhead streams of BC's south coast.
More information on the effort to protect the upper Goat River watershed can be found at http://savethegoat.fraserheadwaters.org, or by contacting Roy Howard, FHA Coordinator, at (250) 968-4490 (email: roy@fraserheadwaters.org).


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Goldman Stacks
Like the American Dream, Joe Stacks went up in smoke. The only difference is that in the case of Joe Stacks it happened quickly and he was soon forgotten; in the case or ordinary Americans, the dream disappeared slowly, leaving in its wake a landscape of unawillingvoidable sorrow.
Except on Wall Street, where the ethics of P.T. Barnum has melded with the work product of the U.S. Census Bureau. There are thousands of we suckers born every minute in the United States, and we're willing to pay through the nose to bailout scam artists in pin-stripe suits.
Mike, over at Crime and Federalism, featured a recent article from Rolling Stone about the bailouts. It mis must reading. Link here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32255149/wall_streets_bailout_hustle/.
The piece is a searing indictment of an industry sated with cash and accountable to no one. Just a year after massive federal bailouts that will saddle a generation of Americans with new government debt, Wall Street's big boys are back at the bonus trough. And they're still bundling risky securities knowing full well that they are too big to fail.
All of which has me wondering: Did Joe Stacks choose the wrong target when he became America's latest suicide bomber?
I'm no fan of big government, but, let's face it, picking on a couple of hapless IRS workers hardly makes a point. Sure, paying taxes is onerous, and once you fall behind, playing catch-up is difficult. But like it or not, government is a necessary evil. Sniping at IRS agents is really blaming the messenger.
The real puppeteers aren't in Washington. The master manipulators -- the masters of the unviverse to use Tom Wolfe's memorable phrase from Bonfire of the Vanities -- are the big boys on Wall Street. These are the fellows loaded with cash and prepared to spend anything, and seemingly do anything, to retain power.
While many Americans are walking away from homes that are "under water" or are trying to stave off foreclosure, the fat cats at Goldman Sachs are sitting on billions of dollars in new bonuses. This just after begging Congress for a bailout. While you count your pennies, they weight your dollars. It's obscene. Why didn't the bail out simply result in a write down on mortgages for homeowners? That would have eased the debt load of ordinary Americans, freeing up capital to invest. Instead, we chose to make mortgage slaves of the middle class. What genius thought this consistent with visions of a good society? Latifundia anyone?
The Stacks story has disappeared from the media almost as quickly as the flames from the small plane he crashed into a federal office building in Austin were doused. But the frustration and anger of folks whose dreams have been siphoned off by double-dealing tycoons on Wall Street still smoulder. If Stacks had it to do all over again, I wonder whether he would target the IRS.
I may not like paying taxes, but I like roads, libraries and national parks. These things add value to my life. But when I look at the interest my bank makes each month on my mortgage I really wonder what I am getting for my money other than the vicarious satisfaction of imagining the kind of cigars they smoke at Goldman Sachs.
While many Americans are walking away from homes t...
While many Americans are walking away from homes that are "under water" or are trying to stave off foreclosure, the fat cats at Goldman Sachs are sitting on billions of new bonuses. This just after begging Congress for a bailout.
And if Congress had told them to fuck off and die, there'd still have been turmoil in the financial markets, but it wouldn't have involved taxpayer money. It's not Goldman Sachs that threatens to throw me in jail for not paying.
Posted on February 21, 2010 at 9:47 am by Windypundit
there was a poor fellow in st.louis, shooting up c...
there was a poor fellow in st.louis, shooting up city hall after years of having a battle with them. there is just sometimes so much a person can take, until something so drastic and sad happens.what a world! renate,www.ilvoices.com
Posted on February 22, 2010 at 6:43 am by Anonymous
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