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Culture, Race & Economy

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  1. Started by Stefan,

    6) In the Bible, Hagar is described as Sarah’s Egyptian maidservant; and later, Abraham’s concubine and the mother of Ishmael. Again, some Black people are taking much liberal license by claiming everyone in Egypt was Black. Remember, the Bible identifies Egypt and Ethiopia separately. 7) Asenath, is supposed to be the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Again, no description of this woman is given in the Bible. So, one cannot call her Black. Tirhaka, also known as Taharga, was indeed Black and he did have an army of chariots who came to the aid of Israelite King Hezekiah. The Jewish king had launched a revolt against Assyrian King Sennacherib. But Tirhaka i…

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  2. Started by Chevdove,

    Types of Education [Part 1] ================================================= A Study of Ancient Scriptures & World Education & American Education ================================================= The Powerful Government Defined by the Mark The Book of Revelation says that people will be forced to receive the MARK OF THE GOVERNMENT [BEAST] or they will not be able to live. But on the other hand, the holy scriptures states that if anyone receives the MARK OF THE BEAST, they will be damned. So what is this MARK? Well, firstly before I continue, I want to make sure that I s…

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  3. On. The. Sister. Wives. Show. A Black. Man. Has. Two. White. ,Sister ,Wives.. One. Of. The. White. Sister. Wives. Is. Pregnant. .They. All ,Seem. Happy. Together ,They. All. Sound. Happy. Together. ........Thinking. Of. Marcus. Garvey Poem. Wanting. To. Desert....Future. Of. Unity. Of. Black. Men. Is. Gloomy. .....

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  4. Queen plushie from MysticSkillz

  5. Started by richardmurray,

    Consider this game if you have black chidlren, you can play offline with them, and do various things, not just killing. everybody in the house can make a black looking character

  6. Started by Pioneer1,

    ....to this Ethiopian young man casually discuss with Whites the ethnic differences in his country.

  7. Israeli Students Don Blackface & Mock Indigenous African Kids This is so offensive and sad. During these times when there is so much emotion about the horrors that are going on over there in the Middle East, this evil is unbelievable. And some of the people that commented on this video really bring out a lot of harsh reality, anyway about the true identity of the Israelites. One commenter posed a question as to whether or not, these people joke about the Nazi in the same tone.

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  8. I am interested in hearing other opinions before I post mine

  9. Started by Cynique,

    The above message is one of the many making the rounds on Facebook pages and the e-mail circuit. Invariably, it is met with approval and a chorus of “amens“. Me, I ask myself why do people trivalize "god" as some kind of petty old man who pits people against each other, picking and choosing who he's going to let gloat, deciding which ones he will allow to survive a plane crash, or win an award or defeat the other team. Is God really on the side of the person or group or country that happens get what they want at the expense of those who have their hopes dashed or lives ended? Any god that's gonna promise me an alternate to revenge by letting me enjoy the suffering of some…

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  10. Started by Cynique,

    The Only One Chapter 22 When Troy Briggs had shown up at Carole Everly’s apartment casually attired in a yellow polo shirt, tan dockers, and white Nikes, everything about this sensual, buffed, charismatic man reminded her of why she found him so irresistible, why she was so taken by someone she’d never even had, except in her dreams. Idling there in the middle of her front room, grabbing her hand when she returned from the kitchen where she’d deposited the pizza he’d brought, it was if her reaction to him was a primitive one, - that of a female seeking a mate, instinctively drawn to an Alpha male. “Do we have to go through a lot of drama about - this situ…

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  11. This book is right up biotumelo's alley. The Black Church: Where Women Pray and Men Prey by Deborrah Cooper - Book Review

  12. Started by Troy,

    This film is gonna be the shit! I like exciting science fiction. I plan to see Oblivion even though the reviews are mixed. I'm not sure what the draw is, maybe I'm a little geeky, maybe I like the imagining a future where one can roam the universe with where unmimaginable discovers lie ahead.

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  13. The video above was done in jest, but it is funny and somewhat sad because it is so true. I was talking to someone the other day and was trying to explain that anyone who thinks they know me based upon my Facebook profile is a fool. I have actually stopped using Facebook for personal reasons because what originally started out as an ego stroke no longer works. I now recognize that Facebook is literally pimping me to make money with a complete using a complete false version of who I am. I'm also tired of reading everyone else false images of themselves. I prefer the flawed, imperfect and occasionally inspired people you encounter in the real world. …

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  14. Started by Del,

    Just curious.

  15. Started by harry brown,

    San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kapernick , Not Standing For The National Anthem Got People Upset. If They Think This Disrespect Soldiers, How Many Black Soldiers Have Racially Profiled After Coming Back From Middle East Protecting This Country? Great Black Athletes, Jim Brown ,Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tommie Smith Support Kapernick .,Tommie Smith Was On CNN ,. Tommie Smith ,John Carlos Had Their Black Gloved Fist Raised In The Air At Their Olympics. Former Football Player, Now Pro Football Reporter, Said Kapernick Was Not Black,Yes He Is. Kapernick Is Biracial .White People Against Kapernick ,Want Everyone One To Have A Million Guns..Colin Kapernick ,Says He Was Speaking …

  16. Started by harry brown,

    There Is A Black Inventors Museum Online,Black Children , Should Look At,Black People And White America. Inventions,By Black People Has Helped Keep The World Going On. Including,George Crum ,Inventors Of The Potato Chip,Egg Beater,Willis Johnson,Joseph Lee,Created A Bread Making,Machine,We All Eat Bread..Brothers At The Barber Shop,Richard Spikes Created A swinging Chair That Is In Barber,Shops...In Brazil,Andre Reboucas ,Created A Early Version,Of A Torpedo..Benjamin Benneker,Besides His Inventions,Planned Out Washington D C .Whitehouse Built,By ,Slaves. Racist White Man On The News,Black People,Did Not,Built This Country...Black Inventors,Deliberately ,Not Taught,To Chi…

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    Is there an app for this site?

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  18. Started by Troy,

    "After examining 34 popular Android apps, PI found about 60% automatically transferred data to Facebook the moment users open the app. “This happens whether people have a Facebook account or not, or whether they are logged into Facebook or not,” PI notes in a new report [by the NY Times]." The Times’s investigation reveals that Facebook continued to give huge tech companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, access to much more: the data of hundreds of millions of people a month, including email addresses and phone numbers — without users’ knowledge or consent. Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually…

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  19. Started by Troy,

    Toward Fair Trade in the Hood There is a trade deficit in the hood. This trade imbalance is initially internal: North American Africans refuse to patronize each other, preferring to enrich others who rarely buy from North American Africans, including whites, Asians, Arabs, Latinos, et al. As we make our daily round, we should ask ourselves how much money do we spend with each other and how much with others than our own kind? It is simple math that our businesses will soon go out of business for lack patronizing by us. Yes, other culture groups thrive on each other and us. Ask your self why we have a trade deficit with Arabs, Asians, Africans, Latins,et al. Ask…

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  20. Started by AJJones1007,

    Buyer’s Remorse A few weeks ago a large portion of Black voters decided that the strategy to oppose both Donald Trump and Joe Biden was not an option for them in the 2020 presidential election. Perhaps, some of them may be experiencing buyer’s remorse. Recently, an audio-recording began to circulate with President-Elect, Joe Biden berating a group of Black people with tone and tenor of an Overseer or Slave Master. In the audio, Biden could be heard banging on something as he spoke. A typical behavior when a person is speaking with a lot of emotions. It was clear that Biden had a lot ofemotions ‘against’ the Blacks in that meeting. He told them, not suggested, t…

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  21. The family of Henrietta Lacks' has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore, MD B against ThermoFisher Scientific. The pharmaceutical company, listed as a defendant in the case, is allegedly responsible for profiting off Henrietta Lacks' cancerous cells to develop the HeLa cell line. According to AP News, the lawsuit asks the court to "disgorge the full amount of its net profits obtained by commercializing the HeLa cell line to the Estate of Henrietta Lacks." That amount could total over $250 Billion. You may recall published reports, indicate in 1951, John Hopkins Hospital admitted Henrietta Lacks to treat cervical cancer. Doctors took the cells of the…

  22. Started by Delano,

    What's your technique for dealing with ignorant arguers. Asking for a friend. Clearly I won't be responding to everyone.

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  23. Some details on the Inflation Reduction Act, click the following link to learn more. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2040&type=status

  24. Started by Chevdove,

    RIP ANITA POINTER Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died at age 74 January 1, 20235:57 AM ET The Grammy winner passed away while she was with family members, publicist Roger Neal said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately revealed. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146506030/anita-pointer-pointer-sisters-has-died She passed away yesterday, December 31, 2022, at the age of 74. Another celebrity also just passed, Barbara Walters. She died on December 30, 2022 at the age of 93. And remember last year at this time, Betty White died too, December 31, 2…

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  25. Started by richardmurray,

    MY COMMENT I read the article. Franlin leonard said:"when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" but he chose the wrong phrase. He talks about feelings but the issue is desires. The equation is simple. Fiscal capitalism in the USA doesn't work on merit or knowledge or erudition or wisdom. It works on inheritance + opportunity. Whites are accustomed to a greater inheritance + opportunity than any other. That is why their forebears killed the native american for this land and enslaved blacks, no matter where we came from, to till it. This was to provide their future generations greater inheritance + opportunity. But whites comprehend what e…

  26. Saw. On. YouTube. A. Book. Called. Delectable. Negroes ,,White. ,People. Eating. Black. People. .Amazing. White. Cannibals. ..They,,Hate. Black. People. ,They. Were. Eating. Black. People. .....If,,This Is. True. ,This. Is. Not. Talked. About. In. White. History. ,,Conversations. ..Amazing. .....

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  27. Piggy Backing off of @frankster's Conspiracy Theory thread....... I have a confession to make. I actually DID want to see a Zombie Apocalypse as a result off those vaccines. Or some sort off Global incident similar to it. Why? Because like a lot of people, I want to be right/correct and be assured that my judgement is sound. Like frankster and many others, I DO NOT trust those vaccines nor do I trust a lot of other things being pushed on society and think that they cause more harm than good. But without clear evidence and concrete proof, it's hard to convince others to have that same mistrust and in some cases even convince MYSELF that my positio…

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  28. Started by Troy,

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  29. Started by Waterstar,

    (Not a new article but informative the same way.) The Fugitive: Why has the FBI placed a million-dollar bounty on Assata Shakur? By Kathleen Cleaver Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a “domestic terrorist.” Last May the Justice Department issued an unpreced…

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  30. Stars All Fall Artist - Zion Birdsong, Musical Director of The Book Look Song - D. Amari Jackson, Creator of The Book Look

  31. Started by Pioneer1,

    I notice that over the past 20 years the grammar of many Black youth seem to be deteriorating. Walk past a group of Black youth today and you're liable to hear terms and phrases that used to be outdated, like "red bone" and "what you name iz" I even notice that the baggy pants many of the boys wear is forcing them to shuffle when they walk like Step'n Fetchit. Young people in their teens and 20s talking and acting like slaves who just stepped off the plantation! Where are they learning this? I think it's a combination of the entertainment industry attempting to establish what we used to be considered country and ignorant in the past, as "Black culture" to…

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  32. Started by harry brown,

    ETHNIC CLEANSING IS THE FORCE REMOVAL OF A PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR ETHNIC OR RELIGION..FOR A PURE ETHNIC PEOPLE //THAT HAS BEEN GOING FOR A LONG TIME.///AFRICA EBOLA,,AIDS, WARS,FAMINE..HERE NEO NAZI IN POLICE UNIFORM, INNER CITY POVERTY, ,UNSEEN WHITE DEMONS BRINGING GUNS , DRUGS TO INNER CITY THE GANGS,...// THERE ETTHNIC CLEANSING VIDEO GAMES .NEO NAZI CHRISTIANS COME TO THE GHETTO KILL BLACK PEOPLE, , LATINOS, THEN THE JEWS.....//WHILE BLACK PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED UP //////,

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  33. Started by harry brown,

    CNN NEWS HAS A DOCUMENTARY ON FINDING JESUS/ DID JESUS HAVE A BROTHER, DID HE HAVE A WIFE,ARE PIECES OF THE CROSS ON EARTH SOMEWHERE,HAVE THEY FOUND JESUS SHROUD/AMAZING AMIDST THE HOLY WARS ON EARTH/ISRAEL PLANNING WAR AGAINST IRAN, ISRAEL WANTS TO EXTERMINATE THE PALESTINE HAMAS PEOPLE,U.S. AND ISRAEL WAR AGAINST ISLAM,BECAUSE OF ISIS,,WORLD WANTS WAR ON ISIS/ WHITE CHRISTIANS WANT TO MAKE AMERICA ALL WHITE//CHRISTIANS IN AMERICAN AND ISRAEL,READ THE BIBLE,MIDDLE EAST TERRORIST WORSHIP ALLAH,SEEMS GOD AND ALLAH CONDODES WARS ON EARTH, JESUS, THE AVIOR OF MANKIND,PRINCE OF PEACE........THEY ALL…

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  34. What Would Dr King Think About Today's Black America-Free Limited Time! http://amzn.to/1n6qaRe

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  35. Who knew a Brother invented the Super-Soaker? I admit I had no idea. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, or maybe it is simply not common knolwedge. Lonnie Johnson became a multi-millionaire, pretty quickly as a result. Share the story with you a young person in a brand new book for children: Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton and illustrated by another Brother Don Tate.

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  36. Started by harry brown,

    This. Past . Weekend,8-Dead,60 Shot. In,Chicago,Gang Violence...Black. Police. Superinttendent. Says. He Also,Said. They. Need. To. Be. Mentoring. For. Young. Boys. In. Chicago. I. Have. Said,NAACP, Black,Churches,Politicians,Need ,To,Make Time To Mentor Black Boys,Before They Get To High School. If NAACP, Church Preachers,, Can Make Time To Get Votes And Money,They Make Time,To,Mentor Black Children Before,They Get To High School.The. Millions Of Dollars,Black Churches Take. Up,Black. Preachers. Steal,Could. Send,. Black. Children. To. College...Preachers. Steal,Money. Buy. Cars,Mansions, As,Poverty.Is In. Black. Communities,,They. G…

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  37. In. Texas. Black. Woman. Was. Murdered. In. Her. Home. By. White,Police. Officer. I. Think. Not. Surprised. White. Female Police,Officer. Got. 10- Years. For. Shooting,Killing A Black Man. In,His Own Apartment..... Ex Football Player Ray Lewis ,Once Said,Police Are Hunting Black Men. 2-Black Women Launched And,Attack Inside. A BBQ Restaurant.. In Memphis... In Memphis,A 11- Year Old Girl Is Missing. Do Black Churches ,NAACP,Black,Political. Search For Missing , Black. Children? News,Said,Democrat. Elijah. Cummings. Died.. .At. 68.....

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  38. Started by Pioneer1,

    Just checking in with the family. I haven't posted in a while because I've had a lot on my plate and spare time is dedicated to sleep, lol. Hope everything is going reasonably well with you considering the global "crisis" that seems to have been developed over the past few weeks.

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  39. Why One Kentucky Man Joined the 2020 Gun-Buying Boom (SPECTRUM NEWS) "Like Fisher (pictured below), many Americans bought a gun for the first time in 2020, a year that set the record for gun sales when it was only nine months old. By the start of December, Americans had purchased more than 20 million firearms, well ahead of the 2016 record of 16.6 million, according to the firm Small Arms Analytics & Forecastings (SAAF)." 2020 will be a record year in book sales for AALBC. In fact we hit our annual record by July. Why do some people react to the events on 2020 by arming themselves with a weapon and others with knowledge? Humans are a curious…

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  40. Name one Black elected official in the USA that earned Black votes by government expenditures or laws they made to exclusive Black communal benefit? I asked cause in NYC some are already taking about elections later this year especially with financial outlooks and I find I always ask the question above , offline or online, and I never get a valid answer. Giving a name isn't enough, you have to list the expenditures to the benefit of black people or laws to the benefit of black people. You may not know the following https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1832&type=status

  41. Started by Delano,

    “Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.” Richard P. Feynman

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  42. In reality, the "New Year" shouldn't begin in January...but sometime in March or April. On January 1st, Winter is just getting started and a lot of animals are hibernating and plant life is dying. How the hell is that a "new year"??? Around the end of March is when things start to thaw out, RENEW, and REJUVENATE, and the land turns green again. That's when the "new" year should start, in my opinion. But all it takes is some slim White man in a top hat and a cane to TELL you "Happy New Year"....and you're half drunk spilling drinks all over the damn place celebrating. 🤨Some of yall will let these White folks trick you into going along with…

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  43. Started by Pioneer1,

    So according to reports, Trump is supposed to be "arrested" and arraigned Tuesday. My question is, if he's planning on making some sort of speech Tuesday night he either: 1. Doesn't truly believe he'll be arrested or 2. Believes he'll be arrested but for some reason immediately released; which means his arrest was just a formality. I wonder is this the typical treatment of the "average" citizen who is formally charged with the same counts he's been charged with?

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  44. Started by richardmurray,

    No one seems interested that the usa government is about to break up google? I see no talk from anyone, interesting ARTICLES How the DOJ wants to break up Google’s search monopoly Story by Lauren Feiner https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-the-doj-wants-to-break-up-google-s-search-monopoly/ar-AA1rYFHa?ocid=BingNewsSerp After winning a fight to get Google’s search business declared an unlawful monopoly, the Department of Justice has released its initial proposal for how it’s thinking about limiting Google’s dominance — including breaking up the company. The government is asking Judge Amit Mehta for four different type…

  45. According to some of you, high interest rates and these pay-day loan stores sprinkled around the ghetto are the causes of poverty in the AfroAmerican community and elsewhere. So by that logic..... We can go to a wealthy community, place a bunch of pay-day loan businesses on each block, get the banks and other lending institutions to charge high interest rates to their customers, sit back and wait and pretty soon THOSE wealthy communities will be impoverished too! Right? Since....as some of you claim...they are the CAUSES of poverty. Or on the reverse...... If we TAKE AWAY the predatory lending institutions in the hood and force the banks and…

  46. Started by harry brown,

    News. Obsessed. With. Trump. And. The. Epstein. Files...He. Does. Not. Want. The. Epstein. Files. Read. Out. Loud. .I. Can. Only. Think. Of. Maybe. Two. Things. He. Could. Have. Been. Doing. That. He. Wants. To. Stop. Being. Said. On. The. News. ..Perhaps. He. Was. Having. A. Sex. Orgy. With. Epstein. And. Women. Or. He. Wss. With. Teenage. Girls. Underage. Teenage. Girls. ...Democrats. Want. Epstein. Files. Released. .... Democrats Should. Find. Out. Who. Is. Dumping. Out. Drugs. And. Guns. In. Black. Communities. For. Black. Genocide. .Black. Democrats. Black. Christian. Democrats. Will. Not. Talk. About. Preachers. In. Prison. For. Raping. Bla…

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  47. Troy you need to encourage a strong Black conservative stream of thought on these boards. You must know some. Get them to come on and post. How come they ain't defending their homie, Juan? http://www.counterpunch.org/lawrence10272010.html http://www.counterpunch.org/farago10272010.html

  48. Started by boitumelo,

    KILLER OF TRAYVON MARTIN,GEORGE ZIMMERMAN NOW SAYS TRAYVON CAME FROM THE BUSHES AND ATTACKED HIM..TRAYVON WAS REACHING FOR HIS GUN..ZIMMERMAN AND HIS WIFE ARE LYING TRASH..RODNEY KING BEATING WAS VIDEO TAPED TRASH POLICE GOT AWAY,BECAUSE OF A WHITE JURY.THINKING ZIMMERMAN JURY MIGHT BE ALL WHITE OR WHITE AND HISPANIC....AFRICAN AMERICAN U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER, NEO REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO MAKE HIM RESIGN WITH THE FAST AND FURIOUS MEXICANS AND GUNS CRAP.....BLACK SLAVE REPUBLICAN MICHAEL STEELE IS HELPING THEM...DAMN IDIOT...BLACK CONSERVATIVES BLACK TEA PARTY ARE TRASH....

  49. Started by Troy,

    The other day I was thinking about Gil Scott Heron's Poem the Revolution Will Not be Televised. I was considering writing a updated version to the poem, tentatively called, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted". Realizing there is nothing new understand sun, I decided to search the term, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," and I actually was surprised by the abundance of content on the subject and discovered other people had already written similar poems on the subject, so I abandoned the idea. The Brother's version below is better than what I would have done, though I think far too long. I also discovered a four-year-old article writ…

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