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RUSSIA's ZIRCON HYPERSONIC MISSILE - FULL ANALYSIS
russia's zircon hypersonic missile - full analysis
Thanks for the update, well as soon as you supply one that is.
In current state, the Zircon missile is a mighty adversary to US Navy carrier groups and will potentially make the US carriers stay out of its range.
In future, laser weapons will be able to level the playing field.
That means they do not have them at the present.
For your news report from Dimension ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comparison of various Russian, Chinese and Yankee weapons under development reveal that Yankee versions are likely to BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND EASIER TO DEPLOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yankees are seeking to upgrade existing weapons -things like creating smart munitions that can be fired from existing 5 inch naval guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you cannot spell 'Liberals' and you have a huge surplus of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess it doesn't really matter because your posts are infantile rubbish anyway.
Thank for MHz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For your news report from Dimension ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comparison of various Russian, Chinese and Yankee weapons under development reveal that Yankee versions are likely to BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND EASIER TO DEPLOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yankees are seeking to upgrade existing weapons -things like creating smart munitions that can be fired from existing 5 inch naval guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The new 5 inch shells would have rocket assist and have a range of 250 MILES coupled with EXTREME ACCURACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yankees are also seeking out new generation anti missile defenses- a much expanded and more sophisticated version of the old Yankee Patriot Missile System and the current Israeli Iron Dome technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Yankee efforts are focused on relatively cheap upgrades THAT CAN BE MASS PRODUCED and installed swiftly onto existing ships and weapon systems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By comparison the Russians and Chinese are focused on radical new technology that will be VERY COSTLY and complex - with resulting economic limitations on how many of the new weapons they can AFFORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russian and Chinese Weapon deployment will also be hampered the the further cost and delays required to substantially alter ships and other equipment to handle the new weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ability of Russians and Chinese to successfully deploy the new weapons anywhere near a war zone has been brought into question by the newly displayed ability of F 35 fighters to breeze through Russian and Chinese radar defenses around Damascus and by the ability of F 35`s to hide from Russian, Chinese and Iranian anti aircraft missiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russians and Chinese MAY NOT be able to use their grand new weapons in time of trouble if F-35 fighters and other Yankee assets -that Russians and Chinese NEVER SAW COMING - have destroyed the new weapons before they can be used!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russians and Chinese are engaged in the same propaganda DECEPTION ADOLF HITLER used in 1938 to bully western LIE-beral;s into giving him Czechoslovakia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
Hitler promoted his air force as a vast and potent weapon when it was still a small force with a LIMITED NUMBER of modern weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
This is not to say Russians and Chinese and Iranians are ill armed......................I merely point out that MHz and his ilk very much want to FRIGHTEN US with their BULLSH+T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
Zircon hypersonic missile
These really fast missiles will not lend themselves to being re-directed or even re-aimed mid-course.
If you can trick then when they're being launched by just a degree or two, they'll be moving too fast to make a course correction
That'll be the trick ... to disrupt their "target lock". Those slow, subsonic Harpoons and Exocets can be "steered" while underway.
They can even switch to another target, mid-flight thus confusing the recipients all to hell.
Imagine the relief to see a sea skimming cruise missile fly right by you towards the next ship, only to have it double back and head straight for you, again.
A hypersonic missile will be like a bullet ... very fast, lots of kinetic energy but as dumb as a hammer.
You are propaganda, you always come in with you hands empty of proof and your gums are flapping using opinions about things you know nothing about. (like the rest of you retards)
Really? The anti-ship missile uses the same speeds as the 'long-range' version and it is sea-skimming as well for the final phase of the attack' I assume it can also use the sun's position to mask it's approach from a high altitude. The red boxes cover the intakes to 4 small scram-jet engines. The opening allows 1/4 of the total air they could consume so all 4 have the power if 1 engine running at full throttle. Vary the fuel flow and you affect the direction of travel, us a computer to do it and you can make it follow a path that would be patterned after a roller-coaster ride.
What does that even mean? The best targeting system is to paint the target with something the missile can detect, such as heat, from as close as possible. Today a drone could supply something steady enough if it was not being shot at.
Retard, that would apply to light also then, it is moving too fast to be affected by gravity. When moving at high speed your steering wing is the size of a thumbnail.
The 'S' series number indicate speed as well as distance, 200 = Mach 2 and 200km, 500 = Mach5 and 500km
When you are 'blindsided' you do not see it coming let alone having time to react to not seeing it coming.
At which point do you shoot at it?? WTFuk would it delay impact just so you die with you pants soiled??
Of course they are Dear, that is why the M5 weapons can get to a point their paths will cross. Some metal that melt at the temp created by friction would be better than a limp of heavy ice, Right Sherlock??
The 200MPH ones or the ones that 'linger' and travel the globe??
Do you know the meaning of 'bigger hammer', paper at M5 will bend steel into a certain shape
Did I mention you are a fuking retard who should never leave fantasy-land again??
Oh MHz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the knucklehead who stated that "maybe the missile can use the suns position to mask its approach"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently the Muslim "engineer" is unaware that radar is not blinded by sun rays??????????????????
And I stand by my statement that you should donate your skull to the Russian military!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they just mounted your dense, granite hard head on a Zircon missile they would have the most incredible armour piercing projectile on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh MHz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the knucklehead who stated that "maybe the missile can use the suns position to mask its approach"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently the Muslim "engineer" is unaware that radar is not blinded by sun rays??????????????????
And I stand by my statement that you should donate your skull to the Russian military!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they just mounted your dense, granite hard head on a Zircon missile they would have the most incredible armour piercing projectile on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How to defeat Hypersonic-Missile?
Spoiler, . . . you can't.
How the U.S. Is Quietly Winning the Hypersonic Arms Race
David Axe
The United States, Russia, and China all tested new super-fast "hypersonic" munitions in 2018, escalating a global competition for weaponry that can strike farther and harder than ever before and potentially defeat existing defenses.
The Russian and Chinese hypersonics tests were the most dramatic. But the much quieter American trial pointed toward a much more immediate and widespread transformation of military capabilities than the Russians or Chinese are likely to achieve.
The world's armies have long eyed faster munitions, especially faster munitions that also are maneuverable. Swifter, nimbler rockets could strike with less warning and evade missile-defense systems. Speedier, more streamlined artillery shells could travel farther and impact with greater destructive force.
Most experts agree: If a weapon can travel at least five times the speed of sound, it's hypersonic—although some say the munition must be maneuverable, too, to be effective.
In late December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Kremlin had tested the new Avangard hypersonic rocket. "The test was completely successful," Putin said. "All technical parameters were verified."
Why Putin Jailed Scientists Behind His 'Invincible' Missile
Anna Nemtsova,
David Axe
Avangard is a hypersonic glide vehicle. It boosts into the upper atmosphere atop a rocket then detaches and glides toward its target, performing small maneuvers en route. The Kremlin announced it would fit Avangard with an atomic warhead and, starting in 2019, deploy it alongside old-style intercontinental ballistic missiles.
But as a delivery system for nuclear warheads, Avangard doesn't actually enhance Russia's military arsenal. That's because Russia's ICBMs already possess the range to strike targets all over the world and the speed to evade all but the luckiest shot by American missile defenses.
Indeed, ICBMs in the terminal phase of their flight already are hypersonic. Avangard flies lower in the atmosphere than an ICBM does and might be faster than an ICBM is in early phases of flight. The practical differences end there.
"I don't think this system brings any new capability that the existing weapons like ICBMs don't have," Pavel Podvig, an independent expert on the Russian military, told The Daily Beast.
James Acton, a weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., said a nuclear-armed hypersonic weapon is no more threatening than an older ICBM is. "What does concern me is a very long-range conventionally-armed system," he added.
Unlike a nuke, a conventional weapon might actually get used in scenarios short of a world-ending apocalypse. "That would pose a real new threat to the United States," Acton said.
It's China, not Russia, that's making what seem the biggest strides toward fielding a non-nuclear hypersonic weapon. But even China's new weapon is less fearsome than it might appear to be. Ironically, its own sophistication holds it back.
Around the same time Putin announced the results of the Avangard test, a photo appeared online that showed a Chinese warship sailing the open ocean while armed with an electromagnetic railgun that could be capable of firing shells at hypersonic velocity.
A railgun propels its projectiles by way of magnetic force, as opposed to explosive-powder charges that conventional guns use.
China's railgun first appeared in January 2018 in a photo of the Chinese navy landing vessel Haiyang Shan while the ship reportedly was at a facility in Wuhan on the Yangtze River. A large cannon was visible on Haiyang Shan's forward deck.
In March, Chinese state media confirmed the cannon was an experimental railgun. The December photo seemed to confirm that the gun had undergone at-sea tests, making it the first such weapon to do so.
The U.S. Navy since 2012 has been developing its own railgun, but as of early 2019 the weapon had yet to go to sea. That doesn't mean the Americans weren't working on super-fast weapons, however.
Pentagon officials in early January leaked news of the U.S. Navy's own hypersonics test, this one involving a Navy warship firing hypersonic shells during a summer 2018 war game near Hawaii. The Pentagon's secretive Strategic Capabilities Office helped to oversee the trial.
In the test, the destroyer USS Dewey fired 20 of the hypervelocity projectiles from its standard, five-inch-diameter gunpowder cannon, officials told the website of the U.S. Naval Institute.
The new projectile is more aerodynamic than old-style shells and features tiny fins and a radar guidance system that helps it to hone in on a target at speeds as fast as seven times the speed of sound. That's roughly three times the velocity a normal naval shell can achieve.
Far-flying and accurate, the shells in theory can target ships, ground targets, aircraft and even incoming missiles.
At first glance, the American test might appear to be the least remarkable of the three countries' 2018 hypersonics trials. It didn't involve a new gun or missile, just a new, super-aerodynamic shell. The shell is non-nuclear. The Pentagon didn't formally announce the test or circulate any photos.
But the U.S. test arguably is the most likely to result in the widespread deployment of a truly transformational new weapon. And it underlines the Pentagon's advantage over the Russian and Chinese militaries in the hypersonics race.
While Russia, China and the United States all are developing a wide array of new hypersonic weapons, it's telling which systems each country has prioritized.
Russia has focused on seemingly impressive but marginally useful hypersonic weapons that make for good PR but don't actually shift the balance of power. China for its part has chosen to tinker with very advanced high technology that might prove impractical. America meanwhile has focused on less sophisticated weapons it's reasonably certain it can deploy quickly and widely, while deferring development of more ambitious munitions designs until the technology is more mature.
"Experts often argue the United States is behind in this technology because Russia and China appear to be testing more frequently," Acton wrote in an explainer on the Carnegie Endowment website. "This is true, but in many ways, the United States is running a different race from Russia and China."
Usefulness and scalability are the American weapon's major advantages over the Russian and Chinese weapons. In opting to develop a unique, electromagnetic cannon to fire super-fast projectiles, China has limited how fast it can deploy its new hypersonic weapon.
To re-equip with hypersonic munitions, Beijing will need to build expensive new guns for its ships and artillery units. Washington's forces, by contrast, simply can arm thousands of existing sea- and land-based powder guns with the new hypersonic shell.
That was a deliberate choice on the Americans' part. In 2016, Robert Work, the Obama administration's deputy secretary of defense, advised the incoming Trump administration to consider investing in hypervelocity projectiles rather than in railguns.
"We thought railguns were something we were really going to go after, but it turns out that powder guns firing the same hypervelocity projectiles gets you almost as much as you would get out of the electromagnetic rail gun, but it's something we can do much faster," Work said.
"We now think that we can do pretty revolutionary things with existing powder guns—think howitzers, [U.S. Army] Paladin [artillery systems], the Navy's five-inch guns," William Roper, then the head of the Strategic Capabilities Office, said in 2016. "We've shifted emphasis to that."
"We have a thousand powder guns," Roper added. "We have very few railguns."
Russia and China with their showy demonstrations and bespoke technology might appear to have pulled ahead in the early laps of the race for hypersonic weapons. But the United States, with its emphasis on a weapon that it can deploy quickly and actually use in a non-nuclear war, ultimately could gain the military advantage.
I think perhaps the Russians have been using your head as a target for their Zircon missiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That might explain why your logic is so fragmented and damaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating that LIE-beral efforts to buy the votes of Muslims is a dangerous game! With some commentsof my own in brackets):
Never forget CAIR's dirty deeds
By Michelle Malkin
Published: March 24, 2019, Updated: March 24, 2019 6:01 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is having a banner month. The militant Muslim group never lets a crisis go to waste. That means Americans should beware. When unappeasable CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national security are at risk.
(Muslims consider that freedom means they have the RIGHT to try to change us to suit THEM!! Muslims DO NOT immigrate to assimilate- they immigrate to DOMINATE!!!!!!!!!!)
Following the horrible massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, CAIR flacks were out in full force decrying "Islamophobia" and calling for crackdowns on "hate speech" -by which they mean any and all negative thoughts or words about CAIR or Islam. CAIR executive director Nihad Awad was first out of the gate to blame U.S. President Donald Trump; target Fox News hosts Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, whom the left wants to silence; and renew opposition to White House efforts to tighten our immigration and entrance policies, including the travel ban affecting terror-sponsoring countries upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
(One has to WONDER at the AMAZING STRETCH of logic that can persuade Muslims that Donald Trump is to blame for the actions of a citizen of a FOREIGN COUNTRY on the other side of the world!)
(As for blaming news media for so called Islamophobia- simply reporting on the murderous atrocities perpetrated by radical Muslims is only wrong if you are a LIAR trying to HIDE the threat that radical Islam represents!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
One of the most vocal critics of policies to guard American sovereignty is radical Somali-born Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. CAIR leaders and members poured thousands of dollars into her campaign. This weekend, the America-bashing, Israel-deriding congresswoman will headline a sold-out fund-raising banquet in Southern California. It will be a triumphant celebration, no doubt, of Rep. Omar's escape from Democratic leadership sanctions -with an invaluable assist from the CAIR lobby - for her nasty swipes at Republicans, Jews, and, of course, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
(The election of Somali born Omar is yet more proof that ONLY citizens born in the country should be eligible for public office! The foreign born bring too much baggage and divided loyalties to the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In the Cdn case- we have staunch Muslim LIE-beral immigration minister Hussein representing a party calling for hate crime charges against anybody who DARES speak harshly of LIE-beral policy!!! Nazis could not be more harsh against their critics than our LIE-berals DESIRE to be!! Fortunately LIE-berals do not yet have the nerve to implement their Islaomphobia M 103 Motion !!!!!!!!)
While they drape themselves in the mantle of "civility," the CAIR brigade speaks viciously and cavalierly about their enemies. Omar says Trump is not "human." On an Arab-American talk show, she mocked a college professor who treated terrorist organizations al-Qaida and Hezbollah with gravity. She cackled at how he named them with a sternness in his voice and questioned why the words "Army" and "America" are not uttered with equal contempt. I can hear the ululations of agreement at the CAIR banquet now.
(Muslims have a DISTURBING VISION of their place in the world! The Muslim vision is much like the Nazi or Soviet ideal of being the last and best example of humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Muslims happily tell us that Sharia Law is "the most perfect system" for all citizens! And Muslims tell us there is NO USE arguing with them because the words of the Prophet are THE FINAL WORDS of God! NONE MAY ARGUE!!!)
(And there can be NO APPEAL from Muslim judgement- because THEY SPEAK FOR GOD in all things!!! The will of a democracy is IRRELEVANT!! And of course this conviction that Muslims speak for God means that religious law and civil law are blended!! To speak against any civil law is to be a blasphemer speaking also against GOD and against his special religious representatives!!!!!!!)
Let's not kid ourselves about these exploiters and sowers of division. They thrive on violence whether Muslims are the victims or the perpetrators. CAIR operatives are first to claim systematic oppression and fear of a "backlash" if bloodthirsty Islamic jihadists slay innocent Americans. It's always our fault and it's always our responsibility — to curtail our speech, give up our gun rights, undergo sensitivity training, accept inflated statistics about "hate crimes" and apologize for everything. CAIR wants to shut up its critics in the name of "stopping the hate" because it doesn't want us talking about its dirty, dangerous deeds.
(Muslims HIDE POLITICAL aspirations behind their religious convictions!!!!!!!)
Never forget: The federal government designated CAIR an un-indicted terror co-conspirator in 2007 in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation and others for providing support to violent Hamas jihadists. Investigators tied CAIR's founders to the Islamic Association for Palestine, founded by a senior Hamas jihadist to serve as the terrorist group's public relations and recruitment arm in America. The Holy Land Foundation, a terror-financing charity, provided seed money for CAIR's Beltway office.
(Muslim activities are always designed to either win us over to their way or to fatally weaken us so they can have a free hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: CAIR is a designated terror organization in the United Arab Emirates.
Never forget: Federal law enforcement investigators banned interactions with CAIR to "prevent CAIR from publicly exploiting such contacts with the FBI."
(Islam is a creeping political cancer invading us with willing LIE-beral help in exchange for vote so LIE-berals can cling to powerr at any price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: Ghassan Elashi, a founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter, was convicted of laundering money for Hamas terrorism. CAIR's civil rights director Randall Todd Royer trained with the al-Qaida-linked jihad group Lashkar-e-Taiba and was convicted of conspiring to engage in terror activities. Bassem Khafagi, former CAIR community affairs director and a founder of the sharia-promoting Islamic Assembly of North America, was deported back to his home country of Egypt after being convicted for bank and visa fraud.
(As if we did not have enough trouble with secular organized crime- such a Mafia, Chinese Triads, South American drug cartels and assorted bikers- now we have to worry about radical RELIGIOUS HATE as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: CAIR officials in California rushed in front of cameras after the San Bernardino jihad attack in 2015 to blame American foreign policy instead of the killers. CAIR provided aid, comfort and legal assistance to the mass shooters' families.
(Yes- imagine NOT BLAMING a Muslim who immigrated to United States and got himself a nice paying govt job and a wife and a house and a car and then got some guns and he and the wife opened fire on other citizens!!)
(Why immigrate to a place you HATE unless you are either a hypocritical LUNATIC or unless you PLANNED to take some VILE action in the future?????
And is it not odd how often Muslim shooters are excused by reason of insanity???)
(Muslims are QUICK to raise the insanity defense so we will not grow very angry and CLOSE the borders to the murderous LOONS!! We must deal with home grown crazies but WHY do we need to IMPORT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: Last summer, CAIR stoked a fake hate crime perpetrated by an Odessa, Texas, waiter who falsely claimed he received a customer's receipt with the message: "We don't tip terrorist."
(And let us not forget the 9 year old Toronto girl who was coached by adults to tell cops that a white man had tried to remove her head scarf!!!!!!!! Or we could talk about the Oshawa Muslim who claimed that a white racist attacked him in a public washroom and cops eventually exposed the guy as a LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: CAIR disseminated the fake claims of a deranged Muslim New York teenager who lied about having her hijab ripped off by Trump supporters.
Never forget: CAIR helped manufacture the "Clock Boy" fake hate claim in Texas — after which, Clock Boy jetted off to Qatar to cash in on a Muslim Brotherhood-linked educational scholarship.
Never forget: CAIR has flexed its censorship muscle by squelching critics of Somalia-based jihad group al-Shabab in Minnesota and smearing them as "anti-Muslim" — even if they were Muslim.
(So many Muslims are so radical they even hate each other more than they hate us!!!!!!!! The Muslim terrorist attack with the highest casualty rate was perpetrated by Muslims against other Muslims in Mogadishu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Never forget: CAIR works every day to silence Muslim reformers, apostates, Christians, Jews, infidel scholars, border security advocates, anti-sharia activists and investigative independent journalists, on college campuses, TV airwaves and the internet, to prevent us from exposing the truth about Islamic supremacism.
(Toronto Sun reporter Muslim Tarek Fatah has a Fatwa against him - calling for the "Faithful" to MURDER Him for not offering suitable respect for Islam!!)
(Muslims in Pakistan spent a month rioting, killing and injured hundreds because their Justice Minister gave a speech and forgot to properly thank Allah - and then refused to resign for the gaffe!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To quote the late and dearly missed Italian journalist and fierce lioness Oriana Fallaci, who faced trial and death threats for "insulting Islam:"
Lan astaslem. "I will not surrender."
(TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!! Our LIE-beral overlords have ALREADY Surrendered!!!!!
(The gates are thrown open and the invaders enter in a steady Deluge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


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We're back with the topic of a publican's profit during WW II. This time it's their trade organisation in Plymouth complaining about the fall in their profit margin on beer.
"AIR-RAID FUND FOR LICENSEESThe list of expensive bottled beers tells its own story. You'd expect to see Bass, Worthington and Guinness in there. Ind Coope D.D. is a new one. I'm sure older readers will know which beer that is - Double Diamond.
Plymouth Move
Approval was given to the inauguration of an air-raid benevolent fund for its members when Plymouth and District Wine, Spirit, and Beer Trade Protection Society met at Farley Hotel, Plymouth, yesterday to consider recommended public bar prices consequent upon the increased taxation announced in the recent Budget. Mr. G. A. Ryman (president) said that this was the third Budget since the commencement of the war, and their profits had dropped from 26 to 16 per cent, on draught beers. If the price of beer went on increasing like this, licensees would be working for nothing. No. 7 district had met the previous day and were not satisfied with the position, and they were taking steps to see that retailers should get a chance of making living. It was a serious matter.
The increase on tobacco and cigarettes had been put into operation on Thursday, but the "Trade" had given a better concession in deciding not to increase prices until Monday next.
Recommended public bar prices to come into force next Monday were: Draught beer 8d. a pint; mild ale (Burton) 10d.: pale ale (Burton) 11d.; cyder (rough) 3.5d. Bottled beer (Bass, Worthington. Ind Coope D.D., Guinness, and other brands of higher gravities) 1s. 5d. a pint, 9d. half-pint, baby 6.5d.; other bottle beers of lower gravities 0.5d. on half-pint, 1d. on pint. Port, sherry, and cocktails, 9d.
Heavy wines would be increased a 1d. a glass and 1s. a bottle for outdoor consumption; light wines should be increased by not less than 0.5d. a glass and 6d. a bottle.
Mr. J. Squire (trustee) questioned whether a 1d. pint would be the maximum increase on bottled beers, particularly for the higher gravities. The recommended prices were approved.
Mr. Ryman said that the committee had suggested the inauguration of an air-raid benevolent fund in case any members became victims of an air raid and required immediate aid. Already £111 had been raised by voluntary subscriptions from members of the committee, and letters were to be sent to all members. Only subscribers to the fund would benefit.
Mr. Lee suggested members should contribute £3 each.
Mr. Ryman replied that was not desired to enforce any particular sum; this was a matter for each individual member's conscience.
The inauguration of the fund was approved, and the secretary (Mr. A. J. Collins) was authorized to circularize members for subscriptions."
Western Morning News - Saturday 27 July 1940, page 5.
I have to mention cider, too. Or cyder as is was still usually spelled back then. See how ludicrously cheap it is compared to everything else? Less than half the price of the cheapest draught beer. That's because this was in the happy days when there was no tax on cider. On the other hand, it wouldn't have even appeared in these price-fixing agreements for most of the country. Consumption of cider was a fraction of what it is today and it remained very much a regional product. Plymouth is, of course, in Devon, right in the heart of cider country.
Subscribing to the air-raid fund would definitely have been a good idea. As a port on the south coast, Plymouth was bound to be bombed. As it was also a naval base, it was doubly a target.

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When: June 13, 2018 @ 7:30 p.m.
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Dir. Don Bendell
Cast: Bob Chaney, Don Bendell, Steve Boergadine
Runtime: 91 min
Format: Digital
Country: USA
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Beyonce and Jay-Z accused of propaganda for Castro
Shawn Carter could have been any American visitor strolling through the streets of a Caribbean town, dressed in standard-issue tourist fare of blue T-shirt and shorts, fedora on head and fat cigar in mouth.entertainment Updated: Apr 08, 2013, 14:44 IST
Shawn Carter could have been any American visitor strolling through the streets of a Caribbean town, dressed in standard-issue tourist fare of blue T-shirt and shorts, fedora on head and fat cigar in mouth. His wife, Mrs Carter as she likes to be addressed, did that other classic tourist thing -she slung a large and ostentatiously expensive camera around her neck.
Despite what they presumably thought was their clever tourist disguise, the Carters caused quite a splash when they came to town last week, so much so that local police had to keep the adoring crowds at bay. As the blogger of the Cuban government, Yohandry Fontana put it, Beyonce takes Havana by storm.
It was partly who the visitors were - the undisputed First Couple of popular music. He a hip-hop star turned impresario and now sports agent, she about to embark on a world tour of her The Mrs Carter Show.
The kerfuffle was also a product of the destination that Beyonce and Jay-Z had selected for a short break to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Havana is not quite as accustomed to dealing with mega-celebrity as Beverly Hills, say, or Monte Carlo.
It also happens to be subject still to a trade embargo imposed by the US government that has lasted substantially longer than the Bey-Jay marriage. Ten times as long in fact; now in its 52nd year.
The embargo technically prohibits all US tourism to the island, which is inconvenient for Beyonce and Jay-Z because as a result of the unexpected attention the inevitable inquisition has followed.
Two Republican Congress members for South Florida, whose constituents include many enduringly embittered Cuban exiles, have raised the issue of the Carters' visit with the White House, denouncing it as having provided sustenance to the murderous Castro regime.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart have sent a joint letter to the treasury department official responsible for policing the embargo to demand to be told who approved the Carters' travel and for what purpose. The letter points out that tourist activities are covered by the ban and complains that the trip was used for Cuban propaganda purposes.
"The restrictions on tourism travel are common-sense measures meant to prevent US dollars from supporting a murderous regime that opposes US security interests at every turn and which ruthlessly suppresses the most basic liberties of speech, assembly and belief," they write.
The anti-Castro lobby group Cuba Democracy Advocates accused the couple of being extremely insensitive.
"There are women getting beaten on a daily basis, people are fighting for their freedom," the group's director Mauricio Claver-Carone told the website TMZ.
The letter doesn't say it overtly, but there is an implicit accusatory tone to their complaint that suggests complicity between the Carters and the Obama administration. The music stars are close to Barack and Michelle Obama.
In recent years, Obama has also loosened the noose around Cuba's neck under the trade embargo. Under the revised terms, Americans can visit the island, though trips are still restricted to academic, religious or cultural exchanges in which participants must have a "full-time schedule of educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction between the travellers and individuals in Cuba".
By that standard, how does the Carter visit hold up? There was certainly a cultural aspect to it. There was that cigar, for starters, and the typical Cuban creole food - fish, chicken, black beans and rice - they ate at the renowned paladar, La Guarida. You don't get that quality of island cooking every day in Brooklyn, the couple's more familiar stomping ground.
You could also put into the cultural category the stroll through Old Havana, and the time the couple spent on Thursday night at El Gato Tuerto, a legendary Havana nightclub, followed by the Casa de la Musica where, according to Reuters, they danced to salsa until dawn.
As for spending one-on-one time with Cuban individuals, that is not so clear. The blogger Fontana said Beyonce had been booked for lunch with "important figures of Cuban culture", although the only certain interaction was with her mother Tina and Jay-Z's mother, Gloria Carter, who tagged along for the ride.
All in all, bearing in mind the rottweiler-like tenacity of the Cuban exile community, this wrangle has the potential to run for some time. It is unlikely, though, to be causing Mr and Mrs Carter much loss of sleep. The worst that could befall them if found to have broken the embargo is a fine, which for them would be as onerous as tipping a porter at the end of a particularly pleasant holiday.


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Zac Efron wears sobriety chip after rehab
Zac Efron wore a six-months sobriety chip at a basketball game in Los Angeles last week after spending time in rehab earlier this year.
The 'High School Musical' star, who spent time in rehab last April for alleged cocaine and alcohol abuse, was spotted wearing a blue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) sobriety chip, given out during meetings as a symbol of encouragement and support, on a chain around his neck while cheering on the LA Lakers in Los Angeles on December 20.
The 'Parkland' star is thought to have entered treatment earlier this year after friends expressed their concern about his "erratic" behaviour while filming the upcoming raunchy comedy 'Neighbours'.
Zac, who broke his jaw last month after he slipped on a puddle and fell flat on his face outside his home, recently poked fun at rumours he sustained the injury after a night of partying.
The 26-year-old star appeared in a video, posted online on December 23, alongside his 'That Awkward Moment' co-stars, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan, who joked that he hurt himself after he gave a girl the "worst sexual experience of her life" and explained: "So she picked up a book, a heavy book, and slammed it into your beautiful face."
Zac had to have his mouth wired shut and was in tremendous pain, which forced him to cancel an upcoming promotional tour for the movie, following the incident.
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教師経験: I have 6 months experience teaching English at a college in Vietnam and have recently decided to pursue teaching as a side hustle.
興味: Music, Craft Beer, Wine, Cricket, Sports, World Politics, Learning
学歴: I recently graduated from a bachelor of Commerce/Arts at the University of Sydney. I majored in Finance, International Business and Japanese Studies and also took electives in Psychology, Philosophy and IT.
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Often times when people obtain a headache or back pain they think that Advil, Tylenol or other over the counter analgesics are basically interchangeable. That is actually not the case at all. These medications each work at their best for specific ailments because they work differently for certain body parts.
When you have a headache it is best to take Tylenol or acetaminophen because it has fewer side effects. If you have inflammation in your joints, it's best to take Advil or ibuprofen because it is more likely to bring greater relief. When you have a fever, either will work but a Advil is found to have a slight edge.
When you take too much acetaminophen, it can damage your liver. Ibuprofen is associated with gastrointestinal problems when you take too much.
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Hi there! If you ended up here, chances are you might be interested in the Author's writing works. As his personal website, I'll gladly take the honour of introducing you to his most relevant jobs so far.
In this page, which I will constantly keep up to date for my Author, you'll find links to the most important and juicy works in his past experience. These will be divided into categories ("Fiction Writing", "Screenwriting" and such) and organised into a list, which I will try to keep as readable as possible! I think my Author chose me for my organised mindset, after all.
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Table of Contents
- Publications & Awards
- Medium Profile
- Fiction Writing
- Screenwriting
- Video Game Writing
- Article & Academic Writing
- Other projects
Publications & Awards
- Forsaken: a science-fiction short
story,featured on The Elixir Magazine.
- Like Any Other Day: a voice experiment, featuring a little child lost in a familiar world. Published on The Elixir Magazine.
- Bad Harvest: dystopian sci-fi short story, shortlisted for the Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Prize 2019.
Medium Articles
- Medium Profile: a collection of my self-published Medium articles. Most of them have been cross-published on this website as well, with or without minor modifications and edits.
- 5 Reasons Why Scrivener is better than Word: a listicle about Scrivener tailored for writers, now standing at almost 1000 views on Medium.
- Toy Story – The Beauty of Growing Up: a reflection on the first three Toy Story movies, a metaphor for growing up and dealing with change.
- Here's what NieR: Automata and video games have taught me about empathy: an experiment blending music and article writing, to describe the beauty of NieR: Automata and video game experiences in general.
- Final Fantasy XV's Story Feels Like Wasted Potential: a reflection on Final Fantasy XV's storytelling, weighing in best features and flaws of the game's narrative aspect.
Fiction Writing
- The Swansong & Other Stories: a collection of short stories about love, loss, and sacrifice. This website features three of them:
- The Swansong – "Following a mystical moment with a beautiful animal, Evelyn is struggling to find her place in the world. After facing a big loss, she will have to learn the value of sacrifice."
- The Two Hedgehogs – "Wolfe Doireann is a veteran of the First War of Scottish Independence, forced to face his nostalgic past by a magical amulet that links him to his beloved."
- The Untamable Heart – "Is there a more frightening pain than the one of love? Anthony, the main character of this story, will be forced to seek the answer to this question, through the clues left by the dark story of a young boy."
- Lilith: Goddess of Love and Shadows – "The Dark Era of mankind was rising with war, battles, and injustice. Then, Lilith came; and the journey of a young man to see her would mark the future of his race forever."
- Shadow of the Wanderer (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a short story based on Shadow of the Colossus, second chapter in the Ico trilogy.
- The Last Call of the Wyvern (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a short story based on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt.
Screenwriting Projects
- The Phantom Particle (La Particella Fantasma): Italian, dramatic short film directed and commissioned by William G. Lombardo.
- IUDOR (The Inevitable Ups and Downs of Reliability): an animated short film directed by Guillaume A. Tissier.
Video Game Writing
- Apprentice Arriving: Fantasy-RPG game featuring complex, branching narrative and loads of exploration.
Article Writing & Non-Fiction
- Independents' Day: a case study/feature article about Failbetter Games and the #LoveIndies Week social campaign.
- Ars Ludica: The Art of Video Games (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a thorough analysis of the video game medium as a form of art.
Other projects
- Good Pizza, Great Pizza – Game Localisation: The author was hired through Upwork to help complete the localisation files for "Good Pizza, Great Pizza", a popular mobile game, soon coming to Windows and Steam.
Also published on Medium.


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Once at sea the Dutch Tall Ships sail 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sail handling can happen at any moment, so the crew takes turns in being awake and sailing the ship. The ships are registered as sail training vessels and as such you will be mustered as voyage crew. This means that, more so than on a passenger ship, you will get extensive safety instructions and we ask you to join in the watch system. Participating in sailing and running the ships is part of the overall experience on board. The level of participation will depend on your interest and physical condition.
The watch system consists is constructed in such a way that you are "on" watch for 4 hours, and "off" watch for 8 hours. One of the watches is a split "platvoet" watch, due to which you will have watch at different times every day. One day you will see a sunrise and the next day you are on deck while the sun sets. The watches are named after the colors of the Dutch flag and follow up in the same sequence. While on watch you will take turns at the helm, stand lookout and help with sail handling.
The trainees are encouraged to participate in a three-watch system, with four hours on and eight hours off and a split 'platvoet'. Following this system you will have watch at different times every day so you will see a sunrise one day and a sunset the next. The watches are named after the colours of the Dutch flag and follow up in the same sequence. While on watch you will take turns at the helm, stand lookout and help with sail handling and maintenance.
When going on watch you will be woken in sufficient time to get ready, have some food, or perhaps some coffee (particularly when you stand up in the middle of the night). When arriving on deck, you will receive the handover from the previous watch. There always has to be a watch on deck, so it is very important to be on time; the previous watch cannot be stood down until you have surfaced. It is your responsibility to be awake and ready for action on deck! Not everybody likes to be woken up so it is important to go about the wake-ups with some sensitivity. If needed, some extra encouragement can motivate slow risers like "we're under full sail", "full moon", "pancakes for breakfast", "it's finally stopped raining!"


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When you type something into Google Search, do you know what happens behind the scenes ? Let's say you type 'abc' as shown below :
You get a list of values starting with 'abc' or with 'abc' within the text that you are trying to search. It seems so simple and straightforward, right ? But here's what goes on behind the scenes :
In your machine
When you type the first letter 'a', this is what happens –
- Your keyboard code for 'a' goes into a keyboard buffer (temporary memory) and interrupts the Keyboard Support chip.
- This chip in turn raises an interrupt signal and this interrupt goes to the CPU which recognizes that the keyboard needs to be listened to.
- Now the CPU needs to display the letter 'a', so it interrupts the CRT controller chip (Display Chip), with the value 'a'.
- The Display controller sends an 'a' to be displayed at the current cursor location. This travels through that cable which is attached to your Display, or in the case of a laptop, tablet or phone, to the display directly. The display chip is sometimes referred to as GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).
Behind the Google Search
As the Google Search is within the browser, here's what happens.
- The input now is given to the browser, which in turn gives it to the operating system (OS) like Windows.
- The OS in turn will send this input to your network support chip or your network controller.
- From there this input ('abc') travels all the way to the Google servers (through wire or wireless).
- These servers are in a datacentre (a huge cluster of parallel servers) and the nearest server which is free to service your request will take it up.
- The cluster (group of servers) has a list of your previous searches and will try to return values which are closest to the input that you gave ('abc').
- This list of values is given back to your client through the same network.
- Once the values arrive at the client, a popup box opens up, to display all of them. This is also done in Javascript.
- What makes this feat possible is something called AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), a technology where a list of values is sent back as XML (Extensible Markup Language) through an asynchronous connection. (this means that the server will serve this request when it's free)
- As shown in the above diagram, this is what happens behind the scenes. All of this in a jiffy. So much of data travelling from the innards of your machine to the server. So how is this possible without any delay ? The answer is Google Servers in the thousands that are responsible for delivering a swift and efficient connection.
- Sometimes you see a Google Server page without a network connection also. This is made possible by a local cache (local memory) which is used by Google.
- The server that services your request is called as an Edge Server (the server that's closest to you geographically)
What does it mean ?
Our brains also work in a similar way, except slowly and fast. Slow – because our brains work at 50-500 bits / second, whereas the communication that we saw above happens at least at a speed of 1 Mb/ second. Fast – because our parallel neurons are much more complex than the Google data centre. Today, we learn about something called Deep Learning (a type of machine learning) which works like our brain. In Deep Learning, you emulate a neural network of say 10-20 layers. However, this is not even close to our brain, which is inherently and simultaneously parallel. But great progress is being made by advances in the field of Computer Science and sooner or later, machines will catch up with us. 15-20 years from now, give and take a few, machines will exceed a human brains capacity. No alarm bells here. Machines will be complementing us and replacing us in jobs which they do better than us. This means that we will have more time to spend on things we love to do – like say being with nature or maybe scuba diving. How the economics will work out – we do not know. But one thing is for sure – we will have a lot of time for ourselves – which means we can explore our spiritual / emotional dimensions and maybe discover that one alluring thing that evades us so subtly – our search for our Self.


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Things will hardly be Elementary when Holmes becomes the case on this Thursday's episode of the hit CBS drama (airing at 10/9c).
Things start simply enough when the crime solver is hired by a Fortune 500 company to look into a board member's mysterious disappearance. "Sherlock negotiates an outrageous fee and takes the case," previews executive producer Rob Doherty. "But the more time he spends around the company and the people who work there, [the more] he begins to suspect that somebody who's looking to climb the corporate ladder has been moving obstacles."
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Despite Holmes' conviction that his theory is correct, it's "difficult to prove because all of the deaths have been made to look like accidents and, at least for a stretch of the [episode], he's a lone voice in the wilderness," continues the EP. "Nobody else really thinks this could be going on."
No one except for the person responsible, which leads to Holmes being caught in a dangerous situation. "We play with time a little bit in this [episode] in that we start in a moment of jeopardy and then we jump back approximately two days to see how we got to this point in time," reveals Doherty. "Sherlock lands himself in a spot of trouble. Joan, as a sober companion, has to assume the worst and take steps to track him down."
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The twist in the case – much like the one in last week's Balloon Man episode – is in keeping with Holmesian tradition, says Doherty. The show's updated investigator "does not delve into ordinary cases, nor does he in the original works," he explains. "A good Sherlock story is a little out there. It's a bit odd, certainly very complex."
Before the episode takes a turn, Watson actually gets to go out and have a little fun when her friend sets her up on a date. But rather than set up a potential long-term romance for the character – "We don't want to drift away from the heart and soul of our show, which is the Holmes/Watson dynamic," insists the EP – the storyline explores "the idea of what happens to you as a regular person after you've been exposed to somebody like Sherlock for an extended period of time.
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"The writer, Craig Sweeny, was pointing out [that] it's got to impact you in some way, shape or form," continues Doherty. "What I really liked was this idea that she is set up to go on a date, and yet, her observational skills have — whether she realizes it or not — improved over the handful of weeks she has spent with Sherlock. So she's seeing some things she doesn't necessarily want to see. It gives you a little insight into what it's like to be Sherlock all the time – to see and hear and smell everything that you don't necessarily want to, and the way it affects your worldview."


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Answering the question,
To completely answer the question, "what is an annuity", it would be necessary to write a book and not an article. Annuities are possibly one of the most misunderstood investment vehicles. However the purpose here is to give you some direction towards doing the necessary research to understand the basics so that when you talk to the professionals you will have a much greatCredit: OneClickLearning.comer ability to understand and make use of the advice or suggestions they will make.
In the their simplest form, annuities can be described as guaranteed agreements which pay back money with interest over a set period of time. As an investment they offer some advantages over the usual stock and bond investments in that the pay back is guaranteed by an insurance company or some other licensed organization.
However, to the amateur investor there may not seem to be any simple annuity. Consider for a moment the terms you might discover as you do your research. Annuities, fixed rate annuities, variable immediate annuities, deferred annuities, equity indexed annuities, annuity settlement options, annuity risk , joint and survivor annuities. At first you may feel as though you are searching for information in a foreign language.
The Securities And Exchange Commission has a web site with good informative free information regarding snnuities. On their site they have this description of a variable annuity:
A variable annuity is a contract between you and an insurance company, under which the insurer agrees to make periodic payments to you, beginning either immediately or at some future date. You purchase a variable annuity contract by making either a single purchase payment or a series of purchase payments. [724]
Do Basic Research To Answer The Question, "What Is An Annuity"
Fortunately finding the information you need to make an informed, intelligent financial decision need not be overwhelming. There are two types of annuities you are most likely to be involved with. A retirement annuity or an annuity you have received due to an injury or other lawsuit in which you have prevailed.
These instruments will guarantee that you will receive a certain amount of money over a set time period usually about 10 or 20 years. In some cases you may receive a partial upfront bulk payment with the remainder in payments. The retirement annuity is one you will purchase with a cash investment for the purpose of providing income after your working years have finished. These instruments accrue interest and have certain tax advantages.
The decision to purchase such an investment would normally only be made after considering all of your other possible retirement funding options. There are many options available when structuring the agreement such as how will the funds be dispersed in case of your untimely death. You could include the option to make your wife the beneficiary and this is a normal choice because women tend to out live their husbands.
You may decide that you really won't need the funds from this investment for retirement and choose to make your children the beneficiaries. You may find that the funds would be needed for total nursing home care in which case there are also tax advantages. While the basis of these instruments is an agreement that you will not have access to the accrued funds except for the regular payments there are occasions where some or all of the funds are available.
Should You Sell Your Annuity?
You may be able to withdraw up to 10% a year with out tax penalties. You could also sell all or part of the funds to companies or organizations that specialize in these types of purchases. If your payments were scheduled over a 20 year time frame you could sell two years of those payments for example and then began to receive payments after that time frame has expired.
In any sale of part or all of your annuity you will pay large fees and be liable for tax penalties. However in some situations such as illness, potential mortgage foreclosures or other emergencies, a sale might be a good financial decision.
As mentioned above you should do some preliminary research to understand the basic terms you will encounter and then contact a few annuity providers to get quotes regarding your purchase or sale of an agreement. Once you have that information you would be well advised to contact a trusted professional financial planner, insurance salesperson or an attorney especially if there are large sums involved.
While annuities have served many investors well over the years the complexity of these agreements does present an opportunity for scams or misinformation. Answering the question, "what is an annuity" is the proper place to start before moving very far along in the decision making process.


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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's business minister said the government understands the importance of avoiding friction in the automotive supply chain after Brexit, as ministers try to overcome differences as to what customs relationships Britain should have with the EU.
"I know… just how crucial it is that in the agreement that we reach with the European Union, that it respects the ability to continue those flourishing supply chain relationships by avoiding introducing new frictions," Greg Clark said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to overcome deep divisions in her cabinet over the nature of Britain's divorce with the EU and find agreement on a customs proposal to take to Brexit talks in Brussels.
Asked about when ministers would decide, Clark said: "There's a sub-committee of the cabinet that is looking at these things. There's been no requirement to agree by tomorrow night or something like that. The work is going on."
Reporting by Costas Pitas, editing by Alistair Smout
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Pro-Love T-Shirt
$ 20.00
Mark 12:31
"…'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
We want to be pro-life with a pro-love approach! Let this super-cute shirt be a way for you to show your support for pro-life and a reminder to FIRST be pro-love!
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