"We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit."
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Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
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Ronald Reagan in his farewell address in January 1989
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History has to be taught on "what's important" — WHAT? ? ? What's important to the protection and advancement of individual sovereignty, inalienable right, liberty, and the laws of nature and of nature's God varies greatly from the importance laid upon history from the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land. In an intended erosion of law, liberty and rights, Mr. Obamunist Goodwrench the assassin often spoke of the ultimate "American spirit" of history eradicating American memory from many. Concerning individual sovereignty, inalienable rights, liberty and the laws of nature and of nature's God, truth is to be taught as the standard with an history of events that relate thereto.  
 -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    In school, history class was taught as 'Social Studies' — why the change in terminology?  American History is no longer a required subject in High School, nor do colleges seem to care.  Americans are taught that the USA is a democracy — it is not, never was.  As a result, the government has been able to usurp the sovereign powers of the People.  Declaring states of emergency indefinitely in order to enforce unlawful dictates has become a racket — everybody wants in on the act.  Chicken Little and Henny Penny are running for president, and apparently won.  Is there nothing Americans won't fall for any more?
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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     -- jim k, austin      

    The American spirit is to globalize. The American spirit is to recognize in good faith our foreign neighbors, realize our inner sentiment, feelings, and social being and not exploit our neighbors, foreign or domestic, but to become more cooperative in the good neighbor and good partner policy. 


     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Additional note: there is a path of function possible to allow 100% employment, paying off the national debt in its entirety, reduce crime..etc, etc, a way from the grave.  The fashion of which Reagan speaks is giving us less and we paying more, the old way straight to grave, no real employment, debt, crime etc...etc. The memories are not that particularly good. We need a new path of away from the grave.  A way of paying less and acquiring more life. There is a way.  We must seek deeper onto our hearts and souls. The examined life is indeed a valuable life. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, your undefined "path of function" is a religious dogma that will not work (in science, at nature's law or reality). Under the current system (flawed and illegal as it is) 100% employment is allowed. There are many reasons why people are unemployed. The national debt can NOT be paid off ! ! ! The current monetary system is one of perpetual debt. Each dollar in circulation was borrowed with interest. The interest payments must be borrowed also. A never ending story of debt. "A way of paying less and acquiring more life." is a religious non-related nonsense that is beyond oxymoronic.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the debt can be paid by a responsible attitude.  Money which is the representation of distrust, with education disseminated, will be on its final presentation. Matured, trusted, humans will be determined to pay the debt and prove the integrity of our "promising" species. The use of money will be virtually eliminated and on its way to it destined "dustbin of history."  Finally, the international declaration will proclaim, in humanity, from this day forward, we  shall forever trust, and we will all swear to it. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sorry, Fred.  There is not enough money in circulation to pay the debt — the 'debt' IS the money supply!  If everyone paid off every loan, there would be no money and we would still owe more.  The money supply has been 100% borrowed — that is how currencies are 'minted.'  I don't blame you for not understanding, only one in a million understands it — but every currency trader on Wall Street understands it, and so do the Federal Reserve Banks, the EU central banks, the Chinese central bank, and every bank in the world knows how currency is created out of thin air whenever it is 'borrowed.' It is called 'monetizing debt.'

    The US money supply consists of government debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt, student loans, car loans, and every other kind of loan issued from banks.  The economy absolutely requires perpetual borrowing even just to continue to pay the interest of the existing debt. 

    Before this system was foisted upon the nation in 1913, the US was the richest and most prosperous country in the world.  There were NO income taxes — all funds necessary for the government were collected via excise taxes, i.e. tariffs.  WWI & WWII were the direct result of switching to this fiat currency system.  Every war is a banker's war!  "Endless money forms the sinews of war." (Cicero)

    BTW, socialism absolutely requires this banking system because it cannot even begin to pay for all the government programs promised without endless debt.  Educate yourself, and learn that whoever controls the issuance of currency controls all industry and commerce — this is NOT capitalism, it is a central plank of communism and designed to crush any true capitalist system.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Archer, well said
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mr Archer, not endless money but more valuable money.  Our outstanding creditors like China will be paid back with the more developed buying power of the US dollar compared to the Chinese Yuan. The American economy can be put on a more stable foundation raising the GDP from 30 to 100 trillion dollars annually.  Our Chinese friends and others on being recompensed, will observe the productiveness and creativeness of the USA and understand that America has revolutionized productively and creatively to a point where the economic dynamics has changed to a human formulation and be recruited  into that human form dynamic. In humanity we trust will positively influence all. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike,, Norwalk, and Mr Archer, if you ever choose to belong to the real potential and acumen of the authentic human race, let me be the first to welcome you and your Wall Street guys. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Another note: surely you Mr Musk, Mr Bezos, Mr Zuckerberg and the rest of the billionaire's club can't with full responsible conscience continue to turn your heads as the  present polarizing economic situation continues to spiral out of control.  You have to understand we have a obligation to all to reinstate the lost tax controls and even develop a more fully scaled progressive tax reformulation.  Where can we really place the state of your humanity, you must consider the present deprivation of all and reconsider.  Those of you with billions must step forward and discontinue this economic destruction and assist in the reformulation. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    NO!  No more Marxist claptrap!  It is poisonous, treasonous, and designed to break America, which it has almost nearly done if it were not for the indominable spirit of Liberty that still resides within the true patriots of the nation.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Again, it would quite progressive to observe our super rich involved in a graduated tax reformulation. Now that's true American integrity. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Correction: It would be quite impressive as well as a great display of human integrity to observe the super rich involved in a graduated tax reform.  Whereas the The Titanic sinking took many of the members of the super rich, the super rich were able to react in time to save the sinking United States economic circumstances and themselves to make everyone wealthy and prosperous. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Strongly agree! Vital to remember our past, warts and all, or we're doomed to repeat it. Today's culture wants to rewrite history books. Ignoring historical complexities risks losing our identity. Let's prioritize factual accuracy over trending narratives.
     -- Bill V. Singer     
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    Teaching what would not be in fashion would be functional for instance honesty and integrity.  Trying to make a positive contact with the super rich fashionable pirates like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and rest of these billionaire criminals and their bullshit products is a waste of time and I apologize.  To avoid WW 3 we must restrain these billionaire pirates like we should have the last group who started WW 1 and WW 2.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    The present billionaires acquired their riches the old fashioned fashionable way, piracy. We need a very assertive graduated tax reformulation to correct the situation and eliminate the billionaire status. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Important point about history! Ignoring our past leads to identity loss. Imagine forgetting key moments – like the American Revolution. Understanding context shapes who we are. We must preserve historical knowledge, not just follow fleeting trends, to maintain our national spirit. Excellent food for thought!
     -- Kristine Beckin, Houston     
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    It's a powerful point about whose perspective shapes our understanding of history. Focusing on individual sovereignty and natural rights feels like a crucial lens. Sometimes I wonder if we're so focused on memorizing dates and battles that we miss the bigger picture – the ongoing struggle for liberty.
     -- may, Chapman     
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    The "mediocre minds" don't want to forget what they did, they just want to forget what the bold have done and continue to perform.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    We are dealing with a conventional mentality ill creature trying to change the facts  The conventional mentally ill is the core of our populous arrangement. I, the healthy mentality unconventional fringe would like to be in an agreed authority position to guide our arrangement to a more productive course, present the facts as they appear in reality. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Proof of conventional mental illness, no apparent love.  You even use the symbol of a heart shaped sign for the term love. This heart shape sign is the shape of a devise used in ancient Rome as a prophylactic. You are a creature who equates sex with love, nothing could be more misguided.  The sex act has nothing to do with love.  In fact we don't need the act anymore because of artificial insemination.  We need to change.  Love has everything to do with responsibility. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Hey, Sillik, If you ever choose to actually understand the monetary system of the last 112 years, we can have an authentic conversation.  You've got it half right, but not enough to understand the reality. 

    The fact that I am a Wall Street guy that understands the system should be enough for you to perhaps not simply knee-jerk at what I have to say.  The fiat money system has been foisted upon nearly the entire world — the Arab countries still using the gold dinar as money and prohibiting charging interest (i.e. usury) being the last hold-outs. 

    It all becomes clearer why there has been perpetual conflict in those regions between the 'Western' world and the Arab nations.  Libya and Iraq were among the wealthiest countries in the world with zero debt.  Ripe for the takings.  As I said before, all wars are bankers wars.  Do not confuse that with the American spirit which has not been rubbed out yet. 

    The founders rejected paper money and in fact established the death penalty for anyone that debased the currency.  Would that we observed that law today!
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    "Progressive" is a covert way of saying "Marxism."  Hell NO!
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Fred, you are describing yourself.  Projection is classic "progressive" liberalism — i.e. Marxism.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Thank goodness, Fred, you are NOT in a position of authority, because you would be the most ruthless dictator the world has ever known.  Of course, like your friend Stalin, your demise would be celebrated world wide.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Baloney, Mr Archer, I have an excellent emotional expression in  looking  for something more than just sex vanquishing from my relations throughout my entire life.  I've, for an excellent achievement, have always looked for the mind in a woman more than anything else, and sadly stood alone and unattended from the female. I am the thinking woman's gentleman. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Progression or progressiveness is necessary to be called human or even to sustain life. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Would you say that Libya and Iraq citizenry were exhibiting fair decent dealings, something very foreign to the US coventional practices, and so were attacked by the American War Machine, in one way or another, because of this fair dealer practice? By the way, I watched the Wall Street hollywood effort, I want more than, "want a friend, get a dog." 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, 🤪🤪🤪 hahaha, lolololol  WHAT?  Your last sentence should read; you are the mentally ill socialist's god. Of course though, your ecclesiastical dogma forbids you from uttering any truth or fact
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    You Wall Street guys don't understand anything because there is a solution to the debt and its deteriorating effects. We can manage and move resources positively in a balancing formula to satisfy our lenders and resolve the debt crises.    There is an alternative to waste, and we can achieve that alternative.  The debt problem can be resolved reasonably with nonviolent action. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the current situation presents us a historic first condition with some eight billion mentally ill patients and history's first genuine mental health provider. "Fascinating wouldn't you say? 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, 🤪🤪🤪 hahaha, lolololol WHAT? Defining your self as a savior / god with/to all of the noble family man, they being mentally ill because they don't conform to your religiously oriented mental images — CAN'T, by any measurement, be considered mentally healthy. While finding you fascinating, I feel sorry for you.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, you must conform to appropriate mature developmental nonviolent behaviors of decency, dignity, fairness, and justified equality.  This is nature's expectation and the purpose nature brought all into existence.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, I am one of the most NONviolent people you converse with. The rest of your ecclesiastical word salad is of course, a false determination. Also, nature has NO expectations. The God of nature did bring all into existence.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the severely mentally impaired are not aware of the very intense violence they formulate through their trickery and misrepresentation.  These tricks and misrepresentation that you practice are a very destructive display of violence in which you pride yourself, like a little boy, on not being detected.  As far as expectation nature expresses its expectation through its natural order. You expect something to function if its orderly and not to function if its not orderly.  Also, being a product of nature I further the expression, verbally, of expectation through the naturally ordered mind.  Nature very much has expectations of the evolutionary designation and design. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Also, Mike, Norwalk, you can't deny most of the money that exchanges is that of violent ensnaring or entrapping your victim in a planned out trap.  Mike, you are just deceiving yourself, but not me or the rest of the world, in your admission of "NONviolence."  We need a publicly controlled environment and live in authentic peace and nonviolence. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, I am not sure if it is your deteriorated mental state or the dogma of your enslaving religion (maybe both — they seem to be related). Again, who is this public you refer to — Mr. / Mz./?  Will you please supply me his/her/its name and address so that I might subpoena your fictional character(s). Out of one side of your mouth you say this public is mentally ill and then, out of the other side of your mouth you want this same public to be in enslaving control to fetter your perceived environment. OR, out of another side of your mouth, you — in an all practical sense, are saying that you, as god, need be cloned or otherwise divided into multiple persons (society, mmm — public) so your environment can be controlled by your ecclesiastical form of authentic peace and nonviolence.

    Sillik, your inability to comprehend the difference between science and religion, law and your ecclesiastical dogma, the tangible and the intangible, etc. further explains your nonsensical word salad trying to rationalize that nature's lawful actions are one in the same as your mental illness. Nature has NO expectations, it just is. Your personally ordered expectations do not harmonize with nature's law.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the public is without a doubt a populous entrapped in their childhood, "we are the world, we are the children."  But we must make every effort to bring that same public into a more mature sphere of understanding and challenging state of being for the acceptance of the adult role and responsibility that is involved. It is a developmental issue and we must continue the challenge of remedying the situation. We must understandably grow. 

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, it is you who cannot distinguish between religion and science because, I must say, it appears that from your perspective that you can always install the "variables" abracadabra, or say a little prayer, into a scientific equation and I can tell you categorically these are not legitimate scientific variables and in fact are completely useless for a scientific equation or for anything else for that matter. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, WHAT ? ? ?  🤪🤪🤪  hahahah / lolololol  You are nuts. I feel sorry for you and you REALLY need help. Outside a figment of your diseased mental aberrations, please identify "ONE" abracadabra or prayer that I ever introduced into a scientific equation. You once stated that you never say anything you can't prove. I have asked you on multiple occasions to use scientific methodology instead of religious rhetoric / word salad to prove what you've said. To date, no response. Like a child that tries to change the subject when they get caught, you can never answer a question directly (scientifically or otherwise) but rather, change the subject and give more of your religious training / dogma (by example, your word salad above). You are not as unique a god as you purport to be.


     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the conclusion is you are unreasonable, for the reasonable can observe my reasonable stance. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, being the extremely immature / mentally ill dupe that you are, you have proven once again that as a child is caught, he/she can not / will not stay on topic. No one ask for a conclusion of anything and through scientific methodology, you have never shown anything you have said is reasonable. The subject question was: "please identify "ONE" abracadabra or prayer that I ever introduced into a scientific equation." Instead of changing the subject with a fallacious ad hominem, a mentally stable adult would have proved his/her statement / point.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Nice effort, Mike.  But I fear you are merely casting pearls before swine.  Poor Fred is delirious, stuck in his mental trap, believing he is the ONLY sane person on the planet and the rest of us childish fools — especially the American Founding Fathers.  The best we can do for Fred is to pray for him.  He is a tortured soul, knowing no peace, his house built upon sand, his mind tossed in a tempest, a marionette unaware of his strings and who is pulling them.  May the Truth one day set him free.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Thanks for sentiment, Mr Archer, but its not my soul that tortured, its my body, by your constant preying on it.   You christians are much, much, more inclined to preying than praying. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Correction: Thanks for the sentiment, Mr Archer, but its not my soul that's tortured, its my body, by your constant preying on it. You Christians are much, much, more prone to preying than praying, neither one, however,  appears to be too constructive.  
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Insufficient effort Mike,Norwalk, sorry Mr. Archer, for you Mike, Norwalk as is Mr Archer, retain possession of a childish select understanding and simply can't interpret or accept logically explained principles. Both your minds, dwell in the typical conventional contemporary world of the make-believe and to tap into their very deeply blocked reservoirs is a formidable challenge for a mental health provider. Mr Einstein proclaimed human stupidity infinite.  Human stupidity is not infinite, but it is, unfortunately, a very deep abyss. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, 🤪🤣🤪 hahaha / lololol WHAT ? ? ? Your logically explained principle(s) are irrational babble from one that describes his utopia from of perception of his god position and ANTI-science/law religious dogma. Mr. Einstein described you well.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    To reduce the chance of catastrophic error we must teach the functional report, the true representation of the events that took place.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    It would truly be a promising future if we would introduce that which is functional as fashionable, for instance not putting legislative influence up for sale, but our elected officials serving in the unbiased best interest of all. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    The convention individual has an improperly, unsupervised, subjective, biased selective understanding of any events that occur, their judgements are insubstantial for any productiveness, all conventional individuals are clearly mentally ill, but will not truthfully acknowledge the condition.  The unconventional individual has a natural, fair, and reasonable understanding of the life productive processes. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Just like to add that the occasion to discuss any concerns on an adult level simply does't exist in the conventional population. From the President of the United States to the local cashier at Walmart you are clearly speaking to an individual with the mentality of a juvenile delinquent. To express yourself as an mature adult is a clear rejection of the normal day-to-day proceedings. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Fred, do you realize that nearly all of your so called arguments are fallacious? From the "No True Scotsman", "argumentum ad nauseam", "Appeal to the Stone", various "ad hominem", "Courtier's reply", various "Appeals to emotion", "Argumentum ad populum", "Bare assertion", "Moralistic", "Straw man" fallacies, not to mention serious cognitive dissonance exacerbated by narcissism and downright ignorance.

    Please, for once, make an argument based on the merits of the points being highlighted. You could distill all of your posts over the last few years down to little more than pure wind.

    Sheesh, please spare us this never-ending drivel spamming this blog ad nauseum.


     -- E Archer, NYC     
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