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centuriespast · 2 months
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Dating to the third century, the bronze sphinx statue originated from Dacia, a Roman province that largely corresponds to modern-day Romania.
After being discovered in the 19th century, the statue was stolen from a European count sometime around 1848, Revesz said.
While it was never recovered, a detailed drawing of the sphinx remained. In the drawing, the inscription — composed of a handful of characters — can be seen on the base of the statue.
Translated into English, it reads: “Lo, behold, worship: here is the holy lion.”
Photo from the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
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Florida reviewers of AP African American Studies sought ‘opposing viewpoints’ of slavery
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This excellent article from the Miami Herald, looks at some of the previously unreported objections Florida had to the AP African American Studies course.
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“It’s not really about the course right? It’s kind of about putting down Black struggles for equality and freedom that have been going on for centuries at this point in time and making them into something that they are not through this kind of distorted rightist lens."
--Alexander Weheliye, African American studies professor, Brown University
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When Florida rejected a new Advanced Placement course on African American Studies, state officials said they objected to the study of several concepts — like reparations, the Black Lives Matter movement and “queer theory.” But the state did not say that in many instances, its reviewers also made objections in the state’s attempt to sanitize aspects of slavery and the plight of African Americans throughout history, according to a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times review of internal state comments. For example, a lesson in the Advanced Placement course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content, saying the instructional approach “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity.” In another lesson about the beginnings of slavery, the course delved into how tens of thousands of enslaved Africans had been “removed from the continent to work on Portuguese-colonized Atlantic islands and in Europe” and how those “plantations became a model for slave-based economy in the Americans.” In response, the state raised concerns that the unit “may not address the internal slave trade/system within Africa” and that it “may only present one side of this issue and may not offer any opposing viewpoints or other perspectives on the subject.” “There is no other perspective on slavery other than it was brutal,” said Mary Pattillo, a sociology professor and the department chair of Black Studies at Northwestern University. Pattillo is one of several scholars the Herald/Times interviewed during its review of the state’s comments about the AP African American Studies curriculum. “It was exploitative, it dehumanized Black people, it expropriated their labor and wealth for generations to come. There is no other side to that in African American studies. If there’s another side, it may be in some other field. I don’t know what field that is because I would argue there is no other side to that in higher education,” Pattillo said. Alexander Weheliye, African American studies professor at Brown University, said the evaluators’ comments on the units about slavery were a “complete distortion” and “whitewashing” of what happened historically. “It’s really trying to go back to an earlier historical moment, where slavery was mainly depicted by white historians through a white perspective. So to say that the enslaved and the sister African nations and kingdoms and white colonizers and enslavers were the same really misrecognizes the fundamentals of the situation,” Weheliye said. [emphasis added]
The entire article is well worth reading, and I encourage people to do so.
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weaponizedhorse · 7 months
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‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species
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Scientists aboard a research vessel near Antarctica pulled their nets out of the chilly ocean water. Among their catch, they found a 20-armed creature with a distinctive body shape. It’s a new species.
Researchers trawled the Southern Ocean on several research expeditions between 2008 and 2017, according to a study published July 14 in the journal Invertebrate Systematics. They were searching for a group of “cryptic” sea animals known as Promachocrinus, or Antarctic feather stars.
Antarctic feather stars are “large” animals that can live anywhere from about 65 feet to about 6,500 feet underwater and have an “otherworldly appearance” when swimming, researchers said. Although both are invertebrate ocean animals, feather stars are distinct from more well-known sea stars
During their surveys, researchers collected eight feather stars with a distinctive body shape and discovered a new species: Promachocrinus fragarius, or the Antarctic strawberry feather star.
The Antarctic strawberry feather star has 20 arms branching off its central “strawberry-like” body, the study said. It can range in color from “purplish” to “dark reddish.” Researchers did not provide measurements of the animal’s overall size.
Photos show the new species has two types ofappendages. Its lower, shorter arms appear almost striped and bumpy, while its upper, longer arms appear almost feathered and soft
A close-up photo shows the Antarctic strawberry feather star’s lower body. It has a roughly triangular shape, wider at the top and tapering toward a rounded bottom tip. The texture appears bumpy with circle-like indents likely left from broken-off arms.
Researchers named the new species after the Latin word for “strawberry” because of the “resemblance of the (body) shape… to a strawberry.”
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After debate citing indoctrination and Nazis, Miami-Dade School Board rejects LGBTQ month
After listening to more than three hours of angry debate, with one side likening the measure to student indoctrination and the other talking about how Nazis ostracized gays and lesbians with a pink triangle, the Miami-Dade School Board voted late Wednesday evening to slap down a measure recognizing October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History Month and teaching 12th graders about two landmark Supreme Court cases impacting the LGBTQ communities.
The vote was 8-1 with board member Lucia Baez Geller, who proffered the item, the only one voting for the measure.
The vote brought out droves of parents, teachers and students — along with a contingent of Proud Boys, who got in a loud argument with a person hoisting a trans flag outside the School Board headquarters at 1450 NE Second Ave. in downtown Miami. Throughout Wednesday, about 35 to 45 people stood in line in the afternoon sun outside the building, waiting to enter to make their comments known.
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A person waving a transgender flag stands in front of a group of Proud Boys outside a contentious Miami-Dade School Board meeting discussing whether to recognize October as LGBTQ+ History Month in schools on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, at the board’s headquarters in downtown Miami. Sommer Brugal [email protected]
“There is an election year and the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is a tool used by some to spread misinformation,” said board member Lucia Baez Geller. “This is just plain disinformation.”
Baez Geller’s proposal called for recognizing October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) History Month and teaching 12th graders about two Supreme Court landmark decisions — Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 (recognizing same-sex marriage) and Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020 (finding an employer can’t fire someone for being gay or transgender).
The school district recognizes many months throughout the school year to teach students about history, whether it be about Hispanic heritage, Black history or women’s history. October is National LGBT History Month.
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A woman looks up at Maxx Fenning while he speaks in support of the Miami-Dade School Board designating October as LGBTQ+ History Month. Fenning, president and founder of PRISM FL, a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health information to LGBTQ+ youth, wore a pink triangle as he likened opposition to the measure to how Nazis ostracized gay people, making them wear a pink triangle badge to reflect their sexual orientation. Alie Skowronski [email protected]
Ahead of Wednesday’s meeting, Baez Geller said the measure “is mostly to recognize the dignity and the respect for each other.” On Wednesday, she noted that 12th graders could opt out of learning about the two Supreme Court cases.
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Alex Serrano, director of the Miami-Dade chapter of County Citizens Defending Freedom, speaks against recognizing LGBTQ History Month in October in Miami-Dade Public Schools at the School Board meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. The group fought the School Board over a sex-education textbook that the board first banned, then reinstated in a second vote. Serrano has no children in Miami-Dade Public Schools. He sends his children to Centner Academy, a Miami private school with a controversial anti-COVID-19 vaccination agenda. Alie Skowronski [email protected]
Last year, the Board voted 7-1 to recognize October as (LGBTQ) month, but last year’s measure did not include the provision to add the two Supreme Court cases to the 12th grade coursework.
Around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, nearly six hours after the discussion first began — with a nearly one-hour break to hear about the district’s $7 billion budget in between — the Board finally voted. Those still in the audience cheered and clapped while others sat stoically after the 8-1 vote defeating the measure.
Before the vote, many who spoke in favor of the adoption, including numerous human rights organizations, argued a recognition would create a safe and reaffirming environment for students in the district. Many cited discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and how many students struggle with mental health issues.
Maxx Fenning, president and founder of PRISM FL, a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health information to LGBTQ+ youth, likened those who wanted to block the measure to how Nazis ostracized gay people, making them wear a pink badge to reflect their sexual orientation.
“LGBTQ history is American history,’’ he said, noting if he were alive when the Nazis were in power, he would have been forced to wear the pink triangle badge that he wore on his shirt as he spoke.
Another man, who was a product of Miami-Dade Public Schools, urged the board members to pass the measure, noting he did not want students to feel the isolation that he did when he was a gay student in school decades ago.
“I can tell you as a gay child, I felt completely alone,’’ he said.
Those who opposed the measure said it went against their religious beliefs and that the board was abiding in the indoctrination and sexual abuse of children. Some, however, falsely claimed that the measure would adopt new curriculum for students to learn about LGBTQ+ issues. They said it was a gateway to speaking with students about LGBTQ+ topics without parental consent.
Max Tover, a pastor and parent in the district, led those outside in a prayer, asking that the board members reject the motion. In speaking to the Herald, he said passing the measure is “a Trojan Horse.” His friend, who wouldn’t provide his name, said talking about the law equates to child abuse.
During the public comment period, parent after parent who opposed the measure used the term “indoctrination” when speaking against the measure, saying it was parents’ right to decide whether to teach their children about gay and lesbian rights, not teachers in public schools.
Baez Geller countered that the measure did not indoctrinate students nor did it take away parental choice, as many who opposed the measure cited the recently passed “Parental Rights in Education” law, which prohibits instruction related to gender identity or sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade. Those opposed to the law say it could potentially restrict such instruction for older kids and have called it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Baez Geller reiterated that parents could opt out of the 12th-grade lessons on the Supreme Court cases, but noted that students already learn about other Supreme Court cases that have become the law of the land, and these two cases are no different, she said.
Shortly before the vote, Andrea S. Pita Mendez, the board’s student adviser, spoke in favor of the item, despite feeling scared to share how she felt and what she believed in after listening to the multiple hours of public comment. Nevertheless, she said, she was elected by her peers to represent the student body, which she said supported the item.
Moreover, she said, she disagreed with board member Lubby Navarro’s comments claiming parents were the district’s clients. Instead, she argued, students were the district’s clients.
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DeSantis administration aims to ‘curb’ diversity, equity, inclusion in state universities
BY DIVYA KUMAR
Florida will be looking to “curb” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state’s colleges and universities, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez said Tuesday, offering a preview of what higher education leaders can expect from lawmakers during the upcoming legislative session.
Her statements, delivered at a state Board of Governors meeting at Florida International University in Miami, marked the first time the DeSantis administration has explained why its budget office this month requested a detailed accounting of how much colleges and universities spend on such efforts.
“I can give you a few insights as to what we’re working on coming this session,” Nuñez said before mentioning a statement last week from the presidents of Florida’s 28 state colleges. It pledged to root out any policy or practice that “compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.” The lieutenant governor then suggested that effort would soon extend to the state’s 12 universities.
“I believe [the colleges are] looking at ways to curb those initiatives, and I think we’ll look at ways to more broadly curb those initiatives as well,” she said.
In a speech that earlier praised the university system for its high rankings and relatively low student debt, Nuñez said “real forces” were “undermining the good work taking place” at the state schools.
“These new threats that are creeping and taking hold are things that we need to face,” she said. “I believe one of the biggest threats that’s infiltrating our universities is a permeating culture — one might call it woke culture, one might call it woke ideology, one might call it identity politics. ... We don’t need to get into all the names, but I do believe that some of these issues are taking hold. The policies they advocate are based on hate and based on indoctrination.”
Nuñez also previewed proposals to review general education courses and give university presidents more control over faculty hiring.
“We want to further empower our presidents to make sure that they own the responsibility of hiring individuals to work in their campuses and make sure it stays in the hands of the leader of the institution more so than in hidden hiring practices and faculty committees,” she said.
The legislative session begins March 7.
In their responses to the governor’s budget office, the 12 public universities said they collectively are spending about $34.5 million this year on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. About $20.7 million came from state funds.
The University of South Florida reported the highest expenses at $8.7 million, though only $2.5 million came from state funds. Money was spent on initiatives such the university’s supplier diversity program; non-mandatory trainings; a list of 10 courses including “Theatre Appreciation” and “Language in the USA”; and funding for its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Florida A&M University had the highest amount of state funds used at $4.1 million. The school’s expenses included a research center and museum for Black archives and its Center for Environmental Equity and Justice, created by the Legislature in 1998.
Shortly after those responses were submitted, the governor’s budget office sent out a second request requiring universities to report details on any procedures and treatments they had offered related to gender affirming care since 2018. The request did not specify how the information would be used.
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I had the GREATEST Time in High School, College and University as a Teenager during Our United States Republican Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Tenure during Bush-Cheney Eras! 🍟💵❤️🇺🇸☀️🌈🥞🍊🍋🍑🍉🍌 “Mangoes…” says George W Bush! I miss the Scents of Peaches and Mangos in my Family Home! Since Obama Era, I can’t find Peach Scents in Home Depot anymore… We must Bring Back Peach Scents for Happy, Family Memories! Cut Taxes so we All have many more Festivities and Fiestas! 🍣🍱🍰🍿🍪🍫 US Gay Men and Our Fellow Lesbians benefited SOOO MUCH from the Republican Tax Cuts from President George W Bush and Governor Jeb Bush that Our Celebrations and Gay Parades were filled with LIGHT — but now Lady Gaga’s, Lady Antebellum’s, and Rihanna’s Dark Gloomy Gravity Music have brought down Movies with Netflix’s Black and Bloody Red Logo and more terror. CUT THE TAXES!
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Every time we turn around, the captain of Florida’s culture wars and his far-right positions are landing us in court: Big Tech and social-media deplatforming, a ban on sanctuary cities, the so-called anti-riot law, Disney and the “woke” act, congressional redistricting, the Seminole gambling deal, abortion. The list of litigation — or likely litigation — is long, and the opportunities for posturing by a savvy politician are great.
Sometimes it’s Florida being sued. Other times, the DeSantis administration is the one filing appeals or suits. But in either case, it must be awfully freeing to know you’re heading into court using other people’s money.
A court says you’re doing something unconstitutional? Challenge it! A judge says you’ve overreached? File that appeal! The taxpayers will be so busy mouthing the “free state of Florida” line you’ve been feeding them, they’ll never wonder how much of their hard-earned money went to line the pockets of lawyers to defend many of these ill-advised laws.
In a recent Orlando Sentinel story on all the litigation, law professor Bob Jarvis, of Nova Southeastern University, called the governor “God’s gift to lawyers.”
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albertcapraro · 1 year
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March 16, 1975 - Miami Herald Page 4-BW For big moments, you might want to waft around in, say, this cotton voile, quite bare when you slide off the jacket.  Casual but elegant, by Albert Capraro for Jerry Guttenberg and exclusively ours.  Fifth Avenue Shop.
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wutbju · 2 years
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And on Easter Sunday 100 years ago, Bob Jones was preaching his usual moralistic heresy. He wasn't calling people to repentance. He wasn't calling people to follow Jesus. No, he was telling them to live perfect or "go to hell."
You can not get Jesus as long as there is sin in your life. If you would rather go to the beach on Sunday, than go to church, take your old Sunday pleasure and go to hell. If you would rather drink liquor, drink it and go to hell.
That's what he said on the high Holy Day of the Christian year. He was never orthodox. He never preached the Gospel. He was a bully and nothing more.
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The Miami Heat continue to screw over Miami-Dade County by refusing to follow through on their promised waterfront park
In 1996, the Miami Heat were losing the PR battle for a new basketball arena. The Miami Heat were trying to justify to the public why the team should be given a new sports arena on the public’s dime. As a former Heat political consultant wrote in 2004, as the referendum date got closer, the “arena project appeared to be doomed”. So how did they turn it around and win the vote? They did everything…
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So these are the ways the right-wing, white “Christian” nationalist agenda is being written into Florida’s new “patriotic” civics education standards. The slides shown are bad enough but according to the article:
Educators interviewed by the Herald/Times said that most of their concerns took place during the explanation of the materials.
Below are a few of the troubling slides from the Florida Department of Education’s (DE) training that grossly distort American history to serve this right-wing agenda. [NOTE: all red underlining in these slides was added.]
Dismantling the Separation of Church and State
The slide below shows how Florida’s DE wants it taught as FACT that the Founders didn’t want a “strict separation of church and state.” 
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It seems to me that the Florida DE is trying to pass off as TRUE a right-wing “Christian” interpretation of the Founders’ intent. In reality, there is actually a lot of evidence that the Founders wanted a “strict” separation of church and state. 
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The Florida DE also apparently wants to teach that the Founders believed that religion (specifically Christianity) provided the necessary moral foundation for the nation to govern itself.
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Although one of the Florida DE slides mentions Rhode Island accepting “religious refugees from Massachusetts” there is NO mention in the slide that Roger Williams established religious freedom in Rhode Island for people of any faith. This freedom was written into Rhode Island’s 1663 charter. (However, it is possible that the explanation for the slide mentions that.)
Instead there is a slide that focuses on “The Maryland Toleration Act,” which allowed freedom of religion for anyone “professing to beleive [sic] in Jesus Christ.”
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Teaching as FACT That it Is WRONG to Interpret the Constitution as a “Living Document”
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Contrary to what the Florida DE wants to teach, there are excellent arguments to show that the Constitution is a “living document” that can be informed by common law. In addition, consider the Ninth Amendment: 
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The existence of the Ninth Amendment suggests that the Founders understood that not every right could be written into the Constitution, and so they acknowledged that other rights exist.
It would seem that the Florida DE is on the side of the conservative originalists and textualists--who ironically often don’t abide by their own “rules” for interpretation (e.g. the District of Columbia v. Heller decision). 
Regardless, how to interpret the Constitution should be the subject of DEBATE and not dictated by the Florida DE.
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Playing Down the Negative Peculiarities of American Slavery in the Nation’s Founding
The slides also try to minimize the tragedy of slavery in Colonial America. There are virtually NO slides that show how awful slavery was in our country.  And although one slide acknowledged that “2/3 of the Founders held slaves,” the slide made it seem as though the slaveholding Founders weren’t supportive of slavery.
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Well, those Founders who didn’t “defend” slavery kept their slaves anyway (although Washington’s will freed his slaves after his death). But here’s a couple of quotes from one of the Founders, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina who defended slavery--and puts the lie to the above slide:
“While there remained one acre of swamp land uncleared of South Carolina, I would raise my voice against restricting the importation of Negroes. I am . . . thoroughly convinced . . . that the nature of our climate, and the flat, swampy situation of our country, obliges us to cultivate our lands with negroes, and that without them South Carolina would soon be a desert waste.”  – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, South Carolina Ratifying convention, 1788
“They [Africans] certainly must have been created with less intellectual power than the whites, and were most probably intended to serve them, and be the instruments of their cultivation.” – Charles Pinckney, 1821
And the slide below is also misleading:
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The above slide leaves out a very important fact mentioned in an article on The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:
“Of the 10 to 16 million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World.... only 6 percent arrived in what is now the United States. Yet by 1860, approximately two thirds of all New World slaves lived in the American South.“ [emphasis added]
How could this be that the U.S. started with such a small percentage of slaves from the transatlantic slave trade but had the largest slave population by 1860? Well, the Florida DE hints at it in the above slide when they mention that slave numbers expanded “through birth.” 
The numbers of male and female Africans brought to Colonial America were roughly equal; whereas other parts of the Americas had more male slaves. The low birthrates and high death rates of slaves in other regions contributed to their having smaller slave populations by 1860. Also, some parts of the Caribbean, such has Haiti, had abolished slavery as early as 1793.
Another reason, according to The Gilder Lehrman Institute article is that the Spanish and Portuguese were more open to interracial “mixing” with Africans (in part because of few European women) and “recognized a wide range of racial gradations, including black, mestizo, quadroon, and octoroon.” Whereas:
“The American South, in contrast, adopted a two-category system of race in which any person with a black mother was automatically considered to be black.” [emphasis added]
Furthermore, in 1662, chattel slavery was established in colonial Virginia through a law that any child born of a Black female slave (regardless of the race of the father) would be considered a slave. So slavery became based on race and birth in the South. I don’t know if that was the explanation the Florida DE provided of the slide but somehow I don’t think those facts were highlighted.
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Look through the slides for yourselves. But to me it is shocking that teaching a right-wing, white “Christian” nationalist view of American history is being ordered by the Florida government. 
It is ironic that as academic freedom is being shut down in Florida and other GQP states in favor of right-wing indoctrination, Putin has just started a big push to “indoctrinate” Russian school children with a “militarized and anti-Western version of patriotism.”
It seems to me that creeping right-wing autocracy in GQP states is making them more like autocratic Russia than like American states where academic freedom is still allowed. 
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More Information on Cuban Entrepreneurs
As discussed in a prior post, a group of Cuban entrepreneurs recently attended a conference in Miami, Florida.[1] According to the Miami Herald, this conference provided the following insights into the current status of private enterprise on the island.[2] “In just two years, . . . the small and medium enterprises  have played a significant role in importing food and other basic supplies.” But…
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tkachuktkaching · 5 months
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Matthew Tkachuk speaking to Miami Herald ahead of tomorrows game vs the Toronto Maple Leafs
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