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#STGReferendum2020
Proposition 5 - META Referendum: three hours of votes in 30 seconds
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l'Indépendant Mercanti ✅
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Results of the Kingdom of Saintonge's META referendum, in 30 seconds!



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#ThrowbackThursday #Lollipops
The Lollipops
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Does anybody remember this song about lollies? :P



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#LaPaixNonSang #FriðurEkkiBlóð
La paix non sang
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Assemblée Nationale de Saintonge
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In solidarity with our colleague Thorbjörn Höjsleth, four singers/artists who are members of the National Assembly recorded their Santonian version of Prydanian singer-songwriter Kristbjörn Eskfjörð song "Friður ekki Blóð" ("Peace not Blood"). Written a few years after Eskfjörð fled to Saintonge, "Friður ekki Blóð" was a Fascist War-era Prydanian-language song decrying the violence and slaughter of the war.

"La paix non sang" was performed by Kylian Fricoteaux (DJ Kyle Freako) of the Dropt, Jourdain Clairault (frontman of Frontières sacrées) of the Taur, Aline-Monique Ribault (coloratura soprano, Opéra de Saintes) of Saintes, and Pauline-Cordélie Cauneille (la Voix de Saintonge) of the Sarine. Prydanian-language lyrics were performed by Tobias Schjött and Gnyr Koppernaes. Backing music provided by Frontières sacrées and the Saintes Opera Orchestra.

Download the music from Stopify: https://mo.st/ANSLaPaixNonSang
All proceeds will go to the treatment fund for Mr Höjsleth and the Prydanian Reconstruction Fund.

#LaPaixNonSang #FriðurEkkiBlóð #JeSuisThorbjörn #ÉgErThorbjörn


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#MMTK
Ökumaðurprófíll: Mie Hougaard
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Midland Mótorar Taurínmáttur Kappreiðar
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Midland Mótorar Taurínmáttur Racing is proud to present our driver profile for an up and coming IMC E-Series star, Mie Hougaard! Find out more about Mie and MMT Racing at mmtkappreiðar.pr



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She's from my hometown! Go Mie!
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#íþróttaball
The Troll's Guide to the 2020-2021 ÍDP Season
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Þessa Viku í Íþróttaball
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It's here, it's finally here! One of the most glorious times in the sports calendar: The beginning of the ÍDP Season. Time to rev up the zambonis, sharpen those skates, and see what the season may have in store. Six teams full of dreams, five teams lining up for soul-crushing disappointment!



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#muna
Réttarhöldin yfir Jannik Lieftur/The Trial of Jannik Lieftur
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We upload the trial of Jannik Lieftur in full as part of our mandate to document and catalogue the horrors of the Syndicalist regime. It is our hope that by making such information freely available to the people of Prydania and the world that such horrors can be learnt from.



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addýö
oh my god, it's so sad to see what happened in my homeland. to all Prydanians who suffered under syndicalism, your family and friends in Saintonge and everywhere else love you!
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Um actually the message of Syndicalism has always been good-intentioned. What happened in Prydania was not real syndicalism, which has never been tried. I'm a grad student in political science at Vikstad University so I think I can speak with actual authority on the subject.​
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my cousin suffered in one of those camps you Vallish fáviti. Tell that to his face, or anyone else who suffered! Va te faire foutre!​
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#Johanne #CœurGlacé #Pergélisol
Johanne - Cœur Glacé (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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We all long for that special someone who will warm our hearts. The question should not be if it will come, but when will it come.

This is the music video for my new single Cœur Glacé ("Frozen Heart")! Cœur Glacé is the second song from my new album Pergélisol.

Special thanks to Jérôme-Paul Longpré for his great direction and Baudouin Staelens for his special appearance
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Pergélisol and Cœur Glacé are available for streaming!
Stopify: https://stopify.st/2XCteoll3d

Order/download a copy:
My website: https://www.johanne.com/Pergelisol
Nile: https://www.nile.com/music/Multiversal/Johanne-Pergelisol

Song: Cœur Glacé
Album: Pergélisol
Artist: Johanne (Johanne-Bricette Belcourt)
Lyrics: Johanne-Bricette Belcourt
Music: Johanne-Bricette Belcourt, Arnaud-Joseph Lecouflé, Steinbjörn Grjótgard

Music Video
Cast:
Johanne, Baudouin Staelens
Directed by: Jérôme-Paul Longpré
DP: Thorsten-Heinrich Brandstetter
Editor: Jean-Marcel Grollier
Production: KY13

℗ 2020 Multiversal Music



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#Trollgaard #TroisDesÉpées #ÞrjúAfSverðum #SymphonicMetal
Trollgaard - Trois des épées (FULL ALBUM)
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Our new album Trois des Épées - Þrjú af sverðum ("Three of Swords") is out!

Track list:
00:00 - Intro
01:45 - Flakkarar (“Wanderers”)
06:07 - Norðurljós (“Northern Lights”)
11:48 - Að leita að nýju athvarfi (“Searching for a new haven”)
16:10 - Sverð í kletti (“Sword in rock”)
20:20 - Bats toi ! (“Fight!”)
25:33 - Eftirlifandi (“Survivor”)
30:40 - Friður og blóð (“Peace and blood”)
36:17 - Skipting (“Division”)
41:32 - Haglél haturs (“Hailstorm of hate”)
46:02 - Trois épées (“Three swords”) feat. Katrine Chennault
52:44 - Sinfónía eyðileggingar (“Symphony of destruction”)
59:01 - Sauve-moi (“Save me”)
1:04:58 - Peins-le en rouge ! (“Paint it Red”)
1:09:10 - Móðurlaust barn - Enfant sans sa mère (cover of “Motherless child”)
1:12:25 - Sain et sauf (“Safe and sound”)
1:17:38 - Land feðra minna (“Land of My Fathers”)
1:23:41 - La terre de mon avenir (“Land of My Future”)

Streaming!
Stopify:
https://stopify.st/ks928HHs3j

Order/download a copy:
Band website:
https://www.trollgaard.com/3ofSwords
Nile: https://www.nile.com/music/Multiversal/Trollgaard-3ofSwords

Artist: Trollgaard
Album: Trois des épées
Lyrics: Thorbjörn Trollgaard, Gnyr Koppernaes, Styrbjörn Trollgaard, Brice-Ketille Bertereau, Friðgerður Röys-Bertereau, Hallkell-Tobias Staurset; Kristbjörn Eskfjörð (original for Móðurlaust barn - Enfant sans sa mère)
Vocals: Thorbjörn Trollgaard, Gnyr Koppernaes
Rhythm Guitar: Styrbjörn Trollgaard
Second Guitar: Thorbjörn Trollgaard
Lead Guitar: Brice-Ketille Bertereau
Bass: Skarpheiður Anne Björkvik
Keyboards: Adam Hróarr Drevland
Drums: Alexandria-Marie Staurset
Violin: Friðgerður Röys-Bertereau
Harp: Hallkell-Tobias Staurset

℗ 2020 Multiversal Music



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#CalliseFirst #NoMoreMilksops
Jacob Cartier Goes Off On Immigration
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Callise First Clips
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Jacob Cartier goes off on Callise's EVIL immigration policy, Craviter Economic Association!

Callise First is Inevitable!



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#RefuseFascism
The Callisean Right has a New Propagandist, and He's Popular with the Youth
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Callise Today
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The Callisean Nationalist Right has a new figurehead, and he's one of the kids.

Jacob Cartier is a 22 year old living with his parents in Sainte-Beaudouin, Callise. But don't let that description fool you, he has an army of online fans who he whips into a frenzy with racist, nationalistic, pseudo-fascistic rants on the ruling Liberal coalition in Callise.

Cartier is a Courantist Messianist, like the majority of people living in Villende, Callise, and has a political ethos that is heavily influenced by a radical Courantist reading of the Messianist faith.

Cartier has, among other topics, touched on immigration, globalism, and what he calls "degenerate" social movements.

This video is one of a series on the rise of Far-Right politics across Eras, subscribe to this channel for more content on these issues.



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#evotainment
Ah FAQ
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Sam Borkman accidentally says "faq" and plays it off to avoid getting bonked by management on stream!

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Credit goes to these beautiful people:

Sam Borkman Ch. Evotainment-FA



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#CurrentEvents #KRD
Tristainian referendum: Security forces launch widespread crackdown as independence referendum moves ahead
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KRD News
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Violence has started to erupt in major cities in the region of Tristain as the Imperial Police and the Imperial Gendarmerie commences a crackdown within the region. This is in response to the actions of the Tristainian government, which announced that they would move forward with the independence referendum, despite the Imperial Constitutional Court ruling against it. So far, security forces have stormed polling stations, confiscated ballot boxes, and have moved to prevent people from participating in the referendum, through the use of force.

In spite of these measures, the Tristainian premier Jean-Marie Devereaux has insisted that the referendum will press on, and that the people will vote. In Glaienbeck, the Interior Minister, Ulrike Brümel, has stated that stated that the measures were ordered to ensure that the rule of law provided for under the Constitution was preserved.



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#Evotainment #Evotainment-FA #FaltsuEAS
Sam Borkman's Emergency Alert During the Stream
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Sam Borkman gets an Emergency alert on his phone and has to abruptly end the stream. From what I've gathered, there was a tornado warning issued near the city of Denburg. No actual tornados touched down, but there were high winds.

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Eh?
What the fuck is happening!
Ah fuck.

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Credit goes to these wonderful people:

Sam Borkman Ch. Evotainment-FA



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#MilitaryOutreach #ChildrensDay
Children's Day 2019!
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December 28 is Children's Day! Feast of Holy Innocents in the Calendar of Saints. Me and my platoon hang out and participate in Children's Day activities at the Sainte-Couronne Community Centre, Vicence!



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#TankerLife #MaxPrydeExplains
Tanker Life Ep 13: MaxPryde explains: What are Tanker Boots?
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We in the military aren't well known for being fashionable - because we have our uniforms. But I have previously mentioned that we tankers have a special kind of boots to wear! Quite a few of my subscribers were asking about tanker boots, so this video would explain what are they all about and why are they special!



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#CômeRadio #Villault #ForeignerOrNot
Foreigner or Not: Villault tries to classify ice hockey players!
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Côme Radio ✅
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Our guest for the day is Mr François-Louis Villault, the controversial anti-immigrant Comasque deputy to the National Assembly. He shared his views on the hot topics in Côme and Saintonge, and his criticism of ice hockey players.

In this last part of our interview with Mr Villault, we played a little game specially for him: “Foreigner or Not!”

Martin-Landry Titeux (Host): We have heard your advocacy about immigrants and foreigners in sport, especially in ice hockey.
François-Louis Villault: Yes, ice hockey is especially problematic, because a huge, huge majority of their players are not Santonians.
MLT: I am interested, though, how do you define Santonian? Because the Fédération royale saintongeaise de Hockey sur Glace or FRSHG, uh… defines Santonian as someone holding Santonian citizenship.
FLV: I think that’s just the easy way out. Many of these immigrants adopt Santonian citizenship for convenience. They’re here for the benefits, the rights to play the game, and all of those advantages Santonian citizens enjoy.
MLT: So someone such as Finnbjörn Kylefjord, the captain of Odinspylique de Ratisbonne… he was born in Prydania, naturalised as a Santonian and he plays for the Santonian National Ice Hockey team… you don’t think he’s Santonian?
FLV: He’s Santonian on paper, but the way I look at it, he’s a Prydanian immigrant.
MLT: Even though he’s playing for the Santonian National Team?
FLV: I still deem him as a foreigner, an immigrant.
MLT: What about the president of the ice hockey players’ union, Lukáš Kindl of Corsaires de Plaisance. He was born in Saintonge, in Plaisance, to Norsian parents. Do you think he’s still a foreigner?
FLV: Yes.
MLT: May I ask why?
FLV: Because he’s still never fully Santonian. Norsians fled to Saintonge in the 1980s because of troubles in their homeland. He’s the children of immigrants, raised in the immigrant background, and never fully Santonian.
MLT: How about Jacob-Canute Holst, captain of USL Novale? His mother is Santonian, his father is Prydanian. He was born here, his name is Santonian -
FLV: “Holst”? Doesn’t sound Santonian to me.
MLT: But I remember Holst mentioned in another interview that he can’t even speak Prydanian.
FLV: Don’t let the immigrants fool you that they’ve integrated. They’ll say that but they’ll still go on their merry Prydanian, Norsian, or whatever ways when people are not looking.
MLT: Well then, what makes one ‘fully Santonian’?
FLV: Someone who is fully Santonian means that their family had been in Saintonge for the longest time, that their family didn’t immigrate into Saintonge to take advantage of this country’s wealth, stability, and safety.
MLT: How long does someone’s family had to stay in Saintonge for you to deem them Santonian?
FLV: That’s a strange question. If you are Santonian, you would know who is Santonian and who is a foreigner. Even if they’re holding Santonian citizenship. Even if they’re from mixed families. The foreigners’ and immigrants’ quaint, weird ways will tip you off - they still hadn't fully integrated.
MLT: Can you give me an objective way, then, how to determine if someone is Santonian or not? The government and FRSHG uses citizenship. You said you don’t like it. What do you propose then? An exam?
FLV: (laughs) No, no, not an exam, silly.
MLT: How then?
FLV: We know that many of these immigrants arrived to take advantage of this country. Saintonge raised the floodgates to these foreigners during the Fascist War onwards. I’d say anybody who arrived during and after that is a foreigner.
MLT: Even the descendants of these immigrants?
FLV: Yes.
MLT: How about those who were products of mixed marriages?
FLV: Yes, they’re part-foreigners too.
MLT: So you are saying that if you just have one parent or grandparent (because that’s the generation of the Fascist War immigrants) who is an immigrant… you are a foreigner?
FLV: Yes, I’d still consider them foreigners.
MLT: Hmmmm… okay then, let’s play a little game. We’d be displaying the name and picture of a Ligue des Jarlais ice hockey player, and you have to tell us whether he’s a foreigner or not, based on your criteria. For our listeners, we are basing this on Mr Villault’s criteria – if any of them had an immigrant parent or grandparent, they’d be foreigners. Okay, François, shall we start?
FLV: Sure. This will be easy.
MLT: Brice-Kévin Beaudoin. Captain of the Santonian National Ice Hockey Team, captain of ARS Saintes. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Correct. Next, Hrafnkell Fjeldstad, captain of Olympique Nyonnais and also a member of the Santonian National Ice Hockey Team. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Foreigner! My lord that is freaking easy. Just look at that unpronounceable name!
MLT: Correct. Fjeldstad was born in Prydania and resettled in Saintonge as a child after fleeing the Prydanian Civil War.
FLV: Told you this will be easy.
MLT: Olaf-Rüttger Trabandt, captain of Ours de Bâle. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Foreigner. He’s not a member of the Santonian National Team, is he? Does he represent Hessunland?
MLT: Correct. But he’s a Santonian citizen; Trabandt was born in Saintonge to Hessunlander parents.
FLV: He should play for Hessunland.
MLT: Next. Here’s Florent Colicchio, alternate captain of Odinspylique de Ratisbonne. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Foreigner.
MLT: Incorrect. Colicchio’s parents and grandparents are all Santonian -
FLV: His surname is not.
MLT: His ancestor carrying the surname Colicchio arrived from Predice in the 19th century… so does not qualify based on your criteria.
FLV: Still an immigrant.
MLT: But based on your criteria, he’s not -
FLV: Yeah, sure.
MLT: (sighs) Anyway, Marius-Laurent Podevin, forward for USL Novale. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Correct. Sébastien Lécaillon, defenceman for Val Bléone HG. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Incorrect. Lécaillon is a citizen of Sil Dorsett, so he is actually a foreigner in the strictest definition.
FLV: They’re descended from Santonians anyway.
MLT: Still a foreigner though (chuckles). How about Corsaires de Plaisance’s Neven Kerdanet?
FLV: Foreigner.
MLT: Incorrect -
FLV: That’s not a Santonian surname.
MLT: Kerdanet is from Bethany.
FLV: Ah, that explains why.
MLT: Desmond-David Dechesleprête, alternate captain of USL Novale. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian… but that first name throws me off.
MLT: He’s Santonian, yeah… How about Konrad van den Bussche, centre for Olympique Nyonnais?
FLV: That’s got to be a foreigner.
MLT: Van den Bussche is Santonian from Artois.
FLV: Really? Where did that surname come from -
MLT: Surnames like that are pretty common in southern Saintonge… Artois, Hainaut, those parts.
FLV: Who would spell Conrad with a K?
MLT: (shrugs) I mean, K is a part of the Santonian alphabet, how else will you spell “kylian”?
FLV: Fair.
MLT: Next person. Blaise-Brendan Bodereau, captain of Val Bléone HG. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Correct. Timothée-Eugène Latendresse, captain of Corsaires de Plaisance. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Incorrect. Latendresse is a Santonian citizen, but his mother and paternal grandfather are from Ultramont.
FLV: Well, those guys are descended from Santonians anyway.
MLT: This next guy’s name is also interesting. Thibault Thibault, goaltender for Ours de Bâle. Foreigner or not?
FLV: What is even that name? (laughs) Okay... Santonians love their Thibaults, so I will say Santonian.
MLT: Incorrect.
FLV: What…!?
MLT: Thibault is a Santonian citizen, but his father and maternal grandfather are from Ultramont. He’s actually double first cousins with Latendresse.
FLV: Double first cousins?
MLT: Thibault’s mother and Latendresse’s father are siblings; Thibault’s father and Latendresse’s mother are also siblings.
FLV: Sounds like stereotypical Ultramontese then, marrying your cousins (chuckles).
MLT: Carlo Palmieri, forward for ARS Saintes. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Is this another trick question? That’s a Predicean surname. I’d say foreigner.
MLT: Correct. Palmieri is a Santonian citizen, but his grandfather is Predicean. Okay, how about Michel-Laurent Le Flore, goaltender for ARS Saintes?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Correct. Joshua-Adam Cathaud, defenceman for CHG des Comminges. Foreigner or not?
FLV: Santonian.
MLT: Incorrect. Cathaud’s maternal grandparents are Shaddaist refugees who fled to Saintonge during the Fascist War, so by your standards, he’s a foreigner. But he’s a Santonian citizen.
FLV: He’s probably still a Shaddaist as well.
MLT: Well, I thought all Santonian citizens are required to be members of the church…? Well anyway let’s see how you did – François, you got 8 out of 15 right!
FLV: I got the majority of it.
MLT: Yeah, eight out of fifteen. Thank you François for playing this little game with us. We’ll make a new edition then when you visit the next time then…?



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ARS Saintes: Ramsland's AMAZING three goals in three minutes!
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Watch Finnsteinn Ramsland's AMAZING hat-trick, with three goals in three minutes during the third period! ARS Saintes wins over USL Novale, 7-2, at the Patinoire de Saintes last 21 January.

Commentating are Clarence-Thomas Lacaille (summariser) and Théophile-Charles Baudaux (analyst).
CTL: “… that was such an unnecessary penalty on the part of Saintes here. When you’re leading just by one, offering a power play to your opponent is a bad move.”
TCB: “I agree, Clarence. Now Palmieri will be serving a two-minute penalty for hooking.”
CTL: “And now we have Saintes bringing in three defenders to support Bethomier on the goal, plus with their newly-recalled player Finnsteinn Ramsland.”
TCB: “Ramsland is rather interesting, he’s a two-way forward. He used to play as a blueliner in his old team.”
CTL: “Yeah… Květoslav Hrnčíř just won the puck for Saintes… Aadland trying to get it… and now Ramsland has the puck! He’s running away with it! Aadland and Kretschmer on pursuit! Ramsland on the breakaway… and GOOOOAAAAL for Saintes!”
TCB: “Poor Barraux the Novalais goaltender… Ramsland was just so fast that’s impossible to block even if Barraux read Ramsland’s move correctly.”
CTL: “A shorthanded goal for Saintes… and Ramsland is being congratulated by his teammates for his first goal of the night.”
TCB: “I’m actually surprised that Saintes doesn’t use Ramsland as frequently. That guy is second-line, if not first-line material. Ramsland has had three goals and seven assists in the last three games.”
CTL: “Well it just proves that the Saintes line-up is deep enough for them.”
TCB: “People thought that Saintes was being shortchanged in its pre-season trade with CHG des Comminges, when Saintes traded the power forward Tim-Dietrich Hellmuth with Ramsland, Cal Calnegry, and a draft pick.”
CTL: ARS Saintes had been a powerhouse when it comes to developing players. Their lineups are so deep that even their fourth liners are formidable. They have mostly relied on Beaudoin and the Baldrs to score, and these guys are popular with the fans… but even their third-, fourth-lines are tough.”
TCB: “Agreed. Ramsland had mostly played on the third or fourth lines. He wasn’t even on the Saintes team for the past few months and was sent to their affiliate Vikings de Saint-Alban. He was recalled this month to replace Blažej Pithart, who was out on injury.”
CTL: “Alright, faceoff again, with one minute and forty-five seconds on the Novalais power play… D.D. Dechesleprête won that for Novale… Mistaudy taking the puck… to Kretschmer… into the Saintes zone… Kretschmer passes back to Mistaudy… Mistaudy passes to – ROBBERSTAD intercepts! Robberstad robbed Novale of the puck and is going for the penalty kill - !”
TCB: “Oh my.”
CTL: “This isn’t a penalty kill! Ramsland has the puck in the neutral zone and is heading for the net! Another breakaway! FINN. STEINN. RAMS. LAND. RAMS THE PUCK INTO THE NET! Saintes with a three-goal lead! Score is 5-2 in favour of Saintes!”
TCB: “Ramsland just piling away with those shorthanded goals. Novale should not be entirely focused on the offensive during the power play.”
CTL: “Look at this recap! Ramsland just skates with the puck straight to Barraux, not hinting on how he’s going to push it in. Barraux had to move further and further back into the crease. Ramsland feigns a backhand to make Barraux move to his left, but retains the puck as he skates to Barraux’s right to lift the puck into the top shelf.”
TCB: “Slick play by Finnsteinn Ramsland here.”
CTL: “Two shorthanded goals in twenty-two seconds for ARS Saintes, courtesy of Finnsteinn Ramsland.”
TCB: “This is embarrassing for Novale. You can see D.D. Dechesleprête telling off his teammates to focus especially on the sneaky Ramsland... it looks like Mistaudy and Aadland will be tagging him… which essentially equalises the game.”
CTL: “Yes Théo, Ramsland is worth two players, which negates Novale’s one-man advantage. Great play from Ramsland… yeah, Théo, why aren’t we seeing much of this guy?”
TCB: “I don’t know either, Ramsland was also a third-liner for CHG des Comminges, which had a very disorganised season last year – they nearly got relegated. But it was CHG des Comminges that discovered the guy.”
CTL: “You said Ramsland has an interesting story.”
TCB: “Yeah. He had a late start to his career. Finnsteinn Ramsland was twenty years old when he arrived here as a Prydanian refugee in 2015 with no family with him. He went into the army, got posted in the Comminges. He was discovered by a CHG des Comminges scout in 2019 when he led the army team to a crushing victory over the police team in a Christmas fundraising/exhibition game at Sauveterre-de-Comminges. His professional ice hockey career started in the 2020-2021 season, when he was twenty-five.”
CTL: “Just imagine what we could’ve seen had he played his professional career early.”

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CTL: “And the Novale power play ends, the Novalais not able to convert that into points and was instead sunk further with two shorthanded goals…
TCB: “The last time ARS Saintes was able to score two shorthanded goals on the same penalty call was in 2006, against Prédateurs de Perthus.”
CTL: “… Scarano is keeping the puck with him as Novale changes… Scarano passes to Rockne… to Holst. Hrnčíř trying to take it from Holst… back to Rockne. Robberstad tries to intercept… slips! Robberstad loses his stick! Rockne, back to Holst… Holst fires… and blocked by Bethomier’s left pad! Loose puck in front of the net, Rault gets it, shoots! Blocked again by Bethomier!”
TCB: “That traffic in front of Bethomier is insane!”
CTL: “Rockne somehow got possession of the puck. Passing to Holst – and checked by Ramsland on the boards!”
TCB: “Great forecheck by the way, Rockne was almost caught unaware. It’s an example of Ramsland playing as a D-man.”
CTL: “Rockne, Ramsland, Holst, and Robberstad scuffle along the boards for the puck. The Prydanians duke it out! Rockne digs it out! Intercepted by Saintes! Hear the home crowd roar as Günther Drögemüller drives the puck into the Novale zone! Scarano backchecks Drögemüller but Drögemüller already sent the puck to Palmieri… Palmieri shoots! Denied by Barraux! Scarano gets the rebound… ROBBED AGAIN BY ROBBERSTAD! Robberstad keeps it in the Novale zone… to Palmieri… shoots! Barred by Barraux! Drögemüller on the rebound, tries a wraparound… Denied by Barraux! And then… GOOOAAALLLL!”
TCB: “H… how did that happen?”
CTL: “A Finnsteinn Ramsland hat trick! His Saintes teammates celebrating with him as the Novalais could only watch in shock!”
TCB: “Glorious.”
CTL: “Let’s see the replay here… Drögemüller tries a wraparound… a great toe save by Barraux. Rault was there trying to get the rebound, but we see the puck pass under Rault’s stick and hurtle towards Ramsland. Good positioning by Ramsland here… He shoots by lifting the puck off the ice, it flies above Rault’s body as Rault falls down... Barraux could not see the puck… and the puck hits the top right corner… and now Saintes leads 6-2.”
TCB: “Finnsteinn Ramsland, the fourth-line forward, just sank USL Novale with a hat-trick. Three goals in three minutes in the third period. Saintes leading by four with ten minutes remaining.”


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Definitely Finnsteinn Ramsland's breakout performance. From an amateur player just three years ago. Comminges traded him last year so they can get a star player. Saintes relegated him to the semi-pro affiliate farm team... and now this. His career is on the way up.
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Sick play by Ramsland. He should be in the lineup more often.
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The five years since liberation celebration got me thinking. I wanted to write a song for our country.
I also wanted to write a love song about my new wife. This is the result! Love you Runa ❤️

Lyrics:
I hear the horns echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way,
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, It's waiting there for you"

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the spirits north in Prydania
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have

The wild wolves cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as the Skóglendi stretches like the bright stars across Jægdar's domain
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the spirits north in Prydania
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have

Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the spirits north in Prydania
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have



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The Day the Stag Died
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I wrote this during the War, and now I can share it without fear of retribution! Fyrir Konung! Til Valhalla!

Lyrics:
Long long time ago, I can still remember
How that gospel used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But September made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about the piper pied
But something touched me deep inside
The day the Stag died

So bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

Did you write the Book of Love?
And do you have faith in God above?
If the Bible tells you so
Do you believe in revolution?
Can change save your mortal soul?
And can you teach me how to move real slow?
Well I know that you're in league with ‘em
‘Cause I saw you marchin’ in the slum
You both raised those hammers and gears
Then I felt that shocking fear
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a farm back home and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the Stag died

So bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the Miner spoke to the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from Mattys Steen
And a voice that he said came from you and me
Oh and while the King was looking down
The Miner stole his horned crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while the Miner read a book on Picard
The Prince held court in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the Stag died

So bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

Helter skelter in the fall weather
The birds flew off towards the nether
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass, the players tried for a forward pass
With the Miner on the sidelines in a cast
Now the halftime air was sweet perfume
While the Militia played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The Militia refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the Stag died?

We started singing bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
And singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

Oh, and there we were all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on, Jannik be nimble, Jannik be quick
Jannik Lieftur sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devil's only friend
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the Stag died

He was singing bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
And singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred alter
Where in my youth I’d have a balter
But the man there said God wasn’t there
And in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the Stag died

And they were singing bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
This will be the day that I die
They were singing bye-bye, Miss Prydanian Pie
Drove my Midy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking brenni and rye
Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"



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Can you own property in Saintonge?
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Can you own property in Saintonge?

Sounds like a silly question with a straightforward answer, but because it is Saintonge, the answer is complicated. Caël explains why you don't really "own" your property in Saintonge but functionally you do.



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Aurélien @ABKD1234 asks: "Is it true that no one can own property in Saintonge? Do I own my house?"

If you are referring to ‘property’ as like real estate, or lands, the short answer is: technically it’s true.

The answer sounds communist, but it’s actually rooted in feudalism.

The tl;dr is: depends on what you think ownership means.

Theoretically, the Santonian monarch is the “Fount of Sovereignty” from which all governmental powers emanate. During the period of Santonian feudalism, this legal construct extended to the Santonian monarch technically owning all land in Saintonge. This construct was extant and reflected in the 11th-century Livre de Recensement de Saintonge, where King William I ‘the Accountant’ (Guillaume I ‘le Comptable’) sent out people to survey the entire country for taxation purposes.

This legal construct also led to laws such as the 1340 Law of the Mints (Loi des Monnaies), wherein resources that came out of the ground - gold, silver, gemstones, etc. - belong to the Crown.

In time, the king granted some (or much) of these lands to magnates and nobles. There were two major modes of land tenure in Saintonge. The first mode was called freehold (Pleine propriété), wherein the freeholder holds all of the rights to the land with no or minimal restrictions. The most common one, the fee simple or fee absolute (Fief absolu), the freeholder can “dispose of the good” (disposer du bien) such as by selling it or passing it to heirs, “use the good” (utiliser un bien) such as by living in the land, “receive income from the good” (percevoir des revenus issus de ce bien) such as by renting it out. A freehold does not, however, mean independence of the land from Saintonge. Still, this is one of the reasons why historically, Saintonge does not allow foreigners to own real property or land.

The second mode was called a leasehold (Propriété à bail), in which the property reverts to the owner of the land after the lease period expires or otherwise lawfully terminates. There are several situations in between these two but for the sake of simplicity these are the two main ones.

While many countries have since moved to allodial land tenure – which is an absolute perpetual freehold in feudal terms. Allodial land tenure simply means that there is no superior landlord such as monarchs or nobles. This is what we conventionally think when we “own” a particular piece of land, property, or real estate.

Saintonge, however, moved to the opposite end after the Santonian Revolution – it does not have allodial land tenure. There is some historical explanation to this.

Throughout the centuries preceding the revolution, successive monarchs granted rights, freeholds, and the likes to nobles and great magnates. These nobles and great magnates became abusive towards their tenants and people. Because the land was in freehold, the monarchs could not do anything as these great landowners are absolute landowners – they can evict the farmers who till their land, they could impose conditions on people who want to use or occupy the land, they could charge exorbitant rents, and so forth. Thus, the nobles and the great freeholders (i.e. large landowners) became hated in the centuries leading to the Revolution.

Thus, when the Santonian Revolution unfolded, which pitted the nobles against the Santonian monarch, the commoners, and the church, there was a tendency to centralise the power to the King and the “Nation”.

But, you might ask, the the Santonian Declaration of the Rights of Persons and of the Citizen exists! Surely this might have an effect!

Yes, Article III states that sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. The Santonian Constitution of 1795 also states that, but it also states that the “Nation” is “represented and embodied” by the monarch. Thus, the powers of the monarch “emanates from the Nation” – hence the royal title is Roi des Saintongeaises (“King of the Santonians”). Even though his sovereign power comes from the people and the nation, the monarch is the embodiment and representation of that power. In effect, while Saintonge belongs to all Santonians, it is the monarch that embodies this ownership. So yes, all lands in Saintonge still belong to the monarch – not him personally, but to what he embodies: the Nation. Now it sounds communist, but bear with me, “private property” exists and is very common in Saintonge.

Article XVIII of the Declaration protects ‘right to property’. This is the justification for having so-called ‘private property’ in Saintonge. By all purposes it doesn’t differ from what is conventionally called ‘private property’ in other countries. It’s just that in Saintonge, it’s like allodial land tenure but with the monarch being the (mostly-)powerless superior landlord of all land in Saintonge.

Confusing? Maybe it will become clearer if we delve into the history for a bit.

In 1793, the Revolutionary Estates-General passed a law abolishing the hated freeholds and the freer types of feudal land tenure. All were converted into leaseholds with one superior landlord for everybody: the monarch. The other land tenures were streamlined into leaseholds as well. The rationale laid down by the fervently royalist and strongly centralising Estates-General was:

« Toutes les terres appartiennent au roi qui représente et incarne la Nation. Les citoyens de Saintonge ont le devoir et la responsabilité de gérer ces terres. »
“All land belongs to the monarch who represents and embodies the Nation. The citizens of Saintonge have the duty and the responsibility of managing this land.”​

This serves as the basis of property ownership in Saintonge. You owning your real estate is your participation in managing the responsibility of the king’s land. The government you voted in as citizens of Saintonge is entrusted to manage the public lands. This has a cascading effect on multiple things. For example, property taxes are fees being paid because you use the king’s lands; to put it in a more communistic way, property taxes are money you contribute because you use a particular share of the public good (because that piece of land is owned by the king a.k.a. the nation a.k.a. everyone).

In another example, mineral rights in Saintonge are fully-owned and managed by the government on behalf of the Crown (i.e. the monarch). Water rights also belong to the Crown. And again, because only citizens of Saintonge have this duty and responsibility to manage the king’s lands, foreigners are still not allowed to own property in Saintonge.

The types of leaseholds rooted in the 1793 law became the basis of the types of land “ownership” in Saintonge. The more common types are bail national, bail publique, bail royal, bail conservé, bail clérical, bail privé, and bail limité.
  • Bail national (“National Lease”): the basal type of land tenure. This was land owned in the name of the King but is unallocated. For example, many forest tracts and greenbelts fall under bail national. Lands under bail national form the bulk of the Crown Lands (Terres de la Couronne), which are land “owned” by the state.
  • Bail publique (“Public lease”): This refers to land used (‘leased’) for public purposes and for the common good. For example, the land where airports, schools, and government buildings stand on are frequently under bail publique. These are also part of the Crown Lands. Sometimes, the more specific term Public Lands (Terres publiques) is used to distinguish these from Crown Lands under the bail national.
  • Bail royal (“Royal lease”): This refers to land used by (‘leased to’) the monarch and the royal family personally and for the maintenance of the royal family. For example, castles such as Fontainebleau are under bail royal. These lands form the Royal Lands (Terres royales). The Royal Lands are managed as the Royal Trust (Donation royale), an entity that collects and manages the income from the royal lands. Several tracts of downtown Saintes and its business district are royal lands – the buildings rent the land from the Royal Trust. Royal lands ensure that the Royal Family and Santonian monarchy are self-sufficient and not beholden to the government of the day. One of the more famous royal lands is the ‘royal town’ of Choisy-le-Roi (Lisle) where the entire commune (except the municipal buildings) is built on royal lands. Several other ‘royal towns’ exist, such as Sainte-Claire-sur-Epte (Saine-et-Loine), Bourg-la-Reine (Semois), Mont-Saint-Caël (Boëme), Champfroid-du-Roi (Basse-Bléone), and Caldès-de-Reine (Sebre).
  • Bail conservé (“Retained lease”): Because some nobles remained in the aftermath of the Revolution (mostly those that served or sided with the Revolution), these nobles had the right to retain some lands for themselves and their families. These were all converted into “Retained leases”, which essentially function like Royal Lands, but for non-royal nobles. These lands form the so-called Retained Lands (Terres conservées), as “Noble Lands” had a very unsavoury connotation in post-Revolution Saintonge. Retained lands are usually seen in the loyal provinces such as the Pouilles, Bavière, and Artois. The 1793 law prohibited the further conversion of any other land into retained lands, which meant that if a noble purchased land post-1793, it functions just like any other common land under “private lease” (which we will explain later). Exceptions were made when cadet branches of the royal family were granted retained lands for their benefit, but this had to be made via a law passed by the Santonian Parliament.
  • Bail clérical (“Clerical lease”) or more popularly Bail d’église (Church lease): These are the lands that the church retained after the Concordat of 1792, where the Santonian National Church gave up most of its land. The remaining ones were put under bail clérical. These are mostly land where churches, cathedrals, cemeteries, and parochial schools stand. These are called Church Lands (Terres de l’Église). While Church Lands are similar to and function like Retained Lands, unlike Retained Lands, there are minimal restrictions for conversion of other lands to Church Lands. Applications for conversion to Church Lands are handled by the Ministry of Church Affairs and approved by the Santonian Government. Only the Santonian National Church is allowed to have Church Lands. Other religions build churches on lands under “private lease” (explained next).
  • Bail privé (“Private lease”): The most common type of lease in Saintonge, this is the conventional “ownership” of the land. Lands under this lease are even called Private Lands (Terres privées). The “owner” of the land can use the land as s/he sees fit under the regulations (such as zoning), can sell or convey (such as by inheritance) the land to others, can rent the property to others, can derive income from it, and so on. In practice, this is essentially similar to an allodial land title, only that there is a symbolic superior landlord (the King). Most of the smallholders’ freeholds were converted to bail privé post-Revolution. Other lands can be converted to Private Lands by government action. For example, homesteads can be applied for on Crown Lands, which will convert to bail privé when the homestead is granted.
  • Bail limité (“Limited lease”): This is “ownership” with limitations. Used in special circumstances, this is mostly seen in instances when Crown Lands are being given to a non-governmental entity for use. The most familiar example would be housing estates in Saintonge. Housing estates would be built on Crown Land (lands either under bail national or bail publique) and are converted into Limited Lands (Terres limitées) under a bail limité held by the owner of the house (ex. for single-family homes) or the association of inhabitants of the building (ex. for apartments and multi-family housing estates). The most common limitations in a bail limité include the “right of first refusal” for the government when selling the property. This means that the government (in practice, the housing authority) will have the first chance to buy the property if the owner decides to sell it. Rent controls such as the Chassard Law also use the bail limité as its basis for imposing limitations on use of the property. The rough counterpart of bail limité in allodial land systems is the concept of easements, wherein there are some restrictions on the use of the property that is carried with the title.
These ‘leases’ became embedded in Santonian real estate parlance. For instance, the 1801 Santonian Cadastral Law (Loi Cadastrale) set up a uniform property register (cadastre) in each department. Like a latter-day Livre de Recensement de Saintonge, the entire country was mapped out and surveyed, and the individual plots of land and their boundaries were drawn. In the appendix to the cadastre, the type of lease in each plot of land was indicated. In practice, with regards to land, ‘lease’ in Saintonge is the same as ‘owns’. Land ‘ownership’ works the same way in Saintonge as in other countries, Saintonge just has this unique convoluted fluffy way of going about it.

So after all of this, do you really own your real property in Saintonge? Yes and no. Just think of it as your duty as a Santonian citizen!
 
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Why does Saintonge call it "Handegg"?
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Why does Saintonge call it "Handegg"?

Some see it as silly, but in Saintonge, the sport that other countries might call Gojan football or gridiron football, is called main d’œuf or "handegg". Caël (@Caël_Boënnec) explains why.

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Thorbjørn @Thor+4012 asks, “Why does Saintonge call it ‘handegg’?

In Saintonge, Gojan football or gridiron football, is called main d’œuf. “Hand of egg” in literal translation. Handegg. The sport’s official governing body in Saintonge even uses the name: Fédération saintongeaise de main d'oeuf (FSMO) – Santonian Handegg Federation.

Handegg isn’t really popular in Saintonge until recently. Based on surveys in the previous decades, handegg ranks sixth or seventh in popularity for team sports, behind football, volleyball, ice hockey, baseball, and basketball. Handegg in Saintonge only has a one-tier professional league with 12 teams. Contrast that to football’s league system with multiple professional tiers; even the considerably less popular ice hockey now has a three-tiered professional league system.

Abroad, what’s called Gojan football or football Goyanais only took off in Saintonge in the 1980s. It’s called as such because of the sport’s popularity in Goyanes. Football has always been Saintonge’s most popular sport, and the introduction of this 'weird' kind of 'football' initially made the new sport the butt of jokes and focus of humor. One popular joke was that it’s a ‘football’ that doesn’t use the foot much and instead uses the hands more; and the ball isn’t a ball but an egg that must be fragile because it must be protected. “Main d’œuf” became the pejorative term for it, as “ballon-main” is the Santonian term for handball.

When the sport was being organized in the 1980s, handegg’s federation filed for registration in 1985 at Saintonge’s trademark office. The very established and very popular federation for football, the Santonian Football Federation (Fédération saintongeaise de football, FSF), objected to the use of “football” to describe the sport. FSF’s position was that it was ‘confusing’ to use the same term for a ‘completely different’ sport. Even “football Goyanais” was unacceptable for the FSF.

The Santonian trademark office asked the handegg federation to come up with an alternative name that did not contain the word “football”. Both “ballon-main” and “rugby” were all also out as options as organisations for these sports existed already.

Around that time, the players themselves were reclaiming and reappropriating (détournement) the word “main d’œuf” or handegg. Vincent-Thomas Lombard, one of the pioneers of the sport, started proudly calling it “main d’œuf”. Initially deemed as a hyper-masculine sport, one of its main sponsors was the razor company Gilet. It was one of Gilet’s widespread commercial campaigns in 1986 featuring the sport that cemented the name – and the sport – in the Santonian popular mind. The ad referenced the jokey name “main d’œuf”: “the sport for real men” is “tough and nothing to laugh at.” (It harks back to Gilet’s tagline that it is “the razor for real men”.) Because of the popularity of the term, the federation then decided to officially adopt “main d’œuf” as the sport's name in Saintonge – and so the federation was registered as Fédération saintongeaise de main d'oeuf (FSMO).

Curiously, in Ultramont, the sport is called football Goyanais, even though they also speak Santonian. This is because the sport arrived independently in that country. Other Santonian-speaking countries may call the sport differently.

With the upcoming World League of Gojan Football, it is expected that interest in the sport picks up. Saintonge’s FSMO is fielding a team for the league, where fourteen countries are participating.

So there you have it, in Saintonge, Gojan football is called handegg. If you want to watch more explainer videos click like and subscribe to Câblé. If you have burning questions you want us to answer, twitch to us @CâbléExplains on Twitcher or Facegram!
 
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Exploring Sant-Pau: The poorest city in Montarc?
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Often regarded as one of the most dangerous cities in Iteria, Sant-Pau is a misunderstood and derelict place home to more than 336,000 people. The once-thriving metropolis was a light of hope for the otherwise underdeveloped Miègjorn (inland) region back in the 40s, however it is now a husk of its former self, plagued with organised crime, poverty, disease and drugs. Walking through the narrow city streets, gangs are a common sight, mostly made of children who have dropped out before 13. Falling victim to crime such as robbery is an everyday occurance, as the provincial government does little to nothing about the soaring crime rates that had become synonymous with the city itself.

But I am in Sant-Pau today not only to show its crime ridden nature, but also the hidden gems of it. As one of the rare tourists who were brave (and stupid) enough to visit the city, I've seen that the people of this abandoned town are one of the most welcoming, warm and friendly people I've ever encountered. A unique sense of community born out of necessity ties neighbours together to create strong bonds, the residents of Sant-Pau always watching each other's back. The whole town is like a big, loving family.

I would like to thank my host Alienòr for her hospitality during my stay. All revenue generated from this video will be donated to the Reparacion Sant-Pau organisation with the aim of combatting hunger and homelessness in the city. Donate directly on https://www.reparacionsantpau.mt/far_un_don/ (Montarci Lira only).

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What is the Cyberguard?
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What is the Cyberguard?

We have the appropriate host for that question! Caël (@Caël_Boënnec) explains why.

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Perfect question, Lucius! I am Lieutenant Caël Boënnec of the Royal Santonian Cyberguard. Not even kidding. It’s one of my alt lives aside from making videos here for Câblé. My unit is the 271st Boëme Cyberguard Battalion based in the city of Redon, department of the Boëme.

Just what is the Cyberguard?

The Cyberguard is the Royal Santonian Cyber Force’s National Guard equivalent. Let me break it down:

The Royal Santonian Armed Forces has five branches: the traditional three – the Royal Santonian Army, the Royal Santonian Navy, and the Royal Santonian Air Force. Then there are two special branches: the Royal Santonian Cyber Force, and the Royal Santonian Space Force.

The Royal Santonian Cyber Force (Cyberarmée royale saintongeaise) or CARS, is the branch of the military tasked with two main functions.

The first – and the more well-known function – is to partake in cyberwarfare and electronic warfare operations. Things such as defending Saintonge from cyberattacks and state-sponsored hackers, and ensuring that the country’s digital footprint is safe. For example, all Santonian government websites that display the Royal Santonian Cyber Force’s shield is protected by them. The Cyber Force builds up online security and tackles vulnerabilities. In fact, the Santonian government requires that all government websites are satisfactorily accepted by the Cyber Force. The Cyber Force does not do all the online security stuff by itself; instead it tests the websites and databases, seeks and identifies vulnerabilities, informs the website owners, and suggests options to fix them… and then tests them again. It’s a cycle. Saintonge does treat data privacy seriously.

Sometimes the Cyber Force does offensive actions, such as dismantling state-sponsored hacking groups and multinational online crime groups.

The second, less well-known function, is to defend the Saintonge’s offline digital infrastructure – things that keep the Santonian internet working such as undersea cables. In short, the hardware that keeps the stuff running. In this, the traditional branches such as the army and navy are called to assist.

Now onto the National Guard. Saintonge has conscription, called the National Service (Service nationale). All able-bodied citizens, regardless of gender, is conscripted. But National Service isn’t just all about military stuff. Under the National Service includes service under the police, civil defence such as firefighting and ambulance services, and of course, the branches of the military.

Citizens are called up in their home department at eighteen, though this can be deferred up to age 24 for things such as studies and pregnancy. National Servicemen attend basic training for 18 weeks. The first two weeks are common across all services, and this usually includes non-physical stuff such as inculcating patriotism and civic pride, introduction to command structure, committing to democratic ideals, and fostering a sense of community and solidarity. In a way, everyone’s equal in National Service – there is no rich or poor, city boys or rural folk, etc – everyone serves.

So for me, because my registered address was the town of Redon in the Boëme, I got conscripted into the departmental militia of the Boëme. I would be serving alongside people from the same department. My personal experience has been that it was fun – there isn’t really much physical training going on in the first two weeks. More like teambuilding, fun activities.

The next sixteen weeks are specific to the branch that the conscript is serving under. The training forks immediately for those serving under police and civil defence. For those entering the military, there is an eight-week training common to all, and then the last eight weeks will be specific to the branch.

When I did my National Service, I trained at the department’s base in Redon together with the conscripts that will serve under the army, navy, air force, and cyber force. Being a coastal department, the Boëme’s militia has a naval component. It does not have a space force component because we do not have space force facilities; serving under the space force is an option for departments such as the Basses-Alpes where the Alexandrie Space Station is located.

After eight weeks, we were assigned our branches based on our abilities and performance during the first eight weeks. We were also asked to give our preferences, but there was no guarantee that it would be fulfilled. I was chosen to serve in the Cyber Force! Maybe it’s because of my geekiness and computer knowledge?

After the National Service, most conscripts return to civilian life and become reservists. Some conscripts continue the military track to become members of the Royal Santonian Armed Forces. There is a middle ground too! Some conscripts can apply to become part of the National Guard (Garde nationale) – which is the rapidly mobilisable element of the reserves. National Guardsmen are civilians and are reservists like most other conscripts, but they are called first in times of mobilisation.

To be a member of the National Guard, one must apply to the branch where one wants to serve. Typically, it’s the same branch where one did their National Service; but if it’s a different one, then they will need to undergo the specific eight-week training in that branch before applying.

Most people will be surprised to hear that being a National Guardsman is highly-sought after! The application is challenging, and not everyone is let in. As such, it can be a source of pride that one is selected. Full disclosure: I am a National Guardsman! Being a National Guardsman is esteemed in Saintonge; almost the same as being a member of the armed forces.

It’s not just me saying that. Cue this 2020 article from Câblé: “Being a member of Saintonge’s National Guard is highly regarded. The frequent retrainings (every five years for National Guardsmen instead of the usual once-in-a-decade for ordinary reservists) do not deter employers from accepting and hiring National Guardsmen as employees. In fact, the opposite occurs: employers are keener on employing National Guardsmen because they are deemed reliable and loyal. A 1998 social experiment conducted by the University of Saintes sent identical resumés to prospective employers, with only the name and the reservist status changed. The resumés indicating that they were National Guardsmen got called for interviews at rates almost twice more than resumés saying they were ordinary reservists.”

We National Guardsmen also have perks: we enjoy tax deductions throughout our civilian life, and we are entitled to pay when we are mobilised or are in training.

I was lucky I got accepted into the National Guard! Maybe it was also because the Cyber Force component of the Boëme’s National Guard was just being formed and they were in need of people!

And this Cyber Force component of the National Guard is called the Cyberguard! It sounds so sci-fi and all, but no, we don’t fly around in spaceships and wield lightsabres. The Cyberguard is just the name for the rapidly mobilisable reserves for the Royal Santonian Cyber Force. Also, before someone asks: I know how to shoot pew-pews. It’s part of the basic military training.

Prospective National Guard members undertake another 20 weeks of training. Once done with training and we pass the final tests, we will be inducted into the Cyberguard!

We are also organised along military lines. The Boëme’s Cyberguard is organised as a battalion. My home department only has one cyberguard battalion, Saintes has as many as seven. Since the unit is organised as a military unit, we do have officers and ranks too. This is where Reserve Officers come in.

Like for entrance to the National Guard, those who want to become Reserve Officers also apply and are competitively selected. Reserve Officers are meant to staff the officer corps of the reserve militia in cases of total mobilisation. Reserve Officers are also meant to be the intermediate level of officers between the professional military unit and the mobilised militia; it’s created so the militia can easily dovetail into the military organisation in the event of mobilisation.

And again, disclosure: I am a Reserve Officer in the Cyberguard. Reserve Officers typically train in one of the camps of their branch; in my case, I trained at the Cyberwarfare Cantonment at Champmars military camp in Saintes. The training lasted for six months. I was able to reach the rank of lieutenant!

Cyberguardsmen like me live a civilian life and have civilian jobs, like what I do now making videos for Câblé. In the event of a mobilisation, I will be part of the Royal Santonian Cyber Force. Occasionally, however, Reserve Cyberguard Officers like me get called to assist the Royal Santonian Cyber Force in assessing threats to the websites operated by government entities within our home department or territory. Three months ago (and the Cyberguard allowed me to disclose this), we advised the mayor of Redon to beef up security in the city’s website. That issue has since been fixed. Things like this, being able to help my community and society makes me feel proud to be a Cyberguard!

If you want to watch more explainer videos click like and subscribe to Câblé. If you have burning questions you want us to answer, twitch to us @CâbléExplains on Twitcher or Facegram!
 
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Grifons Sagranc have defeated their long-time rivals Condorcet Duolfo in a surprising turn of events, scoring three goals in the first 40 minutes, five in total. Star player and centre midfielder Abrèu Peisriud carried his team to victory at Condorcet's home stadium Auvòtz Arena in L'Espitalièr, Duolfo, thus Grifons Sagranc securing first place for 2024 Lega 1. Commentated by Salvador Gòdgell and Pèiar Baiadoça in Montarci, subtitles available for Santonian and Mercanti.

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Why is it so hard to find deodorant in Saintonge?
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Why is it so hard to find deodorant in Saintonge?

Caël delves into this seemingly silly question and falls into a rabbit hole of random trivia!



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@bee_oh_my asks Why is it so hard to find deodorant in Saintonge?

Simple answer: Santonians don’t need it!

It seems like it’s simply a problem in trying to find your favourite personal product in Santonian store shelves. But this rabbit hole is deeper and becomes interesting as we dig further.

Santonians don’t need deodorant not because they like to be stinky and smelly. In fact, Santonians love to smell good, as testified by the centuries-old perfume industry in Saintonge. Saintonge is one of the world’s centres of the perfume industry, especially in the Griffonné and Aunis. Santonians have used bristle toothbrushes since the 11th century. Use of scented soaps were noted by the Umbrials who arrived in the 4th century.

So if Santonians like to smell good, why don’t they use deodorant? It’s because Santonians don’t need it.

To explain this further, let’s dig deeper on the causes of body odour, or bromhidrosis in scientific terms. There are many factors contributing to the development of body odour; and I will be explaining the major ones.

You might have noticed that body odour becomes stronger after sweating, or if you haven’t washed. This is because body odour is caused by bacteria on your skin breaking down acids and other substances in sweat to form "odoriferous compounds" a.k.a. stuff that causes body odour. So if you had sweated, you have more of those substances; if you hadn’t bathed, there are a lot of bacteria on your skin.

There are two types of sweat glands – eccrine glands and apocrine glands. Eccrine glands produce sweat that are mostly composed of water and electrolytes. This helps in cooling off or “thermoregulation”. Apocrine glands get activated during puberty and produce sweat that aside from water and electrolytes, it also contains acids and the substances that the bacteria love to feast on to produce the smelly body odour compounds. Apocrine glands are also more concentrated in some parts of the body, such as the armpits and the groin… you know, the stinky areas.

Sweat is actually odourless. Only after the bacteria on the skin act on it will it then smell. So the final distinctive smell of an individual also depends on the kinds of substances in their sweat, the type of bacteria on their skin, and what these bacteria do with the substances present in the sweat.

What does this have to do with deodorant and why Santonians don’t need it?

Santonians don’t need deodorant because they are mutants!

That might have been the most random sentence you have heard in this channel so far, but it’s true. In 2011, researchers at the University of Saintes published a study that implicates a mutation in the ABCC11 gene to the relative lack of body odour. ABCC11 was initially reported in 2006 to be implicated in your type of earwax: those that have a mutation tend to have dry, flaky earwax, while those that don’t have tend to have wet or damp earwax.

The researchers in Saintes found out that ABCC11 is a gene that makes a protein involved in the release of substances into the apocrine gland. So if you have a mutant – or defective – ABCC11 gene, you don’t release as much substances into the apocrine sweat… therefore less stuff for the bacteria to feed on and therefore less body odour compounds produced! Mutant people aren’t completely odour-free, it’s just that they produce less stink.

It was found out that ABCC11 mutations are widespread throughout the ethnic Santonian population. 99% of Bethanians, for instance, were found to have mutant ABCC11 genes; with the lowest being the province of Beyre, with 87% having the mutant gene.

Historical records also bear out this observation. A 12th century Prydanian saga said that “In the land of the saint, people can’t be smelt.” An 18th century adventurer from Craviter wrote, “The great unwashed masses of Saintes don’t reek, but they seethe.”

During the 19th century, a harbourmaster in what is now Deva (Oklusia) wrote to his assistant in the port log, ostensibly referring to ship smells: “The winds will let you know whose ship is coming. Except the Santonians. Beware of the Santonians. The winds will not indicate they are coming.”

Why and how did Santonians become so… odourless?

A team of population geneticists, cultural anthropologists, medical doctors, and historians teamed up in a recent 2023 paper published in the journal Anthropologie médicale summarising what is known in the literature and hypothesising the reasons why.

The ethnic Santonian population carry two distinct ABCC11 mutations, the so-called “Bethanian mutation” and the “Umbrial mutation”. The “Bethanian mutation”, while seen at high rates throughout Saintonge, is most prevalent in Bethany and in areas where Galtic tribes lived, such as in central Saintonge. The “Umbrial mutation” is also present throughout Saintonge, but at a much lower rate than the “Bethanian mutation”. The “Bethanian mutation”, scientifically called p.G180R, abolishes the protein – meaning the ABCC11 product does not exist and does not function in the apocrine glands. In the “Umbrial mutation”, scientifically called p.R630W, the protein still exists but is much less efficient in releasing substances into the sweat.

Molecular clock studies indicate the “Bethanian mutation” to be older, appearing around 40,000 years ago and was subject to a considerable founder effect because the Galtics were also immigrants in what is now Saintonge.

The “Umbrial mutation” was estimated to have arisen around 22,000 years ago and was also subject to a founder effect as it was believed to be carried by the Umbrials who arrived in Saintonge in the 4th century AD. This is supported by the fact that the “Umbrial mutation” is present at a rate consistent with the spread of Umbrials from Saintes outwards. Given that the Umbrials who settled in Saintes were co-religionists from the same area, it is likely that they are part of the same source population and thus many of them share the same mutation too.

Further evidence is supplied by inhabitants of the province of Ombrie, where the other Umbrial tribe in Saintonge used to live. People from the Ombire mostly have the “Bethanian mutation”. This supports the theory that the "Umbrial mutation" was carried by the Umbrial arrivals in the 4th century to Saintes.

On another interesting tangent, the spread of the mutation also gives insights on the ancestry of the Santonian people. For example, Bethanians in Bethany and Domnonée have negligible rates - less than 2% - of carrying the "Umbrial mutation". This is consistent with these two provinces' history. Bethany and Domnonée were both petty kingdoms; these were 'perpetually allied states' that descended from the tribes of the Bethonic Confederation that the Santones tribe used to belong to. As part of this longstanding alliance with the emerging kingdom of Saintonge, the two kingdoms were allowed some degree of autonomy. This includes the provision that only Bethanians could be a 'member of the tribe' and thus own property in those provinces. This meant that Bethany and Domnonée did not allow incoming migration. Thus, the "Umbrial mutation" did not spread that much into Bethany.

Now, going back to ABCC11. The researchers also hypothesised that the ABCC11 mutations reducing body odour became subject to extreme positive selection pressure. To put it simply, those that have the mutation (and are thus relatively odourless) are deemed to be more sexually attractive and therefore produced more offspring. Eventually the mutants became common in the population!

Santonian culture and its obsession with smelling good reflects this, the anthropologists said in the study. Stinky and smelly people are a turn-off in Santonian culture, still to this today. Historians had also uncovered lots of evidence for this. In the 15th century, an heir to the duchy of the Beauce rejected an arranged marriage because the prospective bride was ‘foetid’. Ooooh, very harsh! In another case, a 1755 invitation letter for a ball for a débutante in the Pouilles states “a prospective partner must be clean, hygienic, and good-smelling.” Clearly in Saintonge, stinky isn’t sexy.

It seemed that cleanliness and smelling good is associated with health in Saintonge… well that might also explain Saintonge’s circumcision culture. We’ll get to that in another video. Conversely, body odour is associated with bad hygiene or bad health.

A Prydanian traveller writing in 1760 said that “As I walking down the streets of the town, the townsfolk avoided me like the plague. People covered their faces and went to the other side of the street, as if I was bringing some sort of contagion. The kind-hearted innkeeper explained that I only needed to take a refreshing bath and Santonians will treat me like a person again.”

As for the origin of this clean-and-smell-nice Santonian obsession, anthropologists and historians have yet to find out. One theory is that because the Bethanians, Umbrials, and the other ancestors of the Santonians arrived via ships, not smelling or stinking was a positive trait. Because sailing ships are notoriously filthy! Sailors and ship passengers don’t bathe a lot (you have to conserve water!). Being less odorous will probably be advantageous to you getting a mate! It’s also essential for the survival of your shipmates!

Now don’t these mutations have a bad effect? It must be emphasised that while mutations may cause disease or illness, others don't and may even drive evolution. No bad effects or ill impacts have been reported for these particular ABCC11 mutations. No disease had been associated with it. Some evidence points out to differences in how the mutants react to medications such as chemotherapy drugs. It seems like this is one of the evolutionary mutations.

All of this meant that Saintonge doesn’t have a big market for deodorants. Anti-perspirants, yes; deodorants, no. Before the advent of modern stuff, Santonians used alum salts as anti-perspirants. Anti-perspirants work in a different way by plugging the sweat glands – preventing them from releasing sweat. Deodorants either just neutralise or mask the odor. So there just seemed to be no need for deodorants for most ethnic Santonians – hence it’s difficult to find deodorants on Santonian store shelves. We do have anti-perspirants though, wet armpits are also kinda icky in Santonian culture.

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Hi! It's Caël and welcome to my first 'Ask Me Anything'!

In this stream, I'm going to answer questions from Twitcher and from the live chatbox! The one-hour stream starts at 7:00 PM 1 September 2024.



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Hello guys, I’m Caël and welcome to my Viedéo channel. Today I am going to answer your questions that were sent via @CâbléExplains and my personal Twitcher account @Caël_Boënnec. In this “Ask Me Anything” video I am also going to select some question from the live chat at the right-hand side of the screen and answer them. Thanks to Câblé Magazine for letting me organize this on my own channel and promoting it there!

First off, Éleonore @ellen_degenerates asks, “Who are you?”

I hope that is said in a nice tone, haha. My name is Caël Boënnec, I’m 24 and I’m originally from Redon in Bethany. Komz bethoneg a ran… (pauses) oh my god the chatbox is lighting up. People don’t think I’m 25 (laughs).

@Pauline557 says in chat “BABYFACE!”

(laughs) Yep, I do get that comment a lot. Before I became… uh… somewhat well-known, I frequently get “carded”. Last time I got carded was two months ago: the salesperson at the Les Galleries department store asked for ID when I was buying a knife set as a housewarming gift. Fun times. Apparently babyface runs in the family. My uncles say they used to experience that too.

Speaking of my fam, @melon_musk asked on Twitcher “Rumour has it that you are the heir to Interflix. Is it true?”

Just because I’m Bethanian, doesn’t mean that I am the heir to the most famous Bethanian company. But uhhh… yes, I do come from that family (chuckles). My mother’s side, the Kegelins, started and still own Interflix, one the world's largest video-on-demand streaming service. I’m not technically the heir, as the company is held in trust for the family. My uncle Thibault is the one who’s really into the company right now. Uncle Thibault is the older brother of my mum, hence we don’t share the same surname. He’s a cool uncle.

“Why are you working?” asks @justins_costumes in the chat.

Why wouldn’t I be working? (chuckles) It’s not as if I’m swimming in money. I'm not a trust fund baby. My parents live modestly and taught us to do the same. My dad used to work at an Interflix store. In the eighties and nineties, Interflix used to be a video rental store, where you physically borrow tapes and DVDs of movies and shows… just like borrowing books from a library. Interflix was my dad’s day job, while he had a side hustle of acting minor roles in TV and theater. My dad eventually became the manager of an Interflix branch in Redon and that’s when he met my mum, who was being trained in the family business in the 1990s. He made it clear that he wasn’t interested in my mum’s money and said that if they get married, they would live within their means. They maintained that principle in their married life and taught it to us.

On Twitcher, @larry_the_cable_guy asks “How did you get your job at the magazine?”

I studied Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Bethany, and I interned at Câblé Magazine after graduation. Câblé is a Santonian general-interest online magazine, although it has its focus on technology and digital life. At that time of my internship, Câblé was looking for Bethanian-speaking staff so they could have a Bethanian-language section of the website. I think, I guess, they liked me enough? The arrangement is kinda unusual – I’m not technically their employee, I’m a self-employed contractor. Now, before you call the Ministry of Labour, this arrangement was mutually agreed upon. They give me projects and ask me what I need. For example, the explainer videos.

See, each explainer video gets recorded in three versions: Santonian, Bethanian, and Mercanti. I do all three versions. They send me the questions that I would answer and they send resources for researching the content and even filming resources. Sometimes I do filming at their office in Saintes or I do it myself at home in Redon. I do the translations myself because some stuff don’t translate well by machine. Then Câblé gives me editing and publication support. Câblé and I share control and copyright over the content we create, same with the profits.

Câblé and I have future projects in the pipeline which I hope will take off and you guys would watch!

“Did you expect to become viral”? asks @monkeyfox on Twitcher.

Honestly, I didn’t. I thought I was just putting together and narrating explainer videos for some of the burning questions that people have wondered about but can’t find satisfactory answers to. Like, why is it called ‘handegg’ in Saintonge?

My first video was “What is Bethanian?” wherein I explained to the wider Santonian and global audience about the existence of my people and my language. It took off about one week after it was posted. Paradoxically, it gained a lot of traction within the Bethanian corner of the internet. And then soon afterwards the next videos were gaining thousands to tens of thousands of views – and increasing.

I feel incredibly blessed with this success and I want to thank everybody for helping me reach this. I’m glad people are enjoying our content and deriving knowledge from it.

“What do you like most about working at Câblé?” asks @happy_hour_15.

I like that Câblé gives me a lot of creative freedom. Like I said, they give their creatives a lot of leeway when it comes to making stuff. The copyright issues and profit-sharing are also very favourable to creators. I consider myself lucky I got in.

Okay, off to another line of questioning here, @milly_cha was asking if I had done my National Service. Could be related because people don’t think I’m 24, they ask if I had done my National Service? And at twitcher @judy_man asks “Are you the same Boënnec guy at the 271e CG Boëme?? A Lt. Boënnec?”

YES!! Yes, I am that Boënnec guy. I don’t know what your name is, but I will DM you afterwards. For the rest of the audience, the “271e CG Boëme” is the 271st Boëme Cyberguard Battalion. It’s a National Guard unit from my home department, the Boëme. The Cyberguard is the National Guard equivalent of the Royal Santonian Cyber Force. I’m a reservist in the Santonian military.

I did my National Service straight out of high school. Being some sort of a computer and gaming nerd, I tried out at the newly-formed cyberguard unit within the reserve militia of the Boëme. I finished with the rank of Lieutenant. Then I then went to university afterwards.

I feel that @judy_man is probably someone I met while in service. Drop me a line and maybe we can meet each other here in Redon!

@santonianness asks “Your name does not sound Santonian. What is the origin of your name?”

My name Caël is from the Bethanian language. This could be the subject of a video! The patron saint of my hometown is named Saint Caël. The Redon Cathedral is dedicated to Saint Caël, an obscure saint who worked as a Messianist missionary from the area. Saint Caël was martyred by headhunters during the 6th century in what is now Iteria. His shrunken head is actually a venerated relic in the Cathedral!

Also, the royal island off the coast of Redon is dedicated to him, the “royal town” of Mont-Saint-Caël.

“What do you do in your free time?” asks @amala_aries over in Twitcher.

I’m a geeky nerd, really. I love playing video games. #NotAnAd but I love Antinomy games. Not a promotion. Fists of Iron 4 is my favourite. And yes, I had picked up Kyle de Spycker.

I’m also into sports manager games, so Football Manager and Ice Hockey Manager are some of my most-played games too.

Speaking of sports, @its_theotime asks “What sport do you play? I think I have seen you play ice hockey.”

Yes, @its_theotime, I am – or was – a frustrated ice hockey player. That’s like literally the few times where nepotism failed me, ha! Just kidding. Anyway, my Uncle Thibault was one of the founders and sponsors of the Requins de Saint-Océan ice hockey team. It was created partly to give Prydanian refugees and lower-income Santonians opportunities to play ice hockey. Ice hockey is very popular in Prydania, and during the 2000s and 2010s, a lot of Prydanian refugees arrived in Saintonge.

Uncle Thibault got me into the then-amateur team where I learned to play ice hockey. I think it’s because they also needed Santonians in the group to help the Pyrdanians integrate. Also as a warm body on the ice, I guess. I was a plug! (laughs) Seriously, those Prydanian kids were way better than me. I was just an amateur player within the Requins system. The Requins had a semi-professional team at the top; I had never reached that level. Now they’re going professional, and I’ll be rooting for them. Also, that logo is sick.

Anyway, I went back to ice hockey in university, where I tried out and made it to the University of Bethany’s ice hockey team. I was a Stoat! That’s our team name.

I also dabbled in handegg, but I liked ice hockey more.

In the chat, @austin_matthieux asks, “What hockey position do you play?”

I was a right-handed defensive defenceman. But like I said, I wasn’t as good as the others. I was at most a bottom-pair defenceman. Even on the Stoat team. I think I got a place because right-handed defencemen are a rare species of ice hockey player!

Anyway, I still do play amateurly and join in some pickup games or so. It’s also where I can still practice my rudimentary Prydanian, which I learned from hanging around Prydanian children. Half of my vocabulary is probably cuss words though!

@luxy asks in Twitcher, “Are you single?”

Heh. I actually am single. Not looking for anyone now though, I want to become financially stable first before I get into relationships and build a family.

On Twitcher, @love_facials asks “What is your skincare routine?”

Uhhh… I don’t have a skincare routine? I just wash my face with soap twice a day. Omg the comment section is blowing up again… “brag about being naturally blessed with beautiful skin...” Hey, I’m not bragging! I’m just saying I wash my face twice a day and that’s it. I’m a guy and I am totally ignorant of skincare routines haha.

@barbae says in chat, “Not even shaving and post-shave routine?”

Well… you see… I’m one of those guys with a natural inability to grow a full beard. Not even a moustache. Nuh-uh. I just cannot get one. So instead of a half-baked beard I just go clean-shaven. But because my facial hear grows reeeeally slowly I only have to shave like every three days or so. Five o’clock shadow more like three-day shadow. When I do shave, I just wash my face afterwards. Nothing fancy.

@gudrun_ramzi asks on Twitcher, “What is your favourite food?”

Oh I love Kyle’s sausages. Stick ‘em in buns, mmmm. For those not in the know, Kyle’s sausages are a specialty of my home province of Bethany. It’s very thick and juicy and yummy!

It also brings some sort of nostalgia to me. Back to my childhood and to my hometown. Kyle’s sausages in buns are a staple beach food in eastern Bethany. Having one makes me feel right at home or feel like I’m on the beach.

“How about more specific – cheese?” says @aiden_cheese on the chat.

For cheese… I like Douvres cheese. Doesn’t go well with Kyle’s sausages though, but I put Douvres in my salads and pasta.

On Twitcher, @Kirsten_Cinema asks “What is your favourite movie?”

I tend to have a recency bias when it comes to these things. I love movies that have historical content and social significance. Uhh… can I have three? Three films come to mind. I might inadvertently include spoilers, so apologies in advance.

First is Les Possessions de Lesprée, set in the 17th century and takes place in a fictional town of Lesprée. The town suffers a mass hysteria due to demonic possessions. It’s not a scary movie per se, but there are some scary scenes. It’s neither a parody nor a comedy, but is a tongue-in-cheek critique of relevant current social issues while set in the past. It’s a deep movie, and sometimes you don’t be able to immediately recognise the meaning and thoughts and ideas it wants to impart.

Second is La Messe Noire, which is – surprise! – another historical-themed movie. In this case it is a semi-fictionalised account of the Black Mass in the Black Cathedral of Loudun (yes it indeed happen historically) during the Santonian Revolution. Not to be a spoiler – since it is indeed history – the Black Mass happened with the anticlerical (and some say Satanist) Duke of the Sologne forced the Bishop of Loudun to re-enact, mockingly, the Stations of the Cross and ended up with the bishop being crucified in front of the Black Cathedral of Loudun. Then the Duke of the Sologne desecrated the cathedral by presiding over a “Black Mass”, with details too graphic to be included – my channel might get banned! It’s a 2012 film, but I was only able to watch it a few years ago because it had a “Restricted” rating due to its graphic nature. It scores highly because of its cinematography and production.

And to round up my top three it’s Penn-ar-Bed, which is a Bethanian-language film set in the 19th century about Bethanian seafarers and the women back home waiting for them. I won’t spoil it because I want you guys to watch it! Even though the language in the film is Bethanian, it has Santonian subtitles.

On chat, @flixative asks, “Since you’re the Interflix heir, and you can’t be unbiased…”

Hey I just said that I am not THE Interflix heir! But yeah, okay I won’t be biased…

“…what is your most recommended non-Interflix series?”

This one’s easy. Definitely La Reine Reticente. Good story, good production value.

There are still a lot of questions, but we’re running out of time. We’ll reserve that in the next AMA! If you’re still with me, thank you very much for listening! If you like my content, please subscribe to my channel. I very much appreciate it!
 
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Why has Saintonge not sent a man on the moons? Does it mean that Saintonge scientifically behind other countries?



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Hi, I am Caël and I am here at Alexandrie Space Station to answer a question from @melon_musk : “Why has Saintonge not sent a person on the moons?”

Interesting question! We tend to view Saintonge as a scientifically advanced country, one of the leaders in many scientific fields. One of the benchmarks of scientific advancement is space exploration. Some countries had made putting a person to space, or on the moon, a scientific goal to achieve.

The first country to land a person on the moon was Goyanes in 1980. In the decades afterwards, other countries also landed on Lune and Lun. Saintonge did not.

Despite Saintonge being one of the most advanced countries when it comes to the field of astronomy, Saintonge did not land a person on the moons. Did Saintonge lack the knowledge to do so?

Actually, the answer was not related to science or Saintonge’s scientific capabilities. It was down to political will. The will to fund scientific endeavours.

Saintonge’s space agency is called Institut saintongeais d'aéronomie spatial (ISAS), organised under the Ministry of Defence. It was established by the so-called “Space Law” passed in 1961 by the 39th Santonian Parliament during the tenure of Prime Minister Émile-François Delétraz. The “Space Law” essentially institutionalised the Royal Santonian Air Force’s ad hoc programmes in going beyond the atmosphere.

The leaps in aeronautics brought about by the Great War were being started to be put into use. These advancements trickled to Saintonge despite it being a neutral country. With the fear of weaponisation and militarisation of space, the Royal Santonian Air Force started work on aeronomy programmes in the 1950s. This culminated in the passage of the Space Law, which was heavily backed by then-Defence Minister Marc-Thibault Coldefy (National) and Science and Technology Minister Anselm-Fabrice Dernoncourt (National).

The first breakthrough that the Santonian space programme had was the launch of Saintonge’s first orbital satellite, Ange in 1970. Ange was launched from Alexandrie Rocket Station (now Alexandrie Space Station). The city of Alexandrie (Basses-Alpes), where I am right now, is located at the intersection of the Prime Meridian and thirty degrees north latitude. This is an ideal spot from which to launch rockets and satellites.

Saintonge’s space efforts were mostly centred on scientific discoveries on the civilian side and national defence on the military side. Santonian rockets and satellites tend to contain instruments and detectors, rather than living animals or experiment setups to determine the feasibility of sending people to space. Radiation detectors aboard Santonian satellites were the first to discover and characterise the planet’s magnetosphere. Santonian satellites were also one of the first to send back footage of weather patterns. The thrust for a space telescope was readily apparent even in the 1970s: in 1975, the ISAS asked for budget appropriations to develop and build a space telescope. Sadly, it did not get the money it needed.

Because Santonian experiments tended to focus on information-gathering and data-producing activities, the Santonian space programme became technologically advanced in satellite data transmission, space observation, and related fields. Thus, programmes such as the Système mondial de positionnement (SMP)*, a satellite-based radionavigation system, were conceived. The SMP was first proposed and started development in 1972.

Saintonge even mulled sending people to space in 1974. However, the SMP system and the rest of the Santonian space programmes hit a hurdle.

In the 1970s, Saintonge’s economy was not doing well. The country was running a large budget deficit. In 1975, a Liberal-Radical government of Prime Minister Charles-Martin Perrier des Jarlais was elected. The Perrier des Jarlais government promised to balance the budget, lower taxes, and slash ‘wasteful’ government programmes.

One of the programmes the Perrier de Jarlais government targeted as ‘wasteful’ were programmes under the Ministry of Defence. ISAS budgets were slashed from 1975 onwards. Radical Science and Technology Minister Victor-François Mergérard once famously said on the floor of the National Assembly: “What are you going to do if you put a man on the moon? Plant a flag there?”

Indeed, ISAS was almost abolished in 1976 if not for the intervention of Liberal deputy Maximin-Brice Lecalabart, who represented the cities of Novale and Alexandrie in the National Assembly. Lecalabart led a backbench rebellion to force the Perrier des Jarlais government to retain ISAS and other assorted programmes.

Though some of its funding was restored, it suffered serious budget cuts. ISAS then had to prioritise its programmes wisely. Sending a man to space – or to the moon for that matter – went on the backburner. On the flip side, SMP satellite navigation was one of the programmes saved by dropping the other priorities. Among Santonian astronomy and aeronomy circles, people joke that “Saintonge forwent going to space in favour of knowing where they are on Eras.”

The space telescope project also was halted in 1977, but ISAS transferred the remaining funding to explore sending probes into deep space instead. Details and plans for space probes were drawn up but not built because of lack of funding.

The funding drought did not last long. The Perrier des Jarlais government lost power in the 1985 elections and was replaced by a National government of Arnaud-Gauthier Laënnec. By the 1980s, Saintonge’s economy was also out of the doldrums. Money for space programmes was again available.

The Laënnec government restored funding to ISAS programmes. ISAS was able to complete the initial 24 SP-1 satellites for the SMP in 1990. The first of the Voyageur and Pionnier series of space probes were launched in 1986 and 1990, respectively. These space probes brought us gorgeous pictures of the other planets and moons within our solar system, and more importantly, data about them.

One of the things that the ISAS had learned was to be financially independent and not bound to the whims of the government of the day. Thus, in 1992, ISAS sought and received approval for the SMP to be available to the general public – with a fee. The SMP programme charges small licensing fees to equipment manufacturers that install SMP receivers in their gadgets. These include mobile phones, cars, and navigation equipment. Indeed, The SMP programme had paid for itself several times over, enabling ISAS to improve the service and launch other services such as satellite communications.

Because of Saintonge’ expertise in satellite operations and communications, it was one of the first countries to have satellite telephones. Satellite phones work by transmitting data through satellites, instead of through a network of land-based cell towers like what our usual mobile phone network does. Saintonge’s satellite communications network, called Santelcom, started operating in 1994 for the Santonian military and government.

Like SMP, it also proved useful for civilian use. A separate satellite telephony system for civilian use, called Telsat, was unveiled in 2000 as Saintonge’s satellite network increased. With its explosive growth, Santelcom/Telsat was spun off from the SMP programme in 2005.

The defence-related aspects of ISAS were mostly transformed into the Royal Santonian Space Force (Force spatiale royale saintongeaise, FSRS) in 2015. ISAS remained suborned to FSRS, an unusual situation in which a civilian agency is organised under a military one.

The money raised enabled the ISAS to launch the Taxandre space telescope in 2007. Plante was launched in 2018. Despite the Coalition government of Jean-Louis Hauteclocque de Champtoceaux also slashing funding from 2015 to 2019, ISAS remained able to pursue its scientific endeavours… endeavours that helped us have satellite communications and navigation systems on our mobile phones!

If you want to watch more explainer videos click like and subscribe to Câblé. If you have burning questions you want us to answer, twitch to us @CâbléExplains on Twitcher or Facegram!

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Is it true that a gay couple discovered a planet?

For Pride Month, Caël (@Caël_Boënnec) answers this question at the intersection of culture, astronomy, and history.

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Hi guys! Caël here coming to you from the Alexandrie Space Station and Planetarium in southern Saintonge. Today, in honour of Pride Month, we answer an interesting question from @lgb1000: “Is it true that a gay couple discovered a planet?”

Yes… sort of. You might be thinking of Sirone, which is known internationally as Rudra. The history of astronomy is different internationally than that in Saintonge. Saintonge maintains its own nomenclature of planets and celestial bodies, not having been part of the international meeting where the naming rights to planetary system bodies were being divvied up. Consequently, Santonian reckoning of the discovery of the planets may be different from that in other countries.

The Royal Academy of Astronomical Sciences credits Paul-Charles Lemonnier, Thibault-Marc Dinocheau, and Maxent-James Dinocheau for the discovery. Maxent-James is the adopted son of Thibault-Marc. It in 1781 when the younger Dinocheau that proposed the existence of Sirone, based on the earlier observations by Lemonnier and the older Dinocheau, who had both since passed away.

Thing is, Thibault-Marc Dinocheau was a célibataire endurci, or “confirmed bachelor” when he adopted Maxent. So was Paul-Charles Lemonnier, Thibault’s mentor. Since neither gay marriage nor gay adoption was allowed in Saintonge in the 18th century, Maxent was only adopted by his maternal uncle, Thibault.

In the Santonian astronomy circles though, Lemonnier and the older Dinocheau were described as a ‘couple’ by their contemporaries. For example, the famous Grandin de Taxandre astronomer twins referred to Lemonnier and Thibault Dinocheau as a ‘couple’. In a 1777 letter, Matthieu-Gontrand Grandin de Taxandre wrote to his Plaisance colleague Brice-Sylvain Pellegrin:
“Thank you for recommending Maxent to work at our observatory and our project. The adopted son of The Couple is as enthusiastic and learned in astronomy as his fathers.”

Most of the astronomy community were accepting – or at least indifferent – of Lemonnier’s and Thibault Dinocheau’s relationship. Even the famed Santonian astronomer Nicholas-Charles de la Caille knew of the relationship and seemingly assisted in covering it up. In a 1757 letter of introduction to the Bishop of Côme, de la Caille said,
“Your Grace, I have the honour to introduce to you two excellent and hardworking astronomers that will be collaborating with us for the project. They are Paul-Charles Lemonnier and Thibault-Marc Dinocheau, partners for years working together to compile observations of celestial objects.”

De la Caille used the vague term “partners” and worded the sentence ambiguously. Yet around the same time, De la Caille wrote to his sister, a wealthy landlady in Côme:

“I introduce you to Paul-Charles Lemonnier and Thibault-Marc Dinocheau, a couple of Plaisants who will be working with us at the observatory for a few months. Please provide them with a secluded and comfortable place to stay. Charge it to my account. Do not be surprised with them as they do say Je t’aime without the bien, if you understand what I mean. They are discreet and do not cause scandal.”

De la Caille is referring to the fact that Je t’aime means “I love you” in Santonian in a romantic way, while Je t’aime bien means “I love you” in a friendly way or something like “I like you”. De la Caille was hinting that the two are a romantic couple.

Geodesist Pierre-Corneille Baudinot believed that the couple’s relationship was “platonic”, but astronomer Brice-Sylvain Pellegrin, who succeeded Lemonnier to the Plaisance post, thought otherwise. Pellegrin wrote in 1785:

“I have known The Couple for years and they were deeply romatically in love with each other. Maxent knows it too.”

Some rivals tried to use the knowledge of their relationship to try to discredit Lemonnier and Thibault Dinocheau. But the Santonian astronomy community at the time shot down those attempts. In 1751, astronomer François-Marie Debucquet tried to discredit The Couple to the new Archbishop of Plaisance in order to be named to the position that Lemonnier was holding at the Plaisance Observatory. Debucquet instead was forced out of Plaisance Observatory and the Episcopal University of Plaisance a year later after his students and colleagues complained.

So, how did such a relationship start, unusual for such times?

Paul-Charles Lemonnier was born in 1711 in Saint-Cédric in the province of the Pouilles. He was the nephew of Robert-Georges Lemonnier, the Bishop of Modane who was instrumental in the unification of the duchies of the northern Pouilles. The Bishop’s brother and Paul-Charles' father is Pierre-Tancrède Lemonnier, court astronomer to the Duke of Plaisance. Thus, Paul-Charles' family was well-connected. As the first son, Paul-Charles was trained in to succeed his father, which he took well. He replaced his father in 1741 and was also concurrently appointed as an astronomer to the Plaisance observatory by his uncle, who became Archbishop of Plaisance in 1737.

Thibault-Marc Dinocheau was a decade younger and came from a far more modest background. Born in 1723, he was the second son of a poor sailor and a seamstress from the coastal town of Terracine, in the Duchy of Côme. As a teenager he also sailed to help his family, but was frequently ridiculed due to his “effeminate” nature. In 1738, when he was fifteen, Thibault Dinocheau was gang-r~ped by his fellow sailors while at sea. The teenager told his father, who blamed his effeminacy for his fate at the hands of s~x deprived sailors. The father refused to take the matter to the admiralty tribunal at Côme, arguing that it was a waste of time and could potentially stain the family's reputation.

Instead, Dinocheau’s father sent Thibault to his brother Timoléon, the parish priest of the inland town of Corneille in the Pouilles. Timoléon nursed his nephew back to health. As a member of the diocesan chapter of Plaisance, Timoléon sent Thibault to the seminary for training to be a priest – only for Thibault to be rejected as being unsuitable for the priesthood. Thibault’s past trauma was apparently too much. Timoléon wrote to Thibault’s father about the matter, who ignored the letter and gave up his son for dead.

Timoléon Dinocheau recognised that Thibault was highly intelligent, and sent him to secular study instead at the Episcopal University of Plaisance in 1741. Having experience as a sailor and a navigator, Thibault was highly interested in astronomy. This was when Thibault Dinocheau’s path crossed with Paul-Charles Lemonnier. The two first met in 1742, and initially had a mentor-student relationship. However, it blossomed into something else. Afraid of embarrassing his uncle, Thibault kept the relationship under wraps and focused on study. Thibault Dinocheau and Lemonnier forged a special working relationship that enabled them to document and track countless celestial bodies with painstaking precision. The records are mostly credited to Lemonnier, although undoubtedly Thibault Dinocheau also contributed to it. This body of work was the younger Dinocheau’s basis for the discovery of Sirone in 1781. Thibault Dinocheau, having experience as a sailor and navigator, is better known as the inventor of the sextant in 1750.

Thibault Dinocheau and Paul-Charles Lemonnier lived and worked together from 1742 to 1772 – a thirty year relationship. Because the two lived and worked closely anyway, they did not write letters to each other; or at least there are no surviving letters between them. When Lemonnier was invited by Nicholas-Charles de la Caille to work on a project at Côme observatory in 1757, Thibault Dinocheau went with him.

It was also this return to Côme that the Dinocheau encountered part of his family again. Dinocheau’s family was reduced to penury by his father’s drinking habit. All his siblings also grew up in poverty and remained poor. His younger sister Madeleine became a prostitute servicing sailors in Côme. She had a son, Maxent, whose father was unknown. Maxent spent his early years as a street urchin in Côme. In December 1757, in preparation for a royal Christmas visit to Côme, the city’s police rounded up the street urchins and locked them up for the time being. The city police painstakingly tracked down the parents of the street children to take them home. Madeleine Dinocheau refused to take her son back in and instead consigned him to an orphanage. Maxent Dinocheau, then seven, spent Christmas in a Côme jail.

Côme police did not give up looking for other relatives and managed to locate Thibault Dinocheau, who was working in the city at the time. Thibault took Maxent in, and fed and clothed the child. Thibault went to Terracine after New Year’s 1758 to bring Maxent back to his family, but Madeleine and the rest of the family did not want another mouth to feed. Maxent stayed with Thibault in Côme throughout the time that they were working with de la Caille.

In September 1758, Thibault Dinocheau and Lemonnier were supposed to return to Plaisance, but the young Maxent pleaded to join them. As such, Maxent joined his uncle back to Plaisance, and he was formally adopted in 1758. Thibault also learned that because of Madeleine’s neglect, Maxent wasn’t even formally christened – Maxent was baptised by the Archbishop of Plaisance on his adoption day.

We know all of these details because of a court case filed by Madeleine Dinocheau against Maxent and Thibault in 1773. By this time, Madeleine Dinocheau was already old and unappealing in her line of work, and so she was wallowing in poverty. Paul-Charles Lemonnier had died in 1772 and left his wealth and estates to the uncle-and-nephew duo. Learning of his son’s newfound wealth, Madeleine filed a case in Plaisance to force Maxent to financially support his mother. Madeleine accused Thibault of ‘abducting’ her son and ‘alienating’ Maxent from her. Madeleine even referenced the 'unnatural' relationship that Thibault had and insinuated that they had abused Maxent. His mother's lies and besmirching of his beloved uncle's reputation angered Maxent, who used his connections in the city to have Madeleine banished from Plaisance as an 'undesirable' on account of her prostitute past.

Thibault, still grieving over Lemonnier’s death and stressed by the lawsuit, died a few weeks after the lawsuit was filed. This enraged Maxent even more. He dug up a trove of documents and evidence – including the 1757 police record in Côme indicating that Madeleine had abandoned Maxent on Christmas day, witness testimony from Madame de la Caille that Maxent willingly joined his Uncle Thibault to Plaisance, his baptismal certificate from Plaisance indicating that Madeleine had neglected to have Maxent baptised. All of these are in the court records, and this is why we know a lot.

The court at Plaisance ruled against Madeleine, and it is unknown what happened to Madeleine Dinocheau afterwards. She doesn’t seem to be present when Maxent-James Dinocheau returned to Côme in 1777 to work with the Grandin de Taxandre twins on a project. By then, Maxent was well-off because of his inheritance. He was also appointed to the faculty of the Episcopal University of Plaisance, working under Pellegrin. It was during his time back in his home city that Maxent met Abigail Thible, his wife. Abigail was a former street urchin like Maxent: the two former best friends reconnected after serendipitously meeting during Maxent’s visit to the bishop’s residence. After the Christmas roundups in 1757, Abigail was taken in by a convent and became a housekeeper at the bishop’s palace in Côme. The two married in 1778 and the new couple relocated to Plaisance in 1779.

Now working at Plaisance Observatory, Maxent was tracking an unusual celestial body in the constellation Monoceros in 1781 and suspected that it was a planet. He pored over Lemonnier’s (and by extension, his uncle’s) records to see it had been previously observed. Indeed he found that it was observed but Lemonnier thought it was a moving star.

With the support of Pellegrin, Maxent-James Dinocheau brought forth his observations to the Royal Academy of Astronomical Sciences. With further observations and independent confirmation, the Royal Academy of Astronomical Sciences accepted Dinocheau’s discovery in 1790. In keeping with the Galtic mythology names of Santonian planets, the name Sirone was chosen, in honour of the goddess of wind. Maxent-James Dinocheau also requested that Paul-Charles Lemonnier and Thibault-Marc Dinocheau be named as co-discoverers. Maxent himself acknowledged that his uncle and Lemonnier are a couple. In his 1790 statement to the Royal Academy of Astronomical Sciences, Maxent wrote that:

“I would like to humbly ask the Society to inscribe as co-discoverers of Sirone the names of my fathers: Paul-Charles Lemonnier and Thibault-Marc Dinocheau. Not only did I utilise their previous observations to make the discovery, they were also my fathers – in my life and in this profession.”

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Hi it's me Caël again! Today, Me and my friend Fintann are going to review books!

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OOC Notes: Adwelet al levr ! = Bethanian for "Book review"
 
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Yes, you saw me on TV!
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Hi! Because my Twitcher has been full of questions on whether they had seen me on TV, I'm setting up a livestream to answer your questions about my purported TV appearance!

In this stream, I'm going to answer questions from Twitcher and from the live chatbox! The one-hour stream starts at 7:00 PM 03 November 2024.



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(In costume) Hi guys! I am here on the set of Petit Royaume or Rouantelezh Vihan, a show that I serendipitously got cast in! This clip won’t be up until the last episode of me airs! Hope this new adventure goes well!

Hi guys! Caël here! People have been nagging me to discuss and make a video about my uh… thing on TV that aired the previous month. Today I will be answering the questions people had been bombarding me on Twitcher and on my Viedéo.

People were wondering if I appeared in the Interflix series Petit Royaume. Petit Royaume is a Bethanian-language period drama which is also being aired by Saintonge Télévisions (STV) over at STV 7, its cultural channel. Its original Bethanian title is Rouantelezh Vihan, and the dialogue is in Bethanian. For STV purposes, it is subtitled in Santonian.

When it was aired last month, I was inundated by messages asking me if it was me who played who played Fañch, Count of Lanester, in Petit Royaume.

The answer is, yes, it was me that you saw on TV. Heh, the chatbox is blowing up…!

@amala_aries says in all caps NEPOTISM!!!

Hahahaha, kinda. You guys know that my uncle helps run Interflix. But it’s not Uncle Thibault that brought me in. Uncle Thibault was even surprised I ended up on one of those Interflix series! It was my dad’s fault!

In the chatbox, @whorepresents asks How did you get the role?

Yes, I am about to get there. It was an accident. I promise! It was not intended. I didn’t want to be an actor – yet! I blame my dad.

You see, my dad has a side hustle as an actor in Bethanian-language theatre. So HunvreGweled, one of Interflix’s studios, was making a period drama set in in 18th century Bethany. They had a casting call in multiple Bethanian cities and were specifically looking for Bethanian-speaking actors. Petit Royaume had an ensemble cast, and the cast list runs in the hundreds. My dad also had a bit role as a monk.

So what happened was, four months ago, they were filming a scene in Mont-Saint-Caël just outside Redon. Two actors unfortunately got sick and dropped out at the last minute. They searched for replacements. This being a big production, a lot of theatre and film people in Redon were already involved, so baseline, there were few other available people. Since everybody else suitable on the set had appeared in episodes that had already been aired, they couldn’t re-cast any of them. They needed new guys. They had an emergency casting call in Redon, looking for two actors to fill those roles.

They were looking for Bethanian-speaking guys in my age range who have some experience in the entertainment industry and was willing to film in front of the camera. My dad called me on the phone and told me to try out the casting call. I guess they were that desperate! They needed two guys!

And there were only three of us there at the final audition. They only needed two, but they got all three of us some roles. They just assigned the roles. I was told that I will be the Count of Lanester. Arthur Couic, the series’ director, told me it was only a bit role and would be just for a few episodes. Little did I know that ‘bit role’ is gonna explode! I think my character appeared in just four episodes.

“I hated you!” says @ambrentendu.

Thank youuuu!! I was initially bothered by the viewers’ hostile reaction, but my dad, the director, and the scriptwriter all told me that it was the mark of a good villain-playing actor to get the audience to hate me. Their words, not mine.

So you see – SPOILER ALERT! – the Count of Lanester was a villainous character in Petit Royaume. In the story, he was the illegitimate son of the Petty King of Bethany. He gets married off to the daughter of the Petty King of Domnonée to seal an alliance between the two kingdoms. He was sent to Domnonée and settled in the town of Douvres, which was the dowry and wedding gift to the couple. The first scene we filmed – and the one where they needed an emergency casting call – was the marriage of the Count of Lanester to Nolwenn, Lady of Douvres, daughter of the Petty King of Domnonée. In character, Nolwenn didn’t even know who was she getting married to until she got to the altar! I guess that also applies to the actor who had to play the groom!

Unfortunately, the character of the Count of Lanester was an abusive pompous b~stard. Literally an example of the nobles that the Santonians revolted against during the Santonian Revolution.

“Was it hard playing such a role?” asks @candide_redon.

Yes! I was not prepared! It felt totally out of character for me. Thank gosh my dad was there coaching me. He was a stage dad, literally! Haha. I felt that the casting director also deliberately chose me for the role for nefarious purposes. During the audition, she told me, “You look like someone who people won’t suspect to be that evil!” I just laughed her comment off. But jeez, the character was that evil. I only knew that they will kill the character off immediately – I didn’t expect they would stretch that wickedness to four episodes!

Says @whine-et-dine on the chatbox, “I think I know the answer to this, what was the most difficult scene to film?”

I only filmed a few scenes! I think I know what you are referring to. It’s my answer too. The r~pe scene. Again – SPOILERS! – the Count of Lanester r~pes his new wife the day after their wedding. That scene was so difficult to do. And before you ask! NO! There was no real s~x involved! It was simulated, they got creative with the camera angles and the lighting and the sheets and stuff.

Although I gotta say, everything I did was difficult to some degree. Like the Count’s cruelty to his subjects. The scene where the Count of Lanester whips his servants… ugh, that was difficult too. That wasn’t fake. I really had to hit my fellow actors. They were cool with it. It needed two takes. Nolan, the actor who played the servant, told me after the first take: “Don’t fake it. Hit me for real. Or else we’ll be retaking this scene over and over. Instead of just one big hit, you’ll have to hit me multiple times if we keep on re-taking. Do it and get it over with.” Thank gosh Arthur was satisfied after the second take.

Another scene was when the Count of Lanester screams obscenities inside the Cathedral of Douvres. He was trying to display dominance over the Bishop of Douvres. As a good catholique boy, it was challenging for me to yell cuss words at a priest inside a church!

@counterlife asks “To the opposite, what was the easiest scene?”

The death scene, haha! Was so easy, just lie there, pretend to be dead. The preceding scene was difficult, but the end was fun.

“You deserved to die!” says @ambrentendu.

Awww, still hating on me? Whyyy? It’s not me, it’s just a character! I’m not like that in real life, I promise!

Anyway – MORE SPOILERS – the Countess of Douvres manages to kill the Count of Douvres after another drunken attempt to r~pe her. Like in the other scenes, a lot of the hitting, action, and others weren’t fake. Gaëlle Le Coz, who plays Nolwenn, didn’t hold back! I had bruises and scratches afterward! She slammed me around the room and threw things at me. She smashed that prop vase on my head. She tore out some of my hair.

Afterwards, Gaëlle apologised for the violence but the director was happy at the result. We did not have to do a lot of retakes for that sequence. Gosh, I’d be so battered if there were a lot of retakes! So Gaëlle and I did our best to avoid re-takes!

The most challenging part of that scene was when Nolwenn slaps Fañch’s corpse to confirm that he was dead. And me, being dead, MUST NOT react. Not even a flinch. Man, it was hard not to react to a slap!

“How was the experience?” asks @elisabethany in the chat.

Not gonna do it again! Haha. Just kidding. If I’m gonna act again, I hope it won’t be those evil characters again! To this day I am still getting angry comments on my social media pages!

Aside from those, the support and feedback I got was so amazing, I might be encouraged to audition next time!

“Why didn’t you tell us you landed a role in a TV series?” asks @finbar_rabnif in the chat.

I was made to sign an agreement that I can’t talk about my roles and spoilers until after the scene had aired on STV. So I could only talk about it now! But I filmed this video’s intro segment on the first scene’s set after I got the role!

Also, you guys figured it out quick anyway! There were lots of folks posting gifs of “Caël’s Evil Twin” and tagging my Twitcher account! And then there’s the “Slap to confirm death” meme! Sooo mean!! Haha, just kidding.

@furnesss says in the chatbox, “It didn’t look like it was your first role…”

Thank you for the compliment, @furnesss, but this really was my first big acting gig.

“… did you have training on acting?”

No, I did not have formal acting training. Even though my dad was a theatre actor, I wasn’t a theatre kid. My only sorta training was that my parents enrolled me in an acting workshop as a summer class during middle school – that’s it. It was mostly on-the-fly coaching from my dad and the director. Katell, the casting director, also helped me much.

“What is the best tip you got?” asks @ryan_c.

There’s this one thing that I learned from my dad and the venerable Gabriel-Gaël Guermeur, who played the Bishop of Douvres. Something they called “character separation”.

The scene was the Count and Countess of Douvres were attending a private Mass officiated by the Bishop of Douvres. The bishop delivered a homily that was a veiled attack at the Count’s behaviour, and so the Count became angry. The script had it that the Count interrupted the Mass and threw a tantrum. Like I said earlier, as a good catholique boy, it was hard for me to do that. I had difficulty spewing obscenities and screaming insults while at Mass inside the cathedral. It was embarrassing as they had to re-take because of me!

During the break, Monsieur Guermeur took me aside and told me that I am not my character. At that moment while filming, it was not Caël Boënnec who was there, but Count Fañch of Lanester. It won’t be Caël who is shouting and making a scandal, but Fañch. “Like a demonic possession?” I asked Monsieur Guermeur. He laughed at my analogy.

It might sound like schizophrenic, but being the geek that I am, I think the better analogy would be familiar to tabletop gamers and roleplayers: “In-Character” vs “Out-of-Character” separation. Your character in the game isn’t necessarily reflecting of you as a person. Being able to separate the two is a critical and basic skill in these activities. Hence you might hear me saying that the bad guy you saw on TV was not me!

Having some sort of experience with roleplaying and tabletop gaming, I think that might have helped me separate myself from Fañch. My dad and Katell helped me de-role afterwards. I don’t want to bring Fañch home with me, Gaëlle said he was terrifying!

@l_archer asks “Do you have any other acting projects?”

No, I don’t have any coming up. Acting is not my main career… yet! I’ll stick to making Viedéos and explainer videos for now. But I’d be happy to pick up any casting calls!

Alright, I think that's it! If you’re still with me, thank you very much for listening! If you like my content, please subscribe to my channel. I very much appreciate it!
 
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What is election duty?
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Our explainer guy Caël (@Caël_Boënnec) was called up for election duty last week! He has a lot of explaining to do!

Ask your burning questions on @CâbléExplains on Twitcher!



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Hi, Caël here. I posted last week about me being summoned to election duty for last week's 2024 Santonian General Elections. What is election duty and how does Saintonge do it?

Election duty, or devoir électoral in Santonian, is broadly similar to jury duty in some other countries. It is a civic duty of a Santonian citizen, on the lines of National Service. Parenthetically, Saintonge uses juries too, but very rarely and only on heinous crimes. Thus, Santonian citizens are more likely to be called to election duty than jury duty.

So what is election duty?

Elections in Saintonge are administered by the Royal Institute of Elections (Institut royal des élections, IRE), a non-partisan, royal, constitutional body that serves as the country’s election commission. Because elections are massive logistical undertakings, it requires a lot of people. In the 2024 elections, IRE had to man 500,000 polling precincts for the 100 million Santonian voters who would have to cast their ballots. A Santonian polling precinct requires three people to staff (more on this later), you would need at least 1.5 million people to run the elections. The IRE does not have that many employees.

But also because elections do not happen often, you would only need those lots of people for a short period of time.

Countries had found multiple ways to solve this issue. For instance, some countries employ government workers from other departments. Others hire temp workers for those. Saintonge, however, has a different tack: they summon common citizens.

Saintonge views voting as both a right and a responsibility, hence the existence of compulsory voting in Saintonge. The act of voting is a public duty of a citizen. So is collectively ensuring that the elections are transparent and reliable.

When the election date is set, the IRE randomly selects a certain number of citizens on the electoral register. It’s like a lottery, but there are certain requirements and exceptions. One must have already voted at least once, so the minimum age of selection is 23. Saintonge’s minimum voting age is 18 and regular elections come every 5 years, so by the age of 23, a citizen should have voted at least once. This is so that the citizen has some kind of experience on the electoral process before being called up to electoral duty.

The IRE also rarely drafts those above the age of 50, because of the increased likelihood of health issues.

Then there is also the issue of partisanship. Elected officials and candidates to offices are automatically disqualified from serving election duty. Active and/or prominent members of political parties are also excluded. Ordinary card-holding members of political parties may be chosen, but the IRE has previously stated many times that the chances of them being selected is lower than the average citizen. Which means independent voters – like me! – are more likely to be selected to election duty.

Individuals who had been selected previously for election duty twice in the three previous elections are also less likely to be called up.

So I really fit the bill of someone who had the greatest chance of winning the lottery: an independent voter between the ages of 23 and 50, who had never been on election duty!

The IRE sends out the summons via email, mobile, and registered mail – you can’t really escape! – and you can fill out the form either online or send back the form they sent you in the mail. It asks about your past political activities, your willingness to serve election duty, your availability on certain calendar dates, issues that might hinder you from doing your duty (such as health issues, work, etc), and so on. While opting out of election duty is not necessarily penalised, failure to answer the form is a civil offence.

From the answers of citizens in the prospective pool, the IRE will select those who will serve election duty. I got chosen, yay! I was given my precinct assignment three days before election day.

They don’t send us to the polling stations unprepared. This is why election duty is not just for the day itself. On the weekend before the elections, last May 18-19, the IRE held a training-workshop for all of us citizen-poll workers on how to conduct the elections. Mine was held at the mairie of Redon, and it was a two-day affair. They explained the electoral process, how the elections are organized, what would our possible roles be.

A Santonian polling precinct has at least three members of the precinct electoral boards, or bureaux électorales. Rarely there are more than three, but it is usually not needed, as a precinct serves a maximum of 400 voters.

Here are the members of the bureau électoral. The first is the chief of the precinct electoral board; in Santonian, the title is fonctionnaire électoral, which is essentially the citizen deputised by the IRE to lead the electoral board. Typically, the fonctionnaire électoral is the most experienced of the three members of the bureau. One of the main tasks of the fonctionnaire électoral is to verify the citizen’s identity. An ID with a photograph is required to vote in Saintonge; usually voters just bring their national identity cards. The citizen-voter then signs the electoral roll or liste électorale (which the IRE uses to check if the citizen has voted or not) and the fonctionnaire électoral signs the blank ballot papers and gives it to the voter to fill up. A ballot paper that is unsigned by the fonctionnaire électoral is invalid.

The second member is the adjoint directeur du scrutin, or “deputy returning officer”. The adjoint directeur du scrutin receives the filled-up ballots and signs them as the voter feeds it into the vote scanning and counting machine (VSCM). This is to ensure that it is a voter who actually handed the filled-up ballot paper. While a ballot paper that is unsigned by the adjoint directeur du scrutin will be counted, it may the thrown out as irregular if a recount is done.

Some of people might think that because the adjoint directeur du scrutin signs the ballot, they can see who the voter selected: no, they cannot. The voter will first insert the ballot into the VSCM, which is programmed to accept the ballot up to a certain point such that only the signature field is visible. The VSCM will then prompt the adjoint directeur du scrutin to sign the ballot. Once it is signed, the ballot will then completely enter the VSCM, the vote will get counted, and a receipt will be printed for the voter to review if his/her vote was tallied correctly. The VSCM then can accept another ballot again. The voter would then have to dispose of the receipt in a separate box attached to the VSCM.

The third member is amusingly called crieur électoral, which roughly translates to “Electoral Crier”. Nope, his task is not sobbing. The name descended from the town crier, only that he reads votes. This was back during the day when there were no election machines. Back in the day, the crieur électoral would take a ballot from the box one at a time and read it out loud. As the votes are being announced, the adjoint directeur du scrutin would tally the votes manually on a big poster printed for that purpose.

Nowadays, with the machine scanning the ballot and automatically tabulating the vote, the crieur électoral merely serves as the directeur de bureau, a.k.a. “table manager”, a.k.a. all-around guy. It’s usually miscellaneous duties like guiding people what to do, answering questions, crowd management, and logistical support.

I was told that back then, the crieur électoral used to be the youngest member of the precinct electoral board, because one would need have to have the clearest eyesight to read the ballots and the vocal stamina to read all of them. Nowadays, because of the more relaxed duties of the crieur électoral, it usually goes to the most senior member or the one who is not an independent voter.

After the polls close at eight in the evening, the bureau électoral then conducts a rapid audit. The crieur électoral ensures that the number of people who signed the liste électorale is equal to or less than the number of votes counted by the VCSM. If the number of votes counted by the VSCM is more than the number of people who signed the liste électorale, the precinct is marked for manual audit-recount.

At the same time, the adjoint directeur du scrutin would open the VSCM and take out all the ballots. The adjoint directeur du scrutin would then count the ballots by hand. The number of ballots must be equal to the number of votes counted by the VSCM. If the number of ballots is less than the votes counted OR is 10% more than the votes counted, the precinct is also marked for manual audit-recount.

Both rapid audit processes are supervised by the fonctionnaire électoral. Now, if discrepancies are found and a manual audit-recount is needed, it’s the IRE staff who does it – thankfully! The IRE staff will take over once they are notified. Still, the precinct’s bureau électoral would have to be present when the manual audit-recount is done.

Now if the precinct does not need a manual audit-recount, the fonctionnaire électoral prints (from the VSCM) two paper copies of the result in their polling precinct – the Décompte des voix du bureau (“Precinct vote tally”). All three members of the bureau électoral sign both copies. One copy is collected by the IRE, and the other copy is included in the ballot box. An electronic copy is also sent by the VSCMs to the IRE servers, which facilitates the rapid counting of votes. The adjoint directeur du scrutin and crieur électoral then locks the steel ballot box with all the paper ballots and the other copy of the Décompte des voix du bureau inside. This will be used for auditing or recount when needed.

In last weekend’s election, I served as the adjoint directeur du scrutin. It was fun! I will tell my experience later.

Given all of these roles and their complexities, what if there’s not enough citizens who would be poll workers? What do the IRE folks do during the election?

Having not enough citizens to man the polling stations is actually a common thing. See, IRE staff do not actually man polling precincts. Instead, one IRE staff will supervise a cluster of precincts, typically 10 to 20 precincts within a defined compact geographic area. That particular staff will be the citizen-poll workers’ contact in case there are problems or issues. And like I said before, they will be the one who will conduct the manual audits when needed.

Now, if there are not enough citizens who would be poll workers, the IRE mobilises the Royal Santonian Armed Forces. They call on the units stationed in the department for election duty. Soldiers also serve as reserve staff in case a citizen-poll worker fails to show up or gets excused for valid reasons on election day. It might sound unusual to some democracies that the military supervises elections, but Saintonge is unusual anyway for three reasons.

First, Saintonge has a tradition of a citizen-military, wherein the distinction between civilian and military life is not that clear cut – again, a prominent example is the National Service.

Second, Saintonge also has no history of military coups or civil war since the Revolution. Santonian civilian governments do not have a reason to mistrust the military or to erect a wall between the civilian government and the military. Because all citizens theoretically serve, the Santonian military is diverse and less politicised.

Third, the IRE is a royal institution, meaning it is a constitutional body that theoretically answers to the monarch, not to the government. Because the commander-in-chief of the Royal Santonian Armed Forces is the monarch, the military assisting the IRE is just seen as the monarch using his powers to ensure the implementation of the royal mandate of administering elections and protecting Santonian democracy.

The IRE also does not make an all-soldier bureau électoral. They distribute soldiers across all precincts. IRE’s rules state that if the IRE would utilise soldiers for election duty, at least one member of the bureau électoral must be a citizen-poll worker. That citizen-poll worker would automatically be the fonctionnaire électoral. Typically soldiers take on the crieur électoral role when part of the bureau électoral.

In my precinct, we had an army soldier based out of Clisson as our crieur électoral. He was a nice dude, we chatted a lot while waiting for the village's six dozen voters to come in. Shout out to Sous-Lieutenant Cadoc Saint-Jalm of the 54th Air Combat Battalion. He was amused that I was in the Cyberguard.

I did my electoral duty in the small village of Landécaille, a mountain village in the intendancy of Clisson. Population: 88, mostly of middle-aged to elderly farmers and herders. My situation is more the exception than the norm. The IRE would ideally assign you within your commune of residence. If not possible, within your intendance. The limit is within your department. I actually volunteered to be assigned anywhere within the department of the Boëme, that’s why I ended up in Landécaille, a 45-minute drive from my home city of Redon.

Our fonctionnaire électoral was Sterenn, a fortysomething local who manages the only available bed-space in the village. Sterenn was very happy to have us as her helpers. I arrived Friday night and slept in the village because of the early call time - we had to be at the polling station by eight in the morning to prepare. When I knocked at her door Friday night, that was when I realised that my innkeeper was the fonctionnaire électoral! She knows everyone else in the village and she introduced me and Cadoc to everybody who was voting.

Sterenn and her family also kept me and Cadoc fed during the entire day. After we finished counting at 8:30 pm – there were only 73 votes to count! – she invited us for a sumptuous dinner. Even our IRE supervisor could not escape the dinner invite!

I presume those are the perks of serving in a small village! People were very nice to me and were gladly surprised when I told them I came all the way from Redon to volunteer in their village. Someone half-jokingly offered me a sheep as a gift! The perks of volunteering!

But onto more perks. In a 2015 survey of citizen-poll workers and a 2017 survey of the general population, Santonians do not view election duty as an undue burden. This is because serving has its benefits.

First of all, election duty is compensated in Saintonge. For the two weekends of your time – your weekend training and the election weekend itself – you are fairly compensated. The Sunday after the election day is still compensated as if you went on duty because you would need to rest after the gruelling election day.

The IRE will compensate citizen-poll workers at twice the rate with overtime. Twice the rate because by Santonian law, you are working on weekends. With overtime because election duty can last up to 18 hours. The minimum basic rate is the minimum wage in your department. However, most people do not receive that as the rate is calculated depending on your tax return the previous year – it means that you are compensated as if you worked your job on a weekend with overtime. The cap on compensation is £5,000 (3,333 IBU). You can get this maximum if your daily income is £1,250 based on your tax return. This payment is also tax-exempt!

Second, if you are assigned outside your commune, you will get travel allowance aside from your compensation. I just have to give the IRE the receipts so they could reimburse me. I don't have a receipt for lodging though, because Sterenn allowed me to stay for free when she learned I was her adjoint directeur du scrutin!

Third, citizens who are on election duty are allowed to cast early votes. Early voting is only available in Saintonge for those with valid reasons such as institutionalisation, essential workers (such as soldiers, police, first responders, and healthcare workers), and distance from voting precinct. Election duty is considered a valid reason. So I cast my vote on Friday by dropping it at the IRE office in Redon, before driving to Landécaille.

And lastly, for me personally, participation in the electoral process and fulfilling my civic duty is a big thing for me. I am happy to have done it!

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