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Not if you're a woman, and only if you don't listen to women. It's gotten much worse since last November.
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Edits that people don't agree with aren't vandalism. Your witch hunt will be exposed for what it is.
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Could we perhaps have some articles about something other than Trump? Canada is in no position to view itself as being morally superior. Trudeau is courting a country that kills it's own people just because of their spiritual beliefs. China has killed more than a million(*) practitioners of Falun Gong and used them as organ banks. This is continuing today. They have zero interest in democracy. Corruption is rife and party officials and their families get very wealthy as a result - go ask people in Vancouver to see the resulting effect on Canada. Trump tells a few hundred people they will have to wait some months to get into the US and Canada erupts in righteous indignation. Trudeau is seeking to get get us even further into bed with a murderous corrupt regime and Canadians are ok with that? What exactly are these Canadian values we keep hearing about???
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(*)Don't believe the number? Here's one reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Deaths
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Who cares about the ACA???? I have my own healthcare so I'm not worried about it at all. We should do away with it completely and let the federal govt give every taxpayer a blanket subsidy and the taxpayer can make up the balance themselves for whatever HCP they choose. This way nobody can gripe about the cost of HC. Take care of yourself, eat a healthy diet, quit smoking if you smoke and drink alcohol with moderation. Live a good healthy lifestyle. I'm really tired of all the gripes over HC, we need a war to change things up, huh???? Only kidding.............
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And why do you take this letter at face value - that the President did nothing?
Do you think the President met with any of those involved. Do you know if he laid out conditions or limitation of either the free speech wall of on say the participation of the RA?
I find it highly unlikely that he did 'nothing'. Mr. Ritter simply did not get the reaction from the President that he wanted, whatever that may be.
Is there some sort of program now monitoring white girls? Can they only use White restrooms, how about no dating men of color? No there isn't.
I think the statement is self centered, vain, uniformed, and immature. Now if the administration had endorsed a ban on white women from wearing hoops, then we have a completely different situation.
And I thought only liberals were overly sensitive!
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You are a stink ass Bitch you motherfucking dick sucking bitch go to fucking hell you dog ass bitch!!!!!!!!!!
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How can they say the Hornets or Celtics gonna win it this year, I hate how they take shot after shots against our team, they would pick anyone other then the Lakers.... I cant wait to prove the East Coast wrong God i Hate ESPN
They like to stir up the fans. Honestly, they have nothing else to do because they get paid to just talk about issues and anything related to sports. If I were them, I'd pick controversial issues as well because who wants to always talk about good players and good teams. Obviously the fans do but you know they will have their own internal arguments which is kind of good because it will give them more viewers and the fans have something to talk about so it they did their job. I could be wrong though, maybe they really do have a bias.
How can they say the Hornets or Celtics gonna win it this year, I hate how they take shot after shots against our team, they would pick anyone other then the Lakers.... I cant wait to prove the East Coast wrong God i Hate ESPN
Wtf? How can they say other teams will win? Cuz they can? I don't think the Lakers have proven anything yet, anything at all. If anything, the Celtics can be saying "how can anyone pick against us?" cuz they're the damn champs.
Sheesh.
lol, Laker fans whine over everything.
Let them have their own opinion. Just because they aren't on our bandwagon doesn't mean they're being bias or are "haters."
Wtf? How can they say other teams will win? Cuz they can? I don't think the Lakers have proven anything yet, anything at all. If anything, the Celtics can be saying "how can anyone pick against us?" cuz they're the damn champs.
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You have always been a model for good conduct in my recollection. My capacity involved a more in-your-face attitude to other editors who were not aware of the inner workings and prior histories. I was relieved when Wales removed Mccoy's bio, as that was alway's Mccoy's wishes, my experience with McCoy is that he always had multi-conflicting interests due to his PTSD. The inability to get others who were concerned with their own contributions and not McCoy's wishes got me banned - several times! LOL! All I'm asking is that you verify that Wales removed McCoy's bio in the recent past and that should help to eliminate the expansion of McCoy's bio from eating up the Whitman article. (Barring ego's and information right activists.) My apologies for any past infringments! Thanks! 98.94.163.97
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So make Greece the permanent site for the Olympics. Let TV revenue pay for new and wondrous stadiums. It would help Greece, and it would inspire the world.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene
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Well Chris just because you favour 'diversity' politics with a yellow smiley face sticker over silly hot lines to report naqib sitings doesn't make make them any less divisive or repugnant
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Die Hetze gegen konservative Parteien ist mitschuldig an den schlimmen Anschlägen auf Gebäude und Personen der AfD #NazisRaus
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Your call for "citizen vigilante action only as a last resort" is anything but 'Democratic',
At least I home that is not the new definition.
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Murkowski's " fate" over her years in office has been "sealed" so many times I can't count.
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Global Marxism, unfettered migration and wealth redistribution is the only way Konrad. You da man.
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We need a law banning politicians.
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Big, big surprise! Another one of Kathleen Wynne's desperate scams to try and stay in power isn't all it's cracked up to be. Who could have guessed?
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I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
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I'm an independent who generally leans conservative and votes GOP more often than not, but intensely dislikes Trump. Mr. Eyman gets on my nerves once in a while, but I generally respect what he's doing, which is a lot more than I can say for Trump. Does that clear things up for you?
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Tough Spongebob
i'll have you know, i quit smoking three days ago
and only threatened to kill everyone 27 times
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Gotta love it when politicians call for a 'comprehensive' plan......
Look, the bottom line is thus.
ALL of these politicians, and I do mean ALL of them, whether R or D, want to raid the PF so as to pay for the follies they support.
They are PF addicts, plain and simple, and salivate at the opportunity to spend the PF upon their own favourite projects, be they capital or social.
They are not to be trusted with the PF, ever.
Why?
Because it is not 'their' money.
It is ours, the citizens of Alaska.
Hammond had a good idea, that the PF would be used as both a 'rainy day fund' and a dividend unto the citizens of this great State, benefiting from the mineral payouts from what was taken from the citizens lands.
Unfortunately, as is common, once liars, sorry, (not really) I mean lawyers and politicians get involved, the original intent goes by the wayside in a major way.
Politicians, rather than citizen States-persons, want one thing, and one thing only.
Your money.
Thieves.
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I didn't say you favored him over me, I said you were treating us equally when it's blatantly clear to anyone looking in that there's only one party being actively disruptive here. I guess nothing I wrote actually registered, which in a way supports the second part of what I wrote. I'm sorry to be critical, but after two weeks of this crap, day in, day out, getting hammered with warnings and other bogus edits, and even trying to step back for the last four days, and still seeing myself blamed by you for this, and insulted, and generally treated as just as much crap as the person actively doing all of this, I had to say something. And you're still doing it.
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Are you for real? Duck fan? Give me a break, your no Duck fan. Go back to your Purple and Mold site please. Makes me laugh when they win 1 game in 13 years and now they come out in force as to why I have no idea because I've never ever had any type of interest of going to their WEBSITE. Who cares about that UGLY Purple and Mold. Your days are done as soon as 2018 but remember if Hebert plays all bets are off. I would seriously LAUGH my you know what off if we were to win tonight because Husky fans would be so dejected it would be priceless.
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My family has been here for 400 years as Acadians and apparently to this young lady I am a colonizer to. You are right Telology how does she logically escape the colonizer label anymore than the rest of us.
In fact her parents knowingly moved here from the ME (I presume) so they were actively involved as colonizers morseo than us who just happened to be born here....man I bet they get the gears at home.
The young when their brains are expanding at school...so special.
I suppose she gladly accepts her subsidized education from Canada.
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If reading this article helps keep people aware that weather in Alaska is always a factor, then i don't mind em one bit. The fewer people that aren't prepared the better.
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`: What on earth are you talking about? Regarding the following quote of mine: ``Even if the officer was unaware of the convenience store robbery, Brown himself was certainly aware of it. Furthermore, Brown did not know that the officer was unaware of it.`` Yes, that is exactly what I stated. I never said that that quote of mine needs to be placed in the article. Nor did I state that the substance of that quote needs to be placed in the article. That quote was used as my rationale in arriving at my conclusion that the robbery is germane to the article. Whether or not the robbery is germane to the article is the exact topic of this Talk Page thread. So, stop accusing people (i.e., me) of inappropriate conduct. That's twice now. I am doing exactly what this Talk Page is intended for. Don't tell me what quotes and what topics and what content I can or cannot use in supporting my arguments. Also, stop putting words in people's (i.e., my) mouth. If it continues, I am taking further action. Thanks. `
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Is that meant to be taken seriously? Do you honestly believe the Church is, as you modernists like to say, in a "better place" in the post Vatican II era? Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the truism of LEX ORANDI, LEX CREDENDI.
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Gabor nails it again. A voice of reason. #BorisJohnsonShouldNotBePM https://t.co/OzkGK5vL7n
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The majority of this food will end up in the garbage, and I seriously doubt these "needy" families are unable to afford a $6 box of oatmeal that will feed a family of 5 for a month. This plainly and simply enables lazy parents who want to pawn their kids off on the school district.
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Senator Flake is a true American hero who would rather leave the senate than be forced to kiss the Chumps s.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a vertebral spacer for artificial vertebrae and more particularly, to an adjustable vertebral spacer that allows adjustment of the height (length) and tilting angle.
2. Description of the Related Art
In a vertebral body replacement, a vertebral spacer for artificial vertebrae is usually used to replace or treat the anterior column of the spine after the resection of spinal tumors or severely fractured anterior spinal elements. By means of a surgery operation the diseased vertebral body is resected, and a vertebral spacer is installed to replace the resected vertebral body, and affixed in place by means of a pedical screw or vertebral plate, resuming the function of the patient's spinal column.
Conventional vertebral spacer designs include two types, i.e., the mesh cage type and the adjustable type. FIG. 1a shows a cage type vertebral spacer 10. The mesh cage type vertebral spacer 10 is properly cut subject to the length of the resected vertebral body so that the vertebral spacer 10 can be set in between the adjacent upper and lower vertebral bodies. The major drawback of this design of mesh cage type vertebral spacer 10 is the non-adjustability of the height, and it needs to be trimmed several times during the surgery operation, wasting much the operation time. Further, the lordosis angle between the horizontal angle-like irregular spikes and the vertebral endplate does not match, and the spikes pierce the vertebral endplate, accelerating sagging.
FIG. 1b shows an adjustable design of vertebral spacer 20. According to this design, the top and bottom endplates 20a are respectively fastened to the spacer body of the vertebral spacer 20 by means of a screw joint so that the endplates 20a are rotatable to adjust the height of the vertebral spacer 20. However, the fusion and fixation stability between the endplates 20a and the spinal column of the patient determines the successability of the vertebral body displacement. The reasons of failures in surgical operations using this adjustable design of vertebral spacer 20 include (1) slipping of the adjustable vertebral spacer from the predetermined position, and (2) sagging of the artificial vertebral spacer or piercing the artificial vertebral spacer through the adjacent upper and lower vertebral bodies to cause vertebral destruction.
Therefore, it is desirable to provide a vertebral spacer that eliminates the aforesaid problems.
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==Racist Outburst==
David Starkey recently appeared on BBC news to commentate on the London riots. He made series of extremely controversial statements about 'black culture', infering that it is inferior to white culture. Here is the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517 Someone with the ability ought to add this to his page as it is likely to mark a significant turning point in his career and public perception. That, and he ought to be publically shamed for his disgusting comments, but thats just my humble opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by "
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So Why Are These Stupid Idiots Here are for Socialism,Communism,Guess they are just plain Retarded
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Let this not happen to Fairbanks :(
Every time we spend our money at a chain store, we're sending most of it Outside. In Fairbanks at least, small businesses have started coming back--their prices are better, they have higher-quality stock, and their staff is actually knowledgeable. I'd rather support a business that's at LEAST Alaskan-owned anyday.
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Go and fall off a cliff and die you pathetic bastard.
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All those curly brackets make my eyes go funny! There were four or more other languages in the error list and now there aren't. mytime= Fri 12:53, wikitime= "
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Actually both points are relevant. A moving vehicle can be a dangerous weapon.
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The difference is I don't claim to be a christian. I don't think you were following...the example about blacks/bus was to point out how bad discrimination is. Saying the gays can buy remade cakes when the baker makes custom wedding cakes makes no sense
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Marsha: Thank you for the article. What a lot of persons don't know is that a Base Commander can ban a person from going on base for all kinds of reasons and there is not much you can do about it. If it happens you can take it to your elected officials or the press. So the question is who the Fort DeRussy Commander? Sam
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I agree with the sentiment, but respectfully disagree with lifting it. We live in different times now, it's unfortunate but given options, they will be exploited. Let's say we lift it, someone takes advantage of it, then what? reinstate til we're tired of it again? If we don't, incidents will only increase at that point.
Genuinely interested in the response, this is my logic on the subject, but if there's a clear (better) solution I'm all for it.
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On this board? That's certainly the dog whistle I'm hearing. Not saying you Dr. The comment section as a whole.
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I'm glad dish came to its senses. Would have had to dump Dish when our contract was up. Need to watch KTUU
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Socialists have NO idea what economy or freedom is. They think that taking R10 from the left pocket and putting it into the right one, is an economy. They thing that freedom is allowing people to say and do what nomenclature says.
The socialists are liars because they don't know how the world works, and to explain it they have to come up with lies.
On the other hand capitalism is essentially a carbon copy of the way the nature works. It is simply a default state of things.
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Seems like a long list of misleading examples. For example a business owner with $80,000 income will not be able to split that with a non-working spouse to achieve a lower tax rate. However, a salary earner with $80,000 income would not be able to split that income with a non-working spouse in any case. Why should the business owner pay tax at a lower rate than the salary earner?
Similarly the writer sheds crocodile tears over the fact that some of the bank account interest on business savings might be taxed. How much could that be these days? On the other hand if the business owner is fortunate enough to earn large profits through passive investments on the stock market, that amounts to a large amount of extra RRSP room. Why should that be an exclusive entitlement of business owners?
High income earners who incorporate have had a good ride for many years. It's high time that they started paying tax at the same rate as the rest of us who are not corporations.
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Why is it your concern if I'm collecting PERS? I'm not a retiree. I'm a newer worker under Tier 3. But what is the relevance? Was my letter not factual?
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'tis the season
'tis the season to share treats ;) - I changed the motto to Reformation Day and will keep changing. Singing the motet was a great experience, "
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Give a simple minded bully some power and what do you get?
LTD.
These people are out of control. They are building there own little kingdom where a few worthy better class of people can do ,it seems anything they desire. Just a thought but maybe Lane County commissioner Jay B can hold hearings on this topic. Ltd the local bully can it be saved
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Q:
C# Reference Excel Worksheet index in a select statement
Task:
I need to load the contents of an Excel spreadsheet worksheet into a datagridview using C#.
Progress:
I've connected to an Excel spreadsheet through the OLEdbConnection and I need to reference the first worksheet by worksheet index in my select statement. (I will not know what the name of the worksheet will be, but we will ALWAYS load the first worksheet.) Below is the code I have so far...
tbFileName.Text = openFileDialog1.FileName;
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection MyConnection;
System.Data.DataSet DtSet;
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter MyCommand;
MyConnection = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + tbFileName.Text + ";Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;");
//MyCommand = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [FlexAccountView$]", MyConnection); <-- accessing worksheet by name...
**MyCommand = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter("select * from " + [need worksheet index reference here], MyConnection);**
I know this is easy, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank today. I've searched sOf, but haven't been able to spot what I'm looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.
A:
This may not be the best way to do it, but this is what I was able to pull from the links Sorceri provided..
OleDbConnection MyConnection;
DataSet DtSet;
OleDbDataAdapter MyCommand;
MyConnection = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + tbFileName.Text + ";Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;");
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application xlApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
//get the workbook
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook excelBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(tbFileName.Text);
//get the first worksheet
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet wSheet = excelBook.Sheets.Item[1];
//reference the name of the worksheet from the identified spreadsheet item
MyCommand = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [" + wSheet.Name + "$]", MyConnection);
Hopefully this will help someone find it a little quicker.
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Now that's something I never really paid a great deal of attention to, but I've seen both designations on different forms. So in which cases is it deliberate, and in which is it a lack of clarity or understanding?
That's jiust it - he doesn't say it's bad... he says homosexuality is not a sin.
How nice of His Holiness to throw gays and lesbians a bone. But, he goes on to claim that homosexual acts are a sin. Why? Because one assumes that such acts occur out of wedlock? Well, golly gee, if those gay sinners were married, then said acts wouldn't be sinful at all! Oh wait... same sex marriage baaaaaaaaad. Oh well, painted into another corner. And judging by all the superlatives in your post, you sure seem to support the position.
Yet you label a call for understanding and tolerance "baloney" — all the while demanding retractions and dissociations from those who label you what such remarks only prove you to be — anti-gay!
No kidding. I thought this new pope would be a step backwards from the last one who gave the only good pope a heart attack but this is ridiculous. He is the dark ages. The bright side is that he will speed yet another organized religion into irrelevancy.
My question would be why isn't it irrelevant already? People actually listen to this guy? Creepy.
Unless one is Catholic, the Pope can babble all he likes and it amounts to nothing more than a Page 2 story. I suspect that you post the link to support your view that gay is bad ~ any Pope in a storm.
Stop and consider ~ a group of people don't hem and haw in the back ground of their social construct and arbitrarily assign prejudices to one another. They come to conclusions on an individual's bigotry or tolerance based on that individual's behavior over a period of time.
OK, rather than beat around your bush, the majority believe you to be homophobic because you've come off that way for a very long time. It's not as though there's been some kind of conspiracy to label you so. poly is an avowed and often rabid atheist, matt is a devoted, often delusional conservative and your are homophobic.
That you deny it so strenuously is especially laughable in light on the original subject of this post and your support of the Pope's views on the issue. Please note my civility. I do not want the Moderators involved in my response to you again.
Mummer's Day Parade is on life support this year. Philly has cut back its subsidy (because the city is on the verge of bankruptcy . . . so what else is new) and the parade is going to be like a dog this year (cur-tailed).
Pope Benedict scored a double hit with just one shot in his end of year address at the Vatican when he blew wide open the fallacy of 'gender theory' whilst demolishing the US led 'tolerance' baloney that supports it. The only thing he didn't do is nail the intolerant backlash that will inevitably follow.
km
What do you mean "debunks". He doesn't do that at all. What he does is give his opinion based on his religious thinking. While I might tend to agree with some of what he says, he certainly is not an authority that I give a single credence to. Just a guy selected by a bunch of people to be the head of their group. Not my group so what he says is nothing to me.
To say he "debunks" something is to say he disproves something and he just is giving his opinion. Again, not important to me at all
dave
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We can be relieved that it was just a "ding-bat" and not a self-appointed terrorist psycho. Make him repair the garage door, even if you have to hire a journeyman carpenter to show him how.
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Nowhere have I "defended this gang of four as the only thing standing between the RCC and false teaching". Overheated rhetoric and personal assessment do not facts make.
My position was and remains that they have requested a clarification for the purpose of confirming the brethren from the individual currently in the chair of Peter, and such a request is seemly and needed.
When you write "Burke and his henchmen", you leave the impression that in order to name the other three you would have to go look them up, and I believe this is for a reason. But since you only name him in dozens of posts, calling Hans Küng a "single theologian", as though it were a substantive issue, seems disingenuous.
Nor did anyone "win at the last conclave". The two synods affirmed the Church's teaching that marriage is indissoluble.
I’ll put “gang of four” “henchmen”, "grave confusion”, and “sour faced” in the same bag as David Gibson’s and Carol Glatz’ inflammatory rhetoric and take it to the trash.
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How about alternative F: "I think this is a bad idea, and here's why."
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Way more to this story!
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"The Tao that can be spoken of is not Tao" This my favorite line from the Tao Te Chang, but I think you severely misunderstand it if you think it supports agnosticism. Agnosticism is a kind of philosophical skepticism. This line from Taosim is NOT skepticism, but rather something akin to the negative theology in Aquinas, Augustine, and pseudo dionysius
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Doctors have a role, but they did not direct the opioid death tragedy.
"an issue that is often overshadowed by reports of opioid misuse is that many patients who could benefit from the drugs aren't getting them."
Dr. Theman didn't say that.
However, this "MORE narcotics is (are?) better" statement informed 2010 Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic NON-CANCER Pain - a deadly mistake:
(http://nationalpaincentre.mcmaster.ca/documents/opioid_guideline_part_b_v5_6.pdf)
New Guidelines are on the way from the National Pain Centre, funded by tax dollars ($458,248) (https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/campaigns/national-anti-drug-strategy/funding-programs/anti-drug-strategy-initiatives-funded-projects.html). Let's hope the people telling doctors what is "safe" in 2017 have better judgment.
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Home Opinion Columns Hope and Humility
Hope and Humility
The elections have tamed the hubris of political powers-that-be. But they raise many questions
To win the national elections, BJP needs to dominate the Hindi heartland. That dominance is decisively broken.
Elections, it is often said, humble the high and mighty. But the recently concluded state elections should be read as a humbling experience for all political parties. It is undoubtedly a massive blow for the BJP. To win the national elections, it needs to dominate the Hindi heartland. That dominance is decisively broken. It makes 2019 very competitive. Narendra Modi’s ability to swing elections in a commanding way is waning. His frustration is showing in that the only edge left to his rhetoric is low blows against the Gandhis. Ironically, it diminished him and elevated them. It has also lost two marquee chief ministers, in Shivraj Chouhan and Raman Singh. Modi has managed to destroy the enduring state level assets built up in these states. Its southward march was stopped in Telangana. More importantly, the BJP is now running on ideological bankruptcy: A failing development plank, buttressed by a more virulent Hindutva plank, exemplified by Yogi Adityanath’s 70-odd rallies. The election is also a reminder that communication matters. But any claim that the election is about mere rhetoric or “post-truth” has, yet again, been busted. The tide is turning against it, and the BJP has no strategy to counter the trend. From a Congress-mukt Bharat to the prospect of a BJP-rahit Hindi heartland is a big shift.
The Congress has got a new wind in its sails. This election is a potential turning point in Rahul Gandhi’s career: The party is on a revival path. He provides a potential centre for an alliance, and the sheer sense of vacuum in the party and the Opposition is abating. But the biggest boost the party will get is not just the numbers. It will be catalysing a larger shift across a number of institutions. Opportunists in politics will begin to hedge their bets. Those cowed by the prospect of an eternal BJP dominance will find their voice. The Indian capital and the media, those two engines trying to manufacture public opinion, will give the Congress more space. This momentum can be reinforcing. Chhattisgarh was a wonderful achievement and not anticipated by virtually anyone. But it is not inconsistent with this narrative to say that the Congress still needs to worry a great deal as well. There are humbling lessons for it as well. Very frankly, in Rajasthan, the verdict should have been more decisive in its favour; in Madhya Pradesh, despite deep agrarian crisis and weariness of a 15-year incumbent, the Congress could not make a decisive impact. It has not been able to make a more decisive dent in the BJP’s voteshare. What should have been a stronger wave is a moderate tide. It is much to draw strength from, but too premature to gloat over.
As the Congress runs to claim the Hindutva centre, it will push the BJP even more rightwards
The prognosticators of alliance politics also need humbling. The Congress was clearly not able to transfer its votes or influence in Telangana despite an alliance. It would also be a mistake to conclude anything about what the result might have been, if there had been a pre-poll Congress-BSP alliance. The logic of transferring votes is not easy to discern, once you go constituency by constituency; nor is voting a simple calculus of social coalitions. We actually know much less about voting behaviour than we pretend to know: This is partly because our paradigms are still too socially deterministic than actual voting behaviour suggests. On the other hand, in such close elections, marginal adjustments matter. The TRS has emerged a big winner and Chandrababu Naidu’s ambition to play national convenor will have more competition. So, in any future politics of alliances, all parties, from the BSP to Congress, will have to play the game sensitively.
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The ideological messaging of these elections will also humble all sides of the ideological debate. It is hard to call this election a decisive rejection of Hindutva politics, particularly in a state like Rajasthan. There is probably an instinctive recoil at the coarseness of a Yogi Adityanath and the increasing vileness of BJP’s politics. But the revulsion is not decisive enough for us to be complacent. Indeed, the danger is, with the Hindi heartland so closely poised, the BJP’s strategy will be to instigate a narrative that the Congress cannot govern. As the Congress runs to claim the Hindutva centre, it will push the BJP even more rightwards. Higher turnouts on both sides, but no decisive waves suggests a possibly more polarised electorate in these states. The lack of decisiveness in the mandate portends more conflict in the short run, which will require deft handling.
But the larger humbling lesson is this: India’s development model is producing serious and systemic discontent. As Neelanjan Sircar had noted, a lot of the battles in Madhya Pradesh were around very local reputations, stories of entrenched local corruption. There are no stories of decisive institutional transformations. The agrarian crisis almost catapulted Congress to power in Gujarat, and was the single biggest source of discontent in states like Madhya Pradesh, and was an undercurrent in Rajasthan. It seems that the TRS consolidated power by directly addressing these issues in the form of income support for farmers. Chouhan had managed that constituency well. But even his success ran up against the structural limitations that ensconce Indian agriculture.
But the truth is all parties have limited instruments to deal with these structural crises. The transformation to a non-agrarian economy is not fast enough, or reliable enough. The fact that people have expressed discontent with one dispensation is not proof that they are finding salvation in the other. At the end of the day, these elections are about a competing narrative only in a limited sense: A ruling dispensation full of arrogance, hubris, and willing to corrode all civil society and institutions competing with a Congress that is seen as a last defensive stance of an embattled republic. 2019 feels more like a fight for survival of the republic, not the buoyant narrative of a young nation marching into the future. It is important that the Indian Republic win the battle for survival. But, creating an effective political dispensation that addresses the big challenges that face India will remain elusive.
In that context, this election is significant. Perhaps democracies get invigorated, not by grand narratives, but the elixir of change itself. This election restores the balance of power in Indian democracy, and gives it an opportunity to find its true measure. But it also raises as many questions as it answers.
(The writer is vice chancellor of Ashoka University. Views are personal)
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Donc, selon toi, Universalis, Britannica, les auteurs tels que Grevisse et les autres qui ont écrit les ouvrages décrits ne sont finalement que des cons et seul toi détiens la vérité. Bref, je vois que la discussion est impossible puisque tu es sûr de toi. ©éréales Kille® | | ☺ | en ce
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Then you do not know many people or are lying through your teeth. I live in Eagle River and work in town. I run into many, many more Trump supporters than Hillary Supporters, I run into a lot of Johnson supporters also. I get it, people that flock together vote similarly, but saying that you know no one voting for anything other than your own candidate is asinine.
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@OMG_ImSoAwesome True slow your role bitch n get your ass outta here 😉🐼xx
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If enough Republicans are willing to stand up for this, a Dream Act could pass. And, just maybe, that could be the beginning of a movement to engage on genuine discussions about immigration reform.
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In this discussion, "Republicans have got to go" means that Republicans should get out of policy-making positions and let more reasonable people figure out how to reduce mass shootings and gun violence in general. In Hawaii, Democrats control politics, and Hawaii has very strict gun control laws and a very low rate of gun violence.
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Survey research typically requires significant statistical assessment to validate questions & pending results, yet Nik has been an expert from the first day he got his Survey Monkey account.
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Rachel’s gonna Rachel. We knew all along, even if we tried to believe otherwise. Many a villain’s megalomaniacal scramble to the top has been fueled by a compulsive thirst to supersede her origins, but Rachel’s genesis is singularly twisted: Not only does she stab her own negligent mother in the gut with a kitchen knife, completing what she believes to be an inevitable series of dramatic events in her own story, but she doesn’t actually give a damn about Neolution’s ideology, beyond what is necessary to elevate her to its highest rungs. If Neolution follows the science, then by God, she will be the science they follow.
With all the deranged resolve of a dictator, Rachel proclaims to the BrightBorn board that she will combine and accelerate human trials of cloning and bot therapy. Even worse, she plans to keep them both in-house — no more illusions of autonomy for clones, just the excruciating agony of life as a lab rat. At last, she literally reclaims her own biology — and the biology of those clones whom she deems subpar. Susan is probably right that by turning on her sestras, she is effectively signing her own death warrant — not least of all considering she kills her mother because she saw a metaphorical version of it in a vision programmed by Zombie Westmoreland himself. (Oh, by the way, that Victorian billionaire is still alive.)
Let’s take stock in the wake of this finale’s extremely stressful cliffhanger.
At the very least, Alison and Donnie are safely hidden away with Helena, eatin’ intestine stew in Helena’s DIYurt. And MK, our wild card, remains in the wind.
Ferdinand, after showing up at Rachel’s hotel room to beg yet again for sex and professional partnership (yep, still the worst!), is now back at the safehouse, holding Siobhan and Kira at gunpoint. Sarah only finds out when, lying on the beach with a major stab wound to her thigh after having been nearly beaten to death by Rachel’s pimp cane, she calls S for help. So that’s a fun dilemma that won’t be solved for another year.
Krystal is safely detained at the comics shop, despite being the most brilliant idiot on this green Earth. The only reason this girl is still alive is because she’s got another self-defense system besides krav maga: a complete void of critical-thinking skills. Her intellect has always been a treat in the midst of this struggle for the future of humanity, but her moment this season is a stroke of genius. Even after (somehow) putting 99 percent of the puzzle together and (somehow) gaining the power to compel Felix and Art to tell her the truth, she still rejects the idea that she’s a clone because Sarah, her genetic identical, is “a seven at best, and I’ve been told I’m a 10.” So they let her go on believing her frankencosmetics conspiracy theory, and she offers all her intel practically for free. What a bargain! Of course, this idiot savant must be protected at all costs, especially since her information brings them to Dr. Ian Van Lier, whose coerced cooperation leads them back to the island and to Delphine. Speaking of Van Lier, he became a thing pretty quickly, didn’t he? Now that he’s killed his protegé/patient Evie Cho, it’s clear he answers to the board that just watches it all happen, if not to Westmoreland himself.
Evie is … dead? For her arc to end with such dramatic irony, a ruthless Icarus of a scientist who flies too close to the sun and is destroyed by the very technology and people she created, would be fitting. But given that Orphan Black has long subscribed to the timeless Dune rule of storytelling (“never count a human as dead until you see his body”), and given that the camera pulls out just far enough to mask positive death signs … well, pardon my skepticism.
The murder-by-bot implication: These bots essentially give Neolution control over every human who purchases one. A villainous plan for world domination via secretly mind-controlling consumer technology is a few steps too far down Technophobic Cliché Lane for my taste, not to mention how it’s significantly out of line with the rest of this show’s painstaking attention to contemporary scientific detail, but whatever.
Cho was the one who ordered the hit on Delphine, since her Leda loyalty was a threat in the “bots vs. clones” war. (Seriously, Siobhan? Is this a ‘90s toy commercial?) Duko stops short of killing her, though, thanks to Krystal’s blessedly obnoxious ringtone (a knockoff of Kesha?) and the suspiciously timely arrival of Van Lier, who whisks her away on behalf of his shadowy overlords to the Island of Dr. P.T. Westmore(au)land, where she’s nursed back to health by Gruff Dude from Rachel’s visions. He is now “the Messenger,” though his real identity remains to be seen — he might actually be Westmoreland himself. Either that, or he really is a messenger and Westmoreland is actually a Head in Jar plopped on Rachel’s doorstep.
Delphine’s kidnapping is quite felicitous, since it puts her in the right place at the right time to save Cosima’s life, just as she’s about to collapse from hypothermia after wandering in the woods with Charlotte, attempting to find the boat in which Susan has so magnanimously urged them to escape Rachel’s bloodlust. Delphine also has a secret stash of Cosima’s cure (“our homework,” she adorably calls it), presumably obtained by the Messenger from Susan, with which Cosima (and Charlotte) will finally be saved.
Can we stop and appreciate for a second that Cosima just cured her own completely unique genetic disease? Teetering on the brink of death for like a year, in the face of countless devastating setbacks, Cosima Niehaus just cured her own damn disease. If anyone has won at natural selection, it’s her. It makes Susan’s betrayal that much grosser by comparison — she offers the cure to Rachel within seconds of Cosima announcing she’s found it, locking her out of her own data and salvation — especially considering how scandalized she is that Rachel would turn around and betray her.
Susan Duncan is truly a piece of work. She’s a classic emotional abuser: Dependent on whomever she’s manipulating at a given point, she plays either the benevolent creator (to Rachel, claiming Sarah and Cosima have brought her “so much joy”) or the dutiful scientist (to Cosima, insisting the theft of her research is “the cost of progress”). Which one are you, woman? Are you a righteous defender of the Ledas’ humanity, or a ruthless traitor like your daughter, the terrible monster to your Frankenstein? Anyway, this might all be moot — Susan may not survive being tied to a chair, bleeding out in the bedroom she so reveres. Still, she sure seems to talk a lot for a person who’s been severely bleeding for a good 45 minutes.
Remaining Questions:
What does a 200-year-old crazy rich guy look like?
Sarah will find the boat, right?
Where was Alison? Was she just outside pooping this whole episode?
Will anyone ever just bleed out or die like a regular person on this show?
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Y QUIéN SOS VOS PARA BLOQUEAR A MÁS FUERTE QUE VOS...!!!??? ACASO PUBLICASTE 15 LIBROS EN 15 AÑOS...!!!??? https://www.idref.fr/095670963?fbclid=IwAR0gfn2OvxriWwOXV3QnbWNT0ELJ9gIcT4_siB4E2kH8PPzTHaE2z78HSo8 PEDAZO DE MEDIOCRE...!!! EC
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The issue isn't whether a body part such as sperm or ovum or zygote is biologically human or alive. Each cell has a full complement of DNA. In the context of abortion, totipotency goes to the question of potential, not certainty of the end goal, which under perfect conditions produces a fully formed, viable person. The core issues are at what point does that occur in both a biological and legal sense, and who is legally in charge of the situation in the interim? I come down squarely on the woman's side. The woman is a legal person with all that implies. She has a right to privacy and bodily integrity. Is a zygote a person in the legal sense? No. Nor is a fetus or an embryo. In Roe v Wade, the Court decided that the state has an "important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life" from the point of viability on, but that prior to viability, the woman's fundamental rights are more compelling than that of the state. I adhere to that position.
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What kind of IT resource goes more than a few months without a job? Only someone without skills. Every firm I know including our own snaps up applicants the second we see them (those that have skills at least).
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RFA Thanks
Thank you for your comments on my RFA. Even though it failed with 28 supports, 42 opposes, and 15 neutrals, I am grateful for the suggestions and advice I have received and I do hope to improve as a Wikipedian. If you ever need my help in any endeavor, feel free to drop me a line. face217 "
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What about Nathan Cullen? I agree that the Trudeau liberals are losing their golden glow which could open opportunities for the NDP.
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== Admin? == It occurs to me that WikiProject:Physics could use its own in-house admin, so we can deal with crap faster. You look like the most qualifiedif you're interested, I'd support you.
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Thanks for telling the rest of the story . Shannyn can't be counted on to put things in the proper perspective . Without the comment section readers would have never known what the real deal was. She defends herself by saying she has a 700 word story limit. Then why did she waste writing the parts about baseball and the confederate flag instead of telling readers what was really going on and why this issue was contested ?
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You should definitely learn about how money is created, here are a couple of videos on how this works in the US, the process in Canada follows the same basic principles but is a little less open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJj5La8tWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7sBehblZk8
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It isn't irrelevant when that is where the left seems to be taking us.
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Who has to hold celebration is Canada. While Trudeau is getting cozy with Nazi regime in Ukraine, he might lose any support from Russia for Canadian Arctic. Till 2014 Russia were on Canadian side. Now they might support US claims on Arctic - and this is a reason why Rex Tillerson was nominated in first place - to convince Russian about their claims...
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Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
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Our soldiers enjoy the protections of the Geneva Conventions. If Khadr was afforded basic legal and human rights at the time, Canada would not be liable. Instead, Canada facilitated and acquiesced in the illegal imprisonment and torture of a child soldier who was captured on a battle field.
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The NDP lost the last election in BC because of their opposition to pipelines...they will lose this one for the same reason. These guys surround themselves with a cadre of left wing nut-jobs, and it's like an echo-chamber. Most of BC support pipeline's, support development, and wants nothing to do with this.
Thing is, I don't like CC and the Liberal gov't in BC, but the NDP, with this stance, has effectively handed the election to them.
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<Absolutely. It's annoying that PWI doesn't have a website or something to publish them on - it would be seriously helpful. It's a very useful phrase. ) Yea, I'll probably start with Nemeth I think. It's in the best condition, so it'll be easy enough to get to GA standard. ♥♥♥♥ 14:22, 1 January 2010"
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No wonder retired and current elected officials aren't joining in the choir of out-of-reach healthcare insurance costs in Alaska. Read this elected officials healthcare report:
http://doa.alaska.gov/drb/pdf/epors/Alaska_rpt063014_EPORS_FINAL.PDF
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` ::::Well, you DID say on the incident page that you thought I was acting in bad faith... And the suggestion you make is noted...most of the time I do do that. The reason why I put the ``go to hell`` thing in there was because of his response to my last edit. And believe me, persistency is this guy's strong point. He does have problems with the Internet in general- threatening lawsuits against the Wiki, violating Godwin's law on a regular basis when he doesn't get his way, stalking users (TPIRFanSteve, for one), and just overall being a giant boil on the ass of the Internet. I hope he does leave me alone, but hope only gets you so far. We'll see what happens. `
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The score for the 1982 world championship was 18-15, and not 18-16 as listed in the article. Tim Sandle
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Trump's allegation that the appellate court's position was "so political" is true, but that's a tautological statement insofar as everything a court does is both influenced by and influential to politics.
There is, however, zero evidence to suggest that political bias was to blame for the court's decision. This didn't stop Trump from launching an evidence-free attack alleging same, nor making his irresponsible “so-called judge” comment.
Gorsuch has established himself near the pinnacle of his profession for his ability to adjudicate complex legal and ethical issues, while Trump has no judicial experience whatsoever. Do you suppose it's possible that Gorsuch, who took a monstrous personal risk by expressing his contrarian view, is in a better position to evaluate judicial conduct than Trump is?
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` ::::::::That can easily fit in the ``singles`` section of the album article.— `
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Thread on WP:AN
There is a thread on WP:AN whioch concerns your actions, it is at Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Improper_archiving_of_a_user_category_for_discussion.
As far as I am concerned the matter is now dealt with satisfactorily.
First, thank you for notifying me. I appreciate it.
Second, My apologies for not being around when the discussion was taking place.
Third, I'm glad that the discussion was resolved to your satisfaction.
I hope you're having a great day ) -
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Ya se informo a un biblotecario de su actitud ferozmente retrógrada, piense bien antes dejarse llevar por sus impulsos. saludos.
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Good schools are commie training camps? Well that explains why you're a cretin.
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Trump was well ahead in the popular vote until the tally from California started to roll in. The points that I bring up that you regard as "my opinion" and as having no veracity I got from real life experience that was affirmed by post election research and conceded by democratic talking heads on MSNBC. So if you think it's merely my opinion, take that up with the DNC. Because my facts were substantiated by -democrats-. How dare you insinuate that I'm not a "thinking adult" when my thoughts were affirmed by -democrats-. False witness is a mortal sin. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and regard it as an honest mistake on your part, as opposed to a snooty self righteous jab that it came across as.
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Johnny's always been a role model. Honest. Hard working. Caring. Smart. Johnny viewed his job as representing the 99% of us who don't have a lobbyist. And he mentored innumerable candidates to success in order to help make this a better state. It's been an honor to have Johnny as my Senator. FDR once said in effect that the measure of a person is not if they stand up for those who have much, it is if they'll dare to stand up for those who have little. Johnny stood for all of us.
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The other 4 members of the team managed to proudly put their hands over their heart. If I were receiving a gold medal, I would, too.
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Leitch is the only candidate with any worth at all in this race. The rest are cucks and imbeciles, especially O'leery.
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::Thanks for the reply. I completely understand and agree with your reason. I have never used findagrave as a research tool, nor would I ever. But in this case it, and findadeath.com (another site that irks me) and the facebook page of the woman who started the campaign for the marker, are the only sources featuring the photograph. And as I mentioned, since findagrave is already used in the article, I think it would be okay to use here again. I have recived a video and more photos of the marker, and it is indeed in the Entwistle/Ross family plot. Anyway, I'll work on an encyclopedic entry and if you say it needs more or less, I am flexible. Thanks
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That was not a whine, simply an objective observation.
One solution is obvious. Relegate the Catechism to where it belongs, on library shelves ... preferably the really high ones that no one can reach.
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Punto 3: , qui però la cosa è soggettiva, ho IMO reso più scorrevoli e meno prolissi i periodi conclusivi in questo modo: A confermare tale impressione anche le parole dello stesso giocatore che, una volta rinnovato il contratto, dichiarò al Guardian di aver, per la prima volta nella sua carriera, considerato l eventualità di lasciare Liverpool[31]; il club aveva rimpiazzato il tecnico Houllier con lo spagnolo Rafael Benítez, il quale a sua volta aveva convinto Gerrard a rinunciare all offerta del Chelsea di 20 milioni di sterline (circa 30 milioni di euro)[32]. Ho ritenuto comunque significativo mantenere una certa completezza, perché sì si parla del trasferimento mancato al Chelsea, ma anche del cambio di guida tecnica (e Houllier fu l uomo che lanciò Gerrard...). What il pazzo profeta dell
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Words cannot describe the pain we are in. My uncle is gone far too soon. We the family need answers.
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Insuloschema
Insuloschema is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Insuloschema barbarae, which is found in California, United States. The species is endemic to Santa Barbara Island.
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ANY weapon used to protect the Pope is a weapon used to protect a hypocrite.
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Unfortunately parroting the Liberal party line which the Liberals have been paying lip service to while doing nothing.
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“@TheRealMFast: I hate this shit like why y'all bitches think that's cute? http://t.co/UXSzeXGUjU”<total clothing violation
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Yes, I wasn't trying to correct the names ... I was just trying to flag the issue, but this should be done on the article page, not the talk page, as nobody will look here ...
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