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They were found this afternoon. RG it would help if you updated your website. Lots of people were worried about this couple. I had to go to KEZI to find out what happened.
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Thiago Silva makes Chelsea vow; comes clean on West Brom blunder
The Brazilian has vowed to make amends after his high-profile gaffe at The Hawthorns and has set out his stall for the rest of the season...
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Driving safely is a matter of maintaining control of your vehicle at all times. That means increased following distance and planning ahead at intersections. Studs promote bad driving habits, and will get you in trouble in some conditions. Nokian or Blizzaks provide equal to superior grip in most conditions but don't give that false sense of security. No matter what, winter driving requires extra caution and good judgement.
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Past Presidents did nothing to address the issue of illegal immigration, and now Trump has to clean up their mess. He's receiving resistance from people who are scared, politicians trying to protect their own image, and a host of other obstacles to doing what simply needs to be done. Rapid demographic change, plus a worsening economy and uncertainty, all feed the narrative of declining American power, and Trump is trying to slam the brakes. He may not be the President many Americans want, but he's the one they need.
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Art. I only arrested 1575 DUI's during my first eleven years as a Trooper. Death and carnage on the highways was not acceptable to me or our team of Troopers, and I care not how the offending drivers are impacted. By the time a police officer catches the DUI they have committed at least 20 prior offenses and just not been caught per NHTSA. That was a ratio I would not accept. I targeted DUI's and our highways got safer and the bars even began ordering cabs in mass at closing because they knew our team and I were out there patrolling for them. It was cheaper for them to pay for cabs than not have their perpetual customer ranks in jail and not returning to their bars. I gave one DUI a break in 1967,. charged him for speeding, drove him home as he was only a 10% when we needed 15% then. He claimed at trial he was too drunk to know he was speeding. The judge tore me a new one for not filing the DUI. I never made that error again. Never gave another DUI a break either.
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Be careful Canada - Putin claims he has the world's strongest military now.
Special thanks to the weak president Obama.
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Not attending college was probably the best decision that you ever made.
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Just discovered I have been insulted for raising this question. Have posted a defence at [] - Testbed
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In Canada the Good and Stupid, he'll probably get off.
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It's a good reminder to those who supported the previous attacks in France, Germany and England that these tactics can be used against others too.
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Score makes the game seem worse than it really was but coaching and second half adjustments by the better coach won the game. Long Beach adjusted the post play with better spacing and getting the ball in to the center quicker before UH could defend. Ganot lost because they failed to score. Now Allen is gone as is 10 scholarships with the present players and 1 new Hawaii HS recruit. 2 left but the good 4 year players all turned Ganot down. After all, if you are a good player who wants to turn Pro you aren't going to play for a Coach with no NBA playing experience, no NBA coaching experience, and little success coaching at the College level. Best Ganot can hope for is a reserve player from a good program that is tired on being on the bench. Losing record for the first time in a long, long time. SA should note that as a concern but too busy thinking up a spin on things. And without the leading scorer and rebounder, next year doesn't look much better only dreamers would think so.
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hELLO, TIPTOY, I HOPE YOU DIE. YOU ARE BEING SUCH A FREAKIN JEW, AND PLEASE, PLEASE GET OFF YOUR FATASS AND STOP MASTURBATING, BECAUSE ITS REALLY GETTING BAD. THE SEMINAL FLUID IS EVERYWHERE, BUT THEN AGAIN, I GUESS YOU LIKE IT THAT WAY, YOU FATASS MOTHER F****ER. GET A F***ING LIFE, AND GO FUCK YOURSELF, (YOU PROBABLY DO ANYWAY)
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No way all u niggers are employees of the month
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"Yep, you're who folks with IQs over 50 are talking about."
Translate that to English, from whatever gibberish you speaking.
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Another one of those evil church productions!
Only government-sponsored help should be permitted and only after joining the 'politically correct' party!
1st re-Post
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So glad to see new business in Hoquiam. Our town needs this and so do the residents! It will be a welcomed addition!!
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You are funny... Where in Toronto or the Suburbs do you really ever see Kids play outside on streets (that are full of parked cars)? They don't do that, so why would you waste precious space for something that only happens in a theoretical world? Rather build denser and create nice parks on every other corner where they can meet and hang out without 2,5t pickup cars with incompetent drivers waiting to run them over.
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This train will never be safe. HART and the contractors are selling us lies. Look at what happened in New Jersey yesterday. A train crashed into the Hoboken station. One person died. Many injuries were the result of debris falling from the ceiling, not passengers. When Hanabusa and Formby leave in the next month we may end up with a compliant board. The only fix for and end to escalating costs and safety issues is to kill the project and tear the costly white elephant eyesore down.
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Yeah because zero sum games always workout so well.
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peddles backwards...........
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WRONG! Do some research before you print fake news. If they worked for the government that would be a different story. The NFL specifically says that their conduct that the team feels is inappropriate or offensive to fans will be fired. They are a private company and they are working when they are on that field, do it on their own time. “The First Amendment to the US Constitution is specifically designed to limit government officials and not private businesses,” Keith Whittington, a professor at Princeton University, told me. Ultimately, “this is a contracts question, not a constitutional question,” says Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Law School. “The issue boils down to whether or not NFL owners have the contractual right to fire players for this type of behavior. The answer is ‘likely yes.’"
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Plate heat exchangers provided with gaskets normally comprise a plate package of heat exchanger plates disposed adjacent to one another. Gaskets are disposed between the heat exchanger plates. The plate package may also formed by heat exchanger plates that are permanently joined together in pairs to form so-called cassettes, e.g. by welding or brazing, with gaskets placed between the respective cassettes. The gaskets are accommodated in gasket grooves formed during the form-pressing of the heat exchanger plates. Plate heat exchangers further comprise inlet and outlet ports, which extend through the plate package, for two or more media.
Heat exchanger plates are normally made by form-pressing of sheet metal and are disposed in the plate package in such a way as to form first plate intermediate spaces, which communicate with the first inlet port and the first outlet port, and second plate intermediate spaces which communicate with the second inlet port and the second outlet port. The first and second plate intermediate spaces are disposed alternately in the plate package.
The design of heat exchanger plate for plate heat exchangers aims to use as much as possible of heat transfer or heat exchange area for the heat exchange between two or more media, but it also needs take in account how the gasket can be applied on the heat exchanger plate to be securely fastened and to fulfil its seal functionality.
Different designs of the heat exchanger plate and the associated gasket are known in the art. E.g. is a plate heat exchanger known from U.S. Pat No. 5,070,939, where the heat exchanger plate is provided with a gasket groove having a corresponding gasket with nubs which glued to the gasket groove. The nubs serving as indicators of where the glue should applied. In another prior art document, GB-A-668905, the heat transfer area has been alternately retracted along the transport direction to create increased turbulence of the media. In U.S. Pat No. 5,927,395, WO-A1-00/77468 and WO-A1-2005/045346 are shown other solutions on how to fasten the gasket to the heat exchanger plate by clamping the gasket around the plate edge and by forming the gasket groove.
The drawbacks with the above solutions are that they require a lot area along the heat exchanger plate edges to be applied and thereby the potential heat exchange area is reduced. Further the design of the clamping means is rather complicated.
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@USER I feel like he is better chasing the title
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Nice conspiracy theory. Are you sure it wasn't to trigger Republicans to support NASA's efforts to put a man on the sun?
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It's called the "Reasonable Man" test. Appraently none sit on the 4th Circuit.
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Flying over Japan required considerable guts, considering that the Japanese were apt to torture and kill you if shot down. The Japanese vivisected one captured B-29 crew in an operating theater before an audience of fellow doctors, removing their brains at the end.
And, really, war is not a sport where fairness rules. Certainly, the Pearl Harbor attack was hardly fair. The Japanese murder of ten million Chinese was not fair. Your critique is one-sided and itself unfair.
The Japanese government demanded its civilians be combatants in the coming invasion, including the women and children. When you oppose the nuclear attack, you are supporting the much deadlier conventional invasion needed to overcome women and children fighting them from every house. If you oppose dropping the nukes because they killed 300,000 Japanese, how do you justify the conventional invasion which would have killed millions of Japanese? Your pacifism is war mongering in disguise.
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I've blocked you (again, sigh). .
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This is awesome! What a great idea. Where can I buy tickets to support this wonderful cause?
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Crazy, funny thing is when I think of the first OC's to pop into my mind, I think of Frank Geary, Alex Trebek, Lorne Michaels, etc., you get the picture...
I would venture there are some ZIP Codes in the USA that have more OC's than any postal code in Canada...
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UKIP’s Bongo Bongo Moment
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In the dark imagination of the UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom British taxpayers’ money is being used to buy fast cars and super-sized weapons for autocratic African leaders in what he called “bongo bongo land”. If this money was returned to Britain, we’d apparently be able to pay down our debts and ensure pensioners enjoyed much better healthcare and benefits.
The real world is very different from his parallel universe. There are still too many examples of corruption in African states but, as Justin Forsyth sets out on today’s Opinion pages, those stories are not typical because the fight against global
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Would you stop putting the brakes on an investigation that isn't even half over? All the witnesses still need to be interviewed. Also, would you stop bringing up Hillary? Because only right-wingers and Trump haven't moved on, as indicated by one of his recent Tweets about the campaign debates. Nobody brings her up but those folks.
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This should have been a major election issue last year. Instead, it was about how much were going to spend on green energy and "social infrastructure".
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Can you have access to them if you are not a client of these businesses.
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==Barney & Barney & Friends== This is very strange. This is how the disambiguation article was on April 19 as 131.162.154.31 restored the deleted material. The next edit by Computerjoe with VP here is very strange as VP inserted the material from Barney & Friends. Also neither of the IP's (68.60.182.219 & 70.241.90.252) in the summary had edited the Barney article. Now look at this where I roll back the Barney & Friends article. Note that the two IP's are the same as that listed by VP.
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Lest anyone make it through Caldara's bit of tu quoque and be considering trading in Fido for a new Lexus LX to reduce their carbon footprint, the "study" that Caldera (and Salon) reference appears actually to be a book written by two architects. Fido encourages you to wait for confirmation of their findings.
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Ivanka Trump’s quest to float along, empowered but unsullied, beside her father throughout his increasingly ugly campaign has been getting harder and harder. PHOTOGRAPH BY DREW ANGERER / GETTY
On Wednesday night, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s preternaturally poised elder daughter, sat in the audience listening to her father as he overthrew the pledge she’d made on his behalf earlier that day. “He’ll either win or he won’t win, and I believe he’ll accept the outcome either way,” she’d said at a women’s summit in Southern California. But Trump would not promise to respect the outcome of the democratic process: “What I’m saying now is, I will tell you at the time. I will keep you in suspense, O.K.?”
Afterward, Ivanka, who wore a black satin top that left one pale shoulder bare, joined her father onstage, smiling brightly. Since Trump first announced his Presidential candidacy, people have been saying that Ivanka had the power to soften his image and broaden his appeal, perhaps even among the women voters who’ve increasingly turned against him. (According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, Trump trails Hillary Clinton among women voters by twenty points.) Ivanka is modern and accomplished: a thirty-four-year-old mother of three, who co-runs the Trump Organization while heading her own fashion line, plus a sleek Web site that “celebrates women who work” with brand-building enthusiasm. Among Trump’s other campaign surrogates, his wife, Melania, seems to muddle things (in an interview with Anderson Cooper this week, she compared her husband to a little boy—not what most of us have in mind for a President), while Rudy Giuliani inflames them (his odd defense of Trump and himself was to the effect that “everybody” commits adultery). But elegant, beautiful Ivanka, possessed of the self-discipline and social graces that permanently elude her father, has been like the white-noise machine of the campaign, muting and sometimes neutralizing his outbursts.
Her quest to float along, empowered but unsullied, beside her father throughout his increasingly ugly campaign has been getting harder and harder. It was always a stretch when she tried to portray Trump as a feminist—and that was before we heard the “Access Hollywood” tape in which he bragged about his penchant for grabbing women “by the pussy,” and before multiple women came forward with accusations that he had groped or kissed them unbidden. (Trump denies these claims.) This week, addressing the “Access Hollywood” videotape for the first time, Ivanka told Fast Company magazine, “My father’s comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive, and I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people.” (He would go on to undercut this apology by saying, at the second Presidential debate, that his boasts were just “locker-room talk.”)
What was there, ever, to say in his favor as a champion of women? He had employed women in his company, some in positions of authority, as most employers who run large operations get around to doing eventually. He has certainly been a booster of Ivanka herself (“My father is a feminist,” she told the Sunday Times of London, in July. “It’s a big reason I am the woman I am today”), though the terms in which he has publicly complimented her can tend toward the unsavory or benighted. He has repeated that line about how he would have dated her if she wasn’t his daughter; he once endorsed Howard Stern’s request to refer to her as an attractive “piece of ass.” And yet, as Lizzie Widdicombe noted in her magazine Profile of Ivanka, “when pressed to name a woman he might appoint to his Cabinet,” Trump “could think of only one: his daughter.”
The clincher in Ivanka’s case for Donald Trump, friend to womankind, was supposed to be the child-care policy his campaign had put forward, at her behest. (“Daddy, Daddy, we have to do this,” as Trump summed up her argument at a rally in Iowa. “She is the one that has been pushing so hard for it.” He did not mention it in Wednesday’s debate.) In the week after the first Presidential debate, the Trump campaign unveiled a new ad that features Ivanka talking soothingly about her father’s commitment to mothers. The ad, touting Trump’s child-care policy, would look right at home on Ivanka’s Web site: it shows attractive young families frolicking in sun-dappled settings, Trump shaking hands with women and appearing to listen to them, and Ivanka unrolling blueprints in one shot and playing with her three little children in another. “My father will change outdated labor laws, so that they support women and American families,” she says. “He will provide tax credits for child care, paid maternity leave, and dependent-care savings accounts.” According to the Washington Post, the campaign spot, titled “Motherhood,” will run on cable networks with big female audiences, like Bravo, TLC, and Lifetime, as well as on network prime-time shows such as “Dancing with the Stars” and “Madam Secretary.”
The ad’s opening line—“The most important job any woman can have is being a mother”—is, as many people have pointed out, pretty retro. (The most important? Any woman?) But then, so is Trump’s policy, which explicitly excludes new fathers—as Ivanka told Cosmopolitan magazine, “The original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth.” This makes sense, coming from a man who has made many statements over the years about his own utter lack of interest in child care: “I mean, I won’t do anything to take care of them,” he said in a 2005 interview with Howard Stern. “I’ll supply funds, and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park.”
Yes, calling for any paid leave is unprecedented for a Republican Presidential nominee, and, yes, it would be much better than what we have now—which is no legally guaranteed paid leave at all, a state of affairs that sets the United States apart from every other industrialized country in the world. And it’s good that Ivanka has been talking about the high costs of child care for families. But Trump’s proposed six weeks of paid leave for new mothers is half of the twelve weeks that Clinton’s plan calls for. Moreover, his plan for paying for it seems shaky—he says he could provide the funds by eliminating fraud in unemployment-insurance claims, though it’s not clear how much that would generate. (Clinton’s plan stipulates raising taxes on the wealthy.) Both proposals would likely run into strong resistance in Congress.
Meanwhile, the disconnect between Ivanka Trump, the carefully modulated advocate for working women, and Donald Trump, the sexist, bullying demagogue, gets ever stranger. Ivanka, Jessica Yellin writes in the Daily Beast, is “a polished, polite enabler.” But her adherence to message is almost too perfect.
Ivanka continues to talk about her father as if this were a normal campaign, and he were a candidate who was maybe a bit of a brash outsider, but not somebody who has been vowing, like a tin-pot dictator, to jail his opponent, “such a nasty woman,” as he called her at Wednesday’s debate. The portrait Ivanka paints of him would seem to be of another man entirely. “They didn’t tolerate rudeness,” she said, of her parents, at a campaign appearance in Pennsylvania last week. “There was sort of an expectation of what was appropriate . . . and I think they raised us to be sensitive to that.” What happened to that expectation?
More on the third Presidential debate: John Cassidy on Trump’s “rigged” comments, and Amy Davidson on Hillary Clinton, “nasty woman.”
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Thanks, Paul.
I'll give Bill credit for one thing, he is tenacious!
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== My page == I would like to thank you for reverting the vandalism to my page quickly it's most appreciated.
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Funny. So born and bred German boyos don't do any rapin'? Just like in Canada, it's the minorities like Bernardo, Williams, and Pickton raping Canadian women. You don't seem to car about that though. Why? Why are you not affronted by white men rapin' yer wimminfolk?
lolz
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Nationally, that minority group (pro-Trump) is getting smaller every day. His voters, finally, are starting to understand what they have done.
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We live in a secular society. No religious accommodation, whatsoever, should be tolerated, and that goes for ALL religions.
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"Only three in 10 Canadians across the country support the right of women to wear face coverings. Is this proof that anti-Muslim sentiment is dangerously widespread? Or does it simply mean – as I believe – that Canadians want immigrants to fit in?"
it means we live in a conformist culture that can't handle freedom. a culture where everyone has to dress the same, act the same, sound the same. never mind that someone else's attire does not affect you and i. but of course in this culture, government is good and laws that make everyone like you and i are good. it's apart of our proud tradition of genteel racism. but of course racism doesn't exist in canada, right?
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"32. (1) This Charter applies
(a) to the Parliament and government of Canada in respect of all matters within the authority of Parliament including all matters relating to the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories; and
(b) to the legislature and government of each province in respect of all matters within the authority of the legislature of each province."
I don't see any geographical limitation.
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Good for you. Keep up that enthusiasm.
My advice to you is to listen to, and ponder all viewpoints. Don't get caught in echo chambers. As you get older, you will change your outlook and philosophies.
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Canada needs to be more like Norway on resource development.
You hold meetings, you take into consideration local concerns, is the project gender balanced? does it address the environment?, and will it be socially responsible, as well as "sustainable"?
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Then you look at the national picture, make an adult decision, and move to quickly issue the drilling licences for the oil:
https://www.ft.com/content/c2dad93c-7192-11e7-aca6-c6bd07df1a3c
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Holy crap. You think there are [citations] for that?
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He bluntly and bluntly admitted to looking at privacy financial records of the people paying the city of Kent Bills to learn about their financial status. This is illegal!!!! He said this in the debate!!! He spent 2 minutes talking about this!!! WTF???
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Alaska's fiscal boat will have to sink before legislators act (finally...an income tax) and residents realize that capping the PFD (is/was a smart idea). Both groups are too short sighted to see beyond their own interests (legislators' re-election and residents' PFDs). In a way, this fiscal crisis is a good thing. It has exposed Alaska's fiscal weaknesses and highlighted its reliance on an unstable oil revenue foundation.
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By Edward Chaykovsky
Floyd Mayweather Sr., father and trainer of WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., is not a big fan of strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza.
Ariza had previously worked for several years with Manny Pacquiao until he was fired by trainer Freddie Roach in 2012. Mayweather will face Pacquiao on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Ariza is working with Mayweather, helping with his current training camp. Mayweather Sr. disagrees with his worth in the gym.
"That son of a bitch ain’t strengthening nobody. He ain’t nobody. He’s in there, I can’t say exactly what he’s doing but he ain’t strength training little Floyd. What Floyd’s doing everybody’s helping, it’s not just one person," Mayweather Sr. told On The Ropes Boxing Radio .
Mayweather Sr. said Ariza is also of no help when it comes to insider information about Pacquiao himself.
"He don’t know sh*t anyways, he don’t anything about no damn boxing, I do know that. I know he doesn’t know anything about boxing and he don’t know what to tell anyone anyways. If he does know anything, it’s some dirty sh*t and it’s something that nobody wants to use or hear about. Nobody is into that kind of mess," Mayweather Sr. said.
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Here's an example of something you wrote earlier:-
"...... when Cardinal Burke told parents to reject their gay children, he was not "beige" a homophobe. That was just the first lie "in" have seen from you."
Perhaps you could explain what it means.
'Real' Catholics know that the Church's authority to teach comes from God.
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Your brain is working correctly. I think that we should seek out and
destroy every old Seagull contract. If we are doing business under any of
them, we need to get new cotnracts in place.
Stacy
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I would appreciate if you would read more closely before telling me to "get over it." Please see this excerpt: "If someone can so openly claim to touch people's genitals without their consent (regardless of whether or not they actually did so), and be put in positions of power, then the implicit message is that bragging about committing sexual assault is OK. If bragging about committing sexual assault is OK, the implicit message is that committing sexual assault is not only OK, but something to be proud of."
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Lost in all the left-right ranting going on:
The demand for and orders for larger body planes are down. This is an economic issue and a business decision. It's not about out-sourcing jobs, or increasing profits by firing staff or selling off parts of a company as hedge funds do (the DP is owned by a hedge fund).
"After Surge in Orders, Airlines Now Balk at Wide-Bodies"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/business/after-surge-in-orders-airlines-now-balk-at-wide-bodies.html
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You are correct. Bags are not searched for people flying into Anchorage. So how come the majority of Anchorage residents don't live lives ravished by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and suicide? It's because most that live in Anchorage have a sense of purpose. The opposite is often the case in villages.
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Fucking worthless scumbags. And college students, no less! What kind of world do these assholes want to live in? I guess they're practicing to be homeless, a deserving lifestyle for these pieces-of-shit.
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you aaaaaaaaare joking right ?
the place has become a food k-mart, with accompanying k-mart type brands....muscling out the main (read better) brands by either no longer carrying them or grossly upping the cost.
I am now walking 4 blocks (yes WALKING) instead of going across the street to "safeway" (rip)
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NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION
To be cited only in accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Submitted June 22, 2020 *
Decided July 13, 2020
Before
KENNETH F. RIPPLE, Circuit Judge
DAVID F. HAMILTON, Circuit Judge
MICHAEL Y. SCUDDER, Circuit Judge
No. 18-3711
MARC NORFLEET, Appeal from the United States District
Plaintiff-Appellant, Court for the Southern District of
Illinois.
v.
No. 3:15-cv-00160-SCW
DONALD GAETZ, et al.,
Defendants-Appellees. Stephen C. Williams,
Magistrate Judge.
ORDER
Marc Norfleet, an inmate who uses a wheelchair, says he was denied access to
equipment that he needs to exercise meaningfully, including free weights, a sports
wheelchair, and palm-padded gloves. He filed this action against corrections officials
and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for violating the Americans with
*
We have agreed to decide the case without oral argument because the briefs and
record adequately present the facts and legal arguments, and oral argument would not
significantly aid the court. FED. R. APP. P. 34(a)(2)(C).
No. 18-3711 Page 2
Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12132, the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and the First
and Eighth Amendments. The district court entered summary judgment for the
defendants, finding that Mr. Norfleet had not offered evidence that his requested
accommodations were necessary, that defendants denied him access to exercise, or that
defendants took an adverse action against him. We affirm.
Mr. Norfleet suffers from two conditions that seriously limit his mobility: a
severe back impairment (pre-dating his incarceration) that confines him to a wheelchair,
and shoulder pain and stiffness that he attributes to lack of exercise. 1 In 2012,
Mr. Norfleet was transferred to Pinckneyville Corrections Center, a designated
ADA-compliant facility, where, he alleges, he was not afforded meaningful exercise
opportunities, leading to arthritis, chest pain, stomach cramps, constipation, and
migraines. 2
Mr. Norfleet’s limited range of motion and pain in his shoulders, coupled with
his confinement to a wheelchair, prevented him from using any of the weight-bearing
exercise equipment in Pinckneyville’s gym, to which he had access once a week. 3
Because he could not use the equipment, Mr. Norfleet resorted to the prison’s grievance
system to gain access to free weights. 4 Swinging the weights at his side, he believed,
could improve his range of motion, build his strength, and increase his heart rate. 5
Defendants denied his requests on grounds that free weights posed a security risk. 6
Mr. Norfleet also maintained that his wheelchair was not sturdy enough to
achieve meaningful exercise in the prison yards, which he could use seven hours a
week. 7 Although Mr. Norfleet could wheel himself around the yards in certain spaces
(sidewalks, basketball and handball courts, and a “lumpy” track), he said that he
needed a sports wheelchair to avoid tipping over and to achieve true cardiovascular
1
R.152-1 at 3–4, 9 (Norfleet Dep. 12:8–13:9, 14:18–23, 34:12–35:15).
2
Id. at 4–7, 11 (Norfleet Dep. 14:18–25:17, 43:14–18). Mr. Norfleet has since been moved to Menard
Correctional Center.
3
Id. at 19 (Norfleet Dep. 73:15–20).
4
R.1-1 at 35.
5
R.152-1 at 11–12 (Norfleet Dep. 44:2–8, 44:21–45:3, 46:6–47:13).
6
R.1-1 at 35–36.
7
Id. at 31–32.
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exercise. 8 Mr. Norfleet said he could not move his own chair quickly enough to raise his
heart rate because the wheels and legs repeatedly broke down (he attested that they fell
off approximately nine times between 2012 and 2017). 9 He submitted grievances
requesting a new wheelchair, but each time defendants repaired the chair instead of
upgrading it. 10
Last, Mr. Norfleet requested palm-padded gloves to help him avoid painful
blisters that developed when he pushed himself in his wheelchair to exercise. 11
Defendants denied this request, stating that he was offered gloves (which he refused
because they were too slippery to use for exercise). 12
In addition to being denied essential equipment, Mr. Norfleet also believes that
he was subjected to retaliation. 13 He asserts that his requests for accommodations were
rebuffed at the direction of IDOC’s ADA coordinator in retaliation for being put to the
trouble of testifying in connection with one of his prior suits. 14 As evidence of
retaliatory intent, Mr. Norfleet highlights the coordinator’s deposition testimony that
IDOC’s responsibilities under the ADA require it to provide only “access to recreation,”
and not to “ensure that a wheelchair-bound offender could access or use” a particular
piece of exercise equipment. 15
Mr. Norfleet filed this action against IDOC and various corrections officials for
violations of the ADA and Rehabilitation Act, as well as the First and Eighth
Amendments. 16 He sought injunctive relief to gain access to free weights, a sports
wheelchair, and padded gloves, as well as declaratory relief and punitive damages. 17
The district court screened his complaint, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, and allowed him to
8
R.152-1 at 17, 22 (Norfleet Dep. 65:19–67:17, 87:7–88:15).
9
Id. at 18 (Norfleet Dep. 69:17–24).
10
Id. at 28–29 (Norfleet Dep. 112:15–113:14); R.1-1 at 31–34.
11 R.152-1 at 23–24 (Norfleet Dep. 91:13–95:22); R.1-1 at 34.
12
R.152-1 at 24 (Norfleet Dep. 93:12–24); R.1-1 at 34.
13
R.152-1 at 20–22 (Norfleet Dep. 77:16–86:2).
14
Id.
15
R.1-1 at 15 (Keane Dep. 47:22–48:3).
16
R.1.
17
Id. at 14–17.
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proceed on a retaliation claim against the ADA coordinator; an ADA and Rehabilitation
Act claim against IDOC for denying his requested accommodations; and an Eighth
Amendment claim against several corrections officials for deliberate indifference
towards his need for exercise. 18
The defendants moved for summary judgment, which the district court granted
in part and denied in part. 19 With regard to the retaliation and deliberate-indifference
claims, the court found that Mr. Norfleet had offered no evidence that the ADA
coordinator had taken an adverse action against him or that defendants deprived him of
exercise opportunities. 20 The court, however, denied summary judgment on the ADA
and Rehabilitation Act claim seeking injunctive relief against IDOC with regard to
Mr. Norfleet’s request for padded gloves. 21 The court found that a fact issue remained
over whether Mr. Norfleet required specialized gloves to push himself while exercising,
given his testimony that he gets blisters when he exercises without palm-padded
gloves. 22 The court set that claim for trial and recruited counsel for Mr. Norfleet.23
Mr. Norfleet promptly filed a pro se motion for reconsideration, arguing that the
district court’s inquiry too narrowly examined whether he had access to exercise rather
than whether this exercise was “beneficial and meaningful.” 24 The district court struck
that motion because Mr. Norfleet was counseled and no longer proceeding pro se. 25
Mr. Norfleet then asked the court to terminate counsel’s representation and filed a
second pro se motion for reconsideration.26 The court agreed to let Mr. Norfleet proceed
18R.17 at 9–16. The court also severed a First Amendment retaliation claim against the warden into a
separate case, dismissed an Eighth Amendment claim for denial of his medications as duplicative of a
separate lawsuit, and dismissed a First Amendment access-to-courts claim for failure to state a claim.
Mr. Norfleet does not pursue these claims on appeal.
19
R.172.
20 Id. at 24–28.
21
Id. at 22–23.
22
Id.
23
Id. at 29; R.177.
24
R.186 at 2.
25
R.187.
26
R.202 at 1.
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on his own but ultimately denied the second motion because he had not identified any
legal error.27
At a status hearing in December 2018, Mr. Norfleet voluntarily dismissed
without prejudice his outstanding ADA and Rehabilitation Act claim concerning the
gloves.28 Mr. Norfleet says that he did so to make his case immediately appealable. 29
Mr. Norfleet then appealed, but we directed the parties to submit memoranda
clarifying the basis of our jurisdiction in light of Mr. Norfleet’s voluntary dismissal of
his remaining claim. As we explained, the judgment reflected that this claim had been
dismissed without prejudice, and such judgments normally do not qualify as final and
appealable because the plaintiff is free to re-file the claim. 30 After the parties responded,
we ordered Mr. Norfleet to advise us whether he would dismiss his remaining claim
with prejudice, warning him that his failure to do so could result in the dismissal of his
appeal. 31
Mr. Norfleet’s response did not acknowledge our inquiry and instead addressed
an order that we had issued in another appeal three weeks earlier. 32 Alluding to our
statement in the other appeal that he was subject to a three-strikes filing bar that could
“be reexamined in two years,” 33 Mr. Norfleet wrote that he would “not file any
additional new 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims in this Seventh Circuit as of April 9, 2019
throughout April 9, 2021.” 34 We construed this statement, along with defendants’
observation that Mr. Norfleet had only one year to re-file his claim regarding the
palm-padded gloves, to mean that his claim was “effectively at an end,” and we
allowed the appeal to proceed to briefing. 35
27
R.225 at 3–4.
28
R.230. No transcript of this hearing appears to have been prepared.
29 Appellant’s Br. 5; Reply Br. 16.
30
App. R.17.
31
App. R.25.
32
App. R.27.
33
Norfleet v. Baldwin, No. 19-1337, App. R.9 at 2 (April 9, 2019).
34
App. R.27 at 3.
35
App. R.28 at 1.
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In his briefs on appeal, Mr. Norfleet now objects to the manner in which the
voluntary dismissal of his remaining claim was carried out. 36 He asserts that he would
not have proceeded with this appeal had he known that doing so would come at the
expense of abandoning that claim. 37
Mr. Norfleet’s opportunity for pursuing this claim, however, comes too late and
now is time-barred under Illinois’s one-year statute of limitations for refiling a
voluntarily dismissed claim. See 735 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/13-217; see also Soignier v. Am. Bd.
of Plastic Surgery, 92 F.3d 547, 550 (7th Cir. 1996) (“The ADA, like many federal civil
rights statutes, does not contain a specific statute of limitations. Thus, the most
appropriate state limitations period applies.”). Mr. Norfleet voluntarily dismissed his
outstanding claim about the padded gloves in December 2018. “[W]hen an otherwise
revivable claim cannot be refiled because the statute of limitations has run, its dismissal
without prejudice does not preclude appellate jurisdiction.” Palka v. City of Chicago, 662
F.3d 428, 433 (7th Cir. 2011); see also Anderson v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, 759 F.3d 645,
649 (7th Cir. 2014). That is so even where the statute of limitations has run following an
otherwise premature notice of appeal. See Palka, 662 F.3d at 432 n.1, 433–34 (noting that
the expiration of the statute of limitations “remove[d] any jurisdictional barrier”); see
also India Breweries, Inc. v. Miller Brewing Co., 612 F.3d 651, 657 (7th Cir. 2010) (allowing a
litigant to manufacture appellate jurisdiction by dismissing with prejudice revivable
claims at oral argument). Thus our jurisdiction over this appeal is secure.
As for the merits of his appeal, Mr. Norfleet generally challenges the district
court’s entry of summary judgment on all his claims. Construing his pro se brief
liberally, see Parker v. Four Seasons Hotels, Ltd., 845 F.3d 807, 811 (7th Cir. 2017), we
understand him to take issue with the district court’s conclusions that he had not
created a material issue of fact with respect to his claims regarding reasonable
accommodations, retaliation, and deliberate indifference. We review each of those
claims de novo. Clarendon Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Medina, 645 F.3d 928, 933 (7th Cir. 2011).
We begin with Mr. Norfleet’s reasonable accommodation claims. The analysis
governing the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12132, and the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, is the
same, “except that the Rehabilitation Act includes as an additional element the receipt
of federal funds, which all states accept for their prisons.” Jaros v. Ill. Dep’t of Corrs.,
684 F.3d 667, 671 (7th Cir. 2012). To defeat summary judgment, Mr. Norfleet needed to
introduce evidence from which a jury could find that he is a qualified individual with a
36
Appellant Br. 5; Reply Br. 16.
37
Reply Br. 16.
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disability (which is not disputed here) and that IDOC denied him the benefits of the
prison’s exercise and recreation programs because of his disability. Id. at 672. A refusal
to provide reasonable accommodations that would enable a disabled prisoner to
participate meaningfully in exercise programs would violate both statutes. See id., at
671–72.
Mr. Norfleet argues that a material issue of fact remains over whether IDOC was
required under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act to provide him both free weights
and a sports wheelchair as reasonable accommodations for exercise. As for the free
weights, Mr. Norfleet needed to adduce evidence that they were necessary and would
“affirmatively enhance [his] quality of life by ameliorating the effects of [his] disability.”
Dadian v. Vill. of Wilmette, 269 F.3d 831, 838 (7th Cir. 2001) (quoting Bronk v. Ineichen,
54 F.3d 425, 429 (7th Cir. 1995)). Mr. Norfleet, however, offered nothing beyond his own
opinion that swinging free weights at his side would improve his strength, raise his
heart rate, or improve his range of motion. In fact, Mr. Norfleet testified about his
physical therapist’s suggestion that his shoulders would benefit from range-of-motion
exercises that do not require weights. 38 A reasonable juror could not conclude from the
record that free weights would ameliorate the effects of his disability.
Nor can Mr. Norfleet prevail on his argument that a sports wheelchair was a
necessary and reasonable accommodation. He urges that exercising in his wheelchair
was impossible because it broke down on occasion (nine times over five years) and he
continued to worry that it would break or tip over. As the district court observed,
however, Mr. Norfleet testified that he was able to maneuver his wheelchair in the
yards along the sidewalks, around three-fourths of the track, and across the basketball
and racquetball courts. IDOC was not required to provide a perfect accommodation, or
the one preferred by Mr. Norfleet; it needed to provide only effective access to
meaningful exercise. See Wright v. N. Y. State Dep’t of Corrs., 831 F.3d 64, 72 (2d Cir.
2016). We sympathize with Mr. Norfleet’s concerns about his wheelchair’s durability,
but he has not introduced sufficient evidence to call into question whether it deprived
him of the opportunity for meaningful exercise.
Mr. Norfleet next asserts that a fact question exists with regard to the impetus for
the retaliatory actions of IDOC’s ADA coordinator—actions that, he believes, triggered
the refusal of his requests for accommodations. According to Mr. Norfleet, the source of
the retaliation can be traced to the deposition testimony that the ADA coordinator was
forced to provide in a previous lawsuit he filed. As the district court explained,
38
R.82 at 18–26 (Prelim. Inj. Tr. 18:24–26:21); R.152-1 at 11 (Norfleet Dep. 43:2–18).
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however, Mr. Norfleet failed to introduce any evidence from which a reasonable jury
could infer any adverse action on the coordinator’s part—an essential element of the
prima facie case for retaliation. See Holleman v. Zatecky, 951 F.3d 873, 880 (7th Cir. 2020).
Speculation is insufficient to defeat summary judgment, see Singer v. Raemisch, 593 F.3d
529, 533 (7th Cir. 2010), and Mr. Norfleet offered no evidence beyond his own
speculation to suggest that the coordinator personally denied any of his requests for
accommodations or that he instructed prison staff to deny them.
Finally, Mr. Norfleet asserts that a fact issue remained over whether defendants
were deliberately indifferent to his need for physical exercise, given the onset of
subsequent shoulder problems, constipation, stomach cramps, chest pain, and
migraines. To stave off summary judgment, however, Mr. Norfleet had to offer
evidence from which a jury could infer that he suffered an objectively serious
deprivation and that defendants were deliberately indifferent to that deprivation. See
Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 (1994). Physical exercise may be “a necessary
requirement for physical and mental well-being,” Delaney v. DeTella, 256 F.3d 679, 683
(7th Cir. 2001), but, as the district court appropriately concluded, Mr. Norfleet did not
introduce evidence of an objectively serious deprivation of exercise. To the contrary, he
testified that he had regular access to the prison yards, where he could maneuver his
wheelchair in various spaces for exercise. And, although Mr. Norfleet attributes his
health problems to insufficient exercise, he presented no medical evidence in support.
AFFIRMED
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How do you get a nun pregnant? dress her up like an alter boy. I remember when that joke was funny but not in the wake of the pedophilia scandal . Point is somethings can be funny in the abstract due to the absurdity of it not in the real world , If this story was a joke it might have been funny but would you be laughing if a bunch of male nurses were ogling Whitney Houston's dead naked body? point These woman violated a very basic trust not just of the medical profession but basic humanity
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Yes..I am paying for them. Property taxes, etc...and they shouldn't be buying homes or anything else in this Country..the are criminals and should be deported. No...DACA is not a legal program. Obama never should have signed up for it. I hope Trump takes it away.
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I bought a preconstruction even before that, in 2002. But my condo closing costs weren't next to nothing - all kinds of costs I hadn't planned for. Had to cash in some RRSPs to close. Also, during the construction period, I lost my job and I tried to get out of the contract but couldn't. But all is good - I paid $300,000 and just sold it for nearly $700,000. So overall, it was a worthwhile investment that I couldn't have afforded if I had to pay it all at once. The staggered payments were the best part of it.
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So the 'Ministry of Art, Creativity and Interpretation' objected to the non-conforming racialized cast of Othello. The 'Ministry' considered this to be blasphemous (though the unusual casting was part of the essence - or art - of the Edmonton theatre's interpretation of the play). Violence was threatened unless a black person played the role of Othello. The Theatre caved into pressure and apologized for getting it wrong.
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I don't accept CO2 is a greenhouse gas; that is, I don't know for certain that it, in and of itself, causes the planet's temperature to rise. You don't either.
I also don't know how much 36 billion tons of CO2 is relative to other sources of CO2 in the atmosphere, no do I know how processes that break down C)2 react to high levels of CO2 that might offset increased levels. Do you? Or are you relying on scientists who depend on the government to fund their research?
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It was a Federal decision to bring them in to Canada, the Provinces had no say, so they should accept responsibility for their welfare.
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And who said anything about the people not moving their boats. You are not understanding the English now. And those boats are not anchored in the middle of the river but the little cul-de-sac as you may. And on the sides still not illegal. I lived on that boat and I was working on getting my own. I know the rules and regulations. Now what about you?
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Uruguay's underground market thrives because many people rightfully fear being on a government "list" in parts of the world were a military or police takeover is historically common, with the result being many on "lists" were rounded up, never to be seen again.
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Chaplin is a town not very far from where the cattle died. You would remember Chaplin as you drove along Hwy#1 as a big white area on both sides of the road. The white stuff is sodium sulphate that naturally accumulated. They have been mining it for decades.
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Try again. You're not funny. You're not smart. What are you doing here?
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::1) Please explain what specifically is Business Wire and MPD´s direct conflict of interest. ::2) Please explain what specifically makes BW an unreliable source. What is BW´s direct conflict of interest? They are simply a business wire/ business news source just like many other ones. Please be specific. Simply telling me to read WP policies is not specific: be specific please.
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What does Strickland say or do in these situations of filming protestors that riles them up? This peaceful protest had representation from a wide range of people supporting fairness in the Justice system for African Americans. We do know that the number of African American males are killed more often than any other group. I'm concerned about this happening to Latino's too. United States have Institutionalized racism and to understand that you have to consider the big picture of whats been happening over the years. I've watched this the video and if Strickland has a concealed carry permit his poor judgement should take away his right to have a concealed carry permit and as well as the right to own gun.
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Here's a sensible approach from someone with no dog in the fight, but of course it doesn't come up with a general single number for a particular car (it can't) http://autoblog.xprize.org/axp/2009/08/calculating-mpge.html. Hopefully Argonne and the EPA will have a rethink over the next year. 00:11, 22
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"where he was at" My friend jjp might have grimaced.
Never ever ever greet an officer who has been called to a dispute or crime or incident while holding a gun. That's just MHO.
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Christ, being the Second Person of the Trinity, always was, is and will be. We as Trinitarians are to believe that. We either do or we don't. It's like being a little pregnant.
Jesus ate with the unclean, which was verboten in His day, and tax collectors. He broke the rules of society. That's not being conditioned.
I love the way you dismiss those with whom you disagree. We are just a bunch of rubes to you. I'll take that as a compliment.
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Hey fakestream, this nonsense didn't work during the election and it ain't going to work now. It's Just like Trump's tax returns -- nobody cares. Going on about it just shows how out-of-touch and isolated the fakestream is from the real world.
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Nope. If we drop our stockpile below the point that we can take out a nation, then we will be attacked. Then we will attack back.
Otoh, with Russia, China, and America having so many, MAD applies.
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Is your car methed up? Call us!
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8. I think you've got at least one thing backwards there: It's not that men with trade jobs won't hook up with responsible women, it's that women want men who earn more than they do. That's a rather well-known fact of life and there are no shortage of studies to back that up.
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#meDIAtoo Selective putrid outrage ONLY AT Conservatives only BY LIBERALS who want us to know how MORAL they are!!! Re: Kavanaugh and ANY OTHER REPUB who will stand up against them!! URL
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Septic arthritis mimicking cellulitis: distinction using radionuclide bone imaging.
Two patients originally diagnosed as having cellulitis involving the dorsum of the foot actually had bacterial arthritis of an underlying joint. In both patients, even after pyarthrosis was suspected, the wrong joint was aspirated. The arthropathies were located by subsequent 99mTc-phosphate bone imaging at a time when roentgenograms were normal. Early diagnosis and aggressive therapy of septic arthritis are essential to prevent joint destruction and osteomyelitis. Radionuclide bone imaging can identify inflammatory joint disease but it cannot specify etiology. In our patients, however, the differential diagnosis was between skin and joint infection. Radionuclide imaging was of great help in making this distinction.
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Palestinians cannot claim territory that doesn't belong to it. Palestinians are all on land that doesn't belong to it, and to which it has no legal claim and is claimed by others. So not an inch of Palestinian land disappears until the legal status of the land is determined and finalized.
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Superb selection of pictures. Really captures the intensity of the events.
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A former Trump adviser at the center of the controversy over the campaign’s contacts with Moscow told Fox News he “absolutely” did not work with the Russians to help the campaign.
“I did nothing that could even be … possibly viewed as helping them in any way,” Carter Page told Fox News’ Catherine Herridge.
Asked if he worked with the Russians to hurt the Clinton campaign, he said: “ Absolutely not. In no way, shape or form.”
Page is one of several Trump advisers and associates who have been accused by Democrats and others of having improper contact with Russians last year, amid several investigations in Washington over Russia’s meddling in the campaign.
WATCH THE FIRST PART OF THE INTERVIEW WITH CARTER PAGE ON FOX NEWS’ ‘SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER’ AT 6 P.M. ET THURSDAY.
But Page told Fox News he was “paid zero by the Russians,” not even through a third party.
He also criticized efforts by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to implicate him, and said he’s willing to talk to the committee.
“That's part of the reason why I'm excited about helping the committee become much more bipartisan and taking a step in the direction of talking about facts,” he said.
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Notes / Commercial Description:
Premiére marks the grand opening of The Bruery Provisions in Old Towne Orange. A barrel aged strong golden ale, its a great introduction to our new location. Spicy with flavors of honey, caramel, light tropical fruits and bourbon. A beer that will surely mature beautifully with age.
User Reviews
Bottle pour at the Bruery Reserve Society initiation party at The Phoenix Club in Anaheim, CA.
Pours a murky light orange with an off-white head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of grain and sour fruits (especially cranberry). Taste is of grain, fruits, vanilla, and wood. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a good beer with some nice aromas and flavors. I really don't get any distinct bourbon aromas or flavors however.
Appearance: Premiére has a golden, somewhat hazy body. The frothy white head retains well, though the beer isn't as highly carbonated as some Belgian golden ales.
Smell: Estery and lightly phenolic Belgian yeast shines through above all else; there are notes of green apple, pear, a bit of white pepper and clove. Oak and bourbon are evident but understated, lending caramel sweetness and a touch of vanilla. This is rich, but not as over the top as I was expecting.
Taste & mouthfeel: Pleasantly fruity on the tongue, pear and apple flavors come through nicely along with a faint spiciness. Restrained caramel and vanilla, floral undertones, bready pale malt. Very balanced, the barrel is complementary rather than dominant. Carbonation is moderate, perhaps low for the style, though it works fine for this beer. The finish is semi-dry, hinting at oak. Alcohol is barely noticed, making this a little too easy to drink for the ABV.
This really exceeded my expectations. The bourbon barrel doesn't destroy the subtleties of the base beer, which was my concern when Premiére was first announced. The only thing I can think to compare it to is Curieux, but this beer is far superior.
Thanks to drabmuh for opening this bottle recently. Served in a snifter.
Pours a golden color with a nice single-finger white head that fades down somewhat quickly and leaves a bit of a cap and a white collar around the edges of the glass. The nose brings a fair amount of bourbon and not too much else besides that. I get a mild oak character and maybe some yeast if I try real hard to identify something else. The flavor is light bourbon with a bit of oak and a mild grainy presence. Slightly sweet. Mouthfeel is medium with a bit of booze. Not my favorite beer that Patrick and crew have put out, though I'm curious to see how this ages.
i had been holding this one for a while and was finally able to crack it open last night. served chilled into a chalice an allowed to warm up through the day.
aroma is very interesting as it is dominated by fresh juicy citrus at first, orange, tangerine, pineapple and loads of nice fruits really push through from the very start, nicely done i have to say. warming though brings a ton of oak out, light spices and hints of nutmeg? there is something there tugging on me. this is shadowed exactly in the flavor and works very, very well. huge flavor here as the citrus explodes and the oak an spices add a level to it that works so well that i was shocked. usually when you get this many things going on it can get tricky but this was sublime, perfect notes of oak and citrus play off each other so well, with pears and apples bring up the back end flawlessly. really just a great bear, not much else can be said.
overall one of the best i have seen them put out in the non stout styles. i could drink this all day as the 10 percent is no where to be found. great job patrick.
A: The pour is a hazy golden-orange color with a thin layer of white foam.
S: Not exactly what I was expecting from this beer. Very strong sweet orange notes and some other citrus peel notes. Some vanilla and oak along with the usual spice esters and alcohol.
T: Quite sweet with lots of pale malts and light candi sugar to start this one off. Lots of sweet citrus, spice esters, vanilla, and phenolics. The oak/barrel is not super present but does provide some additional spiciness.
M: The body is medium with a low-medium level of carbonation.
D: I was surprised by how little the spirit flavor came through. But, the beer itself was pretty good. I was expecting a more malt forward beer with less citrus, but I did enjoy it.
Thanks to t0rin0 for this one. Seems to be somewhat polarizing. Served in a taster glass at yesterday's Flossmoor release.
A - Pours with a quick-dissolving white foam that settles to a thin ring. Transparent pale golden body, and minimal lace.
S - Bourbon barrel flavors - oak and vanilla. Some fusel alcohol and bourbon aroma as well. Surprisingly understated after some of the other beers we had, although it gets better as it warms up. There's some nebulous sugar and fruit in the periphery.
T - Tastes like the description on the bottle. A Belgian-style golden ale aged in bourbon barrels - vanilla, oak, and alcohol from the latter, and some sweet malt and spicy esters from the former. Surprisingly bland.
This is a cool beer. Its yellow and light with mild haze and nice white thin head that leaves some lacing on the glass. Carbonation moderate. Looks good.
Aroma is like a belgian ale with a nice citrus nose to it. Smells awesome, very awesome.
Beer is light and bright, 10%?!?!? I doubt it, this is about the easiest drinking beer I've ever had. Its not hot, overly sweet, or too dry. Its perfectly balanced. Overall its a great sipping beer, I could drink a lot of this all day.
Poured a murky pale golden yellow with slight orangish highlights that had a half finger of head and left a little lacing sticking to the glass. The nose was pretty nice consisting of belgian yeast character upfront alongside slight citrus, bourbon, vanilla, and fruity aromas that I cannot pin point out exactly what they are. The flavor was above average for a belgian strong pale which had apple apricot fruits, belgian yeast of course, some citrus, and subtle bourbon vanilla notes that were not overpowering the overall taste and making it hard to drink. The brew was medium in body with a good amount of carbonation which had a sweet, fruity, and citrusy finish. It drank great considering the ABV and had me coming back for seconds. Really a solid BSPA and definitely worth seeking out.
Thanks to Halcyondays for the sample from the 750 ml bottle. On to the beer
This is a golden colored beer with a good thickish head and good retention. For a barrel aged beer, this is more mild in character, both aroma and flavor. It most reminds me off apple butter and brandy with a little touch of toasted oak. The mouthfeel doesn't dissapoint, it is very easy going and the alcohol is hidden very well. Definately more of a "subtle" big beer than one that blows you up in the face.
The beer pours a yellow color with a white head. The aroma is full of lemons and oranges with some wheat and herbal notes. The flavor is similar with a few added additions.
The main flavor component is made up of wheat and grassy hops notes. I also get some nice lemon and orange citrus notes as well as some candy sugar. One of the best aspects of the flavor is the bourbon notes from the barrel aging. I also get a little bit of maple and vanilla from the barrel aging.
Sampled at Redlight Redlight; January 2011
This pours from the bottle with a dirty blond color and a frothy, white colored head. The beer is quite fruity smelling with notes of lime. Other notes of funky, earthy character, a light musty Brettanomyces like character, some oak tannins and a fresh woody plank character are joined by some rip cheese like aromatics.
The beer tastes lightly sweet and quite fruity tasting up front. There is a touch of coconut and some vanillin like notes that speak to the oak presence and some alcohol heat is also accentuated by the spicy oak character. The fruit flavors make me think of pear and green apple notes though this beer does not have tartness to it. There is a sharp astringency and a fresh plank wood character that lingers on the palate as well as some Bourbon'esque heat in the finish. This is not nearly as Bourbon influenced as I had expected; it is really more virgin-oak flavored than Bourbon like to me. This has a good complexity to it in the end, but it somehow seems to be lacking in some dimensions; still it is quite enjoyable.
Pours a hazy golden orange with a foamy thin white head that quickly fades to a ring and light lacing. Very fruity aroma, with mild citrus and strong ripe green fruits and apple. Bourbon and vanilla from the oak also blend nicely with the sweetness of the fruits. Flavor is dominated by mildly spice ripe fruits, pear and apple, less citrus than the nose. Bourbon is present throughout and is well balanced with a slightly hot finish. Very soft and smooth body with light carbonation. This was an interesting Belgian pale but the barrel aging was a little too much for me diminishing my enjoyment.
I've had this a few times in chaotic settings so I failed to review it. Poured into a Bruery snifter.
A: Yellowish orange, but more yellow than orange, with a big fizzy white head that recedes to bit white sempiternal bubbles. Little lacing.
S: Fruitier than a typical Belgian Strong Pale Ale, with notes of granny smith apples, honey, pears, and Chardonnay grapes. Barrels impart a strong bourbon presence that melds very well with the fruit notes, and there's ample vanilla. Oak and phenols are light. There's a slight candied sugar sweetness to the bready malt. This reminds me a hell of a lot of Splinter Gold. Damn similar. Fantastic aroma.
T: Boozy apple with notes of Chardonnay, honey, and pear accompany a Belgian candied sugar bready malt base. Bourbon is more restrained in the flavor than it was in the aroma, but it's still perceptible, and there are faint floral notes. Oak dries out the slightly boozy bourbon finish a bit.
All kinds of fruity ester feels from the yeast, apple, banana, pear, green grape, grass. Alcohol is noticeable, even the hops slightly too. Complex, but not a chore to drink, enjoyable, even in a style I'm not too fond of usually. Even some wood and vanilla creep into the mouthfeel. Good meld going on.
Pouring a hazy, murky orange with a thick white head that falls off rather quickly leaving little lacing, this beer isn't particularly attractive. I shall cut it some slack 'cos I didn't really wait for the yeast to settle down after shipping, though. The nose is rather big and sweet with a moderate Belgian yeast character still present. A big, wet bourbon barrel character is present, lending massive vanilla and moderate coconut aromatics that complement the yeast notes quite well. The malt seems mildly doughy and biscuit-like (some Belgian pils?), not quite working but not failing either.
The palate is a little disappointing. Boozy, yes, mildly spicy (clove and allspice), but surprisingly tannic, with some barrel astringency present. The alcohol does singe the palate a bit too. The bourbon notes don't really work with the Belgian yeast. Vanilla from the bourbon does appear on the mid-palate. Moderately sweet with dough, honey and a little caramel, this beer dries on the finish, especially with the booze, leaving a blend of boozy astringency and moderate spice. Medium in body with a nice, creamy carbonation, this is nice on the palate (except for the finish). Solid stuff, this is quite nice IMO.
Drank this at BT, I believe it was the 5th sample, after BT, CR, CCR, and Loakal Red, and this beer still stood out, was multi-dimensional, just very nice.
Dark yellow, tan and orange, lush white head. Crisp light wood nose.
Great big light fruit (apple, pear, banana) come out in just a dollop with the alcohol and hops. Caramel, honey, whiskey. This is a really easy drinking and yet complex and yet big (without throwing its weight around) beer. White grape, slight vanilla, more wood, just heavier oak this time around. Never does any aspect of this beer come across heavy or unwilling to play nice with all the other flavor components. I'm really wondering how they do this.
Read in a few reviews where Curieux came up. This blows the doors off it IMHO.
750ml bottle shared with friends, drank from my Narke tulip...Pours a light dirty honey gold with decent retention, ok lacing...The aroma is strong, pears and apples with honey, oak and a lot of bourbon, probably a touch too much...The taste is lot more of the same, honey pears with a little funk a lot of bourbon, needs to be a little more muted but this is a decent combination. At 10% its pretty easy to drink, despite a slight hint of alcohol.
Thanks to stormking47 for this bottle: the description sounds like a beer that's in my Barry Bonds wheelhouse. 750 ML bottle split into two tulips.
Bottle pops mightily, but there's no evident over-carbonation: odd. Pours muddy orange, with tailings of evident debris lilting towards the bottom of the glass. Smell is complex to the point of knotted. Lots of fruitiness, especially pears, very vinuous (white) quality, tiny undertow of oak, spices, & vanilla. Intriguing. Not great, but intriguing.
Premiere has a certain 'kitchen sink' quality to it. The spicing is exponentially greater in the taste than the nose, & really get in your face. Plenty of light fruits, pear, green apple. Halfway through there's an Enola Gay explosion of sugary sweetness. Wood & vanilla are Quiet underneath the Riot.
This is a beer that suffers from too much complexity. The components are nice enough, but they don't really come together, instead waging brass-knuckles on one another. Good beer that might benefit from time for everything to make nice with one another.
Shared with speedwayjim, capra12, billyshears. Thanks to speedway for sharing!!!
a-Nice golden color with a thin head that didn't hang around long.
s-The overall consensus seemed to be some sort of appley vinegar. The alcohol was somewhat in your face.
t-Much like the nose apples n alcohol. Super hot but tasty BPA, all the usual suspects for a BPA are present in the flavor.
m/d-Light and easy drinker but way too hot for me. Glad I got to try it, but not something I would seek out with all the other great BPAs out there.
Pours a very hazy golden orange with a big bubbly beige head that recedes very slowly to a thin cap with some decent lacing.
Aroma is sweet and fruity with lots of pears and apples, a bit of candi sugar with a hefty barrel presence with oak, vanilla and bourbon.
The taste is even heavier on the oak and fruit. There is a fruity Belgian backbone with the apples and pears showing up. But they don't stand up as well as in the aroma and, in the finish, it's all about the bourbon, vanilla and oak.
The mouthfeel is medium bodied with strong carbonation and I actually do get the alcohol prominently.
I like this beer but the drinkability is limited by the alcohol presence along with the huge sugar-coated fruit character. Find someone to split this bottle with.
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A few years ago-I made the mistake of renting my home while out
of town for a year; used a prominent local renting service. The house
was rented by a woman of 30 but she gave the keys to her brother who
was a student and left town.
The rental service called me and said would not believe what happened to
my house...the damage was many times beyond the deposit. I had the option
of going to court for damages but decided not to. Liquor bottles and beer
bottles everywhere and who knows what else. Animal leavings and bleach
poured on the carpets. They even left all their belongings...even shoes.
Legally-I had to keep everything for a certain number of days before giving
them way; no one came forward to claim anything. The crew that helped me
said that this leaving of property was common.
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I said better pain management not addictive pain management. There is a difference.
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If Dubya is a "blood encrusted war criminal" then too is Artillery Hillary.
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So a black chef can't serve roast beef if not from England, or crepes if not french or jerk chicken if not from the Islands!!
So stupid.
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Cyril's involvement with white organizations rises post apartheid, he owned the majority of shares from multinationals, though, he never disclosed his portfolio but he is a millionaire.
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Controlled substances include prescription drugs. Is the type of gun unmentionable, or is that you just don't know what type it was? You really shed no light on my questions at all.
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Opportunism knows no age and the majority of perpetrators were after post pubescent children. Certainly peadophiles were part of the sexual revolt of the 1960's with the belief it was psychologically sick NOT to act of sexual impulses in the huge happening groove love in of that era.
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To me BP are opportunists who have discovered that there are opportunities and profit to be made from corrupt leaders. Ethics are just an obstacle tha can be sidestepped.
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Here we have what no one else in the world has...abundant wild spawning Alaskan salmon and the legislature and an aquaculture corporation empire focusing on man made fish to serve themselves not the fisherman as if they are mother nature or God tinkering in a millions of year old process leads to damage to wild stocks
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Well stated.
CarGo has started to hit. His average lately has been solid but overall, a failure of a year for his large paycheck. He played himself out of town and to a prove-it deal elsewhere.
Story could have hit 35 HRs last year hitting about .270 if he didn't get hurt.
Pitchers clearly figured him out.
Too early to give up on him and Black wants him to play through his struggles. Almost 20 HRs and 20 doubles but a .220 or worse BA and all those k's is a crusher to the offense.
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Isn't it grand! Nice to see somebody pull little Mr Potato head up short before he destroys the country.
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::God know? It left to a block warning a moment ago.
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Yes, a sack a game like Shane Ray projects is a bit lofty.
Von Miller's sacking ability made him a marked man and he often faced a double or sometimes a triple-team.
Since no team feared Denver's generous run defense it was possible to convert on third down by running.
Miller's value and effectiveness suffered greatly.
He had not a single sack in the final four games and Denver assembled a 4-7 record in an 11-game stretch.
So much for Miller and the defense, eh?
Kasim Edebali could well thrive in Denver. John Elway has a knack for spotting and hiring gifted defenders.
Tire Denver's high-spirited defense and you'll most likely win.
But Trevor Siemian, quarterback, has a year of seasoning, Garett Bolles, a nasty brute, a rookie no less, may take over at left tackle and the Broncos have added Ron Leary, a no-nonsense guard, who fires off the line and revels in the mano-a-mano battles Denver has to win along the line of scrimmage.
Despite the defense, the offense needs to fill the breach.
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Good call by the Trudeau government. We can not stand by while Putin gives Ukraine the salami treatment, taking a slice at a time for his imperialist sandwich.
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The delicate snowflakes are those who live in their parents' basements and cry that shillary, despite an atrocious 30-year record and no real accomplishments, was REJECTED.
the swamp is partially getting drained but I have problems with how he's putting so many Goldman Sachs (rothschild) banksters around him.
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and the left wingers post the usual nonsense, see uneducated person, trumps bankruptcies were individual businesses that failed not and never him personally, as in business as an investor you risk in venture after venture, many make you money, some fail as such that is why its called a risk. its business and trump is clearly a successful person well prepared to change the economy for the better.
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Yes that's correct, and the Bombardier family aren't giving up the dual-class share structure in the foreseeable future. They enjoy having the board of directors speaking on their behalf.
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