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لم تلتقون رجال يا اتباع ايران
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Cute baby. Was 'innocence' ever so profoundly observed?
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1. Engage Support Limited. https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/08000783-engage-support-limited The UK "care" company who pimped out a retarded white woman to the Muslim community with the backing of Manchester Courts.
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You're so ill informed it's laughable. First off Chicago isn't a "state", it's a city. Secondly Chicago isn't the most dangerous city in the country if you go by murder rate. Notice I said "rate" not total murders. Actually in the 70s and 80s there were far more gangland style killings in Honolulu than there are now, as well as other violent crimes. HPD can't keep the bad elements out of our state any more than they can prevent homeless people from coming to our state. Hawaii as a whole is consistently ranked in the bottom 10 as far as murder rate among all the states.
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Has the Canadian government had interviews with Caitlin Coleman, separate from her husband, to ensure her and the children are safe and content in the present situation? Is there some reason she cannot meet up with her own parents. There is a certainly a disturbing element to this story.
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Yav siz kafayı mı yediniz
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I wonder how many abortions he has paid for over the years....you know, those years when he was dodging the draft or when he was not paying taxes?
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جبران باسيل معتوه
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Chroma Key cites the law, but fails to indicate who violated what law that lead to the death of a jaywalker who was illegally crossing the street.
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Halfway through the "editorial," The Denver Post stated this: "But May's office appears to have handled its investigation with rigor, and his ultimate conclusion is defensible."
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If that is true, then why the editorial that questions both the investigation and the ultimate conclusion? Because The Denver Post's Editorial Staff had nothing better to write about?
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"Mr. Trudeau is likely going to be biting his tongue a lot over the next four years."
That's because we elected someone who can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
Remember JT pushing his way through people in parliament? What a bully! Perhaps Trump should have called him out.
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When I run for president, I'll support bombing of population centers, torture of prisoners (and not just in war--our police do a much more effecive job when they beat confessions out of suspects), making Vlad Putin an honorary American citizen, breaking diplomatic relations with Japan, inviting Kim Yung Un to the next Oscars as my guest of honor, and making all of Alaska a vast theme park whose residents cannot go out of their homes without putting on mukluks and mittens, parkas and big wolverine hats, and carrying 30-06s.
And I'll be pro-life. Women and girls getting abortions will be charged with Class B felonies and will serve their sentences in the basement of Holy Family Cathedral (Catholics are good at that sort of thing). Doctors performing abortions will be buried to the waist in Cook Inlet mud and allowed to perish slowly as the tide comes in. I know that sounds kind of extreme, but we have a sacred duty to protect human life.
Jim, I'd like you to head my Alaska campaign.
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Been in state for the long time work of Ted Stevens. Back in the 1970's Alaska was far behind the Lower 48 states that had years on us for building up and creating the state economy and the necessary infrastructure to support it. At that time those of us who lived in rural Alaska had one radio station for the news and a state tv station called RatNet that one could get on with an antenna tv. We ordered a lot from the Sears catalogue, even the stores in Anchorage were limited in the goods and services that we happily have today in this state. The pay scale was high in the state and we generally paid a lot more in federal taxes than any other state and we got a lot of it back (pork) that built up the state and brought this state into the future. Ted loved children, seniors and the military. The "pork" you "hate" was often used to help these citizens. Ted did not live an "affluent" lifestyle, he was a good man, and many citizens are very proud of his service to a state that he loved.
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Does anyone think that the killer's house was searched in the same manner? The RCMP investigating themselves is farcical , always has been and always will be just a whitewash.
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To me she is a knuckle-headed Canadian kid that is in school expanding her mind....at present she is a full blown racist but hopefully she will get some love in her heart as she ages and matures to recognize the value in us all.
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Fuel for the Fire!
Many of you know that I use the GenetixHD line to fuel for my workouts. I use the ProSculpt & Meta-Ignite interchangeably, but if I am strength training or heading to CrossFit, I typically choose the ProSculpt for the added amino acids.
Post-workout, I need protein within 30-60 minutes. It’s always time for pancakes, no?
Your turn:
1. When do you take your vitamins?
2. Favorite post-workout snack or meal?
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*Disclaimer: Although I am a NSCA-CSCS, you should consult a physician before starting any exercise program or diet plan. If you choose to do any of the workouts featured on this website, you do so at your own risk.
FitFluential LLC compensated me for this campaign. All opinions are my own.
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I am VERY tempted to try this workout. But I was told when I went to Crossfit that my squat form is terrible and now I am scared to do them. Any tips?
I take my vitamins in the morning, first thing. Before coffee. It is the only way I get it done consistently.
I just watched it! I am tickled at how you can stay down in that squat and keep talking. They did tell me that about sticking my ass out first. Said it would look stupid but help. My husband wants to go to the gym tonight (I ran 5 miles on the trail this morning). I may have to try and get through some of this.
Thanks!The Kidless KroniclesNicole@TheKidlessKronicles recently posted..Sloth Sunday: Success!
I take my ProSculpt at 430am pre-crossfit… then protein after… and aminos during. I have a hard time remembering to take my vitamins because I can’t take them first thing in AM as they conflict with my thyroid meds… still working on figuring that one out. I should set a phone alarm (DUH-COURTNEY!) lolCourtney @ Journey of a Dreamer recently posted..Weekly Workout Recap
Great workout as always! I love protein pancakes! I have just discovered them and will try your version. I just mash 1 banana and mix in 2 eggs, protein and 2 tablespoons of almond meal. Great breakfast or snack and lots of protein!!
The only vitamins I take are spirulina in the morning. I prefer vitamins that are natural and not synthetic, although I do need to take magnesium when I remember to stop cramps!Lyn recently posted..Clean Eating Grocery List
I am going to try this tonight. I’m a little scared. Thankfully my husband is mountain biking after work so I should be able to get it done before he gets home with only the cats to laugh at me!
I split my vitamins, I take a couple in the morning and the rest at night. I don’t really have a “go to” pre or post workout meal. Sometime I don’t want to eat for hours after, especially when I run. That’s not good.
Can’t wait to try this tomorrow!! Did your power circuit one today with an incline walk!! Love the feeling in my shaky legs after these workouts! I take my vitamins in the am and pm. My fav post meal is chocolate protein shake with PB2 and a banana!
It’s sogood that Cooper gets supplements too. An animals joints need so much care since they have four legs forcing their backs to sway down and thei little hips to pick up the slack. I think I might listen to too many animal shows.
I love your workouts and can’t wait to try this one! My only hesitation is the sit-ups. I have read recently that sit-ups can be bad for your back and that it is better to do planks to work on your core instead. Thoughts?? You would know much more about this topic than I would! I’m not prone to back injuries and have never had problems in the past…Kristen @ Happy Running Mama recently posted..Full Circle
Where did you read that sit-ups were bad? I’d like to read more on the source. I definitely think planks rock and have their place, but full sit-ups are super effective too! Much more so than a “crunch”. you can subbed something else for the sit-ups if you want!
Hi Jordan. I really like GNC supplements/vitamins which is why I listed them, but I would never recommend any supplement because I am not an RD. However, I try to share what works for me personally in hopes others can use that info!
It’s always a good day when Jess has a new workout up! I love this one!
I am really in a vitamin slump right now – I was taking them (multi and fish oil) but my stomach started really hurting from them after a few weeks. Weird, right? I laid off and the pain went away, and haven’t got back on the bandwagon since, though I know I really should. What could this be from?
Another area I have to clean up is eating in general…too much Halloween chocolate! My pre-workout snacks are really not that great. Before my early morning swims, it’s usually just a few dates or a banana! Always room for improvement…Addy @ Six-Kick Switch recently posted..High Sierra Challenge
I love these workouts. Keep ‘em coming! With a knee injury post-marathon, I’m focusing on strength training. I am also on a mission to have defined arms when wedding season hits this summer, as I’ll be maid of honor in my best friend’s wedding!
Holy moly. Never tried a ladder workout and I tried this countdown home workout today. So challenging! ..in a good way. I pretty quickly had to revert to push ups on the knees, but finished from 10 to 1. Phew!
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I just googled “simple home crossfit workout” and got to you…just did this but used a 20lb bar for squats. Very excellent workout. We are snowed in and this simple quick high intensity workout was perfect.
Tacked this on to the end of a arms strength workout — such a great way to squeeze in a little HIIT! Took me 12 minutes and it feels like about 10 minutes of burpees haha.Abby recently posted..She Reads Truth: Women of Scripture
So happy to find your blog! Spent the last two years really focusing on my personal fitness. Dropped 3o lbs and cleaned up my eating. Since I have gotten married, I have slacked off some. However, your blog has given me an extra boost to really get going again! Time to train for a half-marathon with my husband! finished the workout in 9 min 50 sec- felt fantastic afterwards
I’ve been doing the summer workout series and today doing this workout was the first day I could do 10 burpees in a row without needing a breather! I did it all from 10 to 1 (had to take a minute break at the 6 rep mark) but I was so excited to be able to do all the burpees without stopping half way through them! Thanks so much for posting these workouts. I can already see improvement in just two weeks of incorporating strength!!! Thanks so much!
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........... or Flynn got the job because he helped Putin and the commies rig the election.
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Maybe our pets only lick themselves in front of us because we masturbate in front of them
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Advocating violence is just adding to the hate. Pour hot coffee on someone on purpose is a assault. Second degree burns.
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The article is really shaping up. I had done a photo search before but couldn't find anything, but delved into the government images after the FAC comment and came up with the IDP photos. I'm really not sure about the Kony picture. I am not familiar with all the different types of copyright and so am pretty conservative about image use.
I don't much like the look of in-line references at all and think small super-script endnotes would be preferably. But there's not really a simple way to do that, and I'm not willing to do such a tedious tweak. - 21:46, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Boykot ile dolar mı düşecek???? Beyin koşarak uzaklaştı. 😅😅😅
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The computer, probably had a better poker face.
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Given the GG's latest spiel, I'm sure there's one "religion" she still supports: The Church of Climate Blame....
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Being rich just means they deserve it even more.
If they want to bird watch, then good for them ...
Whatever rocks your boat.
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Great memories of driving the Stelvio Pass. Best driving in the world through the French/Italian/Swiss alpine passes:
Furka Pass
St. Gotthard Pass
Simplon Pass
Great St. Bernard Pass
Little St. Bernard Pass
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Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Rudolf Vrba. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. "
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@JimBoberson happy birthday faggot
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It certainly encourages me to invest in the USA and not Canada.
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"Religiously inspired terrorism is a threat to us all."
And economic inspired terrorism isn't?
And if religiously inspired terrorism is a threat to us all, why did the buffoon only ban citizens' from countries that have NO RECORD of attacking the US, while those who HAVE, were/are excluded???
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This person merits our learning more about him.
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You fail to answer even one of the questions, why because to answer honestly and specifically would damage your ideology?
"...costs and coverage changes will occur" currently Medicare is 80/20 so any coverage that is not 80/20 would change. This change would seem a boon to Medicaid recipients but not so favorable to current VA recipients. https://www.quora.com/If-a-single-payer-health-care-system-was-put-in-place-what-would-happen-to-the-people-who-work-in-the-insurance-industry
Many of those moved from private plans to Medicare-for-all would require a Medigap/Medicare Advantage-type plan to continue similar coverage.
"To help cover Medicare’s cost-sharing requirements, most people on Medicare have some source of coverage that supplements Medicare, including Medigap policies (23%), employer or union-sponsored retiree health plans (35%), and Medicaid for individuals with low-incomes (19%)." http://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medigap-enrollment-among-new-medicare-beneficiaries/
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ताऊ एक दम सही बोल रे है कांग्रेस ने देश को barbaad किया है और मोतीलाल नेहरू का बाप गयासुद्दीन गाज़ी , अंग्रेजो से बचने के लिए कश्मीर गया वहां नहर के किनारे रहने लगा नाम रखा गंगाधर नेहरू , भेनचोद शुरू से ही घोटाले बाजी खून में है
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Not a police state? Didn't Sweden once track a (not a moslem) Terrorist by looking for anomalies in electric billing / usage, compared to the number of residents on the official register?
There was also the case of the Swedish woman whose child was seized by authorities. They had told the mother to lose weight, out of concern that the child might be teased about her monther's obesity. When the woman was unable to lose enough weight to please them they took her child away.
Hasn't there been a pattern of depopulation in rural areas, where younger people pay prohibitive taxes to support elderly and jobless, then flee to the cities, leaving the remaining working young to pay even higher taxes, leading to a feedback cycle of workers leaving for the cities?
So it goes in the non-police state.
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Lemme see now
-Mulroney inherited Trudeau's massive debt and was faced extremely high interest rates. If Trudeau didn't stiff Mulroney with those debts Mulroney would have produced ZERO debt. The growing debt was all on Trudeau.
-Chretien and Martin massively cut federal spending and transfers to the provinces. Guess you forgot about all those cries of "fiscal imbalance". In addition interest rates plummeted during that period.
-Harper ran deficits with Liberal and NDP support to fight a US created recession. Harper spent most of he stimulus on infrastructure while Obama had tax cuts for the rich.
-Most of the growth under Trudeau is driven by the success of the US economy not anything Trudeau has done.
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` Do be hypocritical. That is non of your bussiness I was suspended. Alright, I'll let you WP:OWN this page and just leave and not do anything else to it, I want to see you edit this page and make it bigger not this silly little war which is ``SO`` little. Because I'm adding ``little`` things and you have to remove them and start a big war over it instead of just editing the page and making it bigger. `
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Sports and human rights: give me back my orange!
The color of orange is hijacked by criminals supporting morons. This is why I state this:
All over the world we have nations. Nations with laws. Laws to protect the rights of the citizens of these nations. And where there are no laws we see chaos. Some nations, in fact many, have terrible laws. Nations that abuse human rights of some of their citizens. Nations like Russia, Poland and the Ukraine.
And then we have sports. International sports. With it’s own laws setting itself apart from society. Organized around large amounts of money and exercising their financial powers to push governments to their desire. That goes for the International Olympic Committee and that goes for international soccer. International sports knows a lot of corruption simply because when there’s a lot of money flowing, corruption is always around. The FIFA knows that and so does the UEFA. So often they organize major sports events in countries that are well known for their lawlessness, human rights abuse and corruption. One of the main events in Europe this year is obviously the European Soccer Championships. The location is Poland together with the Ukraine. The argument that the international sports federations use to defend themselves when organizing events in human rights violation countries are always the same: it is for the good of the people living in those countries. Therebye underlining the position of sports as not being bound by international law. The FIFA is the worst as they actually demand countries to change their laws, but UEFA is not much better.
So this year the soccer players have shifted to Poland and Ukraine. The Ukraine where a list of governments has an equally long list of human rights violations and political oppression. Where political opponents are abused and thrown into jail, tortured and sometimes killed. Where free speech is absent and free press is hindered when it addresses government initiated crime. The Ukraine being a country that – just like Poland – is increasingly homophobic and transphobic. Where violence against homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders is not being addressed by the government but silently supported. And sometimes not even silently but explicitly with police force. The Ukraine is working on draconic laws against any public display or discussion of gay and trans rights. Even supported by the political party of Mrs. Timosjenko who is herself in jail being the victim of her own government (after having been responsible of victimizing others when she was ruling). This is what the Ukrainian parliament will be discussing any time soon:
Bill # 8711 proposes:
1. To ban any production or publication of products promoting homosexuality;
2. To ban the use of media, TV or radio broadcasting for homosexuality promotion;
3. To ban printing or distribution publications promoting pornography, cult of violence and cruelty or homosexuality;
4. To ban import, production or distribution of creative writings, cinematography or video materials promoting homosexuality.
Bill # 10290 determines the forms of homosexuality promotion as follows:
1. holding meetings, parades, actions, pickets, demonstrations and other mass gatherings, which are directed to and/or are expressed in intentional dissemination of any positive information about homosexuality, which may negatively influence physical and mental health, moral and spiritual growth of children;
2. holding educational lessons, thematic conversations, interactive games, optional classes, other educational events on homosexuality;
3. messages, articles or appeals spreading in any form the call for homosexual lifestyle in mass media, which may negatively influence physical and mental health, moral and spiritual growth of children;
4. spreading information in any form about homosexuality or of the call for homosexual lifestyle in institution of general education, which may negatively influence physical and mental health, moral and spiritual growth of children.
If adopted, the laws will introduce steep fines (up to 100 net minimum incomes or 300 net minimum incomes) or imprisonment up to five years for “homosexual propaganda”.
Now obviously these proposed laws are directly violating the basic rights of homosexuals and transgenders in the Ukraine. The international sports associations like UEFA don’t care about that. The soccer players, their team managers and trainers, there staff and their supporters do not speak up. They just celebrate their freedom based on the financial and corrupted power invested by UEFA. They vandalize society, they incriminate their countries in supporting a government that is abusing it’s own people and they are in fact – by staying silent and being in the Ukraine – passively supporting the government of that country. It makes them co-conspiracers of a government that incriminates gays and transgenders.
Which is why I don’t give a shit about international sports events and why I do not want to be associated with the European Soccer Championships at all. It is why I do not support the Dutch soccer team that is in my views composed of a bunch of rich hippocrites. Which is also why I hope they are ousted asap and the color orange is given back to the rest of the people after being hijacked by a bunch of criminal supporting idiots.
I want my orange back, without the filth attached to it caused by soccer supporters.
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Maybe the leaders of both sides should read up on a bit of Canadian history and find out what the Clarity Act is all about.
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Ho hum.
Another day. Another NCAA scandal. Just recognize reality, pay the players and deep-six the hilarious "student-athlete" charade.
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#shoppingstar μπορεί να βγει μια πρώην παίκτρια να μας πει πόσες μέρες πριν τις ειδοποιούν; δεν προλαβαίνουν να πάνε ένα κομμωτήριο να βάφουν το μαλλι; τους χτυπάνε τι κουδούνι έτσι ξαφνικα την νυχτα;
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Two beautiful and depraved lezzies want to play a card game with you. Blackjack is called by her. The main purpose in the game is to get a combination of cards higher than that of your rivals. Certainly a commence bet. As briefly as the dolls run out of cash , they will begin to undress and love lewd and sexual pursuits. The game is fully interactive, so it is possible to observe actual people, not images. To interact with game items use the mouse. If you want to see sexy lesbo hook-up then you should begin playing. Don't miss your chance to play blackjack.
Poker with two hot and extra curvy lezzies - that's all what you want to learn about this particular game to play with it at this time! Poker is a 5-card match where the player has to get a nicer mix of cards than his opponents. After cards will be dealed you have to determine which cards you need to keepand which to lose. Also in this sport it's possible to double your prize or loose it by trying to imagine the color of card from the deck. What do you will need money in this game for? To unlock sexy vidoes with 3d models Nicole and Tracy which makes this sexy day even sexier togethet at the pool. The more alluring clips using two lesbos will cost more currency so you better listen to your playing rather than clicking buttons - you might liberate your cash more earlier than you'll unlock the first clip!
Have you got hawk's eyes? Crossing Cup Lesbian Edition offers you to win hentai lesbian images! To success, you have to get the coin beneath of those 3 glasses. They move quicker and faster, so keep an eye on the glass using the coin, and don't lose it! There are dozens of lesbian pictures to unlock, so be patient and stare that glass that is evil to win the pictures.
This 3D flash game will tell you the story of an ordinary huge-chested student Yoshino Momiji. Where authorities experiments are currently taking place, she is studying in a particular school. And in each area of the faculty involving bathrooms and bedrooms there are covert cameras. The game is in Japanese but it is intuitive. To get embarked, choose the inscription NEXT and click on it. You then will see a menu where you can choose a fucky-fucky scene. Choose any and enjoy the depraved orgy scene in which the perverted and sexual moments will be seen by you. This could be bang-out in the doc's office. Or dual intrusion. Or a girl/girl orgy. Use the mouse to interact with the game.
Busty futanari Sakura fucks a damsel Ino and big-chested Hinata. Look at this sexual act. Hot and raw with sweat body entwined in a tangle. Big tits jump up and down with movements that are sensual in time. Thick dick penetrates deep into a taut and pink labia tearing it. Sexual moans and loud cries of pain and joy have been observed. This you will discover within this flash game. Appreciate that buxomy Ino pouncing on a big dick while the hinata munch big sack of babymakers. And then you will see rough buttfuck invasion orgy and then all these women will achieve multiple orgasms.
Then this is not for you if you're trying to find a sort sex sport! This game may take hours to get you. Meet with Umichan Maiko at the Function. Your job is to help her to deal with the everyday routines in the college and other areas inside her town.
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Not to mention her hate of the "ordinary people", I will take a little crude talk to a duplicitous, self serving crook any day
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But he has great stuff!!LOL!
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Sayın bakanım İMD adaylarının yaşadığı mağduriyeti gözardı etmeyeceğinize inanıyorum. Tercih nedeniyle yaşanan bu haksızlık hakkaniyetle çözülmeli. Saygılarımla
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You apparently want to remain willfully ignorant and obviously have a bias you will not examine. I believe it is a waste of time to continue to engage with you on this subject. Good luck in your educational pursuits.
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25px|alt=Bilgilendirme simgesi Merhaba, ben . Yaptığın son değişiklik (:Hârizmî adlı sayfadaki) deneme gibi görünüyordu ve silindi. Eğer deneme yaparak kendini geliştirmek istiyorsan Deneme tahtasını kullanabilirsin. Eğer hatalı olduğumu düşünüyorsan veya sormak istediğin bir soru varsa aracılığıyla benimle iletişime geçebilirsin. Teşekkürler! TmѰ e12 ✉
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These hoes need Jesus y'all.
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they didn't miss this point. this editorial board is an absolute embarrassment to professional journalism. If team billary had an R after their name this editorial board would be driving that point home.
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His milking is done, and it didn't cost the Broncos a thing...Brock was the heir apparent, left, and now he's back...Trevor used to be his back up lol, now he's Trevors...its a great move by Elway, only way Brock gets on the field is if he's better than Trevor, or Trevor is injured...Trevor is obviously a better QB than Brock right now, camp aside and yes they make about the same amount of $'s...Sloter is definitely a gamer and might do something...but so was our last Sloter, Dysert, so no big loss there...Paxton is not ready, not even close...he might be further along in his year two than Brock was at the same point, but thats not saying too much...and I'd rather have Brock up next than Paxton, Sloter, Kappy, or anyone available...Houston is a dysfunctional family, and so is Cleveland...Denver is worlds apart from those franchises, he'll find his place in the locker room no problem, plenty of guys he has already gone to war with still there. It's a good move; A Family reunion lol
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Maybe one LNG terminal being built after 5 years of pushing from Christy's "liberals". An overpriced Dam project being built by the companies that "donate" cash to the BC Liberal party. Site C is a waste of taxpayers dollars and is not even needed. Geothermal and solar are the future.
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I thought I was reading the comPost. Anonymous source says nothing but the headline indicts!
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@user @user already stuck daca. enough animals shithole countries al @url
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Apt message for an apt audience. The Saudi royals have been implicated in funding terrorism.
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Will if the bill was release just this morning, then how is it possible for the media to say that the bill is going to kill people, without reading the bill?
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Good comment I agree
We should also analyze how well the Investment deal Harper signed with China has worked out. I've yet to read any serious analysis of it.
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Sounds easy enough. First you must stop sanctuary cities. They will just undermine the process at every opportunity. Until then the national guard will work.
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See!! Don't politicians get it? The oil and gas days are ending. They're over. It's time to move on to new sources like renewables instead of investing in a failing industry and the source of climate change.
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Hint, read the exchange in the preceding section, you lazy, but prissy fusspots.
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Don't trouble them with the facts. Donny has to pre-approve their info, tell them what is real and what is fake.
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Either is Afghanistan, Syria, or Niger. Have you voiced your complaint to your federal representatives about money being spent in those places? For the money the feds spend in Afghanistan in one day we could buy every Alaskan threatened by rising waters a new condo on Maui.
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:Virtually all song lyrics are copyright. If they're copyright, you shouldn't post them on Wikipedia (or anywhere else). You may think that copyright rules are stupid I do think that they're stupid but whether or not we like them, we must follow them.
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Jaime dont make me look like a bitch lmao
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Nasıl cuzulur ımamglu destek vererek
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The PFD is not intended to give families the same dividend based on the number of family members.
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What a horribly biased Liberal article.
You neglected to mention the Liberals want to have Fridays off for all MPs and the most egregious of all is they want the PM to only have to be there one day a week.
One day a week to answer questions from opposition about proposed laws and motions. 45-60 minutes a week is all that the Liberals feel our PM needs to be accountable to everyone that didn't vote for him and his party.
Trudeau wasn't there for the budget debate or the debate on M-103. Both contentious items that he should have been there to support but instead can anyone guess where he was???
That's rights boys and girls our PM was campaigning and having selfies taken at a by-election in a riding considered very safe for the Liberals.
Sad Sad Sad
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4. The blame game isn't working well for you. Besides you blaming women for a failed patriarchy (Because Jewish supremacy is a failure) blaming white women for Jewish feminists pretty well has you going "Your own way." I laugh because MGTOW is a feminist movement and truth hurts, right?
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Gli arabi vengono nelle nostre nazioni e vogliono diffondere con la forza la loro religione, cercando di impartire degli ordini nella nostra nazione, è opportuno rimpatriarli con delle barche.
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A citizen will have the right to bear arms and encouraged to exercise it .
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Trudeau may come to bitterly regret the Saudi arms deal
In the years that preceded the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia, like many other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, was among the worst-performing countries when it came to legitimacy. In 2006 and 2007 Saudi Arabia ranked as the third least legitimate country in the world. In 2009 it ranked second; in 2008, eighth; in 2010, seventh. Then, starting in 2011, its legitimacy scores improved slightly relative to other countries whose performance had actually worsened in the region; it ranked eleventh.
http://ipolitics.ca/2016/02/17/trudeau-may-come-to-bitterly-regret-the-saudi-arms-deal/
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The census is and was waaaaaaaaaaay down the list of Canadians' priorities. Probably wouldn't even notice if it was gone. Though it sure was enjoyable being threatened with JAIL, wasn't it?
But $10.5 million to a terrorist? All you need to say it "ten-point-five million" and we all know what it means. We care and we certainly won't forget.
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Heaven, help this state. The Alaska Legislature is going to drive us into bankruptcy. I feel as if Rome's burning and Nero's rosining up the bow for some fiddle-playing. We need to vote a lot of these folks out of office.
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Went fishing yesterday and they were every where. It was surreal.
So pretty.
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Trump spent years calling Obama and Hillary 'crooked' with zero proof and now his campaign manager is charged with conspiracy against the United States. LOL
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9. Right-on, bro! You tell that wasted THOT how it is.
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Τι ευγενικο παιδακι! Οχι σαν κατι αλλους που μολις γυρισουν γινονται τερμα αναιδεις! #TheVoiceGR
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Guess who ends up having to pay for all of the debt and other things those people didn't pay back ... the fewer people left behind that's who.
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It is great to hear that there is a special place, pre-maternal home, to provide a safe, healthy place for rural mothers to go to while awaiting birth. In Southeast, lower Southeast, years ago, IHS would provide for transportation from the home village into Ketchikan where IHS had a contract with the local women's shelter to provide for rural women in the last month of pregnancy or who were at high risk. Being in Ketchikan was preferred over being sent to Sitka or Anchorage. All the rural women came from isolated, rural villages located on islands. By having this program the women were able to be close to the hospital and medical services. It helped to prevent from having babies mid-air in air taxis and reduced the need for emergency medivac by helicopter, which endangered all during night time and inclement weather.
This program is no longer operating, women are sent to Sitka or Anchorage to await the births unless they have family or friends (or can afford a hotel) in Ketchikan.
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GardenMusic Festival offers a lively and eclectic mix
By Lawrence Budmen
The Sixth Floor Trio (Teddy Abrams, Johnny Teyssier and Harrison Hollingsworth) performed Sunday at the GardenMusic Festival in Coral Gables.
The GardenMusic Festival is a feast of youthful musical energy and talent. With performances taking place in a spacious tent on the grounds of Fairchild Tropical Garden, the programming mixes familiar works from the classical repertoire and contemporary scores with music from folk and pop genres.
Teddy Abrams is the guru behind the ten-day event. A former conducting fellow with the New World Symphony, Abrams is currently music director of the Louisville Orchestra. He is also a composer, pianist and arranger and Sunday night’s concert displayed him in all his varied musical guises.
Abrams has gathered a gifted ensemble of young musicians who displayed great flexibility and technical aplomb in this wide-ranging repertoire. “The Sacred, Profane and the Spiritual” was the concert’s theme and the program featured music that from all three realms and beyond.
Bassoonist and violinist Harrison Hollingsworth and clarinetist Johnny Teyssier are Abrams’ colleagues in the Sixth Floor Trio, a mainstay of the concert series. Teyssier opened the early evening program with the Prelude and first movement of The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind by Osvaldo Golijov. The initial calm, repetitive string figures suggest minimalism which Golijov has fused with the klezmer tradition.
Teyssier is a terrific clarinetist. He intoned the mournful, cantorial melodies with rich, mellow sonority and sprung the wild leaps and jazzy riffs in fleet and virtuosic strophes. Violinists Lily Francis and Johannes Dickbauer, violist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu and cellist Nicholas Finch were the string contingent, playing with energy and brilliance.
Johannes Bach was the great-uncle of J.S. Bach’s father and a composer of Baroque liturgical music. Abrams’ transcription of his motet Unser Leben ist ein Schatten featured a string ensemble on the stage and three winds (Abrams and Teyssier on clarinet and Hollinsworth on bassoon) about halfway back amongst the audience in the pavilion. The hymn-like score emerged serene and reverent. Throughout the concert, the discreet amplification projected the instruments clearly without blaring distortion.
After the Golijov and Bach works, the opening tritone of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 2 provided a real musical jolt, a macabre ambience replacing the preceding stasis. Playing Liszt’s four-hand piano version, Julio Elizalde and Sebastian Chang displayed a light, incisive touch, channeling the score’s devilish rhythms with brio but also playing with expressive tonal beauty and depth of feeling in the sensuous middle section. Elizalde tossed off Liszt’s triplets in sprightly fashion and the duo managed to probe the romantic impulses beneath Liszt’s surface flash.
The final movement of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, the “Witches’ Sabbath,” continued the devilish aura. Berlioz was such a master of gargantuan instrumental forces that it is difficult to imagine this orchestral barnburner in a chamber reduction. Abrams’ version was ingenious, however, the piano invoking the chimes and tuba of Berlioz’s Dies irae quotation. With Teyssier’s clarinet joined by two violins, viola, double bass, bassoon and percussion, the arrangement worked surprisingly well and the players displayed real agility and more than enough volume to suggest a semblance of Berlioz’s bombast. Abrams and Chang were the hard-working keyboard duo.
John Adams’ Shaker Loops provided a calming interlude. One of the iconic composer’s earliest works, Shaker Loops combines repetitive minimalism with a Copland-infused American folk tradition, weaving a beguiling sound tapestry. Abrams conducted the small string ensemble superbly, infusing welcome sonic bite and astringency in the playing but tapering off the soft conclusion to beautiful effect.
The concert’s second half featured folk music from around the globe. With the stage and audience in darkness, designer Augustina Woodgate outfitted the players with lights on their clothing for a striking tableaux.
Singing in a simple, direct manner, bass player Nathan Farrington doubled as vocalist for Stephen Foster’s Hard Times Come Again No More. Sultry-voiced Brazilian singer Priscilla Santana offered two swinging Brazilian songs with the musicians as backup chorus and multiple bongo drums. With the lights turned back up, the versatile violinist Jeremy Kittel and cellist Nathaniel Smith plugged in their instruments for some modernist country reels by Abrams and Kittel’s Spirit of Daniel Pearl, a homespun tune with spare piano, bassoon and cello accompaniment. The Jimi Hendrix classic Hey Joe (with violinist Dickbauer displaying his jazz bona fides) and a sing along of the gospel hymn I’ll Fly Away concluded the evening in lively fashion.
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So in the name of 'liberty' let's enable ill-informed and misguided parents to serve their children food products that could blind or kill them. That seem right to you?
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Is the a scene from The Postman? It's amazing what a region can become when you make taxes too low to support even a basic criminal justice system and functioning public education and sprinkle in a bit of economic collapse.
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RT @bayleigh_16: How you fuck for cash but you not a hoe?
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==2012 US Senate Elections== Hi, can you explain why you keep reverting my edits on this article? I added 538's predictions from the New York Times, which you can read here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/a-snapshot-of-the-race-for-the-senate/ I also updated the various consensus predictions to reflect Nate's numbers. This includes taking California from the Safe Democratic consensus group as 538 only regards the race as Likely Democratic. What's more, with every undo of my edit, you are removing the addition of ALL the 538 predictions I added, not just the change to California's status! Please stop. The data I added is REFERENCED. What exactly is the argument here?
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The American people, still scared ,
still kept down there ,"where they belong" per McMaster,Kelley and the Trump. Same fear different time.
No Holiday in Cambodia.
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Yep, and look what happened to CoverOregon. It was a complete disaster!
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A sales tax would work better.
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1. Introduction {#sec1}
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In recent years, there has been a marked reduction in surgical mortality for many complex forms of congenital heart disease. Surgical strategies for many of these patients may include systemic-pulmonary central or Blalock-Taussig shunt and shunts can be complicated by overcirculation, infection, thrombosis, and thromboembolism. The diagnosis of these complications in the postoperative period can be challenging, and it is necessary to support clinical suspicion with diagnostic imaging to determine if additional intervention is necessary. Some of these modalities are less invasive but user dependent which can make them unreliable, while others are invasive and may be unnecessary.
Computed tomography angiography has been increasingly utilized to identify detailed cardiovascular anatomy both pre-and postoperatively \[[@B1]--[@B3]\]. It can be particularly useful in identifying pulmonary and systemic vascular structures that are difficult to visualize on echocardiography. The use of computed tomography angiography in evaluating intracardiac anomalies has been limited but is now changing with advances in multidetector scanners and gating techniques and should be considered as a means of postoperative or postcatheterization evaluation of shunts and stents as it is noninvasive and can be performed rapidly \[[@B1]--[@B3]\]. We believe that it may be particularly useful for postoperative patients where there is clinical suspicion for shunt stenosis.
We report one patient where computed tomography angiography guided the postoperative algorithm and appropriately diagnosed a shunt narrowing in the absence of echocardiographic confirmation. These findings appropriately determined whether or not cardiac catheterization was necessary with respect to the need for more invasive imaging.
2. Clinical Summary {#sec2}
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A 2-month-old female with tricuspid atresia, intact ventricular septum, absent pulmonary valve, and aneurysmal right ventricle. The subject of this paper is a 2 month old female. On day 4 of life, she underwent surgical palliation including placement of a 3.5 millimeter modified Blalock-Taussig shunt with transection and oversewing of the main pulmonary artery. Her initial postoperative course was uneventful. She had a normal blood pressure, normal heart rate, an audible shunt murmur, and oxygen saturation in room air of 75--85%. Mechanical ventilation was weaned, and on postoperative day 5 she was extubated. She failed extubation immediately requiring reintubation secondary to extrathoracic airway obstruction. The patient\'s ventilator was weaned a second time over a 5-day period. During this time period, she had 3 episodes of hypoxia requiring upward titration of ventilator settings. 2 of the episodes were transient and self-resolving. Chest radiographs were unremarkable and echocardiogram on both occasions showed shunt flow with no identified area of stenosis. On postoperative day 9 she had an episode of persistent hypoxia (oxygen saturation 50--60%) for 2 hours. A shunt murmur was noted, however, slightly diminished. The patient was started on a heparin infusion for presumed shunt thrombosis, and an echocardiogram was performed. Echocardiogram at that time showed adequate shunt flow and did not identify an area of narrowing. Repeated attempts to wean mechanical ventilation resulted in respiratory distress. On postoperative day 13, a computed tomography angiogram was performed which showed a stenosis of the shunt at the anastamosis of the right pulmonary artery (Figures [1](#fig1){ref-type="fig"} and [2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}). At cardiac catheterization, stenosis was confirmed and treated with stent implantation (Figures [3(a)](#fig3){ref-type="fig"} and [3(b)](#fig3){ref-type="fig"}). Over the next 2 days, her ventilator was weaned and she was extubated without complication.
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Diagnosing postoperative complications following surgery for congenital heart disease can be challenging in the setting of complex physiology. The diagnosis of shunt narrowing requires clinical suspicion and diagnostic imaging. Some imaging modalities are noninvasive but can be user dependent and technically limited.
Shunt thrombosis may be suggested on chest radiography as pulmonary oligemia, however, it is unreliable as the sole diagnostic modality. Echocardiography, while non-invasive and still considered the initial modality of choice in the workup of shunt narrowing, is user dependent and can be very challenging in the postoperative patient. In addition, it can be difficult to demonstrate early, partial occlusion, or shunt narrowing because flow will still be present. Cardiac catheterization is correctly the gold standard imaging technique, however, it is invasive and should be avoided if possible, particularly in the infant where future vascular access must be preserved.
Computed tomography angiography is increasingly useful in the evaluation of congenital heart disease, and it can also be employed to identify a variety of posttreatment complications \[[@B1]--[@B5]\]. Computed tomography angiography facilitates the assessment of extracardiac systemic and pulmonary arterial and venous structures. The use of computed tomography angiography in the role of intracardiac anomalies has been limited but is now changing with advances in multidetector scanners and gating techniques \[[@B1]--[@B5]\]. As seen in our patient, computed tomography angiography can be used to evaluate surgical shunt anatomy. Computed tomography angiography may be superior to magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of stents because there is less metal-related artifact \[[@B1]\]. However, CTA can be problematic in the evaluation of stent patency when the stents are less than 5 millimeters. We believe that computed tomography angiography is a useful adjunct to echocardiography for evaluation of possible shunt narrowing or thrombosis, particularly in the setting of limited acoustic windows. Pulmonary artery anatomy may be difficult to visualize with echocardiography, while CT angiography is excellent at imaging pulmonary artery anatomy, and since the shunts are often anastomosed to these structures, it seems logical that it would be adequate, if not superior at identifying the entire length of the shunt. In addition, it is relatively fast and often requires little or no sedation. Conventional cardiac angiography may be limited by its 2-dimensional nature and because of its invasiveness, caries a higher rate of complication \[[@B6]\].
Computed tomography angiography is not the diagnostic modality of choice for all patients with suspected shunt narrowing. However, it should be considered in hemodynamically stable patients where there is a clinical suspicion for shunt narrowing which is otherwise unconfirmed by echocardiography. It can also guide imaging and transcatheter intervention at cardiac catheterization.
Computed tomography angiography has been limited in this setting because of concerns of radiation exposure and limited resolution. With the development of new multi-slice scanners, radiation exposure is considerably less, resolution is much improved and acquisition is rapid \[[@B7], [@B8]\]. These features make it extremely attractive for use in children with congenital heart disease, and it should be considered in the postoperative period as a reliable and non-invasive method for evaluating systemic-pulmonary shunts.
We feel that our particular patient is worth reporting because CTA identified a discrete narrowing which confirmed our subtle clinical suspicion despite several echocardiograms failing to identify a shunt narrowing. We feel that early detection by CTA allowed the patient to undergo cardiac catheterization in a stable condition. If the narrowing had been allowed to progress, the patient would then require emergent catheterization and could suffer possible morbidities associated with this critical setting. While CTA is not a new modality in the evaluation of congenital heart disease, I believe its use in this particular setting is unique and worth reporting.
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The rapid evolution of computed tomography angiographic technologies has rendered it an important diagnostic modality for patients with congenital heart disease. It may be applied in the postoperative patient where clinical suspicion is not corroborated by other diagnostic modalities and may obviate the need for more invasive cardiac catheterization.
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[^1]: Academic Editors: M.-R. Chen and C. Steinwender
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Linda, your point is a good one. I must admit that I have doubts as to the extent to which I can believe what Trump says. However, his list of possible SCOTUS picks and his selection of Pence as the VP nominee both struck me as affirmations of his words. Still, yes, I have doubts. Foreign policy is actually my primary field of expertise and there we clearly disagree. While Trump's words were often careless and frighten me, I found the record of Clinton and Obama to be woeful. Clinton supported intervention in Iraq, and was hawkish in both Syria and Libya. For me the worst option is someone willing to intervene when tensions are high but lacks the commitment to stay and fix the problems when public support wanes. Thus my fear with HRC, was exactly what we had with WJC, a hawish and violent policy, but no long term commitment to states after intervention. Will Trump be better? Here I have serious doubts. But simply reimposing the Mexico City Doctrine will help much.
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Best joke caption wins!
My first:
"Hey he looks like he is doing about as good of job as the rest of Trump's appointments."
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alors naulleau debarque ? finie la posture de gauchiste intraitable ouvert sur la diversite culturelle et incap
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Sure. I'll try not to do so in the future.
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#gntmgr έλα ρε Μαρτινα κανε μας την χάρη .... ! Κ υπόσχομαι για ένα ολόκληρο επεισόδιο να μην γράψω αρνητικό σχόλιο !
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Well, I for one will be sleeping much better knowing this important news.
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So you, too, disagree that the Church can be persuasive to reasonable people. My goodness. It's rare to find such close-minded anti-Catholicism . . . denying that the Church has anything reasonable to say. Wow.
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I'm just hoping that the justices actually work to find some way to accommodate both interests -- civil rights, as well as sincerely held beliefs. I worry that they won't, and that civil rights will be set back.
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Either Gardner keeps his promise on repealing ACA, or he'll be replaced in 5 years. I suspect he's glad his reelection is 5 years away, and may be hoping people will forget his RINO vote in 2017.
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"but President Donald Trump is putting that future at risk in his efforts to close American borders and minds."
Those few countries he failed to ban immigrants from are not going to contribute significantly to American population growth.
Legal immigration from Mexico, China, and India, the greatest contributors to legal immigration into the US, is not currently thought to be under great threat under the Trump.
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They get sent to the murder capital of Alaska where they belong.
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Cherry picking economic migrants that don't like waiting in line.
There are a number of US based Haitians who have applied to immigrate to Canada, they have done their paper work and are standing patiently in line....these impatient others can't be bothered with the paperwork , they simply cross the border and get accepted.
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Un terrorista pedinato
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Design Interview
Welcome to this month’s discussion relating to all things Design for MCC. I will be joined today by a few returning members of the Publishing Team here at 343 Industries. Topics to be covered will include Challenges, Theater and Forge work for PC, what goes into large updates that also come to console, and additional tidbits. This one is lengthy, so make sure you have brought adequate snacks and beverages. Let’s dive on in!
Postums: Welcome Max, Dana, thank you so much for joining me today. For those who don’t know much about you two, tell me a little bit about who you are?
Dana: I'm Dana Jerpbak, a technical designer here on the pub team. I report to Max. I’m responsible for designing various systems for player progression and engagement, designing events and content for sustain and matchmaking, as well as features supporting Forge.
With both designing systems as well as implementing them I interact with both content and code in what I do.
So, it sounds like you are heavily involved in both the planning and the doing in terms of getting all things MCC up and running. Very cool. And Max, what about you?
Max: I’ll keep it short today, I’m Max Szlagor, the design director for the publishing team which some of you may already know from previous updates.
Yes indeed! Tell me gentlemen, what are some of the awesome cool new things y’all are working on?
M: Well, that is a very broad question. For the new features we want to talk about today there are quite a few key pieces we can go into detail on. I'll let Dana speak to the multiplayer game types and playlists. In general, the way that we look at features is that MCC is a very large game that is now spanning multiple platforms, and there's a lot of stuff there, so we want to make sure that we can bring each game to each platform in a way that's native, and that it’s a good experience for everybody. And we want to make sure that every feature is brought to everybody in that same way. So, when we think about features, a lot of it has to do with what we think the right experience for that platform is.
If it's on console, we have some amount of legacy to look back to, but there's also another piece of it which is, does it warrant looking at whether that system can use updating? Could we make some part of it more intuitive? Could we make it more accessible?
Evaluation comes on a feature by feature basis. Dana will speak to the Theater and Forge, or “Thorage” piece as we are calling it internally. I think that's an interesting case of how we looked at legacy content and discovered new things that we could do with it. Other work comes out of understanding player needs to make experiences native for PC. Examples include new ways we need to update the interface for features originally built for console.
PC is a much more open-ended modifiable platform and there's a lot of things that you can do there that you can't do on console. If you're a very curious person, you want to go and poke around and do things we didn’t imagine. How do we enable those scenarios while ensuring the integrity and safety of our core game experience for our fans?
I think for other kinds of features some of our ability to make updates comes down to technical challenges and time. Finding how do we bring those features to new places in a way that will perform well and will work across a wider range of hardware now available for MCC.
When these games were originally created, they were very optimized for the platforms they were made for. But it’s something that we must revisit when we look at bringing these games to other places, like for example going from 30fps to 60 fps, to more than 60 fps. Those are pretty significant investments, technically, to get working across different platforms in updates. We continue to discover new ways in which such changes present new challenges.
With so many ways we can approach things of this nature, our goals are to make sure that across our team and the community, we're reaching out to identify and understand key desires and pain points. A lot of it just comes down to discussion and evaluation so we can properly prioritize the features we hear requests for.
Dana, do you want to talk to that process of how we have collectively worked together across our feedback avenues to take in community feedback as it relates to game types, playlist and how you approach it?
D: So basically, a little over a year ago, we kicked off our efforts to start updating and improving a lot of the matchmaking content across MCC. This has been ongoing for a while now, but we got into this weekly cadence of updates and started really thinking about how we get each titles’ matchmaking content in a really good spot. Specifically, making sure it’s consistent, making sure it's accessible, making sure there are things that are consistent between games so it's not a jarring experience when you're switching from Halo: CE to Halo 2 and other games. It’s very important that we’re also retaining the identity and the legacy of each individual game and what made them unique.
We've spent a lot of time doing that, and the process involved lots of data. This includes looking at various metrics, quit rates for specific maps and their variants. Without getting into the nitty gritty, we use these pieces paired with our own experiences, and those of our community, to begin to form an opinion.
We have various channels for qualitative feedback and combine this with quantitative feedback to see the insights we can draw from this joint data. I think if you look at either in a vacuum you can make some assumptions that aren’t fully informed and don't tell the full story. Marrying the two together allows us to make better decisions of what works, what doesn't, what can be better, and how our process can be better.
Some of that's involved things like adding new options and granularity for custom game settings to allow us to do things that maybe weren't possible in these games before.
Like the new Fiesta work for H:CE, adding audio, adding new playlist options that include “no spread” to our Ranked Playlists. I know historically there are many different pieces you have worked on.
D: Yeah, exactly, those are some of the most recent examples. The no spread work, the primary and secondary weapon selection, new weapons sets, and more. We’ve added some new time limit and score limit options to H:CE, and other work with Halo: Reach. We’re adding additional tools to our toolbox to respond to feedback.
That’s great, getting the custom tools you need to do what you wanna do is clearly already paying off. Continuing with that theme, how are things going on Halo: Reach? Do you want to talk a little bit about the Theater and Forge update, or “Thorage” as it’s called internally?
D: Sure thing. Forge can kind of be broken into two main categories in how we think about it. There's the tool and feature side of it, and then there's the content side.
For the tool and feature side of it, obviously with bringing forge to PC we're bringing in a new input device. Certain things that maybe work nicely on controller don't necessarily translate one-to-one for mouse and keyboard, for example the raw controls and the UI. With this comes player expectations like rebinding keys and having more accessibility. More pieces to empower players to create awesome content.
To maintain consistency across all of the titles in MCC, we have been doing these changes in conjunction to help maintain consistency and a unified experience. We want to create a more cohesive experience so when you jump from Forge in Halo: Reach to Halo 4 it’s not jarring.
Now we know that Forge is not identical in each game as iteration happened between titles, but in areas that are shared our goal is to maintain as much consistency as possible. All with the goal to make Forge feel native on mouse and keyboard and really empower players who don't have a controller or have never touched Forge before.
The second piece of our Forge discussion is the content, and this is where the Thorage comes in, as far as our goofy codename for it. For Halo: Reach specifically I remember back when I originally played and there being objects in the campaign that weren’t available in Forge. Things like civilian vehicles, vehicle variants, and just cool stuff I had wished I could have in Forge. When we started this project we looked at ways to make use of them. Then the question became, “why stop there?” Reach had several DLC Maps with even more unique object additions, and we decided to bring those back to Forge World and into Tempest.
Tempest is treated as our secondary forge canvas as it’s nice to have a secondary option that's visually different for players to have more variation in themes on their maps.
After these changes we thought, “Let's see what else we can do.” Reach campaign offered many more objects with strong visual utility that could add variety to maps. Some were chosen for their strong gameplay utility, like weapon cabinets that refill your ammunition for your weapons. New ways to help empower people to do things on the gameplay side that maybe weren't possible before.
With Forge it's not about using things the way they were intended; it's about offering a toolset broad enough so someone can be creative with the tools at hand. We want to give people the freedom to make amazing, unpredictable, and new stuff that everyone can then play and enjoy.
That’s a lot of great information about Forge! I know that the second part of the “Thorage” update will be theater. What are some things you want to speak to about it?
D: Theater is much less grandiose compared to Forge, but we took the same approach in regard to focusing in on making the experience native to the platform. This includes supporting things like key bindings so that players have greater customization over their theater controls and being able to interact and use it the way they want to. The primary change and goal for it was to make it feel native on PC with mouse and keyboard. Making it so using free cam really feels natural on a mouse was a challenge we believe we have been able to achieve.
I’m excited for people to get their hands on these! I know that there are still pieces coming together still, but in terms of an area players are going to get some hands-on time with in the next flight for Halo 2 and Halo 2: Anniversary, let's talk Challenges and their addition to the game. Can you explain these from a top level down in terms of core concepts and what y’all are exploring for options in-game?
M: I can touch briefly on some goals we had, and then Dana can dig into the details of the exploration and implementation.
Across Halo games, we've had Challenges and are looking at ways to grow them within MCC. In the past we've had this concept of these daily and weekly challenges in a fixed pool and had different objectives to them. We were looking at that and we asked ourselves two questions:
Does this model fit into how people are playing games today? And what sort of things can we do to expand on that?
From this we came to a couple of different conclusions. One is that we liked what was possible within the philosophical framework we have. We do events right now and that is something we will be continuing. We also wanted to prove more opportunity and accessibility to folks who may not be able to play as regularly and miss out on them. Our goal was for challenges to be more flexible, and to have larger windows of time for completions. Also offering a variety of rewards that all feed into our existing MCC progression system. Dana will speak to the evolution and details of this system.
D: To that end, one of the core components of challenges for MCC was to ensure that they are quite configurable. We have lots of freedom in what we can adjust and track for any challenge objectives. Thus allowing great flexibility to provide objectives that touch across a lot of different playstyles, skill levels, modes and activities within the game.
(This is a Work-in-Progress mockup. Challenge names, details, and rewards may not reflect final design)
One of the big challenges with challenges is that we needed a system to drive progress across all of MCC. As Max mentioned, Halo: Reach and Halo 4 had their own challenges and were designed differently using systems based on ‘incidents.’ In MCC, we have to account for the different Halo engines across the collection, and needed a more complex system to support this. Our universal system tracks objectives across all the games, and supports game-agnostic objectives. For example: killing a grunt in H:CE is treated the same as in Halo 3. Existing data structures that we already tracked within MCC have been leveraged to allow this higher degree of configuration ultimately providing more unique challenges for players. Ranging from short to long term goals, but they can span many areas in the experience.
For example – here are a list of some kinds of challenges you might run into:
Kill X units.
Play X matches of this specific game type in this playlist.
Save user-generated content.
Play anytime in the month of April.
Historically these have been done manually, but challenges allow us to systemically drive these kinds of objectives and awards. This addition of a more robust system helps to address feedback of wanting more places to earn XP beyond Matchmaking.
In past blogs I know we’ve talked briefly about the desire for future unlocks and customizations, are there any sorts of details you can provide about these rewards?
M: We're looking at offering different types of rewards for completing challenges. Initially, I think we're looking at experience points and season points. At some point, the goal is for system to be able to include item rewards as well.
Lots to get excited for! To go in a completely different direction, we recently had an update on Xbox recently, that was 60 gigs. With it there was a lot of new content like customization, new features, future setup work, and bug fixes. Do you two want to talk a little bit about how updates to PC are going to bring certain things to Xbox? And what that means for file size etc.?
M: Let’s chat briefly about the Xbox update. It’s always our goal to minimize the size of updates for our players. With such a large surface area of game, and the scope of changes that need to be made this can make them rather large. Whenever core game data files are updated, this usually means a larger update. We manage this process very carefully to minimize the amount of times this happens. But it is one of those things that can come up. This mindset drove development for features like Intelligent Install where players can choose which pieces of games in MCC they download. We expect some updates will be larger than others but we will be as mindful as we can with those updates.
What were some of the changes in the recent update that contributed to its size?
D: With the CE Update, because we are developing the PC versions, we had work that was prep work for stuff coming down the road. But some larger changes in terms of file sizes included resolving water ripples in Halo 4 among other pieces. Some other pieces included updates to various Forge items across MCC.
Now, for my final question. I talk regularly with various community members that are interested in breaking into the industry. Now we have talked extensively before about your path into the industry to get where you are today before Dana. What would you say is a key piece of advice you’d give someone if they said “I want to design video games” but they have never had any industry experience?
D: If somebody wanted to get into design, I would say they should first learn about what the types of design are and identify which one sparks their interest. I mean there’s so many different applications of design. There’s level, systems, technical, gameplay, sandbox, and so on and so forth. With so many games providing avenues for creating content through mods or other user-generated content features, the opportunities to gain firsthand experience through these processes is endless.
Digging into what excites you and stretching mental design muscles, building them up, and truly thinking through problem solving techniques for how games collectively work together across disciplines; these are all great areas to start with. Figuring out what thought processes you need to have on your own to efficiently breakdown why things are done and which interest you most.
From this analysis exercise, you will likely find an area that you latch onto and then can learn more about through communities, books, or even trial and error. The key is to practice on your own and start building a portfolio of content you have created.
Well thank you both so much for stopping in and sharing this wealth of knowledge on all things design for MCC! Now that we know more about cool new things being worked on, let’s take a look at flighting for Halo 2 and Halo 2: Anniversary!
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