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Remember in your youth when you were told that you 'd go blind if you masturbated , well your mother might have been right after all !!!
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
I remember catching a couple of 2 footers in the estuary of the Fraser river South arm near Vancouver.
Also a giant sturgeon ( 600 pounds )was caught in Stave lake near Pitt Meadows (30km east of Vancouver ) in the late 70 's and some were regularly caught in fishermen nets in the Fraser between Chilliwack and Coquitlam while I lived in B.C.
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
These are the subtilities of french conjugaison !
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Robert LaFrance
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Ancient History
It is obvious with a title like the pagan christ , that this book is about religion and this is kind of taboo on this site .
The entire book is about ancient egyptian religion and the author endeavours to proves that every single word said or move made by Jesus Christ according to the gospels is either written or depicted at least 1500 years before the birth of the Christ !
Reli
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Robert LaFrance
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Ancient History
I am reading Tom Harpur's book "the pagan christ " in which he cites two authors who trace the new testament name matthew to Ma'at . Since the hall of Ma'at was a place of judgment he calls the gospel of matthew the gospel of judgment .
Has anyone heard of this before ?
Here is the quote from the book . page 73
The judgment place was called the ha
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Robert LaFrance
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Ancient History
after a lot of consultation with my wife , the tense used in the text is passe simple
not imparfait the 3rd person plural of imparfait would be confirmaient
present confirment
future Confirmeront
passe simple confirmerent
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Robert LaFrance
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Ancient History
it is a fair translation the only changes I would make is
La presence de ces noms confirmerent la tradition
the presence of these names did confirm the traditon
And I would switch the word constructor with builder
The verb confirmer is used at the third person plural of the imparfait tense
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Robert LaFrance
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Ancient History
during one of my backpacking trips in the cascade mountains, I learned the hard way that water boils at 80 degrees in high altitude . We were camping at 2300 meters and had set up camp between snow patches (it was mid july ) I had brought lentils to cook for dinner with some smoked sausages, In the afternoon before we went exploring the area I had put the lentils to soak so they would cook
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
Laura , I read the quote in the good book " A short history of progress " by Ronald Wright . In the title : short is for the size of the book only 130 pages as for history of progress, the author says as far as the environment is concerned we are not learning from our mistakes and go back to square one time and time again .
Another quote from the book is by a secr
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
Can't remember where I read or watched that but the further you live from a cancer treatment center the more you are likely to survive the disease !
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
But if you want to beat a heart attack, nothing like a bottle of claret a day , The French have the highest level of cholesterol in the world but the lowest heat attack's !!thanks to their wine drinking .
Robert LaFrance
A peasant must wait a long time on a hillside with his mouth open , before a roast duck flies in ! Chinese proverb
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
Watching the news in Canada , It is great to see the overwhelming welcome of the dutch people ( the great majority of them were not born ) to the canadian veterans who liberated them 60 years ago . the veterans can reflect on the graves of their fallen comrades one last time and they can say to them " the Dutch people will never forget your sacrifice "
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
Right on Ritva . Did you read the book ? I Guess at the time that Freud said this , divorce was not as common as it is nowadays , and women hardly had any rights. but to me marriage is a moral commitment as it should have been then and whatever happens one cannot pay off the partner for the years he or she devoted to make the marriage work ; There is not enough money
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
" I have paid off the mortgage on my marriage "
In the excellent book of Morris L West " The world is made of glass " Carl Jung quotes a very influential man from the early 20 th century , Can you guess who it is ? Also what do you make of the quote ?
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
It 's not only in the western USA , there has been a drought for a few years too in the canadian prairies and just coming back from France , in march some areas were starting to restrict the use of water , although the situation has eased a bit with heavy rains reported in some parts of the country , many rivers are still at a record low for the season . and now with temperature alre
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Robert LaFrance
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Paper Lens
thanks Allan for the information , It makes sense , much appreciated .
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
At 8 a.m. I watch the french news on R.F.O. French overseas network aired from the islands of St Pierre and Miquelon Just a few Km south of Newfoundland .The last few days at exactly 8h 20 the feed is lost and we are told that this is due to solar interference and lasts for a while ; this has happened every year at this particular time ! This is the only
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
By all means Merc Read it You ' ll enjoy it .
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Robert LaFrance
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Paper Lens
I read Mark Haddon 's book " The curious incident of the dog in the night " It is the world of a 15 year old autistic boy . It gives you an insight of what happens in the head of such a person and makes you realise how difficult it is for parents to raise children with such a handicap .
Robert LaFrance
One is responsible for
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Robert LaFrance
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Paper Lens
Went once to a Thai restaurant that was very popular , with a food critic for a Vancouver newspaper . Not knowing much about thai food , we asked the waiter to explain a few of the dishes and we selected 2 that we thought were very different . When our orders arrived , our plates were exactly the same ; We called the waiter over to make sure that w
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Robert LaFrance
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Humanities
after 40 tries I thought I had it solved got 4 YES in a row ; then gave up after 8 YES in 60 !
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
Watched a great rugby game from Paris to day . The French jumped from their starters and scored 2 tries in the first ten minutes and the welsh were lucky not to concede 2 more in the first half; The french pack was running over the welsh 's and at halftime France was Leading 15 to 6 a score flattering for the welsh , Although you could
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
I' ve got another question regarding flying : why do planes from Vancouver to London fly north of the arctic circle over greenland , Iceland and scotland rather than a straight line ? These to cities are at about the same lattitude . Iknow that flights from Vancouver to Tokyo use the pole route . perhaps an airline pilot could tell us .
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
thanks for the map Merc , it makes sense now .
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
I don't think so it 's always longer East to west ie :
Vancouver - London 9 1/2 hours
London - Vancouver 10 1/2 hours
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
I just got my itinerary for a trip next month from Canada to France And having crossed the atlantic more than a dozen times ; there is a question I always pondered but never asked : Why does it take one hour more to fly east to west than west to east on a transatlantic Journey ? Some flights climb as high as 11000 meters (33000 feet ) does the spin
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
Was laughing my head off watching the french news . In an area in France they salted the divided highway but forgot to salt the access and exit ramps !!!! Here in Nova Scotia Canada ,overnight we are expecting our first snow in over 4 weeks, 10 to 15 cm , but it takes a lot more than that to shut us down .
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
At the international level and in professional games , there is no questions that the size of the goals should be checked on a regular basis ; and that both goals should be exactly 8 yards across by 8 feet high. However , having refereed close to 1000 games I have never measured or been asked to measure the goals . It was never mentionned during the many re
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Robert LaFrance
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Humanities
Growing up in rural France just after WW II when you were sick or injured you went to a healer before you went to a doctor . I witnessed 2 " miracles" ; monday morning was wash day , my mother used to heat water in a vat on the coal stove and when boiling ,carried it to a larger vat where she did the washing . One day something went wrong and in f
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Robert LaFrance
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Coffee Shop
It used to be the curse of the mummy ! and now we have the curse of the iceman .
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Robert LaFrance
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Laboratory
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