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Remove Hyperlinks in Word

The Macro:

Option Explicit Sub KillTheHyperlinks() ' ----------------------------------------------- ' Removes all hyperlinks from the document: ' Text to display is left intact ' ----------------------------------------------- With ThisDocument ' Loop while there are hyperlinks afoot! While .Hyperlinks.Count > 0 .Hyperlinks(1).Delete Wend End With ' Shut this off, don't need anymore popping up Application.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceHyperlinks = False End Sub Sub KillTheHyperlinksInAllOpenDocuments() ' ----------------------------------------------- ' Removes all hyperlinks from any open documents ' Text to display is left intact ' ----------------------------------------------- Dim doc As Document Dim szOpenDocName As String ' Loop through all open documents: For Each doc In Application.Documents ' Store the document name szOpenDocName = doc.Name ' Remove the hyperlinks from that document With Documents(szOpenDocName) ' Loop while there are hyperlinks afoot! While .Hyperlinks.Count > 0 .Hyperlinks(1).Delete Wend End With ' Shut this off, don't need anymore popping up Application.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceHyperlinks = False Next doc End Sub

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The scientific method defined

What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Science: The scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray

Excerpt:

In a lecture at Cornell University in 1964, the physicist Richard Feynman defined the scientific method. First, you guess, he said, to a ripple of laughter. Then you compute the consequences of your guess. Then you compare those consequences with the evidence from observations or experiments. “If [your guess] disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make a difference how beautiful the guess is, how smart you are, who made the guess or what his name is…it’s wrong.”

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3 views of submission to government from Romans 13

3 views of submission to government from Romans 13

1. The Lutheran View: Obey in all things, except sin
2. The Presbyterian/Puritan View: Obey when the Government promotes good or checks evil
3. The Baptist View—All that, plus the freedom of the church

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Thinking Theologically About Race (series)

• With Liberty and Justice for All
• Faith Seeking Understanding: Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions
• Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions: The Image of God
• Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions: Sin and Guilt
• Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions: Life Together in the Church

On Systemic Racism

‘Systemic Racism’: An Uncontestable Axiom


 Excerpt:

Here’s the thing: how can we know if these claims made in the letter are true? Is there any way to contest them, to falsify them? Practically speaking, I don’t think there is. You’re going to be the manager who tells black people who signed the letter that actually, their claims are in any way inaccurate, unfair, or wrong? Unthinkable. Don’t misunderstand: these grievances might well be justified. My point is that for all intents and purposes, in this cultural environment, it is impossible to challenge them. I was googling today and found an interview on YouTube with a black undergraduate at Princeton, who asserted that the university was racist. The interviewer asked him for examples of Princeton’s racism. He could not come up with a single example! But this did not deter him. He said that Princeton was “structurally racist.” Maybe it is, I dunno. But again, is this a testable hypothesis? If it’s not a testable hypothesis — I mean that as a matter of cultural politics — then what does that mean? It means that if you are part of an “oppressed minority,” you can get whatever you want just by demanding it, because those running our institutions lack the confidence to challenge you.

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