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Man, oh, man, do I ever agree with you about short novels about big things! But I did love "Middlesex" and "Underworld" as well. "Tinkers", "Train Dreams", and others like it seem to have been replaced by the big novel. Just as Jhumpa Lahriri's win in 2000 saw a resurgence in the short story, I think two years ago, when all three finalists were HUGE novels, may have sparked a rebirth of the large novel. "The Luminaries", "We Are Not Ourselves", "The Dying Grass" (admittedly Vollmann has always written huge novels), "A Little Life", "The Goldfinch", "The Son", "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul", "A Brief History of Seven Killings", "City on Fire" are all fat tomes and each has received its share of accolades, hefty advances, prizes, etc.
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The controversy is moderately interesting to me: from one perspective, she might not have published the novel if this were 20 years ago and her mental faculty was indisputably undiminished. There is a chance that she was, in fact, taken advantage of by the publisher and lawyer; on the other hand, authors who pass away often have their work published and so this may have surfaced, no matter her wishes, after Lee's death regardless.
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By special request of my husband I am including this. It was his favorite as a child, and when we looked it up a few years ago found that the only copies that existed were considered “vintage” and ran about $200. It’s been republished so *someone* might be getting it in his stocking this year! Sounds like another excuse to go bake some cookies… with sprinkles, of course.
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Anyone being negative should have had an abortion.. Being a mom is a beautiful thing.. Thank god your still pregnant because some women aren't as lucky. Bashing anyone is sad and being that it was posted 2 years ago all u unhappy women need to look within yourselves and find happiness because your obviously miserable. And those looking for an argument are lonely.. That is all.! Good Luck To All The Happy Moms..
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When the government of Singapore decided to make culinary training a centerpiece of its plan to turn the island into a world-class tourist destination, it invited the Culinary Institute of America to open its first international branch on the island. Four years ago, Managing Director Eve Felder moved to Singapore with her family to set up the program — around the same time that celebrity chefs like Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali also arrived.
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I would describe the remainder of the album as commercial and slightly metalized power blues. I admit I really didn't like much of it 20 years ago but after digging up this CD for the review, it amazed me how high the quality actually is. I usually cringe away from stuff like this but here it is hard to ignore the powerful performance and the inspired song writing. A certain blues highlight is Nightmare, while Hard Life to Love, Glory Ride and Born to Lose are all very enjoyable 80's hair metal tracks.
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> At 39 years old, isn’t Haddish a little old to be playing an undercover cop infiltrating a high school? Well, yes… if she was playing a student. But Collider hears that Haddish is going to play a teacher this time around, possibly posing as the mother of a new student — and fellow undercover cop (Awkwafina?).
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For Seattle Christian Jim Henderson it meant rejecting what he calls "beliefism," in favor of the idea that behavior matters more than belief. His organization, Off the Map, bid for the "soul" of an atheist a few years ago and won it for $500. Instead of trying to convert the atheist, Henderson took him to megachurches and asked him for critiques. A book ensued.
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Eugene Petersen wrote a brilliant article years ago, which was also a chapter title in a book of his, called "Teach us to care, and not to care." His thoughtful expose really helped me answer the question: How do you help people who wish to be helped and how can you tell who those people are? I'll leave you with this lengthy excerpt:
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November 13. Saturday. Took leave of my family, and rode to Boston with my son Charles, nine years of age last May. At four o’clock went on board the French frigate, the Sensible; Mr. Thaxter, my son John, twelve years old last July, and my servant Joseph Stevens, having come on board in the morning. I find the frigate crowded with passengers and sailors, full three hundred and fifty men. They have recruited a great number here.
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In their classic book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout said that most people could only remember a few things about any given company. When a company tried to communicate a message with a prospect or customer, they were competing with millions of other messages in a noisy marketplace. If they thought the noise was bad 30 years ago, consider what it’s like today!
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The scholarship, which Mary views as validation of her hard work, may be the thing that changes the trajectory of her life—much like Isabelle’s Principal all those years ago.
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Because several years ago I had the pleasure of speaking to a bunch of RBI journalists about "becoming more blog-like" -- by adopting some of the practices of the blogosphere in their work. I think it's safe to say that the reaction I received from some of the staff was a wee bit short of love and adulation. In particular, I remember one guy who promised me "we will never do that s*#t here."
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I haven't used Data.com heavily in awhile - the site wasn't updated and simple feature requests were ignored. For a long time I've just been updating the retirees at the companies I work with. If you made something new, I would suggest having some sort of cycle for the age of contacts - say, two years old and someone needs to verify they are still there.
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Jr. Jr. had a dentist appointment this morning, so of course I took along my nearly-finished Coriolos sock to work on while he was being tortured, I mean worked on. When I pulled it out, the woman across from me, who was accompanying her very elderly mother, began to reminisce about how she had knit socks years ago, when she was in school, but she hadn't since then. At that point, another woman arrived to wait for her appointment, saw me, and said, "I brought mine, too, but it's crochet." She was working on a cute little bag in a nice light blue cotton. See, honey, I'm not the only nutty fiber person around.
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My Name is Regina, I’m 19 years old and finished school a year ago in Austria. I want to break into film industry, but my definite goal would be to work as a music supervisior, but i guessed, that the best way is to start out in film anyway, getting connections etc
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I am staying in Vancouver atm, until end of July, and my flight back to Austria is in August. Do you think I should risk going down to LA for three weeks, trying to find something or should i rather go home first, work for a while (financial stability) and make a complete move over the ocean in a few years.. I also tried to contact some people, but I didnt get a response, which is demotivating, but i don’t want to give up.
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My jaw dropped as I was reading your description of the Venus-Square- Saturn aspect in synastry. This is the situation I have with “my man” – from the fear factor to the getting back together after a long time (like…27 years?) still unable to make it ‘something of substance” (the fact that he got married and has 3 kids does not help…), to the distance between us…(NYC-Milan….), to everything else but the age difference (although I suspect I , the Venus one, have lived much more in terms of experience). I am shocked. Andsince we do have many other aspects that would work in theory (Venus conjuncts, trine Moon/Sun, trine Mars, ), the frustration is even bigger. Let’s see now what the solution is….
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He has been battling a recent illness caused by contracting meningitis while visiting Alaska, according to the diocese, but is expected to make a full recovery. Reading from a prepared statement, he said he is “relieved and grateful to Pope Francis” for giving in the new bishop “a shepherd like his own heart.”Parkes was present at Lynch’s installation as bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg almost 21 years ago.
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In 1910, the Orpheum theater, the NorShor’s original name, was built for $150,000. It hosted Charlie Chaplin and the Marx brothers, among other famous performers. City with about 100,000 residents. Vera Storr was just 16 years old when she left home in Manchester to work at Millersford explosives testing station. She vividly remembers the build up to D Day. “It was very busy, lots of troops hiding in the bushes,” she said.
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'Madonna is remarkable. A bold, daring, uncompromising superstar who shot to the top back in the eighties and has remained there ever since,' the 54-year-old TV host said. 'I am hoping this interview will be as memorable and revealing as the first time I sat down with her over twenty years ago.'
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RiNo Art District board chair Tracy Weil lives and works at a property near Chestnut and 36th that he bought about 15 years ago. He said the district has also planned new signs to help visitors find their way around RiNo, and the BID money will get them on the streets.
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Much of the misery that those that I knew claimed they are subjected to were largely imaginary. At the place where I used to teach, one division was notorious for its teaching staff working the come-late-leave-early shift. When they got a new dean nearly 20 years ago, he tightened up on that and I'm sure he became quite unpopular as a result.
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That's quite a change from 30 years ago when I couldn't get a job no matter how hard I tried. (Many other people in my occupation couldn't either.) Meanwhile, academics like you didn't hesitate to brag about how they had a job for life and were openly smug about it.
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By the way, I do know what it's like to be out of work. I spent many years on the dole because there were few jobs, if any, available for people in my occupation--and that was a long time ago.
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When I was applying for grad school a few years ago, a few programs I looked at were not accepting new students. One department actually waited until I sent in my application fee, GRE scores, and everything else in the application packet before telling me that they weren't accepting new PhD students. Their website contained misleading information. This school also refused to reimburse me and I wasted my time, money and energy applying there.
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These days, Hesteyri is a popular place for visitors to start their summer hiking trips through the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. Residents left the fjords over 70 years ago, but they return to keep their homes in good condition for the hikers that arrive during the short season. In the winter, everything is hauntingly empty. Especially as we approached the ruins of an old whaling station.
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In a landmark moment for artificial intelligence, a computer has for the first time passed the Turing Test, finally answering the question which was posed over 60 years ago by the father of modern computer science Alan Turing - Can Machines Think?
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Anyway I was given one as a kid, which I lost with a wallet 25 years ago. My kids found a handful in our garden in 1999 and I gave my one to Audrey somewhere along the line. In any case I never really thought either of those was really “mine” because I hadn’t actually found them. So I’ve been keeping an eye out and looking at clover on and off for a very, very long time without ever finding a four leafed one.
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The president of developer Carpenter & Co. has known Tracy Campion (above) for a long time, and relied on her when he had trouble selling his own penthouse condo next to the Charles Hotel five years ago. She found a buyer in two weeks.
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“I’ve been trying to snag a major out here, and coming close,” Carroll said. “Semifinals in the match play this year before Chris Green knocked me out, a good first round in the Illinois Open two years ago. So I’ll keep playing good golf and see what happens.”
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Amy walked into the room where she'd left her charge and found Irena seated on the floor playing a game with a well-dressed man. Their backs were to the door, but Irena hopped up as soon as she heard Amy enter and ran toward her, "Oh Amy! I had a wonderful nap! I had a dream about music, and dancing! And then it all got washed away in the rain, like this!" She made an exaggerated whoosh motion with her hands.
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We had planned a family vacation to Fargo awhile back, and then the Air Force canceled it, as they are wont to do. So when my husband came home from work about two weeks ago and said he was taking leave, and then asked me if I wanted to go to Fargo, I said yes. . .but I wanted to go by myself!
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Attack on an emigrant train by a band of marauding Indians, repulsed by scouts and cowboys commanded by BUFFALO BILL. These wagons and harnesses are the same ones that were used 30 years ago by emigrants in their travels in the Wild West of America, before the railway crossed the continent.
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i am 19 years old and weigh 55 kgs.i would realy like to shed 5 kgs. i am going to follow this chart from tomorrow.will it be okay if i have a cup of tea in the morning instead of the fruit? and what after dese four weeks?
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“Since Headmaster has already made an oath, I might as well speak first.” Raven sat down, cross-legged, on the ground and indicated for Swan to do the same. “You told me the true story of Sky Academy’s founder. Now let me tell you the true story of the small girl who, on a warm autumn day seven years ago, was born into the loving and devoted head family of the Nightingale Clan.”
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I think I'll start by locating a copy of _Hard Times_, which I've not read, and see if it makes a point I've been thinking on recently. I was born about a year before the start of The Great Depression -- 80 years ago today, actually -- and have childhood memories of how hard it hit "middle/working-class" (in quotes because I gather that the British differentiate this into two categories) families like mine.
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Isn't it weird to think that once upon a time, 70 years ago, in fact, the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life was a new movie, like any other new holiday movie? This one stars America's sweethearts of the era, Jimmy Stewart, and Donna Reed.…
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There is a belated epilogue for this story. Just before Christmas, 2016, Peter called me once more from San Francisco. He had been trying to phone me in Maine. He didn't know Jean and I were spending the winter at our home in Oswego, New York. He tried to get me twelve times and finally called the Lincoln County sheriff to ask him to check out our Dresden residence to make sure we weren't lying around dead inside. Our neighbor Nancy Call saw the sheriff's car in our drive and went over to see what was going on. It all got straightened out eventually, and I phoned George to reassure him that all was well.
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Not long after moving into this house in 2000 (it was already 33 years old and built on the site of an old lemon grove), I realised it had a ghostly presence. I'm not one to see ghosts in every dark room, but I've heard of several friends having inexplicable experiences with ghosts - and now the dog is going ballistic, barking at absolutely nothing in the middle of the room and... this entry is getting creepier by the second!
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people love it? don’t ever go back man! i shaved it off a few years ago and people were like dude your blinding me with that baby face, grow your beard back. if it works stick with it, more natural right?
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I went ‘poo-less’ almost two years ago, and found that my dandruff did not go away. Someone mentioned using apple cider vinegar, in an article I read online, to get rid of dandruff (in my case to kill some bacteria that I think was causing my dandruff); after two vinegar rinses in four weeks I haven’t seen a flake – going on four months now.
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A few years ago my best friend was touting the benefits of natural oils over chemical-laden shampoo. I thought it was a bit out there; I tried it anyway, but not long enough to get past the grease stage. Now I realize he was actually on to something. Time to try again.
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"Look, I only correct you because... I want you to succeed in the Army." he began, trying to make her feel better. "I was in your shoes once, about... eighteen, nineteen years ago. It took time but I got the swing of things and here I am, a First Sergeant of the United States Army. You'll get into it yourself, if you remember protocol."
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"Nothing much more than repair work. That's why I brought him in particular. He's content with doing what he needs to, then powering down." She answered back. And lo, when they entered the hangar proper, there was Joey, sitting in the middle. The rest of the mechs looked like they each got some seam work done in turn, but surprisingly, what looked to be 'battle scars' were left untouched. "Huh. Musta been longer than I thought." Shiori moved to the spidermech, and gave him a pat to the head. "Time to sleep. Get yerself to a charging point, and power down, ok?"
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My best friend just let me know his father, Eric, passed away. His dad had been sick with leukemia for awhile, and was home on hospice care. When my wife and I went back to California a few weeks ago, we made sure to make time to visit with Eric. It was tough seeing him in the final stages of his life, but I am thankful that I got to talk with him and share some time before he passed.
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The 2nd is in a jar of formaldehyde because it is mine to keep forever!! This was over 2 years ago and all is well. There was considerable shrinkage 7 to 4 Saved By Your Balls know there has been a lot of questions about shrinkage. If I was ever forced to suck his little man, like in a rape situation, I would bite the sucker off and spit it across the room.
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Goals – Your business may have different goals now than it did last year, several years ago, or whenever you got started on social media. Whether you’re trying to generate walk-in business or to send people to your website, having clear goals in mind will help you establish an effective social media strategy.
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Three years ago, or so, I took a workshop from Lucy Neatby, who arrived looking very different from her then blog pic–no more long dark braid, but short, and the crown of her hair was magenta! It was an inspiration, and my formerly dull gray hair has been benefiting ever since–mostly purples & turquoises, with the occasional foray into pink at the behest of my 4-year-old granddaughter. I am no longer the invisible older woman, and the compliments come from people of all ages and either sex. My now daughter-in-law, when she first visited us in Canada, looked worried when she saw the vibrant purple–then relaxed when I told her it was for fun, not some unforeseen disaster. So, ladies of a certain age–this could protect your bicycle pumps or other portable possessions!
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As I watched this film, I was reminded of a trip through Europe I took with three friends over 10 years ago where we spent eight days visiting various battlefields. Quite frankly, it is hard to condemn the battles going on in the Middle East today when we are reminded of the millions of young European boys who were shot and gassed to death during this wretched war.
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Last week, an Irish online social justice “community” (Uplift.ie) asked people to pledge their beds to refugees fleeing war-torn Syria. Having read about the generous Islanders, offering beds, food and humanitarian assistance, I thought, what a great idea. I “pledged a bed” for two refugees. Later that day, Matthew came home. To our two-room, one-bed granny flat. “I pledged two beds,” I told him. Being the more sensible half, he looked at me in dismay and, naturally, asked about the logistics. Logistically, 4,000 people landing in Ireland and heading to places like Ardagh to set up shop is not very wise. What happens after 3 months when there’s still a body asleep in our sitting room-come-kitchen-come-office?
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George Blanda was the NFL's all-time leading scorer when he retired, which isn't too surprising for a kicker who played 26 years (until he was 49 years old!) - but what most folks don't know or remember, was the season which made me a Raider's fan. In 1970, as a 43 year-old, with a body beaten up by 21 prior seasons playing quarterback, Blanda brought the Raiders back from defeat 5 times late in the season, coming in as a replacement and rallying the team each time - they went 4-0-1 during those final games.
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I think we’ve got this blooming time right now. There are loads of great musicians from Poland who are currently putting out the music. These days, a lot of them are interested in techno music, like Brutaz. It’s focused on really interesting Polish techno artists. There have been more and more interesting events during the last 2 or 3 years and sometimes, it’s confusing. The situation is quite different to that of 10 years ago. You need to look for parties done by certain promo-groups that you know throw great parties.
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Yesterday, police arrested six people for questioning in Gray's killing. Cusack said police also want to question an East Belfast man who some believe could have been behind Gray's slaying. It is the same man who was suspected of but never charged with being one of the assassins who gunned down Craig in the Bunch of Grapes pub in East Belfast 17 years ago.
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This recipe -- posted 3 years ago -- should be put into the Hall of Fame. I can't tell you how many times I have used it. It is actually on the menu tonight. Thighs work really well, in addition to the drumsticks. It is easy and very, very good.
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Some people switch jobs not for a pay increase but for security, better benefits or a less stressful business climate. For example, one CIO moved from a struggling bank to a smaller one that's profitable but pays nine per cent less and doesn't offer senior management bonuses. "Years ago, I just chased salary," he says. "But in the 'new economy,' I look for different attributes in a career."
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"This should have been an easy first case, at least that’s what the Mount Vernon Social Club thought. Find out why a ghost is still haunting a family’s home. Simple, right? But a sinister force is at work when Jonah and the others are ambushed during their investigation. Something is amiss in Mount Vernon. With Wick and Kevin’s assistance, the M.V.S.C. uncovers a plot by the Alliance mole seeking an amulet to unleash a powerful goddess who will wreak havoc and chaos upon the mortal realm. Jonah and the gang must stop her. However, unbeknownst to Jonah, the key to stopping this madness has been locked away in his mind for eight, long years."
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This this this! 🧀 Easier said than done, but SO important especially as a teaching student. 👩🏫 We have so many professors and mentor teachers evaluating us. It can be tough to not take everything personally AND to realize that it’s okay to disagree with these opinions. I honestly don’t think I would have been able to handle all this 10 years ago so maybe it’s better I took so long to figure out my career. 🤷♀️ PS I finished my final paper and oh em gee this semester is over!!! Up next: student teaching!! 🎉🎉 #sundaythoughts #amandagoesbacktoschool #unomaha #collegeofeducation 📷: @jennakutcher
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Tim laughed and replied, “I’m sure there would be. Of course, if every room had somebody like the boy or girl, the waiters would never get any work done. The manager told me I could come up for interviews at any time so Beth and I will be here tonight. I have a half-hour break at 9 o’clock want me to swing by? Right now, I’ve got to get back downstairs.”
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As I listened to the bewhiskered, blunt-faced, then 52-year-old scientist, with his small, piercing eyes, and his tight-lipped, ovoid, vaguely piscine mouth, it occurred to me that Vadim looked kind of like a sturgeon. Don’t get me wrong— he’s a good-looking man— but it seemed somehow appropriate that he was in this line of work. Was this an extreme case of empathy, I wondered— a biologist coming over time to resemble the animal he has devoted his life to ? Probably not : Vadim only got into sturgeons when he came to America, seven years ago— too little time for such a transformation.
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The family believes he got the HIV virus from a homosexual working in a youth detention facility in the New York City area who had befriended Williams during the young man's incarceration there about three years ago.
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When my oldest son started college, he knew that we would still send him money if he kept his grades up. He works a part time job and goes to school. He is 20 years old but I am okay with still helping him as long as he is trying to help himself.
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Two years ago, I started to learn Ruby on Rails so I would at last know a server language even though it wasn't the almighty PHP. Two years ago minus a few months, I decided to put my first website online with Apache and Passenger. It took me a whole six hours with stress and cries for help until I finally saw my website's homepage displayed on my screen
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It is increasingly becoming more important that we take a look at our online presence. A few years ago, Googling someone wasn’t something someone would do. It didn’t really exist at all. But how many times have we heard stories about how impactful a good (or bad) social media presence is in the job market? We are slowly moving from traditional CVs and Covering Letters to getting an overall idea of a person through their digital space.
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I think it literally just is mindfulness. I am so hyper-aware of when I spend too much time with my camera documenting things, rather than just sitting, observing and living in the moment. At that point, I know to put things away and just live. Social media can make it look like I’m online all the time though (scheduling game on point, what can I say 😂) but one IG story takes seconds! I think it is also really important to get into our minds that if you are offline for a week or two, all your hard work doesn’t suddenly disappear in fact, everything will more than likely be fine and you can just pick up where you left off.
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Rather than have as we did not that many years ago, a doctor, or physician that could see you for a flu bug, take out your appendix, deliver your kids, and give your kids their immunizations. My kids are now 35 and 30 years old. Yet, they both were delivered by our regular physician, that did all of those things. Even if one of mine had been Cesarian, he could have delivered him or her.
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Same way with homes. My parents paid $50.00 a MONTH for their tiny 2 bedroom home, that included taxes and insurance for 30 YEARS. I am talking about a home that is barely 1,000 square feet. OF course they paid that off many, many years ago. My Mom still lives in that home also.
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Mural and statue of Buddha on the back wall of the temple. Some eight years ago I was visiting the Wat Rong Khun with some friends from Bangkok, during the early stages of construction. Fortunately khun Chalermchai was in the process of painting this image at the time and took time from his busy work schedule to chat with us. An exceedingly friendly and charming, as well as very humble, human being.
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When I worked at TMP Worldwide 15 years ago, I got moved into business development for a period of time (Yeah, I know, embarrassing, but I loved it!). At the time, my manager assessed my skills and suggested a Dale Carnegie sales training course. By the time two month-long class was over I had become the class SalesTalk champion, and I closed two multi-million dollar deals within the next year. Not too shabby.
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We stopped building these 911 engines many years ago. Jeff's project and talking to many customers has given us new incentive to get back into the machine work and building, these air cooled engines.
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We first met Santanna almost exactly three years ago, as an early entrant into our Most Beautiful Baby Contest in 2007. She was cute then, too. One thing about truly fun families who value photography is that they enjoy the experience each and every time. Since Santanna knew me, after a little “I think I know you” time, we were clicking pretty quick, trading high fives and little jokes with each other.
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I suppose one doesn’t look good for long if they subsist on vodka and Marlboros! (You can maybe get away with that in youth but that’s no long term strategy, maybe why some models careers are so short?) Some seem to stand the test of time though, like Christie Brinkley, who I am starting to suspect at 60 and not looking any older than 30+ years ago, is a prototype fem bot. Or proof that clean living, good food, and exercise (plus genetics) pay off.
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The village has a very long history: more than 2000 years ago, in the second century BC, the Romans established a stopping place here on the Via Aurelia, at that time an important trade route leading to France and Spain. Cervo then acted as a shelter for pilgrims in the middle ages and is now a popular destination among 21st century travellers.
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Sarah Marden is perfectly happy in her role as the family spinster. Almost. But things aren’t the way they should be this summer. Emma’s health is failing, snow is falling in June, and Timmy is back. Twenty years ago, Sarah ran from his kisses because he smelled like barn cats. Now she doesn’t want to refuse him, no matter how much she should.
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I had to use a laundromat in the winter to dry our clothes up until three years ago, which is when the first clothes dryer to ever live at Blackrock--a 20-year-old propane one that our friends found in the basement of their old farmhouse and didn't want--was installed. Hated the laundromat. Especially because it's 10 miles away.
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A long time ago in a land and life far away in Hawaii, I didn't have a washer and dryer. In the little town next door was a tiny laundromat run by an even tinier little Japanese lady. After using her laundromat for several months and exchanging polite small talk, she offered me a strange fruit, prickly on the outside and sweeeeet on the inside... my first lychee! It grew on a twisted, lovely tree just outside the back door of her laundromat... I took home a whole bowl full! The memory is vivid to this day.
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I just remember not liking laundromats much. I used them frequently years ago as a college student. One time at the apartment complex I lived in, someone took all of our clean laundry out of the dryer and just threw the whole load on the floor! Very rude.
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Trump didn’t cite any evidence to support the point he’s trying to make. But his claim that crime is at “record levels” in the inner-city or elsewhere is false. Violent crime in America’s cities has actually been declining for two decades. The New York Police Department’s latest crime figures embody the point — while murders are up 12 percent so far this year relative to 2014, they’re down 82 percent compared to 23 years ago.
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The facility offers after-school programs, birthday parties, open pit time, holiday camps, summer camps, private rentals, leagues and group events, geared towards ages 5 – 14 years old. Camps are led by certified physical education teachers to ensure a safe and fitness-focused environment. Camps begin with Gaga, then other games are added to mix it up including obstacle courses, one-on-one soccer and other activities. Summer camps run weekly June 26 – September 1 and Holiday Day Camps run when the kids are out of school. Visit the website for specific dates and call to book your spot!
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Before too long, Alice Burdock, another child from Stubbsville who is also running away, stumbles upon Andrew Henry's meadow. Alice is a bird watcher, but her parents don't want birds around the house (due to the fact that they eat her father's cherries, among other things), so Alice decided to find a place where she could bird watch in peace. When Andrew Henry heard her story, he built her a beautiful tree house, with custom details for Alice (birdbaths, feeding stations, birdhouses, and a resting spot for Alice's binoculars.)
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While pondering all of this, I started a conversation with a friend from NYC. Her husband was mission president when we lived in New York City and we became good friends with them. She had posted an article about how women often hear phrases that men never hear. When is the last time a man has heard, “You’re so luck to have a wife who babysits your kids so willingly.” Or “Do you still fit into your wedding tuxedo? We’re going to have a groom’s fashion show at Young Men’s this week.”
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I came home from work today at around 8:00pm and turned on my new improved Olsen so I could pipe some MP3s over my wireless to play through my 360 connected to my sweet home theatre. Alas... RRRRRRRRROD!. Sure enough, Red Ring of Death, and my heart is filled with sorrow.
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What sometimes surprises me is how histories of countries in reference works start long before those countries came into being. In a way that makes sense, as you want to put the things that happened in a specific geographic area in an easy to find spot, but why then did the history of Russia start 45,000 years ago and that of the USSR in 1917?
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I am unsure if this is a gorilla or not, because if I am the only one who didn't know anything about it, it may be my own private gorilla. I recently read a fascinating book about Edo Japan called Just Enough: Lessons In Living Green From Traditional Japan. Prior to industrialization (like 200 years ago), Japanese society was very carefully structured to be "conservation-minded, waste-free, well-housed, well-fed and economically robust". (It could be ruthless, too: if you had a third child, it was often "sent back" - i.e. euthanized - as exceeding the necessary reproduction rate.)
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Years ago, I knew a woman who told us that what she and her husband had most in common was their cultural background. She illustrated this by saying that when they met new people, their separately-formed judgements of them would be very similar when they compared impressions later.
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The last time I got glasses (~5 years ago, before I moved down to C-ville), the optometrist assured me (to my dismay) that my previous style was "preceding me into the room". Fortunately, my unaided vision isn't that bad (I can distinguish most of the keys on my keyboard; F/P is pushing it). Even with the smaller glasses, I do get some resolution in the side fields, it's not just motion. I specifically bought goggle-like sunglasses with side pieces (they fit over my regular glasses) because sun-brightness in my peripheral vision (top/bottom or sides) is Unacceptable.
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“Oh no, my dear, I look forward to that particular arrival with great anticipation.” His eyes sparkled and he looked very much like the haughty Goblin King who had arrived in her parents’ bedroom six years ago.
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When the writer last saw her—maybe ten years ago—her hull was sound and her uncanny-looking engines could still turn round, and if she wasn't handsome, she was at least notable—like some old woman of the pioneers who had borne the heat and burden of days that were done and might have been too much for weaker vessels.
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I remember him telling me of a time many years ago when he’d been refused a glass of water by a cafe owner, his reaction at this point was to reach behind the counter, grab a large carving knife and insist that he was given a glass of water.
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Pepper MacClair and her mother arrived penniless in New York thirteen years ago, and their fortune has not changed. A dancer of fluid grace and motion, Pepper is still only one chorus girl among dozens, struggling for an opportunity to prove herself worthy of something bigger.
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I have seen these trees on the Georgian Bay many-many years ago when my dear friend Karl Langenfelt took me for a boat ride to the open bay. It was interesting to see this dead old tree and a young new one shooting for the sky in it shade. I felt a human parallel in this scene. Do you know what I meant?
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Susan W. I'm a bit late in getting out of my stupor---I was surprised the book was written some time ago with an updated preface from five years ago. Certainly, I will check out these authors you list. Thank you for posting. A sleeping midget is awakening.
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Been lurking for almost a year or so. Just wanted to let you know that I've read all of your books (sans "A Question of Values" which I expect to purchase and read sometime before the summer) and have enjoyed them thoroughly. First read Re-Enchantment over 25 years ago (while in the military, no less) and it definitely opened my eyes to things I hadn't previously thought about. Been a fan of your work ever since (you can count me as one of the 2000 who bought Wandering God - my personal favorite).
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While I know many people would rather have their eyes gouged out than read a self-help book, I'm not above it. One that helped me and might help you (and I admit it's pretty hokey) is Choosing Simplicity by Linda Breen Price. I gave it to a friend of mine and her 24 yr old daughter read it, quit her job and moved to Costa Rica for a year. Good luck planning your jail break from the cubicle.
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The GOP has been almost completely taken over by conspiracists and extremists. The whole Weekly Standard flavor of American conservatism just seems laughably anachronistic today - a bunch of fogies talking about a landscape that hasn't existed for a long, long time. I'd love to be wrong, but it seems like the time to address this cancer in their party was, oh, at least twenty years ago.
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Once when I worked in bookstore a man came into the store and faked being deaf. My coworkers and I jumped through all kinds of hoops to accommodate him and spent a lot of time writing notes back and forth to help this customer find a particular type of book he said he was looking for. After half an hour of scribbled notes, fetching books from the stacks, and iterating towards what he was describing the man bust out laughing and declared "Hahaha! I'm not actually deaf!!" and walked out without buying anything.
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It may be worth recalling that Americans have been interested in the apprenticeship system for a very long time. For instance, Booker T. Washington's strategy for racial uplift at the Tuskegee Institute was based on the apprenticeship/vocational training model -- that's more than 100 years ago!
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To stay on the whole prophetic tip, comes a story from the Onion, making fun of the meteoric rise of 'Joe the Plumber' who was turned from a caricature into a living caricature by John McCain. The interesting thing about this article is that it was written 15 years ago and still has incredible relevance today.
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He continues to tame it when hurricanes named Matthew blow winds strong enough to uproot the trees that were planted 10 years ago and had reached a height of 30 feet or more and now must be cleared away. He dug holes in dirt so hard one summer it was more like concrete than soil. In each hole he placed fence posts eventually surrounding the house keeping our children, our dogs and our goats safe. There is also a chicken coup behind our house that he built during a chicken hatching project the kids and I did. Those particular chickens are no longer living, but others have taken their place and provide us with fresh eggs almost daily. In the back of the property, we buried beloved pets. My border collie who I trained for five years in agility winning several blue ribbons will be joining those pets in the near future as his health continues to decline.
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We all know moving house is one of the most stressful things you’ll ever do but downsizing your office is not far behind. Modern day business storage has noticeably changed compared to a few years ago with more people working from home or flexi-time. Businesses can now manage with less space and fewer desks. As a result, smaller office space and saving money in the long term. The only question is, what to do with the extra furniture when downsizing? Continue reading →
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