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December 26, 2017 – 12:52 pm | No Comment

This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …

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The secrets behind ‘super-achievers’ and how you can be more like them

June 29, 2015 – 12:37 am | No Comment
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“You have the same number of hours in the day as Beyoncé.”
Everyone knows someone who works full time, volunteers, runs a successful blog, and somehow still finds time to go grocery shopping, cook organic Instagram-worthy …

What myths do we most commonly realize are false as adults? 

June 28, 2015 – 6:08 pm | No Comment
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I am 23 years old . I have realized the following myths over the past 3 years.

Having a good job will solve all your money problems : I used to study a lot during my …

CEO’s Perspective: What are the most underrated skills most employees lack? 

June 28, 2015 – 3:02 am | No Comment
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Doing what you tell people you will do
If you can teach your kids a useful skill that will always help them with their career: teach them to be reliable — to do what they say …

SOFIA at Sunset | NASA

June 17, 2015 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) takes off from Palmdale, California at sunset. SOFIA is a partnership of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR); NASA and DLR have collaborated on a range of …

Scientists have discovered how the month you’re born matters for your health – The Washington Post

June 16, 2015 – 12:36 pm | No Comment
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Rigorous scientific research suggests your astrological sign actually might have more to do with your health than you think.
For much of history, astronomy and astrology were a big part of medicine. Nearly 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates, …

Coronal Loops Over a Sunspot Group | NASA

May 23, 2015 – 1:49 am | No Comment
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The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) images the solar atmosphere in multiple wavelengths to link changes in the surface to interior changes. Its data includes images of the sun in …

Why do men exist? Study offers explanation

May 20, 2015 – 1:15 pm | No Comment
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Since in many species, sperm is males’ only contribution to reproduction, biologists have long puzzled about why evolutionary selection, known for its ruthless efficiency, allows them to exist.
Source: Why do men exist? Scientific study offers …

World of Nations Festival at Metropolitan Park | jacksonville.com

May 6, 2015 – 12:57 am | No Comment
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The festival kicked off Saturday with the city hosting a naturalization ceremony where 50 people became U.S. citizens. Warm weather and clear days allowed thousands of people to attend the two-day event.
Source: World of Nations …

Why does everyone question evolution but not gravity? – Quora

April 29, 2015 – 2:41 pm | No Comment
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Because gravity doesn’t fundamentally conflict with people’s religious ideas in the way that evolution does. If it did, they would try to rewrite school science books on that too.
Source: Why does everyone question evolution but …

How I Found My Magic In The Quiet Spaces. | Rebelle Society

April 24, 2015 – 6:56 am | No Comment
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn’t be seen from shore. Then …

Cornel West’s Rise and Fall

April 24, 2015 – 6:50 am | No Comment
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NOR HELL A FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride. But I’m concerned with the phrase preceding it, which captures wrath in more universal terms: “Heaven has …

All This Fucking Time and I Still Feel Grief. | Rebelle Society

April 24, 2015 – 6:42 am | Comments Off on All This Fucking Time and I Still Feel Grief. | Rebelle Society
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The hallmark of a human life is loss, it seems. And the body is a vessel for grief.
This is not an if, but when. When is loss gonna hit?
And then it is how. How do …

5 Lies You Were Told About Grief

April 10, 2015 – 2:14 am | No Comment
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It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t even true that you have to want to. No one else can understand what you have lost. No one else can bear the …

Ferguson from Afar: How the World Sees the Protests

November 22, 2014 – 6:37 pm | No Comment
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As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not …

The Case for Reparations

November 9, 2014 – 6:38 pm | No Comment
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be …

Study: Raising Expectations Actually Raises Students’ Grades

October 7, 2014 – 4:18 pm | No Comment
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How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been adapted by some states, set the bar too high?
These are all questions that Center …

I am more afraid of not living than I am of dying.

December 27, 2013 – 6:22 am | No Comment
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I often wonder if I were to lie on my deathbed, lips cracked and dry, breath wilted, body broken, torn and tattered, what thoughts may drift through my fatigue.
Will I surrender into my happiest memories, …

Tattoos and Breast Cancer

October 19, 2013 – 4:30 am | No Comment
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More Sharing Services
Cancer.org reports that each year “more than 296,000 American women face breast cancer,” and its website offers a wealth of information regarding reconstructive surgery. And with those surgeries come scars.
There are other options, …

7 Ways to Spend Your Time That Save You Time

October 19, 2013 – 4:09 am | No Comment

You probably don’t have any trouble finding ways to spend your time. But are you using your time to its fullest? Probably not. Most people (including yours truly) struggle with wasting time to some extent. …

Title: Scarcity

October 8, 2013 – 3:26 am | No Comment

Title: Scarcity
Summary:
In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity …

Welcome to 2013 – What’s in store for Me?

January 2, 2013 – 10:53 am | No Comment
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The year 2012 was not my best year by far; I suppose I could also say that 2011 was not that much better either.  I made quite a few personal missteps and only now, at …

Title: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism

November 23, 2012 – 5:05 am | No Comment
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Title: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism
 
Summary:

Thing 1: There is no such thing as the free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and …

Nepalese man named shortest ever in history

February 27, 2012 – 3:06 pm | No Comment
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A Nepalese man who stands no taller than a newborn has been declared the world’s shortest man in history.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who says he’s 72, earned the title with a height of 54.6 centimeters (21.5 …

Title: One Second After

February 16, 2012 – 6:39 am | No Comment
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Title: One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Summary:
In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages.
Already cited on the …

Egyptian court rules against virginity tests

December 28, 2011 – 3:13 am | No Comment
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To read the full story click source link below…
Source: CNN
My Comments:
The fact that a court in this day and age had to make such a ruling is troubling…you have got to be kidding me.  Again, …

Weeping for the Dear Leader

December 20, 2011 – 3:41 am | No Comment
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Comments:
You have got to be freaking kidding me.  These folks cannot be serious.  I am sure in some delusional way this makes perfect sense, but it is unbelievable.  A total mind-F#$$% of a population.  I …

18-year-old in India named world's shortest woman

December 17, 2011 – 1:27 pm | No Comment
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Standing just over 2 feet tall, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, was confirmed Friday as the world’s shortest living woman.
Guinness World Records, known as the global authority on record-breaking — albeit odd — achievements, flew …

Remembering December 2011

December 13, 2011 – 5:20 am | No Comment
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[simpleviewer gallery_id=”9″]So I have been taking it easy at home, sort of trying to get used to not having to fight the daily grind each day.  Not sure how much of this I can take, …

I am Down with Influenza

October 27, 2011 – 12:41 am | No Comment
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I have not been able to do much over the last few day, save take pills and drink ginger tea.  I have been down with what seems to be influenza, or flu for short, since …

Is U.S. ready for second black leader?

October 13, 2011 – 11:03 am | No Comment
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Is America ready to make history by electing the first black president to replace a black president?
That is the question latest polls increasingly raise these days that show Herman Cain jetting to the front of …