April 2020
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Pippies or Pipis and Other Seafood Delights
When I came across the Pippies.org website, I was intrigued by the name. So much so that when Dean accepted my application, I had to query where he came up with the name. Turns out he is an Aussie and used the name of the […] More
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"Sailboat" – To the Class of 2020
Ben Rector sings in one of his first hit songs, “I feel just like a sailboat, I don’t know where I’m headed … I’ve been lost and found, but mostly I’ve been waiting”. I listened to this song the other day and burst into tears, […] More
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One More Minute
So Gene is finished and the essential work week has been completed. There is an odd stillness combined with the scent of drying ink. The gloves and work uniform have came off. The thin paper mask is discarded properly. I put lotion on the bridge […] More
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Anyone seen my teddy bear?
Anyone seen my teddy bear? In the 80’s, Sports Illustrated had these great posters of whatever sports icon you could imagine. Joe Montana, Walter Payton, Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird to name just a few, surrounded by a thin white border […] More
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Mirrors and windows
Your humanity is like a big old house. The downstairs windows are your aesthetic beauty, your physicality, your book smarts. What you’ve lived in has been established over the generations, but you renovate. The foundation is as solid as your attention to it. But those […] More
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Kids say the Funniest Things
source Kids say the darndest things. I just thought this was worth sharing. Enjoy if you love kids. More
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The diaspora play a vital role in the political future of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe September 26, 2019 It has been well over a year now since Mirsad Hadžikadić, a professor of 30 plus years at UNC Charlotte and a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, announced his intention to run for the Bosniak […] More
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The Funny Side of Artificial Intelligence
Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines humor, the results are at times laughable but not in an intended way. What makes humans laugh? Some laughter may be caused by conflicting emotional states. Embarrassment, apology, or confusion can cause nervous or […] More
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Don't let the smile fool you….
Anyone who’s come in regular contact with me knows the challenges with which I’ve been faced. We’ll call it “psychological archaeology.” Digging through the past, an age-old time, long since forgotten. You wield your delicate tools, you sift through the past, and you look for […] More
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I'm a Good Dog
Looking for a Pit Bull? You will find them sitting on a sunny spot on your couch. Do be warned: Pit Bulls are loving, caring, and think they are lap dogs. Yet, no other breed of dog has been so severely misaligned and misunderstood than […] More
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Every hour of every day, 300 children die because of malnutrition
Every hour of every day, 300 children die because of malnutrition. It’s an underlying cause of more than a third of children’s deaths – 2.6 million every year. More
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Zoom University: 20 Steps in a Day for the Current College Students.
Step 1: Try to respect your alarm that has been going off for the last 30 minutes. Step 2: Put on a clean pair of sweatpants. You’ve lived in your last pair for 2 days too long. Step 3: One slipper, then the other, aaaaannnnddddd […] More
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13 Proven Social Media Marketing Tips for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs
source Brian Peters is an amazing creative. I hope this video helps you create viral content the whole world will want to share! Please share and comment if you would like to see more helpful videos that improve us all. More
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Embracing the seeds of change in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe February 21, 2019 There is a groundswell in Bosnia and Herzegovina as citizens (mostly young people) are beginning to embrace a vision of hope and change in their country—a change that could lead to democracy and […] More
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Sex, Women and Men: The View of a 76-Year-Old White Male
The sexual revolution was not that revolutionary. There has always been just good old sex. Approximately 75,000 thousand years ago, the massive Toba volcano came to life in a super eruption that occurred around the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. The Toba […] More
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Pandemics and Epdemics and Humans
An epidemic is defined as an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time and is generally localized. A pandemic is an epidemic but one with greater range and coverage. It can be classed as an outbreak of a […] More
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Feelings of Today: Liming on Cobblestone
It seems at the moment that the life we are in resembles well, nothing. Maybe it looks a bit like the questionable sweater your mysterious Aunt always wears or like the bottom of your backpack after a school year has ended. Confusing, loud, itchy looking, […] More
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Millennial Adulthood: My Struggle with Debt
When you were five or even ten years old and someone asked you, “How do you see yourself at age 30?”, what did your vision include? Were you earning six figures, married with kids, owning a home with a yard and a white picket fence […] More
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What You CAN Do For Him
Time and time again, I hear women complain about their husbands. Young women! Women in their twenties, complaining their twenty-something-year-old husband is working too long. Complaining their twenty-something-year-old husband doesn’t pay enough attention to them, doesn’t help clean up, leaves his shoes out, leaves his […] More
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The quest for change in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original article by Clark G. Curtis for Emerging Europe When Clark Curtis, a former director of communications at the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte learned that his old friend Mirsad Hadžikadić was running for president of Bosnia and Herzegovina he approached him […] More
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How Gullible Are You?
Throughout human history, there have always been evil and heartless humans who preyed on the weak, the defenseless, and the gullible. The advent of the internet has opened the floodgates for scammers, scumbags, and other heartless bastards who prey on gullible people, particularly the elderly […] More
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A Productive Member Of Society Means Something New Now
Two months ago, being a productive member of society meant we were in the workforce. We were out there every day, hustling to the rise and grind of the workweek. Some people’s workweek included a nine to five job, while others had shift work, and […] More
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