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Thu, 05/06/2021 - 11:52am meganj By:  Faith Gong The National Guardsman standing by the front door of our town’s rec center had a copy of War and Peace tucked under his arm. He wouldn’t be able to read his book for some time, because the line of people waiting for temperature checks stretched into the parking lot. I was standing in that line on a sunny April morning, ready to receive my first dose of the Pfizer vaccination against COVID-19. My fellow vaccine reci...

May 1, 2021 Why is everything so darned complicated? And I really mean everything: our taxes, schedules, bureaucracies, machines, algorithms, org charts, our school and welfare and health care systems, you name it. Even — and I say this as an oft culpable columnist — our diction. “If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out,” George Orwell stipulated in one of his rules of writing. I’m tempted to edit him thus: If it is possible to cut a word [out], [always] cut it...

The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo. God isnt a gorilla. God even isnt. Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs... Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats... unless they were wiped out by diseas...

The Key West City Commission recently recognized the employees in the transit system by proclaiming Transit Worker Appreciation Week. “Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,” reads the proclamation, “public transportation has played a critical role in transporting essential frontline workers to their jobs in health care, education, utilities and at grocery stores. Our employees have been heroes moving heroes. Public transit workers have worked throughout the pandemic to m...

Teacher of English/American Literature and Humanities (fluent in French) needed in Abidjan for Sep 2021 Teacher of English/American Literature and Humanities (fluent in French) needed in Abidjan for Sep 2021 Published: 8 Apr, 2021 Job description The Lycée Francais Blaise Pascal in Abidjan (LFBP) Ivory Coast is looking for inspiring and experienced fluent French educators for the American International Section of our Middle and Upper Schools (...

Money Flow Turns Positive Over the last several weeks, we have discussed how the "negative money flow" environment was keeping a lid on prices short-term. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. To wit: "As discussed last week, the sell signal triggering on a short-term basis coincides with our concerns of quarter-end rebalancing for pension funds. I suspect we may have some additional quarter-end rebalancing risk early next week. However...

  Madness has always stalked the world of philosophy. David Hume and John Stuart Mill suffered nervous breakdowns in their youth. Friedrich Neitzsche experienced a mental collapse – often attributed, with little historical evidence, to the sight of a horse being flogged. A similar legend follows the German mathematician George Cantor who supposedly went mad contemplating infinity. Beyond full-blown psychosis, there is “a more common occurrence,” says Wouter Kusters. “A cert...

If you could go back one year, what would you have done differently? If I could go back one year, I would be sure to tell my students how much I love them and show them how strong and smart they are. One of the biggest struggles last spring was how lonely and isolated my first-graders felt. They were scared of COVID, but I think even more so they missed their friends and teachers. They really need that personal human interaction to thrive and during those last few months of school they were dep...

50 Kindness Quotes for Kids to Inspire Them to Be Good Human Beings Leandra Beabout © Provided by Readers Digest Readers Digest is seeking stories of random acts of kindness that youve witnessed in your community for our search for the . Children are our future. So, how can you teach your little ones to be loving and kind—the sort of people who will make the world a better place? From sharing kindness quotes for kids to encouraging random acts of kindness for kids—there a...

From time immemorial, people have plotted together, unlawfully, treacherously, and surreptitiously, in order to further generally nefarious objectives. In other words, conspiracies happen.Sometimes...