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We don’t need to know the final outcome to know what this mess already portends: a gridlocked House in thrall to a minority of publicity-addled fanatics and abetted by a majority of Republican accommodationists who, like McCarthy himself, have made deal after deal with the extremists without ever satisfying
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“It’s a first victory” for Ukraine, said Oksana Abu-Akel, who hailed it as a significant step in the Ukrainian Orthodox church’s efforts to cut ties with Russia after it started the war more than 10 months ago. “This is the first time in 300 years that there is
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Salesforce podcast host Josh Birk gave a moving presentation last fall about anxiety and burn out: It’s December 7th, 2021, and I am floating in the middle of a pool that’s in the middle of a barn, that’s a middle of Nowhere, Illinois. And around me is
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Most of the time, I roll the chả giò without considering where they are going next or who will eat them. I do it only because it is something that Mum taught me to do, and likes to watch me do. But one morning Mum comes home from a shift,
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“The benefits of hot mixing are twofold,” Masic says. “First, when the overall concrete is heated to high temperatures, it allows chemistries that are not possible if you only used slaked lime, producing high-temperature-associated compounds that would not otherwise form. Second, this increased temperature significantly reduces curing and setting times
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This is the kind of lightweight solution that I love. It is unnerving to know Google has so much power over the web that it offers users the trade-off of staying logged into their account or be nagged on major websites that offer Google’s login option. It is rewarding
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“You should remember that in every person lives the same spirit which lives in us.” Everyone is trying their best. It was a mantra we kept repeating through the pandemic. Everyone is going through this with us, and everyone is trying their best. Maybe not their hardest, and they might
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In March 2018, Wendy Devuyst found that one of her hens had laid an unusually large egg. She suspected it was an egg-inside-an-egg (because the same hen had previously laid one of these), so she filmed herself cracking it open. And sure enough, it was. An egg inside an egg
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Maybe one reason why it feels funny-ish is because there is finally a great big Trump-shaped hole at the center of this week’s performances. In 2021, Donald Trump was demonstrably on the side of the insurrectionists. This week, Trump called for his followers to support Kevin McCarthy. This time,
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The unhappy man is always absent from himself, never present to himself. But one can be absent, obviously, either in the past or in the future. Midweek pick-me-up: Elevating resolutions for the new year inspired by some of humanity’s greatest minds
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“There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as an heroic deed.” Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.