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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
"As you move into your forties and fifties, the recognition of your own mortality becomes more and more a part of decision-making. You realize that you're not going to be around forever. Your choices become a lot more precious. The gap between your dreams and what you're actually doing narrows, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
'Place in the sun' - a place/environment that promotes a sense of success, happiness, or prosperity.
I have a friend who likes to go to Thailand. For the past few years, he has visited at least once a year and in some years twice. He has been to other parts of ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
The number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers. There was an over 50% rise in the number of men applying to be primary school teachers; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm for the story.
I have to ask myself whether the ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
A news story this morning caught my attention. It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone.
"Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
'I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured - Identity Crisis at the Cape', an "historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community"  came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs.  Channel 4’s recent documentary ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school. You know the ones I mean? Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I can't remember where I heard this little tit-bit but it is one I always recall it whenever I have to tell someone I am an atheist.  In the story, a Muslim man asks a Christian man why is it he (the Christian) is afraid to die if he truly ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
"This latest finding adds to a wealth of data suggesting that being happy isn't all it's cracked up to be.... Happiness seems to make people more selfish, the latest in a series of revelations suggesting it changes how you think – and not in a good way."
via Happiness ain't all ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
How we in the West are accepting worsening 'customer care' under the pretence of efficiency.
A number of things that have happened to me over the past few months that has made me realise just how bad customer service is developing in the Western World, or at least in the UK. ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I have finally called time on the last 10 years of my life. Somehow I knew it would come to this with the recent years' frustrations ensuring that to stay would not be possible. Can I say that I am disappointed? Well yes, I can because my expectations were, maybe ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
It is quite amazing just how many people take expert advice at face value, even the Government does it. When I mention that I was walking as exercise, people look at me like I have lost it. And yet, walking is good exercise and a few keep fit sites do ...
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