Ironman Louisville – Happy 50th Birthday
I decided that the best way to celebrate turning 50 on September 3rd would be to do something out of the ordinary—and with Ironman Louisville the weekend before that qualified. I had an excellent race, in spite of the challenges that any IM race presents, with ideal weather conditions
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Fast Food Restaurants Have Evolved From Ancient Roman Times To Feed Travelers Quickly Who Then Burned-Off Calories, Unlike Current Patrons Who Sit And “Gain Weight”
As excavators have found in Pompeii, busy citizens would stand at stone counters called thermapolia and shovel down fried meat or rich stews ladeled out of in vats in the counter (an early form of steam table). Travelers even more pressed for time could order take-out from roadside inns scattered at regular intervals along the highway system. (One such ancient diner excavated in Germany has been nicknamed by archaeologists Big Maximus)
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VMworld 2009 – Day -1
Well, I’ve actually been here since Saturday afternoon. So its hard to say when my first day was
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How To Open New Job Positions?
Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can’t, because there isn’t one
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Erring on Faith versus Works
James 1:17-27?; Mark 7:1-23 Culture shapes us. I am reminded of this every time I visit my in-laws who retired to rural Arkansas, in what feels to me a little deeper than the middle of nowhere. To get to their house, I am aware of two options, both of which require at least 5 miles of dirt and gravel roads
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