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"An alternative to knee push-ups is to start by standing facing a wall, a foot or two away, and doing push-ups (or push-aways, more accurately) from that position. Gradually increase the distance from the wall. As you get stronger, start using..." [
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Can martial arts really teach me to fall safely?
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3 months ago
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"Brad deLong, who also is on the Berkeley faculty, is thinking (but waffling) about raising the issue with the UC Senate of revoking Yoo's appointment for moral turpitude. Interesting stuff in the comments; I hope he takes the advice of most to just..." [
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3 months ago
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"It's really hard to overstate the intensity of affection in which Minnesotans held Puckett, and I've long felt that that wasn't really a healthy thing. Kirby came to the Twin Cities and rose to stardom at a time (the mid-to-late 80s) when this..." [
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"Amazing thread, as others have said. Reading the very different lessons or meanings that various people have taken from not-too-dissimilar experiences makes me even more convinced that a lot of temperament is inborn, innate, and that these..." [
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7 months ago
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"jokeefe's description of what it's like to have a person with BPD in your life is painfully spot-on. Another portrait of the type, for any Sopranos fans in the audience, is Gloria Trillo (the crazy Mercedes salesperson), who appears to hit seven or..." [
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10 months ago
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"Someone, I can't remember who or where, wrote recently about how strange it is that Laura Bush can come here and, by her presence, get access to the site and simultaneously disrupt the activities of all the rescue personnel trying to work there,..." [
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11 months ago
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"Two things I'd do:
--First, add in weight training like others have suggested.
--Second, interval training, interval training, interval training. You *don't* need to be spending 50 minutes at a go to get fit and lose weight...." [
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"Oh, and something odd that might or might not work for you (it often does for me) is a type of paradoxical-intervention technique called "symptom prescription." Say you've been procrastinating on a specific task--writing a paper,..." [
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"As a fellow Former Gifted Student, I think turaho is on-target here about the causes of this frustrating state of affairs. I suspect that persistence and perseverance are (like languages and gymnastics) easier to learn when you're very young; OTOH,..." [
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"And, see, for me the paperback is a terrible delivery mechanism; even with bifocals, the presbyopia of old age makes it fatiguing to focus on text-on-paper, and my arthritis makes it painful to hold even a paperback (let alone a hardback) up/open for..." [
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