Starre Vartan

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Glad to hear that this not
Mon, Jun 17 2013 at 3:52 PM
Glad to hear that this not allowing in my state or any of the states I would live in. I have suffered from the Great Recession and will have terrible credit for a number of years, but have never been fired from a job or had trouble keeping one. I fail to see a connection between what personal hardships one may have (many people are in debt due to inability to pay for healthcare, for family reasons - two of my friends have done this to pay for siblings' rehab, or any of a number of reasons that has nothing to do with how good at your job you are).
Yes, Australians DO have the
Thu, May 23 2013 at 3:25 PM
Yes, Australians DO have the highest rates of skin cancer, which is what happens when you import millions of English people to a tropical desert type environment. Over the last 20 years, Australian scientists and government agencies have spent way more time and money than anyone else to figure out what REALLY works when it comes to protecting skin, and because of that info and related public health campaigns, their skin cancer rate has dropped a lot (still more work to do, but the younger generations are much more informed). How do I know all this? I'm actually half-Australian, attended school there and most of my family still lives there (that's where my German and English ancestry comes from).
Katnapper, you clearly didn't
Sun, May 19 2013 at 1:01 AM
Katnapper, you clearly didn't read much beyond the beginning of the piece I linked to - Edison slept between 5-7 hours a night and often took 2 naps a day, which adds up to close to 10 hours - perhaps an estimate, but not too far off the mark. Of course he wanted to be THOUGHT of as someone who slept less - only 4-5 hours - but the reality didn't prove that out. He wrote a great deal about sleeping minmal amounts, but it's not what he actually lived, and slept quite a lot. More to the point regarding what I wrote about (which was more about the time that we sleep, not amounts of sleep), was the fact that he had atypical sleeping patterns: As quoted in the piece I linked to: "For two days, and nights and twelve hours — sixty hours in all — he worked continuously without sleep, until he had conquered the difficulty; and then he slept for thirty hours. He often works all night, thinking best, he says, when the rest of the world sleeps."
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