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Tag Archives: target
Fear Makes You Contract, Love Makes You Expand
When you’re afraid, you tighten up. The contraction will start in your neck and then spread to the rest of you. You compress, make yourself smaller, less of a target, and go into some version of the fight-or-flight reflex. When … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Technique
Tagged contraction, emotional expression, muscle tension, sadness and depression, target, tranquility
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Confronting My Fears Of Cold-Calling
I hate cold-calling. I tried a job as a teenager cold-calling people for my insurance agent. After an hour, I quit. I just could not stomach phoning strangers and asking them about their car insurance. A few years later, I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged alexander technique lessons, answer machines, cold call, cold calling, cold calling tips, insurance agent, mighty warrior, target, two doctors
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Lara Logan Must Watch Out For Copycat Attacks
Daniel Bates writes for the Mail Online: The sex assault on Lara Logan could ‘turn her into a target’ for future attacks, her former boss warned today. Janet Leissner, who ran the CBS Washington bureau for eight years until 2009, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Lara Logan
Tagged broken teeth, daniel bates, foreign correspondent, internal injuries, Lara Logan, target
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Yeshiva Guy Shares A Torah Insight
Hat tip to Frum Follies. Dov Bear. On the Main Line blogs: A YouTube video called Yeshiva guy says over a vort has been making the rounds. Incredibly for our little circles it has 30000+ views in one week. By … Continue reading
Posted in Torah
Tagged little circles, middle position, miley cyrus, target, yoma, youtube video
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Indicators Of Interest
Stylelife emails his list: An IOI is something a woman does (maybe even subconsciously) to show you that she’s interested in you as more than just a friend…get my drift? I won’t spell out every IOI for you but here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Dating
Tagged dqs, ioi, rule of thumb, stylelife, switch places, target
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Rubashkins Caught Red-Handed
FailedMessiah.com broke this story. Mashgiach writes: Rubashkin’s 11.5 Million Dollar, PR firm, 5W,(click for Link) recently hired by Rubashkin to whitewash their tainted criminal image, has not only not helped clear Rubashkins Meat co., of any Criminal Image but got … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged 5wpr, criminal impersonation, federal immigration, kosher slaughterhouse, mashgiach, target
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From ’68 agitator to staunch supporter of George W Bush’s Iraq war
Alexander Linklater writes: For most of his 40-year career, Christopher Hitchens’s notoriety has been confined to highbrow journalistic, literary and political circles. In the last 15 years, he has been familiar to readers of Vanity Fair and the Atlantic, and … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Hitchens
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, class englishman, elgin marbles, first occasion, george orwell, george w bush, henry kissinger, household name, minority reports, outrageous things, political circles, political journey, princess diana, shock troop, simpering, specialist audience, target, thomas paine, upper middle class, vanity fair
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