Sentences with phrase «up of a few things»

Today's Heart Happy is just a round up of a few things I'm currently loving around the web.

Here's a round up of a few things I found interesting since the first of the year.

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But if that sounds like the kind of thing that stimulates your creative juices, and you have the engineering chops to back it up, you could win a few million bucks and a lot of attention.

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

And while we don't yet have a lot of specifics on what the Amazon venture with JPM and Berkshire will entail — the companies smartly left the details vague — «we can make up a few things,» says Wolf.

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Richard Branson, founder of no fewer than 400 companies and one of the world's foremost overachievers, has said of his morning exercise routine, «Getting up and at it early gives me time to get on top of things, and chart my day effectively.»

Focusing on your communication skills — from reading body language to summing up your value in a few sentences — is one of the most powerful things you can do to advance your career and success.

Here are a few of the most important things I've picked up along the way.

I sorted through the flood of answers to find a few principles that many respondents agreed would give you a leg up if you're aiming to achieve incredible things.

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

Fourth, he has to decide a few symbolic things he's going to do that people will buzz about that will set the tone for where McDonald's is going... Fifth, whatever the speed of action and decision - making at McDonald's, take it up five volts.

Burn out is a real thing and can not only set you back a few days on productivity but it can sneak up on your immune system, potentially causing you to miss time off of work.

That being said, the Snapchat app could continue to go through tweaks and shifts, so it's hard to tell where things will end up over the course of the next few months.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

There are sure to be plenty of deals on most of the items on your gift list but there are a few things you're better off waiting to pick up after the holidays are over.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

The irony is that elite students are told that they can be whatever they want, but most of them end up choosing to be one of a few very similar things.

But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.

Up to 25 percent of taxpayers file within two weeks of the deadline, according to the IRS.For student loan borrowers wondering what the best tax strategies are, here are a few things to keep in mind.How Borrowers Should FileMany married individuals wonder whether filing jointly or separately is the best plan.

Between the IRS lawsuit against Coinbase and the tax reform that took place in the last few days of 2017, things are shaping up for a complicated tax year.

Song books no longer used, use of overhead projectors for songs, very little singing of familiar hymns, taped music, piano playing for maybe one song, no longer have a choir, altar removed, one strong Sunday School class broken up, to name a few things happening.

1) When I was digging into this whole thing 4 or 5 years ago I ended up coming across a copy of the email you sent to a few dozen emergent leaders back in July of 2008 asking for their help in getting Tony home from the Rolling Roadshow.

(BTW: I have to say, that your image of Jesus «partyin» with sinners (or anyone else) is really stretching things more than a little beyond the texts as we are told only of one «party» He attended during His incarnation — the marriage in Cana — and His words to His mom before turning the water into ripple give the impression that His attitude was far from that of someone wanting to hoist a few and sing off - key Foghat songs until the sun came up) 10.

But today one of the few things of which we can be quite sure is that this concept of absolute time, independent of events, and, like the blanks of a questionnaire, only needing to be filled up with data which will give it content, was unknown to Israel.28

Hot Air Ace Actually BD has posted on the next page at 4:09 PM so it looks like he has already done the christian coward thing by not responding here, but you never know maybe he will have a few shots of courage and show up.

You made it back to the lakeside up north, and had taken a few days getting things squared away with the family, which had remained unenchanted during your impulsive leave of absence.

So I mainly follow links on twitter now (and facebook to a lesser extent), following people who are good sources of the things I'm interested in, and trusting that the good quality articles will float to the top... When I want more things to read I turn to Google Reader, but normally end up just picking up on the few blogs I'm really interested in.

The Bible says that few will find the narrow path, and yet the divorce rate in the Church is actually only 8 to 12 percent (contrary to what made up states say), which means the majority of the Church are still married to their original spouse and yet it says few, so obviously marriage isn't one of the things that can get you in.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I am asking is it possible to sell your soul to the devil i before a few days in a program called two and a half men as i clicked the info button there was written that someone comes to know that he has sold his soul to the devil i don't remember who and what was exackly wriyten but after a few hours of that i kept on imagining how devil looked like and then thinking «i will sell your soul for 20 carats mo no shut up i will never sell you my soul oh god please help me «the thing i am scared of is that have i sold my soul to the devil have i?

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

it really does seem as if you just make stuff up as its needed or when your backed into a corner and without explaination of said beliefs... a few things you morons should have on hand at all times... a di.ctionary, your bibles, and belief you really do adhere to not just claim to.

Like so many aspects of my spirituality, I am still a bit in - between, figuring out what I reclaim and what I relinquish, living with a few unanswered questions while relying heavily on the few things I do know — and almost all of those can be summed up in my complete and utter confidence in Love.

We spent a bit of time prowling around the area, picking up a few things, and then we began the drive back north.

It's true that a few people have said things along the lines of «That would never hold up in a court of law.»

And it seems to me a useful enterprise to undertake in these chapters a consideration of «the last things», although in short compass and in the light of my own obvious incompetence I can only open up the discussion and make what may be a few helpful suggestions.

After a few of these issues pile up in your mind, it can become a very scary and uncertain thing.

Nevertheless, if we could all sit down and talk things over, it seems likely that we could come up with a few basic fundamentals of the faith.

Several years ago someone in leadership commented, you're an irritant Jase, that's part of your gift, you provoke and stir things up... guess where that led a few years down the line?

How about you give up a few things and help out those around you instead of pointing out the greed of others.

The Taliban, who now appear to be world wide keep popping up to kill a few people the list is endless and our whole lives are covered by mistrust of anyone as we fear the worst in all things.

Hi Ella, I've been trying different green cleaning methods over the last few years and one thing I can not recommend enough is bicarbonate of soda which can clean up almost any limescale or stain from sinks and baths.

Also, actively seeking out moments of quiet in my day — just a minute or two here and there, pausing maybe after you wash your hands in the bathroom, before starting up you car, etc - and taking a few deep breaths and thinking about how insignificant your problems truly are in the grand scheme of things, and how beautiful life is.

Your going to laugh, so earlier this week I had this coupon thing come in the mail for one of those Emergency Prepardness places and they are giving 50 pound bags of quick oats for only $ 19.95, and since I eat a lot of Oatmeal in the winter, this sounded like a not to be passed up on deal, so that is where I am headed at 10 am in the morning, LOL And I might even get 2 bags, since the stuff stores and lasts forever:) But with 50 - 100 pounds of oats, I could use a few ideas, I am going to try some of these!

I allowed our one year old, Juliette, a few sips of this milk before putting her down for a nap and when she woke up the first thing out of her mouth was, «Milk, milk!»

My parents came from Poland a few years before I was born, and Thanksgiving isn't really a thing over there so they only kind of picked up on it after they moved here.

There are only a few things I love more than my multiple - night - per - week helping of popcorn — and that's reader comments that give me amazing ideas to spice up my popcorn — literally.