Bernard Joseph (@96269) • Hey
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Publications
- Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
- **By all accounts, Durant is a consummate professional on the court and a gentleman off it, announcing a 2010 contract extension with the Thunder via a simple, exuberant tweet (unlike certain Decision-making superstars).**
- Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
- **I wanted to think about it.**
- **"As vegetation grows in sub-Saharan Africa, so does the risk for malaria," NOAA notes.**
- You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
- **That’s ridiculous,” she said.**
- **Everyone who has lived in a big Chinese city has seen and probably grown to fear or resent the chengguan, 城管, the blue-uniformed quasi-police "urban management" squads that do a lot of the roughing-up enforcement of vendors, migrants, squatters, and others on the wrong side of the law.**
- **He would sit at a big, wooden conference table, reviewing business tasks that two teams competed to carry out.**
- **And his language is strikingly similar to what we hear today about robots.**
- **That’s because in labs, motion-capture cameras are used to give tremendous control over spatial and temporal movements, whereas using GPS signals to map UAVs outdoors is sloppier.**
- **"There are still people that are against segregating education by gender.**
- **I generally don't see what's so lovable about Adam—a lot of the time I find his antics more alarming than endearing.**
- **Both the homescreen and notification center will see enhancements, apparently.**
- **I can't face the truth.**
- Lucifer was surprised at the amount of life at Death Valley.
- **Last year's national champion didn't evan make the tournament this year, partly because of everyone who graduated and partly because their prized recruit, Nerlens Noel, was injured.**
- **The commentary track is only featured on the Criterion Collection’s edition of Armageddon, which was an odd release even at the time (Criterion usually only puts out obscure art films, great works of foreign cinema, and forgotten classics).**
- **If Tom didn't write it, who did?**
- **Second, there is a parallel trend that really does look like the crumbling of marriage.**
- **The settlements have replaced the kibbutzim as a main feeder to the junior officer corps, though kibbutz kids still go to combat units in sizable numbers, as best as I know.**
- A short saying often contains much wisdom.
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
- **Trump’s record with regard to charity is not a credit to his character.**
- **But all I can do is speak my truth, and hope that somebody will believe me instead of just hearing.**
- **Me, I think this has more of a Showtime original series vibe.**
- **If you do, you'll notice that none of the justices -- not even the five conservative ones who ignored precedent to limit the Voting Rights Act -- concluded, as you have, that there is "no objective evidence that we're precluding African-Americans from voting any longer." On the contrary, even Chief Justice John Roberts, the architect of the law's demise, wrote this on page 2 of his opinion, "voting discrimination still exists;**
- **It tells the story of the Perron family, who moved into a supposedly haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.**
- **Whenever words fail to offer me much hope, I get down on my knees and put my hands into the earth.**
- **The fix, he said, would not affect the fuel economy of the car, but could have an impact on performance.**
- **The Comic-Book Guys Quivering in Fear of Cosplay “Yes, they are fictional characters,” Letamendi said, “but we can learn from their stories, and learn from their recovery.**
- **There's a lot of talk now about how any resolution to the shutdown/default crisis will have to allow leaders to “save face”—particularly Speaker John Boehner, whose weakness in his own caucus precipitated the crisis and now prolongs it.**
- **Don't dare to talk to my girlfriend.**
- **I know he would like to be able to do something, perhaps it's possible that he can’t.” China maintains that it has less influence in North Korea than is believed.**
- **It took only a 1000 yen to convince him.**
- **But because the president-elect must make thousands of critical decisions about the organization of government, personnel, and policy, planning starts early.**
- **But for low-income minority students like Elder with no graduates in their families to guide them, it is often paralyzing.**
- **“Microbes don't have borders,” she says.**
- **which are terrible, Israel maintains that the attack had a specific purpose, namely to disable a site that was being used as a weapons cache.**
- The thunderous roar of the jet overhead confirmed her worst fears.
- **It’s an anthropocentric view, and, given our current understanding of what kind of things live in the universe, maybe a bit of a correct one.) So what are the problems of this system, with its six terms?**
- **In the U.S., Congress could carry on doing what it loves best: showering favors on its preferred constituencies.**
- **And, just like in life, one person can be in more than one "circle." - The other immediate appeal is that the privacy bias seems set in your favor, rather than constantly playing hide-the-ball with you, as Facebook does.**
- **It's not Geimer's responsibility to hate Polanski (she says she never did), to wish him ill, or to want him jailed.**
- There had to be a better way. That's all Nancy could think as she sat at her desk staring at her computer screen. She'd already spent five years of her life in this little cubicle staring at her computer doing "work" that didn't seem to matter to anyone including her own boss. There had to be more to her life than this and there had to be a better way to make a living. That's what she was thinking when the earthquake struck.
- **And Stutzman has had to answer for a six-day trip to California worth $ 2,000, which was reportedly paid for by his Senate campaign.**
- The site's new design -- which is still only available to select users -- has improved upon its old format, placing the "@Mentions" and "Retweets" tabs just above the Twitter feed.
- "He ought to address it." I heard that same sentiment a dozen times.
- (Plus, when I run up against the limit I usually find that I can make my sentences significantly better by shortening them: using stronger verbs, eliminating waste, etc.
- **Dynasties are nothing new in American politics—just ask the Roosevelts, the Adamses, the Harrisons, the Kennedys, the Tafts, the Udalls, the ...**