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INTRODUCTION
A month ago, I took a closer look at the contexts from which I had been choosing my daily undertakings. At the end of the post, I concluded that the most effective way for me to personally evaluate a day’s work is from the broader perspective of ‘how I …

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Back in 2008, Jean-Claude Van Damme made a brief comeback of sorts with the movie “JCVD“, a drama surrounding a character based loosely on Van Damme himself. As a whole, the movie was merely decent, in my opinion. But there is one very unexpected scene near the end …

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Japan was rocked by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake early this morning, followed by a devastating tsunami. In the news reports that are following, one of the recurring themes seems to be the striking collectedness with which the Japanese people are dealing with the situation. One report came from an …

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I just finished watching ‘127 Hours‘, the Oscar-nominated movie based on the story of American mountain climber Aron Ralston, who saved his own life by bravely amputating his right arm after a hiking accident in 2003. The movie was powerful on a number of different levels (a few of …