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... and folding when I didn’t. So except for being incredibly lucky (which I’m not ruling out), I couldn’t duplicate my 1 st place results again even if I tried my hardest. But on the up side, the $250 prize is pretty nice.
... less alpha, and rode my Witch and a Glider to victory. I split in the finals, and opened an Arid Mesa in my prize packs. Woo, fetchlands! In the second draft, I did less well. I first picked a Hideous End, but end up mostly white. I had Steppe Lynx, three Kor Sanctifiers, two Kor Skyfishers ...
... The bureaucrats struggle to count votes correctly. They give subsidized loans to “homeowners” who turn out to be 4-year-olds . Yet congressmen want government to manage our medicine and insurance. Competition is a “discovery procedure,” Nobel-prize-winning economist F. A. Hayek taught. Through ...
Taylor Swift was nominated in 4 CMA 2009 categories. And Taylor Swift won all four -- including the Country Music Association’s biggest prize, entertainer of the year. The 19-year-old country star also won the best album (Fearless), best video (“Fearless,” directed by Trey Fanjoy), and CMA’s top ...
... on the finishing line…the prize. It is sound truth to argue that it ends well all that starts well. After all, to end up somewhere, you have got to start from somewhere. A journey of a thousand miles is said to commence with only one step. The first step of the thousand miles is as important as the last ...
... for them to sell more sock yarns, which I was totally okay with because the prize was to be published in one of their Spring 2010 booklets. And not just one winner but 8!! So I dutifully designed (it did turn out to be a sock) a project and mailed it on time (barely, by 30 minutes if I remember ...
... is drawn Monday a.m.). **PRIZE ~ One lucky winner will receive any one chipboard item in the Limelight Papercrafts store! Winner's choice! And here is what I created for the challenge... I know that this is not along the lines of my usual style and believe me when I say that it turned out NOTHING like how ...
( Great picture from Urgent Agenda ) He is dropping in the polls. He looks confused and indecisive. He looks like a man who never had an executive job. Nevertheless, a group of anti-US Norwegian judges decided that he was a good candidate for the prize. What can we say? Give me the shrimp tacos ...
Once again, I have failed the annual NaNoWriMo challenge. There is no sadness about the topic, however; I keep in mind that Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent a year and a half working full-time in his study to pen One Hundred Years of Solitude. Other notes may include that I ...
... here on Choookooloonks. It is therefore with some intrigue that I discovered and learned more about the Charter for Compassion, a manifestation of the wish of a former TED prize winner, Karen Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong is a former nun who has written and spoken extensively about religion ...
