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Nodes for the term “2019”
How-to: Steps to create a Github pull request (git branch, etc.)
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What pericarditis feels like: Chest pain, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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The karma of pericarditis, and using Drupal
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Heart procedure on December 23, 2019
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The Soul Game
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A Scala “functional programming style” To-Do List application written with Cats
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Facebook deleted the “Lists (of friends)” link
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Flutter Quick Reference
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Back To Now mindfulness reminders app for iOS (v1.1)
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Notifications in Back To Now
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Back To Now app: Now available on iOS and Android
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For the soul, death is just another moment
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Farewell (a Northern Exposure poem)
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Doctor struggling to give me a little bad news
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To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error
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If you can’t be brave, just be determined
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Talkeetna, Alaska: Sun does not set
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“The Tree Holding The Moon Over The Rockies”
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The Chicken Oil Company “Deathburger”
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Two moose in Rocky Mountain National Park
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Nurse at hospital: Do you feel suicidal?
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“She seduced me with baked goods”
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USB/computer-powered Christmas lights
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PDF, EPUB, and MOBI versions of “Scala Book” (coming soon)
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The “Hello, Scala” paperback is just $10
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Scala 2019/2020 developer survey
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Owensboro’s mosaic mural of mirrors getting an update
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Scala/Dotty SIP process: A better `main` approach?
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Sunrise at Virginia Beach, May, 2019
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Yay, I can sit down again
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“Have you got any cookies?”
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A demonstration of how the Houston Astros were stealing signs
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Google AI Blog: A look back at 2019
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“A possible result could be catastrophic”
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All the time that I’ve cried ... Outside, by Staind
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The long road back
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Xenna the service dog
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She didn’t want to die in the hospital
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Worst migraine headache ever
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Alexa/Doolittle ad, supporting Toys For Tots
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Notes on using Dotty (Scala 3), SBT, and VS Code together
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A deer scores a soccer goal and then celebrates
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The PDF of Functional Programming, Simplified is currently on sale for $15
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Dinosaur “Make A Wish” birthday card
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How to use a non-default table column separator in Asciidoc
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Scala: How to search a directory tree with SimpleFileVisitor and Files.walkFileTree
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The Earth keeps getting hotter
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Song of the Day: Never Surrender, by Corey Hart
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Dear Amazon: Kindle Paperwhite and ePub books
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A holiday love story
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My favorite Midsomer Murders episode
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Knowing the word ‘pericardium’ from a dream
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“Hello, Scala” PDF is now free
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The Pericarditis incident
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Colorado snowfall totals for the morning of November 26, 2019
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Winter snowstorm, coming up ...
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A quiet, attractive new programming language (Scala 3)
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Functional Programming, Simplified — PDF version price reduced
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Anything beautiful is worth getting hurt for
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This (condition) is very rare, but there it is
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Ice skating in Alaska
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Make-A-Wish fundraiser
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Glad my throat doesn’t close during most allergic reactions
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Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum
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132 rounds of chemo
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Limitless tv series: What does CJC stand for?
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What do you do for a living?
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Happy Halloween, 2019
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Let it snow?
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The more you are motivated by love ...
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U.S. budget deficit up 26%, nears $1 trillion
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Back To Now app (iOS and Android releases)
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Trump wants to build a wall in Colorado
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I fell in love with you the first time I saw you — that’s crazy
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The flu, and New Girl
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Hello, Scala is now Scala Book
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First snow of the fall, 2019
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An example of Union Types in Scala 3 (Dotty)
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Different perspectives from book reviewers
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I’m Not The Radical Left, I’m The Humane Middle
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Ball jar glass cracks, explodes
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Flowers at an intersection in downtown Colorado
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart
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Breakfast sunny side down
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Latest favorite coffee mug
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My new `sbtmkdirs` command
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August drive from KY to CO
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Quantum computing for the very curious
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Live full, die empty
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The five stages of climate change
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Alaska is burning
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Oh my god do I pray
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Already hurt by Trump’s tariffs, U.S. farmers face another $3.5B loss
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Moon in a barrel
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The Denali National Park sled dog puppy cam
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“I have been called worse things by better men”
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Cookie Monster went to Wrigley Field
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The Book Thief
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Thunderstorms, rain, and egg-sized hail
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Cookie Monster painting
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People aren’t born racist
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Brussels sprouts
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Caribou/elk at Rocky Mountain National Park
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E is for existential crisis
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Snow at the top of Rocky Mountain National Park
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Scala Cookbook errata page
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If we long for our planet to be important ...
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A fun Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson story
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A simulated pencil sketch of yours truly
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A huge federal deficit is not a good idea
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Sinner’s Prayer lyrics (song by Sully Erna)
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Maniac
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Trevor Bauer throws a baseball at least 340 feet
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Control what I can control and move on from there
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The Apple Store in Anchorage, Alaska has reopened
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This week in mast cell disease (MCAS)
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Disinformation, and the people who believe it
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The state of the United States of America, 2019
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My “XOP” football game UI, v1.4
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Photo of quantum entanglement
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Hubble telescope uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
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Can snakes see?
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Type Safety definition
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Programmer Test Principles (Kent Beck)
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Performance is important to acquiring and retaining customers.
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Sheep manure?
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The U.S. wind turbine database
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Dr. Seuss — Adolf & the Wolf cartoon
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Senility Prayer
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When we look up at night and view the stars ...
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Smartphone CPUs are still getting significantly faster
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David Gilmour auctioned 126 guitars to raise money to fight climate change
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Things I don’t like about Facebook today (June, 2019)
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I can’t write a book
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Invictus, by William Ernest Henley
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The view driving into Boulder, Colorado
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I think my guardian angel drinks
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Patrón distillery tours (Guadalajara, Mexico)
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The Trees, Rush
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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than ...
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Rocky Mountains between two trees
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Two horses in Kentucky
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John Cusack at the Louisville Palace (August, 2019)
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Scala 2.13 is released
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A video of the St. Louis Arch (Gateway Arch)
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The Moose Is Back t-shirt
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Parking on a sidewalk
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Jeff Bezos on how to succeed in business
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Must Love Dogs, and dogs in books
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White Rocky Mountain top, May 18, 2019
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Lots of radiation, and The Incredible Hulk tv series
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In memory of Kendrick Castillo
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Copies of your own books laying around
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“I have trouble remembering things”
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Still plenty of snow up in the Rocky Mountains
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Better Man, by Pearl Jam
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Don’t be intimidated
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Can You Read My Mind, theme song from the 1978 Superman movie
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Uncle Mousey
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Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks
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Moon Baby by Godsmack
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Feel Like A Number
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Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?
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I can feel you tremble when we touch
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How and why Japan exploded a small bomb on an asteroid
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Going to be radioactive again soon
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When You’re Gone, by the Cranberries
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Consuming edible marijuana products can lead to repeated and severe bouts of vomiting
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Schism, by Tool
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Scala 3 SIP `main` method proposal
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Nvidia Jetson Nano developer kit
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American doctors, and medicating the effect rather than treating the cause
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My college admission story
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Jeyes, a Java version of Xeyes
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Up to 50” of snow this week in Seward, Alaska
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This Boulder, Colorado winter reminds me of Alaska
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“Hello, Scala” on sale for $10 (paperback)
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Happy Rare Disease Day
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I need your grace
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I put my Scala String Utilities library on Github
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The Scala community build project
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A favorite gift from 2007
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Little ice skating rink in Louisville, Colorado
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Make America Kind Again
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Quotes from Joe Walsh about being an alcoholic, and sobriety
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Alexa, never play songs by James Taylor
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Primary school principal leads students in dance
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My niece is raising money for children
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On Twitter privacy settings and personalized ads
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You’re dreams don’t die until you give up on them
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Edible marijuana is causing a lot more health problems than inhaled marijuana
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Java 9 and 10 saw virtually no deployment to production
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Symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
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Belinda Carlisle shares the story of her 30-year cocaine addiction
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