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Allthose @#$& or whatever thingys. Will potus trump read anything i tweet ?

I have always wondered if it's easier for a Spanish speaking person to learn English or for an English speaking person to learn Spanish...

When I was in school, I thought English was extremely easy and never really studied for the tests... Even took a "Sufficiency Test" while attending the University to obtain my first degree and got a "100", that allowed me to immediately skip to the next level of "Technical English"...

Anyway, I was told by ONE gentleman that he was a little disappointed because he expected more of an accent from me... But, I have to say, I don't like how Penélope Cruz or Salma Hayek sound, when they speak English, so I try my best to erase/delete my accent... There have been people that even think I am a US citizen... Anyway, when anyone listens to me speaking Spanish, they immediately know I am a Spanish speaking person... And I love it...

Spanish is absolutely beautiful and sexy... Sooooo... Do you want to learn a little Spanish?...



This guy says in another video that he feels Spanish was created to f@ck his life...

Today was one of those days where the fun stopped, and the serious work began.

We were divided into groups of three, and we were told to try different stations. Lashing, stowage of trailer and the before mentioned crane. We started with the stowage of a trailer. There were a few pallets on it, that we had to get down on the ground, and then put back onto the trailer again. We worked well as a team, so we got that done very quickly. I have worked with pallets before, and one person in my group just had a weeks work experience working with pallets and pallet lifters, so it was a fairly easy task for us to complete.

Then we moved on to the crane, which was a tricky bit. We had to lift a gate, and make sure it was level. We got a few tips from the teacher, and then we replicated what he said. I will need some more practical work with it, so I have that nailed down. It shouldn't take long to do as well, since I am a very fast learner. Give me a week of full on practice, and I'll know it like the back of my hand. Speaking of things I know like the back of my hand..

Lashings. The lashings were done in quite a fast time, since I am confident with that. It doesn't hurt to repeat it, to see if I really have it nailed down. We were given a friction number and the weight of the load, and then we went to work. When we were done, the teacher came by, looked at our lashings and went "That's pretty much perfect! Well done. Unstrap it, and pack up".

To finish off the day, we were given a stern talking to by both teachers. It turns out, that some of the people in my class weren't pulling their weight, and would rather sit and smoke cigarettes than actually learn and practice. The talking to lasted about 15 minutes, and once it was done, we were let go for the day. I decided to catch the teachers to ask them, if I had to put in more work, or if I was one of the students who knew what they were doing and was pulling my weight. "You have nothing to worry about, you just keep doing what you do. You are pulling your weight". That made me happy! It means I am not one of those people who need a stern talking to. I just need to be more confident around the cranes, which we will learn about in due time.

About a month and a half in already, and I am still thrilled about what I have picked as my education! I can't wait for week 44!

Masks actually work when used properly.
I see people put them under their nose. Failure.
Pull your mask off, stick it in your pocket and put it on again. Failure.
Wear the same mask over and over again. Failure.

A mask is a barrier to the virus.
If you are around someone who is contagious and the virus is on the surface of the mask, touching it with your hands (for adjustment or removal) and then rubbing your face will surely land the virus on your face.

The US is in the far east because if I travel from here to Australia and then the US I would be heading east all the way.

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.....For the whole World to $€€ ./ Death.
Silver Lining./ Soul asylum.
...x. Amerikan VI.: Ain't NO grave./ CA$H.
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8663. L O U D.
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..bench Tested to the Nth power.
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He was 86 and a great country music star.

Someone once asked me, what do I prefer ... to die young, or to die in old age ... at that moment I didn't know what to answer, I thought that every stage of life has its charm ... childhood is a game. ..adolescence is a discovery ... maturity has the blessing of children ... and old age has the blessing of grandchildren .... But now I think I know the answer ... I would rather die at the right time than live in the wrong moment .. ..whether I'm wrong or not, only God knows ... but until we find out His opinion, we are all free to have our opinions on this subject. Thank you for your attention.

Last week was work experience week. I told myself "I am not interested in moving companies", so what did I do? Spent a week at a moving company, that specialized in international moving. I heard some good stories about that place, so I decided to give it a shot. Who knows, maybe a moving company was for me?

Monday started out pretty easy. It was a full day of moving office furniture around on dollies. Not the hardest day ever.

Tuesday was a bit more hard work. We had to label a few pallets of items going to an orphanage in Greenland. Again, not the hardest job ever.

Wednesday was where it got a bit more intense. We were drafted in to help a British man move his stuff from the apartment to a truck, waiting at the end of the street, because he was moving back to the UK from Copenhagen. It was heavy, sweaty and, up until that day, pretty backbreaking work. What had seemed like a quick day got long very quickly. I was off three hours later than anticipated. That's where I started to question if this really was for me. I soon got my answer.

Thursday was the day where I made my decision. We went to Sweden, to move a guy's stuff into his apartment - on the 4th floor.. Luckily there was an elevator, because if there hadn't been one, I would have been broken in half. It was a British man moving to Sweden from India, and him and his wife had packed up their entire house in India, and shipped the items across the globe to Denmark, where it was put on a truck and driven to Sweden.

He had oak furniture - which was heavy.. It started pretty easy, with boxes. I was the elevator guy, meaning I had to move the boxes from the ground floor to the 4th floor. Easy, right? Well.. Yes, to an extend. While I was helping move boxes in, one of the guys on the team started talking about how the job was. I want to drive a truck full time, and that is not something that is going to happen at this company. That made me think: "Is this really what I want to do for the rest of my life?".. On the way home from Sweden that evening, I got my answer after some thinking. No. This wasn't to be where I was going to work for the foreseeable future.

Friday dawned, and by that time, I already knew what to say to the boss. "Thank you for the chance to see if this is for me. Unfortunately, it isn't". I was drafted to Sweden yet again, to finish where we left off the previous day. I really liked the customers. They bought us food the day before, and they offered breakfast on that day. They made sure we were well taken care of. We finished at around 2.30 pm, and we were given a tip to split evenly. They liked our help so much! A great way to finish a week of work experience.

When we got back to the yard, I did a debrief with the boss. I told him that I had made a decision regarding the job, and I told him it wasn't for me, and that I wanted to go a different path. He respected that decision, and thanked me for a job well done.

So... What's the damage, you might ask? How many injuries did I get? Well.. No big ones. My entire body was hurting, my calf muscles ached, my left arm has a big bruise and a few scratches, and my feet were hurting as well.

It's safe to say, that the moving business isn't for me. Now I turn my attention to week 44, where I have another week of work experience at another company - this time it's distribution, which I think will fit me well, since that job is mainly driving trucks, which is precisely what I want to do for years to come.

I'm stoked to have found I still have all my sources for this information to continue to write it up, whenever I feel compelled to.
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Edition: 1, Section: FEATURES--NATIONAL, pg. 7

The concept of adding fluoride to drinking water for the purpose of mind control is said to have originated in the 1930s as a result of collaboration between German and Russian scientists. Sodium fluoride was originally used and was found to cause a ''mild lobotomy'' in people who consumed small quantities.

The effects were considered to be non-reversible after one year of continuous use of the tainted water. Nazi administrators added sodium fluoride to the water in concentration camps to make the prisoners docile and cooperative. Sodium fluoride (NaF) is used today in personal products like toothpaste.

To poison the water supply of an entire country with sodium fluoride would be expensive. However, it just so happens that there is a waste product created during the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers, fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6), which is classified as hazardous waste and would be expensive to dispose of under EPA guidelines.

There is lots of this stuff available. This is the poison added to the public water supply in the United States and some other countries. It is actually economical for industry because they don't have to pay for hazardous waste disposal. They just pump it into the public water supply.

Michael Higgs

Timaru

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