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Can They Do That? Trump Federal Employee Buyout Offers Explained

Allwork

A 2016 federal law only allows agencies to place workers on paid leave for 10 days in a calendar year, with some exceptions, and would seem to preclude them from placing many workers on leave for months. Do Agencies Have The Funding To Do This?

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Vox Open Sourced

Ong noted that, in a world of “orality,” information must be verbally repeated to survive: If spoken discourse doesn’t keep the timing of the harvest in a society’s working memory, farmers can’t fall back on an almanac or calendar. This entailed, among other things, the heavy use of repetition, formulaic lines, mnemonic devices and epithets.

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The new revelation about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, explained

Vox Open Sourced

In 1992, the New York Times reported that two dozen women went to Mar-a-Lago for a “calendar girl” competition before only two guests: Trump and Epstein. In 2016, an anonymous plaintiff filed a lawsuit claiming Trump and Epstein had raped her, but the circumstances around the lawsuit looked very sketchy , and it was soon dropped.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

Our conference was held in October 2016 in Las Vegas. Our team-building activity for 2016 was called Compression Planning®: From Idea to Action and Results Faster. Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar.

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My 2016 Running Calendar

Brilliantly Better

The first half of 2016 is already planned – there will be 5 races: 1 semi-marathon, 2 full marathons and 2 ultra-marathons. As for the second part of my 2016 running calendar, I chose to keep a little bit of flexibility, party… The post My 2016 Running Calendar appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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These Mobile Flower Trucks Make Their Businesses Bloom

Success

However, after doing the flowers for a friend’s 2016 wedding, he decided to launch a mobile flower truck. Peak harvest is in July, when the muggy Alabama heat keeps customers from turning up on the flower truck’s route and there aren’t peak holidays on the calendar. We can’t force nature.”

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4 Friendship Apps to Help You Connect with New People

Success

Friendships are good for your mental and physical health Declining friendships aren’t just a detriment to your social calendar; friendships are intimately tied to mental health. Bumble began as a dating app in 2014, and Bumble for Friends was launched in 2016 to foster different relationships.