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Lose Weight Effectively

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Deadline Limit Theorem

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For a proof, you may try asking the following persons: a student trying to finish his thesis a graduate student submitting a journal article for peer review an accountant at the end of the financial fiscal year an executive preparing a report for the board of directors or, you may take a look at your own experience of trying to beat a deadline!

Joke unjoke

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A usual workday. Twenty-three emails in my inbox. Twelve of them forwarded. Four containing jokes. I, being a bit of a comic character myself, appreciate receiving jokes through email. How can I not welcome them after spending several hours in front of a computer trying to figure out how to get a computer program to work? They lighten up my workday. They help preserve my sanity. However, there are some jokes that instead of making my workday lighter dampen it altogether. I’m referring to “green” or obscene jokes. I have received them a couple of times, and I think I still will in the future. It’s not unusual for a person to receive a green joke, laugh at it for a while, and then start sending it to all the persons in his address book without thinking that some of them could be offended. Of course it’s not always out of malice that people send this type of jokes. When a person sends me a green joke, I would like to think that he is only trying to share something that he think