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Do you enjoy watching the birds dine at your backyard bird feeders?
If so, you might be wondering just what you can do to prevent the neighborhood squirrels from wiping out your birdie buffet before the birdies have a chance to get their fair share.
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Have you ever provided some type of assistance to someone who was truly in need?
Someone you didn’t even know, and would likely never even see again?
I’ll bet it felt good, didn’t it?
Our world is full of people who are down on their luck and in need of some kind of help.
As you probably know, robots have been working in factories and warehouses for decades now, performing tasks ranging from assembly line construction to precision welding, and more.
But the robots being developed by a company called Boston Dynamics are an entirely new breed.
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If you’re old enough to remember President Ronald Reagan, you probably also remember his negotiations with the Soviets about nuclear disarmament.
And you probably remember his frequent use of the term “Trust, but verify“.
Many people believe Reagan himself coined that term, but it’s actually an old Russian proverb that the former President used as leverage against the Soviet government itself.
I believe we would all be wise to apply that simple phrase to our own lives.
I guess it’s just human nature to think of the homeless as somehow less worthy of respect than other people.
But have you ever passed by a homeless person and wondered what brought them to this point?
And more important, what it would take for them to turn their life around?
This story of a man named Donald Gould proves things aren’t always as they seem.
The story begins here… [Read more…]