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I am completely amazed at the number of people going for lunchtime runs in this heat — how do you do it without collapsing?! Do you stop for ice-cream along the way? Anyway, enough of my random thoughts — here are the latest Bermuda events a...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
At this moment — and perhaps for a short period longer, probably only months — there exists a window of opportunity for all Bermudians to benefit socially, economically and politically. That sounds exciting, and it is, but it requires black and white...
DATE: Jul 18, 2012
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Have you ever stood on the shoreline of the mainland here and looked across to a small island several hundred metres off shore? And while looking, wondered how many people, if any, had ever walked on it, or, who knows, pondered what it would be like ...
DATE: Jul 18, 2012
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Ric Chapman
Once upon a time my brother and I hitchhiked from Sacramento, California up over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, across the desolate Nevada landscape, through the Utah alkali flats, into the Rocky Mountains to Laramie Wyoming, and then down into Denver ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2012
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Philip Brownell
Imagine, you’ve just achieved a personal best then a voice says, ‘someone else did it better …’ Or you’re heading out to a social event and you hear, ‘who cares what you have to say?’ or you’re filling in a job application and there’s a whisper, ‘you...
DATE: Jul 17, 2012
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Julia Pitt
What is trust and how do you maintain and build upon the trust you already have? Further, how can you build trust when it doesn’t exist?
These are important questions for today’s rapidly changing world. The word trust goes to the core of who we are ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2012
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Sir John Swan
It sounds counter-intuitive but the sheer level of fear and complete lack of confidence inequity markets throughout the world actually provides support. To give you an idea of how far expectations have fallen, here are a few sentiment indicators:
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DATE: Jul 16, 2012
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Nathan Kowalski
I decided that I would brave the digging up and paving of Hamilton's roads and head into town last Saturday. Apart from being vexed from all the detouring, the incident that I witnessed in town just about sent me over the top.
I have never touched o...
DATE: Jul 16, 2012
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Grumpy Old Man
What a thriller that was!
As is so often the case with these big bucks billfishing competitions, it is really never over until the Fat Lady has sung. With less than six minutes left to fish, it looked like Capt. Allan Bean's Paradise One had the tou...
DATE: Jul 14, 2012
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Tight Lines
On the morning of Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 9.55am, the Government of Bermuda announced in New York the sale of another large tranche of Bermuda bonds (called Senior Notes), some $475 million USD worth paying 4.138% interest annually, with a fifteen ...
DATE: Jul 14, 2012
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Martha Harris Myron