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		<title>Mo&#8217;Nique and Second Acts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are no second acts in American lives.&#8221; &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday Monique Imes-Jackson, aka Mo&#8217;Nique, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film, Precious.  Her acceptance speech was the only part of the Academy Awards I watched, and only because my mom was clapping loudly from downstairs when she won.
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		<title>Five Points on Persistence (Mine)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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“Nothing  in the world can take the place of  Persistence. Talent will not;  nothing is more common than unsuccessful  men with talent. Genius will  not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the  world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination  alone are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1227&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back and RISE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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BACK
Greetings!  To say I&#8217;m glad and relieved to be through (hopefully) with the Texas bar *knock on wood* is an understatement.  Controlled fugue state comes mind.  The two and half days of testing intense flashed so fast.  In any event, it&#8217;s out of my life for the time being.
So what now?
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		<title>Closed for the week: The End is Nigh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end is nigh!  Starting tomorrow and through Thursday, I will be unloading all the law I&#8217;ve loaded up between my ears, lay it down on paper and scantron for the perusal of some lucky grader(s).
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		<title>This Is Not A Valentine&#8217;s Day Post&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIKE!
Consider this an early April Fools post.



Love, Dynamically


Of the many types of loves in this world, i.e. loving your work, loving your life, loving your family; romantic love is probably one of the hardest to achieve.
So, if you&#8217;ve got that loving feeling for someone, let her (or him) know it everyday.  And if you don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1185&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big News: Austinist Contributor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday I received some great news (sorry for the belated posting, I&#8217;ve been preoccupied).  Austinist selected me to be a contributor!
What is Austinist?  I&#8217;ll let them tell you:
After its launch in March 2005, Austinist has &#8220;quickly become the local scenester&#8217;s essential online arbiter of taste&#8221; according to The Austin Chronicle after its readers voted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1162&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The following passage is taped to my desk:
You do not possess a natural gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts don&#8217;t exist.  You are not a born CEO or investor or chess grandmaster. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. And not just any hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1157&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black History: Kings and Commoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Digging my head out of the BarBri book on my desk, I realized it was Black History Month (Ahh, my favorite time of the year!).
This being the designated month of reflection on Black history and culture, I&#8217;d be remise not to share one of my favorite poems embodying African-American experience, Dudley Randall&#8217;s Ancestors (see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1140&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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The News
Late Friday I heard about two brothers, founders of a major music label, who are now venturing into the oil and gas field.  The brothers are Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald”Slim” Williams, of Cash Money Records.  The company is Broland Oil and Gas, LLC.
Here&#8217;s company statement from the Bronald website reads:
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are&#8212;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
The above is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=readaj.com&blog=7156759&post=1120&subd=ajbingham&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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