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South Africans in Six Descriptors
Having arrived home from South Africa on April 11, I have taken some time to try to process our experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. One of the most difficult, distressing, and uplifting museums that we visited in Johannesburg was the Apartheid Museum. When you enter you are given a ticket that randomly classifies you
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Rubrics
I am on a year-long health journey in 2025. In the early stages of this journey I’ve found myself being asked to “rate my pain” on a scale of one to ten. Have you ever had to do that? I find the question hard to answer. What, after all, constitutes a 2 on the pain
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Slump (Concrete)
ACC is committed to supporting the workforce needs of our region. To that end, we are partnering with Texas Workforce Solutions, the City of Austin, unions, and local employers to develop the Infrastructure Academy to ensure that our region has the skilled workers needed to meet our mobility and infrastructure goals in the next decade
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Brotherly Shove (AKA Tush Push)
As I watched the NFL playoffs in January, the announcers periodically referenced the “tush push”. In the Philadelphia game (for the NFC conference championship) the announcers referred to the “brotherly shove”. Both the tush push and the brotherly shove refer to the same short-yardage play, in which the team lines up behind the quarterback and