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Legal-Ease: Components of good contracts

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Attorneys are hesitant to encourage people to prepare their own contracts, especially because there are hundreds of aspects to every contract that experienced attorneys can ensure are included. There are also common pitfalls in contracts that attorneys can ensure are not inadvertently included.

David Trinko: Pondering the young and the jobless

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In no way do I wish to say all young people are lazy or unmotivated. I’ve met plenty of industrious people from every generation.

William Lambers: Basketball can save lives from hunger again

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Both the college and pro basketball seasons are heating up now with games every day. I was watching my alma mater, Mount St. Joseph University, play Bluffton University and wondering if basketball could draw attention to global hunger. There are numerous countries where starvation is occurring because of wars and climate change.

Jerry Zezima: Calendar guy

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Inspired by pop legend Neil Sedaka, who is most famous for his 1960 hit song “Calendar Girl,” I love, I love, I love to be a calendar guy, each and every day of the year. And since it’s 2024 already, this can mean only one thing for a geezer like me: Time flies when you’re incoherent.

Dr. Jessica Johnson: Finding the truth for ‘nones’

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Toward the end of January, the Pew Research Center published results of a 2023 summer survey it conducted through its American Trends Panel on religious “nones,” people who identify as “atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular.” Out of a targeted sample size of 12,932 U.S. adults, 11,201 participated, resulting in an impressive 87% response rate.

Phil Hugo: Brothers walking in the waning light

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It’s Friday afternoon, somewhere around 4 p.m. in early November. The air is cool, and the sky is blue. Variegated layers of clouds rest above the western horizon — an inviting day for a walk in the woods.

Holy Cow! History: When seed sacks were chic

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Necessity is the mother of invention, we are told. The recent economy reminds us of how the mother of all hard times, The Great Depression of the 1930s, turned desperate families into hothouses for creativity and imagination. Times were especially challenging for farmers. Even in the best of times, many farm families often lived dangerously close to poverty.

Lori Borgman: Online mix-up heats up the kitchen

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A text arrived saying a dress I ordered online had been delivered to our front porch. And so it had, in a large and heavy box.

John Grindrod: Small things noticed that may carry a larger message

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As still a part of the work world, I see my share of people pretty much every day in the buildings I’m working, in the occasional hotels in which I stay and in the places I grab a bite, in addition to those I pass when I’m not working. While observing my fellow men and women and their actions, I’ve taken note of some things that may carry a larger message.

S.E. Cupp: Stop deepfake porn’s assault on women

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I honestly hadn’t thought about the image in a very long time, mercifully. It’s been 12 years since it first hit the internet, and I’m happy to say I — and everyone else — have moved on.