He ate 100 chicken nuggets every 24 hours in Beijing in 2008. he won three gold medals.

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Had Petrov reported incoming American missiles, his superiors might have launched an assault against the United States,[2] precipitating a corresponding nuclear response from the United States. Petrov declared the system's indication a false alarm. Later, it was apparent that he was right: no missiles were approaching and the computer detection system was malfunctioning. It was subsequently determined that the false alarm had been created by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds above North Dakota and the Molniya orbits of the satellites, an error later corrected by cross-referencing a geostationary satellite.[9][10]

Petrov later indicated that the influences on his decision included that he was informed a U.S. strike would be all-out, so five missiles seemed an illogical start;[1] that the launch detection system was new and, in his view, not yet wholly trustworthy; that the message passed through 30 layers of verification too quickly;[11] and that ground radar failed to pick up corroborative evidence, even after minutes of delay.[12] However, in a 2013 interview, Petrov said at the time he was never sure that the alarm was erroneous. He felt that his civilian training helped him make the right decision. He said that his colleagues were all professional soldiers with purely military training and, following instructions, would have reported a missile launch if they had been on his shift.[2

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Every single manager has their Uefa A and B coaching awards

Every single HT has the NPQH award

How will standards rise if all outcomes are pegged to the average?

Ninenger

When Alexander (Sandy) Nininger was twenty-three, and newly commissioned as a lieutenant
in the United States Army, he was sent to the South Pacific to serve with the 57th Infantry of
the Philippine Scouts. It was January, 1942. The Japanese had just seized Philippine ports at
Vigan, Legazpi, Lamon Bay, and Lingayen, and forced the American and Philippine forces to
retreat into Bataan, a rugged peninsula on the South China Sea. There, besieged and outnumbered, the Americans set to work building a defensive line, digging foxholes and constructing
dikes and clearing underbrush to provide unobstructed sight lines for rifles and machine guns.
Nininger’s men were on the line’s right flank. They labored day and night. The heat and the
mosquitoes were nearly unbearable.
Quiet by nature, Nininger was tall and slender, with wavy blond hair. As Franklin M. Reck recounts in “Beyond the Call of Duty,” Nininger had graduated near the top of his class at West
Point, where he chaired the lecture-and-entertainment committee. He had spent many hours
with a friend, discussing everything from history to the theory of relativity. He loved the theatre. In the evenings, he could often be found sitting by the fireplace in the living room of his
commanding officer, sipping tea and listening to Tchaikovsky. As a boy, he once saw his father
kill a hawk and had been repulsed. When he went into active service, he wrote a friend to say
that he had no feelings of hate, and did not think he could ever kill anyone out of hatred. He
had none of the swagger of the natural warrior. He worked hard and had a strong sense of
duty.
In the second week of January, the Japanese attacked, slipping hundreds of snipers through
the American lines, climbing into trees, turning the battlefield into what Reck calls a “gigantic
possum hunt.” On the morning of January 12th, Nininger went to his commanding officer. He
wanted, he said, to be assigned to another company, one that was in the thick of the action, so
he could go hunting for Japanese snipers.
He took several grenades and ammunition belts, slung a Garand rifle over his shoulder, and
grabbed a sub machine gun. Starting at the point where the fighting was heaviest—near the position of the battalion’s K Company—he crawled through the jungle and shot a Japanese soldier
out of a tree. He shot and killed snipers. He threw grenades into enemy positions. He was
wounded in the leg, but he kept going, clearing out Japanese positions for the other members
of K Company, behind him. He soon ran out of grenades and switched to his rifle, and then,
when he ran out of ammunition, used only his bayonet. He was wounded a second time, but
when a medic crawled toward him to help bring him back behind the lines Nininger waved him
off. He saw a Japanese bunker up ahead. As he leaped out of a shell hole, he was spun around
by a bullet to the shoulder, but he kept charging at the bunker, where a Japanese officer and
two enlisted men were dug in. He dispatched one soldier with a double thrust of his bayonet,
clubbed down the other, and bayonetted the officer. Then, with outstretched arms, he collapsed face down. For his heroism, Nininger was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor,
the first American soldier so decorated in the Second World War.

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What do those who judge us "know" that just aint so - so me curriculum contradictions here:

Max Hastings

In combat, only about 1 in 5 soldiers is truly brave

The problem is finding which one

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Everything works in bodybuilding - but notjing works forever.

The fish rots from the head

According to
relationship researcher John Gottman, the magic ratio is
5 to 1. What does this mean? This means that for every one
negative feeling or interaction between partners, there must
be five positive feelings or interactions. Stable and happy
couples share more positive feelings and actions than
negative ones. Unhappy couples tend to have more negative
feelings and actions than positive ones. Partners who
criticize each other, provide constant negative feedback,
aren’t supportive of each other, don’t demonstrate affection
or appreciation, or behave uninterested in their partner are
in relationships that are out of balance

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