The folks of modern real-life Mason City do appear to share that belief themselves - the American certainty that the old-fashioned virtues of the New World will somehow prevail in a crisis.

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While I constantly hear folks bemoaning the quality of modern cinema, I think the last decade especially the last half of the decade has been filled with a greater number of high quality films than any other point in recent cinema history.

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Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.

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It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.

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It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, ranging from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.

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Thanks to the modern miracle that is the internet and to the good folks at Kaiser, you can use this quick, free, easy healthcare calculator and find out exactly what your yearly premium will be , what portion will be subsidized by the government, and so forth.

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While the folks at Rosstat do great work, their website is not exactly the most modern in the whole world and it can sometimes be quite difficult to assemble comparative data across long timeframes.

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