Renouncing Fame, Fortune, and Family: The Psychology of Monks. Why Buddhist monks renounce all worldly pleasures to live in a life of service, simplicity, and selflessness inside a monastery. Source. I've always been interested in questions about what makes a life worth living. I tried to examine this
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Purcellville's Interim Town Manager John Anzivino is set to present his budget to the Town Council on Wednesday night. While the details haven't been released, he is setting the stage for a potential real estate tax rate increase. The council held a public hearing last week on a maximum tax rate of
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KEY CONSIDERATIONS IN THE VALUATION OF MARKETPLACE LENDING LOAN PORTFOLIOS: HOULIHAN LOKEY PARTICIPATES IN Q&A WITH LEND ACADEMY. Gunes Kulaligil, a Director in Houlihan Lokey's Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services Group, recently participated in a Q&A
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The vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a vehicle operator behind the wheel, police told Fortune. A female pedestrian, who was walking outside of a crosswalk, was struck by the Uber self-driving vehicle, according to police. She was transported to a local area hospital
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In a note to investors on Sunday, Longbow Research analyst Shawn Harrison and Gausia Chowdhury cited sources in Apple's supply chain that said the âiPhone X didn't sell well during the holiday season.â The source, who wasn't identified, added that they had expected to get more iPhone X orders
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Fidelity is already one of the nation's largest title insurance and settlement services provider, and now, it's set to acquire one of its biggest competitors. Beyond being one of the biggest title insurance companies, Stewart also provides appraisal and valuation services and other offerings to the real estate
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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF) has signed a merger agreement to acquire Stewart Information Services Corporation for a total consideration of US $1.2 billion. Fidelity National Financial Logo FNF, which is the largest title re/insurer in the U.S, has offered Stewart $50.00 per share of common stock,
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Today, alongside the debut of this Fortune cover story, we kick off our third annual Brainstorm Health conferenceâwhich embarks on the very same crusade: to reveal how a revolutionary kind of analytics and other technologies are together solving some of biology's deepest, darkest secrets. During our
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The Los Angeles metro region experienced a 2.5 percent annual sales drop, and sales in the Inland Empire housing market declined 1.2 percent. Home prices rose on a monthly and annual basis in all three regions. Sales increased in eight of nine Bay Area counties, with Contra Costa (11.2 percent),
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Ean Duryea, 15, carries a play table for his mom, Amy Duryea, March 9 at Wailuku Elementary School. Ean is a home-schooled 9th-grader. Amy Duryea is a special education preschool teacher at the school and was moving classrooms Friday. Like many teachers who spend their own money to
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Aaron Black calls it âhand-to-hand combatâ: the time-consuming, painful battle to convert a Tower of Babel of information into life-saving guidance for doctors and researchers. Black is chief data officer at the Inova Translational Medical Institute, a nonprofit that gathers genomic information to support
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Even though more housing is available in New York than ever before â the total housing stock has risen to record levels â there is still considerable pressure on the housing market that makes it clear that the city is in the midst of a severe affordability crisis, the weight of which is borne mostly by low- and
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That should provide a pretty good roadmap for how steel tariffs will affect the multi-family housing market. And plenty of other markets too. According to 2015 Census data, steel mills employed about 140,000 Americans and added about $36 billion to the economy that year, but steel-consuming industries
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Charles brings 20 years of mortgage experience to Fairway. Consistently a top performer, Charles and his team have long been recognized as leading producers. Charles is a member of the Central Valley Association of Realtors, and enjoys assisting real estate professionals and their clients. He has
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The store, which is popular with teenagers, is the latest in a string of once-popular brick and mortar retailers that are now struggling as online sales cut into their sales. Another retail chain, Toys R Us, recently announced it would shutter all of its stores after it was unable to successfully restructure its
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How Hong Kong's Richest Woman Lost Half Her $12 Billion Fortune in Less Than 2 Months. finance now Fortune â Bloomberg. Pollyanna Chu has lost her title as Hong Kong's richest woman after her listed company turned into Asia's worst performer this year. Worth almost $12 billion as recently as
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This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. The proximate cause of the disaster was a combination of excessive, subprime mortgage-concentrated leverage and poor risk controls. But the overall economic, monetary and regulatory environment were the broader
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE:VRX) shares are down more than -19.49% this year and recently decreased -0.30% or -$0.05 to settle at $16.73. The Gap, Inc. (NYSE:GPS), on the other hand, is down -6.81% year to date as of 03/16/2018. It currently trades at $31.74 and has returned
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richard-antl-copy Richard Antl has been named vice president of commercial banking at KeyBank. In this role, Antl will work with commercial banking and corporate clients in the Treasure Valley. Prior to joining KeyBank, Antl worked for seven years in Houston, Texas with Canadian Imperial Bank of
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Wisconsin's housing market posted a record winter in spite of short supply of homes for sale, the Wisconsin Realtors Association reported Monday. Between December and February, there were closings on 13,741 homes in the state, the most in a winter season since the Realtors' organization
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