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Jan 17, 2025 | 
virtuoso.com | Justin Paul
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
virtuoso.com | Justin Paul
An insider’s view of the country’s cultural capital. We were somewhere around 90 minutes into a Sufi Muslim ceremony on the edge of the medina when the ants began to take hold. Figuratively, thankfully. But for the Hamadcha brotherhood chanting and swaying in front of us, they seemed very real.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
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May 5, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
Welcome to the Job Hunt 50+ blog. Over the next few months I intend to publish a series of articles about the pitfalls and challenges of job hunting for the over 50s, using my own experiences in the 2024 job market to illustrate how to navigate this difficult market. I lost my job at the end of 2023 and now face the challenge of finding a new role in a turbulent economic market while experiencing the overt and covert challenges of the over 50 job seeker.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
The times they are a changingIt is with music more than anything that we notice the passage of time. Some music is timeless and some hasn’t aged well. Music videos are little time capsules, not only do they capture the music of the time but they also capture the culture and morals of the time.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
Welcome to Naval Gazing my irregular series of articles about life and death in the navy during the “age of sail”. This era appears to be liberally sprinkled with sailors who could deliver a “bon mot” as easily as a well aimed broadside. Here are a smattering, ten of the best, with of course a large number coming from Admiral Lord Nelson himself.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
The success of Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon has reignited interest in France’s most famous and successful general. The film was a tour de force shot in exquisite detail with amazing battle scenes. For me the biggest problem with the film was that it was too short. I’m waiting for the four-hour extended version that will be released later this year. However, when it comes to naval matters there were some inaccuracies.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
medium.com | Justin Paul
Everything you need to know about the Royal Navy? As well as being the title of The Pogues 1985 album, “Rum, Sodomy and the Lash”, was famously mis-attributed to Winston Churchill in the quote:Winston Churchill never said it, but his personal secretary Arthur Montague-Brown stated that he “wished he had”. As a former First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill knew a great deal about the Royal Navy.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
virtuoso.com | Justin Paul
New lifts, no crowds, and endless terrain in Montana’s mountains. On a bluebird day, from the top of Lone Peak you can see clear to Yellowstone and the Tetons to the south, Idaho to the west, and across who knows how many hundreds of square miles of Montana wilderness and ranchlands in other directions. But it’s not the horizon that draws my gaze: I can’t stop looking down; nearly 2,000 vertical feet of pillowy, wind-loaded snow spread out below me – and that’s before you hit the tree line.
