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company. And so, normally, they would open up the application process, and the quota would run out in the first three weeks... So, after graduation, I had a job , and we applied for that visa, but that was the year “Visagate” happened: The first day of applications, for the first time in history, the government got three times their quota on the very first day. So, they panicked and thought the only thing to do was to make it a raffle for everyone that applied on the first day, and then automatically reject everyone after that. So, we’d filed for the first day, but I was in the two-thirds that didn’t get it, so the whole envelope got returned unopened. So then I got the
1447:(IR:) Мария Попова е на 26 години и от няколко месеца живее в Лос Анджелис... / (MP:) В края на 2008 г. се върнах в България за известно време, където с трима приятели организирах TEDxBG, конференция по модела на ТЕD, този януари. / На 26 съм... / През 2003 г. се преместих във Филаделфия, където завърших University of Pennsylvania. Буквално следващата седмица се преместих в LA – тук съм от края на януари и въпреки, че градът не е по мой вкус (аз съм морално против колите по екологични съображения, от години се придвижвам на колело, а велосипедирането в LA e пчти непосилно), има си и своите предимства.
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1008:. The Curator's Code is a code of conduct for curators on the web to use. This proposed method is an attempt to codify source attribution on the internet to ensure that the intellectual labor of information discovery is honored. Under the code, the "via" symbol indicates direct discovery, where the "hat tip" symbol indicates an indirect link of discovery.
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It doesn’t put the reader’s best interests first – it turns them into a sellable eyeball, and sells that to advertisers. As soon as you begin to treat your stakeholder as a bargaining chip, you’re not interested in broadening their intellectual horizons or bettering their life. I don’t believe in
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1431:"Предай нататък: Българската звезда в Twitter Мария Попова за любопитството, креативността и медиите на бъдещето [Pass it on: Bulgarian Twitter Star Maria Popova on Curiosity, Creativity and the Media of the Future ]"
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blog calling Popova out for her actions. Using his own calculations, Bleymaier extrapolated that Popova could make anywhere between $ 240,000 and $ 432,000 a year with these affiliate advertisements.
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