Knowledge

Knowledge is power.  Information is liberating.  Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

~ Kofi Annan

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Everything I needed to know, I learned in one night of ELPerS curling...

* Sometimes you just NEED to throw rocks, but when you do, throw them gently and on the ground and not at a person.

* It is important to sweep up after yourself.  Or before yourself.  Or before your opponents.

* Walk softly or you'll fall on your butt.

* Cheers help especially when cheerfully cheered by the cheerful.

* Teamwork matters, but it is work.  Done by a team.  Thus the name.  Teamwork.

* Being first isn't everything.  Persistence is everything.  This is true in both curling and writing a dissertation.

* It's all about the uniform.

* It's not always about where you are, but much more about whom your with and how you spend your time.

* Try new things.  And then try them again.  For at least five years or so.

Congratulations, ELPerS.  Now get back to the writing.