Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.

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At present he had not heard many reports of problems with feed deliveries, but said that a few days more "would create some problems", and added that collecting milk could become difficult, which would leave farmers in the position of having to pour away their supplies.

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But other countries may be more aligned with Canadian law in deeming taxpayers to be residents if they are present for 183 days.

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