Check your inbox once a half hour or once an hour, to give yourself time to complete tasks that require concentration.

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The hours of killing time before riding over to the hall, the putrid vending-machine meals on the run, the way-too-early-in-the-morning vans to the airport -- the dreary parts all become more than worth it when, for an hour or so, the singers can once again personally deliver a bit of happiness to the audiences who still adore their music.

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Once or twice a week, Siu boarded the public ferry for an hour-long trip across the rolling gray waters of the Pearl River estuary.

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However, once you start to be moving across substantial minutes of Sun derived time in an hour or three of travelling, plus you want to coordinate activities accurately in time, then you need to have just the one standard time by which you can do so.

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