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You can’t swing a cat meme on the Internet without finding an article about how to up your output. There are a million tips out there on how to do more, faster, in virtually any environment: how to multitask effectively while out of the office / while on vacation / while juggling your minutes-old newborn baby. Some of this is a natural impulse, especially for freelancers, who tend to be workaholics at the best of times – and who are prone to feeling almost like any hour that they’re not gigging is a wasted hour. But this is, ironically, not a very productive point of view. George Takei on How Kim Davis Violated the First Amendment. How one enterprising Iranian expat family and its allies successfully pushed for U.S.
-Iran rapprochement—and now stands to make a fortune from sanctions relief. When the world’s major powers struck a deal over Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna in July, it represented a victory not just for the Islamic Republic, which has now been granted international legitimacy as a nuclear threshold state, but also for a small but increasingly influential lobby in America, one which has long sought rapprochement between Washington and Tehran and now seeks to leverage a successfully concluded nuclear deal as a means to that end. This Iran lobby, publicly represented by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), has become a staunch institutional ally of the White House selling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear deal is known. Little known to the American press, the Namazis have rarely acted as spokespersons for their own cause.
What Today’s Rape Activists Don’t Get. Susan Brownmiller, who published the groundbreaking Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, takes issue with the current conversation around sexual assault.
She believes it's unrealistic for women to think they can drink like men and still be safe, and that women are responsible for keeping themselves out of dangerous situations. The 80-year-old is also concerned the campus activist movement ignores the experiences of women of color and low socioeconomic status, whom she says are statistically more likely to be assaulted. We caught up with Brownmiller Monday night at the Peggy Siegal Company's premiere screening of Peace Officer — a new film that looks at the militarization of the police. Northwest History: Spokane's Fantastic Baby Cage. Spokane is proud of its inventors, such as Royal Riblet of the square-wheeled tractor fame and Mary Latham who invented a pessary (and did a lot of other stuff).
And yet who among has heard of Emma Read? I had not, until a great piece by Shawn Vestal in the Spokesman-Review introduced me to this Spokanite's earth-shaking invention. Wallets-full-of-women. During last night’s GOP debate, moderator Jake Tapper asked the candidates which woman they would put on the $10 bill; their answers revealed a lot about what kinds of female humans are considered laudable by the modern Republican Party.
Many presidential hopefuls named members of their own families, which says something right there. But the candidates who named historical figures also provided insights into the GOP’s priorities for women, as well as some lessons about the way women’s history is politicized — and depoliticized — in this country. Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump: My own wife/mother/daughterAll three felt that a member of their own family was worthy of placement on U.S. currency. 9 feelings every new freelancer experiences. This is a post from a member of the Freelancers Union community.
If you’re interested in sharing your expertise, your story, or some advice you think will help a fellow freelancer out, feel free to send your blog post to us here. Leaving one job and starting another - even on our own accord - is listed as a Top 5 Stressful Situation. The others? Death of a loved one, divorce, moving, and major illness. All of these are pretty profound, and yet, most of us try to brush off our impending career change as something that's no big deal. An Interview with Bill Gates on the Future of Energy. In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl.
He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide could stimulate ingenuity to combat climate change by dramatically increasing spending on research and development. “The push is the R&D,” he said, before indicating the arrow on the right. “The pull is the carbon tax.” 5 Goal-setting tips for creatives and creators. Creative freelancers live in the tension between lofty visions and daily to-do lists.
According to Allie Rice, Portland-based intentionality coach and author, the only way to resolve these tensions and live a life with vision and purpose day-to-day are goals and systems. She was kind enough to share her top 5 goal-setting tips with us: 1. Second GOP debate: Carly Fiorina made the most of it, and 4 other takeaways. The main GOP debate in Simi Valley took hours, and it felt like it.
There were insults and policy clashes. But the large field made it difficult at times to keep track of who was saying what. How to submit to 'Casa de Colores,' a nation-wide poetry project. 146613146626146626Juan Felipe Herrera’s winding path to poetryJuan Felipe Herrera is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, novels for young adults and collections for children, most recently “Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes.”
He is the son of migrant workers from Mexico, and today he becomes the first Latino to serve as poet laureate of the United States. Jeffrey Brown travels to the poet’s home in California’s San Joaquin Valley.2015-06-10 18:00:00disabled2365506695iykpWev3NLYfalse Watch PBS NewsHour’s senior correspondent and chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown report on Juan Felipe Herrera, the current U.S. poet laureate. What to Make of Pope Francis Now? - The New Yorker. As Pope Francis heads to Cuba and the United States this month, with an itinerary that includes visits to the Castros, the U.S. Congress, the White House, the United Nations General Assembly, and a major Catholic convocation in Philadelphia, the measure of his accomplishments and further promise remains confused.
Is he a radical or merely a liberal? Does he seek to revise Church dogma—to bring it in line with some ethical ideal—or to formulate a pastoral response that is rooted in reality, and that leaves the institution unchanged? Among Roman Catholics, conservatives emphasize that, for all the hoopla about gays, divorce, women, and dogs going to heaven, he is not changing Church doctrine. Liberals, on the other hand, recognize in him a longed-for reformer of Vatican corruptions and cruelties. The White House Behavioral Science Team’s Report. Barack Obama is our first "nudge" president — he's a fan of behavioral economics' sometimes-simple tweaks for helping people make healthier and more forward-looking decisions, like the classic example of having employees automatically enroll in 401(k) savings plans unless they explicitly choose not to.
Last year, he set up the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, a White House initiative to look at ways to help government agencies apply these principles to what they do, and yesterday it released its first annual report, which has some useful examples of nudge principles in action. The report runs down a series of what are effectively experiments designed to gauge the effects of making various tweaks to the wording and user interfaces government agencies use.
Alexander Chee on Writing, Success, and Subletting Below Chloë Sevigny. At Catapult, Alexander Chee has a self-reflective essay about a period in the early aughts when he got to sublet a friend’s plum 19th-story apartment in Gramercy Park. She let him have it for just $900 per month, a steal, which took a great deal of financial pressure off of him. This was after the release of his first novel, when his stock as a writer was rising and he was commanding a little more money–by writer standards, anyway. Bonus: Chee soon learned that actress Chloë Sevigny, of whom he was a big fan, was his upstairs neighbor. This revelation, and a few nervous encounters with her, made the author take a hard look at himself. How to Get SuperBetter. Photo: Kiyash Monsef Jessica Gross | Longreads | September 2015 | 18 minutes (4,658 words) In 2009, while game designer Jane McGonigal was writing her first book, Reality Is Broken, she hit her head.
The best time of day to take a break. (Globalstock) For most people, mid-morning is one of the busiest parts of the workday. Those 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock hours come after we've caffeinated ourselves, waded through morning email, caught up with colleagues and read up on the day's news. It's when meetings are held, our brains seem to function best and the real work of the day begins. But it's also the most beneficial time of day to take a break, according to new research by professors at Baylor University. That counterintuitive finding—many people after all would think the mid-afternoon lull is best for a work pause—was one of a few suggestions for better break-taking in a recent paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
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