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Daily 'breath training' can work as well as medicine to reduce high blood pressure Simply improving our breathing can significantly lower high blood pressure at any age. Recent research finds that just five to 10 minutes daily of exercises that strengthen the diaphragm and certain other muscles does the trick. SciePro/Getty Images/Max Posner/NPR hide caption Continued here

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The frontrunners in the trillion-dollar race for limitless fusion power With energy prices on the rise, along with demands for energy independence and an urgent need for carbon-free power, plans to walk away from nuclear energy are now being revised in Japan, South Korea, and even Germany. Last month, Europe announced green bonds for nuclear, and the U.S., thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, will soon devote millions to new nuclear designs, incentives for nuclear production and domestic uranium mining, and, after years of paucity in funding, cash for fusion. Continued here

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HBO Max and Warner Bros. Discovery seem to be on fire, and that's on purpose The last few weeks, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has started to feel like a villain in a Real Housewives show. He isn’t here to make friends. He’s here to make money. Films have been canceled, TV shows have been yanked off HBO Max with zero preamble, execs have been let go, worsening the company’s already notable diversity problem, and the company has lost $20 billion off its market cap — all in an effort to get $3 billion in savings and hopefully reorient a ship Zaslav has disagreed with the course of. Continued here

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Showing that you're working is not the same as working In a new study by Microsoft, nearly 90 percent of office workers reported being productive at work, and objective measures — increased hours worked, meetings taken, and amount and quality of work completed — prove them out. Meanwhile, 85 percent of bosses say hybrid work makes it hard to be confident that employees are being productive. Continued here

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Inside the cheating scandal that rocked the chess world It should have been simple for Magnus Carlsen, or at least as simple as a top-tier chess game can be. When the world chess champion sat down across from 19-year-old American Hans Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup earlier this month, he had the benefit of playing with the white pieces, he was on a 53-game unbeaten streak, and was facing someone who entered the tournament as the lowest-rated player. Continued here

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4 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pain from computer slouching and more : Life Kit That's the concept behind Vinh Pham's new book, Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements. Pham, a physical therapist with over a decade of experience, shares a set of exercises aimed at helping to prevent bodily pain that lasts for over three months due to injury, exercise, bad posture or other factors — and relieve it, too. Practicing these movements consistently, he says, can extend your range of motion and increase your flexibility. Continued here

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Your inability to 'quiet your mind' isn't due to lack of effort. It's the wrong goal I understood that “awareness is the greatest agent for change,” as Eckhart Tolle says. Still, the space between awareness and change felt like a disappointing delta. My awareness of my inner voice was matched by an equal awareness that I didn’t know how to quiet it. Now, I had two problems.  Continued here

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Is Your Retirement Portfolio a Tax Bomb? | Kiplinger Conventional wisdom suggests you should save everything you can in tax-deferred retirement accounts to minimize taxes in the current year and benefit from tax-sheltered growth. For many, that may still be good advice. Certainly, you should be saving everything you can for retirement. However, for high earners who save a lot, saving in tax-deferred accounts may prove to be bad advice. Why?  Continued here

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Retirement: How To Save A Million And Live Off Dividends The market has been tough in the year 2022. There is 40-year high inflation that is not only causing a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace but also impacting the working folks in their daily lives. Interest rates are rising, and the market is giving warning signs of a looming recession. But in spite of all the negative headlines, there's no reason that you should not think of planning a successful and rich retirement with stock investments. In fact, the opposite. Continued here

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Roth Conversions Play Key Role in Defusing a Retirement Tax Bomb | Kiplinger Instead, this is a good strategy to consider in low-income years, especially for people who retire early in their 50s and early 60s who may have several years to do conversions before Medicare means testing surcharges, Social Security income and RMDs kick in. Many of my clients do several years of annual Roth conversions starting early in retirement.  Continued here

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Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won't fix green bubbles At Vox Media’s Code conference, an attendee told Cook that it was difficult for him to send videos to his mom because Apple devices don’t support RCS, the texting protocol championed by Google and supported by major phone carriers. Cook, in response, suggested the attendee buy his mom an iPhone. “I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook said. Continued here

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Everyone knows what YouTube is -- few know how it really works YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it’s such a black box — everyone feels like they know how the platform works, but very few people have a real understanding of the internal politics and tradeoffs that actually drive YouTube’s decisions. Mark’s book is one of the best of its kind I’ve read — not only does he take you inside the company, but he connects the decisions made inside YouTube to the creators who use the platform and the effects it has on them. Continued here

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Huge satellite could outshine all stars and planets in the night sky The BlueWalker 3 satellite, built by Texas-based firm AST SpaceMobile, is set to be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 10 September. The satellite is designed to test the company’s technology to beam a cellular connection, including 4G or 5G internet, directly from a satellite to mobile phones, enabling users to receive mobile coverage in remote … Continued here

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Roger Federer: A gift from the tennis gods Moving with elegance, balletic grace and poise, the Swiss maestro is pure poetry in motion. The most naturally gifted tennis player of a generation, Federers presence will be missed but he will never be forgotten. Continued here

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The cheating scandal roiling the chess world has a new wrinkle Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann face off at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis on Sept. 4. The two had a rematch on Monday, but Carlsen only played one move before resigning from the game. Crystal Fuller/Grand Chess Tour hide caption Continued here

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The DC Universe Is a Mess, but It Can Be Fixed If Warner Bros. Discovery wants to rehabilitate its superhero franchise, it needs to learn from Marvel’s successes—and its misfires Continued here

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How Korean Fashion and Culture Took over the World In Seoul with the Victoria & Albert Museum in June, I found my daily uniform shifted gradually as the days went by; by the week’s end, I had assumed a new final form. Walking around the city, in neighbourhoods like hyperactive Hongdae and the long-immortalised Gangnam, I swiftly fell under the influence of the young Korean population, who wore, almost exclusively, school-uniform style shirts and polo shirts, with slacks or pale blue jeans in a baggy 90s cut. The colour scheme was always white, or beige, or somewhere in between; loved-up couples coordinated carefully. On the feet: bulbous white trainers, or kitten-heeled sandals for girls. And while in London trends may percolate through the city in the span of a summer (crochet bucket hats have a lot to answer for this year), the impact is rarely so total. Drinking an iced coffee on the corner of a busy junction in Seongsu-dong, an on-the-rise area formerly known for its shoe factories, I noted four instances of short-sleeved, white, button-up shirts on girls of different ages in a record time of 60 seconds. Continued here

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This Vegetarian Chili Will Wow Meat-Eaters, Vegetarians and Vegans Alike Chili is an ideal weeknight dinner or even a party food—you just mix up a batch and set it out on the table for your guests to enjoy. And if you have a slow cooker, that can make it even more simple. But if you have friends with different diets, it can be difficult, because most chili recipes typically feature meat. This vegetarian chili (it’s also vegan!) meets the needs of everyone at your gathering. It’s full of great chili flavors but without the meat to weigh it down. Continued here

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A viral guide to eating Asian food was totally wrong, and here's why I want to take a moment to write about something really silly that happened on Twitter last week. Business journalist Ellen Chang woke up one morning and decided what the world needed was a tweet thread about how to eat Asian food, which is in itself a red flag that should tell you that it’s time to log off.  Continued here

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These women are shaking up - and taking over - the world of games You may not know it yet, but we're willing to bet money that very soon (if you're not already), you're going to become a gamer. No, really. Whether you were the type of teenager who ran home from school and immediately glued yourself to The Sims, or are someone who's never been interested in virtually playing house (or shoot 'em ups, or Mario Kart, or...), we promise that gaming is entering a new era. And it's one that two powerhouse entrepreneurs, Jay-Ann Lopez and Stephanie Ijoma, have long been leading the way with. Continued here

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Scholars confirm what itsy bitsy babies around the world already know Babies around the world evoke a special kind of language from grown-ups. Above: Photographer Sarah Waiswa, born in Uganda and now living in Kenya, made this photo of her daughter, Ria. Sarah Waiswa/@EverydayAfrica hide caption Continued here

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J.K. Rowling's new book, about a character accused of transphobia, raises eyebrows J.K Rowling has said publicly that her new book was not based on her own life, even though some of the events that take place in the story did in fact happen to her as she was writing it. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Continued here

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Why all Americans should be paying attention to Puerto Rico's power grid The 3.1 million residents of Puerto Rico found themselves in a depressingly familiar island-wide blackout this week in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. Some of the power has been restored, but 1.1 million customers are still in the dark as of Wednesday morning. It may be days before all Puerto Ricans can switch on the lights and pump clean drinking water. Continued here

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12 Bookstore Cafes In India For The Bibliophile In You A brisk 10-minute walk from the main bazaar and you will arrive at this bookstore (on the upper floor) and café (on the ground floor). Owned by Raman Shreshta, this is your one-stop answer to books on northeastern India, including Sikkim. They also have a fair collection of books on southeast Asia, a great collection of women writers, graphic novels and a treasure trove of literary magazines. They frequently hold book readings, author interactions, poetry slams, music gigs and film screenings. And if you are feeling peckish or want to sit back with a cup of coffee and read one of your newly-bought books, the café is ready to serve you. You may choose from a range of momos and steaming bowls of noodles, to pasta and pies, sandwiches, freshly-baked cakes, brownies, waffles, and cheesecakes from the rotating menu. Read more about it here. Continued here

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How to Embrace Change Using Emotional Intelligence Changes at work can be emotionally intense. It often leads to burnout and puts into motion an insidious cycle that leads to even greater resistance to organizational change. Improving your adaptability, a critical emotional intelligence competency, is key to breaking this cycle. Next time your organization introduces a big change, consider these four emotional intelligence strategies to help you embrace the change rather than brace for it. Identify the source of your resistance. For example, if you’re resisting because you’re worried that the change will make you look incompetent, you can create a learning plan for the new skills you will need in order to be successful. Try to question the basis of your emotional response. They tend to often reflect our interpretations that we convince ourselves are true, while in actuality, our emotional responses are often seldom in line with reality. Also, own your part in the situation. A self-aware person reflects on how their attitudes and behaviors contribute to their experience of the change. Lastly, although it may feel bleak when you don’t agree with a new change, having a positive outlook can open us up to new possibilities, so try thinking optimistically about it. Continued here

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To Get People Back in the Office, Make It Social There’s a strong desire among business decision makers (BDMs) to get people back into the office. Data from the latest Microsoft Work Trend Index research shows that 82% of BDMs say getting back to the office in person is a concern. But, two years of zero commuting time and an ability to more effectively manage work-life balance means employees are looking for a compelling reason to schlep back to the office — and 73% of them say they need a better reason than just company expectations. So, the question becomes, what is a compelling reason to come into the office? When asked what would motivate them to come into the office, employees had a resounding answer: social time with coworkers. The author presents three ways for leaders to prioritize building and rebuilding connections between people to fuel creativity, teamwork, and strong support systems that empower them to tackle challenges. Continued here

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If at first you don't succeed, raise $350 million and try again Housing in the United States has a problem. And Adam Neumann, the charismatic founder known for successfully rebranding shared office space as WeWork, and unsuccessfully running it, thinks he has a solution: Flow. This residential real estate startup wants to address a wide variety of issues, including housing availability, a lack of social interactions in a remote world, and the inability of renters to gain equity. Continued here

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3 questions interviewers hope you ask, and 3 they hope you don't “Interviews are like dating and you might as well be honest at the outset,” says Kelli Mason, chief operating officer of JobSage, an employee transparency platform. “We also know that people are scared, and they’re scared for good reason. There are questions that hiring managers don’t like, and if the hiring manager doesn’t like a line of questioning, they might consciously or subconsciously penalize the candidate for asking. In an ideal world, a candidate should not be afraid to ask a question, but we don’t live in an ideal world.” Continued here

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These are the 14 most in-demand job categories right now Despite rising inflation and weakness in the economy, the U.S. jobs market remains strong. As CNBC reports, the unemployment rate in July was down to just 3.5%—the lowest level since 1969. Average hourly wage growth was also up 5.2% year over year. In short, employers are hiring and the market for job seekers remains strong. But for employers, this translates into problems finding the skilled workers they need to fully staff their business. Continued here

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6 qualities that will get you hired, no matter the job “If you read the job ads,” Forbes columnist Liz Ryan writes, “you’d think that employers are strictly looking for people with very specific types of experience.” But “once you get to a job interview, the whole picture changes. Employers are looking for qualities in their new hires that are never listed in the job ad.” Continued here

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You're never going to find the perfect workout When Tae Bo was all the rage in the late 1990s, Amanda Biers Melcher dove in head first. Living in LA, she says she’s tried “all of the workouts” — cardio barre, Bikram yoga when it was the (literally) hot thing, etc. But there was something special about the martial arts-inspired cardio fitness craze. Continued here

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How immunity-boosting food became a part of monsoon festivals in India No matter where you go in the country, you will invariably find seasonal foods and dietary practices codified into rituals and festivals. Continued here

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Want to stop endlessly scrolling on your phone? Do this If you have an iPhone, Apple’s weekly Screen Time report can be eye-opening. Did I really pick up my phone 36 times and spend 7 hours on social media? You might be tempted to blame the phone as the cause of your distraction, especially if you have notifications enabled. The root cause, however, is your relationship with technology—one that’s possible to change, says Dandapani, a Hindu priest, former monk, and author of The Power of Unwavering Focus. Continued here

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Your inability to 'quiet your mind' isn't due to lack of effort. It's the wrong goal I understood that “awareness is the greatest agent for change,” as Eckhart Tolle says. Still, the space between awareness and change felt like a disappointing delta. My awareness of my inner voice was matched by an equal awareness that I didn’t know how to quiet it. Now, I had two problems.  Continued here

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How to Learn Fast: 10 Ways to Boost Math and Language Skills Learning new things is a huge part of life -- we should always be striving to grow and learn a new skill. Whether you're learning Spanish or want to do math fast, it takes time to learn each lesson, and time is precious. So how can you make the most of your time by speeding up the learning process? Thanks to neuroscience, we now have a better understanding of how we learn and the most effective ways our brains process and hold on to information. Continued here

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An economist studied popular finance tips. Some might be leading you astray In a new study titled "Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors," the Yale financial economist James Choi rummages through 50 of the most popular books on personal finance to see how their tips square with traditional economic thinking. It's like a cage match: Finance thinkfluencers vs economists dueling over what you should do with your money. Continued here

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Why Everything Feels So Expensive Right Now Today you can expect to shell out a lot more on absolutely everything than you did a year ago as prices rise faster than they have for 40 years. Food costs are soaring, with prices in shops rising by 5.1 percent in August, or for fresh food specifically, 10.5 percent – the highest rate seen since 2008. Continued here

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You Can Stop Turning Your Lights Off to Save Money Jason Fitzpatrick is the Senior Smart Home Editor at How-To Geek. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at How-To Geek, Review Geek, LifeSavvy, and Lifehacker. Jason served as Lifehacker's Weekend Editor before he joined How-To Geek. Read more... Continued here

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You're being tracked through your email. Here's how to stop it. I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I read most of them, too. But their authors wouldn’t know it because I’ve disabled the trackers that detect and tell the senders when subscribers open their emails. It’s nothing personal; I just don’t want anyone knowing what I read, when, how many times I read it, the device I read it on, and even where I was when I read it. How about you? Continued here

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It's settled: 6.1 inches is the ideal smartphone screen size I come to you today with good and bad news. The bad news is that small phones are dead. Apple is all but certainly killing off the iPhone Mini this year, and the smallest Android phone I’ve used all year is the 5.9-inch Asus Zenfone 9 — quite a bit larger than the 5.4-inch Mini. But that’s what passes for “small” now. Continued here

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Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other information such as their sensitive internet cookies, according to contracting data and other documents reviewed by Motherboard.  Continued here

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Astronomers Are Freaking Out Over Bizarre Rectangle-Shaped Rings in Space In the eight months since the James Webb Space Telescope launched on its mission to explore the earliest formations of our universe, it’s sent back mind-blowing photographs of mysterious structures, ancient galaxies and dying stars. The JWST has 100 times the observational power of Hubble, and sometimes the images it captures outpace even our own understanding of space. Continued here

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China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy The crystal is part of a batch of lunar samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, which landed on the Moon in 2020, loaded up with about four pounds of rocks, and delivered them to Earth days later. After carefully sifting through the samples—which are the first Moon rocks returned to Earth since 1976—scientists at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology spotted a single crystal particle, with a diameter smaller than the width of a human hair. Continued here

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Are teachers leaving the classroom en masse? Kansas is facing what has been called the most severe teacher shortage it has ever had: about 1,400 teaching jobs are unfilled. In Florida, there are about 8,000 teacher vacancies, up from 5,000 at the start of school last year. The shortage is reportedly also dire in other states, including Nevada, California, Illinois, Arizona, and Missouri. Some experts say that even school districts that don’t usually face shortages are struggling with vacancies, and it’s hard to hire teachers even for subjects that are typically easy to fill. Continued here

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How young people around the world are reclaiming their histories Every image tells a story. From culture to costume, dress codes to hairstyles and the nationalism we brush off as normal, symbols of shared heritage hold the power to shape the way we interpret ourselves. They tell stories of conquest and subjugation, power and resistance. When re-evaluated, they allow us to critically confront the past and our struggles for social justice, whether it’s destigmatising afro hair in professional spaces via UK campaign group the Halo Collective, or artist Hew Locke’s unpacking of Britain’s problematic past through thought-provoking portraiture. In our digital-first, image-obsessed present, it seems there are reclamations of heritage happening everywhere, every day, and at a faster and more frantic pace than ever. Symbols that were previously used to wield power over people are rehashed to assert some semblance of control over the present – and nowhere is this more prevalent than on an extremely grassroots level. Here, we head to Bolivia, Jamaica and Turkey, where local groups are reclaiming their histories in groundbreaking ways, taking matters into their own hands both online and off. Continued here

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How MLB's new rules will -- MLB has announced its most signifiant rule changes in almost half a century. Here's how they will impact play, roster building and more. Continued here

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'Everyone has screwed up' - why India has been suspended by FIFA The ban means India cannot play in any international matches and may prevent the country from hosting the U17 Women's World Cup next month Continued here

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33 Recipes To Make You Fall In Love With Dutch Ovens Have a tiny apartment kitchen? Tired of owning too many pots and pans, and want just one that can do it all? Look no further than a Dutch oven. Dutch ovens are cast-iron pots with lids that can go from the stovetop to the oven with ease, making them great for a variety of dishes. Whether you go classic cast iron (we've got tips for cleaning!) or a colorful enamel one (beloved by the Delish Test Kitchen), these pots really can’t be beat. Check out our 33 Dutch oven recipes to see how truly versatile they are. Continued here

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I'm Finally Getting Rid of My Instant Pot, and I'm Not the Only One Four years and maybe a dozen total uses later, I have — finally — decided to part with the thing. It turns out that the whole “set it and forget it” style chafes at my preference to taste, meddle, and stir. Plus, a cutting board and an eight-quart Instant Pot is a big ask of my counter space. So the Instant Pot lives on the very highest shelf, dusty with disuse. Continued here

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How to set an effective boundary Your parents may have taught you that “no” is a complete sentence, but actually saying it — or setting a boundary in general — can be tricky. Sometimes, you feel uncomfortable setting the boundary; sometimes, the other person hates it and has a strong reaction. But the fact remains that in your romantic relationships, at work, in your family, and in friendships, you’re going to have to set some boundaries one way or another. Continued here

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Trump-Appointed Judge Is Not Keen to Hear More about How She's Bad at Law The .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}latest act in the foregone conclusion that is ongoing in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon down in Florida has once again smacked the gobs of actual legal minds in the general direction of Belize. From Law and Crime: Continued here

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Public transit for nine bucks a month? Germany tried it. MUNICH, Germany — Maybe you buy the 9-Euro-Ticket to travel from Saxony to Bavaria to go to the Helene Fischer concert in Munich. Maybe you buy it to go hiking, taking the train on summer weekends to villages outside Munich. Or maybe you buy it because you’re an American journalist, but also a little bit of a tourist, used to paying $2.75 to wait 15 minutes for a crowded Brooklyn Q train, like me. Continued here

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How Our Brains Decide When to Trust Trust is the enabler of global business — without it, most market transactions would be impossible. It is also a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Employees in high-trust companies are more productive, are more satisfied with their jobs, put in greater discretionary effort, are less likely to search for new jobs, and even are healthier than those working in low-trust companies. Businesses that build trust among their customers are rewarded with greater loyalty and higher sales. And negotiators who build trust with each other are more likely to find value-creating deals. Continued here

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5 Strategies for Getting More Work Done in Less Time You’ve got more to do than could possibly get done with your current work style. You’ve prioritized. You’ve planned. You’ve delegated. You’ve tried to focus. The next frontier is increasing your efficiency so that you can spend less time and still do a good job. Here are five strategies to help. Start by clarifying what’s actually needed and to what level. Then, ask yourself if there’s any work that you could reuse, and — where you can — copy, paste, and edit. To speed up your process on routine items, create a template or checklist. Having a conversation instead of writing something down can also save time. And finally, decide in advance how much time you will spend on a particular task, and stick to it. Continued here