NPR

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Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. 2020 has been a disaster for meeting new people, which is why Per Carlbring's New Year's resolution is to spend next year trying to connect with someone new every d

Country Life

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AMID all the present difficulties within the cultural sector, the plight of independently run country houses has not received much attention. That’s partly because it’s hard to generalise about these properties and their circumstances, and partly due

Business Today

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One key theme that created ripples in the world of HR last year has been 'future of work'. While people contemplated on the timing of its "arrival", one thing was clear the work of the future will have no boundaries (of organisational structures, g

Inc.

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Nooshin Behroyan Paxon Energy & Infrastructure THREE-YEAR GROWTH 15,072% Nooshin Behroyan established Paxon Energy & Infrastructure, a Pleasanton, California-based energy services company, in the wake of a divorce, and after seeing firsthand how poor

The Christian Science Monitor

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Nelson D. Schwartz explores the perils of a financial system that enables one percenters to move to the head of the line in ‘The Velvet Rope Economy.’

The Atlantic

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As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.

Business Today

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Arecent column co authored by the NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog Vice Chairman hailed his boss, the Prime Minister, for high performance by being the most fiscally disciplined and signalled that as a high moment of the curre

WellBeing

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Do you know what you value in life? Your values represent the truth of who you are. They reflect what matters to you, what you stand for and what gives you a sense of purpose. Your values are principles that guide your behaviour in both professional

Saturday Star

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Re-imagining our world and conquering uncertainty. The future has arrived early. And it is challenging each of us to ask, and answer, the defining questions of our time: How will our post-pandemic society move forward? Will we ever return to the worl

WHO

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Push ahead with new beginnings, a project, interest or career changes. Romance needs deeper communication to clear past problems and new emotional plans may require a change of thinking or mood. Personal achievements, good management and budgeted wor

Chicago Tribune

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If you were to write a letter to your childhood self, knowing everything you know now, what would it say? If you're black and female, you would likely use the word "adversity" a lot. A new report from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequali

Psychologies

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This month, we are concentrating on domestic life and self-care. • Write down how home life feels for you right now. Are there any issues? Focus on how you honestly feel about your life in this area, then give it a score – 1 being awful and 10 bein

Business Today

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Some businesses shut down, many others struggled, butfew registered a performance as stellar as Mantra Properties, a young Pune-based real estate organization. As Mantra Properties sold a record 675 units between August and October 2020, the buzz aro

NZBusiness and Management

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It isn’t always easy saying no to projects and clients, especially with a looming recession and total uncertainty of Covid-19. Many companies will be scrambling for clients and taking on all the work they can. I don’t blame them. On one hand, the cas

Palm Beach Illustrated

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“Nothing about this environment is passive,” Linda Pantano said of her first month as the newest agent at Waterfront Properties Palm Beach. “That’s probably what I appreciate most.” Having worked at two longer-established Palm Beach brokerages, Linda

Sunday Independent

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THE South African Music Week (SAMW), a cross-border collaborative, hits the shores of Mzansi for the first time this week, bringing together like-minded music enthusiasts. The event, to take place in January 26-28, 2021, will be divided into five cat

Essentials South Africa

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First, match your raw talent to your values and personality. You may be a motivating keep-fit fanatic, but if you are risk-averse and have dependents at home, you probably shouldn’t branch out with your own business as a personal trainer. We are not

Denver Life Magazine

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“Denver offers something for everyone, and you can’t beat the climate, amenities, or public transport,” says Susan. “As a result, we’ve created something people moving here from other states can identify with.” “In fact, each of our clients has speci

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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At Goolwa’s Investigator College Alex worked hard at being a good academic student, but also studied art and design. She began to experiment with photography on her iPhone and created an Instagram account to share some of these images with friends. ‘

Home and Design Trends

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Describe Tiipoi in one sentence. How about two? Design is what we do. India is what we are looking at! What is your design process - how do you go from idea to execution? We follow the breadcrumbs. We have a watertight ‘Tiipoi Test’. Everything we

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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It’s not unusual for kids these days to have busier schedules than their parents. Dance and music lessons, sports practice, hobby clubs, Scouts and Girl Guides, extra tuition… their extracurricular activities can be full-on and, in some cases, become

Australasian Transport News (ATN)

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Automotive Holdings Group (AHG) has a better understanding of its Refrigerated Logistics division and must revise earlier advice on that division’s carrying value of receivables. Listed AHG, which is undergoing a takeover by rival automotive sales ri

Car Mechanics

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Cheap and low-quality bearings are rife. Therefore, prioritise bearings that are at least to the same standard as those used by the car manufacturer, as denoted by the term, ‘OE Quality’. You do not need to visit a main dealer parts counter for this

Australian Home Beautiful

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Vendors know buyers make a beeline for the bathroom and kitchen at an inspection. In recent years, the bathroom, in particular, has evolved from a functional zone to a sanctuary. Before selling, pay attention to your bathroom – try new accessories an

Shooting Times & Country

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There have been valid points raised for and against amalgamation into one voice for shooting sports (Do we sing as a choir — or several soloists?, 7 October and Letters, 4 November). The thing that concerns me now, as it did years ago when the issue

American Survival Guide

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Every area is different and faces different needs and issues. Your local and state agencies (agriculture, conservation, co-ops, colleges and others) are all great places to start. They can give you information about what grows best in your area, as w

Post South Africa

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DUE to the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been slowed down. A recent study by Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) has reflected the concerns of many people with regard to the impact the 4IR would have on their workin

Camper Trailer Australia

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What camper trailer users need is continuously changing, as the wider world changes around the industry we know and love. What is popular and unpopular is determined by wider developments in technology, the economy, the reigning political climate, an

Horse & Hound

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NEW feature classes aimed at grassroots eventers are on the cards for 2021. Area festivals at 80,90 and 100 levels, and a novice masters series, are in the pipeline. The news came during British Eventing’s (BE) annual general meeting, held via Zoom o

Australasian Transport News (ATN)

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ROB McKAY has been a journalist for more than three decades, with the last 25 years focused on national and international freight transport Just as the opportunity opens to reflect on the trucking industry’s weird magic of being able to inject new m