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Everybody's got their own quirks.
There are so many actions throughout your day that go unremembered — pulling off a few sheets of toilet paper, sending a quick email to a colleague, picking up toiletries at the drugstore.
But these small, seemingly insignificant behaviors can provide meaningful insights into your emotions, your personality traits, and the way you approach life in general.
We dug up psychological research and expert opinion on what different daily habits might reveal about you.
Note that none of this information is definitive, and that these general findings might not apply to you specifically. Rather, they can provide starting points for learning more about your own and others' motivations.
A visit to the drugstore could tell you a whole lot about the person you're with.
We tend to make a lot of assumptions about each other based on the way people walk. For example, we associate looser gaits with extroversion and adventurousness, and clipped walkers as more neurotic.
Meanwhile, psychologist Linda Sapadin told The Atlantic that she sees four types of personalities who are always late (you can be a combination of all four).
The perfectionist won't leave the house until everything is in order. The crisis maker gets a high from racing to meet the deadline. The defier is rebelling against authority and societal norms. The dreamer is overly optimistic about how much they can get done in a certain amount of time.
Those who file and delete emails as soon as they receive them may have a greater need for control and order in their lives.
Those who save emails — meaning they read them but don't delete them — may be perfectionists, who think that they'll get around to addressing those messages eventually.
Lastly, those who leave emails unread, without filing or deleting them, may feel overwhelmed. Alternatively, they may also be smart because they recognize that reading those emails isn't helping them make substantive progress.
Political news website sees double digit growth in June.
CNN Politics continues to dominate the political news landscape, as the website claims to have “outperformed all competitors” for the 4th month in a row.
According to the network going off of comScore data, the month of June saw CNN Politics strengthen its lead over other online sources of political news in multiplatform unique visitors, views and video starts — including Vox.com, HuffPost Politics, Fox News Politics and Politico.com — as well as enjoying double digit g...
Since becoming the top political news site for digital traffic in March, the website surpassed all others for mobile unique visitors in May and maintained its position in June.
The network attributes their June victories in part to their coverage of several key stories, including the Supreme Court’s historic decisions on marriage equality and the Affordable Healthcare Act. Remember this call the network scored on TV? Bet these online video views didn’t hurt their numbers for the month.
CNN Politics outperformed all competitors in the Politics category in June, besting its own May record by 35% and doubling the unique visitors to Politico.com and Fox News.
Sources: comScore Multi-Platform Media Metrix, June 2015. Based on News/Information – Politics Ranker.
Taking the top spot from Vox.com for the second month in a row, CNN Politics registered 9.3 million mobile unique visitors for the month.
Far outpacing all competitors, CNN Politics registered more multiplatform views than any other political news outlet in June 2015.
Sources: comScore Mobile Media Metrix, June 2015; Views are browser only and include desktop video. Based on News/Information – Politics Ranker.
CNN Politics’ massive lead in video easily earned it the no. 1 spot again in June.
Source: comScore Video Metrix, June 2015. Based on News/Information – Politics Ranker.
Plans are afoot for setting up a register of private landlords. The registration charge could be £500.
I have one rented property. If I have to pay £500 to be registered, either I pass the charge on to my tenant or I probably stop letting. Many small landlords will find this petty bureaucracy an additional burden which will mean that the supply of privately-rented flats will dry up. Yet there is a big need for such flat...
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Many people believe that Obama has checked out from his responsibilities as President. And it’s true that he prefers the golf course to the stresses of leadership. However, he is quite engaged when it comes to the care and feeding of illegal aliens who will soon become grateful Democrat voters.
Obama got his socialist healthcare from an all-Democrat legislature but now his remaining leftist legacy depends on his unconstitutional pen. And putting millions of big-government voters into the pipeline will bend America to the Democrat model for decades if not permanently.
Now we learn that the administration has done more than just endlessly promise a mass amnesty; it is gearing up to physically create the work permits that are the real amnesty, and a stab in the back of the 20 million unemployed citizen workers.
President Barack Obama deputies are secretly preparing to print work permits for up to 11 million illegal immigrants over the next two years, despite the nation’s high unemployment, stalled wages and increasing automation.
If Obama actually goes ahead with the plan that is sketched in a federal contract document, he would provide employers with the ability to legally hire 13 million foreign workers even as 12 million Americans turn 18 in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The plan to print millions of work permits and green cards — dubbed “permanent resident cards” — is outlined in Oct. 3 and Oct. 6 federal announcements to contractors.
The contract plan was discovered by the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors a lower level of immigration.
“The objective of this procurement is … to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards,” said the Oct. 6 official announcement at FedBizOpps.gov.
“The requirement is for an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total,” the document says.
But the proposed five-year contract includes a so-called “surge” capability to produce an additional five million work-permit cards in one year.
“The Contractor shall demonstrate the capability to support potential ‘surge’ in PRC and EAD card demand for up to 9M [nine million] cards during the initial period of performance to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements,” said the government’s description of the pending contract.
Those contract terms would give Obama the technical ability to hand out more than nine million work permits in one year, or 13 million in two years, as part of his much-touted unilateral immigration plan.
The plan could give work permits to more foreigners than the total number of U.S. jobs that have been created by businesses during his tenure.
Currently, the federal government awards green cards to one million people per year. That’s roughly one new immigrant for every four Americans who turns 18.
If legal immigrants are given first priority, the proposed contract would still leave 11 million cards for illegal immigrants in the first two years.
The current inflow of legal immigrants — and the resident population of roughly 1.5 million guest workers — already increases the supply of blue-collar and professional workers. Few of the immigrants work in the agriculture sector. The extra labor supply flattens wages when the economy grows slowly, or as technology re...
Obama has promised progressives and advocates for immigrants that he will take major action on immigration by the end of the year.
He made that promise after Democratic lawmakers pleaded with him to delay the executive action until after the election.
Obama has repeatedly threatened to roll back enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws because the GOP won’t agree to his political priorities.
In early 2014, national polls and primary voters prompted House Republicans to reject the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration bill.
The Senate bill was backed by Obama, progressives, the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley, many established media outlets, universities, labor unions, the agricultural sector and Wall Street.
The bill would have provided a path to legalization to at least 12 million illegal immigrants, and boosted the annual inflow of legal immigrants and guest workers. It would have also provided more money for border security and a national E-Verify system.
Overall, in combination with existing laws, the Senate’s bill would have annually added up to nearly three million working-age immigrants and guest workers to compete for jobs against the four million Americans who enter the workforce each year.
Obama has taken similar — but much smaller — unilateral immigration actions before.
Collectively, those actions are providing works permits to roughly one million illegal immigrants or foreigners.
Since June 2012, Obama used the legally questionable “Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals” program to give work permits to more than 600,000 illegal immigrants. That DACA number may go above 1.5 million.
Since 2011, he’s allowed roughly 200,000 Central Americans adults, youths and children to apply for green cards via immigration courts. That application process allows the adults and youths to work during the multi-year lawsuits.
In May 2014, Obama’s deputy announced a plan to give work permits to roughly 100,000 resident spouses of foreign guest workers.
On Friday, Obama’s deputies announced they would award work permits in 2015 to 110,000 Haitians who were expected to migrate over the next several years.
He’s also scaled back enforcement efforts so much that immigration officials have not deported 900,000 illegals — including 167,000 foreign criminals — who have been given deportation orders by federal judges. In 2013, for example, fewer than one percent of illegal immigrants living in the United States were repatriate...
The public opposes Obama’s immigration plans by a ratio of roughly three to one.
Polls show Obama’s policies are unpopular, even among his core supporters, such as unmarried women and Hispanics. Others polls shows that GOP voters, many Hispanics, Democratic voters, swing voters and people worried about jobs also oppose Obama’s immigration priorities.
CHICAGO — More than 14,000 people ran through the city's South Side Sunday for the Chicago Half Marathon and 5k.
The course included Lake Shore Drive, Jackson Park and the University of Chicago's campus.
Northbound Lake Shore Drive lanes were closed from 67th street to 31st street until 9:30 a.m. Southbound lanes were closed from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Some streets on the South Side were closed until 1 p.m.
As Women in Film celebrates its 45th anniversary, the industry is finally catching up to the org’s call for gender parity and women’s rights. WIF has set Ignited as the theme for this year’s annual Crystal + Lucy Awards on June 13 at the Beverly Hilton.
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, slated to receive the Lucy Award for Excellence in Television, recently demonstrated the importance of women, and women of color, in decision-making roles when she decisively responded to Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet with an immediate cancellation of the comedian’s eponymous...
And that’s why the theme of Ignited is so crucial at this cultural tipping point, Schulman says.
“This movement is in flames, ignited. We’re in it,” she says. “We have to be responsible with what it is we show [in media]. It affects the way we choose our leaders, the way we run our communities, houses, schools. If there’s a missing 50% of the population, we are creating an image that’s lopsided to say the least.
Last year WIF honored the work of Sony Pictures Classics Tom Bernard and Michael Barker with the Beacon Award, but this year it will be presented to the women of “Black Panther” in conjunction with Lexus. There are no male honorees in 2018.
The org will also fete Brie Larson with the Crystal Award for Excellence in Film; Alexandra Shipp will receive the Max Mara Face of the Future Award; the duo Nova Wav (Denisia “Blu June” Andrews and Brittany “Chi” Coney) will accept the Artistic Excellence Award. Additionally, a segment celebrating the organization’s 4...
MOST people do their best to avoid the manchineel tree. Even sheltering under it during a rain shower could give you a nasty surprise. Its sap is toxic and water-soluble, so any drips bouncing off the trunk and on to your skin will yield blisters. And don’t even think about eating its small round fruit – in central Ame...
Phil Baran isn’t like most people. For him, the toxin the tree secretes, called phorbol, is an intriguing curiosity. It exemplifies the elaborate chemical structures and interesting effects that naturally produced molecules can have. Give phorbol a few tweaks and it morphs from a toxin into a potential anticancer agent...
To study them we must first make and manipulate these natural products in the lab. And that’s where synthetic chemists such as Baran run up against a gnarly problem. Natural chemicals put up a barrier in the form of a particular atomic bond, one that crops up in all of them and is incredibly tough to break. Until now, ...
President John F. Kennedy's motorcade travels through Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, a few cultural groups in Southern California are observing the occasion with performances dedicated to the memory of the 35th president.
"Sunny Afternoon." Gangbusters Theatre Company at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood. A new play that delves into the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination of 1963, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday.
"Dealey Plaza." Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. A musical interpretation of the 1963 assassination, based on public records of the event, and performed by the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale. Historical video footage and photographs will be shown as part of the performance. 8 p.m. Friday and...
"Limousine, Midnight Blue: In Memoriam, JFK." New Center for Psychoanalysis, West L.A. A solo performance that focuses on the Zapruder film and the larger cultural implications of the assassination, using multimedia techniques. 8 p.m. Friday.
As befits two clubs chasing the championship crown, St Helens Town's clash at Skelmersdale in the a second division of the Liverpool Cricket Competition went right down to the wire.
In the end, it was the home side who picked up valuable winning points but the result could have gone either way in a nail-biting and tension-charged finale.
Town, who batted first, were dismissed for 140 from 36 overs with Daniel Roberts (40) and James Davies (38) making vital contributions.
It was far from a convincing total but their opponents, apart from an early knock of 44 from Malcolm Brierley, also struggled until late order batsmen Ryan Maloney (40 no) and Daniel Edwards (33) steered them over the line on 143-9.
Defeat resulted in Town dropping to fourth in the table on 114 points from their seven games - 32 behind table-toppers Skelmersdale, 21 adrift of second-placed Old Xavarians and one behind third-placed Liverpool.
Rain prevented a positive result in Sutton's away fixture at Liverpool where the home side, batting first, posted a total of 192 (Stephen Birkett 3-44, Steve Jordan 1-30, Andy Cowley 1-31, James Greener 4-28) and in reply Sutton had reached 106-7 (Michael Rimmer 52) when stumps were drawn.
Runs were almost as rare as gold dust as Rainhill crashed to a 32-run defeat against premier division title-chasing Northern at Victoria Terrace.
Rainhill must have been on cloud nine after dismissing their Great Crosby rivals for what initially looked a far from challenging 92 with Mohammad Aslam Qureshi grabbing 6-15 from a devastating spell but then the hosts' innings crumbled like a freshly-made loaf of bread and all 10 batsmen were back in the pavilion for ...
Only Ben Edmundson (25) offered any real resistance with the bat as Thomas Sephton (7-29) ripped the innings to shreds.
In the same division, Rainford held on to earn a home draw against Wallasey.
The visitors, who batted first, set an imposing total of 255-6 declared, including a 165-run fourth wicket stand involving Alex Eagles (93) and Thomas Russ (79) and then Rainford's survival on 142-9 owed much to some defiant late order batting from Daniel Houghton (27 no) and Andrew Harrison (11 no).
Any realistic hopes Newton-le-Willows had of a positive result at Wigan in the second division virtually ended after the home side, batting first, plundered 278-7 declared from 50 overs.
They made a valiant attempt to chase their target but were eventually dismissed for 191(Furqan Shafiq 52).
Bootle v Rainford, Wallasey v Rainhill.
Town v Liverpool, Sutton v Southport Trinity.
Today the magic in the warehouse is real and it's getting some recognition. Costco is known for the value it provides to the customer, for its innovative business model, its humble servant-leadership and company culture - but we rarely think that Costco could go head to head with Amazon. However it was announced that C...
To get its results, ACSI asked more than 62,000 consumers to choose their favorite stores in a number of categories. The satisfaction rating is based on product quality and is measured on a scale of 0-100. Costco scored an 83 in its first year in the internet retailer category.
Amazon dropped 4% from last year to a score of 82 and second place, but still above the average internet score of 80. Other retailers include Target with a score of 80 and Walmart towards the bottom of the pack with a score of 74. Customers still prefer shopping online, but overall ecommerce scores dropped 2.4% last ye...