Rebecca shares her top 5 Thanksgiving tips to help you save time, avoid stress, and cook your best this year.
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do you guys ever get friendship crushes on people
like you just… appreciate them so much… in a non-romantic way… and you think they’re super awesome and cool… and you just want to be SUPER FRIENDS FOREVER…
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West Coast Crime Wave: Our Interview With Author Naomi Hirahara
Michael Wolf asked each of the authors to share a little bit about themselves, talk a little about the story they contributed to West Coast Crime Wave, and tell us their thoughts about e-books. Today we talk to Edgar award winning author Naomi Hirahara.
Tell us about yourself.
After…
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On Being Blog: Arthur Zajonc: A Twitterscript
Colleen Scheck, senior producer
“ReTweets By Others,” “ReTweets by You,” “Your Tweets, Retweeted” — try saying it ten times in a row! After live-tweeting (@softweets) our interview with Arthur Zajonc, we wondered what you found interesting enough to retweet. The top vote-getter:
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The biggest barrier to an artist is self-confidence. The artist always battles his own/her own feeling of inadequacy.
When I was young on a movie set, I would try to stage the scene and the actors would read it, and they would begin to challenge the text. What I learned, which is a simple idea, is that if you hold out with your vision a little bit the scene doesn’t work immediately. It’s like taking the cake out without letting it be in the oven for more than a minute. Like, oh no, it’s terrible.
So you have to be patient, and then slowly everyone starts to see that the ideas are right, or make the corrections. You have to battle the lack of confidence by giving the scene the chance to solidify.
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Name: Jackie Bray
Story: “Jackie Bray is a single mother from King’s Mountain, North Carolina. Last January she was laid off from her job as a high speed packaging mechanic. That is when she enrolled in Central Piedmont Community College to prepare for Siemens pre-hiring test. After finishing the course and passing the test, Ms. Bray was hired by Siemens in August of 2011. This type of partnership between businesses and community colleges is exactly what President Obama hopes to strengthen to maximize workforce development strategies, job training programs, and job placements. Ms. Bray now works as a process operator, combining her machinist background with new skills she has been trained on since working at Siemens: laser training, robotics training, penetrant inspection training, and product orientation.”
Inspirational American Hero Points: +4 for being a single mother, +4 for being laid off, +7 for learning new skills and finding a new job, +1 for doing crazy futuristic stuff with lasers and robots in her new job.
Total: 16 inspirational American hero points
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Day 358: Buy and deliver presents to a family in need
Though a 2005 report showed that four out of five Americans believe the holidays to be too materialistic, psychologists have argued that gift giving is an important ritual in maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle. But experts claim giving presents is more beneficial for the givers than for the receivers.
“If I don’t let you give me a gift, then I’m not encouraging you to think about me and think about things I like. I am preventing you from experiencing the joy of engaging in all those activities. You do people a disservice by not giving them the gift of giving,” Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer told The New York Times in 2007.
According to the article, researchers believe that evolution played a large role in why humans give gifts today.
Men who were the most generous may have had the most reproductive success with women. (Notably, the use of food in exchange for sexual access and grooming has been documented in our closest ape relative, the chimpanzee.) Women who were skilled at giving — be it extra food or a well-fitted pelt — helped sustain the family provider as well as her children.
Further researcher was released in 2008 by the Virginia Commonwealth University showing that the benefits of gift giving may ultimately fall on the shoulders of the giver, not the receiver.
In the VCU report, experts studied the gift giving habits of pet owners, concluding that their gifts stemmed from an effort to make pets happy. Though the research may seem frivolous, the report points to the self-serving nature of gift giving - since, after all, pets are unable to give gifts in return.
For day 358 of The Time Hack, I purchased a Wal-Mart gift card and a book set for a family whose house burned down the night before Christmas Eve. Though the presents were utlimately delivered to a mother and her young daughter, I’m still not sure who benefited the most from the gifts - myself or the family.
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