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☆ When my sister died, I focused on improving my work life. It helped me stay present and deal with my grief.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Jason Silver | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I tried several personal wellness experiments, such as intermittent fasting, polyphasic sleeping, and cold plunges. I always assumed that doing better at work meant adding a better project, a bigger promotion, or a brilliant new job entirely. Focusing on the day-to-day problems at work helped me stay present in my life — better than any of my personal wellness experiments. AdvertisementAlthough I plateaued with the life hacks, tweaking how I work day-to-day has led to endless gains. I still work hard, but now I work better.

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☆ My name was unusual when I was a kid. Now it's more common, but the way I spell it is still rare.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Courtenay Rudzinski | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Teachers would pause and stumble on it, and no one knew how to pronounce it (Courtenay rhymes with Fort Lee), spell it, or how many syllables it had (two). People understood right away what I was saying, and I didn't have to spell or repeat it. I'm impressed and touched when someone takes the time to spell my name correctly, and it's made me hyper-aware of spelling others' names right. Because I always had to spell and repeat my name, I wanted my own kids to have short, simple ones. I once hoped that I might marry someone with a short, easy last name, but it was not to be.

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An expansion of the criteria for medically assisted death that comes into force in March 2024 will allow Canadians like Pauli, whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, to choose medically assisted death. In 2021, the most recent year available, 10,064 people died through medically assisted death, about 3.3% of deaths in Canada that year. Dembo served on an expert panel on assisted death and mental illness that presented a report to Canada's parliament last year. loadingThe reported cases of people resorting to medically assisted death in part due to lack of supports are "tragic," Lametti said. "It does in one sense [represent a slippery slope], doesn't it, because it started off with terminal illness and it's ended up with non-terminal illness and mental illness."

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☆ Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( William Grimes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk singer whose rich, plaintive baritone and gift for melodic songwriting made him one of the most popular recording artists of the 1970s, died on Monday night in Toronto. His death, at Sunnybrook Hospital, was announced on his official Facebook page and website and confirmed by his publicist, Victoria Lord, and B.C. Fiedler, his longtime Canadian concert promoter. Overnight, he joined the ranks of songwriters like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, all of whom influenced his style. When folk music ebbed in popularity, overwhelmed by the British invasion, Mr. Lightfoot began writing ballads aimed at a broader audience.

☆ Agentul responsabil de coronavirus, izolat de cercetători canadieni
▼ + stars: | 2020-03-15 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

Oameni de ştiinţă canadieni au izolat agentul responsabil de coronavirus, în cadrul eforturilor pentru obţinerea unui vaccin, iar, pe de altă parte, un laborator din Germania speră să obţină rapid un vaccin în doze mici. "Cercetători ai unor instituţii de talie mondială s-au grupat pentru a izola cu succes virusul în doar câteva săptămâni. În paralel, cercetători din Israel lucrează la un vaccin care ar fi administrat pe cale orală, testele urmând să înceapă în câteva săptămâni. Mulţi oameni care vor lua eventualul vaccin ar putea să nu fie afectaţi deloc de Covid-19, a precizat Chen Katz. Vaccinul va funcţiona pe baza unei proteine produse în mod special, iar testele ar putea începe în "câteva săptămâni", a subliniat Chen Katz.

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