Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Monday, December 24, 2018
Cracks...
More than 3,000 people living in or near a 36-story apartment high-rise at Sydney's Olympic Park were evacuated Monday after residents reported hearing cracking noises.
Firefighters and engineers were expected to enter the Opal Tower complex late Monday to examine what caused the reported cracks on its 10th floor and to determine whether the building is in danger of collapse.
Experts using sensitive monitoring equipment determined the $165 million building, completed in August, had moved between 1 and 2 millimeters.
Police reportedly had to use heavy equipment to force open doors to allow residents to escape. An exclusion zone with a radius of 1 kilometer (half a mile) was established around the building, forcing the evacuation of neighboring buildings and the closure of roads and a train station.
Alert...
Security is high in Barcelona following a U.S. warning of the risk of a terror attack during the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
The security alert, posted online and sent to U.S. citizens in Spain's second-largest city, recommends exercising "heightened caution" around buses and public transport in the Las Ramblas area. Barcelona's downtown boulevard, beloved by tourists and residents, was targeted last year during an attack claimed by Islamic State militants that killed 14 people.
The regional Mossos d'Esquadra police declined to comment Monday directly on the alleged threat, saying only that security had been heightened "as part of a previously arranged anti-terrorist vigilance for the Christmas period."
Spain's Interior Ministry said the level of anti-terror alert in the country remained at the second-highest level, unchanged since 2015.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Deter...
Everyone puts things off sometimes, but procrastinators chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions. Procrastination reflects perennial struggles with self-control as well as the general human inability to accurately predict how we'll feel tomorrow. "I don't feel like it" takes precedence over goals; however, it then begets a downward spiral of negative emotions that deter future effort.
Perfectionists are often procrastinators; it is more acceptable to never tackle a task than to face the possibility of falling short.
Procrastinators contend they perform better under pressure, but more often than not that's their way of justifying putting things off.
Procrastination also involves some degree of self-deception; they are at some level aware of the truth of their actions.
Procrastination also involves some degree of self-deception; they are at some level aware of the truth of their actions.
Mire than one flavor of procrastination.
* Arousal types, or thrill-seekers, wait until the last minute in order to reap a euphoric rush.
* Avoiders, put off tasks because of fear of failure or even fear of success, but in either case are very concerned with what others think of them.
* Decisional procrastinators, who are unable to make a decision avoiding responsibility.
There are big costs to procrastination: It is internally troubling, leading to such problems as insomnia, immune system and gastrointestinal disturbances, and it erodes personal relationships and team working in the workplace.
Convicted...
A Florida widow was found guilty of murder in connection to her husband’s 2000 slaying that was staged as a boating mishap.
Denise Williams, 48, was convicted in the death of her high school sweetheart, Mike Williams, who disappeared in December 2000 while on a hunting trip to Lake Seminole in Florida. She faced charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy and accessory after the fact.
Denise was having an affair with Mike’s best friend, Brian Winchester, before his death. They alleged the lovers plotted to kill him so they could be together and she could cash in on his $1.75 million life insurance policy.
Denise and Winchester carried on with their relationship after her husband’s death, they married in 2005. The pair separated then divorced in 2016.
Winchester allegedly became paranoid that Denise would tell authorities the truth about Mike’s disappearance. He was arrested in 2016 for kidnapping Denise at gunpoint to convince her not to turn him in to police.
He was offered immunity in Mike’s case and he confessed. The details Winchester provided to police were corroborated by the discovery of Mike’s body in Carr Lake.
Denise thought she can manipulate Winchester to do the dirty work and he did. But what happened after her husband's death indicted her. Just a thought.
Clingy...
A woman in her 50s has learned that she doesn’t need a relationship in order to be happy. She has a full life, including close friends, children, exes, family, and plenty of hobbies and interests. So if a woman in her 50s is interested in dating you, chances are she thinks you’re worth her time. she is very rarely clingy.
She knows what she wants in life, including in her relationships. Her maturity also means she can easily communicate her wants clearly and effectively.
She already has kids who are now grown up or moving out of her house any day now. Her schedule is no longer tied down to shuttling between baseball practice and doctor appointments, nor is she pressured to find “The One” ASAP due to a ticking biological clock.
No longer awkward or uncomfortable due to the inexperience and insecurity of her youth, a woman knows how to hold a conversation, and steer it. She’ll let you talk about yourself, while also ensuring she shares enough about herself. Expect a smooth, flowy conversation peppered with witty jokes that will surely make your night.
Like a fine wine, few in her 50s has only gotten better with time. If you’re lucky enough to date her, it’s sure to be an extraordinary experience, but that depends on where she has been before.
Like a fine wine, few in her 50s has only gotten better with time. If you’re lucky enough to date her, it’s sure to be an extraordinary experience, but that depends on where she has been before.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Out of...
American policy on Syria took a U-turn with the news that President Donald Trump was preparing for a “full” and “rapid” withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Syrian civil war. Trump:“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there.”
By September, ISIS had lost 99 percent of the territory its vaunted caliphate once held, according to a Pentagon Inspector General’s report.
This decision will upset most of Washington’s foreign policy establishment, which generally supports a more expansive war in Syria.
U.S. forces protecting Kurdish allies have engaged in tense stand-offs with Turkish forces in northern Syria. Israel attacks on Iranian-backed forces in Syria risk wider war that could embroil U.S. forces.
Most worrying, given the nuclear stakes, is the potential for inadvertent war with Russia. In February, U.S. commandos and airstrikes killed scores of Russian “mercenaries” in a prolonged battle. Ambassador James Jeffrey later remarked of the incident that “this has occurred about a dozen times in one place or another in Syria,” and “there have been various engagements [with the Russians in Syria], some involving exchange of fire, some not.” This revelation somehow did not set off alarm bells in Congress, which never authorized the war in Syria, let alone conducted serious oversight of it.
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