How to control your perception of time
It’s no surprise that time seems to speed up as we get older, but other factors can influence it too – here’s what researchers have found
The new year encourages us to look back and reflect, and this year more than any other, we’ve been made aware of time passing. Do events that happened this time last year seem as if they happened two or three years ago?
Although time itself moves steadily, our perception of its passage varies according to three factors – your mood, what you’re doing, and your age.
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The technology giants that shape so much of our lives dominate in yet another way: They lead the pack of the country s best-run companies.
In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has devastated large swaths of the U.S. economy and reconfigured the ways millions of Americans shop, work, communicate and learn, tech stalwarts have remained in the uppermost echelon of the Management Top 250, an annual ranking based on the principles of the late management guru Peter Drucker.
In the 2020 lineup, Microsoft Corp. unseated Amazon.com Inc. as No. 1 by performing consistently well across each of the five main components of the overall ranking compiled by researchers at Claremont Graduate University s Drucker Institute: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.
Firefighters extinguished a 5.9-acre blaze near State Route 14 in Santa Clarita early Tuesday morning.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel received reports of smoke seen from the hillside near the 14 freeway and Via Princessa around 4 a.m., according to Fire Department spokesman Franklin Lopez.
“The call came in as smoke on a hillside and we had a working fire by 4:22 a.m.,” he said.
Crews, which remained on the scene around 9 a.m. to clear the area, declared forward progress of the fire had stopped just after 5:30 a.m. with a final size of 5.9 acres.
No structures were threatened and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Mormons address racism, misinformation in new handbook sections Follow Us
Question of the Day By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times - Monday, December 21, 2020
The nation’s largest Mormon denomination has announced new handbook sections that condemn misinformation and decry racism, addressing a thorny topic that has embroiled faiths across the U.S. this year.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said it has added a section on prejudice to its General Handbook, a spiritual guide for the world’s 16 million LDS followers.
“[Prejudice] is not consistent with the revealed word of God,” the new section reads, in part.
How to use the lessons of 2020 to survive this cancelled Christmas
We’d all rather forget this year, but we can gain mindful benefits from stressful experiences
21 December 2020 • 6:00am
Christmas and New Year are great times for reflection, times to consolidate what happened over the past 12 months and think about what you’ve learnt. In 2020 we’ve had to deal with distress that was unimaginable a year ago - and sadly, the much-needed festive break we were all planning for has now been abruptly changed or withdrawn.
But if you think back over this year, you’ll realise you’ve learnt a great deal about how to be happier and calmer.