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Good morning! Summer has arrived here in Chicagoland – as my phone temperature seemed stuck on 84 for two days.
CHICAGO, Ill. A couple from Chicago created a non-profit called Grocery Run Club that is helping underserved neighborhoods on the South and West Side by providing food and essentials.
Lucia Angel and Jorge Saldarriaga are the founders and operators of the Grocery Run Club, a non-profit that started last July in the midst of the pandemic. The non-profit started as a result of the mass need for essentials and food in the South and West Side of Chicago.
CHICAGO For the sixth consecutive year, Chicago has been named the rattiest city in America according to Orkin.
To combat this issue, the Tree House Humane Society has placed over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012.
“We’ve had a lot of our clients tell us that before they had cats, they would step outside their house and rats would actually run across their feet,” Sarah Liss of Tree House said.
Liss said the cats generally do not eat a lot of rats, although the cats will kill some rats in the beginning when they arrive in a new location.
The researchers say the “self-view” display may be to blame for that exhausted feeling after a day of back-to-back online meetings.
The research shows that overall, one in seven women 13.8% compared with one in 20 men 5.5% reported feeling “very” to “extremely” fatigued after Zoom calls.
These new findings build on a paper the same researchers recently published in the journal
Technology, Mind and Behavior that explored why people might feel exhausted following video conference calls. Now, they have the data to show who is feeling the strain. For their follow-up study, the researchers surveyed 10,322 participants in February and March using their “Zoom Exhaustion and Fatigue Scale” to better understand the individual differences of burnout from the extended use of video conferencing technologies during the past year.
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I have an old friend who is also a preacher. One day when we were discussing the great mysteries of the faith, we started talking about original sin. That, of course led to a discussion about the nature of original sin and finally, what exactly was the “original sin?” What was the essence and nature of the original sin?
“Laziness,” my friend said. When I asked him what he meant, he leaned back and let out an exasperated sigh as if his answer should have been obvious to everyone. “Laziness,” he said again. “The original sin was laziness.” He took exception to my besmirched look.
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