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On top of a full-time job, I write for three publications, two of which are paid, one is my own. I just quit a digital marketing side gig of two years. I’m always working on a client website. I’m writing a fiction novella of 30,000 words. I’m designing the UI for an awesome app. I’m building a list of 250 interesting group questions for an ebook. I’m at 165 right now.

Medium’s Ev Williams said you have to "do fewer things" in order to succeed. But to stop working on one... Читать дальше...

Driven to the edge by a classroom full of recalcitrant teenagers, my old maths teacher ended one lesson in total exasperation. "I've taught you everything I know," he exclaimed. "And now you know nothing!" I knew what he was getting at, and his words are echoing in my head as I write this column in which I'm going to tell you everything I know about New Year's Eve – lessons that have been learned the hard way through years of experience. I don't, however, expect you to remember any of it once you put your dancing shoes on.

The conversations between pilots and air traffic control can get downright hilarious. (Photo: Thinkstock)

The retaking of Ramadi from Islamic State shows that co-ordination between Iraqi forces and coalition air power pays off

What is color of the sky? Blue, right? And grass? … But, however, this questions don’t have a lot of sense. Blue, and green, and other colors, it turns out, everyone sees in his scheme. As a result, you may even meet a person for whom your “blue” is purple, for example, or light purple. […]

For brides and grooms who believe in storybook romance, no day feels quite as magical as their wedding day -- and some photos capture that fairytale feeling perfectly.

Major Peake said he planned to spend New Year's Eve gazing down at Earth through the space station window

The duo who planned to bomb London on the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks will spend at least the next 25 years in prison.

Sweeping up the digital bread crumbs you leave online can be a nearly impossible task, but there are ways to take charge your presence on the Internet.

Real now lead Barcelona and Atletico Madrid by a point.

As if the bullet necklace wasn’t outrageous enough, a Trump flack said next time she might wear a fetus around her neck.

WASHINGTON - Under President Dwight D. Eisehower, the nation prepared for the 50th birthday of the National Park Service with a spending splurge that refurbished Independence Hall in Philadelphia and helped complete the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway. Next year, the world-famous system turns 100 and the celebration will be far more modest.

The Obama administration and Republican lawmakers have vastly different ideas about what to do. Areas of agreement include lifting the price of the $10 lifetime park pass for seniors to $80 and enacting a lodging tax for those who stay overnight, though how much and whether it should apply to campers as well as hotel guests, will have to be worked out in the months ahead. Republicans point to Congress's appetite for adding new units to the parks system, diluting the pot of federal dollars into ever-smaller slices. Читать дальше...

(And what is likely to dominate the global agenda in 2016.)

The Texas brat who fled to Mexico while serving probation for a fatal drunk driving crash has won a three-day delay of deportation.

Abandoned over 20 years ago, curtains will go up on the century-old Royal Opera House in the new year

The Texans can clinch the AFC South title Sunday, and they’ll have a chance to do it with their starting quarterback for a change. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, Texans quarterback Brian Hoyer has been cleared from the concussion protocol and will start Sunday. Hoyer has missed the last two games with…

Congress may have a dismal approval rating, but 2015 was a very eventful year on Capitol Hill.

Florida police are searching for a thief who stole an elderly woman's purse while she was at church praying. The theft was captured by surveillance cameras

After a weight-lifting session left him struggling to catch his breath, Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Fayloga made a decision: It was time to visit a doctor and find out what was wrong with him. Fayloga, 30, has cancer. He announced it in a video posted online Monday.

One day before the new 2016 year President Muhammadu Buhari is finally hosting his first media chat at the Aso Rock presidential villa in Abuja today, December 30. President has very often been blamed for disclosing his biggest moves to foreign rather than Nigerian media. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced in statement that Buhari will speak […]

The Panthers practiced in a steady rain on Wednesday and coach Ron Rivera said that led to a decision to keep running back Jonathan Stewart off the field. Stewart has missed the last two games with a foot injury that he tested on a treadmill on Tuesday. Rivera said earlier this week Stewart could be available…

RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s Tuesday remarks on cops morale and crime in Bihar not only invited sharp reaction from chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) on Wednesday, but also reflected the Congress concern over deteriorating law & order in the state. The opposition BJP did not miss the opportunity either to train its guns on Nitish saying Lalu was the real power centre in the state.

The president couldn’t end the Forever War. But he’d promised reform, so he owes us an explanation.