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This has been a very, very hot week in Washington, D.C. Stepping outside during the afternoon felt like stepping into a giant open-air sauna, or possibly a simmering vat of donut glaze. It’s been hot. Stupid hot. This is not the time for a Manhattan.  When it’s this hot out, there are really only two things I want to drink: Margaritas — and beer. As it turns out, there’s a great way to combine the two.

Gifs are great for adding life to emails, documents or presentations. Some can be silly or cute. Others are useful for illustrating how something works. Read on for a few things to know about gifs, whether you’re a novice or a pro. Gifs can convey motion and emotion. That can make them more engaging than static images, but smaller and easier to send than video files.  Gifs play automatically. Unlike videos that require embed codes and a play button, gifs just work.

Thank you for reading In Her Nature, by Rachel Hewitt. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share Right! Buckle in (see what I did there?!) for a series of posts in which I geek out about the process of turning a normal car into a “micro-campervan”, capable of quick(ish) and easy set-ups for family or solitary camping. In the first post, I talked about the ‘why’: why I (now) love camping in a vehicle and why others might do too.

I have long felt that the work of health does not rest only on surfacing the data that explain what causes health, but also on making a moral argument about why we should act on those data. We make our case for approaches we think will support health by communicating both the science and the moral imperative to create a better world. This reflects writing I have done about the intersection of our knowledge and our values: how we should aspire to strike a balance between what we know—what our data tell us—and our commitment to shaping a healthier world based on principles of justice, equity, inclusion, and respect for the dignity and autonomy of all.

The ‘Recipe Book’ section on The Tipsy Traveler is a place where you can find a variety of curated recipes for drinking (and some eating, too). Within these newsletters you’ll find cocktail recipes for creating more complex drink ingredients such as ferments, pickles and cordials; low-waste techniques to use in both the bar and the kitchen; food and drink recipes from places I’ve traveled to, and more. The ‘Recipe Book’ is meant to inspire culinary creativity, with a little help from a world of friends in the know.

Hi friends, Thank you for reading and sharing this newsletter — I’m so grateful to all the new subscribers following along. And I hope February is treating you as well as it can. This photo of Ida, Rufus, and Daisy not exactly relaxing at dusk amid clashing textiles mirrors the tension between my own desire to submit and settle into the season and my mounting restlessness as the wintry days go by and voting rights erode, etc.

If you are an investor in a SaaS company, you likely have heard these terms bantered around…RPO, ARR and deferred revenues. What the heck are they? Why are they important? How are they different from normal revenues? Which one is more important versus the others? Here is my approach to understanding and tracking them: RPO = Remaining performance obligations. This is a leading indicator of a company’s future revenues and, imo, is the best indicator to track.

I agree with most of this. However, there are such things as delusional beliefs and shared delusions. I don’t generally call people crazy. However, it is very strange to be around people in religions which have beliefs which seem almost identical to the delusions a person has when psychotic such as the idea that Satanic forces can be in toys or shampoo or board games, etc. You watch these people discuss things in different youtube channels and you see them reinforce a wholly magical conception of their reality—where, e.

Georgetown is continuing its strong momentum that has picked up in the last few days, landing a commitment from Harvard point guard Malik Mack, the former St. John’s College High School star. Mack, who was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year after a stellar freshman season for the Crimson, averaged 17.2 points, 4 rebounds, and 4.8 assists per game. He was third in the country in scoring average among all freshmen.