Name: Finding focus while working from home
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Description: Adjusting to the "new normal" of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic hasn't been easy for everyone. Fortunately, one online service can help.

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Adjusting to the "new normal" of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic hasn't been easy for everyone. Fortunately, one online service can help.

todo doing well yourself. Like many of us, PhD candidate Renee Bradford has a million things on her plate, and when she sits down toe work, she needs to get stuff done. But being productive is something many of us struggle with when we're alone. There's a need to just focus in zero in on the work and make the most of your time. She found an online service called Focus Mates. I think I've had over 200 sessions. Maybe Taylor Jacobson came up with the idea for Focus mate when he started working from home a decade ago and, like, kind of find myself noon or one o'clock like really feeling ashamed that hadn't got anything done yet. Users book an appointment and get paired with someone else who wants to accomplish something. During the session, they meet on a video call and, after exchanging pleasantries, simply tell the other person what they intend to accomplish and then get toe work leaving the video call act of the whole time. And that's it. It's been really, really helpful. I've done loads of expenses. When time's up, the participants check to see how far their partners got in their tasks. You know, you'll say something like, Okay, Was that productive? Would you get done? And so, um, it's just very interesting to see. Ah ha moments. You almost feel like you're part of their journey. Users say just having another person present, even over video and holding each other accountable makes them more productive than going it alone. Feel like you're extra productive because you don't want to move? I think it's just it's okay. It's a get a little bit of extra support to get some stuff done. Working on a grant report, getting stuff done with strangers who become co workers for 50 minutes at a time. Chris Pallone, NBC News.

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Finding focus while working from home

Finding focus at home

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<p>Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. I'm tracking a dangerous storm that's been producing severe weather across the country. We take a look at where it is right now and you can see where the red shaded areas are where we have tornado watches still in place overnight. There were a number of severe thunderstorm warnings and even a few tornado warnings. A few thunderstorms are starting to crop up over the mountains right now, but we're not likely to see anything until later this afternoon. We do have a level two risk for severe storms both today and tomorrow. You can see it covers almost the whole day. There's today and we'll push it ahead to Thursday, damaging winds, hail, isolated tornadoes, heavy rain, all a possibility. So that starts this evening. Around five or six o'clock continues all night. We may end up with some severe weather overnight and even into the very early morning hours on Thursday and damaging winds, hail, isolated tornadoes will be our biggest threats. We're going to see waves of storms overnight. Most of that ends before lunchtime we'll be watching for an isolated storm Thursday afternoon, but the bulk of it looks like it will be early in the day. Some spotty power outages are certainly a possibility. Let's walk you through the timeline here on Futurecast. It's a quiet start this morning. We're seeing partly cloudy skies. That's true all the way until around three or four in the afternoon. By five or six, we begin to see these storms developing. There's seven pm and nine pm. So some evening thunderstorms, there's another band that develops there around midnight and continues into the early morning hours. So we could have severe storms even in the wee hours of the morning tomorrow. So you need to be sure that you have a way to get the severe alert overnight. We'll continue to see some clearing as we get into the afternoon on Thursday, possibly a pop up storm. But for the most part, it looks like that we should clear out a bit and we may see a repeat of some scattered storms in the afternoon on Friday, Goldsboro, partly cloudy this morning for our temperatures are warm. We'll be in the seventies as you're headed out the door this morning and it is sticky. We climbed to 92 in Raleigh, 91 in Durham and 93 in Fayetteville. So it's a hot summer feeling afternoon before those storms begin. The heat index will make, feel more like mid to maybe even upper nineties. In a few places. We check out our muggy meter. We're sitting at steamy right now. About to head to tropical tomorrow. That's again a very summer like pattern. But once his front passes us during the day Friday, it's much more comfortable for Saturday, Sunday and into next week. So back to a more normal feel. But again, today and tomorrow wl weather alert days, we're going to be tracking that dangerous potential for tonight and into the first part of the day, tomorrow, very carefully on TV.</p>

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Good evening. I'm Tina Soldan Cash with the night time lottery drawing for Tuesday. May 7th, 2024. 1st winning pick three tonight is seven, followed by eight, third pick three is six and our pick three. Fireball number is eight. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from mcconn Jones L LP. Now it's time for the Carolina pick four, check your tickets. Good luck. Eight is our first winning pick four followed by six, third pick for tonight. Another six fourth winning number is zero and our pick for a fireball number tonight is three. Let's turn now to the Carolina cash five. If no one matches all five numbers to win the jackpot tonight, tomorrow's top prize is an estimated $493,000. Good luck. Six is our first winning cash five number tonight followed by seven. Third winning number is 19. Our fourth cash five tonight 11 and our final winning number is 15. The North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Thanks for your support and get the winning numbers right here every night. Thanks for playing

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>> ACROSS AMERICA WITH MEGA JACKPOTS, IT'S MEGA MILLIONS AMERICA ON TIME. CODE IS TUESDAY MAY 7TH AND TONIGHT'S MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS AN ESTIMATED A NEW TIES 306 MILLION DOLLARS DOING THAT JACKPOT. YOU MUST MATCH THESE 5 WHITE. PLUS THAT GOLD MEGA MALL. NOW, LET'S SEE IF I CAN MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE TONIGHT. OUR FIRST WINNING NUMBER TONIGHT IS 63 FOLLOWED BY 28. UP NEXT, WE HAVE 36 YOU NEXT NUMBER IS 66 IN YOUR FINAL WHITE BALL NUMBER FOR THIS EVENING IS 26 NOW FOR THE MEGA BALL NUMBER THAT IS 15 AGAIN. TONIGHT'S WINNING NUMBERS ARE 63. 28. 36 66. 26 IN THE GOLD.

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Hey there. Good afternoon. I'm Noah Klein. Welcome to this afternoon's draws for Tuesday, May 7th 2024. Let's get it going here with Carolina pick three. That first pick three number is seven. Second number is zero third, number two, pick 35. Roll number is seven. Joining me for this afternoon draws our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move to the Carolina pick four. That first pick four number is seven. Second number six, eight. Fourth number is nine and our pick for a firewall number is five. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 billion education. Thank you for your support. Get your winning numbers each day at 3 p.m. and again at 11:22 p.m. right here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education Lottery.

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Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday Powerball drawings, as shown live on WRAL.

Good evening, America. I'm Michelle Isles. Tonight. We've got another life changing jackpot for you in an estimated amount of $214.9 million. Get your tickets out. We'll start things off tonight with the number 60 right after that America. We have 56. Let's congratulate better late than never of Maryland who won $50,000. Your next number up tonight is seven. That's followed by 24 and we'll round it out tonight with 23 now for your winning powerball number. Good luck, everyone. It is 25 and your power play multiplier is two. Let's take another look at those winning numbers. Remember there are multiple ways to win. We'll see you back here Wednesday night. Good night, everyone. It's time to play America's favorite jackpot.

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