Daily bread 01/02/2018

• Trump drops climate change from US national security strategy | US news | The Guardian

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  • hamstrings

  • “US leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to US economic and energy security interests,” the website quoted the document as saying.

     

    “Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”

     

    A senior official said on Sunday the main difference between the Trump NSS and its predecessors was a new emphasis on border security and economic issues.

     

    “The economic piece … gets much more attention,” the official said. “The insistence that economic security is national security.”

  • In unpublished testimony provided to Congress after his confirmation hearings in January, Mattis said the US military had to consider how the thawing Arctic and drought in global flashpoints would pose present and future challenges.

     

         

      

            

       

            

     

            CDC banned words include 'diversity', 'transgender' and 'fetus' – report 

         

             

      ‘Evidence-based’ and ‘vulnerable’ also among words federal health watchdog told not to use by Trump administration, according to the Washington Post  

              

     

                      

     

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    “Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis said in written answers to questions posed after the public hearing by Democratic members of the committee.

     

    Mattis and the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, are reported to have argued against leaving the Paris climate agreement.

     

    Officials said the new NSS was based on Trump’s previous speeches on national security and foreign policy. The president was said to have decided to break with normal practice and launch it with a speech.

     

    “As far as we have been able to determine, no president has ever rolled this out with a speech before,” a senior administration official said.

     

    “The president was briefed on the document all the way along but when it was near completion and when it was shown to him what it looked like, he was very excited and he personally said he wanted to introduce it to the American people and to the world.”

• Study: 4 Factors That Determine How Much You Can Earn As A Freelancer

  • 4 Factors That Determine How Much You Can Earn As A Freelancer
  • conscious career route
  • perks of freelancing certainly are plentiful
  • gray area – the compensation.
  • worldwide average hourly rates for freelancers is $19
  • massive survey of some 17,000 self-employed professionals
  • 1. Your location
  • correlate with the average salary offered for the same position in-house
  • UK settle for the highest hourly rates of $46,54 per hour,
  • Philippines workers feel fine earning just $11.72 per hour
  • Canada goes in front of the US with an average freelance hourly rate of $40.17 compared to $37.87 paid to the stateside freelancers.
  • 2. Your experience
  • Continuously investing in self-education through courses, certifications, workshops and, well, actually doing your job pays off.
  • regularly review your rates to reflect the newly acquired expertise

  • 3. Your industry

     

  • Entry-level freelance developers receive $19.44 per hour
  • Professional developers with 2-5 of experience earn $20.80/hour
  • Developers with 5-10 years of experience charge $31.97/hour
  • Developers with 10+ years of experience average at $40.36

  • 4. Personal website

     

  • freelancers with a personal website charge 65% more compared to their peers without one.
  • average hourly rate for personal brand-conscious freelancers is $33.90/hour
  • $20.57 charged by workers without a website.  
  • having a portfolio website showcasing your work, expertise and testimonials from past clients can help you land higher-paying jobs
  • positioning yourself as an authority and can build a more personal rapport with the client during the negotiation stage.
  • multi-tier payment packages, outlining the exact value of your services and direct the prospects towards case studies highlighting the results you have generated for their peers.
  • growing your expertise, complementing your skills with knowledge from the boarding industries and creating an attractive personal website should be on your agenda for next year if your goal is to earn more.

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