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Finance
5 Tips for Today’s
Freelance Entrepreneur
(BPT) - From millennials who have been
grinding away in the workplace for a few
years to Gen Xers looking to move out of
their cube, many have been intrigued by the
possibility of freelancing.
It means the freedom to set your own hours,
to work closely with clients, to be your own
boss and have greater control over your career.
According to Forbes, there are 53 million
freelancers in America today, and by 2020, it’s
estimated that half of the workforce will be
doing freelance work, whether full time, as a
part-time gig or as their side hustle.
Unlike a traditional job, where you generally
don’t need to bring more than a packed lunch
to work, freelancing requires a few essential
tricks and tools to succeed. Whether you’re
looking to start out or refresh your personal
brand, homeworking experts cite five important
tips to help you succeed at the freelance game.
1. Manage your time. One of the best parts,
and the most challenging parts, of freelancing
is that you get to make your own schedule.
Many find that they need some sort of structure
in their day, and for this reason it’s important
to have the right time management software.
This will notify you of calls, deadlines, track
how long you work on a project and more.
2. Get the right laptop. A laptop is your
office, your meeting room, your library, your
entertainment source and so much more, making
it one of the most essential freelancing tools.
It’s the lifeline between your business and your
clients, so it’s critical to be sure you have the
right one. A great option is the remarkably thin
and light LG gram. This computing powerhouse
comes in 13-, 14- and 15-inch screen options
and packs a battery that lasts over 16 hours.
Each model weighs about two pounds and for
small businesses looking for extra connectivity,
LG’s commercial-grade model comes equipped
with the Windows 10 Pro operating system. It’s
fast, mobile and able to keep up with the daily
demands and surprises of the freelancing life.
3. Use professional email and social media
accounts. For all work-related correspondence
and interactions, be sure to use a dedicated
email account. This will make you appear
more professional to prospective clients. You
should also set up work-related social media
accounts where you can post examples of work
and professional insights and network.
4. Keep track of finances. For a lot of
freelancers who are on the creative side of
things, keeping track of finances can be a real
challenge. Not only do you have to manage
invoices, expenses and make sure you’re getting
paid, you also have to keep taxes in mind. That
can be a lot of numbers to juggle. The right
accounting software can greatly simplify this
process and save you innumerable headaches.
5. Find the right space. While freelancing is
largely a digital game, and requires the right
laptop loaded up with the tools you need to
manage your business, you still need to find
the right place to work. Some work in a coffee
shop and others require a dedicated home office.
You might work best in a shared office space.
The point is, it’s vital to figure out where you
do your best work.
The right software, running on the right computer,
and a place you can work are the cornerstones
of a successful freelance gig. From there, all
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Looking Up
Greenland Telescope Opens
New Era of Arctic Astronomy
Based on a Press Release from the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Provided by Bob Eklund
To study the most extreme objects in the
universe, astronomers sometimes have to go
to some extreme places themselves. Over the
past several months, a team of scientists has
braved cold temperatures to put the finishing
touches on a new telescope in Greenland.
Taking advantage of excellent atmospheric
conditions, the Greenland Telescope is
designed to detect radio waves from stars,
galaxies and black holes. One of its primary
goals is to join the Event Horizon Telescope
(EHT), a global array of radio dishes that
are linked together to make the first image
of a supermassive black hole.
The Greenland Telescope has recently
achieved two important milestones, its “first
light” and the successful synchronization with
data from another radio telescope. With this,
the Greenland Telescope is ready to help
scientists explore some of the universe’s
deepest mysteries.
“We can officially announce that we are
open for business to explore the cosmos from
Greenland,” said Timothy Norton of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(CfA), Senior Project Manager for the
telescope. “It’s an exciting day for everyone
who has worked so hard to make this happen.”
In December 2017, astronomers were able
to successfully detect radio emission from
the Moon using the Greenland Telescope, an
event astronomers refer to as “first light.” Then
in early 2018, scientists combined data from
the Greenland Telescope’s observations of
a quasar with data from the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, in
Chile. The data from the Greenland Telescope
and ALMA were synchronized so that they acted
like two points on a radio dish equal in size
to the separation of the two observing sites,
an achievement that is called “finding fringes.”
“This represents a major step in integrating
the telescope into a larger, global network of
radio telescopes,” said Nimesh Patel of CfA.
“Finding fringes tells us that the Greenland Tele-
scope is working as we hoped and planned.”
The Greenland Telescope is a 12-meter
radio antenna that was originally built as
a prototype for ALMA. Once ALMA was
operational in Chile, the telescope was repurposed
to Greenland to take advantage of the
near-ideal conditions of the Arctic to study
the universe at specific radio frequencies.
The Greenland location also allows interferometry
with the Submillimeter Array in
Hawaii, ALMA and other radio dishes, to
become a part of the northernmost component
of the EHT. This extends the baseline of this
array in the north-south direction to about
7,500 miles—nearly the Earth’s diameter.
“The EHT essentially turns the entire
globe into one giant radio telescope, and the
farther apart radio dishes in the array are, the
sharper the images the EHT can make,” said
Sheperd Doeleman of the CfA and leader of
the EHT project. “The Greenland Telescope
will help us obtain the best possible image of
a supermassive black hole outside our galaxy.”
The Greenland Telescope joined the EHT
observing campaign in the middle of April
2018 to observe the supermassive black hole
at the center of the galaxy M87. This supermassive
black hole and the one in our galaxy
are the two primary targets for the EHT,
because the apparent sizes of their event horizons
are larger than for any other black hole.
Nevertheless exquisite telescope resolution
is required, equivalent to reading a newspaper
on the Moon. This capability is about
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