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A member of a North Park-based gang who was previously convicted in a racketeering enterprise involving sex trafficking was sentenced Monday to more than a dozen years in prison for additional sex trafficking crimes, including prostituting a 17-year-old girl.
Jonathan Devon Price, 30, also known as “Lil’ Ty,” pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of sex trafficking of a minor for prostituting the teenage girl in San Diego County, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
As part of the plea agreement, he also admitted to coercing a woman to engage in commercial sex acts, prosecutors said.
Laziness may feel like a flaw, but lack of motivation may come from external forces, like unrealistic expectations. Experts reveal their top tips for how to stop being lazy.
May 1, 2021
By Anna Sale
Ms. Sale is the host of the podcast “Death, Sex & Money” and the author of the forthcoming book, “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” from which this essay is adapted.
We’ve forgotten how to talk to people.
For more than a year, we have mostly been apart. We’ve learned to put a premium on efficiency, whether in masked exchanges on street corners or on work calls between distractions. We talk fast and abruptly shift from greetings to agenda-driven updates. Then we replay it when we’re back in isolation. Our entire social lives have become a middle school dance: unrealistic expectations in the lead-up, self-conscious regrets in the aftermath.
February 18, 2021 at 7:10 am EST | by Terri Schlichenmeyer
New book extols virtues of naps, TV, and weekends
Assume this position.
Feet up, head back, fingers laced over your belly. Eyes shut. Teeth unclenched. And there you are: ready for a nap – if you dare, if you have your work finished, if you can ignore the nagging feeling that there are things left undone, if you can stop feeling judged. Impossible? Not so, if you’ve read “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price, Ph.D.
A 9-to-5 job sure would be great, wouldn’t it? You’re snorting now, aren’t you? Because you get to the office early, sprint all day, say “yes” to everything lobbed at you, leave work by the moon, stagger home, and fall into bed the second you get there.