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Zubaida has requested a loan from Kiva partner BRAC Pakistan with the goal of improving her husband's business. He will use the loan amount to purchase a variety of clothes to resell at a profitable price. With the profits expected from this loan, he intends to expand his business so that he can eventually construct a small house for his family.
Zubaida is confident that the loan will be helpful for her husband's business. She is thankful to Kiva lenders and to BRAC Pakistan.
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BRAC Pakistan focuses its work in some of the most underdeveloped parts of Pakistan, characterized by poor infrastructure and high levels of poverty. By supporting this loan, you are enabling access to finance for borrowers living in some of Pakistan's poorest areas.
About BRAC PakistanBRAC Pakistan is a subsidiary of BRAC, one of the world's largest development organizations with a focus on microfinance and economic empowerment. It offers micro-loans designed to help small businesses, very poor clients and others, in addition to health and education services. Kiva's flexible, zero-interest capital will enable BRAC to expand its outreach in underserved regions and to women who have had no access to microfinance services.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 11 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
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- Jun 13, 2013
- Listed
- Jun 24, 2013
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1Place penny inside a 10" or 12" round empty balloon.
2Inflate the balloon to its proper capacity.
4Begin swirling the balloon around in a small circular motion of the wrist with one hand. A quick swirling motion should get the penny moving around the inside circumference of the balloon and soon the penny will be rolling around on its edge.
5Continue motion until balloon bursts.
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- Balloons used for helium are not recommended for this exercise as they take 2-3 times longer to burst
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- Inflate balloon to its full capacity, do not over inflate or under inflate
- Penny can fly in any direction upon leaving the burst balloon
- Balloon parts need to be retrieved & discarded upon completion of this exercise
- If using cheap party balloons, there is an exceptionally loud noise when the balloon pops
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The puzzle can be solved by finding the values of the unknown digits (all indicated by asterisks) in the squares of the $9\times9$ grid.
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the digits and then solve the Sudoku.
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The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
This package contains a collection of problems from the NRICH
website that could be suitable for students who have a good
understanding of Factors and Multiples and who feel ready to take
on some. . . .
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her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by
saying, "Well, how old are they?"
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Hallstrom grows tomatoes on some 1,200 acres near Oceanside, California, including 600 acres leased from Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base. After 9/11, the base stepped up security, which meant government officials carefully screened every one of her workers.
What they found startled Hallstrom: 75 percent of her laborers had fraudulent documents. Hallstrom typically hires 1,000 seasonal workers, but she suddenly couldn't find enough legal workers to harvest her crop at Pendleton. Much of it rotted in the field. Hallstrom says she lost $2.5 million worth of tomatoes.
She's still in business today and still using seasonal imported farmworkers. But now instead of hiring laborers who show up at harvest time, she contracts to bring in prehired temporary workers from Mexico under the H-2A farm guest worker program, a legal method for farmers to import foreign labor. Each year, she contracts for about 500 workers from Mexico through the program and sends them back home after the harvest is complete.
Few farmers have taken the H-2A route, and Hallstrom says she opted to use it only because she had no alternative for harvesting her Pendleton crops. Hallstrom, who is politically well-connected, decries the program's complex rules and requirements, adding that she once had to call the White House for help when her H-2A application became hopelessly bogged down.
"H-2A is very difficult," Hallstrom says. "It involves so many different agencies: the Department of Labor, Homeland Security, the American Consulate in Mexico, the California Employment Development Department. If you have a glitch, it can derail the whole process."
Hallstrom and other farmers have been lobbying for a streamlined agricultural guest worker program that would provide a way for farmers to get legal foreign labor and stem the flow of illegal workers. While Congress debates the merits of a guest worker program more accommodating to farmers, Hallstrom is among those who continue to rely on H-2A foreign guest workers to harvest their crops.
But the ultimate goal for many farmers and for other businesses that rely on cheap immigrant labor is a set of rules that would allow easy access to temporary workers from outside the U.S. Although there are laws allowing guest workers on farms and in other industries, the measures are complex and difficult for employers to use.
To qualify under H-2A, Hallstrom has to demonstrate that she has tried and been unable to recruit domestic workers. She must then apply for a specific number of H-2A workers from a foreign country and guarantee they will have jobs for the duration of a contract.
She must transport the workers from their home country to their jobs and back again. Hallstrom must provide housing. And, she also must provide three meals a day at a cost to workers set by the Labor Department (the current rate is $8.76 per day).
The application process can be daunting. Hallstrom listed among her job requirements that applicants could not be colorblind. The Labor Department initially rejected the application, saying the requirement could be construed as discriminatory. Hallstrom had the rejection overturned by explaining that in harvesting tomatoes, pickers had to be able to discern shades of red.
Most farmers balk at having to provide room and board, yet Hallstrom had an edge. Her company built a dormitory-style worker housing complex in 1986 as a way of helping retain a steady workforce. It cost about $2.5 million, but Hallstrom said it paid off in a healthier and more reliable workforce. Now she is able to use the housing for her H-2A workers.
Despite the extra costs to transport, feed and house her workers, Hallstrom says she has still managed to make money on her farm using H-2A. But she's unsure how long that will last. Wages under H-2A are set by the Department of Labor, which has steadily upped the hourly rate during the past three years. What started at $8.02 per hour went up to $8.55. This year the rate is $9, an increase Hallstrom says will cost her farm $500,000.
"You have to pay $9, plus free housing, plus three meals a day and transportation back and forth," Hallstrom says. "That makes it near to impossible. The only reason my family is holding out is because we really believe that reform will happen."
What Hallstrom and other farmers want is a less bureaucratic guest worker program that gives farmers easier access to foreign workers and greater control over their costs. But critics warn that giving farmers too much control over foreign workers can lead to abuses: low pay, poor working conditions and unsatisfactory housing.
"Cheap labor becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy," says Ira Mehlman, media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "It creates conditions that shouldn't be tolerated in a country like the U.S." Rather than allowing farmers to import cheap foreign labor, the government should encourage technological innovation like mechanization that would reduce the reliance on cheap labor, Mehlman says.
Hallstrom says the reality is that cheap labor is a necessity in a crop like tomatoes. "If we do not get immigration reform, we will not be here," she says. "We will have to go to Mexico or someplace else."
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Between 7 and 9 September 2000, the Department of History of the University of Nebraska—Lincoln held its first Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Endowment Symposium on the topic "Biography and Historical Analysis." We invited six prominent historians in various fields to reflect on their experiences as biographers. From their different perspectives, these scholars offered their insights into the writing of biography as a form of historical analysis. Professors Shirley A. Leckie of the University of Central Florida, R. Keith Schoppa of Loyola College of Maryland, Retha M. Warnicke of Arizona State University, John Milton Cooper Jr. of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, Nell Irvin Painter of Princeton University, and Robert J. Richards of the University of Chicago presented their original scholarly papers at the symposium. This volume is the product of their work.
Chosen because of the diversity of their perspectives on the symposium's theme-a reflection of their various personal and academic backgrounds, fields of expertise, and methodological approaches-these six scholars offered a broad range of interpretations. The three women had written biographical studies of women from different social classes in England and the United States. Their subjects included U.S. soldiers' wives and a historian, English queens, and an African American slave who became a leading feminist and abolitionist. Like their female subjects,


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Donald Thompson
To the editor:
As one who voted for and mostly supports our president, I wonder at the contempt some of your letters display toward him and, indirectly, to me and others who wish him well. I seldom hear Rush Limbaugh or watch Fox "News", but one does not have to do much of either to hear the same diatribe.
Writers of such claptrap might be well advised to remember the problems Mr. Obama inherited from the inept George W. Bush presidency. Knowing how deeply hurtful the Sept. 11 attacks have been, and out of respect for the presidency, no one has blamed the man in charge, but if Obama had been president you know precisely where the right wing would be pointing.
And when the intrusive war on terrorism and the ill-advised war in Iraq were forced down our throats, what sacrifices were eager Americans asked to make? "Go shopping," Bush said. No tax to support these efforts. Just send the children of the poor and middle class but not a penny from wealthy Americans.
And they insist that our economic problems are Obama's fault. What hypocrisy.
As smart as they want us to think they are, they choose to have selective memory loss as to the economic disaster Bush handed eagerly over to Obama. While George Bush ducked into oblivion, President Obama fought Bush's minions in Congress to get policies in place to save all of us from the greed and avarice of rich financiers and selfish bankers. Now the right blames Obama because the recovery hasn't been quick enough.
As determined as Republicans have been to cripple the country rather than allow Mr. Obama any success on reforms and modernizations, most voters saw through that and re-elected him by a sizable margin. A mandate? Maybe not. At least it is an affirmation of trust that his direction is more palatable than what the other side is offering. The Republican leadership has made the calculation that if the country succeeds the president will get, at least, some credit and they despise that notion so much that they are willing to jeopardize our welfare for their political gain.
President Obama has tried to take into account parts of the Republican ideal, but the "all or nothing" stance makes compromise impossible.
Considering the malaise it is fostering in the government as well as their own party, the Republicans would be well-advised to reconsider their grim views and accept that more and more Americans who do not bluster and gripe on talk radio and Fox are weary of their nastiness.
Get over the bitterness and get behind solutions to major reforms of problems we should not pass on to our progeny. Let's clean up our corrupt election process. Let's get sensible about immigration policy — and humane. Let's catch up with and exceed the rest of the world in how we deal with health care. Universal public education has been the backbone of America's progress and supremacy. Help make it better and not discourage teachers from doing the best for all our kids and adults who need them.
Finally, let's not ignore the best efforts of true scientists with reference to energy policy and pollution. All and more can be accomplished through compromise and cooperation.


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- Step to the left, then step to the right.Put your knees together, and squeeze real tightKeep your arms moving, side to side.Try to hold it in 'til it's time to ride.Knock, Knock, let me in.Knock, Knock, let me in, I gotta go, uh!
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- Pull Ups had a commercial where kids do the Potty Dance (albeit not a dance meaning you need to go, but a dance about the potty). It has steps! You can visit their website to download the song.
- In the commercial for cat littler, it showed cats doing the potty dance, a method of leaning forward on their hind legs with their paws on their crotches, occasionally hopping.◊
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- In Detective Conan: Conan fakes a Potty Emergency during a case this way (in order to Pull the Thread on the suspect).
- Strawberry Marshmallow: Chapter 14/Episode 6: Miu does it while lying on the bed because holding it in is temporarily preferable to entering the bathroom without a Varia Suit.
- Maruko in one of the Chibi Maruko-chan manga issues, where she starts doing "the duck walk".
- Izzy in the second part of Digimon: The Movie (though his reason why depends on whether you're watching the dub or original — either Tai's mom's cooking kicked in or Koushiro simply drank too much).
- In Elfen Lied, Lucy (as Nyuu) does this before finally just going on the floor.
- Ojamajo Doremi has episode 7, where Pop has to take a whizz extra bad due to having a bit too much ice cream.
- In volume 2 of Tokyopop's Warcraft: Legends manga, a little girl does this in the story "Family Values."
- In Season 2, Episode 2 of Those Who Hunt Elves the main characters ran out of toilet paper. This trope is occurs during the resulting Potty Emergency. Given the nature of the show, Hilarity Ensues.
- Mikan often end up doing this in Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land. She never makes it...
- Saiyuki: Goku does one in the movie while the group is staying in the mansion of Houlan's master
- Yo-Kai Watch: The Youkai Fidgephant causes people (and other Youkai) to do this by giving them Potty Emergencies.
- Sena does this in Episode 10 of The Comic Artist and His Assistants.
- The Ojou Sama does in Chapter 7 of the manga of Mushoku Tensei.
- The titular Ojou Sama, Shizuka, does this in Chapter 2 of Ojousama wa Nigedashita!
- Usagi does the wriggly sitting-down variant in Act 31.5 of Sailor Moon Crystal. It's also in the manga chapter of the same number.
- Referenced in one episode of Crayon Shin-chan, where Mitzi was panicking when she noticed she had a spider crawling on her hand. Her son Shin walks outside and thinks she's doing the "Pee-pee dance".
- There's a joke that the Charleston dance developed from this trope.
- As well as Irish dancing.
- Also used by Seattle-based Almost Live! in the Green River Dance parody as the "Gotta Pee Dervish"
Comic Books
- In the children's comic Lumberjanes, Genki Girl Ripley does one through the backgrounds of several pages.
Films — Animated
- Monsters, Inc..
Sulley: That's a cute little dance you got there, it's almost like you gotta...Boo: *squeals desperately*Sulley: Oh!*cut to Sulley standing outside a stall whistling*
- Toy Story 3: Probably as a Call Back to the above Pixar example, Bonnie does this during playtime with Woody at her house.
Bonnie: (to Woody) Want some coffee? ("drinks" from plastic cup) It's good for you, but don't drink too much or you'll hafta...hafta...◊ be right back! (runs to bathroom)
- Over the Hedge: Hammy the Squirrel does this after waking up from hibernation.
Films — Live-Action
- Blazing Saddles: When Taggart gets an idea he gets excited and jumps around. Hedley Lamarr thinks he's doing one of these.
- Bronson Pinchot does this in a film called Second Sight, except it's an extremely elaborate dance they call the peepee dance. He plays a psychic who is channeling someone else who has to pee.
- Mentioned in The Great Muppet Caper; Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo are developing pictures to catch a jewel thief, but they do it in the Happiness Hotel's only restroom. As Pops says, "Catch him in another room! We got people dancin' up an' down on one leg out here!"
- An outtake exists from an Abbott & Costello film of Costello stopping a take by doing the dance because he had to pee.
- In this 2004 German Made-for-TV Movie Prinzessin Macht Blau, the titular character does the "jiggling-up-and-down" variation of this trope.
- According to Robert Parrish's autobiography (he was one of the Little Rascals), they called this a European, or You're a'-Peein'.
- Fregly in Diary of a Wimpy Kid reportedly does this while screaming "JUICE!! JUUUUIIIICE!!!!" as part of his bizarre use of slang.
- A scene in Darth Vader and Son, a non-canon Star Wars picture book, depicts little Luke Skywalker doing this.
Vader: Luke, do you need to go potty?Luke: No.Vader: Well, you're kind of doing a little dance.Luke: I don't have to go.
Live Action Television
- The Love Boat: Isaac does this when forced to share a cabin (and a bathroom) with the other male crew.
- In The Revenge Files Of Alistair Fury a boy does this whilst waiting outside the toilet while Alistair and his friends are holding a meeting inside it. (He doesn't make it).
- Spoofed in Malcolm in the Middle where Dewey's way of charming their babysitter is to bounce up and down singing "Poopy poopy poopy" over and over.
- In the "Unfabulous" episode "The Road Trip" Addie is going through her flashbacks of her dad talking about the car, sports show. The last one shows her dad singing from behind the bathroom door, and Addie is squirming while having a potty emergency. He continues to sing as she waits impatiently in agony desperately waiting for the restroom.
- The MythBusters tested whether this method was more or less effective at staving off the inevitable, with inconclusive results.
- Inverted in Tour of Duty. One of the soldiers is suffering from the runs, and has to keep going off into the bushes while on patrol to drop his pants. While he does so, a huge toad jumps onto his dropped pants. At the same time, he happens to see some Vietcong slipping out of a tunnel to evade the American soldiers; the soldier quickly yanks up his pants and Hilarity Ensues.
- The Sims: Sims do this and yell at the player to get their attention so the player can direct them to the restroom.
- In RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 park guests with a high enough bathroom score change their normal walking animation into a frenetic one of these, particularly if your park's bathrooms are poorly placed or if you're evil enough to charge to use the bathroom.
- In Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, the park guests do this when their Toilet meter is high.
- In the Tamagotchi PC Pack game, all the Tamagotchi except for Kuchipatchi and Ichigotchi do this when you say the command "Use the bathroom" through the microphone.
- Final Fantasy VII features in NPC at the Wall Market bar doing one of these while waiting for a sick bar patron to finish up.
Western Animation
- Futurama: Bender does it briefly in Bender's Big Score after drinking a bunch of beers, lampshades comments on the lunacy of a robot having to go to the bathroom.
- Recess: Mikey, after T.J. makes him drink water from a hosepipe.
- An unnamed Water Tribe boy does this in the second episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Wakko during the Potty Emergency Trope Namer Animaniacs cartoon.
- The Simpsons:
- Homer Simpson does this after drinking way too much crab juice.
- Otto is mesmerized by Ralph's Potty Dance in "How The Test Was Won".
- Loopy did this in KaBlam! due to Larry being in the bathroom too long...he recently got muscular, and was admiring himself.
- In the second season of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! cartoon, the Killer Tomato Task Force had to fake one to get past the tomato guard and rescue Doctor Gangreen.
- King Julien in The Penguins of Madagascar remarks in "Friend In A Box" that he never learned "that dance." Being the king, he just goes wherever he is. Kowalski takes two steps away from Julien upon hearing that.
- Pinkie Pie does this in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Last Round-Up" after a long train ride.
- Ren and Stimpy as "Fire Dogs" are awarded the sacred Golden Fire Hydrant helmets - after doffing them they discover a long line of dogs behind them doing The Dance.
- Beast Boy in Teen Titans does a potty dance while waiting for Starfire to get out of the bathroom as she examines a large growth on her head. It gets amusingly annoying when his dance is interspersed with various cuts to water sounds.
- The episode "Serious Business" from the spin off Teen Titans Go! has a whole musical number about this, as quoted and linked to above. It's that kind of show.
- Rosie does a wriggly sitting-down version as Mommy carries her to see Santa Claus in Caillou's Holiday Movie.
Mommy: (trying to sit her in Santa's lap) What is it, sweetie?Rosie: Bafroom.
- Happens multiple times in two episodes of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty", and in "Daniel Goes to the Potty".
- In Camp Lazlo Lazlo beat Edward in a lemonade drinking contest and when called over for a winner picture he started to do this dance in the episode "Hold It Lazlo".
Card Games
- The Green Apple Quicksteps card from Shadowrun, which removes an enemy runner from play for a turn.
Real Life
- In Legoland in Windsor near one of the toilets, there are two Legomen doing this.
- Truth in Television for just about every toddler on the planet.
- There's an old joke saying that tapdancing was invented by a man called Stepan Stepanovich who was inspired by the unusual dances his family performed every time he occupied the toilet for too long.


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"Behind Enemy Lines in the Forbidden Land" Top 5 Page for this destination North Korea by DSwede
North Korea Travel Guide: 725 reviews and 2,460 photos
I might not know S Korea as well as others out there, but I think I know it more than the most. So for me, going to the North was definitely a comparison point I wanted to experience before things change. I was too young to visit any of the Soviet blocks before they opened up. I've subsequently visited a bit of Eastern Europe and seen the construction styles, economic repercussions, etc. But those places were still western in their mind. N Korea is so far isolated they are oblivious of the last 40 years. But with pressures of big brother China, the Evil Imperialist Devil USA, as well as the imminent death of Our Hero Kim Jr, something will happen when either there is a coup or his idiot sons take over. Since the fall of the Soviet Communist party and the capitalistic shift in China, DPRK has lost most of its support and aid, both in products and food. That has only aided in making North Korea even more isolated and desperate for help.
North Korea lives by the motto of "Army First". They preach that the evil, imperialistic USA sought to capture and enslave South Korea, being a strategic location for further conquests on Asia. They claim that only because they were stronger than their southern brothers, that they were not controlled by the USA. It is through military deterrents that they maintain peace against the aggressions of USA. North Korea has perpetuated the idea that only they have the strength and purity of heart to liberate the rest of the oppressed world and in doing so, require the best armies.
Our guides told me that military service in DPRK is not mandatory, but rather everyone opts to join out of strong patriotic sentiment and pride. Typical assignments are between 3 and 5 years.
I've also been told conflicting information, but the 3~5 year comment came directly from the government employed tour guides that chaperoned us for 5 days. It is cultural pressure that make them do anything, more of an unwritten rule. But I can tell you that while women do have an unprecedentedly large work force due to the men being off in the military, the men are back in the work force in their mid to late 20's. I say this just from the demographics of people I saw in civilian life roles.
Having spent a lot of time in South Korea, North Korea proves to be the antithesis, contradicting everything that modern South Korea has evolved into. To avoid the political conversations and view points that are frowned upon here on VirtualTourist, we can only point out some of the physical differences.
North Korea's capital of P'yongyang is ~2.5million people
South Korea's capital of Seoul is +18million.
NK's total population is around 23 million, while SK is over 65 million.
After the Korean War, SK had a third world's economy, struggling to survive. Today, SK arguably numbers #11 in the world.
North Korea does not even have an economy. The guides that escorted us said that the typical North Korean does not even carry any money in their wallet, only on the days that they know they will be going to the market.
South Korea's export and industry is truly amazing. North Korea's on the other hand is non-existent, relying mostly on goods supplied by ship from Russia, or by truck over the heavily controlled bridge over the Yalu River from Dandong, China to Sinuiji, North Korea.
South Korea's nightlife is chaotic. Lights, bars, restaurants and people are busy until the early mornings on every day.
North Korea is dark by 8pm, inside of a city of 2.5 million people, it would be difficult to walk down the street without a light. Instead of hearing traffic and people, we heard crickets when we opened our window in downtown P'yongyang at 9pm.
I'm still trying to come up with the words to describe my experience in North Korea. But I have taken many photos, feel free to visit my North Korea Gallery. If you enjoy the pictures, please leave a comment.
Feel free to visit my pages of P'yongyang, Kaesong, Panmunjom and Myohyang for some other insights to the places I visited.
- Pros:Like no other experience you may have had, it will stir conversations with everyone you meet.
- Cons:Do not come here unless you are genuinely interested, since you will not have the comforts of a conventional holiday.
- In a nutshell:Stuck in Communist 1968, unaware of the outside world.
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Wonderful. Japanese people have negative image of that country. It is nice to get to know them through your page. Also good luck for Barney awards.
Excellent North Korea pages. Thanks
North Korea is on my wish list. Thanks for the insight :-)
Great pages on North Korea - everything is just how i have read about the place - and you even managed to also photograph a traffic control Policewomen
Yes, I read yesterday that Americans may now enter throughout the year, not only during the Mass Games
Amazingly helpful page, thanks!
Grat page! Your observations of N.K. paint a dismal picture of life for the people there. Is hunger still a major problem?
This is a great information on getting visas to North Korea. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic page, ...may be someday
Great information and photos of perhaps the most isolated country in the world!
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The first wave of the Batman x MIMOBOT memory devices feature classic hero and villain assortments of Batman, Robin, Catwoman and The Joker.
(NEW YORK Booth #4938 – February 13, 2011) — At the 2011 Toy Fair, Mimoco, creator of the MIMOBOT® line of designer USB flash drives, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, the world's largest publisher of comic books, introduce their first Batman wave of flash drive designs comprised of Batman, Robin, Catwoman, and The Joker.
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Last month, Mimoco released their limited edition 1939-era Vintage Batman x MIMOBOT USB flash drive design to kick off their partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. "As lifelong fans of DC Comics super heroes, we're thrilled to offer our first full Batman line-up to comic book lovers and collectors everywhere," said Evan Blaustein, CEO and founder of Mimoco.
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NEW YORK (AP) — After a legal complaint, one of the country's largest university systems has agreed to remind professors that pregnant students should be given an opportunity to make up classwork they miss while taking time off to give birth.
The City University of New York was the target of a federal discrimination complaint in January by a 27-year-old honors student from Manhattan. The student, Stephanie Stewart, said she had to quit a class last year after a professor told her she wouldn't be allowed to miss any tests or assignments, even though she was pregnant and due to deliver the baby before the end of the semester.
Dropping the class, a course on the role of women in society, caused Stewart to lose a merit-based scholarship.
In a settlement announced Wednesday by the National Women's Law Center, the university agreed to send a memo to all professors and administrators reminding them that all schools getting government funding are required to give pregnant students the same options to make up work that they give to pupils who suffer illnesses or injuries that cause them to miss classes.
The university also restored Stewart's scholarship and gave her about $3,000 to cover expenses. She is now in her final semester at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, which is part of the CUNY system.
"I feel like this is a victory not just for me, but for all the students in the university," Stewart said.
Lara Kaufmann, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, praised CUNY for its quick response to the discrimination claim. She said many college professors across the country don't realize that Title IX of the 1972 federal education law, the same rule that requires equal opportunities for women in college sports, also applies to women who may miss classes or tests because of a pregnancy.
"Often colleges will leave it up to professors to set rules for makeup work. And that's fine, as long as the professors know and understand the rules. But many don't," Kaufmann said.
"We see a lot of students being discouraged from staying in school, and being told they should drop out and re-enroll after they have their babies ... A lot of programs are refusing to work with students," she said.
Stewart's experience with professors at CUNY was mixed, she said. A majority of instructors were helpful and happily accommodated her when she informed them that her baby was due very close to the end of the semester. Only one, a female professor who taught courses on feminism, did not.
"I just wanted a chance to prove myself as a student," said Stewart, adding that she took all her other final exams on time with her classmates.
A CUNY spokesman, Michael Arena, called the incident isolated but said the university would renew efforts to communicate its longstanding non-discrimination policies to the faculty and staff.
"The colleges will also provide more training in this area to ensure that the policy is properly applied and that the rights of expectant mothers continue to be respected and safeguarded," he said.
CUNY has 480,000 full-time, part-time and continuing-education students at 24 campuses in New York City. Many of the students who attend its seven community colleges are young mothers.


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Replacing the water tank in a 37 Endeavour -- Part I
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Once again, very nice work, Sum. I'm impressed with you ability to tackle what to me would be huge and month's long projects and make them look so simple and straightforward!
Re: Replacing the water tank in a 37 Endeavour -- Part I
I think I have it figured out how to plumb the tanks. I want to be able to fill or discharge the independently if required and will have two different ways to fill them and to also draw from them. I won't have this posted though until after we go back in the spring,
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Re: Replacing the water tank in a 37 Endeavour -- Part I
Great idea to have multiple ways to fill the tanks.....I have a deck fill and an access hatch on mine I can use. I need to get into mine and do a good cleaning, but the drawback is that the old tank is a molded in tank (65 gallons, which is great for a small boat like mine) under the vee-berth and the lid section is fastened with a million screws and 5200 so I'll have to take a saw to it to get it out and I'm not sure how to fasten it back down so it doesn't leak afterward. That will be a project for next summer.
I did change out the holding tank and hoses on my boat a while back. It took about a month of working a couple of hours on Saturdays and Sundays to get it done. Before I started the project I thought "OK, I'll be conservative and allow an entire Saturday afternoon for this......" But, I am happy with the way it turned out. I have the y-valve locked in the pumpout position because I haven't installed the hand pump for overboard discharge yet, but how long could that take?:laugher
Re: Replacing the water tank in a 37 Endeavour -- Part I
Also I'm putting a 6 gallon Todd tank up in the coaming, just fits, ahead of the starboard cockpit locker. It will fill with either a pressure hose, by hand or via the pressure water system getting water from the tanks in the bilge. Then if we had a problem with the pressure system the 6 gallon will gravity feed to the sink. We also might just use it while on stands in the yard with a water hose connected to it and leave the tanks below empty until we put in.
Worst case out on the water if the pressure system when down we could transfer water from the tanks below to a 4 gallon container with a small 12 volt elect pump like we use on the Mac. Then carry that container up and put it into the 6 gallon tank above. Use out of it and repeat.
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Meet Soliman, the founder and CEO of UK tea company Charbrew. Now in its second year, the brand has gone international, appearing on supermarket shelves as far afield as the US. Soliman looks into his tea leaves to tell us what lies in store for the business.
Sum your business up in a sentence
Charbrew is a quality tea brand offering innovative and unique blends to a curious and adventurous younger market.
What's the business model?
Identifying and catering to a modern palate in a traditional market. High standards and quality ingredients with minimal margin.
Who are your competitors?
Teapigs and Twinings are other experimental brands but we have a different edge in that we use real, whole pieces of fruit to give a distinct fresh-tasting flavour.
What's your USP?
Quality and innovation. We are always coming up with new, untried flavours and use only eco-friendly biodegradable mesh tea pyramids and whole ingredients to produce a rich, full taste and aroma.
How have you funded it so far?
I have put a lot of my own money into the business as well as help from the bank: acquiring an overdraft has helped my business to grow.
Where did the idea come from?
Poor prospects after the recession ignited a drive in me to be self-reliant and resourceful. I had a natural interest in trade and as a keen consumer of tea and coffee, I noticed a gap in the market for something different.
What's the smartest thing you've done so far
Single-handedly securing listings in major national and international retail outlets in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and USA.
What's the stupidest?
Throwing money down the drain with a simple miscalculation of stock.
Where are you going to be in 12 months' time?
A widely available and recognisable supermarket shelf brand, synonymous with quality with an innovative, expansive product offering.
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What's the smartest thing you've done so far?
Maybe everyone ever did some mistakes in life.So how can we avoid making mistakes in work?I think we are not afraid to make mistakes,but we should think what we can learn from the mistake itself,and how can we avoid making the same mistake again.I think that you may bacome smarter.
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Hopefully, Mr. Soliman achievement would impact on my week thoughts in Business to be a lot better.
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Novelty stunts can give a whole new dimension to a press release - but you need to be willing to take a risk. Doing something bizarre takes creative flair, but if it really is something that makes people go 'Wow!', you can get great media coverage.
Relatively new startup Sweemo, a site that allows users to bid for various experiences, did this to great effect by offering users the chance to bid to hit its CEO around the face with a huge salmon. They got extensive media coverage before the event, and then got nice exposure from the video too - around 200,000 views at the time of writing this guide.
Another business was recently featured in the Sun for having a work therapist in for the day who encouraged them all to spend the day naked in the office - earning them coverage in the UK's biggest selling newspaper.
Make sure your stunt is related to your business, and in line with brand values and image.
Thinking up great publicity stunts comes naturally to only a lucky few - don't force it if you don't have any ideas or are shy about an idea, as they usually require a fair amount of bravado (=courage).
You can decide to have a give-away day where you offer free services for the day, or a no pollution day where you use no electrical power, or a 50s-themes day, or something similar that aligns with your business image, if you'd prefer a more toned-down publicity stunt.
Do you have any ideas for a media stunt that your business could use?
If you're doing your own PR, you need to know how to get journalists to take notice of your business.
How can you get your business in the press?
Definition: A public relations announcement issued to the news media and other targeted publications for the purpose of letting the public know of company developments
Think of a press release as your ticket to publicity--one that can get your company coverage in publications or on TV and radio stations. Editors and reporters get hundreds of press releases a day, so how can you make yours stand out?
First, be sure you have a reason for sending a press release. A grand opening, a new product or a special event are all good reasons.
Second, make sure your press release is targeted for the publication or broadcast you're sending it to. The editor of Road & Track is not going to be interested in the baby pacifier you invented
To ensure readability, your press release should follow the standard format: typed, double-spaced, on white letterhead with a contact person's name, title, company, address and phone number in the upper right-hand corner. Below this information, put a brief, eye-catching headline in bold type. A dateline--for example, "Los Angeles, California, April 10, 2006"--follows, leading into the first sentence of the release.
Limit your press release to one or two pages at most. It should be just long enough to cover the six basic elements: who, what, when, where, why and how.
Don't embellish (=decorate, exaggerate) or hype (=build up, sell) the information. Remember, you are not writing the article; you are merely providing the information. Pay close attention to grammar and spelling.
If you have the money to invest, you may want to send out a press kit. (See next blog entry!)
Does your company ever send out press releases? For what reason?
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Definition: A podcast is a pre-recorded audio program that's posted to a website and is made available for download so people can listen to them on personal computers or mobile devices.
Podcasting takes its name from Apple's popular iPod line of products, but it isn't limited only to iPod owners and listeners. What distinguishes a podcast from other types of audio products on the internet is that a podcaster can solicit (=ask for, request) subscriptions from listeners, so that when new podcasts are released, they can automatically be delivered, or fed, to a subscriber's computer or mobile device. Usually, the podcast features an audio show with new episodes that are fed to your computer either sporadically (sometimes, at irregular intervals) or at planned intervals, such as daily or weekly. Just like the old radio serials of the 1930s and 40s, this format encourages listeners to subscribe (=sign up so you can get every show) so they can find out "what happens next."
As long as you listen to podcasts only on your computer (the vast majority of podcast subscribers do), you don't need any special software other than the audio player, such as a Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, you already have on your computer. But if you want to subscribe to a podcast feed, you'll need to install "podcatcher" software on your computer. The most popular podcatcher software is iTunes.
Do you ever listen to podcasts? For what purpose?
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Definition: A comprehensive package of information outlining a company's products and services most frequently sent to members of the press
A press kit--also called a media kit--is a prepared package of information you can send out to anyone looking for more information on your company. Most commonly, it's sent to members of the press.
As you grow, you may come to the attention of local or national media and need a way to quickly and completely communicate key facts about your company. A complete press kit contains the following:
1. A brief company biography. This should be a one- or two-page summary of what you do and what makes you special. It should be a quick reference guide to your organization and include your full company name, address and contact information, mission statement (=a statement defining your business purpose), organizational structure, products and services, locations, number of employees, and relevant financial information.
2. Short biographies of senior management. Each one will include full name, title, education, professional affiliations (=involvement with professional or community groups) and awards, family and community involvement and awards. A paragraph or two per person should be sufficient.
3. A sheet of testimonials with comments from customers. You may also include awards and citations (=certifications).
4. Reprints of newspaper and magazine articles, printouts of Web sites and references to television and radio shows your company has been mentioned in. Articles and media exposure lend tremendous credibility to your company.
5. Photos of products, people, facilities or other important parts of your company. This will help put a face on your company.
6. Something to put it all in. Make it something like a pocket folder with your logo on the cover.
Does your company have a press kit? What's in it? When is it used?
1. Know the customer or decision maker for your product. For example, if you are a developer of Hawaiian time share condominiums, it would probably be better to avoid soliciting people that already live in Hawaii.
2. Every direct communication should include an offer or incentive for the customer to buy your product/service, such as a discount or a free gift.
3. Be clear. What is your product? What are its benefits? Why does your audience need it? Where does the reader sign up, and by when? If your readers are confused, they will not buy. Use short sentences, bullet points, and headlines.
4. Using different type styles such as bold, underline and ALL CAPITAL letters can be used to draw your reader's eye to key messages. Consider highlighting your offer, call to action, and response date.
5. Call to Action. The bottom line with any direct mail piece is to get your reader to take action. Tell them what you want them to do, and don't be shy about repeating it.
6. Multi-Wave Mailings. Send various emails approximately 1-4 weeks apart to make people see and comprehend them.
7. Creating Tracking Measures. Use promotion codes and/or coupons can help you determine to what extent your efforts were successful. Ask your customer to mention the coupon or read a promotion code when they take advantage of your offer.
10. When setting a budget, consider the following types of expenses: Mailing list, paper, printing, postage, (void if you're using email, of course) cost of the offer, lettershop expenses such as merge/purge and mail sort, and any advertising agency or graphic artist fees.
11. The financial success for a campaign can be measured in many ways. Cost per new accounts (CPA) and return on investment (ROI) are two examples. To calculate a CPA, take your total program expenses and divide by the number of new accounts acquired. A simple ROI equation takes the total program expense minus the additional money generated as a direct result of the campaign.
Does your company ever use direct mail campaigns? Do you think they're an effective way of advertising?
wrote... on 11/25/2012 1:47:30 AM
Thats really good article for which i haven't got enough expereince to write the suitable words for such as this business. Beside, the abbreviations and what to say in order to get the targets satisfied with your product was excellent to be learned..
Thanks a lot...
Definition: The search for potential customers or buyers
When it comes to drumming up (=finding, creating) new business, like anyone involved in sales, your first big challenge will be to reach the right individuals. To successfully find new prospects for your products and services, you'll need a hard-working prospecting program that reaches out to qualified prospects and moves them through the sales cycle from cold to warm to hot. Your program must incorporate a range of marketing tactics that, over time, bring prospects incrementally (=a bit at a time) closer to a decision to hire you.
Cold prospects are customers or organizations you've identified as well-qualified but that have little or no awareness of your company. They can be reached through advertising, public relations, cold calling (=calling without being solicited) and networking. Begin a campaign of magazine advertising to showcase your unique selling proposition, and set up an ongoing public relations program that targets the same publications. Also create a prospect list of qualified individuals or organizations, and support your marketing efforts with cold calling. To round out your efforts to reach cold prospects, begin networking within select groups where you're most likely to come into contact with members of your target audience (=the people or organizations you want to sell to).
Once you've begun calling on top prospects and leads from your advertising and PR programs start to roll in, you'll need to set up a database using contact management software. This will help you consistently maintain ongoing contact with warm prospects-companies and individuals with whom you've previously spoken or met. Initiate a direct-mail campaign (=emails to a list of your prospects) to make frequent contact with your database. And support the campaign with sales activities, including follow-up phone calls as well as meetings with prospects generated by your direct mail, advertising and public relations.
Hot prospects are the ones you've successfully moved through the first two stages of your sales cycle. When your marketing program has brought them to this point, you'll need to get personally involved to supply the "heat" to close sales.
What do you think are the best ways to move cold prospects to warm, and warm to hot?
What's in a name? If you're in business, the name of your company is probably one of your most valuable assets. An effective name is one that establishes a strong identity and describes the type of business you're conducting. It's the first impression the public will have of your growing company. Today, coming up with a good business name is more difficult than ever because many of the best names have already been trademarked, but it's crucial to creating a memorable business image. The name you choose can make or break (=mean the success or failure of) your business!
Start by deciding what you want your name to communicate. To be most effective, your company name should reinforce the key elements of your business.
The more your name communicates to consumers, the less effort you must exert to explain it. Specific names make sense if you intend to stay in a narrow niche (=creating the same products in the same place) forever. However, if you have any ambitions (=plans, goals) of growing or expanding, you should find a name that's broad enough to accommodate your growth.
Descriptive names tell something concrete (=solid, real, tangible) about a business--what it does, where it's located and so on. Suggestive names are more abstract (=intangible, conceptual), and they focus on what the business is about. Would you like to convey quality? Convenience? Novelty?
What do you think are some good business names? What else do you think is important when choosing a business name?
wrote... on 11/25/2012 2:41:59 AM
Interesting. I like it....
By attending business meetings, participants get a chance to learn new information and interact with peers and leaders in their field.
The agenda should be focused on a single theme and not overwhelm (=be too much for) attendees.
Be sensitive to the calendar and clock.
Despite the best agenda, event attendees have preferences as to when they want to attend such programs and when they cannot.
Start on time and finish on time!
Select a venue (=location for the meeting) that is easy to get to, and where attendees will enjoy themselves.
Successful meetings have a specific topic and target audience for that message. Don't open the meeting to the masses – invite those who will benefit from and enjoy the event.
One of the keys to achieving attendance to your meeting is by inviting people early, and continue reminding them about the event even if they have confirmed attendance. Call every guest on the phone to extend a personal invitation.
Everyone has attended good conferences and bad conferences, and the same holds true for seminars and other appreciation events. If people like the last even they attended, they're more likely to attend the next.
Because people attend meetings to gather new information, many attendees appreciate receiving additional handouts and materials that may have been referenced by presenters and other folks within your organization. It is an excellent opportunity to share that information with follow thank you messages to those who attended the event.
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Golf - With about 27 million golfers in the U.S. alone, golf outings are among the most popular corporate events each year. You can have your own golf outing, or take in a PGA Tour.
Or, consider taking your group for a day to one of these planned group events:
What other ideas can you think of for corporate events? Which of these do you think are the most appropriate and/or innovative?
As you think about your new business, you must create a way to make your business stand out in the minds of potential customers/clients. And you must describe your products or services to make people want to come in and buy. You must create a Unique Selling Proposition (USP).
The most important thing to remember about a USP is "benefits, not features." Focus on benefits to your potential customers, not the great features you think are really cool. The technical aspects of your products are great, but your customers are more concerned with whether the product or service is what they need or want.
For example, if you are selling shoes, don't describe the way they were made, talk about how they will make the customer feel sexy, or comfortable. Focus on:
Some unique propositions that were pioneers (=the first) when they were introduced:
Creating a USP is one of the most difficult parts of a business plan, but one of the most important. You will need to keep working on getting it right, so you know how to market your products or services.
Does your business have an USP? What is it? If not, what could it be?
wrote... on 10/25/2011 7:03:20 PM
I don't know if my business have USP, bcz my products is too deference about other and our customers are companies, and must of them focus on price, but our product is the highest quality in my area
but must of customers looking for cheaper one even if it not as requested quality
so, what can I do for create my customers to let them buy my products, and persuade them.
Work your social media and networking platforms (your blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) by posting information about your product or service and asking questions about your audience's needs. This gets the conversation going and creates more exposure for your business. The point is to keep your business on the minds of potential customers worldwide.
Transport your products
Your next step is to focus on logistics — transporting the product to where you will be selling it. By now, you have located customers who love your product, solidified (=finalized) the terms of the sale with them and established a means for getting paid. Now you must move it.
Hire a global freight forwarder who serves as an all-round transport agent for moving cargo (=any goods to be moved), typically from a factory door to another warehouse. Their service saves you a lot of time, effort and anxiety for a very reasonable fee. They take care of all shipping arrangements, which includes handling documentation, arranging insurance, and determining necessary licenses, permits, quotas, tariffs and restrictions (=country regulations), which can be one of the most complicated aspects of importing/exporting for a newbie international trader.
Provide great global customer service!
Speaks for itself. The relationship between you and your overseas customer shouldn't end when a sale is made. If anything, it requires more of your attention.
Have you ever considered starting an import/export business? What ideas do you think would be successful?
Hire the best salespeople
If you are interested in starting an import/export, it is extremely important to hire the best sales reps, as they will determine how financially successful your company will be. It is imperative that you take the time to hire right to help get your import/export business started right! Use your professional network (=business contacts you have through your work) to find them, check local colleges and universities, and advertise in trade magazines.
You can pay them by pure commission (=a percentage of gross sales), but usually a combination of salary + commission is preferred– security AND motivation.
Price the product.


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b. 27 July 1862 Neisse, Upper Silesia (now Nysa, Poland)
d. 18 January 1921 Berthelsdorf, Silesia
Ilgner graduated from the Gewerbeakademie (the forerunner of the Technical University) in Berlin. As the representative of an electric manufacturing company in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) from 1897, he was confronted with the fact that there were no appropriate drives for hoisting-engines or rolling-plants in steelworks. Two problems prevented the use of high-capacity electric motors in the mining as well as in the iron and steel industry: the reactions of the motors on the circuit at the peak point of stress concentration; and the complicated handling of the control system which raised the risks regarding safety. Having previously been head of the department of electrical power transmission in Hannover, he was concerned with the development of low-speed direct-current motors powered by gas engines.
It was Harry Ward Leonard's switchgear for direct-current motors (USA, 1891) that permitted sudden and exact changes in the speed and direction of rotation without causing power loss, as demonstrated in the driving of a rolling sidewalk at the Paris World Fair of 1900. Ilgner connected this switchgear to a large and heavy flywheel which accumulated the kinetic energy from the circuit in order to compensate shock loads. With this combination, electric motors did not need special circuits, which were still weak, because they were working continuously and were regulated individually, so that they could be used for driving hoisting-engines in mines, rolling-plants in steelworks or machinery for producing tools and paper. Ilgner thus made a notable advance in the general progress of electrification.
His transformer for hoisting-engines was patented in 1901 and was commercially used inter alia by Siemens & Halske of Berlin. Their first electrical hoisting-engine for the Zollern II/IV mine in Dortmund gained international reputation at the Düsseldorf exhibition of 1902, and is still preserved in situ in the original machine hall of the mine, which is now a national monument in Germany. Ilgner thereafter worked with several companies to pursue his conception, became a consulting engineer in Vienna and Breslau and had a government post after the First World War in Brussels and Berlin until he retired for health reasons in 1919.
b. 30 March 1894 Dilyalevo, Vologda, Russia
d. 9 February 1977 Moscow, Russia
In 1914 he joined the Russian army, later transferring to the air service and gaining his pilot's licence in 1917. After fighting in the Red Army during the Civil War, he entered the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in Moscow in 1922, graduating four years later. He joined the Engineering Technical Corps of the Red Air Force as a designer and eventually rose to the


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Landlords don't enjoy the best press. There was Rigsby in the Seventies sitcom Rising Damp, forever hassling his tenants. And there was Peter Rachman, whose unscrupulous greed in the Fifties won him an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Standing out in this roguish trade is Rosie Millard, whose greatest crime to date has been wearing a low-slung dress while reporting on the Oscars for the BBC. (This seemed to excite Michael Buerk live on air more than was strictly safe, and he famously quipped that she should win "best supporting dress".) Oh, and apparently spiking John Humphrys's coffee – with her own breast milk.
Millard began her career as a landlady in 1999, and her frank and informative newspaper diary ran for several years. It talked a generation of bumbling amateurs through the buy-to-let jungle. Now Telegraph readers can benefit from her hard-won expertise. Beginning next week, her articles in the Property section will cover everything from the macroeconomics of bricks and mortar to the home economics of bric-a-brac.
The first rule when assessing a supposed house expert is whether they live in a gaff that makes us jealous. A pebbledash semi with pink doilies, no offence, just won't swing it.
Millard passes the test, with infuriating ease. I find the new chatelaine of Telegraph Property at the front door of her disgustingly smart and capacious north London Victorian terraced house.
A few months ago, this was a derelict shell kept notionally upright by two massive girders. Yet now it could be ready for a photo shoot with House & Garden. And this despite it being home to Millard's husband, Pip, four children, Disney the dog and "a family of head lice".
As a former BBC arts correspondent and voracious purchaser of contemporary British works, Millard is adept at detecting new trends in interior design. Yet she also realises that in these austere days million-dollar looks should be achieved on two-bob budgets.
She once revealed that her property purchases had left her without a single operable credit card, so she is full of credit-crunchy domestic wisdom: "I had Farrow & Ball colours mixed by Dulux," and "rather than Victorian radiators I bought B&Q rip-offs," she says.
An entire side of the sitting-room is taken up with line drawings of Rosie and Pip's favourite things. There is everything from medals for long-distance running to the Eiffel Tower, all drawn on the wall by the artist Charlotte Mann, with felt-tip pen.
Millard ascribes her property fixation to "marrying an estate agent manqué", and a casual remark from the then editor of the Ten O'Clock News. "He said, 'The only way any of us are going to make any money is through property,'" recalls Millard.
Back in the mid-Nineties, when Millard began her property empire, Cool Britannia was icily hip and there was "real excitement" about London. So Millard and her documentary-maker husband, Pip Clothier realised that "this would translate into lots of people wanting to live here".
With cranes dominating the capital's skyline they donned hard hats and surveyed a development of flats. "I liked what I saw and said I'd buy a couple, off-plan," she says. They kept their family house in Hackney and later bought another flat off-plan in newly refurbished St Pancras. With rising prices they could borrow more against their existing portfolio, financing further purchases.
With banks happy to lend in a soaring market, making money from property seemed almost too easy. And Millard realised she could make even more if she took on the drudge of managing it, too.
"Why find tenants through estate agents when you can advertise in Loot?" she says. But on one occasion, she took this DIY approach a little far. "I was heavily pregnant and lugging so much furniture that I gave birth the next day," she laughs ruefully.
Her worst tenants were a bunch of bloke-ish students who rented her house in Hackney. "They hung rugs on the walls and stayed in bed until 2pm. I can't stand that. It was positively infested with mice. It was stuffed with canisters of oxygen which they apparently sold to people before they went clubbing." She prefers her tenants to be City workers as they have no difficulty paying the bills.
While learning to be a landlady Millard traded up her own family home. She snaffled, via auction, a terraced house in one of Islington's better squares, which she sold recently to buy the family's current house a few doors down. Millard has also realised her dream of buying a flat in Paris, which is part investment, part indulgence.
"It's tiny but I let it to tourists," she explains, suddenly looking into the middle distance. "You can lie in bed, and hear the rumble of the metro below and look out over the Haussmannian architecture."
The flat's position in Pigalle, a red light district, can afford more sheltered visitors something of an education. "They can be a bit perturbed by the erotic supermarket with its large assortment of whips," Millard breezes. "Pip is good at the patter. He says, 'Oh, it's all part of gay Paris. This is the Greenwich Village of Paris.' "
It has become fashionable to prick the property bubble, but Millard believes it gave many of us independence: "You needed to be happy with risk, but it meant people could take pensions out of City institutions and gain control of their finances." Even now she admits to harbouring a "massive mortgage; you have to be an optimist".
So how does she see the market going? "I think it will fracture. Cash is king and sellers will be open to offers." She notes all the skyscrapers going up in London (in stark contrast to Paris) and reckons that being so "fleet of foot" our capital is still an attractive place in which to invest.
While the South East should remain quite perky, she predicts tougher times for the North, while noting that cities such as Liverpool are doing sterling work promoting themselves overseas. The Liverpool Philharmonic was dispatched to Beijing recently.
Investment properties remain attractive, she says, as "rents are quite tasty". The success of academy schools, she believes, will boost inner city areas. She urges house-hunters to follow the news in order to pick up on trends. The East End is hotting up (Olympics) along with east Kent (high-speed train link), and also to think about areas next to smart enclaves.
Millard is an evangelist for London, and for Islington in particular, delighting in its social mix. "It's not Hampstead," she says. "After the war this was a slum and the entire square was bought by the council."
Even today, still audible among the media chatterers, are council tenants. Millard's house, derelict when she bought it, had been a council home, albeit of decidedly superior vintage, with Victorian cornicing and marvellously high ceilings.
Journalists as a breed are slovenly creatures, but Millard talks with zeal about "taking control of your house". Otherwise, she warns, it will take control of you. And it starts in the hall: "If it goes out of control, so does the house."
It is, Millard admits, an attitude that came to her late in life. Her mother was a pioneering doctor with little time for domestic detail. Not a charge that could be levelled at Millard. She appears to have Pip well drilled as he prepares Sunday lunch in their fantastic all-white kitchen – complete with indoor swing – framed by a glass back overlooking the garden.
She looks entirely at home on this stylish stage and vows that she is "absolutely not" moving again. "I have put up with industrial quantities of dust, eaten in the garden, lived with all our clothes in boxes and squashed the six of us in a two-bed rented flat. This," Millard smiles, "is where we are staying."
House renovated, Millard can focus on her new column, which will chew over "the way we live now", with her customary attention to detail.
- Next week In the first of her articles on homes and interiors, Rosie Millard draws inspiration for fresh, innovative bedroom ideas from a new five-star hotel in Vienna


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